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Development Magazine Summer 2014 /
Install Fiber Optic Cable to Stay Ahead of Tenant Demand
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Developers who are still installing Internet connections to their buildings through copper wire may lose tenants at the next lease renewal and risk early obsolescence if a recent report on Internet and data growth from Cisco Systems is to be believed.
According to the white paper, "Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2012-2017," "Global IP traffic has increased more than fourfold in the past 5 years, and will increase threefold over the next 5 years. Overall, IP traffic will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 percent from 2012 to 2017." The report adds that business Internet Protocol (IP) traffic will increase at a CAGR of 21 percent from 2012 to 2017.
One company that is prepared for this growth is Cincinnati-based North American Properties. The firm is developing Avalon, a mixed-use complex in Atlanta's Alpharetta submarket. North American acquired the Avalon property, which fell victim to the recent recession, from Wells Fargo. North American demolished the existing buildings and is creating a $600 million, 2.3 million-square-foot mixed-use project. The first phase, which is projected to be completed this October, will contain 400,000 square feet of retail space, 250 multifamily housing units, 101 single-family residences and 105,000 square feet of loft office space. Planned future phases will feature more office space, a hotel, a conference center and other uses.
About two years ago, Mark Toro, a managing partner at North American Properties, came across an item on Twitter that captured his attention. Google was planning an initiative called Google Fiber, and was reaching out to municipalities around the U.S. and asking them to apply to Google to install fiber optic cable to homes and businesses in their cities. The communities selected would be "lit up," the term Google used for making fiber optic technology operational.
Toro did a bit of research and discovered that in the 1970s and 1980s, when fiber optic technology first came on the scene, numerous "fiber optic rings" had been installed in public streets, railroads and utility rights of way around the U.S. "The idea," he explains, "was to provide a backbone for data to travel literally at the speed of light."
However, the companies that brought in telephone and cable service and, later, Internet service had installed copper wire to businesses and homes and had no intention of ripping up that costly infrastructure and replacing it with fiber optic cable. Toro discovered that most cable and Internet customers — both business and consumer — are still using what is known as "fiber to the node" technology. That means that fiber goes to an AT&T, Comcast or Time Warner Cable node. Those companies then run copper from that node to the building, which drastically reduces the bandwidth, capacity and speed of the connection.
Toro found that the average speed of an Internet connection in the U.S. today is between six and nine megabits per second. Meanwhile, the average speed of a fiber optic connection is about 1,000 megabits or one gigabit per second. Toro was determined to get that data transmission speed into Avalon and found a company, Philadelphia-based Hotwire Communications, that could handle the job.
Google Fiber is considering installing fiber optics connections in Atlanta and surrounding municipalities sometime in the future (see "Is a Fiberhood Coming to Your Neighborhood"), but this is not yet a done deal. Hooking up Avalon to fiber optic will make it one of only two "fiberhoods" (neighborhoods with fiber optics) in Georgia. (The only other fiberhood there is Georgia Tech.) In discussing fiber optics with Georgia Tech officials recently, Toro was told that the single biggest factor in the growth of technology companies going forward will be the availability of fiber. According to Georgia Tech studies, both technology companies and more traditional businesses have bandwidth requirements that are growing at a phenomenal rate.
Installing traditional copper wire in a building today to connect it to the Internet is the fastest way that Toro knows of to make that building obsolete. "Fiber optics is rendering all non-fiber optic office space Class B office space, because if you do not have the speed and bandwidth, you cannot compete," he notes. "I liken this to constructing a building with water supplied by a one-inch garden hose."
To drive home this point, Avalon has posted a YouTube video that demonstrates the difference between downloading a typical HD movie from the Internet at fiber optic speed and at the speed of a conventional connection. The fiber does the job in about three seconds; the traditional connection can take up to 35 minutes.
"Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2012-2017"
"Gigabit Internet Service, Avalon, Speed Demonstration"
Becoming Twitter Wise
As a real estate professional, you may think of Twitter as something for kids (or adults with a lot of time on their hands). According to Mark Toro, managing partner of Cincinnati-based North American Properties, however, commercial real estate professionals can learn a lot from the popular social media site. Toro first learned about Google Fiber and the large and growing demand for Internet bandwidth on Twitter two years ago.
Commercial real estate broker Duke Long of the Indianapolis-based Duke Long Agency publishes an annual list of the "top 10 most influential commercial real estate people on social media." Toro made the 2013 list; to his surprise, he was the only person on the list who was a principal in a commercial real estate company. (Long cited Atlantic Station as "the best example of digital online retail project promotion I have ever seen.")
"I am involved in Twitter because it is the ultimate filter for news and for various interests I have," says Toro. "I have 3,000 followers today. It is amazing to me that the commercial real estate industry, as vast as it is, doesn't have more representation online." In addition to Atlantic Station news, Toro tweets and retweets videos, articles and reports about local and national commercial real estate trends as well as pictures and news from industry events.
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By: Thomas "TJ" Ciccone
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Andrew Norman is a composer of orchestral, chamber, and vocal music. Recently praised as "the leading American composer of his generation" by the Los Angeles Times and the "master of a uniquely dazzling and mercurial style" by the New Yorker, Andrew is fast becoming one of the most sought after voices in American classical music. His work draws on an eclectic mix of sounds and performance practices and is deeply influenced by his training as a pianist and violist as well as his lifelong love of architecture.
Sustain gets a shoutout in the New Yorker's year-end roundup.
Sustain gets a nice write up in the New Yorker.
The LA Phil premieres Sustain on the first concerts of their centennial season.
Switch made it onto New York Magazine's best classical performances of 2016 list.
I wrote a speech for the Musical America awards ceremony, and NewMusicBox asked to publish it, here.
Play has won the 2017 Grawemeyer Award. Here's an interview I gave to NPR about it.
The Cincinnati Symphony will play Play as part of their amazing Music Now festival on January 13, 2017.
Inon Barnatan and the San Diego Symphony will play Suspend on January 6 and 8, 2017.
The Variation Trio will play The Companion Guide to Rome at the 92nd Street Y on November 30, 2016.
Anne Lanzilotti has written a very thorough article about Play for the website Music and Literature.
I'm deeply humbled to be Musical America's 2017 Composer of the Year. Alex Ross has some nice things to say here.
Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic play Play on October 28th in LA, and October 31 in San Francisco.
Colin Currie and the Oregon Symphony play Switch October 22, 23, and 24.
The Esprit Orchestra and Ryan Scott play Switch in October.
Eighth Blackbird brings Hand Eye, the latest Sleeping Giant collaborative work, to Carnegie Hall on January 18th.
Ashley Bathgate premieres a new solo cello piece of mine at LPR on January 12th.
Play gets some year-end shout-outs here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Play and Hopscotch are mentioned on Alex Ross's Best of 2015 list.
Hopscotch got a great write-up in the New Yorker!
Play is nominated for a Grammy!
Split gets some nice reviews, here and here.
The New York Times says I'm tall!
Play is cited on NPR's 50 Favorite Albums of 2015 list!
I'm thrilled to be the new director of the LA Phil's Composer Fellowship Program.
Listen to Nadia Sirota's excellent (and astonishingly produced) Meet the Composer interview here.
Colin Currie and the Utah Symphony give the world premiere of my new percussion concerto November 6 and 7, 2015.
Play has been getting a lot of good press lately! Here are write-ups from the Boston Globe and Vulture.
Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil will premiere a new piece of mine in February, 2016.
Jeffrey Kahane and the New York Philharmonic will premiere my new piano concerto in December 2015.
James Gaffigan, Inon Barnatan, and the Orchestre National de France give the European premiere Suspend on February 12th in Paris.
Frank's House, a piece about Frank Gehry's Santa Monica home, premieres on Feb. 5.
Check out this profile in the LA Times. Once again my messy studio steals the show…
Play is Q2′s Album of the Week.
Alex Ross has some nice things to say about Play.
Play is finally here!!! Get your copy today!
John Adams and the New World Symphony rock Try during Art Basel weekend in Miami.
David Robertson, Kiril Gerstein, and the Saint Louis Symphony play Try on Thanksgiving weekend.
The Seattle Symphony performs Try on October 17, 2014.
yMusic's AMAZING rendition of Music in Circles is out on their album Balance Problems.
"The Law of Mosaics" makes it onto several year-end lists, including this one and this one and this one.
The Companion Guide to Rome is now available on Law of Mosaics, an album by Boston's fearsome string ensemble A Far Cry.
Check out this interview on NewMusicBox by the lovely (and patient) Alexandra Gardner.
Emanuel Ax, Gustavo Dudamel, and the LA Phil give the world premiere of my new piano concerto, Release, on May 1 and 3 at Disney Hall.
Check out this profile in the LA Times.
BMOP is in post-production on the recording of Play. Check back in Summer/Fall 2014 for a release!
The Companion Guide to Rome is a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in music.

