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Cleveland 93, Minnesota 70
The night started kinda slow, but the Cavs turned it on at the end. They were a little sloppy to start things off; not 'bad passes leading to turnover' sloppy (though there was a few instances of that) but more of a 'I had a steal but couldn't control it' type sloppy. Even when Minnesota made some runs to get close, the game never felt in doubt and the Cavs were always in control. And with 14 points by LeBron in the final period (as much as the entire Timberwolve team), the Cavs pulled ahead for good.
LeBron received a 'standing O' and quite deservedly. James had some sweet stats, but they don't tell the whole story. LBJ finished with 32 points (14-20 FG, 2-6 3pt), 6 boards, 3 assits, 2 steals and 2 blocks. But he absolutely played the part of superstar. James had seven or eight highlight, gasp inducing plays, including a couple trick shot layups, a thunderous dunk, some tight blocks and a sick no looker to J.J. Hickson for a wide open dunk. He was efficient, he was dominating and he was ruthless. It was awesome.
Delonte West bounced back with a nice game. After missing a lot of jumpers against Atlanta, tt looked like West made a concious effort to get inside. West attacked the basket throughout the game and it netted him some nice, tough lay-ups. West scored his Cavaliers high 21 points on 9-16 shooting and pitched in 5 assists, 2 boards and 2 steals. He wasn't perfect though, he threw an alley-oop to LeBron off of the backboard and well, it didn't quite work out (but it was still cool to see, not gonna lie).
Mike Miller had a pretty good audition, no? The former Florida Gator finished with 14 (7-12 FG) and 7 boards in 35 minutes. What was suprising to me was how aggressive Miller was off the dribble. All seven of Mike's baskets came inside. In fact, all five of his misses came from beyond the arc. I liked his aggressiveness and it was nice to see that he could take his man off the dribble and finish close to the basket.
The bigs played great. Ben Wallace did a good job out there contesting shots and grabbing boards, Varejao gave them a double-double (13 points, 11 boards) and both rookies played some valuable minutes. Darnell Jackson got the extra minutes in the first half (0 points and 0 boards, though I thought he looked fine out there) and J.J. got to play in the second. I thought Hickson looked really well; he scored 7 points, was 3-3 from the floor (with a sweet face-up jumper) and he grabbed 5 boards and he met Al Jefferson at the rim, blocking his shot. Though it sucks having Z out, it's not terrible that Hickson and Jackson are getting minutes at meaningful points in the game (those blowouts really helped them along).
Mo was ok, but he was in foul trouble. Williams played just 22 minutes, getting 6 points, 5 boards, 3 assists and a steal to go along with his 5 fouls. For some reason, Kevin Olie played well and was getting benefit of the doubt calls from the refs. I really don't get it.
The bench gave them solid, if not great, minutes. Pavlovic shot just 2-6 but did enough little things (5 boards, 2 assists and good D) that I didn't mind. He actually drove to set up Varejao, which was nice (and would've resulted in a charge last season). Wally Szczerbiak played fairly well in his return to the Target Center. Wally had 10 points on 4-8 shooting (2-3 3pt) but I was most impressed with his rebounding. Szczerbiak was stuck guarding Kevin Love and various other Minnesota bigs but he battled 'em down low and finished with 5 tough boards.
Denver on Friday. In by far their toughest game of this four game trip, the Cavs face the Nuggets at home on Friday night. Denver is 9-3 at home and 18-7 overall; this is going to be a good test to see how the Cavs hold up on the road. As of right now, I hear Z wants to play in the Denver game, but I haven't seen anything that says it's gonna happen. After they face the Nuggets on Friday, the Cavs will play in Oklahoma City on Sunday night.
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By Nico Schmidt and Christoph Rauwald
GENEVA (AFX) – The Opel's parent, General Motors (GM) has the bowed to public pressure and now wants something more private money into the rehabilitation of German subsidiary stuck. GM will be on Tuesday, according to Now with a financing package of 1.9 billion euros in restructuring participate in the Adam Opel GmbH. Thus, the U.S. wants to group its Contribution more than tripled, because at first only EUR 600 million should come from Rüsselsheim Detroit to be transferred. These plans were modified from many sources – especially the German federal government — been sharply criticized.
Opel and GM Europe boss Nick Reilly spoke of a "important milestone" and said the funding commitment is "exactly the right measure ':" It signals the Determination to put our business back on a sound footing. " The contribution of EUR 1.9 billion would be – mostly in this Year – both in the form of equity as well as loans done. Details about the allocation had not been decided yet.
We appreciate the support very much increased to appreciated, especially when you consider that our parent company high priority on its own liquidity must respect " then the Welshman. The increase in the contribution of rehabilitation was not been an easy decision for GM, since they mainly concerned with Taxpayers' money had been funded. GM CEO Ed Whitacre said: "This is a commitment to the European business, which for GM of crucial importance. "
Since GM is now ready, more than half of the total Shoulder Opel remediation costs should flow less state aid. Instead of 2.7 Billion of public assistance from the European Countries with Opel locations are according to the company now only Loan and guarantee commitments of less than EUR 2 billion requested. Around 50% to 60% of the requested state aid, according to Opel's chief Reilly come from Germany.
Thanks to the GM's commitment to be according to the company for this Year now eliminated all potential liquidity risks. At the British sister brand Opel and Vauxhall were in the second half due to the summer doldrums in the industry Liquidity crunch, approached as has already applied for state aid for August was completely planned.
To restructure the company was originally from an Opel Appropriations totaling EUR 3.3 billion expected. European Governments have, however, the company, to expand the Asked framework for further EUR 415 million to meet critical Be better prepared to market, they said on Tuesday. Opel is before particularly in the western European market is active, the experts expected for this year, a significant decrease.
In mid-February, GM had the long-awaited plan for the future Rüsselsheim daughter presented. After this is over the next five Years, three quarters of the vehicle range of 11 billion EUR renewed will. In parallel, Opel aims to rigorously fix the red pencil. Given Overcapacity in the industry and the weak Market environment in Europe is Opel's production by about one fifth be reduced, which will cost Europe about 8300 points. Total employ Opel Vauxhall and sister brand still 48,000 people, well half of them at the four German sites.
To meet the short-term financial needs, which in the course of Opel produced restructuring, GM had government support in the European Countries with Opel and Vauxhall sites totaling 2.7 billion EUR sought. Detroit had the £ 600 million by his own admission already helped to clean up, end of 2009 as a part of the emergency loan Germany has been replaced, while the Opel-GM bankruptcy had kept her afloat. This enraged the (German) government, GM's contribution to a higher calling.
In early November on the proposed sale of GM Opel majority a consortium led by the Austro-Canadian suppliers Magna surprisingly canceled and announced the Remediate Rüsselsheimer tradition Group in-house to try. Thus did the U.S. concern not only the anger of the workers pulled up, but also the German politics. Both parties had to be for Magna future Opel majority Own made strong.
The announcement of an increased private contribution to the Parent company has been estimated by Reilly could now move on to the many fronts to bring gridlock. The first signals from Germany after the GM decision had been positive, said CEO.
While were still no concrete negotiations with the German Federal Government has been led, as the manager. But he was hopeful that Germany would agree to the requested state assistance. Economics Minister Rainer Brüderle reacted cautiously on the other hand, Commitment by GM. "We have in the examination of the application Numerous questions are asked, "said Brüderle in Hanover. Many these questions would have to be answered yet. According to Reilly will this even happened in that week.
Opel's chief Reilly hopes that today's announcement by GM in the recently faltering negotiations with workers help on their contribution to business transformation is an agreement find. However, the CEO sees no realistic Alternative to the closure of the plant in Antwerp, Belgium, against the The storm had run workforce. The Opelaner should over wage cut EUR 265 million annually for restructuring . help So far they have refused their consent, however, as GM central Counterclaims does not comply.
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Space to dream: Notes from Session 5 at TED2018
Posted by: Rebekah Barnett, Tom Carter, Chelsea Catlett, Brian Greene, Rajpreet Heir and Elian Silverman
With two pieces created for the annual Burning Man festival as a backdrop, curator Nora Atkinson explains the unique artistic experience — and it's not just the heat and grit — that can be found in the desert there, at TED2018: The Age of Amazement, April 12, 2018, Vancouver. Photo: Bret Hartman / TED
Session 5, hosted by TED Curator Chris Anderson and astrophysicist and TED Fellow Jedidah Isler, is called "space to dream." As Isler points out, we're not just talking about outer space — it's also about "the right to take up space, to dream, to do." Seven dreamers, doers and designers offer a variety of ways to look at this theme.
Learning from the art of Burning Man. To the uninitiated and skeptical, Burning Man may seem like an indulgent and dusty bacchanalian bash in the Nevada desert meant for those who can afford the time and expense to go. But to Nora Atkinson, craft curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, it's a joyous, priceless exercise in ephemeral art for all participants, regardless of ability or experience. More than 70,000 people trek there each August to engage with 300+ installations, sculptures and structures. They must be constructed on the spot, and they're destroyed or carted away and stored at week's end. Atkinson was a first-time Burner in 2017 and discovered there what's so often missing from museums, where visitors dutifully pass from label to label: curiosity and engagement. At Burning Man, there are no placards explaining the pieces, no guards telling you not to touch, and nothing is sold there. Instead, "art becomes a place for extended interaction," says Atkinson. It's "authentic and optimistic in a way we rarely see anywhere else." Freed from worrying about critics and collectors, artists make work for themselves and their fellow Burners — art that can be as big and dangerous like Rebekah Waites' "Church Trap," a rustic chapel set precariously on a wooden beam that was built and burned in 2013. "The art is not always refined. It isn't always viable. It's not always even good," but it is art that encourages, even demands, interaction and investigation. "What is art for," Atkinson asks, "if not this?"
Why we need to design cities of difference. Shanghai, Paris, Tokyo, Venice, Morocco: these cities are iconic destinations, thanks to their distinctive architecture and charms. But sadly, most cities are not like them. There's a creeping sameness in many urban buildings and streetscapes, no matter where in the world they are, says architect and Columbia University professor Vishaan Chakrabarti. The physical homogeneity — stemming from regulations, automobiles, accessibility and safety issues, and cost considerations, among other factors — has resulted in a social and mental one as well. Let's strive to create cities of difference, magnetic places that embody an area's cultural and local proclivities, exhorts Chakrabarti. Doing so will be more than a design challenge, of course. It will involve creating new products — a hovercraft wheelchair? cobblestones that generate energy when stepped on? — and processes to ensure that they're sustainable and accessible to all. "When we invented the automobile, what happened was the world all bent toward the invention and we recreated our landscape around it," he says. "In the 21st century, technology can be part of the solution if it bends toward the needs of the world."
Bridges are useful — let's make them beautiful, too. "The world needs bridges," proclaims Ian Firth, an engineer who has designed spans all over the world, and his work includes the 3.3 kilometer-long suspension bridge over the Messina Strait in Italy. While these structures are essential for human growth and development, they symbolize so much more than that, too. "They shout about connectivity, community; they reveal something about creativity, ingenuity; they even hint at our identity," he explains. Although bridges fall into only a few types, depending on the nature of their structural support, the potential for innovation and variety is huge. Yet change happens slowly in bridge design, according to Firth, primarily because of the high levels of risk should a span fail. He points to the Tacoma Bridge collapse in 1940, which put off designers for decades from constructing suspension bridges. Creativity can be found in new spans being erected, and Firth takes the audience on a mesmerizing tour of the cutting-edge in bridge technology, including a bridge that floats across a fjord in Norway. "I passionately believe bridges need to be elegant, they need to be beautiful," Firth says, "Beauty enriches life, doesn't it? It enhances our wellbeing. Ugliness and mediocrity does the exact opposite."
Telling stories through video games. Avid readers tend to regard video games with disdain (guilty!), but we should instead think of video games as fiction in 3D. So believes game designer David Cage, who thinks of himself as a storyteller working with a different set of tools. "I've always been fascinated with the idea of recreating the notion of choice in fiction," he says. "My dream is to put the audience in the shoes of the protagonist, let them make their own decisions, and by doing so, let them tell their own stories." A novel is typically a linear experience devoid of choices — the reader follows the path set by the writer. Video games are interactive stories that give the reader autonomy and a plot that changes from moment to moment. Cage then presents a live video game demo, letting audience members control a character: an android trying to save a little girl taken hostage. (Thankfully for the audience's blood pressure, the girl is freed.) "Interactive storytelling is a revolution in the way we tell stories. With the emergence of new platforms like interactive television, virtual reality and video games, it will become a new form of entertainment, and maybe even a new form of art." Cage concludes. "This is a medium waiting for its Orson Welles or Stanley Kubrick." Or, its Toni Morrison or Kazuo Ishiguro. In a short Q & A, TED curator Chris Anderson asks Cage about the hidden risks associated with video game violence. The game designer says that when violence is used appropriately in the context of a narrative or as storytelling device, it can enhance the story. That said, he believes we — designers and the game-playing public — need to be careful and take responsibility.
An intriguing visitor from another solar system. In October 2017, University of Hawaii astrobiologist Karen Meech got the call that she says every astronomer waits for: she learned an interstellar comet had been detected by the PanSTARRS telescope in Haleakalā,, Maui. Now thousands of asteroids cruise through our solar system every year, but the celestial body that was eventually named `Oumuamua — Hawaiian name for scout or messenger from the distant past reaching out to us — was, as Meech puts it, "a package from the nearest star system 4.4 light years away," having traveled on a journey of more than 50,000 years. What exactly is the oval, half-mile-long `Oumuamua? Meech believes it could be a chunk of rocky debris from a new star system; other researchers believe it may be something else all together — evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations, or material cast off in the death throes of a star. She and her colleagues were able to study 'Oumuamua for only a few days before it traveled out of range. "This unexpected gift has generated more questions than answers," says Meech, "but we were the first to say hello to this visitor from our distant past.
Alone in the cosmos. The universe is 13.8 billion years old and contains billions of galaxies — in fact, there are probably a trillion planets in our galaxy alone. People have long thought a civilization like ours must exist or should have existed somewhere out there, but British astronomer Stephen Webb brings up another possibility: we're alone. Thinkers have speculated about all the barriers that a planet would need to surmount to house an alien civilization: it would need to be habitable; life would have to develop there; such life forms would need a certain technological intelligence to reach out; and they'd have to be able to communicate across space. Rather than viewing the situation with sorrow and the cosmos as a lonely place, "the silence of the universe is shouting: we're the creatures who got lucky," says Webb. "If we learn to appreciate how special our planet is; how important it is to look after our home and find others; how incredibly fortunate we all are simply to be aware of the universe — well, humanity might survive for a while. And all those amazing things we dream aliens might have done in the past – that could be our future."
Our world is filled with problems, so which ones should we tackle? For the last ten years, moral philosopher Will MacAskill and others have developed a philosophy and research project called "effective altruism," seeking to use evidence and reasoning to try to answer the question previously posed. They've developed a simple framework: the problems we tackle should be big, solvable and neglected. Using those criteria, MacAskill thinks our time and efforts might best be spent now in focusing on addressing the situations or events that could derail civilization or lead to the extinction of the human race, such as nuclear war or a global pandemic. We can all work on this problem, says MacAskill. "You can contribute with money, political engagement, or through your career." With your money, you can support organizations that directly work on these risks, like the Nuclear Threat Initiative. You can vote in favor of candidates who take these risks seriously and who support greater international cooperation. And you can work at an organization that is working on these issues. "If we think carefully, and focus on problems that are big, solvable and neglected, we can make a truly tremendous difference to the world for thousands of years to come," concludes MacAskill.
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The Audacious Project: Notes from Session 4 of TED2018, with 7 bold ideas for global change — and $406 million to support them
By Kate Torgovnick May
The lights go down. A voice emerges — strong and hopeful. It's Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of philanthropic powerhouse Emerson Collective. "Among the many things I love about TED is the simplicity and clarity of its mission — to spread ideas," she says. "But in order to create lasting change at scale, we need […]
Nerdish delight: Notes from Session 3 of TED2018
By Rebekah Barnett, Chelsea Catlett, Brian Greene, Lauren McAlpine and Emily McManus
For the Session 3 of the conference, TED Head of Curation Helen Walters says, "We're throwing off all pretense of cool." Seven speakers are queued up to discuss the latest advances in their fields of technology. And while the gadgets do all different things, they share one crucial function: the power to make jaws drop. […]


