The 2011 Kentucky Der-by is the 137th renewal of the world’s most fa-mous horse race but is

much more than horses, hats and mint juleps. It’s an institution in American culture for good rea-son. After all, where else do ce-lebrities, heads of state and col-legiate debauchery mingle at a single event? So what makes the Kentucky Derby so special?

Every year the Kentucky Derby is held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky on the first Saturday in May, and it falls on May 7th in 2011. It’s a beauti-ful time of year to visit Louisville, and while the Kentucky Derby is the most exciting two minutes in sports, you’ll find way more than two minutes of entertainment when you attend the most popu-lar thoroughbred horse race in the United States.

In its 137th year, the Ken-tucky Derby is the longest con-tinuously running sports event in the country. It’s the first race of the annual United States Triple Crown, followed by the Preak-ness Stakes in Maryland and then the Belmont Stakes in New York

To win the Triple Crown, a horse must win all three of these races – a feat that hasn’t been ac-complished since Affirmed did it

in 1978, and only 11 horses have ever won the Triple Crown in the history of the event. Winning the Triple Crown is considered the greatest accomplishment in thor-oughbred racing, and each year, the Kentucky Derby kicks off a new season of excitement and an-ticipation.

There are 13 horses entered in the Kentucky Derby 2011 field – one of them could be the next Triple Crown winner. Uncle Mo has emerged as the favorite in this year’s race, but a lot could change between now and post time. Meet the horses and learn about their trainers, jockeys, and owners on the official Kentucky Derby 2011 website.

Post time for the Kentucky Derby is 6:24pm (EDT) on May 7th, but there is a full day of horse racing at Churchill Downs lead-ing up to its most famous race. Gates open at 8am, and post time for the first race of the day is 10:30am.

Attendance for the Kentucky Derby has skyrocketed in the past decade, and the event’s popular-ity is stronger than ever. But the 1974 mark of 163,628 spectators may never be broken -- since the infield area was reduced to 40 acres following the installation of the turf-racing course in 1988.

Bourbon is Kentucky’s second-finest export next to the Thoroughbred, though you may find some who argue the order to be reversed. And, rest assured, it flows Derby Week -- 80,000 mint juleps will be served Derby Day.

Cleaning up the facility after 100,000 fans on Oaks Day and readying it for 150,000-plus pa-trons for the next morning’s Der-by Day onslaught is one of the most amazing things you’ll ever see.

Tickets and Derby Experi-ence packages are still available online. It is a sporting event, but this is no day at the ballpark – unless you purchase tickets to stand in the more casual infield, you will be expected to dress to impress. Ladies typically wear pastel dresses while men wear seersuckers or light-colored sport coats. Whatever you do, don’t forget your hat! The Kentucky Derby is almost as much about hats as it is about horses. Women will be sporting large, colorful hats on Derby Day.

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Contrary to popular belief, Mother’s Day was not conceived and fine-tuned in the boardroom of Hallmark. The earliest tributes to mothers date back to the annual spring festival the Greeks dedicated to Rhea, the mother of many deities, and to the offerings ancient Romans made to their Great Mother of Gods, Cybele. Christians celebrated this festival on the fourth Sunday in Lent in honor of Mary, mother of Christ. In England this holiday was expanded to include all mothers and was called Mothering Sunday.

In the United States, Mother’s Day started nearly 150 years ago, when Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker, organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community, a cause she believed would be best advocated by mothers. She called it “Mother’s Work Day.”

Fifteen years later, Julia Ward Howe, a Boston poet, pacifist, suffragist, and author of the lyrics to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” organized a day encouraging mothers to rally for peace, since she believed they bore the loss of human life more harshly than anyone else.

In 1905 when Anna Jarvis died, her daughter, also named Anna, began a campaign to memorialize the life work of her mother. Legend has it that young Anna remembered a Sunday school lesson that her mother gave in which she said, “I hope and pray that someone, sometime, will found a memorial mother’s day. There are many days for men, but none for mothers.”

Anna began to lobby prominent businessmen like John Wannamaker, and politicians including Presidents Taft and Roosevelt to support her campaign to create a special day to honor mothers.

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KENTUCKY DERBY from Page 1Favorites don’t win the Der-

by often these days. Since 1979, only Smarty Jones and Fusiachi Pegasus have rewarded the back-ing of the masses with a winning move. But 50 times in 132 years, the public choice has won the Derby.

Glasses with the Derby logo have been a traditional souvenir since 1938. While their lifespan housing a mint julep lasts only minutes, some of these time-hon-ored glasses have become rather valuable on the collectibles mar-ket. The 1940 beauty currently is on Ebay at a Buy It Now! price of $13,500. Think I’ll just have another julep.