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Since learning to spin, I've accumulated a lot of roving. It will take me a long time before I can spin it all... I just got two more pounds of wool! So, I'm learning something new to do with my roving. That new skill is needlefelting.
Needlefelting creates matted mounds of fiber by using a sharp, barbed needle poked repeatedly into the fiber. Normally you use wool, but other fibers can be needle felted too. As opposed to wet felting, which can only be done with animal hair fibers, you can needle felt other kinds of fiber such as silk and bamboo.
It's a black panther, which kind of-sort of stands up by itself. You have to adjust the legs or it will fall over. It's hard to make long, thin, detailed things like the legs and tail though. It was fun, but it does take a while to get the wool felted together. My felting needle tool has three needles in one, which makes the felting go a little bit quicker.
yikes! Is that hair?? Well I'm not any good at knitting it always comes out awful but yours is def admirable!
Isn't needle felting fun? Our llama club group made a huge 2'x3' felted wall hanging - it started out as a wet felted piece but the details didn't come out very well so we sat down and started needle felting details onto the felted "canvas". Now to find the time to do more 3-D felted pieces. I sell needle felting kits in my etsy store and they sell very well - everyone has so much fun with felting!
Great looking panther, that is so cool!!


FLIES have been outed as the dirty bombers of the insect world, carrying more harmful bacteria than previously thought.
Scientis at Penn State Eberly College of Science in America have found that common houseflies carry salmonella, e-coli and other bacteria that can lead to stomach ulcers and deadly sepsis.
Results show that the housefly harboured 351 types of bacteria and the blowfly, found in warmer climates, carried 316 with a large crossover of bacteria found in both types.
The study examined the microbiology of 116 flies from three continents.
Next week: "never talk with your mouth full", followed by "never picking your nose at the dinner table". News?


finished a quarter of an hour earlier. She passed quietly up the stairs.
their beating, and Hilda's lips hardened.
which had never been settled.
expanse of ten years stretched out like a hundred years, like eternity.
answered with the fervour of despair, "I don't know! I don't know!"
that she read, occasionally with feverish enjoyment, especially verse.
renewed! For Hilda, _Maud_ was a source of lovely and exquisite pain.
Municipal Library, nor any public lending-library.
faith in their promise was insecure.
that youth, moment by moment, was dropping down inexorably behind her.
heavens while Hilda sought the way of life.
mother was self-contradictory, so was her attitude towards existence.
faculties, the power to feel intensely.
for he inhabited the farthest of the cottages.
consent of a 'court' presided over by the agent of a lord of the manor.
righteousness, and an eternal laundry.


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Q: Is there a simple example of a ring that satifies the DCC on two-sided ideals, but doesn't satisfy the ACC on two-sided ideals? It follows from the Hopkins–Levitzki theorem that if a ring satisfies the DCC on left ideals, then it also satisfies the ACC on left ideals. I've been trying to  find a counterexample to the following statement.

If a ring satisfies the DCC on two-sided ideals, then it also satisfies the ACC on two-sided ideals.

The best I could come up with is not really good. My example is of large cardinality and since I don't know much about set theory, I can't be sure if it's correct. I use this. I take the ring $R$ of endomorphisms of an $\aleph_\omega$-dimensional vector space over a field $\mathbb F,$
$$R=\operatorname{End}\left(\bigoplus_{i\in\aleph{\omega}}\mathbb F\right).$$
From the linked answer, I know that the two-sided ideals in $R$ are the sets of endomorphisms of rank $\kappa$, for each infinite cardinal $\kappa \leq \aleph_\omega.$ In ZFC, these ideals form a lattice isomorphic to $\mathbb N\cup \{\infty\}$ with the natural order. This lattice satisfies the DCC, but not the ACC.
This is a silly example, and (a) I'm not sure it's correct, (b) I have never seen the proofs of the facts relevant to it.
I have three questions.
(1) Is the above correct?
(2) (Changed) Is there an example of a smaller cardinality (at most $\mathfrak c$), and preferably uncomplicated? I'm quite sure there must be, but I can't think of one.
(3) Is it possible to construct a simple example of a ring whose lattice of two-sided ideals is isomorphic to $\mathbb N\cup\{\infty\}?$
EDIT After the the discussion in comments in which my ignorance in set theory became obvious, I would like to add a restriction in (2) and (3) that the examples can proven to be examples without the use of the axiom of choice. I'm not sure it's a good restriction, but I don't see one that would fit my needs better.

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Why data retention scares me: reason #32
Identities have been changed to protect the innocent. This story came to me from an IT worker (let's call her Jane) who worked on a database project in the public service some years ago. As is wont to happen in the public service, her project morphed from a set of very clearly defined deliverables into a completely different project, largely driven by political considerations.
While working on this project, she was unnerved one day when she came across her partner's name in one of the database records. She had that cold, clammy "oh no what have I done?" response after assuming she must've added a "dummy" record into the system for testing purposes, and forgot to remove it. But she also had no memory of doing it either.
Trying to jog her memory as to why and when she'd entered that record, she read on. And, based on the details, realised that it wasn't a dummy record at all; her partner was indeed on the system.
A few years prior, her partner (let's call him Peter) had made an appointment with his GP to confide that he was starting to be concerned about how well he was (or wasn't) coping with the recent addition to his family – Peter and Jane had both been going through a toughish patch as new parents. The GP gave him the phone number of a helpline, which he called from his home soon after. The record Jane stumbled on in the database was the record of that phone call, from a time in their lives from which they'd both moved on.
As far as Peter knew, he was calling a "helpline". He had (until Jane told him) no idea that as a result of that phone call, he had a mental health record with the health department.
Jane's work included overseeing the movement of that data into a new repository. The Personal Information Protection Act had just come into play, and accordingly Jane took the opportunity to raise the issue with her superiors: here was a case-in-point of the existence of a mental health record regarding someone who didn't know the record even existed (let alone the other protections conferred by the Act, such as the person's right to refuse to have a record made, to have the purpose of the record explained, to review the record and to correct it). Apparently it caused a bit of a flap, but only temporarily – to this day Peter has never been officially advised of the existence of that record nor of his right to access it.
The postscript to the story was equally troubling. A week after Jane's employment contract expired, i.e. when she was no longer in the public service, she was still able to access that record. No-one within the health department had remembered to revoke her access rights to the system – she was able to access the department's network, and the database in question. To make a point, she made an appointment with senior management, and took in a copy of the record that she'd made that morning.
That's apparently the kind of information protection and management we can expect for potentially sensitive, government-managed health data, bound by recently introduced rights-based legislation. And yet the government thinks we should have no qualms about the wholesale retention of everything we do online by third party entities which exist to make money by facilitating communication over global networks.
McJules / April 1, 2013
About four years ago when I last went to a doctor I was really concerned about the computer on his desk and asked him some Qs as to the security he used for it. To my view he used nothing special, which I supposed would have been good enough for anyone who wasn't a sceptic but, I decided then and there that If I needed treatment for anything that I didn't want the world to know about I wouldn't go to the doctor.
I would have felt more assured about the security of his computer records if he used two machines ie. one always offline for his patient database and their treatment records and the second online for drug info and any other online knowledge items he required. Computers are so inexpensive now that two machines wouldn't be such a drama. Patient information really is is confidential Just as it was in the handwritten card days.
Marshall / April 1, 2013
Hi McJules,
Thanks for the comment. Assuming you're in Australia, and your doctor worked as part of a medical practice, it's more than likely that your records were not on his computer at all, but rather on a server in the practice, or even externally hosted.
Software developers are typically very responsive to their clients' security demands, especially in the health-care arena, and this is probably more apparent in the private sector than in the public sector. There are a few 'big players' on the GP software front in this country and most of them are well established (at least that was situation when I was last involved) and took security relatively seriously. The story above is an example of the worst types of things that can happen when a government department receives inadequate funding, makes IT decisions for political reasons, and has a splintered approach to IT management – there are just too many opportunities for things to fall between the gaps.
That said, a lot of security is designed to prevent simple 'attacks' or to protect against procedural oversights, rather than preventing targeted and genuinely sophisticated attacks; I have little doubt that the far greater majority of the information we consider to be private, wherever it lives, is in fact wide open to exploitation if anyone cared to do so and had the time/money to invest to do it. For a really chilling example of just how far things can go, check out this article.
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Very good Item And Very Good Water Coverage As Expected. Easy To Set Up And Hozelock Quality Is Hard To Beat At The Price. Very Happy. Newly Laid Lawn Thinks So Too.
This is the second one of these I've had now and both have stopped working after a very short time. The oscillating mechanisms simply stop working. Be warned - dont waste your money.
I have purchased 3 of these Hozelock sprinklers over the last 6 years because I need to water a rectangular area.
Each one has stopped oscillating during its first summer of use.I have cleaned, lubricated, tested water pressure, all to no avail.Bah!
I'm on replacement number 3 if not 4. They all fail to oscillate soon after purchase. Can't be bothered to have it replaced again so I'm going to try another manufacturer.
Very disappointed - possibly unlucky???