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Casualties in Afghanistan: How To Think About Them?
by humbleauthor | Aug 12, 2011 | Monitor |
I was listening to a podcast of the Pritzker Military Library with Sebastian Junger yesterday. Junger was talking about his book War and the film Restrepo which he made with the late Tim Hetherington. He made a claim about casualties in Afghanistan which boggled my mind. If it is true, it puts for me a whole new light on the Afghan war and ought to influence our debate and understanding about the war.
He claimed that the 1980s saw 1.5 million Afghan civilians killed in the Soviet war. The 1990s saw 400,000 civilians killed in the Afghan civil war and killed by the Taliban. The decade since 2001, the time in which the US, NATO, et al, have been there, "occupying" the country, as many people in the world see it, has seen 30,000 dead civilians of whom two thirds were killed by the Taliban.
Junger has made the claim before but is it true? Well, estimates for the war against the Soviets in the 1980s from other sources seem to range from ~900,000+ to 1.5 million. The 400,000 dead in the 1990s number also seems to be out there. Estimates for the 1990s The Guardian, which is reliably anti-American gives casualties figures for Afghanistan 2007-2010 that are broadly consistent with this Junger's claim for the last ten years: roughly 10,000.
Given that Junger's numbers seem to be plausible, why aren't these numbers one of the central organizing facts of the way we think about the story? Melissa Roddy frames the issue this way: by being in Afghanistan we have prevented something on the order of the Rwandan genocide. Remember that President Clinton famously apologized for America's failure to stop that catastrophe. The explanation, I think is, at least in part, that human beings have a hard time thinking about the significance of things that didn't happen. That's why we think that Sherlock Holmes was being remarkably smart in this famous exchange from the story "Silver Blaze:"
"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" "
To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
"The dog did nothing in the night-time." "
That was the curious incident."


