Focus on developing functional interface materials for in vivo electrophysiology and electrochemistry study of neural disease mechanisms.
Implantable microelectrode arrays (MEAs) are important tools for investigating functional neural circuits and treating neurological diseases. However, current MEAs, regardless of the type, are incapable of seamlessly interfacing with neuronal cells or functional networks. My research focuses on developing novel bio-mimicking MEAs to overcome these drawbacks and push forward basic and translational neuroscience research. The ongoing projects includes 1) neural circuitry mechanisms underlying various neural disorders such as epilepsy, as well as potential treatment techniques; 2) MEAs for precisely delivering of neural transmitters to modulate neural network activity; 3) electrochemical sensing of neurotransmitters in vivo; 4) novel electrode materials for EEG and tDCS.
2015 Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering from University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
2015 Completed Center for Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) joint training program between University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, and McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (MIRM) training at University of Pittsburgh.
1. Xinyang Qi(#), Zhanhong Jeff Du(#), Lin Zhu(#), Xuemei Liu, Hua Xu, Zheng Zhou, Cheng Zhong, Shijiang Li, Liping Wang, and Zhijun Zhang. "The Glutamatergic Postrhinal Cortex–Ventrolateral Orbitofrontal Cortex Pathway Regulates Spatial Memory Retrieval." Neuroscience Bulletin (2019/01/02 2019).
2. Zhanhong Jeff Du, Guo-Qiang Bi, and Xinyan Tracy Cui. "Electrically Controlled Neurochemical Release from Dual-Layer Conducting Polymer Films for Precise Modulation of Neural Network Activity in Rat Barrel Cortex." Advanced Functional Materials (2017): 1703988-n/a.
3. Ian Taylor, Zhanhong Jeff Du, Emma Bigelow, James Eles, Anthony R. Horner, Kasey A. Catt, Stephen Weber, Brian Jamieson, and Xinyan Tracy Cui. "Aptamer-Functionalized Neural Recording Electrodes for the Direct Measurement of Cocaine in Vivo." Journal of Materials Chemistry B 5, no. 13 (2017): 2445-58.
4. Zhanhong Jeff Du(#), Christi L Kolarcik(#), Takashi D Y Kozai, Silvia D Luebben, Shawn A Sapp, Xin Sally Zheng, James A Nabity, and X Tracy Cui. "Ultrasoft Microwire Neural Electrodes Improve Chronic Tissue Integration." Acta Biomater 53 (Feb 06 2017): 46-58.
5. Takashi D Y Kozai, Kasey Catt, Zhanhong Du, Kyounghwan Na, Onnop Srivannavit, Razi-ul M. Haque, John Seymour, Kensall D. Wise, Euisik Yoon, and X. Tracy Cui. "Chronic in Vivo Evaluation of Pedot/Cnt for Stable Neural Recordings." IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering 63, no. 1 (06/15 2016): 111-19.
6. Zhanhong Jeff Du, Xiliang Luo, Cassandra L. Weaver, and Xinyan Tracy Cui. "Poly(3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene)-Ionic Liquid Coating Improves Neural Recording and Stimulation Functionality of Meas." Journal of Materials Chemistry C 3, no. 25 (2015): 6515-24.
7. Christi L Kolarcik, Kasey Catt, Erika Rost, Ingrid N Albrecht, Dennis Bourbeau, Zhanhong Du, Takashi D Y Kozai, Xiliang Luo, Douglas J Weber, and X Tracy Cui. "Evaluation of Poly(3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene)/Carbon Nanotube Neural Electrode Coatings for Stimulation in the Dorsal Root Ganglion." J Neural Eng 12, no. 1 (Feb 2015): 016008.
8. Takashi D.Y. Kozai, Zhanhong Du, Zhannetta V. Gugel, Matthew A. Smith, Steven M. Chase, Lance M. Bodily, Ellen M. Caparosa, Robert M. Friedlander, and X. Tracy Cui. "Comprehensive Chronic Laminar Single-Unit, Multi-Unit, and Local Field Potential Recording Performance with Planar Single Shank Electrode Arrays." J Neurosci Methods 242C (Dec 24 2014): 15-40.
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June 22, 2020 August 7, 2020 by Ed Achorn
The untold truth about slavery
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AFRICAN AMERICANS, AMERICAN HISTORY, SLAVERY
RIOTS, SLAVERY, TIM KAINE
Last week, Tim Kaine made a ludicrous statement: "The United States didn't inherit slavery from anybody. We created it."
It is shocking to hear a U.S. senator, a former Virginia governor and a former major-party candidate for vice president spout such nonsense, particularly at a time when racial tensions have been ratcheted up, with rioters looting and burning neighborhoods.
Even a cursory reading of world history would reveal that America did not create the institution of slavery (though North America's colonies permitted it to take hold here). Slavery goes back many thousands of years.
And Africans have not been the only victims. Virtually every human culture has embraced it, in huge numbers, notably including China and India. It existed in the Americas — practiced widely and with awful brutality by indigenous peoples — before Christopher Columbus arrived. In the ancient world (see the second century mosaic of Roman slave servants above), slavery was ubiquitous. Jews were famously enslaved in Egypt, and led from bondage by Moses.
Slavery exists around the world now, disgracefully tolerated. National Geographic estimates some 27 million people are still held in bondage.
As the great economist Thomas Sowell has noted (see his "The Real History of Slavery"), at least 1 million white people were enslaved by North African pirates between 1500 and 1800. The very word slave derives from Slav — white Europeans who were enslaved.
The monstrous African slave trade involved the sale of prisoners of war taken in tribal battles, greatly enriching some African leaders and tribes. I suspect few people know that only a small fraction of the black slaves sent to the New World went to North America.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., a professor in Harvard's Department of African and African American Studies, explained:
"Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America.
"And how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000. That's right: a tiny percentage."
Arab slave traders engaged in their brutal business of selling Africans for centuries before that. Some scholars believe African slaves died in greater numbers while being transported across the Sahara Desert than even during the Middle Passage to the New World. Those who survived were worked to death in the Ottoman Empire's Sahara salt mines.
Here's what was different about America: Western civilization is the first culture that seriously advanced moral arguments against slavery. America's founders were among the first of those who denounced the institution, even though some of them owned slaves.
"Slavery was just not an issue, not even among intellectuals, much less among political leaders, until the 18th century — and then it was an issue only in Western civilization," Professor Sowell wrote in his book Ever Wonder Why?
"Among those who turned against slavery in the 18th century were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and other American leaders. You could research all of 18th century Africa or Asia or the Middle East without finding any comparable rejection of slavery there. But who is singled out for scathing criticism today? American leaders of the 18th century," Mr. Sowell wrote.
It was an American — Abraham Lincoln — who said, "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong." It was America that fought a horrific Civil War over slavery, one that claimed 750,000 American lives in bringing about slavery's destruction.
And it was America that embraced Abraham Lincoln's words at his Second Inauguration, the subject of my new book, Every Drop of Blood: "Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'"
Americans did not only accept that interpretation of the war, they erected a massive monument to Lincoln that features those words chiseled in stone, raised to the level of American scripture. Americans worked together, black and white, to fight racism and remove legal and other obstacles to the advancement of black Americans. Meanwhile, African Americans achieved success in every realm of American society.
Efforts to obliterate or distort this history are underway, such as The New York Times' 1619 Project, which argues preposterously that America's history is one of advancing bondage rather than freedom. Serious historians have debunked it, but schools are going forward with using it in classrooms. The ideological message seems to be spreading that America is "systemically racist" and uniquely bound to slavery.
