I Eat A Lot of Parsley on My Keto Diet. Here's Why.
Parsley may be a tiny herb, but it has big health benefits when paired with a keto lifestyle. You might be picturing sprinkling some extra parsley on top of your meal, but to get the maximum benefit from this powerhouse herb, consider making it the shining star of your meal instead. The flavor is amazing, but parsley's nutritional benefits are what will really captivate you!
I personally love using parsley to make my favorite pesto, it makes for such an easy addition to any meal. Let's take a closer look at parsley, how it can be used to enhance the benefits of a keto lifestyle, and some ideas for incorporating it into the foods you already enjoy.
Parsley, coming from a Greek word meaning "celery-rock" is a flowering plant that is native to the Mediterranean, but it has been used around the world for centuries as an herb, garnishes, and medicine1. It is a member of the Apiaceae family of herbs, along with other herbs, such as dill and fennel2. There are three types of parsley: Curled leaf, Flat leaf, and Root parsley. Curled leaf parsley, the most common variety, is sturdy enough to be used as a garnish, and it is usually the type that is found dried in the spice section of the grocery store. It has a clean, fresh taste that is used to brighten up a dish. Flat leaf, also called Italian parsley, has more flavor than curled leaf, in addition to being more fragrant and less bitter. Root parsley, also called Hamburg parsley, is lesser known, and typically found in ethnic grocery stores. With root parsley, the leaves are discarded, and the root is eaten. Root parsley resembles a parsnip in appearance and can be roasted, fried, or eaten raw.
Parsley has been cultivated for more than 2,000 years and was originally used as a medicine before it was used in cooking. With its antibacterial properties3, it was used to treat infections and skin wounds, but also to improve digestion and lower blood pressure. Its anti-inflammatory properties also made it a good choice for treating asthma.
Parsley's Greek meaning, "celery-rock," came from the fact that it was found growing on rocky hillsides in Greece. The Greek people originally used parsley to make wreaths that were placed on graves at funerals (which is how it got the nickname "funeral herb"), and it was also used to make crowns for winners of sporting games. Eventually, Romans discovered they could use the herb to cover up the smell of alcohol on their breath, and found it helped with digestion as well4. In addition, Parsley has been used by Hebrews as part of their Passover celebration, with parsley symbolizing rebirth. This little herb has a pretty amazing history5!
Despite all the medicinal, cultural, and religious uses for parsley, it finally began to be used as an herb and vegetable in the middle ages in Europe, and the rest is history. It is now widely used in North America, Europe, and the Middle East in soups, sauces, salads, and as a garnish used to add a fresh flavor to a variety of dishes.
Parsley is a wonderful addition to a keto diet – not only because of its anti-inflammatory and immune-boosting properties6, but also because it works alongside a keto lifestyle to further boost the anti-aging benefits of keto. Parsley also contributes to metabolic flexibility, mainly through reducing insulin resistance7. In addition, parsley is a great source of flavonoids, which we'll cover more in a minute. One of the ways parsley's flavonoids help enhance a keto diet is by boosting the production of liver enzymes that detoxify the body. Parsley fits in perfectly with a keto lifestyle aimed to reduce inflammation and disease and promote overall wellbeing8.
Parsley is a true nutrition powerhouse – not only does it help protect the body from carcinogens, it also has compounds that have been known to reduce inflammation, improve blood sugar control, and boost the immune system. Let's dive in and look at the specific components that give parsley its myriad of health benefits.
Parsley is a source of volatile oils and flavonoids that come packed with benefits. Volatile oils, such as myristicin, are found in parsley and help protect the body from carcinogens9 (like cigarette smoke and pesticides). Parsley is also known to be a good source of flavonoids, especially luteolin, apigenin, and myricetin10. These flavonoids have anti-aging and cancer-fighting properties11,12,13, so they are priceless! Luteolin can help prevent cell damage and amplify the anti-aging effects of the keto diet14. Apigenin and myricetin boost the production of liver enzymes that detoxify the body. Myricetin seems to be the most beneficial of all, helping to prevent skin cancer, improve blood sugar control, and reduce insulin resistance15. And parsley happens to have one of the highest concentrations of myricetin per 100 grams!
In addition to volatile oils and flavonoids, parsley is also a good source of Vitamins A, C, and K16. The Vitamin C in parsley helps neutralize cancer-causing free radicals18, reduces inflammation17, and is a key component of our immune system19. Parsley also contains Vitamin A in the form of beta-carotene20, which works as an antioxidant21, reduces inflammation, and boosts the immune system. Vitamin K is known to help keep our bones strong by helping calcium get deposited in our bones instead of being excreted in urine22.
Another huge health benefit of parsley is that it can block the harmful effects of heterocyclic amines, which are produced when meats are cooked at high temperatures. Pairing a parsley sauce or parsley – pesto with grilled meat can reduce the potential cancer-causing effects and boost the body's natural detoxifying ability. Now that we know all about what makes parsley so great, you're probably wondering how you can incorporate it more in your meals, so let's talk more about that.
1Pesto: As I mentioned earlier, one of my favorite ways to eat parsley is as part of a pesto. It's so easy to make and packs so much flavor. It is also full of healthy fats and is very versatile. I love having a bowl of parsley pesto with my favorite veggies – it makes such an easy meal. You could spoon a healthy amount over your favorite meat, fish, or veggies, and dinner is served!
2Parsley Salad: You may think of sprinkling some parsley over your favorite salad as a way to get a little extra parsley in your meal. But what if you made parsley the salad itself? With its fresh and crisp flavor, it's great as the base of a salad. You can add other veggies you enjoy, add some salmon, and top it with my favorite Fat Burning Guacamole for a complete meal.
3Parsley Sauces: Sauces are a great way to incorporate more parsley and healthy fats into your meals. They can be added to meat, fish, veggies, and eggs, and add so much fresh flavor. Gremolata is an Italian sauce that combines parsley, oil, lemon juice, and seasonings. It is great to toss with oven roasted vegetables or spoon over poached salmon. Chimichurri is a South American sauce that uses parsley, oil, garlic, and other seasonings. It is used as a marinade or sauce to spoon over meats and fish after cooking, but it is equally good mixed with veggies as well.
4Salad Dressings: In addition to adding fresh chopped parsley to your favorite salads, you can blend it into your salad dressing as well. Simply add a couple of tablespoons of parsley to your favorite salad dressing or make my Ultimate Salad Dressing. It is full of heart-healthy olive oil and is bursting with flavor!
5Smoothies: Smoothies are perfect when you're on-the-go and don't have time to sit down for a meal. A green smoothie is a great way to enhance nutrient absorption, improve digestion, and boost your immune system! Parsley can easily be added to your favorite green smoothie recipe – just add ¼ cup and blend it all together. Try a Supercharged Green Smoothie to enjoy one of my favorite healthy fats, Creamy MCT.
When you're looking for parsley, choose fresh when possible. The flavor is much more vibrant than dried, and you can eat it raw in salads, sauces, and smoothies. You'll want to choose parsley that is a vibrant green color with perky leaves. The more vibrant the color, the more nutrients it contains23. Try to avoid wilted parsley, especially if the leaves are starting to turn yellow or brown. Sometimes it can be hard to distinguish between parsley and cilantro, as they can look quite similar! The best way to tell the difference is by smelling them – they each have their own distinct smell.
Parsley is best when stored like you would a bouquet of flowers, in a jar of water. It will last the longest if you store it in the refrigerator covered loosely with a plastic bag. When stored correctly, parsley can last up to two weeks in the refrigerator.
Dried parsley can be a good option when you run out of fresh parsley, or when you'd like it to blend in with the other flavors in the dish. Dried parsley has a more muted flavor and is great in soups and sauces. It has all the same nutrients as fresh parsley, and some of the nutrients are actually more concentrated in dried parsley24. Store it in an airtight container with a tight-fitting lid. Stored at room temperature, it can last one to three years. To test if your dried parsley is still good, simply rub some between your fingers, then smell and taste it. If you can't really smell or taste it, it's time to replace it.
As you can see, I am so excited about parsley because it has a multitude of benefits that can support your keto lifestyle and improve your health. It's widely available and quite versatile – it fits into most savory recipes, so you can just incorporate it into meals you already enjoy. As a bonus, it pairs well with nourishing fats that support brain health and reduces inflammation. Are you as excited about enjoying parsley on your keto diet as me? The next step is to decide is which one to try first!
Lin, Yong, et al. "Luteolin, a Flavonoid with Potential for Cancer Prevention and Therapy." Current Cancer Drug Targets, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Nov. 2008, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2615542/.
Semwal, Deepak Kumar, et al. "Myricetin: A Dietary Molecule with Diverse Biological Activities." Nutrients, MDPI, 16 Feb. 2016, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772053/.


