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According to a new announcement starting with the June ICANN meeting ICANN is eliminating the Board meeting typically held on the last day of the conference, Friday which includes committee reports and the public Board meeting.
In some past conference the Friday Board meeting have been kind of exciting with voting on .XXX and the new gTLD program hanging in the air.
But at the last ICANN conference in San Jose the Friday Board meeting was completely uneventful.
I guess this means is that the ICANN conference will now close on Thursday rather than Friday
Here is the announcement:
"In our ongoing efforts to improve the ICANNMeeting experience for all participants, we are implementing some changes for the June meeting in Prague.The Friday morning program, which in the past has comprised AC/SO committee reports, Board committee reports, and the public Board meeting, has been removed.
AC/SO committee reports and Board committee reports will now be published for review on the ICANN website.
The public Board meeting has been replaced with a one-hour session following the Public Forum on Thursday afternoon. In this session the Board will outline what they have heard during the week from their meetings with AC/SOs and their constituent parts and will identify those matters they expect to be dealing with between the Prague and Toronto Meetings.
The close of this session (expected to be around 18:00) will mark the official end of the ICANN meeting and will be immediately followed by a two-hour farewell reception for all ICANN Meeting participants.
It is intended that at the beginning of the Toronto meeting there will be a Board community session where the Board will report to the community on what they have dealt with since Prague.
We believe that the removal of the Friday public Board meeting and its replacement with two Board community sessions will improve the effectiveness of both the Board and the staff and increase the time that the Board has to interact with the community.
We hope you find these changes also make more effective use of your time and enhance the overall ICANN Meeting experience. The Public Participation Committee will hold a public session in Toronto to discuss and review them."


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ST. ANTON, Austria -- Alice McKennis of the United States earned her first World Cup victory by winning a downhill Saturday, and Lindsey Vonn was sixth after returning from a nearly monthlong break.
McKennis had never finished in the top three before coming down the Karl Schranz course in 1 minute, 14.62 seconds to beat Daniela Merighetti of Italy by 0.07.
"I am overwhelmed, extremely happy and excited," McKennis said. "It's definitely a dream come true."
Anna Fenninger of Austria was third, and overall World Cup leader Tina Maze of Slovenia finished fourth in front of American Laurenne Ross in fifth, 0.32 off the lead.
Wearing bib. No. 4, McKennis used the advantage of an early start on a course that was softened by fresh snow during the past two days.
"I felt pretty good and I felt I had nailed it, but it's hard running so early as you don't know," McKennis said. "It was pretty nerve-wrecking waiting for the next hour. I was just freaking out the whole time."
Some racers, including fellow Americans Vonn, Julia Mancuso and Stacey Cook, clocked at least one faster split time. But no one matched McKennis' strong finish.
Vonn, the defending overall champion who returned to the circuit after recovering from an intestinal illness, was 0.34 behind
"I am extremely happy for our whole team, Alice winning today, and Laurenne," Vonn said. "The strength of our whole team has been fun to watch. It makes me happy to be part of such a great group of girls. The success we're having this year is pretty incredible."
After the top racers came down and she had all but secured the victory, the 23-year-old McKennis walked through the finish area looking at the stands, searching for her father Greg.
"He wasn't really much of a racer, but he put a lot of work in getting me here," said McKennis, who grew up at a ranch in Glenwood Springs, Colo. "I wouldn't be here without him, so a lot of credit to him. It's great having him here."
McKennis became the fifth American winner of a World Cup race this season after Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin, Steven Nyman and Ted Ligety, who took a giant slalom in Adelboden, Switzerland, just moments after McKennis won Saturday in Austria.
"It's been so exciting, especially watching the men's speed team get back up there," McKennis said. "And obviously Ted winning the race today, that's awesome. And Mikaela, she's incredible at such a young age (17), pretty inspiring."
McKennis said "we all push each other, we all want to be the best ... It's been a goal for every single one of us to get on the podium and we've almost done that with the speed team now."
Vonn won two downhill races this season but failed to finish the third, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, where Lara Gut of Switzerland placed first. Days later, Vonn went back to the United States to get her physical strength back after her illness and returned for training on snow in Austria last week.
"I feel great. I am really happy to be back. I love the adrenaline at the start and going fast again. I really felt good," Vonn said after the race. "These were definitely tough conditions. The snow was definitely not great, but the course workers did a great job on it. I almost didn't think that it was possible to run today because there was just too much snow."
Vonn and Cook, who finished 22nd, remained 1-2 in the downhill standings.
"I definitely made some mistakes. But in general I felt good and I felt like my skiing was where it should be. I felt strong," Vonn said. "Of course, it's downhill so I am hoping to be on the podium, but considering the conditions I am extremely happy with this result. You make one mistake and you are easily in 20th or 30th place. So I think, all things considered, it was a real good performance."
As snow at the top of the course was too soft, organizers decided to use the lower super-G start, shortening the initial 2.2-kilometer long downhill course by 436 meters.
"It was definitely a disadvantage to start later," said Vonn, who started 17th. "The later numbers had a hard time except for Merighetti, she skied amazing. This was a great result for my first race back."
A women's super-G on the same course is scheduled for Sunday.

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- 1112 lines - SWIG
The reason why Math::GSL requires something like SWIG becomes very apparent. The SWIG interface files are roughly 1/280th the length of the raw XS source code. No reasonable person would be hacking on Perl internals, but not even a reasonable Perl hacker wants to write all that error checking boilerplate cruft. Thanks SWIG!
This was made possible by ripping all Perl code out of the SWIG interface files and putting them in the pod/ directory. It is not strictly POD but a simple naming scheme was key and the majority of the files do happen to be POD, so whatev. And now vim correctly syntax highlights the files! I think there is something to be said for sticking to one language per file.


