UNDER APPLICATION!!! This handsome detached family home is situated in a most pleasant location within walking distance to the village and shop and within a short drive to the A5. Warmed by oil fired central heating and benefits from UPVC double glazing. The accommodation offers: Reception Hall, Living Room, Dining Room, Cellar, Kitchen, Utility/Pantry, Three Double Bedrooms, Bathroom, Log Stores, Gardens. No smokers, No DSS, Dogs Considered. AVAILABLE NOW!
West Felton is a popular residential village situated some 4.5 miles from the market town of Oswestry. The village enjoys shop, post office, primary school, public house, Church and village hall all which go to serve the villages day to day needs. The A5 trunk road is less than mile away and gives easy access to The Midlands and the centres of employment such as Shrewsbury and Telford and to the North West Wrexham and Chester and access to mainline railway services can be found in Gobowen which is some 10 minutes drive. Oswestry enjoys a good range of shopping and leisure facilities and includes a good number of additional school both private and state run.
Take the A5 road towards Shrewsbury, turning left towards West Felton just past Oswestry Golf Club. Proceed on this road past The Queenshead Public House and continue, proceed and just before entering the village the property will be viewed to the right hand side.
With staircase leading to the First Floor Landing, radiator.
With UPVC double glazed window to the front elevation, radiator, open fireplace.
With quarry tiled floor, access to the Cellar.
Comprising base and wall units for storage, stainless steel sink unit with twin drainer to the side, Rayburn Oven, cooker (will not be replaced by landlord if falters), dishwater (will not be replaced by landlord if falters), quarry tiled floor, UPVC double glazed window to the side elevation, door leading out to the side.
With UPVC double glazed elevations and door leading out.
With Worcester floor mounted oil fired boiler which serves domestic hotwater and central heating needs, quarry tiled floor, radiator, window to the side elevation.
Large landing are providing an ideal for study area, UPVC double glazed window to the front elevation, radiator.
With UPVC double glazed window to the front elevation, radiator, fitted wardrobe.
With UPVC double glazed window to the front elevation, radiator, fitted wardrobe, freestanding wardrobe.
With UPVC double glazed window to the side elevation, radiator, fitted wardrobe, freestanding wardrobe.
Comprising a three piece suite in white providing a low flush WC, wash hand basin, bath with electric shower over, radiator, airing cupboard housing hotwater tank, UPVC double glazed window to the side elevation.
From the road level a gate leads to the parking area which provides parking for two/three cars. A gate leads to an enclosed rear courtyard (ideal and safe for a dog), A gate leads to the side garden and front garden.
The front garden is enclosed with a gate to the road level. The side garden is fully enclosed.
There are three outside stores, ideal for dog kennel and solid fuel stores.
No DSS or smokers please. Pets to be considered.
The drive is shared with the farmer.
The property will be let as seen.
By appointment through the selling agents. Halls, Oswestry Office, TEL (01691) 670320. Viewings available 9 am- 5pm Monday to Friday and 9am -12.30pm Saturday's. Subject to availability. Excluding Bank Holidays.
If you are interested in renting this property, you have to view. Once you have viewed the property, complete the application form fully and return to our office. Please contact the office and one of the team will assist further.
£1000.00 To be held in the Deposit Protection Service.
£250.00 ( Including VAT ) to be paid by the tenant. This fee is non refundable in the event the tenant is not approved for the property or the tenant decides not to take the tenancy.
The property is available on an initial Assured Shorthold Tenancy Agreement for 6/12 months.
Sorry no DSS, no Smokers. Dogs considered with bond.


