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There are many different concerns and issues regarding housing in New York City, including fair housing violations. Note that the NYC Human Rights law prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of your disability. The information below will provide assistance in a number of housing-related areas.
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AHRC New York City
Founded in 1949, AHRC New York City is the largest organization of its kind. With over 100 sites in the city, AHRC New York City serves over 11,00 children and adults with developmental disabilities each day. Among many programs and activities, the AHRC also provides assistance with personal centered planning, community residences, non-certified housing alternatives and on-going supports for people living in the homes of their choice.
83 Maiden Lane
New York, NY 10038
Phone: 212-780 2500
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Assisted Living and Adult Care
This 42-story building was dedicated in 1983 to the memory of Erastus Corning 2nd, a long-time mayor of Albany who played a special role in the creation of the Plaza as the center of state government. The Tower is the tallest building in New York State outside of New York City. The building dominates the Albany skyline with its glass, marble and angular forms.
Corning Tower
Bar Association Legal Referral Service
Bar Association Legal Referral Service
The New York City Bar Association (City Bar), founded in 1870, is a voluntary association of lawyers and law students. Since 1896, the organization, officially known as the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, has been headquartered in a landmark building on 44th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Manhattan. Today the City Bar has over 24,000 members.
The Legal Referral Service matches clients with experience lawyers over 100 areas of law.
Phone: 212-626-7373
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI)
151 West 30th Street
Barrier Free Living
Barrier Free living is nationally recognized as the first fully accessible emergency shelter for disabled victims of domestic violence and their families. The agency provides counseling, housing placement for people with disabilities.
270 East Second Street
Common Ground
Common Ground's mission is to strengthen individuals, families and communities by developing and sustaining exceptional Supportive and Affordable Housing as well as programs for homeless and other vulnerable New Yorkers.
Project Hospitality, a private not-for-profit organization based in Staten Island, New York, provides comprehensive services for hungry and homeless and inadequately housed people, especially those who are living with multiple diagnoses such as HIV, substance use, and/or mental illness. As the only comprehensive homeless service provider in the borough of Staten Island, Project Hospitality serves more than 5,000 Staten Island residents each year.
Susan's Place
Care for the Homeless opened Susan's Place, a 180-bed (now a 200-bed) transitional residence with an onsite medical and dental clinic on August 6, 2008. Susan's Place is dedicated to serving medically frail and mentally ill homeless women, providing them with healthy meals, clean clothing, recreational activities and a broad range of primary health care and social services. Susan's Place gives these women a safe and supportive environment and the services that will help keep them re-housed after we place them in permanent housing.
Center for Urban Community Services
CUCS is working to end homelessness and ensure opportunities for low income New Yorkers.
198 East 121th Street
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Finance offers property tax reductions through exemptions and abatements for Residential Property, Commercial Construction, and Governmental, Industrial, and Not-for-Profit.
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Basic STAR. There is no age limit. Beginning July 1, 2011, total combined household income must be $500,000 or less. (Previously there was no income limit.) Most homeowners who have Basic STAR can save about $280 a year on their NYC property taxes.
Enhanced STAR Seniors age 65 or over (as of the December 31st following the March 15th due date of the application) with total combined household income of $79,050 or less may be entitled to Enhanced STAR instead of Basic STAR. This program offers a savings of about $560 per year. Homeowners who apply for and receive SCHE will also receive Enhanced STAR benefits.
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Homebase is a citywide program designed to help families and individuals overcome immediate housing problems that could result in becoming homeless, and to develop a plan for long-term housing stability. Program services are crafted to meet the unique needs of each individual or family and to help meet the demands of maintaining a household.
Common Ground
Common Ground's mission is to strengthen individuals, families and communities by developing and sustaining exceptional Supportive and Affordable Housing as well as programs for homeless and other vulnerable New Yorkers.
Project Hospitality
Project Hospitality, a private not-for-profit organization based in Staten Island, New York, provides comprehensive services for hungry and homeless and inadequately housed people, especially those who are living with multiple diagnoses such as HIV, substance use, and/or mental illness. As the only comprehensive homeless service provider in the borough of Staten Island, Project Hospitality serves more than 5,000 Staten Island residents each year.
Susan's Place
Care for the Homeless opened Susan's Place, a 180-bed (now a 200-bed) transitional residence with an onsite medical and dental clinic on August 6, 2008. Susan's Place is dedicated to serving medically frail and mentally ill homeless women, providing them with healthy meals, clean clothing, recreational activities and a broad range of primary health care and social services. Susan's Place gives these women a safe and supportive environment and the services that will help keep them re-housed after we place them in permanent housing.
Please contact:
Coalition for the Homeless
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Contact DHS by calling 311 or 212-361-8000
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The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is actively engaged in the development of accessible and affordable housing.
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Contact the Department of Housing Preservation and Development by calling 311 or visit their website.
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Tanya Towers is an apartment building that provides homes for Deaf and Hard of Hearing tenants.
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New York City residents may apply for a one-time emergency grant, also called a "One Shot", when an unforeseen circumstance prevents the applicant from meeting an expense. An applicant must meet eligibility guidelines and is subject to investigative review of the application. Emergency grant applicants may obtain rental assistance in cases of impending evictions, assistance with home energy and utility bills, disaster assistance including moving expenses, and the purchase of personal items for health and safety.
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New York City Commission On Human Rights Informational Booklet. The Commission's informational booklet describes the provisions of the Human Rights Law, the work of both the Law Enforcement and the Community Relations Bureaus, the many services the Commission provides, and how to file a complaint. This booklet is currently available in six languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, French, and Korean.
Fair Housing: It's The Law. The NYC Human Rights Law prohibits housing discrimination in New York City based on a person's real or perceived race, color, national origin, gender (including gender identity and sexual harassment), creed, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, alienage or citizenship status, age, lawful occupation or because children may be or will be residing with you.
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The New York City Housing Authority provides decent and affordable housing in a safe and secure living environment for low- and moderate-income residents throughout the five boroughs. NYCHA works to enhance the quality of life at NYCHA by offering our residents opportunities to participate in a multitude of community, educational and recreational programs, as well as job readiness and training initiatives. NYCHA is also the largest public housing authority in North America and manages more than 175,000 apartments in its Conventional Public Housing Program.
To be considered for an apartment in a public housing development, a completed application must be submitted. On the application, applicants are requested to select a first and second borough choice and provide information about their total household income, family composition and current living situation.
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Here you will find information on all aspects of City housing, including renting an apartment, buying a home, and apartment maintenance issues. Through this site, you will also find all of the City's affordable housing lottery listings.
