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Little House on the Prairie: Cause of Mary Ingalls's Blindness Revealed
In the popular series, Ingalls goes blind from scarlet fever, but researchers say it was a misdiagnosis
Think you know everything about Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie series?
Think again.
Readers of the beloved series will remember how Wilder's older sister Mary went blind as a result of scarlet fever. But a new study published in Pediatrics, the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, has revealed the cause of Mary's blindness was likely meningoencephalitis – a disease similar to meningitis.
Over the course of 10 years, Dr. Beth Tarini and a team of researchers studied papers and letters written by Wilder, newspaper articles about Mary's illness and data on blindness and infectious disease in the late 19th century, CNN reports.
Tarini discovered that in Pioneer Girl, Wilder's unpublished memoir, there is no reference to Mary contracting scarlet fever before going blind. "She never says scarlet fever. She never says rash," Tarini told CNN.
Then Tarini unveiled what would lead her to discover a different diagnosis. In a letter Wilder wrote to her daughter, Rose, she referenced Mary suffering from "some sort of spinal sickness." The letter goes on to mention that Mary was told by specialist in Chicago that the "nerves of her eyes were paralyzed and there was no hope."
But why would Wilder write that her sister suffered from scarlet fever? Researchers think perhaps Wilder and her editors felt the illness would be more relatable to her readers.


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Two years after getting its start in a downtown Manhattan park, Occupy Wall Street, the populist movement protesting economic inequality, marked its second anniversary on Tuesday with a protest near the New York Stock Exchange and a planned march near the United Nations.
The group, which inspired dozens of spin-offs around the world with its "we are the 99 percent" slogan but drew criticism for its unclear goals, has focused Tuesday's events on a new objective: calling for a small tax on Wall Street financial transactions, organizers said.
Dubbed the "Robin Hood Tax," the legislation would impose a levy of 0.5 percent on Wall Street trades. The money collected would be earmarked for different funds and non-profit organizations and in turn distributed to schools, hospitals and local governments, according to Occupy organizers and proponents of the legislation.
Andrew Smith, an Occupy organizer, said similar Robin Hood tax laws have been imposed in 11 euro zone countries, including Germany and France.
"This kind of tax stream has globally become a very accepted form of revenue generation," he said.
Three people were arrested on Tuesday for wearing masks at the downtown rally, which drew a crowd of about 100 activists, a far cry from the thousands the group had in its heyday.
Organizers expected about 1,000 people later in the day to assemble for a rally front of the United Nations, with plans to march to the headquarters of JPMorgan Chase & Co and the Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York City's mass transit agency.
The rallies come two years after Occupy demonstrators first set up camp in Zuccotti Park near the NYSE to call for changes in how financial institutions are regulated. The movement quickly spread to cities around the world and spinoff "Occupy" groups have been set up to address everything from disaster relief to human rights.
The Occupy Wall Street camp in New York City was finally evicted by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in November 2011.
In focusing attention on the "Robin Hood Tax," Occupy organizers also hope to counter criticism that the Occupy Wall Street movement was too broad and lacked a clear goal.
"Occupy broke the crust in giving people broad narratives about income disparity," Smith said. "Now people want answers and I think the Robin Hood Tax is an answer."
Critics of the tax say the law it would decrease the volume of financial transactions on Wall Street, prompting companies to move overseas, taking jobs and money with them.
With the passage of a financial transaction tax "thousands of high-paying jobs would leave the U.S., sharply reducing employment at hundreds of non-financial companies that depend on these customers," the conservative Heritage Foundation said in a report released earlier this year.Last Mod: 18 Eylül 2013, 12:23


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ONE MIGHT THINK from the "Letters" section of the September-October issue that there was overwhelming opposition to Julie Polter's commentary ("Outrage Over the Abortion Veto," July-August 1996) on partial birth abortions. I am writing, in part, to show that at least one reader appreciated her stance against Clinton's veto of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.
I am also writing to disagree with some assertions made by the letter writers who supported Clinton's veto. One writer said he was glad Clinton listened to medical experts instead of clergy on this issue. However, not every medical expert would have given Clinton the same opinion. Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, for example, has stated that partial birth abortions "are not medically necessary." Dr. Pamela Smith, Director of Medical Education at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicago, has stated that "there are absolutely no obstetrical situations in this country which require a partially delivered fetus to be destroyed to preserve the health of the mother." The American Medical Association's Legislative Council, for its part, felt that "this was not a recognized medical technique."
Another letter writer expressed the need to focus on preventing abortions through non-legislative means. I agree with many of his solutions to help make abortions rare (including increased efforts to promote adoption, job creation, and child abuse prevention), and I agree that passing legislation is not always the most effective response to a problem. But I don't think you help make abortion rare by expanding the number of ways in which it can be performed. Restricting partial birth abortions would be an admittedly small measure toward making abortions less frequent, but it is, I believe, a necessary one.


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Viva La Bam
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Viva La Bam is a television reality show (though large portions are scripted) on MTV focusing on the life of Bam Margera and his friends engaged in various practical jokes with one another, but mostly played out on his unsuspecting parents Phil & April, as well as his uncle Vincent Margera ("Don Vito"). It is a follow-up and spin-off to the popular series Jackass which was also shown on MTV.
Bam Margera
- How many kids would like to have a firepole in their room? But I beat you to the punch, you little jerks.
- Look at Phil's tummy!
- Turbonegro came all the way from Norway to have a concert here.
- April: You know what your friends did to my car?!
Bam: They're not my friends.
- We're building a drawbridge, look, here's the blueprints! *shows Ape a napkin with a poorly drawn drawbridge and water on it, screen shows the word "Blueprints...?"*
- Glomb: You live with a convict.....Novak: I'm an ex-convict!
- It happens when fat rubs togther (skin tags)
- (April takes the purple lamborghini)
Bam: I was going to throw a snowball at it, but then I realized it was mine.
- (Glomb Making Skatepark House)Dunn:Why don't we ever do this cool shit to my house Bam:'Cos you don't have a house Dunn:Oh yeah
Vito's Nonsense Subtitles
"He's got no tiddly just joogle you can't just goat duggle hammer and nail and hammer something and expect it to grow!"
"Beglat you've got these idiots sitting hornwhaga ohhhm just sitting glawhahwaglahhh what they're doing!"
"Because Idaho in the backin I don' know wha jas wanted to do. Nobody ya wha' ta do."
"Whynja you just move the car. You didna have to do all that. Dadadada, my cagicree dinta goigj tow it, but just pulled it away. Ya didna have to flip it."
"I'm gonna get some veal scallopini!"
"Chuck hat anything flaygawanna car like dat, wut dey gonedoo, you gunda take it to a junkyar just ledum habit at the junkyar demselves...huts ong wityou?"
"It's there hupme I goata there! Move monomona! They let you in, they'll let me in ogwandapate. I don't care, I just wanda getouddahere cumon. Goren flaxovich!"
"Size eighty eight chuddta work done"
"Hellahjayduhyuh... hubba chextuh mutiny ghensta God damn crew!"
"Nawyawwanna play somaykittalla big deal"
"Navuh fussavenint. . . ABACUS!"
"Wide yugonna rip me out to woodin the Helen yuhgot mandah makin!"
