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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Gambling houses in Southeast Asia form the foundation for organized crime gangs to generate huge profits from sports match-fixing, according to Chris Eaton, ex-FIFA head of security and director of Qatar's International Centre for Sport Security.
European police shone a spotlight on the region on Monday when they announced a Singapore-based syndicate had directed match-fixing for at least 380 soccer games in Europe alone, making at least eight million euros ($11 million).
The number paled in comparison to the gang's profiteering in Asia, Eaton told Reuters in a telephone interview on Wednesday.
"It's infinitesimal compared to what was made in the Asian market. You can probably multiply that by a hundred," he said.
The known cases of match-fixing occurred mostly in the West, but the real profits for the syndicates were in Southeast Asia, where the size of the gambling market completely dwarfed that of Europe.
The region's lax regulation coupled with the sheer scale of the betting market made it far more attractive to people wanting to manipulate it, such as those accused of match-fixing by Europol.
Gone were the movie images of people entering smoke-filled rooms with bags of money and betting slips. Today's gambling institutions most closely resembled international finance, with its banking, derivative trading and commodities trading, according to Eaton, a former Interpol operations manager.
"It's all done with algorithms and machines, almost like any commodity house in the U.S. or London. The three largest houses each transact $2 billion a week - a hell of a lot of money."
To put this into perspective, Eaton said this sum could purchase four international-standard hospitals or pay for a thousand police officers for a year.
Although recent match-fixing scandals have struck South Korea, China and Italy, corruption in football has long been a global problem.
Eaton believes the real facilitator of this is the opportunity it provides to commit betting fraud and the susceptibility of the Southeast Asian betting market, where most betting fraud is committed.
"If you don't focus on betting fraud, then you won't be able to properly address sport corruption. Sport corruption is borne of betting fraud - it's a cycle" he said.
"It could just as well be betting on tiddlywinks, or on flies crawling up a wall."
Eaton said that, instead of governments and agencies targeting betting, they targeted corruption in the sport itself, which was simply a means to an end.
"There's no will to regulate gambling houses in Southeast Asia. There's a lack of commitment. Their responsibility isn't just to attract business but to properly regulate business," said Eaton.
"This is bigger than Coca-Cola, which is a trillion a year. This is a global economy, a growing global economy, and it needs to be regulated and supervised, and governments aren't doing this."
Italy was one of the major targets of the match-fixers identified by European police forces, despite having what Eaton considers to be one of the best gambling regulators in Europe.
The international nature of the betting frauds meant the Italian authorities' supervision ultimately amounted to little when deterring corruption in sport.
Eaton estimates that 30 percent of all gambling on sports in Italy goes through registered Italian bookmakers. The other 70 percent is unregistered, often channeled through Southeast Asian websites.
"If they focused on transparency in gambling houses in Southeast Asia, being able to see who did what, when and how, this alone would have a major effect on addressing the issues of sport corruption," he said.
"You have under-regulated, grey-area gambling where the regulators are not really serious, transparency rules are not to best practice and government oversight is almost non-existent."
This "grey area" gambling lies between legal betting and "black area" gambling, which Eaton identifies as illegal, cash-based betting with a trusted clientele known to the bookmakers.
The grey gambling market's lack of oversight undermined the efforts of countries such as South Korea, where 41 players from its K-League were banned for life by FIFA for match-fixing, and authorities have allied with sports agencies and police to combat the corruption.
"The grey-area betting businesses, particularly out of Manila, are the biggest concern to us. We don't know enough about them and the government has an under-regulated environment," said Eaton.
"It's almost impossible to measure how they do business and what weaknesses they have that allow organized crime to take advantage of them."
The three largest gambling houses in Asia, IBCBET, SBOBET and 188BET, are all in Manila in the Philippines. Eaton describes their operations as "very opaque" and said what was known of them came purely from talking to people familiar with their workings, as there was no government record.
Their huge profits made them ideal for exploitation by organized crime syndicates. These online businesses operated as an exchange, rather than a traditional risk-taking bookmakers which would bet against the gambler themselves.
Instead they took a commission and farmed out the bets to bookmakers around the world, seeking to make slightly more than a one percent turnover, according to Eaton.
"They're turning over so much money the organized crime is almost invisible to them," he said.
Because the bookmakers were the ones taking on the risk, there was little incentive for the Manila-based exchanges to work against match-fixing.
The match-fixers were also able to exploit the gambling house system by writing computer programs to place hundreds of bets at the house's maximum limit in a matter of seconds, mostly while the rigged matches were still being played.
Typically this occurred late in the game, to lessen the odds of alerting the gambling house to the fraud.
"These are very sophisticated frauds. They're not very easy to disguise, so the fixers have to time it in such a way as to get it past the houses," said Eaton.
Eaton believes that until governments and authorities work to close these lucrative channels of profit for organized crime, match-fixing will continue to be a global problem for all sports.
Editing by Clare Fallon


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Nils-Lennart Johannesson
Nils-Lennart Johannesson is Professor of English Linguistics at Stockholm University, teaching courses on English syntax, the history of the English language, and Old and Middle English.[1] He has been a member of the board of directors of Arda-sällskapet (the Arda Society), and published several articles about J.R.R. Tolkien's works.[2]
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Milimbo is a small publisher in Spain who revisits classic folk tales - like LIttle Red Riding Hood, Hansel & Gretel, and Cinderella - through original illustrations. They publish small runs of screen printed picture books and limited edition posters that use simple, modern images and symbols to retell these well-known stories.