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Applying and qualifying for affordable housing can be a long process, and you are not guaranteed to receive housing. Your household must not only qualify with detailed criteria on a property-by-property basis, but you must also be selected at random in that property's lottery. Preferences noted in the advertisement will be given first consideration. For more information on Preferences, see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). If you need immediate housing assistance, or require shelter, please call 311. For other housing resources for New York City, visit the Affordable Housing Resource Center at www.nyc.gov/housing.
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Center for Independence of the Disabled in NY (CIDNY)
The Center for Independence of the Disabled, New York's (CIDNY) goal is to ensure full integration, independence and equal opportunity for all people with disabilities by removing barriers to the social, economic, cultural and civic life of the community. CIDNY is a part of Independent Living Centers movement. CIDNY is NOT a housing provider, they provides referrals, assistance, and resources for individuals looking for affordable and accessible housing.
There are six Independent Living Centers in NYC:
Center of Independence of the Disabled in NY
Center of Independence of the Disabled in Queens
Harlem Independent Living Center
Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled
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11 Park Place
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80 Maiden Lane
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247 West 37th Street
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305 Seventh Avenue, 10th Floor
Pathways to Housing
186 East 123rd Street
Tier II Shelter and Housing Advocacy
Sinergia, Inc. operates a Tier II Program, which is transitional housing for homeless families who have members that are developmentally disabled. It is operated under the Division of Homeless Services (DHS). Sinergia also operates two innovative Housing Advocacy Programs funded by the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD), and the Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR). We provide services such as housing advocacy and home finding assistance to low-income families who have members that are developmentally disabled.
2082 Lexington Avenue
SKIP of NY
SKIP is short for Sick Kids [Need] Involved People but it's long on the kind of assistance that has helped more than 10,000 very sick and/or developmentally disabled children over the past 27 years in the state of New York get home from hospitals and institutions to live with their families and participate in their schools and communities to the fullest extent possible.
SKIP of New York is the only 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit agency of its kind. It is based on the belief that every kid deserves a shot at the best childhood they can get, especially kids who are medically fragile and/or developmentally disabled. Through service coordination, advocacy and hands-on problem solving, more than 150 SKIP case managers make sure the 3,000 children they work with each year get that chance.
601 West 26th Street
The Legal Aid Society
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Have you come across a child who can neither see, hear and speak? Yes, 3 disabilities together! Can you imagine what and how this child will learn, live and grow, especially when 95% of our learning comes from what we see and hear! Sense India works with such "deafblind" and multi-sensory impaired children and young adults. We are striving to bring meaning into such lives through education, training and support to parents. It is almost 20 years that I have been with Sense India and have witnessed transformed lives through your support so come forward and extend a helping hand.
India's only national organisation working for children and adults with deafblindness along with their teachers and parents across India! Factors that set them apart:
Working for a unique disability
100% transparency
How many times have we been tired of our kids, who are perfectly normal, scolding them and telling them to be understandable and calm them down, in times when they don't understand stuff or get sick etc.
The guys at sense do these, but the magnitude of the whole thing changes, because the kids can't hear or see. Imagine yourself at a place where you have to explain to a child what is happening to him/her and then to make them overcome the same and to teach them to live a life. Not just children adults too loose their sight and sound and helping the adults to adjust who have become a child once again, who have to forget all that they have learned and have to learn things all again, is another task all together.
Over and above that, many of us may want to help a blind person cross the road, what we don't realize is that some of them cannot hear you, so trying to talk to them is futile, trying to make a deafblind individual explain that this is going to happen to you on the street, is another task.
So Sense working on getting the kids and individual under their wing, trying to educate them, trying to educate the public about them and to make sure the individual rights of these individuals remain intact, is by far no small act. I was stupified and had to collect myself. Their work and efforts and the efforts of the deafblind individual really minuscule things we do.
Incredible Cause and an Incredible team of people. Working for people with deafblindness in a diverse country like India is no easy task. Yet day after day, the Sense India team - including their partners and the parents and educators of children with deafblindness ensure that identified children and adults now live a fuller life. Highly transparent and ethical in its functioning, it's hard not to be inspired by the work and the people. Kudos and all the best.
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The work that Sense India is doing is phenomenal. Deafblindness is a unique and complex disability. In a developing country like India, people with disabilities continue to remain invisible. But through their work, it is evident that Sense India is going above and beyond to ensure children and adults with deafblindness have access to better care, medical facilities and livelihood opportunities.
Sense International india is making an remarkable changes in the lives of deafblind person's with the huge programs from baby screening to natioanl level advocacy and expertise staff working with the unique disability and finding ways to bring them to mainstream level is really extraordinary and highly transparent and dedicated team . Proud to be associated with sense international India
Sense India is a committed NGO working with the objective to provide quality disability rehabilitation for children & adults with deafblindness. It provides equal opportunities and social integration to the deafblind population through its programmes.
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The service providing by Sense International India on the field of disability rehabilitation for the Deafblind people with or without other disabilities is truly appreciable. I am truly touched with the dedication & commitment that Sense international India team has shown in transforming the life's of Deafblind person.
A unique NGO working with a unique group of individuals. Individuals who are invisible in the public domain because of their disability. People who cannot see, hear and speak. Working as a catalyst this NGO is helping thousands of deafblind children and adults to connect with their families and community.
Working with a network of partner NGOs it is ensuring deafblind people have access to support, advice and resources to lead a dignified life.
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Sense India works with some of the most marginalised and invisible children of India. Deafblind children face dual disability of vision and hearing loss making their world limited to their fingertips. Sense India is the only national level NGO in India that works exclusively with these children. It provides education, rehabilitation, vocational training and employment to deafblind children and adults.
Sense International do remarkable job putting blind and deaf people in society where they deserve to be. There program across India help deaf blind to earn respect. Great job and keep it up forks.
Sense India is a unique organization working exclusively for the deafblind and multi-sensory impaired population of the country. People with deafblindness are on extremes of margins of development and are denied services and rights. However, through the Sense India work, they are receiving support services and becoming independent in their lives. I am impressed by the work commitment of the whole organization and believe they will always remain the top nonprofit organization in India.
Sense International India is an award winning quintessential Indian not for profit organization representing a niche cause which not many professionals in the disability sector happen to be aware of. Their expertise and knowledge in terms of implementing decentralized customized programs are critical to developing a roadmap for deafblind individuals in the country. The programs are designed in tandem with the impact parameters and onground challenges carefully assessing its feasibility and viability. Highly transparent and efficient when it comes fund usage including monitoring,tracking and reporting.