"More left? . . . uh guh duh d'd'd do circles! Dare dat guy said go left and then I'm plum ahl'd cold! Whadda you said go left! . . . THE SUBWAY? . . . "
"I cannot understand your tardiness. Please come here and gabba faww wicha!!!!!"
"Yer wanna crook juss got offa the gas manager yehneminner rinna real war now!"
"Bikers are a less than savory element in our society, so I'll opt out."
"Jagah, huwhallahahh horsepower."
"Put it on a bun, ass-hoe."
"YO! This is gonna be the best Christmas ever!"
"You Vulcan idiots."
"I don't know how you deal with these Vulcan idiots, I'm leaving."
"I'm gonna kill your plane, just watch."
Don Vito talking to a patriotic French woman about the Eiffel Tower: "It looks like an abandoned oil well. They should put a Rocky statue there."
"They're dude eggs! They're fuckin' peoples' balls that die!!!"
"YO! This is the best song ever!"
"Juwala huvada haba den!"
"I feedya then yer stupid nitrous oxen ruins everythin!"
"Whaddyala ?????? ???? ??????? bluhrea rains its gone be leaking in here now."
"Hot ta ta to dum dims dammee yamma, quit hasslin the hassler. Why is it I like to eat. I leave @#$% around your house"
"Amma disturb my saletee, giving you costumers satisfaction, so I`m ready to go."
"Haychat Donald Trump says go right to the boss, I don't feel like talking to no idiot, lemme talk to Hugh Hefner!"
"Itza tuh tuh tuh tuh TEH Tallian pizza!"
"Gah rah gah gah boo buddy else gitszak takes forty hours to get to Paris...this is bull@#$%! Wook yak get me outta this town!"
"Rock'n'roll sucks! Wut'ta hilda!
"I am Abudabu gandadint gav beer annin aahgahtago Istanbul I got no luggage yabbaba grab your neck you're a jerkoff!
"I did too tawalla tongue. She cha-tuckly tongued each other!"
"Ima Get Aston Koosher To do sumthin to you"
"Live or die?"
"Yo Nice Girl Molesta La Breastas"
"You sick in the head?"
"B'gah get the sheep outta here ass!"
Other various characters
Oderus Urungus: I never really knew i was moving, I always thought everything else was moving
Oderus Urungus: "It's scary up there!" Phil: Arn't your friends up there?" Oderus Urungus: There not my friends! April: "Oh my god this is like the exorsist."


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Bond yields just shot higher upon the release of the latest Fed policy committee meeting minutes, which showed significant support within the Fed to cut its bond-buying program. The ten-year note is now down 7/32 in price on the day to lift its yield to an intraday high 2.736%, per Tradeweb data.
Here's a key excerpt detailing the Fed's discussion of changing its unemployment target and ultimately raising short-term rates:
Participants agreed that, with the unemployment rate approaching 6-1/2 percent, it would soon be appropriate for the Committee to change its forward guidance in order to provide information about its decisions regarding the federal funds rate after that threshold was crossed. A range of views was expressed about the form that such forward guidance might take. Some participants favored quantitative guidance along the lines of the existing thresholds, while others preferred a qualitative approach that would provide additional information regarding the factors that would guide the Committee's policy decisions. Several participants suggested that risks to financial stability should appear more explicitly in the list of factors that would guide decisions about the federal funds rate once the unemployment rate threshold is crossed, and several participants argued that the forward guidance should give greater emphasis to the Committee's willingness to keep rates low if inflation were to remain persistently below the Committee's 2 percent longer-run objective. Additional proposals included relying to a greater extent on the Summary of Economic Projections as a communications device and including in the guidance an indication of the Committee's willingness to adjust policy to lean against undesired changes in financial conditions.
A few participants raised the possibility that it might be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate relatively soon. One participant cited evidence that the equilibrium real interest rate had moved higher, and a couple of them noted that some standard policy rules tended to suggest that the federal funds rate should be raised above its effective lower bound before the middle of this year. Other participants, however, suggested that prescriptions from standard policy rules were not appropriate in current circumstances, either because the target federal funds rate had been constrained by the lower bound for some time or because the equilibrium real rate of interest was likely still being held down by various factors, including the lingering effects of the financial crisis, and was significantly below the value of the longer-run rate built into standard policy rules.


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Thanks, this music is great, it gives the game a feeling of the period.
As mentioned above "I'm getting crashes with the full list". The same happens with the lightweight version, but it takes longer time to crash as "it overruns some sort of buffer in the game or something?".
Is it any chance that this problem could be solved? I would love to play with this fantastic music mod, I miss it


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This is Lara playing piano. Not only she's bee-ooh-tee-ful, but she's so amazingly talented that she manages to make that dreadful Internet phenomenon called Rebecca Black sound awesome. How in hell, do you ask? By adding the Nyan Cat tune!
Well, maybe it's not exactly awesome, but certainly sounds very good. Totally worth of being copied by Coldplay for their next hit. You can listen to the original tunes in the gallery and see what an amazing job Lara did with this mash-up. [Thanks Karl!]


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It started out pretty normally. Jasper, Emmett, and I got thirsty, so we decided to head up into the mountains to feed. However, Emmett had a "brilliant" idea, and decided to go further.
"Where are we going, Em?" Jasper wondered. I was wondering the same thing, was Emmett just bored of the same routine?
"I'm just bored of the same routine; can't we hunt somewhere we've never hunted before?" Emmett explained.
"I guess. It's just...I didn't expect to have this simple hunt turn into an adventure." I said, trying to hide my slight curiosity.
We ran further and further north, hours had passed even. Jasper's thoughts were crowded with questions and concern.
Where are we going? What's the point? I'm not exactly up for this. Alice'll be worried.
"Alright, this looks good." Emmett thought to himself.
"We're finally here?" I asked
"Yep, don't know where 'here' is, but it looks good."
We touched down in a forest. There was no sign of any wild life. The trees around here were a dark brown with brilliantly bright green leaves, the contrast between dark and bright seemed almost magical. One tree in particular caught my eye. It was rather small and had round bright green bush-like leaves on its branches. I'd never seen rounded leaves before. Jasper and Emmett were looking around, but I started walking toward the odd tree. It was even stranger up close; I noticed that it also had two roots that held it upright, almost like feet. I couldn't help but touch it, but its bark was as hard as stone. If I wasn't so sure that it was a tree, I'd have thought it was stone. I started to trace my finger along its branches and suddenly I heard a strange soft sound.
I flinched and started to step away from the tree. I must have gone mad, it sounded like it came from the tree itself.
"Uh...Em, Jazz, have you guys seen...?
"GRIZZLY!" I heard Emmett shout.
I raced over to where Emmett and Jasper were. Just as Emmett said, there was a bear about 35 feet away from them. Strange though, it was definitely a bear, but it didn't look like any bear I'd ever seen. It was brown, had a large rounded tail, a circle on its belly, and what looked like shoulder pads, only they were attached to its fur. It also stood straight up in the same way a human did, as if it had no intention to get on all fours. Definitely not a grizzly bear, Jasper shared the same thought.
"That doesn't look like a grizzly, Emmett." Jasper doubted.