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Murray Qualifies For First Semi-Final In Two Years
Former world number one Andy Murray defeated three-set win over Romania's Marius Copil in Antwerp on Friday and reached his first semi-final since the 2017 French Open.
The 32-year-old British star, steadily rebuilding his career after major hip surgery earlier this year, defeated qualifier Copil 6-3, 6-7 (7/9), 6-4. Murray, now ranked a lowly 243 in the world, had the chance to wrap up the quarter-final when he had a match point in the second set tiebreak.
He goes on to face either Argentine fifth seed Guido Pella or Ugo Humbert of France for a place in Sunday´s final. Italian teenager Jannik Sinner became the youngest ATP semi-finalist in five years when he defeated Frances Tiafoe of the United States 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Sinner, 18, is the youngest to make the last four on tour since 17-year-old Borna Coric at Basel in 2014.
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David Bowie recreated the death of my father
January 12, 2016 by Thomas Wictor
One of the strangest things I've experienced in my life so far is the video for the David Bowie song "Lazarus." It's an exact duplication of my father's death.
My father Edward died of osteosarcoma—bone cancer—on February 23, 2013. Edward was a complete mystery to me. After he died, I discovered that he had every reason to remain a mystery. He was a man of many secrets.
Reviewers are confused by the video for "Lazarus." Bowie isn't in a hospital; he's in a hospice. The room is nearly identical to the one in which my father died, and Bowie's actions are identical to those of my father. This was how my father spent his three days in hospice before he died.
Edward kept his eyes squeezed shut the entire time. He clutched the sheets to his neck and hyperventilated. In the video for "Lazarus," David Bowie has the same pink blanket as my father, and he wears bandages with buttons over his eyes. He's blind, but so is everyone else.
These buttons essentially act like masks… Because we see so much through people's eyes, these buttons hide the humanness of the people wearing them (if they're even human at all), preventing us from really knowing a person.
Bowie often said in interviews that his fans mistook his characters—his masks—for the real man. Edward Wictor's children mistook his characters—his masks—for the real man.
The lyrics of "Lazarus" are quite compelling.
Look up here, I'm in Heaven!
I've got scars that can't be seen
I've got drama, can't be stolen,
Everybody knows me now
Look up here, man, I'm in danger!
I've got nothing left to lose
I'm so high, it makes my brain whirl
Dropped my cellphone down below
Ain't that just like me?!
By the time I got to New York
I was living like a king
Then I used up all my money
I was looking for your ass
This way or no way
You know I'll be free
Just like that bluebird
Now, ain't that just like me?
Oh, I'll be free
Ain't that just like me?
We couldn't see Edward's scars, and after he died, we finally discovered who he was. We know him now.
Edward stood far above us, out of reach. He was always in danger, due to his hysterical insistence that he would never die. And he smashed his cellphone against the wall to make sure that nobody could ever contact him. A dropped cellphone can be picked up; a broken cellphone is useless.
Like me, David Bowie was a seeker who became a non-religious theist. The video for "Lazarus" is full of symbolism, beginning with the title. According to the Bible, Jesus Christ raised Lazarus of Bethany from the dead.
He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
David Bowie wasn't afraid to die. He believed—as I do—that we'll live again. It's science: Energy can't destroyed. That which animates us is indestructible and eternal. Our souls continue on.
But Bowie came to his final understanding after many false starts, as the video shows. He acknowledges that he'll be separated from his wife Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid.
This saddens him, of course. It's normal to be upset at having to spend time apart from our loved ones.
When he says, "I used up all my money; I was looking for your ass," he's mourning his hedonism, grudges, and rage. He's overcome with horror at how much of his life that he wasted.
My father, on the other hand, was still as angry, resentful, and bitter at eighty-four as he was at seventeen.
He never acknowledged mistakes, and he never let go of grievances, some of which went back seven decades.
Death and David Bowie
The figure emerging from the closet and going under the bed in the video for "Lazarus" is Death, not a younger version of Bowie.
First Bowie levitates off the bed to try and escape Death.
Then he puts on a costume to hide himself.
This method of hiding from Death was created in World War I.
It's called "disruptive camouflage." The goal is to break up your form.
Gripped by fear, Bowie tries to distract himself with meaningless busywork.
After my father died, we learned that he'd known about his cancer for five years but refused to do anything about it. Instead, he inventoried.
Both my parents and their ancestors were pack rats, so we have almost two centuries' worth of crap lying around in boxes. Every corner of my parents' three houses and garages was stuffed with junk. My father began making lists of everything, as well as creating daily household budgets. For five years he inventoried and counted pennies.
Busywork won't ward off Death.
Suddenly Bowie has an epiphany.
He's going to die. Note the memento mori on the desk.
But it's not the end.
"This way or no way." In other words, understanding the process isn't important; what matters is that we'll be free of suffering and limitations. All will be well.
The bluebird symbolizes joyful renewal. Rebirth. Lazarus, come forth.
Yes, that bluebird is just like David Bowie. And the rest of us.
David Bowie dies
Bowie falls over dead.
Then he springs back to life.
Having realized that he's only walking into a different room, Bowie is now ready to accept Death's embrace.
David Bowie becomes Death and leaves us behind.
The only celebrity I wanted to meet? David Bowie
I spent ten years as a music journalist in Los Angeles. It cured me of being star struck. Still, I always wanted to meet David Bowie. And if I'd had the opportunity, I would've turned it down. His art was why I admired him. Pestering him in the flesh would've been inconsiderate.
My father was mad with terror when he died. The hospice workers said that he kept getting out of bed and trying to run. They had to sedate him heavily. I think he died of fright, because on the afternoon of his death, they told me that he could go on for weeks or months. His cancer was very slow growing, and he still had a lot of body mass and a strong heart. Yet he died seven hours later.
Not only does the hospice room in the video for "Lazarus" look exactly like the room in which Death came for my father, David Bowie looks exactly like Edward.
My brother Tim and I wanted to make a short film about our father's death. Now we don't have to. David Bowie did it for us; his version is unsparing, but it's also optimistic and entirely lacking in self-pity. It's perfect.
Thank you, Mr. Bowie. Well done.
I've been a fan of David Bowie for forty-one years, and I knew my father for fifty-two years. Only yesterday I discovered that these two men were unearthly Dopplegängers, strangers and polar opposites yet somehow the same person.
Or maybe a better way to put it is that they were simply two sides of the same human-condition coin.
If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
—John 11: 9-10
Bowie chose the day, while my father preferred to walk in the night.
This is my favorite David Bowie song. I've always found it unaccountably moving.
No context for male beauty
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What Diseases Can Cause Male Infertility?
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By Laura Garrido BSc, MSc (embryologist) and Sandra Fernández BA, MA (fertility counselor).
Infertility affects 1 in every 6 couples that are of childbearing age. We can divide infertility causes into: 30% male causes, 30% female causes, 20% causes of both and 20% unexplained infertility or unknown reasons, in which the causes of infertility could not be determined.
The different sections of this article have been assembled into the following table of contents.
Pre-testicular origin
Diabetes and infertility
Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
Hyperprolactinemia
Testicular origin
Y chromosome genetic disorders
Klinefelter syndrome
Cryptorchidism
Hydrocoele
Gonadal dysgenesis
Post-testicular origin
Obstruction in the vasa deferentia, cystic fibrosis
Immunologic infertility
The brain must send the right endocrine signals so that the sperm production can take place. All the process must be coordinated and if this communication does not happen, it will cause male infertility.
According to several studies on infertility, the high concentration of sugar in blood can have a negative impact on the quality of sperms. Diabetes increases the damage produced to the DNA of sperms, which means a lower rate of pregnancy and an augment of low quality embryos.
Evaluation of the infertile couple
The thyroid gland is in charge of several metabolic processes such as oxygen consumption, protein production and hormones sensitization.
A change in its way of functioning, such as hyperthyroidism or thyroid gland failure can affect male infertility since they interfere with the sperm maturation.
Thyroid gland failure can also provoke changes in the sperm morphology, a decrease of sexual desire and erectile dysfunction. However, it can be treated.
It is caused by an insufficient production of pituitary gland hormones, which are responsible for the production of sperm. There is a hormonal hierarchy which begins in the hypothalamus.
The hypothalamus sends signals that are received by the pituitary gland, which sends signals to the testicle and finally the testicle sends signals to the hypothalamus. Kallman syndrome is a hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in which a loss of the sense of smell also takes place.
There must be a balance between the lactogenic hormone and the gonadotropins (hormones that produce sperm). When there is an increase in the lactogenic hormone, the production of the FSH and the LH is reduced, which consequently has an impact on the spermatogenesis or production of sperm.
The production of sperm is divided in several stages, during which the genetic material is split up. Later on, it gets modified until it acquires the aspect and becomes the sperm as we know it.
The Y chromosome is the smallest of the male chromosomes and it contains the genes responsible for the formation of the testicles, in the AZF chromosome region.
Males that have had damage in this region, such as the absence of some important genes, suffer from complete azoospermia or many problems in the formation of sperm. If they manage to have children, which is highly unlikely, they would transmit the Y chromosome genetic disorder to their descendants.
X and Y chromosomes
It is a disorder in the chromosomes, in which the man presents an extra X chromosome. His karyotype is 46XXY instead of 46XY. This causes a decrease on the quantity of testosterone, which makes it impossible for the spermatogenesis to take place.
A treatment with testosterone is applied, so that males will develop secondary male characteristics and avoid problems in adaptation, resolution of conflicts and learning problems, which are commonly linked to this syndrome. Nonetheless, the testosterone treatment does not solve infertility.
It is a congenital birth defect in which one of the testicles does not descend to the scrotal bag. The descent must be performed surgically at an early age, because due to the fact that the body temperature is higher than the one to which testicles are exposed, it prevents a properly sperm formation.
There is an inflammation of the vessels that drain the testicles. It causes a reflux that increases the testicular temperature and this rise in the temperature might provoke the non-formation of sperm.
The hypotheses, that a surgical intervetion may improve the seminal analysis or that the low quality may be maintained despite the intervention, are still controversial.
The testicles are surrounded by a fluid that makes them less vulnerable to any blow. Sometimes this liquid increases due to a testicle inflamation.
The obstruction of blood or lymphatic vessels may be the cause behind this increase. Even though the accumulation of fluid does not cause infertility in itself, it may be a symptom of something else that might cause it.
Even though the chromosomes are those associated with males, the subject presents vagina, uterus and Fallopian tubes but no sexual organs are developed.
The male or female gonads are not functional. These subjects are women that don't have the period and when a genetic study is carried out, it leads to the fact that they are men. Even though some of them may have hypoplastic uterus or an infant matrix, which are not functional, pregnancy in women XY with mature uterus has been successful thanks to egg donation.
Sperm production process or spermatogenesis
When the sperms are already formed, they need to mature in order to be able to impregnate. This maturation begins within the testicles and carries on in the female gonad, during a process named capacitation.
The sperms, with their characteristic morphology, exit the seminiferous tubule then go through the vasa deferentia until they reach the epididymis, where their motility will be activated and where they will gather until the ejaculation takes place. D
uring ejaculation they will go through the vasa deferentia − the ones that are cut when a vasectomy is performed − and they will reach the penis. There they will mix with the secretions of the connected glands and will exit the penis through the urethra.
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder that affects 5% of the total population and provokes obstructive azoospermia. It is due to the fact that the vasa deferentia − the ones carrying the sperm from the testicles to the penis − weren't properly formed during the fetal development. It is a recessive inheritance monosomic illness, and even though sperms are produced normally, they don't reach the urethra because the vasa deferentia are missing.
Antibodies against the sperm are produced, causing the sperms to adhere to each other and thus making motility and egg fertilisation more difficult.
One of the main causes for this immune reaction is the loss or break of the blood-testes barrier that keeps the sperms − that have a different genetic content - apart from the rest of the organism cells. However, damage is occasionally induced in the compartmentalisation, and the cells react as if the sperms were an alien element in the organism.
Causes of retrograde ejaculation
During normal ejaculation, the sphincter closes the bladder and due to the pressure difference, the sperms exit through the urethra.
During retrograde ejaculation there's a dysfunction of this sphincter, which provokes that the semen is ejaculated into de bladder. This disorder prevents pregnancy but is easily solvable.
It is a genetic malformation in which the urinary meatus (orifice on the penis) is not located on the glans but on the body of the penis or even on the testicles.
It is due to an insufficient concentration of male hormones. When it is mild it does not prevent from getting pregnant, but when it is severe it may prevent the sperms from settling into the vagina.
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Bachelor's Degree in Biotechnology from the Pablo de Olavide University (UPO) of Seville, Spain. Master's Degree in Biotechnology of Human Assisted Reproduction from the University of Valencia (UV) and the Valencian Infertility Institute (IVI). Experience at IVF, andrology, and general analysis laboratories. Embryologist specialized in Assisted Reproduction. More information about Laura Garrido
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Sandra Fernández
BA, MA
Fertility Counselor
Bachelor of Arts in Translation and Interpreting (English, Spanish, Catalan, German) from the University of Valencia (UV) and Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton Campus (Edinburgh, UK). Postgraduate Course in Legal Translation from the University of Valencia. Specialist in Medical Translation, with several years of experience in the field of Assisted Reproduction. More information about Sandra Fernández
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ARRIVING at The Cartford Inn after dark, I can just about make out one of the UK's last remaining toll bridges at the end of lane. It feels old and spooky in this corner of the world – and, if it wasn't for the sticky accolades from Michelin and Sawdays covering the door, the pub probably looks much the same as it has for the last 400 years.
The soufflé's a star, though. There's something about this combo – rich, Jerusalem artichoke flavour (I'm a convert), and dense, Nutella-ish custard, described on the menu as 'truffle veloute' – that envelopes and elevates. It's extraordinary.