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StudyCorgi Religion
The Relationship between Religion and Politics
Topic: Relationship Words: 2254 Pages: 8 Dec 15th, 2021
Religion and politics are regarded as very unlikely bedfellows in the contemporary world. This is contrary to previous civilizations where religion took a center stage in the day-to-day running of politics. This paper will look at the various stages of the relationship between religion and politics through various ages of civilization with emphasis on the factors that led religion and politics to take different roads, fight against each other and eventually learn to co-exist. The paper will look at how various civilizations have regarded religion and the extent to which religion has been allowed to influence the direction of politics. An observation is made that religion and politics have each found their own niche and decided to co-exist. From an individual's perspective to a national perspective it is observable that when religion and politics became a basis of consideration at any one time, there emerges conflicts, discrepancies and disagreements. Therefore, in nations where politics is still strongly influenced by religion, there is a subtle understanding that there is a deliberate effort to overlook the conflicts.
Politics relates to governance and refers to the processes by which governance is achieved, how leaders are chosen and how policies are postulated. Politics touches on the realization by a man that living within a society was better than living with each person for themselves. However, doing things together meant that there had to be some guiding protocol and that there had to be some figure and or institution to ensure constant maintenance of order. Religion on the other hand refers to the spiritual beliefs of individuals (Bruce, 2003). One observable similarity between the two is that they constitute important aspects of persons' or societies' existent. Politics was borne out of the need to establish a system of governance that would address all the plights and welfare of individuals within the society. Through the realization that not everybody could be a leader at any one time and that resources were limited, it became imperative to come up with a system to at least ensure those leadership procedures and division of resources were done in roughly a fair manner. Religion on the other hand was borne out of the need by man to understand and explain his surroundings. In a bid to understand the world man assumed that the unknown and unexplained phenomena around him must have been due to some supreme force. The man came to revere these forces and even assumed that the forces controlled his life and therefore it was man's responsibility to recognize these forces in everything he did. All the aspects concerning these forces were summed up in a religion which was made up of the name given to the forces and the followers, the ways in which the forces were worshipped and the will of the forces towards man's existence. Since there were so many things that man was unable to explain perhaps due to lack of understanding, the forces were believed to control all happenings in the world. As the man began to appreciate science and accept the findings and reproducibility of scientific facts, religion also began to lose ground. Politics had found a new friend in the form of science as leaders began to appreciate the political philosophies postulated by scholars because they were empirical in nature and therefore easy to understand.
This study is supported by the realization that religion used to have a very strong influence on political issues and then suddenly at the advent of science and democracy, religion began to lose its basis in politics. However, science and democracy could not completely replace religion because religion constitutes an important aspect of a persons' life. Science overtook religion in the circles of politics due to the realization that nations could not be governed just following doctrines blindly. Furthermore, religion could not promise the kind of assurance and democracy that science provided. In the contemporary world, most western nations recognize religion only by ensuring that there is freedom of religion. From this background, an analysis of religion and politics can be conducted to establish the specific factors that led to the current situation.
Religion and politics have and will continue to constitute important aspects in persons' lives. There is a spiritual aspect to every individual and it is for this reason that each and every society conforms to some form of belief. Throughout the ages, there has been a general realization that every community has a spiritual perspective to it. Apart from the major religions; Christianity, Islam, Hindu and Jewish, there are still some forms of smaller religions. Therefore it is important to establish the kind of relationship that politics and religion have and the subsequent impact at the community and the national level.
As outlined by Roskin (2010), the important aspects that define nations include geography, politics and culture. Geography is just a physical aspect that defines aspects such as borders. Therefore, the two most important aspects of nations are politics and culture. Religion is embedded within the culture and therefore has direct contact with politics. According to Arronoff (1984), the relationship between politics and religion in contemporary society can be analyzed by looking at the concept of dualism. Apparently, this is the concept that finally ensured that politics and religion could co-exist peacefully with each of them running parallel to one another. The concept of dualism outlines that politics and religion should be viewed as independent entities. Furthermore, politics and religion should not have mutual influence. A brief flashback at history reveals that the Roman Catholic Church was once very influential in the running of politics in the Roman Empire. During this period the head of the Roman Church, the Pope served both as a spiritual and political leader. However, with civilization and the fall of the Roman Empire, the Pope lost most if not all of the political influence. The Anglican Church which is still considered the official church of England had the role of fulfilling spiritual needs but again stayed away from active politics. Almost all religions discussed by Arronoff show that some form of duality exists between politics and religion. Perhaps, the reason for such duality could be due to the realization that politics and religion were needs of all human beings and that one could not be used to run or determine the other. These realizations point to the fact that at some point it became important that religion and politics to establish a relationship that would ensure that both co-existed with one another. One important aspect of politics is the formulation of laws to govern the existence of individuals within a society and to outline penalties for individuals who violate the laws. Most laws are surprisingly made of doctrines that are obtained from religion. However, with democracy, most of these laws are being continuously reviewed in a bid to make them more fitting within the societal context. For instance, an aspect such as abortion which is strongly opposed by the major religions is acceptable by most western nations under various circumstances. The absoluteness of religion makes it rather impractical in the contemporary world where democracy is synonymous with civilization.
The United States perhaps offers a perfect example considering that it was founded on strong religious principles. The puritan Christians who played a role in shaping the American society during the early years ensured that the nation recognized the role played by religion. Laws were and policies were made with special consideration on whether they were in accordance with Puritan doctrines. The current American society shows a complete contrast where even teaching the Bible in schools is an offense. Considered as the greatest democracy in the world, it is understandable why religion lost its place in American politics. In religion laws and doctrines are passed, and followers are expected to adhere without asking any questions. However, as the American society evolved and responded to civilization and scientific advancements going on around the world, it became important to put various aspects into consideration instead of passing laws on the basis of faith. All religions profess the faith which implies that followers are supposed to believe without asking questions. Even in contentious issues such as the issue of gay marriages, people would rather base their arguments on grounds of being conventional and aspects such as the implications and consequences rather than on religion. (Brown-Calhoun & Wald, 2007).
Lijpart (1999), in analyzing the patterns of democracy around the world and the effects of these patterns, outlines that there is very little consideration of the roles played by religion in democracy. In fact, Lijpart outlines that democracy is the primary reason for the fall put between religion and politics. Just as explained by Brown-Calhoun & Wald in studying the American society, it is the democracy being sought after by the American people that make the American society less and less determined to involve religion in politics. The case study outlined by Lijpart indicates that fewer countries in Europe and America even refer to religion when addressing issues related to the formulation of policies. Lijpart points out that with globalization, communities have been compelled to co-exist with each other regardless of aspects such as cultural disparities. Therefore, the situation becomes more complicated when seeking to choose the religion from which to base politics. Democracy becomes an easier option since it is at least based on the consideration of most perspectives and eventually the majority of the population is contented regardless of whether they have different religious beliefs. In nations especially in the Middle East where religion still plays an important role in politics, there is the realization that the kind of leadership presented is somewhat dictatorial; dictatorial by the virtue that religion offers no room for negotiations. Since religion still forms an important aspect of human lives there had to be some form of relationship between religion and politics. According to Moyser (1991), dualism offers the best options as religion was relegated to just the personal level and politics in terms of democracy took control. Looking at the situation around the world currently, there is the realization that very few would even consider considering religion in politics. During the times when religion was strongly involved in politics, it was majorly at the level of ensuring that moral standards were upheld. Nations that still base their politics according to religion still use the same concept. A policy will be passed on the basis of whether it agrees with the moral guidelines of a particular religion. However, politics has become much more complex than just morals as evidenced by various case studies outlined by Lijpart (1999).
The general realization is that the current political environment has very little room any for religion. Politics is currently being guided by democracy and religion is rigid and water-tight. Instead of religion having a strong influence on politics, it is surprising that it is politics that is influencing the direction of religion. The current call from various quarters within the Anglican Church for the Church to allow gay marriages is just but one example. Traditional religious doctrines are based on clearly outlined laws either passed down from one generation to another or in religious books. However, as the world is changing and unique challenges are presenting themselves there is a general realization that sooner or later religion will also begin to embrace democracy. One concept that has stood out in analyzing the relationship between religion and democracy is the concept of dualism. Dualism allows for religion and politics to co-exist without interfering with each other. Dualism existed even in ancient civilizations, but the only difference was the side that it leaned on most. Initially, dualism leaned on religion and it was therefore upon religion to determine the kind of relationship it would have with politics. However, in the contemporary world dualism leans mostly on politics and therefore it is upon politics to determine the nature of the relationship. It is for this reason that politicians will determine whether a nation should allow for freedom of worship or not. There is even a distant feeling that religion might embrace politics when the decision by some religious groups is a consideration.
As outlined in the abstract in contemporary society religion and politics have not been very good bedfellows. Politics is a game of numbers and the decisions made when democracy is at play should be the will of the majority. However, religion does not consider numbers but rather concentrates on doctrines written in religious books or passed down from one generation to another. As the world faces newer challenges and scientific discoveries and theories disapprove of religious beliefs, religion is not just losing favor with politics but also with the masses. The man believed in religion as a way of explaining the things happening around him. Since there were so many things that man was unable to explain perhaps due to lack of understanding, the Supreme Being was believed to control all happenings in the world. As the man began to appreciate science and accept the findings and reproducibility of scientific facts, religion began to lose favor. Politics had found new friends in the form of science and politics as leaders began to appreciate the political philosophies postulated by scholars because they were empirical in nature and therefore easy to understand. Therefore, the major cause of the reduced participation of religion in political affairs is the lack of democratic opportunities within various religions.
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Q: How Do I Pull More Metadata components in Eclipse? I've installed eclipse and the Force.com IDE Plugin. When I created a new project and added my credentials and security token, it brings me to the next page of where I choose initial projects components. However, when I look at mine, it is just blank screen, so I could not pull the workflow components which is what I need.
Does any have any idea on why this is showing up as blank to me and what I need to do to add workflow components once I have created the project?

A: After you have added a Force.com Nature you can modify your package.xml contents. My typical package would include: Apex Classes, Apex Triggers, Custom Labels, VisualForce Components, VisualForce Pages, and Static Resources. Below I have also added Flows.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>*</members>
        <name>ApexClass</name>
    </types>
    <types>
        <members>*</members>
        <name>ApexComponent</name>
    </types>
    <types>
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        <name>ApexPage</name>
    </types>
    <types>
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    <types>
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        <name>CustomLabel</name>
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    <types>
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        <name>StaticResource</name>
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    <types>
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        <name>Flow</name>
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    <version>34.0</version>
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Alternatively you can right click on your top level folder and click on Add/Remove Metadata Components. Make sure Flows is checked.

A: Go to Force.com perspective -> Right click on your Project -> Force.com->Add/Remove Metadata Components -> Add/Remove.

A: Ah yes ..

