Triple or not, 5 things to watch for in Belmont

Exercise rider Jennifer Patterson takes Orb for a gallop on the track at Belmont Park, Friday, June 7, 2013 in Elmont, N.Y. Orb is entered in Saturday's Belmont Stakes horse race. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Exercise rider Jennifer Patterson takes Orb for a gallop on the track at Belmont Park, Friday, June 7, 2013 in Elmont, N.Y. Orb is entered in Saturday's Belmont Stakes horse race. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

A horse gallops on the rain-soaked track at Belmont Park during a morning workout Friday, June 7, 2013 in Elmont, N.Y. Saturday is the Belmont Stakes horse race. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Giant Finish walks on the track at Belmont Park, Friday, June 7, 2013 in Elmont, N.Y. Giant Finish is entered in Saturday's Belmont Stakes horse race. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Orb, left, is walked through the paddock runway at Belmont Park for a morning workout, Friday, June 7, 2013 in Elmont, N.Y. Orb is entered in Saturday's Belmont Stakes horse race. Jennifer Patterson is the exercise rider. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Preakness winner Oxbow, left, is guided by trainer D. Wayne Lukas, right, to his barn at Belmont Park following a morning workout Friday, June 7, 2013 in Elmont, N.Y. Oxbow is entered in Saturday's Belmont Stakes horse race. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

NEW YORK (AP) ? A large field of 3-year-olds is set to run in the $1 million Belmont Stakes on Saturday. Among the competitors are Kentucky Derby winner Orb, Preakness winner Oxbow and a record five horses trained by Todd Pletcher, including Unlimited Budget with Rosie Napravnik attempting to become the second female jockey to win a Triple Crown race.

A rematch between the Derby and Preakness winners sure didn't scare off the competition. The field of 14 matches the largest since 1996, one shy of the record set in 1983.

There may not be a Triple Crown on the line, but here are five things to watch for while the field is negotiating one long, mile-and-a-half race known as the "Test of the Champion."

? HELLO, MUDDER: The New York area got a soaking on Friday. There's also a chance of afternoon showers on Saturday, leaving the possibility of a wet track by post time at 6:36 p.m. So who likes the mud? A bunch of 'em, starting with the top three finishers in the Derby. Orb romped past 16 horses in the final half mile and won over slop at Churchill Downs. Golden Soul, who was 2 1/2 lengths back in second, obviously had no issues with the track, and Revolutionary finished strong after a bumpy start to get third. The most intriguing mudder could be Freedom Child, who flourished in the slop at Belmont and led wire-to-wire in a stunning 13 1/4-length romp in the Peter Pan four weeks ago. Vyjack won on the slop at Aqueduct, but did not handle it well in the Derby, finishing 18th. The filly Unlimited Budget opened her career with a win over a good track at Aqueduct back in November.

? HELLO, FATHER: If you're looking for champion bloodlines, here's a bunch: Incognito is a son of 1992 Belmont winner and Horse of the Year A.P. Indy; Preakness winner Oxbow is a son of 1998 Breeders' Cup Classic winner Awesome Again; Palace Malice is a son of two-time Horse of the Year Curlin; and Unlimited Budget is a daughter of 2007 Derby winner Street Sense. Also, Derby winner Orb and Peter Pan winner Freedom Child were both sired by Malibu Moon.

? FILLY, FEMALE: Unlimited Budget will attempt to become the fourth filly to win the Belmont, and the first to win a Triple Crown race with a female jockey in Rosie Napravnik. The two got together at the Fair Grounds in February and won the Rachel Alexandra, and the filly is the co-fourth choice at 8-1. Napravnik finished third in the Derby and fifth in the Preakness aboard Mylute, and will attempt to join Julie Krone (winner of the 1993 Belmont aboard Colonial Affair) as the only women to win a Triple Crown race.

? THE O FACTOR: Don't tell us you should have bet the imaginary O-trifecta when one of the three horses in the field whose name begins with the letter O wins. Orb won the Derby, Oxbow won the Preakness, and Overanalyze is back for the Belmont after an 11th place finish in the Derby. The only time O horses ruled the Derby, Preakness and Belmont was 1935, when Omaha became the third of 11 horses to win the Triple Crown.

? ANOTHER TRY 5 FOR TODD: For the third time, trainer Todd Pletcher will send out five horses in a single Triple Crown race. He's done it twice in the Derby and came back a 10-time loser, and he's got a few big chances to get it done in the Belmont because he has five of the 14 horses (35.7 percent of the field) ? Revolutionary, Unlimited Budget, Palace Malice, Overanalyze and Midnight Taboo. His Derby losers in 2007 were Circular Quay (sixth), Any Given Saturday (eighth), Sam P. (ninth), Scat Daddy (18th) and Cowtown Cat (20th). In last month's Derby, it was Revolutionary (third), Charming Kitten (ninth), Overanalyze (11th), Palace Malice (12th) and Verrazano (14th).

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Powerball Winner Found: Gloria Mackenzie Claims $590 Million Windfall

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Common genetic disease linked to father's age

June 7, 2013 ? Scientists at USC have unlocked the mystery of why new cases of the genetic disease Noonan Syndrome are so common: a mutation that causes the disease disproportionately increases a normal father's production of sperm carrying the disease trait.

