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World Stunts Championship
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World Stunts Championship website as of 2009
The World Stunts Championship (WSC for short) was an OWOOT, Argentina-based international competition started and managed by Paleke from 2004. It started to develop in La Cueva de los Clásicos forum and had its own website later on. As of the beginning of 2008 it was the sole active OWOOT contest; however it entered indefinite hiatus halfway through that year's season.
The only car allowed for all races in WSC was Porsche March Indy. Yet, it was permitted to use either Stunts 1.0 or Brøderbund 1.1. A number of rules were less than strict in the tournament. While at its time, it was simply described as OWOOT, it fits much better in the free OWOOT than in the strict OWOOT set of rules. For example, driving on top of a tunnel was OK. In version 1.0, the top of the tunnel is passable, so crashing against it was impossible, thus, it makes sense to allow this for version 1.1. Skipping a slalom was allowed as long as the car remained OWOOT at all times.
1 Season Podiums
3 Scoring System
4 Track Design Contest
Season Podiums
1 Ayrton Meganium Aces High 44
2 Krys Toff Damage Inc 36
3 Gutix Meganium Aces High 36
2 Mark L. Rivers no team 70
1 Mark L. Rivers no team 139
2 Krys Toff Damage Inc 109
3 Duplode no team 107
The tournament rules as established in the WSC website appear to define a form of strict OWOOT with a few exceptions. However, watching the replays accepted during the course of the championship, it becomes clear that it is better defined as free OWOOT. The website explicitly defines the following:
The version of Stunts to be used is Broderbund 1.1 (in earlier seasons, 1.0 was allowed as well)
The championship consists of 10 tracks, most made by [Paleke]. Anybody who so wishes may send their tracks to [him] providing name and car to be used and those that [he happens] to like will be used throughout the season
Race duration will be approximately four weeks. The will usually begin on a Saturday or Sunday and will end on the last Friday before the fourth weekend [after they started]. The last day of the race will be announced once the race is started
Unless something else is specified, the car to be used will be the Porsche March Indy that comes with the game
Under no circumstance is it allowed to modify the car or tracks
One wheel must be on the road at all times. Besides, the yellow lines are to be followed all the time. This means that it is not allowed to take any kind of shortcuts
It is considered to be "road": the road itself (with all its obstacles), the corner rumble strips, the sloped road side bars, tunnel walls and the central boulevard space
Tricks that go against any of the above (such as driving through objects) are not allowed
In replays, it can also be seen that it is allowed to overfly any stunt. Also, skipping a slalom is actually permitted provided that the racer remains OWOOT; in other words, they can pass them by the side while still barely on the road. As regards the sending of replays, Paleke says:
Replays must be sent to: wstuntsc@yahoo.com.ar
Every racer must make their lap public via SSEHPTC up to 24 hours after sending the replay (and vice-versa)
The replay that will be valid in the highscore table is the last one sent, regardless of any penalties it should receive
At the end of each race, the month's top five replays will be available for download
Quiet days: the last two days of the race, any racer may send a replay via e-mail and opt for its lap not being made public. It is required, to be able to use this system, to have already posted a public lap via SSEHPTC before the beginning of the quiet days
In each race, WSC assigned racers points according to their final scoreboard position as follows:
1st - 15 points
2nd - 12 points
3rd - 10 points
4th - 9 points
(and so on till...)
12th - 1 point
Nothing is said about positions after the 12th, but almost for certain, there were never more than 12 racers in a WSC race. Paleke also adds that if two laps are equal, they share a position and, as a consequence, receive the same number of points. He says that in case of ties, the winner will be chosen based on best position in previous races in order (that is, most 1st positions, then most 2nd positions, and so on).
Track Design Contest
Around May 2006, a track design contest was held. Each racer could post one or more tracks. Later, all racers would vote for their two favourite tracks that weren't their own and the (about four) tracks with the most votes would be used for racing the following months.
Some tracks that participated were:
4:00am (by Cas - won)
Aburaf72 (by AbuRaf70 - did not win)
Acacia Avenue (probably by Gutix - did not win)
Bermudas (by Cas - did not win)
Canyon (did not win)
Chicane (by Cas - did not win)
EDR (by EdR - did not win)
El Pinar (did not win)
John Doe (did not win)
Nach1 (by Nach - won)
Nach2 (by Nach - did not win)
NEO (did not win)
Olimpic (did not win)
RITMO (did not win)
Salvaje (by Cas - did not win)
Sprinter (if it was part of the contest, then it won)
WSC official site
Foro Stunts Argentina (official discussion forum for WSC)
Both the website and the forum are permanently offline as of 2020, but the website is accesible via [The Wayback Machine]
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Q: Find the inverse Laplace transform of $e^{-3s} \frac {3s+1}{s^2-s-6}$ Problem: Find the inverse Laplace transform of $e^{-3s} \frac {3s+1}{s^2-s-6}$
My attempt:
Using the method of partial fractions $\frac {3s+1}{s^2-s-6}=\frac {2}{s-3} + \frac {1}{s+2}$, so that $L^{-1}(e^{-3s}\frac {3s+1}{s^2-s-6})=2L^{-1}(e^{-3s}\frac {1}{s-3}) + L^{-1}(e^{-3s}\frac {1}{s+2})$.
I am using the second shifting theorem but I am unsure if I am on the right track, the answer I get using my understand of the second shifting theorem is:
$u(t-3)(2e^{(3-3)t}+e^{(-2-3)(t)}) = u(t-3)(2+e^{-5t})$ where $u(t)$ is the heaviside function.

A: $$f(t)=\mathcal{L^{-1}}( e^{-3s} \frac {3s+1}{s^2-s-6})=\mathcal{L^{-1}}( e^{-3s} \frac {3s+1}{(s+2)(s-3)})$$
$$f(t)=\mathcal{L^{-1}}( e^{-3s} \frac {2s+4+s-3}{(s+2)(s-3)})$$
$$f(t)=\mathcal{L^{-1}}( e^{-3s} \left (\frac {2}{(s-3)}+\frac {1}{(s+2)} \right ))$$
$$f(t)=2\mathcal{L^{-1}} \left (e^{-3s}\frac {1}{s-3}\right )+\mathcal{L^{-1}} \left ( e^{-3s}\frac {1}{(s+2)} \right )$$
$$f(t)=2U(t-3)e^{3(t-3)}+U(t-3)e^{-2(t-3)}$$
Note that you have that
$$\boxed {\mathcal{L^{-1}} \left ( e^{-cs}F(s) \right )=U(t-c)f(t-c)}$$

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India tour of Zimbabwe 2013 »
Indian team for Zimbabwe Tour to be picked today
Tags: India tour of Zimbabwe 2013, India
Published on: Jul 05, 2013
The Indian team for the upcoming Zimbabwe tour will be announced on Friday with the Selectors likely to experiment a few youngsters.
By BV Swagath
The Indian team for the upcoming Zimbabwe tour will be announced on Friday with the Selectors likely to experiment a few youngsters. India will be playing five ODIs against the minnows and the usual practice has been to pick an inexperienced team under a young leader with a few rookies making international debuts.
Virat Kohli is likely to be retained as the Captain of the Indian team although he has been continuously playing in all the formats of the game in the recent times and needs a much deserved break from the sport. MS Dhoni in all likelihood will not be picked with the Skipper as such having a hamstring strain. Even if he was fit, Dhoni would have been rested from the tour.
The Selectors may rest the likes of Ishant Sharma, R Ashwin and Umesh Yadav to preserve them for better challenges ahead. It will be interesting to see if the Selectors will reward young guns who had played in the Under-19 World Cup or not.
Series Sehedule
The short tour of Zimbabwe begins on the 24th of this month and will be played at just the two venues like it has always been at Harare and Bulawayo.