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Q: Cómo puedo maximizar el uso de la sección title en un ListTile en Flutter? Como puedo eliminar el gap entre el title y el trailing de un ListTile, para usar la parte derecha del title del ListTile que va antes que el trailing, maximizando así el área dedicada al texto del title?  Intenté manipulando los valores de minLeadingWidth y el horizontalTitleGap, pero eso no parece hacer llegar el texto a la parte que necesito, marcada abajo en rojo, ni aún alineándolo a la derecha:

A: Lo mejor sería crear tu propio widget con Row y Column, así tienes control de lo que quieres mostrar exactamente.
Revisé el código del ListTile y viene con tamaños definidos para cada porción, pero veo que hay una propiedad interesante.
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Home » Hacking News » Hackers deface thousands of website by exploiting WordPress vulnerability
Hackers deface thousands of website by exploiting WordPress vulnerability
February 8th, 2017 Ryan De Souza Hacking News, Security 0 comments
WordPress vulnerabilities which were discovered recently have been negatively and sometimes fatally affecting countless websites thus far. Initially, there were three flaws (identified about two weeks back) for which WordPress has already released security updates. However, we later learned that there was another huge vulnerability that allowed cyber-criminals to obtain unauthorized remote access to manipulate WordPress sites by editing or even deleting pages. This vulnerability was disclosed by the security firm, Sucuri.
It must be noted that after the release of WordPress 4.7.2 in January 2017, the CMS/content management system's developers revealed that the latest version contained all the necessary patches to fix the three previously identified flaws, namely SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and access control concerns.
Must Read: 10 Ways to Protect Your WordPress Site You Didn't Know About
However, a week later, developers claimed that there was another flaw for which a patch was also included in the latest version update. This flaw was quite dangerous as it allowed cyber-criminals to gain administrator privileges. This was a content injection vulnerability which affected the REST API. The site admins had a week to patch the flaw but failed to update their sites. Last week, Sucuri disclosed the flaw; sending hackers into overdrive to capitalize on mistakes made. Thousands of sites have since been hacked with all their home pages carrying "Hacked By" messages.
Sucuri stated that hackers had compromised not hundreds but thousands of websites due to the availability of unpatched websites in such large quantity. The firm further stated that it was the delay in patches being implemented which resulted in such a large number of pages being affected.
Sucuri did inform WordPress about the vulnerability and a patch was included in the recent release from the company, but apparently, admins of the sites did not update their sites manually; perhaps they were relying on the automated updating feature, which unfortunately wasn't working. Within 48 hours, hackers had started exploiting the flaw.
According to Sucuri, four different hacking groups were involved in the latest hack campaign involving WordPress websites. The exploitation is being conducted across the globe and there are apparently four campaigns running simultaneously against unpatched WordPress sites. One of the groups has managed to compromise over 66,000 pages while two groups have compromised 500 pages.
The company was able to make the assumption that there are four or maybe more perpetrators of the crime because they have identified various IP addresses. W4l3XzY3 and Cyb3r-Shia are believed to be the groups conducting mass attacks. Sucuri has suggested that users must block following four IP addresses immediately: 176.9.36.102, 185.116.213.71, 134.213.54.163, 2a00:1a48:7808:104:9b57:dda6:eb3c:61e1.
The IP address 37.237.192.22 is believed to belong to the hacker, so it is better that users block this one too. Two different hackers By+NeT.Defacer and By+Hawleri_hacker are using the same IP address, 144.217.81.160.
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According to SecurityWeek, there is a fifth hacking group involved too, but all the actors participating in the exploitation of the unpatched sites are mostly novices trying to boost their popularity online. However, security experts fear that the flaw will be used to perform search engine poisoning. As CTO and founder of Sucuri Daniel Cid pointed out: "There's already a few exploit attempts that try to add spam images and content to a post. Due to the monetization possibilities, this will likely be the #1 route to abuse this vulnerability."
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Q: Installing of any wsp fails with message: Name cannot begin with the ' ' character, hexadecimal value 0x20 Installation of any WSP fails with message: Name cannot begin with the ' ' character, hexadecimal value 0x20
The problem is that sharepoint doesn't report which file is causing trouble. And we have problem installing any WSP, so I think this file is somewhare deployed on SP server. If you take a look at second log it reports that error is in the line 1949... When I run configuration wizard I get this error in log for every wsp installed.
I've searched web config and unpacked some WSPs but these do not have that many lines.
    11/14/2017 12:29:36.96  vssphost5.exe (0xA36C)                      0x044C  SharePoint Foundation           General                         8zoq    High        Solution Deployment : Validation of cab failed for solution activateaccounts_2013.wsp. Exception info : Name cannot begin with the ' ' character, hexadecimal value 0x20. Line 1949, position 6.

Even SP Configuration Wizard fails with same message
SharePoint Foundation Upgrade   SPUpgradeSession    ajxnm   ERROR   Upgrade [SPFarm Name=SharepointTSA_SharepointTSA_ConfigDB] failed.  00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
11.15.2017 10:10:25.24  psconfigui (0x5528) 0x1140  SharePoint Foundation Upgrade   SPUpgradeSession    ajxnm   ERROR   Inner Exception: Name cannot begin with the ' ' character, hexadecimal value 0x20. Line 1949, position 6.   00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
11.15.2017 10:10:25.24  psconfigui (0x5528) 0x1140  SharePoint Foundation Upgrade   SPUpgradeSession    ajxnm   ERROR      at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)     at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseQName(Boolean isQName, Int32 startOffset, Int32& colonPos)     at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElement()     at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent()     at System.Xml.Schema.Parser.Parse(XmlReader reader, String targetNamespace)     at System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaSet.ParseSchema(String targetNamespace, XmlReader reader)     at System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaSet.Add(String targetNamespace, String schemaUri)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility.GetSharePointXmlSchemaSet(Int32 desiredPathVersion)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility.XsdValidateXml(XmlTextReader xmlStreamReader, String friendlyName, String pathXsdFile, String tagExpectedRootNode, Int32 desiredPathVersion, ValidationEventHandler xsdValEventHandler)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFeatureDefinition.ValidateFeatureXml(String pathToFeatureAndElementManifestXsdFile)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFeatureDefinition.ValidateDefinition(String pathToFeatureAndElementManifestXsdFile)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFeatureDefinitionCollection.AddCore(SPFeatureDefinition featdef, SPSite site, String solutionHash, Boolean fForce, Boolean fDoValidation, String pathToFeatureAndElementManifestXsdFile)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm.EnsureOutOfBoxFeaturesInstalled(String[] rgsOutOfBoxFeatures, Int32 compatibilityLevel)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPActionSequence.Upgrade() 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
11.15.2017 10:10:25.24  psconfigui (0x5528) 0x1140  SharePoint Foundation Upgrade   SPUpgradeSession    ajxnm   ERROR   Exception: Action 4.0.5.0 of Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPFarmSequence failed.    00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
11.15.2017 10:10:25.24  psconfigui (0x5528) 0x1140  SharePoint Foundation Upgrade   SPUpgradeSession    ajxnm   ERROR      at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPActionSequence.Upgrade()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.Upgrade(Object o, Boolean bRecurse)  00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

A: We found answer
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/bd673e3f-6709-462a-aa79-edf984468862/cant-retract-wsp?forum=sharepointdevelopmentlegacy&prof=required
The file:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\15\TEMPLATE\XML\wss.xsd was corrupt.
It was line 1949 pos 6
< name="AssociationUrl" type="RelativeUrl" />

Replaced it with
<xs:attribute name="AssociationUrl" type="RelativeUrl" />

P.S. Special thanks to Peter!