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An organization which has been working very very hard to raise awareness on deafblindness. Extremely ethical when it comes to clarity on fund usage and brutally honest when it comes to talking about the rights of the differently abled. Powerful. Very powerful.
In a world where education system lacks inclusive education, organisation such as Sense International are working to bridge the gap. A child, who has every right to get educated irrespective of his physical disabilities is being supported by Sense. This has not only made them self confident but has also created a huge impact on their families.

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Things that make you go "hmmm"
This has been an extremely busy week for yours truly — school has started and the curriculum for the Python for Web Development class is being finalized (class starts on the 20th for students at Alternative Family Education in Santa Cruz, and the loaner laptops have all had new installs of CrunchBang because, well, I'm the teacher) — and nothing terribly exciting jumped out in the FOSS realm that needed my immediate attention.
This is not to say nothing happened, of course, but not one topic will dominate the pixels on the screen you're reading. But a couple of things popped up on the radar, like . . . .
Intel to Canonical — Go to hell: Phoronix reported Saturday that "the mainline Intel Linux graphics driver has reverted the patch to support XMir — the X11 compatibility layer for the Mir Display Server in Ubuntu Linux." Hmmm. That seems to be a very quick 180 by the chipmaking giant which interestingly, as it turns out, is heavily invested in Wayland. From a practical standpoint, it just looks like Canonical is going to have to do the work itself; Alan Pope said something to this effect when he tweeted, "It just means more work for us (Canonical) to keep integrating xmir patches into x with each release/update." But the subtext, as far as I can see, is that Intel is saying this to Canonical: You want to go your own way? Fine. Do your own work, and good luck. Maybe Ubuntu's walled garden isn't looking so good after all.
Better not pout, I'm telling you why: Well, he knows when you are sleeping. He knows when you're awake. Yes, the previous sentences just scream out begging on bended knee for an NSA joke, but I'm not making it here (see, guys?). But I'm really talking about the jolly one in red — Santa Claus — who will not share a name with the Fedora 20 relase. The Fedora Project community has voted and F20 and the winner is Heisenbug, though I personally gave high ranking in range voting to Santa the Christmas Guy. Nevertheless, Fedora has released the schedule for F20: The alpha goes out in a little over a month on Sept. 17, beta on Oct. 22 with the final release scheduled for Nov. 26.
A must read: Bruce Schneider in The Guardian. Nothing else to say here, just read it.
One more thing: An interesting discussion is currently taking place in the LXer.com discussion forum regarding Katherine Noyes' articles and how she quotes the same people repeatedly. I'm not going to add anything that I haven't said already in this thread, but I think the original poster is right. I read Katherine's items often, and I'm going to ask: Please, Katherine, mix it up a little bit and ask more people — different people — for their opinions.
Felton LUG meets in about an hour. See some of you there.
This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy, Larry the CrunchBang Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can't change it in any way or use it commercially.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
Choice is good
Yes, I know LinuxCon is next, and that's in mid-August, but I think they've got the publicity thing covered, especially with the 20-year thing and with Linus being there and all. But if you're going to the next show, make it the Ohio LinuxFest in September. Bradley Kuhn and Cathy Malmrose are keynoting, so you'll not want to miss that (especially Cathy — Go ZaReason!)
Spending a lazy Sunday at home for a change — thanks to a newspaper colleague who needed Tuesday off (thank you, Kalin) — it might come as a surprise that I found myself at a loss for a topic to write about. So started the usual drill: I always check LXer.com every morning when I wake up, but then went to a couple of other sites, checked my Google Alerts for Linux-related items, and nothing really jumped out at me.
[You might imagine, if you've read this blog regularly in the past, that "nothing really jumped out at me" usually translates to "nothing caused me to get so rabidly incensed that I had to ask someone for a spatula to scrape myself off the ceiling." But I digress.]
Then I went to DistroWatch.com because, frankly, I hadn't been there in awhile. For those of you who are interested in all things FOSS, DistroWatch is an interesting place to not only keep up with which distros are peaking and ebbing in the great scoreboard of FOSS, but also to see who has released what when, and sometimes, why.
I decided to take a look at how many active distros — including those which also are Solaris- and BSD-based — there are as of today, July 31. It's down a bit since I last looked, which has been literally several years ago.
We're "down" to 324, and if memory serves, the last check I did had the active number in the 350s.
This always kick-starts the "how-many-distros-do-we-really-need" debate, which I have always considered a non-starter. I've crossed verbal swords in the past with others who say that a figure like 324 is insane, that there are too many distros available and that there should be much fewer distros so we don't have to bend our brains having to choose.
I say 324 — or whatever the number is or becomes — is a perfect number, and that external forces should decide how many Linux/Solaris/BSD distros there are. These external forces, of course, are both driven by market and Darwinian factors. You make a good, solid distro, foster a good team and growing community around it, the project moves up the DistroWatch list and — ping! — profit. Conversely, you don't make a good distro, and these forces — especially the Darwinian one — puts you where you belong.
The reality is that out of the 324 active distros listed on DistroWatch, there are probably between 35 and 50 that will be usable by the general public; that is, those whose computer abilities may end at pointing and clicking. And that's OK, too. I'd just as soon put my mother in a flaming box of dynamite as I would have her use Phayoune Linux on her desktop. [Phayoune users note: Do not flame me — I am only using your distro as an example in this case. I am sure it's a wonderful distro for those using it in Thailiand, but the point here is that not all distros are for everyone, and that Phayoune may not be for my mother since she's not Thai, for starters.]
[Oh, and Mom, I would never EVER put you in a flaming box of dynamite. No, really Mom. I swear.]
Or here's another way of putting this in perspective: Don't look at the list on DistroWatch and make a list of as many distros that come to mind. How many did you get? Ten? Thirty? More? Well, the more you can name, the more in tune you are with what's going on, FOSS-wise. Don't consider that a challenge, but just as an indicator of which distros are doing some heavy lifting in the FOSS realm and, in the grand scale of things, are getting things right. Bear in mind, too, that just because you can't name a distro, it doesn't mean that it's not useful or important in its own way; especially if that particular distro is specialized or based on a particular language or culture (see Phayoune, for example).
But the number of distros — whatever it might be — is what it should be.
This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can't change it in any way or use it commercially.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)
List of the top 10 Linux lists
Linux for the GNU South — it's coming up so attend if you can.
Lists: We all make 'em and, judging by what appears on LXer.com, we all read 'em. A great majority of them are worthwhile and informative; others, not so much.
Over the last few months, I've noticed an uptick in the number of "Top $NUMBER List of $VERY_COOL_PROGRAMS" on LXer.com and thought that perhaps a list of the best lists might be helpful to navigate these uncharted waters.
