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City and County of San Francisco
DEpartment of the ENvironment
Regular Meeting Notice and Agenda--AMENDED
Friday, January 22, 2010, 8:30 a.m.
City Hall, Room 400
One Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Jr. Place
San Francisco, CA 94102
Council Members: Terry Milne (Chair), Maria D'Agostino (Vice-Chair), Chris Buck (San Francisco Department of Public Works), Jocelyn Cohen, Malcolm Hillan, Naomi LeBeau, Bonnie Ora Sherk, AnMarie Rodgers (San Francisco Planning Department) and Kelaine Vargas; Advisory Members: Susan Nervo (San Francisco Recreation and Park Department), Mark Sustarich (San Francisco Public Utilities Commission); San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (Vacant); National Park Service (Vacant)
Council Coordinator: Mei Ling Hui Commission Secretary: Monica Fish
Public comment will be taken before the Council takes action on any item.
Order of Business
1. Call to Order and Roll Call.
2. Adoption of Minutes of the December 11, 2009 Urban Forestry Council Regular Meeting. (See Explanatory Document below: December 11, 2009 Draft Minutes) (Discussion and Action)
3. Public Comment: Members of the public may address the Council on matters that are within the Council's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda.
4. Resolution Commending Carolyn Blair for her Service to the Urban Forestry Council. (See Explanatory Document below: Resolution File 2010-02-UFC Presenter: Council Chair Terry Milne (Discussion and Action)
5. Annual Review and Approval of Resolution adopting the Recommended Street Tree List for 2010. (See Explanatory Documents below: Draft Resolution File 2010-01-UFC and Recommended Street Tree List (Discussion and Action)
6. Informational Report on proposed Green Landscaping Ordinance and Review of Draft Resolution. The Council will consider the proposed Green Landscaping Ordinance and discuss if a formal recommendation should be made next month. (See Explanatory Documents below: Green Landscaping Ordinance and Draft Resolution File 2010-03-UFC Sponsor and Speaker: Council Member AnMarie Rodgers (Informational Report and Discussion)
7. Development and Trees. The Council will review and discuss tree disclosure and protection requirements when developing near protected trees as it relates to the tree protection zone described for Landmark and Significant trees. (Continued from the December 11, 2009 Meeting) Sponsor and Speaker: Council Member AnMarie Rodgers. (Informational Report and Discussion)
8. Staff Report. Staff will provide updates on Urban Forestry Council administrative and programmatic operations relating to research, planning, funding, outreach, and other related activities. (See Explanatory Document below) (Informational Report and Discussion)
9. Committee Reports: (Informational Reports and Discussion)
Planning & Funding Committee Chair's Report
The Chair will report on the January 21, 2010 meeting. The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, February 18, 2010, 4:15 p.m. at City Hall, Room 421.
Landmark Tree Ad Hoc Committee Chair's Report
10. Chair's Announcements: Terry Milne, Chair, Urban Forestry Council (Information and Discussion)
11. New Business/Future Agenda Items. (Information and Discussion).
12. Public Comment: Members of the public may address the Council on matters that are within the Council's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda.
13. Adjournment.
The next meeting of the Urban Forestry Council is scheduled for Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. in Room 416, City Hall.
Public Comment
At this time, members of the public may address the Council on items of interest that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Council but are not on today's agenda. Public comment will be taken following each agendized item. Each member of the public may address the Council for up to three minutes, unless otherwise announced by the Chair. If it is demonstrated that the comments by the public will exceed 15 minutes, the Chair may continue Public Comment to another time during the meeting.
The Brown Act forbids the Council from taking action or discussing any item or issue not appearing on the posted agenda. This rule applies to issues raised in public comment as well. In response to public comment, not on an agendized item, the Council is limited to:
1. Briefly responding to statements made or questions posed by members of the public, or
2. Request staff to report back on a matter at a subsequent meeting, or
3. Directing staff to place the item or issue on a future agenda (Government Code Section 54954.2(a).)
Disability Access
The Urban Forestry Council meetings will be held in Room 400 or 416, City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA. The Council meeting room is wheelchair accessible. The closest accessible BART station is the Civic Center Station at United Nations Plaza and Market Street. Accessible MUNI lines serving this location are: #42 Downtown Loop, and #71 Haight/Noriega and the F Line to Market and Van Ness and the Metro Stations at Van Ness and Market and at Civic Center. For information about MUNI accessible services call (415) 923-6142. There is accessible curbside parking adjacent to City Hall on Grove Street and Van Ness Avenue and in the vicinity of the Veterans Building at 401 Van Ness Avenue adjacent to Davies Hall and the War Memorial Complex.
The following services are available on request 48 hours prior to the meeting; except for Monday meetings, for which the deadline shall be 4:00 p.m. of the last business day of the preceding week: For American sign language interpreters or the use of a reader during a meeting, a sound enhancement system, and/or alternative formats of the agenda and minutes, please contact Monica Fish at (415) 355-3709 to make arrangements for the accommodation. Late requests will be honored, if possible.
In order to assist the City's efforts to accommodate persons with severe allergies, environmental illnesses, multiple chemical sensitivity or related disabilities, attendees at public meetings are reminded that other attendees may be sensitive to various chemical based products. Please help the City accommodate these individuals. Individuals with chemical sensitivity or related disabilities should call the Mayor's Office on Disability at (415) 554-6789 or (415) 554-6799 (TTY) for additional information.