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Minuteman Founder Jim Gilchrist Storms Off Democracy Now! Debate With Columbia Student Organizer | Democracy Now!
The anti-immigration group the Minuteman Project announced yesterday that they are seeking to strip Columbia University of federal funding for what they say are violations of their civil rights. Last week, student demonstrators disrupted a speech by Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist who was invited to the school by the College Republicans.
Bollinger has vowed to launch an investigation into the student's actions. But at a press conference on Monday, the students claim that they were assaulted. They point to a video taken by a reporter from Univision. They say it depicts a member of the Minutemen kicking a student in the head.
Karina Garcia. Political Chair of the Chicano Caucus at Columbia University. Karina is a senior there.
We asked a representative from Columbia to join us as well but they declined our invitation.
AMY GOODMAN: Jim Gilchrist, who was the speaker at the event, joins us now from Irvine, California. He is the founder of the Minuteman Project and the co-author of Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders. Here in studio in New York, I'm joined by Karina Garcia. She is the political chair of the Chicano Caucus at Columbia University. Her group organized the protest outside the Minuteman event. We asked a representative from Columbia University to join us as well, but they declined our invitation.
Let's start with Jim Gilchrist. Can you talk about why you came to Columbia and what your message was?
JIM GILCHRIST: Yes, thanks for having me on your program. We came to Columbia from the invitation of the Republican club, student club at Columbia University, to speak about the book that Dr. Corsi and I wrote — Dr. Corsi also was scheduled to speak right after I was — and also about our views on the illegal immigration crisis that the United States is facing. We were there simply to disseminate information, not engage in what we've been accused of, as some kind of xenophobic racism. It's simply a lecture presented by three of us: Marvin Stewart, an African American member of my board of directors, Dr. Jerome Corsi, and myself.
AMY GOODMAN: And when you got to the university and you were giving your address, what is your view of what happened?
JIM GILCHRIST: There was a concerted effort to forever shut down the First Amendment by those who disagreed with what we were going to talk about. This is not something new. It's something that's been attempted in the past by other either student groups or anarchist groups, the International Socialist Organization, whose goal is to stamp out free speech if they do not agree with it, so this was not something new.
I didn't expect a storming of the stage, although it didn't surprise me, because I had mentioned earlier to security that they should have uniformed badge-carrying officers in front of the stage to deter something like that from happening. It's a shame what happened. It will go down in history forever as a day of infamy in Columbia University's annals.
AMY GOODMAN: Karina Garcia, your perspective on what happened? And where were you?
KARINA GARCIA: Thank you for having me. It's ridiculous for them to have turned it around and say that it's an issue of free speech. What we actually saw was two groups exercising their right to freedom of speech. One group was promoting hatred and violence, and the other group was loudly opposing it. We never asked for the university or for anybody, for that matter, to ban this man from speaking. He was able to reserve a hall in our auditorium. He had the security of the New York City Police Department. He had the security of Columbia University Public Safety. Nobody attacked Mr. Gilchrist.
AMY GOODMAN: And what then happened, when people went up on the stage?
KARINA GARCIA: When we went up on the stage, we were attacked by the Minutemen, as is evident in the Univision coverage.
AMY GOODMAN: And your response to the president of your university, Lee Bollinger's statement on Friday?
KARINA GARCIA: I think that he was feeling a lot of pressure from the rightwing media, FOX News, Bill O'Reilly going on TV when the university is in the middle of a capital campaign and telling donors to stop giving money to the university, them turning this into a free speech issue, which it was not. I think that he was feeling a lot of pressure to react and react quickly without actually seeing the evidence, and I think that if you look at his statement now, I think it's a lot different once the Univision coverage was shown. And then it showed who really were the people who were attacked and who were the aggressors in the situation.
AMY GOODMAN: Jim Gilchrist, your response.
JIM GILCHRIST: Yes, I'm going to end this interview until — for the outcome of — based on legal advice. What this lady is doing is putting a complete spin to her advantage. I don't — I have never murdered anybody. I have never engaged in violence. I have never encouraged any violence or racism, nor has anyone in the Minuteman Project. This was a concerted, premeditated effort by people like Ms. Garcia to stifle the First Amendment.
KARINA GARCIA: What about your ties to the National Alliance?
JIM GILCHRIST: —as defendants. I'm going to have to end this now, based on advice from legal counsel. I'm sorry.
KARINA GARCIA: Go ahead and run away.
AMY GOODMAN: Jim Gilchrist, I'm puzzled, are you sitting there with a lawyer?
AMY GOODMAN: We have just been cut off from our contact with Jim Gilchrist, who is in a studio in Irvine, California, says he had legal counsel to stop talking. Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minuteman Project and author of the book, Minutemen. Karina Garcia, your response.
KARINA GARCIA: He's a coward. He is very tough when he has a shotgun and he's in the middle of a desert intimidating defenseless immigrant families, but when it comes to being challenged by peaceful protesters and by people who understand this man and his organization for what they are, he runs away, and I think that was evident right now.
AMY GOODMAN: What was your comment about the National Alliance?
KARINA GARCIA: It's very — it's a known fact, this group recruits people from the National Alliance, one of the biggest neo-Nazi organizations in this country. This is an undisputed fact. Now, the fact that this organization is trying to clean up its image now and the fact that Jim Gilchrist has taken off his Klan hood and put on a suit doesn't mean that he isn't what he is and that his organization isn't what they are. David Duke took off his hood, too. He tried to run for governor of Louisiana, and he put on a suit, and does that change the person that he is, what it represents? Not one bit. What he represents in the Mexican community is the same thing — what the Minutemen represent in the Mexican community is the same thing that David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan represent for the African American community.
AMY GOODMAN: I'm sorry we couldn't carry on a dialogue, a discussion with you and Jim Gilchrist, but it was the College Republicans at Columbia who invited Gilchrist there. Have you had a discussion with them?
AMY GOODMAN: And what has been the response on campus of the protest?
KARINA GARCIA: It's been mixed. We've gotten a lot of support from people, but after the terrible coverage that we got from FOX, from the right wing, who mobilized very quickly to turn this into a free speech issue, which it clearly was not. people are mixed up. They don't understand exactly what happened. And then, that's why we held our press conference on Monday, to say exactly what happened. We didn't attack that man. We didn't attack him at all, and the video coverage shows just that.
AMY GOODMAN: Did the speech continue after you stood up with your signs that said, "No Human Being is Illegal"?
KARINA GARCIA: No, and that is not because this man felt physically threatened. This is because he was in the midst of a crowd of more than 150 people who were chanting when we got up on that stage and held our banner, and they were saying, "Si se puede! Si se puede!" And he felt isolated, because the entire time the crowd was against them, because they saw what they are, they know what they've done. And he terminated his own speech when he left, and that was not because he was threatened, like I said, but it was because he felt isolated and because he knew that he couldn't win, because we knew exactly who he was, and so do the millions of undocumented immigrants in this country who didn't have the ability to be in that room to call this man what he was.
AMY GOODMAN: Was there a difference between the English-language press coverage and Univision's coverage?
KARINA GARCIA: Oh, my God. Wow! There's a world of difference between the two. I mean, if you saw what they showed on Univision, it showed that we were attacked, and if you see what they showed on everything else, it was that this group of angry Mexicans just ran up on stage. And really, all they show is just like the tugging of a banner, which really isn't violent at all. I mean, there's no — there's nobody was attacking anybody in that situation, but they were quick to sell the narrative that we couldn't control ourselves and that we attacked these people.
And if you think about what Mayor Bloomberg went onto say, all of a sudden he's become the advocate of free speech and he's trying to like jump on it and make himself the free speech advocate. Now, if you think back two years ago when the Republican National Convention was in New York City, he wasn't allowing people protest permits so that they can protect against the war and against the Republican National Convention. This is coming from the same man.
So I think that it's important that we look at that and we remember who we're talking about. The fact that they want to silence students — like they don't — they're not promoting free speech. What they want is a pristine environment where racists and fascists can promote their agenda and their propaganda without challenge. That's what they're asking for.
AMY GOODMAN: Why is this issue so important to you, Karina?
KARINA GARCIA: The issue of immigration? The issue of the Minutemen?
AMY GOODMAN: The issue of immigration, the issue of the Minuteman spokesperson coming to — and founder — coming to Columbia?
KARINA GARCIA: This isn't an organization with ideas. These are people with guns. These are people with rifles, people that stand on the border in the middle of the desert, and they declare open hunting season on defenseless immigrant families. This isn't a battle of ideas. Their immigration policy — and I can quote their members — is it should be it legal to shoot illegals, 'just shoot them on sight, that's my immigration policy.' That's their connections with the National Alliance, their connections with people like Barbara Coe who have said that Latinos and Central Americans, they're a bunch of savages.
The fact of the matter is you can't tell a documented person from an undocumented person. You can't. They can't. So many people have died, so many people have been tortured, so many people have been left to die in the desert because of this organization and because of the racism and the hatred that they promote and that they spread.
AMY GOODMAN: And your response to the Minuteman Project announcing they are seeking to strip Columbia University of federal funding for what they say are violations of their civil rights.
KARINA GARCIA: It goes to show what they are trying to do. They're not advocating for free speech. They want to create an environment where they're not challenged, where nobody stands up and speaks out against them. That's what they want to do. That's why Michael Bloomberg went on television and said his speech about free speech, not because he is a proponent of free speech, because that was clear two years ago when he wasn't allowing people to protest against the war.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank you very much with joining us, Karina Garcia, political chair of the Chicano Caucus at Columbia University. She is a senior at Columbia. And I'm sorry Jim Gilchrist left in the midst of the program. It would have been an interesting dialogue. Thank you.