"It's totally a grizzly, a weird grizzly, but totally a grizzly. Besides, it smells amazing. Almost as good as a human." Emmett gasped with excitement.
I had to admit, it did smell pretty good, much better than most bears or animals in general that we ate. When Emmett kills this thing, I'm hoping that he'll share. If not, I could always find one of my own. There must be more than one of these things, I guess coming out all this way wasn't such a bad idea after all. But...that's when it hit me, where are we anyway? When we were running, all I was concerned about was when we'd get there rather than where we were heading.
"Sorry guys, this one's all mine. Go find your own." Emmett started edging closer to the bear.
The bear noticed Emmett's movements and stood its ground. The bear's eyes seemed rather intelligent as it stared at Emmett with weary concern. Emmett crouched down, ready to spring at the right moment. The bear saw this and it too got ready. It took a deep breath, tilted its head back, and took one step back while still standing tightly in place. I'm guessing it was getting ready to roar. Emmett sprang with his arms out in front of him and bearing his teeth. Suddenly, there was a flash of blinding light and a screeching noise that echoed all around the forest. The light kept me from fully seeing what happened, which surprises me a great deal, since my eyesight is much better than that of a human. The light faded and I heard a loud crash against a tree to my right. Jasper and I immediately looked up and saw Emmett falling high from the tree. Another loud crash as Emmett fell to the ground.
"EMMETT!" Both Jasper and I yelled
We ran towards Emmett, lying on the ground motionless, but when we saw the condition Emmett was in, we both jerked to stop. His t-shirt was torn apart, his chest was cracked and darkened, and what worried me the most was his missing arm. He wasn't moving. Jasper then started examining the area.
"His arm...where...?" Jasper muttered.
I started to look around too. All I saw were fragments of Emmett's torn shirt, more leaves on the ground which fell along with Emmett, and the bear. The bear wasn't hurt at all; it stood up straight, shoulders out, hands into fists, and was growling what sounded like "Ursa...ursa..." What was that bright light anyway? Just then, Jasper's thoughts answered my question.
That light. The bear did it. I don't know how, did it shoot that light from its mouth? That's crazy.
It was crazy. Impossible. Though, that tree I came across wasn't normal either. Rock hard bark, round leaves, making noises. There was definitely something not normal about this forest and everything in it.
"WHAT THE F*** WAS THAT!" Emmett shouted, interrupting my thoughts and making both me and Jasper jump.
"Emmett, you're alright?" Jasper asked urgently, examining his condition.
"MY ARM! AAAAAARGH!" Emmett screamed, echoing throughout the forest just like the noise that followed the bright light.
"We need to get you back to Carlisle."
"No! That bear is gonna pay!"
"Emmett, look at yourself."
"I don't care. No bear is gonna get the best of me. NOT AGAIN!"
"Don't be ridiculous. If that bear really did do this to you, I doubt you're a match for it, especially as you are now."
Emmett growled furiously.
"Edward, go find Emmett's arm."
I immediately started searching. My searching carried me to the eastern part of the forest. There I saw Emmett's arm, amazing how it got this far away. I walked over to it; it was lying on what looked like a large weed. I picked up his arm, which was hard and icy with its hands balled into fists. Just then, the large weed that the arm had been lying on sprang from the ground, making me jump back in surprise. The weed had a very strange round blue root, and the root itself had what looked like eyes, a mouth, and roots of its own that looked like stubby legs.
"Oddish, Oddish!" the strange weed muttered in surprise.
It was a rather tiny thing, cute in a way. It looked up at the arm in my hands and started to shiver and cringe. It then took a few steps toward me and smiled. It bent over in a bowing position, which I'd have thought was impossible with its stubby legs, muttered "Oddish." one more time, and ran off. This was definitely not an ordinary forest, is it possible that there are more mythical creatures in this world that even I don't know about? I headed back toward where Emmett and Jasper were. What I came to though wasn't something I'd wanted to see. Dammit Emmett.
"Let me go Jasper!" Emmett shouted.
"Get a grip Emmett, let it go!" Jasper muttered through his teeth, trying to restrain Emmett.
Emmett was trying so desperately to get at the bear. The bear also looked ready to fight. Its hands were balled into fists like Emmett's, but as I looked at its right hand I nearly dropped Emmett's arm in surprise. The bear's right hand was on fire, completely engulfed in a flame that got more violent as the bear got angrier. The bear however didn't seem to feel the heat of the fire, its facial expressions were still angry but not in pain at all. If I were crazy, I'd say the bear planned on using that flame as a weapon, like brass knuckles only with fire.
I then heard a loud hiss come from Emmett and he was once again springing toward the bear. My eyes jolted toward Jasper, wondering how he had escaped his grasp.
Dammit, Emmett is really serious. That idiot. Ouch...
I glanced at Jasper's left arm and a new set of bite marks, but not long enough for me to miss what Emmett was doing. Turns out I wasn't crazy after all; the bear took a swing at Emmett with its hand that was on fire. Emmett dodged out of the way by an inch and grabbed the bear by the neck with his good arm. He then slammed the bear to the ground with a loud slam. The bear then shouted "Saring!" in pain. Emmett's face turned smug and he started to bear his teeth again.
"You're mine." Emmett muttered in a quiet voice that humans probably couldn't hear.
Emmett, with his mouth wide open to bite, lunged for the bear's neck. Emmett came about 5 inches from the bear's neck, before the bear's fiery hand slammed against Emmett's face. Emmett flew a good 25 feet before hitting the same tree he'd hit before, when the bear made that bright light. Emmett's face was cracked and darkened, matching his chest. Our cold skin can't stand heat, so I cringed at imagining the pain Emmett must have felt when that flaming fist crushed his face. It was super effective.
Jasper rushed toward Emmett and in a flash was at my side with Emmett over his shoulder. The bear slowly got up off the ground, still growling. Jasper however was more than ready to leave.
"Let's get the hell out of here." Jasper said in disgust.
Jasper hated this place; however I found it very interesting. But with my brother in his condition, we definitely couldn't stay for much longer. I guess I'll have to come back some other time. I wonder if I should bring Bella and Nessie along with me. This place can be dangerous, but only one of the creatures I encountered was violent and that was only because it was provoked. The tiny blue weed showed me that the creatures here can be gentle. Jasper starting running towards home and I followed.
"Okay...that was my bad...sorry." Emmett muttered to my surprise. He was okay enough to talk.
Before we fully exited the strange forest, I heard weird noises. It sounded like something opening up, followed by a sort of noise that I'd heard in old sci-fi films, and a click. Jasper ignored the sound, focusing strictly on leaving. The last thing I heard was a human voice, the voice of a young man. It was far away obviously, sounded like it came from where we left the bear. The voice was far away, but I was able to make out a "gotcha".
"It said 'Oddish'? Are you sure you're not on anything?" Jacob snorted.


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Given that the dreaded Olympics have once again cast their dark cloud over us, raining fire and nationalism as the rivers run red with the blood of those who blaspheme the sanctity of LOCOG, I thought the timing was right to have a bit of a discussion about the issue of how gender and sex are determined and defined in relation to sports, and the segregation of athletes into female or male competitions.