Does any have any idea on why this is showing up as blank to me and what I need to do to add workflow components once I have created the project?

I have noticed this myself and discovered that for large orgs, it can take some time (minutes) for the Eclipse IDE to render the dialog with available components.  I've stared at the blank dialog and thought I had messed up my setup. Patience was the key.

A: If you are talking about the initial project contents dialog box, which defaults to having most Apex items selected (Apex Classes, Triggers, VF Pages, etc.) and allows you to select different components or "None", the issue can be resolved by re-sizing the dialog box.
Selecting the right side of the window and dragging it slightly outward works for me. Or try expanding the dialog box to be full-screen then back.

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Exynos è una serie di system-on-a-chip (SoC) con architettura ARM sviluppati e prodotti da Samsung.

Samsung ha una lunga storia di progettazione e produzione di SoC che ha prodotto per i suoi stessi dispositivi tanto quanto per altri, ad esempio per Apple. Il primo SoC di Samsung, il S3C44B0, era costruito usando una CPU ARM7 che funzionava con una frequenza di clock di 66 MHz. In seguito furono prodotti diversi SoC, S3C2xxx, che contenevano una CPU ARM9.

Storia

Nel 2010 Samsung ha commercializzato lo S5PC110 (chiamato successivamente Exynos 3110 ed ora Exynos 3 Single), conosciuto anche come Hummingbird, nel suo smartphone Galaxy S che possiede una CPU sotto licenza ARM Cortex-A8 con una GPU PowerVR SGX540.

Nel 2011 Samsung annuncia il SoC Exynos 4210 nei suoi telefoni mobili Galaxy S II.

Il 29 settembre 2011 Samsung introduce Exynos 4212 (come successore del 4210) con una frequenza di clock più alta e "una performance 3D del 50 per cento più alta rispetto alla precedente generazione di processori". Costruito con un processo 32 nm High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) a basso consumo, promette un "30 per cento di minor consumo rispetto alla precedente generazione".

Il 30 novembre 2011 Samsung rilascia informazioni sul loro prossimo System on Chip con un dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU, chiamato Exynos 5250 (poi rinominato in Exynos 5 Dual). Questo SoC avrà una interfaccia verso la memoria con 12.8 GB/sec di banda ed avrà il supporto per USB3 e SATA3, decodificherà video a 1080p60 e sarà in grado di mostrare contemporaneamente un video sul display del dispositivo mobile con risoluzione WQXGA (2560x1600) e verso l'uscita HDMI di 1080p.

Il 26 aprile 2012 Samsung rilascia l'Exynos 4 Quad, presente nei successivi dispositivi di fascia alta come il Galaxy S III. Samsung dichiara che il SoC Exynos 4 Quad utilizza 20% in meno di energia rispetto al SoC presente nel Samsung Galaxy S II. È stato anche cambiato il nome di diversi SoC: Exynos 3110 in Exynos 3 Single, Exynos 4210 e 4212 in Exynos 4 Dual 45 nm e Exynos 4 Dual 32 nm e Exynos 5250 in Exynos 5 Dual.3

Prima del lancio

Elenco SoC Exynos
Samsung, anche se combina comunque gli elementi essenziali di un SoC, ha sempre comunque fatto uso delle architetture progettate interamente da ARM per realizzare diversi elementi principali del SoC Exynos, quali:
 Core GPU ARM Mali
 Core CPU ARM Cortex
Su quest'ultimi, a partire dal 2016, solo per i Core dedicate alle alte prestazioni (quindi rimangono ancora esclusi i Core dedicati al basso carico), ha progettato in proprio i Core denominati Moongose, anche se, visti i recenti eventi, sembra stia rivalutando questo sviluppo..

Piattaforme simili
 A-Serie di Allwinner
 Apple Silicon di Apple
 Atom di Intel
 i.MX di Freescale
 Kirin di Huawei (HiSilicon)
 MT di MediaTek
 NovaThor di ST-Ericsson
 OMAP di Texas Instruments
 RK di Rockchip
 Snapdragon di Qualcomm
 Tegra di Nvidia

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Microprocessori
Architettura ARM
Prodotti Samsung

