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1972 FIG on Social Issues
1972: The FIG President's Response to Cathy Rigby's Nude Photos in Sports Illustrated
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Before the ESPN Body Issue existed, Cathy Rigby posed nude for Sports Illustrated. At the time, it was a big enough sensation that Arthur Gander, the FIG president, commented on the matter.
Let's take a look at what he said…
Munich, Germany – 1972: Cathy Rigby competing in the Women's gymnastics event at the 1972 Summer Olympics / Games of the XX Olympiad, Olympic Sports Hall. (Photo by Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)
Warning: This article will touch upon body image issues and eating disorders.
Note: This is part of a series of posts on the FIG leadership in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Other posts include:
1968: Villancher's Commentary on the Women's Code of Points
1971: The FIG President's Response to Ole Bendiktsen's Hair
Contextualizing Nudity
It's important to note that, in the late 1960s, nudity wasn't just reserved for the pages of adult magazines like Playboy. As more and more people questioned social norms and societal taboos, more and more theater productions were bringing nudity to the stage, and nudity became a question of artistic expression.
For example, in 1968, at the Shakespeare Memorial Theater, Helen of Troy wore only a tiara in a performance of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus. (NYTimes, Dec. 15, 1968).
Earlier that year, in April, the musical Hair debuted on Broadway. Its first act ended with several naked actors. And in 1969, when the musical Hair was coming to Paris, the Swiss newspaper L'Express remarked:
The famous comedy-event Hair, where the nudity of the actors shocked the English more than the "pop" music of the libretto, will be staged in Paris.
La fameuse comédie-happening « Hair », où la nudité des acteurs a plus choqué les Anglais que la musique « pop » du livret, sera montée à Paris.
L'Express, April 17, 1969
On June 22, 1969, the New York Times dedicated several pages to the topic of nudity in the theater, with authors arguing both in favor and against it.
Shelley Winters, who won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue, wrote:
I think [nudity on the stage] is disgusting, shameful, and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive, religious experience.
Margo Sappington, who would later be a Tony Award nominee for her choreography, declared:
Dance has always simulated nudity for years, and has not been questioned because it is an abstraction and exaggeration of reality.
This simulation of a naked body, that is, covering the parts of the body with something as clinging as a leotard and tights, is in many ways distracting — whereas the actual naked body is beautiful in itself. The skin becomes the most expensive and valuable fabric ever used because it allows the motivation of expression to be seen.
All this is to say: nudity was a divisive topic in American (and global) society, and there wasn't just one way to view nudity at the time.
And soon, that divisiveness would spill over into the gymnastics world.
Cathy Rigby has grown up.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, some coaches believed that the best gymnasts were like Peter Pan, in that they never grew up. Bud Marquette, Cathy Rigby's coach, was one of those coaches.
In 1972, Sports Illustrated profiled U.S. gymnast Cathy Rigby. In it, Rigby spoke about her relationship with her coach, Bud Marquette, and how he wanted her to stay young:
"He doesn't want me to grow up," says Cathy.
"It changes the center of gravity," says Marquette, "and she may never regain her former sense of balance. Cathy still looks the way she did nine years ago when she joined the SCATs."
Sports Illustrated, August 21, 1972
(You can find more quotes from the SI article below.)
Rigby's statement stood in stark contrast with the photos that accompanied the article. Rigby posed nude for that issue, clearly establishing that she was no longer a child and had, in fact, grown up. Her body was no longer the same as it was nine years ago — no matter what her coach claimed.
The Sports Illustrated issue came out right before the 1972 Olympics, and it was a big deal — so big that Arthur Gander, the President of the FIG, was asked for a comment, which brings me to the next section.
Gander's Response
Reminder: Berthe Villancher, the president of the Women's Technical Committee at the time, had unwritten rules. She felt that visible tan lines were a step too far.
While there isn't a record of her response to Rigby's photos in Sports Illustrated, there is a record of Arthur Gander's response.
What follows is a translation of an article by the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
Sex and Games
This theme also plays an ongoing role at the Olympics in Munich. It does this in particular in the gymnastics hall, where beautiful girls from all over the world show their skills. Cathy Rigby is there, as well. The 19-year-old from Florida has nothing more to hide. Sports Illustrated, the largest American sports magazine, took care of that. The latest issue of the magazine is in the stands everywhere. On the cover: Cathy Rigby stark naked in a challenging position on the balance beam.
The leaders of the International Gymnastics Federation are shocked. "A most painful affair," says FIG president Arthur Gander, who doesn't really know what to do with the affair that has stirred many tongues (and eyes and eyes!) And Cathy Rigby herself, who is getting married in a few months? "The shot was taken a year ago. My coach thought that, in this way, I could perfectly express modern gymnastics".
And why not? More and more taboos are being broken on Olympus too. […]
Sex en Spelen…
Ook op de Olympus in München speelt dit thema een in het ook lopende rol. Met name doet het dat in de turnhal, waar beeldschone meisjes aller landen hun kunsten vertonen. Cathy Rigby is er ook bij. De 19-jarige uit Florida heeft niets meer te verbergen. Daarvoor zorgde "Sports Illustrated" het grootste Amerikaanse sportmagazine. Overal ligt het laatste nummer van het magazine op de tribunes. Op de cover: Cathy Rigbv spiernaakt in een uitdagende stand op de evenwichtsbalk.
De leiders van de Internationale Turnfederatie zijn geschokt. "Een hoogst pijnlijke zaak". meent ITB-president Arthur Gander, die eigenlijk niet goed raad weet met de veel tongen (en ogen en ogen!) in beweging gebracht hebbende affaire. En Cathy Rigby zelf. die over enkele maanden gaat trouwen? "De opname is al een jaar geleden gemaakt. Mijn trainer vond dat ik op die manier het moderne turnen voortreffelijk tot uitdrukking zou kunnen brengen".
En waarom niet? Ook op de Olympus worden hoe langer hoe meer taboes doorbroken- Sex en spelen […]
De Telegraaf, Sept. 1, 1972
The article goes on to talk about sex testing.
⁂ ⁂ ⁂
It was "a most painful affair."
Painful for whom, Mr. Gander? 🤔
Appendix: A Few Tidbits from the Sports Illustrated Article
Cathy Rigby's gym received anonymous hate mail.
"PLEASE quit cramming Rigby down our throats! To you, she is your baby, to us, she is just another gymnast—nothing more. You have built her up so——big, it is getting to be pretty ridiculous….
"We, as a group…are planning a trip to Long Beach, but for God's sake don't ruin our trip by making the competition a one-deal thing—namely, Rigby. Remember, there IS Metheny, Pierce and Chace. Where does that leave Rigby…? It would be too bad if she broke a leg, etc.—what would you do then…? Rigby is a smart aleck. She can't even speak to people anymore. You have made her that way…. You should teach your team (what team?)…respect for other people. They walk out on the floor and think they can take over any piece of equipment….
"As far as we are concerned, Metheny will be (and is) No. 1—but, with the politics involved, I imagine Rigby has already been nominated.
"We will be there—and watching. Maybe Rigby will break her big toe—oh, too bad."
—A group of FED-UPS
The tension between Metheny and Rigby was fierce.
Recently, Linda Metheny was quoted as saying, "I beat Cathy every time we competed before the 1968 Olympics, and two out of three since then. Her coach wouldn't let her compete against me, except when he thought I was ill or injured."
Her coach, Bud Marquette, had strict rules, and he didn't trust his gymnasts or their parents to follow them without his surveillance.
Marquette has set up such obvious rules as "no alcoholic beverages" and "no smoking," but the contract also includes a 10:30 p.m. curfew which is sometimes hard to observe. Therefore, he makes a point of calling up parents at night to make sure their daughters are home. "There is never any trouble with Cathy," he says.
Journalists have called Cathy Rigby "Pixie," "Kewpie doll" and "Barbie doll," much to her embarrassment. Still, since her blonde hair began to darken, she has dyed it regularly "to keep up the image" she says. "I would like to let my hair grow, but Bud wouldn't let me." Long hair is frowned upon by gymnastics judges. Cathy keeps her pigtails pinned back and fastened so tightly with ribbons that she gets headaches.
Those strict expectations extended to the gymnasts' bodies.
"[Marquette] doesn't want me to grow up," says Cathy.
Note: Cathy Rigby suffered from bulimia for many years.
Rigby's mom was partially paralyzed.
Her mother has been partially paralyzed for 21 years. Anita Rigby contracted polio while she was pregnant with her second child. She could not walk for many years, and even today needs crutches.
Money was tight for the Rigby family.
Two and a half years ago Mr. Rigby lost his job as an aeronautical engineer in a general layoff at Douglas, and his wife became the main breadwinner for the family, which included five children. She made $110 a week as a material analyst at Douglas, while her husband helped out by working as a truck driver and a bartender.
Cathy Rigby never had much spending money, and she never dared ask for more than a couple of dollars when she left on trips. She made money baby-sitting and saved her $3 per diem so she could buy Christmas presents. One year she returned from Japan with a 36-piece china set for her parents. She hand-carried it so that it would not break. Paul Rigby was hired by North American last April.
