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Hashtags & Social Media Tools of the Civil Society
The Complete Guide
by Andie Katschthaler September 17, 2015 4 min read
This news landscape this summer has been shaped by the refugee crisis. Hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq etc. are trying to get to safety in Middle Eastern countries as well as Europe.
A lot of them are coming through Austria, where civil society has stepped up to take care of them – often employing social media to coordinate their efforts.
Hashtags: Solidarity or activism?
The use of activist hashtags on social media has gotten a bit of a bad rep, since it's often just a show of support and not of action. The derogatory term for this is "slacktivism".
"slacktivism
The self-deluded idea that by liking, sharing, or retweeting something you are helping out." – urbandictionary.com
It's unsurprising then, that many assumed the hashtags of the refugee crisis were simply a case of slacktivism. It soon became clear though, that a lot of people were using Twitter to actually get involved. Using hashtags, they turned social media into an excellent organisational tool.
The idea of using social media to rally is not new. Social media has been crucial in the Arab Spring, allowing activists to communicate uncensored as well as reach other communities:
"In countries like Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen, rising action plans such as protests made up of thousands, have been organized through social media such Facebook and Twitter." – Saleem Kassim
From slacktivismto activism: Hashtags as an organisational tool
In the current refugee crisis hashtags became crucial once refugees were finally allowed to take the trains from Hungary to Austria and on to Germany, who had temporarily opened her borders to them. Vienna's main railway stations suddenly found themselves flooded with refugees coming in from Hungary.
Since the Austrian government wasn't doing much to help, civil society stepped up. Volunteers flocked to Hauptbahnhof (Main Railway Station) and Westbahnhof (Western Railway Station) in Vienna.
In order to communicate what was needed at any given time, people took to Twitter and Facebook using the hashtags #westbahnhof and #hauptbahnhof, and later #keleti to rally in the Budapest train station that blocked refugees from leaving. The hashtags #trainofhope, #marchofhope, #nickelsdorf, #röszke and, of course, the ubiquitous #refugeeswelcome were also used to coordinate help in Hungary and Austria.
Needed at #Hauptbahnhof #Wien
law advisors, deodorant & shoes for men, spoons, laptops for coordinators, #refugeeswelcome #trainofhope
— Katrin Fallmann (@KatrinFallmann) September 2, 2015
The downside of activism hashtags: Information decay
The hashtags were a great way to deal with mass communication during the first few days. However, there are a few problem when activists rely solely on updates via Twitter. When there is a variety of hashtags in use, the hard facts spread out over the different hashtags and searching Twitter for just one of them can never give a full picture of the situation.
The other problem is that information quickly becomes outdated. Here's an example: When I went to Westbahnhof on 1 September and asked what was needed, I was told that they urgently needed Arabic translators. I tweeted the information minutes after noon and within the hour a lot of translators arrived.
A lot of Arabic translators just arrived. Looks like we're covered. #Westbahnhof
— Grumpy Grrrl ?? (@thegrumpygirl) September 1, 2015
Anyone might have still retweeted my original tweet, making it seem like more translators were needed. That is how fast information on Twitter can degenerate and it's also how conflicting information gets spread.
Train of Hope: Social media team keeps everyone up-to-date
Two weeks later the humanitarian efforts in Vienna have not abated, thanks to the volunteers getting organised. With the government still being mostly idle, the helpers have rallied and set up a loose adhoc-NGO called Train of Hope.
Train of Hope have set up a base at Hauptbahnhof where they coordinate helpers, translators, and donations. They've also put up a website, a Facebook page, and a Twitter account. Information is being distributed centrally, and that has made all the difference.
Social media is still their chosen tool of communication. They even have a dedicated social media team working around the clock to keep everything updated and source help via Twitter and Facebook.
The Train of Hope social media team works around the clock from their base at Hauptbahnhof Vienna. Photo credit: Train of Hope.
They still use the hashtags #trainofhope and #hbfvie, sometimes asking for specific donations in the middle of the night – and receiving help from insomniac social media users who then come by and drop off medications, food, blankets etc.
"Thanks to Facebook and Twitter it took us only two weeks to establish a community of people, who come by and help out, but also use their own existing networks and communities to help us solve the problems we're facing every day. Without these tools we could never have built a microcosm so complex and effective." – Train of Hope social media team.
Conclusion: Social media is a powerful tool – when used right
While social media as a decentralised coordination tool definitely has its pitfalls, it's still an extremely powerful tool when rallying civilian help without attention from established institutions. Without social media the volunteers would never have been able to get organised so quickly in the first place, and Train of Hope would never have been established.
Furthermore, many traditional humanitarian organisations don't use social media natively and can't reach those using Twitter and Facebook who would be willing to help out. Meanwhile, an adhoc organisation like Train of Hope, which is primarily made up of social media-savvy people who know the power of hashtags, can effectively source donations and helpers even in the middle of the night.
If you want to help out in person, use the Train of Hope Facebook page to figure out what is needed. Those who want to help out financially from further away can do so via the Train of Hope Indiegogo campaign.


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More [than] a dozen states said Friday that they would not, or could not, give a White House commission looking into voter fraud detailed voter registration data as requested.
The hacking of state and local election databases in 2016 was more extensive than previously reported, including at least one successful attempt to alter voter information, and the theft of thousands of voter records that contain private information like partial Social Security numbers, current and former officials tell TIME….
Political experts have credited the Trump campaign's data operation for engineering his improbable Electoral College victory that resulted in Trump assuming the presidency. A Trump-connected data firm, Cambridge Analytica — a company whose principal owner is hedge-fund billionaire and Trump backer Robert Mercer — has boasted that its data provided the "secret sauce" that propelled Trump to his election victory.
