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By Bullet4MyChemaMo - Ireland - Cork
Today, I was staying at my boyfriend's house while he was at work, and put on his pants to make some tea. As I took my hot tea and laptop upstairs, the pants slowly started to fall down. I had to keep climbing with my pants around my knees, and shuffle awkwardly past my boyfriend's father. FML
Bullet4MyChemaMo tells us more :
Hi guys, it's OP! Didn't expect this to get published. 1. I meant trousers, not underwear. In Ireland, pants almost never means underwear. (Ireland is very different to the UK in terms of grammar use, vocabulary etc.) For the record, I was wearing underwear too! 2. I'm very, very close to my boyfriend's family as we've been together for a long time, and it's not unusual for me to chill in his house while he's at work. I feel completely at home there, as I am expected to by his family. When this FML happened, I had been asleep after staying over, and lazily threw on my boyfriend's sweatpants to go downstairs. 3. I was actually trying (and failing) to multitask by holding almost-boiling tea, my laptop, blankets, and a pair of shoes. The positioning of the objects in my arms made it physically impossible for me to set it all on the floor and pick it back up, and BF's dad had already seen everything by the time I would've pulled my pants up. Everyone laughed about it after the initial embarrassment wore off, thankfully we all see the funny side!
Serious times
Bigmouth Strikes Again
By Awkward... - United States - Killeen
Today, my sister's boyfriend called while she was out. The second I answered he tried to have phone sex with me. When I explained to him that I wasn't my sister and that we just sound the same on the phone, he replied, "Don't care, let's keep going." FML
By HolyyMolyy
Today, I was ecstatic to have received a friend request from my crush of grade 4 after 11 years. He's grown up to be such a hottie. I quickly accepted his request, he messaged me and we ended up chatting for hours. Later, when I messaged him, he called me clingy and unfriended me from Facebook. FML
Today, I was at a restaurant when I heard a young girl telling her father she didn't think she was pretty. When I got up to leave, I walked past her table and told her she was beautiful. Her dad then punched me in the face. FML
By Mightytall
Today, I had a very long wait at the doctor's. The three plastic plants in the waiting area have 163 leaves each, the patient information poster on the wall has 127 words, the longest word has 19 letters. FML
Today, I tried to flirt with my girlfriend since I'm really busy and we can't always be together. I tell her online that I think she's hot and she responds "Keep talking I have to pee". FML
Today, I needed to get blood drawn. Apparently, my veins are too thin and no blood would flow into the tube. I'm afraid of needles, and was just poked with some unsuccessfully, and I have to go back next week to try again. FML
By evenpoorer - United States
Today, I was excited to start my new job. It was only when I was leaving after a long 8 hour day did I realize all of the personal documents I had I brought in for paperwork had been stolen. I am now down a passport, social security card, and wallet. Great first day. FML
By Anonymous - Australia - Burwood
Today, I woke up to my girlfriend having phone sex less than 10 feet away from me. FML
By walker - United States
Today, my family and I went on a picnic in the park 45 minutes drive away from our house. I fell asleep beneath a tree. They left me there. FML
By Arthur - United States
Today, my neighbor scolded me for "allowing" her son to be bitten by one of my dogs. This would be reasonable, except for the fact that her kid had jumped my fence and tried to steal a rattle out of my daughter's hands. FML
By Gross... - United States
Today, my little brother proudly informed me that he found a way to suck pool water up his asshole. FML
By Anonymous - New Zealand - Wellington
Today, I arrived home after a hard day's work to see my 12-year-old sister had greased up my 8-year-old brother with butter and olive oil, and was attempting to slide him down the wooden floorboards in the hallway. FML
By Anonymous - Switzerland - Wildberg
Today, my boyfriend ended our relationship. He called me from his mobile phone, claimed to be a trauma surgeon, and told me with a bad German accent that my "boyfriend" had been in a fatal car crash earlier in the day. What the hell is wrong with this idiot? FML
By sam - 2/12/2020 23:01
Today, I learned that the person my ex-girlfriend left me for is my ex-girlfriend from before her. FML
By Anonymous - 7/9/2020 05:32 - India - Mumbai
Haircut, haircuuuut
Today, I came to the decision that I needed some variety in my life, so I decided to get a haircut. My mom insisted that she could do it and that she had experience because she cuts my dad's short hair. I had thick, long hair. Now, my hair is uneven, ugly and short. FML
By mickymoose1 - 19/7/2020 02:02
Today, my dog decided to play with a skunk. Today is also the day I figured out that no matter how much you wash everything that's come in contact with the smell, it will never go away. FML
Today, my dad gave me a twenty minute lecture about responsibility and how lazy he considers me to be. He then yelled at me for not making his bed and getting his clothes off the floor. FML
Today, I noticed that my facial hair had grown by an acceptable amount. I spoke to my Dad and decided to show him, thinking he would approve of my manliness. His exact words when I showed him were, "Nah, son. You just look like a lesbian." FML
By Kathleen Verhaegen - 5/3/2020 21:00
Pale AF
Today, I went to get a double conch piercing. Afterwards, the lady asked me whether I was feeling well, because I was looking so pale. I had to explain that it's my normal skin tone. I'm just pale as fuck. FML
By shorty - United States
Today, I told my mom I was going through a growth spurt. She said "Yeah, horizontally." FML
By TheDeathguard
Today, a couple yelled at me and reported me to the homeowner association for "watching them make out" at the pool. I'm the lifeguard. FML
By Jer - United States - Louisville
Today, I knocked over a display case at a mall, shattering hundreds of dollars in goods. Embarrassed, I tried to scurry out of the nearest door without being seen. I scuttled right into the janitor's closet, the door automatically locking behind me. I waited for an hour to be let out. FML
By shrimp41 - United States
Today, I realized that the only human being I have talked to in the last three days is the guy at the drive thru. FML
Today, I have to get a thyroid ultrasound. I'm a 25 year-old cancer survivor; it took amputating my left leg to beat the last one. My doctor has dealt with my hypochondria for years, long enough to know his face when I should be worried. FML
By Mom of 3
Today, I was washing dishes while my 2-year-old was napping... or so I thought. When I finished and went to check on her, I found she'd taken off her diaper and smeared poop all over the carpet. She must have been up a while because it was everywhere. I spent the next hour scrubbing. FML
By girlie5445 - United Kingdom
Today, I went on a date with a cute guy. After picking me up, he started to play on repeat, and sing to me, 'Happy Together' by The Turtles. For the entire 20 minute ride. FML
By conductingfromthegrave - United States
Today, my girlfriend and I were making out, and about to have sex, when she asked me to "do that thing we did yesterday". We haven't had sex in 6 days. FML
By ohmigodimchokin - United States
Today, I was sitting at lunch and started choking on a chip. I couldn't breathe and nobody tried to help me. Having to take matters into my own hands, I reached for a juice box that belonged to someone sitting next to me. After I could breathe again, they informed me that they had mono. FML
By Bobsaget00 - United States
Today, I realized burying my dog underneath our swing-set was a bad idea. My two sons are now scarred for life. FML
By Hmmwtf - Australia
Today, I didn't get promoted, but the guy who showed up to work drunk a few weeks ago did. FML
By bagpipesrkmywrld - United States
Today, my most difficult task at work was three hole punching a 500 page document so somebody could put it in a binder on their shelf and not read it. I have a $150,000 education. FML
By Jeslyn03 - Canada
Today, I wandered around my property with my children, trying to find our escaped house cat. While in the more wooded parts, we spotted her on the ground, being picked over by a coyote. FML
By work hard - Canada - Petawawa
Today, I went into work, thinking it was my last day before I start my new job, as my 2-week notice said to the managers that I can't work after today. None of them believed that I was actually capable of getting a better job and thought my 2-week notice was a joke. FML
By ellarose - United States
Today, I walked over to join a group of friends and heard them talking about how hot some guy was but how ugly his sister was. I asked who they were talking about and there was an awkward silence, they hadn't realized I was there. Apparently, they were talking about my brother. FML
By bloodshedblack - United States
Today, I received more affection from my wife in a video game than I ever have in real life. FML
By DeniedAgain - United States
Today, I walked into a gas station and saw some $.25 gum. It looked good and I thought I'd had a quarter in my pocket. I find no change in my pocket once I get to the register, so I pull out my credit card. The cashier laughs a few seconds later. My card was declined for a piece of gum. FML
By mishyb - United States - Englewood
Today, my horse farted and scared itself, then ran all the way up the hill and wouldn't stop until I fell off. FML
By littledonny
Today, I went to school wearing the same jacket I had gone hiking in the previous day. When I found out that I had left my 2" pocket knife in the pocket I immediately turned it in to the front office. They promptly had me arrested for bringing a weapon on campus. FML
By sleepylillion - United States - Eleele
Today, I woke up to the sound of my boyfriend chuckling to himself. Turns out he had just clogged the toilet. When he called maintenance, halfway through explaining the problem he started hysterically giggling and had to hang up mid-sentence. This has been a reoccurring theme. FML
By Undercover - United States
Today, while working as a plain clothes police officer, I witnessed a fight in a front yard. My partner and I intervened and clearly identified ourselves as police. Unfortunately, the two guys' mother didn't have her hearing aid in, and hit my arm with a baseball bat. FML
By annarcheer | 19
That's when you put the tea and laptop down and slowly pull your pants back up.
By cutycat136 | 28
Next time maybe set the laptop and tea on one of the stairs, haul the pants up, pick up your things, and then keep going to avoid having to walk past his father like that
annarcheer | 19
I said slowly because of how she phrased her FML.
Bullet4MyChemaMo | 12
#6273847 - Sunday 26 April 2015 12:20
Hey, it's OP. Unfortunately I couldn't do that, as I've explained in another comment :)
I said the same thing before I even read your comment! haha
cutycat136 | 28
Haha I know I seen yours right after I typed mine too. Must be a very obvious solution then if we both had the same idea.
Great minds think alike am I wrong? haha
TheCookieComet | 23
well you are blonde..... but yeah it was an obvious conclusion
Pegasustato | 20
#23 what does being blonde have to do with anything? The "dumb blonde" stereotype is a bit out of hand....
funsizedliz | 15
Ydi so much OP.
RA91 | 26
#6273388 - Sunday 26 April 2015 1:08
"OMG, did #2 & #4 just become best friends?!?"
Haha!! Great minds do think alike!!
#43 no, I don't even know her name :P was just funny that it went like it did
Lol, I was trying to make a joke. But it wasn't understood, it's all good though, it happens! (:
By munchly | 17
I don't think the tea was worth it :P
TheBelt | 19
I don't think the laptop was worth it.
Roskosity | 22
Tea is always worth it.
By dakatabg | 31
Well your boyfriend will hear about that
By deathhill3 | 40
Why not put on your own pants instead of ones that don't fit.
siggy_mcsigx | 22
It's just a thing a lot of girls like to do. I'm 5ft and he's 6ft but I still steal his sweatpants
By Zebediabolical | 37
Obviously your laptop and tea are more important to you than your pants being up. YDI.
By octinate | 17
Great impression that will leave on his father
By BadApple88 | 29
YDI because it's not like his father was coming down the stairs at the
same time you was going up so you had time to pull the pants up
By Herrochild | 10
That's awkward :
By vlalam | 24
when u r at others place esp when their parents are around, u have gotta be decent and respectful.. i kinda say u invited that embarrassment but hopefully u all can laugh it off unless too much was revealed


