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The low-growing bush basil (Ocimum minimum) is a separate species, but it is probably a variant of sweet basil. Much of the herb grown today is a hybrid, a cross between Ocimum basilicum andOcimum americanum. There are many cultivars of basil that have their own denomination.
Other Common Names: Basil, common basil, garden basil, St. Joseph's wort, basilicon, joy of the mountain, basilikum (German), basilic (French), lo-le (Chinese), basilika (Swedish), babui tulsi (Hindi), barjiru (Japanese).
Habitat: The plant is endemic to India, the Middle East and some islands in the Pacific. Today, it's grown in all parts of the world where there's a warm or temperate climate. The herb has been cultivated in the Mediterranean countries for thousands of years.
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It's been more than 20 years since Super Mario Bros. first arrived, and now Mario and Luigi are back in an all-new platformer for Nintendo DS. Boasting incredible 3D graphics to accompany classic 2D gameplay, this fast-paced adventure will have Mario fans cheering. New Super Mario Bros. features eight all-new worlds, each filled with extra levels, hidden paths, and secrets galore. It's possible to complete the game without visiting every world, which means you'll have to track down many alternate exits to visit every nook and cranny in the game.
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- Bonded Youkai now have pink names on the companions interface.
- Dungeon floors are now, in general, smaller. They also have less enemies.
- Doors in dungeons that are directly adjacent to other doors now follow the same pattern in regards to being locked/unlocked. (Meaning, a line of doors will all either be locked or unlocked, instead of decided on an individual basis.)
- Randomly generated battle maps now have normalized spawn locations.
- The level of a dungeon is now displayed near it on the map.
- Open chest verb added for random chests in case they get covered by something that prevents double clicking.
- The game will print notifications for timed-out trade/party invites in the chatbox.
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- Dragon Gale was applying its damage to the wrong enemy when launched from range.
- Healing Discharge was affecting all Youkai, even non-Bonded ones, at all ranges.
Colossal Tower - The path to the large tower on the west shore of Sigrogana is now open.
- New animation for the Ice Lily potential, courtesy of Sawrock.
- Boxer's Asura Fist no longer generates Schwarz Sturm on hit, only on use. Base FP cost increased to 20 (from 15).
- Boxer's Korkenzieher can now be resized between the minimum of 2 Range to the maxmimum of 2+SS level. (Range not changed, only added the ability to alter size.)
- Flying monsters do not trigger field objects that activate when walked on.
- In the item selling menu, you can now right click items; this has the same effect as dragging and dropping them.
- Replaced the Spatial Core requirements for enchantment catalyst crafting with various amounts of Magic Mud.
- EXPERIMENTAL: Turn order is now determined only by base CEL.
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- Cryomancy's Efficiency talent was not functioning properly.
- Vydel was using up too much momentum when cast without HSDW.
- Good Materials wasn't actually doing anything.
- Guest lists let you kick users who were not actually in the house anymore.
- Skill pool limits could be exceeded with certain items equipped/unequipped.
- Nightflower will no longer apply silence effects if the target is already silenced.
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2014 Developer Salary Survey, May 13, 2014 Our survey of more than 2,200 U.S. developers shows salaries in a well-paid field are nudging up as the economy picks up steam.
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Scenes from the Third Annual Foster Farms Fresh Chicken Cooking Contest
If you were a chicken, the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in St. Helena was a dangerous place to be last Friday.
But if you were a cook, gunning to show your prowess with the country's most popular protein, you couldn't have picked a better venue.
The occasion?
The third annual Foster Farms Fresh Chicken Cooking Contest, which pitted six finalists (two each from California, Washington state and Oregon) against one another for the grand prize of $10,000, plus a year's supply of Foster Farms chicken.
It was my third time judging this contest, and each year the recipes seem to get better and better.
My fellow judges were: Chef John Ash, host of KSRO-AM "The Good Food Hour"; Lynn Char Bennett, test kitchen director for the San Francisco Chronicle; Chef Ken Frank of La Toque in Napa; and Liam Mayclem, host of CBS' "Eye on the Bay."
The six finalists, culled from thousands of entrants, were chosen after cook-offs were held in each of the three states.
Friday morning, three contestants cooked at a time, getting 90 minutes to complete their dish. We judges scrutinized each dish set before us, looking for great flavor, beautiful presentation, use of local ingredients, simplicity and imagination.
In the first wave, there was Judith Berman-Yamada of Portland, Ore. preparing "Cumin Chicken Paillards with Grape Tomatoes, Scallions and Wine"; Merry Graham of Newhall, Calif. cooked her "Lemon-Hoisin Glazed Chicken on Roasted Asparagus and Cherry Sesame Rice"; and Rebecca Cameron of Bonney Lake, Wash. with her "Tea Rubbed Chicken with Apple Spinach Salad and Spicy Nuts."
In the second wave, Karen Bernards of McMinnville, Ore. whipped up "Hoisin Chicken Thighs"; Jackie Dodd of Los Angeles cooked "Spice Rubbed Thighs with Chipotle Bearnaise and Avocado Lime Quinoa Salad"; and Sandra Gray of Seattle, Wash. put the finishing touches on "Cherry and Goat Cheese Stuffed Chicken with Merlot Scented Lentils."
