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Q: How to prove $(\hat{X}-\mu)/(\hat{S}/\sqrt{n})$ is student t with $n-1$ degrees of freedom if $X_i$ are iid $N(\mu, \sigma)$? It is commonly stated that if $X_i$ are iid $N(\mu, \sigma)$, then with $\hat{X}$ the sample mean, and $\hat{S}$ the sample error (sample standard deviation), then $\frac{ \hat{X}-\mu}{\hat{S}/\sqrt{n}}$ follows a t distribution with $n-1$ degrees of freedom.
e.g., wikipedia link states it, and another Wikipedia link states it as the natural way a t distribution arises, but nothing proves this fact.
How do we know/prove this?
The definition of a t distributed variable is $\frac{U}{\sqrt{W/(n-1)}}$ with $U$~$N(0,1)$, $W$~$\chi^2(n-1)$.
So we can write   $$\frac{ \hat{X}-\mu}{\hat{S}/\sqrt{n}} = \frac{  \frac{\hat{X}-\mu}{\sigma/\sqrt{n}}}{ \frac{\hat{S}}{\sigma}} = \frac{U}{D}$$.
$U$ is $N(0,1)$ b/c $X_i$ are, meaning $\hat{X}\sim N(\mu, \sigma/\sqrt n)$.
We need to show that the bottom,  $D = \sqrt{W/(n-1)}$ with  $W = \frac{(n-1)S^2}{\sigma^2}  \sim \chi^2(n-1)$. Looking at other post here, it seems the proof is not quite complete, but it gives a good start. Basically, the proof is:
(1.) define auxiliary variable $V=\sum_{i=1}^n(\frac{X_i-\mu}{\sigma})^2$, clearly $\chi^2(n)$.
(2.) Algebra shows that $V= W + Y$, where $W  = \frac{(n-1)\hat{S}^2}{\sigma^2 }$ (quantity of interest) and $ Y = (\frac{n(\bar{X}-\mu)}{\sigma})^2$ which is $\chi^2(1)$.
(3.) Conclude that this implies $W$ is $\chi^2(n-1)$.
So I can follow (1.) and (2.). I do not think (3.) follows directly from (2.) without justification. (e.g., if $W$ and $Y$ were independent, I think the relationship above shows $W$ is $\chi^2(n+1)$!
Overall, how do we prove (3.)?  OR Please provide another proof of this whole thing. I just want to understand this rigorously.

A: For  $\zeta\sim \mathcal N(0,1),~ \chi^2\sim\chi^2_{n},$ both being independent to each other,
\begin{align}\textrm{Fisher's t} := ~ \frac{\zeta}{\sqrt{\frac{\chi^2}n}}\sim t_n.\tag I\end{align}
Now take $\zeta:= \frac{\bar x-\mu}{\sigma/\sqrt n}\sim \mathcal N(0, 1), \chi^2 :=\frac{\sum(x_i-\bar x) ^2}{\sigma^2}=\frac{ns^2}{\sigma^2}\sim \chi^2_{n-1},$ both being independent (to be proved)
\begin{align}
\text{Student's t}&:= \frac{\sqrt n (\bar x-\mu)}{\sigma}\times \frac\sigma{\sqrt{\sum(x_i-\bar x) ^2/(n-1)}}\\&= \frac{\bar x-\mu}{S/\sqrt n} \sim t_{n-1}.\tag{II}
\end{align}

Fisher's lemma: If $X_i\mapsto Y_i$ via an orthogonal linear transformation, where $X_i, ~i\in\{1, 2,\ldots, n\}$ are independent $\mathcal N(0, \sigma^2), $ then $Y_i\sim \mathcal N(0, \sigma^2)$ and independent.
The proof is easy. Let $\mathbf A$ be the matrix corresponding to the transformation i.e. $\bf Y = AX; $ since $\bf A$ is orthogonal, $\bf Y^\mathsf TY = X^\mathsf TX$ and $\bf A^\mathsf TA= I. $ Now one can evaluate the joint density of $Y_i$ using the relation stated; the jacobian would yield $1$ and the rest would follow.

Now, take $\bf A$ such that
$$a_{11} = a_{12} =\ldots= a_{1n}= \frac1{\sqrt n}; $$ this would imply $$y_1 = \sqrt n \bar x. $$
Now, as the transformation is orthogonal,
\begin{align}
\sum y_i^2 &= \sum x_i^2\\ &= \sum (x_i-\bar x) ^2 +\underbrace{ n\bar x^2}_{=y_1^2}\\\implies \sum_{i= 2}^n y_i^2 &= \sum_{i=1}^n (x_i -\bar x) ^2;
\end{align}
moreover
$$\sum_{i=1}^n (x_i -\mu) ^2= \sum_{i= 2}^n y_i^2 + n(\bar x - \mu)^2.$$
Therefore, following Fisher's lemma and the results found,
\begin{align}\mathrm dG(y_1, y_2, \ldots,,y_n) &=
\frac1{\sigma^n(2\pi)^{n/2} }\exp\left [-\frac1{2\sigma^2}\left\{  \sum_{i= 2}^n y_i^2 + n(\bar x - \mu)^2 \right\}\right]|\mathcal J|\prod \mathrm dy_i\\ &= \left[\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}(\sigma/\sqrt n) }\exp\left\{-\frac{ n}{2\sigma^2}(\bar x -\mu)^2\right\}~\mathrm d\bar x\right]\times \left[\frac{1}{\left(\sigma{\sqrt {2\pi}}\right)^{n-1} }\exp\left\{-\sum_{i=2}^n\frac{ y_i^2}{2\sigma^2}\right\}~\prod \mathrm dy_i\right];
\end{align}
proving the independence of $\bar X$ and $\sum_{i=2}^n Y_i^2 = ns^2.$
Now, since $Y_i \sim \mathcal N(0, \sigma^2), ~i\in\{2, 3,\ldots, n\}, $
$$ \sum_{i=2}^n \frac{Y_i^2}{\sigma^2} = \sum_{i=1}^n \left(\frac{X_i -\bar X}{\sigma}\right)^2\sim \chi^2_{n-1}.$$

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Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics, S. C. Gupta, V. K. Kapoor, Sultan Chand & Sons, 2014.


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Тукуманасо () — волнения, происходившие 10—14 ноября 1970 года в Сан-Мигеле-де-Тукуман (административном центре аргентинской провинции Тукуман). Стали частью в цепи аналогичных социальных протестов и восстаний (коррентинасо, росариасо, кордобасо и др.) против сменявших друг друга диктаторских режимов в стране.

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События начались с того, что студенты, протестующие против закрытия столовой, находившейся напротив Нормальной школы, организовали походную кухню перед входом в неё.

10 ноября 1970 года, когда на кухне собралось около 1000 обедавших студентов, прибыла полиция и начала применять силу для разгона собравшихся. К столкновениям полиции со студентами, на стороне последних, вскоре присоединились члены профсоюзов и другие горожане, после чего волнения охватили весь город.

В течение четырёх дней город находился в руках восставших, которые были подавлены только совместными действиями полиции и армии 14 ноября. Подавлением волнений руководил Хорхе Рафаэль Видела, который спустя шесть лет в результате военного переворота стал диктатором страны.