In truth, this nation, though imperfect, is unique in its noble devotion to ideals of individual liberty; its restraints on government power, particularly through the Constitution's Bill of Rights; and its advocacy of equal rights for all — the time bomb against slavery that the Founders implanted in the Declaration of Independence.
Endless disparagement of this country and its founding — requiring a grotesque rewriting of its history — seems to me to have a pernicious aim. It is designed to undermine Americans' love for their country and its ideals, with the idea of overturning its system of self-government. Those attacking America downplay the history of totalitarian alternatives, which ought to have been thoroughly discredited by the 20th century, with the murders of tens of millions of people by their own governments.
In the heat of this ideological firestorm, Americans are now being fired for speaking out against racial animosity and violence. I pray that reasoned and factual history will survive in a country that Lincoln aptly called "the last best hope of earth."
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Roland Lavallee June 23, 2020 at 8:21 am
I am absolutely riveted to your mini essays on subjects relating to the birthing and struggles of America.
Keith Rasey June 24, 2020 at 4:41 am
This is a variation of the argument that slavery wasn't so bad and the slaves were happy. It ignores Jim Crow and attempts to keep the slave like system going. Its celebration of US exceptionalism undergirds the moral justification of the right wing for US colonialism and imperialism. To say the founders turned against slavery is to ignore that the majority of them did not turn against it enough to sell their slaves. This is a whitewash of US "original sin."
Patty Raehn June 29, 2020 at 9:08 am
I did not see that in the article. No where did it imply anything about happy slaves or that slavery was in anyway a good acceptable institution.
Ed Achorn June 29, 2020 at 9:19 am
Yes, the piece argues that slavery was an evil institution that the West, with its championing of human liberty, brought crashing down.
Jim Pemberton June 24, 2020 at 7:51 am
You can add that over a million Europeans were enslaved in North Africa For about 200 years from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
Only the US has a system capable of self-correction. It was our efforts to ban slavery here that have led to much of the world banning it. If it wasn't for the US being guilty of it, and then correcting it, we wouldn't have pressured the rest of the world to stop it and it would still be widespread today.
Ted Freeman June 25, 2020 at 8:06 pm
The one comment above misses ur point completely. Your essay is on point and factual as opposed to the NYT's pandering blame game piece.
Kay McElvain June 29, 2020 at 2:15 am
Although I agree with most of what you said, America wasn't first. England abolished slavery in 1833.
Ms. McElvain, thank you! England indeed abolished slavery before America. This piece does not argue otherwise. But America's Founders were among the first in history to condemn slavery. I believe, with the Declaration of Independence in 1776, they planted the time bomb that ended up destroying slavery. I would add that England had no comparable economic and social investment in slavery — which is why a terrible Civil War costing a vast number of lives was required to end it in America.
Tim Friebel July 2, 2020 at 8:42 pm
You can not put today's morals on the past. As pointed out Slavery did not start in the U. S. it existed long before. No one is innocent of slavery, NO ONE. History is how we learn, grow, and change for the better. Anarchy will not do it.
R Sandberg July 13, 2020 at 9:02 pm
Your writings are great to read. I would like to see your reaserch find out what percent of our nation has any stain from slaverly. I believe the number would be very small. It is rediculous to push this blame on all. Just consider the people that came here well after slaverly was gone. Would it be right to blame all Germans for Hitler. I don't believe that most of the people in the US have any problems with black people. The protest and burnings is not the way to gain friends.
Scott Bill Hirst August 11, 2020 at 7:44 pm
Like Lincoln I descend from Rev. Obidiah Holmes of Newport making him my sixth cousin four times removed. I also descend from the same Lincoln family in Hingham, Massachusetts.

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Revealed: Peter Dutton intervened in Italian au pair visa case for former police colleague
Exclusive: Minister saved from deportation a woman who was intending to work for a Brisbane family
@LMARTI
Peter Dutton granted a visa to an Italian woman who arrived in Brisbane intending to work for a former police colleague. Photograph: Jack Tran/AAP
One of the foreign au pairs Peter Dutton saved from deportation came to Australia to work for the family of a former police force colleague, Guardian Australia understands.
Dutton used his ministerial powers under the Migration Act in June 2015 to grant a visa to an Italian au pair who was intending to work for a Brisbane family.
The couple have worked for the Queensland police service and have two young children. The Guardian has decided not to name them.
Leaked emails reveal Peter Dutton overruled advice and granted au pair visa
The matter is one of at least two au pair visa cases which are now the subject of a Senate inquiry.
Guardian Australia revealed on Tuesday that Dutton had saved another au pair from deportation, intervening after the AFL chief executive officer, Gillon McLachlan, raised the young woman's case on behalf of his relatives.
An email chain was leaked on Thursday featuring the correspondence of immigration officials, Peter Dutton's office, an AFL staffer, McLachlan and his second cousin. The emails run over 14 pages and indicate that Dutton overruled border security advice and allowed entry to Australia for the French woman, Alexandra Deuwel, on 1 November 2015.
In the Queensland case, the Italian au pair had her visa cancelled upon arrival at Brisbane's international airport on 17 June 2015. She was able to make a phone call and soon afterwards Dutton approved a new visa.
There are pictures on her Facebook profile showing she ate Tim Tams and Caramello Koalas on her first night in Australia, after the visa dramas were resolved. "First night in Australia.. FINALLY!" she wrote.
She later visited Surfers Paradise, Brisbane's agricultural show the Ekka, Australia Zoo, Melbourne, and posed for pictures by the Brisbane River.
The au pair's case file names the Brisbane family as her hosts, a source told Guardian Australia.
Dutton was a police officer from 1990 until 1999 before being elected to federal parliament in 2001. In 1997 Dutton and the family's father completed a surveillance course together and were pictured in a group photograph.
Asked if the au pair was intending to work for his family, the policeman told Guardian Australia: "Not confirming, not denying. Just talk to Peter Dutton's office. It's well above my call as to what to say."
The visa status of two au pairs have been in the spotlight since March, when it was revealed Dutton granted them visas on public interest grounds.
"There were two young tourists who had come in on a tourist visa and declared … [they] intended to perform babysitting duties while here," Dutton told parliament in March.
"The decision that was taken … that those two young tourists would be detained and that they would be deported. I looked into the circumstances of those two cases and I thought that inappropriate."
A former immigration department official said what horrified frontline airport personnel most about the au pair cases was that their decisions were being "overruled so quickly and at such a senior level".
A Senate inquiry is investigating the au pairs' visas and is due to report back to parliament on 11 September.
In response to questions about the Brisbane and Adelaide cases, a spokeswoman for Dutton said that as immigration minister he had received hundreds of representations on individual migration matters from MPs, journalists, members of the public and others every year.
"Ministerial intervention powers have existed under Labor and Liberal ministers for many years, to be used in cases where special circumstances exist according to the law," she said. "Suggestions that somehow there is impropriety or some personal gain is completely false."
Dutton released a separate statement in relation to the Guardian's story on the Adelaide au pair, saying: "I consider cases on their merits. Any suggestions cases are determined on any other basis, including whether I knew the individual who referred the matter, is completely ridiculous."
On Thursday he defended his decision on 2GB radio. "I looked at it and thought it's a bit rough, there's no criminal history, she's agreed that she wouldn't work while she was here," he said.
"As I understand it, she never overstayed the visa, hasn't committed any offences, and I thought it was an application of common sense."
