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Senna: Cultivation and CollectionBY: BRIJESH KUMAR SHARMA | Category: Agriculture | Submitted: 2011-05-23 11:45:25
Article Summary: "Senna (Cassia angustifolia Vahl) is a small shrub, a native of Yemen and South Arabia. The leaves and pods contain sennosides used for their laxative properties.it was introduced in to Tamil Nadu in the eighteenth century where it grawn as an annual crop of 5 to 7 months duration in 8000 to 10,000 Ha both under rainfed and irrig.."
Plant profile
Family : Leguminosae
English name: Senna
Indian name : Savarnapatri (Sanskrit), Sanay sanna ka patta (Hindi) and Nilaviari or Nelavakai (Tamil).
Species and varieties : Cassia angustifolia vahl, Cassia acutifolia del, Cassia obovata, Cassia italica, Cassia aborate, ALFT-2 and Sona.
Distribution: India, Southern Arabia, Yemen
Senna (Cassia angustifolia Vahl) is a small shrub, a native of Yemen and South Arabia. The leaves and pods contain sennosides used for their laxative properties.it was introduced in to Tamil Nadu in the eighteenth century where it grawn as an annual crop of 5 to 7 months duration in 8000 to 10,000 Ha both under rainfed and irrigated condition. Successful cultivation also has been demonstrated in Karnataka (Bangalore ) , Gujrat(Anand) , and Delhi.
A major part of the produce is exported in the form of leaves, pods and sennosides concentrates, of calcium sennosides granules, tablets and syrup of marketing.
Germany, Hungry, Japan, Netherland, and USA are the main market. The export of leaves and pods from India is of the value of Rs 20 million annually.
The compound isolated from Cassia angustifolia leaves are wax, myricycle, and alcohol. The flavinoids , isorhamentin and Kaemferol and anthrax quinine.Rhien and Emodin and Phenolic compound are found.Two glycosides one is easily hydrolysable yielding Emodin and actively cathartic glycosides.
Senna was first used medicinally by Arabian physician in the 9th century AD.In constipation e.g. anal fissure senna is a short term laxative but should not be taken more than 10 days , since this leads to weakening of large bowl muscles.As a catharatic (strong laxative ) senna can causing griping and colic.
Pantropic genus comprising of 500 species of which 20 are found in native flora of India.It is indengeneous to Somalia, southern Arabia, parts of Sindh(Pakistan) and Kutch area of Gujrat.In India it is cultivated in Gujrat, Rajsthan and Tamilnadu.Cassia Angustfolia known as Alexandrian senna is indigenous to Sudan and Sinai.
Tinnevelly senna is mostly cultivated in well ploughed, leveled , rich clayed semi irrigated land.
Pulverization of the soil carried out by the use of plough. First sowing is done February- March, while second in October to November. Before planting prepare the land by plugging, harrowing and being the soil to a fine tilth, apply BHC (10%) or Aldrin(5%) at 25 kg/ha with last operation.
It protects the young seedling from attack of white ants and cut worms.
The seeds are more preferably drilled at a distance of 30 cm in lines, 1.5 to 2.5 cm depth on well prepared land. The seeds can also dibble on the inner sides of the ridges opened at 45 cm distance maintaining a plant to plant spacing of 30 cm. First sowing is done February-March while second is carried out in November to December i.e. after rains. About 15-25 kg of seeds are required per hectare of land seeds are sown thinly.
Senna largely grown in red loams, alluvial loam and rich clay rise fields. The average pH range from 7-8.5 .It is very - very sensitive to water- logging and hence it is grown only in well drained soil.
Farmers of Tamil nadu use 4-5 cartloads (5- 10 t/ha) of well - rotted FYM at the time of sowing. Trials in India have shown that the crop in all , take 50- 100 of N, 20-50 kg of P2O5, and about 30kg of K20 /ha in a growing of 130-150 days.
It can be economically grown under rain fed conditions. For good harvest of senna 5-8 light irrigation are enough. Heavy irrigation is injurious to the crops.
One or two hand weeding followed by howing are necessary to removal of dicot and grassy weeds. First weeding and hawing done at 25-30days second one at 70-80days
Under dry weather the crop of senna have attacks by a pest. High humid conditions the larvae of white butterfly (catopsilia pyranthae) may cause damage. The another pest Pod borer is attack the pods it can be controlled by spraying Endosulohan (0.05%) or carbaryl (0.25%) at interval of 10-15 days. The leaf-spot diseases are caused by the alternaria alternate and Cercospora species, which sever damage to the crop. The spraying of 0.15% Dithane M-45 at fortinightly interval, 3 times a period of 5-6 weeks.The damping off seedlings is the most divesting diseases caused by Rhizoctonia bataticola.
Young senna pods contain a high sennasides content The senna plant produce foliage containing higher sennoside between 50-90days of sowing. The picking is done by hand. So that most of the growing tops are removed at harvest. A second picking is taken at 90-100days and third between 130-150days.The harvested crop should be spread in a thin layer in an open field to reduce moisture.The dry leaf and pods should have a light-green to greenish yellow color.
A good crops of senna can give 15 Q/ha of a dry leaves and 7 Q/ha of pods under irrigated and good management conditions.The yield under rainfed condition is about 10 Q/ha of leaves and 4 Q/ha of pods.
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Community members who do not have a home for the Jewish holidays are welcome to join us. Your support is essential to bringing High Holiday services to campus. Thank you for your continued support.
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Hillel requests Community Members make a donation to GMU Hillel. Suggested amount: $150/individuals, $300/families.
Free student tickets and Community member tickets can be ordered here. Skip the fees by mailing in your registration and paying by check. Click here to print a paper registration to be mailed to Mason Hillel at 4400 University Dr. MSN 2C7, Fairfax, VA 22030
To pay by check and
Please bring your tallit and kippot. For more information call (703) 993-3321 or E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Be sure to leave your name, address, day and evening phone.
High Holiday Services Schedule
Erev Rosh Hashanah
Sunday, October 2, 2016 at 6:30 PM
Rosh Hashanah Day
Monday, October 3, 2016 at 10:00 AM
Kol Nidre (Yom Kippur Evening)
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 6:00 PM
Yom Kippur Day
Morning Service: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at 10:00 AM
Evening Service (Neillah): Wednesday, October 12, 2016 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
All services will be located in George's on the third floor of the Johnson Center.
What is my parking option for getting to the High Holiday services?