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ST-C407-9-63. President John F. Kennedy Aboard the USS Observation Island
President John F. Kennedy (center left, wearing sunglasses) speaks by radiotelephone to the crew of the submarine USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619) from the deck of the United States Naval ship USS Observation Island (EAG-154), at sea off the coast of Florida. Left to right: unidentified military officer; Deputy Commander of the Submarine Force of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Rear Admiral Vernon L. Lowrance; Commanding Officer of the USS Observation Island, Captain Roderick O. Middleton; President Kennedy (wearing a windbreaker bearing the insignias of USS Observation Island and USS Andrew Jackson presented as a gift from the crews of both ships); Senator George A. Smathers (Florida); Director of Special Projects (USN), Rear Admiral I. J. Galantin; and two unidentified sailors. The President sailed aboard the ship to view a Polaris A-2 missile launch demonstration from the submarine. [See also MO 75.704, "United States Naval Jacket"]
ST-C407-8-63. President John F. Kennedy Receives Navy Jacket Aboard the USS Observation Island
During a visit on board the United States Naval ship USS Observation Island (EAG-154) at sea off the coast of Florida, President John F. Kennedy (center, wearing sunglasses) puts on a windbreaker presented as a gift from the crews of the USS Observation Island and the submarine USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619). Left to right (in foreground): Deputy Commander of the Submarine Force of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Rear Admiral Vernon L. Lowrance; Senator George A. Smathers of Florida (back to camera); President Kennedy; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; and Director of Special Projects (USN), Rear Admiral I. J. Galantin. The President sailed aboard the ship to view a Polaris A-2 missile launch demonstration from the submarine. [See also MO 75.704, "United States Naval Jacket"]
During a visit on board the United States Naval ship USS Observation Island (EAG-154) at sea off the coast of Florida, President John F. Kennedy (center, wearing sunglasses) puts on a windbreaker bearing the insignias of the USS Observation Island and the submarine USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619) presented as a gift from the crews of both ships. Left to right (in foreground): Commanding Officer of the USS Observation Island, Captain Roderick O. Middleton; Deputy Commander of the Submarine Force of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Rear Admiral Vernon L. Lowrance; Senator George A. Smathers (Florida); Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; President Kennedy; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; and Director of Special Projects (USN), Rear Admiral I. J. Galantin. The President sailed aboard the ship to view a Polaris A-2 missile launch demonstration from the submarine. [See also MO 75.704, "United States Naval Jacket"]
ST-C407-3-63. President John F. Kennedy Departs USS Observation Island
President John F. Kennedy (center left) shakes hands with Deputy Commander of the Submarine Force of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Rear Admiral Vernon L. Lowrance, prior to his departure from the United States Naval ship USS Observation Island (EAG-154), at sea off the coast of Florida; sailors (flanking both sides) salute President Kennedy. Also pictured: White House Secret Service agent, Floyd Boring; Senator George A. Smathers (Florida); Director of Special Projects (USN), Rear Admiral I. J. Galantin; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; and White House photographer, Chief Robert L. Knudsen. The President sailed aboard the ship to view a Polaris A-2 missile launch demonstration from the submarine USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619).
ST-C407-14-63. President John F. Kennedy Views Polaris Missile Launch from USS Observation Island
During a visit aboard the United States Naval ship USS Observation Island (EAG-154), President John F. Kennedy (center, looking through binoculars) watches a demonstration of the firing of a Polaris A-2 missile from the submarine USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619), at sea off the coast of Florida. Left to right: Commanding Officer of the USS Observation Island, Captain Roderick O. Middleton; Deputy Commander of the Submarine Force of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Rear Admiral Vernon L. Lowrance; President Kennedy; and Director of Special Projects (USN), Rear Admiral I. J. Galantin.
ST-C407-12-63. President John F. Kennedy Aboard the USS Observation Island
President John F. Kennedy (center left, wearing sunglasses) and others stand on the deck of the United States Naval ship USS Observation Island (EAG-154), at sea off the coast of Florida. Left to right (in foreground): Director of Special Projects (USN), Rear Admiral I. J. Galantin (facing away); Deputy Commander of the Submarine Force of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Rear Admiral Vernon L. Lowrance; President Kennedy; and Senator George A. Smathers (Florida). The President sailed aboard the ship to view a Polaris A-2 missile launch demonstration from the submarine USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619).
During a visit aboard the United States Naval ship USS Observation Island (EAG-154), President John F. Kennedy (center right, wearing sunglasses) watches a demonstration of the firing of a Polaris A-2 missile from the submarine USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619), at sea off the coast of Florida. Left to right: unidentified military officer (partially hidden on edge of frame); White House Secret Service agent, Floyd Boring (in back); Commanding Officer of the USS Observation Island, Captain Roderick O. Middleton; Deputy Commander of the Submarine Force of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Rear Admiral Vernon L. Lowrance; President Kennedy (wearing a windbreaker bearing the insignias of USS Observation Island and USS Andrew Jackson presented as a gift from the crews of both ships); and Director of Special Projects (USN), Rear Admiral I. J. Galantin. [See also MO 75.704, "United States Naval Jacket"]
President John F. Kennedy (center, wearing sunglasses) speaks by radiotelephone to the crew of the submarine USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619) from the deck of the United States Naval ship USS Observation Island (EAG-154), at sea off the coast of Florida. Left to right: three unidentified military personnel; Deputy Commander of the Submarine Force of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Rear Admiral Vernon L. Lowrance; Commanding Officer of the USS Observation Island, Captain Roderick O. Middleton (in back, partially hidden); President Kennedy (wearing a windbreaker bearing the insignias of USS Observation Island and USS Andrew Jackson presented as a gift from the crews of both ships); Director of Special Projects (USN), Rear Admiral I. J. Galantin; and two unidentified sailors. The President sailed aboard the ship to view a Polaris A-2 missile launch demonstration from the submarine. [See also MO 75.704, "United States Naval Jacket"]
ST-C400-38-63. President John F. Kennedy Receives Navy Jacket Aboard the USS Observation Island
During a visit on board the United States Naval ship USS Observation Island (EAG-154) at sea off the coast of Florida, President John F. Kennedy (center left, wearing sunglasses) puts on a windbreaker bearing the insignias of the USS Observation Island and the submarine USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619) presented as a gift from the crews of both ships. Left to right (in foreground): Deputy Commander of the Submarine Force of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Rear Admiral Vernon L. Lowrance; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; President Kennedy; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; and Director of Special Projects (USN), Rear Admiral I. J. Galantin. The President sailed aboard the ship to view a Polaris A-2 missile launch demonstration from the submarine. [See also MO 75.704, "United States Naval Jacket"]
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Intolerance Part I — Fourteen Words
By: Jared Anderson/Siuslaw News - Updated: 2 years ago
A look into the world of white supremacy and its ties to popular culture
June 11, 2018 — Editor's note: This is the first part in an ongoing series exploring the topic of intolerance within our community dialogue and, ultimately, our nation's. In the coming months, the Siuslaw News will examine the many facets of this growing trend by looking at online trolling, the history of racism in Oregon, cultural and religious beliefs, political partisanship and other aspects of intolerance in an attempt to understand the impasses we face — and maybe how we can bridge them within the Siuslaw region. We'll warn you that there is some explicit content…
"A lot of the younger guys looked up to me," said Arno Michaelis, former white supremacist and co-founder of the white power skinhead group Northern Hammerskins. "They were like puppy dogs who tried to talk like me and act like me.
"One morning, one of the kids showed up on my doorstep, and he's beside himself with laughter. He gleefully relates to me how between the liquor store and my house, he saw a Latino boy in the alley. He kicked him in the stomach and left him writhing in pain after spitting on him. He's telling me like a kid would tell his dad about a straight-A report card — just beaming."
Michaelis and coauthor Pardeep Singh Kaleka have just released a new book, "The Gift of our Wounds," an examination of forgiveness after hate. The two will be coming to Florence on July 15 to the Presbyterian Church of the Siuslaw for an event hosted by Serve 2 Unite, a group that works with young people of all backgrounds to cultivate compassion and kindness.
"We feel those things are the antidote to bullying, both for people who are being bullied or people who are acting like a bully, in a school or work environment. If those places are rooted in compassion and kindness, the likelihood of bullying diminishes significantly," Michaelis said.
Michaelis talked with the Siuslaw News in an extensive interview ranging on topics including the white supremacist movement, the history of intolerance in America and how a person like Michaelis escaped the cycle of intolerance.
He was a founder of the Northern Hammerskins, which is now a chapter of Hammerskin nation, which the Anti-Defamation League has described as "the most violent and best-organized neo-Nazi skinhead group in the United States."
The young boy who kicked and spit on a Latino was one of Michaelis' followers.
"When I heard him say that story, in my head, I distinctly thought, 'That's f---ked up. Why would you attack a kid?'"
But he only said that in his head.
"Because I had taken that kid, and every other kid like him, and would get them rip-roaring-drunk night after night, telling them how all the blacks and the Mexicans are coming to kill us," Michaelis recalled. "'We have to kill them first, this is war.' We can't be pumping out the rhetoric over and over again for years, and then be surprised when someone goes and attacks a child. As disgusted as I was by this, I just said, 'Little ones grow up to be big ones.' And we cracked a beer. That weighed upon me. It still does."
Michaelis has gone through the same journey as those boys — angry and suffering.