There are times when Cathy Rigby thinks about her financial future, but not too seriously. Two months ago she started a savings account with a $60 deposit. She now has a balance of $3. "They are charging mc 50¢ for overactivity," she says.
Reminder: At the time, gymnasts had to be amateurs in order to compete at the Olympics. The opening of the Olympic Charter made that quite clear:
The Olympic Games are held every four years. They assemble amateurs of all nations in fair and equal competition. No discrimination in them is allowed against any country or person on grounds of race, religion or politics.
Olympic Rules and Regulations, 1972
Here's how the Olympic Charter defined amateurism:
Individuals subsidized by governments, educational institutions, or business concerns because of their athletic ability are not amateurs. Business and industrial concerns sometimes employ athletes for their advertising value. The athletes are given paid employment with little work to do and are free to practise and compete at all times. For national aggrandizement, governments occasionally adopt the same methods and give athletes positions in the Army, on the police force or in a government office. They also operate training camps for extended periods. Some colleges and universities offer outstanding athletes scholarships and inducements of various kinds. Recipients of these special favours which are granted only because of athletic ability are not eligible to compete in the Olympic Games.
Regarding the engagement mentioned in the Dutch article above…
Ostensibly, Cathy has not been allowed to date until after the Olympics, but this week she disclosed her engagement to Tommy Mason, 33, the former All-Pro running back who now plays for the Washington Redskins. "I met him two years ago," Cathy says. "We hardly ever went out. We always had dinner at home with my parents. I thought Bud didn't know, and I was afraid to tell him."
"I've known about it for nearly a year," says Marquette. "The other day we had a real good daughter-daddy talk and I said, you have to bring it out into the open, but it can't interfere with your training. Since we had that talk her workouts have been out of sight."
The couple was married from 1972 until 1981.
The Rigby Family Monkey
In 1968, Rigby's parents promised her a monkey if she made the Olympic team:
Making an Olympic team has its advantages, especially since Cathy's parents promised to buy her a pet monkey if she made the team.
New York Times, Oct. 10, 1968
In the Sports Illustrated piece, you can see a photo of Cathy with her pet monkey and pet alligator!
She lives in a burgundy-colored house with her parents, one brother, a sister, a dog, a gopher snake, an alligator named Beauregard Frump, a desert tortoise and a monkey.
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Newspaper Articles Say Critics Of Officer Caprio's Killer Are Racially Motivated
bySandyMalone
May 31, 2018 -edited
Advocates for cop killer Dawnta Harris have claimed that the public is outraged because of his race.
Baltimore, MD – The murder of a Baltimore County police officer by a 16-year-old boy has the killer's supporters suggesting that people are only upset because the officer was a white female, and her killer is black.
Social media posts about the murder of the highly-acclaimed police officer have run the gamut from calls for lynching the teen to cheers from angry cop-haters who were glad an officer was killed.
The Albuquerque Journal described the situation a "volatile mix," as many of the calls for justice have been labeled "racist," and the killer's apologists claim that the nation treats young white killers differently from black ones.
The attorneys for teen cop killer Dawnta Harris even held a press conference on May 24 and tried to pin the blame for the murder on his victim, 29-year-old Officer Amy Caprio.
"Forget about the optics. Forget about all the elements that makes this case dramatic and ones that people cry out for. We want to know what was in the officer's mind at the moment she deployed deadly force. What probable cause did she have to believe that this person was going to harm to her or some other individual in this residential district?" asked J. Wyndal Gordon, of the attorneys for Harris.
"This was an extremely tragic accident. And it's not lost on any of us out here that a police officer lost her life in the line of duty. It's not lost on any of us," Gordon said.
"But we want to know why Officer Caprio felt it necessary to draw her weapon on a 16-year-old child," the attorney asked. "We want to know why this was necessary."
His attorneys have repeatedly referred to the 16-year-old repeat offender as a "child."
They have blamed the juvenile justice system for the fact that the unsupervised teenager murdered Officer Caprio while he was supposed to be on house arrest for a series of car thefts he'd committed since December.
Police supporters, and most generally law-abiding citizens, were outraged at the attorneys' attempts to victim-blame the murdered police officer who was run over by Harris in a stolen Jeep Wrangler.
Authorities have said Harris was acting as the getaway driver for three friends who were burglarizing a nearby house.
Baltimore County resident Stuart Tamres called out the victim blaming in a Letter to the Editor of The Baltimore Sun.
"If you listen to [Warren Brown] and others on his defense team for Dawnta Harris, the 16-year-old accused of killing Baltimore County police officer Amy Caprio, they will be bringing suit against the fallen officer for assault on their client as well as violation of his civil rights. I firmly believe that every defendant deserves a defense, but, Mr. Brown, you have gone over the bounds of decency in your zeal to make a name for yourself," Tamres wrote.
Many of the messages posted to the Baltimore County Police & Fire Facebook page got so ugly that they were having to be closely monitored, and all profanity and full-caps posts were being deleted, Baltimore County Fire Spokeswoman Elise Armacost told The Albuquerque Journal.
Numerous posts called for Harris to be hanged, shot, run over, and raped, The Albuquerque Journal reported.
A column titled "The online lynching of Dawnta Harris" that ran in The Baltimore Sun on May 29 lamented the demonization of the cop-killer by "electronic thugs."
E.R. Shipp, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who is a journalist in residence at Morgan State University, compared the coverage of recent school and church shooters who were white to the angry response to cop-killer Harris.
Shipp opined that the world's response to the senseless killing of Officer Caprio was inappropriate, and that he thought most people would agree that the situation was "awful for both families."
"While in an ideal world race and gender would be irrelevant to any reaction to a bunch of teenagers behaving irresponsibly and triggering a tragedy, ours is far from that nirvana. And so you see in social media posts and hear in radio blather that black 'animals' and 'thugs' should die. There's little of the reserve and concern expressed when white teenagers go on shooting sprees in the nation's schools," Shipp wrote.
However, a quick review of comments on articles about still-living school shooters shows hundreds to thousands of comments calling for them to be executed in a brutal manner.
At the time of this writing, a white killer is on the loose after murdering a law enforcement officer, and and top comments on those articles indicate that race isn't factored in to people's feelings on cop-killers.
Not all the newspaper's readers were willing to allow excuses for Harris, or allow the killer's behavior to be characterized as typical irresponsible teenager.
"Throwing out the extreme and hurtful rhetoric and insults, I personally find one significant fault with this article. The phrase 'a bunch of teenagers behaving irresponsibly and triggering a tragedy' is, in itself, irresponsible journalism. As reported and given in confession by the young men, they were committing multiple felonies while the death of the officer occurred. How has it become so ordinary that we can call burglary, etc. as just irresponsible behavior? Does the Baltimore Sun not have editors?" asked one reader who posted a comment on Shipp's column.
"Hey, Shippy, maybe folks are getting tired of excuses being made for criminal behaviour. Sure, some on here are filled with hate and vitriol. Most of us want him to have a fair trial, even though odds are that if he's convicted, some special interests will cry foul. There is something that was very cruel in this matter. It takes a true lack of conscience to just run someone over. Being 'scared' or in 'survival mode' does not cut it as an explanation. This murder touched a nerve... and after seeing the tactics of Dawnta's lawyers, I have a feeling the trial will be very ugly. Besmirching Officer Caprio will get them nowhere," another reader wrote.
The Baltimore Sun also ran a column that characterized Harris as a frightened child who ran over the police officer who had stopped him by accident – exactly the message his attorneys had delivered at their press conference.
"He is being charged as an adult, but that is simply a legal fiction. Dawnta Harris is a child with all of the limitations that come with adolescence," wrote Lila Meadows, of the University of Baltimore's Juvenile Justice Project*,* in an opinion column titled "Dawnta Harris is a child. That matters," which ran in The Baltimore Sun on May 24 shortly after the press conference concluded.
In her column, Meadows allowed that Officer Caprio lost her life too soon, and that emotions were running high in the wake of her death. However, she urged the community to seek "accountability that is proportional to culpability" because, of course, the cop killer was only a "child."
Feel free to share this on social media to expose the attacks on the murdered hero in defense of her killer.
RunCop
Dawnta....another lowest common denominator animal thug!
A "child" with an extensive criminal history who was suppose to be home, not out driving a stolen car. Anyone who can support or excuse the actions of this "animal" needs to have their head examined.
Roll tape so we can decide based on facts.
JBo
I do believe Baltimore is becoming a lost cause.
Getting real tired of calling up the Race Card !! Going to cause more dessention than unification 😡