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What's the funniest thing your child has ever done or said?
My 5 year old daughter was sure my husband was having an affair:
Adolpha: Mommy, where's Daddy?
Me: He's at work.
Adolpha: How do you know he's at work?
Me: What do you mean?
Adolpha: I mean how do you know? Maybe he tells us he's at work and really he's meeting a girlfriend. [Whoa. Where is that coming from - you're 5!? Actually, I have an idea. A close family member has been going through a divorce this year and it's been weighing heavily on my kids and worrying them that we might meet the same fate.]
Me: No, I trust Daddy. Daddy doesn't have a girlfriend. He has me. [But, of course, now I start wondering. Does Adolpha know something I don't?? Has she picked up on something the Hubs let slip?] Hey Adolpha...has Daddy ever mentioned a girlfriend before?
Adolpha: No. [Maybe she's seen something.]
Me: Has Daddy ever introduced you to a lady when I wasn't around?
Adolpha: No!
Me: OK, [phew] see? Daddy doesn't have a girlfriend. If he did we'd see him with someone we don't know or he'd talk about her sometimes.
Adolpha: I think he's with Miss Marlene [a close friend of mine].
Me: What??! [I'll kill him!] How do you know? Why do you think that?
Adolpha: 'Cause, she's your prettiest friend. She's a little prettier than you. He would want a pretty girlfriend. Y'know, one prettier than you. [Gee, thanks, kid.]
A couple hours later, the Hubs got home and I "casually" mentioned the conversation I'd had with Adolpha: "Adolpha thinks you're a cheating bastard. Are you cheating on me, you jerk? Do you think Marlene is prettier than me?"
He laughed and called me crazy.
I laughed and then demanded to see his cell phone records. After he handed over his phone so I could check all his incoming and outgoing calls, emails, and text messages we went to put Adolpha to bed and have a talk with her.
Hubs: Why would you say I have a girlfriend?
Adolpha: Because Mommy doesn't love you as much as you love her. She only loves you this much. [Pinches her fingers.]
Hubs laughs and nods.
Hubs: Yup!
Me: Adolpha! Why would you say that? That's not true at all. [At least I don't think it is. True, there are some days that I love him less, but not every day.]
Adolpha: Yes it is. Girls always break boys' hearts because they don't love them as much as boys love them. It's OK that Daddy loves you more, but...he might get a girlfriend 'cause you don't love him enough.
Hubs (chuckling): Goodnight, my smart girl.
And so there you have it: Love advice from Adolpha. She's basically told me my friends are too pretty and I'd better step up my game a bit and convince the Hubs I love him more or else he just might get a girlfriend.


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29 April 2011
2009 Re Midas Soave
100% Garganega
$10, 12% abv.
Light and mild, with a round mouthfeel and low acidity. Touch of pineapple and lemon on the nose, minerals on the aftertaste. The style of this wine is somewhat close to Pinot Grigio. Named after King Midas, the wine is packaged in a slightly odd bottle--not strange enough to call it a novelty like one of those VOGA bottles. The bottom is a little more narrow than a standard bottle, and it expands with a gentle curve up to the shoulders. And with the purple and gold color scheme, it seems like a great target for Lakers fans. Or perhaps more appropriately, for fans of the Los Angeles Kings.
I've reviewed this same vintage of Fattori Soave before, and the following is a rare repeated review:
2009 Fattori Giovanni Motto Piane Soave
100% Garganega
$15, 14% abv.
Tropical fruit, flowers, firmer, stronger, a touch of minerals, with a nice round mouthfeel. Fermented both in oak and stainless steel. Between the two, consider this one if you prefer bigger, bolder flavors, but it's still a relatively light wine. Pack it along with a picnic and I think that you'll find that it goes beautifully with cold fried chicken, potato salad, and other summertime delights.
Note: These wines were received as samples.
6 comments:
- B8wine said...
I think Soave has a bad reputation in the US because the first ones shipped from Italy were mostly made with Trebbiano. Now several producers craft delicious wines made with 100% Garganega. I found myself to prefer Garganega grown on volcanic soil, because it picks up a slight sulphuric note, like the Cà Rugate Monte Fiorentine.
- 01 May, 2011 09:25
- Do Bianchi said...
There are some pretty amazing bottlings from Soave these days... Soave by definition is predominantly Garganega (wondering how to pronounce that?) with smaller amounts of Trebbiano allowed (to raise acidity). The Suavia wines are awesome but La Biancara by Angiolino Maule in Gambellara (the sister appellation) is my all-time fav.
- 02 May, 2011 13:18
- Benito said...
B8wine & Jeremy,
Thanks for the comments, and I've always wished that these wines were more popular at parties and art galleries and other settings. Take a sour, over-oaked $10 Chardonnay versus a balanced and refreshing Soave at the same price. One of these days...
- 02 May, 2011 13:47
- B8wine said...
Jeremy, is La Biancara available in the US? Also, staying in the province of Verona, do you have any recommendation for a Lugana DOC?
Thanks, Nico
- 04 May, 2011 13:32
- Benito said...
You might want to get in touch with him via his Do Bianchi blog, as I'm not sure if he'll see your post or not, and I don't have an answer. :)
- 04 May, 2011 13:35
- B8wine said...
Will do. Thank you Benito!
- 05 May, 2011 02:43