One of my favorite parts of the day is my lunch break. Why? Because often to just get out of the office I head over to Walgreens & CVS for a quick walk around. I love this because I can keep an eye out for all things new at the drugstore. (I also get to scope out the sales all the time.) I've been dying to get into all the Limited Edition things brands come out with & one thing I was super excited about were the Venomous Villains palettes to be released by elf! I saw the ones from last year on a blog somewhere then one day on instagram I saw something about them being back! These are different from last year & in fact a whole bunch of different brands have jumped on the band wagon - there are lashes, make up bags, & hair ties in addition to these palettes. Elf even has a 12 pack of nail polish to go with the palettes as well! Today I want to share with you the two palettes I have: the Evil Queen & Cruella De Vil.
I was drawn to these two palettes because of the seemingly neutral nature of both. Even though I love bright colored eyeshadow I never wear it. So I thought these would be a better choice for me. Who doesn't need a zillion neutral eyeshadows, right?
Each palette also features a saying across the acetate protective sleeve. The Evil Queen palette says mirror, mirror on the wall and the Cruella De Vil palette says It's a beautiful thing, darling. Then on both the left & right flaps are instructions for a night & a day look. I think the best thing about the palette is that everything is removable. I tend to stay away from palettes that include things like liners & glosses because I'll take the accessories out but the eyeshadows are stuck in there. It just look so unappealing to use that way. Not to mention it's bulky to travel with. So, for me, the fact that everything is removable is pretty awesome.
There are also eyeshadow shade names unlike other elf palettes. The downside is the names are only in the bulky packaging. If you remove the eyeshadow palette from the box you loose the names of the shadows. But on the back of the shadow palette is the name of the collection it came from! So if you stick it back in the box you'll know which is which.
As for swatches, these shadows are pretty nice. I think there are a few duplicates but for six shades that go together its' really awesome. I was drawn to the Cruella palette first - even though she still scares the bejesus out of me - because it was all neutral. In this palette Cruelty & Eccentric seem to be almost the same shade - I'm not sure if the difference is big enough to really count! The dark matte brown, Stolen, isn't as pigmented as I'd have liked either, but it's not a badly pigmented shade. They all seem to be good colors and each has it's place in a look. There seem to be four shimmery shades - Puppy Love, Fur, Cruelty & Eccentric - one highlight, semi matte shade - Maniac - and one matte shade - Stolen.
I also picked up the Evil Queen palette because it seemed to also have a great array of neutral shades. This palette though has two shimmer shades - Jealousy, & Majesty - a matte with glitter shade - Dark Magic - two matte shades - Witch & Vanity - and one highlight, semi-matte shade - Huntsman. Between the two I have, Huntsman & Maniac seem to be about the same. In this specific palette there didn't seem to be an overlap in shades at all. The most interesting shade in this palette is Dark Magic. It's a deep, pretty much black purple (though it's coming off like a brown in the palette image) with purple flecks of glitter that seem to shake off to make the shade matte when you're done applying it. The other shades just seem to be shimmery but this one definitely has distinct glitter pieces.
As for lip colors, these really aren't anything to be excited about. While they are ok, they aren't the best. They are pretty sticky, don't seem to be too hydrating, & seem to be there just for novelty. The orange-y shade in the Cruella palette seems impractical..the color just isn't appealing to me. The applicator is a small doe foot, too small for me personally. I've swatched them above, but they're nothing to write home about.
of course the palette could be $3 & that extra buck goes for the cool packaging!
As for price, I don't think you're getting cheated on anything. The products seem to fall in line with the prices from the website & the quality you'd expect from the price. Pretty much what I'm saying is that you're not paying for packaging, you're paying for product!
I think these palettes are fun, a great price, & have great colors for everyday use but really are perfect for Fall! I also think the products are good enough to pick up just because the packaging is fun & nice. You can find these palettes in store at Walgreens only. Don't be afraid to pick up the other brands who've partnered for this line!
Do you pick up limited edition things like these palettes? Do you have the ones from last year?
I want to find these! I've been seeing photos of them popping up everywhere.
Check around the beauty counter at Walgreens. I thought they were all gone today but they'd actually moved the display! Keep looking, I hope you find them!


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The Rangers produce an events activities programme in which they outline activities they offer to the public. Often these relate to the environment. Guided walks looking at themes of Local History and Wildlife in the nature reserve are part educational and part leisure.
The Ranger deals with a wide range of educational provision. Slide talks to adult groups on environment themes and about the reserve, talks to students dealing with countryside management and tourism, secondary school pupils dealing with issues of environmental concern in geography or science, primary school children looking at nature and the local history around them and pre-school children learning basic environmental appreciation and awareness. The provision of interpretative materials related to this involves local history information, guided walks and trails leaflets, information for noticeboards and newsletters.
The Ranger is often asked in to advise upon matters to do with the environment in the broader community- factory and housing developments for instance.
The visitors coming to the park also need the provision of basic services and these need maintaining – toilets and washing facilities, bin and litter collection, first aid and emergency safety, picnic benches and BBQ facility, car parking supervision, advice and information, policing and public order are all undertaken on a day to day basis. The Rangers participate in public safety campaigns, environment initiatives, civic occasions and celebrations like the Countryside Fayre.
The Rangers liaise with many different outside organisations from the local Brownie Pack to Youth Clubs and Wildlife Trusts. The "Friends of Dibbinsdale" is for example one such group where strong ties are maintained.


