It took 18 years of corporate life for Scott Haughton to make the leap to entrepreneurship. Like most successes stories, the road to where he is today was unconventional. Inspired by an entrepreneur at a conference, Haughton realized it was time to pursue his own venture. Not knowing what that venture would be, he eventually set his sights on luxury indoor play facilities.
Haughton spent the next 18 months raising capital. This meant ticking boxes, and learning everything he could about startups. He quickly became a children's soft play expert. However, the central London commercial property market was not on his side. Scott had raised an impressive amount of finance during this time. However, due to delays securing a location, the offers lapsed. Scott had to return all of his money to investors. Although this may sound like a familiar story of failure, it wasn't that at all. Like all good entrepreneurs, Haughton was on the fringe of discovering his true calling. As one door closes, another door opens.
Haughton says he'd always been a "frustrated entrepreneur." He was never quite sure what his venture would look like. Sure enough, after leaving Glaxosmithkline, Scott spotted a gap in the market and the cogs started to turn.
"My children were very small at the time and we were spending a lot of times at these indoor play facilities that were paradises for children, but a complete nightmare for parents. Parents were just cringing on plastic chairs with plastic cups of coffee." Haughton says.
There was a gaping hole just waiting to be filled and Haughton was going to be the man to do it. The idea later proved the easy part. Things became more difficult. Haughton's inexperience with the finer points of entrepreneurship started to arise.
"I knew nothing about starting a business. I'd always had everything in the corporate world provided for me. I was also doing it on my own which was hard. My advice to anybody starting a business, try find a partner with complementary skills."
He committed to putting everything he had into it. He negotiated a redundancy package that served as a comfort blanket. This gave him a deadline by when he needed to have everything up and running.
Haughton admits he knew nothing about raising finance when he first went out in search of investors. Subsequently, he learned very quickly the major dos and don'ts when trying to attract equity.
At this point, Haughton touches on something many entrepreneurs overlook. The importance of finding the right investors when you're going to be giving up a part of your business to them.
"In the end I raised £750,000 based on a business plan, a piece of paper. I was left with 30%, but the VC was willing to put in a ratchet clause that enabled me to claw back equity according to milestone achievements," Haughton says of the deal they had negotiated.
It's at this point that Haughton assumed things would get easier. He'd raised the capital, and that was the hard part, right?
With several parties involved Haughton says finding a property everyone agreed on was proving impossible. It was no longer about just his personal deadline, but one of his investors too.
"I was frustrated. I'd thought raising the money would be hardest part, but with hindsight, finding the property was always going to be the hardest thing."
Just like that, the business Haughton had poured every piece of himself into for 18 months was falling away. This was all because three people couldn't agree on a property. But what appears to be an ending in fact wasn't that at all, as Haughton was about to learn.
Haughton had acquired knowledge that is absolute gold in the entrepreneurial space. Most entrepreneurs only need to raise capital three or four times in their lifetime. The majority are poorly equipped to hold their own at a table of people who invest in businesses like theirs for a living. It was a massive opportunity, one Haughton felt his learnings could be of real use in. Haughton Put two and two together and shortly after this, Envestors was established.
So how do Envestors bridge the intermediary gap between entrepreneurs and investors? As it stands, the business model is primarily one of consultancy.
Not just a consultancy, Envestors are also there to play matchmaker between the businesses and their investors.
If a business' application is successful, Envestors will prepare a fully regulated investment pack. It all sounds fairly straightforward in theory, but the Envestors team also jump through all of the hoops Haughton once grappled with on behalf of the entrepreneur and their business.
And the business model isn't just about entrepreneurs putting their all in. Wannabe investors are also thoroughly vetted before being allowed access to the Envestors private network.
Now with a solid decade in the game Haughton has seen it all, and has a couple of key tips for entrepreneurs looking to raise capital.
"They need to know how to sell their investment proposition. We now see a lot of technical companies who're stars in their fields, but don't know how to crisply pitch their business to investors. Private individuals who're wealthy and have made their money don't need to invest more money, they can quite comfortably sit in their arm chairs. You need to get them out of their arm chairs and off their remote control. They typically have short attention spans, so within 5-8 minutes you need to nail your proposition. It often comes down to whether or not this will be an exciting acquisition for a large corporate."
Envestors are putting entrepreneurs on the table in a very unique and effective way. They've since helped their clients raise more than £100,000,000 in capital. It's a fast-growing game to be at the forefront of. Not to mention their global presence in London, Dubai, the Channel Islands and Monaco. Moving into 2017, Envestors have got their sights set on China, Canada and Russia also. They look set to continue reaping the benefits of their in-demand skillsets.
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Women in Cities 2019
Safe Travel in Urban Africa: Matatus and Gender Toolkits
Naomi Mwaura
– March 8, 2019
Founder, Flone Initiative
Over the years, there have been rampant cases of violence against women and girls (VAWG) on public transport in Africa and across developing regions. On November 17, 2014, the world's eyes were set on Kenya as the #MyDressMyChoice campaign grew in popularity. Thousands of people took to the streets to protest sexual violence against women in public transport sectors after a spate of stripping assaults were filmed and posted online. This protest sparked a movement to challenge gender norms and systems that allow for violence of this nature to occur, the latter of which fundamentally limit women's freedom of movement and access to public space.
There exists a common transportation method used across urban cities. The public minibus transport service of Kenya – also known as the Matatus – provide an affordable transportation option to many people who would otherwise remain immobile. The Matatu industry employs hundreds of thousands of people and has developed its own unique culture. Kenyan minibus services are organized into informal saving and credit cooperatives organizations (SACCOs). These public minibus transport services are frequently used by middle and lower-income earners – the majority of who are women – and are notorious for frequent harassment, recklessness, and violence.
Ingenuity met practicality, and a proposed goal to reach a solution was introduced. An accessible toolkit was created to provide practical and safe systems of support for women, all the while preserving what works best about this transportation system. The Gender Sensitive Mini-Bus Services and Transport Infrastructure for African Cities Toolkit is designed to provide minimum standard guidelines and practical tools to create a safer and more accessible public transportation structure for women in African cities.
The toolkit gives vital knowledge for improving existing management policies and practices. It is in part a synthesis of primary and secondary information taken from two case studies from Nairobi, Kenya, and a literature review. The aim is to identify best practices on gender and urban transport applied in cities around the world, with a particular focus on developing cities.
These case studies are conducted by Flone Initiative and in collaboration with UN-Habitat, expert in Gender and Urban Planning Prof. Inés Sánchez Madariag, and affiliated with the University of Madrid and a member of UN-Habitat's Advisory Group on Gender Issues (AGGI). They looked to gather information from both commuters and transport industry operators (drivers, conductors, and managers) through the execution of a Mobility of Care Study and a Gender Equity Assessment using three selected public minibus transport service providers.
These studies were conducted from August to October 2018. The findings from these studies coupled with best practices have informed the development of this toolkit.
The toolkit provides public minibus transport providers with:
customer feedback tools and sample customer service charter. The report recommends that these tools should provide commuters with clear reporting mechanisms.
how to achieve environmental sustainability.
recommendations on how to develop and implement zero-tolerance sexual harassment policies that address concerns for both workers and commuters.
recommendations of minibus modifications that support the specific needs of commuters traveling with children, carrying large packages and living with both visible and invisible disabilities.
how to integrate organizational family-friendly human resource policies such as maternity and paternity leave.
Additionally, the toolkit recommends ways in which policymakers can use these recommendations to develop gender-sensitive legislation. Such legislation can create safer and more accessible public transportation systems for all road users. The toolkit can also be used to provide new ideas for civil society actors to support gender security and mobility initiatives.
This is the first version of a toolkit which will guide a multi-year project executed by Flone Initiative. The project itself will seek to support transport organizations in adopting recommendations made herein. This toolkit will be greatly used and adapted as organizations receive added user feedback, and learn from and improving on its impact.
Naomi Mwaura is the founder of Flone Initiative, an organization working to a create a safe and professional public transport industry in Kenya. She was a lead organizer for the MyDressMyChoice campaign, which saw thousands of women protest against gender-based violence in the Kenyan public transport. She is also a co-founder of Mama Afrika Festival, an organization that highlights and celebrates women in the arts. As part of Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, Naomi completed a civic leadership fellowship at Tulane University, USA. She was named "BBC 100 Inspirational and Influential Women" 2017 and featured in Forbes Women, BBC, and Aljazeera. She was one of the winners of the 2018 Ashoka Challenging Norms, Powering Economies Challenge.
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City Manager: "We Were Ambushed"
By Staff on April 27, 2016 37 Comments
The Citizens for Responsible Spending (CRS) and members of the Budget Hawks made several presentations at Wednesday's City Commission meeting. The groups are asking the City Commission to roll back the 13% increase in property taxes that was adopted last year.
The presentations addressed the rosy outlook presented by City staff weeks earlier at a budget workshop and raised questions about information provided to City Commissioners.
After the presentations City Manager Rick Fernandez told City Commissioners, "We were ambushed."
Mr. Fernandez explained to Commissioners that the groups had never talked to him about this new information despite his willingness to meet with anyone at anytime.
The presentation to the City Commissioners started with former Mayor Penny Herman who said "after reviewing documents provided during the last budget presentation by City staff, we are concerned that the information provided to you is not consistent with an independent review of some of the comparisons presented."
She was followed by Dr. Shawn Kantor who is the L. Charles Hilton, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Economic Prosperity and Individual Opportunity at FSU and a prize winning author.
Dr. Kantor presented two charts. The first chart showed per capita spending since 2000. He said General Fund per capita spending had began increasing in 2010 and has reached a level not seen since the real estate boom in 2005. This contradicted the claim by City staff that General Fund spending was tracking population growth.