Interestingly enough, most of the recipes made use of chicken thighs, echoing an uptick in the general public's growing acceptance of dark meat, which is more flavorful and juicier than white, according to Foster Farms officials.
Judges always like to say the results were incredibly close. But in this case, it really was. There were three standout dishes that we favored, their scores separated by only a point each. After some back and forth, we came to a consensus, choosing a dish with bold, complex flavors of sweet, tangy and spicy: "Lemon-Hoisin Glazed Chicken on Roasted Asparagus and Cherry Sesame Rice."
This year, the public also got to award a "People's Choice Award." Last weekend, 5,000 folks held dinner parties at their homes to cook the final six recipes and to vote on their favorite.
That honor went to Bernards' "Hoisin Chicken Thighs" served atop mango-cilantro rice. She won a year's supply of chicken, a gift basket and a $1,000 gift card to the CIA's culinary store.
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Even during the 80s we would "earn" the right to play our football, kendall wernt against our players getting into a physical battle for 89 mins to be able to produce a minute of greatness, same with joe royle, make us hard to beat, the rest will follow
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NCLB Update
On September 5, Secretary Spellings delivered remarks on reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act to members of the Business Coalition for Student Achievement (http://www.biz4achievement.org/). "Thanks to No Child Left Behind, for the first time, families have a right to expect that their child will be performing at or above grade levelby 2014," she noted. "That's seven years from nowplenty of time, especially since we set this goal in January 2002. We're talking grade-level work. Not nuclear physics. Just fundamental grade-level work...." And, the Secretary continued, many schools are "doing it!" The latest results show more than 70% of schools met annual progress goals last year. "Do we still have room for improvement? Absolutely. Can we do a better job of challenging kids with advanced math and science? Can we do a better job of getting kids and schools extra help to improve? Can we make assessment, accountability, and measurement systems far more effective and more sophisticated? Absolutely." Indeed, the administration issued a reauthorization proposal in January incorporating these improvements (see http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/nclb/buildingonresults.html). Still, she cautioned against making "the law so 'flexible' that it loses its power or its urgency.... Everybody knows that the more complicated the system, the easier it is to manipulate or obfuscate the bottom line." What is the Secretary's "bottom line" on reauthorization? "If we don't reauthorize No Child Left Behind this year, the law does not go away. But, it does likely stay in place without the added resources and flexibility that will help all our students improve. So, going forward, if a policy results in more kids getting more help and more kids performing at or above grade level, I'm for it. If it obscures or mitigates against our responsibility to educate every child, I'm not." For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/09/09052007.html.
A week earlier, the House Education and Labor Committee issued a staff discussion draft to reauthorize Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act (http://edlabor.house.gov/micro/nclb.shtml). The committee plans to hold a hearing on September 10 and will introduce a revised bill based on solicited comments and testimony. The Secretary recently submitted a four-page letter (http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/secletter/070905.html) expressing serious concerns in the areas of complexity and transparency, accountability, school improvement and parental options, students with disabilities and with limited English proficiency, and high schools.
NCLB: Teacher Quality
Based on findings from two federally funded studies, an interim report from the Department's Policy and Program Studies Services (PPSS) describes the progress that states, school districts, and schools have made implementing the teacher and paraprofessional qualification provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act through the 2004-05 school year. Generally, the studies found:
Most teachers meet their states' requirements to be considered highly qualified under NCLB. Yet, state policies regarding highly qualified teachers varied significantly, both in the passing scores that new teachers must meet to demonstrate content knowledge on assessments and in the extent to which High Objective Uniform State Standard of Evaluation (HOUSSE) policies give existing teachers credit for years of prior teaching experience.
The percentage of teachers who are not highly qualified under NCLB was higher for middle school teachers (9%), teachers of limited English proficient (LEP) students (6%), and special education teachers (15%), as well as teachers in high-minority and high-poverty schools. Even among teachers who were considered highly qualified, teachers in high-poverty schools had less experience and were less likely to have a degree in the subject they taught.
About two-thirds of instructional paraprofessionals were considered qualified under NCLB, but nearly one-third (28%) did not know their status or did not provide any response to the study question.
For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/teaching/nclb/.
Empowering Parents
A special Back to School edition of "Education News Parents Can Use" (September 18, 8:00-9:00 ET) will focus on the ways in which parents and schools are working together under the No Child Left Behind Act to ensure students receive a high-quality education. A parent is a child's first and most important teacher. Therefore, the law prioritizes giving parents timely information and, when their public schools do not live up to their promises, better options (including charter schools, magnet schools, public school choice, and intensive tutoring). The broadcast will discuss how and why these options work, offer tips for parents on staying informed and involved, and share the good news on how No Child Left Behind is working to narrow the achievement gap. It will also highlight the agency's work over the summer and preview the Secretary's Back to School bus tour (9/19-21) through Ohio and Indiana. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/av/video/edtv/. (You can watch live and archived webcasts at http://www.connectlive.com/events/ednews/.)