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Qatar Airways is scheduling regular cargo-only flights with passenger planes to China. (Image: Flickr/David McKelvey)
Qatar Airways said Monday it is resuming scheduled flights to China on its passenger network, but will only be moving cargo.
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Chapter VIII (Gates)

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"Anyone who thinks he's original is merely ignorant."
(Nicolás Gómez Dávila)

It's nice that we got decrement working in the last chapter.  But
we didn't actually produce a decrement function.  So, let's do
that now.

Gates and "lambda"

While we can hardly stop you from saying "function," the proper
Urbit terminology is gate.

A gate is a kind of core - you might remember our discussion in
chapter 4.  A core is

[battery payload]

The battery is one or more formulas; the payload is any noun.

In a gate, there is exactly one arm - whose name is $, buc or
blip - ie, nothing.  One arm, one twig, one formula.  Moreover,
the payload is always a cell, arbitrarily labeled sample and
context.

So - to combine several ways of deconstructing a noun - a gate
looks like this:

           glus   gras
          lusgal lusgar
            +<     +>
[formula [sample context]]
    -          +
   hep        lus

Does this remind you of anything?  I hope not!  Unfortunately
some readers may be previously familiar with legacy functional
languages from the late 20th century.  Legacy?  Perhaps this is a
little sharp - let's say "classical."

In classical FP, something quite like a Hoon gate is known as a
"lambda." We try not to use this term, really.  Hoon is obviously
not based on the lambda calculus, and it's not nice to define
other people's words for them.  (This is also why we don't say
"monad.")  But we may slip up sometimes and that's okay.  (We may
also get caught with "closure" or even "continuation.")

But there is a big difference: in classical FP, "lambda" is a
fundamental semantic primitive.  Since these are functional
languages after all, it makes sense that defining and calling
functions would be fundamental primitives.

But gates - Hoon's equivalent of functions - are no more than a
design pattern: a convention, and a relatively funky convention
at that.  Plus some sugary macros that make things convenient.

Since Hoon's primitives are actually primitive (it doesn't get
much more primitive than Nock), we can combine them to produce
not only classic, function-oriented FP, but also a broader garden
of funky patterns at the same complexity level as function
calling.  But different from function calling.  What?  We'll see
some of these patterns in a bit.

We make a gate

Our goal this time is not just to build decrement - it's to build
decrement right.  That is, as a decrement function - a gate.
If this is called deq (there already being a perfectly usable
dec) and we want decrementing a to look like Lisp:

(deq a)

then we can expect our program to look something like

!:             ::  To write a trivial Hoon program
|=  *          ::
|=  [a=@ ~]    ::  For educational purposes only
:_  ~  :_  ~   ::
:-  %$         ::  Preserve this mysterious boilerplate square
!>             ::
:::::::::::::::::  Produce a value below
=>  XXXXX      ::  some twig or other
(deq a)

This XXXXX twig, whatever it is, must extend the subject to
contain a core which includes an arm which produces our gate.