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text: DigitalSinbad & Family Dish on Their New Reality ShowBy Diane Clehane|April 6, 2011 ShareBy Diane Clehane|April 6, 2011 Share— DIANE CLEHANEIt would have been hard to beat the head-spinning scene that I witnessed at Michael's last Wednesday, but this week came close. A camera crew from WNBC-TV's LX-TV was on hand filming a segment on celebrity lunch spots as the masters of the universe (Barry Diller) and socialites (Melania Trump, swathed in mink) strolled in and air-kissed their way to their tables. When Amy Rosenblum, the show's producer, heard I was having lunch with comedy icon Sinbad and his family to talk about their new reality show for WE tv, her ears perked up. "Perfect!" she said. "We'll come over and borrow him for our segment. "Having never met the comedian, I didn't know what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised to find that 10 minutes after the family arrived (right on time!) fresh off their morning at SiriusXM, it felt as if I'd known them all forever. They're the anti-Osbournes! Named one of the Top 100 Stand-up Comedians of All Time by Comedy Central and a sitcom (A Different World, The Sinbad Show) vet, Sinbad told me the new show, Sinbad: It's Just Family (premiering April 12 at 10 pm on WE tv) is a marked departure of the bumper crop of dysfunctional family fright fests that populate the reality TV landscape."These producers want meltdowns and dramas, but most of the dramas wouldn't happen if people weren't shooting their show. Most reality shows have an agenda and you have to understand that. I got about 80 percent of what I wanted. I was the voice of reason. We picked and chose what we wanted to shoot." Any scenes in the master bedroom were off-limits, he said. "That's just not respectful." Instead, the show focuses on his version of family life — his re-marriage to his ex-wife Meredith Adkins and his relationship with his two "grids" (semi-grown kids) Paige and Royce. When he's not on the road doing stand-up, he's home keeping things together — his way. "The show is not about some comedian looking for a comeback because I never went away!" he quipped.I had to ask him what he thought of this season's Celebrity Apprentice since he appeared on season three of the show. "Donald Trump likes fights. He likes drama," he told me. "That's why Meat Loaf and Gary Busey are still around. That's what people want to watch." As for his take on his former cast mates: "Brett Michaels was a baby and Sharon Osbourne has the filthiest mouth of any woman I've ever met. She faked being sick just so she could miss being project manager for the first three weeks." He also has choice words for Ozzy Osbourne. "That show they did made him look like a fool. Do you really want people to remember you like that? These people are stars and they don't really think about how they want to be perceived."For their show, Sinbad and the family "focused on the positive" and shot weeks of 12-14 hour days for six episodes, which was quite an adjustment. "It's the most time we've spent together since the kids were babies," says Meredith. "We were miked all the time and had to remind ourselves that they were recording everything."Royce is a college student studying audio sound engineering, and Paige is an R&B artist (Meredith is her manager) who co-wrote all the songs on her new album, Imperfect Me. Both had to be convinced to do the show at first, but wound up enjoying the experience. Proud Papa says of their TV debut: "He surprised me and she turned out to be quite the daredevil." In one episode, Paige convinced the family to try out a trapeze park, and the producers were only too happy to get it all for the show. "That's what was so great about the show. If we wanted to do something and the producers thought it was a great idea, they made it happen," says Paige. "The flip side was we were having family barbecues, and there was someone standing on the driveway handing out releases for our friends to sign. That was a little strange but we got used to it."Continue ReadingPages: 1 2 3 Sharehttp://adweek.it/2kCPPmW copy Adweek Adweek


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I played the JP demo before. I don't know, the game looks pretty cool and all but I don't think it's for me. Looks very multiplayer-centric, sort of Monster Hunter-esque in structure but faster paced and with some pretty over-the-top attacks. Yeah everyone is a mage in this game but they don't feel or play anything like your usual fantasy mages (which I'm fine with). A lot of the spells are for use in melee.
Character customization looks promising.....but...........VITA ONLY??? what the heck man......
Quote from: Klyde Chroma on January 29, 2013, 03:58:56 PMCharacter customization looks promising.....but...........VITA ONLY??? what the heck man......Sony developed and they need to create an incentive to buy a Vita. It's kind of a catch 22: if you want to hit the widest audience you have to not limit the platforms to Vita, but if you want the Vita to do well you gotta have exclusives.In the end, unless the device is MASSIVELY unappealing (probably just needs price drops on hardware and memory cards, especially after the Nexus 7) the latter should eventually make a system reasonably successful.
I'm not much into Monster Hunter but I'm looking at Soul Sacrifice with an open mind.I like this idea in those Monster Hunter type games, just there is something in MH which feels nice but at the same time doesn't. The total lack of a plot of characters seem to be fixed. They don't have to be an over dramatic FF story, just a background story like Demon's/Dark Souls, even if you don't understand much at the end, just put something so I can pretend I made a difference.Another thing is this game has mages! Don't take me too serious here but anytime given the option I will play a magic type chacter, and since there are a ton of ways to approach and a ton of magic, I'll probably be able to do a mage type character.Anyway, after seeing the Soul Sacrifice Review Type Thing (Japanese Playstation Network Demo) I'm much more excited fot it!!!