The University of Michigan Law School (Law School), one of the Nation's top law schools, follows an official admissions policy that seeks to achieve student body diversity through compliance with Regents of Univ. of Cal. v. Bakke, 438 U. S. 265. Focusing on students' academic ability coupled with a flexible assessment of their talents, experiences, and potential, the policy requires admissions officials to evaluate each applicant based on all the information available in the file, including a personal statement, letters of recommendation, an essay describing how the applicant will contribute to Law School life and diversity, and the applicant's undergraduate grade point average (GPA) and Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score. Additionally, officials must look beyond grades and scores to so-called "soft variables," such as recommenders' enthusiasm, the quality of the undergraduate institution and the applicant's essay, and the areas and difficulty of undergraduate course selection. The policy does not define diversity solely in terms of racial and ethnic status and does not restrict the types of diversity contributions eligible for "substantial weight," but it does reaffirm the Law School's commitment to diversity with special reference to the inclusion of African-American, Hispanic, and Native-American students, who otherwise might not be represented in the student body in meaningful numbers. By enrolling a "critical mass" of underrepresented minority students, the policy seeks to ensure their ability to contribute to the Law School's character and to the legal profession.


As well as thousands of antiques from local dealers, our warehouse also showcases and sells beautifully crafted, handmade softwood and hardwood interiors from local craftsman.
The warehouse acts as a showroom for these local craftsmen, who may run their businesses from relatively small premises and therefore don't necessarily have the space to display their wares in a shop front.
Many of the interiors on display at the warehouse are for kitchens and dining areas - including butcher's blocks, kitchen cabinets, storage units, welsh dressers and other large pine furniture items.
All interiors are finished to the highest quality and are their classic style would suit any contemporary country home.
Typically, we display a few large items from each of the craftsman, which gives you a good idea of the type of interiors they produce as well as the style and quality of craftsmanship.
The interior craftsmen also have a portfolio of work for your perusal in order for you to see other work they have produced and contact details are of course also available should you wish to get in touch with them to discuss your interior needs.


What is a First Article?
When a company subcontracts its manufacturing process, the subcontractor is supplied with the specific drawings and specifications which the manufactured parts must meet.
To ensure that the first article – the very first item to be completed – meets these specifications, it is subjected to an extremely thorough and rigorous inspection. Every single dimension and specification of this first article is checked against the drawings to ensure that the part has been manufactured exactly as required.
Why perform a First Article Inspection?
Every manufacturer is subjected to quality control. Quality control inspections take place throughout the manufacturing cycle of an item. Inspections take place on a regular basis. Parts are selected on a random basis and each subjected to inspection of critical dimensions. The parts are given pass/fail indications in the inspection report.
The first article inspection establishes the baseline for all subsequent random testing, because it checks every dimension and specification against the drawings, and the actual dimensions of each measurement are recorded, not just "pass/fail" checks.
Because of the thoroughness of the FAI, subsequent random inspections of manufactured parts can be relied upon to successfully gauge the quality of the parts being manufactured.
A first article inspection therefore will identify manufacturing process flaws, ensure that manufacturers are able to produce items that are compliant with specifications, improve quality of manufactured items, and reduce manufacturing delays and the overall cost of the item.
Who Performs First Article Inspections?
Depending on whether the manufacturer is producing product for civilian or government use, First Article Inspections are performed either by representatives of the appropriate government department, or by independent testing facilities.
All testing facilities are themselves tested, or accredited, on a regular basis to ensure that they and their equipment meet the standards needed to successfully perform inspections on their clients.
In the United States, the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) provides accreditation to both civilian and military testing labs.


The release of Pope Francis's apostolic exhortation today is "a wonderful summons to the Church to more vigorously invest in youth and young adults, especially those on the peripheries and those disconnected from the Church," said the President and committee chairmen of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB).
The full English text of the apostolic exhortation is available online at http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20190325_christus-vivit.html.
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Christian Davenport is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan as well as a Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies.
On October 7, 2015, Professor Christian Davenport received the award for Engaged Scholarship from the Sie Center at the Denver Dialogues on Peace and Security.
The Denver Dialogues on Peace and Security is part of a Sié Center initiative funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This series of events is designed to create a public dialogue among academic and policy authorities on issues related to twenty-first century challenges to global peace and security, with a particular focus on nonviolent action in violent contexts.


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January 2015: High school leads way in new technology
A ROSSENDALE high school has become the latest national Apple Regional Training Centre and will lead the introduction of iPad technology into East Lancashire schools.
Haslingden High School introduced iPad Minis for students nine months ago and Deputy Headteacher Gill Smith, who was instrumental in bringing the technology to the school, said it heralded a change in pedagogy – the science of teaching.
On Tuesday around 80 guests, including many representatives from schools and colleges in Rossendale and Accrington, visited the school for the launch of the training centre and to find out how the technology has enhanced learning.
Mrs Smith said: "This technology was something that had been introduced in my previous school when we gave students iPad Touches. Then when I came here, the delivery of IT was part of my remit."
The governors supported Mrs Smith's idea and several meetings were held with parents to explain how the programme would work and to allay any fears.
Now pupils from Years 7-10 use iPad Minis and on the night students held a series of demonstrations to show the practical application of the technology in various subjects from design technology to sport.
"In maths, students have commented how much they have grown to love the subject because iPads have enabled them to receive instant feedback and help them to understand the concepts better," said Mrs Smith. "When a lesson finishes the teacher sends students an exit questionnaire on their iPad so they can check understanding and then use the data to prepare for the next lesson.
"In PE students now video themselves and using coaching apps, can watch the video to see how to improve by comparing the clip to a split screen clip of a professional."
Guest speaker at the launch was Abdul Chohan, Director at ESSA Academy in Bolton, which was one of the first schools to introduce handheld personal devices to replace laptop trolleys.
Students at his school speak 44 different languages with some having no English when they start.
In the school's latest Ofsted inspectors noted: "Teachers use well the students' access to hand-held technology to promote investigative skills and to ensure that students reflect on their learning."
Since the technology was introduced at Essa Acadamy, the schools results have improved and the school's photocopying budget has been slashed by two thirds.
A series of 12 free courses will be held at Haslingden High School this year for education providers in East Lancashire to introduce and support the use of iPads and iMacs. For more information contact Haslingden High School on 01706 215726 or click on the school website www.haslingdenhigh.com/apple-rtc/
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Title: Substitute resolution relative to continued funding of the Homicide Review Training and Technical Assistance Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice - Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).
Indexes: GRANTS, POLICE DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. COPS BUDGET 2017, 2. COPS grant analysis 2017, 3. Hearing Notice List
6/14/2017 1 FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION
Minutes note: Individuals appearing: David Piedt, Health Department Reggie Moore, Office of Violence Prevention Pass 5:0 Action details Meeting details Video
6/9/2017 1 FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE HEARING NOTICES SENT Action details Meeting details Not available
6/8/2017 1 PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION AND ASSIGNED
Minutes note: Dave Peete and Reggie Moore - Health Dpet. Ald. Borkowski moved to hold to the call of the chair. There were no objections. Ald. Borkowski moved to reconsider. There were no objections. Pass 4:0 Action details Meeting details Video
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Substitute resolution relative to continued funding of the Homicide Review Training and Technical Assistance Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice - Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).
This resolution authorizes the continued funding of the Homicide Review Training and Technical Assistance grant.
Whereas, Common Council File Number 130857, adopted November 5, 2013, authorized application for, acceptance and funding for the Homicide Review Training and Technical Assistance Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice - Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); and
Whereas, The project has an unencumbered balance at the end of May 2017 of $49,805 which is available through the U.S. Department of Justice - Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); and
Whereas, Milwaukee Code of ordinances Section 304.81 states that the "carrying over the unexpended funds shall be limited to three years from the year in which the funds were appropriated. A grant project exceeding this period shall be re-funded through a separate resolution"; and
Whereas this limitation applies to the continuation of the Homicide Review Training and Technical Assistance grant; and
Whereas, Continued involvement in this program will provide training and technical assistance to build capacity to prevent homicides and related events, now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that continuation of the grant for Homicide Review Training and Technical Assistance from the U.S. Department of Justice - Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), to be administered by the Health Department, is hereby authorized; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the proper City officials and/or the herein named department head are authorized to continue the grant without further Common Council approval; and be it
Further Resolved, That the Health Depart...