См. также
 Боготасо
 Каракасо

Литература
 Emilio Crenzel. El Tucumanazo (1969—1974). Buenos Aires: CEAL. 1991

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 El Tucumanazo, El documental

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The abduction of seven Indian engineers working in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province on Sunday, once again underscores President Ashraf Ghani's fragile hold on the country. After 17-years of effort by the international community, led by the US and its NATO allies, there is not much change on the ground. There is no security for either ordinary Afghans or foreigners working in the war ravaged nation.
In 2001, when the Taliban was thrown out by the US troops, the aim was to rid Afghanistan of fundamentalist forces and build up the Afghan National Defense and Security forces (ANDSF) to eventually take charge once the foreign troops left. However since the majority of US forces as well as NATO soldiers withdrew from Afghanistan in 2014, matters have gone from bad to worse. The Ashraf Ghani government controls just about 50 per cent of the country. Some say it is even less. In the last few years there has also been large scale desertion from the security forces. The rest is controlled either by the Taliban or different warlords. What is worse is that ISIS fighters, having lost territory in Syria and Iraq have been gradually moving to Afghanistan, where several radical groups have taken up residence, considering Kabul's control is the outlaying provinces are quite tenuous.
So far there is little news of what happened to the seven Indian nationals. Why were they kidnapped and by whom? Considering that abduction for ransom is common in Afghanistan, it could be the work of any of the several criminal gangs who live by extortion. Or it could be the Taliban as some Afghan officials are saying.
The Taliban, mainly the Haqqani network within the outfit, had in the past targeted Indian interests in Afghanistan. In 2008, a car bomb rammed into the Indian embassy in Kabul, killing the defence attaché and a young foreign service officer. Besides the Indians, 58 others were killed and over a hundred wounded. Soon afterwards Afghanistan declared that the Haqqani network was behind the suicide attacks. Later Western intelligence confirmed this. During that period there were several attacks on Indians and those working on the strategic Delaram-Zaranj highway, which was to link Afghanistan to Iran and thereby facilitate trade through the Chabahar Port in Iran, were often attacked. As Indian goods are not allowed to pass through Pakistan, Delhi felt this was a suitable way to circumvent Pakistan. Goods would be shipped to Iran's Chabahar port and taken by road to Afghanistan.
The strikes were an effort to intimidate and frighten India out of doing development work in Afghanistan. Pakistan is alleged to have used its excellent ties with the Haqqani network to target Indian assets in the country. Pakistan's deep state, which had pushed for strategic depth in Afghanistan, was upset at India's close political links with the Afghan government.
The feeling was that Indians were spread out in what was virtually its backyard. The next year again the embassy was attacked but there were no Indian casualties. India not only had an embassy in Kabul, but had opened consulates in Herat, Kandahar, Mazer-e-Sharif and Jalalabad. Islamabad accused India of using its consulates in Afghanistan of working against Pakistan and funding and arming Baloch rebels in its restive Balochistan province. Indian consulate in Herat was attacked in 2014, in 2010, two guest houses were attacked in Kabul where among those killed were nine Indians, including a young doctor, an engineer, a member of the Indo-Tibetan Police Force, a tabla player a teacher and a official of the consulate in Kandahar. The consulates were also under attack several times but without success. But in the last few years the attacks on Indian interests had subsided considerably.
There have been abductions of Indians before this also. An Indian aide worker, Judith D'souza was kidnapped in Kabul in 2016. A month afterwards she was rescued. In 2014, Catholic priest Father Prem Kumar was kidnapped in Herat but released the next year. Hopefully this time round, the seven Indian engineers would be rescued.
The ministry of external affairs is not saying much, considering the sensitivity of the issue as an all out effort is on to get the men back home safely. The engineers were working for a power company belonging to the RPG group, and were on their way to inspect a sub-station, when they were abducted by armed men. India is getting full cooperation from the Afghan authorities. Kabul is pointing a finger at the Taliban. But the Taliban has denied the responsibility.
There is some speculation here that the latest abductions could be related to the recent buzz that India and China would do joint projects in Afghanistan. After the informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Wuhan late last month, there was talk of collaboration in Afghanistan. This certainly won't be music to Pakistani ears. The Pakistanis have never hidden their opposition to Indian presence in Afghanistan and now with news of China and India working together in its backyard, will certainly not be welcome.
There is a view in Delhi, that a section of Pakistan's deep state may have signaled to the Taliban to once again target Indian assets. However there is no evidence to prove this.
There is some loose talk in Delhi of Pakistan's spy agency, the ISI, taking preventive action against further expansion of Indian footprint, by asking the Haqqani squad in Afghanistan to begin a fresh round of assaults on Indian interest. All this is at the moment nothing more than speculation. One can only wait and watch.
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Planned versus unregulated development in a suburban community
John C. Frey
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...And sometimes this happens when the various series get reprinted in order. Stan was so excited by the mix that he shouted, "Who says this isn't the Marvel Age of Super-Villains?" on the cover. And it is a pretty entertaining group. As the cover blurbs tell us, "Sparks fly when Spidey meets Electro, one of the most super-charged Marvel baddies of all time!" (From ASM #9) "A universe trembles when the Mighty Thor faces the fury of a vengeful Loki!" (From Journey into Mystery #88) "And who but Lee and Kirby would dare pit Torchy against a foe named Paste-Pot Pete?" (From Strange Tales #104). Of course, the subsequent Ant-Man story would have spoiled the theme so Stan conveniently leaves it out. ("Prisoner of the Slave World" from Tales to Astonish #41, March 1963 featured some alien tyrant named Kulla and, as far as I know, was not reprinted until the recent Essential Ant-Man trade paperback.) Actually, that's the end of Ant-Man in these pages (although Giant-Man appears in Marvel Tales #13, March 1968). Solo tales of the Wasp replace his feature and this change allows Stan to exclaim "Block-Busting Bonus! A fabulous, far-out featurette starring that darling of the Avengers, the wonderful Wasp!" without mentioning that her story doesn't have an interesting super-villain in it either.
You all know the drill. The cover features miniature versions of the original covers (with the Wasp popping through her cover since her story wasn't featured on it). The frontispiece has greytone panels from the stories themselves accompanied by the title of the tale. Spidey's panel is from page 20 panel 2 of his story and it's turned upside-down so that the wall-crawler is rightside-up. Torchy's panel is from page 11 panel 4 of his story, Wasp's is from page 6 panel 5 of her story and Thor's is from page 6 panel 5 of his. (Two in a row from page 6 panel 5. What are the odds?) Stan has slapped this blurb on: "Never before has merry Marvel managed to assemble so much mind-staggering excitement in one... count it... one incredible issue! No bibliophile's bookshelf should be without this cosmic collection of classy comic classics!" and it is signed, "Absolutely solicited statement by the batty bullpen!" You think maybe Stan is pushing this one too hard? It's only Marvel Tales #6, for crying out loud!
The Man Called Electro! from Amazing Spider-Man #9, February 1964. You know this drill, too. I reviewed it before. The reprint has no significant changes (although, admittedly, this time I didn't even bother to check). And I'm sticking with my rating, which was 4 webs.
The Human Torch meets Paste-Pot Pete! from Strange Tales #104, January 1963 introduces the villain who later becomes the Trapster. Who, looking at this first story with Pete in his camouflage fatigues, oversized beret and bucket overflowing with paste, would ever have imagined that he'd be used as often as he has over the subsequent forty-plus years? Of course, his name change and costume change might have contributed to that success.
As the story begins, Johnny Storm is hanging out at the Glenville bank, putting a little money in his "small savings account". He tells himself to be careful since he has a secret identity in town and he "absent-mindedly almost wrote 'Human Torch' on the deposit slip". That happens to all of us, doesn't it? Just then Paste Pot Pete barges in. He uses his paste gun to glue one teller to the wall and pastes the guard's gun in his holster. Since Johnny doesn't want to blow his secret identity, he shoots a thin stream of flame from his finger that is unnoticed until he somehow expands it far away from him in the shape of the Human Torch. It pursues Pete as he runs out of the bank with the loot. Unfortunately, although it appears that Johnny can do anything with his flame, he can't get the fake Torch to capture Pete so it just follows him (also a neat treat seeing as Johnny probably can't see what's going on outside of the bank). The people of Glenville decide the Torch is afraid of Pete since he isn't grabbing him. A few bystanders decide to tackle Pete themselves but he glues their feet to the ground. When the police show up, he glues their squad car doors shut so they can't get out. Pete gets on a motorcycle and rides off with the fake Torch still following him, flying up above.
Now, here's the thing. Johnny slips away from the bank and "flames on" in an alley. Then he uses the heat waves given off by his phony double to follow along. This must mean that the fake Torch is capable of following Pete on its own since even its creator doesn't know where it's going without following the heat waves. And if it's sophisticated enough to follow Pete, why isn't it sophisticated enough to nab him?
The Torch traces the heat waves out of town and finds Pete's abandoned motorcycle. He deduces that Pete had "another means of transportation" to which he's switched. And sure enough, Pete (who is on a real crime spree) is now driving an 18-wheeler. He pulls up to a "nearby missile base" and glues one security guard's arms to his sides and glues the other's feet to the ground. Then he glues their mouths shut so they can't call for help. (I sure hope neither one of those guys has sinus congestion.) Now this base just happens to be on the verge of launching the new delta-cosmic missile, which is "the most powerful rocket invented and yet it's no larger than a man". Pete plans to "either sell it back to this government or to some other" depending on which offers him more. He pulls his semi-truck right up to the missile without any trouble. The top of the truck opens and a giant paste gun pops out. Pete fires it at the missile and snags it. The paste hardens into a pole that stretches from the gun to the missile and Pete drives off, towing the rocket behind him.