D'varim/Deuteronomy 3:19 Only your wives, your children and your cattle ... shall dwell in your cities that I have given to you.
HaShem gave the Torah to our people, as they have been born during the time of the wilderness wanderings. Only those over the age of forty were alive - as children - during the Exodus from Egypt and witnessed the theophany at Mt. Sinai followed by the first part of the journey from Sinai to Kadesh Barnea and the disastrous episode of the twelve spies, ten of whom turned the people away from entering the Land leading to the time of forty years wandering in the desert so that all the adults in that generation perished and did not enter the Land. Now only three of the Exodus generation remain alive: Moshe, who is shortly to die as he has been forbidden to enter the Land because of his disobedience in hitting rather than speaking to the rock to bring forth water for the people at Meribah, Joshua and Caleb, the two of the twelve spies who had insisted forty years previously that the people could and should enter the Land.
This piece of the text, almost the last episode in the forty-year story, is very fresh in the hearers' memory, having only happened within the last few months. The tribes of Reuben and Gad, with half the tribe of Manasseh, had asked permission - since they are the owners of great herds of cattle and the rolling acres of land on the east of the Jordan is ideal cattle country - for their allocation to be there on the east. With a deal of reluctance and after initially suggesting that this was as bad as the behaviour of the ten spies at Kadesh Barnea, Moshe gave the tribes permission to settle on the east of the Jordan provided that their fighting men crossed over into the Land and helped the other tribes take possession of their inheritance there before returning home. He allocated cities and blocks of land from the kingdoms of Sihon and Og the kings of the Amorites that we had defeated, then said, "Build towns for your children and sheepfolds for your flocks, but do what you have promised" (B'Midbar 32:24, JPS). Now that the cities and the pens and holding areas for the flocks and cattle have been built, Moshe is publicly reminding the tribes of their promise to cross over the Jordan, to stand and fight alongside their brothers and to clear the Land for their possession.
Five of the nine words in the text have the same ending, , the 2mp pronoun. The first four are the possessive pronoun, 'your', the last one is the object pronoun 'you': your women, your children, your herds (of cattle and sheep), your cities and "to you". Moshe wants to make very sure that those who have made the promise know exactly who they are and that everyone else knows it too.
So who is involved here? The word , "your women" includes all the wives as well as all the unmarried women and girls above the age of childhood. The comes from the delightful root , which means to trip or mince, a word beautifully illustrating the toddlers and young children, skipping and stumbling as they make their first steps learning to walk, to run and to skip along holding an adult hand lest they miss their footing and fall over. Finally, - from the root , "to buy, own" - describes wealth, most often in the form of livestock. All of these are to stay , "in your cities" on the east of the Jordan while the fighting men cross over and help their brothers to take possession of the Land. There are two missing groups within the demographic profile of the tribes: the old men, beyond the age of military service, and the male youth, beyond childhood but not yet of military age. What are they to do? Since they are not in the fighting men explicitly required to cross the Jordan, they too will remain in the cities on the east; they must be prepared to defend the cities and make up the work-force looking after the herds - a job that the women are excluded from doing. Whether the clearing of the Land took a month, a year or many years, the animal husbandry could not just be abandoned and the cities and towns would need some defence against the neighbouring tribes and peoples. This was not women's work!
On the other hand, all this the people knew this; it was (relatively speaking) very recent history. Why did Moshe need to remind them? And what was the point of the rest of the story? Why did they need to be reminded of the past forty years in the desert and all the family members they had buried and left there in the sands? The answer is that our past tells us who we are; we need the past to give us roots and anchor us in the soil of time. Without a past, we are not a people. Our traditions - whether Jewish or Gentile, church or synagogue - make no sense without the past. While we are not called to live in or to re-live the past, the past guides our feet and informs who we are and why we do the things we do.
Our Scriptures are full of advice and exhortation to remember the past. Moshe taught the people to "Remember the days of old, consider the years of ages past; ask your father, he will inform you, your elders, they will tell you" (D'varim 32:7, JPS). Our connection with the past is through living memory - the people who can remember the past in their personal memories - and social memory: the narrated past of our people, our families and our nations. Fathers have a responsibility not only to preserve those memories but to transmit them to their own families. Similarly, elders have a responsibility to guard and preserve the social memory of a group and ensure that the stories are regularly shared and reviewed so that they are not forgotten.
Speaking in the last days of the kings in Jerusalem, when the city and the country were about to be swallowed up and sent into exile by the Babylonians, the prophet Jeremiah said, "Thus says the L-RD: 'Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls'" (Jeremiah 6:16, ESV). You are at a cross-roads, he said, and there is no going back, but which way will you turn? Will you follow the current trend of idolatry and oppression, pretending that there is nothing wrong and that you can fix your own problems, or will you return to the L-rd your G-d, abandon your superstitions and your syncretisms, and so find the only way out of the pending calamity?
Our collective memory as the people of G-d is rooted in the stories and texts of the Bible; we neglect them at our peril. Rav Sha'ul told the Corinthians, "Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come" (1 Corinthians 10:11, ESV) and Yeshua testified to the Jewish leadership that "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about Me" (John 5:39, ESV).
Jewish people today need to remember that we are not just the children of the diaspora, the last nearly two thousand years of exile from our homeland. We are the same people who came out of Egypt, who wandered in the desert, who entered the Land, who fought the Philistines, lived through the time of the kings and the Babylonian exile and returned to the Land to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple and only then were dispersed by the Romans. Yes, we misbehaved; we worshipped the pagan gods of the Land, we rebelled against G-d and refused to obey His words, we formed wrong relationships with neighbouring states and fell into idolatry and sin. But through it all, G-d never let go of us; despite our sins, we remained His chosen people and so we are to this day. Even though we abandoned and broke the covenant many times, G-d was and is faithful. As we say in the Shehehiyanu blessing, whenever we do, join in or see something that we haven't done for some time: He has kept alive, preserved us and brought us to this time.
Gentile people today need to remember that they are not simply members of the latest generation of Pentecostal, Reformed or Evangelical church or revival movement. Believers stand on the shoulders of giants like Charles Spurgeon, John and Charles Wesley, George Whitfield, John Knox, John Calvin, Martin Luther, Thomas Aquinas and many others right back to the days of the apostles and the early church. The church has had its days of appalling behaviour both to its own members and to the wider world: crusades, burnings at the stake, persecutions, beating and torturing, forced baptisms. The church too has had moments of syncretism, apostacy and rank heresy. But G-d continued to work through the church, to hear the words and prayers of those crying out in the name of Yeshua. The church remains grafted in to the people of G-d; the wild olive branches, and so connected to the people of G-d as long ago as the patriarchs - as the Hebrews 11 chapter of faith makes clear.
Today, we must all learn to remember and rejoice in our shared past and cultural heritage as the people of G-d. For in the past we find ourselves and the path into the future!
Application: Do you rejoice in the past or are you embarrassed by it? Speak to the Great Historian about why it is His Story and how you can redeem and value the influence it has over you!
10:09 28Jul17 Tom Hiney: Yes, I do rejoice in the past and am not embarrassed by it. As Christians we are glad that we feel a continuity of belief with the Hebrew religion, that their God is our God, and that our founder is the Son of God, the Suffering servant of Isaiah, the Messiah. As referred to in Hebrews 11:33, we too are inheritors of those who were weak but who became strong in the Lord. We are among those who are part of Jesus' narrative, grafted on to our God.