Note: This fall, the Department will release an "Empowering Parents School Box" packed with brochures, a bookmark, a door hanger, and a poster that cover multiple topics. To place your order for a free copy of the school box, call 1-877-4ED-PUBS.
Grant Awards
Just in time for the new school year, the Department has awarded grants under key competitive programs:
- Early Reading First Program: three-year grants to 32 school districts, colleges and universities, and other non-profit organizations totaling $115 million (http://www.ed.gov/programs/earlyreading/).
- Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Program: one-year grants to 91 districts across 32 states totaling $27 million (http://www.ed.gov/programs/dvpemergencyresponse/).
- Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative: up to four-year grants to 27 districts across 18 states totaling $37 million in the initial year (http://www.ed.gov/programs/dvpsafeschools/).
The agency has also published a list of eligible districts for the Rural and Low-Income School Program at http://www.ed.gov/programs/reaprlisp/eligible07/.
SAT Scores
Although the average national score on individual sections of the 2007 SAT exam fell no more than six-tenths of a percentage point, student performance declined on all three sections (critical reading, math, and writing) of the test. Reading fell one point, from 503 (on a scale of 200 to 800) in 2006 to 502 in 2007. Math and writing fell three points, making their scores 515 and 494, respectively. (Over the long-term, reading scores have declined three points since 1988, while math scores have grown 14 points over that same period.) Notably, this class of SAT-tested students is the most diverse on record, with 39% minority, 24% whose first language is not exclusively English, and a 31% increase (over two years) in the number receiving SAT fee waivers, based on eligibility for federal free or reduced-price lunch. In terms of course-taking trends, when compared to 1997, more students are taking pre-calculus (40%-53%), calculus (23%-30%), chemistry (85%-89%), and physics (48%-54%), but fewer students are taking English composition (71%-66%). For more information, please go to http://www.collegeboard.com/press/releases/185222.html. (The Secretary's statement is available at http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/08/08292007a.html.)
Also: Congress has almost completed work on the College Cost Reduction and Access Act (H.R. 2669). If President Bush signs the measure, most of the changes will take effect October 1. For more information, please go to http://edlabor.house.gov/micro/ccraa.shtml.
Organizational Assessment
As part of the Department's annual organizational assessment, the Office of Communications and Outreach (OCO) is soliciting feedback from customers for each of its primary publications, including ED Review. This short, five-question survey should take no more than five minutes to complete and will remain confidential. Your participation is strongly encouraged; your responses enable OCO and the Department to serve you more effectively. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/edreview/.
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"Hurricane Katrina broke through the levees. It broke a lot of hearts. It destroyed buildings. But it didn't affect the spirit of a lot of citizens in this community. This spirit can be best reflected when you think about a principal [Doris Hicks], who refused to allow a school to be destroyed by the flood and worked hard to not only rebuild the building but keep [her students together].... [New Orleans] is better today than it was yesterday, and it's going to be better tomorrow than it was today. And there's no better place to find that out than in the school system."
|President George W. Bush (8/29/07), at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Charter School for Science and Technology in the Lower Ninth Ward on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
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To mark the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787, Congress has mandated that educational institutions receiving federal funds take one day to teach the document that shaped America's democratic government. To support students and teachers in their studies, a variety of online resources are available from the Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) web site. Additional resources are available from the National Archives and Records Administration. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/policy/fund/guid/constitutionday07.html.
On Citizenship Day/Constitution Day (9/17), schools are also encouraged to participate in "Pledge Across America." The synchronized Pledge will begin at 2:00 p.m. EDT; 1:00 p.m. CDT; 12:00 noon MDT; 11:00 a.m. PDT; 10:00 a.m. in Alaska; and 8:00 a.m. in Hawaii. For more information, please go to http://www.celebrationusa.org/.
On October 18, Lights On Afterschool!, a coast-to-coast rally organized by the Afterschool Alliance, will illuminate the nation by celebrating afterschool programs and the need they meet in keeping students safe, helping working families, and improving academic achievement. Last year, 7,500 afterschool programs, such as the Department's 21st Century Community Learning Centers, hosted activities. For more information, please go to http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/lights_on/index.cfm.
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I am interested in bringing history to life through telling a story using fictional characters in a well researched historical plot. I am going to explore the historical fiction genre to see how useful it is in honing in on aspects of history which are often overlooked or brushed aside by mainstream historians.
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Social networking, blogging, and marketing sure do take a lot of time! I could relate to your post. I am trying to find a good balance between networking and writing. I read recently on another blog that the writer spends the morning writing, and then in the afternoon they spend an hour or two writing so that they don't get sidetracked early in the day. I thought that was interesting.ReplyDelete
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Limit of applications is reached within a week
State housing officials have stopped taking applications for the new Florida Hardest-Hit Principal Reduction program within one week of its launch.
The agency administering the $350 million in available grants reached the maximum 25,000 applications from underwater homeowners by noon on Wednesday.
Each application has now been assigned to an adviser to begin the process of determining eligibility for participation in the program.