Johnny figures he's doomed. "This is a non-stop ride until the I.C.B.M. blasts into the sea!" he says. (I.C.B.M. stands for "Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile" for those who didn't live through the sixties.) But then the heat from the missile revives his powers. Which means Johnny can "flame on" but, if he does, his heat will trigger the warhead. Thinking fast, Johnny ignites one finger (his left forefinger to be specific), shoots out a tiny fireball and carefully burns off the paste without touching the missile. The missile is heading down to the sea by the time Johnny gets all of the paste off. He leaps clear, flames on, and flies away as the missile explodes behind him. (And that missile wasn't kidding around. A big mushroom cloud appears from the sea behind Johnny.) Returning to the scene, the Torch does what he should have done to begin with; he tosses a "deadly barrage of fireballs" at Pete's truck, melting the hood, the front tires, and the engine; forcing Pete to bail out. When Pete positions himself to shoot more paste, the Torch throws a fireball that melts the paste-pot. Johnny then surrounds Pete with flame. Without the pot to supply his ammunition, Pete has enough paste for only one shot. Instead of attacking the Torch, Pete uses that one shot to snag a plane that is taking off. (That's some final shot of paste.) The paste hardens and Pete hangs on, getting pulled into the sky by the plane without yanking his shoulders out of their sockets. Conveniently for Pete, Johnny's flame is too weak for him to follow. Instead he runs to the control tower to radio the pilot to return to the base. (He stays flamed on while running, which has got to waste even more of his flame.) By the time the pilot gets the word, he is over the ocean. Pete has a boat waiting for him out at sea in case things go wrong and he has to leave the country (but how was he going to get to it if the plane didn't happen to pass by?) Seeing it, he lets go, dives into the drink, and swims to his boat where he escapes. However, Pete's plans have all met with failure. The Delta missile is recovered and the bank loot is found under the seat of the truck. Someone off-panel tells Johnny, "you sure stopped the paste-pot thief! I'll bet he won't dare to show up again!" "Won't he?" says Johnny, "I wonder!!" and he creates a big question mark in the sky out of flame to emphasize his point.
Stan tacks a new caption at the end, reading, "But, as all Marvel completists know, Paste-Pot Pete later tangled with our flaming friend one time too many! (Who says this isn't the Marvel Age of Happy Endings?)" Now, what does this mean? I'm not sure. Pete, calling himself the Trapster, was defeated along with the rest of the Frightful Four by the Fantastic Four in FF #43, October 1965 and was last seen at the time of this Marvel Tales in prison with the Sandman in FF #45, December 1965 but why this is tangling with the Torch "one time too many" is beyond me. And I don't even want to try to guess why that makes this part of "the Marvel Age of Happy Endings". Could it be that Stan decided several years too late that Pete's crimes in this story were too heinous to allow him to escape and is trying to assure us that crime doesn't pay? Anyway, Pete's original appearance must have been a success since he appears again (teamed up with the Wizard) in Strange Tales #110, July 1963; an issue better known as the first appearance of Dr. Strange.
This story is completely nuts, of course. A guy with a glue gun and dressed in a camouflage coverall and beret robs banks, steals missiles, attaches the Torch to a nuclear warhead, terrorizes the military, and gets away at the end. It's hard to take this story seriously even in the context of the goofy early 60s storylines. The Torch does everything wrong, his flame cuts out at all the worst times, all to ensure that he doesn't catch this stiff in the first page of the story. It's maddening, it's dumb, it's illogical, but it's also a hell of a lot of fun. And that Kirby-Ayers artwork propels it along like a runaway train. Check out the scenes of Pete fleeing on his motorcycle with the phony Torch following, of the truck avoiding the flame spears, of Johnny trapped on the missile, of Pete escaping on the plane. You can almost feel the wind in your face from the motion. Even with Stan's dopey "Happy Endings" blurb gumming things up (the original said, "Don't miss the further adventures of the Human Torch in the fabulous Fantastic Four magazine on sale everywhere! And, of course, in the next surprise-filled issue of Stranges Tales!) I have to give this story four webs.
A Voice in the Dark! is the first solo story of the Wasp after she spent the six previous issues telling fantasy stories. It first appeared in Tales to Astonish #57, July 1964 in which the lead story featured Giant- Man and the Wasp tackling Spider-Man. Since I ignored this story in my Lookback of that issue way back when, this is a perfect opportunity to fill in the gap.
Those six previous stories were all told by the Wasp in one sitting at the state orphanage, apparently. Now she has to rush off to a dinner date with Hank Pym. On her way, she walks by a man bundled up in a coat and carrying a valise who lifts a manhole cover in the street, climbs down into the manhole, and replaces the cover behind him. She doesn't think too much about it until she rounds the corner and finds that the door of a "jewelry store has been forced open and the burglar alarm wires are cut". Shrinking to wasp size, she follows the man by flying through one of the holes in the cover. She quickly finds her man but the "dense choking air in the tunnel" makes her feel dizzy. She picks up a stray pin and tries to stab the man in the hand but misses, stabbing the valise handle instead. About to pass out, the Wasp tries to tie the man's shoelaces together but the man takes a step before she can do it and knocks her off-balance. She follows him through a door into an "abandoned subway control room" where he stashes the jewels. The Wasp exits by flying under the door and tries to lock him in but the thick air has made her too weak and she can't turn the key. As the man leaves, the Wasp tries one last trick. She picks up a small scrap of paper, rolls it into a megaphone, and speaks through it, amplifying her voice. "Don't move, chum!" she says, "This is Sue Storm, the Invisible Girl speaking, telling you to give yourself up!" Since he can't see anyone, the thief believes the voice. When the Wasp tells him she has summoned the rest of the Fantastic Four, the thief is so rattled that he grabs the valise, returns to the street, hands it over to a cop and says, "I committed a robbery tonight! Here's the loot! Book me!"
When the Wasp finally hooks up with Hank, he gives her the business for being late. She explains that she stopped to capture a jewel thief but Hank doesn't buy it. "I heard about that capture over the radio and it was the Invisible Girl who pulled it off!" he says. She explains that she pretended to be the Invisible Girl. Hank doesn't believe her. When she tells him she's ready for dinner Hank says, "Dinner?... It wasn't me you had a date with! It was really Mr. Fantastic pretending to be me!" And he walks off without going out to dinner. This should have tipped the Wasp off that Hank is a domineering jerk that she should have immediately dumped but instead she puts her hands to her face and thinks, "I always knew there'd be days like this! I wonder where a gal can sell a second-hand Wasp costume real cheap?"
It's not going to win any prizes but this is a cute little story with some nice artwork by Chic Stone and an amusing twist. Yeah, the whole "air is so thick I'm going to pass out" bit is lame and Stan has to put an editor's note at the start saying that the story takes place before the Wasp received her wasp's sting in order to explain why she doesn't just zap the thief but I'm willing to overlook all that and give it three webs.
Disguised as an old man, Loki goes to Dr. Blake's office and hypnotizes nurse Jane Foster before revealing himself to Don. Calling himself "the God of Mischief" at this point (not having graduated yet to "the God of Evil") Loki stands by while Don transforms into Thor. Then he challenges his brother to a fight, threatening "such havoc throughout this puny world" if Thor refuses. The meeting is set for "Center Park" (not Central Park) in one hour. Thor, as Blake, leaves his office with the hypnotized Jane following soon after.
At the park, Thor predictably begins the fight by throwing his hammer. (And look how long the handle is on it. Thor must have sawed some of that off later on.) Loki, expecting this, sidesteps it. Just then, Jane arrives, obeying Loki's instructions. Loki transforms a tree into a tiger and gives Thor a choice: either save Jane from the tiger or grab his returning hammer. Thor opts for saving Jane and then apparently needs a full minute to subdue the tiger (actually he says he's "slain the tiger" which seems a bit harsh except that it wasn't a tiger at all but a tree) because he turns back to Don Blake before he can get back to his hammer. Loki creates a "magical force field" around the hammer, preventing Don from reaching it. He gloats over defeating Thor but doesn't kill him (since he is only the God of Mischief at this point instead of Evil, I guess). Instead he turns into a bird and flies off, proclaiming, "And now, to celebrate my conquest, I shall have sport with your helpless planet!" Not knowing what else to do, Don goes to Jane Foster who has conveniently fainted before seeing him transform from Thor and helps her home.
The world starts to catch on that Loki is behind all of this mischief. Even though they believe "he's just an ancient myth" and "doesn't really exist" they send the military out against him anyway. When a troop of soldiers prepares to fire on him, Loki magically attaches wings to their guns and all of the firearms fly away. It's all looking pretty bleak but then Don Blake gets an idea. Putting his plan into effect, he somehow gets a local newspaper to publish an extra announcing "Thor vows to defeat Loki before end of week". (Did he get on the phone and disguise his voice? And the paper just believed he was Thor?) Loki overhears the newsboy and rushes to the park to see if the hammer is still under the force field. Now here's where the writer (Larry Leiber in this case although the plot is from Stan) starts to cheat. While we could clearly see the hammer under the force field before, now the force field obscures the hammer so we can't see if it's still under there or not. Even Loki can't tell, though you'd think he could magically change the force field so he could see through it. But no, he panics. He sees Thor standing near the force field, holding the hammer and Thor even speaks to him but you'd think he would wait for a moment or two to see if Thor actually moves or anything like that. No, he removes the force field to see if the hammer is gone. It isn't but as soon as the force field is removed, Don Blake runs out from behind "Thor" who was "only a plastic dummy" and grabs the hammer. (And I guess Don can do Thor's voice pretty well since he fooled Loki into believing the plastic dummy was talking.) Anyway, Thor appears as soon as Don touches the hammer (note, too, that the hammer did not change back into the walking stick while under the force field) and Loki transforms himself into a pigeon in order to escape. There are so many pigeons around that Thor can't tell which one is Loki. If you thought things were loopy before, check this out. Thor runs across the park to the peanut vender. He buys a bag of peanuts and throws them at the pigeons. (Forget about where he keeps his money. I wonder why Loki didn't escape while Thor was buying the peanuts.) All of the real pigeons gather around the peanuts but Loki tries to fly off so Thor knows which pigeon he is. Loki soars away, flying over a tennis court. Thor grabs the net right in the middle of a match ("Sorry, gentlemen! But right now I need this net more than you do!"), uses his hammer to fly up to Loki and snags him in the net. Caught, Loki returns to his normal form where the local human bystanders all laugh at him. This time Thor takes Loki back to Asgard personally. Odin is happy to see Thor return Loki but he gets all wishy-washy about what to do next. "But, as for Loki" he says, "I know not what to do with him! He grows more wily, more dangerous, more uncontrollable each hour! We must pray that the world will never see the day when his power exceeds that of the Mighty Thor!" And with that, Stan adds a new tagline: "So say we all! And thou, O reader, miss not the next inevitable issue in this, the Marvel Age of Colossal Classics!!"
You know how I feel about Kirby/Ayers artwork so you know how much I like the drawings of Asgard, Loki leering, the blank people, and the ice cream cars in this story. I also like the idea of Loki preventing Thor from reaching his hammer. But Don Blake's cheap trick to get Loki to remove the force field is not only disappointing, it's an out-and-out cheat. I'm not too fond of the Loki- snake sneaking between Heimdall's legs or Thor buying peanuts for the pigeons either. And did Thor really have to slay that tiger? Two webs.
The Bullpen Bulletins page has a different illustration of Spidey than the one in ASM #44, January 1967 and the M.M.M.S. members are different, of course, but it's enough that I list all the members that appear in ASM. I'm not going to do Marvel Tales as well. So, let's total up our webs and get outta here.
Now let's total up those webs and get outta here.
Thirteen webs, divided by four, comes to three and a quarter webs. I think I'm going to round down to three webs rather than round up to three and a half. Why? I don't know. Maybe the series has already lost its novelty.
Next: Back to the Lizard!