Parking vouchers come at an additional cost of $12. Parking validations will be distributed at High Holiday services. Park at the Pond Parking Deck for a convenient walk to Mason Hillel services.
Note: You will require a validation to exit the Pond parking garage. It is inserted into the machine instead of credit card payment. Please hold onto your entrance ticket as you will still need that to exit.
We will have validations available during all services for those who have pre purchased them. Parking without a pre purchased validation is $3 per hr up to $15 max per day.
For a map of campus please visit this site: Click here for map. The Pond Parking deck is number 41 and the Johnson Center is number 29. Should you have trouble finding George's, visit the Info center in the center of the Johnson Center. George's on the 3rd floor of the Johnson Center is handicap accessible.
Will there be tallit and kippot?
While we have several tallit and kippot we strongly suggest you bring your own as we have a limited number.
Do I need to participate in the service or need to know Hebrew?
You may participate as much, or as little as you would like for the service. We greatly appreciate those who would like to participate reach out beforehand so that we may give you an honor for the service.


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Project Aware Clean Up Weekend
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Come along and help out with this years big lake clean up event. Plenty to do for divers and non-divers. There will be a raffle, games, activities and trade stands. Last years event was great fun and a big success. As well as helping to clear the lake and surrounding area we also hope to raise lots of money for Project Aware. Something all the family can take part in, so come along, muck in and meet new friends and maybe win yourself a prize! This 2 day event will be taking place on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th September 2011.
On Sunday 25th September we will be running Project Aware Courses
Please contact Nemes Dive Academy on 0750 762 4911 for further details or to book.


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A cyclist suffered life-threatening injuries after coming off his bike in Melbourne's south this morning.
The man, believed to be in his 50s, came off his bike near Olivers Hill, a steep stretch of Nepean Highway in Frankston South, about 9am.
He was flown to The Alfred hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said.
Police do not believe any vehicles were involved in the incident but have called on any witnesses to come forward.
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About this blog
St. Petersburg Russia Tour
Kulmusik: Contemporary Music Ensemble Abroad
Sunday, November 30, 2008
My apologies for not writing more frequently while actually in Russia. For whatever reason, the hotel's computers would not allow us access to the IC weblog site. Either way, I kept my blog on my computer and am posting it here now. Here was an entry intended to be post on Wednesday:
Well, it's been a few days since we've been in Russia now. After a long and arduous journey to get here, it all worked out in the end. We arrived on Monday evening around 6:00 PM (we were originally supposed to arrive at the same time the previous day) – having lost a day in the Helsinki airport, we were all quite anxious to enjoy some fine Russian cuisine and see some sights. Dr. Meyer arranged a reservation for all of us at a local restaurant a few blocks from our hotel (which is a gorgeous hotel by the way). The owner set up a "family style" dinner with several plates ranging from cheese samples, to herb salads, to fish and nuts, to lamb… the list goes on an on. The night ended at a local café that proved to be a worthwhile investment of our time. While there, I was challenged by a Russian couple (in very broken English) to a game of foosball. When asked what color I wanted to be, I naturally responded "Well, it would only be appropriate for you to be red…" They enjoyed my joke.
Tuesday was the day of concert. I spent the free hours of my day walking about 2.5 miles down the Nevsky Monastery/Cemetery. The main purpose of this trip was to see the graves of Russian composers such as Tschaikowsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glink, Borodin, Balakierev, and Mussorgsky (to name a few). Later on in the afternoon we had our dress rehearsal and subsequent concert in Glinka Hall—a truly remarkable space that was classically preserved in its appearance and had acoustics like no other. We all often commented how we could hear things in our own music making in this hall that we couldn't in previous performance venues (that's a good thing!). Our audience filled about 30 to 40 percent of the concert hall's seating; they were a truly appreciate audience. After a successful and well-received concert we all moved onto a traditional Russian cuisine restaurant that included a performance by a band of four folk musicians. I was truly moved by the performance of a folk ballad that I hope to link up here in YouTube I the near future. All in all, the performance and the collaborative efforts between faculty and students in making this all happen was an inspirational experience. We're all extremely fortunate.
Today (Wednesday) we spent some time at the local outdoor marketplace by the Church of the Spilled Blood. The photo included with this post is the Church top. Following that, the students rehearsed with Dr. Meyer and the St. Petersburg Chamber Orchestra for the latter half of the afternoon. It's quite the experience to be making music with people who you can hardly communicate with verbally, yet through the international language of music, we're somehow able to make it all work. Truly amazing…
Following, rehearsal we hurried off to the Russes Ballet at the famous Marinskii Hall across from the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The dancers and musicians were of the highest class and quality and I thouroughly enjoyed the performces of three, one-act ballets (Chopin, Stravinsky's "Firebird," and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scherazade"). And here we are back at the hotel for the evening. Tomorrow is a walking tour that Dr. Meyer set up for the students. Looking forward to that. To all my family and friends—love and miss you! If anyone from Bolton Center School in Bolton, CT is reading, here's your shout-out from RUSSIA! PRACTICE and maybe someday you can have an opportunity like this one presented to you. Dasdivanya (that more or less means, "goodbye")!
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How we look at ourselves makes a huge difference to how we feel. I'm talking principally about how we regard ourselves internally—how we each relate to ourselves as an individual human being—rather than the way we look at ourselves in a mirror, although the two are of course related.
For a moment, think what it's like to sit having a conversation with a friendly person. We get lots of little signals from them, acknowledging us. They smile. They nod. They make little noises to let us know we're being heard. They look concerned when we talk about our difficulties.
Now think of what it's like to talk to someone who is staring blankly at you, … Read more »
Some of us in Wildmind's Google Plus community are working our way through exercises from Jan Chozen Bays' book, How to Train a Wild Elephant. We're now on week 17 of the book, and this week's exercise is called "Entering New Spaces."
Here's a brief outline of the practice:
The Exercise: Our shorthand for this mindfulness practice is "mindfulness of doors," but it actually involves bringing awareness to any transition between spaces, when you leave one kind of space and enter another. Before you walk through a door, pause, even for a second, and take one breath. Be aware of the differences you might feel in each new space you enter.
This has been … Read more »
I've been having a well-earned rest from blogging after completing our 100 Days of Lovingkindness, during which time I managed to contribute a blog post every day, despite also, for the last month, having an intensive schedule of teaching and family responsibilities.
But practice goes on.
In the Wildmind community on Google Plus we're working through a book called How to Train a Wild Elephant, which is an excellent book of mindfulness practices written by Jan Chozen Bays.