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Centene's Georgia Subsidiary Announces Successful Reprocurement of Georgia Medicaid Contract
September 11, 2015 at 8:00 AM EDT
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC) announced today that its Georgia subsidiary, Peach State Health Plan, was one of the Care Management Organizations selected to serve Medicaid recipients in Georgia. The new contract is expected to start on July 1, 2016, pending regulatory approvals.
Under the new contract, Peach State Health Plan will be one of four plans serving over 1.3 million members enrolled in the Georgia Families, PeachCare for Kids and Planning for Healthy Babies programs.
"Peach State is proud to continue our nearly 10-year partnership with the Department of Community Health to provide comprehensive care to Georgia residents," said Patrick Healy, Chief Executive Officer for Peach State Health Plan. "We are looking forward to building on the relationships that we have formed with local providers and community groups to make a positive impact on the health of our members in a cost-effective manner for the state."
"We are pleased to be able to renew our services in Georgia and maintain our long-standing partnership with the State," said K. Rone Baldwin, Executive Vice President, Insurance Group, for Centene. "Our top priority in Georgia, and in our other health plans across the country, is to improve the lives of the families and communities we serve through our comprehensive, integrated care management programs."
Centene Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, is a diversified, multi-national healthcare enterprise that provides a portfolio of services to government-sponsored healthcare programs, focusing on under-insured and uninsured individuals. Many receive benefits provided under Medicaid, including the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as well as Aged, Blind or Disabled (ABD), Foster Care and Long Term Care (LTC), in addition to other state-sponsored/hybrid programs and Medicare (Special Needs Plans). The Company operates local health plans and offers a range of health insurance solutions. It also contracts with other healthcare and commercial organizations to provide specialty services including behavioral health management, care management software, correctional healthcare services, dental benefits management, in-home health services, life and health management, managed vision, pharmacy benefits management, specialty pharmacy and telehealth services.
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In this picture provided by the Press Office of the Kurdish Self-administration Office in Kobani, a Kurdish man, right, reads a paper before he ballots his vote to elected new local councils of the three Kurdish-administered areas in northern Syria, known as Rojava, at a polling station, in Kobani, Syria, Sept. 22, 2017.
Adnan Hassan, a Syrian Kurd, finally has hope for himself and his people.
Two years ago, Islamic State militants nearly wiped out his hometown, Kobani, along Syria's border with Turkey and killed 10 members of his family. Now with the militants driven out and going down in defeat, a new university is opening in the town, and Hassan will be its professor for Kurdish language and literature. It is the first university in the self-administered Kurdish areas, and the first in Syria to teach Kurdish.
The future of his people, Syria's largest ethnic minority long ostracized by the government, could not look better, he said.
"We are living a dream and we are waiting for this dream to come true."
Across the border, Iraq's Kurds have sparked a major confrontation with their neighbors and Baghdad by holding a referendum for outright independence. Syria's Kurds, meanwhile, are making major advances toward their own, less ambitious goal: winning recognition for the self-rule they seized during Syria's war. They say their aspirations for a federal system in Syria may now find more international and domestic support, and they are positioned as a player Damascus must reckon with in any final resolution of the conflict.
Syrian Kurd Nazdan, who fled her home in Qamishli, Syria, wears traditional clothes as she dances and waves a Kurdish flag, during a celebration of Nowruz day, in Beirut, Lebanon, Mar. 21, 2016.
Perhaps more importantly, they have land. Backed by the U.S. in the fight against IS, Kurdish forces control nearly 25 percent of Syria. They hold most of the northern border with Turkey and have expanded into non-Kurdish, Arab-dominated areas. The Americans have set up bases there to provide battlefield support for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, as well as the training and advising of security forces and the new civilian administrations in liberated areas.
The ruling Kurdish Democratic Union Party, the PYD, heads a de facto self-rule administration in the Kurdish-majority region of northern Syria known as Rojava. As part of their efforts to promote a federal system, they elected new local councils late last month. By early 2018, they hope to elect their first regional parliament, representative of Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians and Turkmen.
"In Rojava, we have a federal project. In [Iraqi] Kurdistan, it is the long awaited state. The two complement one another in realizing the Kurds' aspiration for a dignified life," Hassan said.
It is a remarkable turnaround. Syria's Kurds were about 10 percent of the pre-war population of 23 million, but Damascus had long suppressed any expression of their identity in the majority Arab nation.
Jubilant Syrian Kurds celebrated their neighbors' independence referendum by flying Iraqi Kurdish flags alongside the flags of their own militia from cars honking down the streets late into the night.
But the surge in Kurdish power in both Iraq and Syria doesn't mean the two sides are about to join: They remain divided by political rivalries.
Iraqi Kurdistan's referendum sparked furious opposition from Iraq's government, as well as Iran and Turkey, who fear it will fuel secessionist movements among their own Kurdish minorities and dismantle the map of the Fertile Crescent in place since World War I. There was also a backlash from the Arabs. Lebanon's Hezbollah accused the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Israel - the only state to support Kurdish independence - of manipulating Kurds to start another war.
They depict their proposal as a way out of the country's intractable 7-year-old civil war.
In a first, President Bashar Assad's government said it may be ready to talk to the Kurds.
Syria's Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Muallem recently noted Syria's Kurds want "some form of self-administration" within Syria unlike Iraqi Kurds' push for independence.
"This is something negotiable and can be discussed. When we are done with fighting Daesh, we can sit with our Kurdish sons and find a formula for the future," he said, using the Arabic acronym for IS.
llham Ahmed, a senior Kurdish official in the political wing of the SDF, said the government statement can be a starting point toward negotiations, underlining that the federal proposal is not for the Kurds alone.
The Kurds "have become the dark horse that can't be overlooked or excluded like in the past. We will be participating practically in the political process and we will be influential."
The Syrian government is far from ready to share power, bolstered by battlefield victories and unwavering Russian and Iranian backing. Still its position is not secure, with local cease-fires on various fronts liable to crumble and a growing presence of regional and international forces on its territory. The Kurds represent an indisputable interlocutor amid a fragmented opposition, otherwise dominated by Islamists.
A Kurdish man mourns as he sits next to the grave of his friend who was killed while fighting against Islamic State militants in Raqqa, at a cemetery in Kobani, Syria, July 28, 2017.
But Syria's Kurds could face a looming confrontation with Turkey.
Ankara views the Syrian PYD as an extension of Turkey's own Kurdish insurgency led by the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, and is determined to avert Kurdish power next door. Last year, its troops captured a pocket of territory inside Syria to prevent a contiguous Kurdish hold along the frontier.
Turkish forces, with Syrian allies, have skirmished with Kurdish forces holding the northwestern town of Afrin. And Turkey's president announced Saturday it was launching an operation in the nearby Idlib province, controlled by al-Qaida-linked fighters.
Meanwhile, a race is on between the U.S. and the Kurds on one side and the Syria-Russia-Iran alliance on the other for the oil-rich, eastern province of Deir el-Zour. Each side is fighting to take back as much territory as it can from IS. That race could determine the borders of a Kurdish-administrated area.
The drive is also a competition between the Americans and Iran to grab influence in Syria.
"The United States can limit Iran's freedom of action in the region by becoming a major patron for the Kurds," while trying to be "polite with Turkey," Joshua Landis, a Syria expert and professor at the University of Oklahoma, said recently to Syria Direct.
Syria's PYD is ideologically affiliated with the Turkish Kurdish PKK, inspired by its leader Abdullah Ocalan.
For almost 20 years, Ocalan found refuge in Syria until Damascus expelled him in 1998. He has been imprisoned in Turkey since but is omnipresent in northern Syria. Affectionately referred to as "Apo," or uncle, Ocalan's vision mixing Marxism, social egalitarianism and a revolution of women who share leadership roles with men remains common parlance among Kurdish fighters and officials. Graffiti about women's liberation and the imprisoned Ocalan are pervasive.
Washington found in the secular-leaning, disciplined fighters its main leverage in Syria. It advised them to rebrand to distance themselves from the PKK. U.S. Army General Raymond Thomas, head of Special Operations Command, described it as a "stroke of brilliance" to include democracy in their new name: the Syrian Democratic Forces.
Mazloum Kobani, the Kurdish commander who leads the SDF and coined the name, warned that without Washington's political support for the federation idea, gains in the fight against IS may be lost. He said the government and its allied Shiite militias remain a "threat."
"We don't want to fight with anyone, but we will defend ourselves," he told the Al-Monitor news site in September in his first comments to the press.
The challenges are also internal as Kurdish communities remain split.
The ruling party of Iraq's Kurdish zone has long cultivated ties with Ankara, the main enemy of Syria's PYD. Land-locked Iraqi Kurdistan depends on Turkey for access to the outside world for its oil. When the PYD first set up its self-rule administration early in Syria's war, Iraqi Kurds closed their border with Rojava.
Some believed the rivalry would ease with Turkey's opposition to the Iraqi Kurdish referendum. But Iraqi Kurds are unlikely to further aggravate Ankara by softening their stance toward their Syrian counterparts. Days after the referendum, Syrian Kurdish officials from Europe trying to attend a PYD conference in Syria were denied entry at the Iraq crossing.
The PYD's internal rival, the once powerful Kurdish National Council, has allied with the Iraqi Kurds' ruling party and refused to participate in the self-administration project. Many of its members now live in Iraq's Irbil.
Khaled Ali, an opposition member in Irbil, said his family had to take one of their youngest members out of Rojava before high school fearing he would be recruited by the militia. "There is excessive militarization of society," he said.
Still, confidence in the future is palpable in Rojava. Resources have poured in to rebuild destroyed towns like Kobani. Oil revenues from fields seized from IS and the government have boosted the administration's coffers.
Hassan, the 29-year old Kurdish teacher, said the new Rojava University will open in November with 400 students. Kurdish language teaching will be as high a priority as training engineers and doctors.
While he is concerned some of his colleagues who rose to power may "become corrupt," he believes the administration will correct course, guided by Apo's views and "the sacrifices of martyrs." And maybe work with other Kurdish parties.
"This administration would be weakened if it remained alone."