Labor's immigration spokesman, Shayne Neumann, called on Dutton to explain himself: "As each day goes by, there are more serious questions Peter Dutton needs to answer about the use of his ministerial powers."
After the release of the emails Dutton put out a statement defending his decision to overrule departmental advice.
Peter Dutton intervened in third au pair visa case for AFL boss's relatives
"By definition, given the department has made a negative decision, they don't advise me to change their decision," he said. "I make decisions on the merit of individual cases according to the law."
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"A dedicated au pair visa will ensure there is tighter regulation around the recruitment, screening and support of au pairs and Australian families," she said.
She said au pairs were the preferred childcare option for an increasing number of Australian families.
"We hope that the attention on minister Dutton's decision will shine a spotlight on the au pair sector and give Australian families much-needed certainty about this growing childcare option."
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Andreas Johnsson has successful knee surgery: that's the good news
The bad news is he's out for six months.
By KatyaKnappe Feb 19, 2020, 11:30am EST
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If you were holding out any hopes that Andreas Johnsson might make a triumphant return in time for the playoffs, abandon all those hopes.
The @MapleLeafs announced that forward Andreas Johnsson underwent successful knee surgery earlier today.
He is expected to miss six months. #LeafsForever
Johnsson was injured in a not very serious-looking collision with Kasperi Kapanen on February 13.
Updated again: It's worse news as Andreas Johnsson out with a knee injury
The initial prognosis was "at least eight weeks", but now it's the end of Johnsson's season, and most of his training time gone too. He finishes up this first year of a four-year, $3.4 million contract with a very disappointing eight goals and 13 assists in 43 games played. More concerning is that, even allowing for his earlier injury, his ice time declined dramatically over the season, and he didn't seem to be finding a place in the top six prior to his injury.
He'll have the opportunity to make a whole new first impression next year at training camp, however. But for now, it's six months of pain and suffering.


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These easy homemade meatballs come together in no time! They are a quick and delicious dinner that gets even better dipped in the honey mustard sauce! So good!
I started making these healthy meatballs about a year and a half ago when my husband and I were living out of a little hotel in the DC area. We were there for his work and I was so blessed to be able to go with him. Anyways, we had a tiny oven and stove and a decent sized fridge, so I was able to do a lot of cooking!
I was trying to eat less bread/gluten, and I just knew I could make some easy meatballs that were super yummy and ones where we wouldn't miss the bread crumbs. Well, here they are!
Even though we are back home in NM now, I still whip these up every now and then! They are so good and so easy! It would be silly not to include these in our weekly dinners!
Combine all the dry seasonings and then add them to the raw hamburger.
I like to use 2 eggs mixed into the hamburger to act as a binding agent. It works so well I even use it when I make my ultimate cheeseburgers and sliders!
Add in the liquid seasonings and then roll them into balls!
Cook them up and you are good to go!
Homemade Meatballs are easy to make and these are gluten free!
Mix honey and mustard together…. The End.
Okay so maybe not complicated at all… but it tastes like it is! Give these meatballs a try and let me know how you like them in a comment below!
If you are looking for other dinner ideas, try my super delicious smoked chicken, pasta salad, cucumber avocado salad or my zucchini bites! You can't go wrong with any of these!
These easy, gluten free meatballs are great for dinner any day of the week! Dip them in the super easy to make homemade honey mustard dipping sauce and you are good to go!
In a small bowl, combine all the dry seasonings.
In a medium bowl, add the raw hamburger, eggs, dry seasoning mix, liquid smoke, and Worcestershire sauce and mix thoroughly. Roll into ~2" balls.
In a large skillet or fry pan, heat oil over medium high heat.
Once oil is hot, place each meatball in the skillet. Turn each meatball every minute or so to brown all sides. After the meatballs look done, cut one open and make sure it is cooked through. If not, go ahead and turn down the heat on the stove top and cover pan with a lid. Let the meatballs cook for several more minutes, checking for doneness.
Once done, dip in sauce of choice (I recommend the honey mustard sauce!) and enjoy!
In a small bowl stir together honey and mustard.
*I used Dijon mustard for this, but if you only have yellow mustard that works too!
These look delicious! I love meatballs in non-traditional sauces for parties, I bet honey mustard would be a BIG hit.
These are a must-try!! I love meatballs and It's great that these are gluten-free!
What a delicious looking meatball recipe!!
Also, living out of a hotel?? How crazy exciting! Good thing you had an oven and stove!
I so agree! A place to cook made it feel more homey!
Lucky you to be able to join your husband. I am familiar with the DC area. Love that city. These meatballs look great! I am looking forward to trying them as we are meatballs loving family lol. Seriously, my kids could eat them all day if I let them.
Yes I love being able to go with him! Hope you like them!


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Analysis and Comment
Has Brexit buried power-sharing?
Updated / Saturday, 13 Jul 2019 09:14
By Tommie Gorman
Northern Editor
As the manufacturers of Valentine's Day cards will confirm, February is the month for love.
On 22 February last there was an unlikely romantic interlude in the Rainbow Ballroom of Romance, at Glenfarne, Co Leitrim, six miles south of the porous border.
69-year-old Shane Ross, the Minister for Transport, made the key move. He dared 48-year-old Arlene Foster, the DUP leader, to hold hands with him and pose for the cameras.
As they say, the image went viral.
The occasion for the unlikely meeting of hearts and minds was the turning of the first sod of a Greenway cycle path. In time it may operate along the route of the long-defunct railway line that used to run like blood through veins in the border counties, north and south.
As the unlikely couple enjoyed the hospitality provided by a committee of locals in Co Leitrim that afternoon, they may not have understood the full history of the venue where they were hosted.
Back in the days when there was no dancing during Lent, no openly gay people in Ireland, no televisions or mobile phones commanding the attention in every living room, Glenfarne's Rainbow Ballroom was the local meeting arena.
Sex did exist but this was pre-contraception Ireland. Priests, au fait with church teaching and with a detached awareness of how pregnancy occurred, sometimes patrolled the perimeter and byroads around the ballroom.
It was inside that huge hall that the vital chemistry took place. The practice was that males congregated in bunches on one side while females gathered opposite, beyond the dance floor.
This was the ritual, not just in the region served by the Glenfarne ballroom but throughout much of rural Ireland.Men often went to such venues, nervous with hope, and did everything but walk across the floor and request a lady to dance.
Females, restrained by the custom that it was up to the male to ask, frequently waited for the invitation that often did not arrive. As a result of this Cold War,Ireland was a country with a sizeable cohort of bachelors and spinsters living 'if only' and 'what might have been' lives.
In Glenfarne, a man called John Mc Givern made an effort to address the stalemate. He was the manager of the venue - a tall, imposing figure who enjoyed putting on a tuxedo and writing himself into the script.
At a time when the dance hall was full, he'd give the instructions to reduce the lighting and he'd move to centre stage.John called this initiative 'The Romantic Interlude.'
He'd exhort the men to cross the dance floor, take their courage in their hands and ask a lady to dance. John had the band under instructions to play a series of slow numbers. Sometimes, if he felt the occasion required it, he would boldly add a 'ladies' choice' phase to raise the temperature.
Years later during the first phase of my career in the journalism trade, John resurfaced as the manager of the Savoy Cinema in Sligo. Interviewed for our long since deceased Sligo Journal newspaper, John told how he was still having chance meetings with couples who said their marriage had flowed from his role as a matchmaker.