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When the Prescription Is a Recipe
Dr. Nimali Fernando opened Yum Pediatrics in Spotsylvania, Va., where she can give patients hands-on lessons on nutrition.Credit...Julia Rendleman for The New York Times
By Donna De La Cruz
The doctor's office is moving into the kitchen.
After years of telling patients to skip junk food and prepare homemade meals, a growing number of doctors and medical groups are now going a step further and teaching them how to cook. Some are building teaching kitchens or creating food pantries right next to their practices. Others are prescribing culinary education programs in hopes of improving their patients' nutrition and overall health. Some medical schools have even introduced culinary curriculums to train more doctors to talk to patients about food.
Dr. Nimali Fernando, a pediatrician in Spotsylvania, Va., noticed that many of her patients' concerns could be traced to poor diet — even problems that may not seem connected, like bed-wetting. She started a food blog, and soon began offering cooking classes out of a church basement kitchen. In 2014 she opened Yum Pediatrics, a nutrition-based pediatrics practice that included a 600-square-foot teaching kitchen. She also created the Dr. Yum Project, a nonprofit with a preschool nutrition curriculum now taught in several Virginia schools.
"I needed to do more than just give patients a pamphlet. I had to have a kitchen in my office," Dr. Fernando said. "I try to give a lot of prescriptions that are just recipes to see if we can fix an issue with food."
Dr. Fernando said she has learned that poor food choices can be the root of many seemingly unrelated issues.
"Sometimes parents say their kids have symptoms of anxiety and are wetting the bed and they feel their child needs to see a counselor or needs medication," Dr. Fernando said. But when she asks about diet, it may be that the child is not eating enough fiber, which leads to constipation. And constipation, in turn, can aggravate the bladder, causing bed-wetting. "That's when you can connect the dots and see how food is often intertwined in their symptoms."
A perk of having a kitchen right next to her office, Dr. Fernando said, is that she can take patients right in and demonstrate something she wants them to try, such as how to grind flaxseed. That costs the patients nothing. But patients pay out-of-pocket for cooking classes, which vary in cost depending on the length. For example, a five-day "food adventure" camp for 7- to 12-year-olds costs $125. A popular class on how to make nutritious baby food costs $17.50.
Claudia Castro of Stafford, Va., and her daughter Michelle, 14, began taking lessons in Dr. Fernando's kitchen after a blood test showed that Michelle was prediabetic.
One of the first recipes Michelle and her mother learned to make in Dr. Fernando's kitchen was for bean burgers.
"Dr. Fernando took the time to tell us and then show us how to make the food she wants Michelle to eat to be healthy," Mrs. Castro said. "We also now drink almond milk, we have vegetables and salads, very little red meat. Even when we eat out, we eat healthier."
Michelle lost 10 pounds in a month and is down one dress size.
At the Children's Hospital of San Antonio, the Culinary Health Education for Families, or CHEF, program teaches parents and children how to shop, prep and make nutritious meals. Patients must be referred to the program by their doctors, but satellite programs at places like the YMCA are open to the community.
Dharti Patel enrolled her 10-year-old son, Rishi, in the program.
"Most doctors would just hand me some paperwork with advice on what to eat and what not to eat," Mrs. Patel said. "They would tell me to just follow what's on the chart. But it did not help."
In the CHEF program, her son learned how to cut up vegetables and fruit and how to make simple chicken and fish dishes, salads with homemade dressing, tostadas and yogurt parfaits for dessert.
Ms. Patel said her son now reads nutrition labels when they shop at the supermarket. "Whenever Rishi eats, now he looks for how many colors we added to the plate," she said. "Now he wants to help us at home when we cook. He was surprised that he liked vegetables after all."
Dr. Julie La Barba, CHEF's medical director and also a pediatrician, said the program was formed out of the concept that "food could be seen as medicine," especially in children.
Despite success stories like these, many doctors don't focus on nutrition when they see patients. Only 27 percent of medical schools in the United States offer students the recommended 25 hours of nutritional training, according to the medical journal Academic Medicine. And in a recent study in the American Journal of Medicine involving 930 cardiologists, less than a third described their nutrition knowledge as "mostly up-to-date" or better.
Dr. Timothy Harlan, executive director of the Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine at Tulane University, hopes that future doctors see the benefits of adding nutritional education to their treatment arsenal. The center's curriculum has been licensed and is being used at 28 other medical schools.
"What we teach here is how to have a discussion with one's patient about food that can have a substantive impact," Dr. Harlan said. "Physicians will tell you that they have never gotten enough nutrition education. So we sometimes feel underprepared when it comes to nutrition."
Dr. David M. Eisenberg, director of culinary nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, helped start a medical course called "Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives" to teach doctors to cook. More than 6,000 health professionals have taken the course, which bridges nutrition science, health care and the culinary arts, he said.
Rishi Patel, 10, in the CHEF kitchen in San Antonio, Tex., with a plate of fish and a spinach and strawberry salad.Credit...Dharti Patel
"I would love for teaching kitchens to become as commonplace as gyms, and for access to them to be part of our organized health system," Dr. Eisenberg said.
In 2014, Harvard's Chan School and the Culinary Institute of America formed the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, which now has 32 members, including universities, hospitals and companies like Google.
Allison Righter, the coordinator of the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, said it was formed to bring teaching kitchens across varying organizations together to learn about one another's facilities and programs and share best practices.
Boston Medical Center, a member of the collaborative, has a "preventive food pantry," the first of its kind when it opened in 2001. Doctors can write "prescriptions" for patients to visit the pantry, which gives them access to healthful food and addresses issues of nutrition-related illness. It also allows low-income patients access to healthy food.
"There are a lot of conflicting impulses out there regarding food," said Dr. Christine Pace, an internist at Boston Medical Center. "We live in a culture that has access to incredibly unhealthy food for very little money."
Doctors are on the front lines when it comes to helping patients change their eating habits, and they should take advantage of that at all levels of medical care, said Dr. Warren Ross, whose primary care practice in Ellicott City, Md., also has a teaching kitchen.
"One would hope that on any medical visit, a doctor would look for an opportunity to see what people are doing around their diet and whether they want additional support in making dietary changes," Dr. Ross said.
For patients with diagnoses like diabetes or hypertension, a cooking class is billed as an intermediate office visit. Nonpatients can take a class for $60.
Dr. John La Puma, who in 2003 taught one of the first classes on culinary medicine at a medical school, now runs Chef Clinic in Santa Barbara, Calif., to prevent and treat obesity and promote wellness.
"I see patients who want to use lifestyle measures to control and treat chronic conditions: obesity, heart disease and high cholesterol. I see people who generally have seen everybody else and are persuaded and motivated that lifestyle — especially nutrition — has a great deal to do with their well-being," he said.