In sport playing to win is a priority to almost one and all. Yet, tough competition, especially in individual sports like tennis, can put-off youngsters from enjoying and benefit from the real values of such a sport. Enjoying experience and enthusiasm for the game, brother and sister Claire Arrigo and Christopher Gatt, both former National Tennis Team players, took up the initiative and set-up St. Andrews Tennis School at the Pembroke Rackets Tennis Club (PRTC).
The school's goal is firstly to introduce tennis to a wider audience and secondly to scout for young talent and train these kids to represent Malta and be part of the National Team in the future. The School, only set-up in April of last year, stresses the fun and social side of tennis which is an ideal sport for boys and girls to get outdoor exercise, while having fun and making new friends. This is how the idea of Participation Day came about – putting the focus on participation rather than on winning, where the junior tennis players (and parents) automatically relax and enjoy the game rather than worry about winning or losing.
The second Participation Day was organized a few days ago where a cluster of young kids aged from 4 and 7 years played tennis team games and went through fitness races. The older kids played a mini tournament along with fun tennis games. At the end of the event, sponsored by NEXT, all the players were presented with a medal, for their participation. Both Claire and Chris were part of the junior and National tennis team and have travelled around Europe as juniors. "Now, through St. Andrews Tennis School, we would like to see more kids being given the same opportunities we had within the game", remarked Chris. It is an ambitious project when one remembers that at 17 Chris attended the Nick Bolletieri Tennis Academy in Florida for a year where he played the likes of Andre Agassi and Jim Courier and got a tennis scholarship to Ohio State University. Claire followed in her brother's foot steps and got a tennis scholarship to Weber State University, Utah.
During that four year period they attained their degrees and played College Tennis around the USA. They both returned to join the Malta National Tennis Team, Chris holding the Malta Champion spot and both representing Malta in the local and International Events such as Davis Cup, Federation Cup, and Small Nations Games among others. The idea of the Participation Day has been successful and the second 'Day' saw an increase in the number of juniors entering and enjoying themselves in an active and social environment. The next St. Andrews Tennis School event will be Participation Comino over a weekend in April where two days of tennis fun with an overnight stay at the Comino Bay Hotel are planned.