For the ballroom of romance insert Stormont. A mix of patrons frequent the venue but the key singletons are Sinn Féin and the DUP. Tánaiste Simon Coveney and Northern Ireland Secretary of State Karen Bradley have been attempting to step into that John Mc Givern role of matchmaker.
But to date there has been no romantic interlude on the Stormont estate. The would-be partners have gazed across the great divide at their potential match and concluded'after you … you must make the first move'.
Each time they have decided'not worth the risk' … 'good idea but the timing isn't right'. And they have left the venue just as they came - alone - content to remain for now in their own company.
SINN FÉIN HITS THE BUFFERS
In his long-awaited biography Seamus Mallon witheringly recalls a comment made by Tony Blair at one of the many tentative stages in peace process negotiations. It was one of those periods (and there were plenty of them) when a frustrated SDLP felt the then British prime minister was spending too much time courting and cajoling Sinn Féin. The Mallon story has Tony Blair saying "the trouble with you fellows, Seamus is that you have no guns."
During what was a challenging month of May for Sinn Féin, when there was a very definite halt put to their gallop, north and south, the Blair observation that irked Seamus Mallon came to mind. But this time it is republicans who have no weapons. Sinn Féin now has a leadership, free of gunsmoke, fronting an organisation committed to exclusively peaceful means.
Sinn Féin has (almost) become a bog standard political party. It is on the road to being judged, rewarded, punished and ignored just like all the other political groups. For a movement that (rightly) saw itself as different and operating under different rules, this new reality is a most unwelcome storm.
The Meadowbank Sports Arena in Magherafelt, Co Derry claims to be the largest venue of its kind in Europe. On Monday afternoon, 25 May, Sinn Féin activists, gathered there for the Northern Ireland European Parliament count, quietly absorbed the details emerging of electoral setbacks.
The weekend story was that south of the border half of the party's seats had disappeared in the local elections (159 down to 81). The setback pattern was confirmed in the European Parliament elections with two of the parties outgoing Republic of Ireland MEPs , Lynn Boylan and Liadh Ní Riada, were unseated and Matt Carthy was the only one of the three to survive.
In Northern Ireland, Martina Anderson managed to retain her European seat. But unlike 2014, she didn't top the poll or get elected on the first count.
In the circumstances, from a Sinn Féin perspective, Ms Anderson's performance was creditable. She lives in Derry and in the local elections, earlier in May, Sinn Féin was trounced in the Derry/Strabane area. Martina Anderson is an aunt of Sinn Féin MP Alisha Mc Callion, who unseated the SDLP's Mark Durkan in the June 2017 Westminster elections. Raymond Mc Cartney, like Martina Anderson, a former IRA member, is the most senior Derry-based Assembly member. But in post-Martin Mc Guinness Derry, Sinn Féin with its three most prominent representatives - Anderson, Mc Callion and Mc Cartney - is losing ground in what was its heartland.
The Germans have some great words. Schadenfreude is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures or humiliation of another. Katastrophentourismus translates as it sounds, catastrophy tourism.
In recent weeks there has been a growing line of rubberneckers, keen to get a close-up look at a wounded Sinn Féin. The 'sorry for the your troubles' line is being aired but, in some cases at least, it is a blatant lie. Rivals are struggling to disguise and contain their delight. In the brutal business of politics, there is a glee in seeing the party rattled.
The most immediate practical consequence of disappointing elections is a very significant reduction of resources. It is an enormous blow to lose almost 50% of a party's elected personnel in local elections south of the border and two of the party's three MEPs. The knock-on effects - in terms of finance and boots and faces on the ground - create the greatest challenge for Sinn Féin since the party began its journey away from the 'armalite in one hand and ballot box in the other' strategy almost 40 years ago.
Morale is a second area feeling the pressure. Mary Lou Mc Donald seemed the right leadership fit because she is very different to Gerry Adams. Dublin-based, female, some Fianna Fáil history, educated in Rathgar, comfortable to be filmed when enquiring 'how much are the prawns' at Superquinn in 2013.
Michelle O'Neill was actually identified by the late Martin McGuinness as his successor to lead Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland. But from the afternoon in January 2017 that the 42 year-old was publicly given the job, she has not had a single opportunity to stand as theSinn Féin leader in a functioning Stormont Assembly or take her seat around the table of a power-sharing Executive.
Significantly hampered by factors beyond their control, the Mc Donald-O'Neill partnership has led Sinn Féin into three elections which departed from the pattern of growth and consolidation - the Irish Presidential election, the Republic of Ireland local elections and the European Elections.
THE FIANNA FÁIL/ FINE GAEL AMBUSH
The most significant setbacks came south of the border.
In 2011 Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams made a calculated decision to end his role as a Belfast-based Westminster MP and Stormont Assembly member and to seek election as a Co Louth TD.
It took Adams out of his comfort zone. Dáil opponents quickly sought weaknesses in his 'not up to speed outsider' status; Co. Louth critics noted how he had an office but wasn't living in the constituency; sometimes when he'd return to Belfast locals would ask him 'what are you doing back here, Gerry?'
But in the 2011 general election, Sinn Féin's Dáil numbers grew from five to 14 and expanded to 23 in the 2016 contest. The Adams' foray south, though difficult for him on a personal level, coincided with a very definite pattern of Sinn Féin expansion.
Those Sinn Féin advances were at the expense of smaller parties - Labour dropped from 33 seats to seven in 2016; the Green Party dropped from six to zero in 2011 and back to three in 2016. With the minnows whacked, Fianna Fáil became the very obvious target in Sinn Féin's growth strategy.
Given the Sinn Féin pattern of spectacular success and the series of damaged brand episodes attached to Fianna Fáil over recent decades, it's understandable how Sinn Féin expected its growth to continue.
But the step up to competing full on with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael involves a completely different form of political warfare. Sinn Féin miscalculated the enormity of that challenge.
Convenient amnesia is sometimes a feature when assessing the emergence of our independent state. Forgetting or overlooking our recent history does a disservice to its complexity and the breadth of the achievement.
21 years have passed since the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement - how dramatic or underwhelming is the transformation in Northern Ireland over two decades on - and remember things are supposed to happen faster nowadays.
In a similar period (21 years), the Republic of Ireland travelled from the 1916 Rising to the introduction of its constitution, Bunreacht na hÉireann, and was on the cusp of electing its first president, Douglas Hyde, a Protestant with a passion for promoting the Irish language.
In the War of Independence (1919-1921) and the Civil War (1922-1923) there were instances of 'shoot to kill' policies, 'disappearances', family members taking different sides – episodes every bit as brutal as some of the darkest parts of the Troubles. Many of those prominent participants put their guns aside and channelled their memories, their secrets, their bitterness and their hopes into the working life of the Oireachtas.
Is it any wonder that when Sinn Féin came bouncing into Dáil Éireann, looking to displace Fianna Fáil (and Fine Gael), the party met with a ferocity they had not encountered before.
For decades, north of the border, republicans claimed ownership of the tricolour. They used it to cover the coffins of IRA members. They encouraged its display to mark out territory and to serve as a counterweight to the union flag and paraphernalia associated with unionism, loyalism and loyalist paramilitaries. In political terms, within Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin has consistently marketed itself as the custodian of the most pure vision of a united Ireland.
A not-fully-twigged truth is in its efforts to transfer and maintain this role as champions of a united Ireland south of the border, Sinn Féin has hit the buffers. Over the past two years, not only has Fianna Fáil reasserted its historic claim as keepers of the Irish unity flame, Fine Gael has puffed out its chests and in the best traditions of 'The Big Fellow', calmly identified its foe and pulled the trigger.