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President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) delivers remarks at the signing of the Drug Industry Act of 1962. Looking on (L-R): unidentified stenographer (seated); Senator Thomas J. Dodd (Connecticut); Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); Commissioner of the FDA, George P. Larrick; Senator Philip A. Hart (Michigan); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Senator Estes Kefauver (Tennessee); Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Ivan A. Nestingen (in back); Senator Olin D. Johnston (South Carolina); Representative Leo W. O'Brien (New York); Representative Kenneth A. Roberts (Alabama). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
AR6984-E. President John F. Kennedy Signs Executive Order, "Task Force on Employee-Management Relations in the Federal Service"
President John F. Kennedy signs Executive Order for the Task Force on Employee-Management Relations in the Federal Service. Standing, L-R: counsel to the New York City Department of Labor, Ida Klaus; Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr.; Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); Senator Olin D. Johnston (South Carolina); unidentified; Postmaster General, J. Edward Day; unidentified man in back; Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; unidentified; Director of the Department of Legislation for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Andrew J. Biemiller (in back); President of the National Alliance of Postal Employees, Ashby Smith; Assistant to the Secretary of Labor, Daniel Moynihan; two unidentified men. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
AR6984-D. President John F. Kennedy Signs Executive Order, "Task Force on Employee-Management Relations in the Federal Service"
President John F. Kennedy signs Executive Order for the Task Force on Employee-Management Relations in the Federal Service. Standing, L-R: unidentified; counsel to the New York City Department of Labor, Ida Klaus; Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr.; Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); Senator Olin D. Johnston (South Carolina); unidentified; Postmaster General, J. Edward Day; unidentified; Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; unidentified; Director of the Department of Legislation for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Andrew J. Biemiller (in back); President of the National Alliance of Postal Employees, Ashby Smith; Assistant to the Secretary of Labor, Daniel Moynihan; two unidentified men. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
AR6984-C. President John F. Kennedy Signs Executive Order, "Task Force on Employee-Management Relations in the Federal Service"
President John F. Kennedy signs Executive Order for the Task Force on Employee-Management Relations in the Federal Service. Standing, L-R: six unidentified men; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell (in back, in front of window); counsel to the New York City Department of Labor, Ida Klaus; unidentified man in back; Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr.; Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); Senator Olin D. Johnston (South Carolina); unidentified; Postmaster General, J. Edward Day; two unidentified men in back; Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
AR6984-B. President John F. Kennedy Signs Executive Order, "Task Force on Employee-Management Relations in the Federal Service"
President John F. Kennedy signs Executive Order for the Task Force on Employee-Management Relations in the Federal Service. Standing, L-R: two unidentified men; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell (in back); counsel to the New York City Department of Labor, Ida Klaus; Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr.; Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); Senator Olin D. Johnston (South Carolina); unidentified; Postmaster General, J. Edward Day; unidentified; Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; unidentified; Director of the Department of Legislation for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Andrew J. Biemiller (in back). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
AR6984-A. President John F. Kennedy Signs Executive Order, "Task Force on Employee-Management Relations in the Federal Service"
President John F. Kennedy signs Executive Order for the Task Force on Employee-Management Relations in the Federal Service. Standing, L-R: counsel to the New York City Department of Labor, Ida Klaus; Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr.; Senator Frank Carlson (Kansas); Senator Olin D. Johnston (South Carolina); unidentified; Postmaster General, J. Edward Day; unidentified; Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; unidentified; Director of the Department of Legislation for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Andrew J. Biemiller (in back); President of the National Alliance of Postal Employees, Ashby Smith; Assistant to the Secretary of Labor, Daniel Moynihan; two unidentified men. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
KN-C18772. President John F. Kennedy Signs Interstate Anti-Crime Bills
President John F. Kennedy signs S. 1656, S. 1657, and S. 1653 (bills to combat organized crime and racketeering) in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. Looking on (L-R): Unidentified; Senator John L. McClellan of Arkansas; Deputy Attorney General, Byron White; Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois; Senator Olin Johnston of South Carolina; Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina; Senator Kenneth Keating of New York; Chief of the Organized Crime Section in the Department of Justice, Edwyn Silberling (partially hidden); Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Chief of the Legislation and Special Projects Section of the Criminal Division in the Department of Justice, Harold D. Koffsky; Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jerry Adlerman; Deputy Chief of the Legislation and Special Projects Section of the Criminal Division, Edward T. Joyce; Assistant Deputy Attorney General, William A. Geoghegan.
President John F. Kennedy signs S. 1656, S. 1657, and S. 1653 (bills to combat organized crime and racketeering) in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. Looking on (L-R): Deputy Attorney General Byron White (partially out of frame); Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois; Senator Olin Johnston of South Carolina; Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina; Senator Kenneth Keating of New York; Chief of the Organized Crime Section in the Department of Justice, Edwyn Silberling; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
President John F. Kennedy signs S. 1656, S. 1657, and S. 1653 (bills to combat organized crime and racketeering) in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. Looking on (L-R): Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois; Senator Olin Johnston of South Carolina; Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina; Senator Kenneth Keating of New York; Chief of the Organized Crime Section in the Department of Justice, Edwyn Silberling; Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J. Edgar Hoover (mostly hidden); Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
AR6781-F. President John F. Kennedy Signs Interstate Anti-Crime Bills
President John F. Kennedy signs S. 1656, S. 1657, and S. 1653 (bills to combat organized crime and racketeering) in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. Looking on (L-R): Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana; unidentified; Senator John L. McClellan of Arkansas; Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois; Senator Olin Johnston of South Carolina; Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina; Senator Kenneth Keating of New York; Chief of the Organized Crime Section in the Department of Justice, Edwyn Silberling (in back); Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J. Edgar Hoover; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Chief of the Legislation and Special Projects Section of the Criminal Division in the Department of Justice, Harold D. Koffsky; Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jerry Adlerman; Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, Jack Miller (in back); Assistant Deputy Attorney General, William A. Geoghegan; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.
AR6781-E. President John F. Kennedy Signs Interstate Anti-Crime Bills
AR6781-C. President John F. Kennedy Signs Interstate Anti-Crime Bills
President John F. Kennedy signs S. 1656, S. 1657, and S. 1653 (bills to combat organized crime and racketeering) in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. Looking on (L-R): Senator John L. McClellan of Arkansas; Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois; Senator Olin Johnston of South Carolina; Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina; Senator Kenneth Keating of New York; Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J. Edgar Hoover; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Chief of the Legislation and Special Projects Section of the Criminal Division in the Department of Justice, Harold D. Koffsky; Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jerry Adlerman; Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, Jack Miller; Assistant Deputy Attorney General, William A. Geoghegan.
AR6781-A. President John F. Kennedy Signs Interstate Anti-Crime Bills
President John F. Kennedy signs S. 1656, S. 1657, and S. 1653 (bills to combat organized crime and racketeering) in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. Looking on (L-R): Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois; Senator Olin Johnston of South Carolina; Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina; Chief of the Organized Crime Section in the Department of Justice, Edwyn Silberling (partially hidden); Senator Kenneth Keating of New York; Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J. Edgar Hoover; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Chief of the Legislation and Special Projects Section of the Criminal Division in the Department of Justice, Harold D. Koffsky; Deputy Chief of the Legislation and Special Projects Section of the Criminal Division, Edward T. Joyce; Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jerry Adlerman; Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, Jack Miller; Assistant Deputy Attorney General, William A. Geoghegan; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.
AR6734-E. President John F. Kennedy Signs S. 1643, Agricultural Act of 1961
President John F. Kennedy signs S. 1643, the Agricultural Act of 1961. The bill was legislated to improve farm income, expand the market for agricultural products, and reduce stocks of grains and wheat. Standing behind President Kennedy are (L-R): President of the National Farmers' Union, James G. Patton; Representative Carl Albert of Oklahoma; Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi; Senator Spessard L. Holland of Florida; Senator Olin Johnston of South Carolina; Representative Harold D. Cooley of North Carolina; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota; Representative W.R. Poage of Texas; Senator Allen Ellender of Louisiana (white suit); Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; President of National Farmers Organization Oren Staley; Senator George Aiken of Vermont; Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn; Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana (in background); and President of the National Association of Wheat Growers Carl Bruns. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
AR6734-D. President John F. Kennedy Signs S. 1643, Agricultural Act of 1961
President John F. Kennedy signs S. 1643, the Agricultural Act of 1961. The bill was legislated to improve farm income, expand the market for agricultural products, and reduce stocks of grains and wheat. Standing behind President Kennedy are (L-R): House Majority Leader John W. McCormack of Massachusetts; President of the National Farmers' Union, James G. Patton; Representative Carl Albert of Oklahoma; Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi; Senator Spessard L. Holland of Florida; Senator Olin Johnston of South Carolina; Representative Harold D. Cooley of North Carolina; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota; Representative W.R. Poage of Texas (partially hidden); Senator Allen Ellender of Louisiana (white suit); Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; President of National Farmers Organization Oren Staley; Senator George Aiken of Vermont; Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn; Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana (in background); and President of the National Association of Wheat Growers Carl Bruns. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
AR6734-C. President John F. Kennedy Signs S. 1643, Agricultural Act of 1961
AR6734-B. President John F. Kennedy Signs S. 1643, Agricultural Act of 1961
President John F. Kennedy speaks during the signing ceremony for S. 1643, the Agricultural Act of 1961. The bill was legislated to improve farm income, expand the market for agricultural products, and reduce stocks of grains and wheat. Standing behind President Kennedy are (L-R): Senator Olin Johnston of South Carolina; Representative Harold D. Cooley of North Carolina; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota; Representative W.R. Poage of Texas (mostly hidden); Senator Allen Ellender of Louisiana (white suit); Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; President of National Farmers Organization, Oren Staley; Senator George Aiken of Vermont; Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn; and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana (partially out of frame). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
AR6734-A. President John F. Kennedy Signs S. 1643, Agricultural Act of 1961
President John F. Kennedy signs S. 1643, the Agricultural Act of 1961. The bill was legislated to improve farm income, expand the market for agricultural products, and reduce stocks of grains and wheat. Standing behind President Kennedy are (L-R): Senator Olin Johnston of South Carolina; Representative Harold D. Cooley of North Carolina; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota; Representative W.R. Poage of Texas; Senator Allen Ellender of Louisiana (white suit); Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; President of National Farmers Organization Oren Staley; Senator George Aiken of Vermont; Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn; Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana; and President of the National Association of Wheat Growers Carl Bruns. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
AR6596-C. President John F. Kennedy Signs Circuit and District Judges Appointment Act
President John F. Kennedy signs Public Law 87-36, Circuit & District Judges Appointment Act. Looking on, L-R: Congressman Emanuel Celler (New York); Senator James O. Eastland (Mississippi); Senator Olin Johnston (South Carolina); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn (Texas); unidentified; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; unidentified; Deputy Attorney General, Byron White. Also included in the President's schedule: Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Joseph F. Dolan; William Foley; Joseph Davis. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
AR6596-B. President John F. Kennedy Signs Circuit and District Judges Appointment Act
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I'm still getting used to the shifted growing season out here in Northern California, but I think that these yellow peaches are still pretty darn early! Even so, the sample I tried at the farmers market this weekend was tart-sweet, very juicy, and definitely good enough to convince me to buy a few. What do you think I should do with them?
I'm thinking these peaches are maybe a little too sour to eat on their own or with my usual morning bowl of yogurt. But they'd do fantastically in a dessert, especially a hot one that caramelizes the sugars in the fruit and draws out more of their sweetness.
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Nick Sikkuark (born 1943) is an Inuit art sculpture carver from Kugaaruk (formerly Pelly Bay), Nunavut, Canada. His works are mainly in whale bone, caribou antler, and walrus ivory, and are characterized by "droll, macabre wit." Born in Garry Lake, Nunavut (then part of the Keewatin), Sikkuark was orphaned at a young age. He was then taken in by the Oblate Fathers. As a young man he studied for the clergy in Winnipeg and Ottawa before settling in Kugaaruk, Nunavut, then called Pelly Bay. It was there that he began to work as an artist full-time.
There are a few Inuit artists in Kugaaruk, including the world renowned Emily Illuitok, who works mostly in walrus ivory and bone and Nick Sikkuark who works are mainly in whale bone, caribou antler, and walrus ivory.