The second chart compared growth in the General Fund with growth in other measures of the local economy. The chart showed the City Commissioners that the rate of growth in the General Fund since 2010 has surpassed growth in jobs, annual wages and property values.
Dr. Kantor was followed by two members of the Budget Hawks.
One, Mr. Brent Pichard, challenged the City staff's presentation during the last budget workshop that indicated the staff was responsible for a 30% decline in electric rates over the last eight years.
Mr. Pichard presented documents to the City Commissioners which showed that the price for natural gas has declined significantly over the last eight years and that the decline was not the result of any City government action.
Rather, he said, base rates – which is controlled by the City – has increased approximately 56% since 2008.
Mr. Fernandez's comments were followed by a spirited defense of City staff by City Commissioner Curtis Richardson and Mayor Andrew Gillum.
Commissioners Scott Maddox, Gil Ziffer, and Nancy Miller did not offer any comments.
Brent Pichard, city of tallahassee budget, Penny Herman, rick fernandez, Shawn Kantor
City Manager: "We Were Ambushed" added by Staff on April 27, 2016
37 Responses to "City Manager: "We Were Ambushed""
J. Brent Pichard says:
The second Budget Hawk speaker was John Lester. His analysis of the "Peer City" comparisons was devastating to the city's claims. His observation that concerned citizens must fight city hall with "three minute snippets" was also powerful. John brings a new and very keen mind to the effort.
An aroused and highly informed citizenry is just what the doctor ordered for the ills at
city hall.
if Pingree and Fernandez are related, even by marriage, they both should resign. No advertisement of $140k job in a town with 1000+ urban planners? Come on !
Seems like he could have said "thanks for your feedback, we will consider it", instead of getting defensive. They work for us.
Russell Price says:
Correct email is rprice@pricecommercial.com. Sorry
We are accepting new members in Budget Hawks for those who have a special desire to help keep an eye on local government spending.
Receive your wings now. We need raptors who are want to help make local government spend our hard earned tax dollars efficiently as possible.
Our goal is to be civil and respectful, but firm in our opposition to wasteful and excessive spending. If you just want to be an honorary Hawk, sign up for our email list.
Email Russell Price at rprice@pricecommercial today.
From the cheap seats says:
Is the first chart showing the per capita spending since 2000 adjusted for inflation? Could the second chart show what growth there is in annual wages excluding the State of Florida employment base? What did the second member of he Budget Hawks present?
I'm all on board with keeping these issues front and center, and one would hope that there will be new monthly performance reports and metrics coming out of the City Manager's office as a result.
Who Guards the Guards says:
The City mangers office has been distorting the truth for years. They will spin this. News flash, golf fund has never broken even. They are hiding expenses in the general fund, electric fund and fleet fund to name a few. That means your utility bill is paying for golf at hilliman. You have to get the detail budget reports, which are hard to get. Not the budget book they publish.
Tired of the Bullies says:
Who Guards the Guards – you are very correct!!! It's other budgets that are making Hilaman and now Star Metro look so good. All with the City Manager's urging and his "good ol boys" doing the dirty work.
Wait until you learn about golf fund and fleet fund!
bob fulford says:
Thomas Hooker: Is that a fact; that Pingree is related through marriage to the Manager?
daisyduck says:
Mr. Hooker…where is proof of this relationship?
Ambushed? Oh, okay. Didn't you hire your Brother-in-Law Ben Pingree as Director of Planning, Land Management, and Community Enhancement (PLACE)? A joint County / City department, PLACE coordinates the work of Blueprint 2000 and the Planning Department.
That hire sounds like an ambush.
NP says:
Mr. Osborne,
You have stated what many of us "locals" have believed for years….that there is a disconnect between constituents and their representatives. I'm not sure term limits are what is needed (low hanging fruit being the easiest to pick and all). Rather, I believe that if we vote for new blood instead of simply checking the box for the incumbents because we know their names…actually vote people into these positions that will truly represent what is best for the people they represent instead of their own best interests (or the interests of their friends and/or financiers) we will do much better in future endeavors. I believe the "good old boy" network set in place many years ago continues to create an obvious disconnect between our commissioners (both, city and county) and those constituents that continue to vote them into office which is propagating the issue/s without ever correcting them.
April Craig says:
What was the end result? Did they say they would consider the "new information" presented to them and set a date to discuss again? Was a motion made to roll back the taxes?
Preston Scott says:
Sadly, April, no. Commissioners Maddox, Miller, and Ziffer sat stone silent. Commissioner Richardson and Mayor Gillum had the audacity to defend the City Manager and staff. Problems in the City are not the problem, denial of the problems is and until voters find Commissioners willing to hold elected leaders responsible for such blatant falsehoods being presented we will continue to sit stagnant at best. Remember, 500 fewer businesses than five years ago. Where's the Greater Tallahassee Chamber in all of this? Oh, that's right – it receives six figure funding from the City. NEBA needs to step up and take the place of the Chamber as an advocate for local small business.
Thank you Preston. I'm still stunned by the simplicity of inaction after being confronted. Citizens who have done their research thoroughly present their case to roll back the tax increase, yet no one takes it to a vote? No one even called for a vote? Just a bunch of babble and self defense talk? No one even said, "These are very good points that need to be considered. Let's continue to look at this, and if you are correct, then the tax roll back is certainly appropriate. Our city managers door is open, the staff, we want to do the right thing." That's the very LEAST they could have done. I personally believe the Budget Hawks are absolutely correct. Thanks to the Budget Hawks, Russell Price, Brent Pichard, Preston and others for your hard work and perseverance in exposing the true numbers. There is certainly no ambush. Why in the world our city manager & elected officials jump to assume intelligent citizens who have researched and researched are wrong – and city staff cannot be, my mind is still reeling from this report.
Franklin Thompson says:
Article Says: "He (Dr. Kantor) said General Fund per capita spending had began increasing in 2010 and has reached a level not seen since the real estate boom in 2005."
This is too easy. Gillum, Marks, and City Manager Thompson were in the same mode as their 'president' which was the one that believes government is to spend and spend and thus believe the economy is being stimulated. 'Stimulate the economy' are the exact words I heard Thompson speak at a city commission meeting.
Dr. Erwin Jackson says:
It is hard to deny the truth. Is the public listening? Will we finally elect a commissioner who will look out for our interest!
James Tinsley says:
There was a time when a city manager who was lied to by staff would have called the staff together after discovery and told them that a letter of reprimand is going into the personnel files of each one of them and if the manager every catches them presenting a false briefing and recommendation to him again, each one will be fired.
That would stop this type of government behavior in a heartbeat and set a good example of leadership responsibility for all managers to follow.
That, Preston is an example of why I cancelled my subscription to the Tallahassee Demagogue. If they go the way of the dinosaur, they have only themselves to blame.
News_Maven says:
Excellent, wise decision.
In my life, any business whose views are diametrically opposed to mine gets none of my hard-earned dollars. None.
And the local newsletter tops that list.
I urge all others reading here that still have subscriptions to that rag (yes, all three of you) to cancel ASAP. Your money could be better spent, than to be indirectly transferred into the pockets of corporate execs in McLean, VA.
Fernandez defiantly tells the "other" paper (which, for some reason chose NOT to publish the charts) "I'll challenge anyone to unprove our data." Oh, my…a team of people and a renowned expert just did and he refuses to admit. The senior staff is either incompetent or dishonest.
KC Shoaf says:
Kudos to Penny Herman, Brent Pichard and Dr. Kantor! The taxpaying citizens of Tallahassee are the ones who have been ambushed! TERM LIMITS!
With so many state institutions including two universities I understand why we have the highest utility rates in the state. The state of Florida pays the largest share of utility bills in our city and we can use that to pay for other services. So we should get tax breaks else where to offset our high utility bills. Raising property rates is not the way to go.
Peri Worrell says:
Ambushed? Poor babies. They continually ambush the citizens with unpleasant surprises. Turnabout is fair play. Too bad they'll go ahead and do just what they want to do, just as they always have.
Ben Poitevent says:
The city now has a duty to have a public presentation addressing the allegations of misinformation. Put the facts on which they relied, out in the public domain for citizen review and evaluation. Explain their process and conclusions. The city's failure to be more inclusive in the budget preparation process has created suspicion and these allegations, which the city must now refute, or admit they cooked the facts. A failure to respond to the citizens concerns is tantamount to an admission of error. I hope the city staff will show the proper respect to our citizens and present their case.
Frances Powell says:
Term limits, term limits, term limits! The citizens of Tallahassee need to make it happen.
I absolutely agree. Term limits is the way the citizens remind elected officials who is in charge. A charter amendment can get it done. Limit city commissioners and the mayor to one four year term, deny them access to city pension or benefits, but increase their salary to 50K, require all city budget meetings, employment hires and contract reviews be held in the sunshine for public involvement.
James Totter says:
I would say to Mr. Fernandez that the citizens of the city are under NO obligation to filter their comments to the city commission through his office. Contrary to any opinion he may have, he works for the citizens, not the other way around. If he would insist on due diligence from his staff instead of trying to support a predetermined position, he would not be caught with his fly open.
Roger Osborne says:
It has been my observation watching City Commissioners that after they spend one term in office, they more identify with Staff than their constituents. It is like they come down with a form of Stockholm Syndrome where they have feelings of trust and affection for Staff and distrust and disdain for the taxpaying citizens. It has been obvious that is the case in this budget and tax debate where Commissioners side with Staff even when faced with the facts. It is like they can not help themselves. I do not think there is any cure for this affliction but to be voted out of office.
I must say that I think it is a good argument for term limits.
P.S. I am not a psychologist, but I once spent a night in a Holiday Inn Express.
The manager and staff weren't ambushed — the taxpayers were!
Larry Gordon says:
Amen Brother Pichard! You hit the nail on the head sir.
Kevin Koelemij says:
Well said! I was wondering how the Government could be ambushed by the information they chose to present. Perhaps our Honorable Manager didn't actually intend to imply what the word "ambush," even in it's transitive verb form, actually means.
Do ya think that the commissioners might just be trusting staff just a bit too much? ha!
So. Given that staff now has info it did not have…..but could have had…will the recommendation to elected officials be to roll back the increase?
Or dig in?
Ambushed because he couldn't prevent adverse positions and fact-based rebuttals of city staff? And of course Gilligan and Richardson defended staff. Gillium probably told them to lie to the public.