Extend the subject to contain a core which includes an arm which
produces our gate?  Sure:

=>  |%
    ++  deq
      =+  x=0
      |.  =+  y=0
          |-  ?:  =(x +(y))
                y
              $(y +(y))
    --
(deq a)

Or more conveniently:

=<  (deq a)
|%
++  deq
  =+  x=0
  |.  =+  y=0
      |-  ?:  =(x +(y))
            y
          $(y +(y))
--

Does this work?

: /~zod/try/25/bin/hec/hoon
~zod/try=> :hec 42
41

But this doesn't mean we understand it.

Sure, we read the last chapter.  So we understand how and why
|% turned into |., which then turned into |-.  The loop.
But this strange beast seems to contain... three cores?

We understand a gate

Of course we need three nested cores.  Actually, we have a lot
more than three nested cores, because the subject we are getting
for the application contains all of zuse.hoon and hoon.hoon.

A stack of cores in which the core below is the context of the
one above, all the way down to the innermost core whose payload
is a simple constant (for hoon.hoon, always the Kelvin version)
is called, for obvious reasons, a reef.  With our three cores,
we are adding no more than a few decorative polyps to our reef.

For example, we can just as well use the standard decrement,
dec - it's in there too:

=<  (dec a)
|%
++  deq
  =+  x=0
  |.
  =+  y=0
  |-
  ?:  =(x +(y))
    y
  $(y +(y))
--

(We've used a more conservative indentation here - uglier and
less compact, but arguably clearer.)

We define deq, but we seem to be able to just call dec.  Why?
Because we read past cores which don't bind the arm we're looking
for, we can read all the way to the deepest layer in the Hoon 164
reef - which contains the official, original dec.

(It remains important not to profoundly abuse this magic power.
Every layer of core you add, of course, puts you farther from
some of the gates you want to use.  A smart interpreter can
smooth over this issue a little, but smart isn't free either.)

Thus, it should be perfectly clear what the three bar runes -
implying three cores - mean.  First, we have the |% which
contains ++deq.  (When referring to an arm in informal text,
we use this syntax, though the actual language of course requires
a double space - when searching in a file, "++  arm" will always
find the definition of arm and nothing else.)

This outer core defines the library our decrement gate is in.
Actually, "library" (or book - defined as a core which
contains only code and constant data) is not quite the right
terminology here.  Even though we don't use it and it shouldn't
in fact be there, the payload of this core contains dynamic
information such as a.

In actual fact our nascent integer math library  is really an
"object" or cart - ie, a core containing dynamic state.  This
is just wrong and we'll see later on how to do it right.

As in every core, the subject of every arm is the core itself.
Naturally, the |% twig uses its own subject as the payload,
creating the familiar reef effect as the stack of cores piles up.

And this library is the context (or +>, gras) of our gate.
Thus, the twig in the gate can use anything in the library - of
course as needed.

The sample (or +<, glus) of our gate is simply any default
noun for the type we want to compute on.  Remember, of course,
that the whole point of gates is that we change the sample, then
compute the formula.  Hoon is a typed language, so the sample can
be safely replaced by any noun in the same type.

Within =+, tislus, the old subject becomes the context, and
the new subject adds the sample ^=(b 0).  This pair of sample
and context then becomes the payload within |.  Hence, we build
a gate.

And then, within this gate - the third core is the decrement loop
itself, as we built it in the last chapter.  Note that if
decrement did not need a counter variable or other incremental
state, we would need only two cores - we could recurse through
the decrement gate itself.  We'll see this in a little bit.

Let's eschew synthetic runes and show the three cores as they
really are:

=<  (deq a)
|%
++  deq
  =+  x=0
  |%
  ++  $
    =+  y=0
    =<  $
    |%
    ++  $
      ?:  =(x +(y))
        y
      $(y +(y))
    --
  --
--

On the other hand, if we don't mind synthetics and lots of
parentheses, our decrement gate can also be a one-liner.  This is
perfectly legitimate Hoon style:

|%  ++  deq  =+(x=0 |.(=+(y=0 |-(?:(=(x +(y)) y $(y +(y)))))))
--

We call a gate

Note that we've still totally failed to explain (deq a).  This
is obviously an irregular form.  Let's try to turn it back into
natural hoons, and figure out what it's doing.

We know that deq builds a gate.  We already know how to change
the sample, +< or glus, in that gate.  So let's drag it out
and do it the ugly way:

=<  =+  foo=deq             ::  create the gate
    =+  bar=foo(+< a)       ::  replace its sample
    $.bar                   ::  invoke the gate
|%
++  deq
  =+  x=0
  |.  =+  y=0
      |-  ?:  =(x +(y))
            y
          $(y +(y))
--

Does this work?  It's always nice to check...

: /~zod/try/28/bin/hec/hoon
~zod/try=> :hec 42
41

We don't actually need a separate bar:

=<  =+  foo=deq             ::  create the gate
    $.foo(+< a)             ::  replace the sample and invoke
|%
++  deq
  =+  x=0
  |.  =+  y=0
      |-  ?:  =(x +(y))
            y
          $(y +(y))
--

But what we'd actually like to be able to get away with is...
something that won't work - but that looks like it might:

=<  $.deq(+< a)             ::  create, replace and invoke
|%
++  deq
  =+  x=0
  |.  =+  y=0
      |-  ?:  =(x +(y))
            y
          $(y +(y))
--

We try it and - doh!

: /~zod/try/31/bin/hec/hoon
~zod/try=> :hec 42
! /~zod/hec/bin/~2014.1.13..22.55.29..8975/try:<[2 1].[23 3]>
! /~zod/hec/bin/~2014.1.13..22.55.29..8975/try:<[3 1].[23 3]>
! /~zod/hec/bin/~2014.1.13..22.55.29..8975/try:<[4 1].[23 3]>
! /~zod/hec/bin/~2014.1.13..22.55.29..8975/try:<[4 8].[23 3]>
! /~zod/hec/bin/~2014.1.13..22.55.29..8975/try:<[5 1].[23 3]>
! /~zod/hec/bin/~2014.1.13..22.55.29..8975/try:<[6 1].[23 3]>
! /~zod/hec/bin/~2014.1.13..22.55.29..8975/try:<[8 1].[23 3]>
! /~zod/hec/bin/~2014.1.13..22.55.29..8975/try:<[8 5].[8 16]>
! type-fail
! exit

(This means we had a type failure between columns 5 and 16 of line
8, by the way.  More on troubleshooting errors later.)

Because when we wrote deq(+< a), we didn't mean: compute deq,
then modify the +< of its result to be a.  We meant: compute
deq, with the +< of the core that contains deq - ie, with
the +< of the library - changed to a.  Needless to say,
that's not what we want at all.

The change in =% - remember that deq(+< a) is a short form
for =%(deq +< a) - is always before the invocation.
So we can't do this as easily as it looks like we should be able
to do it - because we can't edit the gate until we build it.