Outline proposals for the Mundesley Coast Management Scheme will go on public display on Tuesday 17 January.
The public drop in session and exhibition will be held at Coronation Hall in Mundesley on Tuesday 17 January from 2pm to 7.30pm.
The public drop-in session will explain what options have been shortlisted for further consideration for the scheme and what the next steps will be.
It is hoped the event will help people understand the need for the scheme, what is and isn't possible; be aware of how coastal management schemes are funded, enable people to give feedback on the shortlisted options and understand what the next steps are.
People are invited to drop into the event and speak to a member of the North Norfolk District Council coastal management team to find out more about coastal management options for Mundesley.
The scheme is in the outline stage and this is an opportunity to find out more about coastal management, what it means for Mundesley and what options are being shortlisted for a proposed scheme.


The huge earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011 dealt an unprecedented blow to Fukushima Prefecture, where the disaster was made worse by the release of radioactive materials from one of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s nuclear power plants located on the devastated coastline. In response, the battered region came up with Project Fukushima, exploring the reality of Fukushima Now and prospects for Fukushima Future. Musician Yoshihide Otomo, musician Michiro Endo, and poet Ryoichi Wago – all native sons, and some are still resident in the prefecture – are the frontmen for this venture, which was launched in May 2011 and draws on the talents of many volunteers from inside and outside Fukushima. On August 15 of the same year, "Festival Fukushima!" was held for the first time, attracting around 10,000 visitors. The following year it was expanded into a "synchornized worldwide event." A host of other activities, including internet broadcasting station "Dommune Fukushima!," the educational "School Fukushima!" and a platform for sympathetic artists to share their creativity and fund-raising channel "DIY Fukushima!," have also been running continuously to help with the recovery effort. The Triennale will see them stage a participatory Aichi version of "Orchestra Fukushima!"


Ending the panel, Burhanettin Duran stated that "A new belief emerged within the Turkish people that people can resist against military coups and that they should do so. In fact, people were making references to Menderes stating that 'we couldn't take care of Menderes [who was hung after a military take over], but we will look after Erdogan.'"
On July 12, 2018, the SETA Foundation in Istanbul organized a symposium about the July 15 coup attempt.
Moderated by Burhanettin Duran, AK Party spokesperson Mahir Unal and former Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag attended the first panel.
"Turkish politics cannot accept another organization or cloud above itself" – and this was something that FETO was trying to do; trying to place itself within a hegemonic space within the Turkish political sphere.
During his speech, Unal emphasized the fact that the July 15 coup attempt cannot be observed without discussing the failures of the old governance system in Turkey.
Comparing the governance system of Turkey to a car, Unal stated that under the old system there were two drivers – one that was elected by the people and one that assumed its hegemony. He stated that the old system was based on a tutelage regime, where elected officials were continuously blocked by unelected individuals.
Before beginning his speech, moderator Burhanettin Duran asked for former Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag to talk a little about his experience of July 15, as he is one of the figures that the Turkish people remember in Parliament.
Speaking little of the events that occurred in Parliament that night, Bozdag mentioned that the reason why he believed it was wrong for parliamentarians to hide in shelters (while FETO had dropped 2 bombs on Parliament that night) is because if people had seen that Parliament was shutdown, they would not have found the courage to take to the streets.
Bozdag compared the resistance displayed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan on that night to that displayed by Ataturk – the people of Anadolu stood with Ataturk, resisting against imperialists, just like the people stood with President Erdogan, resisting against FETO putschists.
One other important feature of July 15 is that "For the first time the justice system did not try to legitimize the coup" – something that occurred during the February 28, 1997, coup during the Erbakan era.


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Alienware's Revamped Aurora Desktop Has a Clever Cooling System and a Fresh New Design
Sam Rutherford
Earlier this year, Alienware overhauled its flagship laptop—the Area 51m—and now, Alienware has returned to finish the job by giving its top-spec desktop a full makeover with a new design, upgraded components, and way better cooling.
Available in both black and white models, the revamped Aurora desktop features the same Legend ID design language Alienware introduced on the Area 51m, which I think looks better in desktop form than on the company's 17-inch laptop. In front, the Aurora's rounded facade not only enhances its futuristic vibes, but it's also functional, as Alienware uses the gaps between the system's front ports and case sort of like a turbine.
This allows the Aurora to pull in massive amounts of air in order, which Alienware claims allows the Aurora to deliver eight percent lower temperatures at its voltage regulator heat sink compared to its predecessor. And if that's not enough, you can upgrade the Aurora with water-cooling for even better performance.
Meanwhile, on the inside, Alienware improved the Aurora's upgradability thanks to a new swing-arm mechanism that allows for tool-less replacement of the desktop's GPU. It also acts as a shield to protect internal components from potential sources of radio wave interference.
For a company with a past littered with wild-looking computers inspired by sci-fi spaceships and little green men, the Aurora's appearance seems somewhat understated. There are only two zones of RGB lighting (around the front ports and behind the Alienware logo on the right), and the Aurora doesn't have a single glass panel or window, so the only way to peek inside the system is by removing a side panel.
And while the Aurora might appear somewhat bulky, the Aurora is smaller than it looks. Alienware classifies the Aurora as a mid-tower desktop, with the entire system based around an Intel Z370 micro ATX motherboard.
As for components, the Aurora can be configured with all the latest components ranging from a 9th-gen Intel Core i3-9100 CPU up to an eight-core Intel Core i9 9900K processor, which Alienware overclocks to 4.7-GHz across the entire chip.
The Aurora can also be equipped with up to 64GB of RAM along with a number of Intel Optane hybrid storage options, while available graphics include nearly the full range of cards from both Nvidia and AMD, all the way up to configs with dual Radeon RX 570 XT or dual RTX 2080 GPUs.
This level of customization means that new Aurora can be had for as little as $970. Just don't be surprised if that price goes up quickly when you start upgrading various components. The Alienware Aurora will be available starting tomorrow, August 20th. And if for some reason you don't like the Aurora's new look, the old triangular-shaped model will still be available with support for most of the new version's updated components.
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Protecting the environment and its valuable resources from climate change is a social responsibility each one of us can contribute towards individually. Together as a community we can make a much bigger impact. President Napolitano has committed the University of California to a goal of carbon neutrality by 2025. This commitment will require all of us to work together in an effort to conserve energy, reduce waste, and preserve our resources. We have proven to be an institutional leader in research and teaching, and we can also lead the way to a more sustainable future.
The UC Cool Campus Challenge was designed as an online educational outreach tool intended to encourage behavioral change by motivating and rewarding the UC Community as we take steps towards reducing our carbon footprint. Over a ten week period starting October 6 through December 10, participants were asked to pledge and verify actions, such as using a power strip, turning off lights when not in use, or carpooling. Points were earned upon pledging, verifying and uploading photos illustrating sustainable actions. Additional points were earned for inviting others to join and attending events.
Twelve UC campuses competed to earn the most points. UC San Diego finished in 9th place, behind Riverside and Berkeley. First place was awarded to UC Irvine.
UC San Diego would like to recognize and congratulate the top participants and teams on our campus!