(Was it a Leo Varadkar inspired strategy? Had his discreet chief of staff, Brian Murphy, a role in it? Whoever devised it is capable of a Collins-like ruthlessness when responding to threat.)
The British and their Brexit plans provided a boxing arena for the row between Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael over bloodlines to 'United Irelandary'. Micheál Martin may confuse some of his own by his ABT (Anything But Taoiseach) pattern of behaviour. But he has been doggedly consistent in barging Sinn Féin towards the ropes and indeed out of the ring on the Irish unity question.
One shouldn't be fooled by the fact that Leo Varakdar was comfortable attending a Spice Girls concert in Dublin on the night that polling stations in the European and Local elections were still open. When challenged, he can be single-minded and decisive. As far back as December 2017 the Fine Gael leader set out his store when he told Northern nationalists "you will never again be left behind by an Irish government."
As with Fianna Fail, Fine Gael - through the speeches and actions of its leader and the likes of Tánaiste Simon Coveney - refused to give Sinn Féin ownership or oxygen on the 'Agreed Ireland in the aftermath of Brexit' debate.
The facts and the statistics tell the story. Sinn Féin suffered its most significant setback of almost four decades in the European and Local elections. RTÉ/TG4 exit polls suggested 65% of those very same voters favour a united Ireland, with 19% against and 15% refusing to answer. When undecided voters were excluded, the proposal attracted 77% support.
The election results show a significant majority backing a united Ireland while support for Sinn Féin nosedived.
THE WESTMINSTER FACTOR
Abstentionism in Westminster was the basis on which Northern Ireland returned seven Sinn Féin MPs in Theresa May's June 2017 snap election. That same contest saw the wipeout of three SDLP members - Alasdair Mc Donnell, Mark Durkan and Margaret Richie - all of them former party leaders.
Early in the term of the Westminster parliament, when questions were raised about whether Sinn Féin might abandon their no-show policy, the idea was quickly dismissed. The stance on refusing to swear an oath of allegiance to the British monarch has not changed.
Even pragmatists could spot a very obvious danger if such a shift occurred. As soon as Sinn Féin members were seen to be publicly in favour of something, Conservatives of all shades and possibly Labour too might feel obliged to take an alternative view.
But in these unprecedented times, does any principle have a cast iron logic or bulletproof protection from scrutiny?
Gus O' Donnell is a former British government cabinet secretary. On a BBC Radio Four programme he was recounting the two occasions in recent history when his predecessors almost found themselves in limbo land, when a conversation with the monarch would be required to decide who would step into the role of temporary prime minister.
The first was in October 1984, when an IRA bomb badly damaged the Brighton hotel where the Conservative Party was holding its annual conference and killed five people. In the minutes after the explosion it was not clear that prime minister Margaret Thatcher had survived the blast.
The second time was January 1991 when then British prime minister John Major and his cabinet were meeting to discuss the Gulf War. A number of homemade heavy mortar shells were fired at Downing Street and one exploded in the back garden. Again the IRA was responsible and once more, for those few moments before the well-being of the prime minister was confirmed, the prospect of a constitutional crisis was a consideration.
The IRA has gone away. But in the unstable spring of 2019, circumstances offered Sinn Féin's representatives an opportunity to shape Westminster's voting patterns and the policies and the very future of a British government in a way that never happened before and may never come their way again.
One motion, upholding the right of parliament to halt a no-deal Brexit, was carried by a single vote. Sylvia Hermon, the Independent Unionist MP for North Down, opposed the hard Brexiteers, including 10 DUP members, to achieve that most narrow of victories. So did Labour MP Sonia Onanasya, who subsequently lost her Peterborough seat after she failed to admit she was driving her car when guilty of a speeding offence. Had either woman decided to side with the Brexiteers, the vote would have been lost.
There were other very tight contests, also of great significance. Kenneth Clarke's "permanent and comprehensive customs union with the EU" motion of 27 March was defeated by three votes.
Is it fair or unfair to ask if Sinn Féin's non-role in such drama garnered a 100% 'keep up the good work' response from voters on both sides of the border?
The Sinn Féin 'non-combatants' Westminister status is replicated in a mothballed Stormont. Two-and-a-half years since the power-sharing relationship with the DUP collapsed, the stalemate continues.
In February 2017, before he stood down as leader, Gerry Adams, with active support from the likes of Mary Lou Mc Donald, Michelle O'Neill and Conor Murphy, did try to cut a deal to restore power-sharing at Stormont. That package involved compromise and stretch by Sinn Féin. It was Arlene Foster who was unable to persuade her DUP party and organisation to accept the proposals she and others had negotiated.
BREXIT AND THE DUP
Just as Brexit is the issue that brought Sinn Féin into a damaging bare-knuckle confrontation with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, it is the challenge that the DUP has found too hot to handle.
Nobody was more surprised than David Cameron when he won a 12-seat majority in the 2015 British general election. Puffed up by expected success, he then assumed his newly discovered Midas touch would see him comfortably win the EU membership referendum he committed to hold in June 2016.
For the DUP, siding with Brexiteers in what was expected to be a sham fight, seemed the obvious move. In Westminster politics, the DUP's handful barely had a walk on/walk off role. Some had developed friendships with like-minded peripheral characters with shared eurosceptic views.
During the years when Ian Paisley and Peter Robinson had transformed the DUP from a party of protest to a party of power, Stormont became the energy source and power base of the DUP and Westminster a side show. Although a DUP member of BelfastCity Council, Lee Reynolds, was given a significant role in running the DUP's low-key Brexit campaign, the Westminster crew, with time on their hands, assumed the bulk of the day-to-day operational responsibilities.
To date, no information has been published to indicate that in the final days of the referendum campaign, the DUP's Stormont base scrutinised in depth how the party was being used to fund a significant Leave campaign media initiative. The Campaign's British budget ceiling had been reached. So significant sums, from hard to identify sources, were sent across to the DUP in Northern Ireland and quickly transferred back again. The Irish Sea served as an effective washing machine. At a vital stage in the battle to persuade British voters to vote Leave, the DUP punched above their weight, and above their wealth.
Once passed by referendum, Brexit has grown and spread like a leylandii hedge. It has become the scorpion that keeps on stinging. It took out David Cameron, the prime minister who called the referendum. It encouraged his successor, Theresa May, to call a snap general election that left her beholden to the DUP. And the Brexit scorpion is about to take her out too.
In terms of not just British but international media profile, Brexit has been the equivalent of a 'sugar hit' for some of the DUP's Westminster MPs. It has given the party unprecedented influence over the British government. But it has also shifted the power base within the party - for the past two years the DUP's London wing is the key influence while it is sometimes difficult to gather the sidelined Stormont set into a room.
BACK TO STORMONT MATCHMAKING
Next week the Stormont ballroom of romance will reopen for business. The smaller parties -the SDLP, Alliance, the Ulster Unionists and the Greens - are keen to get back to work. Depending on who you talk to, the DUP or Sinn Féin are accused of leading the disinterested stakes. The truth is there is a mixture of enthusiasts and sceptics in each camp.
Some within the DUP say London remains the key venue and developing a relationship with Teresa May's successor should be the priority. But, at best, Boris Johnson may prove to be a fair weather and short-term friend. Consistently in his professional and in his private life, he has a track record of changing tack.
In terms of significance in Westminster and number of seats held, the DUP is probably past its high point of influence. From now on, things may slide.