Deportations from the U.S. to Haiti had been stayed on humanitarian grounds since the January 12, 2010 earthquake devastated Haiti. Advocates and community members were shocked when, on December 9, 2010, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unexpectedly announced that it was lifting the ban on deportations to Haiti for individuals with criminal convictions and that it would resume deportations in January 2011, the one-year anniversary of the earthquake.
The petition argues that deporting people at this moment to Haiti, which is still reeling from the devastating January 2010 earthquake and is burdened with a massive cholera epidemic, political unrest, and rampant street violence, will result in serious human rights violations, including deprivations of the rights to life, family, and due process, and freedom from cruel or unusual punishment.
The petition asks the IACHR to order the U.S. to adopt precautionary measures to prevent irreparable harm to the Haitians subject to imminent deportation. Specifically, the petition asks the U.S. to continue its stay of deportations, release the petitioners and grant deferred action status to all people facing removal. In addition, the petition asks that the U.S. government publicly release information about its decision to resume deportations to Haiti, and that the government publicly engage with the Haitian-American community before instituting policy changes that will dramatically affect community members.
The petition relies on information gathered from interviews by the Loyola Law Clinic, Center for Social Justice, and Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center with Haitians detained in Louisiana. It also includes declarations from Michelle Karshan, the Director of Alternative Chance, and two doctors with extensive practice in Haiti, Dr. John May and Dr. Arthur Fournier. Together, these declarations paint a distressing picture of the disastrous consequences of these planned deportations.
On January 31, 2011, just over a week after the United States resumed deportations to Haiti, we learned that Wildrick Guerrier, 34, one of the men deported on January 20, demonstrated cholera-like symptoms while in detention in Haiti, where he received no medical treatment, and died shortly thereafter. According to cell mates, Guerrier took a leadership roll in attempting to improve the deplorably substandard living conditions in which they were detained. For a factsheet on the conditions faced by the deportees once they have arrived in Haiti, please click here.
On February 4, 2011, the IACHR granted precautionary measures in response to the emergency petition filed on January 6, 2011. To read the precautionary measures that the IACHR issued click here. The IACHR urged the U.S. government to cease deportations to Haiti immediately for persons with serious illnesses or U.S. family ties. In its decision, the IACHR expressed concern that "detention centers in Haiti are overcrowded, and the lack of drinking water and adequate sanitation or toilets could facilitate the transmission of cholera, tuberculosis, and other diseases."
On March 26, 2011, the IACHR held a working meeting between petitioners and the U.S. government. For the submission, click here.
On May 31, 2011 the IACHR expanded their February 1, 2011 Request for Precautionary Measures to cover an additional 33 people facing deportation to Haiti.
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December 2010 CCR Letter to President Obama regarding deportations to Haiti.
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Call the White House to Urge a Halt to Further Deportations to Haiti; visit CCR's action page for details by clicking here.
On Monday, March 7th, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on its website that it would like "input on its proposed Policy for Resumed Removals to Haiti." On March 18th, 2011, the IACHR petitioners submitted comments with 232 organizational and individual signatures in response - Click here to read the sign-on letter. CCR and its partners also mobilized a letter-writing campaign in response to ICE's request for comments on the draft policy (which was posted after the deportations had already begun). ICE received hundreds of letters from organizations and individuals, protesting the recommencement of deportations to Haiti. Below is a sample of letters from organizations who are concerned about the humanitarian crisis occurring in Haiti and who urge the United States to stop all further deportations there.