Horses. It’s all about the horses. A total of 37,572 newly born Thoroughbreds were regis-tered in 2004. Three years later, only one will be remembered for all-time.

Infield revelry makes the Derby experience part-Animal House and part-Woodstock for many attendees. Sneaking in bottles of booze in hollowed out loaves of French bread once was considered creative. That’s sooooo ‘70s now.

Kentucky’s third-largest city is Churchill Downs on Derby Day, trailing only behind Louis-ville (550,000-plus) and Lexing-ton (268,000-plus). In fact, there will be more people at the Derby than in the state’s next three larg-est cities -- Owensboro, Bowling Green and Covington -- com-bined.

Louisville bear-hugs the Derby like no other city in Amer-ica embraces an event. Even churches get involved. I recall seeing a sign outside a church several years ago that read, ‘Win the race of life. Worship with us.’ That echoes even deeper after dropping a few hundred of the hard-earned.

My Old Kentucky Home bellows from the University of Louisville Marching Band as the horses parade onto the track before the big race. If you don’t get goosebumps EVERY time, you’re not human. No lie -- just got ‘em here typing that line. Call me a wuss.

Next door to Churchill Downs is the Kentucky Derby Museum. Though it’s closed Oaks and Derby Days for sen-sible, crowd-related reasons, do yourselves a favor and check it out earlier in the week. The 360-degree movie at the end of the tour - priceless.

Oaks Day, held immediately prior to the Derby, has become

Louisville’s Day at the Races. Locals flock to Oaks Day more so than Derby Day, when Louis-villians often avoid the tourists and host their own parties.

Purse money now totals $2 million for the Derby, which, more than any other race in America, rewards its winner. A Derby champ nabs almost 80 percent of the purse most years, whereas everyday race win-ners take home about 60 percent of the booty. Wagering on this year’s Kentucky Derby racing action should exceed $180 mil-lion. Your best bet at making a mint on the Kentucky Derby is to play the superfecta. While it’s not easy to pick the top four win-ners in order, the 2005 ‘super’ paid $1,728,507 -- that’s more than Giacomo’s owners received for winning the race!

The Kentucky Derby is the culmination of Louisville’s two-week Kentucky Derby Festival, with over 70 events planned for 2011. The race itself is the most exciting two minutes in sports, but you can make a full vacation out of your trip to the 2011 Ken-tucky Derby.

THE 2011 CONTENDERS

• Uncle Mo• Dialed In• Comma To The Top• Pants On Fire• JP’s Gusto• Soldat• Mucho Macho Man• Decisive Moment• Animal Kingdom• The Factor• Stay Thirsty• Santiva• Watch Me Go• Anthony’s Cross• Brethren• Midnight Interlude• Toby’s Corner• Twice The Appeal

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Much of the material for this article was derived from:The Kentucky Derby: A to Z

by Jeremy Plonk

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Early Times Mint Julep RecipeOfficial Drink of the Kentucky Derby

2 cups sugar2 cups waterSprigs of fresh mintCrushed iceEarly Times Kentucky WhiskySilver Julep Cups

Make a simple syrup by boiling sugar and water together for five minutes. Cool and place in a covered container with six or eight sprigs of fresh mint, then refrigerate overnight. Make one julep at a time by filling a julep cup with crushed ice, adding one tablespoon mint syrup and two ounces of Early Times Kentucky Whisky. Stir rapidly with a spoon to frost the outside of the cup. Garnish with a sprig of fresh mint.

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Think twice the next time you get an email from Chase or Citi asking you to log in to your credit card account. The bank may not have sent it.

A security breach that exposed the email addresses of potentially millions of customers of major U.S. banks, hotels and stores is more likely than traditional scams to ultimately trick people into revealing personal information.

Security experts said Monday they were alarmed that the breach involved targeted information -- tying individuals to businesses they patronize -- and could make customers more likely to reveal passwords, Social Security numbers and other sensitive data.

The company that was in charge of the email addresses, a Dallas marketing firm called Epsilon, handles online marketing for some of the biggest names in business. Those companies have flooded customers in recent days with warnings to be on guard.

Epsilon said that while hackers had stolen customer email addresses, a rigorous assessment determined that no other personal information was compromised. By itself, without passwords and other sensitive data, email addresses are of little use to criminals. But they can be used to craft dangerous online attacks.

Citi credit card customers, for example, are more likely to respond to an email claiming to be from Citigroup than from a random bank. The email might direct the customer to a site that looks like the bank’s site, capture login information and use it to access the real account.