"I had a pretty idyllic childhood," Michaelis said. "I didn't have a lot of reason to lash out. I think it had a lot to do with my adrenaline habit. It was the most powerful way to get a fix by making other kids afraid of me."
He was a smart child, reading complex fantasy novels in second grade. He was put in the gifted program after scoring high on standardized tests.
"I didn't want to be gifted," he said. "I didn't want expectations. So, I thought, 'I'm going to try to make you not expect me to be a golden boy who's going to fix anything. I'm going to break everything.'"
His first bullying victim was his little brother, and he made life miserable for him at an early age.
Next came a kid on the bus with thick glasses. Then more, some with runny noses, others he felt were "funny looking."
It wasn't just verbal taunts that Michaelis doled out. There were often beatings resulting in broken noses and black eyes.
"It was the thrill of punching somebody," Michaelis said. "But getting hit was also a thrill. I definitely enjoyed the idea of dominating someone else."
More than the physical violence, he enjoyed the reactions he would get from the adults, frustrated as to why he was lashing out. They would pay attention to him, which he liked, but the bullying was also an incidental path to get the thrill of creating anarchy.
"There were times when I hurt kids so bad that I felt bad afterwards," Michaelis recalled. "But once you start this process, you get swept up in it. When an adult pulls you off this kid, you feel bad about beating him up. But I didn't have the courage to acknowledge that. I didn't want to acknowledge that I did something wrong, so I would run off to the next victim. I was suffering and I didn't have a healthy way to process that stuff."
By 14 he was drinking. He got into the punk rock scene and would leave for days at a time to see the bands play live.
One summer, he disappeared for a month after trashing his parents' house from a house party. His parents found him, but he refused to go back to school.
"They both loved me very much, but they didn't have any idea how to control me," Michaelis said. "So, they let me drop out of high school. They tried very hard to keep me in, but there just wasn't anything they could do."
Soon after, he moved to Milwaukee, Wis., with a group of punk rockers, living in a run-down house. He then made the transition from punk rocker to white power skinhead.
"I don't want it to seem like punk is some sort of gateway drug to being a white power skinhead," Michaelis clarified. He still loves the music.
Punk began in the 1970s, becoming popular with bands like the Sex Pistols, The Clash and the Ramones. But there were subgenres in the music, one of the most influential being Oi!
The music, fast-paced with lyrics usually yelled, mainly appealed to working class youth, angry and disaffected over rampant unemployment in Britain. Lyrics included topics of worker rights, street violence and harassment by the police. It was a battle cry to change a seemingly broken system.
"To me, punk was about breaking s—t, pissing people off and lashing out. Wanton absurdity and destruction," Michaelis said. "Bucking against every kind of authority and refusing to be controlled."
In Britain, some of the most ardent supporters of this music were skinheads.
"They weren't racist," Michaelis said. "They were British kids, some of whom were Pakistani and some were from the West Indies," Michaelis said. "They would all get drunk, shave their heads so you couldn't grab hair in a fight, and then beat each other up. They weren't choir boys by any stretch, but they weren't racists."
Seeing a volatile group of angry and fearful white men seemed a fertile breeding ground for the fascist European political party The National Front, which was able to move in and begin heavily recruiting.
"They said the reason was that jobs were so bad because of the immigrants," Michaelis said.
And as they groomed the skinheads, the Front also influenced punk rock.
"The music recruited pissed off white kids in the late '80s, early '90s in a big way," he said. "The music was fast and aggressive, coursing with testosterone and toxic masculinity with lyrics that really are offensive to civil society."
One of the bands to come out of this era was Skrewdriver.
"It was then that a friend of mine brought a Skrewdriver tape, and I was like, 'Where have you been all my life!'" Michaelis said. "It was good because of the forbidden-ness of it. It repulsed people. That really fit in with everything I was doing since I was a kid. 'You want to see how horrible I am now? Sieg Heil!' It was a continuation of my youth."
He also confessed that all of it was really just an excuse to keep drinking and fighting.
Peace Punks
Aside for the minority white power punk, there were also peace punks that lobbied for social change. Michaelis hated them.
"To me, punk was about breaking s--t, not giving a s--t," he said. "The fact that the peace punks got all activist made my skin crawl."
At the time, the peace punks were boycotting Coors Beer for allegedly racist hiring habits.
"They didn't hire black people, so they were calling to boycott. I didn't give a s--t one way or another who didn't get hired," Michaelis said. "I would spend the extra couple of bucks to get Coors just to piss off the peace punks when I went to a punk show. And I had a Coors hat that I would wear all the time and wave it in their face. I didn't care about the issue, but because people were so upset about it, I was like, 'Coors is my drink. What are you going to do about it?'"
He was a skinhead by this point, but in the more traditional, drink and fight way. He said he wasn't a racist, never thinking about the issue. He was apolitical.
But when he heard the white power band Skrewdriver, everything changed.
A larger group of amorphous skinheads in Milwaukee started to galvanize, and soon he was a white power skinhead — and Michaelis' contribution was through music.
"Our first band was called 'One Way,'" he said. "We had a catchy tagline. 'One way, the right way, the white way.'"
Michaelis was the lead singer and writer.
"It was simplistic, but we did it very well. I wrote songs about how Jewish people were taking all our money, or by people who didn't want to work. We were shouting about how white people are better than anyone else," he said.
The peak of his music career came after One Way with a band called Centurion, which sold 20,000 copies and has gained a cult status in the white supremist world.
One of Centurion's most popular albums was named "Fourteen Words," a reference to a phrase coined by David Lane, former leader of the white supremacy group The Order.
After he was incarcerated for murdering Jewish talk show host Alan Berg, Lean penned the manifesto 88 Precepts, which described Lane's philosophies on politics and religion from a Supremacists point of view.
One of the most influential phrases in Lane's writing is the 14-word phrase: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."
Another female centric version states, "Because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth."
The shorthand for "Fourteen Words" is just the number 14, but it's generally used in conjunction with the number 88, as in 14/88. "H" is the eighth letter in the English alphabet, with 88 signifying "Heil Hitler" — or 88.
The music on Michaelis' "Fourteen Words" album is a cornucopia of straightforward hate speech and white supremacist code.
The first track on the album, "The Planet is Ours," begins with a heavy metal riff on John Williams' "Imperial March," the theme used for Darth Vader in the Star Wars films.
Shortly after, Michaelis' gravelly, screaming voice overtakes the already punishing guitars and drums.
"We'll drive the muds out of our lands, we'll crush the Jews back into the sands," he screams.
"Muds" refers to any group of African, Middle Eastern or Asian descendants.
"We'll break the hold of the alien powers, RaHoWa! This planet is ours!"
"RaHoWa" is a common supremacist term for Racial Holy War.
Another cut from the album was the self-titled song, "Centurion," which describes RaHoWa in more detail:
"N---er, prepare to burn! You attacked our people and now it's your turn. You act so bold, but we'll slap you down. The legions of hate will put you underground!"
During this time, Michaelis and his band were embroiled in multiple conflicts. They began wars with anti-fascist (referred to often today as Antifa) bands, trashing their venues and stopping the shows. There were gang wars with black and Latino gangs. And then there were other skinheads.
"Any skinhead who didn't consider themselves a racist, we called them a 'baldy,' implying that they weren't real skinheads," Michaelis said. "So, with my band to rally around and a bunch of 'baldys' to go hunting for every night, we just started growing exponentially."
Many of the beatings were brutal, and at times scared him. In one fight, he was hit in the head with a lead pipe, blood streaming down his face. He lunged on his attacker and began beating him into unconsciousness.
"He was just a pulp, I was pounding on his face and his head," Michaelis said. "I could feel him trying to struggle at first, and then the struggling got weaker and weaker, until his body was limp. There was a part of me, this deep voice inside, going, 'This guy is dying. You're killing this guy.'"
But he kept punching until a friend pulled him off and warned him that the cops were coming. The incident was terrifying, but also exhilarating, he admitted.
"It was one of the most glorious moments of my life," he said. "That was my 'legend' of who I was — what people would say about me in hushed whispers. That became my mythology and people were afraid of me and this holy terror. I wasn't afraid of it all. I was celebrating."
But being a holy terror began taking a toll. One friend went to prison after shooting a kid who did a drive-by at their home. It was self-defense, but the attack came because they were white power skinheads.
"As we radiated hate, violence and hostility into the world, the world reflected it back to us," Michaelis said. "Instead of seeing that as a wakeup call, we saw it as further evidence to validate the ideology that we were espousing. Instead of accepting the consequences of our actions, we blamed those consequences on Jewish people, black people, Latinos — It was everybody else's fault but ours."
One Way broke up, so Michaelis started another short-lived band called Hammerhead. This led to his involvement with the Hammerskins. After that band's demise, he created Centurion.
Along the way, he was becoming more enmeshed in supremacy culture, becoming a minister in the Church of the Creator — a white supremacist religion that reveres the white race, looking to create a holy war with Jews, African Americans and "mud" races.
In this Saturday's edition, Michaelis will talk about the views of white supremacy, the reasoning behind it and what proponents hope to achieve — including plans to take over the Earth through race wars. He'll also address the current controversies surrounding white supremacists, Antifa and how the cycle of intolerance can end in America.
"The United States has to sit down for a truth and reconciliation process," he said.
Michaelis, along with Kaleka, will be speaking at the Presbyterian Church of the Siuslaw, located at 3996 Highway 101, on July 15 at 6 p.m. for "Gift of Our Wounds: Forgiveness After Hate." Pizza and refreshments will be served at 5 p.m. The event is free to anyone, but donations will be accepted.
Note: This is part 1 of a continuing series. Find additional installments in the Special Series Archive, located here.
More In Special Series Archive
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National Child Abuse Prevention Month: Part I
Jeopardy, guns and chaos
Stream Team — Part I