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Q: Sufficient Statistic of Uniform $(-\theta,0)$ Let $X_1, ... , X_n$  be i.i.d random variables  Uniform $(-\theta,0)$ , with $\theta > 0$ parameter
\begin{align}f_{\theta}(x_1,x_2,\cdots,x_n)&=\prod_{i=1}^nf(x_i;\theta)
\\&=\frac{1}{(\theta)^n}\mathbf1_{-\theta<x_1,\cdots,x_n<0}
\\&=\frac{1}{(\theta)^n}\mathbf1_{(x_{(1)}\ge-\theta)}\mathbf1_{(x_{(n)}\le0)}
\end{align}
So can we conclude that the sufficient statistic for $-\theta $ so for  $\theta $ too is $X_{(1)}$.
Also that  the sufficient statistic for  $\theta $  is $-X_{(1)}$. ??
Thus,  both  $X_{(1)}$ and $-X_{(1)}$ are sufficient statistics for $\theta $ ?

A: As a function of $\theta$
$$
\frac{1}{\theta^n}\mathbf1_{x_{(1)}\ge-\theta}\mathbf1_{x_{(n)}\le0}=
\frac{1}{\theta^n}\mathbf1_{x_{(1)}\ge-\theta}
$$
Hence the likelihood function only depends on $X_{(1)}$, which makes it a sufficient statistic for $\theta$, $-\theta$, $\sin(3\theta)$ and any other function of $\theta$ (as sufficiency is not to be confused with unbiasedness or any other estimation property).

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Az Earl's Court a londoni metró egyik állomása az 1-es és 2-es zóna határán, a District line és a Piccadilly line érinti.

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Az állomást 1871. október 30-án adták át a District Railway részeként. 1906. december 15-én a mai Piccadilly line állomását is üzembe helyezték.

Forgalom

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Fordítás

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Маланчук () — украинская фамилия.

Известные носители:
 Маланчук, Валентин Ефимович (1928—1984) — украинский советский партийный и научный деятель.
 Маланчук, Владислав Александрович (род. 1949) — украинский учёный, заведующий кафедрой (с 1.02.1995 года), член — корреспондент Национальной Академии медицинских наук Украины.
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 Маланчук, Любомир Михайлович (род. 1935) — украинский общественный деятель.
 Маланчук-Рыба, Оксана — украинский историк.
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Huge 'Sonic The Hedgehog' Announcements at Anniversary Event
July 23, 2016 July 23, 2016 William Carlisle
On June 23, 1991 SEGA released the original Sonic the Hedgehog on the SEGA Genesis in North America and Europe. 25 years later, it's clear that the Blue-Blur has seen better days. After the embarrassing release of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric in 2014, things have been quiet over at Sonic Team, apart from a few highly-successful smartphone game releases such as Sonic Dash and Sonic Runners.
However, SEGA decided to throw a massive party to celebrate Sonic's 25th Anniversary and live-streamed it so the whole world could be involved. The party itself, however, was a massive mess replete with technical difficulties, terrible sound-issues and embarrassing musical segments. The event itself has become something of a mockery on the internet and it's something SEGA probably isn't wholly proud of.
BUT, the event did give us some cool announcements. You can watch these announcements and trailers on the official Sonic The Hedgehog YouTube Channel, as opposed to watching the live-stream again.
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First up, we have Sonic Mania, a 2-D side-scroller that deliberately replicates the 16-bit aesthetic from the SEGA Genesis and the SEGA CD. Coming to Playstation 4, Xbox One and PC in Spring 2017 Sonic Mania will be co-directed by Christian Whitehead, who programmed the iOS and Android ports for Sonic CD, Sonic 1 and Sonic 2.
Not only will the game allow you to play as Sonic's best friends Tails and Knuckles, but Sonic also has a new ability called the "Drop Dash" which allows you to jump up and immediately dash forward when you land. We can imagine a technique like this being abused by speed-runners the second the game gets released.
Head of Sonic Team Takashi Iizuka elaborated:
"Sonic Mania was born out of our fans' love of the classic Sonic 2D platform games. This type of collaboration is a first for SEGA and we hope everyone will be both surprised and delighted by this title. Sonic Mania has been a passion project for the entire team and we look forward to sharing more details about it later this year. Having the game actually playable at the event itself tonight was testament to the dedication of the team behind it."
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The next news stories aren't as high profile, but as still worthy of mention. Classic Sonic will be a new playable character in the hugely successful iOS and Android Endless Runner game Sonic Dash. The minute-long trailer proudly claims the app has been downloaded 200 million times with 1.7 trillion rings collected throughout the game's lifespan. As part of a 25th anniversary event Sonic Dash will also include a version of the original Green Hill Zone stage into the game. The event will last for one-week where Classic Sonic and Green Hill Zone will be available to purchase through micro-transactions.
Despite Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric being considered a joke within the gaming community, the companion TV series Sonic Boom has been considered quite a success. During the livestream, SEGA announced that not only is the show being broadcast in 100 countries, but Series 2 is in currently in production. A second tie-in game for the 3DS Sonic Boom: Ice and Fire will launch in September 2016.
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In November 2016 Sonic will join the ever-growing cast of Warner Bros. LEGO Dimensions and while this is old news, we did get a new character-trailer for Sonic at the Anniversary Event. Showcasing the 71244 Level Pack, which includes a Sonic LEGO-Figure, the Sonic Speedster Car and the Tornado Biplane can be built and placed on a "portal," turning them into playable features in the actual game. The trailer also revealed Sonic will be able to go Super Saiyan Sonic after collecting enough Dragon Balls Chaos Emeralds.
It's so surreal watching a trailer where Sonic the Hedgehog and Doctor Who interact, isn't it?
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And finally, possibly the biggest announcement from the event was a new 3-D Sonic Game. Currently untitled and being referred to as Project Sonic 2017, a pre-rendered trailer showed Modern Sonic fighting giant robots in an apocalyptic city with the help of Classic Sonic. This suggests it's either a sequel or a successor to the 20th Anniversary Sonic Generations game. "Join The Resistence" is the tagline for the game and we get very few hints as to the actual narrative or gameplay from the brief announcement trailer.
However, at the very end of the trailer we get to see what platforms it will be released on. Project Sonic 2017 will be released around Holiday 2017 on the Playstation 4, Xbox One, PC… and Nintendo's untitled platform, code-named "NX".
So what stood out to you in the livestreamed event? Anything getting you excited for more Sonic? Did you watch it live and witness the trainwreck first hand? Let us know in the comments section below!
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Too many deer? Too many bears? Too many people..........? Who decides?
To many bears in a certain square mile (s) area is just as bad as having too many deer running along side Oak Ridge highway (where if you walk the road in summer you find deer after deer that been killed by cars every 40 yards). I love seeing a bear like anyone else, but they might be healthier if they were thinned out inside the Park just like they are outside the Park during hunting seasons. I don't hunt. Point that I'm making is that there seems to be a bear or many bears every square mile. Big older male bears will chase those younger male bears from it's area which means that they don't like to many bears living with them too. Now, we are into mate chasing contact where males and females will be following each other around. Be careful out there.
I question the park's/wildlife resources decisions sometimes in this regard, but both recent examples seem to be clear-cut cases of predatory attacks. I mean, you do kinda have to put some trust in the victims to tell the whole truth about the incident. But, in these situations, what else can the park do? If a bear is now conditioned to view humans as prey, is it wise to let them be? As a backpacker, I'm kinda glad they take them out. I spend a lot of time in the surrounding wilderness areas in TN/NC, but we always take extra precautions in the Smokies just because the bear don't behave the same way as more wild bear typically do.
I'm also glad that they're working towards better ways to be sure.
How much money has the NPS used on DNA technology to discover whether or not they shot the wrong bear on two occasions? How much taxpayer money was spent when the NPS poisoned streams to kill off non native fish only to discover they forgot to include a particular stream which rendered the entire debacle useless. Ho much taxpayer money was spent to figure out if wild boar have an environmental impact.(any backcountry hiker could have told you that without spending a million bucks.) How much money was spent on wolf reintroduction that failed, then there are endless capital projects and a multi million dollar bridge that connects to nothing.
What is missing here, is common sense and fiscal responsibility. And Ca$hius Ca$h's response is to propose lifting the deed restriction so they can charge an entrance fee. The third proposed user fee in five years.
My reply to Doug, quote from my former post..
"Do you see the ignorance of man today?
The natives lived in peace with the animals and they punished any "crimes" by death or banishment (which led to death eventually) this kept the people in check because they knew there were dire consequences to follow if they did bad things..Wonder why we have so many prisons full of "criminals" today?...Because there are no consequences, just live it up in an air conditioned building and get free food, etc..
The laws of nature work better than any man made law."
The natives never needed prisons until the illegal immigrants came.
This land has been destroyed by the man made laws and ways of doing things, demonic it is. The whole country and system is based on lies, murder, greed and theft so why would the system punish others for the same thing.
The people that came and stole this land from the Natives and lied about discovering it, drove the natives out of the lands that God gave them just for the cause of greed and control are the same people that are running the "system" today and if you agree with them and their system then you will suffer the same ruin and judgement as they do when face to face with the Creator and final judge.
How would you like for the government and their followers/workers to come to your community and force you and your family out and send you to lands that no one else wanted, kill your women and children, forbid you to even speak your own language, beating and even killing some if you did and then call you heathens....??
What I find strange about the whole thing is...a bear is "conditioned" to interact with humans by the ignorance of leaving food or such items in the bears territory...but then when the bear does what is natural to it, the bear is killed for just being a bear.....Now we have humans that will go and attack/kill another human, even children, and there is nothing ever done to them except we put them in a nice air conditioned building, feed them, clothe them, pay for all their medical expenses, etc. Not to mention spending thousands of dollars on a trial. A human kills/attacks completely out of wickedness with premeditated intent and a human gets rewarded for it but a bear attacks or kills a human and it is killed, even though it had no wicked or premeditated intent and the human is the cause of the attack in 99.9999% of all cases.. Do you see the ignorance of man today?