David Jevans, chairman and founder of the nonprofit Anti-Phishing Working Group, said criminals have been moving away from indiscriminate email scams, known as “phishing,” toward more intelligent attacks known as “spear phishing,” which rely on more intimate knowledge of victims.

“This data breach is going to facilitate that in a big way,” said Jevans, also CEO of security company IronKey Inc. “Now they know which institution people bank with, they know their name and they have their email address.”

The information could also help criminals send highly personalized emails to victims. Doing so makes the email more likely to get past a spam filter.

Epsilon, a unit of Alliance Data Systems Corp., sends more than 40 billion emails a year and has more than 2,500 business clients. Stock in the parent company fell $1.73, or 2 percent, to close Monday at $84.20.

Meanwhile, more than a dozen companies contacted customers to instruct them never to reveal personal information in response to an email.

Financial institutions affected include Barclays Bank, Capital One Financial Corp., Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and U.S. Bancorp. The parent companies of Best Buy, Ethan Allen furniture stores, the Kroger grocery chain, the Home Shopping Network and Walgreens drugstores issued similar warnings, as did the Hilton and Marriott hotel chains. The College Board, the not-for-profit organization that runs the SATs, also warned that a hacker may have obtained student email addresses.

Many of the companies contacted by The Associated Press declined comment or referred reporters to statements acknowledging the breach. Epsilon also declined further comment. Some of the companies said Epsilon has referred the breach to unspecified authorities.

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Aging and the BrainIt doesn’t take a

neuroscientist to figure out that aging takes its toll the brain. Generally speaking, as we age our brain mass shrinks, the outer surface thins and chemical messengers in the brain decrease, collectively effecting communication between brain cells. Our ability to retrieve old memories thus declines, as does our ability to form new ones. However, this decline isn’t exactly the same for everyone. How we manage our day-to-day lives can have great influence on how sharp we remain in our old age. In the near future, part of this daily management might involve working out at a brain gym.

Benefits of Brain TrainingOver the past several decades, science has shown us that those

who continue to learn and are mentally active in old age remain more mentally fit than those who do not. More recently, however, the specifics of brain training and its benefits are being explored. While some short-term studies have shown that brain training improves memory and attention skills, it’s still too early to say whether sustained training will prevent or slow down the onset of mental disorders such as Alzheimer’s. Many people in their 50s and 60s, especially those with demanding careers, feel they can’t afford to suffer from even minor memory lapses. They are an eager market for any kind of memory or alertness therapy.

Where to Get FitThe brain gym industry is still in its infancy, but it’s growing

rapidly. Storefront brain gyms are opening up in areas with a high concentration of retirees, but the online brain gym experience is popular as well. Some online brain gyms require a subscription, but there are free options too. Some storefront brain gyms to check out include vibrantBrains in San Francisco, the Neurobics Club in Sarasota, Fla., or the dozen or so quasi physical/mental fitness clubs in southern California called “Nifty after Fifty.” Once inside, you’ll find an atmosphere similar to an Internet café, with people “working out” on computers.

What to ExpectIf you’re adventurous enough to flex your mental muscle, you’ll

find membership rates for brain gyms similar to those required at conventional gyms. In fact, much like in conventional gyms, seeing customers working out under the guidance of a personal trainer won’t be out of the ordinary. Inside, it’s very likely you’ll find top-of-the-line computer stations loaded with the latest in brain-training software from industry names like HappyNeuron, Lumosity, Posit Science Corp., and even Nintendo. These are training games that target various aspects of neurological function: language, reasoning, visual-spatial orientation, memory, attention, and so on. Gyms may also offer courses (at an additional fee) that combine brain training with stress-reducing remedies like meditation or even good old physical activity.

Walking Hand-in-HandThe key to maintaining a healthy mind is exercise, but it’s

important to understand that the body and mind walk hand-in-hand. Maintaining lifelong physical fitness and healthy nutritional habits will ensure that your brain has the biochemical capacity to perform at its fullest, and only then will mental stimulation reap its rewards. Brain gyms alone can’t ensure a nimble mind. a smart choice for suckers?

In hindsight, the expansion of the brain gym industry might be regarded as a mere effort to capitalize on the hordes of Baby Boomers about to turn 65, many of whom are nervous about aging and will throw as much money as necessary at the problem. We’ve made physical exercise into a product for consumption, and perhaps memory and intellectual agility is the logical next step. Regardless, with people retiring later and later in life (a trend unlikely to change any time soon given the economic situation), Baby Boomers are right to be concerned about staying mentally “in shape.”