Know your rights under the Sunshine Ordinance
(Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code)
Government's duty is to serve the public, reaching its decisions in full view of the public. Commissions, boards, councils, and other agencies of the City and County exist to conduct the people's business. This ordinance assures that deliberations are conducted before the people and that City operations are open to the people's review. For more information on your rights under the Sunshine Ordinance or to report a violation of the ordinance, contact the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force, Frank Darby, Sunshine Task Force Administrator, City Hall, Room 409, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102-4683 at Phone No.: (415) 554-7724; Fax No.: (415) 554-7854; E-mail: [email protected]. Copies of the Sunshine Ordinance can be obtained from the Clerk of the Sunshine Task Force, the San Francisco Public Library and on the City's website at www.sfgov.org.
Lobbyist Registration and Reporting Requirements
Individuals and entities that influence or attempt to influence local legislative or administrative action may be required by the San Francisco Lobbyist Ordinance [SF Campaign & Governmental Conduct Code §2.100, et. seq] to register and report lobbying activity. For more information about the Lobbyist Ordinance, please contact the Ethics Commission at: 30 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 3900, San Francisco, CA 94102; telephone (415) 581-2300, fax (415) 581-2317; web site at www.sfgov.org/ethics.
Other Important Information
The ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the Chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices.
Copies of explanatory documents are available to the public at the Department of Environment, 11 Grove Street, San Francisco, California between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., by clicking on the links by each agenda item above, upon request to the Council Secretary at the above address, telephone number 415-355-3709, via e-mail at [email protected], or at the Council's meeting website within three business days of a meeting. If any materials related to an item on this agenda have been distributed to the Urban Forestry Council after distribution of the agenda packet, those materials are available for public inspection at the Department of the Environment, 11 Grove Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 during normal office hours or will be made available at the meeting website as links to the agenda or meeting minutes.
When bringing handouts to meetings, please photocopy on both sides of the paper and try to use post-consumer recycled or tree-free paper. Also, please bring sufficient copies of handouts for both the Council and the public.
Urban Forestry Council
San Francisco Department of the Environment
City and County of San Francisco
11 Grove Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Posted: January 14, 2010
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When a teammate is playing his former team for the first time, you know how badly they want to win that game. Chandler Parsons really stepped up and played his best game as a Rocket to help his buddy JLin get the win. Basically saying by his play, "I got your back". James Hardin did the same, playing like the Hardin of the first 2 games of the season and Omer played great as well. This was by far, the best overall game by the Rockets. They were just on fire from the outside and consistently attacked the paint as well.
As JLin said he's been exposed a bit recently, the Knicks were exposed a bit too. Their perimeter D was non-existent and besides Tyson Chandler, they look to have no inside presence. Granted, the Knicks were coming in at the tail end of a long road trip. However, I thought Melo looked great. He's lost about 15 pounds and looks to be on a mission. Iman Shumperts return will really help their perimeter D and when Amare returns, he'll give them much more inside. I believe the Knicks have a good shot to make the conference finals.
Back to JLin, it was a nice step in the right direction for him. He was much more aggressive throughout, going to the basket. He's still struggling to finish when contested, which was one of his strengths during his breakout. It looks like its just gonna take a little more time to get back that last bit of explosiveness. He finally hit a 3 pointer and that felt so so good. I feel he is really on the verge of a shooting breakthrough. One, where he gets hot and hits 4,5, 6 jumpers in a row.
Next up is Toronto and Kyle Lowry. I already can't wait to see that matchup!
The game last night from the NY perspective:
Knicks give Lindefensible effort in loss to Rockets - NYPOST.com
Knicks links: Defense contains Jeremy Lin, forgets about Rockets' James Harden, Chandler Parsons | NJ.com
With Knicks' Eyes on Him, Lin Improvises in Win - NYTimes.com

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By Patty Donovan, The Open Group
In about a week, The Open Group will be hosting its very first tweet jam! In case you're not familiar with tweet jams, a tweet jam is a one hour "discussion" hosted on Twitter. The purpose of the tweet jam is to share knowledge and answer questions on a chosen topic – in this case, identity management. Each tweet jam is led by a moderator (The Open Group) and a dedicated group of experts to keep the discussion flowing. The public (or anyone using Twitter interested in the topic) is free (and encouraged!) to join the discussion.
Tweet, Tweet – Come Join Us
You can join our Identity Management Tweet Jam on April 17 at 9:00 a.m. PT/12:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. BST. We welcome Open Group members and interested participants from all backgrounds to participate in the session and interact with our panel of experts in the identity management space.
Here is the current line-up for our expert panel:
- Ericka Chickowski, Dark Reading (@ErickaChick)
- Paul Simmonds, Jericho Forum (@simmonds_paul)
- Fahmida Rashid, PC Magazine (@zdFYRashid)
- Wendy Nather, The 451 Group (@451wendy)
- Dazza Greenwood, MIT (@dazzagreenwood)
- Jim Hietala, The Open Group (@jim_hietala)
- Dave Lounsbury, The Open Group (@technodad)
- John Fontana, ZDNet – Identity Matters (@johnfontana)
- Dana Gardner, ZDNet – BriefingsDirect (@dana_gardner)
- And more…
To access the discussion, please follow the #ogChat hashtag next Wednesday during the allotted discussion time. Other hashtags we recommend you use for this tweet jam that encompass the topics that will be discussed include:
- Identity management: #IdM
- Single sign-on: #SSO
- Cloud computing: #cloud
- Mobile: #mobile
- IT security: #ITSec
- Information security: #InfoSec
- Enterprise identity: #EntID
- Identity ecosystem: #IDecosys
Below are a list of the questions that will be addressed during the hour-long discussion:
- What are the biggest challenges of identity management today?
- What should be the role of governments and private companies in creating identity management standards?
- What are the barriers to developing an identity ecosystem?
- Identity attributes may be valuable and subject to monetization. How will this play out?
- How secure are single sign-on schemes through Web service providers such as Google and Facebook?
- Is identity management more or less secure on mobile devices?