Fortunately, we have a synthetic hoon to do this.  What hoon is
(deq a), anyway?  It's %-, cenhep, %cnhp:

=<  %-  deq
    a
|%
++  deq
  =+  x=0
  |.  =+  y=0
      |-  ?:  =(x +(y))
            y
          $(y +(y))
--

Let's look at the definition of %cnhp, our function caller.
Here are the relevant clips from hoon.hoon:

++  twig
  |%  [%cnhp p=twig q=tusk]
  ==

++  tusk  (list twig)

++  open
  ^-  twig
  ?-    gen
      [%cnhp *]
    ?~(q.gen [%tsgr p.gen [%cnzy %$]] [%cncl p.gen [%cltr q.gen]])
  ::
      [%cncl *]
    [%cnsg [%$ ~] p.gen q.gen]
  ::
      [%cnsg *]
    [%cntr p.gen q.gen [[[[%& 6] ~] r.gen] ~]]
  ::
      [%cntr *]
    :+  %tsls
      q.gen
    :+  %cnts
      (weld p.gen `wing`[[~ 2] ~])
    (turn r.gen |=([p=wing q=twig] [p [%tsgr [~ 3] q]]))
  ==

You're not expected to understand this.  At least, not yet.  But
we see that %-, so far from being a primitive, actually is a
special case of %:, which is a special case of %~, which is a
special case of %*, which seems to do... something.

Which probably makes you think %cnhp is insanely complicated.
Actually it just shows what an interesting family of things
which are like function calls, but which are not function calls,
we have here in Hoon.  Defining %cnhp this way saves code, but
it doesn't help us understand the humble function call.

If we just wanted %cnhp to be simple, we'd define it this way:

++  twig
  |%  [%cnhp p=twig q=twig]
  ==

++  open
  ^-  twig
  ?-    gen
      [%cnhp *]
    :+  %tsls  q.gen
    :+  %tsgl  [%cnzy %$]
    [%cnhp [[%& 2] ~] [[[%& 6] ~] [%tsgl [~ 3] p.gen]] ~]
  ==

This also is not terribly readable.  Let's translate it into the
code that we'd write if we were writing this macro out by hand:

=<  =+  deq               ::  create the gate
    $.-(+< =>(+ a))       ::  replace the sample and invoke
|%
++  deq
  =+  x=0
  |.  =+  y=0
      |-  ?:  =(x +(y))
            y
          $(y +(y))
--

Compare this to the working example above.  The main difference
is that this is what a Lisp fan would call a "hygienic macro."
It does not create private symbols of its own, or if it does they
are not visible to the programmer.  For instance, when we write

=+  deq

instead of

=+  foo=deq

we see how wrong it is to think of the latter as "declaring a
variable foo and assigning it to deq."  Actually, we have no
need within a synthetic hoon to bind a name.  After the =+, we
can reach the gate with just -.

But we cannot simply replace the sample with a - because the
programmer who wrote a meant to write a twig against the
original subject, not against the cell of gate and subject.

Fortunately, =>(+ a) gets us our original subject back - and
%- works exactly as if it was a natural hoon.  That's hygiene.

Sequel hook

So is this the right way to write decrement (assuming we didn't
already have decrement)?  No - there is actually a hoon designed
specifically for building gates.

The right code (which we saw earlier) is:

=<  (deq a)
|%
++  deq
  |=  x=@
  =|  y=@
  |-  ?:  =(x +(y))
        y
      $(y +(y))
--

But this requires us to understand x=@ - which isn't even a
twig.  Rather, it's something else, called a tile.  We'll make
friends with the tiles in the next chapter.

For those with classic FP experience, it's very tempting to read
|= (bartis, %brts) as "lambda."  I hope it's clear by now
that the difference between Hoon and classic FP languages is like
the difference between a bat and a bird.  Both have wings and use
them to fly, but below that level everything is different.

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We tried to limit our ecological impact and picked only enough marsh samphire to provide a helping each for tea with some smoked fish.
The sharp salt taste of a sunny but cloudy day on the marshes.
What great photos. I prefer landscapes to be people-free when I photo them. Unless I know the people... Have never eaten samphire, but then we have no marshes round here. Can you eat broom? Thought not.
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Q: Whitelisting in XSD I have to create and XSD where i have to allow/forbidd certain attribute combinations.
In the Code Down there, the first "thing" should be allowed.
The second "thing" is supposed to be forbidden, because the it doesnt match my template(but it could be anything, it's not specifically booooforbidden) but i also have to allow more than one possible attribute value.
In the third thing its forbidden, because the title is not allowed.
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Does anyone have a clue on how to do this? I'd be so incredibly greatfull, thank you
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blacklisting won't work, because it could be anything that gets inserted as a value, and i just have to allow some combinations

A: Individual XSD Component Values
Whitelisting (the specification of allowed values) of individual component values is the normal method of expressing data type constraints in XSD.  For strings, enumerations are often used.
Blacklisting (the specification of not-allowed values) capabilities of individual values are limited in XSD 1.0 but can be done via assertions in XSD 1.1.
Combinations of XSD Component Values
Whitelisting or blacklisting combinations of component values requires XSD 1.1's assertions.