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German photographer Judith Stenneken has won first prize in the 2010 Photography Book Now competition, worth $25,000. The competition is run by the online publisher Blurb.com.
Stenneken's book is a melancholy exploration of Templehof airport in Berlin, which is closing down. Templehof was Berlin's main airport for many years and has great historic value. It was built on Hitler's orders in 1936 and was one of the largest architectural structures in the world. It was the focus of the Berlin Air Lift in 1948.
This is a fine book, going by the images online at Blurb. It is a good match for the two previous winners, Beth Dow's 2008 In the Garden, and Rafal Milach's 2009 book Black Sea of Concrete. You can go online to either of the above book sites and scroll through them and purchase them if you want.
Sherry glasses hanging by thread. A spotlight casts their shadows onto the wall behind. Each glass casts a shadow of its form, like a negative. Each shadow sparkles from within: the refracted light from the lens of the glass stem. These are the elements of Susan Fereday's Grail, part of her PhD exhibition, Light Out of Darkness, at Monash University in late 2009.
The exhibition explored two of the foundation artefacts of photography, Joseph Niepce's Point de Vue de Gras of 1826 and Henry Fox Talbot's Latticed Window of 1835. These were probably the first photographs ever made, photo-chemical experiments that initiated the revolutionary new medium. They are mythical objects.
In Grail, the pattern of Talbot's window is suggested in the arrangement of sherry glasses, an emblem of the Victorian social sensibilities which he embodied. Photography is founded on the transparent medium of glass in the lens which lets light into the camera and focuses it on the film. It is a sort of window. At the back of a camera, the image is composed on another piece of glass, the viewfinder – another sort of window. Thus the notions of windows and transparency are the essence of photography. But a window is also a barrier, and it is a framing device, and it has its own materiality. And so, by analogy, is photography itself: a medium that promises transparency ("the camera never lies") but brings its own kinds of deceits and obfuscations.
Talbot's invention is founded on a paradox. When his camera captured light it turned it into darkness. The silver nitrate in his film blackened upon exposure to light: day became night, white became black – it is a negative of reality. The process has to be repeated to turn the world back again and make it positive. There is a Manichean element to photography that troubled some god-fearing people in the early years. Fereday's sherry glasses enact this light-in-darkness scenario, casting shadows of their form but focussing highlights within them.
Fereday's Wail, which accompanied Grail, is a screen of small paper balls, hanging in a pattern that also resembles Talbot's Latticed Window. The screen is lit by a spotlight which projects its shadow onto the wall behind. This time the objects are opaque, the pattern of the window can be made out in the dyed paper but the shadow behind is just rows of dots, like code. The image of the window is the negative version, where the clear glass and sky is represented in solid black. The paper balls are doubly opaque because they are the shredded remnants of Fereday's client notes, gathered in her work as a counsellor. They presumably contain the records of shared secrets, but give nothing away even under the spotlight.
Manhattan is often depicted as brash and corporate, a city of gleaming new skyscrapers. In reality it's an old city, saturated with time and history. Architecturally it's a laboratory where all styles jostle for attention. In Park Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas, you'll find the shiniest, gleamingest International Style/Late Modern towers at their totalitarian best. The most famous of them, the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in Lower Manhattan, went down on this day nine years ago.