Week 2's exercise is as follows:
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Leave No Trace
Choose one room of your house and for one week try leaving no trace that you've used that space. The bathroom or kitchen works best for
For today's adventure in 100 Days of Lovingkindness I'm going to share a way of relating that I call "loving gaze." This is borrowed from Jan Chozen Bays, who writes in How to Train a Wild Elephant of the practice of "Loving Eyes."
In her book she says:
We know how to use loving eyes when we are falling in love, when we see a new baby or a cute animal. Why do we not use loving eyes more often?
So what we can do is to recall, or even just imagine, the experience of looking with loving eyes. You can recall (or imagine) looking at a beloved child, or a lover, or even a … Read more »
Readers have posted comments on Jeff Gordinier's article on mindful eating, along with questions for Dr. Jan Chozen Bays, a pediatrician and meditation teacher in Oregon. Dr. Bays, the author of "Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food," responded to a first batch of comments.
News Flash — Mindful eating has been practiced for thousands of years by Jews. Prayer of thanks depends on the contents of the food, with multiple requirements on preparation, etc. Not sure why it's described here as Buddhist, per se — philiphdc, Washington, D.C.
Yes, you are right. Mindful eating doesn't belong …
1. WHEN YOU EAT, JUST EAT. Unplug the electronica. For now, at least, focus on the food.
2. CONSIDER SILENCE. Avoiding chatter for 30 minutes might be impossible in some families, especially with young children, but specialists suggest that greenhorns start with short periods of quiet.
3. TRY IT WEEKLY. Sometimes there's no way to avoid wolfing down onion rings in your cubicle. But if you set aside one sit-down meal a week as an experiment in mindfulness, the insights may influence everything else you do.
4. PLANT A GARDEN, AND COOK. Anything that reconnects you with the process of creating food will magnify your mindfulness.
5. CHEW PATIENTLY. It's not easy, but try to … Read more »
The following extract from Jan Chozen Bays' How to Train a Wild Elephant is reproduced with the permission of the publisher, Shambhala Publications, Inc.
The Exercise: Use loving hands and a loving touch, even with inanimate objects.
Put something unusual on a finger of your dominant hand. Some possibilities include a different ring, a Band-aid, a dot of nail polish on one nail, or a small mark made with a colored pen. Each time you notice the marker, remember to use loving hands, loving touch.
When we do this practice, we soon become aware of when we or others are not using loving hands. We notice how groceries are thrown into … Read more »
I remember that "wow" moment when I first read Thich Nhat Hanh's now-classic The Miracle of Mindfulness, in which he outlines, very simply and with a sense of authenticity, powerful and effective methods of bringing mindfulness practice into daily life, such as washing the dishes as if they were sacred objects, and eating mindfully.
That "wow," was uttered repeatedly, in with an even greater degree or reverence and appreciation, while I was reading How to Train a Wild Elephant, which is a worthy successor to Thich Nhat Hanh's earlier work, taking the teaching of mindfulness practice to a new level.
I had heard of Jan Chozen Bays, mainly in the context of quotations … Read more »
With his round cheeks and ample belly, the Buddha may rank somewhere close to sumo wrestlers on most Americans' list of go-to sources for healthful eating tips.
But the ever-present image of a fat and happy Buddha owes more to China's ideal of prosperity and ability to mass-produce figurines than to historical accuracy. In Japan and India, the Buddha is depicted as trim and lithe, said the Rev. Jan Chozen Bays, a Zen priest and pediatrician, and his teachings may be key to overcoming Americans' increasingly troubled eating habits.
Bays, who goes by the Dharma name Chozen ("clear meditation"), is a student and teacher of "mindful eating," a practice that borrows liberally from Buddhist psychology … Read more »


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Replies to email messages from/to alternate name users may be sent to recipients deleted from the To, cc and bcc fields and show names of users to whom the message was not delivered
Technote (FAQ)
Under certain circumstances, replying to email messages sent from or to users with alternate names, which have been edited after saving, may send the message to users whose names were deleted from the To, cc, or bcc fields. This issue occurs only if the "Default display name" preference (Location document -> Basics tab) is set to "Display alternate names".
When editing the To, cc, or bcc fields of such previously saved email messages, the SendTo/AltSendTo, CopyTo/AltCopyTo, and BlindCopyTo/AltBlindCopyTo fields may not be kept in sync. This can result in misaddressed email messages, which lead recipients to an incorrect recognition of the sender's intention regarding the recipients. Should a recipient reply to all, this may result in inadvertent disclosure of information as the reply will include recipients who did not receive the original message.
Furthermore, when receiving and replying to all on such messages, the recipient names displayed in the To, cc, and bcc fields may differ from the original sender's To, cc, and bcc fields. This, too, may result in the inadvertent addition or deletion of recipients to the email thread.
These issues can occur in the following scenarios:
Scenario #1: Multiple "Save As Draft" operations in a new memo after a recipient is deleted
1. User A's Location document has "Default display name" set to "Display primary names".
2. User A creates a new memo and populates the "To" field with User B, User C, and User D.
3. User A clicks the "Save As Draft" action button.
4. User A opens the document from the Draft folder, and presses F9.
5. User A then removes User B from the "To" field, and clicks "Save As Draft".
6. User A opens the document from the Draft folder, and clicks the "Send" action button.
7. User C's Location document has the "Default display name" preference set to "Display alternate names".
8. User C will find User B, User C, and User D in the "To" field of the message received from User A, even though the message was not delivered to User B. (Note:This sets up the case for a "Reply to All" to include User B.)
Scenario #2: Delete an Internet address with a comma inside phrase part of address
1. User A's Location document has "Default display name" set to "Display alternate names".
2. User A creates a new memo and populates the "To" field with User B, and the "cc" field with "AAA,AAAA"<firstname.lastname@example.com> and "BBB"<email@example.com>. Note that a comma is placed between AAA and AAAA in phrase part of the address.
3. User B's Location document has "Default display name" set to "Display primary names".
4. User B clicks "Reply to all" against the message received from User A, removes "AAA,AAA"<email@example.com> from the "cc" field, and then clicks the "Send" action button.
5. User A will find AAA" <firstname.lastname@example.com> in the "cc" field. "AAA. is truncated.
Scenario #3: Multiple edits and "Save As Draft" operations against a sent message
1. User A's and User C's Location document have "Default display name" set to "Display alternate names".
2. User A creates and sends a new memo with User B in the "To" field and firstname.lastname@example.com in the "cc" field.