Controversial Trump confidant Steve Bannon, who left his post running the "alt-right" site Breitbart to take over the Trump campaign last summer, sat on the board of Cambridge Analytica.
Alexander Nix at the Cambridge Analytica office in New York.
Trump's son-in-law and top adviser Jared Kushner oversaw the campaign's data operation and said last year in an interview with Forbes Magazine that he contracted with Cambridge Analytica to provide detailed information that could directly influence voters through Facebook and other digital media, helping Trump win in swing states where Clinton appeared to hold an edge.
The Time investigation found that not only did hackers believed to be from Russia infiltrate voter databases stealing massive troves of data, in at least one proven case they actually altered voter information. But did the Russians share their stolen data with the Trump campaign or any associated organizations, such as Cambridge Analytica? That is the question Congress is now taking up.
So Congress is now investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian's to use information stolen from voter databases to influence the last election. While this investigation is taking place, the Trump administration has actually asked all the states for additional voter information and they have provided no evidence to support their justification for the request.
The states that have refused this request for information from the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity are not only justified, they are in a unique position to specify exactly why they are not providing this information. They can argue until the congressional investigations into the Trump campaign's use of voter information during the 2016 election are completed, they cannot be sure the information requested will be secure if it is provided. They can advise the Trump administration to cooperate with all the requests for information from these congressional investigations and check back with them after they are completed.


Stinkwanink: Who Do You Think You Are?
that I'm Too Big For My Britches.
"So?" I say defiantly, "I'll get britches that fit!"
You Will Never Amount To A Hill Of Beans, it retorts.
shaming viewpoint, but stressful nonetheless).
I'm fighting against a part of myself.
So I tense up with inner conflict.
I'm actually feeling divided, scared and small.
originality, openness, and creative expansion.
Fighting snark makes it harder to live large and feel free.
just the kind of feeling I was trying to escape.
So what to do? How to respond?
nor will we find compassion."
It's a good question, a spiritual classic, even.
Try it in a tone of real curiosity: Who DO you think you are?
And are you who you think up?
flickering of thoughts through your head?
one that feels better or worse.
we don't feel completely authentic.
what you find is no image, no idea of yourself.
that casts no image, no idea?
to be that free and that open?
the question Who do you think you are?
untouchable by any success or failure.
Two High Priests were sitting on a bench.
Suddenly, one had a flash of enlightenment.
"I just realized I'm Nobody! I'm Nobody!"
happened to the other priest.
"I finally see! I'm Nobody! What a relief!"
"I'm Nobody, Halleluia, I'm Nobody!"
"Now look who thinks he's Nobody!"


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My Dad and Mighty Oak Trees
How to 'Arise and Shine Forth'
By	Ted Gibbons · June 29, 2015
These two verses have reached into my heart and changed me.
"Verily I say unto you all: Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations; And that the gathering together upon the land of Zion, and upon her stakes, may be for a defense, and for a refuge from the storm, and from wrath when it shall be poured out without mixture upon the whole earth" (Doctrine and Covenants 115:5 – 6).
Of course there were no wards when this revelation was given. The fundamental organizational unit of the church in 1838 was the stake. The Lord seems to be saying that if our lives are not closely invested in the programs of the stakes (and wards), that we will not be able to stand against the winds that will blow in the last days. Look at the world . . . at the millions who have no defense or refuge from the "evil that now saturates significant portions of every corner of the world" (Richard G. Scott, CR, April 2004). The Lord also knew that our commitment to principle and righteousness, which would come through our devotion to the Church programs organized in the wards and stakes, would cause us to shine in a world filled with darkness.
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, darkness covereth the earth, and gross darkness the minds of the people, and all flesh has become corrupt before my face" (Doctrine and Covenants 112:23).
In the gathering darkness, our light will become "a standard for the nations." Anyone who grows weary of the darkness will be able to find a light. I guess it is that arising and shining that will 'bring [the Church] of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth . . .' (Doctrine and Covenants 1:30). Isaiah 2:1-4 tells us that many people will come to us for instruction and light. But why would they come if we look just like everybody else? We are invited and instructed to be different from the world.
In Section 116, the Lord speaks of Adam-ondi-Ahman. When we get around to having the meeting there, a meeting which Daniel says will involve 100,000,000 people (see Daniel 7:10), we will certainly be shining.
D&C 27:5-14 tells us something about that meeting and names a few of those who will attend. Then in verse 14 the Lord explains that he will partake of the Sacrament "with all those whom my Father hath given me out of the world" (Doctrine and Covenants 27:14, emphasis added). This should mean us. I cannot imagine 100,000,000 people in that valley, but perhaps the number is figurative, or perhaps those who come from other dispensations as spirits or resurrected beings will not need much room, or perhaps it will all be handled like the some recent temple dedications: on closed-circuit television, originating at that valley. Anyway, if I am around, I would hate to miss it.
Section 117 is a revelation given to two men who were called to come to Missouri, to the place of Zion, and to a third man who was sent to Kirtland for a time to do the work of Zion. The first two were William Marks and Newel K. Whitney. To them the Lord said:
"Verily thus saith the Lord unto my servant William Marks, and also unto my servant Newel K. Whitney, let them settle up their business speedily and journey from the land of Kirtland, before I, the Lord, send again the snows upon the earth. Let them awake, and arise, and come forth, and not tarry, for I, the Lord, command it. Therefore, if they tarry it shall not be well with them" (Doctrine and Covenants 117:1-3).
The verbs here are interesting. Settle up, awake, arise, come forth, don't tarry, and, in case you missed the urgency, do it speedily! We may all need this kind of counsel. The Saints were evicted from Missouri until they learned obedience (see D&C 105:6). Have you noticed that we have not returned to Missouri yet? I wonder if we have been tarrying too much and moving too slowly. Anyway, the Lord told Newel and William to . . .