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Date Published: Jan 2016 (paperback Dec 2016)
Sam, an ex-soldier who is trying to rediscover himself after twenty years of service, unwittingly stumbles upon a mysterious alien presence in rural Wales. He is drawn into a tangled web of intrigue, pitting him against forces bent on destruction and putting his life in peril. Feeling mentally eroded by his time in the army and having worked hard to overcome this, he is thrust upon an alien journey that will change his life and beliefs in a profound way.
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The conveyor ended suddenly with a short downward section. The barrels seemed to enter a dark cave. Bastards, he thought, they are dumping the drums, after all, that bullshit and holier-than-thou crap he had been fed. The bright glow prevented him from seeing into the new cave or tunnel entrance. It seemed to be a set of ultra-bright strip lights. In his haste, Sam had gotten ahead of Reb at this point; he looked back with anger in his eyes.
'You go ahead, I'll catch you up. For your own safety, please do not go up the gantry steps or go into the red zone.'
Sam didn't realise it, but he had broken out into a small jog as he strained to see clearly what was happening. What seemed to be a tunnel entrance from further back must be the opening of a large twenty-foot diameter pipe, whose opening was facing directly at him as the opening was floating in the centre of the tunnel.
He could see the barrels rise to the top of the conveyor's apex and then descend, lost in the illumination from the bright strip lights. At thirty feet, his assumptions fell apart. He could see that the glowing strip lights were, in fact, a constant stream of bright luminescent liquid flowing into a grill in the floor. 'None of this makes sense,' he muttered to himself. 'If the liquid was the toxic waste, what's the pipe for?' He looked back at Reb. 'I don't understand, you're just dumping it all into the ground, but what's the pipe for?'
'Look closer, Sam, you not allowing yourself to see the truth.'
Sam paused at the railings which separated the danger zone from the walkway with the aid of red markings on the floor, defining a twenty-foot radius from the illicit dumping area. The whole area was brightly lit. The liquid wasn't luminescent. It was white hot. He could feel the heat searing his skin even from this distance. The pipe was blacker than night. It was void of any reflection from the incandescent liquid that was pouring down. The barrels moved along the conveyor, and they should have fallen into the centre of the dark yearning chasm and rolled away. Instead, they seemed to hit a solid barrier. Where the metal met the beginning of the opening, it instantly became molten liquid, running down across an invisible surface and into the grate in the floor.
Sam walked around the railing to try and see the process from the side. He didn't hear Reb as he eventually ambled alongside him. There was no pipe, there was no nothing. From his vantage point at the side, the barrels stopped their descent from the conveyor in mid-air. The metal simply melted as if it were merely chocolate touching a white hot skillet. It ran down and back towards the direction of the conveyor. A river of molten metal floated in the air as if it were on top of an invisible thin sheet of glass that was set at a thirty-five-degree angle. Sam walked further round to see if he could make sense of what he was seeing. All he could see was blackness, a huge disc of blackness.
'I don't understand.'
'My ancient ancestors with their primitive minds called it "Dia Kuklos" because they could go through the circle. This is the cause of distortion here in Minera. This is what we guard, keep secret and safe. This is our primary duty.'
'So is this a black hole? Shouldn't all of our solar system be sucked into it?'
'No, you're not seeing what is in front of you, Sam. Come back to the front and watch.' Sam and Reb walked back along the railing to view the barrels landing on the Dia Kuklos.
'Think back to the balloon model we discussed. If two distortions happened to touch each other, they'd perforate the fabric of space and link together. You can literally step through one side to the other. Your scientists theorise about this and commonly call them wormholes. There's no tunnel connecting them. Both openings occupy the same space at the same time. They have many names in different cultures throughout the universe such as spatial apertures or perforations, portals, Quantum eyelets, interstices.'
He looked at Sam, beaming. 'Cool, eh? So we are using this cosmic abnormality to dump your toxic waste. Just not where you thought. The metal can't get through the surface tension. The reaction is so volatile that it melts upon contact. We use this to allow the waste to escape and flow through while collecting the metal for recycling.'
'So you're saying I could step through to wherever you are dumping this stuff?'
'Well, you could step through, Sam, but you wouldn't last very long. The other side is in a fixed position near a star you call Canopus. Over the course of a year or so, the waste is gently drawn in by its gravitational pull and destroyed. The aperture itself is black because neither side opens facing the star. If you could pop your head through and look to the right...' Reb shrugged and put his hand on Sam's shoulder. 'I was hoping to have thought of something witty to say by now, but, there you go. What else can I do to prove to you we are the good guys?' He handed Sam the small stone from his pocket. 'Go ahead and toss it in, watch it float away. Do it from the other side to get a better view.'
Sam walked to the rear side of the aperture and gently, with an underarm throw, tossed the stone through the portal. It physically slowed as it passed through what Reb had called the surface tension. It carried on into the darkness with its left-hand side clearly visible as it was being illuminated by the unseen sun.
'Why are you guarding these, why the secrecy?'
'Why? Well, that's a long story, but I'll keep it brief. My race evolved on planet Minera long before the Overseer arrived. As our population spread over the planet, legend says they found a portal and called it "Dia Kuklos". It happened in the midst of the harshest winter in history. My primitive ancestors found a window to a sunny world; it saved thousands of lives. They sought refuge through it and others harvested food and brought it back. Over the centuries, we eventually learnt how to detect the distortions in the fabric of space and found thirty more on our planet. Because of the nature of their original creation, these portals were always located within spatial distortions like Minera, making them difficult to find unless you know what to look for. Not all distortions contained a portal and many, being like this one, open into empty space, or hundreds of feet above the ground. As our technology evolved and resources dwindled, we abused these portals to other worlds to carry out raids and wage war.'
'We discovered one portal close to a black hole. The conflicting forces waged between the portal, and the event horizon of the black hole made it jittery. The other end wasn't permanently fixed. It sporadically lashed across the universe, momentarily setting on other portals. We learnt how to manipulate it with gravitational and spatial distorting fields. We could lock onto other portals within its original range. It is, to this date, the only one we know of with this ability. History says we were ruthless, relentless and barbaric. To the unwary, we came out of nowhere. Whole armies massed secretly in the distorted areas, unseen by the local population. It was an era of terror that we waged covertly over the universe and a shame we still carry. The Overseer stopped this. Somehow he changed the surface tension on all of the portals. Nothing but light passed through; they became useless windows. In one fell swoop, he had isolated us. We had no long distance space travel technology as we had never needed to develop it. Our planet was over populated, and resources strained. He gave us an ultimatum, either we sign up and with our knowledge locate these portals throughout the universe and guard them against further abuse or he would cause our extinction.'
'The elders in their vanity would not bow down to an unknown enemy, and millions died as ruthless factions fought amongst each other for the dwindling resources. After 225 years of planet-bound war, they realised no children had been born. We had been sterilised. The last generation to be born were now in charge, and the war machine had fizzled out long ago. The remaining populace had reverted to a simpler way of life. The preservation of life and the recovery of our planet became almost a religion. It was a hybrid of high technology and ecological, environmentally friendly living. On the eve of 250 years, the Overseer spoke again. The message was clear: police the portals for him or die out. The rest is history, as they say, they capitulated, and we have served him ever since. The Overseer returned to us the ability to reproduce and the use of the portals, though he has never allowed any metal to pass through since.'
'Well, that's not what I expected. I don't know what to say.'
'There is nothing to say, but you can see a similarity between our chequered history and how your civilisation's developing. It took a long time for our planet to recover from our greed and negligence.' Reb ushered Sam back around with his arms. 'We try to keep the portals secret to make our life easier. There are only a few races out there that are partially aware of them. For some they are a thing of myth and legend, magic gateways to other worlds, but nothing more.'
Sam subconsciously switched the case to his left arm as he walked back around.
'The process,' swinging his arm at the conveyor, 'should end in a few minutes, then we have a few people to see.'
Born in England and raised in Wales, I started my working life on a farm in the glorious rural Welsh countryside. I retrained to become an IT Consultant and having spent thousands on Microsoft, CompTIA and Cisco qualifications; I also obtained a contract to run and teach at a Cisco Academy in England. After this, I became a small business IT Advisor for WCBC and the Welsh Government. As this funding dried up, I retrained as a Business Advisor and have since helped thousands of people start up their own businesses.
In my leisure time, I work my way through a comprehensive bucket list with my Fiancée, Cath. This has caused us great delight as we have attended various courses and fun days out, such as beekeeping, pottery making, stained glass making, painting course, cooking courses, hawk walks, animal experiences, quad biking, gorge walking and much more. Our favourite one is learning to dance. This activity has remained with us and will hopefully do so for the rest of our lives. We can do a reasonable Waltz, collapse in laughter trying the Viennese Waltz, but it is the 1920's Lindy Hop that we have fallen in love with. After three years of dancing, we still attend regular dance classes and events.
Strangely, for an ex-geek, my favourite gadget is my Italian Marcato pasta machine. I love real, unprocessed food and my freshly made pasta with a home cooked sauce is amazing.
I have always enjoyed reading, and in my early teenage years, I read authors ranging from Harry Harrison to HG Wells. Later in life, I turned to thriller writers such as the 3 C's; Clancy, Cussler and Child. Also, I will always have a Pratchett book on my phone for light reading. His imagination was and always will be, inspiring. I have wanted to write the Mineran Series for several years prior to actually starting and with the encouragement from Cath, who has suffered my many varied, imaginative pranks over the years, I have begun.
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TORONTO — A GIF featuring movie star Ryan Gosling has been quietly removed from a fundraising message Ontario's Progressive Conservatives sent to supporters.
The image used on the party's website showed the Canadian actor saying "don't go." It appeared when recipients clicked "no" to a message asking if they still supported Premier Doug Ford.
The party did not immediately say why it had removed the image used in the message sent last week.
Experts said the GIF could violate copyright law and the actor's likeness rights when used in such a way.
"All you have to do is ask yourself, 'what would Ryan Gosling do?'" said McGill University law professor Allen Mendelsohn. "Ryan Gosling and his representation would presumably not be happy to be used in this manner."
Mendelsohn said use of the image may violate the copyright of the studio that made the film the GIF was taken from and Gosling's own rights to use of his likeness.
The image being a part of a fundraising request could further compound the issue because the use of Gosling's likeness involved raising money, he said.
"Everyone has the rights to their own likeness," Mendelsohn said. "You can't just use somebody's likeness for any sort of purpose in that regard without suffering legal consequences."
Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, said the Tories took a chance using the image during their fundraising efforts.
"There's obviously legal risks when you use those kinds of materials," he said. "If it was just a business that was using the same kind of messaging they would certainly face those kinds of claims."
There are some exceptions in Canadian copyright law and personality rights called "fair dealings." These grant the use of copyrighted material in some instances, like parody or satire, he said.
"It's a hard case to make to say that this isn't a recognizable person that's being used for aspects that certainly have a commercial feel," he said. "Using a personality in that way, a highly recognizable Canadian, doesn't feel right if it's not being done without appropriate permission."
But Osgoode Hall associate law professor Carys Craig said such cases could pose risks for regular internet users. When courts try to prevent a particular use of copyright or likeness, the legal decisions could have unintended consequences for private individuals because of the breadth of the law, she said.
"We encounter GIFs all the time and we use them to communicate with one another," she said. "We should be very loath to create a system where the simple reproduction or posting of a GIF creates potential liability for copyright infringement."