3. User A opens the message from the Sent folder and places it in edit mode.
4. User A replaces User B with User C, replaces email@example.com with email@example.com, and then clicks "Save As Draft".
5. User A opens the message from the Draft folder, and then clicks "Send".
6. User C will find firstname.lastname@example.com in the "cc" field in the message received from User A, even though email@example.com did not receive the message.
These issues were determined to be flaws in the Notes 6.x and 7.x mail template. The issues were reported to Quality Engineering as SPRs YSAI65CCYZ and MDLS66KMFR, and have been addressed in the Notes 6.5.6, 7.0.2, and 8.0 mail templates.
Excerpt from the Lotus Notes and Domino Release 7.0.2 MR fix list (available at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus):
Mail Client
SPR# YSAI65CCYZ - When saving as draft or saving a document, there were cases where the Alternate name fields would become out of sync. with the standard SendTo, CopyTo, and BlindCopyTo fields. This fix ensures that template code does not change these lists during a Save or Save as Draft.
Mail Addressing
SPR# MDLS66KMFR - After sending a message with ReplywithHistory, the AltCopyto and CopyTo fields were displayed incorrectly. The message was sent to the person(s) in the AltCopyTo field. This regression was introduced in 6.5.2.
Refer to the Upgrade Central site for details on upgrading Notes/Domino.
You can repair the template by completing the following:
Use Domino Designer® to make the following design element changes in the Mail6.ntf, Mail6ex.ntf, Mail7.ntf and Mail7ex.ntf, and then refresh the design of the mail databases.
The following Shared Actions need to have their formulas modified:
"Save As draft"
"Save" Note: There are two Shared Actions titled Save. You want to modify the one that, when listed in Designer, has a checkbox in the Notes column rather than the Web column.
remove the following code:
REM {"Forcing values in TO field to be saved"};
FIELD SendTo := @If(EnterSendTo != ""; EnterSendTo; SendTo);
FIELD CopyTo:=@If(EnterCopyTo!=""; EnterCopyTo;CopyTo);
FIELD BlindCopyTo := @If(EnterBlindCopyTo != ""; EnterBlindCopyTo; BlindCopyTo);
- In the Location document(s), on the Basics tab, set the "Default display names" entry to "Display primary names". Note: The relative field name in the Location form is UserNameFlag, and the keyword choice "Default primary names" has a text value of "0", where the choice "Display alternate names" has a text value of "1".
- Check the recipient names before sending a message reply.
For messages with a false value set in alternate name recipient fields, IBM® Lotus® recommends that users check recipients before sending a message reply.
Related Issue
Similar behavior may be observed when the Save and "Save as Draft" actions are not used. For details on relative fixes and workarounds, refer to the following document: "AltCopyTo and INetCopyTo fields may be out of sync when using 'Reply to All'" (# 1243602)
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AltCopyTo and INetCopyTo fields may be out of sync when
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1. Produce better defensemen. Terrible pylons like Nikulin and Medvedev should never make the national team. Both of them play for Kazan and Kazan's best defenseman is Shaun Heshka, a Canadian who has never played in the NHL and would not make Team Canada even if Canada was allowed to play five different teams in the Olympics. Heshka vs. Nikulin and Medvedev comparison is one way to point out the current decline of Russian hockey. A Canadian career minor league defenseman is better than at least two of Russia's olympic team defensemen.
2. Too many of the current "stars" of Russian hockey have poor hockey IQ and no hockey sense. They are purely goal scorers who cannot do much else. Ovechkin has never learned to play in the national team. He cannot pass and all he really does is to make one-man rushes that end up either to a blocked shot or a turn over. Kovalchuk is pretty much useless these days. Semin has deteriorated dramatically in 2-3 years. From the current Russian forwards only Malkin and grandpa Datsyuk have a hockey sense that can be compared to old Russian/Soviet greats.
Nichushkin looks very promising but he is still only 18 and cannot help yet. Tarasenko has always been a no show in the national team and his performance in Sochi has not shown that he can be a star in this level. Kuznetsov's future is uncertain. He once looked like a future superstar, but has not developed at all in the last two seasons. After Nichushkin, Tarasenko and Kuznetsov there are no young forwards worth mentioning. Grigorenko is a total bust and Yakupov has too small of a frame to be a star player for Russia. He is not built like tank like Makarov and Krutov were.
Right now Russia is miles behind Canada, the US and Sweden in player development. Even Finland could have a better group of top prospects than Russia. The creation of KHL and MHL has so far done nothing to improve Russian hockey.
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Those Dam ships: Westerdam Cruise Review by mucklucks
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Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
EMBARKATION:It was fast and easy, we arrived at the port at 11 am, we were on board the ship by 11:30 am. We were directed to the Lido for lunch and told that cabins would be ready at 1:15pm and they were. We ate a quick lunch nothing special and arrived to meet our room steward Tommy. He was wonderful. After reading these boards for so many years I have learned to heed advice and handed him a $20 at the start of the cruise and explained what our needs were I never had to make another request he took excellent care of us.
FOOD:The food and service in the dining room were horrible, we often were left with no choice but the NY Strip or Salmon and that was inedible. We were at a table for 8 and More nobody enjoyed the food. The only highlight of the entire cruise was the Phyllo wrapped Brie. If they have it on your cruise order three that should make a meal. Breakfasts were okay the same old stuff nothing special and lunches were equally boring whether in the Vista Dining Room or the Lido Buffet. Room service was adequate and always came quickly but they often left things out or food was cold when it should be warm, and warm when it should be cold.
ENTERTAINMENT: We were on a jazz cruise so no rating here it is irrelevant.
BAR SERVICE; The Pinnacle Bar had the worst service on the ship it could take up to an hour to order and receive six drinks head up one deck to deck 3 Oceans Bar great service and hors d'oeuvres as well.
THE PINNACLE GRILL: The food was boring, steaks and salmon nothing that warrants $30 pp, the service was mediocre.
DEBARKATION: HAL does a good job of getting you off the ship in a timely manner. When you get to the baggage area have fun it takes forever and you cannot get a baggage handler unless you go and wait on an awful line for help. It took us an hour from the time we left the ship and waited with our baggage till a handler came so we could retrieve our car and leave the port. It was utter bedlam.
I would not recommend this ship to anyone no matter how old or young,there are far better ships in HAL's fleet. Less
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Kiwi Linda Villumsen finishes fifth in road race
A flat Linda Villumsen said she had nothing left to give as her bid for a Commonwealth Games golden double fell short in the women's road race.