This is something pretty firmly connected to transgenderism in the collective consciousness. We've all heard jokes about men posing as women, or "getting sex changes", in order to compete in the women's divisions in order to gain an athletic edge. We've seen this concept explored in TV, too, in shows like Futurama and Strangers With Candy and The Simpsons, often as an excuse to drag out some very typical, very easy transphobic gags. There is, altogether, an imagined concept that this is a thing, something that happens, one of the reasons people "get sex changes".
But does it really have much substance? Or is it as divorced from reality as fears that men will pose as trans women in order to infiltrate bathrooms to listen to YOUR DAUGHTERS go pee (!!!!!1!) DUN DUN DUNNNN.
And why does it matter? Why are we actually segregating male and female athletes in the first place?
Fears of this kind of thing are probably as old as the initial development of female athletic leagues, and connected to the concept that men have an inherent edge in athletic competition (leaving aside the obvious truth that a trained woman at peak athletic ability in her chosen sport is going to wipe the floor with a male amateur). But actual realities on which it hinges are pretty few and far between.
The practice of gender verification in sports didn't begin until the 1950 Olympic games. Prior to that, there had only been one alleged instance of anyone "abusing" the segregation of male and female competitors, German high jumper Dora Ratjen in the 1936 games. They were determined to be "really a man" by German police after investigation following their success in the European championship two years later. Dora, however, was not a man posing as a woman for the sake of an "athletic edge". They were indeed born Dora, and had been assigned female at birth on account of ambiguous, intersexed genitalia. Dora genuinely believed himself to be female, having been raised as such, until early adolescence when a physician determined his actual sex to be male. This being Germany in the 1920s, although Dora was aware of the truth, he and his family decided that he should continue living as female, given the embarassment and confusion changing any of that would entail. Dora didn't begin living and identifying as a man (taking the name Heinrich) until much later in life, after his athletic successes had led to his history being exposed.
(Prior to this, in the 1932 Olympics, there was a Polish runner and gold-medalist named Stanislawa Walsiewicz who after her death in 1980 was found to be intersex, with partially developed male genitalia)
Gender testing didn't become instituted until 1950 by the IAAF for woman athletes in the lead-up to the European championship. One woman, a Dutch sprinter, was expelled from her national team due to refusing a test, and was later to be found to be intersex by way of mosaicism, posessing both 46 XX and 46 XY cells. Gender testing did not, however, become a part of the Olympic games until 1968, and it arose primarily in accordance with unfounded suspicions that various Soviet nations were submitting male athletes to compete as women.
Gender testing was common in the Olympics from that time until the 1996 Atlanta games, where it was finally discontinued (possibly a result of 8 athletes having "failed" the gender test only to be cleared by subsequent physical examinations). Throughout the decades of gender testing being a common practice, it never once revealed a male athlete posing as a woman in order to cheat. In every single instance it was a result of intersex conditions, all but a very, very few (like Ratjen) being of the kind that couldn't conceivably lead to an "unfair" athletic edge.
Many of these athletes were likely unaware they even were intersex until submitting to the tests. Can you imagine facing that? Losing your dream in that way?
Controversies, however, persisted even after the discontinuation of widespread gender testing (Olympics officials reserved, after 1996, the right to conduct testing in individual cases that they deemed exceptional). One of the most notable was that of South African middle distance runner and gold medalist Caster Semenya, who was singled out for highly publicized gender testing that had severe consequences for her career and ability to pursue endorsements. These were motivated by suspicions that seemingly had no substantive cause other than her not looking sufficiently "feminine" under certain standards (something undoubtedly connected to the racial biases implicit in standards of "feminine" appearance) and her significant talent. After the damage had already been done, the results of these tests while not being revealed did not result in her disqualification, leading one to the assumption that she was never anything but a just a particularly talented female athlete who wasn't normatively feminine enough to be trusted.
Throughout the history of gender testing in sport, and notably in the Olympics and other international championships, from the very inception of the practice as a product of cold war paranoia meeting misogynistic notions of athletic ability all the way through recent controversies like Semenya, it has always been deeply and unmistakably connected to questions of racism and national distrust. Which women are or are not suspected, or singled out for testing, or used as reason to insist upon the practice in the first place, has always been connected to which nations and races are on the receiving end of hostile, prejudicial attitudes on the part of whichever powers currently hold the most sway over the governing bodies of those competitions. Whoever is seen as "exotic", "unfeminine", "sneaky" or "untrustworthy" enough to have the mythic paranoid fantasy of cross-dressing cheaters projected onto.
It is notable, also, that this fantasy, and along with it the notion of gender testing's necessity, and every serious application of the process, has exclusively been applied to female athletes, never men. Male competitors have historically simply assumed to be "really" men, simple as that. There's a lot of misogynistic subtext here, and not simply the assumption of men's "inherently" superior performance in athletics. Along with it is the idea that athletics is a "male" domain, and being an athlete is a "manly" thing to do. Being an accomplished, competent, talented, driven female athlete somehow immediately calls the legitimacy of a woman's sex into question, while the same qualities and pursuits in a man only reaffirm the legitimacy of his own.
Something worth questioning is whether or not the concept of men having an inherent advantage over women in athletics is really as certain as we assume. It seems like an intuitive thing, "common sense", in that men are generally taller, heavier and bulkier than women, and testosterone has a serious, noticeable, documented effect on the development and maintenance of muscle, functioning not unlike a "performance enhancing drug" in this regard. However, like all instances of "common sense", we have to be careful about assuming things are as clear-cut as they seem.
Not all sports are all that dependent on muscle, height or weight, and there are many in which there's a cap on the point at which these things became advantages, a cap which theoretically can fall well within the range attainable by elite female competitors. Men and women also typically have different centers of gravity, different levels of flexibility and balance, that don't always fall down a line where men come out ahead. There are many sports, such as those heavily based on stamina and endurance, where the general physiological differences between sexes even out to not being a significant factor.
There are easily quite a few sports that could be desegregated without conferring any real disadvantage to female athletes.
It's arguable that even in those sports where things like height and weight become relevant factors, the competitions could be broken up and classed in accordance with the actual factor rather than doing so by proxy through gender. For instance, imagine having basketball leagues broken up not by sex but by maximum or minimum height of the players. There might still be issues with mass, weight and injuries, but these could be accommodated by adapting the rules about charging, drawing fouls, and those fouls most likely to result in injury. One could also just have women generally play guard positions with men playing forward.
To be honest, a "6'1 or under" basketball league could probably be more interesting than the NBA, in that it would get rid of a lot of the cheesier plays.
Gender desegregation, however, is not necessarily going to be the ideal solution, and I imagine that most athletes would be uncomfortable with its proposal as a solution even in those sports where sex is a minimal factor. And the athletes, honestly, are who I think we should care most about. However, I don't think cis athletes should universally take precedence over trans and intersex athletes. An attitude as surprisingly common as it is suprisingly callous is that trans and intersex athletes should just plain not be permitted opportunities to compete, or should simply be given "their own competitions" (which seems fine, until you remember how few of us there are, and what an enormous "fuck you" that would be to elite competitors who are talented and driven enough to pursue their sport on the world stage rather than simply dominating little local gender-variant softball clubs or whatever). And really, there ARE sports where sex definitely IS a serious factor… if North American football were desegregated, it would completely cease being viable and safe for female athletes, no matter how talented, to play on the professional level. Which, again, is not fair to the athletes.