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Two people were wounded by Chicago police in separate shootings overnight, including a 16-year-old boy who was shot in the head after a robbery in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, officials said.
Police say the teen pointed a gun at officers near 82nd Street and Drexel Avenue around midnight after they responded to a call of a robbery.
The officers had just questioned someone on the street when the person came running back saying he had been robbed.
The person pointed out the 16-year-old as the robber, and one of the officers ran after him while the other officer gave chase in the squad car, according to Pat Camden, a spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police.
The foot chase went into a gangway and the 16-year-old fired at the officer and missed, authorities said.
The suspect kept running and again pointed his gun at police while trying to hop a fence and an officer returned fire, hitting the teen in the head, police said.
He was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital, Camden said. A gun was recovered at the scene, he said.
In the other incident, Englewood District officers were on patrol near 57th Street and Wolcott Avenue around 10 p.m. Sunday following reports of gunfire in the area over the last few days, authorities said.
The officers heard shots and saw at least one person in a group shooting at a house, authorities said, citing preliminary information.
Camden said three gunmen were shooting at the house. The officers approached the group and one of the three turned and pointed his gun at police. An officer opened fire, hitting the gunman in the leg, he said.
The suspect, a 27-year-old man, tried to run away but was arrested near 58th Street and Winchester Avenue, authorities said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital with at least one gunshot wound and a gun was recovered, authorities said.
A second of the three was also arrested, Camden said, and a weapon recovered from him too. A third person remains at large, he said.
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Winter Warm-Up lets Marlins segue into spring
Event a fun way for players to get back to baseball, as camp opens on Sunday
MIAMI -- All week, the Marlins have branched out into the community, as players, coaches and front-office officials visited schools and youth ballfields. For five days, they mingled with fans and spread the word that Spring Training was approaching.
Saturday culminated a week of meet-and-greets with the Marlins' annual Winter Warm-Up at Marlins Park. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET, fans filtered through the ballpark, interacting with the players. There were autograph and photo sessions, as well as a variety of interactive games.
The week of bonding provided the perfect lead-in to Spring Training, which opens on Sunday at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Fla. Marlins manager Mike Redmond feels the few days of fun with the fans is a good way to get the team back together.
"I think the biggest things [are] the hellos and the hugs," Redmond said. "It's good for everybody to see each other, because tomorrow, when we take the field, we're ready to focus on baseball and preparing ourselves for the season, and improving parts of our game that we needed to improve and tighten up, and working on our fundamentals."
It will be all business on Sunday. Pitchers and catchers will take the field about 1 p.m. ET, and the workouts are open to the public.
To build a more competitive club, the team put an emphasis on blending the right mix of players. Redmond, entering his second season as manager, feels team chemistry is essential to winning.
"You talk about a family, and chemistry," Redmond said. "This is all part of it. It's all seeing your buddies, seeing your teammates. We've been apart about four months now. Getting everybody back together in a room, and getting ready to compete, that's what it's all about.
"Chemistry is huge for me. It's always been important to me -- even as a player. I feel like you've got to have guys who are all on the same page and who all are willing to grind together. It's such a long season, you rely on the guy next to you to help you get through it. I know a lot of old-school guys think winning builds chemistry. But I think if you bring good guys in -- and you bring in guys who are winners and who have proven themselves in the big leagues -- [and] you mix those guys in with the young, talented players, it kind of helps the young, talented players through the process. It helps them to become leaders quicker. At the end of the day, that's what it's all about."
The Marlins will have 69 players in camp. Making sure they are all on the same page is step No. 1.
Before starting Spring Training, a couple of roster moves were announced. Right-hander Chris Hatcher cleared waivers and was outrighted to Triple-A New Orleans. But outfielder Jimmy Paredes, who was designated for assignment recently, was claimed off waivers by the Orioles.
The Marlins' front office was aggressive in the offseason, making a number of changes to produce the club's first winning season since 2009. Jarrod Saltalamacchia bought into the program, and was the team's biggest offseason acquisition, signing a three-year, $21-million deal.
In Boston, Saltalamacchia experienced going from last place in 2012 to winning the World Series last year. What stood out about the '13 Red Sox was how the squad was built around unselfish players.
"You always hear about [chemistry]," Saltalamacchia said. "Just going through it last year, I honestly believe that's one of the biggest things you have to have to be on a World Series team. You see St. Louis, what they've had the past few years, that's chemistry. What we had last year, nobody can beat it. With the young group of guys we have this year, we very easily could have that chemistry."
After losing 100 games last year, the Marlins set a plan to build for 2014. The objectives were simple.
"Improve the offense, and hold onto pitching. Plain and simple," general manager Dan Jennings said. "There were other components. We felt like we needed a cultural change in the clubhouse, and we made it a point to interview and sit face-to-face with these guys before we brought them on board. There was one common denominator in each guy that we brought in. That was team first."
Like the roster, the front office also went through a shakeup. Jennings was promoted to general manager, and Michael Hill was named president of baseball operations.
When the team takes the field on Sunday, it will be focused on winning, and not so much on talking.
"If you make good baseball decisions, I think the splash is you can win more games," Hill said. "As we well know, we don't win pennants in the offseason. You do that on the field, by putting a team on the field that allows you to win games. Bottom line, you have to win games. You don't win it through press releases, or TV clips, you do it on the field. If we do our jobs, and bring the right players in, you'll see more Ws on the field."


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On a chilly Saturday night in November 1974, three teenage boys lit up a Carbondale silt pond and sparked a UFO legend that still glows 40 years later.
The boys, including Robert Gillette Jr., reported to police on Nov. 9 they saw "a red, whirring ball fly over Salem Mountain and into the mine pond."
What would become known as the "Carbondale UFO" drew police officers, military, UFO enthusiasts and curious spectators from across the country. The glow lasted nine hours. After two days, a diver emerged from the murky waters with nothing but an old railroad lantern in hand.
Twenty-five years later, Gillette admitted throwing the battery-powered lantern into the pond to scare his sister, but the legend lives on.
The city plans to mark the upcoming 40th anniversary of the "close encounter" during the Pioneer Nights - Ethnic Heritage Festival with the Carbon D. Alien Regatta on Saturday.
Alex Kelly, co-owner of Icon Technologies, grew up down the road from the silt pond. He doesn't remember any UFOs or little green men but he does recall the "chaos the next day."
"There were cars everywhere, we couldn't get out of our driveway," he said.
A Scranton Times reporter described seeing licenses plates from 17 states and Canada at the pond. A story published on Nov. 12, 1974, reports that crowds showed up from New York and Connecticut. Every regional newspaper, radio and television station was live from the scene including a three-man news crew from Philadelphia. UFO specialists from New York, New Jersey and Northwestern University in Illinois investigated. A lengthy report by Matthew J. Graeber from the UFO Research Investigation Center in Philadelphia is still on file today at the Carbondale Historical Society.
Police manning the overwhelmed phone lines reported calls from as far away as England. People of all backgrounds and occupations surrounded the pond behind Russell Park, making the light in the water the lesser of then-police chief Francis Dottle's worries. He was more concerned about the masses on the shore.
Kelly said believers and non-believers of the legend are separated into a few groups. Some believe the glow was caused by a lantern thrown into the pond. Others insist a craft from outer space landed in the small pond and the government covered it up.
One popular theory is that the illumination came from a fallen spy satellite, maybe from Russia, maybe from the United States, he said.
Jim Racht, also a co-owner of Icon Technologies, said, "People either roll their eyes or say, 'Yeah, they took something out of there.'"
Involved with the Carbondale Historical Society and the Route 6 Task Force, Kelly and Racht began researching the event after an interview for WVIA's "My Town" documentary about the city. Kelly said when Michele Bannon, city clerk, suggested including the UFO landing in the town's history, the two men raised their hands and got to work. One question they asked themselves was if there was a UFO, who drove the craft?
Shortly after the documentary premiered in 2012 the two men started the website, carbondalien.com. The site features old and new photos of Carbondale doctored to include the life-sized green extraterrestrial plastic figure, which they took to the WVIA documentary premiere. A comprehensive history of the lore is also on the site.
In Racht's 2010 book about the history of Carbondale, he dubs the incident the "Birth of a Suburban Legend."
Sitting in their office next to a nearly five-foot-tall green extraterrestrial-looking figure wearing a white T-shirt, Kelly and Racht said one thing that most Carbondale residents agree that a flat bed truck hauled something covered by a blue tarp away from the scene all those years ago.
What it concealed remains a mystery.
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Following a season filled with twists, the finale episode of Survivor: Redemption Island aired tonight as a new winner emerged!
The game began with the final and very anti-climatic Redemption Island challenge. Playing for an opportunity to be voted off again by Rob Mariano were his zombies Andrea, Matt, and Grant alongside Mike. Andrea made it very clear going into the game that she was the "under under dog" so of course the challenge was one that
was geared for her she was able to win. It was a challenge which required balance, and after Grant, Matt, and Mike lost balance in that order, Andrea won her shot back into the game.
While it seemed like the perfect opportunity for Rob's groupies Ashley and Natalie to team up with Andrea and vote off
Rob one of the men, they simply failed to use their brains as Rob was able to convince them, quite easily, to vote off Andrea. Rob was so confident in his mind control over his cult members that he even contemplated not playing his idol. Ultimately he did though he didn't need to as the others voted off Andrea.