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Q: Is it possible to disable page caching on Ubuntu? I am running an application on Ubuntu 20.04 which requires me to clear the page cache everytime I run it. Currently, I just run echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches everytime before I run the application. I'll need to run this application multiple times. Is there anyway to disable page caching on my system?

A: Please give this a try: https://github.com/Feh/nocache
This may or may not work for you because in some situations you cannot disable disk cache.


The sanctity of any conserved area, be it national park, scenic reserve, or historic reserve, can be violated at will by the State acting under Sections 7, 32 and 39 of the National Parks Act, under Sections 16, 34 and 97 of the Scenic Reserves and Domains Act or, if either of these avenues by any mischance should fail, under Sections 13(a), 311 and 312 of the Public Works Act. Neither Parliament, nor, least of all, the public at large, need be informed of what is proposed to be done. The first they know is, all to often, heralded by works activity or accomplished fact.
— Dr J. T. Salmon, Senior Lecturer in Biology, Victoria University of Wellington. Heritage Destroyed — The Crisis in Scenery Preservation in New Zealand. 1960. Page 11.
I remember growing up in the 1980s with the devoted belief that New Zealand was a clean and green, environmentally sound country. We had a wonderful conservation estate that was open for exploration and fantastic scenery, though it took me a while to discover it properly. New Zealand was completely anti-nuclear, unlike the French who were exploding test nukes nearby, and in related actions committed acts of terrorism in New Zealand, and it was terrorism according to France's own condemnation before French agents were caught and its government was forced to admit guilt. France threatened wide-spread European Economic Embargoes against New Zealand until we gave back their secret agents, or something like that. This entire event was a major boost to sentiments against nuclear power, which New Zealand didn't have and therefore New Zealand was clean and green. There was even a movie about the valiant New Zealand neighbourhood watch group catching two bumbling French secret agents (or something like that), starring well known New Zealanders such as Sam Neill and Xena Warrior Princess!
My friends and I knew that New Zealand was clean and green because the French government was exploding nuclear bombs in our back yard, and we weren't. And we also had earthquake drills in school during which we screamed and dived under tables, and mohawks were the new rage of fashion. If it were today, I imagine we'd be clean and green because we don't like the way Japanese vessels hunt intelligent friendly whales in the southern ocean. Fallacies are a wonderful thing for self-assurance.
I remember a family holiday driving around the South Island which must have been in the late 1980s, walking through the old town centre of Cromwell, with part of the attraction being that these very streets were intended to be completely submerged shortly afterwards as part of the Clyde Dam project — one of the most recent major hydro dam projects in New Zealand, and now the third largest hydro dam in New Zealand. The entire idea of an engineering feat that would do this sounded very impressive to me. Growing up helped me to notice that renewable hydro energy comes at a cost. After a while I realised that the entire "clean and green" attitude that New Zealand tells itself about is also a myth in some respects (but not all). Through actually meeting people, I also found that most French people aren't mean and evil unfair nuclear polluting terrorist economic embargo seeking bullies, certainly not in the same way as their government was in the mid-1980s. I'm therefore profoundly sorry if my 1980s sentiments that I expressed earlier offended anyone. But that's going off on a tangent.
50 years ago: Regarding hydro dams and conservation, I was trying to research material for another post, and references led me to the book titled Heritage Destroyed — The Crisis in Scenery Preservation in New Zealand, by Dr John Tenison Salmon, from which I pulled the quote at the top of this post. Dr Salmon's 1960 book is recognised as one of the very influential and possibly pivotal publications that changed the thinking that many New Zealanders had about conservation, and how it applies to New Zealand. I tracked down a copy at the Wellington Central Library. It should be available through most New Zealand libraries, through the inter-loan system if not directly.
Having now read all 100 pages of the book, I'd rate it as essential reading for anyone interested in conservation in New Zealand. Regardless of whether one agrees with Dr Salmon's arguments or not, it's a fantastic snapshot of how things were 50 years ago, through the eyes of a well qualified author whose work became very influential for others.
The book was published out of frustration during a time when "conservation" was barely defined, let alone having any significant place in the New Zealand Government's agenda. Assets such as "scenery", "wildlife" and "recreation" had little or no defined tangible value in the minds of a majority of people, making it very difficult to compare their loss with obvious economic gains of something like additional electricity generation. Nine national parks had been declared by 1960 with the general intent of preserving them, but the designations didn't mean much in the face of a state that effectively had un-checked god-like powers to over-ride amenities such as scenic values, even when areas had been set aside specifically for that purpose. The picture painted of 1960 by Dr Salmon is one in which the New Zealand Government Bureaucracy was systematically working its way through destroying nearly every scenic asset the country had if there was any chance of exchanging it for some kind of useful infrastructure, and frequently there was. Officially scenery and nature had no economically defined value compared with infrastructure for things like power generation.
The author spends a lot of time describing the "horrors" of the Ministry of Works' unnecessarily destructive road-building practices, and especially the Electricity Department's severe adjustments of lake levels in what had previously been some of New Zealand's greatest scenic attractions. He noted something of an insane indifference to environmental values by government engineers and management in charge of the projects, who refused to make even minimal and supposedly quite easy compromises to preserve the scenic assets that were being affected. Examples that he gives include the leaving of half-submerged buildings poking out of a raised Lake Tekapo, and not bothering to clear the trees before raising the level of lakes Pukaki and Lake Monowai, which resulted in corpses of dead trees surrounding the shore-line that would persist for up to 200 years. Dr Salmon also describes the 1958 scenery "conference" which had been promoted on behalf of New Zealand's Prime Minister (Walter Nash) as an occasion where interested parties could discuss the management of New Zealand's scenic values, but which actually turned out to be a government-dictated farce whereby everyone except the Electricity Department and the Ministry of Works were severely restricted in what they could present and for how long, and anybody who expressed views contrary to what these departments had already decided was completely ignored anyway.
He pointed out that in 1958 New Zealand spent a grand total of £50,000 for all nine national parks put together (about NZ$3.1 million in 2009 terms after inflation according to the NZ CPI Inflation Calculator). This meant about $1.30 per person in today's terms, which for me personally will buy about a third of a day's lunch if I'm being a cheapskate. The author noted that on a per-person basis, the USA was spending nine times as much on its own national parks.
Mount Ruapehu in the vicinity of the Chateau skiing grounds is developing into one vast rubbish heap. Not only do we find there the litter of holiday-makers, but also the junk from broken-down chair-lifts tossed into ravines by people who should know better and who should be setting an example to the general public. […] My impressions of Ruapehu behind the Chateau were that it is rapidly becoming the National Rubbish Dump instead of a National Park.
Most of Dr Salmon's discussion is about preservation of scenic values, and he only slides past other conservation topics such as preservation of species and of the native environment as a whole. (Interesting for a biologist's perspective, I thought.) This may simply be because there was still a lot of research to be done about what was actually happening to the environment, and to what extent beyond anecdotal evidence and the obvious scenic damage. At one point, however, he suggests a team of up to 100 fully trained field biologists are needed to survey the situation properly. Towards the latter part of the book, the author describes the severe effects that introduced predators have had on the New Zealand bush, noting that its disappearance will certainly result in accelerated erosion, flooding and impending natural disasters. He advocates the dramatic reduction or annihilation of all introduced pests (deer rabbits, possums, etc) if at all possible. I also found it interesting to notice on page 86 a mention of 1080 poison, which New Zealand is now the largest user of world-wide albeit with some protests. He suspected might be a magic bullet for this purpose but for which there was also insufficient information 50 years ago. I hadn't realised 1080 had been around for so long, but I suppose now I know better.
We've definitely changed since 1960. For one thing, New Zealand's $3.1 million spent maintaining National Parks in 1958 (expressed as 2009 money) could be approximately compared with the 2008/2009 Budget, in which the Conservation Vote was allocated roughly $403 million, or well over 100 times that amount. It's not a completely fair comparison given that the Department of Conservation does other things besides maintaining national parks, just as the 1958 National Parks Board wasn't responsible for everything that DOC does today. Still, the difference of a couple of orders of magnitude is quite telling. If you want to see details of where the 2008/09 money was budgeted, click through the above link to Treasury's website and read the section titled "Vote Conservation".