Whether you're a newbie or veteran Twitter user, here are a few tips to keep in mind:
- Have your first #ogChat tweet be a self-introduction: name, affiliation, occupation.
- Start all other tweets with the question number you're responding to and the #ogChat hashtag.
- Sample: "Q2: @theopengroup, attributes are absolutely more critical than biometrics #IdM #ogChat"
- Please refrain from product or service promotions. The goal of a tweet jam is to encourage an exchange of knowledge and stimulate discussion.
- While this is a professional get-together, we don't have to be stiff! Informality will not be an issue!
- A tweet jam is akin to a public forum, panel discussion or Town Hall meeting – let's be focused and thoughtful.
If you have any questions prior to the event, please direct them to Rod McLeod (rmcleod at bateman-group dot com). We anticipate a lively chat on April 17, so you will be able to join!
Patricia Donovan is Vice President, Membership & Events, at The Open Group and a member of its executive management team. In this role she is involved in determining the company's strategic direction and policy as well as the overall management of that business area. Patricia joined The Open Group in 1988 and has played a key role in the organization's evolution, development and growth since then. She also oversees the company's marketing, conferences and member meetings. She is based in the US.


text: Back Rheumatoid Arthritis What is rheumatoid arthritis? Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease that causes inflammation of the joints. The inflammation can become so severe that the function and appearance of the hands, as well as other parts of the body, can become affected. In the hand, rheumatoid arthritis may cause deformities in the joints of the fingers, making movement difficult. Lumps, known as rheumatoid nodules, may form over small joints in the hands and the wrist. Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) is a form of arthritis in children ages 16 or younger that causes inflammation and stiffness of joints for more than six weeks. Unlike adult rheumatoid arthritis, which is chronic and lasts a lifetime, children often outgrow JRA. However, the disease can affect bone development in the growing child. What causes rheumatoid arthritis? The exact cause of rheumatoid arthritis is not known. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder, which means the body's immune system attacks its own healthy cells and tissues. The response of the body causes inflammation in and around the joints, which then may lead to a destruction of the skeletal system. Rheumatoid arthritis also may have devastating effects to other organs, such as the heart and lungs. Researchers believe certain factors, including heredity, may contribute to the onset of the disease. Rheumatoid arthritis affects more women than men (70 percent of persons with rheumatoid arthritis are women). The disease most often occurs between the ages of 30 and 50. What are the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis? The joints most commonly affected by rheumatoid arthritis are in the hands, wrists, feet, ankles, knees, shoulders, and elbows. The disease typically causes inflammation symmetrically in the body, meaning the same joints are affected on both sides of the body. Symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis may begin suddenly or gradually. The following are the most common symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in the hands. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include: Pain Stiffness, especially in the morning Swelling over the joints Decreased movement Pain that is worse with movement of the joints Bumps may be noted over the small joints Difficulty performing activities of daily living (ADLs), such as tying shoes, opening jars, or buttoning shirts Decreased ability to grasp or pinch Fatigue Occasional fever The symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis may resemble other medical conditions or problems. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis. How is rheumatoid arthritis diagnosed? Diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis may be difficult in the early stages because symptoms may be very subtle and go undetected on X-rays or blood tests. In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for rheumatoid arthritis may include the following: X-ray. A diagnostic test that uses invisible electromagnetic energy beams to produce images of internal tissues, bones, and organs onto film. Joint aspiration. This involves a removal of fluid from the swollen bursa to exclude infection or gout as possible causes. Biopsy (of nodules tissue). A procedure in which tissue samples are removed (with a needle or during surgery) from the body for examination under a microscope to determine if cancer or other abnormal cells are present. Blood tests. These tests are done to detect certain antibodies, called rheumatoid factor, and other indicators for rheumatoid arthritis. Treatment for rheumatoid arthritis Specific treatment for rheumatoid arthritis will be determined by your doctor based on: Your age, overall health, and medical history Extent of the condition Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies Expectations for the course of the condition Your opinion or preference Treatment may include: Medications. Some medications may be used for pain relief, other medications will be used to treat inflammation, and finally some medications will be used to slow the disease from progressing. Depending on your symptoms and preferences, your doctor may treat you with one or more types of treatments. Splints. Splints may be used to help protect the joints and strengthen the weak joints. Physical therapy. Physical therapy may be used to help increase the strength and movement of the affected areas. Surgery. Surgery may be performed if the above treatment options fail. The decision for surgery should be made in consultation with your doctor. Repair or reconstruction of the hand and wrist can be performed in a variety of ways, including the following: Surgical cleaning. This option may be performed on patients with rheumatoid arthritis, or other types of hand arthritis. Inflamed and diseased tissues within the hands can be removed to help increase function. Joint replacement. This type of surgery, also called arthroplasty, may be used in cases of severe arthritis of the hand. This option may be performed on older patients with a lower activity level. Joint replacement may provide a decrease in pain and an increase in function of the hands and fingers. This involves replacing a joint that has been destroyed by the disease process with an artificial joint. This artificial joint may be made out of metal, plastic, silicone rubber, or the patient's own body tissue (such as the tendon). Joint fusion. This option usually involves removing the joint and fusing together two ends of bones. This makes one large bone without a joint. This option is usually used on patients with advanced arthritis. After the fusion of the bone, there is an elimination of movement in the fused joint. It is important to remember that surgery does not correct the underlying disease. It only helps correct the deformities caused by the disease. Rheumatoid arthritis can continue to cause problems in the hand, and may even require additional surgery. Close follow-up with your doctor is required for optimal control of this disease.


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By The Open Group Conference Team
In this video, Henry Franken of BiZZdesign discusses ArchiMate® 2.0, the new version of the graphical modeling language for Enterprise Architecture that provides businesses with the means to communicate with different stakeholders from the business goals level to implementation scenarios.