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On August 7, Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley took DOE officials on a tour of the school, which is located at 67th Drive and 80th Street, to demonstrate the facility's needs for a new gym, cafeteria and more bathrooms. Education officials were unconvinced.
DOE spokesman Will Havemann said after viewing the school, which has a student body of about 600, the Education Department remains committed to its policy of building additional space only where it is most needed.
"Given that P.S. 87 is not overcrowded, and there is no school-age growth projected for the school's neighborhood, we have no plans to build an addition for P.S. 87," Havemann said. "Especially given the city's difficult economic circumstances, it is essential that we prioritize school construction for the neighborhoods that need it most."
Crowley, however, does not appear satisfied with this answer.
The school's basement doubles as an informal gym and also a cafeteria, with room for just 100 students. The school, which includes kindergarten through eighth grade, has created several lunch breaks to accommodate the student body.
The three-story school also has a shortage of bathrooms; the second floor, which serves about 240 students, only has two toilets.
Crowley brought these issues to the attention of Schools Chancellor Joel Klein in a June 1st letter, and the DOE agreed to at least revisit the facility.
Though the DOE, after viewing the facility, insists no plans are in the works, in an optimistic statement following the tour Crowley continued pressing the DOE to take action at the school.
"I am pleased that the Department of Education came out to P.S. 87 to see for themselves the school's dire need for additional facilities," Crowley said.
She said students need adequate classroom and physical education space, especially during their early formative years, between when they begin school and reach high school age.
Crowley called the tour a "step in the right direction," and promised to continue working "with the DOE to ensure that the needs of the P.S. 87 community are addressed."
Havemann confirmed that the DOE would work with the P.S. 87 community and Crowley to address space issues.
But he said at this time that any plans for the facility do not include "construction of a costly and unnecessary addition," an unequivocal statement that nevertheless leaves the school's future undecided.


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The USDA projected corn yields in 2012 have dropped more than 15% month-to-month, after a 12% reduction last month, due to the worst drought in the Midwest since 1956. U.S. corn supplies are estimated at a nine year low and U.S. corn and soybean prices reach record levels.
Average corn yield in the U.S. has declined by over 40 bushels per acre in the last two months including a 22.6 bushel reduction this month. At the beginning of the year there were record estimates of average corn yields north of 160 bushels per acre; this average has been reduced to 123.4 bushels per acre and the lowest since 1995/96.
U.S. 2012/13 corn production was forecasted at its lowest level since 2006/07, at 10.8 billion bushels, compared to 13.0 billion bushels last month.
2012/13 U.S. corn usage was reduced by 1.5 billion bushels to 11.2 billion, the lowest usage in the last six years, due to demand destruction from high prices. Corn imports in 2012/13 were increased 45 million bushels due to competitively priced foreign supplies, and increased domestic corn prices. The 2012/13 projected range for season-average corn prices was increased to a record $7.50 to $8.90 per bushel.
2011/12 ending stocks were estimated 118 million bushels higher due to reduced exports, declined corn use for ethanol, and an increase in imports.
Global coarse grain supplies in 2012/13 were estimated to decrease 56.5 million tons, mostly due to the reduction in the U.S. corn crop. Offsetting lower supplies was larger beginning stocks in the U.S. and Brazil
We will be keeping a close eye on weather patterns and the upcoming harvest season to see how accurate these predictions are.
2012/13 U.S. soybean production has been projected down 358 million bushels to 2.7 million bushels due to decreased yields and lower harvested acres. Average soybean yield was projected at 36.1 bushels per acre, 4.4 bushels lower than last month's projection.
2012/13 U.S. soybean supplies were projected 12% lower than last month to a nine year low. U.S. exports were reduced 260 million bushels to 1.11 billion bushels. The 2012/13 average soybean price was increased to record levels of $15.00 to $17.00 per bushel, a $2.00 increase on both ends of the range.
2012/13 U.S. wheat supplies were increased this month by 54 million bushels due to increased production and imports. Production in 2012/13 has been increased by 44 million bushels due to increased yields for winter wheat, durum, and other spring wheat.
2012/13 U.S. wheat ending stocks have been projected 34 million bushels higher. The season average wheat price for 2012/13 was projected at $7.60 to $9.00 per bushel.
Global wheat supplies for 2012/13 were decreased by 2.1 million tons. This reduction was due to lower production in the FSU-12.
Drought has been the main focus in this year's growing season. Going forward, commodity markets will closely watch the harvest data to see actually how bad the crop will be.
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To prepare Nimki knead dough same way as done for mathri,roll out with help of rolling pin,cut in one direction and then cut in opposite direction resulting in diagonal shaped NIMKI,shallow fry and serve hot with tea or coffee.
For Raw Jackfruit Curry ingredient needed -raw jackfruit chopped one kg,onion paste of three onions,onion chopped lenghtwise three,garlic cloves 12 chopped,ginger one inch chopped,potato cubed three,green cardamom,four,black cardamom three,cloves six,bay leaves crushed two,salt as per taste,oil to cook,mixture of one tsp each of coriander,turmeric and red chilli powder ,mix and keep aside and one tsp garam masala powder.
Procedure- Heat half tsp oil in non stick wok ,once oil is hot add crushed bay leaves ,followed by onions and fry potatoes and jackfruit,once half done remove from falme and keep aside.In the same wok heat half tsp more oil and once the oil is hot ,lower the flame and add green cardamom,black cardamom,clove and onc ethey start spluttering add onion ,ginger-garlic paste and keep frying till paste starts changing colour,once half done add the masla mixture followed by salt and fry further till oil is seed along the sides,now add already fried jackfruit and potato mixture ,fry for a minute or two and transfer to pressure cooker ,add require amount ofwater and and pressure cook for two whistles.Serve hot with rice or Kachodis.