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How on earth is it the end of August? Labor Day is just around the corner, but I still have so much summer to get in! We haven't gone to the beach, or made s'mores, or even gone to the Hollywood Bowl. And I need to get in several more hours being lazy in the hammock. I feel like I'm turning into one of those old people who is constantly exclaiming about how fast time passes, but it does. This summer has passed in the blink of an eye.
When I was a child, the summers stretched into infinity. I don't know if it was that each summer was a greater proportion of my life, or if it was just that I had more time to slow down, visit the library, stretch out on the grass with a book, and let time stop.
The Nuni is in that childhood stretch of time passing slowly, and she so badly wants it to charge on, full speed ahead. In the past few weeks, the Nuni (who will turn four in less than a month) has adopted a new persona, and has told anyone who will listen that her name is Polish (as in making silver shine, not as in Pope John Paul II), and she is seven. Those two things are intertwined. Of course, it is moments like this that make me want to stop time, to preserve forever the moment when my daughter is on the cusp of childhood, and nothing sounds better than being seven.
I can't stop time, but I can preserve the summer just a little, and capture some of my childhood summers at the same time. When I was a little girl, I would spend some of those infinite summers with my great grandmother, eating berries out of her garden, getting into her cookie jar (I can still remember where it was kept), and eating her homemade tomato jam. Not a chutney, or another version of ketchup, the way so many tomato preserves recipes are, but a tomato jam, brightened with lemon, with that musky tomato flavor and the pure sweetness of preserved summer. Perfect on toast, for that lazy summer breakfast, this really is summer in a jar.
Using a sharp knife, score the bottoms of each tomato in a cross, then plunge the tomato into boiling water for about 20 seconds. Remove and let cool, and when cool enough to handle, peel and roughly chop the tomatoes over a large pot, to catch the juices. (This is not a neat process. You might want to wear an apron.) Discard the skins, and place the tomato chunks into the pot.
Add the lemon juice to the pot, and add the lemon halves to the pot with the tomatoes. Heat the tomatoes over medium heat. Add the sugar, 1 cup at a time, stirring after each addition, and waiting about 10 minutes in between each addition. Lightly crush the tomatoes, or use a hand blender to puree slightly, and let cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until the jam begins to jell and the entire mixture is bubbling like a swamp, being careful not to let it burn. Remove the lemon halves.
Ladle into hot canning jars with new lids, and process in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes.
With all the tomatoes I have, this will be a perfect way to use them before they spoil. Haven't used tomato jam for a while, thanks for the post.
What a great post–funny and full of little gems. And now I'm curious about tomato jam, which I had never given a thought before.
Stacey — I think ginger would be a great addition.
is the amount of sugar correct for this?? 4.5 pounds??
The ratio of 1: 1 fruit to sugar is a pretty standard one in jam making. You can reduce this if you add commercial low sugar pectin.
Thanks Kate, I just added another 4.5 pounds of sugar. I have doubled the recipe.
Hello I am looking at your recipe for Tomatoe Preserves. I am wanting to know can you use a sugar sub. for it instead of real sugar ,like Splenda Blend? I am a type 2 diabetic and I loved these while growing up as a kid and I would love to make some for myself and my family .
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Hi Tammy – it takes quite some time – probably at least 30 minutes, sometimes more like 60 or more. A bigger batch will take longer to thicken. Are you keeping some cold water to test the stage or using a thermometer? Remember, it will thicken more as it cools, but it should be forming bubbles that have some whomp to them.
I have been making tomato jam for several years, and I do use pectin (powdered) when I make mine.
I had one person who swore it was not tomato jam, but raspberry! Soo tasty.
Can you tell me if this is actually sweet like a fruity jam? My kids don't really like fresh tomatoes but they will often be open-minded about eating veggies in new things, as long as they don't taste too veggie-like! The concept of tomato jam … I don't know what to think of it! If you made a peanut butter and jam sandwich with this, would most kids eat it? Thanks!
Thank you so much for posting this. I have lost my grandmother's tomato-lemon jam recipe and have been frantically looking for a similar one for two years! I'll have to make it to be sure, because when we visited in the summer, we would can dozens of pints at a time. Grandma had both an electric stove and a wood stove, and both would be fired up for all the canning we did. I can remember going outside when it was 95 degrees and feeling cooler than in the house. Of all the things we canned, the tomato-lemon jam was my favorite.


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An suitable retort is given by an individual player when a PAK journalist tweets that Kohli "bats at his best when there's no pressure."
Virat Kohli's magnificent 166 helped India overcome Sri Lanka by a huge margin of 317 runs in the third and final one-day international of the series played in Kerala. Kohli is now only three tonnes behind Sachin Tendulkar for the record in the format after scoring his second century of the series and 46th overall. Despite the outstanding effort, Kohli was brutally attacked by a Pakistani journalist; nevertheless, a cricket player from his own country retaliated suitably.
Soon after Kohli's amazing century, a Pakistani reporter poked fun at him by stating that he can only hit huge runs when there is no pressure or when the whole series is still in play. He continued by saying that Kohli must get hundreds for India in the forthcoming Test series against Australia.
"Virat Kohli plays best when there is no pressure, no series on the line, and great batting conditions. While developing his form and confidence in these contests is not detrimental, India wants him to perform well in Test matches against visiting Australia. #INDvSL, "he tweeted.
Pakistan all-rounder Sohaib Maqsood stopped the reporter by tweeting, "Are you sure he is just excellent when there is no pressure grow up year two wrongs don't make one right."
The journalist went on to support his claim by pointing out that Kohli's ability to break his century drought against Afghanistan in September of last year was made possible by India's exit from the Asia Cup.
"Positive situations are the best confidence booster for a player, Sohaib bhai. He had to play Afghanistan in the Asia Cup without India and then Bangladesh after they had already lost the series while going through a difficult period "He tweeted.
Once again responding, the Pakistani cricketer disputed the journalist's justification in his tweet. "Please identify the nation or the sports venues where he hasn't recorded centuries. He wasn't even using these roads when he wasn't scoring runs. If they are trolling Baber, disregard them since we all know who the greater player is "said he.
Kohli's next appearance will be in the three-match ODI series against New Zealand that gets underway on January 18.