calc.pw is a hardware project that connects between the keyboard and the computer. Its password mode allows you to easily generate as many passwords as you need. To do so it uses a master password that is entered through the keyboard on startup. When a new password is needed you switch to the password mode with a certain key combination and enter an information. That information can be dependent on the service you need a password for (like "twitter", "e-mail", banking). With the master password and the information the actual password is generated. When entering the same master password and the same information you will always get the same password. Thanks to that you no longer have to remember all those passwords anymore. And as calc.pw is implemented in hardware viruses and trojans on your computer cannot intercept the data that are used to generate your passwords.
Security experts say it is best to have different passwords for all the services you use. The reason for that is that every service can be hacked. When an attacker gets access to the passwords of a service he is able to try these passwords with other services. When you use one password for all services then losing your password means losing the control over all of these services.
Over time several schemas have been developed to prevent this by telling you how to generate a new password for every new service. One way that is used quite often is to find a really secure password and then attach a service-dependent information to it. So let us say your master password is "Very57r0ngP455w0rd" and you need a password for your online banking account then your service password could be something like "Very57r0ngP455w0rd_banking". There are several ways to get to the service-dependent part of the password. But this method has also a problem: As soon as an attacker learns the password of one service he can easily deduce the possible passwords of other services you use.
Another method is to generate and use totally random passwords. However, these are very hard to remember, especially when you have more than a few of them. Because of that password databases emerged that are encrypted with a master password and let you store and retreive all your precious random passwords. But when this database is lost you actually lose access to all of your services. In addition to that this database has to be available everywhere which led to strange solutions like putting all your passwords in the cloud where NSA, CIA and so on have access to it.
Finally XKCD proposed a password schema in a rather funny way. Their idea is to just put some random words together. This - according to them - is secure enough for most purposes. But even this has some problems. Several password forms enforce a maximal password length which greatly reduces the number of possibilities. And like before: Nowadays you have dozens of different accounts. For all of these accounts you would have to find random word combinations and you would have to find a way to link these to the actual service you are using the password for. So, which service would be "correct horse battery staple" for?
calc.pw works somewhat differently. It uses a master password and a service-dependent information from which it generates a service password with the help of cryptographic methods (SHA-1 and Arc4). From this service password neither the master password nor the service-dependent information can be deduced. Therefore an attacker who found one of your passwords is not able to generate the passwords of the other services you are using. If that happens you just have to change the compromised service password while all of your other services stay save.
calc.pw is somewhat easy to use. Instead of connecting the keyboard directly to the computer you connect it to calc.pw and then you connect calc.pw to your computer. During startup calc.pw displays some information about itself.
When startup is complete calc.pw asks for the master password. This one is necessary to calculate the service passwords later on. The password you enter here will not be shown but it will be masked with asterisks instead. The arrow on the right side tells you whether a new character was added to the password or if it was removed by pressing the backspace key. During this mode only the red LED is switched on.
After you entered the master password by pressing the return key calc.pw asks for it again. By entering the master password for a second time you can make sure that you really entered it correctly. Only if both password entries match you will proceed to the next mode. If you enter a wrong password here you will start with the first password entry again. In this mode the yellow and red LEDs are switched on.
When both passwords match calc.pw switches into the usage mode. In the so-called passthrough mode calc.pw forwards all key presses directly to the computer without modifying them in any way. In this mode the green LED is turned on. By pressing the key combination CTRL+ESC you switch to the password generation mode. Here you are requested to enter the service-dependent information. You can use some password features when entering the information. The password features are described in chapter "Information". In this mode the green, yellow and red LEDs are turned on.
To finish the entry of the information there are two possibilities. The first one is to press CTRL+ESC again and the second one is to hit the return key. The difference is that pressing CTRL+ESC will just generate the password while hitting the return key will also send the return key to the computer. This comes in handy when filling out a login form as you do not have to press the return key again to finish the login process. During the calculation of the password the green and yellow LEDs are turned on. When the password calculation is done calc.pw automatically switches to the passthrough mode again.
In addition to that calc.pw has a reset button. calc.pw will reboot when this button is pressed for a longer time. During this reboot the master password in the Arduino's memory will be overwritten. This is helpful when you have to leave calc.pw unattended and do not want others to be able to generate passwords with your master password.
There are reasons why one way to generate passwords is not enough. There are for example password forms that require different password lengths. Some of them require special characters while others disallow special characters. There are also cases where at least one character and one number has to be in the password. To cover all of these requirements calc.pw provides three password features that can be used during the password generation.
calc.pw allows you to define the length of the generated password. By default generated passwords are 8 characters long. To change the length of the generated password you have to put a question mark ("?") after the service-dependent information. The question mark has to be followed by a number that denotes the length of the generated password. The minimal password length is 3 and the maximal password length is 50 due to the limited memory of the Arduino platform.
Some password forms require the password to contain special characters. Which special characters are allowed can vary from form to form. Therefore it is not a good idea to predefine the characters that can be used for the passwords. Instead you can define which special characters can be used for every single password you generate. To do that you have to a append an exclamation mark ("!") to the service-dependent information. The exclamation mark is then followed by the list of special characters that are allowed in the password. One of these is selected during the password generation process.
There are login forms that require the password to contain at least one number and one character. To make sure that the generated password meets this requirement you can prepend the service-dependent information with a hash sign ("#"). This tells calc.pw to check for a number and a character in the generated password. If this check fails a new password is generated until the requirement is met. The hash sign resembles a Sudoku field that typically contains the numbers from 1 to 9.
It is of course possible to combine those three password features. That means you can define the password length, activate the alphanumerics check and specify special characters all at the same time. However, you have to be aware of one thing: When you specify the length and define special characters the length always has to come first. The reason is this: All characters after the exclamation mark are handled like special characters. This would also include the question mark and the numbers following it.
The password generation is based on several cryptographic primitives which in combination generate the actual output. Please take care of the order in which the parameters are supplied. After listing the primitives the algorithm of the password generation is shown in the form of pseudocode.
For the password generation the following assumptions are made: The entered information was split into its single parts. checkAlphaNum contains the information whether the password has to be alphanumeric or not. info contains the service-dependent information, pass contains the master password, outLength contains the requested password length and specials contains the list of the requested special characters. The characters in specials are sorted by their position according to ISO-8859-1 and duplicates are not removed.
calc.pw was developed with the help of a so-called microcontroller. The used Arduino platform is an Open Source hardware platform. All sources including the API and the hardware specifications are available online. The advantages of this platform are its prevalence in the market, the extensive documentation, the availability of additional hardware and its easy availability here in Germany.
The project evolved in several steps. In the first step (revision A) only the program logic was implemented. Therefore this revision can be built with all regular Arduino boards. The communication with the hardware is done through its serial interface. The master password and the information are sent through it and the generated password is received through it as well.
In the second step (revision B) the communication between the Arduino and the computer was changed. Instead of using a serial interface the input into the Arduino is now performed through a USB keyboard. To accomplish this the USB-Host-Shield from Circuits@Home is used. You should really consider to use this shield as the original library is developed for it. Additionally the output of calc.pw to the computer is now performed through a keyboard emulation. To do this the Arduino Leonardo has to be used as it provides such a functionality.
The Arduino Leonardo is the heart of the hardware as it performs the actual program logic. Its keyboard emulation functionality acts as the output method to the computer. The USB-Host-Shield is used to connect the USB keyboard to the Arduino so that it can be used as an input device. The pushbutton is used as a reset button through which the status of calc.pw can be overwritten. The LEDs are used as a simplified status display. The LCD is used as a more advanced status display. The potentiometer is used to regulate the contrast of the LCD and the resistors are used for the LEDs and the LED of the display.
If calc.pw behaves in an unusual way this may be because your keyboard draws too much current. Connect calc.pw to a power outlet to provide it with more current. The USB port of a computer does not provide more than 500mA.
calc.pw was developed with portability in mind. The backend library "cryptuino" can be compiled for the Arduino platform as well as other Little Endian platforms like x86 and x64 systems. Support for Big Endian systems has been prepared but could not be implemented due to a missing test platform.
The core functionality including the algorithms for the password generation has been encapsulated in the "cryptuino" library. It includes a memory manager, cryptographic functions (SHA-1 and Arc4) and a compatibility layer for PROGMEM.
Due to the platform independence there are not only the hardware revisions A to C but also a so-called software revision 1 which compiles for Windows as well as for unixoid systems. It generates the same passwords when provided with the same master password and information.
For the USB connectivity the USB-Host-Shield-Library developed by Circuits@Home was used. An additional event was added to handle control key presses. Due to a problem with the keyboard emulation of the Arduino Leonardo the Arduino core had to be modified. This allows us to forward keyboard input to the computer without modifying the input.
In addition a mechanism was implemented which allows calc.pw to be used with different keyboard layouts. To do this the EEPROM of the Arduino is used. A layout file is written to it which serves as a translation table beween the scancodes of the keyboard and the characters of the ISO 8859-1 encoding.
On three occasions during the program execution calc.pw has to translate from the encoding keyboards are using to the ISO 8859-1 encoding. To do this a lookup table is needed. However, the Arduino does not have enough memory to store such a table for every keyboard variant there is (which are dozens besides the German QWERTZ keyboard, the American QWERTY keyboard, the British QWERTY keyboard, etc.). Instead, calc.pw has the ability to flash a keyboard layout to its EEPROM storage. Keyboard layouts have a certain structure which will be shown in the following example.
A keyboard layout is always represented in uppercase hexadecimal encoding. The example consists of several elements. A keyboard layout starts with a header which consists of the ISO 8859-1 encoded text "calc.pw" ("63616C632E7077"). Then follows an Adler-32 checksum ("00080002"). It is calculated for all the data that follow. Next comes a length field ("01") that defines how many key combinations this keyboard layout consists of. And finally there are the key combinations ("000000"). The first two numbers represent the scancode according to the USB HID Usage Table for keyboards. The second two numbers represent the modifier and the third two numbers give the ISO 8859-1 representation of the character.
To give you a more functional example the next picture shows the keyboard layout of the German QWERTZ keyboard. It consists of the header ("63616C632E7077"), of the checksum ("00EB00D7"), of the length field ("81") and of the key combinations ("040061 040241...").
On startup and after having been reset calc.pw checks whether a valid keyboard layout has been flashed to the board. If yes, it proceeds normally. If not, a corresponding error message is presented. This may be the case when you start calc.pw for the first time or when the last flash attempt failed. This is nothing to worry about because flashing a new keyboard layout is relatively easy.
To flash a new keyboard layout onto calc.pw it has to be set into flash mode. To do this just press the reset button and keep it pressed until the red and green LEDs light up at the same time. At this point the display tells you that calc.pw has switched to flash mode and is now waiting for a new keyboard layout. In flash mode calc.pw opens a serial interface with a transfer rate of 9600 baud. This interface has to be used to provide the keyboard layout.
calc.pw also uses the serial interface to provide you with the current status of the flash process. After flashing is complete (whether successful or not) calc.pw resets itself. If the flash process was successful you can now start using calc.pw. If it has not been successful it is best to power off calc.pw before starting a new attempt on flashing a keyboard layout.
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Q: Import data from one CSV to another CSV file - How? I have 2 CSV files almost identical.
CSV1 looks like this:
Name,Surname,Town,Contry
Ann,Carlson,London,UK
Bert,Anderson,Copenhagen,DK
Gilbert,Norman, Bonn,DE
etc. etc