Gold medallist in the time trial on Thursday, Villumsen finished fifth in a rain-soaked 98.1km race behind an England one-two of Lizzie Armitstead and Emma Pooley. Villumsen rode a gutsy solo race and was still in the sprint for bronze entering the final straight at Glasgow Green but dropped off, as South Africa's Ashleigh Pasio pipped Australia's Tiffany Cromwell for bronze.
"It was too hard. I didn't have anything in the end. I got dropped so many times. I had one speed today and no acceleration," said a shivering Villumsen as the rain returned.
Crucially, Villumsen had to ride alone for the final 40km as none of her five New Zealand team-mates could go with the decisive break that featured seven riders including the two English women and Australians Cromwell and Gracie Elvin, along with Pasio and Scot Katie Archibald.
Joanne Kiesanowski was the next best New Zealander in ninth. She was meant to be the rider to go with Villumsen in a break but couldn't manage it.
There were other dramas for New Zealand when Emily Collins was 10th across the line after puncturing mid-race but was disqualified for receiving assistance from her team car, which didn't hear warnings from officials.
Rushlee Buchanan (14th), Reta Trotman (15th) and Jaime Nielsen (16th) were in the bunch more than 5min from the winner.
"I was hoping they [team-mates] were coming with me. I kept looking back and when two other riders came up I just prayed that someone would be in there," Villumsen said.
"But hard luck. I think they all saw it happen. You can see it happen and you want to go with it but it's just too difficult to get there."
Still it will be a Games Villumsen reflects on with pride after her immense performance to beat Pooley for gold in the time trial. "I'm happy with that. It would have been nice to see someone on the podium today but we'll get there."
Villumsen was in the mix for gold until the last 10km when the English pair sealed the major spoils in treacherous rain. Armitstead claimed gold by 25sec over Pooley who was in tears in the finish line in her final race before retirement.
Armitstead was clear favourite after winning silver at the London Olympics, and in Delhi four years ago.
Pooley did a great job for her team-mate and went for home with 10km remaining. Armitstead soon took over and established the winning break, as Villumsen, Cromwell and Pasio led the chase. But Villumsen felt flat and couldn't stay with it as the pressure went on.
The road race course took the scenic route through Glasgow's central city and riders had to be on their guard for their own safety as it twisted and turned through the 'Style Mile' across the slippery paved streets of Argyle St and Buchanan St.
The decisive break came just inside 40km from home when five riders, including Villumsen, shot away and were soon joined by two more. The gap soon stretched to 40 seconds, and with two laps of the 14km course remaining it had grown to 1min 20sec.


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Pricing and availability of this desktop Android product is still unannounced but with yesteryear specs and Android OS (granted, many devices still haven't been updated to ICS either), we don't see it selling for a very high price tag. Plenty of people have switched over to tablets and devices like the ASUS Transformer Prime line with keyboard docks. An 18.5-inch screen would be a pretty nice addition for presentations and gaming if done right. This isn't the one to do it with though.
Would you be inclined to pick up a desktop style Android based PC if it had, say the specs of the Note II or Prime? Would it be more attractive if it was a tablet that could be docked to a stand? It is an interesting concept. The potential is there, but we don't think the technology or user base is quite ready for something like this.
Source: Motorola via Android Central


text: I would also like to introduce those officers of the company who are in attendance. Jeremy Aguilar, who I previously introduced, Mike Stout, who is our Chief Administrative Officer, Trent Tailor, Chief Information officer, Charlie Young, our Chief Human Resource Officer and Mike Larimer, our Chief Merchandizing Officer.Also present with us today is Mr. Paul Coates, a partner with the company's independent auditors KPMG LLP. Paul will be available to respond to appropriate questions during the Q&A session of today's meeting. We'll now conduct the business portion of our meeting, and vote on the two matters to be considered by the stockholders. Then following the conclusion of the business portion of the meeting, we will be available with a question-and-answer period. We have two proposals to address today. First, the election of 11 directors, and second to ratify the appointment by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of KPMG, as the company's independent auditors for the fiscal year ending March 13, 2013. These items have been more fully described on our notice of Annual Meeting and proxy statement, a copy of which is made available to all stockholders and is also available at this meeting. Mrs. Jeanine Simon joins us today from Computershare, our registrar and transfer agent. Jeanine has been appointed as Inspector for the purpose of verifying and tabulating the votes of this Annual Meeting and has taken an oath to execute her duties, which will be filed with the minutes as a part of the record of the meeting. The Secretary, Jeremy Aguilar has a list of all the stockholders of the company entitled to vote at the meeting. The list is available for your inspection during the meeting and has been made available at the company's headquarters for the past 10 days. It was prepared by Computershare, and shows each shareholder of record and the number of shares earned by each shareholder on June 08, 2012 which was the record date for this meeting.


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This is version 1.2 of ACL for Drupal 6.
Version 1.0 has been working very solidly with the exception of a minor glitch when updating from Drupal 5. The reason for releasing 1.1 was to provide a defined base for starting the migration to Drupal 7.
Unfortunately, the fix was not perfect and had the potential to produce a harmless warning message. 1.2 avoids that warning message.
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Off-the-wall Questions and Answers, Queries and Anecdotes from Boston Breakers and U.S. WNT defender Kate Sobrero.
Sobrero, a native of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., already has a World Cup title an Olympic medal in just four years with Team USA. Over this time, the Notre Dame alum has solidified herself as the backbone of the defense, where she will undoubtedly flourish for years and years to come:
Center Circle: Your name wasn't one of the five to take penalty kicks at the WWC final. But let's pretend that you had been put in Brandi's spot as the #5 and deciding kicker. What would Kate Sobrero have done in that situation?
Kate Sobrero: "I probably would have tried to tune out the 90,000-plus people watching and tried to focus on how easy it looks to put the ball in the corner, even though I can't seem to ever do it practice. I would have tried to not get too freaked out about the situation, about letting my country and my team down. I was the 10th kicker, so things would've gotten pretty crazy for me to take one. I haven't taken one in a game since 10th grade."
CC: Three-part personal question:
1) Still have the tongue piercing?
2) Or was that just a temporary thing during '99?
3) Any tattoos that we should know about?
KS: "There are no tattoos and the tongue piercing was definitely temporary. It was fun while it lasted, though. I don't think I would have a father anymore if I got a tattoo."
CC: Rumor has it that you grew up in a suburb of Detroit nearby that of one Kid Rock? Is this somewhat true or completely false?