Franken explains that the first edition allowed users to express Enterprise Architecture at its core – modeling business applications and infrastructure. ArchiMate® 2.0 has two major additions to make it fully aligned with TOGAF® – the motivation extension and the migration and planning extension. The motivation extension provides users with the ability to fully express business motivations and goals to enterprise architects; the migration and planning extension helps lay out programs and projects to make a business transition.
There are several sessions on ArchiMate® at the upcoming Open Group Conference in Barcelona. Notably, Henry Franken's "Delivering Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®" session on October 22 at 2:00-2:45 p.m. UTC / 8:00-8:45 a.m. EST will be livestreamed on The Open Group Website.
To view these sessions and for more information on the conference, please go to: http://www3.opengroup.org/barcelona2012


text: In the past couple of years Panama has become Central America's hottest destination. Beyond its famous canal (which, 100 years after its completion, still astonishes all who visit), scads of travelers are discovering vast jungles that hold amazing biological diversity, idyllic islands ringed with coral reefs, and mountain forests filled with exotic birds. Panama City is the exciting, and rapidly developing, hub from which to explore–-a vibrant and diverse metropolis with excellent dining, lodging, and nightlife, and an abundance of day-trip options.


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You can apply for an account and a project using the community server. Ping Igloo on #haskell-hac07 and he'll create the account. You can also apply for a project.
Once you have an account and a project, you upload a Darcs repository as follows. First, initialize your repository on the server:
$ ssh community.haskell.org you@haskell:~$ cd /srv/code/yourproject you@haskell:/srv/code/yourproject$ darcs init
Then, log out and push your repository:
$ darcs push community.haskell.org:/srv/code/yourproject
Who knows about what
A list of projects you've worked on or know fairly well:
|ByteString, xmonad, Data.Binary, lambdabot, hmp3, curses, QuickCheck, HPC, hs-plugins, yi, nobench/nofib, ghc
|ghc, darcs (a little bit)
|skogsbaer (Stefan Wehr)
|hscurses, rhaskell
|ghc (front end mostly), ghci debugger, cabal-install (very little)
|Functional MetaPost, xmonad
|kolmodin (Lennart Kolmodin)
|Data.Binary, Gentoo Linux, Haste, hackport (hackage for Gentoo), hinotify, dbus-haskell
|Heffalump (Ganesh Sittampalam)
|darcs patch theory
|beschmi (Benedikt Schmidt)
|shim (emacs+ghc-api), darcs, xmonad
|conal (Conal Elliott)
|functional reactive programming, DataDriven evaluation, tangible functional programming, graphics, embedded compilers, applicative functors, wxHaskell
Active Projects
Please feel free to describe your current project here!
help, version, fetch, configure, build, copy, register, haddock, sdist(package), clean, test
Developer interface
Naive interface
cabal install xmonad cabal install xmonad-0.3
Basic principles: defaults should be such that it just works. Nothing should fail. It should be usefully descriptive, portable. Safe.
Hackers: dcoutts, nominolo, lennart, bjorn, dons
ByteString network
Change Network.* to use strict ByteStrings instead of Strings. It would also be nice to tidy up the #ifdef mess.
Things to work on:
- Add HUnit tests.
- Write an echo server example.
- Darcs repository -- Hackage ready version of the send and receive functions (Network.Socket.ByteString).
- Haddock documentation (could need some polish).
- Pushed to Hackage.
Current hacker(s): tibbe (Johan Tibell)
updating to 6.8, adding smp parallel testsuite driver.
Current hackers: dons
Testing, HPC coverage, code polishing., new layouts, notification support, scratchpad (a la ion)
Current hackers: dons, ganesh, conrad, nomeata, tibbe, beschmi
Probability monads
A really cool existing implementation: Probabilistic functional programming
Darcs repository and draft paper.
Things to work on:
- Get MaybeT into Hackage.
- Is WriterT really the right monad transformer? We want the join and bind operations, but not the rest of the MonadWriter type class.
- Should probabilities be represented as floats, fractions or a type class?
- Can this run fast enough to be useful?
- MaybeT docs and Darcs repository. This should have all the features of New_monads/MaybeT, except for the potentially ambiguous MonadPlus instance.
- MonadRandom is now documented and packaged.
- The Probability library:
- Now builds using external MaybeT and MonadRandom.
- Added support for representing probabilities as doubles and floats.
- Merged Dist instances and helper code for Rand, BRand, DDist, and BDDist from example code and paper.
- Documentation
- Rough versions of all packages in Hackage: MaybeT, MonadRandom, ProbabilityMonads
Current hacker(s): ekidd (Eric Kidd)
Yi hacking
Yi needs a lot of love and doesn't work out of the box for me. One of the nice thing to try to do is to add the collaborative editing plugin to yi (in the spirit of the Gobby editor).
- vincenz: Definitely would like to add some usability input here regarding Gobby functionality (having used it and having found it lacking in several areas, areas that could be improved through reusing some darcs theory).
- ivant: also need to add unicode support to yi
- vincenz: Move away from System.Filepath to something std supported
- Cabalize the current 'Setup.hs' *Cabal hackers welcome for help*
- Update the regex dependencies to work with the newest one.
- Work splatch into Yi
Current hacker(s): ivant (Ivan Tarasov), vincenz (Christophe Poucet)
Patching of splices, or otherwise said, a patch-model for working concurrently on one piece of text.
Current hacker(s): ivant (Ivan Tarasov), vincenz (Christophe Poucet)
Port shim to GHC 6.8
Current hacker(s): beschmi (Benedikt Schmidt)
Tangible functional programming
Some to-do items:
- More built-ins
- Save
- Improved user experience for gestural composition, e.g., drag & drop
- Does it work on MacOS? Linux?
