Dave Jarvis' Repositories

Author	Dave Jarvis <email>
Date	2015-01-08 22:47:36 GMT-0800
Commit	fe6feb1577fac7d03c52d041dd055fdc65013567
Parent	999e3a0

Delta	223 lines added, 196 lines removed, 27-line increase

xml/account.xml

		<entry>
		<implication>
		- Surveillance data is susceptible to theft.
		- </implication>
		- <policy><xref id="3">Digital Freedom Act</xref></policy>
		- <timestamp><date>Jun 15, 2014</date><time>14:32:05</time></timestamp>
		- <state>Accepted</state>
		- </entry>
		- <entry>
		- <implication>
		- Surveillance data is susceptible to theft.
		+ Untreated sewage contains pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals.
		</implication>
		- <policy><xref id="3">Digital Freedom Act</xref></policy>
		+ <policy><xref id="3">Wastewater Treatment Project</xref></policy>
		<timestamp><date>Jun 15, 2014</date><time>14:32:05</time></timestamp>
		<state>Accepted</state>
		</entry>
		<entry>
		<implication>
		- Data retention can overturn the presumption of innocence.
		+ Sewage treatment improvement project is under provincial order.
		</implication>
		- <policy><xref id="3">Digital Freedom Act</xref></policy>
		+ <policy><xref id="3">Wastewater Treatment Project</xref></policy>
		<timestamp><date>Jun 15, 2014</date><time>16:12:50</time></timestamp>
		<state>Accepted</state>
		</entry>
		<entry>
		<implication>
		- Ensure anonymity when seeking or communicating sensitive
		- health-related information.
		+ City reputation is tarnished by lack of formal sewage treatment.
		</implication>
		- <policy><xref id="3">Digital Freedom Act</xref></policy>
		+ <policy><xref id="3">Wastewater Treatment Project</xref></policy>
		<timestamp><date>Jun 15, 2014</date><time>18:21:22</time></timestamp>
		<state>Pending</state>
		</entry>
		<entry>
		<implication>
		- Improve the mental and physical health of citizens.
		+ An annual increase of local property taxes by $500.
		</implication>
		- <policy><xref id="3">Digital Freedom Act</xref></policy>
		+ <policy><xref id="3">Wastewater Treatment Project</xref></policy>
		<timestamp><date>Jun 16, 2014</date><time>09:15:38</time></timestamp>
		<state>Conjecture</state>

xml/common.xsl

		</xsl:template>

		+<!-- The 'video' attribute indicates an embedded video. -->
		+<xsl:template match="*[@url]">
		+<div class="{local-name()}">
		+ <iframe width="560" height="315" src="{@url}" frameborder="0"></iframe>
		+</div>
		+</xsl:template>
		+
		<!-- Retain the attributes (except if named "class"). -->
		<xsl:template match="@*">

xml/css/hypothesis.css

		@import url( "css/edit-discuss-flag.css" );
		@import url( "css/xref.css" );
		+@import url( "css/list.css" );

		.policy {

xml/css/list.css

		+@charset "utf-8";
		+
		+.list {
		+ list-style-type: decimal;
		+ counter-reset: contentList;
		+}
		+
		+.list > .item::before {
		+ counter-increment: contentList;
		+ content: "(" counter( contentList, decimal ) ") ";
		+}
		+
		+.list > .item {
		+ margin-top: 0.5em;
		+ margin-left: 1.25em;
		+ line-height: 120%;
		+}
		+

xml/css/parts.css

		@charset "utf-8";
		+@import url( "list.css" );

		.part > .title, .section > .title {

		counter( partList, decimal ) "."
		counter( sectionList, decimal ) " - ";
		-}
		-
		-.list {
		- list-style-type: decimal;
		- counter-reset: contentList;
		-}
		-
		-.list > .item::before {
		- counter-increment: contentList;
		- content: "(" counter( contentList, decimal ) ") ";
		}

		-.list > .item {
		- margin-top: 0.5em;
		- margin-left: 1.25em;
		- line-height: 120%;
		-}

xml/css/support.css

		@import url( "css/xref.css" );
		@import url( "css/votes.css" );
		+@import url( "css/video.css" );