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Zarco Guerrero, mask-maker and musician, knows about the power to transform with his ethnographic masks, with his physicality, and with his words.
Catch him at Dia de Los Muertos PHX Festival, a free event held at Steele Indian School Park, using his highly expressive calaca masks to tell stories that mix humor and a zest for life with remembering those who have passed. Or, find him collaborating with Childsplay at their fall event, the El Puente Theatre Festival & Mask Procession, where he performs as Zarco Guerrero and the Dancing Dragons.
The Mesa native is a member of the Cultural Coalition, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary and aims to provide unique cultural programs dedicated to the promotion and development of indigenous arts and artists in Arizona. Guerrero was greatly influenced by Cesar Chavez as a young man, and joined his movement for farm workers. The civil-rights leader inspired Guerrero's practice of using art-making as a tool for social change.
Wherever you catch him, Zarco Guerrero will be drawing the audience in with his compelling human stories.
Melissa Fossum
Trump protestor at the candidate's Fountain Hills rally.
Part of the fun of a Donald Trump rally is that both he and those in attendance are totally unpredictable. His first two visits to Arizona this political season were relatively low-key — protesters held some very creative signs and engaged in shouting matches with his supporters, yet overall, no punches were thrown nor arrests made. But as Trump was planning his third visit, to be held on March 19 in Fountain Hills, violence was breaking out at his rallies across the country, prompting many to wonder if a similar thing would happen here. To be clear, we don't condone violence, which is why we loved the protesters' tactic. Dozens of anti-Trumpers linked arms or chained themselves to vehicles in an effort to block traffic (and the candidate) from getting to the park. In the end, the blockade was broken up and three people were arrested, but protesters can always celebrate the fact that they managed to peacefully block Shea Boulevard for hours.
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It's not every day that a national satanic group sends local politicians into a tailspin by announcing it will deliver a formal invocation at a city council meeting. Even though the Satanic Temple is less of a devil-worshiping cult than a civic-minded group set on separating church and state, a handful of Phoenix City Council members reacted as though the group was planning to hold some sort of ritual sacrifice on the floor of the council chambers. Following the announcement and the promise of a lawsuit should the city deny the group its right to deliver the invocation, four councilmen led by member Sal DiCiccio started a bizarre campaign to fight "diversity and inclusivity." After dominating the local news cycle for a few weeks, the city finally voted to abolish religious prayer at its meetings, meaning that even though the Satanists could now be prevented from giving the invocation, in the end, they still won the battle — for the time being, anyway. The council quickly brought some prayer back.
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Little news in the past 12 months was quite as traumatic as the realization that GusGus, a 3-week-old goat, had been stolen from the Arizona State Fair. Like people across the country, we waited with bated breath for updates, because petting zoo officials warned he was unlikely to survive more than a day or two away from his mother, who, by the way, was reportedly crying out for him — could anything be sadder? Thankfully, after 20 hours of sheer panic and a near-collective societal breakdown, someone found little GusGus wandering near a canal in north Phoenix. Though the story has a happy ending and GusGus was safely returned to his mother, we're still a little dismayed that the person who took him was never caught — c'mon, what kind of monster does something like that?
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Remember that time a series of three massive earthquakes ripped through central Arizona, tearing down buildings and spreading hysteria in its wake? Yeah, we don't either. But what we do remember was the series of very small earthquakes that gently shook parts of the state on November 1, causing the occasional dish to rattle or dog to bark, and really only because of the totally outsized and hilarious social-media response it prompted. Within hours of the third aftershock, hashtags like #WeWillRebuild and #PrayforAZ were trending on Twitter and Facebook, accompanied by photos of a toppled lawn chair or spilled water glass. Some ASU students demanded classes be canceled, while others expressed shock that the vibrations they felt weren't just an exploding meth lab. Our favorite reaction, though, was a mock breaking-news meme warning of tsunamis in Tempe Town Lake. According to the experts, more than 1,000 small earthquakes are recorded in Arizona each year, meaning you might want to batten down the hatches, because no one knows when the next one will strike.
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We'd like to think that the exoneration of Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., the then 21-year-old landscaper accused of terrorizing the city of Phoenix by driving around I-10 and shooting vehicles, was one of the more satisfying things to happen this past year. Merritt was singled out as the culprit based on flawed forensic evidence, and had his life — and the life of his fiancée and two young children — turned upside down after he was arrested and held on a bail he couldn't afford to pay. The public lashed out at state and county officials for seeming to ignore the whole presumption of innocence thing, so when the state's case against Merritt completely fell apart and a judge basically erased Merritt's bond, it felt like a vindication of due process. To top it all off, Merritt is poised to bring a $10 million claim against the state, Governor Doug Ducey, and Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery for his wrongful arrest and public vilification.
Who would have thought that three small words — "We got him!" — could create such an internet firestorm when an apparently overly excited Governor Doug Ducey tweeted the message last September? The tweet was meant to break the news to a terrified public that the Department of Public Safety had arrested a suspect in the I-10 shooter case, but quickly backfired and turned into an online civics lesson: "What happened to innocent until proven guilty?" and "You're the chief executive of our state, show some respect to due process," people responded. Even now, months later, it's hard to put a finger on it, but there was just something about the initial tweet that made the public and media wonder if Ducey and the DPS had jumped the gun, and as it turned out, the hunch proved accurate — point being, Mr. Governor, as a public official, watch your words, especially in the age of social media.
What do you do when a teary-eyed, feds-hating Arizona militant uploads a video to Facebook in order to teach his kids why he had to take over a wildlife refuge in Oregon to (somehow) help protect their freedoms and the Constitution? Why, you make a hashtag, of course! And thus is the genesis story of #DaddySworeAnOath, possibly one of the best things to come out of the Bundy-family-led takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge earlier this year. After John Darnielle of the indie-folk band the Mountain Goats watched the viral video of Jon Ritzheimer sitting in his truck, holding a pocket-sized copy of the U.S. Constitution, and shedding a few tears while telling his two daughters that he's in Oregon — and not with them on Christmas and New Year's Eve — because he took an oath to defend the Founding Fathers' document, it was as if he couldn't help himself. Darnielle made his own ridiculous video, and posted it with the following message: "I call on all of patriotic Twitter to get behind the wheel of the #daddysworeanoath car and do the necessary." The Twittersphere responded gloriously.
Brian Dunn and Robert Hoekman Jr. launched the short-fiction reading series Spillers at the Crescent Ballroom in August 2015, and since then have continued to refine the series through live readings and an insightful podcast series, the Spillers After Show. Featuring readings from and long-form interviews with Spillers readers like essayist Tara Ison, novelist Patrick Michael Finn, Spilled Milk editor Leah Newsom, and poet Joel Salcido, the podcast features discussions and dissections of the creative process, with Dunn and Hoekman offering probing questions and thoughtful responses to bring the intimacy of the live shows to your iPhone.
While you can follow along with their adventures in the desert and abroad on a variety of social-media platforms, Robert and Christina Martinez really shine on Snapchat. Better known as New Darlings, the blogger couple documents trips to their favorite haunts (you're gonna notice a fair amount of Lux), gym angst, home-decor decisions, and the newest records they've picked up — all adorned with stickers and emojis and geofilters that make snapping more fun than, well, basically any other mode of social sharing. And, hey, watching these two keep busy might just leave you inspired. To do what, exactly? Well, at least to put on something adjacent to cute and leave the house.
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Donjay's instagram page.
There are thousands of worthy Instagrammers out there who focus on documenting the amazing desert landscape we have here in Arizona. And who can blame them? Between the interesting plant life that manages to thrive in our harsh environment and the breathtaking sunsets that make the sweltering summer heat worth it, there's plenty of beauty to capture. But Donjay, who aptly posts under the Instagram handle @donjay, shows the wonder of the desert and this city that has grown within it through his own eye, and we can't look away. Clean, natural, bold, and often creatively integrating a human element, Donjay captures the spirit of Phoenix and the surrounding areas through photos.
ASU Sorority Sisters at Chase Field.
Ask and you shall receive ... a duck face? After Arizona Diamondbacks commentators Steve Berthiaume and Bob Brenly asked the crowd at a game last October to take selfies and post them to Twitter, the two could not stop laughing about a group of ASU Alpha Chi Omega sorority sisters heeding their request. "Every girl in the picture is locked into her phone. Every single one is dialed in ... They're all just completely transfixed by the technology," one of them says. For a few straight minutes, the sportscasters continued to narrate the sisters' actions — "Gotta take a selfie with the hot dog. Selfie with the churro. Selfie just of a selfie ... Here's my first bite of the churro, here's my second bite of the churro" — launching the girls to viral fame. Critics of the two men accused them of sexism. "Just imagine a world where young women could grow up and feel confident in loving themselves without grown-ass adult men mocking them," one viewer tweeted. But the girls didn't seem to mind, posing for a group selfie that was tweeted out by the official D-backs Twitter account later that night.
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Our mission is to deliver the highest standard of training and programs for Doulas and Educators across the globe, to ensure that the rights, choices and empowerment of all people, across all of life's transitions are upheld, without judgement, with a focus on dignity and love.
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The Australian Doula College (ADC) is an integrated organisation working in collaboration with Preparing the Way, providing education, support and continuity of care for Birth and End of Life Doulas and anyone needing support through any one of life's many transitions.
Through our network of qualified and experienced educators, doulas and other practitioners, we can offer a variety of services, training and information programs and support.
At the ADC we believe that the first and last breath are the biggest life transitions you make and that you and those around you deserve to understand your choices and feel supported, ensuring you and your family has the best experience possible.
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Renee, you & your team at the College are absolutely amazing! You are an inspiration to me & the work you do in support of women is sacred!
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Renee Adair is the founder and principal educator of the Australian Doula College, The Groundwork Program and our charity-arm Doula Heart Network. She first began working with women and babies in 1994 as a massage and Aromatherapist and Reiki Practitioner and in 1998 began studying and working as a Doula, Childbirth and Early Parenting Educator and Birth Counsellor.
