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Gambooge is grown for its fruit in southeast Asia, coastal Karnataka/Kerala, India and west and central Africa. It thrives in most moist forests. Gambooge is one of several closely related Garcinia species from the plant family Guttiferae.[1] With thin skin and deep vertical lobes, the fruit of G. cambogia and related species range from about the size of an orange to that of a grapefruit; G. cambogia looks more like a small yellowish, greenish or sometimes reddish pumpkin.[2] The color can vary considerably. When the rinds are dried and cured in preparation for storage and extraction, they are dark brown or black in color. Along the west coast of South India, G. cambogia is popularly termed "Malabar tamarind," and shares culinary uses with the tamarind (Tamarindus indica). The latter is a small and the former a quite large evergreen tree. G. cambogia is also called "Goraka" or, in some areas, simply "Kattcha puli" (souring fruit). G. cambogia is used primarily in cooking, including in the preparation of curries. The fruit rind and extracts of Garcinia species are called for in many traditional recipes. In the Indian Ayurvedic medicine, "sour" flavors are said to activate digestion.[3] G. cambogia is employed commercially in fish curing, especially in Ceylon (Colombo curing), and various species of Garcinia are used similarly in food preparation in Assam (India), Thailand, Malaysia, Burma and other Southeast Asian countries. The trees can be found in forested areas and also are protected in plantations otherwise given over to pepper, spice and coffee production. In the areas in which it is consumed, G. cambogia is considered to be effective in making meals more "filling." The "Colombo curing" of fish is a commercial enterprise of fish preservation typical of South India which makes use of the antibacterial qualities of the fruit. ("Colombo curing" is especially associated with the island nation of Ceylon/Sri Lanka. - Fish "Ambul Thiyal") Assam fruit is an essential souring ingredient in the Southern Thai variant of kaeng som, a sour curry. The extract and rind of Garcinia cambogia is a curry condiment in India.
May 2, 2013: Johana Portillo, left, and her sister Ana Portillo, daughters of Riccardo Portillo hold hands during a news conference at Intermountain Medical Center, in Murray, Utah.APMURRAY, Utah A longtime Utah soccer referee in a coma after being punched by a teenager during a weekend game had been attacked by other angry players before, but he continued refereeing because he loved the game, his family says.Ricardo Portillo, 46, has swelling in his brain and his recovery is uncertain as he remains in critical condition, Dr. Shawn Smith said Thursday at the Intermountain Medical Center in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray.Police say a 17-year-old player in a recreational soccer league punched Portillo on Saturday after the man called a foul on him and issued him a yellow card. The teen has been booked into juvenile detention on suspicion of aggravated assault. Those charges could be amplified if Portillo dies.Portillo's oldest daughter, 26-year-old Johana Portillo, said at a news conference Thursday that her father has been attacked by other players before -- even having his ribs and leg broken."People don't know it's a game," she said. "We're all there to have fun, not to go and kill each other."Smith declined to discuss what caused Ricardo Portillo's injuries or divulge his prognosis due to the ongoing police investigation. But Johana Portillo said her father might not survive."I know he didn't, he doesn't want to leave us," she s
ts offered an amendment that declared climate change to be caused by humans.The amendment said: "Congress accepts the scientific findings of the Environmental Protection Agency that climate changes is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for public health and welfare."That amendment failed, on a 184-240 vote -- which is where the 240 number came from in the OFA ad.But three of those no votes were Democrats. And not all of the Republicans who voted against the amendment are on record saying climate change is a sham. Republicans, rather, complained at the time that the amendment was not pertinent to the underlying bill.So where does the word "hoax" come from?There appear to be a couple instances. One, according to the Post, was from a Democrat, Rep. Henry Waxman, who said at the time that the Republican bill's premise was "that climate change is a hoax."The other was a quote from Republican Georgia Rep. Paul Broun, nestled into the Obama group's video right after the vote factoid. Broun said: "The idea of human-induced global climate change is one of the greatest hoaxes perpetrated out of the scientific community. It is a hoax."But as FactCheck.org pointed out, that quote was from 2009, two years earlier.FactCheck.org also said that Broun and other Republicans who completely deny a link to human activity are "off base." But the group noted there is a diversity of opinion among the GOP caucus on t