What was the last soundtrack Mitsuda did before Soul Sacrifice? I haven't heard about him in a while...
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In-house at Whole Foods Market: An Interview with Kelly Stevens
Andy Kurtts, design manager at The Fresh Market, sits down with Kelly Stevens, art director for the Southwest region of Whole Foods Market, to find out what it's like to work in-house for the natural foods supermarket chain.
Andy Kurtts: So perhaps you could start us off by describing your professional background. How did you get into the in-house world of the food industry?
Kelly Stevens: After graduating from college, I first took a job with an advertising agency and was laid off after only a year and a half there. But I had this project I'd started working on in school, where I designed a line of pajamas. And I thought, "Call me crazy, but I think I want to go make those pajamas now." I took out a loan from my parents and worked at home for a year on the pajama line. But just as the product was about to go to market, the clothing industry started to fall apart.
At that very moment, a friend of mine who had also been laid off called me and said, "Hey, I just turned down a job. But Kelly, this job is for you. This team is for you. These people are for you. I've already given them your name. I'm not asking your permission." The company was Whole Foods Market. This past January was my tenth anniversary there.
What's the most satisfying part of working in-house at the company?
I'm a total people person. When I see a happy person, that's what's most emotionally fulfilling for me. It's when a customer stops me and says, "We've been waiting for you to open. This store is beautiful and I found this product that I'm in love with. I'm really excited that you're here." That is truly rewarding.
On the design front, I enjoy taking the idea of wholesome foods and turning it into packaging, into interiors. I get to tell a story. I work closely with the team that oversees the interior designs of our stores. I also do a lot of the writing for our marketing materials and I shoot a lot of our photos. I enjoy sitting down with our bakery coordinator or our seafood coordinator and asking, "What are you trying to do? What do we want people to feel? What do people have to know about this product?" Because we're in a story-rich environment, it's sometimes hard to develop succinct messages. So I sit down with my colleagues to craft language and photos that succinctly tell someone cruising past, with a shopping cart, why a particular Whole Foods Market product is the right product to buy.
And what sort of stories do you tell through design?
There's a gentleman, Jeremiah Cunningham, who I'm very fond of. He's about 30 minutes outside of Austin, and he started producing pasture-raised eggs. He was the only local farmer grinding his own organic feed and grazing his chickens in a pasture, and we were going to carry his eggs. We first drove out to his place and had a nice, long chat with him. And he told us, "I just know that these are going to be the world's best eggs."
So I said, "Jerry, I really want to call them Jeremiah Cunningham's World's Best Eggs, because you're a real person." He'll tell any customer to come out to the farm and meet his chickens, and I couldn't disconnect his product from his personality. So he and I worked together to develop his brand. To be able to take that story, from "this is what someone is making" to "this is how it gets to our stores" to "this is why we think it's best," I find that very fulfilling.
Given Whole Foods Market's regional focus, where do you get your inspiration?
I personally do a lot of our retail design work. Often, I'm art directing and sometimes even designing by hand, depending on the store interiors. So if we're looking at a new market, we get to know the community and the people; we eat in their restaurants and we shop in their shops. We really just go into a neighborhood and kick the tires on that community, so to speak, to try and figure out their needs and aspirations. Getting out there and gaining a sense of what's happening in other places, having that full sensory experience, it helps me design. It's probably more inspiring than anything else.
How much time do you and your team spend in your own stores around employees, customers and vendors? How do these interactions affect your design process?
Well, there's the design side of things and then there's the fundamental implementation, at the store level, with graphic artists. We have two to four folks who are responsible for all the gorgeous chalkboards and the price item signs that you see in our store. Graphic artists understand the operational side: how design collides with the customer experience, as well as issues of implementation. The designers will call me and say, "We're not going to be able to keep these signs up because the carts run them over. We need to come up with another idea, because the way you're placing the signs, it literally isn't going to hold up."
Getting out into the stores themselves is important, so two folks on my team are on the road full time. They hop from store to store, looking at what's going on and giving us constant feedback. I really depend on them. Our regions function quite autonomously, so maybe there's some wicked stuff happening in Northern California that I have to go see for myself. There's also a lot of photo exchange across the company, a lot of, "Hey, I heard you had a great program in your meat department. Can you send me pictures?" Or we'll run into somebody and they'll say, "Your bakery signs better than ours. Can you send them to us?" It's incubation not in silos but in different Petri dishes. Part of my job is to make sure these innovations hop from Petri dish to Petri dish, across the whole company.
How does this collaboration play out at a higher level, beyond the individual stores?
Every Whole Foods Market has a store team leader, who is the manager. All of our folks report in part to our team and in part to the store team leader. Then there's the regional level and what we call our global team, since we're now an international company. In many ways, we are quite independent; I don't report to anyone at the global office, but we have this lovely relationship with them. If they see a global need for a program, sometimes they will take on that program for us, which takes work off of our plate. They function almost like another brain feeding us ideas, so we rarely feel like we're being told what to do from on high.
I think everybody at the company acknowledges that the best innovations come from the store level, meaning we get a lot of bottom-up rather than top-down innovation. I would say that 90 percent of the time, I don't feel like I'm being told I have to do something, or that I'm simply executing programs that come to us from a faceless office. Every day I have a chance to participate in collaborative problem solving, which is part of the reason I've stayed with the company for so long.
How do you prioritize your projects? Do you have a tiered system? Or is it first come, first serve?