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El Movimiento Anglicano de Continuación es un grupo de iglesias cristianas herederas de la tradición anglicana que, bajo el liderazgo y la dirección del Obispo Albert Arthur Chambers, se separó de la Comunión anglicana de Canterbury o de alguna provincia de ella, debido a su rechazo hacia lo que perciben como un alejamiento de la ortodoxia por la iglesia oficial de Canterbury. El movimiento se originó primero en la Iglesia Episcopal en los Estados Unidos de América (ECUSA) y también en la Iglesia Anglicana del Canadá. Las iglesias relacionadas en otros países, como la Iglesia Católica Anglicana en EE.UU. , Canadá y Australia y la Iglesia de Inglaterra (Continuación) fueron fundadas posteriormente. Las políticas y doctrinas oficiales de las Provincias de la Comunión Anglicana que más han contribuido al surgimiento y fundación de iglesias de Continuación han sido la aprobación del sacerdocio femenino y la introducción de versiones revisadas heterodoxas del Libro de Oración Común, que desechan las ediciones históricas, ortodoxas y clásicas del L.O.C. de 1928 para Estados Unidos y de 1962 para Canadá. Una de las carecterísticas fundamentales de las Iglesias Continuantes Anglicanas es una teología y cuerpo doctrinal basado en la Afirmación de San Luis, y la Sucesión Histórica del Ministerio, que emerge directamente de las Consagraciones hechas por el Obispo Albert Chambers.

Establecimiento
En 1976, la Convención General de la Iglesia Episcopal en los Estados Unidos de América aprobó la ordenación de mujeres al sacerdocio y al episcopado, del mismo modo, adoptó provisionalmente un nuevo y doctrinalmente polémico Libro de Oración Común, más tarde reconocido como "Versión de 1979". Durante el año siguiente (1977), varios miles de clérigos y laicos episcopalianos discrepantes de aquellas decisiones y acciones respondieron con un encuentro en San Luis (Misuri), bajo el auspicio de la Fraternidad de Clérigos Preocupados (Fellowship of Concerned Churchmen) llamado Congreso de St. Louis en donde adoptaron su declaración teológica fundamental, la Afirmación de San Luis. Tal documento expresaba su determinación de "seguir en la fe católica, el orden apostólico, la adoración ortodoxa y el testimonio evangélico de la iglesia anglicana tradicional, haciendo todas las cosas necesarias para la continuación de la misma".

Tras esta reunión surgió de hecho una nueva iglesia con el nombre provisional de Iglesia Anglicana de América del Norte. El primer obispo de esta iglesia fue el reverendísimo Charles D. D. Doren, consagrado por un obispo emérito de ECUSA, el reverendísimo Albert Chambers, junto el Obispo Francisco de Jesus Pagtakhan de la Iglesia Católica Independiente de Filipinas y, aunque se le esperaba como tercer obispo participante en la consagración de Doren, el reverendísimo Mark Pae, de la Iglesia Anglicana de Corea envió en su lugar una carta de consentimiento. Las consagraciones de obispos en el anglicanismo normalmente implican la participación de tres obispos ya consagrados como una garantía de los méritos del candidato, pero hay muchos casos en la historia de la Iglesia en que solo un obispo pudo consagrar, y estas no han sido consideradas consagraciones inválidas por el solo hecho de faltar alguno de los tres obispos acostumbrados.

Durante el proceso de ratificación de la Constitución de la nueva iglesia, se desarrollaron varias disputas entre las diócesis involucradas, lo que resultó en dos nuevas iglesias estadounidenses y una canadiense. Estas son: la Iglesia Anglicana Católica, la Diócesis de Cristo el Rey (más tarde renombrada como Provincia Anglicana de Cristo el Rey), y la Iglesia Católica Anglicana del Canadá. Varios años después de estos hechos, se fundó también la Iglesia Episcopal Unida de América del Norte.

Acercamiento Teológico
Las iglesias de continuación son generalmente de énfasis Anglo-Católico, y en contados casos algunas iglesias continuantes conservan las liturgias propias del Misal Anglicano de la high church. La mayor parte continuante de estas iglesias nacionales adoptaron el Libro de Oración Común de 1928 que precedió a la versión adoptada por ECUSA a partir de 1979 (aunque otros misales y formas siguen en uso). De la misma manera, el uso de la versión King James de la Biblia en inglés (también denominada como "Versión Autorizada") continúa en detrimento de traducciones más modernas como una señal caracterizadora de la mayor parte de las iglesias anglicanas de continuación.

Los principios de la Afirmación de Saint Louis, proporcionan cierta base de unidad para el movimiento (que en la mayoría de los casos rechaza los 39 artículos de la Religión), y presentan un sumario de doctrina con los siete Concilios Ecuménicos y los Escritos de los Padres de la Iglesia. Sus jurisdicciones no son numerosas y a menudo se dividen en nuevas iglesias. Estudios acerca de estas iglesias de continuación sitúan su número aproximado entre 200 y 600, sobre todo en Norteamérica, llamadas "iglesias de continuación" las cuales pueden remontar su origen hasta la ya mencionada reunión en Saint Louis. En junio de 2005, el "Directorio de Parroquias Anglicanas y Episcopales Tradicionales", publicado por la "Fraternidad de Clérigos Preocupados", incluyó información de más de 500 parroquias anglicanas de continuación, que solicitaron la incorporación de sus datos a la lista.

Iglesias Anglicanas
Otros cuerpos eclesiásticos sin comunión con el Arzobispo de Canterbury son: La Iglesia Episcopal Reformada (REC, por sus siglas en inglés: Reformed Episcopal Church) en los Estados Unidos de América , que se separó de la Iglesia Episcopal en 1873 por su oposición al avance del Anglo-Catolicismo; La Iglesia Libre de Inglaterra (Free Church of England), fundada en 1844 por motivos similares; la Iglesia Ortodoxa Anglicana otro cuerpo confesante fundado en 1963, y la Iglesia Evangélica Episcopal. También aparece en este siglo la nueva Provincia de la Iglesia Anglicana de Norteamérica (ACNA) en comunión con Forward in Faith.

Estas iglesias, muy numerosas, no se consideran a sí mismas como iglesias anglicanas continuantes aunque de líneas anglo-católicas rechazan el vaticanismo como parte de sus prácticas, sin embargo, algunas iglesias como la Iglesia Episcopal Reformada ha estrechado recientemente sus lazos con algunos miembros de este movimiento, firmando para ello acuerdos con varias iglesias de continuación como la Provincia Anglicana de Norteamérica.

Igualmente surge en años recientes la Iglesia Internacional Anglicana Episcopal con sede metropolitana en Gran Bretaña, que cubre el Reino Unido, Australia, África y la Europa continental, bajo la dirección del Arzobispo Norman Dutton, quien lidera este movimiento de Iglesias anglicanas. Finalmente se une la Provincia de la Iglesia Anglicana de Norteamérica (ACNA) bajo el tutelaje del Movimiento de Forward in Faith.

Recientemente algunas Iglesias no continuantes han tomado fuerza en el continente sudamericano, estas permanecen completamente adheridas a los postulados históricos contenidos en los 39 artículos de la religión (documento oficial del anglicanismo), estas se reconocen a sí mismas como Anglicanos Reformados, entre ellas se destaca el liderazgo de la Iglesia Reformada Confesante Anglicana "IRCA", con sede en Colombia y de la Iglesia Reformada Anglicana de Brasil.