KS: "That's true, but I didn't know Kid Rock, Eminem or Alexi Lalas or any other famous person from the Detroit suburbs. I didn't really have a social life in high school. I didn't get out much."
CC: You worked as an intern for MTV a couple summers ago, did anyone there know that you won a World Cup championship or played in an Olympics?
KS: "No, but when my boss told people that I was an athlete, I had to start carrying all the heavy boxes of tapes."
CC: Carson Daly or Fred Durst? Or in other words, untalented pretty boy or untalented bad boy?
KS: "I'm going to have to go with Fred Durst, because he could get my three brothers into the Playboy Mansion. That's a tough one, though, because Carson could get me into some pretty cool places, too."
CC: Assuming you've been an MTV viewer over the past decade, "Real World" or "Road Rules"?
KS: "I would have to say 'Road Rules' because those kids get to do all those adventurous, fun and exciting things and they go to beautiful places. On 'Real World', those people sit on their butts for four months and fight the whole time."
CC: What's been your biggest "brush with greatness"?
KS: "After we were done competing in the Olympics, a bunch of soccer players went out with a lot of other U.S. athletes from other sports. Most of them weren't hugely famous or anything, but they were the best in their chosen sports and that was a unique experience. Other than that, it's got to be playing next to Brandi Chastain."
CC: What was the last concert you went to?
KS: "I saw Sirsy at a small club in Killington, Vermont. They are great alternative band and I hope they get a record deal. The lead singer is really talented and has an amazing voice."
CC: What is your biggest guilty pleasure when it comes to food?
KS: "My dad's Foccacia bread and Molinari salami. I have to go back to my Italian roots."
CC: When Kate finally settles down with the husband and kids, is it going to be in the big city or in the 'burbs?
KS: "Well, if it's just me and the husband, I can see living in the city. But when there is a bun in the oven, we will probably move to the suburbs somewhere. The baby and I have to have a lawn to run around on."
CC: What was your favorite thing to do in South Bend, besides play soccer or go to football games? Or is there anything to do in South Bend besides go to football games?
KS: "Well, it would have to be going to the dining hall with my friends and sitting there for hours people watching. I guess that's how I got my freshman 20."
CC: You were allocated to the Boston Breakers during the process of splitting up the 20 players on the 1999 Women's World Cup team. How do you like Boston?
KS: "I love Boston. It has always been one of my favorite cities. Now I am getting a chance to explore the city and I love it even more. Being from Michigan, I don't mind the cold and I enjoy having all the seasons."
CC: How long do you see yourself playing for the WNT?
KS: "That's not really up to me, but I will play as long as I can, and as long as I still love it. Hopefully, I will keep playing for a long time."
CC: You've accomplished a lot in your sport over the last 6-7 years, but what has been the biggest thrill of your young soccer career?
KS: "Just being able to play for my country and with players that I idolized for years."
Table of Contents
1) Armchair Midfielder (U.S. Soccer's Chevy 2001 Athletes of the Year)
2) Word Association (w/ MNT forward Ante Razov)
3) D.J. for a Day (w/ U-17 MNT forward Corey Ashe)
4) Queries and Anecdotes (w/ WNT defender Kate Sobrero)
5) Big Woman on Campus (w/ U-21 WNT forward Christie Welsh)
6) Superstar!!! (w/ MNT midfielder Earnie Stewart)
7) Mark That Calendar (WNT vs. Mexico - Jan. 12)
8) From the Bleachers (w/ frequent-flying U.S. Soccer fan Andy Mead)
9) "You Don't Know Jack (Marshall)" (Gold Cup trivia)
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In its 14th year showcasing films from around the world, the Sarasota Film Festival brought some of the world's best filmmakers to the big screen. Since 1999, this festival has honored actors and actresses, such as Chevy Chase, Billy Crystal, Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Christopher Plummer and Brooke Shields, to name a few. Today, it is hailed as one of the top film festivals in the country, combining the ingenious work of filmmakers with exciting programs and events catered towards the interests of the community. This year's festival proved nothing short of successful.
After reading about the Sarasota Film Festival right here in the local community, I decided to take in a film for myself. The movie I saw was In Our Nature, starring John Slattery (Mad Men), Gabrielle Union, Zach Gilford and Jena Malone.
The film is about the broken relationship between a father and a son and the one weekend at their cabin that they have to repair their relationship.
At first glance it may seem that the film would be rather sorrow-filled or dramatic, but underneath all of the tension in the film, there was a realistic sense of humor that no one in the theater was expecting. There was also a real beauty about the film's setting, adding a peaceful and serene energy, despite all of the conflict that occurred throughout the film.
Overall, I felt the film was well-written and the actors portrayed realistic, life-like characters.
What I found most impressive was the film's director and lead actress stayed for a brief Q&A session with the audience after the film. Hands shot up throughout the theater with an eagerness to ask the director and actress specific questions. Through this session, I learned that the film just witnessed was the director's first, and that was an accomplishment in its own. It was this type of relationship between director and audience that showcases the festival's emphasis on educating and inspiring film lovers.
Over the years, the Sarasota Film Festival has made it a point to engage filmgoers of all ages and has made a special effort to develop a comprehensive program targeted towards young people. Not only do they accept films in the festival from young, aspiring filmmakers, but they have developed scholarship programs and Red Carpet Events and particularly try to engage the local community youth.
This year, Saint Stephen's Episcopal School's 7th grade English classes had the opportunity to view and critique several short films from the film festival. Out of 568 film reviews submitted to the Sarasota Film Festival by local students of the area, Saint Stephen's seventh grader Julia Woodson had her review chosen as one of the four best reviews submitted. Her film review was published in both the Sarasota Observer and the Sarasota Film Festival's blog.
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It is truly remarkable how within a mere 14 years, the Sarasota Film Festival has expanded immensely, offering hundreds of films in numerous languages directed by a wide range of rookie and experienced directors. It is not uncommon to see stars from Hollywood showing up for the numerous events held during the ten-day festival or run into the director of the movie you just witnessed. It is these types of experiences that attract not only locals but people from around the country as well.
Perhaps the very reason behind the Sarasota Film Festival's popularity is its ideal location in a community that is artistically rich and culturally attractive to so many. With engaging programs, films that cater to all ages and people who are genuinely passionate about the art of filmmaking, it is no surprise that people keep coming back year after year to this beautiful locale to view these films.