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The sun is the source of life on the planet. Its rays provide us with much needed light and heat. However, ultraviolet radiation from the sun is harmful to all living things. To find a balance between beneficial and harmful effects of the sun, meteorologists estimate the ultraviolet index that reflects the degree of its danger.
Ultraviolet radiation from the sun has a range of wavelengths and is divided into three types, two of which reach the Earth's surface.
The rays almost freely pass through all atmospheric 'barriers' and reach the Earth's surface.
90% of the rays are absorbed by the ozone layer, carbon dioxide and water vapor.
The most dangerous type. It is completely absorbed by stratospheric ozone before reaching the Earth's surface.
The more ozone, clouds and aerosols the atmosphere has, the less harmful the sun's effects are. However, those saving factors have a high natural variability. Stratospheric ozone exhibits seasonality with maximum in spring and minimum in autumn. Cloudiness is one of the most unstable weather characteristics. Carbon dioxide levels also change over time.
The UV index shows the amount of UV radiation expected to reach the Earth's surface. The UV index ranges on a scale of 0 (Low) to 11+ (Extreme).
In mid-latitudes, the UV index reaches unsafe values (6-7) only when the sun is at its maximum elevation (late June — early July). At the equator, the UV index ranges from 9 to 11+ throughout the year.
Small amounts of UV radiation are beneficial to people, play an essential role in the production of melanin, serotonin and vitamin D, and help prevent rickets.
Melanin creates a barrier to protect the skin cells from the harmful effects of the sun. It makes our skin darker and more elastic.
'Happiness hormone' serotonin improves our health: it boosts mood and increases overall vitality.
Vitamin D strengthens the immune system, stabilizes blood pressure and prevents rickets.
When tanning, you should remember there is a fine line between beneficial and harmful UV radiation. Excessive tanning is similar to a burn. Ultraviolet radiation damages DNA in skin cells.
The protective system of the body cannot cope with such an aggressive impact. It lowers immunity, damages the retina, accelerates skin ageing and can cause cancer.
Susceptibility to UV radiation depends on skin type. People of European descent are the most sensitive to the sun and need protection when the index reaches 3, while the index of 6 is considered dangerous.
At the same time, the limits for Indonesians and African-Americans stand at 6 and 8, respectively.
Light-skinned people
People with many moles
People living in the mid-latitudes when on vacation in the south
Ice fishing enthusiasts
Skiers and climbers
People with a family history of skin cancer
The idea that the sun is dangerous only in hot and fine weather is a common misconception. You can get a sunburn when it's cool or cloudy outside.
Clouds, no matter how thick, do not reduce UV radiation to zero. Clouds significantly reduce the risk of getting a sunburn in the mid-latitudes but not in traditional beach holiday destinations. For example, in the tropics, you can get a sunburn in 30 minutes if it is sunny and in a couple of hours if it is cloudy.
Follow these simple rules to protect yourself from the harmful effects of the sun:
Don't spend much time in the sun around noon
Wear light-colored clothing and wide-brimmed hats
Wear sunscreen
Wear sunglasses
When on the beach, spend as much time in the shade as possible
Sunscreens have varying levels of SPF. Rated on a scale from 2 to 50+, it shows you the amount of solar radiation that breaks through the cream and reaches the skin.
For example, when applying a sunscreen with SPF 15, only 1/15, or 7% of ultraviolet rays will break through the protective film. Only 1/50, or 2% of the rays will affect the skin if you use a sunscreen with SPF 50.
Sunscreen creates a reflective layer on the skin. However, you should know that no sunscreen can reflect 100% of UV rays.
An SPF 15 sunscreen is enough for everyday use, if you spend less than half an hour in the sun. When tanning, you should opt for SPF 30 or more, while light-skinned people should use SPF 50+ sunscreen.
Apply enough sunscreen to cover all exposed skin, including the face, ears and neck. If you plan to stay in the sun for a long time, sunscreen should be applied twice: 30 minutes before leaving home and before hitting the beach.
The recommended amount of sunscreen is stated on the packaging.
You should re-apply your sunscreen after swimming. Water destroys the protective film and increases the amount of ultraviolet radiation by reflecting the sun's rays. Thus, the risk of getting a sunburn increases when you're swimming, but you may not feel the burn due to the cooling effect of water.
Re-apply your sunscreen in case of excessive sweating and towelling.
You should remember that even the shade under an umbrella cannot fully protect you on the beach. Sand, water and even grass reflect up to 20% of UV rays, increasing their impact on the skin.
Sunlight reflected from water, snow or sand can cause painful retinal burns. Wear sunglasses with a UV filter to protect your eyes.
The atmospheric 'filter' is thinner in the mountains. The UV index increases by 5% with every 100 meters in altitude.
Snow reflects up to 85% of ultraviolet rays. In addition, up to 80% of UV rays reflected by snow are once again reflected by clouds.
Thus, the sun is the most dangerous in the mountains. Protect your face, lower part of the chin and ears even when it's cloudy.
Apply a wet sponge to the skin to moisten the burn
Apply a burn ointment to the burnt skin
Consult a doctor, if you notice an increase in your body temperature, as you may need to take an antipyretic
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Bournemouth Symphony comes to Bristol
Karabits kicks off Colston Hall's classical season
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra opened its season with a bang last Thursday with a performance of Holst's The Planets. The military rhythms and dramatic percussion of 'Mars, the bringer of war' crashed their way brutally into Bristol's Colston Hall and the sound seemed to dwarf conductor Kirill Karabits and his orchestra.
Colston Hall was near-full for the BSO's first visit of the season and the launch of the Hall's 2012/13 classical programme. The Bristol audience was rewarded, first, with a sprightly, taut performance of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony that was brimful of playful energy.
But it was the second half that really took off with a break-neck performance of The Planets. While not all of the movements flourished at Karabits's rocket tempos – the majestic hymn tune of 'Jupiter' could have been broader – the likes of 'Mars' and 'Uranus, the Magician' were simply thrilling.
In this opening concert we got both a demonstration of the orchestra's chamber credentials in the reduced string orchestra's performance of Mozart's exquisite Jupiter Symphony and the all-horns-blazing full symphony orchestra in the Holst. This was a smart piece of programming, not only because these two stalwarts of the classical music canon will have tempted many people new to the orchestra to buy a ticket, but also because the concert showcased the BSO's breadth of repertoire. Other concerts this season include performances of Stravinsky's The Firebird Suite, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Bridge's Enter Spring.
Karabits and the BSO are next in Bristol on 29 November with a programme of Shostakovich, Britten and Prokofiev – and if their opener is anything to go by, it'll be well worth hearing. Colston Hall's Classical season also includes visits from the LPO (14 October), Dresden Philharmonic (28 October) and the Philharmonia Orchestra (9 December).
Go to the Colston Hall website for more information.
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2015 Mustang - Order Info Leaked Online!
Directly on the heels of last weekend's Mustang 50th birthday hoopla in Charlotte and Las Vegas, comes a report of order information for Ford's 2015 Mustang (including the 50th Anniversary Edition), being posted…"leaked," if you will…online this week.
Unfortunately, we aren't first to market with this news, and we could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the documents posted below. However, the information presented in these scanned images of the Order Guide certainly "appears" to be legit, and it definitely piques our desire to find out more about the all-new, 2015 Ford Mustang and what will be available option-wise for the new 'Stang.
We're definitely in an exciting space right now. While anticipation about the 2015 Ford Mustang is steadily building with each day, Ford really has been doing a Fort Knox-type job of keeping things hush hush on a lot of the hard-core information about the latest Pony.
But, fear not! We're currently working our own sources to find out exactly "what's what" with this order-sheet report (its validity and more), so stay be sure to check with www.mustang-360.com for additional details as we learn them. In the meantime, we encourage to weigh-in below with your thoughts about the apparent options and configurations that will be available. How would you order your 2015 Ford Mustang? We'll take ours with the GT performance package to start, of course...