"Sense-sphere Consciousness (Part 2)" (06-January-2019) အရွင္ ပေညာဘာသ Venerable Ashin Pannobhasa, TBSO Mahasi, https://www.tbsousa.org ***** As a result of good kamma, we experience desirable sense-objects; as a result of bad kamma, we experience undesirable ones. So, through these sense-consciousness (eye/ear etc.), we simply experience sense-objects at their present moment in a passive manner without any wholesome (kusala) or unwholesome (akusala) reaction or with any happy (somanassa) or unhappy (domanassa) feeling. The fully active (dynamic) consciousness, known as javana. This is actually what we call "thoughts" involving wholesome (kusala) or unwholesome reactions (akusala), and happy (somanassa), unhappy (domanassa) or neutral feeling (upekkhā). This full consciousness is powerful enough to leave behind its associated mental energy (viññāṇa-satti) in dormant (latent) form. It has two kinds: five-sense-door javana (pañca-dvārika-javana) and mind-door javana (mano-dvārika-javana). The five-sense-door javana takes place immediately after vuṭṭhabbana.


The Big Band Gospel Project unveils its Toronto premiere this February, in the heart of downtown. Featuring the Toronto Jazz Orchestra and the Toronto Mass Choir, the Big Band Gospel Project combines the two distinct styles of gospel and big band into an musical experience that cannot be found anywhere else!
After the celebrated sold-out run of Big Band Tap Revue this past November, The Toronto Jazz Orchestra returns with another amazing collaboration. Under the leadership of Toronto Jazz Orchestra Artistic Director Josh Grossman and Toronto Mass Choir Director Karen Burke, the Big Band Gospel Project explores the sounds of gospel and big band music with the 18-piece band and the 40+ person choir. Both ensembles will perform separately and together, with arrangements created specifically for the Project by acclaimed composer/producer Shelly Berger.
This unique collaboration has only performed publicly once before, and this marks its Toronto debut. The Big Band Gospel Project runs one night only February 6, 2016 at the historic Bloor Street United Church.
The Toronto Mass Choir (TMC) continues to be on the cutting edge of the Canadian gospel music scene bringing their distinct gospel sound to the world stage. Toronto Mass Choir's music incorporates contemporary gospel, traditional gospel and Caribbean music influences. In particular, TMC's combination of gospel lyrics with a variety of musical styles has resulted in a style unique in Canada.


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Pulsar Physics
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Most cited publications: The following list contains our most cited publications. The complete list of all our publications can be found here. If you cannot find a publications, you might be able to find it at ResearchGate.
GPT simulated ellipsoid
How to Realize Uniform Three-Dimensional Ellipsoidal Electron Bunches
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 094802 (2004)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.094802
O. J. Luiten, S. B. van der Geer, M. J. de Loos, F. B. Kiewiet, and M. J. van der Wiel, TU-Eindhoven
Uniform three-dimensional ellipsoidal distributions of charge are the ultimate goal in charged particle accelerator physics because of their linear internal force fields. Such bunches remain ellipsoidal with perfectly linear position-momentum phase space correlations in any linear transport system. We present a method, based on photoemission by radially shaped femtosecond laser pulses, to actually produce such bunches.
Transverse explosion
Design considerations for table-top, laser-based VUV and X-ray free electron lasers
Appl. Phys. B. 86, 431-435 (2007)
F. Grüner, S. Becker, U. Schramm, T. Eichner, M. Fuchs, R. Weingartner, D. Habs, J. Meyer-ter-vehn, M. Geissler, M. Ferrario, L. serafini, B. van der geer, H. backe, W. Lauth, S. Reiche,
A recent breakthrough in laser-plasma accelerators, based upon ultrashort high-intensity lasers, demonstrated the generation of quasi-monoenergetic GeV electrons. With future Petawatt lasers ultra-high beam currents of ~ 100 kA in ~ 10 fs can be expected, allowing for drastic reduction in the undulator length of free-electron-lasers (FELs). We present a discussion of the key aspects of a table-top FEL design, including energy loss and chirps induced by space-charge and wakefields. These effects become important for an optimized table-top FEL operation. A first proof-of-principle VUV case is considered as well as a table-top X-ray-FEL which may also open a brilliant light source for new methods in clinical diagnostics.
Four-step procedure
Ultracold Electron Source
B. J. Claessens, S. B. van der Geer, G. Taban, E. J. D. Vredenbregt, and O. J. Luiten, TU-Eindhoven
We propose a technique for producing electron bunches that has the potential for advancing the state-of-the-art in brightness of pulsed electron sources by orders of magnitude. In addition, this method leads to femtosecond bunch lengths without the use of ultrafast lasers or magnetic compression. The electron source we propose is an ultracold plasma with electron temperatures down to 10 K, which can be fashioned from a cloud of laser-cooled atoms by photoionization just above threshold. Here we present results of simulations in a realistic setting, showing that an ultracold plasma has an enormous potential as a bright electron source.
GPT bunching results
Radiation sources based on laser–plasma interactions
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Volume 364, Number 1840, (2006), p. 689 - 710
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2005.1732
D.A. Jaroszynski, R. Bingham, E. Brunetti, B. Ersfeld, J. Gallacher, B. van der Geer, R. Issac, S.P. Jamison, D. Jones, M. de Loos, A. Lyachev, V. Pavlov, A. Reitsma, Y. Saveliev, G. Vieux, S.M. Wiggins, University of Strathclyde
Plasma waves excited by intense laser beams can be harnessed to produce femtosecond duration bunches of electrons with relativistic energies. The very large electrostatic forces of plasma density wakes trailing behind an intense laser pulse provide field potentials capable of accelerating charged particles to high energies over very short distances, as high as 1GeV in a few millimetres. The short length scale of plasma waves provides a means of developing very compact high-energy accelerators, which could form the basis of compact next-generation light sources with unique properties. Tuneable X-ray radiation and particle pulses with durations of the order of or less than 5fs should be possible and would be useful for probing matter on unprecedented time and spatial scales. If developed to fruition this revolutionary technology could reduce the size and cost of light sources by three orders of magnitude and, therefore, provide powerful new tools to a large scientific community. We will discuss how a laser-driven plasma wakefield accelerator can be used to produce radiation with unique characteristics over a very large spectral range.
Bunch at focal plane
Electron source concept for single-shot sub-100 fs electron diffraction in the 100 keV range
Journal of Applied Physics 102, 093501 (2007)
T. van Oudheusden, E. F. de Jong, S. B. van der Geer, W. P. E. M. Op 't Root, and O. J. Luiten, and B. J. Siwick
We present a method for producing sub-100 fs electron bunches that are suitable for single-shot ultrafast electron diffraction experiments in the 100 keV energy range. A combination of analytical estimates and state-of-the-art particle tracking simulations show that it is possible to create 100 keV, 0.1 pC, 30 fs electron bunches with a spot size smaller than 500 µm and a transverse coherence length of 3 nm, using established technologies in a table-top setup. The system operates in the space-charge dominated regime to produce energy-correlated bunches that are recompressed by radio-frequency techniques. With this approach we overcome the Coulomb expansion of the bunch, providing a single-shot, ultrafast electron diffraction source concept.
Adaptive mesh
Multigrid algorithms for the fast calculation of space-charge effects in accelerator design
IEEE Transactions on magnetics, Vol 40, No. 2, (2004), p. 714.
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.825415
Gisela Pöplau, Ursula van Rienen, Bas van der Geer, and Marieke de Loos
Numerical prediction of charged particle dynamics in accelerators is essential for the design and understanding of these machines. Methods to calculate the self-fields of the bunch, the so-called space-charge forces, become increasingly important as the demand for high-quality bunches increases. We report on our development of a new three-dimensional (3-D) space-charge routine in the general particle tracer (GPT) code. It scales linearly with the number of particles in terms of CPU time, allowing over a million particles to be tracked on a normal PC. The model is based on a nonequidistant multigrid Poisson solver that has been constructed to solve the electrostatic fields in the rest frame of the bunch on meshes with large aspect ratio. Theoretical and numerical investigations of the behavior of SOR relaxation and PCG method on nonequidistant grids emphasize the advantages of the multigrid algorithm with adaptive coarsening. Numerical investigations have been performed with a wide range of cylindrically shaped bunches (from very long to very short) occuring in recent applications. The application to the simulation of the TU/e DC/RF gun demonstrates the power of the new 3-D routine.
1 kA compression
Longitudinal phase-space manipulation of ellipsoidal electron bunches in realistic fields
Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 9, 044203 (2006)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.9.044203
S. B. van der Geer, M. J. de Loos, T. van Oudheusden, W. P. E. M. op 't Root, M. J. van der Wiel, and O. J. Luiten, Eindhoven University of Technology
Since the recent publication of a practical recipe to create "pancake" electron bunches which evolve into uniformly filled ellipsoids, a number of papers have addressed both an alternative method to create such ellipsoids as well as their behavior in realistic fields. So far, the focus has been on the possibilities to preserve the initial "thermal" transverse emittance. This paper addresses the linear longitudinal phase space of ellipsoidal bunches. It is shown that ellipsoidal bunches allow ballistic compression at subrelativistic energies, without the detrimental effects of nonlinear space-charge forces. This in turn eliminates the need for the large correlated energy spread normally required for longitudinal compression of relativistic particle beams, while simultaneously avoiding all problems related to magnetic compression. Furthermore, the linear space-charge forces of ellipsoidal bunches can be used to reduce the remaining energy spread even further, by carefully choosing the beam transverse size, in a process that is essentially the time-reversed process of the creation of an ellipsoid at the cathode. The feasibility of compression of ellipsoidal bunches is illustrated with a relatively simple setup, consisting of a half-cell S-band photogun and a two-cell booster compressor. Detailed GPT simulations in realistic fields predict that 100 pC ellipsoidal bunches can be ballistically compressed to 100 fs, at a transverse emittance of 0.7 μm, with a final energy of 3.7 MeV and an energy spread of only 50 keV.
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Message from the Artist: My intention for this piece is to provide a reminder and an inspiration. This mama has Two Inspirations to GO less, to BE present more, to stop unhealthful habits, to make positive choices, to plan more responsibly, to beat herself up LESS. Two Inspirations to be thankful for all that life has to offer.