So, like it or not, we have to find ways to define gender/sex in sport.
I've talked to some people who believe it should be as simple as the way we define gender in day-to-day life, within trans-friendly circles. You initially just judge by presentation, and if there's ever question or ambiguity, you politely, discretely ask. What takes precedence over anything else (like hormones, genitals, dress, hair, facial hair, breasts, whatever) is always self-identification. The idea, applied to sport, would be that each athlete would simply be asked how they self-identify, and those who identify as female would play in the women's competitions while those who identify as male would play in the men's. Easy-peasy.
Except… as lovely a notion as that is, and as much as I wish we lived in a world where that could work, I don't think it would. Even though there is absolutely no historical precedent of men "cheating" by disguising themselves as women, it's not unthinkable, in the context of elite events like the Olympics, for someone to take advantage of a system that easy… even if only for the sake of the fleeting notoriety and infamy it would generate. More likely, though (which is not to say it would be common or widespread, just something that needs to be considered) is the possibility pre-op or non-op trans competitors taking advantage of that system such that they'd be able to go off their HRT when training and competing and thereby gain an advantage.
And what's very, very likely is that just the possibility of that kind of thing breeding widespread hostility, suspicion, contempt and resentment, added on top of existing cissexism, transphobia and gender binarism, which would create a pretty awful environment for trans and intersex athletes to compete in. As much for the sake of not-quite-binary athletes as for the sake of the sport, some kind of way of making everything feel like a roughly even playing field, physiologically, seems important. Some kind of actual definition and line, drawn as fairly as it possibly can be, for what "female" and "male" mean in the context of athletics.
This line has historically often been drawn in very absurd, silly ways that really were purely symbolic, and had no connection to the actual physiological differences between men and women that could affect athletic performance. Instances of how trans athletes have been permitted to compete professionally as women come to mind, such as Renee Richards, in which the justification for that permission was based on their having undergone lower surgery. This policy, that trans women could compete as women as long as they'd had SRS, was connected to all the usual problems that employing SRS as the line between "real" women and not, like the exclusion of people who don't desire SRS or don't feel its worth the expense and hassle, the exclusion of those who can't afford it or can't undergo it for medical reasons, and then obliging anyone who would want to compete professionally to meet all the deeply problematic systems of gatekeeping that surround access to SRS. But it is also absurd in that the presence or absence of a penis, testes or vagina has no bearing whatsoever on athletic ability.
And a lot of the time, even that hasn't been enough to satisfy cis athletes and have them accept a trans woman as legitimate competition in a female event.
Michelle Dumaresq is another well-known trans athlete who was the subject of considerable controversy. She was an accomplished, professional mountain biker from Canada who, despite having had SRS and having been on HRT for a long period of time, thus meaning she'd absolutely no meaningful advantage over her competitors at all, was nonetheless subject to considerable suspicion, resentment and efforts to have her removed from competition. A lot of the attitudes surrounding her, often from athletes she was racing alongside / against, were utterly steeped in the usual transphobia, such as the tired old fears that trans women somehow pose a threat to the safety of women's spaces. There was also plenty of other cissexism, including the prioritzation of cis women's comfort, the "makes women uncomfortable" trope (I've lately noticed there's a deeper level of trans-misogyny and even de-gendering present in this attitude. It's in the phrasing: makes women uncomfortable. There's an implication that the cis women are the only party who are women, along with the larger implication that so-called women's spaces "belong" to cis women. The thing is, being excluded from women's facilities, spaces, groups, events and competitions.. that also makes women uncomfortable).
However, it seems like being able to point towards the biology, the medical fact that Dumaresq wasn't in any meaningful or significant way different from the women she was competing against, was vital to her being able to successfully compete and, all in all, be accepted as a legitimate competitor in her sport. And I can't help but imagine that education on these facts, and helping build a concrete, working understanding of what aspects of sex do and don't affect performance, and how transsexual bodies do and don't differ from cissexual bodies, can only help. That understanding these things, and building working definitions, can over time ease the difficulty faced by athletes like Michelle Dumaresq or Caster Semenya.
I think for now focusing on whether or not an athlete is endocrinologically female or male seems like the best solution, at least until something a bit better comes along. Testosterone, after all, is the factor that creates the largest difference between men and women in the context of athletic performance. It's certainly a far more meaningful factor than genitalia. It's not perfect, as not all trans people can or choose to undergo HRT, and not all intersex people will have hormones within the broader range recognized as that of whatever sex they wish to compete as, but I honestly think it is the best option without having to face the far more thorny, difficult and complex sociological problems that would go with choosing not to locate some objectively measurable definition. After all, while HRT is not a universal aspect of medical transition, it's the most common, widespread and accessible of transition-related medical treatments.
Roller derby has successfully adopted this model, wherein anyone whose hormones are within a generally female range (allowing for atypicality, but not extreme atypicality that crosses over into the male average) is permitted to compete on women's teams. If I remember correctly, things like gentials and identification aren't considered important, so non-op trans women, people with non-binary identifications, and trans men who don't or don't yet have male hormone levels, are all permitted to compete (with the male teams, presumably, accepting those whose hormones fall in the male range, similarly disregarding identification). It's also my understanding that testing isn't mandatory, only when requested by other athletes who might have feel things are a bit unfair. It's not an ideal system at all, but it seems a whole lot better than anything we've yet had.
I also hear the Olympics have recently instituted hormone testing as part of how they conduct gender tests when such tests are requested. I read an article saying this had the unfortunate side-effect that some women are now taking HRT and anti-androgens in order to suppress their testosterone levels to within the range accepted by by the Olympic definitions. That, in and of itself, suggests that this system is not being applied properly; it should allow for exceptional hormone ranges, given that athletes, by definition, are physiologically exceptional, and only be a loose system whereby you're making sure the hormones aren't in the male average, not simply above the female average, and there should be at least a bit of gray area if defined properly. But what also worries me is that I understand this is only being instituted as an addition to prior Olympic standards of sex/gender definition. All the old potential disqualifiers, such as chromosomal or genital abnormalities, remain in place. This means it doesn't make things any simpler, any easier, any better for any athletes. It just makes things stricter and harsher… so strict and harsh that now, apparently, cisgender, completely binary women are being forced to modify their physiology to meet the standards.
Of course, it's not exactly surprising to see Roller Derby be an example of how to deal with gender in sports in a good, functional, queer-and-trans-friendly way, and for the Olympics to be an example of how to deal with it in a creepy, complex, byzantine, strict, debilitating way.
Hooray for the Olympic spirit!
At least we do now have some examples of doing things a bit better. That's often the hardest step… for someone, somewhere to have a better idea, and to actually make it a reality, however small. A small reality at least provides something to guide the rest of us forward. And failing that, it at least provides hope for those who might otherwise abandon their dreams for fear of being unwelcome where they could be realized. That's more than enough to make it worth fighting for.