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How are computers made?
by Nathan Chandler
Computers are one of the useful tools ever designed by man. And hardly anyone knows how they're made.
Courtesy Dell Computers
Our contemporary world is digital; the numbers back up that statement. Smartphones sell at a clip of nearly 150 million per business quarter; PCs hang in at around 100 million. And tablet computers? The sales numbers of those devices are red-hot, too, at nearly 120 million per year and counting.
That's a heaping mountain of digital technology, spread all across the world. Yet hardly anyone knows how these machines are made. The process is in some ways rather simple and in others, bewilderingly complex.
Parts are paramount. If you've ever so much as glimpsed into the dark innards of your desktop computer, you know that the nooks and crannies inside are stuffed with all sorts of shiny (or dust bunny-choked) components. In short, your computer is composed of a lot of individual parts.
You're probably already familiar with the most vital ingredients that make up a typical computer recipe. You need a CPU (central processing unit), which is the so-called brain of the computer. It processes instructions given to it by software, such as your word processing or accounting programs.
A computer also needs a place to store data. That's usually a magnetic hard drive. Contemporary hard drives can store many gigabytes or even terabytes worth of data. Newer (and usually more expensive) hard drives are solid-state drives that have no moving parts, and thus, aren't as susceptible to mechanical failure as older versions.
Small devices, such as smartphones, often don't require as much storage capacity as full-size computers, so they employ flash memory chips like those used in digital cameras. You can swap flash cards in and out of a device for easy data sharing.
Hard drives are for semi-permanent or long-term data storage. RAM (random access memory), however, is short-term storage with smaller capacity. RAM is much faster to access than a hard drive, so it's important for overall system speed and multi-tasking.
A motherboard is often likened to the human central nervous system. It connects all parts and helps them function as a single machine. Without this crucial circuit board, your computer would be non-functioning collection of pricey electronics.
Each of these components requires careful engineering and design, not to mention specializing manufacturing machines and expert oversight. That's why computer manufacturers can't build every part from scratch. Instead, they generally buy say, motherboards, directly from a motherboard maker, and then mix and match components to build a whole machine.
We're getting a little ahead of ourselves here, though. On the next page we'll step back and see exactly where computer parts really find their beginnings.
10 Types of Computers
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But scientists, like those who are employees of NASA and other organizations recognize that the lie of trying to intimidate people is a distraction from more important academic issues such as global warming and depletion of the gene pool. We live in a country where rampant freedom of speech (freedom of the press), but it also implies freedom to lie. You should be pleased that there is no censorship. But if you'll just use common sense, I'm sure you'll be able to recognize faulty information. As soon as we approach 2012, the lie will become more apparent.
18. Can you prove to me that the existence of Nibiru – a lie? So many posts that in 2012, something terrible will happen! It is illogical to ask to prove that the Judgement Day 2012 – a lie. Your questions should be addressed to the defenders of the theory of the end of the world that they have shown that telling the truth, rather than NASA must prove that they are hypocrites. If someone is declared on the Internet that Cleveland purple elephant is walking tall in a 50-feet, it would someone to expect that NASA will prove that it is not true? The burden of proof rests on those who make the 'wild' statements. Remember the often quoted statement from Carl Sagan (Carl Sagan), that extraordinary claims require an extraordinary level of evidence, if they want to believe them. Nevertheless, I believe that astronomers have reached a level where we can offer very strong arguments for the claim that Nibiru does not exists.