Wednesday Wow: Getting Married In N.C.
Getting married in North Carolina? It can be something aggravating. I know first hand. My sisters are still calling me Bridezilla'. As a non-denominational wedding officiant, I wanted to remain relative`, so I asked a few friends what has the hardest part of getting married and each of them responded pretty much the same, "finding a non-denominational wedding officiant". Turns out, not everyone wants to get married in a church. I didn't. The other top issues centered around selecting an affordable and compatible officiant. I can help with that.
Many officiants include a get-to-know-you meeting with the couple, followed by two or three planning sessions. Most officiants provide several options for ceremony wording and structure, as well as a choice of readings. On the wedding day, the officiant arrives early, has the witnesses sign the marriage license, and performs the ceremony. Afterward, the officiant mails the marriage license to the county so it can be officially recorded, and mails a copy to the couple.
Why does it cost so much for 20 – 30 minutes of work?
It is completely understandable for couples and their guests to assume officiants earn an unusually high amount of money for simply prompting the couple through their vows and pronouncing them husband and wife, but that is only part of the story the most visible part.
Competent officiants invest time before the wedding gathering the pieces together and ensuring the desired flow of the ceremony is there. Time may be spent helping the couple customize vows, decide between a unity candle or a sand ceremony, and/or writing the opening words, a blessing. Ceremony composition is far more time-consuming than the joyful occasion itself.
Officiants are often present well before the service to calm nerves or confer with a wedding consultant, the photographer, and other wedding vendors. We are usually asked to stay for a portrait after….sometimes waiting for a long receiving line to conclude or family portraits to be taken first.
Officiants in North Carolina are also responsible for ensuring accurate completion of the marriage license and submitting it to the appropriate county clerk recorders office and there are travel and/or postage expenses associated with this responsibility.Wedding officiating is a business with accompanying expenses. Officiants must advertise, maintain home offices, have internet access, make long-distance phone calls and travel to the ceremony among other costs.
Your officiant is a professional every bit as much as your caterer and your photographer.
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Before you say "I do", do a little homework on who you select to marry you. The right marriage officiant can make a world of difference in your wedding, marriage and entire life.
A religious ceremony, performed by an ordained officiant such as a priest, rabbi, or minister, is recognized not only by the state, but also by the affiliated religion.
A civil ceremony is performed by an officiant who has been certified in accordance with state laws — a county clerk, justice of the peace, mayor, or celebrant affiliated with a nonreligious organization.
The officiant you choose can enrich your overall wedding experience and help you prepare for married life. Getting to know your officiant and discussing what you can expect from each other will help eliminate unnecessary anxiety on your wedding day.
Planning my wedding was one of the most empowering things I have ever done. I loved everything about it. Our wedding was a love story. I've learned that every couple has one. As a recent Universal Unitarian Wedding Officiant I love helping couples share their story. Being a wedding officiant as I've learned is much different than planning a wedding. Learning on the job has been a blast. I've put together a few things that should be covered by both the couple to be wed and the officiant. This is kinda large in volume so I broke it up in two blog post.
What is your main responsibility as an officiant?
Can you recommend other wedding vendors?
How much interaction can we expect leading up to the wedding? Are you available for questions?
What is your biggest challenge when officiating a wedding?
What is the funniest or oddest moment in a wedding you celebrated?
What is your wedding officiant attire?
What is your rock bottom wish for every couple?
Will you be responsible for mailing the license to the state after the ceremony?
Can you do personalized rituals within the ceremony, e.g, Hand Blessing, Rose Ceremony, Unity Candle, or Sand (uniting of your two families) Ceremony?
Do you require any pre-marital counseling or religious class?
Do you have a written agreement or contract?
Would you like to join us at the reception?
Ensure that the officiant is licensed or registered to perform a wedding in your state by contacting the city clerk. You can also ask the officiant which seminary he or she was ordained through, then contact that seminary. Years down the road, you wouldn't want to discover that your marriage is not legal.
Know what, exactly, you will be paying for. Talk about deposits and types of payment, as well as cancellation and refund policies. Inquire about fees for traveling out of town, which include transportation costs, hotels and meals, and costs of (commuting) time. The wedding officiant is the person who must fill out the wedding certificate and send it in.
Do we feel comfortable in the presence of this officiant? Does he or she seem flexible?
Does he or she seem genuinely interested in us as a couple, and honor our spiritual beliefs?
Do we intuitively feel we can entrust ourselves to this person for this important and tender part of our wedding?
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The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is a government department in the UK. We cover – we make policy and legislation, and work with others to deliver our policies in - areas such as: the natural environment, biodiversity, plants and animals sustainable development and the green economy food, farming and fisheries animal health and welfare environmental protection and pollution control rural communities and issues. Although we only work directly in England, we work closely with the devolved administrations in Wale [...]
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Tree resources and environmental policy: a stakeholder approach [1994]
Grimble, R.J.; Aglionby, J.; Quan, J.; Natural Resources Inst., Chatham (United Kingdom) [Corporate Author]
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Tree resources and environmental policy: a stakeholder approach
Grimble, R.J.; Aglionby, J.; Quan, J.
Past attempts at environmental resource management have often failed because policy-makers have given insufficient attention to the different interests of the various groups of stakeholders (defined as those who have an interest in the exploitation and management of a resource). The concept of stakeholder analysis is explored in detail with specific reference to case studies carried out in Cameroon and Thailand. The conflicts of interest which may arise between stakeholder groups, and the trade-offs which may have to be made between the objectives of a particular stakeholder group, are classified and discussed. The implications of the stakeholder approach for environmental planning and future research are considered
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The AFL Tribunal is the disciplinary tribunal of the Australian Football League (AFL), an Australian rules football competition. The Tribunal regulates the conduct of players, umpires, and other officials associated with the AFL and its clubs.
Prior to 2005, any player who was reported would face a hearing at the AFL Tribunal. This process had become problematic, and in 2005, a new system (similar to that used by the NRL Judiciary at the time) was adopted. The changes were primarily made to reduce the number of tribunal hearings, and to improve the consistency of penalties.
The activation points from all three categories are added together to give the total activation points for the incident. It is important to note that an incident involving accidental/incidental conduct, or negligible impact, will be rejected and the player will receive no penalty, even if the activation points in the other categories are high. Because of this, any offence must rate at least three activation points to be considered further.
Next, the player is given a number of base demerit points, based on the type and level of his offence. The base demerit point totals are standardised in the Table of Offences. As an example, any player charged by the Match Review Panel with a Level 4 Kicking offence receives 550 base demerit points. This is where the Match Review Panel's role in the Tribunal process ends.
Following the Match Review Panel's findings, a player's base points are subjected to a series of additions and deductions (which are described in the next section) to arrive at a number of total demerit points. Each 100 total demerit points that a player finishes with then corresponds to a suspension for one match; e.g. a player who finished with 225 demerit points will receive a two-match suspension. If a player finishes with fewer than 100 demerit points, he is not suspended, but receives what is known as a reprimand.
Because the penalty is standardised and pre-announced by the Match Review Panel, the player has the option to plead guilty to the charge and receive his penalty without the need to attend a Tribunal hearing; he receives a deduction for doing this (see next section). Alternatively, a player may choose to appeal the findings of the Match Review Panel, and attend a Tribunal hearing to argue the case. Players may appeal to try to have their entire charge withdrawn, or may argue for a reduction in one of the three factors; e.g. a player could try to have the conduct factor reduced from reckless to negligent. Should a player reduce the severity of his infraction, the penalty is re-evaluated and the player is again given the choice to plead guilty or further contest the revised charge.
If an incident is ungraded (i.e. has nine activation points), the player is required to attend a tribunal hearing.