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Welcome to the future with 50y old technology. There is an obscure emacs extension, swank js, that runs a nodejs daemon that speaks slime to emacs.
It allows you to work with js the same way you'd work with lisp, evaling lines or buffers into a live nodejs instance.
I use it (in combination with org-babel) to talk to live instances of remote services, to inspect data, experiment, but also as kind of an on-the-fly UI
It allows you to inject js into a browser as well, handy for js dev or even on the fly data scraping/web manipulation. Super useful yet not very well known.
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December 6 – Happy Birthday Larry Bowa
Larry Bowa was not blessed with a huge amount of natural ability. The reasons why he was able to play shortstop in the big leagues for sixteen seasons, win two Gold Gloves and become a five-time All Star were an incredible work ethic and a tremendous amount of passion for the game. He was also a quick study. He realized early on that knowledge was power on a baseball field so he learned everything he possibly could by observing the opposition in every aspect of every game. In 2006, he brought this same work ethic, passion and hunger for knowledge to the Yankees when he accepted an offer to coach third base and infield defense for Joe Torre.
The thing I loved most about Bowa during his two seasons in New York's third base coaching box, was his loyalty to Torre and the Yankee players and his obvious intensity. He refused to permit Yankee runners to lose their focus on the base paths. Pity the poor pinstriper who ignored or missed a Bowa delivered signal of any kind. Its been well established that it was Bowa who got a young Robbie Cano to improve his level of concentration whenever he was on the field. The naturally gifted second baseman flourished offensively and defensively under Bowa's strict tutelage. Alex Rodriguez told reporters that Bowa was the best in the business and I've read that Jeter loved this guy too.
One of the reasons I hated to see Joe Torre leave as Yankee manager after the 2007 season was that he took Bowa with him to Los Angeles. Bowa admired the way Torre managed a ball club and handled players. Once a manager himself, Bowa had a tough time controlling his intensity and some of his players rebelled against his high pressure approach. Torre's calm demeanor as skipper complemented Bowa's brash coaching style and made the relationship tick. When he left for the Dodger job, the Yankee players instantly missed his motivational mentoring and though I respect Robbie Thompson, I wish Bowa was still stationed in New York's third base coaching box. Bowa shares his December 6th birthday with this Hall-of-Fame Yankee second baseman, this Cuban defector who became a Yankee starting pitcher, this former Yankee catcher and this former Yankee DH.