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Shares of Wayfair Inc. W, +0.64% shot up 5.1% in premarket trade Friday, after the online home furnishings seller reported fourth-quarter losses that were narrower than expected and revenue that beat forecasts. The net loss widened to $143.8 million, or $1.59 a share, from $72.8 million, or 83 cents a share, in the same period a year ago. Excluding non-recurring items, the adjusted loss per share was $1.12, compared with the FactSet consensus of a $1.28 loss per share. Revenue rose to $2.01 billion from $1.44 billion, above the FactSet consensus of $1.97 billion, as direct retail revenue grew 41% to $2.00 billion to top expectations of $1.95 billion. The number of active direct retail customers increased 38% to 15.2 million and orders per customer increased to 1.85 from 1.77, while the average order value declined to $227 from $229, but matched the FactSet consensus. The stock has rallied 7.5% year to date, while the S&P 500 SPX, -0.22% has climbed 10.7%.


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import { client } from 'nightwatch-cucumber';

/**
 * Open the given URL
 * @param  {String}   type Type of navigation (url or site)
 * @param  {String}   page The URL to navigate to
 */
export default (type, page) => {
  const url = (type === 'url') ? page : client.launch_url + page;
  return client.url(url).waitForElementVisible('body', 1000);
};

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Q: dynamical math for coverting values between multiple units This is the function I'm using now for converting a value of of one unit to another. I'm looking for a more dynamic option of doing this. I want to make the function be able to covert from for example: 1 kilo gram to ounces, but the why I'm doing this now I have defined how much each unit is compared to another. is there a simpler way to do this?
    func weightMath(_ input: UITextField, _ textField: UITextField) {
    //The math for doing weight calculations. This will also round up the answer to the third decimal.
    switch input.tag {
        /*
         case 0 is for when the user want to calculate from kilogram
         case 1 is for when the user want to calculate from ounces
         case 2 is for when the user want to calculate from pounds
         */
    case 0:
        switch textField.tag {
            /*
            case 0 is for when the user want to calculate to kilogram
            case 1 is for when the user want to calculate to ounces
            case 2 is for when the user want to calculate to pounds
            */
        case 0:
            textField.text = String(format: "%.3f", toFloat(input.text!) * 1)
        case 1:
            textField.text = String(format: "%.3f", toFloat(input.text!) * 35.274)
        case 2:
            textField.text = String(format: "%.3f", toFloat(input.text!) * 2.205)
        default:
            break
        }
    case 1:
        switch textField.tag {
            /*
            case 0 is for when the user want to calculate to kilogram
            case 1 is for when the user want to calculate to ounces
            case 2 is for when the user want to calculate to pounds
            */
        case 0:
            textField.text = String(format: "%.3f", toFloat(input.text!) * 0.028)
        case 1:
            textField.text = String(format: "%.3f", toFloat(input.text!) * 1)
        case 2:
            textField.text = String(format: "%.3f", toFloat(input.text!) * 0.063)
        default:
            break
        }
    case 2:
        switch textField.tag {
            /*
            case 0 is for when the user want to calculate to kilogram
            case 1 is for when the user want to calculate to ounces
            case 2 is for when the user want to calculate to pounds
            */
        case 0:
            textField.text = String(format: "%.3f", toFloat(input.text!) * 0.454)
        case 1:
            textField.text = String(format: "%.3f", toFloat(input.text!) * 16)
        case 2:
            textField.text = String(format: "%.3f", toFloat(input.text!) * 1)
        default:
            break
        }
    default:
        break
    }
}

A: So as folks have mentioned, using the Measurement API will simplify things, but I don't think that's the real problem with your code. It seems you are aware that as the number of units you are converting to/from increases your weightMath function is quickly going to get out of control (if you have N units it will grow proportional to N^2). It's good that, even as a beginner, you're looking at this code and thinking "surely there is a better way".
The key insight you are missing is that instead of going directly from input units to output units you should break that up into two steps. Decide on some internal unit (say kilograms), then translate the input into these internal units and translate from these internal units to output units.
Let's take a look at how that would look in code. Although your function is called weightMath it actually does a fair bit of messing with UI stuff. Let's solve that by breaking it into two functions: updateUI that deals with the UI and convert that does the math.
Here the code for updateUI:
func updateUI(_ input: UITextField, _ textField: UITextField) {
    guard let inputString = input.text,
          let inputValue = Double(inputString) else {
        // You may want to do more than just return.
        return
    }
    let convertedValue = convert(mass: inputValue, inputUnitIndex: input.tag, outputUnitIndex: textField.tag)
    textField.text = String(format: "%.3f", convertedValue)
}

Now convert can concentrate on just the math. Even without using the Measurement API we can implement this fairly simply:
private func convert(mass: Double, inputUnitIndex: Int, outputUnitIndex: Int) -> Double {
    let conversionTable = [ 1.0, 0.0283495, 0.453592 ]
    let massKg = mass * conversionTable[inputUnitIndex]
    return massKg / conversionTable[outputUnitIndex]
}

A couple of notes here. The conversion table holds the factors needed to convert kilograms, ounces and pounds to kilograms by multiplying. This same set of values can be used to convert from kilograms by dividing. The value massKg is the value in our internal units which I chose to be kilograms.
But this code is a little ugly: it has magic constants and if you want to support more units you'd have to look up conversion factors. Using the Measurement API would make this a lot neater. Here's what that would look like.
private func convert(mass: Double, inputUnitIndex: Int, outputUnitIndex: Int) -> Double {
    let unitLookupTable = [ UnitMass.kilograms, UnitMass.ounces, UnitMass.pounds ]
    let massKg = Measurement(value: mass, unit: unitLookupTable[inputUnitIndex])
    return massKg.converted(to: unitLookupTable[outputUnitIndex]).value
}

There's still some more that could be done to make this a lot nicer: passing integers here isn't great... but that's a different story. Hopefully this helps.

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Situated right beside the Millennium Bridge in Dublin's city centre, The Morrison Hotel on Ormond Quay is just across the river from Temple Bar – but felt like worlds away from its crowded hustle and bustle when we stopped in for lunch over the Christmas break.
I've long been a fan of this place for its cocktails, but it's been donkey's years since I ate here – which is something I now regret. The Morrison Grill is a calming, stylish and relaxed spot; the menu features lots of meat and fish dishes prepared on their Josper Grill - an indoor BBQ oven that seals in flavour and moisture.
Mammy Fluff went for a kids portion of mac and cheese (just €5.50, served with fries), while my sister opted for a chicken Caesar salad. But – thanks to the Josper - my pulled beef sandwich was the star of the show. Tender and flavoursome, the beef practically melted in the mouth; it was served on a soft roll with a side dish of home-made gravy, for dipping.
We washed these down with a couple of cocktails – it was Christmas, after all – and I was delighted to find that the Bloody Mary here is as much of a spectacle as I remembered, served with a selection of garnishes on a miniature tray. My sister indulged her fondness for The Cranberries with a Let It Linger, and pronounced it good; as a side note, the drinks are served in heavy crystal glasses which is a pleasing touch. The bill came to a reasonable €53.30 which included an extra portion of fries, and a soda water with lime.
I really like what they're doing at The Morrison: from the 12 Cocktails of Christmas to Dublin's first Gentleman's Tea, it feels like the team is constantly coming up with innovative, fun – and tasty – ideas to bring people together.
And we were given a sneak peek at what's to come at the end of this month: a delicious new menu of spiked hot drinks, including an alcoholic raspberry hot chocolate, and chocolate orange coffee. These were the perfect sweet treat to round off our meal and will be especially comforting and delicious given the current cold snap. My mum's already exacted a promise that we'll return when she's next in town - maybe we'll see you at the bar?