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1 - Ballads, songs, religious material, banjo tunes, and square dance calls performed by Neal Morris, Uncle Charlie Everidge, Ollie and Oscar Gilbert, and Carlos "Bookmiller" Shannon. [Source: Editor]
2 - Alan Lomax: [Quoting:] "Sal's got a bacon rind laid away / To grease Jim's middle leg so they say." ? Oscar Gilbert knows "The Fog and the Dew." ? Music grows just like a grapevine. [transcribed from interview] ? Remember how Oscar Gilbert sat and listened, mouthing the words as he listened to the playback. Remember story how Oscar was shot in mistake for Jesse James - how Frank James offered to bring him to the [sic?] St. Louis if he was offered complete immunity. ? He [Neal Morris] shakes his head like J. D. [Jimmy Driftwood] - smiles, raises his eyebrows - looks at you when he sings - closes his eyes on high notes, watches his left hand on guitar, [indecipherable] acc. [?] at the ends of line. ? Oscar thinks and maintains Neal can sing better than Jimmy D. ? Neal tells about his family - has been musicians for 500 years. People came from KY. His grandfather had a singing school - went to Carnegie Hall big singing school teaching convention - only man in the hall who knew why the sharp notes are added to school [?]. Only day Neal ever went to school in his life, he asked the teacher why the sharps and the teacher got mad. He thought Neal knew from his father [sic]. Neal got mad and left." [Source: Tapebox]
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First, our confessional standards do not use the term "Common Grace" (nor do they include the 1924 statement of the Christian Reformed Church or CRC), and the concept of Common Grace does not appear to be present in our standards either. This means that, since our confessional standards define what we are committed to in terms of church discipline and what we expect ministers to preach, someone who does not embrace a common grace view can be approved and received. But the vast majority of our ministers and teachers hold to a doctrine of common grace (ordinarily that espoused in the writings primarily of John Murray and Cornelius Van Til rather than Abraham Kuyper and the CRC).
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that the report of the Committee and the minority report on the "Free Offer of the Gospel" be sent down to the presbyteries and sessions for earnest study.
You can find that reportincluding both majority report and minority reporton the OPC Web site here. This comment appears at the head of such General Assembly reports:
Note: General Assembly reports (whether from a committee or its minority) are thoughtful treatises but they do not have the force of constitutional documentsthe Westminster Standards or the Book of Church Order. They should not be construed as the official position of the OPC.
The report in question, often taken as setting forth "the well-intended offer of the gospel" both a majority report (by (Arthur Kuschke and Professors John Murray and Ned Stonehouse) and a minority report (by William Young and Floyd Hamilton, questioning some of the exegesis and conclusions of the majority).
Third, though I believe that a presuppositional approach to apologetics is most consistent with the Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 1, Van Til's views are not officially enshrined in our constitution. A number of OPC ministers whom I know personally espouse the views of John Gerstner and R. C. Sproul or Francis Schaeffer rather than Cornelius Van Til. So not being committed to Van Til's approach has not necessarily been a bar to passing exams for licensure, ordination, or reception. I would say, however, that it is the majority view by far, and Candidates and Credentials Committees in the presbyteries probably would encourage candidates to give further serious consideration to their apologetic views if they are evidentialists rather than presuppositionalists.
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The Cross & the Pen: Author Steve Barclift
- Eva Marie Everson Contributing Writer
- 2005 5 Apr
Welcome to The Cross & The Pen, Crosswalk.com's author-to-author interview!
Wanna know why I love ice cream parlors? 'Cause I meet such great people at them! I mean, only the nicest people hang out at ice cream parlors, right?
A year and a half ago, while working as faculty at a writer's conference, I met editor Steve Barclift. One evening, when a few of us "went out" for ice cream, the two of us ended up sitting "shoulder to shoulder." We chatted about this and that and I discovered this was really one very nice guy! And (wait till you hear this!) he writes books! For children!
Months later, Steve sent his children's devotional, "Beginning with God" (Kregel Publishers), for my granddaughter. Together she and I read the pages. I noticed how quickly she became involved in the lives of the "Kenton Family" and how easily she was able to relate to their godly methods of problem solving.
So, I called up my new friend Steve and said, "Let's talk about this book." He agreed … wanna listen in?
Eva Marie: Steve, obviously the first question I want to ask you about is what made you want to write a children's devotional in the first place. Talk to me about that. ...
Steve: In the first place, I have to confess having been really put off by family devotional times when I was a kid. My father was a pastor, and, despite Dad's well-intentioned efforts, what I remember most about our family devotions is that they were dry and boring. My siblings and I dreaded them.
Later, when I married and became a parent myself, my wife, Jann, and I were as frustrated as the other Christian parents we knew, by the lack of good devotional materials available. We wanted to help our kids grow to love and obey the Lord, but for the most part, the tools for helping us in this all important task were the same ones used by my own parents with my siblings and me. Not much had changed over the years.
Eventually, God gave me an opportunity to do something about the problem. I was an editor for a Christian book publisher on the West Coast in the early '90s when my employer suggested that I consider writing a children's devotional. My own children ranged in age from three to eight years at the time, and as I mentioned, my wife and I had already found that there were few devotional resources available for kids. And I knew that other parents were having the same difficulty because, prior to that time, I had been the founding managing editor of Christian Parenting Today magazine – our readers were constantly telling us that they couldn't find devotional materials that their children would stick with. So, I took up the challenge and began writing, bouncing ideas off of the first- and second-graders in the Sunday school class my wife and I were teaching.
That book, "The Beginner's Devotional," was published in 1991. It became a best seller and won an ECPA Gold Medallion Award. "Beginning with God," my new devotional, which was recently released by Kregel Publications, is an updated version of my first devotional and features new and much better four-color art throughout, many new contemporary stories, and a host of other changes that make it a book that will resonate with kids today.
Eva Marie: What did you envision when you wrote it? Did you think family time every evening? What was your goal, or your prayer, for the book?
Steve: My intent was to provide kids, both my own and others who read the book, enough information about God and enough structure that they would begin to grow in their spiritual lives. I wanted them to come to understand the importance of developing a relationship with God and to know that, as difficult as life can be, God has provided a clear map – the Bible – that will help them at every point along life's journey. Kids need to know that for any decision they will ever need to make, they can find guidance in God's Word, and that the Holy Spirit will help them to understand and apply the rich truths of the Bible to their lives. In an age of international terrorism, war, pornography, and turmoil of every sort, our children can find stability and security and hope for the future in the Lord. The devotional is intended to help acquaint them with the God of the Bible.
More than anything, I wanted readers to see through the book that to be Christian isn't merely a commitment to attend church every week; Christianity is a lifestyle that is focused on the things of God. The contemporary stories in "Beginning with God" are designed to show kids that Christ should be the center of their lives.
When a crisis erupts in the Kenton family, the family turns to prayer and the Word of God for answers. The same is true for routine matters; the family's faith provides the framework for dealing with life. And I think it becomes clear to the reader that a Christ-focused existence is a very natural and positive thing. Though this fictional family struggles in the same ways as every other family, the Kentons' faith in God helps them cope with the ups and downs of life – every day.
Eva Marie: How did you create the Kenton family members?