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On October 30 & 31, twelve faith and educational leaders from NYC joined 80 similar leaders from Detroit, Chicago, Nashville, Ohio, Ireland, Boston, North Carolina, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania to take part in the Harvard Graduate School of Education's first annual Leadership Institute for Faith and Education Convening. The Leadership for Faith & Education (L.I.F.E., life.gse.harvard.edu) seeks to identify faith-driven efforts in the area of education and nurture them by providing tools that will improve educational outcomes. L.I.F.E. is led by Dr. Irvin Scott whose unique background as the son of a pastor, a former public school teacher and Deputy School Superintendent, and former Deputy Director of Education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a unique blend of faith, education, philanthropy, and scholarship. Dr. Scott is a committed educator who seeks ways to improve educational outcomes.
The Leadership Institute for Faith & Education was filled with great dialogue, data, and insight into the intersection of faith & education. Attendees explored some promising practices and data on educational outcomes in the areas of family engagement, collective impact, and advocacy. New York had a fantastic group of leaders, representing several sectors & boroughs of the city, who brought helpful insights to the convening. Dr. Mark Gonzalez of Operation Exodus (www.operationexodus.org) gave a remarkable presentation on one of the panels.
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Idaho's data is moving off the mainframe
By: Sharon Fisher	March 28, 2018	Comments Off on Idaho's data is moving off the mainframe
The state's mainframe computer is housed in the Joe R. Williams office building, shown here. Photo by Anne Wallace Allen.
Want a slightly used mainframe? Cheap? In a few years, Idaho might have one for you.
The payroll system, used by state agencies, was installed on the mainframe in 1987 and the accounting installed in 1988, with the mainframe itself installed around 1971. Consequently, it made sense for the office to provide mainframe computing services to other state agencies too, said Tamara Shipman, deputy state controller and administrator of the computer service center. "Agencies that interfaced into the payroll and accounting system had to get their data here somehow," she said. "All the state agencies had to have some sort of presence on the mainframe."
Joshua Whitworth. Photo by Sharon Fisher.
But as agencies such as the Department of Health and Welfare (see box), Department of Labor (see box) and Department of Transportation (see box) have migrated off the mainframe to other solutions, the Controller's office is taking the same steps, with the goal to migrate off the mainframe in six years, said Joshua Whitworth, chief deputy state controller. Alternatives include an on-premise solution, a cloud-based solution, or a combination or hybrid solution, he said.
The department issued a request for information in 2017 and received six responses, Whitworth said. The next step will be to issue a Request for Proposal; not all RFI respondents may submit proposals, he noted. The project, budgeted to cost $102 million, has been approved by lawmakers.
Part of the incentive for moving off the mainframe is the "death spiral," Whitworth said. As mainframe costs rise and the cost of alternatives drops, more groups migrate, but that doesn't lessen costs – just spreads them among fewer groups, meaning costs rise faster and causing groups to find alternatives even more quickly.
The issue isn't the mainframe hardware itself, which has been upgraded regularly. Today's mainframe looks like a black refrigerator. It's located in a computer room with a white-tiled raised floor; the Controller's office manages the mainframe data center and tightly monitors security, including not revealing the make and model of the hardware or allowing photos of its location.
The problem is the software, which also dates to the 1980s. While it has been modernized, such as gaining a web-based front end that provides browser access, the guts of the programs remain the same. Not only do they use outdated programming techniques, which makes it hard to change the software, but fewer employees know those computer languages, as many are retiring. Some Controller's staff, including Shipman, have been there more than 30 years, she said.
Tamara Shipman. Photo by Sharon Fisher.
Some states modernized in the late 1990s when it was believed that older programs would stop running in 2000 because they weren't set up to deal with years past then, Whitworth said. Many of those states are now looking to modernize again, he added.
Idaho isn't alone. According to The 2017 State CIO Survey, published in October, from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), 28 percent of respondents said they had a strategy in place to migrate legacy applications to the cloud, and 55 percent said a cloud migration strategy was in development. That said, mainframes were still used in 225 state and local governments as of mid-2017, according to mainframe software vendor Compuware.
"Provision of mainframe computing services to state agency customers has long been a staple of the state CIO function, and it is still a service provided by a large majority of state CIO organizations," the NASCIO report noted. "Operating under a charge-back model to agency customers, mainframe services have historically been a major revenue source for state CIOs. However, as state CIO organizations migrate towards a service broker model and the demand for mainframe cycles decline, all CIO services are being re-assessed."
In particular, states are looking at off-premise "mainframe as a service" solutions within the next two to three years, with 10 percent of respondents saying migration was already complete, 14 percent saying it was planned, 33 percent saying they were considering it, and 12 percent saying they were unsure.
Unemployment system on the job
The Department of Labor's migration of its unemployment system from the mainframe was so successful that it's won awards and is in the process of being used by two other states, Vermont and North Dakota, said Mark Mayfield, director of the Internet Unemployment System (IUS) consortium.
Mark Mayfield
The unemployment insurance part, which Idaho employers pay into, first came online in the late 1970s. The benefit side, which pays out to eligible recipients, started in the early 1980s, Mayfield said. But the federal government was concerned about the aging of the state systems and the lack of people to work on them, which made it complicated to implement changes from the federal and state government. "The mainframe was getting to the point where it was very costly, difficult, and risky to make those changes," he said.
In 2008, the department was approached by the federal government, along with three other states – Wyoming, North Dakota, and Arizona – to form a consortium. "We were the lead state," Mayfield said. "We were charged with a two-year project in which we would come together and write business requirements and describe what a tax-and-benefit system would look like, then figure out how could we execute those requirements and build that system." That ran from 2009 to 2011.
At that point, the consortium wasn't sure of its next step, Mayfield said. At the same time, the State Controller's office was starting to talk about moving away from the mainframe. Because the consortium seemed a year or more away from starting, Idaho decided to build its own. The project started in 2012, and in September 2014, the mainframe was shut down. The software is written in the more modern computer language C# and runs on a modern database instead of a mainframe-specific one, on premises. "When you look at a vendor, the minimum is in the neighborhood of $30 to $60 million," he said. "Ours was $10 million. We finished the project about four months and $3 million under budget."
Mayfield attributed the project's success to having the business staff and the technology staff work together, as well as the work the team had already done as part of the consortium. "We really felt like, if we were going to do this, we were all in it together," he said, adding that the project won an award from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers. "When we put up a Powerpoint slide saying we finished ahead of time and under budget, we got a big round of applause."