Repent of all your sins (117:4).
That little adjective, all, suggests something about what is required to live in Zion and to be pure in heart. I remember that Lamoni's father promised God that he would give away all his sins to know him. Most of us have a few sins that we want to hang on to.
Repent of all your covetous desires (117:4).
Covetous people don't do well in Zion, since in Zion every man seeks the interest of his neighbor (see D&C 82:19) rather than his own. President Hinckley called covetousness and "evil and gnawing disease."
"When one family in the neighborhood gets a boat, others think they need one. To satisfy our desires, we go into debt, dissipate our resources in the payment of high interest, and become as slaves working to pay it off. Please do not misunderstand me. I repeat that I wish everyone might have some of the good things of life, but I hope our desire will not come of covetousness, which is an evil and gnawing disease. I think of many of our younger single and married members; I hope that you will be modest in your physical wants. You do not need everything that you might wish. And the very struggle of your younger years will bring a sweetness and security to your later life" (Gordon B. Hinckley, "Thou Shalt Not Covet," Ensign, Mar. 1990, 4).
Don't hang on to the world too tightly. (117:5).
The Lord warned these two men,
"Let the properties of Kirtland be turned out for debts, saith the Lord. Let them go, saith the Lord . . ." (Doctrine and Covenants117:5).
Some of the stuff we love cannot go with us to Zion, and if we cling to it too tightly, we cannot go. When we discover such things about us, we must let them go. These two brethren must have been reluctant to part with their holdings in Ohio: farms, houses, wells, fields . . . "Let them go," the Lord commanded. As he said in verse 4, "For what is property unto me?" and in verses 6 and 7:
"For have I not the fowls of heaven, and also the fish of the sea, and the beasts of the mountains? Have I not made the earth? Do I not hold the destinies of all the armies of the nations of the earth? Therefore, will I not make solitary places to bud and to blossom, and to bring forth in abundance? saith the Lord."I am pretty sure that almost all of us have too much stuff, and that our desire to hang onto it will weigh us down and slow us down as we journey to Zion.
Get your priorities straight (117:8).
This message is much like #3, but has a different twist:
"Is there not room enough on the mountains of Adam-ondi-Ahman, and on the plains of Olaha Shinehah, or the land where Adam dwelt, that you should covet that which is but the drop, and neglect the more weighty matters?" (Doctrine and Covenants 117:8).
Just where do these two want to live? Kirtland, or the plains of Olaha Shinehah? The land of Ohio or the land where Adam dwelt? Babylon, or Zion? Babylon is a magnet. People there live "deliciously" (see Rev. 18:7,9). But in Zion, people live beautifully and joyfully and gloriously, and it is certainly all delicious. What thirsty man would settle for a drop when surging streams from wells of living water are waiting in Adam-ondi-Ahman?
Don't try to live in Zion and Babylon at the same time (117:11).
The words that suggest this warning are: "Let my servant Newel K. Whitney be ashamed of the Nicolaitane band and of all their secret abominations" (Doctrine and Covenants 117:11).
Elder McConkie explained that the Nicolaitanes were
"Members of the Church who were trying to maintain their church standing while continuing to live after the manner of the world. They must have had some specific doctrinal teachings which they used to justify their course. In the counsel given to the Church in Pergamos, their doctrine is condemned as severely as that of Balaam who sought to lead Israel astray. (Rev. 2:14‑16; 2 Pet. 2:10‑22; Num. 22, 23, and 2 4.) Whatever their particular deeds and doctrines were, the designation has come to be used to identify those who want their names on the records of the Church, but do not want to devote themselves to the gospel cause with full purpose of heart. Thus, on July 8, 1838, the Lord said: "Let my servant Newel K. Whitney be ashamed of the Nicolaitane band and of all their secret abominations . . . and be a bishop unto my people, saith the Lord, not in name but in deed, saith the Lord." (D. & C. 117:11), Bruce R. McConkie, Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, Vol.3, p.448).
Elder Asay described such people in this way: "There is a lie, a vicious lie, circulating among the Latter‑day Saints and taking its toll among the young. And it is that a "balanced man" is one who deliberately guards against becoming too righteous. This lie would have you believe that it is possible to live successfully and happily as a "double‑minded man" with one foot in Babylon and one foot in Zion" (See James 1:8.; Carlos E. Asay, "Be Men!" Ensign, May 1992, 41).
Don't be little-souled (117:11).
I would not want the Lord to describe me in this way. We often talk about people with great souls. I have a feeling that little-souled people are self-centered while those with great souls embrace expanding virtues like those in D&C 4. Most of them seem to focus on their concern for others.
Robert J. Matthews said,
"Often [those with little souls] permit their feelings to be hurt, and then they rebel. Laman and Lemuel seem to illustrate this. They resented the leadership and the pointed instruction of their younger brother, Nephi. Their feelings were manifest in complaining and murmuring and refusing to work. Their father, Lehi, said to them:
"'. . . Ye have accused him [Nephi] that he sought power and authority over you . . .'
"'And ye have murmured because he hath been plain unto you. Ye say that he hath used sharpness; ye say that he hath been angry with you; but behold, his sharpness was the sharpness of the power of the word of God . . . and that which ye call anger was the truth, according to that which is in God . . .'" (2 Ne. 1:25B26.)
"King Ahab demonstrated the same littleness of soul in being more concerned with his pride than with the truth. Therefore, of Micaiah the prophet he said: '. . . but I hate him: for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil'" (1 Kings. 22:8). [Robert J. Matthews, ASearching the Scriptures: What to Do about Hurt Feelings,@ Ensign, Apr. 1973, 43].