Tuesday last was possibly the DUP's worst House of Commons day since signing the confidence and supply partnership agreement with the Conservatives two years ago. Members of all parties, including Tories right up to senior ministerial ranks, turned on the DUP and voted to extend same sex marriage provisions and more liberal abortion conditions to Northern Ireland.
The DUP MPs were back to being peripheral figures in the Westminster chamber. From benches where during Brexit debates they had argued Northern Ireland was as British as Finchley, they sought to argue that moral issues should remain the sole responsibility of a devolved Stormont institution that hasn't sat for two-and-a-half years. From a DUP perspective, there is an element of cruel irony in the proviso that the regulations will not come into force if a power-sharing Assembly is restored before the end of October.
The latest possible date for the next British general election is May 2022 but it is likely to come long before that. DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds turns 61 next month. If he contests North Belfast one more time, he may hold it but in the longer term, that DUP seat is vulnerable. Two years ago Emma Lyttle Pengelly won the South Belfast seat with 30% of the vote in the first-past-the-post system. But she will struggle to repeat that feat in a constituency that voted 70% remain in the Brexit referendum.
During one of the many Brexit-related crises of recent months, one high profile DUP figure was asked 'how is this going to be sorted? His response was 'something will turn up'. So far that magic 'something' has not emerged. There is the obvious possibility that if Brexit impacts negatively on Northern Ireland, in Westminster and/or Assembly elections, the DUP would be in the firing line for criticism.
The other potential problem for the DUP, with its lit, shortening fuse, is the Renewable Heat Incentive Inquiry report, completed by Mr Justice Coughlin. Publication is due shortly. Key DUP figures, from party leader Arlene Foster down, figured prominently in the hearings. Would the DUP principals be more or less secure if Stormont is up and running when that report is made public?
WILL SINN FEIN OPT TO STAY OUT?
There are some within Sinn Féin who will argue the relationship with the DUP has run its course. They'll point to the tensions and the retreats from commitments that often occurred in the different power-sharing administrations and to the January 2017 collapse of devolved government.
They'll cite the DUP stance on Brexit and the dominant role of its Westminster group.
They'll see merit in staying on the fence, observing how the chips fall after Brexit and possibly redirecting energies to a campaign for a border poll and the push for a united Ireland.
One of the very obvious dangers of such a strategy is it commits Sinn Féin to a role which coincided with the party suffering setbacks in three successive elections - on the sidelines in a closed Stormont, abstentionists in Westminster and competing in a highly-contested space south of the border.
It is doubtful that any party on the island can match the number of press releases across a range of issues routinely generated by Sinn Féin. As a turbo-charged party of protest or a lobby group, it leads the way. Máirtín Ó Muilleoir was ahead of all competitors, issuing a 'Dearg le Fearg' statement, supportive of a recent Irish language event in Belfast. But before the Sinn Féin-DUP power-sharing administration collapsed in January 2017, he was a Stormont finance minister proposing to build thousands of local authority houses in Northern Ireland.
Collective political effort, compromise included, created the circumstances that stopped the killing in Northern Ireland. Because of it, there currently is no version of the Glenanne gang seeking out Catholics to kill them. Nor is there a remorseless campaign to take Protestant lives and farms along the Fermanagh border. In these unprecedented, uncertain times, the miracle that the killing has stopped should not be forgotten.
In July 2005, Séanna Walsh made international headlines for reading out an IRA Army Council statement, officially announcing the end of its armed campaign. He became the first IRA member since 1972 to represent the paramilitary organisation without wearing a mask.
He spent 21 of his first 42 years in jail. Now 62 he has been a member of Belfast City Council since 2010. Three months ago, in his role as manager of the new James Connolly Centre in west Belfast, he gave President Michael D Higgins and his wife, Sabina, a tour of the facilities. There are many like him whose present is infinitely better than their past.
Sir Anthony Hart was 66 in 2012 when he accepted the invitation to chair the Institutional Abuse Inquiry, established by Northern Ireland's power-sharing administration. Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness were leading the Stormont government then. The DUP leader retired in January 2016 after surviving a heart attack. Martin McGuinness died in March 2017 from a rare genetic disease.
It's two years since Sir Anthony produced his report, including the recommendation that survivors of abuse be paid compensation ranging from £7,500 to £100,000. Because of the breakdown of power-sharing, those proposals have yet to be implemented. Support groups say 30 abuse victims have died in the period since the Hart Report was published.
Earlier this year I wrote to Sir Anthony, seeking an interview and I enclosed an RTÉ Nationwide programme about a woman, since deceased, who had given evidence to his inquiry. He sent me a gracious reply, written with a fountain pen, declining the request.
Three months ago I had a chance meeting with him and his wife on a street near Belfast City Hall. We chatted and I was glad of the opportunity to thank him for his exemplary work. Last Tuesday he died in London after suffering a major heart attack.
Like Lyra Mc Kee, the young journalist murdered by republican paramilitaries in Derry, Sir Anthony believed in working to address injustice and unfairness. He was 72, she was 29. They were from completely different backgrounds but they shared a disdain for procrastination.
They were both citizens of a place befuddled and overshadowed by Brexit. It's difficult to see how the main political factions, the DUP or Sinn Féin, have benefited from the past two and a half years of Brexit-influenced stalemate. Both brands are damaged. But have they the capacity to re-engage on the Stormont dance floor?
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November 20, 2002 - Flames licked by Wings
Flames licked by Wings
CALGARY, Alberta -- Someone threw a cow's tongue -- that's right, a cow's tongue -- onto the Saddledome ice Tuesday night. Red Wings defenseman Chris Chelios scooped it up with his stick and dumped it over the boards between the benches.
"I didn't know what it was; I was just getting it out of the way," Chelios said. "It didn't stink like an octopus."
The same can't be said for the Flames. We say this tongue-in-cheek, of course, but perhaps the fans were sticking a tongue out at their team. The Wings whipped the Flames, 5-0, a month after whipping them at Joe Louis Arena, 4-0.
The Wings are 5-0 and have allowed only four goals in their past five games; the Flames are 0-5-0-1 and have scored only two goals in their past six.
"This is dire straits," said Calgary coach Greg Gilbert, who was without two regular defensemen because of injury and a suspension. "We are going through a tough time here."
Sergei Fedorov scored his 12th of the season, tying Colorado's Joe Sakic and Columbus' Geoff Sanderson for the NHL lead. Igor Larionov scored his first. And the Wings got a goal from each member of the Grind Line: Kris Draper, Kirk Maltby and Darren McCarty. Draper also had an assist, Maltby also had two assists, and McCarty also had an assist and a fight, giving him a Gordie Howe hat trick.
"We work hard every game, and some nights we get rewarded," Draper said. "This was one of those nights."
Dmitri Bykov and Brett Hull each had two assists. Goaltender Curtis Joseph made 29 saves for his 38th career shutout, his second with the Wings. His most impressive work came in the third period. He foiled a Flames' flurry, stopping last season's NHL goal-scoring champion, Jarome Iginla, all the way out at the hash marks -- without a stick.
Defenseman Jason Woolley, acquired Saturday from Buffalo, played 16:54 and was plus-3 in his Wings debut. For the most part, he paired with Bykov. He paired with Chelios on the second power-play unit.
Larionov scored on a power play 17:36 into the first period. Hull made a beautiful pass up the ice. Larionov broke in ahead of defenseman Petr Buzek, made a move and beat goaltender Jamie McLennan with a backhander.
"It was like old times," Larionov said. "Slava Fetisov on the breakaway. Just go there and get the puck."