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Twitter changes its hacked materials policy in wake of New York Post controversy
Twitter has announced an update to its hacked materials policy — saying it will no longer remove hacked content unless it's directly shared by hackers or those "acting in concert with them".
Instead of blocking such content/links from being shared on its service it says it will label tweets to "provide context".
Wider Twitter rules against posting private information, synthetic and manipulated media, and non-consensual nudity all still apply — so it could still, for example, remove links to hacked material if the content being linked to violates other policies. But just tweeting a link to hacked materials isn't an automatic takedown anymore.
Over the last 24 hours, we've received significant feedback (from critical to supportive) about how we enforced our Hacked Materials Policy yesterday. After reflecting on this feedback, we have decided to make changes to the policy and how we enforce it.
— Vijaya Gadde (@vijaya) October 16, 2020
The move comes hard on the heels of the company's decision to restrict sharing of a New York Post article this week — which reported on claims that laptop hardware left at a repair shop contained emails and other data belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden.
The decision by Twitter to restrict sharing of the Post article attracted vicious criticism from high profile Republican voices — with the likes of senator Josh Hawley tweeting that the company is "now censoring journalists".
Twitter's hacked materials policy do explicitly allow "reporting on a hack, or sharing press coverage of hacking" but the company subsequently clarified that it had acted because the Post article contained "personal and private information — like email addresses and phone numbers — which violate our rules". (Plus the Post wasn't reporting on a hack; but rather on the claim of the discovery of a cache of emails and the emails themselves.)
At the same time the Post article itself is highly controversial. The scenario of how the data came to be in the hands of a random laptop repair shop which then chose to hand it over to a key Trump ally stretches credibility — bearing the hallmarks of an election-targeting disops operation, as we explained on Wednesday.
Given questions over the quality of the Post's fact-checking and journalistic standards in this case, Twitter's decision to restrict sharing of the article actually appears to have helped reduce the spread of disinformation — even as it attracted flak to the company for censoring 'journalism'.
(It has also since emerged that the harddrive in question was manufactured shortly before the laptop was claimed to have been dropped off at the shop. So the most likely scenario is Hunter Biden's iCloud was hacked and doctored emails planted on the drive where the data could be 'discovered' and leaked to the press in a ham-fisted attempt to influence the U.S. presidential election. But Twitter is clearly uncomfortable that enforcing its policy led to accusations of censoring journalists.)
In a tweet thread explaining the change to its policy, Twitter's legal, policy and trust & safety lead, Vijaya Gadde, writes: "We want to address the concerns that there could be many unintended consequences to journalists, whistleblowers and others in ways that are contrary to Twitter's purpose of serving the public conversation."
She also notes that when the hacked materials policy was first introduced, in 2018, Twitter had fewer tools for policy enforcement than it does now, saying: "We've recently added new product capabilities, such as labels to provide people with additional context. We are no longer limited to Tweet removal as an enforcement action."
Twitter began adding contextual labels to policy-breaching tweets by US president Donald Trump earlier this year, rather than remove his tweets altogether. It has continued to expand usage of these contextual signals — such as by adding fact-checking labels to certain conspiracy theory tweets — giving itself a 'more speech to counteract bad speech' enforcement tool vs the blunt instrument of tweet takedowns/account bans (which it has also applied recently to the toxic conspiracy theory group, QAnon).
"We believe that labeling Tweets and empowering people to assess content for themselves better serves the public interest and public conversation. The Hacked Material Policy is being updated to reflect these new enforcement capabilities," Gadde also says, adding: "Content moderation is incredibly difficult, especially in the critical context of an election. We are trying to act responsibly & quickly to prevent harms, but we're still learning along the way."
The updated policy is clearly not a free-for-all, given all other Twitter Rules against hacked material apply (such as doxxing). Though there's a question of whether tweets linking to the Post article would still be taken down under the updated policy if the story did indeed contain personal info (which remains against Twitter's policy).
At the same time, the new 'third way' policy for hacked materials does leave Twitter's platform to be a conduit for the spread of political disinformation (just with a little contextual friction) — in instances where it's been credulously laundered by the press. (Albeit, Twitter can justifiably point the finger of blame at poor journalist standards at that point.)
The new policy also raises the question of how Twitter will determine whether or not a person is working 'in concert' with hackers? Just spitballing here but if — say — on the poll's eve, Trump were to share some highly dubious information that smeared his key political rival and which he said he'd been handed by Russian president, Vladimir Putin, would Twitter step in and remove it?
We can only hope we don't have to find out.
Suspect provenance of Hunter Biden data cache prompts skepticism and social media bans
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Smoking cessation is the process whereby a smoker decides to stop smoking with the help of smoking cessation aids, which are often substances with less nicotine. Tobacco contains an addictive substance called nicotine, which can make the process of quitting very difficult.
Research has shown that quitting smoking drastically reduces the risk of tobacco-related diseases (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart diseases, and lung cancer).
There are many different strategies that can be employed to aid with smoking cessation, such as using medications (some of which can be bought over the counter) and behavioral counselling.
Quitting smoking can be a very difficult task because of its addictive nature, which leads to withdrawal symptoms such as depression, anxiety, cravings, weight gain, and irritability. Smoking cessation using over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapy (medications) can help prevent these withdrawal symptoms, and in turn, address your nicotine addiction.
Over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapy often contains very small amounts of nicotine, which help in reducing the amount of nicotine you consume per day until you are able to quit completely.
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Regardless of how we may grow and change over the years as a company, it is of utmost importance to treat every member of the community, both inside and outside ChoreoNovaTM, with fairness, respect, and a collaborative attitude at all times. We recognize that great ideas may come from less-established and even unknown voices. We encourage entirely open communication both within our organization and between ChoreoNovaTM and the society in which we exist. As an organization, we live by the precepts of the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have others do unto you. We follow through on our commitments, including responding to phone calls and other communiqués in a timely manner.
We stand behind our art and our actions as individuals and as a company. ChoreoNovaTM aspires to be worthy of the faith that you, our audience, place in us. We pledge to address topical issues of the day that fall under the umbrella of the advancement of human rights, increasing self-awareness and resilience, and enhancing mutual understanding. We aim to stimulate our audience to rethink its perspectives, even when difficult or unpopular. We act with raw honesty, honor, and good intentions.
As a company, ChoreoNovaTM will help foster a more open artistic society by embracing diversity in both dance techniques and dancers' body aesthetics. The choreography will start to develop a unique genre of contemporary dance that reflects and integrates the cultural diversity of our world dance heritage, not just the Western-influenced mixture commonly seen as contemporary dance today. We embrace a wider spectrum of dance than that typically performed by a single dance company.
Innovation is at the core of all we do. We strive to offer a transformative experience of contemporary dance not only by presenting that which has never been seen before, but also by finding new ways of presenting and showcasing more traditional forms of contemporary dance. We will focus on overcoming all financial, cultural, and technological limits to create innovative dance works. This requires remaining open to the voices of previously unheard artists as well as always being willing to ask what more we can do to push the boundaries of contemporary dance. Further, we employ emerging technologies because they provide a means of creating something never before seen and actualize concepts that would not be achievable otherwise. However, dance will always remain our primary method of communicating with you, our audience, and the incorporation of technology should never overshadow that. The technology itself is never to become the purpose of our art.
ChoreoNovaTM believes that contemporary dance should be more than just an expression of visual interest because dance, like other art forms, has the power to change people's lives. We want to move you, remind you of all the good and bad that life has to offer, and, above all, make you feel resilient enough to deal with it. We also seek to strengthen our participating artists by giving them a nurturing, open, balanced, and psychologically and physically healthy environment in which to work. We want our dancers to care for their bodies and feel free from the pressure to live up to a certain body image. We aim to present dances that utilize a multitude of body shapes and sizes, thereby enhancing the diversity of the choreography we can showcase and helping you, the public, to recognize yourselves onstage. We ask that other dance companies throughout the world join us in the effort to liberate dancers from the plagues of eating disorders and chronic injuries to which so many dancers still fall victim.
We practice transparency in all aspects of our functioning as an organization. We believe that more information means more understanding and better relationships both inside our company and with the larger community. We act with clarity and purpose in establishing, interpreting, and applying ChoreoNova'sTM Bylaws and other codes of appropriate conduct. We maintain fiscal responsibility and mindfulness of our nonprofit status as an integral part of the decision-making process.