Doing this list David Letterman style, we'll start at 10 and work our way down to the Number 1 Linux list over the last few months. Ready?
10. 8 of the Best Free Astronomy Apps — An excellent list for those into astronomy: What could be better than free star charting apps? Me, I'm all in on KStars. Thank Steven Epps for this — many of the lists you'll find in the ether of the Internet come from him.
9. Fedora 15's Five Best Features — This review by Steven Vaughan-Nichols should be renamed "Five Good Things about Fedora 15 and a Song of Despair" (with apologies to Pablo Neruda), since he starts out by bemoaning (rightfully) the shortcomings of GNOME 3, and then following up with a list of five good things about the release.
8. 31 Great Tutorials for Inkscape — You might as well call this the Baskin Robbins of Inkscape tutorials, and the Unixmen, who normally have some good tutorials on hand, give us a veritable ice cream store of knowledge on this great software.
7. 7 of the Best Free Linux GPS Tools — Another list from Steve Epps. A program can be found here to let you know where you're going and where you've been.
6. Five Must Have GNOME Shell Extensions — If you're running Fedora 15 with GNOME 3, this list will come in handy.
5. 5 things I like in Ubuntu 11.04 (Unity) and 10 things which I don't — Dark Duck likes and dislikes several things about Natty Narwhal, and the interesting perspective here is that some of the likes and dislikes are the same.
4. 9 Good CD and DVD Burning Tools for Ubuntu/Linux — While these aren't necessarily soley Ubuntu tools, it provides a good list.
3. Top 6 Quicklists for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty to Enhance Unity Launcher Functionality — … and if you said that all in one breath, you get a prize. Manuel Jose seems to be on top of all things Ubuntu, and he gets a prize for providing adequate alternatives for Unity users.
2. 7.5 Reasons to Look Forward to Fedora 15 — Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier adds a list of things that, at the time, were coming up in the now-released Fedora 15, and the half-point goes to . . . nope, no spoiler alert here.
Which brings us to the top Linux list of the past few months, brought to you by LXer.com:
1. 70 Open Source Replacements for Small Business Software — In a word: Damn.
Got an item I missed? Pass it on.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)
Loyal opposition: What it means
Linux for the GNU South — it's coming up so attend if you can.
More than one person — several actually, none of whom will be named here, to protect the innocent — asked me recently, "Did you see Carla Schroder's article in LXer.com on Ubuntu?"
I did. In fact, all ego aside (and we'll wait a few minutes until we've had a chance to move that large thing aside), I may have had a hand in this through my contribution to a LXer.com forum item where I said:
"If you'll permit me a tangent, is Ubuntu "ashamed" to call itself Linux? If you go to their Web page, on the main page you won't find the word "Linux" anywhere. I finally found it on an "About Ubuntu" page in the second or third paragraph. If you go to the openSUSE main page, Linux is there; same with Fedora and Debian (though Debian goes the GNU/Linux route).
Just wondering aloud . . . ."
Later, if you're reading along with us on this forum, Carla Schroder (a.k.a., tuxchick) says:
"Ubuntu has many good points, not the least of which are kick-starting serious effort in making a really good desktop Linux, making inroads into the commercial computer market, genuinely welcoming new contributors, and inspiring hosts of respins and derivatives. Think back to the pre-Ubuntu days– Debian releases were stretching out ever longer (over three years!), Mandriva is perennially in crisis, Red Hat is uninterested in the consumer market….hmmm, methinks I spy an article in this subject." (emphasis added)
So I'll take a bow for contributing to the inspiration behind Carla writing this article, which is outstanding. Its outstanding nature outshines the fact that there are a couple of minuscule glitches in the article itself — one is that while Red Hat may not care about the desktop market, it established Fedora Core and the Fedora Project at the same time it "went enterprise" (not terribly clear in the article), and Fedora started roughly a year before Ubuntu came along. Also, for all the great things it rightfully says about Ubuntu — let me repeat that, for all the great things it rightfully says about Ubuntu — it still doesn't address the community's lack of technical contributions back to the greater FOSS community, for starters.
But let's not go there now.
Let's talk instead about how being respectfully critical or showing calm and reasoned dissent contributes to the greater good of all — for those being criticized as well as for those making the observations. Let's talk about taking what's being said at face value rather than looking into a subtext that more than likely doesn't exist.
Bear in mind: When done for the greater good, dissent is not disloyalty.
I'm an Ubuntu user; though it's not my primary distro of choice, I still use it on a variety of machines. My daughter is an Ubuntu user, and it is her distro of choice, as outlined in our UpSCALE talk (Mimi and I are at the 27:23) at the Southern California Linux Expo this year.
As noted here and elsewhere, I have had differences of opinion regarding how Ubuntu does things, and I have been critical of the credit Ubuntu wrongfully gets for technical contributions made by others. Until this changes, I will continue to be critical of Ubuntu, just as I am critical of Fedora — which is my distro of choice, though I am no longer officially a part of that community — and openSUSE and any other distro or community when criticism is warranted.
My purpose in bringing up shortcomings is to have those in a position to do so correct them — and if I can, I will correct them myself — rather than to berate those doing what I think is misguided or just wrong.
Also, it should be noted that I have also been known to heap praise on those communities that deserve it, bearing in mind that a distro that gets praise one day for doing something good for FOSS may get criticism on another for doing something not-so-good.
The fact of the matter is I don't expect Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian or any other distro or FOSS program, to be perfect. I do, however, demand distros and communities to live up to the higher standards that we as FOSS users and advocates have set — the most basic of which is that everyone contributes and everyone benefits — and I don't find this an unreasonable position.
So next time you find someone being critical, ask yourself whether the criticism is valid and if there is a solution to this criticism, other than an ad hominem response (yes, I'm looking at you, Mark Shuttleworth).
Oh, and critics: It's good to have a solution to go along with your critique. Admittedly, I should do this better, and promise to do so going forward.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)
Take a breath, then respond
[Note: I wrote this in the LXer.com forum in response to Jeff Hoogland's blog posting on #fedora that was linked to LXer.com. I did spell out "asshat" below, where I did not do that in the forum posting. Jeff's blog item is here, and I would invite everyone to read it first before reading my response below. Or not. It's up to you. Also, I fixed the link to the Eric Raymond/Rick Moen tome that's worth a read as well.]
Truth in advertising disclaimer: Many of you already know that I have been an active participant in the Fedora Project for several years; for those of you who don't, that secret is now out (and, man, do I feel relieved admitting it!). I have also been a regular in many IRC channels, both Fedora and non-Fedora related, though I am not a regular in #fedora — in fact, I avoid #fedora for the same reasons Jeff outlines in his self-proclaimed "rant."