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We get occasional emails from first-time or beginner cyclists, asking us for advice on conquering their fear of sharing the road. In the past, we've doled out bits and pieces of advice on this issue, but have never really consolidated it all into one step-by-step post for those who are just starting out on a bike. Here are my recommendations for how to become confident in sharing the road (just stop before you become one of those reckless bike messengers who are giving us all a bad name!).
First: It's homework time. If you don't know the rules of the road, learn them! Learn how to signal a turn. Learn what your rights are in your city: is there a three-foot rule? Are you allowed to take the lane on all roads? Under what circumstances? Check out this hideously ugly but extremely informative site to find out what errors are most likely to lead to a car/bike accident, and do not make them! If there's a bike safety class in your area, take it.
Second: Get a helmet. I am not taking sides on the helmet debate here (please, Internet, I mean it), but studies show that if nothing else, they make you feel safer. This is important for beginners. Also, purchase lights, especially if you will be riding after dark. The brighter, the better. Use them.
Third: Take your bike out! But don't ride to work yet. Choose a greenway or bike path near your house, or a quiet side street, preferably with a bike lane. Any street with minimal traffic or some sort of separation from cars. If you absolutely do not have bike lanes or greenways or bike paths nearby . . . cry, and then write your city council or Congressperson. Or move. Or, for the less proactive/drastic personalities, just get up early on a weekend morning and ride. Guaranteed traffic-free!
Once you have done all these things, and feel completely comfortable puttering around the neighborhood on two wheels, it's time to try your commute—but not on a workday. Remember those magical weekend mornings when no one is driving? Pick one of them, and head to the office. (Painful, I know, but you don't have to actually go in!) Google Maps has biking directions for most cities, and while they are not perfect, they're a good jumping off point if you're not sure what route to take. See how long the trip takes. Figure out how to deal with any complicated intersections or disappearing bike lanes. Find a place you can lock your bike near your office. If you didn't feel comfortable on the ride, repeat this step, or alter the route to go around any spots that are keeping you from feeling comfortable. It's OK to take the long way!
Finally: Bike to work for the first time! Revel in your accomplishment, and enjoy your time in the fresh air. Feel, for once, that you have earned your happy hour beer.
I know most of our readers are well beyond the beginner stage—what tips helped you build your bicycling confidence? Share in the comments.


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I'm distributing an Application (which runs directly off of a CD, no install).
1) How can I set up my autorun.inf to check if the required version of the .NET Framework is already installed on the PC?
2) How can I prompt the User to install it if it is not?
3) How can I include the .NET Framework on the CD, so that it does not need to be downloaded?
I realise these questions overlap a bit.
Does anyone have any experince with this? I think Hannes mentioned something a while back?
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Janis Joplin Pearl 3
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Our third episode is all about evolutions. In a very rare interview clip (courtesy of Laura Joplin) the late producer, Paul Rothchild, discusses how Janis grew as a vocalist during the sessions. It then concludes with a montage of "Move Over" takes to show how that final track came together.
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I am setting up a lightweight VM, following the guide in the Ubuntu Documentation
What I want to be able to do is ssh into the VM and then launch a GUI application. I don't need / want a desktop.
First I installed xorg. But I can't launch a gui. The next step in the documentation is to install a "Window Manager", but it is not clear why this is necessary.
What is the smallest program that will run a gui?
I asked this on ubuntu.SE, but all of the answers required installing a window manager, all of which provide a desktop. The best answer was to go ahead and install a window manager and then limit what startx does with the .xintrc file.
Installing openbox increased the size of my original VM from 0.9 to 2.2GB. I want to minimize the size of my VM. What is the smallest group of programs that will allow me to launch a GUI?


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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has yet to make the date official, but Pope Francis has already let it be known in a private conversation that Blessed Pope John Paul II will be canonized on April 27, 2014.
A reliably informed source close to the Vatican asked Pope Francis about the date recently, to which the Pope replied with a laugh: "I can tell you now if you like. It will be April 27."
"I was surprised by his frankness, but he took a step back, laughed and then told me the date," the source said. "He was surrounded by top officials who didn't seem to mind."
Among those within earshot was Archbishop Georg Gänswein, prefect of the pontifical household, who will be partly responsible for organizing the canonization ceremony.
Blessed Pope John XXIII, who led the Church from 1958 to 1963 and convened the Second Vatican Council, is also expected to be canonized on the same date.
During a papal press conference on his return from Rio de Janeiro July 28, Pope Francis said both popes will be canonized "together," but said it was unlikely the canonizations would take place during the autumn or winter, as many Poles will be traveling to Rome by bus, and the roads are already icy in Poland and parts of Europe in December. "I think the date needs to be rethought," he said.
After speaking with Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, John Paul II's former private secretary and current archbishop of Krakow, he said two other possibilities arose: Christ the King Sunday, which falls this year on Nov. 24, and Divine Mercy Sunday 2014, which will be April 27.
Pope Francis said he thought there was "too little time" for the canonizations to take place in November and said he needed to speak with Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect for the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. The cardinal said at the end of August that the date will be officially announced at a consistory of cardinals on Sept. 30.
Asked on Sept. 3 if he could confirm the date, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told the Register: "The consistory is held precisely in order to establish and announce the date publicly, so I don't think it's correct to say that the thing is already decided. If it isn't, we should save ourselves for the consistory."
But he added: "We can say that it is very likely, given that the Pope made an explicit reference to this date (Divine Mercy Sunday) in the interview on the return flight from Rio, saying that he realized that, in winter, it would be difficult for pilgrims from Poland and countries of Central and Northern Europe to attend, and so it was better to postpone until the spring."
Divine Mercy Sunday was a special day for Blessed John Paul II, who established the feast day in 2001. Celebrated on the second Sunday of Easter, its origins date back to Polish nun St. Faustina Kowalska, who had a devotion to the Divine Mercy after an encounter with Jesus.
In visions and conversations with Jesus, St. Faustina (1905-1938) said that he asked her specifically for a feast of Divine Mercy to be established so mankind would take refuge in Jesus. John Paul II died on the eve of Divine Mercy Sunday in 2005.
The theme of mercy is also central to the pontificate of Pope Francis, who has said, "This is the time for mercy." Father Lombardi told Vatican Radio July 30 that Pope Francis has "great effectiveness in helping people understand the theme of God's love and mercy, which reaches out to soothe and heal the wounds of humanity."
Pope Francis signed a decree July 5 that gave the go-ahead for the canonizations of both Popes John Paul II and John XXIII. Usually two miracles attributed to a candidate's intercession are required to become a saint.
A French religious sister, who was inexplicably cured of Parkinson's disease, led to Blessed John Paul II's beatification on May 1, 2011. A second miracle, which must occur after a beatification, involved a Costa Rican woman who was cured of a cerebral aneurism the very day of John Paul II's beatification.
For Blessed John XXIII, Pope Francis took the rare but not unprecedented step of waiving the requirement of a second miracle, paving the way for his canonization.
Edward Pentin is the Register's Rome correspondent.