Residuals (also called carry-over points) are any points a player may still have below the 100 required for a suspension. For every 100 points accrued, the player is suspended one week and the 100 points are subtracted; e.g., a player with 225 demerit points is suspended for two weeks; 200 points are correspondingly subtracted, and the remaining 25 are residual points; or, if a player receives a reprimand with 93.75 points, all of these points are residual as they are not enough to draw a suspension. Residual points from a previous offence will be added to the base demerit points of the player's next offence if it occurs within one year; a player's residual points are cancelled if a year elapses without a punishable offence.
Any player with more than six years (increased in 2013, previously five years) experience who has not been found guilty of a punishable offence over the previous five years receives a 25% deduction. Finally, players will receive a 25% deduction by accepting the Match Review Panel's finding without contest; this is typically known as an early guilty plea. As a result of this rule, players are often faced with the option of accepting a shorter suspension with an early plea, or contesting the charge and risking a longer suspension if unsuccessful. Note that if a player contests the match review panel's assessment at the Tribunal, and has the number of base demerit points changed, the penalty is re-evaluated, meaning the player, in spite of attending a hearing, can still take an early guilty plea on the revised charge.
Each addition or deduction is made to the final result of the previous calculation step.
Any reportable offence that occurs during a Grand Final match will receive a double penalty: the offence's original base score as determined by the Match Review Panel is doubled after the additions and deductions previously mentioned. This loading is meant to discourage excessively rough or violent play, as any penalties given as a result would not apply until the following season.
This was instituted as a result of fighting in the 2004 AFL Grand Final between Alastair Lynch and Darryl Wakelin, and several brawls during the match, which resulted in the Tribunal handing down stiff penalties - Lynch was suspended for ten matches and fined $15,000 - and adding the double penalty rule.
The Match Review Panel also assesses a variety of offences for which players are fined but not suspended, including wrestling, negligent contact with an umpire, making an obscene gesture, etc. As for physical offences, there is a standardised table of penalties, which depend upon the nature of the offence, and any prior similar offences; e.g. a player's second wrestling offence attracts double the penalty of his first. As for physical offences, a player can accept his penalty with an early guilty plea, receiving a 25% reduction in his fine, or he may contest it and risk the full penalty.
If a player wishes to appeal against a decision handed down in a tribunal hearing, he may take his case to the AFL Appeals Board. The board will re-hear the case, with a different set of panel members, and may uphold or change the Tribunal's original decision. The Appeals Board was established in 1998 following a recommendation from Justice John Hedigan of the Supreme Court of Victoria, after several tribunal findings were appealed through the Victorian court system during the mid-1990s.
As of May 2011, under the official AFL Deregistration Policy, any player who accumulates a total of at least 10 weeks of suspensions over the course of his football career (both inside and outside the AFL) receives a formal notice that further suspensions can result in his automatic deregistration from the league.
Any player who accumulates a total of 16 weeks or more of suspensions over the course of his career will be automatically deregistered from the AFL, and barred from any further participation. Any previous suspensions within the AFL are carried over at 75% of their original length (e.g. a previous suspension of four weeks will only count as three weeks under this policy), but any immediate suspension is to be considered at its full length. If any player receives an immediate first suspension of 16 weeks or more, deregistration is left to the discretion of the League.
A deregistered player may apply for an exemption to re-register or appeal the deregistration under the appropriate laws of the league after 12 months. However, only one request can be made. Should a player be exempted and re-registered, any further suspension will result in permanent, irrevocable deregistation.
Deregistration is only practiced in country and suburban football competitions; it is not practiced by the AFL as of 2019,  as the deregistration policy was designed for serial aggressive offenders, not low-level repeat offenders. The AFL has not had been a repeat offender issue at AFL level for over 20 years where a player has been receiving repeated lengthy suspensions for repeated behind-the-play offences.
Since the overhaul, the heaviest suspension for a single offence has been eight weeks, handed out to Fremantle's Dean Solomon for elbowing Geelong's Cameron Ling in round 15 of the 2008 season, and to West Coast's Andrew Gaff for striking Fremantle's Andrew Brayshaw in round 20 of the 2018 season.
In Round 4, 2008 Barry Hall of the Sydney Swans was suspended for seven matches after striking West Coast's Brent Staker.
In 2007, Steven Baker of St Kilda was suspended for seven matches for rough conduct on Jeff Farmer (although the base suspension was only four weeks, with residual points and a significant loading due to his poor record his penalty increased to seven).
The longest suspension was handed out in June 2010, St Kilda's Steven Baker was suspended for a total of nine weeks after he pleaded guilty to three striking charges and was found guilty of a misconduct charge, all against Geelong's Steve Johnson. He was the first person to be charged with misconduct for interfering with an injured opponent.
In May 2014, Melbourne midfielder Jack Viney was sent straight to the tribunal following a bump which resulted in Adelaide forward Tom Lynch breaking his jaw. Viney was found guilty of rough conduct by the tribunal, and suspended for two matches, after it was ruled that he had alternate options rather than elect to bump Lynch. Melbourne subsequently appealed the suspension, which was overturned, making it just the second time since 2005 that an appeal against the AFL Tribunal's ruling was overruled.
In June 2017, the AFL challenged the tribunal's verdict for the first time in history, following an off-the-ball incident involving Richmond player Bachar Houli and Carlton's Jed Lamb: Houli was originally given a two-week suspension for striking Lamb during the first quarter of the Round 14 match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Houli was reported for the incident, which saw Lamb sit out the remainder of the match, and sent straight to the tribunal the following day. When his case went before the tribunal that week, he was given the two-week suspension, but part of the reason the penalty was low was due to character reference statements given by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and media personality Waleed Aly. Following an announcement of the penalty, there was a public outcry about the length of the suspension. The following day the AFL announced they would challenge the decision, and the matter would be heard in front of the appeals tribunal. Following an extensive review hearing, Houli's suspension was doubled from two weeks to four weeks.
In June 2018, Greater Western Sydney player Jeremy Cameron became the first player in AFL history to be referred directly to the tribunal more than once in his career, where he was found guilty of striking Brisbane Lions player Harris Andrews and suspended for five matches. He had previously been sent straight to the tribunal after breaking Rhys Mathieson's jaw during a pre-season match in 2016, for which he was suspended for four matches.
In February 2019, Greater Western Sydney player Nicola Barr became the first player in AFL Women's history to be referred directly to the AFLW Tribunal, where she was found guilty of rough conduct against North Melbourne's Ashleigh Riddell and suspended for one match.
1 Baxter was later exonerated on appeal due to mistaken identity.
2 Prior to 1926, some players found guilty of serious offences were given a lifetime suspension, but in each case the penalty was later commuted.
3 Cousins was suspended for a period of twelve months for "bringing the game into disrepute", equating to 22 matches. His former club, West Coast, had deregistered him prior to his suspension, meaning he was not officially listed as a player at the time of his suspension.
One noteworthy suspension imposed by the VFL/AFL Tribunal was against John Bourke of the Collingwood Reserves.
In an outburst broadcast on Australian television on 28 April 1985, Bourke kicked Sydney Swans Reserves ruckman Patrick Foy in the groin in response to Foy tagging him throughout the game; when umpire Phil Waight attempted to send Bourke off for the incident, Bourke shoved Waight to the ground and kicked him, struck the Collingwood runner, and then jumped into the stands to attack a Swans fan. Bourke was suspended for 10 years plus 16 matches (240 matches total), which was commuted in 1992 to six years plus 16 matches (151 matches).
This suspension is not listed above because he was not a member of a senior team, but it remains one of the most infamous suspensions in the modern history of the sport, and was covered by Australian media for some time afterward.
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Q: Connection Issues with Informix OLEDB Provider I've been trying to establish a OLEDB Connection to an Informix Dynamic Server. (Version IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC12WE)
Background Info:
A program, which will be used by my company, requires OLEDB and doesn't support ODBC. The colleague,who is currently tasked with managing the implementation, has a lot of other work piled up and so the implementation will be delayed. In the meantime, I've been tasked to figure out how to properly configure the Windows 10 Client PC (which will run the program) for the connection. I have very little experience with databases, so I've searched for about 2 weeks for answers in various documentations and forums. So far, I had mixed success.
What has already been done:

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*The coledbp.sql- script has been run against the sysmaster table on the database

*Informix Client SDK and Microsoft Data Access Components have been installed on the Client PC.

*Using setnet32 the registry entries for host:port have been set.

*The driver ifxoledbc has been registered.

*ODBC-Datasources (both 64-Bit and 32-Bit) have been created and tested (they work fine).

Various Tests
For all my tests I've been using the Connection String:

"Provider=ifxoledbc;Data Source=mydatabase@myserver;User ID=myuser;Password=mypassword;

First I tried to test the connection with an .udl-File. I select the IBM Informix OLE DB Provider and enter the data source and userdata. When I test the connection I get an Error like:

"Initialisation of the provider failed. Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done."

From what I could find, there are many possible reasons for this error, and I don't know if can get a more specific error message somehow.
With the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers and the ODBC-datasource for the Server the test connection worked.
In Microsoft Excel (32-Bit) I also tried both the first mentioned Connection String and the Connection String, which is built when entering the infos in the .udl settings. Same Error with both cases.
For my next test I used a .vbs - script, which was presented in the IBM Informix Developers Handbook:
On Error Resume Next

set conn=createobject("ADODB.Connection")

conn.connectionstring = "Provider=ifxoledbc;DataSource=mydatabase@myserver;UserID=myuser;Password=mypassword;"

conn.open

If Err Then
   WScript.Echo "Error!! Open"+conn.Errors(0).Description
Else
   WScript.Echo "Connected"
   conn.close
end if

This results once again results in the "multi-step"-Error.
The last thing I tried was using the Rowset Viewer of MDAC. I used the exact same input as with the .udl - File. But to my surprise it managed to connect! (It returned the error "Unknown Interface", but still worked) It correctly read the entries I set with the setnet32-Tool. (I checked this by temporarily removing one of the Entries, which resulted in an additional error and no connection)
Now I have a few questions:

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*Is there anything additional to configure on the Client PC?

*How does the Viewer succeed, where every other test fails?

*Is there any way to get a more accurate error code?

*Are there major flaws in my tackling of the problem?

I appreciate every suggestion anybody can give me.

A: So, after giving up searching for answers, I started trying every imaginable combination of properties with different registries set and not set and I managed to get it working.
The Connection String was missing UNICODE=TRUE.
I can't say for sure, if I already tried this before and the error originally came from incorrectly set registry entries or if that simple solution slipped past my testing.
Anyways here is what I did, in addition to what was mentioned in my original post (no idea if that made any difference):

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*registered the ifxoledbc.dll (32Bit and 64Bit) with the respective regsvr32.exe (Originally I used the 64-Bit regsvr32.exe for both)

*Added registry entries in Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Ifxoledbc\CLSID (64Bit) and Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Ifxoledbc\CLSID (32Bit) with name: OLEDB_SERVICES type: REG_DWORD and value: 0xffffffff
Concluding:
I'm still surprised, that the RowsetViewer somehow bypassed the need for the UNICODE property. Maybe it automatically sets it to true?
The interface:unknown error I mentioned with the viewer seems to have been fixed in a newer version of the Informix Client SDK (Only happened with 64-Bit Operating Systems using 32Bit Tools).
During my successful testing I also noticed, that Excel seemingly didn't need the %INFORMIXDIR% environment variable. FYI, when I was testing the ODBC datasources i had to edit the %INFORMIXDIR" to either point to my 32Bit or 64Bit folder (Not doing so resulted in a unable to load shared library error). The 64Bit datasource was also incompatible with my 32Bit Excel. With the OLEDB Provider however, it connects just fine with %INFORMIXDIR% still pointing to the 64Bit folder.

A: You need to run setnet32 "As Administrator", or the driver will not be visible.
I had the same problem initializing the provider because of that, after running as admin everything works.