That brought Idaho a lot of attention. "We had a lot of states approach us asking, 'How did you do it? Can you help us?,'" Mayfield said. Idaho formed another consortium, this time with Iowa and Vermont, but six months later, Iowa dropped the project because it didn't have the internal resources to dedicate and needed a vendor to do it for them. "Our approach was, you need to meet us halfway, not just rely on us to walk you through it," he said. Vermont is nearing user acceptance testing, while North Dakota rejoined late last fall after giving up on its vendor after ten years, he said.
And the other original members of the consortium? "Wyoming's taking a system from another state, and they've budgeted $40 million," Mayfield said. "Arizona exited their consortium, and they're looking. There's the potential they could rejoin us."
Child support system modernization
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare is working with Deloitte Consulting to migrate its child support system from the mainframe.
Installation of the Oracle software. Photo courtesy of the Department of Health and Welfare.
In 2004, the Division of Welfare was struggling with developing effective eligibility programs, said Greg Kunz, deputy administrator in the division of welfare. "We were at a crisis point, because we could not modernize the mainframe," he said. "It was too fragile." The division started a three-year project to upgrade the system, taking it off the mainframe in 2009. "When it was on the mainframe, we had 85 percent of our applications processed within 30 days," he said. "When the project was done, we were approving 70 percent in the first day."
That put Idaho in a good position when the Affordable Care Act came along in 2011, because Idaho already had a modern eligibility system, Kunz said. Gradually, the department started migrating some of its other systems off the mainframe.
Greg Kunz
Now, the division is working on migrating the child support system, which accounts for a third of the entire division's operations, Kunz said. It worked with Deloitte Consulting, and innoWake, a company Deloitte bought in May, to migrate the old software to more modern technology, said Marlin Metzger, principal at Deloitte's lead application modernization offering, in Austin, Texas.
Now that the software has been migrated, the next phase starts: Modernization, expected to last 16 to 17 months, Kunz said. "Once you get into an open architecture with an Oracle database, we can now move in directions that are being defined an hour ago, and refined in a week or a month," he said. "It's the major reason we did the migration in the first place: It allows us to rapidly modernize the system, directly targeting things that help us do a better job of customer service and problem resolution."
Developing its own system from scratch would have started at $60 million, while the way the division did it will cost $24 million, Kunz said. (In comparison, in 2015 the state of Texas halted a similar project after the initial $202 million estimate soared to more than $300 million.) "We just happened to have a highly successful project, on budget and on schedule, that in any other way would have been a difficult lift," he said. Whether it will be cheaper than continuing to run the software on the mainframe isn't the issue, he said. "We never said we're going to save money," he said. "What automation does is allow those business processes to be implemented more effectively."
ITD mainframe to hit the road in 2019
The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is finalizing its plan to move its services off the mainframe, said Chris Victory, chief information officer, who is responsible for all ITD technology.
An IBM z13s mainframe, the kind the Idaho Transportation Department has in Florida. Stock photo.
The department actually migrated its operations to a mainframe in Florida three years ago, Victory said. While the mainframe was originally used for highway operations applications as well, those have migrated off the mainframe to more modern storage since then, he said. Now, the mainframe is used primarily for Department of Motor Vehicles operations such as driver's license records, though the production of the driver's licenses themselves is outsourced to Gemalto, which also provides driver's licenses to several other states, he said. (Idaho is also piloting a project with Gemalto to provide electronic driver's licenses.)
Moving to a different computer system will also give the department the opportunity to examine its operations, Victory said. "It's not just a change in technology, but how we operate as a business," he said. As part of the process, some ITD services will be moved off the mainframe in the next few months, around May, with the final services moved off by the middle of 2019, he said.
While the department hopes to see cost savings, it hasn't quantified them, Victory said. In any event, savings will likely be deployed into support of the new systems, he said.
A number of other states, including Louisiana, New Mexico, and Rhode Island, have or are in the process of migrating DMV services from mainframes.
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Guest post: "Why Furry" by Frank LeRenard
July 20, 2014 June 23, 2014 ~ furrywritersguild
Why Furry
by Frank LeRenard
It's one of those extremely difficult, often tiresome, and seemingly ubiquitous questions in furry fiction: why use anthropomorphic animals and not just humans? And I see all manners of mental acrobatics going on amongst all of us in trying to answer it. We've come up with some decent excuses along the way: simple stylistic choice, a means to bring up complicated issues like racism without offending, etc. But it's a tough question to answer effectively, because in the end the reason may simply be that we think anthro animals are cool.
But there's a sort of hidden tradition embedded in furry lit, something a bit more penetrating and philosophical than what usually comes to mind.
So, we homo sapiens spend an awful lot of time trying to understand ourselves. All of the so-called great literature of our day seems to be focused on that nebulous concept we call 'the human condition'. I'm sure part of this quest stems from the general idea that humans are super special, something new and interesting in the universe, the most intelligent creatures of Planet Earth and masters of all that surrounds us. So in our sometimes overly simplistic thinking, we try to reconcile that idea with the well-known fact that humans also often act like completely irrational beings, fighting and killing over stuff like jealousy or love or power (so-called 'animal' things), and this confuses us and makes us ponder what truly makes us human.
But really, as time has gone on, a lot of things have become clear. For one, we aren't the center of the universe. The universe, in fact, has no center because it exists as a kind of geometry for which a center is impossible to describe. We're not the center of our own solar system, either; the sun is. And the more we study our neighbors, those other 'lower' species that inhabit this little planet with us, the more we start to realize that we're even pretty closely connected with all of them, too. We share many behaviors with other animals: crows can use tools, elephants display empathy, octopi can figure out how to open jars even if they've never seen one before. Maybe the time has also come for us to admit that we're not the center of the Earth's ecosystem either.
So what do we as a species do in this new realm of apparent purposelessness? It seems a bit of a depressing existential quandary to deal with. But, you see, this isn't the only way to think of it. Because in this realm, what's really happening is that we're finally starting to perceive the 'other'.
One of the most famous photographs ever taken was an incidental one nabbed by Bill Anders in 1968 while he was on the moon, which was later dubbed 'Earthrise'. He admitted that getting the shot wasn't even in the plan at the time; just one of those moments where you turn around and think to yourself, 'Oh, that's cool. I should take a picture of that'. But it resonated deeply in the public. It was the first picture of Earth taken from another world. A first outside look at the place where we all live, a giant blue marble set against a deep black backdrop, a splash of color juxtaposed with the dreary cratered grayness of the moon's surface. Earth in its proper context.
But the topic here is anthro characters in fiction. You see, it's hard to build a complete picture of something if you're living inside it. This is as much true for humanity as it is for the Earth or the Milky Way galaxy. The fact that we are the only species we know how to communicate with on a fundamental level is problematic in that respect, because we can never really gain an outsider's view of our own species. And so we're left with this conundrum, this constant effort to learn more about 'the human condition' by peering at it through human eyes.