Our team has grown quite a bit over the last three to four years. Back in the day, I used to be the only designer. Our marketing director did a lot of the project management; I did all the production management. I basically took the information, designed it, sent it to the printer and got it to the stores. Our team has since quadrupled in size, and we're also supporting a growing number of stores. I think we're at a sort of crossroads. Information lives in so many pockets, and we're going to have to find new ways to prioritize our work.
Of course, there's always the issue of retail, where innovation happens on the turn of a dime. We'll think that we know what we're doing for any given week, but then something big comes along and we have to drop everything, switch gears and work on it. Then we go back to our bigger, longer-term projects. So we're constantly striking a balance between doing a little bit of planning and leaving a little bit of wiggle room for things that appear out of the blue, like comets.
Does your team do a lot of prototyping—just printing something off and taking it to the store itself to see how it works?
In some cases, yes. Our stores are all over the map in terms of size, age, execution and style. A store we designed in the 1980s feels different than a store we designed in 2005. We aim to keep them more or less in step with each other, but we might still design something for a case in one of our stores that simply won't work well in the others. Overall, we'd really like to do more in-store prototyping. Occasionally we'll send something to one store and say, "Hey, can you guys put this up, shoot a photo and tell us what you think?" And sometimes they'll write back and say, "You know, it looks okay in the photo, but it's not really working for X reason."
I think our new stores are really the incubators, especially when it comes to permanent items, such as signage. While we make smaller leaps when we do a remodel or embark on a new program, I would definitely say that the giant leaps happen when we open a new store.
Does your team do brand design packaging?
Yes, we design a lot of the regional packaging. So if we're talking about the box that holds pies in my stores in the Southwest region, then yes, I design those boxes. If my bakery coordinator decides that they want to create a new candy and we need packaging for that candy, then yes, we do that as well. All the stickers that we use to label our products, my team does a lot of that work. If you pick up a salad in one of my stores, my team probably designed the sticker.
When you're creating these items, is it challenging to work with the Whole Foods Market brand while also trying to make the design mesh regionally?
That is always a really interesting challenge, because we do have brand standards. I think that as a designer, you find the places where you can color in the lines, and then you find the places where you can innovate. That's something really awesome about the Whole Foods Market brand; it's so elastic that you can sometimes stretch the boundaries a bit. Our measure here is, "Does it feel like us? I know this isn't our standard typeface, but I think it feels like us." You can go too far in the other direction, however, when you pick a new typeface just for the sake of picking a new typeface, or you do something off the wall and it doesn't stick. I like to think that we're not so much brand warriors as we are brand shepherds.
Yes, or brand stewards. That's what we call ourselves at The Fresh Market.
Absolutely. As shepherds, we have to herd the entire flock. But sometimes a bakery box escapes! In fact, we just had a big discussion about redesigning all of our bakery packaging. We sat down with our bakery coordinator and she outlined her goals: where she wanted to be and what she wanted her department to feel like. Something that felt more earthly. Something that went back to our roots. Something that felt like an old-school bakery.
So I sat down with the designs we'd been working with, and I pushed them to the left and then to the right. We executed a bunch of mockups and put them all on the table. Then, when nobody was looking, I went into my corner and did something completely different—something that I felt was truer to the aesthetic direction we wanted to go.
I sat down with the team and said, "Here's what would happen if we did what we thought we were supposed to do, if we follow the flock." And then I moved all that stuff over to the side, put a couple of the new boxes on the table and said, "This is what I would do if we were to start from scratch." The new designs still fit within our brand, of course, but they gave the vision more tooth. My project manager looked at me and said, "I just think it's right."
What are some of the unique challenges you face as an in-house designer?
I think you have to work extra hard to expose yourself to new ideas. In an agency, where you have multiple clients, you have multiple points of feedback coming in and you're constantly forced to consider radically different perspectives. But when it's food and retail, food and retail, food and retail, you have to take extra steps to make sure you're exposing yourself to outside stuff. In-house, it's easy to get tunnel vision.
Do you have any advice for in-house designers who find themselves struggling to reconcile client or corporate demands with good design?
I think the most important thing you can do is build strong relationships with the people you're working with. For instance, I wouldn't dare tell our meat team what's the best cut of meat. That's their job. And once I've developed a good rapport with them, they won't dare tell me what makes good design. We simply respect each other's worlds and we respect the knowledge, passion and experience each side brings to the table. And then we work together to find some place in the middle. That process starts on a personal level, with being able to talk to my colleagues as individuals, not as a department or an office.
A great example of this is our new Seafood Sustainability program. Whole Foods Market no longer carries seafood that is rated "red," which includes species that are threatened by overfishing or harmful fishing methods. It's a hard program to talk about, and it's difficult to effectively explain the rating system to customers. The seafood team, of course, knows all about the fish and why a specific type of fish is no longer sold. But they weren't quite sure how to communicate that information to the customer. So they came to us and said, "Hey, we've got to figure out how to tell our store's guests this really complicated story." Finding a common message isn't always easy or comfortable. But I think once the seafood team understood that we had their best interests at heart, and the best interests of the customer, they entrusted us with the design decisions. In the end, they don't care what color or typeface it is—they simply trust that I'm using their knowledge and their passion for the product to communicate the issues visually.
You've been in-house at Whole Foods Market for more than a decade. What is one of the most important takeaways you've gained through that experience?