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True to his journalistic instinct, as well as to his new desire as a Christian, to know well the Word of God, Bullen had read over, the night before, the passages in Exodus and Leviticus, relating to the robing of the High-priest, and had been struck with this fact, that the High-priest himself did nothing, took no active part in his robing. Moses, as God's representative, did everything.
Sidney Watson - The Mark of the Beast
And one of them struck at a servant of the high-priest, and cut off his right ear. Then Jesus, addressing them, said, Permit me thus far: and touching his ear, he healed him. Then said Jesus to the chief priests and captains of the temple, and to the elders who were come forth against him, Are ye come out as against a robber, with swords and staves?
T. Haweis - A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek
The refined deliberateness of his nature had in it much that was royal as well as priestly; it was partly intrinsic and born with him, partly the result of his own mental self-control. He had many enemies, but calumny seldom dared to attack the high character of Amemi. The high-priest looked up in astonishment, as the disturbance in the court of the temple broke in on his studies.
Georg Ebers - Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Complete
"I tell you, Puhor, and the high-priest says so too, that these strangers can bring no good to the black land! I am for the good old times, when no one who cared for his life dared set foot on Egyptian soil. Now our streets are literally swarming with cheating Hebrews, and above all with those insolent Greeks whom may the gods destroy! See Ebers, Aegypten I. p. 316.
Georg Ebers - Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
Nebenchari, who revered Onuphis, not only as a high-priest deeply initiated in the most solemn mysteries, but also on account of his great age, stood by his side and arranged his cushions. At his left stood Phanes, and then Croesus, Darius and Prexaspes. The king sat upon his throne.
Whenever Gaumata came to see me I allowed him to be with her as with a sister; but on discovering later that the passionate love of youth had begun to mingle with the childish friendship of former days, I felt strengthened in my resolution to send her away." "Now we know enough," said the king, commanding the high-priest by a nod to retire.
Then the news that Timotheus the high-priest had abdicated his office soon after Caesar's departure, and, with his revered wife Euryale, had been baptized by their friend the learned Clemens, confirmed many in their desire to be admitted into the Christian community.
Georg Ebers - A Thorny Path — Volume 12
I. Julius Caesar, the Divine , lost his father when he was in the sixteenth year of his age ; and the year following, being nominated to the office of high-priest of Jupiter , he repudiated Cossutia, who was very wealthy, although her family belonged only to the equestrian order, and to whom he had been contracted when he was a mere boy.
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus - The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete
He has the faculty of learning of thinking of feeling of winning all hearts, even mine. He keeps himself undefiled and separate " suddenly the prelate paused and struck his hand on the back of a chair that stood by him. "I have it; he has not yet felt the fire of ambition. We will light it for his profit and our own." Pentauer hastened to execute the commands of the high-priest.
While I am speaking with the high-priest, Zoe can at any rate win over the girl, and whatever we do must be done to-morrow, or the Roman will be beforehand with us. I know that he has cast an eye on Irene, who is in fact most lovely.
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Q: How do you change the sender of Outlook messages? I've been successfully sending out appointment invites with outlook through c# in an asp.net application. I'm using the following code:
//send out the outlook notification
Outlook.Application outlookApp = new Outlook.Application();
Outlook.AppointmentItem newMeeting = outlookApp.CreateItem(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlItemType.olAppointmentItem) as Outlook.AppointmentItem;

if (newMeeting != null)
{
    newMeeting.MeetingStatus = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlMeetingStatus.olMeeting;
    newMeeting.Location = "TBD";
    newMeeting.Subject = "New SEB Consult";
    newMeeting.Body = "A new meeting has been scheduled. If you're a member of the team, please accept";
    newMeeting.Start = meetingDate;
    newMeeting.Duration = 60;
    Outlook.Recipient recipient = newMeeting.Recipients.Add("Smith John");
    recipient.Type = (int)Outlook.OlMeetingRecipientType.olRequired;
    ((Outlook._AppointmentItem)newMeeting).Send();
}

This works, but my problem is that it's sending them from my email which I'm logged into with outlook on the same computer. I'd like to send them from a different email, so that they appear more like system notifications coming from my application rather than a personal email. I do have the username and password for the account, but the application is eventually going to be run on a remote server, so I can't just log into outlook with another email. Nothing I've been able to find changes the sender. Does anyone have any more information on how to change these credentials, or where it looks for the credentials?

A: You  can't use OLE if you would like to control the emails. OLE is just to control the local outlook instance which is tied to the running account.
You must use the exchange API instead. With it you can create an appointment like described in this MSDN article: How to: Create appointments and meetings by using EWS in Exchange 2013
Appointment appointment = new Appointment(service);

// Set the properties on the appointment object to create the appointment.
appointment.Subject = "Tennis lesson";
appointment.Body = "Focus on backhand this week.";
appointment.Start = DateTime.Now.AddDays(2);
appointment.End = appointment.Start.AddHours(1);
appointment.Location = "Tennis club";
appointment.ReminderDueBy = DateTime.Now;

// Save the appointment to your calendar.
appointment.Save(SendInvitationsMode.SendToNone);

// Verify that the appointment was created by using the appointment's item ID.
Item item = Item.Bind(service, appointment.Id, new PropertySet(ItemSchema.Subject));
Console.WriteLine("\nAppointment created: " + item.Subject + "\n");

The library is open source and available at github.

A: Microsoft does not currently recommend, and does not support, Automation of Microsoft Office applications from any unattended, non-interactive client application or component (including ASP, ASP.NET, DCOM, and NT Services), because Office may exhibit unstable behavior and/or deadlock when Office is run in this environment.
If you are building a solution that runs in a server-side context, you should try to use components that have been made safe for unattended execution. Or, you should try to find alternatives that allow at least part of the code to run client-side. If you use an Office application from a server-side solution, the application will lack many of the necessary capabilities to run successfully. Additionally, you will be taking risks with the stability of your overall solution. Read more about that in the Considerations for server-side Automation of Office article.
You may consider using the EWS Managed API, EWS, and web services in Exchange instead.


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The Natural Gas Game
Domestic Critics Slow Potential LNG Export Boom
Constance Gustke, |Special to CNBC.com
Published 9:35 AM ET Wed, 20 June 2012 Updated 8:37 PM ET Wed, 20 June 2012 CNBC.com
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Heated debate over the impact of liquefied natural gas exports on domestic prices is threatening to derail them at a crucial time for the U.S. industry.
A sudden abundance of natural gas and unprofitably low prices — the result of fracking technology that's opened up previously unreachable shale-gas reserves — has the industry looking for new markets.
But Massachusetts Rep. Edward Markey, a top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, is pulling out the stops to slow exports.
He began worrying about the impact of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports on U.S. prices, when he saw permit applications piling up at the Department of Energy.
So, Markey and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., another key voice on U.S. energy policy, introduced bills requesting a timeout on LNG permit approvals until 2025.
"We saw a policy shift to exports without even a debate," says Jonathan Phillips, a senior policy adviser to Markey on the Democratic staff of the Natural Resources Committee. "Yet all the studies show that exports will increase domestic prices. We're not going to race ahead, allowing oil and gas companies to reap large profits at a cost to consumers."
Consumer and environmental groups are also dead-set against the export of LNG, which converts natural gas into liquid form through a rapid chilling process for easier transport. The chemical industry has voiced dissent because it depends on cheap natural gas to produce fertilizers and feed stock.
This domestic push-back is slowing the approval process, while other countries are ramping up production to natural gas-hungry customers like Japan, which is trying to compensate for the loss of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011.
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As a result, only one U.S. terminal has been given the go-ahead. A dozen-plus others are on hold, any regulatory action delayed until an Energy Department study on the economic impact is completed later this the year.
Cheniere Energywas the lucky one to win federal approvalto build the first liquefied natural gas export terminal in decades. The Blackstone Group will supply some $2 billion in financing. When complete in 2015, the Sabine Pass, La., facility will be capable of exporting about three percent of the total U.S. supply.
Cheniere and the seven other energy companies behind the 14 stalled permits for facilities — in states as far-flung as Georgia, Maine and Oregon — all want to export to Japan, Spain and other non-free trade countries, those that have not eliminated trade tariffs and quotas.
The only LNG export terminal currently serving the group of nations is ConocoPhiliips' aging facility in Alaska, where supply is dwindling.
South Korea and Taiwan are also big importers, and demand is rising in India and China, which is building huge import terminals.
The non-free trade block is a highly profitable market for liquefied natural gas. Importers like Japan pay nearly four times the price paid in the U.S. market.
Huge markets aside, the natural gas industry says there's plenty of gas to go around without any negative impact.
"Higher U.S. natural gas prices are an unfounded fear," says Rocco Canonica, director of energy analysis at BENTEK Energy. "The U.S. will produce more gas over just a few years to make up for exports."
Studies on the effect of exports on prices, however, differ widely.
One by Deloitte found that by 2035, daily exports of 6 billion cubic feet, or about 1 trillion BTUs, will result in an average domestic price increase of 1.7 percent. On the other hand, a study by ICF International concluded that the same number of exports over the same period would increase domestic prices by 11 percent.
Some experts say the regulatory slowdown is almost certain to dampen pricing.
"It isn't feasible for eight projects to hit the market fast," says Charles Ebinger, director of the Brookings Institution Energy Security Initiative. "So there is less market impact."
Guy Caruso, a senior adviser in energy and national security at the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies, estimates it could take five to 10 more years to achieve even modest amounts of natural gas exports.
Furthermore, most energy experts say LNG exports will ultimately amount to some 10 percent of total U.S. sales at best.
Modest as that may seem, there is formidable competition abroad.
Qatar, Indonesia and Malaysia are already major exporters, but new suppliers like Australia and Nigeria are ramping up production.
"Australia will eventually be a bigger player than Qatar," predicts Ebinger.
"And Russia has been lobbying against exports," adds Caruso, noting that Moscow wants to preserve its sizable market share based on a series of pipelines that stretch all the way to Siberia.
For some, the issue seems much ado about nothing in a country that some estimate has a 100-year supply of natural gas ready to be fracked out of shale formations.
"We've got to get rid of our supplies somehow," says Canonica.