Steve: I unashamedly patterned the Kenton-family characters after members of my own family. The Johnny character is based on my son, Wesley John. My oldest daughter, Elaina May, is represented as Elaina in the book. A younger daughter, Angela Joy, is the Joy character in the devotional. My wife, Jann, and I are the basis of the mother and father of the Kenton clan. (My wife and I had another daughter, Hannah, soon after my first devotional was published, and a new Hannah character became the focus of several units of the revised "Beginning with God," but that character is only a family friend. Unfortunately, there was no room for Hannah in the immediate Kenton family.)
While the book's characters are loosely based on my own family members – many of their quirks and personality traits mirror those present in the characters' real-life counterparts – the characters can to some extent be considered composites of other people I have known throughout my life. But my own family was a great starting place!
Eva Marie: Okay, Steve. Last question. Will there be (or are there) other devo-type books featuring the Kenton family?
Steve: I understand "Beginning with God" is selling well, and I wouldn't rule out a sequel devotional featuring the Kenton family. But none is in the works at present.
I am considering writing a devotional for children who are a bit older than those using "Beginning with God" – probably preteens. I will have a coauthor -- a scientist and published author who will provide a wealth of fascinating but little-known facts about God's amazing universe – and it should be a fun project! I hope to get the work underway soon.
Steve T. Barclift has worked in children's publishing for more than a decade. He is a Gold Medallion-winning children's book author, founding managing editor of Christian Parenting Today, and is currently the managing editor at Kregel Publications. He and his family live in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Award-winning national speaker, Eva Marie Everson is a recent graduate of Andersonville Theological Seminary. Her work includes


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Fed acted because Congress is lameSeptember 13, 2012: 12:59 PM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, and Abbott Laboratories, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
In a move that will forever be known as QE3 because it's the Federal Reserve's third round of asset purchases, the central bank pledged Thursday to buy $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities a month.
Now let's be honest. The economy isn't in great shape. But things aren't as dire as they were in 2008.
Even though Fed chairman Ben Bernanke recently referred to the high level of joblessness as a "grave concern," it was far worse not that long ago. The current unemployment rate is 8.1%, down from a peak of 10% in October 2009 -- shortly after the Great Recession officially ended. So we are heading in the right direction.
Sure, the recovery in the job market and broader economy has been painfully low and slow. Barbecue-like if you will. But it is still a recovery. Heck, even the housing market seems to be doing a lot better than a year ago. So did we really need more QE right now?
Many investing experts and economists don't think so -- even though the market seems to have an appetite for liquidity (and perhaps destruction?) that's as insatiable as the people-eating plant Audrey II from "Little Shop of Horrors." (Feed me, Benjamin!)
But if any politician dares to complain about the Fed -- and believe me they will -- I have these two words of advice: Zip it!
It seems painfully clear that Bernanke and other Fed members are worried about the possibility that lawmakers will muck things up later this year by doing what they do best: Nothing.
Bernanke has gone out of his way numerous times in speeches and appearances on Capitol Hill to point out that monetary policy, i.e. the setting of interest rates by the Fed and asset-purchase programs like the QE trilogy and Operation Twist, can only do so much. The Fed cut its key short-term rate to near zero in December 2008 and it has remained there ever since. Long-term Treasury yields and mortgage rates are already near historic lows.
Related: QE3 won't create jobs
What's needed to get the economy back on track is not more liquidity. It's fiscal action by Congress. Getting the federal debt load under control, while simultaneously making sure that budgets for the government's most vital programs, be that defense, education or social safety nets for the poor, are not eviscerated. Reforming an antiquated tax code. Regulating industries that need more oversight, while not going overboard with too many onerous rules.
Bernanke can't change any of that. But with politicians too busy trying to get re-elected than actually governing, the Fed has no choice but to act more aggressively. There are legitimate fears that the lame duck (or is it just lame?) Congress will fail to reach an agreement before the end of the year to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff of automatic spending cuts and higher taxes.>
In other words, the Fed may feel compelled to act merely to prevent a significant economic slowdown that could occur in the early part of 2013.
"QE3, QE4 or QE5 may not do much to boost the economy. The bigger issues are concerns about the election, regulation and the fiscal cliff," said Wilmer Stith, manager of the Wilmington Broad Market Bond Fund (ARKIX) in Baltimore. "But there hasn't been this much political uncertainty since the Great Depression and this is the worst possible time to have it. If we fall off the fiscal cliff, we'd likely enter another recession."
Related: What the Fed should do (but probably won't)
The irony here is that the Fed has often been criticized for being too reactive as opposed to proactive.
It's fair to suggest that Bernanke should have done a better job of connecting the dots and recognizing that the housing bubble was going to lead to major economic problems, instead of maintaining like he did in front of Congress in March 2007 that "the impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained."
But Bernanke seems to have learned his lesson and now realizes that the bigger risk is to sit and wait. It would be a mistake to assume that everything will work out okay in Congress.
If the Fed isn't there to reassure the markets and big foreign owners of our debt like China and Japan that it has a plan to keep rates low in the event the economy grinds to a complete standstill, bond yields could quickly shoot higher. And then the comparisons to the most debt-laden nations in Europe would quickly become more apt.
Related: Moody's says U.S. credit rating hinges on Congress
Sure, fears of the fiscal cliff could be for naught. Lawmakers could reach a last-minute deal that actually helps the economy. This could turn out to be the 2012/2013 equivalent of the Y2k computer bug fears that some thought would bring the economy to a halt in 2000. (Paging Dr. Ed Yardeni!)
There are also valid concerns that Bernanke may be simply inflating yet another asset bubble by keeping rates artificially low for this long. Still, inflation is not a significant concern at the current time -- even though more QE could lead to a weaker dollar and another spike in oil prices.
Sadly, Bernanke is in a no-win situation. He is correct to point out that fiscal reforms are now more important than further monetary easing. Too bad his cries are being ignored by our nation's least and dimmest on Capitol Hill. As if his own job wasn't hard enough, Bernanke has to provide more stimulus for the economy because Congress seems unwilling to do so. Sad.


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President Barack Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. You name it, he blew it. What was his big deal economic programme that he was determined to drive through the G20 summit? Another massive stimulus package, globally funded and co-ordinated. Did he achieve it? Not so as you'd notice.
Barack Obama in Prague on his astonishingly successful tour
Barack is not the first New World ingenue to discover that European leaders will load him with praise, struggle sycophantically to be photographed with him and outdo him in Utopian rhetoric. But when it comes to the critical moment of opening their wallets – suddenly it is flag-day in Aberdeen. Okay, put the G20 down to inexperience, beginner's nerves, what you will.
On to Nato and the next big objective: to persuade the same European evasion experts that America, Britain and Canada should no longer bear the brunt of the Afghan struggle virtually unassisted. The Old World sucked through its teeth, said that was asking a lot – but, seeing it was Barack, to whom they could refuse nothing, they would graciously accede to his wishes.
So The One retired triumphant, having secured a massive contribution of 5,000 extra troops – all of them non-combatant, of course – which must really have put the wind up the Taliban, at the prospect of 5,000 more infidel cooks and bottle-washers swarming into the less hazardous regions of Afghanistan.