Homeowners who are deemed eligible can receive up to $50,000 to reduce the principal balance of their first mortgage.
Nearly 1,130 recession-battered borrowers in Southwest Florida applied, including 431 in Sarasota, 424 in Manatee and 274 in Charlotte.
"Now that the process has officially closed, it is important for homeowners who got into the system to work with their adviser agency and submit the required documentation as quickly as possible," said Cecka Rose Green, spokeswoman for the Florida Housing Finance Corp.
"This assistance will be disbursed on a first-come, first-served basis; therefore, a 'place in line' cannot be held for applicants who delay getting their paperwork turned in to the agency," Green said.
The program is designed to help homeowners who are current on their mortgage but who owe more on a home loan than their property is worth. Nearly 109,000 mortgage borrowers in Southwest Florida -- about one-third of the region's homeowners -- are still considered deeply underwater, records show.
The new $350 million fund is part of Florida's $1 billion initiative to help homeowners avoid foreclosure in the wake of the housing crisis.
The principal-reduction program was open to Florida mortgage borrowers who owe 125 percent more in mortgage debt than the current market value of their primary residence, with less than $350,000 in outstanding principal.
The owners must earn a household income that is less than 140 percent of the area's median income. For a family with two working adults in the Sarasota-Bradenton-Venice market, that would be $67,200 to qualify.
New procedures for settlement
Also Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that Bank of America and Wells Fargo will implement new procedures to address possible violations of the National Mortgage Servicing Settlement.
These improvements come in response to concerns Bondi expressed earlier this year that the two banking giants were falling short of the standards required by the $25 billion deal.
Complaints from distressed borrowers, housing counselors, legal aid groups and foreclosure defense lawyers had inundated the program's monitoring committee. Attorneys general in other states have even threatened lawsuits against participating lenders.
Among the changes, the two banks have vowed to improve borrower communication, simplify the document-collection process, provide more direct attention to loan modification applicants and housing counselors and ensure that the banks' foreclosure attorneys have the proper information regarding the borrowers' loss-mitigation efforts.


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Illinois recently enacted changes to a law to make the use of social networking sites by registered sex offenders a class 4 felony.
Set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2010, Illinois state senator Bill Brady explained the reasoning behind the changes, "The idea was, if the predator is supposed to be a registered sex offender, they should keep their Internet distance as well as their physical distance. The object is to protect innocent individuals on the Internet from sex offenders."
The intent behind this law is easy to understand. We need to address public safety in the face of sharply increasing numbers of registered sex offenders. The issue is how best to accomplish this.
Unfortunately, this law fails to consider fundamental distinctions between what constitutes a social network, how this law balances the punishments meted to sex offenders vs. other types of serious online criminals, the problematic issues around which individuals become labeled as sex offenders, and so on.
The term 'social network' is undefined
Making it a felony for sexual predators to join social networking sites that are designed for children and teens, for dating, or specifically designed to meet vulnerable people is one thing, but this law takes an entirely undifferentiated and draconian approach by including all sites with any social networking functionality.
Amazon.com and eBay, for example, are social networks that enable people to have profiles, post comments, and more. Sites that enable job searches like LinkedIn and Monster.com are social networks, (see How the Web Has Changed Job Searching for more on the critical role social networks play in job hunting).
Support sites for sex offenders, sites that facilitate communication with family members, sites that allow comments such as newspapers, sites sharing information on products, hobbies, music, and so on, are all social networking sites. Moreover, the dynamic nature of the web is driving ever more sites to enable social interactions.
As the law now stands, it will make it more difficult for sex offenders to find jobs, apartments, or get support to help prevent re-offending, according to the Center for Sex Offender Management, a project of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Dept of Justice. Their research found that steady employment and support are key factors in reducing recidivism risks; the unintended consequence of the law may actually be an increase in the risks posed to society.
Lawmakers need to spend more time considering the differences in social networking sites and, at a bare minimum, craft laws with a more precise definition of what types of social sites should be illegal for sex offenders.
Sex offenders are one type of criminal threatening consumers online
Given the intent of the law is to protect innocent individuals online, shouldn't this law also ban other types of serious criminals that use social networking sites to facilitate their crimes – like scammers, stalkers, ID thieves, and so on? While the Internet is predominantly a safe and positive place for users of all ages, Internet criminals wreak considerable harm, stealing consumers' life-savings, their identities, and in some cases killing victims they met online. Sex offenses are heinous crimes, but should murderers get lesser penalties?
The vast majority of convicted sex offenders did not use social networks (or the Internet) in the commission of their crimes. This law assumes that though most sex offenders did not use social networks to find or groom their victims, they will do so in the future. If the individual did not use social networking sites, is it reasonable to ban them?
The changes add fuel to the debate over how sex offenders are defined
Changing the law to prohibit sex offenders from using social networking sites does not alter the scope of who is labeled a "sex offender", but it has reignited the debate over how broadly the label is applied. There is broad concern that the law as it stands is unjust because it does not differentiate between serial child rapists, and for example, a person caught three times relieving him/herself behind a tree. Public indecency for a third or subsequent conviction labels a person as a sex offender. Some are inappropriately caught under this label and they do not deserve to have their names and photos exposed on sex offender registries, or to be shunned by society.