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Mother’s Day from Page 1At one of the first services

organized to celebrate Anna’s mother in 1908, at her church in West Virginia, Anna handed out her mother’s favorite flower, the white carnation. Five years later, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution calling for officials of the federal government to wear white carnations on Mother’s Day. In 1914 Anna’s hard work paid off when Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Mother’s Day as a national holiday.

At first, people observed Mother’s Day by attending church, writing letters to their mothers, and eventually, by sending cards, presents, and flowers. With the increasing gift-giving activity associated with Mother’s Day, Anna Jarvis became enraged. She believed that the day’s sentiment was being sacrificed at the expense of greed and profit. In 1923

she filed a lawsuit to stop a Mother’s Day festival, and was even arrested for disturbing the peace at a convention selling carnations for a war mother’s group. Before her death in 1948, Jarvis is said to have confessed that she regretted ever starting the mother’s day tradition.

Despite Jarvis’s misgivings, Mother’s Day has flourished in the United States. In fact, the second Sunday of May has become the most popular day of the year to dine out, and telephone lines record their highest traffic, as sons and daughters everywhere take advantage of this day to honor and to express appreciation of their mothers.

A farmer friend of mine and his new bride were visited by her mother, who immediately demanded an inspection of the place. The farmer had genuinely tried to be friendly to his new mother-in-law, hoping that it could be a friendly, non-antagonistic relationship. All to no avail though, as she kept nagging them at every opportunity, demanding changes, offering unwanted advice, and generally making life unbearable to the farmer and his new bride.

While they were walking through the barn, during the forced inspection, the farmer’s mule suddenly reared up and kicked the mother-in-law in the head, killing her instantly. It was a shock to all no matter their feelings toward her demanding ways.

At the funeral service a few days later, the farmer stood near the casket and greeted folks as they walked by. The pastor noticed that whenever a woman would whisper something to the farmer, he would nod his head yes and say something. Whenever a man walked by and whispered to the farmer, however, he would shake his head no, and mumble a reply.

Very curious as to this bizarre behavior, the pastor later asked the farmer what that was all about.

The farmer replied, “The women would say, ‘What a terrible tragedy’ and I would nod my head and say, ‘Yes, it was.’ The men would then ask, ‘Can I borrow that mule?’ and I would shake my head and say, ‘Can’t. It’s all booked up for a year.’”

Farm Tragedy

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MUDBUGS FROM PAGE 7A purged and chilled crawfish has a slowed metabolism and can

stay alive for up to four days on its way to the stove. Whether live crawfish have been purged by farmers or not,

consumers should purge again at home, using clean water and salt. After rinsing, the back-scooting mudbugs are ready for the boil. Seasoned water is brought to a full rolling boil, potatoes and corn can be cooked prior to the crawfish so they don’t absorb too much of the seasoning, then removed or left in, while crawfish are dumped in, and the water returned to a boil.

Once the second boil is reached, cook for 3 to 7 minutes, and then turn off the fire. Crawfish should soak for another 15 to 20 minutes, or until desired flavor is reached. The longer the soak, the spicier the crawfish.

Peeling crawfish is also an art, better shown than explained, with much Cajun pride taken in speed and agility. The tail is broken from the upper half of the body, the first layer of tail-shell removed, then the meat pulled out while fingers pinch the tailfin.

But the real test of Cajun fever is not whether one can eat crawfish tail meat. Most people like the seafood, especially once peeled and put in a cold pasta salad or hearty etouffee. But at crawfish boils, hardcore Cajuns and true converts can be observed “sucking the head” too, relishing the juice and spice mixture stored in the upper body portion that is normally discarded by others.

The harvest peaks in April and May. As the water warms, the crawfish get fatter and more aggressive. That’s when the quality is best. Harvesting usually ends around late June, when most vegetation has decomposed and crawfish tend to taste muddy.

Crawfish boils may not take the place of good Texas barbecue any time soon, but in southeast Texas, crawfish are raising their claws as a strong rival, and local farmers are saying bon appétit.

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What are Mudbugs and where D’ya git ‘em?

Crayfish, crawfish, crawdads or mudbugs, call them what you will but they’ve never been more popular. Whether boiled or in gumbo, etoufee or jambalaya they are a crustacean in demand.

Long a Louisiana staple, they have been raised on crawfish farms for many years and many southeast Texas farmers have started producing them as well. Many Chamber and Jefferson County rice farmers are supplementing their income raising bugs to help meet the demand.

The farmers who raise crawfish double-crop with rice, alternating years and fields, each crop benefiting from the other: rice flourishing in the soft soil stirred by crawfish and crawfish feasting on the decayed stubble of last year’s rice.