We see this trait again in Ahab in another matter. The King was unhappy because Naboth would not sell him a vineyard, Ahab therefore
"came into his house heavy and displeased . . . And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread" (1 Kings. 21:4).
Zion is no place for people with little souls.
We now come to the third man mentioned in D&C 117: Oliver Granger.
Contend earnestly for the First Presidency (117:13).
President Hunter observed:
"Oliver Granger was eleven years older than Joseph Smith and, like the Prophet, was from upstate New York. Because of severe cold and exposure when he was thirty‑three years old, Oliver lost much of his eyesight. Notwithstanding his limited vision, he served three full‑time missions. He also worked on the Kirtland Temple and served on the Kirtland high council. "When most of the Saints were driven from Kirtland, Ohio, the Church left some debts unsatisfied. Oliver was appointed to represent Joseph Smith and the First Presidency by returning to Kirtland to settle the Church's business. Of this task, the Doctrine and Covenants records: 'Therefore, let him contend earnestly for the redemption of the First Presidency of my Church, saith the Lord.' (D&C 117:13.)
"He performed this assignment with such satisfaction to the creditors involved that one of them wrote: "Oliver Granger's management in the arrangement of the unfinished business of people that have moved to the Far West, in redeeming their pledges and thereby sustaining their integrity, has been truly praiseworthy, and has entitled him to my highest esteem, and every grateful [email protected]
"During Oliver's time in Kirtland, some people, including disaffected members of the Church, were endeavoring to discredit the First Presidency and bring their integrity into question by spreading false accusations. Oliver Granger, in very deed, 'redeemed the First Presidency' through his faithful service"[Howard W. Hunter, And Less Serviceable," Ensign, Apr. 1992, 65B66].
Our willingness to contend for the Prophets probably won't have anything to do with debt, but may have much to do with standing as witnesses at all times, and in all things, and in all places (see Mosiah 18:9). The direction to contend is strong, but the addition of the adverb earnestly makes the charge more dramatic. We live in a world where the concept of inspired men is not popular. Seers will often be derided and mocked. But we who mean to move to Zion have a charge to contend earnestly for them.
Don't worry too much about results (117:13).
The Lord said of Oliver Granger, "his sacrifice shall be more sacred unto me than his increase . . ." If our job is to plant seeds, we cannot evaluate our effectiveness by the bushels of corn gathered at the harvest. If our duty is to build houses, we cannot evaluate our success by the happiness of those who live in those houses. The effectiveness of a Sunday School teacher is determined by preparation and spirit, not by the number of students who read the material before the lesson. God has said on other occasions that he will judge us by our desires, not just by our successes.
Each of the warnings and all of the counsel in D&C 117 describe are an invitation to us to shine. Like you, my life has been blessed and my journey to Zion has been clarified by the light that shines from the lives of good people who have crossed my path. And when those good people are gathered together in wards and stakes, the brilliance of their light will be a great defence for them, and will change the world.
In a ward council meeting, I shared the story of a magnifying glass several feet in diameter that concentrated a collection of the sun's rays and created enough heat to melt almost anything. Each of us can concentrate the Son's rays through our own efforts, and when a group of us gathers together and focuses that light on a single problem, a single challenge, a single family in need of help, we can melt almost anything, including hard hearts and steel-coated spirits.

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Ordnance Board set to target market with revamped rifle
TNN | Sep 23, 2003, 03.16 AM IST
KOLKATA: It has taken 10 years and four upgradations for the Ordnance Factory Board to arrive at the conclusion that the 5.56 mm INSAS rifle manufactured at the Rifle Factory, Ishapore, has few takers in the international market.
The OFB is now working on an export version of the rifle which is expected to be ready by the end of the year.
"Some improvements are being made to the plastic fittings which were used to keep the weapon light. Steel plates will be inserted to reinforce the plastic. The appearance of the weapon is also very important for the international market. The overall appearance will be improved. However, the costs will be competitive,� said general manager, Rifle Factory, Ishapore, B.C. Biswas.
The INSAS rifle which replaced the trusty but outdated 7.62 mm Ishapore SLR rifle — the primary weapon used by Indian infantryman till a few years ago — has been plagued by complaints from soldiers, mainly from those posted in high altitudes. A section of OFB officials confided that India has a long way to go so far as metallurgy for weapons were concerned. They also pointed towards the need for more stringent quality control of procurements from private agencies. The OFB procures over Rs 500 crore worth of stores from the private sector.
"There were a few INSAS rifles which suffered from 'cold arrest' in Siachen. An enquiry revealed that the unit using the rifles had been recently posted to the region from the plains. In the plains, soldiers use lubricating oil for the barrels. In the colder climes, soldiers are supposed to use a kerosene mixture. The unit was not aware of this fact,� explained Biswas.
OFB officials from the repair and maintenance wing, who travel to forward areas to repair weapons, complained of misuse. "In certain areas, the temperature falls to 50 degrees below freezing. Soldiers are so tired that they simply throw down their weapons when they return to the barracks. While on long mountain treks, soldiers often throw weapons to paths 100 feet below, to be collected when they get there. Unlike the SLR, the INSAS is much more sensitive and can get damaged by such treatment,� they said.
According to officials, nearly 600,000 INSAS rifles have been issued to infantrymen in the Indian Army. Those under production are for issue to Central and state police forces.
"Most bulk demands have been met. There are only a few units remaining who are yet to be armed with the INSAS. However,we are lagging in the number of weapons in the war reserve. Whenever there is a war, a lot of rifles are lost. There have to be adequate rifles in stock to replenish them,� said Biswas.