Frederik obtained his PhD in psychology. He is survey methodologist with focus on rating scales in Web-based research.
Besides his activity as member of iscience staff – maintaining WEXTOR – he is editorial assistant at the International Journal of Internet Science and he is running VAS Generator, a free Web service to generate visual analogue scales for Web-based research.


After a sentimental farewell drink atop the Crowne Plaza Hotel, I left Abu Dhabi Sunday morning at 2 am. Twenty-two hours later I was back here in Rochester, a bit exhausted, but utterly enthralled in Gamal al-Ghitani's The Zafarani Files.
Anyway, rather than pretend that I can be coherent on the blog today (that said, Rob Walker—the NY Times Magazine "Consumed" columnist and author of Buying In—videoconferenced into my intern's publishing class this morning and I'm moderating a translation panel in one hour, so I'm going to have to at least feign coherence for a bit longer), I'm instead going to repost my pieces from the ADIBF blog. Tomorrow I'll get back on track, recap the fair, finish my Salzburg posts, etc., etc.


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Luxe Austin Homes - May, 2020
Despite higher traffic counts, Hwy. 71 in western Travis County is trending safer
Posted by Grossman & Jones Group on May 31st, 2020
Information from the Texas Department of Transportation as of late May shows while traffic counts along Hwy. 71 where it meets RM 620 in western Travis County have risen steadily from 2014 to 2020, the death rate on that road has also dropped substantially in that same time period.
The numbers, taken from TxDOT's Crash Records Information System and other department databases, show in 2014, the average daily traffic count on that intersection stood at 36,788 automobiles. So far through the end of May, 2020 numbers show an average daily traffic count of 59,926.
In the same time period from 2014-20, TxDOT data shows the average death rate along the roughly 15-mile stretch of Hwy. 71 from Southwest Parkway to the Blanco County line showed gradual…
Hamilton Pool Vineyard & Farms now open in Southwest Austin
Posted by Grossman & Jones Group on May 30th, 2020
Hamilton Pool Vineyards & Farms opened its doors at 25711 Hamilton Pool Road, Round Mountain, for the first time in May after coronavirus precautions prevented the business from its planned Easter weekend opening.
According to Chief Operating Officer Alfonso Castillo, the business's vineyard is now open and hosting wine tastings, bottle sales, pickup and delivery.
Wine tastings and other on-site services are offered in Hamilton Pool Vineyards' large indoor tasting room or in an outdoor courtyard at private tables. Both options accommodate social distancing, he said.
More features will be added to the business in the months to come, according to Castillo, including a two-acre farm that will feed into a farm-to-table restaurant on the premises. Staff…
Eanes Education Foundation names new executive director
The Eanes Education Foundation named Dana Meserole Delorenzo as the nonprofit's new executive director at a May 26 board meeting, during which Kathi Haralson, the outgoing director, presented a $2.65 million donation to the district.
Delorenzo has 26 years of professional and volunteer experience, according to Haralson. She is also a parent to a sixth-grade student at EISD's West Ridge Middle School.
EEF seeks financial support and corporate donors to provide opportunities for educational excellence within the district, according to the EEF website. Each year, the majority of donations fund teacher and staff positions, with over 421 positions funded since 2004.
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Census data shows Austin added more than 177,000 residents over the last decade, fifth most in the nation
Between 2010 and 2019, Austin went from the 14th-largest city in the U.S. to the 11th largest and added more residents than all but four American cities, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released late May 20.
Austin went from 801,829 residents on April 1, 2010, to 978,908 residents on July 1, 2019, according to the data. That increase of 177,079 residents only trailed Phoenix, Houston, San Antonio and Los Angeles as the most in the country.
Four of the six cities that added the most residents in the decade are located in Texas: Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Fort Worth. Dallas added the ninth-most residents in the U.S., with an increase of 145,014.
Texas also peppered the list of the fastest-growing large cities in the U.S. through the…
Bee Cave officials approve changes to large development known as The Backyard
After a nearly three-hour discussion from residents, staff and officials, Bee Cave City Council approved amendments on zoning and development standards for a roughly 35-acre planned development district called The Backyard. The development in west Bee Cave will contain, among several other features, a high-capacity entertainment venue.
Approval of the amendments came during council's May 26 meeting and follows an April 7 recommendation to adopt the changes from the Bee Cave Planning & Zoning Commission.
The Backyard will be located between Bee Cave Parkway and Hwy. 71, just west of RM 620 and Bee Cave Central Park.
Council's last amendment to the PDD came in March 2019 and included the removal of three planned data centers and a distributed energy…
Changes to Project Connect plan add $60 million to local cost estimate
Less than three weeks ahead of what Capital Metro Board Chair Wade Cooper called "one of the most consequential votes this board has taken in its history," the public transportation agency refined the cost estimate for its plan to revamp Austin's public transit network.
In May, Cap Metro staff adjusted their initial plans for the plan, called Project Connect, to add a light rail line running from Austin Community College's Highland campus in North Central Austin to South Austin to replace what was initially planned as a bus route. Additionally, staff nixed $380 million of planned work on the existing MetroRail, the Red Line, because there would not be enough of a gain in ridership to justify the cost.
The effect of those changes on the cost estimate of…
Rollingwood under contract to obtain property which could become a new police annex building
The city of Rollingwood has its sights set on a residential property located within city limits at 503 Vale St. for the use of a potential police department annex building.
Due to size constraints, the current police building has limited the department's abilities, and according to Mayor Michael Dyson, the city is currently under a $1.2 million contract to obtain the property.
Council discussed a rezoning application of the property from a residential to a government site during a virtual meeting May 20. Action will be requested during a Planning and Zoning meeting scheduled for June 10.
As officials work to obtain the full scope of the community's input, council emphasized that an official decision has not been made to utilize the building for…
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Residential sales reflected a 21.6% decrease in the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan statistical area, according to the Austin Board of Realtors' April market analysis.
Inventory dropped as the market experienced a 7.3% decline in active listings. Simultaneously, the median sales price increased by 3.2% as homes spent fewer days on the market.
"We anticipated a sharp decline in April home sales activity, as it directly correlates with the decline in listings activity recorded in March due to government stay-at-home orders," ABoR President Romeo Manzanilla said.
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Gay marriage in the year 100 AD
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Gay marriage sounds like an ultra-contemporary idea. But almost twenty years ago, a Catholic scholar at Yale shocked the world by publishing a book packed with evidence that same-sex marriages were sanctioned by the early Christian Church during an era commonly called the Dark Ages.
Illustration of Serge and Bacchus, in a same-sex union
John Boswell was a historian and religious Catholic who dedicated much of his scholarly life to studying the late Roman Empire and early Christian Church. Poring over legal and church documents from this era, he discovered something incredible. There were dozens of records of church ceremonies where two men were joined in unions that used the same rituals as heterosexual marriages. (He found almost no records of lesbian unions, which is probably an artifact of a culture which kept more records about the lives of men generally.)
Bolstered by this evidence, Boswell published a book in 1994, the year before his death from AIDS, called Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe. The book comes out next month for the first time in a digital edition. It was an instant lightening rod for controversy, drawing criticism from both the Catholic Church and sex pundit Camille Paglia. Given the Church's present-day views on gay marriage, these detractors argued, Boswell's history seemed like wishful thinking.
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But it wasn't. Boswell had actually begun his research back in the 1970s, and published an equally controversial work in 1980 called Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century. His Same-Sex Unions book refined and expanded a lot of what he'd learned over a lifetime of research into primary sources in scattered libraries and archives.
Pictured: Boswell in 1980
How could these marriages have been forgotten by history? One easy answer is that — as Boswell argues — the Church reframed the idea of marriage in the 13th century to be for the purposes of procreation. And this slammed the door on gay marriage. Church scholars and officials worked hard to suppress the history of these marriages in order to justify their new definition.
Of course, history is more complicated than that. Boswell claims that part of the problem is that we define marriage so differently today that it's almost impossible for historians to recognize 1800-year-old gay marriage documents when they see them. Often, these documents refer to uniting "brothers," which at the time would have been a way of describing same-sex partners whose lifestyles were tolerated in Rome. Also, marriages over a millennium ago were not based on procreation, but wealth-sharing. So "marriage" sometimes meant a non-sexual union of two people's or families' wealth. Boswell admits that some of the documents he found may refer simply to non-sexual joining of two men's fortunes — but many also referred to what today we would call gay marriage.
Legal scholar Richard Ante wrote a law journal article explaining that Boswell's book could even be used as evidence for the legality of gay marriage, since it shows evidence that definitions of marriage have changed over time. He describes some of Boswell's evidence of these same-sex rites in the early first millennium:
The burial rite given for Achilles and Patroclus, both men, was the burial rite for a man and his wife. The relationships of Hadrian and Antinous, of Polyeuct and Nearchos, of Perpetua and Felicitas, and of Saints Serge and Bacchus, all bore resemblance to heterosexual marriages of their times. The iconography of Serge and Bacchus was even used in same-sex nuptial ceremonies by the early Christian Church.