CSV2 looks like this:
Town,Contry
London,England
Copenhagen,Denmark
Bonn,Germany
etc. etc.

The files have exactly the same amount of rows, and I need to move/append the column Contry from CSV2 (Including data)to CSV1 or to a new CSV file.
What I have until now is:
...
$A=import-csv -path CSV1.csv|Select-object -property Name, SurName, Town
$B=Import-csv -path CSV2.csv|Select-obejct -property Country
...

Then - How do I merge these 2 variables and export them to a new file?

A: Quick 'n' dirty method. You could use a nested loop like below to get the fields and write a new file.
$A=import-csv -path CSV1.csv|Select-object -property Name, SurName, Town
$B=Import-csv -path CSV2.csv|Select-object -property Town, Contry

$resultCsv = @();
$A | ForEach-Object {
    $_person = $_;
    $B | ForEach-Object{
        $_country = $_;
        if($_person.Town -eq $_country.Town){
            Write-Host "$($_person.Name),$($_person.Surname),$($_person.Town),$($_country.Contry)";
            $resultCsv += [pscustomobject] @{"Name"=$_person.Name;"Surname"=$_person.Surname;"Town"=$_person.Town;"Contry"=$_country.Contry}
        }
    }
}

$resultCsv | Export-Csv -Path output.csv -NoTypeInformation

Note the $B=Import-Csv ... line ive added the 2nd field "Town" - you need this field to find a match with the field in $A

A: You can do the following, which is simple to code but not as efficient as perhaps using a lookup table. However, this does work regardless of the data order.
$csv1 = Import-Csv a.csv
$csv2 = Import-Csv b.csv

foreach ($row in $csv1) {
    $row.Contry = $csv2.where({$_.Town -eq $row.Town},'First').Contry
}

$csv1 | Export-Csv -Path new.csv -NoType

If each row of each CSV lines up perfectly to have matching Town data, then you could use array indexing of each file to process the change faster.
$csv1 = Import-Csv a.csv
$csv2 = Import-Csv b.csv

for ($i = 0; $i -lt $csv1.Count; $i++) {
    $csv1[$i].Contry = $csv2[$i].Contry
}

$csv1 | Export-Csv -Path new.csv -NoType

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Q: Extracting formulas from excel sheet using python Is there a way for extracting formulas from an excel sheet using python?
After extensive research, I'm starting to think there isn't. I've seen answers here from 2013 and 2010 stating that there isn't one available.
Thanks!

A: Have you tried openpyxl with load_workbook('file.xlsx', data_only=False)?


Jan Onselius, 60, serves as Chief Underwriting Officer since 2002, Executive Vice President since 2006 and has been a director of the board of Sirius International Insurance Corporation since May 2013.
Leaning on his extensive experience, Jan has the overall responsibility for the company´s underwriting activities. In this capacity he has successfully lead Sirius' underwriting through all phases of the company's expansion.
Jan started his career in reinsurance by joining Sirius in 1982 and has dedicated his career to underwriting of all lines and types of business.
Board member of the Swedish insurance company "Anticimex Försäkringar" since 2011.
Jan holds a Master of Business Administration and Economics from Stockholm School of Economics.
Jan is married with three children and lives in Stockholm.
Lars Andersson, 55, is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Sirius International Insurance Corporation. In that role, he has overall responsibility for the company's accounting, financial reporting, investment and capital allocation functions. Since joining Sirius International in 1998 as VP and Financial Manager, he has played a key oversight role in all aspects of the company's financial supervision, from accounting and control to mergers and acquisitions.
Lars holds both a BS and an Executive MBA from Stockholm University. In addition, he has maintained a high level of involvement in continuing professional and information technology education programs.
Lars is married with two children and lives in suburban Stockholm.