Then came the dramatic bit, the authentic West Wing script, with the President wakened in the middle of the night in Prague to be told that Kim Jong-il had just launched a Taepodong-2 missile. America had Aegis destroyers tracking the missile and could have shot it down. But Uncle Sam had a sterner reprisal in store for l'il ole Kim (as Dame Edna might call him): a multi-megaton strike of Obama hot air.
"Rules must be binding," declared Obama, referring to the fact that Kim had just breached UN Resolutions 1695 and 1718. "Violations must be punished." (Sounds ominous.) "Words must mean something." (Why, Barack? They never did before, for you – as a cursory glance at your many speeches will show.)
President Pantywaist is hopping mad and he has a strategy to cut Kim down to size: he is going to slice $1.4bn off America's missile defence programme, presumably on the calculation that Kim would feel it unsporting to hit a sitting duck, so that will spoil his fun.
Watch out, France and Co, there is a new surrender monkey on the block and, over the next four years, he will spectacularly sell out the interests of the West with every kind of liberal-delusionist initiative on nuclear disarmament and sitting down to negotiate with any power freak who wants to buy time to get a good ICBM fix on San Francisco, or wherever. If you thought the world was a tad unsafe with Dubya around, just wait until President Pantywaist gets into his stride.


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PDE/Contributor Guide
|Mailing List • Forums • IRC • mattermost
|Open • Help Wanted • Bug Day
|Browse Source • Project Set File
Project Structure
The PDE project is structured into four major components: api tools, build, ui and incubator.
API Tools
API tooling will assist developers in API maintenance by reporting API defects such as binary incompatibilities, incorrect plug-in version numbers, missing or incorrect @since tags, and usage of non-API code between plug-ins. The tooling will be integrated in the Eclipse SDK and will be used in the automated build process. Specifically, the tooling is designed to do the following:
- Identify binary compatibility issues between two versions of a software component or product.
- Update version numbers for plug-ins (bundles) based on the Eclipse versioning scheme.
- Update @since tags for newly added classes, interfaces, methods, etc.
- Provide new javadoc tags and code assist to annotate types with special restrictions.
- Leverage existing information (in MANIFEST.MF) to define the visibility of packages between bundles.
- Identify usage of non-API code between plug-ins.
- Identity leakage of non-API types into API.
Ant based tools and scripts to automate build processes
Models, builders, editors and more to faciliate bundle development
Incubator components vary in maturity level and are supported by the respective component leads.
Getting Started
The PDE project places a very high value on community contributions.
This document is intended to help those interested contribute to PDE. It communicates our conventions and discusses ways to get your contributions prioritized. There are many ways that you as a member of the community can get involved and contribute to the PDE Project.
The first step is to let us know you are out there, check out the different ways we communicate and chat with us about your problems and interests.
You should also sign up for a Bugzilla account and add firstname.lastname@example.com to your watch list.
Creating Bug Reports
If you encounter a bug while working with Eclipse (whether it be with PDE or elsewhere), file a report in bugzilla. However, keep some things in mind:
- Search bugzilla for existing bugs like yours BEFORE you file it. Resolving duplicates is time consuming.
- Try to have reproducible steps. An entry in the log file may not be enough. Some log entries are NOT bugs, and can be caused by incorrect workspace configuration, etc.
- Bugzilla is not a forum. Do not ask questions on bugzilla.
- New feature requests should be marked with a severity of enhancement. Try to give a realistic severity to bugs, a bug with a straightforward workaround is not critical or blocker
- Bugs have a lifecycle you should be aware of:
- NEW - All newly filed bugs start out in the NEW state.
- DUPLICATE/INVALID/WORKSFORME/WONTFIX - If a bug is a duplicate of another bug or if a committer decides that no code changes will be made for the bug, the bug is resolved immediately with an explanation. Unless the bug is REOPENED for some reason, this is the end of the road.
- ASSIGNED - If an individual wants to take ownership of a bug (committer or contributor willing to work on it), the bug is reassigned to them, removing it from the inbox. If there is an expected timeframe for the bug to be fixed in, set the target milestone.
- RESOLVED-FIXED - Bugs are marked as RESOLVED-FIXED once code that solves the issue has been checked into CVS. If a patch was provided by a non-committer it must be marked with the IP Log flag by the committer that committed the code to CVs. Proving a brief explanation of the fix/a list of affected files is recommended.
- VERIFIED - PDE does not explicitly verify bugs. However, if the original reporter or a second committer confirms that a fix does in fact fix the original problem, the bug may be marked as verified.
Contributing Fixes
In general we follow the standard Eclipse coding style, some things such as indentation, brackets, imports, etc. are enforced by pde project preferences, so your file will be updated when you save. Try to make your code easily readable adding comments where necessary. Add javadoc (Alt-Shift-J) to public methods and classes, even if they are not API. Once you have created a fix and tested it, you will need it committed to CVS. To do so you must create a patch and attach it to the bug report. A committer will review and commit the fix.
To create a patch, select all of the changed projects in the Package Explorer view. Right click and go to Team > Synchronize, this should open up the Synchronize View. In the Synchronize View, make sure there are no conflicting changes and that all of your changes follow the coding guidelines. Then select your outgoing changes, right click and go to Create Patch... In the dialog, select a destination for the patch (it is best to include the bug number in the file name and use the extension .patch), double check all your changes are included, then hit OK. Attach the created patch to the bug report.
We must follow the Eclipse IP Process. Small contributions will be reviewed and marked with the IP Log flag. Larger contributions will require additional steps.
- There is one mailing list that is used for developer discussions.
- We are active on IRC channels #eclipse and #eclipse-dev
- PDE has a newsgroup where users can ask for help
Contributor Links
- Eclipse Code Conventions
- Eclipse User Interface Guidelines
- Documentation Style Guidelines
- Eating your own dog food (Wikipedia)
The recommended way to work with PDE is by checking them out of CVS. Doing this makes it easy to try the latest changes and work with patches and ensures that you can easily browse the source code and documentation.
We eat our own dogfood so we try to use a recent Eclipse build so that we are testing as we work. Updating to the most recent i-build each week is preferred. You can use update sites to update your current build or download a recent build.
Consider installing and using Mylyn. It can make it easier to switch between tasks. It connects well with Eclipse, PDE and bugzilla.
Eclipse code is written, edited and tested within Eclipse. This is called self-hosting. Here are the basic steps to self host:
- Setup the CVS repository: Go to the CVS Repository Exploring Perspective. In the CVS Repositories view you can add the repo by pasting the following (or creating a new connection and filling in the fields in the wizard).
- Look in HEAD for the 'pde' folder. Inside that folder is a project called 'org.eclipse.pde.releng'. Right click and go to Check Out to copy the project to your workspace.
- Switch back to the Java perspective, inside the releng project there are a number of .psf files. These project set files can be used to quickly check out the projects you are interested in working on. The pde-ui-basic.psf is where most contributors should start. Simply right click on the file and go to import team project set. A dialog may pop up requiring you to choose a repository to use, as committers must use different settings then contributors.
- You can now edit the code in your workspace. To test your code you must create an Eclipse Launch Configuration. The easiest way to do so is to right click on your project, go to Debug As (or Run As) > Run-time Workbench. Your initial Eclipse instance that you edited your code in is called the host. The Eclipse you just launched is called the target. Any changes you make in your host will be reflected in the target.