		.implications::before {

xml/css/video.css

		+/* http://stackoverflow.com/a/114549/59087 */
		+.video {
		+ display: table;
		+ margin: 0 auto;
		+}
		+

xml/discuss.xml

		<policy>
		<summary>
		- <title>Digital Freedom Act</title>
		+ <title>Wastewater Treatment Project</title>
		</summary>
		<implications>
		<implication>
		- <votes>46593</votes>
		- <support id="11" />
		+ <support id="1" />
		<paragraph>
		- Surveillance data is susceptible to theft.
		+ Untreated sewage contains pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals.
		</paragraph>
		</implication>
		<implication>
		- <votes>36</votes>
		- <support id="12" />
		+ <support id="2" />
		<paragraph>
		- Physical health improvements are not correlated with
		- uncensored, unmonitored communications.
		+ Sewage treatment improvement project is under provincial order.
		</paragraph>
		- <counter>
		- <support id="13" />
		- <paragraph>
		- Meta studies have shown strong correlations.
		- </paragraph>
		- </counter>
		</implication>
		<implication>
		- <votes>99</votes>
		- <support id="14" />
		+ <support id="3" />
		<paragraph>
		- Offline and online rights must attain equal treatment
		- under law.
		+ No scientifically measurable benefit has been identified.
		</paragraph>
		</implication>
		<implication>
		- <votes>66</votes>
		- <support id="15" />
		+ <support id="4" />
		<paragraph>
		- Without highly secure private data, individuals are at risk
		- of discrimination by virtue of their membership in groups.
		+ City reputation is tarnished by lack of formal sewage treatment.
		</paragraph>
		</implication>
		<implication>
		- <votes>224</votes>
		- <support id="16" />
		+ <support id="5" />
		<paragraph>
		- Once a computer algorithm ascribes someone as suspicious, all
		- else in that person's life becomes sinister and suspect.
		+ Left untreated, fecal coliform bacterium levels exceed Health Canada
		+ safety guidelines.
		</paragraph>
		</implication>
		<implication>
		- <votes>850</votes>
		- <support id="17" />
		+ <support id="7" />
		<paragraph>
		- Unchecked access to big data enabled the Holocaust.
		+ An annual increase of local property taxes by $500.
		+ </paragraph>
		+ <counter>
		+ <support id="8" />
		+ <paragraph>
		+ Current cost estimates per household range from $210 to $500.
		+ </paragraph>
		+ </counter>
		+ </implication>
		+ <implication>
		+ <support id="6" />
		+ <paragraph>
		+ Reclaimed greenhouses gas can power over 1,100 homes.
		</paragraph>
		</implication>
		</implications>
		-
		<related>
		<implicate id="1" />
		- <refute id="1" />
		</related>
		</policy>

xml/hypothesis.xml

		<policy>
		<summary>
		- <title>Digital Freedom Act</title>
		+ <title>Wastewater Treatment Project</title>
		</summary>
		<hypotheses>
		<overview>
		<paragraph>
		- Freedom is the power or right, to act, speak, or think as one
		- wants without hindrance or restraint. Freedom is the absence
		- of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government.
		- Freedom means people may choose their own actions in an
		- environment that nurtures the full development of human
		- potential. By enacting and enforcing this policy, several
		- positive societal outcomes should be observed.
		+ The geotechnical setting, hydrology, water quality, vegetation and
		+ wildlife collectively represent the “environment” study area. Aerial
		+ photographs or cursory field inspection demonstrate that past urban
		+ development in the study area constitutes a high magnitude,
		+ long-term, irreversible impact on the environment that must be
		+ considered significant.
		+ </paragraph>
		+ <paragraph>
		+ As the rationale for providing wastewater treatment is to improve
		+ environmental quality, cumulative project effects must be assessed.
		+ These improvements include:
		+ <list>
		+ <item>
		+ discharge cleaner effluent, with associated long term reductions
		+ on sea impacts;
		+ </item>
		+ <item>
		+ replacement of invasive species at Craigflower and Arbutus Road sites
		+ and with native flora;
		+ </item>
		+ <item>
		+ reduction of sewer overflows;
		+ </item>
		+ <item>
		+ recover energy for reuse, particularly in the McLoughlin Point
		+ facility; and
		+ </item>
		+ <item>
		+ remediation of the contaminated site at McLoughlin Point.
		+ </item>
		+ </list>
		</paragraph>
		</overview>
		<general>
		<paragraph>
		- The freedom experienced by world citizens can be ranked by
		- various indices, including: <xref id="1">Economic Freedom
		- of the World Index</xref>, <xref id="2">Index of Freedom in
		- the World</xref>, <xref id="3">Worldwide Press Freedom
		- Index</xref>, the <xref id="4">Democracy Index</xref>,
		- <xref id="5">Freedom in the World Report</xref>,
		- <xref id="6">Index of Economic Freedom</xref>,
		- <xref id="7">CIRI Human Rights Data Project</xref>, and the
		- Transparency International <xref id="8">Corruption
		- Perceptions Index</xref>.
		+ <xref id="1">Fish studies</xref> have discovered high mortality
		+ rates in the vicinity of Macaulay Point effluent. Additionally,
		+ abnormal oyster and mussel embryo development are prevalent in the
		+ same region. These animals are health indicators for the study
		+ area's marine life.
		</paragraph>
		</general>
		<directional>
		<paragraph>
		- Nations that empower their citizens with the most freedoms
		- rank the highest in various indices, relative to nations that
		- restrict citizen freedoms the most. More freedom is
		- correlated with higher earnings, increased happiness,
		- protected civil rights, cleaner environments, less
		- corruption, lower infant mortality rates, less child labour,
		- and longer life expectancy.
		+ The effluent from Macaulay and Clover Point has detrimental effects on
		+ marine life, creating a highly toxic dead zone around the expulsion
		+ region.
		</paragraph>
		</directional>
		<measurable>
		<paragraph>
		- If a country's average rank across the given indices is related
		- to the privacy of citizen communications, then surveillance
		- programmes that monitor citizen communications will decrease that
		- country's rank.
		+ If toxicity levels of effluent discharge is reduced by half, then
		+ marine life mortality and abnormality rates will decrease proportionally.
		</paragraph>
		</measurable>