That said, Jeff accurately points out a situation that has been a sticking point, and one that is being addressed and corrected, in the Fedora Project around the types of caustic responses that sometimes come up in #fedora. Also, while I don't frequent the channel and usually find answers to my questions elsewhere — a good practice (and more on this later) — I can say that it's something that has caused some of us in the Fedora Project some concern.
However — and you knew that was coming — just as an observation on my part, it appears Jeff shot from the hip on this one rather than giving it some thought before writing.
Believe me, I am not casting the first stone against this "sin" — I speak from experience here: lots of experience in which I have fired off unretractable words that a walk in the redwoods or shooting a few hoops would have tempered into something more reasonable and justifiable.
So, Jeff, with apologies, I think your blog goes over the top in the following ways:
a.) #fedora has not cornered the market in asshats by any stretch of the imagination, despite our mutual experience in this particular channel. The cantakerous tards who have an inflated self-worth exist in most IRC channels in every distro across the board — maybe not in Bodhi, if their leader has any say in it (I sincerely hope) — but I think it's more the nature of things like how IRC operates as well as a wake-up call for the need for change, positive change, in this regard.
b.) It's a little myopic to judge the performance of a distro by the people "representing" it (and, arguably, any bad experience in any distro-related IRC channel does not accurately reflect the community as a whole, but rather reflects personality flaws in those responding to questions, regardless of whether they're chanops or not). If that were the case, I would never, ever, EVER use PCLinuxOS, since I have had the same experience seeking information from them that we have had with Fedora (and I do have a box in the lab with PCLOS).
c.) An aside: When I first started using Linux, I was told to read this tome by Eric S. Raymond and Rick Moen: "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" which lives here:
(You may have to copy/paste the link above — there is no space before the ~ though each posting insists on inserting one)
Why this isn't a README in all distros is a mystery, but it should be. I am not suggesting that Jeff asked the wrong question here, but often times questions are not asked in the most efficient or direct way. But as Jeff points out in his blog, we don't know the circumstances that the user is facing in finding out an answer, but it does help immensely to ask the right question. Immensely.
d.) Another aside: I can't imagine Jared Smith of Fedora or Jono Bacon of Ubuntu firing off a rant like this. As a project leader for what I think is an up-and-coming distro, I hope you understand, Jeff, that as a project leader, you're in the bigs now and what you say and do reflect on your project for better or worse.
For those of you who have gotten this far, thanks for staying awake. I'll now put on my Nomex and feel free to flame away.
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation. He is also one of the founders of the Lindependence Project.)
Road Trip of the Penguins, Part 2b
. . . or not 2b, that is the question . . .
SCaLE day one, officially and expo-wise: Doors opened at 10 and throughout the course of the day it was a constant blur of people stopping by wanting to talk Fedora, wanting to talk GNU/Linux, wanting to talk about just about anything. Prior to the doors opening Tom Callaway and Jon Stanley had the booth in order when I brought down the Event Box and media, though I know that David Nalley and Clint Savage also had a hand in getting the booth ready on Friday.
Malakai, Saskia, Mirano and Shaun had an assignment that they performed flawlessly: That was to promote the Fedora and Red Hat presentations that were going on, their mission was to hand out fliers and go around the exhibition area and guide people to the Fedora booth. This is an assignment the four of them tackled with gusto. In fact, the girls came up with a chant:
The best thing about Fedora is freedom,
If you have a computer, you definitely need 'em.
And clad in Fedora shirts, the four of them circulated the expo floor handing out fliers and chanting the newly coined phrase.
Prior to SCaLE, I had made arrangements to meet folks with whom I had a long professional relationship but have never met in person. One person fitting that bill is Scott Ruecker of LXer.com, whom I finally had the chance to meet and have a lengthy conversation with — GNU/Linux user to user and journalist to journalist. Not only this, it was good to see those I see often, like Frank Turner, a regular at Cabrillo GNU/Linux User Group and Felton LUG meetings who made the trip from Santa Cruz County.
Also on hand in SCaLE is ZaReason, the hardware specialist from Berkeley. Cathy Malmrose of ZaReason presented a talk on Friday on women in FOSS which I wish I could have attended, and Earl Malmrose, ZaReason's CTO, got a Fedora 10 live CD and installed it on one of the ZaReason laptops. Would this be a sign of things to come? I don't know.
The press stopped by the booth as well. Karsten Wade had a lengthy interview with Steven Rosenberg of the Los Angeles Daily News about the Fedora community, and also Nathan Willis from Linux Weekly News stopped by for a lengthy interview as well.
Media and stickers flew off the table during the course of the day, and as soon as I can process more of the blur that occupied most of the day, I will have more to say, which will probably come tomorrow.
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs HeliOS Solutions West/Felton Linuxworks in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)


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I"m hoping Dallas takes them with the the 69th pick. I agree he probably won't be a "full time" QB in the NFL, but that "wildcat" formation has caught on and Jerry Jones says they will probably run more of that in the 09-10 season. Romo would not be good for something like that. Most likely Dallas will not pick him in the 3rd, I just think that it wouldn't be a bad idea. But of course if he is available in the 4th (I doubt it), I believe Dallas has the #1 pick in the 4th round. That would be an excellent spot to pick up White for sure.
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One year ago, in the interests of world peace, I inquired into a world of tomorrow characterized by cooperation rather than competition; a world in which all sides are winners and there are no losers.* Greece and the Balkans is one area of concern in this New World Order.
Greek national debt has become a test of the European Union's economic and political integrity.
Is Greece on the verge of bankruptcy? This is the immediate question. All agree Greece must restructure its debt in order to remain solvent.
Greece has too much debt on it balance sheets and its prospects for economic growth are minimal.
Greece received a massive bailout just one year ago and is now seeking additional funding.**
The Greek government has imposed austerity measures as a condition receiving recent loans, resulting in civil unrest. The dis-ease in the public reception of austerity does not appear as yet to threaten the current government's hold on power.
The government of Greece is determined to honor its legal contracts.
Officials have exhausted all options for restructuring debt. Investors are skeptical:
The joint head of the world's biggest bond fund manager, Pimco, said restructuring Greece's sovereign debt was inevitable.
The firm's co-chief investment officer, Mohamed El-Erian, warned the nation's problems could "contaminate" Europe.
And leading investor George Soros, who reportedly made £1bn when the pound crashed out of the euro's forerunner, the ERM, said the world was on the brink of another disaster.