But fiction is bigger than that, because it relies on this thing we have called 'imagination'. Maybe we can't see ourselves as we truly are from our current vantage point, but we can always pretend. In our imagination, we can sit back and take the long view, look at the Earth from the moon.
There are other options than anthropomorphized animals, of course. Aliens, magical beings, robots, etc. But at some point, if you get too far out there, the whole picture just starts to look like a barely visible blue dot amongst billions and it loses its impact. You don't want to get so far out that you can't even find the thing you were supposed to be trying to understand. Who knows how aliens might even think? Do they have bifocal vision, hearing organs, stomachs? Do they see better in visible light or infrared? Do they see different wavelengths as colors? Do they communicate through speech, chemical signals, vibrations in the ground, what? And robots can pose a similar problem, assuming we're the ones programming them; they either have this simplistic, binary manner of thinking that ends up generating seemingly bizarre solutions to common problems (see: a modern robot trying to enter a car; there's a video of this somewhere), or else they just end up thinking themselves superior and take over the world.
But I already mentioned that there's a nice midpoint that's readily available: other animals. They're different, but we have common ground. We know they exist, too, and we've taken some time to study them, so you don't have to start completely from scratch. Plus, we all evolved through fairly similar pathways, even think in similar ways about certain things, yet our biologies and brains are distinct. It works out very well for the imagination, as a little spark to step out of the realm of being human, but not so far that your whole audience (who is, until further notice, always going to be human themselves) can't relate to it. Why not exploit this? Because talking animals are kiddie stuff?
Of course, that's the point I'm making. They aren't, or at least they don't have to be. You want to explore 'the human condition' like all great literature is apparently supposed to do, you do it from the outside. And there's this great resource sitting right beside us that we can exploit for that purpose. Use it.
Or else just do it because anthro animals are cool, I guess.
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Bahumat says:
An alternate viewpoint that I'm fond of exploring, that ties into the use of anthropomorphic characters versus humans: Allowing the different biologies open the possibilities of personal ability within a story, and exploring how that would affect society. I often lament how often writers are willing to embrace anthropomorphic characters but unwilling to explore the potential of permitting them atavism.
A few examples:
1. Some mustelids, most notably ferrets, *must* become pregnant on their first estrus, or they will eventually die of estrogen poisoning. What does a society, or a segment of society, look like, when they have live under the reality of the necessity of barely-pubescent girls needing to become pregnant? What does a society shaped by the realities of needing to be a (young!) teen mother look like? What precautions do worried parents take? Arranged marriages? Artificial insemination? Post-conception birth control? What conflicts arise can arise from this?
2. Many animals have evolved to hibernate. This isn't something they can just 'shut off'; even if removed from seasonal conditions, many important biological processes are mediated around hibernation. What does a society built around this need look like? What conflicts erupt from it? What if you have to compete economically in society with other species, and you're under a handicap of having to sleep away a quarter of the year?
3. Diseases. Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) is the feline equivalent of HIV. Cats also have an airborne virus that causes _leukemia_. Bat populations are being decimated by the white-nosed bat fungus. Where are the anthropomorphic novel equivalents to Ebola-potboilers? Scientists racing against time to stop an airborne leukemia-causing virus would keep me riveted to the book no matter if the scientists were humans or cats! Who needs Zombie stories for anthropomorphics when you can write Rabies stories?
4. Senses. Human vision isn't just exceptionally keen; we also have a tremendous amount of neurons mapped to image processing compared to most species. Our entire psyche and hierarchy of perception is built around perceiving and processing sight, first. But think about what society would be like if that changed? If you are a scent-focused species, like dogs, lying about where you've been and who you've been with becomes much harder. Forget Big Brother; he might always be watching, but Alpha Dog is always *sniffing*. Sight is rooted in the present; scent carries the story of not just the now, but the past. What does a detective story get told as when you're a dog or a bear on the case? What scents do you have to bring forward to convince the noses of a judge and jury?
5. Psychology. Human psychology is as much a product of evolution as any other animal, and the product of our own instincts. Address the behavioral and instinctive differences your characters would have. Canines, Dogs in particular, draw comfort from a hierarchal pack structure that would chafe most humans. Where a human finds oppression and resentment in tyranny, a canine would find comfort and security. Cats, obligate carnivores, ambush predators; to be spotted by prey is at best, an empty belly, and at worst a fatal injury. Translated into interaction, being forward and direct verbally would chafe the feline mind, especially with species its instincts might perceive as prey.
6. Scale. My favorite example of this 'Mouseguard'; a comic and writing series that scales up the adventure by scaling down the heroes. Forget dragons; at the scale of a mouse, mundane creatures such as a crab or a fox are terrifying, and the appearance of a moose is an astonishment beyond the titanic.
Authors and writers and readers alike of furry and anthropomorphic fiction: *CELEBRATE* the atavism of your characters. Don't make 'paint job' characters that wouldn't be different as a human. Write characters whose sourced species *matter to the story*. And not just to the story, but to them, themselves! Let the core values of the character reflect their atavism, their sensory priorities, their innate psychology shaped by evolution.
I urge you all, authors, readers: Ask for more from the genre. Make the anthropomorphism of your characters *matter*, not just to the story, but to each individual character.
jakebe says:
I love this comment so hard. SO HARD.
furrywritersguild says:
This comment probably could have been its own post. XD All good things for writers of furry fiction to consider; thanks!
I might just do that with some time to clean this up from a lot of off-the-cuff commentary to a more sculpted train of thought.
chemire says:
I agree 100%. I have always tried to be conscious of things like this and include them in my furry stories. I often write in first person to emphasize a more now-focused mindset for animalistic-minded characters, and try to describe things using the senses the character's species emphasizes – for a wolf for example I'd describe how things smelled and sounded first, THEN maybe how they look, and in less detail. It's hard for non-furry readers to understand or follow sometimes but I think it's the only authentic way to do the thing, honestly. Otherwise you're just writing humans in fursuits.
Cadence says:
Great examples. Mouseguard probably is my favorite example of Scale. I remember Secret of NIMH and American Tail using that quite a bit as well, and The rescuers… now that I think of it; it seems to be kind of a "mouse thing" primarily.
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New Opportunities for Georgia as Transport Routes Change
in Analysis, Business & Economy, Editor's Pick, Newspaper
A train carrying goods from Turkey to China departs from the northwestern province of Kocaeli, Turkey, 2020. Source: AA
The war in Ukraine is a devastating blow to the liberal world order. Whether Russia is defeated, victorious or stalled in a long war of attrition, the balance of power prevalent in the decades following the end of the Cold War will not be the same. A critical element of the changing geopolitical landscape will be the connectivity across the Eurasian landmass.