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How many offices will become data centers?
As we bring our offices home, servers move into the offices
Peter Judge
It seems like a sign of the times. As people increasingly work from home, using digital services to keep connected, office space in the center of cities is lying empty. So in Portland, a landmark office block is becoming a multi-story data center.
The Union Bank tower, on SW Washington and SW Park in the center of Oregon's largest city, is being sold by its owners to convert to a data center. It's not quite as simple as empty office space filling with servers - but there are signs that things could be moving in that direction.
Could offices house the homeless?
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, office workers were instructed to work from home if possible. It seemed like a temporary measure, but many of us have come to like it. We travel less, and spend more time with our families (or our pets or gardens) but we're still connected to our jobs.
Portland's Union Bank Tower to be sold for conversion to a data center
A sign of the times?
For some, it's been a pleasant surprise to find it's possible. Others have been itching to do more remote work for years, and it's been a big relief to them when their employers finally saw the light, and recognized that staff don't have to be present and visible in the office all hours. Things still get done.
For others, of course, it's been a frustrating period where they've had to battle with home-bound distractions, and find motivation despite a lack of colleagues - and some bosses are adamant that staff don't exist unless they can see them.
And then there have been the hordes whose jobs can't be done remotely, many of whom have had to endure worse working conditions for the last year, along with the risk of disease.
However that all plays out it's clear that fewer people will be at office desks now, and companies, DCD among them, have adjusted to remote working, a smaller office space.
What happens to those empty offices? It's tempting to think that many could be converted, like the Union Bank tower - but that building is something of a special case. It's on the central junction where most of Portland's fiber links meet, it already has a meet-me room and some 18 existing data center spaces amongst its office tenants.
It's also not an example of an empty building: it's still 72 percent occupied, despite the departure of its eponymous tenant.
The Square Mile of the City of London plans to welcome 1,500 households into vacant offices in the next five years
That building happens to be one where there's an obvious buck to be made in converting it fully to data center use.
In other cases, cities are looking at turning office space into housing. The Square Mile of the City of London currently has few residents (less than 10,000 apparently), but the City plans to increase occupancy by 20 percent with another 1,500 households moving into current offices over the next five years, according to reports.
These are described as "low-cost, long-term lets in vacant and little-used spaces," and we must be careful. These might be expensive investments, or they might be ill-converted In the UK such changes have been allowed for six years under "permitted development rights," and it could result in living spaces that would never have met the criteria for newly built dwellings, and don't have a community around them.
How many do we need?
Planners might prefer to have data centers, which are clean and have low demands on roads and amenities. City centers are also a good place for data centers, if the space is affordable, as they are close to many users for Edge applications. They can also find customers for waste heat, as is being increasingly encouraged for reasons of sustainability.
But planners might also question how many data centers a given area needs. As "ghost" properties, largely unstaffed, they won't be any help to the sandwich shops and bars which are in dire straits as office workers leave.
And, even if the market is there, it's becoming increasingly clear that data centers can push the electricity demand a given area above reasonable limits. In Ireland, for instance, an increasingly vocal protest movement is pointing out that without data centers, Ireland could have a level demand for electricity, and a chance of meeting de-carbonization targets.
Hence the recent moratoriums and regulations applied in Singapore, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam to limit or pause data center building.
Overall, don't expect city centers to fill up with data centers as workers move out. Their needs are quite different.
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The exhibition of paintings and drawings called "Via de Plata/Camino de Santiago" opened on 1 December 2016, in the Gerard Dillion Gallery, Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Falls Road, Belfast and continues until 14 January 2017. The work was inspired by a 1000 kilometres walk from Seville in southern Spain to Santiago de Compostella in the north, completed this year.
During my investigations of Tartessos, I was made aware of three isolated villages located in the high mountains on the Spanish/Portuguese frontier, San Martin de Trevejo, Eljas, and Valverde del Fresno where the local linguistic variation is Fala, a language different from both Spanish and Portuguese, spoken by some ten thoudand people and thought to be related to ancient Tartessian/Gaeilge.
When we reached Salamanca, we visited the Taberna Celta and met the owner Caesar whose hospitality and generosity is legendary. Apart from the glorious food and wine, he entertained us with stories of the history of the Caminos. He told us that the ancient Celts starting walking the Caminos in pre-Roman Iberia. They followed ley lines, lines of energy, not to Santiago de Compostela, but to Finisterre, Spanish for the end of the world.
They made these journeys, not out of necessity, but to examine and explore their concept of reality. They walked to the very edge of what they thought was a flat earth and peered over the edge into the abyss. They watched their sun-god disappear into oblivion, in the west, every evening and then reappear, in the east, next morning, an exceptional reality trip.
We left Salamanca not only with our heads brimming with ideas of reality but we also set off on the most exciting, the most enjoyable, the most difficult, the most otherworldly part of the journey, the immense Spanish Meseta. The Spanish Meseta covers 210,000 square kilometres and has an average elevation of 660 metres. In other words, it is vast, it is incomprehensible, it is another world and it could not have been more appropriate to our state of mind. After a few days walking under those enormous skies, you realise that reality has become a mere concept and, no longer, are there any hard and fast rules. You can walk to the very limit of your existence and, like the ancient Celts, peer over the edge into the abyss and see if anything or anyone peers back. As always, when you set yourself on such a course, the universe conspires to make it happen. We met some extraordinary people.
I met Manolo in Fuenterroble de Salvatierra, a tiny village of 290 people which in its strangeness and remoteness could have been dropped out of the sky onto the Meseta. Manolo was a man whose life and reality were completely controlled by his ancestors.