Given all that I've learned during my time here, if I had my pajama line to do over, for instance, I would be obsessive about organic cotton and the inks that I would be using. It's funny, but when I look back on it all now, my experience here has taught me how I should have produced a product differently. I realize how important it is, for the environment and for our global community, to develop products in ways that don't trash everything we hold dear.
About the Author: Andy Kurtts is Creative Director at Buttermilk Creative, a small studio focusing on packaging design and happy clients.
Andy Kurtts is Creative Director at Buttermilk Creative, a small studio focusing on packaging design and happy clients.


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When 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick threw a high pass over the middle of the field to Randy Moss on Sunday, the ball sailed over Moss's head without Moss even reaching for it, and Ravens safety Ed Reed intercepted it. Moss has taken some criticism this week from people who think he didn't make any effort to catch the ball.
But Kaepernick says the interception was all his own fault.
"I overthrew Randy," Kaepernick told reporters today at the 49ers' facility.
Asked whether he thought Moss made enough of an effort to catch the pass, Kaepernick insisted that all the blame should be on his own shoulders.
"I overthrew it — that's my fault," Kaepernick said.
Kaepernick has taken this loss hard, and he also told reporters today that he thinks it will stay with him for the rest of his life. But for the 49ers, it's a good sign that their young franchise quarterback doesn't point fingers after a loss, and instead puts it on himself to do what he needs to do to win.


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The Pike County Pirates baseball team celebrated another successful season with an awards banquet on Friday, May 31. Several hundred people attended the dinner and awards presentation. The Pirates' season was a success as they ended their season with a 21-9 overall record and a 12-0 region record.
PCHS Pirates baseball players who received awards at the recent annual banquet include, (l-r) Kurt Cox, Andy Marshall, Chandler Brazel, Ryan Hyde, Tristen English and Hunter Brown. Not pictured is C.J. Ballard, who won the Big Stick Award.
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Monday, July 15, 2013
Barn Notes: Sunday, July 14, 2013
• Remarkable Rahystrada Ready for Million after Win
• Ausus Makes Good on Peitz Promise in Modesty
• Infinite Magic Could Join Stablemate in Secretariat
• Dark Cove a Bright Spot for Ramsey Invasion
At age nine, Robert E. Courtney, Jr.'s Rahystrada seems to be ripening with age for his connections, as evidenced by his impressive victory Saturday in the Grade III $200,000 Arlington Handicap – the centerpiece of Million Preview Day at Arlington International Racecourse.
After winning by a hard-fought half-length – his third win as many tries in the race – the Byron "Scooter" Hughes-trained gelding was no worse for the wear Sunday morning. "He came out of the race very well. He's all bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning," the conditioner reported. "We'll take a look (at the Arlington Million) and see how he's doing the next few days, but we sure do like it (at Arlington). He won pretty impressively yesterday. Rosie (Napravnik) did a heck of a job riding him. I think he like 'girl riders' best (Inez Karlsson rode him to victory in 2010)."
In three previous Arlington Million attempts, Rahystrada has finished fifth (2011), fourth (2010) and a dead-heat third (2012). "We'd like to skip a spot and go right to first," laughed Hughes.
While the connections of runner-up Temeraine were not reached, race favorite and third-place Dullahan will stay on his scheduled path of using the Arlington Handicap as a stepping stone to the Grade I Pacific Classic on Polytrack (a surface upon which he has won three Grade I races).
Shadwell Stable's fourth-place finisher Najjaar exited his two-length loss in healthy order, even if the connections would have preferred a win. "With Najjaar, I am a little disappointed. I just don't think the race set up for him and I think he needs more pace. He was just kind of one-paced. The jockey (Leandro Goncalves) realized about halfway through that the pace wasn't too fast and at that point couldn't do much. He also thought the ground was a little softer at Churchill last time, and he liked that a little more. So, perhaps it was a little firmer than he really likes," explained conditioner Danny Peitz. "We'll think about both the Million and St. Leger. We'll have to make some decisions with him."
Back on May 22, trainer Danny Peitz spoke the praises of an underachieving filly in his barn who simply needed more time, turf and real estate to show what she could do. On Saturday, the conditioner substantiated that claim with a 16-hand chestnut exclamation point named Ausus (pronounced awe-ZEUS) in the Grade III $200,000 Modesty Handicap. Pulling away to win by 2¼ lengths at odds of 8-1, the Shadwell Stable-owned daughter of Horse of the Year Invasor displayed a superb acceleration in the final local prep for the Grade I $750,000 Beverly D. Stakes on Aug. 17.
The fact that Ausus ran well did not surprise the conditioner, but the manner in which she did such was eye-opening. "She's been a grinder before. But, yesterday she showed a big turn of foot. James (Graham) knew she was in the right spot and she kicked on. She's run so hard and been so competitive before – it's nice to win a race with her. I think she will actually like even more distance. Her best might be a mile and a quarter or even a mile and three-eighths."
As far as the future, the filly will be aimed toward the next obvious step. "Hopefully we have a good month here for the Beverly D. I think we're in pretty good shape this morning – she looks good. She will have to take another step forward," Peitz reported.
Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey's runner-up Artemus Kitten outran her 9.10-1 odds to finish a valiant second after prompting a solid pace. Conditioner Mike Maker was very pleased with the performance. "She ran a lot better than we expected. She has a good chance of moving forward to the Beverly D.," the trainer confirmed.
