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...Melon-meets-the Pogues sound of opening band Carbon Leaf. Carbon Leaf are the only unsigned band ever to perform at the American Music Awards, where they won an award for Best New Music, beating out some 1,000 other bands. Featuring among other things a mandolin and several tin whistles, the group is obviously influenced by Great Big Sea and they were a fitting and exhilerating opening band, whetting the crowd’s appetite. By the time lead singer Barry Privett broke out the bagpipes towards the end of their gig, the sold-out Avalon crowd was delirious...
Here too, however, the odds can be stacked in the hunters' favor. Deer are often lured to feeding stations, where they are serenely unaware of the men in the stilt-mounted tin shack 75 yards away. Such lying in wait--or "shooting over bait"--is legal in Texas and defended by hunters. "It promotes a clean kill," says Gardner. Other sportsmen are troubled by the practice. Stan Rauch of the Montana Bowhunters Association believes that fed animals are tame animals and should thus be off limits. "Animals become habituated to people when they depend on us for food," he says...
...This is not the first time the club has been smeared. In 1996, jockey Stanley Chin was arrested for bribing other riders to throw a race at Hong Kong's Sha Tin track. Chin, who was paid by a businessman from mainland China to rig the order of finish so punters could cash in on a long-shot combination bet, was sentenced to three years in prison. No charges have been filed as yet in Operation Green. The Jockey Club had no official comment, but chief executive Larry Wong acknowledges the investigation "is an emotional setback...
...More than that, it's another blow to an august institution. Races at the club's Happy Valley and Sha Tin tracks are an obsession to hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong punters, who gather in the bleachers, at off-track betting outlets and in front of TVs in countless noodle shops whenever the ponies are at the post. The club's takings ($1.4 billion last year) make it Hong Kong's largest taxpayer as well as the SAR's most dependable charitable donor. Gambling money has built playgrounds, cultural centers and other civic improvements around the city...
...troubled local economy is partly to blame. So too are new competitors: illegal bookies, Internet gambling and increasingly popular sporting alternatives such as football are all cutting into revenue. Late last year, big time British bookmaker William Hill began accepting online bets on races at Happy Valley and Sha Tin. The Jockey Club is not amused. "These guys are raiding the coffers of Hong Kong," says Wong. "They're not legitimate. They don't have a license in the territory. They don't pay tax in the territory...