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Equalities (including faith groups)
Includes useful resources, links and external publications.......
London Funders' Publications
BAME groups and the recession
(2009) Meeting of London Funders and MiNet
Equalities: What next for funders?
Funding faith communities
(2008) Meeting of funders on the complexities and controversies
NCVO has useful material on its website to help voluntary organisations understand what implementation of the Act means for their management and services. There is a quick overview and this leads to further guidance, especially resources for employers.
Equality duty – new requirements
Equality and Human Rights Commission guidance on the Equality Act 2010 which requires public authorities to tackle discrimination, harassment or victimisation in relation to age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and sexual orientation. The Act expects public authorities to advance equality of opportunity as well as fostering good relations between different groups. An online starter kit from Commission's website.
Faith and Cohesion Unit resources
The Charity Commission has published resources for faith-based charities. This guide includes how to develop a governing document for faith-based groups preparing to register with the Commission, a pre-registration checklist to track registration progress and three case studies of mosques showing good governance.
Are you saying I'm Racist?
Trust for London, 2012.
An evaluation of work to tackle racist violence in three areas of London.
Building Our Futures
Trust for London
Report on action research on the HR challenges for deaf and disabled people's organisations (DDPOs) in employing disabled people; and recommendations about better training and support and guidelines for funders and commissioners on working with DDPOs.
Capital Losses: The state of the BME ending violence against women and girls sector in London
Imkaan, April 2016
Capital Losses provides insight into the state of our sector, and offers the new Mayor an opportunity to 'break the mould' and to ensure that BME women and girls are able to access safety, freedom and justice. Independent, dedicated BME led women's organisations have been a critical part of ending VAWG work in London.
The Chrysalis Project
Commonweal Housing and St Mungo's, 2013
An informative evaluation report on work since 2009 to stop women failing in progress from substance dependency and street prostitution at the point when they leave a supportive hostel environment and start to live independently. The project eases the transition by taking women from high support, through semi-independence and then to self-contained accommodation with some continuing help and advice. Full findings of the Chrysalis evaluation here.
The class pay gap within Britain's professions, Social Mobility Commission (January 2017)
New research commissioned by the Social Mobility Commission highlighting the gap in earnings between professional people from poorer backgrounds compared to their peers from more affluent backgrounds. The report finds that people from less privileged backgrounds face a £6,800 class pay gap.
Cohesion and equality: guidance for funders
Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2009
Guidance for primarily for public sector funders but with wider relevance. The report provides analysis and ideas on tackling disadvantage and promoting equality alongside work on cohesion. Advice on equality issues for funding single-issue groups is also comprehensively covered.
Diminishing dollars for social justice philanthropy
Foundation Center and Cricket Island Foundation, USA, 2011
Social justice grantmakers in the US have been disproportionately affected by the global financial crisis and remain vulnerable to economic shocks. Foundations with less than $50 million in assets are struggling the most to recover from the economic downturn and social justice non-profits are having difficulty finding new funders; some foundations are slowly, if unintentionally, depleting their assets, which could mean further reduction in social justice grantmaking.
Distant Neighbours: Poverty and inequality in Islington
Joe Penny, Faiza Shaheen, Sarah Lyall, October 2013
This report identifies challenges as well as areas for action. Cripplegate Foundation's response, How We Will Respond, details what Cripplegate have taken from the research and their plan of action in response to the findings.
Divided City: The value of mixed communities in expensive neighbourhoods
Katie Bates, Laura Lane, Anne Power, Nicola Serle (2013)
This LSE Housing and Communities reports on tenants of Octavia Housing.
The Double Jeapordy Project – Full Report
Alasdair Stuart at MBARC (August 2013)
The Double Jeopardy Project has been run by MBARC and funded by Trust for London, in partnership with The Metro Centre and Praxis. The aims of the project were to test guidance which enabled migrant, refugee community organisations (MRCOs) and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) organisations to be more inclusive and welcoming of LGBTI, asylum seekers, refugees and migrants.
The economic contribution of older Londoners
Alasdair Barrett (2013)
This report attempts to identify, quantify and value the economic contribution made by older Londoners through their paid work, caring roles and volunteering. Direct any queries about this research to GLA economics
Ensuring a level playing field: funding faith based organisations to provide publicly funded services
Communities and Local Government, 2010
Guidance for local government on working with and funding faith groups.
Faith matters: understanding the size, income and focus of faith-based charities
NPC (June 2016)
Faith-based charities make up 27% of the charity sector. This report looks at the attributes of this group of organisations.
Fear & Hope 2016: Race, Faith and Belonging in today's England
This report says England today is a tolerant and confident multicultural society. It looks at how society has changed over the last five years and is based on interviews with over 4,000 people.
The female voice in violence
Race on the Agenda (ROTA), 2011
A research report which highlights concerns about the lack of appropriate services and policies available to help women and girls caught up in gangs or associated with, or related to gang members, who become victims of sexual abuse and violence.
Fresh perspectives: a needs analysis of the Irish community in London
London Irish Centre and Federation of Irish Societies, 2012
A survey of vulnerable Irish people in London shows continuing disadvantage in the older Irish community, vulnerability of recent migrants, and social and health disadvantages for Irish carers, highlighting the need for more culturally sensitive services because isolation in the London Irish community contributes to poor health outcomes and, for recent migrants, there is a causal link between poorly planned migration and poor mental health. Executive Summary and full report here .
Funding for inclusion: women and girls in the equation
Mama Cash and GrantCraft (funded by Barrow Cadbury Trust), 2012
Research into what inspires 31 foundations based in different parts of Europe to support women and girls and address gender and other aspects of social identity. This report covers specific projects and programmes and how foundations have mainstreamed gender perspectives into their work, including looking at gender ratios on board, staff, and grants and advisory committees. The guide uses a broad definition of gender (including trans people) and provides insights into how a gender lens offers an opportunity to shed light on differences that may otherwise remain invisible and negatively influence the effectiveness of a foundation's efforts.
Hidden hurt
Agenda (January 2016)
Agenda – the alliance for women and girls at risk – states that around 1.2 million women living in England are subjected to extensive, lifelong physical and sexual abuse and violence. It says that women who suffer from such experiences are around twice as likely to have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms as soldiers returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hearing the voice of gypsies and travellers
Working paper, Andrew Ryder, Third Sector Research Centre, 2012
An overview of the origins and development of tenants' and residents' associations amongst gypsies and travellers, identifying good practice and practical guidance on how to overcome obstacles to community development, with useful evidence of the role associations can play in tackling economic and social inclusion.
Find the document here: www.tsrc.ac.uk (under 'latest research').
Housing associations and provision for destitute migrants
Housing and Migration Network, 2012
How housing associations and charities can together provide short-term housing and support for destitute asylum seekers and other migrants, and especially concerned with destitute asylum seekers with no access to public funds but some prospect of regularising their status.
Housing and Migration: A UK Guide to issues and solutions
CIH for the Housing and Migration Network, 2012
Guidance backed up by practical examples of how the UK housing sector can support new migrants and the neighbourhoods in which they live and work. The Network recognises that migration adds to existing pressure on housing markets at neighbourhood level with examples geared towards the role of local housing authorities and social landlords on areas such as how to use existing data sources to build population profiles; developing neighbourhood approaches that are inclusive of both new migrants and existing residents.
Integration City: A new communities agenda for London
The Challenge, October 2016
This report sets out our ideas on how to promote integration in London. Excellent work has been done elsewhere on the value of citizenship, national identity and economic inclusion strategies in promoting integration. But promoting meaningful contact between Londoners from different ethnic, socio-economic and age groups ("cross-community contact") should be at the heart of Mayor Khan's approach.
Is Britain fairer? The state of equality and human rights 2015
Equality and Human Rights Commission (October 2015)
This is the statutory five-yearly report on equality and human rights progress in England, Scotland and Wales. It looks at education, work, the economy, health and care, justice and security, and sets out a series of recommendations, including closing attainment gaps in education, encouraging democratic participation and improving access to mental health.
Islam and Citizenship Education project
A report from London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
It happens here: equipping the UK to fight modern slavery
Centre for Social Justice, 2013
Report on shocking numbers of people affected by modern day slavery in the UK, with a large proportion of cases not reported or even recognised and little willingness by government to address the problem adequately. The report makes recommendations to improve the situation.
Living with difference: community diversity and the common good
Woolf Institute (December 2015)
The religious landscape has been transformed in this country in the last few decades with more people identifying themselves as non-religious, while there is a growth in religions other than Christianity. This report looks at the place and role of religion and belief in Britain, considers emerging trends and identities and makes a number of recommendations around public life and policy.
London LGBT Voluntary and Community Sector Almanac, 1st edition
Kairos, 2011
Statistical and strategic information about London's diverse LGBT voluntary and community sector, to provide an information base for LGBT voluntary and community organisations to help with development and strategic planning and support arguments for better resources. This is the most comprehensive mapping of the London LGBT sector to date, with a sector analysis, profiles of LGBT organisations; and articles on community engagement written by prominent and experienced figures in the LGBT voluntary and activist community. Available at £25.00. orders can be made via email; info@kairosinsoho.org.uk or see their website www.kairosinsoho.org.uk for further information. In early 2012 information was being collected for a second edition.
Making the links: poverty, ethnicity and social networks
Angus McCabe et al, (2013)
This research is part of JRF's focus on the links between poverty and ethnicity. It examines how social networks help or hinder people in moving out of poverty and looks at whether this varies within and between different ethnic groups living in urban and rural England.
Cathy McIlwaine, Juan Camilo Cock and Brian Linneker, Queen Mary, University of London, 2011
Research jointly commissioned by Trust for London and the Latin American Women's Rights Service on London's Latin American community. Despite increasing numbers of Latin Americans moving to London very little has been known about this community. This research provides the first large-scale survey of this population and explores key economic and social features of the Latin American community in London.
Observer article - London can't become home only to the rich
This Observer editorial discusses property prices and the impact that it will have on the population of London, say that 'London will love the people who give it its soul'.
Picking up the pieces: domestic violence and child contact
Rights of Women and CWASU, 2012
A report based on the experience of women and legal professionals in London, of the law, policy and practice in child contact proceedings involving women and their violent ex-partners. Case studies, quotes and statistical data combine to show how far the system still fails to respond appropriately to domestic violence, with three-quarters of women concerned for their safety while attending court and just over half representing themselves in court proceedings.
Positive contact or "white flight"?: why whites in diverse places are more tolerant of immigration
LSE, 2015
New research by Eric Kaufmann finds that local diversity does lead to more tolerant white attitudes and this is not the result of 'white flight'. The results suggest that, as more locales become diverse, there will be more interethnic contact and more positive white attitudes to outgroups.
Refugees, migrants and the Equality Act 2010: A briefing for refugee and migrant community organisations
REAP, 2011
This briefing is intended to support refugee and migrant community organisations in their efforts to ensure that public authorities understand and uphold the conditions under the Equality Act 2010 with regard to the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants.
Refused: the experiences of women denied asylum in the UK
Kamena Dorling, Marchu Girma and Natasha Walter, Women for Refugee Women, 2012
Funded by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Barrow Cadbury Trust, this research includes individual case studies and details the breadth of issues to which funders can provide positive contributions.
The riot roundtables - race and the riots of August 2011
Ojeaku Nwabuzo, Runnymede, 2012
Runnymede reports on the Riot Roundtables project, recording discussiona between local decision-makers, professionals, young people and members of the community to find out what happened during the riots and what can be done to prevent something similar happening again. From this analysis Runnymede believes that race played a role in the riots
Seeking an Inclusive Europe: Foundation Grantmaking for Countering Ethnic and Religious Bias and Xenophobia, Ariadne (February 2017)
Seeking an Inclusive Europe: Foundation Grantmaking for Countering Ethnic and Religious Bias and Xenophobia is the first-ever study of the philanthropic community's response to ongoing discrimination and increasing violence and the need for greater cultural understanding, inclusion, and equity. It enables foundations active in addressing bias and promoting social change and rights across Europe to understand their grantmaking priorities in the context of the larger funder community. For foundations that want to become active, it offers numerous examples of approaches funders are taking to address these issues.
Shaping the future: Getting the best for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Children and Young People - Seminar series report
ROTA, December 2013
Between November 2011 and October 2013 ROTA delivered the Shaping the Future seminar series, which considered some of the main challenges facing London's Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) children and young people and their families, following a difficult economic period and wide-spread policy reforms and public spending cuts. This final report provides an overview of the seminars and summarises the broad ranging discussions that took place along with the solutions posed by participants to some of the key challenges identified.
A shared vision for the future of the BME voluntary & community sector
Voice4Change England, 2010
Over 100 BME organisations contributed to this report which identifies ten steps by which policymakers can help tackle deprivation and inequality. Summary can be found here.
Tackling Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Trust for London, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Rosa, 2011
Part of a special initiative to tackle FGM through community-based preventative work, peer research has provided new insights into attitudes and behaviour of communities practising FGM. The research highlights key issues and makes recommendations about how these should be taken forward as part of the initiative.
Unemployment and ethnicity
Department of Work and Pensions, 2012
A report analysing data from DWP, based on the Labour Force Survey 2012, reveals that the rate of unemployment for young black people is 44% compared to 20% of the white population. This needs to be read in the current economic context since research evidence is clear that unemployment rates for people from minority ethnic groups rises faster than average unemployment during recessions (Berthoud, 2009). More information and DWP additional statistical analyses can be found here.
Very small, very quiet, a whisper- black and minority ethnic groups: voice and influence
Phil Ware, September 2013
This paper is based on primary research carried out in Birmingham, Greater Manchester and London. Organisations articulated the view that they are struggling to survive in the face of severe funding problems, yet shows a resistance to adverse changes and a determination to continue delivering services.
Vital Statistics: The experiences of BAMER women and children facing violence and abuse
RK Thiara and S Roy, Imkaan, 2010
Information on the largest ever research sample of BAMER women and children experiencing violence in the UK. Ten BAMER services from across the UK participated in a three month pilot providing detailed data on 124 women who had accessed refuge, advice and outreach services.
What can housing providers do to successfully handle the consequences of national policies and trends relating to UK immigration?
John Perry, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2011
UK migration explored from the perspective of the role of housing providers and steps being taken towards better neighbourhood cohesion and integration. Perceived or actual competition between migrants and host communities for housing are considered, suggesting that more needs to be done to support those neighbourhoods where migrants already live.
Women and Girls at Risk: evidence across the life course
DMSS (August 2014)
Barrow Cadbury Trust, LankellyChase Foundation and the Pilgrim Trust commissioned DMSS to undertaken a wide ranging review as part of their work to broaden the approach of the Corston Independent Funders Coalition to look at the underlying causes of risk and disadvantage for women and girls. The review looked across the life course of women and girls who experience poor outcomes (offending, homelessness, prostitution and exploitation, chronic mental health and substance abuse) and highlighted significant gaps in the evidence in the area and drew out key messages.
Young, black and minority ethnic carers: barriers and opportunities for employment and education
Care2Work (January 2016)
This report looks at comparative findings from Greece, Italy, Sweden and the UK. In the UK alone, there are an estimated 1.5 million carers under the age of 35. The UK BME carers are twice as likely not to speak English as their first language compared to peers. There is a higher prevalence of hidden young carers in families from refugee or migrant backgrounds.
Adult social care, personalisation
Advice sector
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Poverty and exclusion
Property and Community assets
Regeneration, place-based work
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The Possible not the Perfect
We looked at key features and aspects of a range of funders' grant-making responses to the ...
Building Bridges: Bringing local authorities an...
How to ensure that both local government and independent funders can become greater than the s...
London Funders Governance Review
A governance review of the role and function of the London Funders Board but with a specific r...