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Q: xslt support in go Dear fellow go enthusiasts,
I would need xslt support in a go program.
As far as I know there will be no xslt library in the the near future
and currently there is no binding to a xslt library in go.
What is the FASTEST library on linux or cross platform to do
1) xslt 1.0 transformation
2) xslt 2.0 transformation

A: I hope the following could be used in a GO program:
XSLT 1.0 on Linux:

*

*Saxon 6.5.5 (Java based and should work on Linux)

*LibXSLT (C-based)

I don't know which one is faster -- one shouldn't make a bold conclusion based just on the fact that one is Java based and the other is C-based.
XSLT 2.0 on Linux:

*

*Saxon 9.2 (again, Java based must work on Linux).

*????

Even if there is another XSLT processor working on Linux, in my experience Saxon 9.x is factors of magnitude faster than any other existing XSLT 2.0 processor. It is also one of the most compliant.


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7 USC 2666: Definitions Text contains those laws in effect on January 16, 2020
From Title 7-AGRICULTURECHAPTER 59-RURAL FIRE PROTECTION, DEVELOPMENT, AND SMALL FARM RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONSUBCHAPTER II-RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL FARM RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
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§2666. Definitions
For the purposes of this subchapter-
(a) "rural development" means the planning, financing, and development of facilities and services in rural areas that contribute to making those areas desirable places in which to live and make private and business investments; the planning, development, and expansion of business and industry in rural areas to provide increased employment and income; the planning, development, conservation, and use of land, water, and other natural resources of rural areas to maintain or improve the quality of the environment for people and business in rural areas; and the building or improvement of institutional, organizational, and leadership capacities of rural citizens and leaders to define and resolve their own community problems;
(b) "State" means the several States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; and
(c) "small farm" means any farm (1) producing family net income from all sources (farm and nonfarm) below the median nonmetropolitan income of the State; (2) operated by a family dependent on farming for a significant though not necessarily a majority of its income; and (3) on which family members provide most of the labor and management.
(Pub. L. 92–419, title V, §506, as added Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, §1444(a), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1326 .)
Prior Provisions
A prior section 2666, Pub. L. 92–419, title V, §506, Aug. 30, 1972, 86 Stat. 674 , related to withholding of funds, the keeping of a separate account in the Treasury, appeal by a State to Congress, covering of moneys into the Treasury, and State money replacement, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97–98, title XIV, §1444(a), Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1326 .
Provisions similar to those comprising this section were contained in former section 2667 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97–98.
Section effective Dec. 22, 1981, see section 1801 of Pub. L. 97–98, set out as a note under section 4301 of this title.


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Tennis elbow is also known as lateral epicondylitis or lateral epicondylosis. It is a cause of pain on the outside of the elbow. Most people who suffer from this condition do not play tennis. The pain is typically worse when combining gripping and twisting such as wringing out cloths, using a screwdriver, twisting off jar lids or pouring a kettle.
People who play racket sports notice that the symptoms are worst when miss-hitting a backhand shot. It can also be painful first thing in the morning or when straightening the elbow after a prolonged period of being bent up, such as after a long phone call.
The diagnosis is usually made clinically on the basis of a characteristic history, as above, followed by examination which reveals point tenderness on the outside of the elbow and pain made worse when the middle finger is held up against resistance.
Sometimes an ultrasound or MRI is required to confirm the diagnosis.
We now understand that this is a self-healing condition for 95% of people over the course of 12 months.
Home exercise programme [success shown in research from Sydney, 2019]. Do the following exercises 3 times per day with 10 reps of each exercise. Start with no weights but increase, as pain permits, in 0.5kg increments up to a maximum of 2.5kg.
We no longer recommend cortisone injections for tennis elbow during the first year because of the issue of rebound pain and because it seems to prolong the natural healing process.
Those people who have persistent symptoms for over a year and who have tried all the above might consider a cortisone injection. When all else fails then an arthroscopic tennis elbow release is successful for 80% of people.
When all else has failed and the symptoms have persisted for more than 12 months then a keyhole (arthroscopic) operation can be a successful last resort.
This is performed as a daycase procedure under a general anaesthetic. After 48 hours the bandages are reduced and you can start to use your arm gently. We recommend avoiding heavy, strenuous or repetitive activities for 6 weeks. However you will be able to drive after 1 week.
Harry talks more about elbow arthroscopy in this video.
Post-operative physiotherapy protocol for arthroscopic tennis elbow release can be found here.
Over the last few years Harry has performed 146 of these operations.