En América Latina
El Movimiento Continuante Anglicano, marcó su iniciación en Guatemala, Centroamérica y en Colombia, Sudamérica, alrededor de 1988, cuando el Obispo Albert Arthur Chambers, el fundador e iniciador del Movimiento Anglicano de Continuación, decidió solicitar a la Iglesia Anglicana de Norteamérica, más tarde conocida como la Iglesia Católica Anglicana de Norteamérica, constituida por Canadá y Estados Unidos de América, se iniciaran las misiones en Guatemala y con el Obispo Rubén Rodríguez de Guatemala para Centroamérica, y para Colombia y Sudamérica al Arzobispo Víctor Manuel Cruz Blanco con el finado Obispo Justo Pastor Ruiz (QPD).

Los obispos originales liderados por el Arzobispo Thomas Justin Kleppinger de la Anglican Catholic Church de Estados Unidos de América tuvieron especial atención a la recomendación y solicitud directa del Obispo Albert Chambers para América Latina en designar, y ordenar obispos que atendieran los territorios de América Latina. Actualmente la única diócesis original del anglocatolicismo en Sudamérica está liderada por la Iglesia Anglicana del Caribe y la Nueva Granada con el Arzobispo Víctor Manuel Cruz Blanco, designado oficialmente por el Obispó Albert Chambers.

Lista de Iglesias
La siguiente es una lista de iglesias comúnmente llamadas "anglicanas de continuación" con el número aproximado de parroquias mostradas entre paréntesis. Algunas tienen también parroquias afiliadas en otros países.

 Todas las iglesias que pertenecen oficialmente a Comunión Anglicana Tradicional
 Iglesia Anglicana Americana (12)
 Iglesia Católica Anglicana (87)
 Iglesia Católica Anglicana de Canadá (45)
 Iglesia Anglicana en América (100)
 Iglesia Anglicana de Virginia (18)
 Iglesia Episcopal Anglicana (14)
 Iglesia Anglocatólica de Argentina (5)
 Iglesia Ortodoxa Anglicana (7)
 Provincia Católica Anglicana
Cristo Resucitado (60)
 Provincia Anglicana de América (103)
 Provincia Anglicana de Cristo Rey (44)
 Iglesia Episcopal Cristiana (5)
 Diócesis de los Grandes Lagos (5)
 Diócesis de la Santa Cruz (21)
 Iglesia Misionera Episcopal (35)
 Iglesia Anglicana Ortodoxa (12)
 Iglesia Episcopal del Sur (3)
 Iglesia Unida Anglicana (10)
 Iglesia Unida Episcopal de Norteamérica (24)
 Iglesia católica episcopal antigua - Misión en Chile, Uruguay y Argentina (4)
 Diócesis Episcopal del Uruguay, Misión Episcopal del Uruguay (2)

Referencias en inglés
 Divided We Stand: A History of the Continuing Anglican Movement de Douglas Bess, Tractarian Press, 2002, ISBN 0-9719636-0-6. Edición revisada, Apocryphile Press, September 2006, ISBN 1-933993-10-3

Enlaces externos
 Iglesia Católica Anglicana (ACC)
 Comunión Anglocatólica o Iglesia Católica Anglicana

Circunscripciones eclesiásticas anglicanas
LGBT y anglicanismo


Detoxretox has just re-opened as a vegetarian bistro and bar – the only one in the entire city centre. And it's got a head chef fresh from the kitchens at Noma in Copenhagen, which was named 'Best Restaurant in the World' in 2010 by Restaurant magazine.
It's a real plus for Manchester this – a vegetarian eatery which isn't a low-key daytime café but a sophisticated licensed bistro that opens in the evenings and weekends.
The a la carte menu features dishes including Halloumi 'fish', chips and mushy peas, and Lancashire cheese double baked soufflé with purple sprouting broccoli, lyonnaise potatoes and homemade relish.
There's also a tapas menu, a brunch menu for Saturdays and Sundays, and a choice of veggie roasts on Sundays.
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Social Startups: Blopboard Visualizes Results in Real Time
Shay Moser @ShayMoser
Infographics have been around for a long time. They've evolved over the years. Distribution channels have emerged. Easy-to-use, free tools have made creating them easy for most people, and technology has changed the face of infographics forever.
Even the power of the infographic when it reaches the consumer in new and different ways has changed drastically. What does all this mean for marketers who use infographics, or even for those who don't? The old phrase says, "A picture is worth a thousand words." Then it turned into, "A video is worth 1.8 million words," according to Forrester Research's Dr. James McQuivey. Perhaps the video is no longer a video, but a real-time visualization. The rising popularity of infographics proves this case.
"With so much data out there, visualization becomes more and more important as a way of making sense of it all, especially opinions," says Amy Kaufman, co-founder of Blopboard, a social polling platform that visualizes how opinions and sentiment change over time by users spread across all demographics and many countries. "We hope aggregating and visualizing opinions in real time can refine the way people, businesses, and brands make decisions."
The privately funded startup that Kaufman founded in December 2010 with James Stafford, allows users to post questions and share their opinions with others. Results are visualized in real-time, using Blopboard infographics.
"Typically, people get their information from friends or people within their social networks," Kaufman says. "It is too daunting to make sense of all the opinions out there. Blopboard allows people to step outside their social bubbles and see how their opinions compare to the crowd."
Businesses and brands can use the platform to solicit feedback from their fans, followers, and clients, rather than simply collect "likes" or "followers." This deeper level of engagement can help build a loyal fan or customer base.
Brand benefits also include real-time opinion tracking, deeper consumer insight, dedicated brand profiles for ongoing brand/product feedback, and the ability to interact with consumers officially as the brand or anonymously.
Stafford, whose background is in finance, was originally looking into gaging and visualizing financial market sentiment. "Our interest quickly morphed into visualizing opinions and sentiment about anything that people were talking about and seeing how these things changed over time," says Kaufman, who met Stafford in high school before she became a film producer, and he went on to trade futures and equities. "We liked the idea of knowing what the crowd thought, rather than looking solely at what experts thought. And we wanted to see how we could get this information in a quick snapshot at any given moment.
Though the technology was new to the co-founders, Stafford's highly technical approach to financial markets and Kaufman's experience in production translated well in many ways to developing Blopboard.
"Trying to make sense of people's opinions appears to be a trend," Kaufman says. "However, Blopboard has worked to develop our platform to give users the best experience and the most control. We went to design firm Pentagram, who we admired greatly, and we did our R&D with them. Together we came up with something that is fun and allows users to easily navigate the site and app, and recall and share information."
After designing and building the Blopboard website in 2012, Blopboard partnered with Squeaky Bone Studios in April 2013 to design and build the free mobile app. Kaufman says they plan to monetize Blopboard in the future, but "the primary focus at this point is to continue to create a great user experience."
Next up for Blopboard are a number of new features, including private questions and timed voting, as well as profiles for businesses and brands. A mobile version of the browser is in development now. "We will also continue to build out additional dynamic visualizations," Kaufman says, as they hope to become the market leader in the social polling space.
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WHO says health debts push 100 million people a year into poverty
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This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
The World Health Organization says the rising cost of health care is a struggle for people and governments around the world.
The problem is greatest in countries where people must often pay directly for services. A new report says these costs push 100 million people into poverty each year.
Aging populations are one reason why health costs are rising. Also, more people are getting chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease that require long-term treatment. And new treatments for health conditions are more costly than old ones.
This year's "World Health Report" offers guidelines to strengthen health financing systems and make services available to more people.
The report says about one billion people do not get the care they need because it costs too much or it is unavailable.
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan says no one should have to risk financial ruin to take care of their health. David Evans agrees. He is the director of health systems financing for the WHO, which is part of the United Nations.
DAVID EVANS: "But what the report says, it's not just not acceptable, but it's not necessary. Something could be done and something can be done about it now."
The report says one thing governments can do is provide more money for health care. For example, ten years ago, African leaders agreed to spend 15 percent of government funds on health. So far, only Liberia, Rwanda and Tanzania have met that goal.
The report says governments could also raise money more fairly and spend it more wisely. David Evans says several countries are doing this.
DAVID EVANS: "Gabon is a low-income country. It has introduced a tax on financial transactions and that is going to help. If Gabon can do something like that, other countries can do it.
"In terms of financial risk protection, Thailand has introduced health insurance for everyone. And that health insurance is tax-funded, particularly for the poor, so that what happens is the insurance now pays the cost that the people would have paid previously out of their own pockets."
The WHO says smarter spending could reduce health care costs between 20 and 40 percent. The report identifies ten areas where better policies and practices could make health systems more efficient.
One area is in the purchase of medicines. The report says higher-priced drugs are often chosen even when lower-priced medicines of the same quality are available. Also, medicines can go to waste simply because the right storage is not available.
And that's the VOA Special English Health Report. I'm Shirley Griffith.
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