The problem worsens as we look across states. Many states dump the sex offender label on individuals as diverse as rapists, pedophiles, exhibitionists, and teens that had consensual sex, or that sent explicit images of themselves to a boy/girlfriend, etc. Surely, no one believes these are equivalent behaviors, or that those caught in these varying circumstances should be treated equally.
The law also fails to take into account the varying likelihood of re-offense. Despite public anxiety, research shows that different categories of sex offenders pose widely different degrees of risk of re-offending.
According to the Center for Sex Offender Management, a project of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Dept of Justice, recidivism rates can be high for some types of sex offenders but even with elevated risk levels they strongly caution against viewing them as a homogeneous group.
Highlighting the disparity in recidivism rates among segments of sex offenders, Marshall and Barbaree (1990) found in their review of studies that the recidivism rate for:
- Incest offenders ranged between 4 and 10 percent.
- Rapists ranged between 7 and 35 percent.
- Child molesters with female victims ranged between 10 and 29 percent.
- Child molesters with male victims ranged between 13 and 40 percent.
Beyond categorizing sex offenders by the type of offense they committed, a complex set of variables determine who, within each category, is likely to re-offend. Factors include whether the offender received treatment, the age of the offender, whether they are employed, the type of sexual deviance, their psychological stability, whether they are substance abusers, and so on. The current one-size-fits all policy towards those labeled simply doesn't fit.
The issues I've listed about this particular approach do not pretend to cover other aspects like legality, jurisdiction, enforceability, etc. that will surely be wrestled over, but they should raise concern in the minds of the public as to the justness of this law.
Indeed, in a 2008 brief on state sex offender management policies, Thomas MacLellan, program director for the justice and public safety program of the National Governors Association, outlined challenges facing states. "People try to do the right things, but states don't always have the capacity to look at all the research," he said. "A lot of decisions will be made on consensus."
There are sexual predators using the Internet to find new victims, and the intent to help protect individuals from such offenders online is good. This particular legislation however will not achieve that goal.
Additional Resources:
- Illinois Full Text of HB1314 – Short Description: SEX OFFENDERS-NO SOCIAL NET
- NGA Issue Brief Managing Convicted Sex Offenders in the Community
- Illinois Compiled Statutes defining Sex Offenders
- Recidivism of Sex Offenders – U.S. Department of Justice
- How States Aim to Stop Sex Offenders: Introduction
- Illinois Sex Offender Information
- Rethinking "Sex Crimes" and Sex Offender Registries
- Social-networking ban for sex offenders: Bad call?
- Synopsis As Introduced: Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is a Class 4 felony for a person required to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration Act to access or use a social networking website during the period for which the sex offender is required to register under that Act. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Requires as a condition of parole, mandatory supervised release, probation, conditional discharge, or supervision that a sex offender refrain from accessing or using a social networking website.
- U.S. Department of Justice: Criminal Offenders Statistics – Sex offenders


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NSA leaker Snowden in Moscow, seeks asylum in Ecuador
He was permitted to leave Hong Kong despite extradition request by U.S.
MOSCOW — NSA leaker Edward Snowden has asked for political asylum in Ecuador after fleeing Hong Kong for Russia, the Ecuador Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
Russian news site RT reported that Snowden was to leave Moscow on Monday for Havana, and then move on to Caracas, Venezuela. But the Ecuador ministry and WikiLeaks, a website that divulges state secrets and is assisting Snowden, said he will try to get to Ecuador instead.
A Russian security source indicated on Monday that Moscow had no basis to extradite Snowden.
"Snowden has not committed any unlawful act on Russian territory," RIA Novosti quoted an unnamed security source as saying on Monday morning. "Russian law enforcement has no order to detain him, so there is no basis to do so."
Earlier the White House urged Russia to consider "all options available," according to National Security Council Spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden cited by Associated Press.
Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino has confirmed, meanwhile, that Snowden had requested asylum in his country, and pledged that his request would be considered in the shortest time possible, according to televised remarks carried by the Latin-American channel Telesur.
RIA Novosti reported at about 2:00 a.m. Monday morning that Ecuador's Ambassador to Russia, Patricio Alberto Chavez Zavala was seen leaving Sheremetyevo's transit zone, with several people getting into his car.
Interfax reported that Snowden has not been able to leave the airport because he does not have a Russian visa. He was accompanied by WikiLeaks representative Sarah Harrison, a British citizen who does have a Russian visa, according to Interfax.
"(Snowden) is bound for a democratic nation via a safe route for the purposes of asylum,and is being escorted by diplomats and legal advisers from WikiLeaks," the group said in a statement.
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, told Australian Sydney Morning Herald that Snowden will be met by "diplomats from the country that will be his ultimate destination" in the airport, who'll accompany him on a further flight to his destination.
A Russian lawmaker commented on Monday that the Snowden affair would have little effect on Russia-US relations.