When this Noonan syndrome mutation arises in a normal sperm stem cell it makes that cell more likely to reproduce itself than stem cells lacking the mutation. The father then is more likely to have an affected child because more mutant stem cells result in more mutant sperm. The longer the man waits to have children the greater the chance of having a child with Noonan syndrome.

Noonan Syndrome is among the most common genetic diseases with a simple inheritance pattern. About one of every 4,000 live births is a child with a new disease mutation. The disease can cause craniofacial abnormalities, short stature, heart defects, intellectual disability and sometimes blood cancers.

By examining the testes from 15 unaffected men, a team led by USC molecular and computational biologists Norman Arnheim and Peter Calabrese found that the new mutations were highly clustered in the testis, and that the overall proportion of mutated stem cells increased with age. Their computational analysis indicated that the mutation gave a selective edge over non-mutated cells.

"There is competition between stem cells with and without the mutation in each individual testis," said Arnheim, who has joint appointments at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Keck School of Medicine of USC. "But what is also unusual in this case is that the mutation which confers the advantage to testis stem cells is disadvantageous to any offspring that inherits it."

The new findings also suggest an important new molecular mechanism to explain how certain genetic disease mutations can alter sperm stem cell function leading to exceptionally high frequencies of new cases every generation.

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Dispatch and Boxer aim to be your email apps of choice on iOS

Even though we have the likes of Sparrow and Mailbox already competing to be the one to handle email duties on your iOS device, chances are a couple more options wouldn't be frowned upon. Here's where the rebranded Boxer and newcomer Dispatch come in. The former, which was previously known as Taskbox, is an app that thrives largely on a swipe-based UI, while the latter describes itself as an "action-based" client that gives you quick access to a vast set of commands (delete, favorite, ignore, etc.). Where Dispatch hopes to stand out from the pack, however, is by making email accounts friendly with things like Evernote, Reminders, Calendar and others, which will then allow you to easily add items such as tasks, notes and scheduled events to those apps.

Boxer, on the other hand, touts a built-in to-do list feature and integration with Dropbox, as well as support for a slew of providers -- including Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Exchange and, with the latest update, Outlook. The Dispatch and Boxer applications are $2.99 (for a limited time) and $4.99, respectively, though Boxer is making its own app a gratis download for the first 10,000 folks who manage to grab it. Interested in either one? Well then, it's a good thing we have both links to the App Store down below -- take your pick.

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FreedomPop to start selling smartphones and launch yet another ...

FreedomPop plans to start selling Android smartphones this summer, becoming a full-fledged virtual mobile operator with its own unique twist. As with its freemium mobile broadband service, FreedomPop said it would offer up a baseline plan at no charge, including 500 MB of data, unlimited messaging and 200 minutes of VoIP calling.

FreedomPop is not revealing which devices it will sell or when it will offer them, promising only a launch date of later this summer. I admit I?m a little skeptical about this new curve in FreedomPop?s business model, since this isn?t the first voice service it has promised to deliver.

Back in January, FreedomPop announced a partnership with textPlus to integrate its over-the-top text and VoIP application into its mobile broadband plans. That service was supposed to launch in the first quarter, but it failed to materialize. I asked FreedomPop about the status of that deal and a spokesman told me that a TextPlus-FreedomPop app is still in the works, but would be available to its customers within the next month.

The status of this new voice service also looks a bit iffy. Not only is FreedomPop withholding key details about how the communications service will work ? for instance, whether it will support free out-of-network calls and SMS or will provide customers with phone numbers ? it apparently hasn?t even selected a VoIP provider to power it. According to the spokesman, FreedomPop is still trying to lock down the technology it will use and is even considering working with textPlus as white-label service provider.

I?m not trying to get down on FreedomPop here ? the mobile virtual network operator definitely has some innovative ideas on how to change the mobile industry. But the Atomico-backed startup is developing a reputation for making big promises and then failing to deliver. When it first launched last year, its flagship product was supposed to be an iPhone modem sleeve that connected to Clearwire?s WiMAX network. That sleeve has been caught up in U.S. Customs for nearly a year.

Still, despite FreedomPop?s predisposition toward hype, it has made several promises it has kept. It pre-announced plans to support bandwidth sharing among customers and enter the home broadband market ? both of which came to pass. If FreedomPop can deliver on its new VoIP service, it could shake up the mobile industry. Not only would it bring its freemium data and social bandwidth model to the mobile carrier market, it could become the first operator to offer a completely IP-based mobile service.