xml/proposal.xml

		<xref id="4">LEED Gold standards</xref>. Design and architectural
		guidelines have been incorporated into the <xref id="5">Request for
		- Proposals</xref> following input from the municipalities of
		+ Proposals</xref>, following input from the municipalities of
		Esquimalt and Victoria.
		</paragraph>

		The Treatment Plant will be located at <xref id="1">McLoughlin
		Point</xref>, in Esquimalt.
		+
		+ The municipalities of Victoria, Saanich, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, View
		+ Royal, Colwood and Langford collectively are participants of the
		+ Core Area Liquid Waste Management Service which is managed and
		+ operated by the Capital Regional District (CRD) in accordance with
		+ the Core Area Liquid Waste Management Plan (CALWMP).
		+ </paragraph>
		+ <paragraph>
		+ The CRD is responsible to implement secondary wastewater treatment
		+ area within timelines prescribed in the CALWMP, by the federally
		+ legislated deadline of 2020. While the approved CALWMP continues
		+ to identify McLoughlin Point as the location for the wastewater
		+ treatment facility, in April 2014, the Township of Esquimalt
		+ Council rejected the CRD’s revised rezoning application to locate
		+ a wastewater treatment facility at McLoughlin Point.
		</paragraph>
		<sections>
		<section>
		<title>Architecture</title>
		<content>
		<paragraph>
		- The threat posed by unlawful and excessive
		- <xref id="1">surveillance</xref> measures, imposed on
		- us by governments both foreign and domestic, whether
		- in response to <xref id="2">terrorism</xref> or other
		- threats is grave. There is an immediate need for
		- action to redress the balance and restore our
		- <xref id="3">privacy</xref>.
		+ The design includes green roof, glass fronting with
		+ harbour-front walkway. The design complies with the
		+ architectural guidelines that were developed with input from
		+ municipalities of Esquimalt and Victoria and approved by
		+ Esquimalt council.
		</paragraph>
		</content>
		</section>
		<section>
		<title>Technical</title>
		<content>
		<paragraph>
		- Regarding the <xref id="6">collection</xref> of
		- <xref id="4">personal information</xref>,
		- <xref id="5">citizens</xref> have a right to know
		- the:
		+ Facility technical requirements include:
		<list>
		- <item>rules that govern collection;</item>
		- <item>maximum data storage time; and</item>
		- <item>data retention policies.</item>
		+ <item>Provide enhanced primary and secondary treatment
		+ incorporates high rate wet weather treatment, innovative
		+ moving bed bioreactor technology, biological aerated
		+ filtration and advanced oxidation.</item>
		+ <item>Process will kill pathogens and reduce even further,
		+ pharmaceuticals and chemicals of concern as well as many
		+ other compounds found in wastewater.</item>
		+ <item>Secondary treatment combined with the advanced
		+ oxidation process is capable of providing better treatment
		+ of pharmaceuticals and chemicals than tertiary membrane
		+ treatment.</item>
		</list>
		</paragraph>
		</content>
		</section>
		<section>
		<title>Capacity</title>
		<content>
		<paragraph>
		- Cameras monitor movement of people and vehicles in
		- public spaces. Facial tracking combined with
		- secondary information sources erodes privacy without
		- significantly reducing crime rates. Police personnel
		- will transition from passive monitoring to active
		- patrolling.
		+ The winning proposal provided the CRD a facility with a
		+ capacity of 124 million litres per day; this will handle
		+ sewage generated until 2065 all within the affordability
		+ ceiling for the project.
		+ </paragraph>
		+ <paragraph>
		+ This additional capacity would have saved the CRD $150M by
		+ deferring the requirement for future additional plants.
		</paragraph>
		</content>