"It won't improve these relations, but it won't harm them," RIA Novosti quoted Leonid Kalashnikov, first deputy head of the State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee as saying. Kalashnikov added that Russia should give Snowden citizenship and asylum. "Why should he fly to Ecuador? This isn't about a political refugee, but about a humanitarian one."
Snowden was allowed to leave Hong Kong just hours after Obama administration officials announced they filed a formal petition with Chinese authorities seeking Snowden's arrest and return to the United States.
An unofficial intermediary for the Hong Kong government told Edward Snowden that he was free to leave the city, according to Albert Ho, a local legislator who said on Monday that he was part of the former NSA contractor's legal team.
Ho said the message was passed to Snowden after Ho met with a senior government official on Friday to discuss whether Hong Kong would extradite Snowden to the U.S. and whether he might be detained at the airport if he tried to leave on his own.
He said Snowden originally planned to leave Saturday evening, but then hesitated as he tried to confirm the identity of the intermediary who had given him the all clear. Ho said he thought the person might have been an official from the Chinese government.
"I have reasons to believe that ... those who wanted [Snowden] to leave represented Beijing authorities," Ho said. "Beijing would not step foward to the front stage because it would affect Sino-U.S. relations."
On Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder had pressed the request for Snowden's arrest directly with Hong Kong Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen.
A U.S. official told the Associated Press that Snowden's passport was revoked before he left Hong Kong. Hong Kong's immigration department stated that so far no notification has been received from the United States government about the issue.
Snowden's travel plans could be complicated, but airlines or countries are allowed to overlook a withdrawn passport if a senior official so orders, the AP reported.
"We will continue to discuss this matter with Hong Kong and pursue relevant law enforcement cooperation with other countries where Mr. Snowden may be attempting to travel,'' U.S. Justice Department spokeswoman Nanda Chitre said Sunday.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said the U.S. government must exhaust all legal options to get Snowden back.
"Every one of those nations is hostile to the United States," Rogers, R-Mich., said on NBC's Meet the Press.
STORY: Snowden's travels raise concerns of foreign involvement
"When you think about what he says he wants and what his actions are, it defies logic," said Rogers, who repeated his assertion that Snowden's leaks of secret government surveillance programs had damaged U.S. national security.
The Hong Kong government said Snowden, 30, was allowed to fly out "on his own accord" because the U.S. extradition request announced Saturday did not fully comply with Hong Kong law.
Edward Snowden has reportedly arrived in Moscow and may be headed to Venezuela, Cuba or Ecuador with the help of Wikileaks. The NSA whistleblower told The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras he knew he'd be hunted down. VPC
Hong Kong said in a statement that it allowed Snowden to leave because documents provided by the U.S. government for extradition did not "fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong Kong law," and the U.S. had not yet provided the additional information requested to consider the U.S. request for a provisional arrest warrant.
After the announcement Saturday of the extradition request, an Obama administration official told USA TODAY that Hong Kong risked harming relations with the two sides if it did not comply with its legal obligations. Regina Ip, a legislator and Cabinet member in Hong Kong, said, "I don't think we need to be concerned about any consequences."
Snowden has been the focus of a criminal investigation since he acknowledged earlier this month that he was the source of materials detailing surveillance programs that collected telephone records for millions of Americans and a separate operation that targeted the Internet communications of non-citizens abroad who were suspected of terrorist connections.
He has been charged in U.S. federal court with espionage.
The South China Morning Post meanwhile reported that Snowden had provided information to show that the NSA had hacked into the Hong Kong system of Pacnet, which runs undersea telecommunications cables around the Pacific, and into 63 computers and servers at Tsinghua University in Beijing, one of China's most elite schools.
"The NSA does all kinds of things like hack Chinese cellphone companies to steal all of your SMS data," Snowden told the newspaper.
More: Snowden charged with espionage for NSA leaks
More: Snowden background check may have been flawed
Snowden, who was employed by Booz Allen Hamilton as an NSA systems analyst in Hawaii, fled to the Chinese territory of Hong Kong last month with top-secret documents and court orders on government surveillance operations.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., said she was not surprised that Snowden would seek safe haven in Cuba or Venezuela, "two regimes that have a longstanding history of giving refuge to fugitives from U.S. law."
"The cruel irony is that there are no press freedoms in either Cuba or Venezuela, yet Snowden who supposedly stands for transparency in government seeks refuge in police states like these two countries," she said.
Contributing: Kevin Johnson in Washington; Richard Wolf in McLean, Va.; Arutunyan reported from Moscow


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The reintroduction of thoroughbred racing at Hazel Park Raceway this year after a 30-year absence is predicted by the track's management to reverse a decade of financial losses.To further boost the bottom line, they're also seeking to add a microbrewery and sports bar at the track's unfinished casino adjacent to the 5/8-mile oval at the southwest corner of 10 Mile and Dequindre roads. It's all part of an effort to stave off mounting losses that have reflected a general decline in horse racing popularity over the past 25 years. The track, which opened in 1949, has lost $1 million annually since 2004 but is on pace to break even since launching weekend thoroughbred races on June 27, said Dan Adkins, vice president at Southfield-based real estate developer Hartman and Tyner Inc., whose owners also own Hazel Park Raceway.Hazel Park last raced thoroughbreds in 1984, converting in 1985 to full-time harness racing. The Michigan Gaming Control Board approved thoroughbred racing in January for Hazel Park and Northville Downs, which will run its schedule in late fall.More than 10,000 people came to Hazel Park Raceway for the inaugural night of thoroughbred racing last month — so many that the beer ran out by the fifth of that night's nine races, Adkins said. The second-weekend turnout was smaller, but still financially better than the harness races. "It's exceeded expectation," he said. "Overall, it seems to have been the right decision."The 30-day thoroughbred schedule continues on Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 11.Industry observers are cautiously optimistic about what Hazel Park is doing.