Mr Soros said it was almost inevitable that one or more eurozone country would exit the single currency.***
Restructuring borders may prove easier than restructuring debt. The answer to Greek hegemony may be Macedonian hegemony.
Is ceding territory in the interest of Greece's national and cultural integrity?
One option for an economically viable Greece is the reconstitution of a Greater Macedonia. As illustrated by the map of ethnic Macedonia, the unification of the nation would require the considerable cooperation of the surrounding nations, particularly economically-strapped Greece.
The Republic of Macedonia is not a European Union member state****, so transferring Greek debt to this republic is equivalent to vacating the debt from the European Union book of debits.
Ceding Greek territory would require a referendum of the Greek people, as well as the agreement of the Republic of Macedonia to assume the legal debts of those therein.
The Greek province of Macedonia has a population of a little over 2.4 million people as of 2001. Its capital is Thessaloniki. The Republic of Macedonia has almost 2.1 million people; thus, the unification of the province with the republic would more than double the republic's population for a total of 4.5 million.
Greece has a current population of 10.76 million and would suffer a reduction of almost 2.4 million.
You can read about Greater Macedonia here:
The most famous son of Macedonia is Alexander the Great.
The development of Greater Macedonia would require a generation of education and investment, but the long-term prospects are promising.
The European Union as an economic and political entity must buy time in order to reform its system to weather storms such as that created by the current Greek crisis.
History and providence have dealt kindly by providing a way of escape in the merger of the two Macedonia.
*"Carving Turkey (Part I)",
**Greece received 110 billion euros from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. A second rescue package could rival the first in size.
****Macedonia is known by the European Union as the"former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" (FYROM). Wikipedia notes:
As of November 2010, further advances on accession [for admission to the European Union] are dependent on a resolution of a dispute over the name Macedonia with Greece.


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We're not the only country in the world struggling with retirement planning and facing a dilemma over how to fund programs like Social Security.
Britain announced Friday that it would eliminate mandatory retirement at 65. The government said that the change was designed to give people more choice, but cynics pointed out that in January Britain's Equality and Human Rights Commission urged the abolition of what's known as the default retirement age, or DRA, because it would keep people who continue to work paying taxes and add $23.4 billion per year to government coffers.
The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, recently released a study of retirement programs and effective retirement ages in all its 30 member countries. The findings are fascinating.
The five countries where people retire latest are:
- Mexico, 73.
- Korea, 71.2.
- Japan, 69.5.
- Iceland, 68.9.
- Portugal, 66.6.
The five countries where people retire earliest are:
- France, 58.7.
- Austria, 58.9.
- Luxembourg, 59.2.
- Slovak Republic, 59.3.
- Belgium, 59.6.
The OECD calculates the effective retirement age in the U.S. to be 64.6 and the effective retirement age in the U.K. is 63.2
The OECD also says that in the mid-2000s, taking into account household size, net incomes of people age 65 and over averaged 82 percent of those of the population as a whole in OECD countries.
In some countries, Social Security looks pretty shabby. On average, men in Luxembourg will receive around $825,000 in government-paid pensions over their lifetimes and women will get $1 million. On average, lifetime pensions from government-paid plans are are worth $400,000 for men and $475,000 for women in OECD countries.
But that's not true everywhere. In Korea, for instance, 82 percent of those over 65 receive retirement incomes that are below the poverty line.
After reading this report, I'm counting my blessings. The prospects for my retirement could be much worse.


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|Genome-wide association study identifies multiple loci associated with bladder cancer risk.
|Figueroa JD, Ye Y, Siddiq A, Garcia-Closas M, Chatterjee N, Prokunina-Olsson L, Cortessis VK, Kooperberg C, Cussenot O, Benhamou S, Prescott J, Porru S, Dinney CP, Malats N, Baris D, Purdue M, Jacobs EJ, Albanes D, Wang Z, Deng X, Chung CC, Tang W, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita H, Trichopoulos D, Ljungberg B, Clavel-Chapelon F, Weiderpass E, Krogh V, Dorronsoro M, Travis R, Tjřnneland A, Brenan P, Chang-Claude J, Riboli E, Conti D, Gago-Dominguez M, Stern MC, Pike MC, Van Den Berg D, Yuan JM, Hohensee C, Rodabough R, Cancel-Tassin G, Roupret M, Comperat E, Chen C, De Vivo I, Giovannucci E, Hunter DJ, Kraft P, Lindstrom S, Carta A, Pavanello S, Arici C, Mastrangelo G, Kamat AM, Lerner SP, Barton Grossman H, Lin J, Gu J, Pu X, Hutchinson A, Burdette L, Wheeler W, Kogevinas M, Tardón A, Serra C, Carrato A, García-Closas R, Lloreta J, Schwenn M, Karagas MR, Johnson A, Schned A, Armenti KR, Hosain GM, Andriole G Jr, Grubb R 3rd, Black A, Ryan Diver W, Gapstur SM, Weinstein SJ, Virtamo J, Haiman CA, Landi MT, Caporaso N, Fraumeni JF Jr, Vineis P, Wu X, Silverman DT, Chanock S, Rothman N
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|Candidate gene and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 11 independent susceptibility loci associated with bladder cancer risk. To discover additional risk variants, we conducted a new GWAS of 2422 bladder cancer cases and 5751 controls, followed by a meta-analysis with two independently published bladder cancer GWAS, resulting in a combined analysis of 6911 cases and 11 814 controls of European descent. TaqMan genotyping of 13 promising single nucleotide polymorphisms with P < 1 × 10(-5) was pursued in a follow-up set of 801 cases and 1307 controls. Two new loci achieved genome-wide statistical significance: rs10936599 on 3q26.2 (P = 4.53 × 10(-9)) and rs907611 on 11p15.5 (P = 4.11 × 10(-8)). Two notable loci were also identified that approached genome-wide statistical significance: rs6104690 on 20p12.2 (P = 7.13 × 10(-7)) and rs4510656 on 6p22.3 (P = 6.98 × 10(-7)); these require further studies for confirmation. In conclusion, our study has identified new susceptibility alleles for bladder cancer risk that require fine-mapping and laboratory investigation, which could further understanding into the biological underpinnings of bladder carcinogenesis.


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The College Discovery Program Annual Awards Ceremony, Reaching for Excellence Awards Luncheon will be held on Wednesday, May 10th at 12:00 PM in the Oakland Dining Room. This event is to celebrate our students achievement at QCC. Lunch will be served. Attendees will be eligible to enter the raffle for one of many prizes.
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"We can't completely separate politics and faith. They rise from the same wellspring: the concern about the distance between what is and what ought to be."—Tim Kaine, a Catholic and a Democrat, who was elected governor of Virginia in November (Newsweek, November 21).