xml/resources.xml

		<policy>
		<summary>
		- <title>Digital Freedom Act</title>
		+ <title>Wastewater Treatment Project</title>
		</summary>
		<resources>

		</header>
		<data>
		- <name>Salaries and Employee Benefits</name>
		- <value>757067</value>
		+ <name>Construction</name>
		+ <value>631250000</value>
		</data>
		<data>
		- <name>Asset Amortization</name>
		- <value>55593</value>
		+ <name>Administration</name>
		+ <value>43912900</value>
		</data>
		<data>
		- <name>Professional and Special Services</name>
		- <value>409175</value>
		+ <name>Inflation Estimate</name>
		+ <value>67516300</value>
		</data>
		<data>
		- <name>Rentals</name>
		- <value>155417</value>
		+ <name>Land Acquisition</name>
		+ <value>13000000</value>
		+ </data>
		+ <data>
		+ <name>Interim Financing</name>
		+ <value>27006600</value>
		</data>
		<footer>
		<name>Total</name>
		- <value>1377252</value>
		+ <value>782685800</value>
		</footer>
		</dataset>
		</expenses>
		</resources>
		<overview>
		<parts>
		<part>
		<title>Executive Summary</title>
		<paragraph>
		- The estimated budget to ensure the protection of privacy in
		- <xref id="1">digital communications</xref> for the
		- 2014-2015 fiscal year is $1.4 million. The majority of
		- these funds are allocated to employee salaries and
		- benefits. As this policy takes effect, the employee count
		- is expected to halve by 2016.
		+ The total proposed federal contribution will be up to $253.4
		+ million, the total provincial contribution is a maximum of $248
		+ million, and the CRD will provide the balance, <xref id="3">
		+ estimated</xref> at almost $281.3 million.
		+ </paragraph>
		+ <paragraph>
		+ This number was confirmed (the “McLoughlin Option”) in a <xref
		+ id="1">document</xref> presented to the Core Area Liquid
		+ Waste Management Committee (CALWMC) on June 23, 20.
		</paragraph>
		<sections>
		<section>
		- <title>Salaries and Employee Benefits</title>
		+ <title>Construction</title>
		<content>
		<paragraph>
		- Employees are paid to contact <xref id="2">Internet
		- Service Providers</xref>, <xref id="3">Telecom
		- Service Providers</xref>, <xref id="4">government
		- agencies</xref>, <xref id="5">hospitals</xref>, and
		- <xref id="6">financial institutions</xref>. The
		- information collected in surveys provides a
		- transparent means to disclose the safety of our
		- citizens' private data. Once the surveys are
		- written and contact lists assembled, the surveys
		- can be dispatched automatically, reducing the
		- number of full-time employees required.
		+ Construction costs have been escalated on the basis of 2%
		+ per year to the mid‐point of construction (2014). This
		+ <xref id="0">estimate</xref> generally appears consistent
		+ with expectations in British Columbia for the near term, but
		+ may be on the low side for the out years.
		</paragraph>
		- </content>
		- </section>
		- <section>
		- <title>Professional and Special Services</title>
		- <content>
		<paragraph>
		- Security experts in various fields are necessary to
		- ascertain data privacy. These individuals are
		- highly trained in <xref id="5">Information
		- Technology</xref>, including: <xref id="6">database
		- vulnerabilities</xref>, <xref id="6">zero-day
		- operating system exploits</xref>, and
		- <xref id="6">social engineering</xref>.
		+ Design and engineering costs are included.
		</paragraph>
		</content>
		</section>
		<section>
		- <title>Asset Amortization</title>
		+ <title>Administration</title>
		<content>
		<paragraph>
		- The following items (purchased via loans) will be repaid in
		- full within two years, contributing to further reductions in
		- operating expenses: computing devices, peripherals, and
		- software; office furniture; and vehicles.
		+ The yearly operating cost is $14,571,000 in 2010 dollars,
		+ based on an <xref id="2">estimate</xref> by Stantec in June
		+ 2010. This figure assumes full capacity of the sewage system
		+ is utilized and hence the actual operating costs will likely
		+ be less during the initial years after construction is
		+ completed. The system is initially expected to handle 82% of
		+ its design flow.
		</paragraph>
		</content>
		</section>
		<section>
		- <title>Rentals</title>
		+ <title>Preliminary Inflation Estimate</title>
		<content>
		<paragraph>
		- Office space is currently being rented near the downtown
		- core. These costs can be reduced by moving the office into
		- urban areas, making use of home offices, and sub-leasing
		- unused areas.
		+ Conservatively, three years of inflation should be
		+ incorporated into the figures to adequately express costs in
		+ 2014 dollars. As the total project cost was derived from
		+ 2010 studies (and although never explicitly stated in the
		+ reports, likely implies nominal costs incurred would start
		+ from 2010), it would be prudent to factor in three years of
		+ inflation into the initial price tag, for a total of
		+ <xref id="5">approximately</xref> $830.6 million.
		</paragraph>
		</content>
		- </section>
		+ </section>
		</sections>
		</part>