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It has been nearly three years since the Kelo v. New London ruling by the US Supreme Court, and just short of two years since the city of New London, CT settled with the final two Fort Trumbull holdouts, Susette Kelo and the Cristofaro family.
The Supreme Court's majority, in their June 2005 Kelo ruling, declared that "public use" as stated in the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution really means "public purpose" -- that is, instead of the government being able to take land through eminent domain only for the purpose of building a public structure or creating a public service (road, bridge, school, park, etc.), the government can take land for any reason it believes a worthy one. In the case of New London, the city believed that demolishing occupied, functioning houses that had stood for over 100 years and developing "something else" that would garner the city more tax revenues was a worthy public purpose.
What has been done with the property since then?
As a development-related deadline loomed in mid-May, a Hartford TV station filed this report, and gave us the answer:
Plans Stall In Fort Trumbull
Land Remains Barren After Homes Torn Down
Next month marks the third anniversary of the controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed the city of New London to use the power of eminent domain. But, not much progress has been made in Fort Trumbull, leaving some wondering whether the homeowners were forced out for nothing.
..... Channel 3 Eyewitness News reporter Kevin Hogan reported that where homes once stood, the land is now barren.
He reported that Corcoran and Jennison is having problems securing the $18 million that's needed to build the townhouses.
The city said the clock on its extension to find the funding is running out.
Two weeks later, Corcoran Jennison failed to secure the financing required for the project (New London Day links in this post will last only a few days; a paid subscription is required after that):
'It's Over' For Corcoran Jennison, NLDC
The Corcoran Jennison company has lost its exclusive right to develop nearly the entire northern half of the Fort Trumbull peninsula, officials from the New London Development Corp. said in an interview Friday with the editorial board of The Day.
"We signed a development agreement with CJ, and now we're without one," said an unequivocal NLDC President Michael Joplin. "There is no preferred developer at the fort."
"It's over," corporation Vice President Karl-Erik Sternlof said of the company's agreement with the NLDC to be the sole developer of a hotel, a 7-acre office parcel and more than 100 housing units.
That agreement, which has been extended four times since 2001, expired at 5 p.m. Thursday when Corcoran Jennison failed to meet a critical deadline to secure financing for its $18.7 million rental complex of 66 apartments and 14 townhouses.
..... Corcoran Jennison officials have said a slowed housing market and stingy lending climate had widened the housing plan's "financing gap" to more than $3 million. That gap assumed a nearly $12 million loan and a 20 percent - or $4 million - investment from the Boston company.
..... Sternlof said the NLDC's own consultant believes that it may be two to three years before any developer could realize a profit by bringing housing to Fort Trumbull.
A New London Day editorial tried to put lots of lipstick on a very ugly pig:
It's time for a fresh look at Fort Trumbull. Yes, the economy is anemic and credit is tight, but there may be a developer out there with a viable plan.
That's the potential silver lining in the Corcoran Jennison cloud. The city now has the chance to at least find out if there is someone else out there who has the wherewithal to breathe new life into Fort Trumbull.
The Municipal Development Plan for the 90-acre peninsula was developed a decade ago and based on a comprehensive environmental evaluation of the property. The major components include the housing, hotel, office space and a museum. Mr. Joplin said there is wide latitude within the plan to tweak the various components.
..... The state has a big stake in what happens at Fort Trumbull. It has invested about $180 million in the neighborhood - including about $80 million on the Fort Trumbull Municipal Development Plan, $25 million for Fort Trumbull State Park; and sizeable outlays for acquisition and remediation of a former scrap metal yard, waste water facility upgrades and incentives for Pfizer Inc., which located its global headquarters adjacent to the old Fort Trumbull neighborhood.
Apparently, "Kelo" is the word that shall not be uttered at the New London Day. It appears in neither of the two Day articles I reviewed.
Dozens of destroyed homes and surely more than $200 million later, including costs and lost property taxes to the city, there's nothing. And, based on current plans, if the project ever comes to pass, the NLDC will have replaced a bunch of homes with ..... a bunch of homes.
Even though the property involved was the subject of the case that, in the absence of overriding legislation, fundamentally changed the nature of the government-property owner relationship, various news searches indicate that the project's starting-over status is apparently not "newsworthy" enough for national exposure.
It's as if news organizations believe that no one is interested in how things have really worked out on the ground. I doubt that very much. I've seen plenty of "years later, nothing's been done" stories covered over the several decades I have followed the news. Why not this one?
Perhaps it's because a lot of people would react as one commenter did to the Day's editorial:
People were forced from their homes in order to please the greedy, gouging local government's quest for more tax money. The complete disrespect by the NLDC, The NL Day, the City of New London and the US Supreme Court towards the sovereign right to own property must never be forgiven.
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Phoenix Bishop Revokes St. Joseph's Catholic Endorsement
Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted revoked his endorsement of St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center as a Catholic hospital today following a heated debate over an abortion performed at the Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) hospital. "Though we are deeply disappointed, we will be steadfast in fulfilling our mission," said Linda Hunt, president of St. Joseph's.… Read More →
St. Joseph's And Phoenix Children's Announce A Strategic Alliance
Two major forces in the Valley's health care industry are joining together to ensure the future of quality pediatric care in Arizona. St Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center and Phoenix Children's Hospital are in the process of negotiating a strategic alliance that will make Arizona a medical destination for young patients with complex and acute… Read More →
First Job: Linda Hunt, Service Area President, Catholic Healthcare West Arizona And St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center
Linda Hunt Service Area President, Catholic Healthcare West Arizona and St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center Describe your very first job and what lessons you learned from it. During the day, I was a secretary for a construction company. I answered phones, coordinated job assignments and oversaw payroll. In the evening, I worked at Walgreens… Read More →
The Valley's Health Care Industry Held Its Own During The Recession And Looks Toward Expansion In The Recovery
In an economic downturn that has plunged Arizona into its worst financial crisis in decades, one sector of the state's economy that remains vibrant and growing is the health care industry. Consider recent developments driven primarily by population growth: the Creighton University partnership with St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center; the newly opened Cardon Children's… Read More →


text: The first biography of Helen Gurley Brown, who was Cosmopolitan's editor-in-chief for three decades, hits stores today, and we'll be snapping up a copy after work. Written by Jennifer Scanlon, a professor of gender and women's studies at Bowdoin College, Bad Girls Go Everywhere looks at Helen's life from her start in an Arkansas town in the Ozarks to her rise from secretary to advertising copywriter to editor-in-chief. Scanlon compares Brown to feminist figures like Betty Friedan. Brown believed sex was a "powerful weapon" for single women and changed the Cosmo format so it addressed real women's lives — sex and all. (However, she omitted certain realities from the magazine, including children and AIDS.) While Brown cared about looking put-together and slept with her bosses, she didn't let those things replace any of her substance. To her, hard work was always the most important thing in getting what you wanted — making the most of your features and getting your dream job. I read Brown's Sex and the Single Girl in college, after picking it out of a sale pile at Barnes & Noble. For the '60s, it was advanced. Despite the title, Sex and the Single Girl is less about sex and more about being a single girl. In it, she shares tips (some outdated, others eternally useful) on how to save money, get the job you want, and live the good life. While her advice is capricious, it's always well-intentioned. Whether or not she is a feminist on par with Friedan is up for debate, but at least she advanced our lives by making it OK for women to talk about sex. [NY Times]


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Dubai - The Islamic State militant group released a video on Tuesday purporting to show the beheading of a second American hostage, journalist Steven Sotloff, raising the stakes in its confrontation with Washington over US air strikes on its insurgents in Iraq.