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Syrian TV: Army in control of border town Qusair

This Sunday, June 2, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian rebels making bread in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria. Cut off for three weeks by a regime siege, doctors in the Syrian town of Qusair keep hundreds of wounded in storerooms and underground shop cellars, short on antibiotics and anesthesia, using unsterilized cloth for bandages and blowing air with pumps because there?s no oxygen canisters, amid relentless shelling and sniper fire. More than a dozen have died from untreated wounds and at least 300 others need immediate evacuation, one doctor says. (AP Photo/Qusair Lens)

This Sunday, June 2, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian rebels making bread in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria. Cut off for three weeks by a regime siege, doctors in the Syrian town of Qusair keep hundreds of wounded in storerooms and underground shop cellars, short on antibiotics and anesthesia, using unsterilized cloth for bandages and blowing air with pumps because there?s no oxygen canisters, amid relentless shelling and sniper fire. More than a dozen have died from untreated wounds and at least 300 others need immediate evacuation, one doctor says. (AP Photo/Qusair Lens)

FILE - This Tuesday, May 21, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens gathering over houses that were destroyes from a Syrian forces air strike in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria. Cut off for three weeks by a regime siege, doctors in the Syrian town of Qusair keep hundreds of wounded in storerooms and underground shop cellars, short on antibiotics and anesthesia, using unsterilized cloth for bandages and blowing air with pumps because there?s no oxygen canisters, amid relentless shelling and sniper fire. More than a dozen have died from untreated wounds and at least 300 others need immediate evacuation, one doctor says. (AP Photo/Qusair Lens, File)

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? Syrian President Bashar Assad's troops, backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, regained control on Wednesday of the embattled strategic town of Qusair where fighting has raged with rebels for nearly three weeks, state TV and a local government official said.

The capture of the town, which lies close to the Lebanese border, solidifies some of the regime's recent gains on the ground that have shifted the balance of power in Assad's favor in the Syrian civil war.

The state TV said the army "restored security and peace" after successfully dismantling "terrorist networks" operating in the town over the last few days. An official in the governor's office of Homs province confirmed the report.

"At 6.30 a.m., Qusair became secure," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak to the media about an ongoing military operation.

Government troops, backed by Hezbollah, launched a wide offensive on the town on May 19.

Both sides in the conflict value Qusair, which lies along a land corridor linking two Assad strongholds, the capital of Damascus and an area along the Mediterranean coast that is the heartland of his minority Alawite sect.

For the rebels, who had been in control of the town shortly ever since after the uprising against Assad began in March 2011, holding Qusair meant protecting their supply line to Lebanon, just 10 kilometers (six miles) away.

In the past week, rebels in Qusair called on fighters from all over Syria to come to their aid in the town, and foreign fighters were suspected to be playing a large role in the city's defense.

The Qusair battle has also laid bare Hezbollah's growing role in the Syrian conflict. The Shiite militant group, which has been fighting alongside Assad's troops, initially tried to play down its involvement, but could no longer do so after dozens of its fighters were killed in Qusair and buried in large funerals in Lebanon.

Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, firmly linked his militant group's fate to the survival of the Syrian regime, raising the stakes not just in Syria, but also in Hezbollah's relations with rival groups in Lebanon.

Lebanon's Al-Mayadeen TV, which has reporters embedded with Syrian troops, was reporting live from Qusair on Wednesday, showing images of damaged buildings and a deserted town. The reporter said there was no sign of fighting.

The municipal building in the center of Qusair appeared to be pockmarked from fighting. A Syrian flag was raised above it, claiming government control of the town.

The official Syrian news agency SANA said some of the rebel fighters have surrendered.

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El Deeb reported from Beirut. Associated Press writer Bassem Mroue contributed to this report.

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Pay still excessive in Britain's financial services, say workers

LONDON (Reuters) - Pay and bonuses in Britain's financial services sector remain excessive and encourage risk-taking, according to those working in it, undermining efforts by politicians and regulators to reform an industry blamed for its role in the financial crisis.

Britons struggling in the economic downturn have been infuriated by financial services companies, particularly banks rescued by the government at the height of the crisis, which continue to dole out rewards many times the average wage.

Three-quarters of financial services employees, and two-thirds of senior managers, said some people in their organisations were still paid excessively, according to a survey published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) on Thursday.

Almost two-thirds of the 1,000 workers polled also said some of their colleagues were rewarded in a way that encouraged inappropriate behaviour, for example withholding information from co-workers, excessive and unauthorised risk-taking and even lying to customers. Fewer than one in three said they were proud to work in the financial services sector.

On top of the anger over pay, the public's trust in the industry has been shaken by a series of scandals including interest rate-rigging, breaches of anti-money laundering controls and the mis-selling of products.

Chancellor George Osborne set up a cross-party Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards last year to look at how to change the culture at banks. It will report its recommendations later this month.

Peter Cheese, chief executive of the CIPD, said some progress has been made, with culture change now being taken seriously by the bosses of big institutions, as well as executive boards and regulators.

He described comments from people like Barclay's Chief Executive Antony Jenkins, who on his arrival at the bank last year vowed to tear up Barclays' profits-at-all-costs culture, as the "first and most critical step" towards realising change. But he said there was still a long way to go.

The CIPD survey showed the focus on reform has yet to trickle down from the top, with less than 40 percent of workers saying senior management had led culture change initiatives within their organisations.

Cheese said firms who did not try to change could face wider problems, particularly with recruiting.

"This generation (of graduates) is looking at it slightly differently and they are not leaping to work with a bank because they don't trust and believe in the culture, purpose and value of the bank."

(Reporting by Clare Hutchison; Editing by Pravin Char)

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