- Sum types
- Code generation via hs-plugins or ghc-api or Harpy.
Current hacker(s): conal
Port OCaml's ropes implementation to Haskell.
Current hacker(s): Johan Tibell (tibbe), Ivan (ivant)
General composition tools
TypeCompose: some classes & instances for forms of type composition (including contravariant functors and applicative functors)
Current hacker(s): conal
Deep arrows
DeepArrow: a framework for composable "editors" of pure values
Current hacker(s): conal
Source browsing
TiddlyWiki-based code & documentation browser. Syntax-colored and all identifiers fully hyperlinked to sources. Thanks to TiddlyWiki, the browsing experience is fluid & self-organizing.
Bring together disparate functionality from HsColour & Haddock, and add auto-generated hyperlinking. Apply to all the code on Hackage.
Current hacker(s): conal
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All the Buddhist stuff I've read over the years seems to clearly imply, if not come right out and say so directly, that sitting is supposed to increase your concentration over time. That is, while sitting, you will eventually be able to concentrate better and for longer and longer periods of time, to focus more on and reside in that still space. Well, I've been sitting for four years and it seems my mind wanders as much as it ever has. I feel no increase in concentration (singular focus) while sitting at all. I feel I have gained much from my practice, but an increase in concentration level or quality does not seem to be part of those gains. This has begun to bug me, thus disturbing my practice. Today while sitting I realized that this was a desire that was causing suffering, so I let it go. Ahh, OK. Then, because I couldn't concentrate, I realized that I needed to let go of the idea of concentration entirely. Ahh, this was very good! But then, because I couldn't concentrate, the commentary came back to say, "no, really, what about concentration?"
Am I missing something? Should I be doing something different?
Is this even an issue? Shikantaza being letting thoughts come and go seems to imply that there is no concentration, sort of thinking non-thinking, right? So is it concentrating on not concentrating? But then have I misunderstood all those references to concentration?
Is concentration even the right word? Is awareness a better term? Because that has increased a great deal over the years. I think I can say that I am able to concentrate on being more deeply aware, but my mind still often wanders away from awareness.
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The respective rebellions of Burma's (or Myanmar, as its government prefers it be called) three largest ethnic minorities are, for once, all aflame at the same time. At Asia Times Online, Brian McCartan writes: "Myanmar moved closer to civil war in recent weeks after fighting broke out in Kachin State," thus breaking its ceasefire with Burma's ruling junta. "Myanmar's newly elected government now faces ethnic insurgencies on three separate fronts," thus putting at risk "Myanmar's development and international confidence in its supposed democratic transition."
"In the southeast," meanwhile, a revolt by "the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) on November 7, 2010, election day, resulted in the temporary seizure of two important border towns." What's significant about this is that, despite the noble sentiments suggested by its name, the DKBA had been allied with the government.
McCartan again: "Although the government was able to retake the towns, fighting continued in the area and the [DKBA] allied itself with the Karen [ethnic group] National Liberation Army." He adds: "The operations of [the] DKBA commander Major General Lah Pweh . . . have added new energy to the Karen insurgency through stepped up ambushes and attacks on army camps both in rural areas and in towns and villages."
Meanwhile, about Shan State, the third large minority, McCartan writes that "increasing government pressure against the 1st Brigade of the Shan State Army-North (SSA-N)," with which the government also had a ceasefire, "resulted in open conflict in early March." The government had been trying to "incorporate the military units of the ethnic ceasefire armies into the Myanmar armed forces ahead of the 2010 elections," but the 1st Brigade, as well as other SSA-N brigades, had refused to join. McCartan again.
Indications are that if the government chooses to continue pushing these conflicts fighting could continue for years. Myanmar army casualties, if insurgent and exile media reports are accurate, have been high while insurgent casualties remain low. . . . Many Myanmar Army units have not seen combat in many years. . . . Low morale is a major problem among government troops. . . . Units are hugely under resourced and desertion is rife.
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A new alliance of 15 insurgent and former ceasefire groups, including the KNU, KIA and the SSA, offers new hope. [But it] remains to be seen whether. . . . the so-called United Nationalities Federal. . . . can coordinate operations on the battlefield or maneuver politically with internal ethnic political parties or internationally.
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The temps are also more docile, so it is easy on the managers.
The largest growth centers of many American companies (Apple is an exception) is in India. While the pain for US job-seekers is real, hiring Indians is reducing world-wide inequality. It can also be argued that by integrating India into the world economy the US is helping stabilize almost 20% of the world population at very little cost.
Still it is a very brave man who can/will attempt to counter the I was hired to train an Indian and then fired anecdotes. It is clear that the companies want to hire cheap, young temps (foreigners) instead of expensive, aged natives who will stay put.
The future is even more terrifying…when all the jobs will be performed by robots. It seems that capitalism will require to re-invent itself in order to keep revolutions at bay.
Parker was thrilled when she landed her dream job in 2012 providing tech
support for Harley-Davidson's Tomahawk, Wisconsin, plants. The divorced
mother of three hoped it was the beginning of a new career with the
motorcycle company.
The dream didn't last long. Parker claims
she was laid off one year later after she trained her replacement, a
newly arrived worker from India. Now she has joined a federal lawsuit
alleging the global staffing firm that ran Harley-Davidson's tech
support discriminated against American workers — in part by replacing
them with temporary workers from South Asia.
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India-based Infosys, denies wrongdoing and contends, as many companies
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the US. Like other firms, Infosys wants Congress to allow even more of
these temporary workers.