Local favorite and 2-1 post time choice La Tia came out of the race in good order, according to trainer Armando De La Cerda. "She looks okay so far," the conditioner said of the Hernandez Racing Club-owned charge. After setting the pace under Constantino Roman, the mare fought hard with Artemus Kitten until both were inhaled by Ausus.
"I feel like she ran okay. Maybe it was a little too far with having that kind of pressure. She tried and came back. I think the distance was definitely tough on her. Plus, the speed didn't hold very well yesterday on the turf," De La Cerda reported. The Illinois-bred could still possibly be under consideration for the Beverly D.
Team Valor's Infinite Magic, who sharply won the Grade III $200,000 American Derby on Saturday, could join his Europe-based stablemate First Cornerstone in the Grade I $500,000 Secretariat Stakes on Arlington Million Day. The son of More Than Ready earned a fees-paid entry into the Secretariat after winning by a head over Admiral Kitten and Stormy Len for trainer Rick Mettee.
"Infinite Magic, yesterday's upset winner of the American Derby, vans back to Fair Hill today. Next race TBD. Maybe (Secretariat Stakes). We also have First Cornerstone pointing there," reported Team Valor's Bradley Weisbord via Twitter. The well regarded First Cornerstone, trained by Andy Oliver, has been pointed to the Secretariat since running a respectable fifth in the Irish 2000 Guineas.
Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey's Admiral's Kitten once again displayed his affinity for playing the bridesmaid with a fourth-straight runner-up finish for trainer Mike Maker. "He came out fine. Hopefully he'll break through the goal line next out in the Secretariat. We are aiming toward that right now," the conditioner confirmed.
Finishing a solid third was Leonard Leveen and Michael P. Shanley's 9.70-1 Stormy Len. Trainer David Donk, who previously won both the Secretariat and Arlington Million, has indicated to Arlington officials that the colt is likely to be back for the Secretariat.
Dark Cove, one of seven competitors from the stable of Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey at Arlington on Saturday, proved to be the shortest priced and their only winner on the card when taking down the Grade III $150,000 Stars and Stripes Stakes – the last local prep for the $400,000 American St. Leger.
In a smart ride by Rosie Napravnik (her first ever at Arlington) the son of Medaglia d'Oro tracked defending race champion Ioya Bigtime, put that foe away and then held off the charging local duo of Team Block's Suntracer and Midwest Thoroughbreds' The Pizza Man. Trained by Mike Maker, the muscular dark bay "came out perfect. There are a lot of options from here, but most likely we'll make an appearance. I don't see why he wouldn't go the distance (of the St. Leger)," reported the conditioner. The horse's eventual goal is the Breeders' Cup Marathon in November.
Suntracer, after making a sharp move at the quarter pole under new jockey Julien Leparoux, finished well to fall short by two lengths in second. He and eventual fourth-place stablemate Ioya Bigtime are "both in good shape and a little tired, but all else looks fine," according to trainer Chris Block. "It's possible (they will run in the St. Leger), but I'm not committed to it. We'll decide in a couple weeks. Right now we have no plans."
Block also mentioned that Team Block's I O Ireland, who ran a bang-up fourth against older fillies in a second-level allowance – losing by just over a length – in the fifth race is on target for the $75,000 Hatoof for sophomore fillies on Million Day. "She ran quite well considering she is a filly who hasn't had a chance to develop because of things not going well in Florida this winter. I think she's just coming around," Block said of the Giant's Causeway half-sister to Ioya Bigtime.
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3 pages written 21 Mar 1864 by John Thomlinson Swann to Sir Donald McLean
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Des sorcières comme les autres
L'objectif de Des sorcières comme les autres est de fabriquer une émission d'une heure diffusée toutes les deux semaines où on choisit de privilégier des paroles de femmes, généralement peu entendues dans les espaces publics. Des sorcières comme les autres, ce sont des débats en direct, des reportages, des interviews, des chroniques diverses, des portraits, des coups de gueule, des coups de cœur, de la musique de femmes, de l'actualité locale et internationale, des brèves…et tout ce que chacune a envie d'y apporter. Horizontale et non mixte, cette émission nous permettra aussi d'apprendre en faisant: nous nous essayerons à la technique, au montage et chercherons à trouver nos voix et à en faire entendre.
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Ève et Pandore sont deux personnages considérées dans leur mythologie respective – chrétienne et grecque – comme étant la première femme créée. Ayant désobéi aux ordres d'une divinité suprême masculine, elles ont été tenues responsables de tous les plus grands maux de l'humanité.
Ainsi, nous portons comme étendard de notre insoumission, le nom de ces femmes, injustement calomniées.
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- Fine art photographer Arne Svenson's artworks encompass many subjects
- Svenson photographed occupants of nearby building through the windows
- Their faces were hidden, but some objected because they were unaware of camera
- Svenson says portraits are powerful because we recognize ourselves in them
Photographer Arne Svenson's show, "Neighbors," consists of photographs taken of the residents of a building near his studio in New York through the windows of their apartments. A few residents, unaware they were being photographed, have raised objections. In this column, Svenson explains his process and his work.
My art practice has led me down many and varied paths of visual exploration -- from landscape photographs of Las Vegas to portraits of sock monkeys, chewed dog toys and medical museum specimens.