My favorite Christmas book is The Donkey's Dream, which is about the journey Mary and Joseph made to Bethlehem. Meant for young children, Barbara Helen Berger's story is a brilliant and subtle work of theology. Or perhaps antitheology, as it allows simple images to tell us more than words can convey about what the incarnation signifies.
I had told another visitor to the monastery that the monks had begun 1 Corinthians, in case she wanted an opportunity to hear the letter read aloud. She had written a doctoral thesis and a book on the passage—a process that had engaged her for more than ten years. She knew Paul's words in Greek, in German and in many English translations. But as she listened in the abbey church, something caught her attention that she had never noticed before. It was a revelation that left her gasping for breath.
Occupational hazards
In the spring of 2003, Washington Post reporter Anthony Shadid noted that, for Iraqis, the Arabic word for occupation is ihtilal. The word is "shadowed by humiliation, notions of resistance, and still resonant memories of the occupation by the British 85 years before." Yet that same year the U.S. secured sweeping formal authority from the UN Security Council to serve as the principal "occupying" power in Iraq. John Negroponte, U.S. ambassador to the UN, declared that "the council has taken decisive action to help the Iraqi people." This was not the way many Iraqis greeted the news.


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Queen Sophie-Anne's House From "True Blood" Is For Sale
Wondering what to get me for the holidays this year? Here's the perfect gift: Queen Sophie-Anne's mansion from "True Blood." The gorgeously ornate house with ocean views is easily my favorite set on the show because of its old-world decadence. And now the actual house is for sale. Sadly, the abode isn't in Louisiana—it's in Malibu—and it costs a pretty penny. Seventy-five million dollars to be exact. But hey, I'm worth it, right? Plus, the 20,000 square foot house comes complete with an indoor pool where I could swim laps and a lion sculpture found at the base of Mount Vesuvius. Now just get me Queen Sophie-Anne's wardrobe and her ability to never age, and we'll be good to go. [NY Post]


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Cincinnati - Swiss Roger Federer should be among the freshest of the seeds as the Olympic silver medallist begins play as top men's seed at next week's ATP-WTA Cincinnati Masters.
The 17-time grand slam champion who turned 31 on August 8 only three days after losing to Andy Murray in the London Olympic final, took a few days off at his family chalet to recharge before hitting the practise courts in the USA last in the week.
The four-time champion won the Masters 1000 titles in 2005, 2007, and 2009-10 but suffered a quarter-final loss last year to Tomas Berdych.
Federer will start after a bye against the winner from Finn Jarkko Nieminen and Russian Alex Bogomolov.
The tournament has been plagued by injury pullouts, many a result of a jammed-up schedule made ever more demanding by the Olympics.
Among the men's absentees at combined event: Spaniard Rafael Nadal, Fernando Verdasco and Nicolas Almagro, along with the French pair of Gael Monfils and Olympic doubles silver medallist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who crashed into a Toronto fire hydrant this week and needed seven stitches in his knee.
Despite going nonstop since the Games where he exited without a medal, second seed Djokovic is carrying on for another week as the US Open's August 27 start draws near.
Murray takes the third seeding despite the Scot having some doubt concerning his fitness after complaining of knee pain and pulling out after his first match in Toronto.
Murray is defending 1 000 ranking points as 2011 holder in Cincinnati. Spain's David Ferrer returns to post-Games action as fourth seed, ahead of Berdych, who will be trying to end a three-match loss streak dating to Wimbledon in June.
American Andy Roddick is back on tour and takes the 16th seeding as the 2003 and 2006 winner tries to rescue his 20th ranking on the eve of his 30th birthday.
The women's draw, headed by Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska with double 2012 Olympic champion Serena Williams second, has suffered as well from the Games hangover.
Missing is Maria Sharapova, the silver medallist who has been suffering for a week with a stomach virus. She was joined as an absentee by WTA No 1 Victoria Azarenka, who withdrew from Montreal this week to rest a knee which she says has been troubling her.
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I just read in the Denver Post that an estimated 1 in every 10,000 children have gender-identity disorder.
Today, more and more of those children are being taken seriously by their parents and their doctors. Seriously enough to take action and help them change their sex.
There are cases of children as young as 8 whose parents are on watch for the first signs of puberty so doctors can then intervene and administer hormones and puberty blocking drugs.
This information comes from an article in the journal Pediatrics,which reports on data gleaned from 97 patients referred to a pediatric medical center for gender disorders.
One of the more telling conclusions listed in the report was that "greater awareness of the benefits of early medical intervention is needed."
It also seems clear that the label "gender identity disorder" is not entirely accurate:
Switching gender roles and occasionally pretending to be the opposite sex is common in young children. But these kids are different. They feel certain they were born with the wrong bodies.Some are labeled with "gender identity disorder," a psychiatric diagnosis. But Spack is among doctors who think that's a misnomer. Emerging research suggests they may have brain differences more similar to the opposite sex.
If I'm understanding correctly, taking steps towards intervention for kids who reject their sex, before that child hits puberty, is a new concept. And an ethically- controversial one.
Offering sex-changing treatment to kids younger than 18 raises ethical concerns, and their parents' motives need to be closely examined, said Dr. Margaret Moon, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' bioethics committee. She was not involved in any of the reports.
Some kids may get a psychiatric diagnosis when they are just hugely uncomfortable with narrowly defined gender roles; or some may be gay and are coerced into treatment by parents more comfortable with a sex change than having a homosexual child, said Moon, who teaches at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.
But not addressing the problem, as is evidenced in another article, published in the Duke University Medical News, has its risks.
Young people who exhibit gender nonconformity are at a higher risk for post traumatic stress disorder, abuse, depression, self harming and suicide.
The topic of gender identity interests me. I was an extreme tomboy as a child. You can read the details of my boyhood here. I can remember looking at my lady parts, spotting something that looked as if it might grow into a penis one day, and holding out hope that it would. I also remember being horrified at the prospect of getting my period and growing breasts. Being pregnant was the biggest threat of all to my inner-boy. There was no point to denying my soft, fertile femininity in that state.
In my case, however, it's a good thing no adults took me seriously enough to make me think there was actually something wrong with me. Because as much as I complain, I secretly like being a woman.
That said, I am happy to hear children who are suffering from full-blown gender identity issues are being given a voice and a potential way out of a body they feel is all wrong.
What are your thoughts about beginning sex change treatments for minors?


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Maritime authorities and salvage experts last night successfully refloated the Chinese coal carrier Shen Neng 1 stuck on a reef near Rockhampton.