McCarty whipped the puck past McLennan 2:11 into the second. Forty-one seconds later, Fedorov beat McLennan from the right circle. Maltby one-timed a pass from McCarty at 5:46 of the third period, and Draper iced it with 3:54 left.


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USAID Policy on Gender Equality and Female Empowerment
(3 MB) USAID Policy on Gender Equality and Female Empowerment
Gender equality and female empowerment are core development objectives, fundamental for the realization of human rights and key to effective and sustainable development outcomes. No society can develop successfully without providing equitable opportunities, resources, and life prospects for males and females so that they can shape their own lives and contribute to their families and communities. Although many gender gaps have narrowed over the past two decades, substantial inequalities remain across all sectors in which USAID works, particularly in lowincome and conflictaffected countries and among disadvantaged groups.
USAID has a long history of supporting programming to increase gender equality. Over the past few years alone, changes to the Automated Directives System (ADS), revised technical competencies required for Foreign Service backstops, new definitions of gender issues for budget attribution, new senior positions devoted exclusively to gender equality and female empowerment, and new common indicators to measure progress in this arena have strengthened the Agency's ability to address key gender issues and track our progress in doing so. Still, an updated Agency policy on gender equality and female empowerment was needed to reflect fundamental changes in the world and the evidence that has accumulated since the 1982 Policy Paper on Women in Development was issued. In 2012, USAID issued a new comprehensive policy on Gender Equality and Female Empowerment that builds on the Agency's progress to date.
The goal of this policy is to improve the lives of citizens around the world by advancing equality between females and males, and empowering women and girls to participate fully in and benefit from the development of their societies. It will be addressed through integration of gender equality and female empowerment throughout the Agency's Program Cycle and related processes: in strategic planning, project design and implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. This integrated approach positions the Agency to address gender gaps and the constraints that hold women back.
Under this policy, USAID investments are aimed at three overarching outcomes. In strategic planning at the country or project level, these outcomes will be adapted and translated into specific results with associated targets and indicators. These outcomes, which are especially important for people who are marginalized or excluded due to ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, lack of income, disability or other factors, reflect the gamut of activities that USAID undertakes across multiple sectors and fields:
Reduce gender disparities in access to, control over and benefit from resources, wealth, opportunities and services economic, social, political, and cultural;
Reduce gender-based violence and mitigate its harmful effects on individuals and communities; and
Increase capability of women and girls to realize their rights, determine their life outcomes, and influence decisionmaking in households, communities, and societies.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 12:30pm


Remember My Size Barbie? Yeah, me too… but have you ever wanted to see your favorite celebrities as Barbies? Well here is your chance! I pulled some of my personal favorite celeb Barbie dolls. Take a look through and comment on YOUR favorite doll!
I remember growing up there were collectible Barbies, Life Size Barbie, and of course the classics. What if there was a real Barbie? WELL…there is quite a few actually. Some of these girls have dedicated their lives to looking like a doll and rock it. What are your thoughts on these real life dolls?
I recently got to shoot with the talented Ashley Osborn who always kills it. We decided to have a little Barbie inspired moment. I am so in love with body suits, what are your thoughts?
As I mentioned before, I love Barbies and all things Barbie related! The Barbie brand has transformed over the years from the classic vintage to what we have today. Here is a gallery of the classic vintage Barbie that started it all! What are your thoughts on vintage? Related Articles: The Best Barbie Fashion!
Magical Mashups: Disney Meets Star Wars!
From unicorn rings and super dope hair accessories to pastel chiffon and platform jelly sandals to #BubbleGothTastic home decor and cute beauty kits – these are a few of my favorite things this week.<3 xo k More For You: These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things! InstaParty Friday!
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A transformational internship programme with small businesses and freelancers in mind 🤝
Collaborative Future, a Nottingham based social enterprise, is reimagining the future of work by bringing small businesses, freelancers and young people together to work in creative ways.
Building on the success of the teams Works Social based 2019 pilot, and their remote 2020 work placements, the team behind Collaborative Future is now launching an even bigger and better version of the programme for 2021. Starting at the end of January, and running entirely remotely for 6 months, the Collaborative Future team will bring together 20 business owners with 10 diverse young people located all around the UK. Unlike traditional employability schemes, Collaborative Future centres around creating flexibility and amplifying individuals unique strengths, while championing collaboration, resource pooling and skills-exchange across different ages and levels of experience.
Businesses have benefited from the Collaborative Future programme in a whole variety of ways, whether that's by:
Scaling their teams capacity in a sustainable way,
inspiring and empowering the next generation to pave their own career path,
injecting fresh ideas & approaches to their company and projects,
Growing their existing teams potential through workshops and coaching opportunities,
building connections and working closely with complimentary organisations, or
playing a part in building a more resilient approach to work.
Rosie who is the Co-Founder of Organised Fun, a Nottingham based organisation which participated in the 2019 pilot and again in the 2020 programme said:
"As a small business that has been operating for less than a year we aren't currently in a position to employ anyone, but we have ambitions to grow. Besides being a good way to support young talent, the Collaborative Futures placement programme was a chance for us to get a feel for employing someone."
If you'd like to pave the way for more inclusive and equitable approaches to work which prioritise people, not profit, then the 2021 programme is now open for businesses to join up. Deadline for applications is 6th December 2020. Head to the Collaborative Future website to register your interest, or to book a call. If you'd like to find out more, you can catch us at Works Social on Thursday 3rd and Friday 5th December for an informal chat.
Alongside the work placements, the programme also creates learning opportunities which enable all involved to grow their mindset and create lasting connections. The Collaborative Future team is currently planning their 2021 events programme - if your business provides workshops or training which you feel the community could benefit from, get in touch. The team has previously worked with other small businesses and freelancers, such as Nottingham based independent filmmaker Georgianna Scurfield, to deliver training sessions. For a peak at 2020 events, head over to their website
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Whatever you have in mind for the weekend, whether it be fishing outside the heads chasing kingies, or fishing the reef for snapper, the Sea Strike 16 can handle it. With her aggressive lines that tout an elevated level of confidence, if fishing is a passion you live for, then the Sea Strike 16 comes with more standard equipment and unique, pro-level fishing features than any boat in its class.
The Sea Strike 16 includes a large two person center console for extensive electronics and load of storage within. She includes kill tanks, bait tank, ice box facilites, under floor storage, walk through transom and up to a 100 litre optional fuel capacity for those long offshore runs. Also the Sea Strike 16's boat arrangement means that when it comes to fishing out back, the cockpit area allows for all round fishability, even around your motor with no snags !
Typically with normal fishing boat arrangements, the outboard gets in the way as you fight your way from side to side, but not so with the Sea Strike 16. It's all within rods length. And we haven't even looked at the casting deck up front. !
So if your passion is fishing, whether your trolling the shallows for squid or, racing to your favorite offshore fishing grounds, experience the ultimate in sport fishing performance.
It all comes down to your imagination!!
This quick and easy boatbuilding method consists of plywood planking panels cut to shape from patterns in the plans which are "stitched and glued" together at the seams. Such a boat can be assembled in a matter of hours after cutting out the parts. The stitching is done with plastic electrical ties passed through small holes along seam edges. These are zipped tight to hold the panels together. The glue is then applied between the stitching and also on the inside in a cove-shaped fillet along the seams, along the outside and inside. After curing, the "stitching" is removed and the gaps filled. Then the hull is covered in glassed.


For the right-click function, see Drop.