Naturally, having spent some time out there, where ever there may be, you tend to reflect on your own version of reality. The image above shows a teenage me as a ventriloquist's doll with my parents busily wallpapering a version of what they want to be my reality, into my subconscious, as all good parents do. At the point of writing, the exhibition continues in the Gerard Dillon Gallery, Cultúrlann, Falls Road, Belfast until 14 January 2017.
BELFAST artist Daniel Dowling never fails to surprise and entertain with his paintings and his current exhibition at Cultúrlann, Falls Road is no exception.
Firstly it's a visual diary of his 1,000km walk across Spain; secondly it was a journey through his life, coming to terms with the past and, he says, finding his identity at 62 years of age. It's an intriguing story that connects the 14 artworks depicting the landscapes and his discovery of links between Irish and Spanish cultures.
"Back in the mists of time, the Milesians, a people from northern Spain, invaded and occupied Ireland, bringing with them their Celtic culture and language." And so began a mystic and fascinating story in watercolour, oil and pencil on paper.
On his journey Daniel took the path of the ancient Celts, following the ley lines to Finisterre – Spanish for 'the end of the world' – in the far north west of Galicia.
One painting depicts a ventriloquist doll's head, one quarter of the skull open, little people slaving away inside.
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Housing Market Cooling Off In Pittsburgh, Philadelphia
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Job growth is a primary driver of the housing market. In this Oct. 3, 2015 file photo, iron workers help build the Comcast Innovation and Technology Center in Philadelphia.
The demand for new apartments in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh has grown swiftly over the last few years. Developers have met that demand with a tremendous amount of construction, said Barbara Byrne Denham, senior economist at Reis, a real estate data and analytics company based in New York.
It might seem like both cities have more new luxury apartments than they know what to do with. But is hand-wringing about a housing glut a wise reaction?
"Yes and no," said Byrne Denham.
One way to gauge the health of the housing market is to look at vacancy rates, which declined in Philadelphia between 2015 and 2016, moving from 4 to 3.6 percent. Byrne Denham anticipates vacancy will rise to over 4 percent in 2017, due to a sharp increase in overall construction, but she said it's still a very low number.
On the other side of the state, the vacancy rate in Pittsburgh rose from 4.7 to 5.2 percent in the same period.
"While that looks striking, it's not alarming," said Bryne Denham, noting that new construction in Pittsburgh for 2017 is expected to drop by almost a third, to roughly 1,000 units. "So we do see a lot of supply, but it's not such an alarming rate that we're going to see empty, empty buildings."
Doug Herold is director of Integra Realty Resources Pittsburgh, a real estate appraisal company. When he surveyed buildings in January, he found that absorption rates were fairly high, in other words, that units were being snapped up quickly. The market had significant pent-up demand from years of low development, he said.
"That indicated to me, at least back in January, that we were still working through pent-up demand. The big question is when are we done with the pent-up demand?"
After steady rent increases in Pittsburgh over the last four years, Michael Mele said average prices are now dropping, stabilizing at a new point. Mele is a data scientist at Pittsburgh-based RentJungle.com, a search engine for millions of rental properties in the U.S.
Most northern cities see a seasonal undulation in rental prices: lower in winter months, when no one wants to drive a moving van in the snow, and higher in the summer, said Mele. In recent years, Pittsburgh's rental market has been strong enough to evade that seasonal effect.
"Prices continue to grow and are relatively unaffected by the season. That changed this past winter. We saw, for the first time in a couple years, the winter seasonal drop in prices. And it was a rather significant drop, a couple hundred dollars on average."
It takes a while for supply and demand to agree on how valuable any given apartment is, said Mele, and in Pittsburgh, part of that negotiation might be due to a flood of new developers.
"It could be new blood coming into the market, not knowing exactly where to put their initial pricing," he said. "They saw the market was paying $1,300 and they said, 'Well, ours is shiny and new, so let's make it $1,600, and the market didn't respond as well."
Bryne Denham suggests taking the long view on housing in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
"The big driver for occupancy is job growth. Philadelphia in particular has had pretty strong job growth, and we see that continuing this year," she said, noting that in the Philadelphia [metropolitan statistical area], jobs grew by 1.9 percent from 2016 to 2017; in Pittsburgh that number was 0.1 percent.
Reis forecasts show positive job growth in both metropolitan areas, said Bryne Dehnam; as long as there's an expectation of job growth, the apartment market should stay healthy.
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Margaret J. Krauss is WESA's development and transportation reporter. She previously worked for Keystone Crossroads, a statewide reporting initiative that covers problems facing Pennsylvania's cities and possible solutions. Before joining Keystone Crossroads, Margaret produced a 48-part radio series about Pittsburgh's lesser-known history, biking 2,000 miles around the region to do so.
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Updated snowfall forecasts issued by the National Weather Service on Sunday predict western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and the West Virginia panhandle could see 6-12 inches of total snow accumulation by the time the winter storm warning expires at 1 p.m. Monday. The Pittsburgh area is expected to receive 8-12 inches.
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The tool to create affordable housing already exists in Lawrenceville. Legislation to deploy it in Bloomfield and Polish Hill won approval from the Planning Commission on Tuesday.


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I thought centrifugals didn't have the throttle response of roots/screw type blowers?
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The chairman of the Texas House of Representatives' Higher Education Committee said Thursday that he "would not have any concern" if the Top 10 Percent Rule governing college admissions in the state were eliminated.
Speaking at an event hosted by The Texas Tribune, Rep. John Zerwas, R-Richmond, said the rule takes away universities' discretion in picking among applicants. He stopped short of calling for a full repeal of the law. But said the Legislature should at least consider tweaking it in the near future. And he said it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if the U.S. Supreme Court caused it to disappear.