The Russia route, which for decades served as a major corridor between the EU and China, is facing troubles, as sanctions imposed on Moscow make Beijing fearful of potential negative economic effects on the Chinese economy.
This creates favorable conditions for alternative trade corridors. And since the route via the Arctic goes along Russia's shoreline and is therefore not viable in the long run because of the sanctions, China-EU trade will become mainly concentrated through the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Yet another possibility could be the so-called Middle Corridor, which runs from Turkey to Central Asia and China via the South Caucasus and the Caspian Sea. Geographically, this is the shortest route between the western part of China and the EU, and quite naturally the countries on the road are set to gain most from reverberations in the global networks.
There is also the Turkey factor to consider. The country increased its outreach to Central Asia following Azerbaijan's victory in the 2020 war with Armenia. Azerbaijan's location has served as a launching pad for Ankara. True, its potential is nevertheless constrained, as Russia and China are more powerful both economically and militarily. And then the Iranian factor- Iran which, along with Russia, loathes any non-regional presence in the Caspian region.
What is important here is that the Central Asian states fearing Russia, but also in many cases feeling uncomfortable with China, seek diversification of their foreign and economic ties. They prefer to have as many foreign actors as possible to balance the two big neighbors. This creates a favorable momentum for Turkey's bigger penetration into the region. Active diplomacy (visits, pledges to increase bilateral trade) has been on the rise. The Russian invasion of Ukraine served as yet another impetus. The Central Asian states, Kazakhstan in particular, are also seeking greater Turkish engagement because of changes in connectivity patterns across Eurasia.
The Middle Corridor is now increasingly seen as a plausible alternative to the Russian route. At least this is the sentiment the Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev conveyed to his Turkish colleague during a visit to Ankara in May. The joint statement had one interesting passage on connectivity: "The Parties agreed to enhance cooperation in transport and logistics, commending the growth of cargo transit via the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railroad and the East-West Middle Corridor. Noting fixed complex rates for the transportation of wagons and containers on the Trans-Caspian direction of the Middle Corridor, the Parties emphasized its importance for cargo transit via the new Baku-Tbilisi-Kars network. The Parties stressed the importance of strengthening coordination between the relevant institutions for the effective and sustainable use of the Middle Corridor."
There is also the Chinese element to factor in. For Beijing, trade route alternatives are essential. As was the case with the Silk Roads in ancient and medieval times, trade corridors rarely remain static, adjusting to emerging opportunities and evading potential geopolitical dangers. Nor is China's massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as static as many have portrayed it. It evolves and adjusts to varying circumstances, and though the South Caucasus has not featured high in the BRI documents, the region can easily fall into Chinese interests amid the emerging geopolitical reality.
Critical infrastructure is already there. The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway and the growing and improving web of region-wide roads from the Caspian to the Black Sea serve as a good starting point for China-EU trade relations through the South Caucasus.
Yet geography still constitutes a major obstacle. The Middle Corridor is a multi-modal route consisting of sea and land lines. It makes shipment more complex. There is also a glaring lack of necessary infrastructure in the Caspian Sea to guarantee easier transit from Central Asian ports to Azerbaijan. The infrastructure is also insufficient in the Black Sea, where the need to have a deep sea port has now attained a bigger significance. The Anaklia saga is ongoing, with no end in sight. And even if Tbilisi firmly decides to build the port, it would take years to complete – a critical period for establishing itself as a reliable transit route.
More broadly, China has not shown real interest in the South Caucasus. From the Chinese perspective, the region remains under Russia's geopolitical purview and intrusion from Beijing might not be welcome in Moscow. However, as other cases show, China can also go against Russian interests when and where it is critically important for Beijing. It does so in Central Asia and can do so in the South Caucasus too.
Thus, though a number of indications point to the re-emergence of the Middle Corridor as a potential transit route between Central Asia and Europe, numerous obstacles such as geography and inadequate infrastructure will continue to hamper the prospects.
Analysis by Emil Avdaliani
Emil Avdaliani is a professor at European University and the Director of Middle East Studies at Georgian think-tank, Geocase.
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Scientists plan to aim the world's most powerful telescopes at the 'alien megastructure star'
By Jessica Hall on October 28, 2016 at 1:35 pm
There has to be recognizable life out there, somewhere close enough we can find it. That's the idea behind SETI, and also the huge new alien-hunting Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in China. Even the scientists who work on the big radio telescopes acknowledge the odds are long. But evidently they're not long enough to convince us the search is hopeless. In all probability, there has to be life somewhere else, and we're bound and determined to find it.
Ordinarily it might be tough to pick a place to start. SETI is aware of the newly discovered planet in the habitable zone around our near neighbor Proxima Centauri B, which makes it a rather more interesting subject of scrutiny. But there's another tempting target in the news of late: KIC 8462852, also called Tabby's Star, or the "alien megastructure star." Tabetha Boyajian, who discovered it, is teaming up with Breakthrough Listen to train SETI's senses on Tabby's Star and try to find out what's going on there.
Every so often, Tabby's Star gets dimmer, and nobody knows why. It just doesn't fit with any of the things we know happen to stars. While my personal favorite explanation is a Dyson sphere under construction, the odds are overwhelming that it's not aliens making this star flicker. Even though the visible light from the star is being blocked, we should still see a whole lot more infrared than we do. So it's probably not a Dyson sphere around an otherwise unremarkable star, and it's probably not a planet blocking our view with an edge-on orbit, either. As with any other unsolved mystery, the only way forward is making more observations until we know why our prior work has proved unfruitful.
While Tabby's Star almost certainly isn't shielded by a Dyson Sphere (or Swarm), this image shows how the components of the structure might be positioned around a target star. Image via Wikipedia
Breakthrough Listen is the open-source pet project of philanthropist and entrepreneur Yuri Milner, as well as Anne Druyan, Stephen Hawking, and other scientific luminaries. It's teamed up with SETI@home so that people can avoid duplicating each other's work. The Breakthrough initiatives are aware of Alpha Centauri as well; they're planning to send a probe there, in fact, under the auspices of Project Starshot.
Boyajian, the Breakthrough Listen project and the SETI scientists will also be using the Green Bank radio telescope to stare at the dimming star over the next couple of months. They're planning to gather about a petabyte of data on "billions of radio channels," which will take much longer to analyze than it took to collect. The hope is that some repeating pattern will show itself, somewhere in the radio band, and explain by its nature what's happening with this star.
"Everyone, every SETI program telescope, I mean every astronomer that has any kind of telescope in any wavelength that can see Tabby's star has looked at it," said Andrew Siemion, co-director of Breakthrough Listen, in a statement. "It's been looked at with Hubble, it's been looked at with Keck, it's been looked at in the infrared and radio and high energy, and every possible thing you can imagine, including a whole range of SETI experiments. Nothing has been found."
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