A masked figure in the video seen by Reuters also issued a threat against a British hostage, a man the group named as David Haines, and warned governments to back off "this evil alliance of America against the Islamic State".
A statement released by Sotloff's family through a spokesman indicated the family considered the video to be authentic. "The family knows of this horrific tragedy and is grieving privately. There will be no public comment from the family during this difficult time," family spokesman Barak Barfi said.
The purported executioner appeared to be the same British-accented man who appeared in an August 19 video showing the killing of American journalist James Foley, and it showed a similar desert setting. In both videos, the captives wore orange jumpsuits.
In Washington, the White House said it could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the video of Sotloff's beheading. But several US government sources said it appeared to be authentic.
Sotloff, a 31-year-old freelance journalist from Florida, was kidnapped in Syria in August 2013.
"I'm back, Obama, and I'm back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State, because of your insistence on continuing your bombings and in Amerli, Zumar and the Mosul Dam, despite our serious warnings," the masked man said in the video, addressing US President Barack Obama.
"So just as your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people."
In the video, Sotloff describes himself as "paying the price" with his life for the US intervention in Iraq.
The White House said late on Tuesday that Obama was sending three top officials - Secretary of State John Kerry, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel and counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco - to the Middle East "in the near-term to build a stronger regional partnership" against the Islamic State militants.
US officials also said Obama ordered 350 more US military personnel to protect the large American embassy in Baghdad, bringing the number of US forces working to bolster diplomatic security in Iraq up to about 820.
Sotloff's mother, Shirley, appealed last Wednesday in a videotaped message to Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, appealing for her son's release.
In the video it released last month, Islamic State said Foley's death was in retaliation for US air strikes on its insurgents who have overrun wide areas of northern Iraq.
The United States resumed air strikes in Iraq in August for the first time since the pullout of US troops from the country in 2011.
The raids followed major gains by Islamic State, which has declared an Islamic Caliphate in areas it controls in Syria and Iraq.
"We have seen a video that purports to be the murder of US citizen Steven Sotloff by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The intelligence community is working as quickly as possible to determine its authenticity," White House National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said in a statement.
"If genuine, we are appalled by the brutal murder of an innocent American journalist and we express our deepest condolences to his family and friends. We will provide more information when it is available."
Iraq's outgoing foreign minister, Hoshiyar Zebari, condemned what he called "this savage killing... an example of savagery and evil", and said it was evidence of the need for Iraq and the West to defeat Islamic State.
"We have a common enemy and the whole world is moving in the right direction to stop this savagery and brutality," Zebari said. "The whole world is standing united against IS. They must be defeated so these horrid scenes will not be repeated."
Iraqi Shi'a Muslim politician Sami Askari, who is close to outgoing Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, said: "They are trying to scare the Americans not to intervene. I don't think Washington will be scared and stop... This is evil. Every human being has to fight this phenomenon. Like cancer, there is no cure. You have to fight it."
British Prime Minister David Cameron condemned Sotloff's apparent decapitation as "an absolutely disgusting and despicable act (by) barbaric terrorists". He said he would hold a meeting of his security crisis team on Wednesday.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the killing was a "further illustration of the barbarity without limit of this caliphate of terror that must be fought with the utmost determination".
Obama did not answer questions from reporters as he boarded his helicopter on the White House South Lawn en route to a military base outside Washington before flying on Air Force One bound for Estonia.
The video triggered new calls from Obama's critics in the US Congress for him to take more decisive action against Islamic State forces. Critics accused him of dithering after the president said last Thursday: "We don't have a strategy yet" for confronting the militant group's operations in Syria.
"Whenever American air power has been employed, in co-ordination with reliable partners on the ground, ISIL has been devastated. It's a tactic that should be aggressively pursued both in Syria and Iraq," said Senator Lindsey Graham, a leading Republican voice on foreign policy, using an acronym for the Sunni militant group.
The US military announced its latest air strike on Islamic State forces, saying US aircraft on Monday destroyed or damaged 16 of the group's armed vehicles near the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq.
Sotloff's colleagues described him as a dedicated journalist and gifted writer who had filed in-depth reports from across the Middle East. He covered unrest in Libya for Time magazine in 2012 before his kidnapping in Syria.
Time editor Nancy Gibbs said that Sotloff "gave his life so readers would have access to information from some of the most dangerous places in the world".
On August 24, al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front militants in Syria freed an American writer, Peter Theo Curtis, who had been missing since 2012, following what officials said were efforts by the Gulf Arab state of Qatar to secure his release.
A US government source told Reuters that a criminal investigation being conducted by the Justice Department into the killing of Foley was certain to be extended to include Sotloff. - Reuters


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People in the News: Rapper has to watch his mouth
Published 10:00 pm, Sunday, March 4, 2007
A rapper under house arrest in Louisiana can promote his new CD and novel but cannot talk about the second-degree murder charge against him, a state judge has ruled.
Corey Miller, 35, has been ordered to stay at his grandmother's Kenner home until his new trial in the Jan. 12, 2002, death of a 16-year-old who was shot in the chest during a brawl at a now-closed club in Harvey. No trial date has been set.
Judge Martha Sassone told Miller on Thursday that the rules of his house arrest remain the same: She must approve any visitors, including reporters.
"As it pertains to his livelihood, (Miller) can speak to whomever he likes on the phone insofar as it doesn't relate to this case," the judge said.
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