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Abellio commences new Anglia franchise with a mission of raising poor existing levels of passenger satisfaction with personal security on network.
Dutch transport group Abellio took control of the Greater Anglia franchise on February 5 and as promised doubled the numbers of safety and security staff employed within its customer service team. These additional team members will be able to provide help, assistance and information while travelling on the network.
The aim of this move by the new operator is to ensure that customers feel assured of safe travel on its train services. National Passenger Survey figures for last autumn published by Passenger Focus last month show that just 67% of National Express East Anglia passengers were satisified with their personal security whilst on trains (significantly below the average score of 75% of train operators in London and the South East). Satisfaction with personal security at stations was even lower at 62%, compared to 66% for all London commuter operators.
Greater Anglia's additional making travel safe officers (MTSOs), or enforcement officers, who will be working across the region will be the largest ever single deployment of complementary policing resources in the history of UK rail. These officers will work in partnership with the revenue protection officers (RPOs) and British Transport Police to reduce fare evasion and tackle anti-social behaviour. They will be accredited under the Railway Safety Accreditation Scheme.
"We already have officers who tackle crime and passenger safety issues on trains and at stations across Essex and East Anglia, but these additional teams will play a significant role in supporting our efforts, by patrolling the lines across the Greater Anglia route.
Greater Anglia managing director Ruud Haket commented: "I want customers to have complete peace of mind that they are travelling safely too, and the deployment of the MTSO and RPO team will certainly help.
In addition, a new marketing and advertising campaign has been launched to raise awareness of the savings customers can make travelling by train compared with the car. Savings endorsed by Emmerson Hill, who calculate cost per mile for the Department for Transport and the AA, show that running a car is 56p per mile and this is reduced to 21p per mile by train if the customer travels on a monthly or longer season ticket.
The National Passenger Survey shows that National Express East Anglia passengers were the least satisfied of any train operating company in Autumn 2011 – with overall satisfaction of 77%.


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I took this photo at the San Diego Zoo. It was hard to get a good image of this animal because it was far away from the visitor observation area, and it was shot midday.
As you can see, it is not great (and I had to crop into the subject). So I thought I'd use this image to practice my Photoshop. The high contrast shadows created from the midday sun made it ideal for knocking out the siamang from the busy background and creating a "studio" feel, as seen in the first photo.
Some people don't like images that are photoshopped. I can understand why. They feel it's not true. My thought is that photos are just representations, and you have to take into consideration the context of the photo. Are you trying to idealize your subject, trying to create an illusion? Or are you trying to tell the truth as you see it and experience it? Are you trying to make people experience beauty and joy? Or are you wanting to persuade people to act on an injustice?
I can't believe it's been about seven months since my last post! Where have I been? At work mostly.
Last year our company made some changes. For several months, we adjusted to new schedules, deadlines, teams, flows. For awhile, I couldn't garner the energy to do anything outside of work. But now, I think we are settling back into a steady rhythm.
I've been missing photography. It's funny how much the act of focusing makes me happy. I enjoy sitting and taking in all the light and shadows and shapes. I enjoy composing in my head. I enjoy framing something boring and making it a little more interesting. I'm not great at it, but I enjoy the striving to be better.
That's been on my mind a lot these days. Striving to be better.
So I am back. Still busy at my day job but determined to get back into my groove.
The San Diego Zoo has a sister park, about 30 miles north, called Safari Park. It is where the zoo conducts conservation programs. Safari Park also offers several ways to experience its grounds. You can just walk around the park or take the tram, and see the animals as you would in a traditional zoo. Or you can take a truck ride into the main space and see some of the animals up close and personal. Or you can stay overnight in tents within the park and enjoy your evening meals while listening to animal specialists. All of these experiences are to help educate people about the animals and the importance of conservation, especially of endangered species.
One of the perks of becoming a member of the San Diego Zoo is that you automatically are a member of the Safari Park, too. I enjoy visiting both.
The Zoo feels more like a tropical place with lush landscapes, lots of trees, and winding paths.
The Park feels like a dry African desert. Getting to the Park is harder because it's located in a more remote part of San Diego county in order to accommodate the huge open savanna-like area in the back of the park. That is where several animal species live together as they would in Africa or Asia. And several other smaller animal exhibits dot the rest of the park.
Both places are great for exploring. And I must say, the San Diego Zoo/Safari Park has done a great job in creating more natural spaces for animals over the years. Gone are the small, boring, plastered enclosures. Thank goodness! For the animals and the visitors.
I shot this sunset last year at lovely Springdale, a town next to Zion National Park.
Since I just cleaned out a few folders this morning, I thought I'd post a Throwback Thursday image. Have a wonderful Thursday!
It's been four months since my last post. It wasn't my intention to be away. However, work became very busy, my summer commute time increased, and a handful of family events happened. So I had time for little else.
That really depressed me. I felt much more engaged and upbeat when I was shooting photos, or playing with Photoshop, or experimenting with graphics.
In addition, earlier in the year, I noticed that I was moving my attention away from my original intent of this blog. I started to listen to what others were saying I should do: post often, watch your flow of traffic, pay attention to your headlines, don't forget about SEO, engage with your visitors, post across social media sites. My focus moved away from content, and I became disengaged.
When my computer starts to act glitchy and is not working right, I reboot my system. Well, my blog is feeling a bit off-track, and I need to reboot. Here goes.
The actual painting took about 9 hours (3 hours for 3 days).
I still have a long way to go, but I'm excited about what's ahead. This week I hope to buy a Wacom tablet (digital painting with a mouse can wreak havoc on your wrist). In future posts, I'll try describe in more detail the steps I am taking.
A garial floating in its pool enclosure.
About a month ago, I became a member of the San Diego Zoo, one of my favorite places to visit. I've been wanting to photograph the animals there more. So I'll be posting animal photos for awhile, but the real reason I'm going to the zoo is to get reference material for my projects with a more artistic approach, which I'll be posting later also.
My pace will be changing. During the past few months, I realized that the recommended 2-to-3-posts-a-week schedule that I was doing last year wasn't working for me. I could feel it blocking me from spending enough time on creative projects, so I've been having a fight with myself and not posting very often. Rather than having a fixed schedule, I concluded, I will try to keep a flexible once-a-week posting schedule.
I've been learning a lot in digital art and will also share some of that in coming posts.
Happy Monday and I hope you have a great week!