The Top 10 Percent Rule promises automatic admission into any public university in the state to students who finish in the top 10 percent of their Texas high school's graduating class. It was created in 1997, following a court order that temporarily banned affirmative action at Texas universities. The idea is that Texas' public high schools are somewhat segregated, so promising spots at places like the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M to students from all high schools should increase diversity.
Diversity at UT-Austin and A&M has increased since 1997, but those schools' populations still don't match the demographics of the state. And the law is unpopular among some segments of Texans, especially parents and students at suburban schools where it is harder to get into the top 10 percent.
Zerwas expressed less concern about issues of fairness, saying his biggest problem was that the law takes away autonomy from UT-Austin as it tries to build its incoming classes. State law allows UT-Austin to cap its automatic enrollees at 75 percent of its incoming freshmen. Some university officials have long expressed frustration that they want to be able to consider more than just class rank as they evaluate applicants. Next year, the automatic threshold will be the top 7 percent.
Others at the event shared similar frustrations. But they noted that the rule is important to minority populations. Without it, there would likely be high schools in Texas that don't send any students to UT-Austin, said former UT-Austin President Larry Faulkner.
"I don't have any doubt that the law is working" in that regard, Faulkner said.
The Top 10 Percent Rule has come under scrutiny in recent months because of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, a Supreme Court case over the constitutionality of the school's admissions system. Oral arguments in the case were held in December. The future of affirmative action could be at stake — the justices could uphold UT-Austin's system or ban affirmative action at UT-Austin, in Texas or even across the country.


So you're living in your parent's basement (it's okay — it happens to the best some of us). You're broke and spend your days eating cheese twists and watching Superbad over and over again. Your AIM handle is McLovinMeToo and your only hope at possible income is selling your prized vinyl record collection on eBay, including Young MC's 'Stone Cold Rhymin' on yellow vinyl. Yeah that's right! BIN!
But one day you decide to start a blog, and at first you blog about stuff you know, like movies and music, and you're connecting with other movie fans. They start visiting your blog, they actually laugh at what you say. In fact they laugh so hard they 'tweet' about your post saying, "OMG LOL, Read this" with a link to your site. The traffic starts coming and suddenly you are propelled into the role of a surly, brutally honest internet movie review guy.
Next thing you know you are hired by one of the MAJOR search engine portals to review movies. You start hobnobbing with A List celebrities and some Z list reality stars who are trying to transition, but clearly I digress. Because amongst the masses you see a woman across the room at an industry event, she sees your press badge and instantly has dollar signs in her eyes while you smile and give her a wink, trying to figure out how to take her back to 'your place' without waking up the 'rents. She thinks you're kinda cute so she winks back and now your feeling really fine cause the girl is stacked. (Yes, you may have sold the album but the song lives on in your heart). You meet, fall in love, and get married…and then eventually move out of your parent's house.
Don't say it can't be done!
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System Split Redux: Legend of the Five Rings (AEG and FFG/EDGE)
February 14, 2022 Aki 4 Comments
A while ago I had a bit of a hot take off the press. At the time I had played the Beginners Box for Legend of the Five Rings 5th edition produced by Fantasy Flight Gaming and then, in purely coincidental timing, played in a campaign of 4th edition that had been written by AEG. Excited, and with childhood memories rekindled, I ran to write up the differences I have seen between the two. So, why do I mention it?
It's been a few years since that article was written, and the world proceeded to break time with the years of 2020 and 2021. With a slew of personal life changes, and with a need for incredible caution for social gatherings, my choice in games became dictated by what I could find online. Over the last two years, I've had a healthy diet of games run in 4th edition and finally had the chance to build characters and play in a campaign using the full 5th edition rules. As I reflected, I began to wonder: had I done a disservice by rushing to put something out? Sometimes we become too excited at a new prospect, and become so eager to champion it that we don't get the full picture. There is also another element in play now as well: time. Back when I did my first crack at a System Split, FFG were the new kids on the block, with their hands on a shiny new property and some interesting ideas on how to freshen things up. Now, not only have they released the full rules and published several expansion books for Legend of the Five Rings and reorganized. EDGE Studio has now taken over the IP, and while books continue to be published, and the system itself remains mostly intact, I feel like it's worth circling back and taking a deeper, more nuanced dive into the differences between the two systems. Overall, with some time and space, I have come to believe that FFG created their version with a firm eye on past editions, but there are noticeable differences that might sway both gamerunners and players in one direction or the other.
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Meet the Party: Legend of the Five Rings: Courts of Stone
November 9, 2019 Seamus Conneely 4 Comments
A Matchmaker of the Deer, manipulating others to maintain Rokugan's balance. A Spymaster of the Crane, ferreting out secrets and striking at exposed weaknesses. A Deathdealer of the Scorpion, striking down enemies by any means necessary. A Chronicler of the Dragon, maintaining the truth despite a storm of lies. The social scene in the Emerald Empire is just as much of a battlefield as any blood-stained patch of earth outside Toshi Ranbo, and it's a battlefield that requires warriors that wield words and blades alike with the greatest of skill. Fortunately we have what we need to build an entire party of such warriors for the Legend of the Five Rings roleplaying game from Fantasy Flight Games, using the Courts of Stone!
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Meet the Party: Legend of the Five Rings: Shadowlands
October 4, 2019 Seamus Conneely 3 Comments
A Falcon hunting phantoms through the trees of Shinomen Forest. A Lion trying to heal the wounded and avenge an ancestor's death. A Unicorn riding out to free the spirits of corrupted kin from the shadows that have swallowed them. A Phoenix desperate to redeem his bloodline and himself before it's too late. The land of Rokugan thrives in the light of the sun, but shadows creep in, and someone must stand against them. We're telling another tale in the Legend of the Five Rings from Fantasy Flight Games with this haunted but ready-to-play party of samurai seeking honor and glory in the Shadowlands!