But amid calls for expanding the
nation's so-called H-1B visa programme, there is growing push-back from
Americans who argue the programme has been hijacked by staffing
companies that import cheaper, lower-level workers to replace more
expensive US employees — or keep them from getting hired in the first
getting pretty frustrating when you can't compete on salary for a
skilled job," said Rich Hajinlian, a veteran computer programmer from
the Boston area. "You hear references all the time that these big
companies … can't find skilled workers. I am a skilled worker."Hajinlian, 56, who develops his own web applications on the side, said
he applied for a job in April through a headhunter and that the
potential client appeared interested, scheduling a longer interview.
Then, said Hajinlian, the headhunter called back and said the client had
gone with an H-1B worker whose annual salary was about $10,000 less.
"I didn't even get a chance to negotiate down," he said.
The H-1B programme allows employers to temporarily hire workers in
specialty occupations. The government issues up to 85,000 H-1B visas to
businesses every year, and recipients can stay up to six years. Although
no one tracks exactly how many H-1B holders are in the US, experts
estimate there are at least 600,000 at any one time. Skilled guest
workers can also come in on other types of visas.
immigration bill passed in the US Senate last year would have increased
the number of annually available H-1B visas to 180,000 while raising
fees and increasing oversight, although language was removed that would
have required all companies to consider qualified US workers before
foreign workers are hired.
The House of Representatives never
acted on the measure. With immigration reform considered dead this year
in Congress, President Barack Obama last week declared he will use
executive actions to address some changes. It is not known whether the
H-1B programme will be on the agenda.
Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg is among the high-profile executives pushing for more H-1Bs.
The argument has long been that there aren't enough qualified American
workers to fill certain jobs, especially in science, engineering and
technology. Advocates also assert that some visa holders will stay and
become entrepreneurs.
Critics say there is no across-the-board
shortage of American tech workers, and that if there were, wages would
be rising rapidly. Instead, wage gains for software developers have been
modest, while wages have fallen for programmers.
The liberal
Economic Policy Institute reported last year that only half of US
college graduates in science, engineering and technology found jobs in
those fields and that at least one third of IT jobs were going to
foreign guest workers.
The top users of H-1B visas aren't even
tech companies like Google and Facebook. Eight of the 10 biggest H-1B
users last year were outsourcing firms that hire out thousands of mostly
lower- and mid-level tech workers to corporate clients, according to an
analysis of federal data by Ron Hira, an associate professor of public
policy at Rochester Institute of Technology. The top 10 firms accounted
for about a third of the H-1Bs allotted last year.
The debate
over whether foreign workers are taking jobs isn't new, but for years it
centered on low-wage sectors like agriculture and construction. The
high-skilled visas have thrust a new sector of American workers into the
fray: the middle class.
Last month, three tech advocacy groups
launched a labor boycott against Infosys, IBM and the global staffing
and consulting company Manpower Group, citing a "pattern of excluding US
workers from job openings on US soil."
They say Manpower, for example, last year posted US job openings in India but not in the United States.
have a shortage in the industry all right — a shortage of fair and
ethical recruiting and hiring," said Donna Conroy, director of Bright
Future Jobs, a group of tech professionals fighting to end what it calls
"discriminatory hiring that is blocking us … from competing for jobs
we are qualified to do."
"US workers should have the freedom to compete first for job openings," Conroy said.
Infosys spokesman Paul de Lara responded that the firm encourages
"diversity recruitment," while spokesman Doug Shelton said IBM considers
all qualified candidates "without regard to citizenship and immigration
status." Manpower issued a statement saying it "adopts the highest
ethical standards and complies with all applicable laws and regulations
when hiring individuals."
Much of the backlash against the H-1B
and other visa programmes can be traced to whistleblower Jay Palmer, a
former Infosys employee. In 2011, Palmer supplied federal investigators
with information that helped lead to Infosys paying a record $34 million
settlement last year. Prosecutors had accused the company of
circumventing the law by bringing in lower-paid workers on short-term
executive business visas instead of using H-1B visas.
year, IBM paid $44,000 to the US Justice Department to settle
allegations its job postings expressed a preference for foreign workers.
And a September trial is set against executives at the staffing company
Dibon Solutions, accused of illegally bringing in foreign workers on
H-1B visas without having jobs for them — a practice known as
In court papers, Parker claims that she was given
positive reviews by supervisors, including at Infosys, which she
maintains oversaw her work and the decision to let her go. The only
complaint: Her desk was messy and she'd once been late.
Neither Parker nor other workers involved in similar lawsuits and contacted by The Associated Press would discuss their cases.
Parker's attorney, Dan Kotchen, noted that the case centers on
discrimination based on national origin but said that "hiring visa
workers is part of how they obtain their discriminatory objectives."
Infosys is seeking a dismissal, in part on grounds that it never hired
or fired Parker. Parker was hired by a different subcontractor and kept
on, initially, after Infosys began working with Harley-Davidson.
A company spokeswoman said Infosys has about 17,000 employees in the
US, about 25% US hires. In filings to the US Securities and Exchange
Commission, the company said it has more than 22,000 employees with
valid temporary work visas, some not in the US.
University Law School fellow Vivek Wadwha, a startup adviser, said firms
are so starved for talent they are buying up other companies to obtain
skilled employees. If there's a bias against Americans, he said, it's an
age bias based on the fact that older workers may not have the latest
skills. More than 70% of H-1B petitions approved in 2012 were for
workers between the ages of 25 and 34.
"If workers don't constantly retrain themselves, their skills become obsolete," he said.
Norm Matloff, a computer science professor at the University of
California, Davis, agreed that age plays into it — not because older
workers are less skilled but because they typically require higher pay.
Temporary workers also tend to be cheaper because they don't require
long-term health care for dependents and aren't around long enough to
get significant raises, he said.