Ever wonder how drones and historic preservation intersect? Back in December Nick sat down with Belinda Kilby of Elevated Element to find out where this new technology fits in the world of historic preservation. Get ready to take flight as we enter the Drone Zone.


Thanks to a joint effort between the Township Chinese-American community, the Library, and the Friends of the Library, over 375 Chinese language books have been added. The collection is divided into 3 categories — biography, fiction, and nonfiction. Due to the limited size of the collection, there are no renewals (28-day loan), and no holds. A list of the entire collection (in Chinese characters) is attached to the shelves for browsing.
We currently have more than 150 video games that can be checked out for one week. Games are available for Nintendo 3DS and DS, Wii, WiiU, PS3, PS4, PSP, Xbox360 and Xbox One. You can find them in the Teen Space.
We also loan out Nintendo 3DS systems. Please see the Circulation Desk to check one out!
These Kits include everything your book group needs to enjoy a memorable book discussion. The totes are filled with multiple copies of a book that has been used by one of the Library's book discussion groups. Also included is information on the author, reviews of the book, discussion questions, and biographical information about the author. A member of your group can check out the tote for a month and all can enjoy a hassle-free book discussion. Click here for the list of titles.
Shelved in the new Quiet area upstairs in the Library, this collections includes nonfiction titles New Jersey related subjects and locations. All volumes can be checked out.
This collection includes roughly 200 coffee-table sized books on a variety of topics. Shelved in the new Quiet area upstairs in the Library, the volumes can be enjoyed in the Library, or checked out.


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Charity calls on air cargo to help transport dogs
A dog charity is calling on the air cargo industry to help with the transport of rescue animals.
The NoToDogMeat charity is asking for help transporting dogs from its shelter in Beijing to the UK.
Travel restrictions – due to Covid – and funding issues have resulted in delays to the transport of dogs.
The charity's chief executive, Julia De Cadenet, said: "People often ask why we can't just rehome the dogs in China, and the fact of the matter is that, particularly at the moment, there is still a stigma and fear around animals and the spread of the virus. For many people dogs just aren't viewed in the same way as in the west.
"Attitudes are changing, as evidenced by the amazing animal rights army that runs our shelter, but it's a process.
"Traditionally too, larger dogs have always had to be rehomed abroad, as it is illegal to own them as a pet in China."
In order to be able to travel to the UK, the dogs go through rigorous checks by both the Chinese and UK authorities, and must have a pet passport and full set of vaccinations.
The dogs must also be neutered.
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How does hot-dip galvanized steel perform in environments with extreme temperatures (either hot or cold)?
I got a call the other day, and the fellow on the phone said someone told him galvanized steel cannot be used above 140 F (60 C) because the zinc reverses polarity and causes the steel to corrode. What is this effect and should I be telling people not to use galvanized steel in high temperature environments?