Hazel Park's new run at success includes microbrewery
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Pinnacle Race Course: Intended to be a $142 million thoroughbred track modeled on Churchill Downs on 320 acres near Detroit Metropolitan Airport, it opened in 2008 but was only partially built before its owners halted operations two years later because it was losing money and couldn't pay its bills.
Ladbroke Detroit Race Course: Livonia track closed in 1998.
Saginaw Harness Raceway: Closed in 2005.
Great Lakes Downs: Muskegon course closed in 2007.
Jackson Harness Raceway: Closed in 2008.
"I would expect they'll be well positioned to attract fans for the novelty of the races and as something to do on the weekends," said Frank Angst, a staff writer for BloodHorse.com who was a longtime writer for the now-defunct Thoroughbred Times."Generally, Saturdays are the best days in terms of handle at U.S. tracks. The chance to bet some major races on simulcasts and then see live racing should work well." Still, the track won't survive without additional forms of gambling revenue, Adkins said. For years, Michigan's horse tracks have been stymied in their efforts to get legislative approval to add slot machines or other forms of gambling via smartphones or slot-like wagering game terminals.
Bettors wagered $171,000 on nine thoroughbred races on June 27, Adkins said. By contrast, the most money wagered during the track's 10-day harness racing schedule earlier this year was $64,000.Another $300,000 was wagered on simulcast races on the inaugural thoroughbred night, he said.Crowds were deep at the betting windows for the live and simulcast races, and the restaurant was full, Adkins said. Ancillary track revenue increased 15 percent compared to a typical harness race night.While pleased with the new revenue, Adkins noted that 25 years ago a crowd of 10,000 at Hazel Park would have wagered about $1.25 million. That's because there were no casinos, no Internet, and the Michigan Lottery was far more modest, he said. Horse gambling was serious business for bettors."We are the original form of gambling in the state," he said. "Twenty-five years ago, there wasn't anything else for people to wager on. Now, we get a lot of families, people looking for something to do on a Friday night."The most wagered in the track's history was $1.42 million, by 15,372 bettors on July 12, 1975.Track management will have a better idea of the financial boost from switching to thoroughbreds over the next few weeks — the leveling after the initial boom of interest."I know we're going to run these entire 16 weeks with a (revenue) increase over standardbreds; how much remains to be seen," Adkins said. Horse wagering has declined in general in Michigan. After winning bets are paid to patrons, the track, horse owners and their associations, and the state and local municipality each get a cut of the betting, both live and simulcast, as laid out in a complex formula.The majority of betting is on simulcast races.Last year, Hazel Park had $3.3 million in live wagering, down 21.4 percent from $4.2 million in 2012. In 2011, it was $4.1 million. Simulcast betting at the track fell 8.8 percent in 2013 to $57.3 million from $62.8 million in 2012. In 2011, it was $64 million.Statewide, the total live and simulcast waging in 2013 was $126.9 million, an 8.1 percent decrease from $138.1 million in 2012.Those declines are why Hazel Park and other tracks are seeking new revenue streams.
In a bid to attract more patrons, the track's owners want to lease half of an unused 65,000-square-foot glass and steel building to a microbrewery for production and distribution, while using the other half for a sports bar-style restaurant."It seems like a perfect marriage," said Adkins, who is seeking interested microbreweries.The building was constructed for $12 million as a casino in 2004 in anticipation of state approval for slot machines at racetracks, a measure that got legislative approval but wasn't signed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm at the behest of Detroit's three casinos, Adkins said.The state's casino industry opposes any new gambling at Michigan's horse tracks, which potentially could siphon spending — exactly what the tracks say the Michigan's 24 commercial and tribal casinos have done to them over the past 20 years.
To break even, Hazel Park's owners had to invest in the track itself.More than $300,000 was spent replacing the running surface from the hard limestone used for trotters, which was about a 3-foot depth, to the soft earthen track required by thoroughbreds, Adkins said.Because of the expense, Hazel Park will no longer host harness races. "We're going to leave the track as a thoroughbred track," Adkins said.Hazel Park added 30 employees to handle the thoroughbred races, and is renovating and opening horse barns that have stood idle for decades, Adkins said. Payroll spending has increased by $15,000 a week.The track also increased its local advertising budget to about $500,000, from $200,000, Adkins said."We're increasing our business enough, and our expenses, but all in all it looks to me it's going to be a positive because I'm looking at a break-even year this year," he said.