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Abstract: This paper describes the current state of the management academia as a naked carnival, namely, most of the management researches have no such a clothes called practical relevance. It is intended to provide an explanation why management research has become irrelevant to the real management practice. It argues there are three factors behind the irrelevance problem: first, the 'scientific model' of management studies generates an initial and internal force which pushes the management research away from practice management studies supposed to serve; second, paradigm maintenance effort of the mainstream management scholars prevents the irrelevant management academia moving back towards management practice; third, the surrounding environment provides the management academia anything but a strong counter force to change the irrelevance reality. This paper also argues any solutions under the 'scientific model' are doomed to failure; and the only way out is to completely abandon the 'scientific model' and adopt a 'professional model' of management studies. Unfortunately, this paper argues such a radical change from within is highly unlikely to happen. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7826
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 - The State Department on Monday detailed an array of human rights abuses last year by the Iraqi government, including torture, rape and illegal detentions by police officers and functionaries of the interim administration that took power in June.
In the Bush administration's bluntest description of human rights transgressions by the American-supported government, the report said the Iraqis "generally respected human rights, but serious problems remained" as the government and American-led foreign forces fought a violent insurgency. It cited "reports of arbitrary deprivation of life, torture, impunity, poor prison conditions -- particularly in pretrial detention facilities -- and arbitrary arrest and detention."
The lengthy discussion came in a chapter on Iraq in the department's annual report on human rights, which pointedly criticized not only countries that had been found chronically deficient, like North Korea, Syria and Iran, but also some close American allies, including Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
The allegations of abuses by an Iraqi government installed by the United States and still heavily influenced by it provided an unusual element to the larger report. The report did not address incidents in Iraq in which Americans were involved, like the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, which came to light in 2004.
A senior State Department official said the criticism of Iraq was in keeping with the administration's approach. "What it shows is that we don't look the other way," the official said. "There are countries we support and that are friends, and when they have practices that don't meet international standards, we don't hesitate to call a spade a spade."
The official said Iraqi officials accepted that there had been problems and were correcting their practices. "The Iraqis are not in denial on this," the official added.
The report emphasized the larger accomplishments of the Iraqi people, as symbolized by the successful elections of Jan. 30. But it gave extensive details about complaints that the government had violated human rights provisions of the transitional law put in place by the United States and the Iraqi Governing Council shortly after the 2003 invasion.
These included reports that police officers in Basra were involved in killing 10 Baath Party members; that the police in Baghdad arrested, interrogated and killed 12 kidnappers of three police officers on Oct. 16, 2004, and that corruption was a problem at every level of government.
The document cited without comment a report by Human Rights Watch, an independent advocacy group, that "torture and ill treatment of detainees by police was commonplace," allegedly including "beatings with cables and hosepipes, electric shocks to their earlobes and genitals, food and water deprivation."
In one case, the report said, enough evidence had been gathered "to prosecute police officers in Baghdad who were systematically raping and torturing female detainees." Two of them received prison sentences, while four were demoted and reassigned.
Prison conditions in Iraq had shown "significant improvement" after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the department said, but many prisons still fell short of international standards.
There were also reports of police officers making false arrests to extort money from the families of detainees, and of an Iraqi ministry having members of a political party arrested in order to occupy their offices. "Reportedly," the document said, "coerced confessions and interrogation continued to be the favored method of investigation by police."
The broader annual report, which is required by Congress and is formally titled the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, described rights abuses in other allied countries in notably tough language.
The report said that the Saudi record of abuses in 2004 "far exceeds the advances," that Egypt's and Pakistan's records were poor, and that Jordan had "many problems." It criticized all four countries over allegations of abusing and torturing prisoners.
But the document also struck optimistic notes at times. It cited the success of democratic elections in Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine, and suggested that developments in those places, coming as President Bush continued to promote democracy as a counter to terrorism, might be helping to embolden people elsewhere to shed a hopelessness about change.
In much of the broader Middle East, "people are increasingly conscious of the freedom deficit in the region," Under Secretary Paula J. Dobriansky said in introducing the report.
The official attention paid to Egypt and Saudi Arabia is not new, but some of the language in the report was unexpectedly sharp. In Saudi Arabia, for example, it said: "There were credible reports of torture and abuse of prisoners by security forces, arbitrary arrests and incommunicado detentions. The religious police continued to intimidate, abuse and detain citizens and foreigners. Most trials were closed."
Egypt, it said, restricted many basic rights, and its security forces continued to mistreat prisoners, leading to at least 10 deaths in custody.
The report on Iraq also covered the year in which the prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib were uncovered.
An acting assistant secretary of state, Michael G. Kozak, was asked Monday how that scandal had affected the administration's latest evaluation. "Look," he said, "the events at Abu Ghraib were a stain on the honor of the U.S.; there's no two ways about it."
What mattered, he said, was whether a government worked to redress the abuses that do occur. "I think you've seen the U.S. being very active," he said.
The report, coming days after some critics suggested that President Bush had been insufficiently tough with President Vladimir V. Putin, listed several complaints about Russia. It criticized the central government's consolidation of power at the expense of the regions, its restriction of news media, and its allowing of political pressure to taint the judiciary.
It said China, which has a growing commercial relationship with the United States, continued to abuse prisoners, harass activists and restrict religious practices.
North Korea was condemned for continued "brutal and repressive" treatment of its people; Iran for allowing citizen's freedom to "deteriorate;" and Syria for widespread use of torture, poor prison conditions and mass arrests of Kurds.
Sudan's human rights record was called extremely poor, both for restricting freedoms and for the continuing violence by government-linked militias in Darfur Province.


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