The main piece of evidence that these same-sex unions were marriages is that they so closely resembled heterosexual ceremonies. Literary scholar Bruce Holsinger describes Boswell's detailed stories of same-sex ceremonies:
[Boswell] cleverly posits the development of heterosexual and same-sex nuptial offices as a single phenomenon, tracking the growth of the latter from "merely a set of prayers " in the earlier Middle Ages to its flowering as a "full office" by the twelfth century that involved "the burning of candles, the placing of the two parties' hands on the Gospel, the joining of their right hands, the binding of their hands . . . with the priest's stole, an introductory litany crowning, the Lord's Prayer, Communion, a kiss, and sometimes circling around the altar." Boswell devotes a full chapter to comparing these rituals with their heterosexual counterparts, revealing a number of extraordinary similarities between the two; in several appendixes totaling almost 100 pages, he has compiled numerous examples of the documents themselves (including heterosexual matrimony ceremonies and adoption rituals for comparison) to let "readers . . . judge for themselves," as he puts it. (Boswell translates most of the ceremonies, so general readers won't have to worry about brushing up on their Old Church Slavonic.)
Were these same-sex unions in the middle ages the same thing as today's gay marriages? Probably not. People at the time may not have viewed two men forming a union as anything out of the ordinary. Marriage itself meant something different thousands of years ago, and social taboos against homosexuality had not yet solidified. Still, in Boswell's work, we find records of institutions where same-sex couples were honored with the same ceremonies that opposite-sex couples enjoyed. Two men could live as "brothers," sharing wealth, home, and family. And yes, they could love each other, too.
Though Boswell died before his country began to allow similar kinds of unions, he could draw hope from knowing something that most people did not. Even the most fundamental kinds of human relationships change over time. Those who have been banished today may be blessed tomorrow — just as they were over a thousand years ago.
Annalee Newitz is the author of the book, Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction. Follow her on Twitter.
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S&P downgrades SA to junk
PUBLISHED: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 17:57:51 GMT
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South Africa Long-Term Foreign Currency Rating Cut To BB+
Statement by S&P:
In our opinion, the executive changes initiated by President Zuma have put at risk fiscal and growth outcomes.
We assess that contingent liabilities to the state are rising.
We are therefore lowering our long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating on the Republic of South Africa to 'BB+' from 'BBB-' and the long-term local currency rating to 'BBB-' from 'BBB'.
The negative outlook reflects our view that political risks will remain elevated this year, and that policy shifts are likely, which could undermine fiscal and economic growth outcomes more than we currently project.
Rand falls to 13.68 after S&P issues advisory on downgrade | Reuters Eikon | 18:45
On April 3, 2017, S&P Global Ratings lowered the long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating on the Republic of South Africa to 'BB+' from 'BBB-' and the long-term local currency rating to 'BBB-' from 'BBB'.
We also lowered the short-term foreign currency rating to 'B' from 'A-3' and the short-term local currency rating to 'A-3' from 'A-2'. The outlook on all the long-term ratings is negative.
In addition, we lowered the long-term South Africa national scale rating to 'zaAA-' from 'zaAAA'. We affirmed the short-term national scale rating at 'zaA-1'.
As a "sovereign rating" (as defined in EU CRA Regulation 1060/2009 "EU CRA Regulation"), the ratings on the Republic of South Africa are subject to certain publication restrictions set out in Art 8a of the EU CRA Regulation, including publication in accordance with a pre-established calendar (see "Calendar Of 2017 EMEA Sovereign, Regional, And Local Government Rating
Publication Dates ," published Dec. 16, 2016, on RatingsDirect). Under the EU CRA Regulation, deviations from the announced calendar are allowed only in limited
circumstances and must be accompanied by a detailed explanation of the reasons for the deviation.
In this case, the reasons for the deviation are the heightened political and institutional uncertainties that have arisen from the recent changes in executive leadership. The next scheduled rating publication on the sovereign rating on the Republic of South Africa will be on June 2, 2017.
The downgrade reflects our view that the divisions in the ANC-led government that have led to changes in the executive leadership, including the finance minister, have put policy continuity at risk. This has increased the likelihood that economic growth and fiscal outcomes could suffer. The rating action also reflects our view that contingent liabilities to the state, particularly in the energy sector, are on the rise, and that previous plans to improve the underlying financial position of Eskom may not be implemented in a comprehensive and timely manner. In our view, higher risks of budgetary slippage will also put upward pressure on South Africa's cost of capital, further dampening already-modest growth.
Internal government and party divisions could, we believe, delay fiscal and structural reforms, and potentially erode the trust that had been established between business leaders and labor representatives (including in the critical mining sector). An additional risk is that businesses may now choose to withhold investment decisions that would otherwise have supported economic
growth. We think that ongoing tensions and the potential for further event risk could weigh on investor confidence and exchange rates, and potentially drive increases in real interest rates.
We have also reassessed South Africa's contingent liabilities. This reflects the increased risk that nonfinancial public enterprises will need further extraordinary government support. We expect guarantee utilizations will reach South African rand (ZAR) 500 billion in 2020, or 10% of 2017 GDP. The utilizations are dominated mainly by Eskom (BB-/Negative/–), which benefits
from a government guarantee framework of ZAR350 billion (US$25 billion)–about 7% of 2017 GDP. We estimate Eskom will have used up to ZAR300 billion of this framework by 2020.
South Africa's energy regulator has capped Eskom's permitted 2017/2018 tariff increase at 2.2%–with negative implications for its financial performance. Eskom will fund the resulting revenue gap via borrowings of up to ZAR70 billion, of which up to half may utilize government guarantees. Other state-owned entities that we think still pose a risk to the country's fiscal outlook include national road agency Sanral (not rated), which is reported to have revenue collection challenges with its Gauteng tolling system, and South African Airways (not rated), which may be unable to obtain financing without additional government support. While governance reforms have proceeded at the airline, Eskom still has to complete its board appointments and appoint a permanent CEO. Broader reforms to state-owned enterprises are still being discussed and we do not foresee implementation in the near term.
South Africa continues to depend on resident and nonresident purchases of rand-denominated local currency debt to finance its fiscal and external deficits. We estimate that the change in general government debt will average 4.2% of GDP over 2017-2020. On a stock basis, general government debt net of liquid assets increased to about 48% of GDP in 2017 from about 30% in 2010,
and we expect it will stabilize at just below 50% of GDP in the next three years. Although less than one-tenth of the government's debt stock is denominated in foreign currency, nonresidents hold about 35% of the government's rand-denominated debt, which could make financing costs vulnerable to foreign investor sentiment, exchange rate fluctuations, and rises in developed market interest rates. We project interest expense will remain at about 11% of government revenues this year.
South Africa's pace of economic growth remains a ratings weakness. It continues to be negative on a per capita GDP basis. While the government has identified important reforms and supply bottlenecks in South Africa's highly concentrated economy, delivery has been piecemeal in our opinion. The country's longstanding skills shortage and adverse terms of trade also explain
poor growth outcomes, as does the corporate sector's current preference to delay private investment, despite high margins and large cash positions.
South Africa's gross external financing needs are large, averaging over 100% of current account receipts (CARs) plus usable reserves. However, they are declining because the current account deficit is narrowing. The trade deficit (surplus in 2016) has seen contraction, but given the small recovery in oil prices (oil constitutes about one-fifth of South Africa's imports) we could
see the trade balance weakening again. We could also see weaker domestic demand and a notable increase in exports from the mining and manufacturing sectors, along with a slower pace of increase in imports.
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We believe sustained real exports growth is likely to be slow over 2017-2020 because of persistent supply-side constraints to production. Import growth will be compressed amid currency weakness and the subdued domestic economy. Therefore, we estimate current account deficits will average close to 4% of GDP over 2017-2020. However, South Africa funds part of its current account deficits with portfolio and other investment flows, which could be volatile. This volatility could stem from global changes in risk appetite; foreign investors reappraising prospective returns in the event of growth or policy slippage in South Africa; or rising interest rates in developed markets.
We consider South Africa's monetary policy flexibility, and its track record in achieving price stability, to be important credit strengths. South Africa continues to pursue a floating exchange rate regime. The South African Reserve Bank (SARB; the central bank) does not have exchange rate targets and does not defend any particular exchange rate level. We assess the SARB as being
operationally independent, with transparent and credible policies. The repurchase rate is the bank's most important monetary policy instrument. Absent large currency depreciations, we expect that inflation will fall back below 6% this year and remain in the target range of 3%-6% over our three-year forecast horizon.
The negative outlook reflects our view that political risks will remain elevated this year, and that policy shifts are likely which could undermine fiscal and growth outcomes more than we currently project. If fiscal and macroeconomic performance deteriorates substantially from our baseline forecasts, we could consider lowering the ratings. We could revise the outlook to stable if we see political risks reduce and economic growth and/or fiscal outcomes strengthen compared to our baseline projections.