The Drop is a livestreamed event via Twitch, hosted by Jagex, where players could win prizes for being the last person standing, or after 50 questions have been answered correctly. Players who had answered the questions incorrectly would be dropped out of the game and placed in the spectator's area, where they could leave the game or continue watching until a winner was decided. Winners could leave via the exit sphere that appeared at the end. Players get into the game via talking to a JMod clone, which appears for 30 seconds.
The event was first livestreamed on 18 January 2015, where two separate games were played on five worlds. The first game had a reward of either Gold Premier Club membership or a Bond if the winner already had subscribed to the Premier Club. The second event that was played had a 1,000,000 entrance fee, was limited to 500 players and contained a prize of up to 500,000,000.
Due to server lag, many of the players that weren't eliminated yet lost their connection, which automatically dropped them from the game, which meant that they could no longer win the prize. This caused players who had lost out to start a riot in world 66 where they demanded to be refunded the entrance fee. A day later, Mod Jon posted on the forums that the entrance fee would indeed be refunded to everyone who participated.
The event was likely inspired by the Channel 4 quiz show titled The Million Pound Drop.
The JMod clones are larger than the players.
The exit spheres are reused from Vorago.
During the initial event, some answers were glitched to display "Answer 1/Answer 2/etc" which caused players to lose regardless of what they picked.
The Drop was created by Mod Chris L in his personal project time.
^ Mod Jon. "The Drop — Reimbursement." 12:54, 19 January, 2015. RuneScape Forums.
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Q: DataTimeControl validation Issues (no clearing error message) I write simple WebPart with few asp.net controls.
I have problem with validation control and SharePoint date time control.
The markup:
<SharePoint:DateTimeControl ID="dtc" runat="server" DateOnly="true" HoursMode24="true" OnDateChanged="dtc_DateChanged"/>
        <asp:CompareValidator ID="valDtc" runat="server" ForeColor="Red" ControlToValidate="dtc$dtcDate"
            Type="Date" Operator="DataTypeCheck"  ErrorMessage="choose or write correct date (YYYY-MM-DD)">
        </asp:CompareValidator>

If I write some wrong date I have error message, if I write correct date message disappear. But after I choose other (correct) date from calendar the error message does not disappear (but should).
How can I resolve this?
EDIT:
Trying to use SharePoint:InputFormCompareValidator:
<SharePoint:InputFormCompareValidator ID="ifval" runat="server" ForeColor="Red" ControlToValidate="dtc"
            Type="Date" Operator="DataTypeCheck" EnableClientScript="true"  ErrorMessage="choose or write correct date (YYYY-MM-DD)">
            </SharePoint:InputFormCompareValidator>

gives me error:
[HttpException (0x80004005): Control 'dtc' referenced by the ControlToValidate property of 'ifval' cannot be validated.]
System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseValidator.CheckControlValidationProperty(String name, String propertyName) +11200546
System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseValidator.ControlPropertiesValid() +50
System.Web.UI.WebControls.CompareValidator.ControlPropertiesValid() +72
System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseValidator.get_PropertiesValid() +44
System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseValidator.OnPreRender(EventArgs e) +38
Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.InputFormCompareValidator.OnPreRender(EventArgs e) +131
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +108

if I change ControlToValidate="dtc" to "dtc$dtcDate" it behaves the same as CompareValidator and error message does not disappear after choosing good date.


18/5/06 Chantry Chapel on Wakefield Bridge.
Two people were rescued from the river at Chantry Bridge in Wakefield.
A female had entered the water and got into difficulty and a man passing by had followed to try to help her.
Emergency services attended and the pair were rescued at around 6.50pm on Monday.
A spokesperson for Wakefield Fire Station said: "The lady had got into the river and a passer by had risked himself by entering the water to assist her.
"He grabbed hold of her and kept her above the water while somebody called for us.
"Several crews attended and managed to get some ladders in and get them both out to safety.


As a travel writer, it's my job to sniff out the myths and truths in the places I visit. I'm the harbinger of hidden treasures and the early warning detection system of pitfalls to avoid.
Caribbean PrincessWhen we booked our cruise through with Princess, I went in blind. Their website is difficult to navigate (especially after you book and start choosing shore excursions) and their social media presence isn't as strong as other cruise lines, such as RCL. But I'm happy to report the Caribbean Princess staff leaves no question in their understanding of their corporate philosophy - Escape Completely.
Two days into my cruise isn't enough time to tell you whether I'd cruise with Princess again, but here's what I can tell you.
Gogirlfriend and Giorgio, Maitre D Giorgio, the Maitre D', treats all his guests like favorite cousins. He creates the connection and makes it personal. And even though I know there are 3,000 people on this ship who may make similar requests, Giorgio makes it all look easy.
Feeding 3,000 people is tricky. If you're not happy with anything you order, talk to your server. Meals are part of the package and speaking up is encouraged - remember, escape completely and leave the stress behind.
When buying drinks at any of the bars, a 15% gratuity is added to your bill automatically. You can add an additional tip, like we did when a server went searching for Dos Equis beer for us, but it's not expected in normal situations.
Room service is part of the package. Specialty dining, like the patio breakfast or dinner with white glove service is not though. Understand what's included and what's not before placing your order. As simple as a carafe of coffee and a danish for 7:30 delivery is included.
Serge, the Internet Café manager, embodies the no problem philosophy. It's a good attitude for anyone in IT support.
Room stewards are the front line for the entire cruise line. Rolando, a happy, attentive man who knew our names from the first time he met us answers our every request quickly. Extra hangers and towels - within minutes of asking. And after we tip left on the bed to say thank you, he went out of his way to say thank you to us.
Captain Tony Draper is charming and its clear he leads the ship with a customer-service driven philosophy. I'm hoping he'll remember our conversation at his champagne reception and my invitation to tour the bridge will happen soon.
Stay tuned for our review of shore excursions on the Caribbean Princess - St Thomas, Dominica, Grenada and Bonaire..
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- Product Overview: AC 0-20A full range of linear detector, with relay output.
- Specific debugging method: measuring voltage threshold voltage test points, at this point, 0-5V voltage equivalent to current 0-20A.
- Detection does not exceed 20A AC current, B point on the board is analog output, 0-5V linear corresponds to 0-20A, can be soldered for collection, can also be used as overcurrent protection, and can be directly powered by AC85-264V.
- The module is automatically restored and is not directly used to control the on/off of subsequent circuits. It needs to be connected to the controller or add a delay relay.
- Type: with Base, without Base.
Thanks for your understanding and enjoy your shopping moment.
* Detection does not exceed 20A AC current, B point on the board is analog output, 0-5V linear corresponds to 0-20A, can be soldered for collection, can also be used as overcurrent protection, and can be directly powered by AC85-264V.
* Product Overview: AC 0-20A full range of linear detector, with relay output.
* The module is automatically restored and is not directly used to control the on/off of subsequent circuits. It needs to be connected to the controller or add a delay relay.
* Specific debugging method: measuring voltage threshold voltage test points, at this point, 0-5V voltage equivalent to current 0-20A.


Tuscan Paving Stone shows you how to install a 1" Paver over an existing concrete pool deck with a new remodel brick coping.
We'll show you exactly how to build a simple deck without spending a You should do one deck pier at a and I also learned so many new skills along the way.
You may spend more time on your swimming pool deck than you can understand why my wife and I still have not yet decided on what to do with our inground pool deck.
Work your way around the entire patio area do not walk on the surface for 12 the coping will receive a different color than the rest of the pool deck.