The snapshot of conservation problems in 1960 is interesting by itself, but I think by far the most valuable aspect of this book today is how it demonstrates the attitudes and government of the time, compared with today. The author frequently complains about the frustrations of government bureaucracies that go to great lengths to hide information for their own operational convenience even though (and perhaps because) many parties are likely be affected, ignore concerns that are expressed by people who are demonstrably qualified, generally work behind closed doors, and in some cases would outright lie when questioned and simply get away with it. Some people would claim that this is exactly what happens with the New Zealand government today, but I think things have changed a lot.
The OIA. For one thing, we have the Official Information Act, which Dr Salmon would have greatly benefited from. The OIA essentially says that one can ask any question of a government department (as long as it's reasonably specific), and that department is required to provide the requested information within a set time-frame unless there's a very good reason not to do so. My favourite summary of New Zealand's OIA is from Rick Snell, an Australian Journalist blogging for the Sydney Morning Herald who compared it with Australia's Freedom of Information Act. More recently however, Russell Brown presented an episode of Media 7 in which his panel of journalists and other stakeholders discussed New Zealand's OIA, also noting a few down-sides and things that aren't working perfectly under the Act. The entire episode can be streamed via YouTube through his blog post at the link above.
The RMA. Another revolutionary change since 1960 is New Zealand's Resource Management Act of 1991, which defines a structured process of consent through which an organisation must go with the relevant local authories before large and potentially destructive projects such as gigantic hydro dams can go ahead. The 1991 RMA grew out of concerns about the conduct of a previous government in pushing its Think Big projects in the 1980s without adequate consultation. One of the Think Big projects (interestingly enough) was the Clyde Dam that I mentioned near the top of this post, which submerged the old town centre of Cromwell.
The RMA itself has been at the centre of controversy in recent years. Although it has allowed for objections to be heard from virtually anyone, and then considered out in the open, it has also resulted in many infrastructure developments being delayed to painful extents, or otherwise canceled, thanks to the problems of getting consent. The RMA gives a lot of power to local authorities and residents to decide what happens in their back yard, and typically there's not much incentive for people to want big and potentially destructive things happening for a variety of reasons, even if they collectively help the nation as a whole. The recently elected government has pledged to review the act, and it'll be interesting to see what it comes up with. In some ways it's curious that our new Minister of Conservation is already signing away parts of the conservation estate, however. Hopefully the changes won't approach the scenarios described in Dr Salmon's book.
DOC. The third huge difference since Dr Salmon's 1960 book is the existence of the Department of Conservation, which was formed by an Act of Parliament in 1987. Government lands had previously been divided between a variety of government departments and various authorities, but the Department of Conservation combined much of the management into a single entity, with a primary goal "to conserve New Zealand's natural heritage for all to enjoy now and in the future". The very existence of such a department is in stark contrast to New Zealand in the 1960's, where for the most part enjoyment was just a side benefit to be had from the environment once any economic benefit had been extracted.
Ultimately Dr Salmon called for an authority independent of the government to be given power as a kind of arbitrator on conservation issues. From his 1960 viewpoint, he claimed (on page 58) that "New Zealand, compared with much of the rest of the world, is extremely backward in the conservation of her natural resouces, the preservation of her scenery, and in the implementation of a sound policy for the preservation and development of her National Parks and scenic reserves. A conservancy with adequate legislative powers could do a great deal to alleviate the present unsatisfactory situation in New Zealand." It's a shame that he died in 1999 (according to the library catalogue), because I'd be interested to know what he thought of the current structure.
I find it fascinating to see how these three aspects of the government system interact with each other, particularly DOC and the RMA. Several months ago, I spent a horrible time working through a collection of submissions towards the Tararua District Council's upcoming District Plan. It was horrible because it was so excessively boring, and I had a headache for three consecutive evenings. Lately the Tararua District has become a target for energy companies wanting to build wind farms. The RMA makes it much easier to get streamlined consent if a proposal can be shown to be in line with a District Plan, so naturally several large power generation companies all wanted to get their hands in on the authoring of the new plan for the Tararua District.
I merely chose to read through the submissions, and at the time I really felt sorry for the poor people of the Tararua District Council, who presumably have few resources to draw on and suddenly have to cope with a massive influx of large businesses from out of town, all trying to fight their way into the district to support their infrastructure plans for the rest of New Zealand. Some submissions even read as if they were a patronising pat on the head for the Tararua District Council. Translated, they might have said something like: "Your proposed plan is such a cute effort, but it has typing mistakes and some of the references are inconsistent. Why not just replace this entire section with a large block of text we've written for you? We already write so many plans for other councils and we clearly have far more experience in these things than you do." In a few cases it appeared as if the submissions had been made so overwhelmingly detailed so as to disguise the important parts of the detail.
I can fully appreciate why power generation companies do this and I don't have a problem with their actions, as long as it happens out in the open where everyone can see it, and is considered fairly on its merits. And this is where the Department of Conservation comes in, because it was especially notable that DOC also made a submission to the district plan, offering advice from people who have a lot of expertise in conservation management and who are less likely to be biased towards specific commercial interests over other issues. Effectively, power companies that are owned by the state are making submissions to a local government that might well contradict submissions made by another part of the national government.
On one hand this sounds extremely bureaucratic and wasteful, such that all these government entities should just save money and overheads by talking to each other behind government doors. Personally I think that this particular consequence of the RMA is awesome, though, because it puts all the debate between experts out into the open where everyone who chooses can read and analyse it. When it was revealed in February that DOC had made a compromise behind closed doors with Meridian Energy over a wind farm, it was strongly criticised.
So far, I think the main problems with the RMA are in its tendency to result in certain kinds of infrastructure, and in its tendency (especially right now) to pile hugely important and detailed submissions for major infrastructure onto local bodies that are unlikely to have all the necessary resources to consider them properly. I should stress that I'm hardly an expert on it though, and I know there are additional problems that people have. I don't know if the new National Government's reforms of the RMA are likely to make it any better, and I guess time will tell. Having just finished Dr Salmon's book, however, I guess I'm simply really happy at the moment that we've advanced past the conservation management of 1960!
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Much to absorb here. I must track down the Salmon book as it reads as being excellent and far ahead of its time. If you see photos of the Ruahines from the late 60's and early 70's in many places completely denuded of undergrowth there is room to appreciate the wobbly direction we seem to be headed at times in terms of conservation and providing use and access for all the various interest groups. Personally one of the biggest issues I am getting fired up about is helicopter access. Having had choppers swoop in and drop off people on top of me is mildly annoying, and their sense of entitlement a bit aggravating.
At least one turbine project, the Puketoi, has been rejected by the Tararua council, though is being appealed, and the Contact proposal is being heard the first week of May. I am hoping to speak but will be working in Taranaki for the next month so I am scrambling a bit to fit it in.
Cheers for the fine post and the book recco Mike, will definitely check it out.
Hi Robb. I haven't had much of a problem with choppers but I haven't visited the Ruahines anywhere near as often as yourself. This would be a seasonal thing presumably, is it? Maybe there's a case for a designated wilderness area, or something similar in part of the Ruahines, to provide some space where helicopters can't buzz around all the time.
14th. Leaving this morning for Milnes. Hut tidy and packed with firewood. And fresh tussock. We all agree that this is "our best roar ever". 37 deer without getting wet! MB Forward. C Baines. FA Howard.
24/12/52. Back again from Pohangina after a month insistent rain.
25th, Christmas 1952. A great day, not a cloud in the sky, warm. Shot Tiraha, 14 deer.
26th. Cloudy. Had a look at Sawtooth. No deer.
29th. Back to Pohangina. 25 deer. Govt cullers.
Hunting's not my thing but from everything I know, a hunter today could only dream of shooting 37 deer in an outing, let alone seeing "about 100"! And I suppose that's just a demonstration of how out of control they were at the time.
I hope the hearings go well.