Currently, in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Museum, I am working on a long-term portrait project with a group of autistic teenagers. Given my background as a special education teacher, I find this a particularly rewarding homecoming.
First and foremost, my practice seeks out the inner life -- the essence -- of my subjects, whether they be human or inanimate. I use my camera as a writer uses text, to create a narrative that helps the viewer understand what might lie hidden or obscured. This narrative, at times only a whisper or suggestion, weaves throughout my bodies of work.
Some time ago, I began photographing the occupants of a neighboring building through the windows. I've lived in Tribeca, in Lower Manhattan, for 30 years, and have built my life and studio here. The area has gone through many changes, and I watched the building across the way built from the ground up. Made entirely of glass and steel, it offers residents views of the neighborhood -- and neighbors and passersby views into the apartments.
As people filled the empty units, I was intrigued not only by the implied stories within the frame of the glass but also by the play of light upon the subjects, the shadows, the framing of the structure. I don't photograph anything salacious or demeaning -- instead I record the turn of the head, the graceful arc of a hand, the human form obscured by drapery.
The photographs make up a show called "Neighbors," which opened a week ago at the Julie Saul Gallery in New York, and some people have raised concerns.
I am not photographing the residents as specific, identifiable individuals, but as representations of humankind. In fact, I take great care in not revealing their identity; the strength of the imagery comes from us seeing ourselves in the anonymous figures of "The Neighbors."
In New York, people are masters of being both the observer and the observed. We live so densely packed that contact is inevitable -- even our homes are stacked facing each other. It is no wonder that street photography was born in this city, and some of the best subjects and most famous works are the results of those who didn't know they were being photographed or painted.
"Neighbors" has sparked a good bit of conversation. While people differ in their opinions -- as most do when it comes to art -- I believe the images speak for themselves. I encourage everyone to draw their own conclusions after seeing the work.
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Jennifer Hellwig, MS, RD
Thyroid cancer is cancer of the thyroid gland. This gland makes thyroid hormone, and it is found in the front of the neck. Thyroid gland tumors often appear as bumps in the neck, called nodules, usually in the thyroid gland. In most cases, thyroid nodules are not cancerous.
There are several types of thyroid cancer:
Cancer occurs when cells in the body divide without control or order. Eventually these uncontrolled cells form a growth or tumor. The term cancer refers to malignant growths. These growths can invade nearby tissues including the lymph nodes. Cancer that has invaded the lymph nodes can then spread to other parts of the body.
It is not clear exactly what causes these problems in the cells, but is probably a combination of genetics and environment.
Thyroid cancer is more common in women, and in people aged 30 years and older. Other factors that may increase your chances of thyroid cancer:
Thyroid cancer may cause:
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will also be done. This may include a careful examination of your neck to look for lumps or abnormalities.
Tests may include:
The physical exam, combined with all of your test results, will help to determine the type and stage of cancer you have. Staging is used to guide your treatment plan. Like other cancers, thyroid cancer is staged from I-IV. Stage I is a very localized cancer, while stage IV indicates a spread to other parts of the body
Cancer treatment varies depending on the stage and type of cancer. Options may include:
Because the exact cause of thyroid cancer is unknown, early detection and treatment lead to better outcomes. Your doctor may recommend screening tests if you are at high risk for thyroid cancer. For example:
exposure to radiation is a major risk factor for thyroid cancer, you should:
American Cancer Society
Thyroid Cancer
Survivors' Association
Canadian Cancer Society
Thyroid Foundation of Canada
General information about thyroid cancer. National Cancer Institute website. Available at:
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To manage atrial fibrillation (also known as AF or AFib), your doctor may recommend treatment that involves medical procedures or devices. These can be used in addition to or instead of medications that control heart rate or rhythm. You may still need medications to prevent blood clots to reduce the risk of stroke.
Electrical cardioversion is the process of "shocking" the heart back into its normal rhythm. This procedure involves a machine called a defibrillator that is used to deliver a brief electrical shock between two electrical pads paced on the chest and back. The goal is to achieve rhythm control, and electrical cardioversion restores the irregular heartbeat of AF to the normal heart rhythm.
Catheter ablation can restore an irregular heartbeat to a normal heart rhythm. During ablation, thin wires (catheters) are inserted through a vein in the groin, leg, neck, or arm to reach the atria (the upper chambers of the heart). A form of energy (usually radiofrequency) is then sent through catheters to destroy the heart tissue that is causing the abnormal electrical signals. These lesions are meant to isolate and stop the electrical signals that cause atrial fibrillation.
Catheter ablation is sometimes used to destroy the bundle of cells between the upper chambers (atria) and lower chambers (ventricles) of the heart, the atrioventricular (AV) node. Electrical signals from the atria pass through the AV node before reaching the ventricles. After this type of procedure, your doctor surgically implants a small device called a pacemaker that sends electrical pulses to the heart to maintain a normal heart rhythm.
Surgery may be needed for some people with AF. This procedure also uses ablation to destroy tissue that is causing the abnormal electrical signals. However, the surgeons do not use catheters; they see the surface of the heart directly. In many cases, surgeons will perform this procedure to treat AF when a person also requires heart surgery for another condition (e.g., valve disease).


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MINNEAPOLIS – At first, it looked like a double-wicket shot. It truly appeared – in real time – as if Minnesota Timberwolves guard Ricky Rubio had delivered a perfectly executed, improbably conceived bounce pass through his own legs AND through Dallas defender Elton Brand's legs too.