Crawfish-rice fields are formed by careful grading and levee construction, creating ponds that are 18 inches to 36 inches deep, — just enough so that long-legged birds can’t stand in the water and munch away the crop. Not even cranes will land in water that touches their bodies.

Deeper ponds give longer yields of crawfish because the hard-shell animals prefer cool waters. Once pond temperatures reach the upper 80s, crawfish head for the banks to burrow into the mud, escaping the hot summer and reproducing for the fall.

After fields are drained and reflooded in August and September, baby crawfish emerge from the burrows with their parents to continue the growth cycle. Farmers begin harvesting as early as January, with production peaking in April and May, then tapering to an end by late June. At peak, local farmers sacked almost 1000 pounds of crawfish per day, equal to roughly 25 forty-pound sacks.

Crawfish are graded by size, like shrimp. Crawfish that number about 21-30 per pound are classified as “peelers,” and used as tail meat, or for stocking fish ponds. Those that number 16-20 per pound are “medium” or “restaurant grade,” and give the highest percentage of meat. “Jumbos”--10-15 per pound—are highest in demand, but sometimes hard to peel.

Like any crop, crawfish are subject to the swings of nature — rainfall, temperatures and predators — regardless of how well farmers have prepared the land for them. Threats come from otters, raccoons and large turtles, which nip the tails of trapped crawfish, and from still waters that don’t provide enough oxygen in populated traps, causing crawfish to drown. Other problems come from beavers that dam the waterways and from wild hogs that root through levees, causing pond waters to drain. In these situations, alligators become the friend of farmers, because they control the number of predators by their diet.

For harvest, farmers submerge wire traps baited with fish products, and with funnels that allow the crawfish entry. To eliminate a muddy taste, farmers usually “purge” crawfish in fresh water for 24 hours before marketing.

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Lakes in Bay Colony 4/4Open concept, cul de sac, 3 car garage, sprinkler system, landscaping, storm windows. $169,500

Victory Lakes 5/3/1Trendmaker, dining room, den, breakfast room,study,upstairs den & gameroom or media.Master fireplace $387,500

South Shore 4/2 Like New Perry One story. 3 car garage, extra-large bedrooms, beautiful wood floors. Open concept, many upgrades. Washer/Dryer included. $199,900

Nicholstone 4/3 Bayou view large yd, Detached garage, needs a little TLC, Motivated seller $250,000

Claremont Park 3/2/2Split floor plan, cul de sac, large open kitchen, landscaping, Study, Master w his/hers closets. $179,900

LOVELY LANDSCAPED HOME 4/21/2 acre, Veranda, deck, above grnd pool. Kitchen, living, dining, master and baths ceramic tile flooring $149,900

Near CC High School 3/1/1, backyard decking, tile kitchen w/backsplash, workshop. $115,000

Brick - 3/1.5 1 car attached garage w carport, large fenced yd, recent ceramic tile, recent roof central A/C.$59,999

Clear Lake - 260 El Dorado $735Dickinson Waterfront Condo- 2127 Casa Rio- $1400 MonthlyLeague City Townhome- 643 Davis- $1350 Monthly

Texas City House 411 12th $750 MOLeague City-Historical Home-205 Iowa- $1300 MO

ALVIN-HWY 6 1.23 AC $250,000DICKINSON 1266 3.46 AC $199,000DICKINSON -1266 SHOP/RESIDENCE $549,000DICKINSON HWY 3 APPROX 5 ACRES $399,000DICKINSON -2512 TERMINI LEASE $1.50/SF/MOGALVESTON- BROADWAY 2760 SF BLDG $312,000 OR LEASE $3000 MOHITCHCOCK-8500 FM 2004 150 AC $1.2 MILLIONLAMARQUE 801 MAIN RETAIL $20,000PASADENA PRESTON 4 AC $325,000SAN LEON 22ND AND AVE D 9 AC $150,000SAN LEON 1513 HWY 146 1.36 AC $150,000 TEXAS CITY-25 &25TH AVE N. APPROX 1 ACRE $275,000TEXAS CITY- TEXAS AVE OFFICE BLDG SOLDTEXAS CITY 34TH & CHERRY 4 AC $450,000TEXAS CITY 1401 33RD 9.49 AC $949,000 SOLD

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Condos/TownhomesLeague City - 643 Davis - $131,000 Dickinson-2127 Casa Rio-$99k

League City- 793 Davis- $85kClear Lake-2323 Fairwind-$55,900

Cute 3-1-1, updated kitchen and bath, new cabinets, ceramic tile, original wood floors. Bring offer. $69,500

WARM & INVITING 4/2Granite, cabinets redone, fireplace and custom mantle. Updated master bath! $119,900

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