In doing so they avoided bad weather that could have led to more oil being spilled on to the Great Barrier Reef.
A spokesman for Maritime Safety Queensland said there were no early signs last night of more oil escaping .
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"They have moved it to a position off the shoal. It has been stabilised and will probably be floating there for another hour," an MSG spokesman said last night.
MSG general manager Patrick Quirk said earlier they had always planned to move the ship early this week, but the first attempt had been brought forward due to the weather.
"Doing nothing is not an option," he said before the move.
"We need to move this vessel before the swell increases. But if the vessel suffers more damage during that process then there is the increased risk of more oil leaking. "
Mr Quirk said once re-floated, the ship would be assessed for any further structural damage or oil leaks before trying to move it west to a safer anchorage spot, just north of Great Keppel Island, away from strong winds forecast over the next few days. About half the 950 tonnes of heavy fuel oil has been pumped off, while the rest is in damaged tanks and pipes. About 2.5 tonnes of oil has leaked from the ship.
The Bligh government will this week introduce tougher penalties for ships that pollute in Queensland waters, including $10 million for companies (up from $1.75 million) and $500,000 for individuals (up from $350,000). But the new penalties will not cover ships that pollute in commonwealth waters, such as the Shen Neng 1.
"We want to send a very clear message to shipping companies worldwide that if you come into Queensland waters and pollute those waters you will be paying a very hefty fine," Ms Bligh said.
"Ten million dollars is a lot of money for any company to have to hand over in the event of a marine mishap and it would be in addition to any compensation a company would have to pay for a clean-up."
Ms Bligh has written to Prime Minister
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Ms Nolan said the vessel tracking system and reef pilot scheme worked well for most of the reef, but admitted it did not cover the southern parts of the Great Barrier Reef.
Both measures are expected to be expanded south to the Port of Gladstone after the state and federal investigations into the Shen Neng 1 grounding.
MSQ said there were only about two or three infringements issued to wayward ships every year.
Australian Federal Police alleged the Mimosa was not registered with the reef vessel tracking system.
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The threat of more construction delays could blow out the $8 billion budget of Australia's largest warship project, prompting Defence Minister
Defence sources have also told The Australian Financial Review the problems facing the building of three 6500-tonne air warfare destroyers for the Royal Australian Navy are "deep seated'' and the federal government faces the real risk of having to inject more money and/or accept further delivery delays to fix it.
Among problems that have plagued the project and led to a delay of two years so far were defects in early hull block construction due to a lack of welding and engineering skills at the
But defence sources have also questioned the overall management of the project and whether the so-called "alliance model'' of defence purchasing, in which the government plays the roles of both customer and partner in the project, is workable.
They suggest the relationships between the contract partners in the Adelaide-based Air Warfare Destroyer Alliance – shipbuilder
The project, with headquarters in Adelaide, involves building three Navantia-designed destroyers. Work on steel hull blocks has been subcontracted to Newcastle-based
"There's obviously been a level of mismanagement within the project and each partner seems to be blaming the other . . . The review is a matter of urgency,'' a government source told the Financial Review.
Deeper technical problems are also understood to have been exposed as part of an Australian National Audit Office investigation, and a report on project shortcomings is due for release later this year.
Fourth destroyer
Unless dealt with, the issues also promise to complicate Senator Johnston's efforts to preserve jobs in the naval shipbuilding industry. Some industry sources are cautioning against the government proceeding with a fourth destroyer at a cost of up to $2 billion until problems are resolved with the first three ships.
"There's no one villain in the air warfare destroyer project, but if the government is considering building a fourth destroyer then it is going to have to fix the problems with the first three,'' one source close to the project said. "But to get it right may require more money or delaying delivery again . . . Whatever the approach, the project needs fixing.''
In an interview with the Financial Review, Senator Johnston put the Defence Department and industry on notice to reduce damaging cost blowouts and delays on arms projects.
"Our approach to [weapons projects] and projects of concern will be one of consistent overwatch and engagement,'' Senator Johnston said.
"We need to be able to do things much more time-effectively, because time is money and this is one of the things we see as one of the principal causes of problems inside Defence.
"We want to know when things are beginning to lag, schedule is starting to slip . . . being forewarned so we can give the project appropriate attention.''
Australian Strategic Policy Institute analyst
"Delays cost money; there's no way around it''
But Mr Thomson said while there were penalties in the alliance contract for poor performance, it was not clear whether the taxpayer or the commercial partners were bearing the brunt.
The delivery schedule has already slipped twice – in the first instance for 12 months to allow BAE Systems to overcome flaws in construction of the hull blocks for ASC in Adelaide, where the blocks are assembled into ships.
Late design changes
Both BAE Systems and ASC have blamed Navantia for late design changes that put efforts to stick to schedule and costs under pressure.
Former Labor defence minister
The development comes as global government, defence, navy, industry representatives and academics gather at Darling Harbour for the Pacific 2013 International Maritime Exposition this week.
It also comes after warships from 17 nations sailed into Sydney Harbour for an international fleet review to celebrate the centenary of the Australian Navy fleet's first docking in the harbour city.
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Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Jun 13, 2014
This is of particular importance to the Mediterranean coastal societies with 300 million inhabitants (living and visiting), unique ecosystems, love of seafood and its role as a focus for tourist worldwide.
Research professor Patrizia Ziveri, from Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the UAB and the coordinator of the project says "We knew next to nothing about the combined effects of warming and acidification in the Mediterranean until this study, now we know that they are a serious double threat to our marine ecosystems."
"Iconic Mediterranean ecosystems such as sea grass meadows, the colourful Coralligene reefs and Vermetid snail reefs are threatened and now facing rapid decline through acidification and warming. These are amazing ecosystem building species, creating homes for thousands of species, and also serve to protect shores from erosion, offer a source of food and natural products to society" says Prof Maoz Fine from Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
"Subsea volcanic activity spews carbon dioxide into the seawater making the waters more acidic and an amazing natural laboratory, showing how a future Mediterranean Sea may look like. Unfortunately this window into a high CO2 sea shows us that life will become difficult for some species, invasive species may do well, biodiversity will decrease and some species will become extinct" comments Prof Jason Hall-Spencer from University of Plymouth.
Research professor. James Orr from Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l`Environnement "It is clear that to save these amazing ecosystems human society worldwide must reduce fossil fuel emissions. It is not just someone else's coasts that will be impacted but all our seas and coasts. We all need to act and there is no time to loose".
Over 100 scientists from 12 countries involved in the study have pooled their findings and produce a 10 point summary to warn society, policy- and decision-makers as well as the general public (attached). They have launched this at the final meeting today, at Barcelona.
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