For three and half years Renee then worked for the Australian Red Cross at their young women's health program/refuge and set up both the outreach and childbirth and early parenting education programs for that service. Renee has spoken on a variety of Radio programmes on the subject of both birth and end of life Doula support. She also presents at conferences and seminars and is currently sitting on the Consumer Advisory Board of the Australian College of Midwives. Renee has been a regular contributor in pregnancy and parenting publications and websites over the years and under the ADC banner created the first Doula research in Australia which was published in the Journal of Perinatal Education in 2013. In her career she has supported hundreds of women, their partners and families through pregnancy, birth and the early parenting phase.
In recent years Renee has moved to change the way we think about Doula support and helped launch Preparing the Way – End of Life Doula Training, in collaboration with its founder Helen Callanan which has created the space for the wider community to see Doulas as a support though both the first and last breath and any one of many lifes transitions in between.
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Our team is made up of a group of dynamic, diverse, positive and passionate women. We are all trained, certified educators and doulas and all of us hold a variety of other qualifications. Collectively we have over 100 years of experience! We work together to enhance your experience with the Australian Doula College.
Ashleigh Dodd
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Ashleigh begun her career volunteering in the USA, working with people who required support from all walks of life including disabilities, mental health, youth, AOD dependencies, criminal justice, aged care, child protection and women in crisis. Ashleigh has been working in the Community Services Sector since 2005, supporting people to achieve what is important to them.
This stemmed into support worker roles through to management of state wide organisations striving to empower and support individuals on their journey. Throughout this work Ashleigh has complemented experience with studied obtaining degrees in Community Services, Management, Business and is a qualified Trainer and Assessor.Ashleigh's passion really begun to focus on women and babies as she embraced her own journey to start her family.
Ashleigh has ecstatically empowered women to have the best birthing experience possible. Ashleigh will be furthering her studies by undertaking the Cert IV in Doula Support Services and Child Birth Educators training. Ashleigh passionately believes families have the right to be informed, educated, supported and empowered to pave the way of their own journey. Ashleigh is dedicated to supporting people to strive for what is most important to them.
Ashleigh is based in Victoria keeping busy whilst raising her young babes with her loving Hubby!
Laura Ventura
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Laura has always had a passion for educating and supporting women in all aspects of their lives but specifically fertility and pregnancy support, and has done so as a Naturopath and Homeopath and Lecturer since 2000.
After attending the ADC retreat in 2013 she went on to completed her Cert IV in Doula Support Services followed by the Child Birth Educator qualification. This allowed her to transitioned into the role she didn't realise she had been searching for all along. This journey has also led her to End of Life Doula training, which she completed with Helen Callanan in 2016. Laura now combines her passion as an educator as a member of the Brisbane team and continues to support individual clients from Birth to End of Life.
Laura says her journey can only be described as heart-warming and humbling… "When I am asked about supporting birth and death, I like to use the quote 'same same different…One is breathing in and one is breathing out…One enters the world and one exits…' The same support, information, love, and holding the space is required, and both are sacred and precious times in our lives that we all must travel through. It is an honour to give support and bear witness in such sacred moments… Every transition in life teaches us that love, compassion and understanding is the key…."
Laura lives in Brisbane with her husband and beautiful son and step son.
Lucretia McCarthy
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Lucretia (Lu) has been supporting women to have babies since 1998 and after attending many births, including 2 of her own, she trained to become a doula at the Australian Doula College, she then continued to complete her childbirth education training through the college 2 years later.
She has supported over 250 women and their families during their pregnancy birth and the postnatal period. It is by far the most rewarding work she has ever done. During this time, she has also loved having the opportunity to teach and mentor new doulas, with teaching being another passion in this incredible work.
Lu is currently in her 3rd year of her midwifery degree and will continue to provide continuity of care to women when she is a midwife, knowing the absolute value of this model of care. She believes women must be respected and listened to in labour and birth as this philosophy provides a strong foundation for women and their partners when entering into parenthood.
Lu lives in the lower Blue Mountains with her husband Greg, two daughters Brooke and Bailey and their beautiful dog Braxton.
Jacki Haywood
Correspondence Coordinator and Brisbane Educator
Jacki has had an interest in pregnancy and birth since the conception of her first child. She has seen childbirth through the 80's, 90's and now the honoured. Jacki has seen childbirth shift and change and when the opportunity to become a doula arose in 2007 wit the ADC Jacki seized it with an open heart. This journey led her to become an early parenting and childbirth educator with the ADC. The role of educating women struck a cord with Jacki and has been her passion for a few years now.
Jacki attended the ADC retreat in 2014 where she was introduced to the idea of doulas for the dying by Helen Callanan. The premise that birth and death are very closely related resonated strongly with Jacki. While Jacki continues with her passion of providing education through the Brisbane arm of the ADC as well as supporting individual clients on their pregnancy and birth journeys, Jacki has decided to pursue her interest in palliative care.
Jacki is now studying with the Mater hospital to become an Enrolled nurse with the end goal to marry all of her other skills and work in palliative care. Birth and death….same, same….only different.
Gaby Rodgers
When a friend asked Gaby to be a support person for her and her husband for their first child's birth in 1991 her passion was ignited. Gaby has five beautiful children and because all her births were so different (hospital, medicated and natural) she feels that she can offer a lot to expectant mothers and their partner with her patience, flexibility, guidance and full individual attention.
Gaby is passionate about helping, nurturing, educating and guiding women in birth so that they can have the birth THEY want. Providing enough information to the expecting mum and their partner so that they can make informed choices is central to Gaby's philosophy on childbirth. She believes when you are fully informed you can take a more active role in the decision-making regarding the birth of your child.
Gaby studied to be a Doula with Birth Central in 2004 and qualified as a certified Doula in 2005. She then studied to become a Childbirth Educator and Postnatal Doula with the Australian Doula College in 2006 and is now teaching at the College in Sydney.
Katie Manitas
Katie Manitsas has been teaching yoga for over 20 years and practicing as a doula for over 10 years. Katie is a published author of several books including 'The Yoga of Birth' and the more recent 'Mindful Living'. She is the mother of four young boys and lives with her loud and busy family in Sydney's Inner West. Katie co-teaches on the Sadhana of Birth a prenatal yoga training combined with doula training and also teaches for the ACD as a trainer.
Carina Eggleston
Perth Educator
Carina is married to an Australian Army soldier and has lived all over Australia. She became a registered Psychologist in 2003. In her capacity as a Psychologist she worked with many diverse individuals and cultures. These included indigenous people in the Northern Territory and NSW, inmates, geriatric and dementia clients, military personnel of all sevices and ranks and military families. She also worked with people injured at work in a rehabilitation capacity. Following the births of her three children, Carina developed a passion for birth, driven by the desire to help other military wives birth when their partners were deployed.
Carina studied her Certificate IV in Doula Studies through the Australian Doula College in 2014. She then continued her studies and completed her Certificate in Childbrith Education, develping her own 6 Part Childbirth Education Course.
Carina had the amazing opportunity to live in South Korea in 2016 and 2017, and practiced as a doula in this country. It opened her eyes to a wide range of practices, that she had not experienced before in Australia.
Carina has assited many couples on their journey to parenthood! She has been present at a variety of births, including vaginal, VBAC and caeseran. She has been privledged to be present in the operating theatre of one of her clients, when her husband was denied access. And sadly, but importantly, Carina has had experience in assisting a mother through her difficult journey of a late term miscarriage/stillbirth.
And finally, Carina is passionate about a healthy mind and healty body. She is a certified Crossfit Trainer (Level 2 and Crossfit Kids) and has her Certificate III in Fitness. She prefers to work with pregnant, post-partum and de-conditioned mums. She believes that exercise is the key to reducing the prevalence of post natal-depression that she continually sees in her communities.
Carina is now based in the north-western suburbs of Perth, WA. In her spare time she volunteer's at the local dog shelter, enjoys the great outdoors and involves herself with Scout Australia activities!
Paulette d'Argent
Doula Services Manager
Paulette comes to us with a big heart, a wealth of knowledge and expertise as a Social Worker and qualified Doula who trained with us at the ADC. She has over 15 years of experience working with the highly vulnerable, traumatised and marginalised people in Melbourne, Vic. Paulette works from a trauma informed lens and way of practice and has gained this knowledge from her time working within Federal Govt, NGO's and within the Health System, all of which have enriched her with a wide scope of understanding the needs of both the systems and people of society and everything in between.
Her most recent roles have been working with survivors of torture particularly refugees and asylum seekers at an NGO in Melbourne, and also vulnerable women during their perinatal periods of their lives (before, during and after birth) within a major Health system. Paulette feels incredibly honoured to have had the opportunity to support, work with and learn from these phenomenally resilient people giving her a deeper insight into societal and political constructs, adversities and the depths of pain and trauma that humans face on a day to day basis. She can often hear herself saying to her children, compassion towards the self and therefore towards humankind is what is most important .
Paulette is a qualified and trained birth and post partum doula, massage therapist and Counsellor who is based in South East Melbourne. She is a passionate mama of 6 children, two biological children ( a wise teenage girl, and an old soul of a ten year old boy) , a proud step mum of two teenage boys who are navigating the world amazingly and two little ginger rescue cats named Rufus and Biggie Smalls.
Paulette is thrilled to be joining the ADC team, particularly as she has first hand experience coming through the college as a student and has a sound understanding of all of the raw emotions, challenges, rewards and the individual transformations that come with the learning.
Raewyn Fernandez
Social Media, Website & Canvas Admin
Raewyn is an experienced and passionate Yoga Teacher with a background in Corporate Sales, Personal Coaching, Marketing and Small Business.
Based in the Wollondilly region, outside of Sydney Raewyn has regular yoga offerings for both adults and children and also offers Reiki through yoga and in private consultations. She is a Mama to two beautiful children and one 4 legged baby and has a passion for the wellness world.
Raewyn supports the ADC through their social marketing platforms, website administration and also through the Canvas training platform.
Karen Cairo
Karen grew up in the United States and has become a permanent resident of Australia. Although not a doula herself, she is passionate about family, being one of six children, and is honoured to work with such a special community of women.
Anthea Hewett
Anthea comes to the ADC with a background working in the creative and performing arts, and various administrative and customer service roles. In addition to her work at the ADC, Anthea is a parenthood photographer, intent on creating honest records of the transition into parenthood. She is honoured to work with the ADC team, and lives on the Illawarra Coast of NSW.