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Take part in a walk to support Sussex hospices
Friends of Sussex Hospices is asking walkers to step out on Saturday October 3 to support hospice care providers across the county.
By Andy Hemsley
Monday, 28th September 2020, 10:45 am
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The volunteer-run charity is calling on people to walk one section of the 200-mile Sussex Hospices Trail to raise funds for a local hospice of their choice.
Kathy Gore OBE, chairman of Friends of Sussex Hospices, walked the entire 200-mile trail in July, visiting 13 hospice care providers.
She said: "This is our fourth annual Walk the Hospice Trail Day and, of course, it is very different this year.
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"There is no fee to register but donations are invited. We ask people to register their intention to walk to let us know which hospice they would like to support and then to download the AllTrails app for turn by turn instructions of their chosen route.
"As before, we know that some people will be walking to raise funds for their local hospice, some will be walking in memory of a friend or family member they hold dear, and some will be walking simply to enjoy our beautiful Sussex scenery.
"Whatever their reasons for walking we hope that every step will raise awareness of the vital role of the hospice movement."
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The event will raise money for St Wilfrid's Chichester, Chestnut Tree House, Demelza, Hospice in the Weald, Leo House at Home, The Martlets in Hove, St Barnabas in Worthing, St Catherine's in Crawley, St Michael's in St Leonards, St Peter and St James in North Chailey, St Wilfrid's in Eastbourne, the Sussex Snowdrop Trust, which is based in Walberton, and The Sussex Beacon in Brighton.
It will of course be important for all walkers to follow current Government Covid-19 guidelines for meeting outside.
All 26 walks, ranging from three to 11 miles in length, are available, fully described and mapped, on the AllTrails app.
Please note that walkers must download the AllTrails app for turn by turn instructions, a GPS signal and access to written instructions.
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Alison Sampson, a nurse at St Michael's Hospice in St Leonards, is part of a group of 20 hospice staff who are doing the Crowhurst to Battle section of the walk on the day.
Alison, who has now walked 14 sections of the trail, said they are doing it because it's a good way to spend time together out of work – whilst helping to support St Michael's in what is a very challenging time for the hospice as most fundraising events have been cancelled.
The 20 staff will be dividing up into groups in order to adhere to the recent 'rule of six' guidelines.
Andrew Griffith, MP for Arundel and South Downs, will be walking the Pulborough to Amberley section of the trail on the day and Gillian Keegan MP for Chichester will be walking the Chichester to Barnham section.
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Andrew said: "I am looking forward to supporting all of our wonderful Sussex hospices by walking a section of the Sussex Hospice Trail.
"I hope to meet families and friends of those who have needed hospice care and it's a great way to raise money and see more of our stunning South Downs landscape."
Friends of Sussex Hospices champions and raises funds for the 13 hospice care providers that serve the adults and children of Sussex.
The charity is run entirely by volunteers and since it started, 25 years ago, it has distributed more than £3million.
Kathy will be out walking a section on the day, despite having covered the whole 200 mile route earlier this year to raise and incredible £38.500.
Commenting on her walk, Kathy said: "Covid-19 has created serious challenges for our hospices, with fundraising events cancelled and shops closed but demand for their services undiminished and likely to increase due to late diagnoses and delayed treatment.
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"So being unable to do anything else I thought a solo, socially distanced, walk would highlight their plight and also raise funds to help bridge some of that huge funding gap.
"From July 1 to July 31 I walked all 200 miles of the Sussex Hospices Trail and it was a truly wonderful experience.
" I saw parts of the county I've never seen before.
"I was blessed with good weather, apart from a couple of drizzly days, and the footpaths were clear and dry the whole way round.
"I was able to use the walk as a meditative journey to go within and explore what was important in my life and what I needed to let go of.
"I connected with nature and could see the vibrant beauty of so many living things I hadn't seen or heard before – even though they were there all the time.
"I met some lovely people on the way who helped me when I was lost or who simply acknowledged the special place and time we shared by a nod or a smile or a brief chat.
"I called at each of the 13 hospice care providers FSH supports and caught up with their news.
"Like most charities, hospices have suffered huge losses of income due to the pandemic and, while they are grateful for the cash injection from the Government, many of them will have to draw on reserves to continue delivering vital care to patients and their families.
"Hospice nursing teams have had to overcome the difficulties of wearing face masks and distancing which go against the ethos of hospice care, where touch and facial expression are the primary language of compassion."
"Hospice care doesn't cure people but it does a lot of healing. Hospice care doesn't add days to life but it adds quality of life to the days that remain."
Register for the walk, on October 3, at www.hospicestrail.co.uk/walk-the-hospice-trail-day-2020
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Eric Church Performs "Stick That In Your Country Song" With Bone-Chilling Johnny Cash "Ragged Old Flag" Intro
Another ACM Awards in the books.
Unfortunately, the evening's performances will inevitably overshadowed by that bizarre tie for Entertainer of the Year at the end, but aside from that fuckery, it was overall a pretty solid night.
Carrie Underwood honored her heroes like Patsy, Dolly, Reba, Martina and more with a stunning medley, Mickey Guyton had a powerful performance of "What Are You Gonna Tell Her?" and Eric Church brought the house down with a performance of "Stick That In Your Country Song," featuring a bone-chilling introduction of Johnny Cash's "Ragged Old Flag."
Written by Cash himself, "Ragged Old Flag" was released in 1974, a cut from his album of the same name. It was released amid the Watergate scandal involving President Nixon as a means to "reaffirm faith in the country and the goodness of the American people," according Robert Hilburn's Johnny Cash biography.
And THAT'S how it's done.
At the end of the day, awards shows are about creating powerful moments that stick in your mind. Performances you're going to remember. Plenty of artists just trot up there, sing their current single, and walk off the stage. And while they might do a great job, and it might be a great song, only the truly great entertainers will take it to the next level.
Last night, that was Eric Church. And Carrie Underwood as well.
So after all that, you're gonna give half a trophy to Thomas Rhett?
So you're telling me there are TWO winners not named Eric Church?
We're fucking doomed. #ACMs
Fuck outta here…
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