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Relief and Recovery: The New Deal in Brown County
The News announced termination of the camp as of August 1, 1939 and'
praised the CCC camp's four years work as educational and professional training
for the several hundred enrollees. Many ofthe more skilled youth received training
to operate diesel tractors, draglines and other earth moving equipmentexperiences
which served them in later life. The Refuge manager .announced that
its officers and personnel would be transferred elsewhere and its buildings
transferred to the Works Progress Administration for use by the NYA program.
Established in the First District in December 1935 the NYA did not operate
in a military mode as the CCC. The First District's allotted quota of youth for its
ten counties was 600. In October 1936 ninety of these were employed in Brown
County and 65 of these were in Aberdeen. In addition high school and college
students financed their education by wage work paid for by this federal program.
To qualify, youth must be between 18 and 25 and in most cases from certified
needy families. In Brown County they received $11.72 a month in 1936 and were
expected to help their families with that salary which increased over time. Youths
worked 48 hours for 32 cents an hour. Programs were aimed at developing a trade.
Westport had ten boys making bookcases, piano stools and school benches in a
manual training course.
By late 1939 a new scene of activity emerged when Sand Lake CCC camp
was disbanded in August and buildings turned over to NYA. Some of the 27
buildings were to be used elsewhere; others were demolished. Two served to house
NYA workers. The former CCC Sand Lake site became a center for vocational
education in December 1939 and into 1940-41. Forty boys remodeled buildings for
the new operation. Boys from varied counties received instruction in garage work,
machine and wood shop, body and fender repair. Between 120-150 boys arrived
after July 1, 1935 for a four-to-nine month stay, depending on their course
curriculum. The NYA camp occasionally loaned some of its youth to the WPA for
various projects. By 1939 enrollees received $30 a month but about 2/3 ofthat paid
for subsistence at the camp. In January 1941 members enrolled in a new project on
soil conservation. This involved machinery repair, grass seed sorting, landscaping,
dead-tree cutting and sawing ofwood for firewood and fence posts amongst other
things Both the CCC and NYA received general praise compared to some New
Deal programs. The Aberdeen Evening News put it this way in an editorial which
characterized that program as "an investment in an improved younger
generation ... When the depression is over several hundred thousand young men
and the nation's natural resources will be better because it existed."
Title Relief and Recovery: The New Deal in Brown County
Subject City of Aberdeen--Architecture--Historic Landmarks
Description soft bound booklet, stapled, 104 pages; contains black-and-white photographs and maps
Creator Dr. Art Buntin, Brad Tennant, Brown County Landmarks Commission
Publisher Aberdeen/Brown County Landmarks Commission
Contributors National Park Services
Dimensions 8-1/2 x 11 in.
Identifier Relief and Recovery
Relation Aberdeen Local History collection
Transcript 95 The News announced termination of the camp as of August 1, 1939 and' praised the CCC camp's four years work as educational and professional training for the several hundred enrollees. Many ofthe more skilled youth received training to operate diesel tractors, draglines and other earth moving equipmentexperiences which served them in later life. The Refuge manager .announced that its officers and personnel would be transferred elsewhere and its buildings transferred to the Works Progress Administration for use by the NYA program. NATIONAL YOUTH ADMINISTRATION Established in the First District in December 1935 the NYA did not operate in a military mode as the CCC. The First District's allotted quota of youth for its ten counties was 600. In October 1936 ninety of these were employed in Brown County and 65 of these were in Aberdeen. In addition high school and college students financed their education by wage work paid for by this federal program. To qualify, youth must be between 18 and 25 and in most cases from certified needy families. In Brown County they received $11.72 a month in 1936 and were expected to help their families with that salary which increased over time. Youths worked 48 hours for 32 cents an hour. Programs were aimed at developing a trade. Westport had ten boys making bookcases, piano stools and school benches in a manual training course. By late 1939 a new scene of activity emerged when Sand Lake CCC camp was disbanded in August and buildings turned over to NYA. Some of the 27 buildings were to be used elsewhere; others were demolished. Two served to house NYA workers. The former CCC Sand Lake site became a center for vocational education in December 1939 and into 1940-41. Forty boys remodeled buildings for the new operation. Boys from varied counties received instruction in garage work, machine and wood shop, body and fender repair. Between 120-150 boys arrived after July 1, 1935 for a four-to-nine month stay, depending on their course curriculum. The NYA camp occasionally loaned some of its youth to the WPA for various projects. By 1939 enrollees received $30 a month but about 2/3 ofthat paid for subsistence at the camp. In January 1941 members enrolled in a new project on soil conservation. This involved machinery repair, grass seed sorting, landscaping, dead-tree cutting and sawing ofwood for firewood and fence posts amongst other things Both the CCC and NYA received general praise compared to some New Deal programs. The Aberdeen Evening News put it this way in an editorial which characterized that program as "an investment in an improved younger generation ... When the depression is over several hundred thousand young men and the nation's natural resources will be better because it existed."


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I've been thinking about doing this for awhile. Back in 2011, I went to the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens. At the entrance to the conservatory building, they have a small garden with sculptures of dancers. I started photographing them. When I got home and put them on my computer, I fell in love with the perspective. I tried to capture the sculptures in a way that made them come to life. I noticed that there are bronze sculptures scattered all around Fort Worth and I decided that one day I will take the time to start photographing each one, so today was the day that I decided to start. They are all beautiful and unique in their own way and for many, they are just viewable while driving by because so many are in unusual locations. Here are the dancers that I photographed back in 2011, I will go back one day soon and see if I can find the artist, and I will add it to this post.
This is a sculpture in Trinity Park of Mark Twain along the Trinity River. It was given to the families of Fort Worth for the joys of reading. The sculpture was created by Gary Price in 2001, his signature is on the back of his jacket.
I've always passed the Policeman and Fireman's Memorial in Trinity Park along 7th Avenue, but this was the first time I stopped to visit. It was very interesting and moving. There are stone and marble memorials along a curved path that leads to the main part of the memorial. The path is lined with memorials of firefighters and policemen who lost their lives in the line of duty. On one side is the firemen and the other side has the peace officers. On each memorial is a story about how the person lost their life and where they are buried.
The main sculpture is of a Peace Officer and a Firefighter on either side of the horse, both of them holding the reins. There are backward facing boots on the riderless horse to honor a fallen hero and to signify that they will never ride again.
And then my final stop was a sculpture of a soldier carrying a wounded soldier. It is dedicated to all Veterans. I drive past this often, but this is the first time I stopped to see it up close. I'm not sure who sculpted it, I couldn't get up high enough to see if it was signed, but I'm sure it must be.
Somebody left fresh carnations in an empty wine bottle at the base of it.
There are so many more interesting sculptures around Fort Worth, so in the coming weeks and months I will visit them and post photos.
As always, thank you for reading and looking at my blog.


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Q: Are changes in sub-collections are supposed to trigger onWrite function or not? Can Firebase functions be triggered by a change in subcollections when the function is listening to a top level document? If not, what does the first line in the wildcard examples of the documentation mean?
What does this mean??? if a sub-collection changes would it trigger the function?
But it doesn't seem to and somewhere else in the same page says that too.
// Listen for changes in all documents and all sub-collections

...
exports.useWildcard = functions.firestore
  .document('users/{userId}')
  .onWrite((event) => {
    // If we set `/users/marie` to {name: "marie"} then
    event.params.userId == "marie"
    // ... and ...
    event.data.data() == {name: "Marie"}
  });

What is the intended behavior for Firestore and function triggers?

A: I believe the comment in the sample code is incorrect for the sample whose document wildcard is this:
'users/{userId}'

Note that in the text below that sample it says:

If a document in users has subcollections, and a field in one of those
  subcollections' documents is changed, the userId wildcard is not
  triggered.

The sample below it with the following wildcards:
'users/{userId}/{messageCollectionId}/{messageId}'

will be triggered only when documents in any subcollection of documents in users are written (not the documents immediately within users).
Feel free to file a bug report for documentation or sample that you've for to be incorrect.