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Q: how to prevent output volume popping back to 100% The output volume in Ubuntu normally can go up to 100% unamplified. It is possible to go beyond this to amplified levels using settings in the interface of gnome-control-center sound. However, when a standard volume control on a keyboard or headset is used, the volume pops back down from the amplified region - making the amplified region inaccessible by these normal controls. So, for example, let's say I have the following settings:

In this configuration, if I now select the volume up option on my headset, the volume decreases to the 100% level. This is counter-intuitive for me. How can I prevent this behaviour from occurring? I would like to have this full range accessible to me using the normal controls on my keyboard, headset etc. Thanks for any ideas!


Congratulations are in order for Memphis, Tennessee's Booker T. Washington High School. The school is the winner of the 2011 Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge. President Obama will head there later this spring to deliver the graduation speech.
Booker T. Washington opened its doors in 1873 and was the first public high school in segregated Memphis that black students were allowed to attend. As the school's finalist video details, in recent years the 500-student campus has overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles—98 percent of students live in poverty and 20 percent of student's homes were lost when a housing project was demolished—and increased the graduation rate from 55 to 82 percent.
Out of all the finalists in the competition, I'll admit I've been secretly rooting for Booker T. Washington. Every time I watched their submission video, I cried. If you watch it all the way through and see what kind of change is possible in some of our toughest schools, it's pretty impossible to not walk away feeling emotional and inspired. Congratulations to the students and staff there for all their hard work and dedication.
Liz is GOOD's education editor. She taught in Guangzhou, China and Compton, California, and worked for Teach For America. She's written for Good Housekeeping, Parenting and numerous online publications.


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Q: swi-prolog: how to sort list of lists by NTH element of sublist, ALLOWING DUPLICATES (I have used 'asserta' to put a large csv file with several columns into the database.) Is there a way to sort numerically by column without removing duplicates?
As you can see from my simple example (which sorts by the second column / element), the predsort method removes duplicates.
I could work around this by switching and removing some columns and using msort, but am asking you specifically here for an alternative.
Any advice would be v much appreciated !
mycompare(X,E1,E2):-
E1=[_,A1],E2=[_,A2],compare(X, A1, A2).

?- predsort(mycompare,[ [[95, 97], 11], [[97, 99], 4], [[97, 98], 4]],X).
X = [[[97, 99], 4], [[95, 97], 11]].

?- msort([ [[95, 97], 11], [[97, 99], 4], [[97, 98], 4]],X).
X = [[[95, 97], 11], [[97, 98], 4], [[97, 99], 4]].

%What I want is:
?- wanted_sort(...<as above>...).
X = [[[97, 98], 4], [[97, 99], 4], [[95, 97], 11] ].

A: The standard way to do this would be to use keysort/2. So first you start by mapping the elements accordingly, then keysorting, and mapping back the values.
list_pairs([], []).
list_pairs([E|Es], [B-E|Ps]) :-
   E = [_,B],
   list_pairs(Es, Ps).

pairs_values([], []).
pairs_values([_-V|Ps], [V|Vs]) :-
   pairs_values(Ps, Vs).

andrew_sort(Xs, Ys) :-
   list_pairs(Xs, Ps),
   keysort(Ps, PsS),
   pairs_values(PsS, Ys).

For other uses of keysort/2 see this list.

A: Imho predsort/3 provides a very general and fairly efficient way to do - it's as simple as avoiding returning = from the comparison predicate. Example:
?- [user].
|: comparer(<, A, B) :- A @< B.
|: comparer(>, _, _).
(^D here)
true.

?- predsort(comparer, [1,2,1,a,b,a], L).
L = [1, 1, 2, a, a, b].

Your test case:
mycompare(<,[_,A1|_],[_,A2|_]) :- A1 < A2.
mycompare(>, _, _).

yields
?- predsort(mycompare,[ [[95, 97], 11], [[97, 99], 4], [[97, 98], 4]],X).
X = [[[97, 98], 4], [[97, 99], 4], [[95, 97], 11]].

I slightly generalized the pattern matched, from [_,N] to [_,N|_]...
edit: it's funny, I didn't read the title...
to generalize comparing for nth argument:
?- predsort(nthcompare(2),[ [[95, 97], 11], [[97, 99], 4], [[97, 98], 4]],X).
X = [[[97, 98], 4], [[97, 99], 4], [[95, 97], 11]].

and nthcompare/4 itself:
nthcompare(N,<,A,B) :- nth1(N,A,X),nth1(N,B,Y), X @< Y.
nthcompare(_,>,_,_).

that is...


Do you really want your daughter going through life always being told Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!?
Aunt Edna: You're driving me to Phoenix!
Do you want to buy Marvin Gardens? Didn't think so.
Only time this is alright is if their middle name is Jam.
Uh, you invest in this, you don't name your baby it.
A sweet baby name but don't.


Stonehouse Podiatry and Chiropody Plymouth is situated within Stonehouse in the Millfields.
Video gait analysis can be set up inside or outside with a safe walking and running area on site.
Chiropody treatments take place in a comfortable environment with plenty of room for biomechanical assessments.
A range of insoles are available depending on the treatment required. Custom made insoles are manufactured by Stonehouse Podiatry and Chiropody Plymouth.
Specialising in biomechanics and insole manufacture.


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import java.io.Serializable;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.security.KeyManagementException;
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Allopurinol, an inexpensive drug used to prevent gout for more than 50 years, has been shown to reduce thickening of the heart muscle wall, known as Left Ventricular Hypertrophy (LVH), in diabetes patients. Reducing thickening is known to help reduce the risk of future cardiovascular events and, as heart disease and stroke account for 65 per cent of all fatalities in people with diabetes, the findings offer the possibility of improving the life expectancy of patients.
The senior corresponding author on the study, Dr Jacob George from the University's Division of Cardiovascular & Diabetes Medicine says that this follows on from previous studies at Dundee that have shown that allopurinol has benefits for patients with heart failure, angina and previous stroke.
"Cardiovascular disease is the single biggest cause of death in diabetic patients," said Dr George. "Diabetics' cardiovascular risk is significantly higher than non-diabetics. In particular, large trials have previously shown us that patients with left ventricular hypertrophy are at much higher risk and so it should follow that if we reduce LVH we will reduce mortality rates.
"Previously, our group have looked at patients with coronary artery disease and how allopurinol helps them, but this is the first time we have looked specifically at people with Type II diabetes who have heart muscle thickening.
"There may be different reasons for patients with coronary heart disease and those with diabetes experiencing left ventricular hypertrophy and although we had good reason to suppose that allopurinol should help to reduce thickening in this second group, it had never been proven before.
Dr George and his colleagues looked at a sample group of 66 Type II diabetes patients, half of whom who were given allopurinol and half a placebo for nine months. The results showed that the thickness of the heart muscle wall, measured by cardiac MRI, was significantly reduced in the group who took allopurinol.
It is believed that allopurinol reduces oxidative stress, the process that leads to the production of damaging free radicals that cause thickening of the left ventricle of the heart, while also improving blood vessel health. This means the blood vessels will provide less resistance against the pumping of the heart and such resistance has been shown to cause LVH.
The research, funded by the charity Diabetes UK, is also interesting in that it shows allopurinol does not affect blood pressure, unlike other drugs currently used to reduce LVH.
Dr George continued, "The most common reason for developing LVH is high blood pressure but our patients were very well controlled with optimal treatments currently available for patients and despite that still experienced thickening. This might be down to oxidative stress molecules, and there is evidence that diabetes patients experience higher levels of this that the non-diabetic population.
"If a larger-scale study backs up these findings then there is reason to be excited about the potential for using allopurinol as a therapy to reduce cardiovascular events in patients with Type II diabetes. It has been on the market for decades so is cheap and safe and our research suggests it is a way of treating LVH without lowering blood pressure.