This workout plan will have you leaping and chopping in the gym, adding balance, coordination, and power to typical workout plans, and improving sports performance outside the gym. Do it 3 days a week, with at least 1 day of rest between. Do three sets of each exercise with 1 minute of rest between sets.
This is a multipart sequence that's meant to be executed quickly and powerfully. Stand in a quarter squat, holding a dumbbell at knee level with one hand. With your chest up and your back arched, rise on the balls of your feet as if you were about to jump. Simultaneously shrug the dumbbell upward as you pull it up with your arm. Once the weight is at about chest height, dip under it by bending your knees and hips to "catch" the weight in front of your shoulder. The weight should roll to your fingers, with your wrist bent back and your upper arm parallel to the floor. Lower the weight and repeat for four to six repetitions, then do four to six reps with the weight in your other hand.
Stand in a lunge position with one leg 2 to 3 feet in front of the other, your arms at your sides. Bend at the knees until your back leg almost touches the floor, then swing your arms forward and jump as high as you can. While in the air, switch leg positions so that you land softly with the other leg in front. Repeat for eight to 12 repetitions.
Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and hold a dumbbell with a hand-over-hand grip. Reach across your body so the dumbbell is to the outside of your left calf. Now use your legs and core to swing the weight up over your right shoulder. Return to the starting position and do five to seven repetitions. Then swing the weight over your left shoulder for five to seven more reps.


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Successful Movie Franchises Part 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, the last film in the Harry Potter series opened on July 15, 2011 and made $168.5 million in the U.S. its opening weekend. This film means the end of the Harry Potter movie franchise. The series made over $6 billion worldwide, made stars of Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and it made book series author, J.K. Rowling a very happy (and rich) camper. Not bad for an idea Rowling thought of while riding the train.
Of course, Harry Potter isn't the only movie franchise. There are others, so let's explore the world of movie franchises and let's see what we will find.
"Bond. James Bond." The smoothness. The gadgets. The women. The double entondres. There only one Bond, M6 spy and lady (and bad guy) killer extraordinaire. Actually no, there have been nine actors, Barry Nelson, David Niven, Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Bronson and Daniel Craig, who played James Bond and 22 official Bond films made by Eon Productions. In case you are wondering, they are:
Dr. No (1962-Sean Connery)
From Russia With Love (1963-Sean Connery)
Goldfinger (1964-Sean Connery)
Thunderball (1965-Sean Connery)
You Only Live Twice (1967-Sean Connery)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969-George Lazenby)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971-Sean Connery)
Live and Let Die (1973-Roger Moore)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974-Roger Moore)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977-Roger Moore)
Moonraker (1979-Roger Moore)
For Your Eyes Only (1981-Roger Moore)
Octopussy (1983-Roger Moore)
A View to a Kill (1985-Roger Moore)
The Living Daylights (1987-Timothy Dalton)
Licence to Kill (1989-Timothy Dalton)
GoldenEye (1995-Pierce Brosnan)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997-Pierce Brosnan)
The World is Not Enough (1999-Pierce Brosnan)
Die Another Day (2002-Pierce Brosnan)
Casino Royale (2006-Daniel Craig)
Quantum of Solace (2008-Daniel Craig)
Three films were not made by Eon Productions and they not considered part of the Bond canon. These unofficial films are:
Casino Royale (1954-Barry Nelson)
Casino Royale (1967-David Niven & Peter Sellers)
Never Say Never Again (1983-Sean Connery)
What is it about the Bond movies that keep people coming back for more? Is it the smoothness, the gadgets, the women and the double entondres? I'm sure that's part of it. I say it is the fact that there will always be bad guys, whether communist spies, billionaires obsessed with world domination or other malcontents run amok that need disciplining. So, who's going to take out the garbage?
Love him or hate him, you have to hand it to director and creator George Lucas. He took the ancient story of the vision quest/reluctant hero/redemption of the villain and milked it for all it was worth. How much did the Star Wars films make? How does $4 billion worldwide sound to you? Sounds very good to me and that's just the money made at the box office. That total does not include the books, toys and other items in the Star Wars product universe. So, if you would like to put Star Wars films in your Netflix queue here are the titles:
Star Wars (aka Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) (1977)
Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi (1983)
Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones (2002)
Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Another space opera that did very well for its creator, Gene Roddenbury. Whereas Star Wars is steeped in myth, Star Trek is steeped in science. What started out as a failed television series gained new life in syndication, then in the movies, as resurrected television series, with three spinoffs, and more movies. How many movies? Would you believe 11? Yes, and again, if you want to know what they are:
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (1984)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Star Trek (2009) This is the reboot/prequel directed by J.J. Abrams.
(As Star Wars goes, so does Star Trek.)
What keeps people coming back for Star Trek? For all its science, Star Trek is a message of hope. In the Star Trek universe, the people of Earth got their act together, made peace with each other and endeavor to help others to do the same. Yeah, the Enterprise is armed, but you have to remember that the Federation has its enemies and a starship has to have the ability to defend itself.
The movie that put Pixar on the map and changed the face of animation. The story of the secret life of Andy's toys won the hearts of moviegoers made Steve Jobs, John Lasseter and others at Pixar lots of money. It also lead to other Pixar films such as Finding Nemo, Cars, Monsters—just to name a few. There were three Toy Story films that featured the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Don Rickles. Each film was a critical and commercial success and collectively they made over $883 million in the U.S., alone. Not bad for toys that keep getting misplaced and lost. Thankfully, the folks at Pixar have giving the toys a rest and it looks like there won't be anymore Toy Story films made. Yippee. Someone at a studio knows when to stop. Anyway, the movies are:
Toy Story 2 1999
Wait a minute! You must be saying now. There are more successful movie franchisees that just the ones mentioned here. Well, of course there are. What do you think? That I'm stupid or something? (Don't answer that.) Anyway, a successful movie franchise keeps the audience wanting more. So, in that spirit, I'll ask you to stay tuned for another of my thrilling blog entries where I will dazzle you, the reader, with tales of successful movie franchisees.
Okay, so my blog entries aren't thrilling, but they are good reads.
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http://www.klast.net/bond/filmlist.html
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/50418
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=toystory.htm
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Crown Battery has a reputation for working closely with independent agents, OEM's and equipment operators to ensure that batteries meet and exceed performance expectations. With a proven track record for battery productivity and life, Crown's batteries are the materials handling industry's first and best choice for motive power. GET the MAX!


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