Because they can be deported
if they lose their jobs, these employees are often loath to complain
about working conditions. And even half the standard systems analyst
salary in the US is above what an H-1B holder would earn back home.
Such circumstances concern Americans searching for work in a still recovering economy.
Jennifer Wedel of Fort Worth, Texas, publicly challenged Obama on the
visa issue in 2012, making headlines when she asked him via a public
online chat about the number of foreign workers being hired — given that
her husband, a semiconductor engineer, couldn't find work.
Wedel said her husband eventually found a job in the health care industry, taking a $40,000 pay cut.
"It's a slap in the face to every American who worked hard to get their
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Title :
Errand of Mercy
Series :
The Original Series
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First Aired :
23 Mar 1967
Stardate :
Director :
John Newland
Year :
Writers :
Gene L. Coon
Season Ep :
x 28
Main Cast :
James Doohan
Montgomery Scott
DeForest Kelley
Leonard H. McCoy
Walter Koenig
Pavel A. Chekov
Nichelle Nichols
Nyota Uhura
Leonard Nimoy
William Shatner
James T. Kirk
George Takei
Hikaru Sulu
Grace Lee Whitney
Janice Rand
Guest Cast :
Jon Abbott
Bob Bass
as Klingon guard
Peter Brocco
John Colicos
Gary Coombs
as Klingon guard
Walter Davis
as Klingon soldier
David Hillary Hughes
Victor Lundin
as Klingon Lieutenant #1
Eddie Paskey
Lieutenant Leslie
George Sawaya
as Second soldier
One of Kor's rules is that no groups of more than three Organians are allowed to meet. However, throughout most of the episode the five member ruling council stays together, including during their meetings with Kor.
Great Moment :
The moment when Kirk realises that he's been arguing in favour of a war.
Body Count :
The crew of a Klingon ship are killed by the Enterprise. The Klingons shoot two hundred Organians, but it transpires that these are still alive.
Factoid :
Aylebourne predicts that the Klingons and Federation will one day become good friends, which they do in The Next Generation.
This episode marks the first appearance of the Klingons, who became the regular bad guys of the series because they didn't need the expensive ear prosthesis that the Romulans did.
The episode title is from "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby", by Charles Dickens : "It is an errand of mercy which brings me here. Pray, let me discharge it."
The character of Kor would return in Deep Space Nine, played again by John Colicos. His appearance there was of the TNG-era Klingon with a ridged head, thus contributing to the long-running "Klingon forehead problem" - a fan term used to describe the discontinuity in appearance between Klingons in the original series versus the rest of the franchise. This was initially put down to merely a production matter, with Klingons "always looking that way" but TOS not able to show it. However, Deep Space Nine's "Trials and Tribblations" established that the look of Klingons had indeed changed over the years and Kor's return showed that even individual Klingons had altered in appearance. The KFP was eventually resolved as part of Enterprise's Augments arc.
Kor was planned to be a returning character, who would appear in both "Day of the Dove" and "The Trouble with Tribbles", but Colicos was unavailable. Thus the characters of Kang and Koloth were created.
Colicos suggested the Klingons should have a dark-skinned, moustached look. He said this was based on Genghis Khan, and makeup artist Fred Phillips agreed.
The baldric that Kor wears in this episode is the very same one that Worf would wear in the first season of The Next Generation. It was made of gold painted burlap sacking.
This is the last episode to use the term "Vulcanian"; after this, the term Vulcan would always be used.
In DS9's "The Sword of Kahless" Worf would refer to Kor's face-off with Kirk on Organia as a famous story.
Several of the Star Trek novels would expand on this story by establishing that the Organians only enforced their treaty over a large but somewhat limited and ill-defined area. Thus the Klingons and Federation
fight, in some places, but neither side was ever quite sure if the Organians would intervene or, if they did, how they would react. This allowed the two to remain as antagonists. Other non-canon works contradict this; "The Star Fleet Universe" claims that the Organians were only able to affect matters in their own system, and so were largely bluffing in their threats. Comics set between Star Trek II and III claim that war does break out thanks to the interference of Yarnek and the Excalbians. Perhaps most interestingly, the novel "Spock Must Die" features the Klingons developing a technology which can neutralise the Organians, which allows them to launch a war against the Federation. At the climax of the book Kirk is able to free the Organians, who respond by neutralising all Klingon space flight for centuries to come. This idea, of course, is contradicted by later depictions of the Klingons still being active.
Whilst the Organians would never reappear in canon after this episode, the Enterprise episode "Observer Effect" acts as a prequel of sorts, showing Organian contact with Humans a century before this episode.
The Enterprise receives a message from Starfleet indicating that negotiations with the Klingon Empire are about to collapse - war is imminent. The ship is ordered to Organia, a primitive planet which happens to be in a strategic location. On the way they are attacked by a Klingon ship, which they destroy; a further message indicates that war has indeed begun.
Arriving in orbit Kirk and Spock beam down to enlist the help of the Organians. They find a peaceful agrarian society, primitive in appearance - and yet there are oddities about the place, such as nearby ruins which indicate a significantly higher technology level, or the fact that nobody appears the least concerned about their materialisation right in front of them. A local, Ayelborne, welcomes them and takes them to meet the Council of Elders - the closest thing the Organians have to leaders. The Council appear entirely indifferent to the conflict now raging, assuring Kirk that they have no need of or desire for Federation protection from the Klingons. Spock determines that the Organian culture has been technologically stagnant for as far back as his tricorder can scan, and Kirk offers them advances to improve their lives in return for assistance. The Organians politely decline.