Guar gum keeps ice cream smooth by preventing ice crystals from forming.
Guar gum was previously used as an ingredient in non-prescription diet pills.
Guar gum naturally binds with water molecules.
Guar gum is similar to locust bean gum, which can be found in condiments.
Guar gum can best be described as a natural food thickener, similar to locust bean gum, cornstarch or tapioca flour. It is said to have significantly more thickening ability than cornstarch, at a fraction of the cost. This has made it a popular additive in products such as puddings and ice creams. Until recently, it was also an ingredient in non-prescription diet pills designed to create a sense of fullness.
The guar plant, also known as a cluster plant, grows primarily in Pakistan and the northern regions of India. It thrives on the drought/monsoon cycles present in those areas. The plants are harvested after the monsoon season and the seeds are allowed to dry in the sun. The seeds are then manually or mechanically separated and processed into a flour or sold as split seeds. Guar gum is an important cash crop for the Indian and Pakistani economies.
While consumers may balk at such "exotic" ingredients as locust bean gum, carageenan and guar gum, the truth is many ice creams, puddings, and canned sauces would be fairly inedible without them. Guar gum is not just a thickening agent, but a binder and plasticizer as well. When untreated ice cream melts and refreezes, grainy ice crystals often form. This substance has the natural ability to bind with water molecules, preventing them from forming the unwanted crystals. Processed foods with creamy textures are primarily held together with binders such as this. Without a binder, the individual ingredients might separate into a watery mess.
The use of guar gum as an ingredient in non-prescription diet aids was officially banned in the early 1990s by the FDA. It would bind with liquids in the stomach and swell, causing a feeling of satisfying fullness. This swollen mass could also cause dangerous intestinal and duodenal blockages, however. Guar gum was declared unsafe and ineffective for use as a non-prescription diet aid, although it is still used in small amounts as a food thickener and binder.
What is the Difference Between Xanthan Gum and Guar Gum?
What are Some Common Food Additives?
I have always used 'guargum' in replace of a dirty word. Very handy! Very useful!
Oops! I forgot an important ingredient in the ice cream. You need sugar as well, and this is the stabilizer. If you want to be healthier, you can use the cane crystals or something like Stevia.
Sorry. It was the xanthan gum that was related to causing "black rot" on broccoli and other veggies. The same bacteria used in the fermenting process that produces xanthan gum is the bacteria that causes the black rot on some leafy vegetables. Since both are in the Red Mill mix, I am not sure it's wise to eat it.
This is in Bob's Red mill gluten free pizza crust mix. So is Xanthan gum. Neither sounds too good for me. I do get migraines, and I am searching for foods that might cause them, so should I eat this?
I don't need it in ice cream! I use four ingredients: cream, milk, vanilla and a flavoring. It isn't watery and it tastes so pure and yummy! It's a little soft before you freeze it a couple hours. But, fresh is the best. It's truly the creamiest ice cream I've ever tasted. My family doesn't like store bought ice cream anymore since we learned how to make homemade.
You don't need any kind of starch to thicken a sauce. I use brown rice flour or, if it's something with potatoes in it, I use Honest Earth instant potatoes (the best brand). If this causes mold on veggies, why do I want to eat it?
@Post 63: When you went to use the coconut milk, I hope that you shook the can really well, because if you didn't, it would have a thick cream on top and the coconut water on the bottom and maybe that's why it messed with your cooking. It's just a suggestion. Also, it depends on what type of coconut milk you purchased. I purchase fruitroic which is made in Thailand and it's not expensive at all. I've never had a problem with it.
Also when I have some left over, I put it in a glass jar and when I reuse it, I shake it so it stays together as milk and not cream. Or you could also freeze the milk as it will also stay longer. Hope this helps.
@Post 17: here is your answer.
Remove any shell fragments from cashews, then add cashews to a bowl and cover with water; let soak for about two or three hours.
Drain cashews and rinse under water.
Add cashews to a new bowl with 1/3 cup light coconut milk, 1 teaspoon yellow mustard, 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar, salt to taste, and lemon juice. Mix together and let the flavors marry for about four to six hours.
Add marinated cashews to a high-speed blender like a Vita-Mix, along with an additional 1/3 cup light coconut milk and three tablespoons apple cider vinegar, plus 1/2 cup water, 2 teaspoons xanthan or guar gum, 1/8 teaspoon mustard powder, and salt to taste.
Blend on high for about two minutes or until smooth, creamy and fluffy but not too airy.
Makes about 2-2.5 cups mayonnaise.
Notes: There might be some dark specks of cashew in it, but don't be alarmed by them. If mixture is too thick or too thin, add or subtract water or gums as needed. If flavor is too bland, try adjusting salt, mustard, and/or apple cider vinegar. Taste midway through blending.
Hope this helps with your answer. Remember, if you find it is too much for your stomach to handle, cut down the gum to 1 instead. Enjoy.
Yuck! I have found this site because I am replacing dairy in my vegetarian diet and want to continue to enjoy as many of my former food loves as possible. Vegan cheese is out, because if it isn't real, I don't want to eat it. I use almost no processed foods. However, I thought I'd try light coconut milk instead of whole to keep the fat down. When I just poured it out of the tin and into my stir fry, the texture looked all weird. I checked the tin and sure enough, it has guar gum in it, and the texture of my stir fry is totally messed up. Argh - why do they keep messing with our food? It just doesn't taste good, let alone what it does to our health.
Re: post 19. Why are research pigs fed 10 percent guar gum when so much of the human population consumes guar gum already? We are not pigs.
Why not do studies on human volunteers so that study conclusions apply directly to humans? Medicine based on animal research is inaccurate and, hence, quite risky. Animal testing is not done to ensure our safety, but only for compliance with the law. Test on humans! Results are more reliable, and testing on humans is much more likely to be ethical. The old argument that animal testing protects humans from harm is a myth. Each animal species, including homo sapiens, has a unique physiology. It's safer to base research on human physiology.
Guar may be considered all natural, but it is not natural to many of us. All my family have a reaction to it. I have the worst. I get very painful abdominal cramps to the point of blacking out, then I get diarrhea. Somehow I do not feel this is natural!
Many of the products such as ice cream got along just fine before they added guar. In fact, some of the higher end ice creams still do.
Don't do guar gum. It will mess you up in more ways than one. I speak from experience. End of story.
For those of you suffering from migraine headaches, guar gum could be the source so try to eliminate guar gum as much as possible and see if your migraines subside.
Does guar gum contain caffeine naturally?
The guar market is going crazy. We are working with a company called OnSet Worldwide who developed a replacement for guar in the food and industrial industry. It works great!
Put a little effort in preparing food yourself. Eat pure. Read labels don't buy anything that the food industry altered. Let's define who the bosses are when it comes to what we eat. Our bodies are temples. Let's treat them as such.
I'm diabetic and avoid as much starch and carbs as possible and use guar gum regularly for gravy and other thickening tasks.
Guar gum has about eight times the thickening power of cornstarch without the starch sugars. A bottle from my local health food store will last for years since it is used so sparingly and I've never had it go bad.
I just had a guar gum reaction immediately following ingesting a teaspoon of pie crust that I put together with 1/4 teaspoon of guar gum in it.
The pie crust was delicious, but I immediately felt a blockage of energy, hot in my shoulder/neck/head area, like everything in my upper body was not in motion the way it should normally be, and I started to panic. I took two huge glasses of cold water and four immune capsules (by Orenda. They are great for allergy symptoms, but not intended for emergencies. I just thought of them though and tried it) and I gradually started to get normalcy back.
I still feel like there is glue running through my upper body, and will continue with water to flush it out asap. Wow. it just hit me so quickly! Yikes! Guys, I don't have allergies, and have been extremely healthy all of my 58 years! Beware of this stuff.
Does any one know what valgum is (it must be gum like)?