xml/support.xml

		<policy>
		<summary>
		- <title>Digital Freedom Act</title>
		+ <title>Wastewater Treatment Project</title>
		</summary>
		<implication>
		<statistics>
		<votes>42813</votes>
		</statistics>
		<title>
		- Surveillance data is susceptible to theft.
		+ Untreated sewage contains pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals.
		</title>
		<support>
		<paragraph>
		- The <xref id="1">Heartbleed bug</xref>, reported in late
		- 2013, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive
		- information from unprotected computer systems. The NSA
		- is <xref id="2">rumoured</xref> to have used this bug to
		- advance its own intelligence operations.
		+ The following video (from July, 2013) shows sewage sediment
		+ accumulation on the seabed and marine life at Coghlan Rock, five
		+ kilometers from the Macaulay Point Outfall. This accumulation has
		+ decreased the numbers and diversity of marine flora and fauna in
		+ many areas of <xref id="0">Victoria Bight</xref>.
		</paragraph>
		<paragraph>
		- In June of 2014, two staff members of a Scarborough hospital
		- were reportedly paid by external companies to
		- <xref id="0">leak</xref> the contact information for 8,300
		- patients. The contact information included the patient name,
		- phone number, and address. The patients were primarily
		- women who became mothers between 2009 and 2013. The data
		- was delivered to RESP investment companies, but it could
		- just as easily be transferred to people who intimidate or
		- blackmail.
		+ <video url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hNR1dfcJn30"/>
		</paragraph>
		<paragraph>
		- Chinese hackers <xref id="3">breached</xref> Google's servers
		- in 2010, seeking to identify accounts that had been tagged
		- for surveillance by U.S. national security and law
		- enforcement agencies. Similar <xref id="4">attacks</xref>
		- against various technology companies, also around this time,
		- focused on obtaining information about political dissidents.
		- Additional attacks hit companies in <xref id="6">strategic
		- industries</xref> where China lags, such as defense companies
		- to steal <xref id="7">weapons systems</xref> information.
		+ Monitoring conducted by the Capital Regional District between 2000
		+ and 2004 demonstrated that certain prescribed substances listed in
		+ <xref id="2">Schedule 9</xref> of the Contaminated Sites Regulation
		+ (CSR) occurred in marine sediments at elevated levels in the vicinity of
		+ the two outfalls: Macaulay Point and Clover Point.
		</paragraph>
		<paragraph>
		- Surveillance data gathered by the <xref id="8">Five
		- Eyes</xref> is purportedly used for counter-terrorism and
		- security. The scope of the data acquired by the NSA and
		- similar organizations ensures that the information can be
		- used politically as well. Were the data vaults breached by
		- countries with sinister motivations, the results could be
		- disastrous.
		+ The evaluation showed that sediment quality conditions at Macaulay
		+ Point were sufficient to warrant designation as a contaminated site,
		+ as defined under the CSR (see <xref id="3"> Tables 17 and 18</xref>).
		+ Within the IDZ, the 90th percentile concentrations of three trace
		+ metals and seven individual PAHs exceeded the generic numerical
		+ sediment criteria for typical sites. Similarly, the 90th percentile
		+ concentrations of five trace metals, 13 individual PAHs, and total
		+ PAHs exceeded the generic numerical sediment criteria for sensitive
		+ sites in whole-sediment samples collected outside the IDZ.
		+ </paragraph>
		+ <paragraph>
		</paragraph>
		</support>

Added ability to embed video. Updates example to demonstrate wastewater project deliberation.