A message was left for Northville Downs' management. The track told Crain's in January that it lost money the past two years, including an estimated $300,000 in 2013. It said it would spend $250,000 to convert its racing surface for thoroughbreds this year, and its season will run Oct. 12-Nov. 16.Northville Downs opened for harness racing, or standardbred racing, in 1944. These will be its first thoroughbred races.Mike Carlo, operations manager and co-owner of Northville Downs, told Crain's in 2012 that the track had lost 60 percent of its business since the Detroit and tribal casinos opened. The track had a $225,000 profit in 2011.
The tracks are trying to avoid the fate of five other horse race courses in Michigan (see box, above right).Today, in addition to Hazel Park and Northville, the state has two other operating tracks, both for harness racing: Sports Creek Raceway near Flint and Mount Pleasant Meadows."The only way horse racing is going to survive is if the state wakes up and allows these tracks to have other products," Adkins said.The track will continue to push for online or smartphone wagering on what's called instant racing. It's a way to wager on old races in which bettors get certain pari-mutuel information but don't know which race they're betting on.Other states, such as Ohio, allow slot machines at racetracks — giving rise to the portmanteau "racino" — and that increased revenue has boosted race purses and lured horse owners there, away from Michigan.The minimum race purse at Ohio racinos is $7,500, which is the maximum here, Adkins said."It's really hard to attract quality thoroughbreds," he said.However, slots are no guarantee of success: Ontario's Windsor Raceway, opened as a harness track in 1965, closed in August 2012 despite the Ontario Lottery Corp. adding slots in 1999.
Attracting thoroughbred owners isn't the only problem with the horses themselves for Michigan tracks.Industry watchers say a massive decline in Michigan thoroughbred breeding also directly fuels the economic problems faced by the state's tracks."The biggest hurdles will be the decline in the foal crop," Angst said. "In recent years, thoroughbred breeders have reduced the number of horses being produced each year. That means there's strong competition for horses." That race competition is coming from nearby states that have other revenue streams — slots, mainly — that boost the track purses."Tracks in states like Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia subsidize their purses with money from added gaming, which makes those tracks attractive to horsemen," BloodHorse.com's Angst said. "In general, tracks that subsidize purses with money from added gaming are having more success attracting those horses."In 1992, Michigan's annual foal crop was 518 horses, according to the earliest data available from The Jockey Club, the New York City-based breed registry for thoroughbred horses in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. The data is collected by Lexington, Ky.-based Equibase Co. LLC, a national database of industry statistics.In 2012, Michigan's foal crop was 63, a nearly 88 percent decline since 1992. The 2012 crop represented just 0.3 percent of all foals in North America. It was 1.4 percent in 1992."With an uncertain racing future in the state in recent years, Michigan has seen a dramatic decline in number of thoroughbreds produced in recent years," Angst said. "This is important because one thing these tracks could offer would be races restricted to horses bred in the state."Nationally, thoroughbred breeding saw the foal crop drop nearly 39 percent (37,828 to 23,150) from 1992 to 2012, data shows."The industry was hit pretty hard by the recession as prices dropped at sales. Breeders adjusted by producing fewer horses," Angst said.He predicts that will reverse: "The sales have rebounded in the past two years, so breeding is expected to pick up soon."Michigan's thoroughbred breeding could pick up if the races at Hazel Park and Northville Downs are successful."If breeders see these meets fare well, I'm sure more horses will be produced in the state, but it will be a gradual process," Angst said.Thoroughbred breeding (and housing, care, training, etc.) is not a cheap business or hobby, so breeding is sensitive to market forces."Thoroughbreds are a racing breed. That's, by far, the reason they are bred. Some breeders race the foals they produce, while other breeders primarily sell their horses to buyers who will race them," Angst said.Bill Shea: (313) 446-1626, [email protected]. Twitter: @bill_shea19


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The Weekly Standard has the latest on Saddam's payments to journalists and policitians around the world. Scott Ritter and Congressman Jim McDermott are among those who appear to be implicated. As to some, like MP George Galloway, the leader of the anti-war movement in Britain, there is no doubt whatsoever. A memo from the Iraqi Intelligence Service says:
[Galloway's] projects and future plans for the benefit of [Iraq] need financial support to become a motive for him to do more work. And because of the sensitivity of getting money directly from Iraq, it is necessary to grant him oil contracts and special and necessary commercial opportunities to provide him with a financial income under commercial cover without being connected to him directly…[T]he name of Mr. Galloway or his wife should not be mentioned…[Galloway] needs continuous financial support from Iraq.
Confronted with reports of the Iraqi documents, Galloway proclaimed his innocence from his villa in Portugal.
What we have heard so far is only a fraction of what must eventually come out. Many documents were destroyed before or during the war; many more were destroyed during the war, or in the immediate aftermath. No doubt some of the regime's darkest secrets were never written down at all. Nevertheless, American intelligence agencies are now in possession of the equivalent of 100 semi truck loads of Iraqi government and Baath party documents. Many more disclosures will tumble out over the next few years.