I've become gluten intolerant in the last ten years. So, I've been on the search for anything to help me bake gluten free breads. I do not like to use things that are too processed. That leaves guar gum and xanthan gum out.
During all this, I've been eating brown rice as a substitute with my meals. Heck. I don't even miss breads anymore. But it did take a long time. Still, when I do want to cook with some sort of thickening agent, I've used arrowroot and agar agar (seaweed).
why anyone with any sense would eat soy protein and especially when they're pregnant is beyond comprehension and logic. Sad, but Archer Daniels loves to hear about using that toxic substance, for you see, they're soy producers.
Please, do not, ever eat soy except in fermented form like Natto, naturally fermented organic soy sauce, miso, etc. After all, Asians eat only two tablespoons per capita, but why copy Asians? Maybe the Japanese, but why bother with soy in the first place? It's full of non-digestive elements.
why is guar gum called guar gum?
You said that guar gum is banned. May I use it in little concentrations or may it not be used in any concentration?
What are the main differences among guar gum, xanthan gum, carrageenan, and the other gums? For example, the application? Can I them use in non food and beverages products?
I belong to the arid area of Pakistan. I live in village.People of my village cultivate guar for animal food. guar is very cheap here. I came to know it is not proper use of guar. So i want to export it.
i just bought this Energizing Soy Protein by Shaklee. it was recommended by a friend as she mentioned that it's good for me as i am pregnant, but when i look at its ingredients it contains guar gum.
if taking a lot of guar gum in one time, can i drink a lot of water to dilute to avoid swelling, obstructing?
Anyone know if guar gum and gum tragacanth would be interchangeable - specifically for use in fondant icing for cakes? Gum tragacanth is used to make icing more pliable and to then set harder.
I knew it was the guar gum. I read about this a few months ago when I first saw it in the ingredients of that Purely Decadent coconut ice cream. I seemed fine when I first had it back then, and I thought, "hey, it happens to other people, but I feel fine."
Right now I feel like I'm going to explode. I vow never to eat the stuff again. I'm up at 3:45 am and I can't sleep because of it. I feel like I don't ever want to eat again. It's horrible.
No wonder when I ate oatmeal that has guar gum in it would make me so full and uncomfortable. My stomach would get really swollen and now I stay away from it.
I just don't like the way guar gum sounds.
what's the difference between guar gum and xanthan gum? are both needed for making ice cream, or will one suffice?
I'm sick and tired of corporations adulterating our food supply with 'thickeners', especially when these are added to foundational products like milk/cream, bread and meat.
If extenders and other crap is added to processed food, I can avoid it. But it is no longer possible to buy cream at the grocery store that hasn't been 'improved'. There are very few ice creams left either. I suspect butter also contains extenders now because it contains cream.
This crap bloats me and makes me sick and drives my glucose levels crazy (I have a blood glucose meter). All so that food factories can become bigger and ship their products further. I want natural food, not a 'product'.
Are there any rancidity issues with guar gum once it has been hydrated? I'm using it to thicken homemade toothpaste and am wondering if it needs refrigeration. I just made the first batch the other day and it smells a little weird but that could be the 'beaniness'?
Seems like there are a lot of questions on Guar gum. Yes, it's safe for gluten free folks. You can find it in most health food stores. Use about a half to one teaspoon per cup of baking flour mix of your choice.
I use it instead of xanthan gum because I am allergic to corn products as well as gluten. Xanthan gum is grown on corn sugars. Guar gum is the seed from a plant as described above. Both are good for GF baking.
I found a coconut-cream based ice cream substitute called Coconut Bliss and it has guar gum listed in the ingredients.
Anyway, the fiber content of 1 cup is listed at 8 grams or 36 percent of your RDA.
I seemed to remember hearing about issues with guar gum in the past in regards to intestinal blockages and bumped into this site while doing some research.
how many people are allergic to guar gum? I am and it is a major pain reading labels to make sure i don't eat any of it. i even have to carry an epi-pen because of the reaction i get.
Xanthan gum and guar gum are often used in gluten-free recipes as binders and thickeners. If you are currently on a gluten-free diet, you should be able to tolerate any food product containing guar gum, although some people do report unpleasant gastrointestinal side effects if they consume too much of it. Diet products containing high concentrations of guar gum, however, may be risky to consume regardless of your type of diet. Because many gluten-free food products are naturally lower in carbohydrates, they should be acceptable for a high protein/low carb diet plan. It is still important to read the nutritional information on the product's label to determine if the total carbohydrate count is reasonable. Ice cream may contain guar gum, for example, but still have a substantial amount of carbohydrates because of the sweeteners.
Hi, I'm on a high protein and low carb diet and was wondering whether Guar Gum was great to use or not? I'm looking for a food thickener that works in well with my diet. Also, does anyone know of any "Carb free" stir fry sauces and marinades?
can we use gaur gum as gelling agent in eye?
if you have a gluten free diet, can you have guar gum in anything?
I once read that guar gum can help lower cholestrol. Is this true? and if so how much should one take?
i am not able to eat any products using guar gum as it gives me diarrhea. Do you know how many products contain guar gum? I can only eat one commercial ice cream and soft ice cream as at McDonalds. Please, I've even found it in bagels! Give me the old cornstarch or tapioca thickeners. I am tired of reading every label at the grocery.
You cannot use guar gum as sticking agent on bread, as it a stabilizer and thickening agent.
i was wanting to know if i glutinous rice flour would do the same job as guar gum.
Where can I buy some guar gum?
I wish to use guar gum solution as a sticking agent to stick the sesame seeds over the bun surface. I tried this practice through spray system but gum solution is not passing from spray nozzle to convert into tiny droplets.
Thanks & regards. --Junaid Ahmed Khan, Bakery Department, Cupola, Pakistan.
my question has not been answered yet, #17, how much guar gum should be used in an 8 oz jar of oil and nut based mayonnaise?
Can people who are fructose intolerant use this without any worries?
How much guar gum would one use to bind an 8 oz jar of oil and nut based mayonnaise?
Guar gum is used as a clumping agent in cat litter... see Feline Pine Flakes... yum!
I am on a gluten free diet. Is "guar gum" OK?
I was just diagnosed as allergic to soybeans, peas, and peanuts (all legumes), and during my research online (at about.com, to be precise) it says to avoid guar gum... is it because its in the same family?
Yes--guar gum is used to make the Foods By George English Muffins that I absolutely LOVE. They are gluten-free.
For those who want to cook gluten-free, I suggest trying ground chia seeds (has properties a bit like flax seeds, but better, in my opinion) or arrowroot powder. These will give consistence and btw chia is ultra-nutritious and isn't processed at all!
I'm counting calories and want to lower the calories in pudding by using Guar Gum. I made a batch using 1 teaspoon guar gum to 2.5 cups milk. The pudding tasted great but was gluey and wouldn't set. Any suggestions or recipes for it? Do I need to mix it with corn starch?
Emulsifiers like guar gum have made possible the shipment and storage of commercial ice cream. The term "creaminess" has nothing to do with cream but rather is a marketing term to convince consumers that we want the consistency of this product which is most efficiently mass-produced for shipment. The delectable icy crunch of hand-cranked and some commercially produced ice creams could be more desirable if economics warranted their marketing as such. "Creaminess" is a by-product of manufacturing a stable shippable product. Most consumers want it because marketing has done its job well.
I'm allergic to xanthan gum. I suspect because of its relation to mold. Is guar gum a reasonable substitute in gluten-free baking?
I'm sold on gum guar for making ice creams and thickening Indian chai (like Starbucks uses it to thicken their frappuccinos), but do you have a rule of thumb for how much to use? I've discovered that a very little goes a long long way.
Guar Gum contains some protein residue (4 to 6 %), is there any method available to eliminate all residue?
Is Guar Gum used as a substitute for Gluten in bread products for people who are Coeliac and require gluten free food?
"The dietary supplement Benefiber is almost 100 percent guar gum." is no longer true. Benefiber recently changed it formula to "wheat dextrin".