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Take 3 minutes and make a list of all the ideas for impasse breaking that occur to you in that time. Then have a look at the list with an eye to sorting the various techniques you've come up with into a maximum of 5 categories. If you're like me, and like every group of student mediators that I've asked to complete that task, then the category that has the most options in it will probably be one that contains all the explicit "pattern interrupt" techniques that you've learned or developed. Take a break, change the seating pattern, silly hypotheticals, start writing on the white board, humour, food and drinks, certainly improv jolts … All of these techniques, and many more are really about interrupting patterns of communication that are bogged down. Any negotiation can slip into a repetitive and unproductive pattern. In the case of negotiations between individuals with a long history together (e.g. family disputes, parent and social worker, estates, and long time business relationships), the years old destructive interaction patterns can make problem solving discussion an impossibility.
Pattern interrupts quite simply interject an unexpected element into the old pattern and create a window of opportunity for restarting somewhere new. Successful speakers, stand-up comedians, and marketers all use surprise to grab attention and refocus their audience. Most mediators can expand their range of pattern interrupt tools simply by thinking of them in that way – as means to interrupt, often only briefly, an unhelpful pattern that is emerging. Most often, we use pattern interrupt tools less consciously than we might. We choose to try a technique because we think of it as a tool in our toolbox that works when this sort of difficulty emerges. If we instead think that we want to interrupt the pattern, then we are more likely to come up with new ideas for doing so that are tailored to the participants. A break may be a wonderful pattern interrupt for some people caught in a loop of blame and self-justification, but it might give others time to entrench themselves further. Consciously aiming to interrupt the pattern engages the mediator in a more analytical process choice than testing learned impasse breaking tools does: it encourages the mediator to create something specific to the situation and to keep trying new ideas if the first one doesn't work.
I haven't always come up with pattern interrupts in the midst of mediation in the conscious way that I describe above, of course. Many (and in my early mediations probably most) were accidental the first time they occurred; but reflecting post-mediation on what changed the mood or how the parties suddenly seemed to transition into a problem solving approach, I'd realize that something small but repeat-able had created a break in the pattern. And once I started tracking some of these small pattern interrupts, I found it much easier to introduce them consciously in later mediations. I also found that I was much more willing to take risks in trying new ideas for pattern interruption in the moment. After all, every pattern interrupt presents an opportunity to discuss with the parties your perception of a need to interrupt the pattern. You try something that falls flat? It's a chance to talk about why you tried and to bring the parties into a discussion of how to do it more effectively.
Two pattern interrupts that I have stumbled upon accidentally, and now employ consciously.
1. Bright colours. Some stand-up comedians catch their audience's attention, and create a short window of opportunity for winning them over, by appearing in startling outfits so that they stand out from comedians who have gone before. Dressing in a goofy manner runs the risk that the parties will think you're not taking their dispute seriously. But I discovered that you can get the same effect in small ways. I've taken to carrying an array of brightly coloured pens to mediations. I know, sounds a bit silly, and perhaps precious, but it almost always gets people talking. Someone will ask me about whether I really am using green ink to take notes because it's Saint Patrick's Day, or make a sneering "nice pink ink" comment. It often happens near the beginning of a mediation as people are getting organized, but if it doesn't it's easy enough to introduce yourself.
Once the subject is raised, there are lots of options for linking it to the mediation process and reintroducing it for a pattern interrupt when it's needed later on. For instance, I've chatted about the studies on the impacts of colour on creativity and the theories that say purple and orange are creative colours. If I've got several pens, I can then switch pens when things are stuck and explicitly move to my creative orange ink to kickstart a different discussion.
Of course, pens are only one tool for talking about colour. The colours in the mediation room are a natural topic of discussion, too. "We seem to be going around in circles. I wonder how much that's because of the beige walls?" Check out Color: Meaning, Symbolism and Psychology for some talking points about colour and look at your mediation surroundings from that perspective to interrupt your own patterns of thinking.
2. Bad food. Most mediators see food and drink as an important aspect of "hosting" a mediation. The "breaking of bread" sets a tone for cooperation in so many cultures that sharing food in mediation is a natural means of creating a collaborative atmosphere. Naturally, as the "host", the mediator will strive to please the parties with the food as a means of setting the mood. Well, a few years ago I discovered, quite inadvertently, the great potential of really bad food to bring people together! I was asked to mediate at the last possible second in an emergency child protection matter. I was quite ill (which is why I'd been the one mediator they'd been able to reach at home) and tried to say "no", but was talked into meeting the parties in 2 hours time because of the impossibility of finding someone else within that time frame. Well, I wasn't very interested in the food myself, and I was rushing to get there, so I stopped at the one drive thru place on the way – a donut shop. Their selection of muffins and fritters had been wiped out by the earlier crowd, so I ordered an assortment of donuts and headed off the to mediation. The participants were rushed too, and frantic about getting things done in a hurry, so emotions were high and even before we started the lawyers were anxious and aggressive with each other about what their clients needed to see happen right in the next two hours or else. The pattern of communication was dreadful before I even walked into the room.
Well, the second I opened the box of donuts, the focus shifted. Everyone in the room hated donuts and especially hated my selection and the choice of donut shop. One of the lawyers was the first to complain out loud, but others quickly chimed in. I was grumpy enough that my response to the donut attacks was, "Well, I can see this mediation is going to be simple. Everyone already agrees that the worst thing we have to deal with today is my choice of donuts!" From that point on, the bad donuts were an explicit point of agreement, and teasing me about the donuts was a fall back for everyone whenever the conversation was difficult. When we'd reach a bit of an impasse on a point in discussion, someone would blame the donuts and announce that we'd be doing much better if the mediator were X with his renowned fruit platters or Y with her home-baked cookies and muffins. Of course, the truth was that everyone was using the attack on my donuts as a pattern interrupt tool and placing blame for any difficulties on the donuts, not on the other party! And it worked brilliantly to dissolve tension.
Now, I don't go out of my way to have bad food at mediations, but … I probably don't worry quite as much as some of my colleagues about ensuring that the food is setting a mood of comfort.
3. Socks! Do you notice people's socks when you're in a business-y setting and everyone is dressed somewhere between business casual and suits? Not usually. For the most part, socks are chosen to blend with the outfit. But there are people who wear statement socks. Amongst mediators, Paul Taberner, a past president of CoRe, comes to mind immediately when I think about socks. Bright colours, dynamic patterns, his socks draw your eye, and are a pattern interrupt. I've never thought to ask Paul if he consciously uses his socks in mediations, but I'm thinking he could… And that suggests that anyone could.
Can I buy that T-shirt? Love your article, brightly coloured shoes work well too!
Thanks Karen, you're right about shoes, of course! And sorry I didn't include the link to zazzle.com in the first place: you can buy that t-shirt at http://bit.ly/kymh6t.
What? Doesn't everyone make a point of either matching their socks to their shirt, or, if wearing something (semi) professional (almost always in shades of grey, black, navy) to break it up with brightly coloured or patterned socks? Love the articles, Sharon. As you well know, many of your wisdoms are applicable to teaching too.


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Connor Mackey's first season teased future Flames success (2021 year in review)
Photo credit: Bob Frid-USA TODAY Sports
Sometimes in team sports, individual performances can shine regardless of the team records. That is what Connor Mackey was able to achieve this past season with the Stockton Heat.
Mackey started his first professional season by earning a spot on the Calgary Flames taxi squad and getting his NHL debut shortly after. After a couple of games up with the Flames, he was assigned to the Stockton Heat for the majority of the season before getting some time in the last three games for the Flames. Based on his play in just a single, modified season, Mackey shows the potential to be an everyday face on the Flames blue line next season.
Connor Mackey was an undrafted defenceman that got his exposure through play at Minnesota State University – Mankato. He played three seasons in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association before the Flames signed him as a college free agent on March 20, 2020. Mackey finished his collegiate career ahead in the plus/minus category and earned a total of 61 points in his 118 games for Minnesota State.
In his final season with the MSU Mavericks, he earned his share of individual recognition as an AHCA/CCM Second Team All-American, and All-WCHA First Team Selection. On the team side of things, Mackey contributed to the Mavericks' Regular Season Championship with a final conference record of 23-4-1 and an overall record of 31-5-2 in his last year in the NCAA.
Prior to his career at Minnesota State, Mackey played two years in the USHL for the Green Bay Gamblers. In the 2016-17 season, he was recognized as the league's defenceman of the year for the most points and assists by a defenseman. With a lot of early success and the right type of exposure to NHL scouts, Mackey continued to add more awards to his hockey resume after completing his first pro season.
Mackey finished up his junior year of collegiate hockey and acquainted himself further with the Flames in the summer of 2020 – he was invited to the bubble training camp despite not being eligible to play in the bubble playoffs. Because of the events around the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty of continuation of professional sports at the time, his full-fledged Flames training camp debut was put on hold until early January 2021. While the camp was brief, Mackey came out hot and made a great first impression, earning a spot on the Flames taxi squad at the beginning of the season. He played his first game in the NHL against the Vancouver Canucks on Feb. 13 and stuck around with the Flames for the next two games against the Canucks and Oilers before being assigned to the Stockton Heat.
Due to travel restrictions, the journey to the Heat was not a very far one. The Heat temporarily relocated to Calgary for the 2020-21 and played their home games out of the Saddledome. It took a little longer for the Heat to get up and running in the AHL due to schedule changes, relocation and whole new division to play in, so their season did not kick off until Feb. 21. Mackey used that to his advantage to get his feet wet in the NHL before getting some time in the AHL.
Mackey took a couple games to get to know his new team but by the third game of the season, he already started to put up points with an assist on Adam Ruzicka's goal against the Toronto Marlies on Feb. 24.
The Heat had a very hot and cold shortened season overall. They started the year with an eight-game winning streak early on, then finished with only three wins in their last 21 games. Even between blowouts and nail-biters, Mackey was still able to shine in his role as a top AHL defenceman. In 27 games with the Heat, Mackey earned three goals and 13 assists for a total of 16 points. That put him in fourth for team scoring between Luke Philp and Emilio Pettersen.
Once the Flames were pretty much statistically out of the playoffs, Mackey was called back to the taxi squad and got into the last three games of the season. Mackey has got to know the Canucks better than any other team in the league by this point as five out of his six NHL games so far have been played against the Flames rivals to the West. By the final game of the season, his ice time climbed to 19:41 and he scored his first NHL goal in the Flames' 6-2 win against the Canucks.
After the completion of both the Heat's and the Flames' seasons, Mackey was given the opportunity to play at the international level. He was named to the USA roster at the IIHF World Championship. In seven games he earned one assist. It was no Andrew Mangiapane performance by any means, but he still came home with some hardware after defeating Germany in the bronze medal game.
While he was in Latvia, the AHL announced the regular season awards and Mackey made the list as the only Stockton Heat representative. He was named to the Canadian Division All-Star team alongside Laval defenseman, Otto Leskinen. Mackey was only one point off of Leskinen despite playing six less games.
As the expansion draft looms, there is a very real possibility the Flames may lose a defenseman. All signs point to Mark Giordano, but even so, Oliver Kylington is another Flame left exposed. Even if they don't, Mackey was right on the cusp and got some games in to prove himself to the Flames coaching staff. A staff he will be much more familiar with going into the next season with former Stockton head coach Cail MacLean getting the promotion to the Flames as an assistant coach.
Mackey has shown at the NHL and AHL level he is not afraid of playing a physical game and keeps up with the pace of the best players in the sport. He could make a good defensive partner for Juuso Valimaki or if Michael Stone is still around come next season, they can continue the dynamic they had in Stockton briefly and again during the final Flames series of the season. With a good off-season partnered with an impressive Flames training camp, he could be right back on the opening night roster and more of a household name in the Flames hockey market.
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