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Meet the Party: Legend of the Five Rings: Otosan Uchi
March 15, 2019 Seamus Conneely Leave a comment
A member of the Palace Guard, sworn to die so that others might live but longing to give her life a value all its own. A shugenja and astrologer, once fooled and twice determined never to be so again, guiding the Empire by peering into the future. A schemer, sowing strife throughout Rokugan so that the Hantei line may rule unchallenged, to a degree even the Scorpion would admire. A herald of the Miya, thought missing and now safely returned to the Capital . . . whose shadow shows seven fox tails when she becomes flustered. The Great Clans aren't the only power in Rokugan, and they're not the only source of player options for the Legend of the Five Rings RPG from Fantasy Flight Games: today we're making characters using the Emerald Empire sourcebook! Continue reading Meet the Party: Legend of the Five Rings: Otosan Uchi →
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System Split: L5R AEG 4e and FFG
February 18, 2019 Aki 1 Comment
Memories are a powerful thing. They define much of who and what we are, and even when the edges become hazy some things, some impressions, remain crystal clear in our psyches. I can't remember how long ago it was (though math tells me that we are pushing 20 years now), but I can remember who I was with and what we were doing (trying the dangerous addiction that is Magic: The Gathering) when I was first introduced to my Friendly Local Game Store. Looking back, it was dingy and in a sketchy part of the neighborhood, but I would wind up spending so much time there over the years that I can't help but look back at it with fondness.
It was on one of those trips that I was saw something that caught my eye: a card game that I hadn't seen before, but whose art reminded me of some of the new cartoons I was seeing at the time. I wound up buying a pack and trying out the game and, I had no idea what I had stumbled into. I played for a while, found some of the tie-in novels, and largely forgot about it as a part of my adolescence that I would likely never see again. Suddenly, in the last six months, Legend of the Five Rings (commonly referred to as L5R) came back into my life. I not only found that there a Tabletop RPG version of the franchise, I found myself playing in two different editions: the 4th edition, originally published by the original creators Alderac Entertainment Group, and the new version created by Fantasy Flight Gaming. I found myself marveling at how different they were, and yet, how strong of a fanbase I found for each. After having played a bit of both, it seemed worthwhile to look at some of the pivot points at which the game changes.
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Legend of the Five Rings: Emerald Empire Review
January 29, 2019 Seamus Conneely 7 Comments
Simply knowing the rules for Legend of the Five Rings is not enough; even passing your gempukku and earning your place as a samurai in the Topaz Championship will not truly prepare you for the trials ahead. If one is to survive, even thrive, in the land of Rokugan then one must know Rokugan: its places, its people, its customs and history and spirits. So it is that Emerald Empire, the first major sourcebook for the Fantasy Flight Games' edition of Legend of the Five Rings, has come into being. What's actually within its pages? Is it worth getting yourself? I'm going through the book chapter by chapter to find out!
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Meet the Party: Legend of the Five Rings: Winter Court
November 25, 2018 Seamus Conneely 1 Comment
An Illusionist with a well-earned reputation for honesty, all so they can tell a lie exactly when they need to. A Bard without a voice, tasked with telling grandiose tales. A one-armed Duelist struggling to quell the rage within her heart. A Worldly Rōnin hiding a deadly secret that forced her to flee her clan. An Outrider with a chip on his shoulder, trying to make others accept his clan while wanting to prove his clan's superiority. Each of these Samurai has found themselves invited to the Winter Court of Rokugan, so we're following them into another Meet the Party for Legend of the Five Rings!
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Meet the Party: Legend of the Five Rings: Mahō Hunters
October 26, 2018 Seamus Conneely 5 Comments
A Purifier of the Crab, dedicated to hunting down Mahō-tsukai and forcing others to give his clan the respect they are due. A Shrine Keeper of the Phoenix, a perfectionist who strives to both prove herself to her clan and show them what true loyalty means. A Wardmaster of the Scorpion tasked with keeping dark artifacts safe who scoffs at the curse of the Yogo. An Investigator of the Dragon, unwilling to remain isolated in the mountains, looking for justice and a home in the wider Empire. A Smuggler of the Tortoise, tracking illicit goods of a particularly dire nature, longing for the respect of others. Meet the Party returns to a now-finished land where honor is stronger than steel, with ready-to-play characters for Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying from Fantasy Flight Games!
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Legend of the Five Rings Beginner Game Review
August 30, 2018 Seamus Conneely 3 Comments
The time has come for four youths to travel to the village of Tsuma, there to participate in the Topaz Championship as part of their gempukku to earn their status as adults and samurai of the Emerald Empire. Not everything in Tsuma is as it seems, however, and not all intentions are honorable ones. Proving your worth may be more complicated than you expected . . . in the Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Beginner Game from Fantasy Flight Games! I've got a copy of this impressive-looking kit and I've gone through the whole thing, so let's see how your gateway to the land of Rokugan shapes up!
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Meet the Party: Legend of the Five Rings Beta
An honorable bushi sworn to stand against the Shadowlands but longing to follow her heart. A wily courtier keeping the Emerald Empire together with his eye straying towards wealth. A ninja disguised as a magistrate, working in the shadows but dreaming of standing in the light. A shugenja tasked with keeping the people of Rokugan pure, even while corruption eats at her mind. Meet the Party travels to a land of samurai, bushidō, giri, and ninjō to create a party of ready-to-play characters living and struggling in the Emerald Empire of Rokugan, playing with Fantasy Flight Games's Legend of the Five Rings Beta!
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