Berenice Abbott - Beetles + Huxley Gallery | Film's not dead.
Beetles + Huxley continue to display images by some of our favourite photographers and their most recent show is no exception. Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), is the first UK major retrospective of the American masters work. With a career spanning nearly her whole life she created one of the most significant and varied bodies of work in photography. The prints that are on show include early celebrity portraits, her famous 'Changing New York' series and her ground-breaking science photography.
Her photographic career began when she became a darkroom assistant to acclaimed photographer Man Ray. Subsequently while working there she discovered her own talent for taking photographs, shooting when ever she had the chance. Abbott built up such a reputation at Man Ray's studio that one day a client called for her rather than Man Ray, he was furious and sacked her on the spot!
A true highlight of the show and taking front row in the gallery window has to be her most acclaimed photograph "Nightview, New York" 1932 (below).
Images courtsey: Beetles + Huxley/ ©Estate of Berenice Abbott/Getty Images.


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Sen. Durbin Introduces Legislation To Authorize $3.35B in Funding To Fight Global AIDS
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) yesterday introduced a bill (S 250) that would authorize $3.35 billion in the next budget to combat HIV/AIDS worldwide and coordinate the government's response to the pandemic, according to a statement from Durbin's office. The Global Coordination of HIV/AIDS Response Act, or the Global CARE Act, includes four major goals for assisting countries, including:
Better coordination among U.S. agencies active in the global AIDS fight;
A "clear articulation" of the comprehensive responses against HIV/AIDS, including prevention, treatment and care initiatives, as well as investment in health systems and economies;
"Increased accountability" for health and policy initiatives that are operating in countries affected by AIDS; and
The mobilization of the "most effective human and capacity-building tools" to address the epidemic.
The bill also includes a strategic planning initiative to help ensure that U.S. funds are well spent; the establishment of an interagency working group to coordinate federal programs related to prevention, treatment and monitoring; an orphan relief and microcredit component; funding for a Global Physicians Corps, which would enlist working and retired physicians in the international HIV/AIDS fight; and a pilot program to provide a "limited procurement" of antiretroviral drugs and technical assistance to programs in host countries. The bill would authorize $2.1 billion of the $3.35 billion to go toward the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and $1.25 billion would be authorized for federal agencies that have existing HIV/AIDS programs, such as the CDC, the NIH and the Department of Defense. Durbin said that the scope of the AIDS crisis and its projected growth make U.S. action urgent. "This week, President Bush stood before the nation and the world and identified global AIDS as a top priority. He proposed a generous sum of money to tackle the crisis, and that was the right thing to do," Durbin said, adding that his initiative will push the issue forward. "This bill attempts to ensure that this Congress and this administration does not ignore a global emergency many of us feel was not adequately addressed in the past," Durbin said (Durbin release, 1/30). This is part of the KHN Morning Briefing, a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations.	Sign up for an email subscription.


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High numbers of community sport groups across the UK are under threat of closure and need more help to survive, according to new research.
TSB has found that 54% of people affiliated to community sport organisations are concerned they will struggle to continue without external support to safeguard their future.
Sport plays a vital role in community cohesion and helping young people reach their full personal, social and sporting potential.
That function becomes even more important when allied with TSB's finding that 44% of community sport groups are in the bottom 30% of the most deprived areas in the UK – where young people are often most in need of such opportunities.
Most worrying of all is that a quarter of those surveyed said their local community sport group has already had to close.
In response to these findings, TSB have announced a new partnership with Sported, a leading charity for the Sport for Development sector. The banking firm is offering to keep local sports groups vibrant and accessible by lending their expertise in areas such as budgeting, marketing, PR and social media.
Pilots are set to be launched in North East Scotland, South Midlands, Thames Valley and South Coast and Greater Manchester.
Chris Grant, Chief Executive Officer of Sported, commented: "Sported's members hold a special place in communities. The groups collectively shape and inspire the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people around the UK, and create a unique sense of unity and community spirit – all through the power of sport.


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Meet Venance
Venance is the third sibling in his family to attend our program. Originally from DR Congo, he grew up in Bangkok where he attended an international school and has memories of good teachers, good friends, and fun going downtown, including to huge malls. It took years after his move to the US at 7 for him to realize he was never going "home."
But Venance doesn't identify as a resettled refugee. He is now comfortably home in the US. As a sophomore at La Salle Academy he's a defensive back on the football team, does track, and is a point guard in basketball.
Venance recalls a middle-school period of impersonating the "cool" boys, talking back and "behaving like people in movies." But he realized that being "cool" could get him kicked out. With the help of his family he turned things around to focus on sports and education.
Venance is interested in cars and racing. His parents support this as long as he is careful. Someday he would like to run his own sports car dealership.
Venance chose to do the Beautiful Day youth training because his siblings liked it. He expected his sister (who now manages the Aquidneck Farmers Market) to be as tough on him here as she is at home, but she proved to be a good trainer, teaching him customer service and tech for credit card purchases--concepts he found "easy." We're proud to have, in his own words, "chill" Venance in our training program.
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Not sure what to prepare when travelling aboard with your pets? Here are 6 tips that will keep your journey fuss and trouble free.
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A dog weighing 20 kg is roughly as heavy as an elephant in the event of an impact - but much snappier. Therefore get your animal used to belt, net or crate early on.
Socks, shoes and your snack for between meals - your four-legged friend is sure to find the content of your suitcase yummy as well. But it needs its own luggage, of course. Our checklist prepares you optimally for your journey with your animal.