In orbit the Klingon fleet arrives - which, oddly, the Councillor Trefayne is aware of before the Enterprise is. Ayelborne simply explains this by claiming that he is "quite intuitive". With the Enterprise outnumbered Kirk orders the ship to retreat and bring reinforcements whilst he and Spock remain below. Klingon forces soon beam down and begin to occupy the village.
The Organians provide suitable native clothing for Kirk, and disguise Spock as a civilian trader - but in the process, they hide their weapons lest the Starfleet officers be tempted to harm somebody with them. The Klingon governor Kor arrives; he orders Spock questioned under a mind probe, and appoints Kirk as his liaison to the civilian population as he detects resentment in him and regards "good honest hatred" as something he can respect and deal with, as compared to the docile attitude everybody else displays.
Spock is able to fool the mind probe and is released. The officers plan a little sabotage to complicate life for the Klingons, and succeed in blowing up an ammunition dump. They hope their actions will rally the Organians by showing them that there are ways to resist the Klingons, but to their surprise the Organians are horrified by their violent actions and plead with them to do nothing more. Unfortunately Kor has bugged the Council chamber, and Kirk and Spock are captured. When he threatens to use the mind probe on Kirk Ayelborne immediately volunteers his true identity to save him, much to Kirk's disgust.
Kor takes Kirk to his office and the two talk. Kor talks of his admiration for Starfleet and Kirk personally and his joy of war and conquest - likening the Klingons and Federation both to a race of predators and the Organians to sheep who are there to be preyed on. When Kirk refuses to talk Kor offers him twelve hours to think it over, and has him locked up in a cell with Spock.
Much to their surprise Ayelborne soon arrives and frees them, stating that the Klingons on guard "fell asleep". He takes them to the Council chambers, assuring them that the Klingons will not search there. Kirk is completely confused by how the Organians will sell him out to the Klingons in one moment only to rescue him the next. When Kor learns of Kirk and Spock's escape he has two hundred Organians killed in reprisal, threatening to kill another two hundred every hour until they are returned. Even this does not phase the Organians in the slightest.
Kirk plans a near-suicidal assault on Kor to save the hostages, forcing Ayelborne to return their hand weapons. After they leave the Councillors comment on their bravery, although regarding their actions as foolish. They note that more violence will follow now, and that this is something that they cannot allow. Kirk's mission succeeds better than he anticipated, and he is able to get to Kor himself. However, Kor keeps his cool. He notes that a Klingon and a Federation fleet are going to clash near Organia shortly, a glorious battle which he expects to win. He notes that Klingons are strong because every one of them is part of the whole, constantly watched - including himself. Realising that the office is bugged, Kirk turns as Klingons stream in to attack.
Yet even as they do their weapons suddenly become intensely hot, forcing everybody to drop them. They try to fight by hand, but even their opponents bodies feel agonisingly hot to the touch. Ayelborne and Claymare enter and inform them that they have put a stop to the violence - not only here on Organia, but everywhere. All Federation and Klingon ships are now literally impossible to use due to the searing heat their crews feel when they touch them. Ayelborne tells them he is appearing simultaneously on their home worlds to issue a demand - all hostilities will cease, or all forces involved will remain immobile.
A stunned Kirk and Kor can hardly believe what has happened or comprehend how it could be possible, but Ayelborne reveals the amazing truth - that the Organians are not primitives at all, but are rather advanced beyond all comprehension. Their bodies vanish into blinding spheres of energy before fading out of view completely. Spock muses that the Organians are likely as far removed from Humanity as Humans are from the amoeba; their former appearance and the whole village were merely illusions maintained so that the outsiders would have understandable reference points to deal with.
With the war ended, Kirk and Spock return to the Enterprise and the ship departs.
Great episode, truly one of the best of the Original Series. To modern sensibilities, it's a shame that the Klingons are just dropped in here the way they are. Nowadays something like this would be introduced over many episodes, with some foreshadowing and actions to establish the oncoming threat - look at how DS9 took the time to introduce the Dominion over the space of years. But this is very much a sign of the times, really. TOS would frequently simply throw things out there that redefined the whole way things in Trek worked. It can be a little jarring to the modern audience, but it seems to work somehow.
The setup is a decent one, with the Organians coming across as rather baffling and strange but not so strange that you really get their true nature. Again, this is partly a result of the times. We've very used to the idea that some person or culture can appear weak or simple, only to prove to be tremendously advanced and powerful. But at the time of this episode, such a thing was a pretty new idea. Thus we view the Organians as victims, as sheep - until they show us what they truly are.
The episode benefits very much from Kor and the depiction of the Klingons. It's said that Dorothy Fontana much preferred the Romulans, who she thought were more interesting. That may be true, but the Klingons as shown here are quite an interesting bunch themselves. Kor is a very self aware villain; he regards himself as a predator, freely admitting that his ways are harsh and cruel... yet he will sit and have a drink with Kirk, a man he seems to honestly admire. He is willing to slaughter hostages by the hundred to get his way... yet he causally confesses that one day the Klingons will probably meet their match and be defeated, and seems to find no great problem with this. Thus, he is not somebody who is fighting to achieve something as such - he doesn't want to fight the Federation for the goal of ruling the Federation, he wants to fight the Federation because he enjoys the process of conquest itself. He is the epitome of the attitude expressed by the old quote about Alexander the Great, who allegedly wept when he realised that he controlled all the known world because "there were no new worlds to conquer." It makes him a complex and fascinating character.
I have to say, though, the Klingon guy who keeps reporting to him? Wow, that's a terrible actor right there. Just listen to the line delivery, it's appalling!
Overall, then, a very solid episode.
Special Edition
The special edition brings us the usual new exterior shots, plus a nice new planet Organia. Interestingly we now get to see multiple ships of the Klingon fleet arriving, which is a nice touch. The shots of the Organian transformation have also been redone.
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