Only in replay, slowed down, was it clear that Rubio's pass had gone just past Brand's left leg rather than behind it, not that the Mavericks forward noticed. The basketball reached its destination right about the time the Target Center crowd realized what it was seeing, and Greg Stiemsma finished off with a simple layup for a very unsimple highlight.
"Playing with Rajon [Rondo] last year, I'll say it was kind of similar, where you almost have to expect the ball every time you roll, every time you dive," Stiemsma said of playing his first game with Rubio, the Wolves' clever and, finally, available point guard.
"We've been running through some drills with him the last couple weeks, some pick-and-roll stuff. Even there, Ricky's going between his legs, behind his back, all that in the drills."
That one was Rubio's piece de resistance (that's Spanish, right?) in his first game in nine months. But there were others: Rubio shoveling a pass to J.J. Barea as they crisscrossed for a reverse layup. Rubio sticking a long arm into O.J. Mayo's passing lane, switching defense into offense in an instant as his dark eyes immediately searched for an open man. Rubio working the baseline like Gretzky behind the net, finding Luke Ridnour 18 feet out for a jumper.
With Rubio running the point, there's always the risk for his four teammates of snuffing another of the kid's wonderous assists and snuffing a video treasure. Worse, there's the risk of getting hit in the head or the face by the ball if one is caught unaware. And so it was a risky night in downtown Minneapolis Saturday, where Rubio continued his comeback from knee surgery.
It is continuing, for al the excitement and the instant results. Rubio was on a minutes leash of (cough) 16-18 minutes Saturday and will build up his participation time gradually, coach Rick Adelman said. He probably won't play in both ends of the Wolves' back-to-back trip to Orlando Monday and Miami Tuesday. And after all the inactivity and rehab from surgery to repair the ACL and MCL ligaments torn in his left knee in March, Rubio's performance curve figures to have a few ripples, maybe even reversals, in it.
Still, he electrified the crowd of 18,173 (the Wolves sold an extra 1,750 tickets in the hours before tipoff) and seemed to make them forget that All-Star Kevin Love was a late scratch due to the flu (Love hoped to play through his bruised right thumb, before the Wolves sent him home as a sickie). Rubio certainly animated Adelman, who lavished praise on his team afterward and even saved a little for himself.
"When he has the ball in his hands," Adelman said, "I'm a lot better coach."
If Houdini had come back from surgery, he would have started with a few card tricks. But Rubio came back sawing the lady in half, only from behind his back.
His first shift began with 1:47 left in the first quarter and ended at 6:16 of the second. In that 7:31 stint, he had four points, four assists and a steal. The Target Center had its second lineup thrill of the season – Love surprised them all with his sudden comeback from a broken hand the night before Thanksgiving. Folks boomed "Rubio! Rubio!" for him just for trotting to the scorer's table.
"I can't say with words how it felt," the 22-year-old said.
Derrick Williams could. The disappointing No. 2 pick in 2011 scored 12 points with five rebounds in the first half, Rubio's return applying paddles to his game. "That's the best I've felt since I've been here, honestly," Williams said.
Rubio's second shift started at 4:37 of the third quarter and ended 7:15 minutes later. That pushed him to 14:46 for the game, Adelman holding back a few of Rubio's rationed minutes just in case. And sure enough, when the Wolves' 15-point lead dwindled to one with 3:16 left, Rubio came back in.
Key moment this time? A pile-up near the sideline with Dallas' husky Derek Fisher. Fisher already was coming on like a Grinch trying to swipe Christmas, scoring nine points in the fourth. Now he was tangled up on the floor with the Spanish unicorn. But two men went down and two got up, both fine, Fisher tapping Rubio on the chest.
"Once guys come out there, everything's free to go," Fisher said. "But you're obviously never trying to hurt a guy. I just asked him if he was OK real quick."
Rubio's third shift ended with regulation, his shot from out top bouncing off, same as a couple of Minnesota tips. Adelman showed great restraint in sitting him through the overtime. There was the minutes limit and, besides, Rubio was tired.
"That kills me inside," Rubio said, smiling as always, "but we did a great job."
Officially, Rubio was a mere +1 in plus/minus. But his impact had been more contagious to the other Wolves than Love's flu. Andrei Kirilenko dominated the 12-4 overtime with five points, three boards and an assist.
"We're going to do big things with this team this year, just showing how we played in overtime, getting that 10-0 run," Rubio said. "It was amazing … They gave me a great gift, that W in overtime."
Only fair for a guy who dishes so many gifts himself. As Dallas' Dahntay Jones said of Rubio's impact: "You have people flying down the court, because they know he's looking for them. He's special."
Kirilenko ticked off the names of the great playmaking point guards with whom he has played: John Stockton, Mark Jackson, Deron Williams. "Ricky is one of those guys because when he sees opportunity, he goes there. I learned from the best how to get open – and how not to get hit on the back," Kirilenko said.
"It's always a privilege to play with those kind of guys. Especially if you can play without the ball – you know if you get open, you're going to get the ball."
Rubio changes the whole dynamic of playing without the ball – no one is without the ball for long when he's on the floor. Rubio's back, and defenders' heads are swiveling again.


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The Hutchinson County Herald (Stinnett, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, November 16, 1934
Description: Weekly newspaper from Stinnett, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 16, 1934
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