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The Art of Ending Well: Grief, Grieving and Avengers: Endgame
May 14, 2019 / scblair
Turns out Tony is pretty good at dying (from Marvel's 2016 series Civil War II)
Before I start, I don't think I can get two sentences in to this subject without mentioning massive spoilers for Avengers: Endgame, so if you don't want them read this after you've watched the film. I also assume you've seen Avengers: Infinity War, so you may as well watch that too. Heck just go watch all 22 movies. I'll wait.
Avengers: Endgame is a remarkable film. It's already notable for breaking multiple box office records handily. The fact that it's actually a good film that captures and holds your attention for its 3+ hour run time is remarkable as well. What I left with after watching the movie was how remarkably and honestly it deals with grief, grieving and what it means to end well.
The bulk of the movie takes place after the remaining Avengers do what they failed to do in Infinity War, kill Thanos. The death of Thanos brings no satisfaction or resolution though, which is the driver of the rest of the movie.
We jump five years into the future to see how our remaining heroes are faring, and the answer is not well. The Avengers have practically disbanded, each going their separate way and each dealing with their loss and their roles in those losses differently. This is where Marvel gets grief very well, as we see our heroes all coping – or failing to cope – in examples of the well known "stages of grief" as described by Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. She describes five stages (perhaps better understood today as aspects) of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
David "Hulk" Banner seems on the surface to be coping better than most . He has embraced both his genius "Banner" side as well as the brutish "Hulk" and has managed to be the best of both at the same time. His behavior and overall attitude show that he hasn't "moved on" though. He is stuck in a form of denial, as evidenced by his embracing the role of the pop superstar posing for selfies for his fans. He plays the hero, even though he is himself no longer heroic. I've seen many who are able to on the surface accept their losses as real, but underneath refuse to accept that those losses have had any lasting impact on them, and Banner seems to exemplify this.
Thor is also stuck in denial as well as bargaining. After killing Thanos, he has retreated to the remote fishing village of New Asgard where he serves as an absentee king and resident frat boy. He has become a caricature: fat, drunken, oafish and lazy, more concerned about his cable than his kingdom. It's quickly apparent though that Thor is using his drinking and distraction to isolate himself from the fact that he failed to kill Thanos the first time. This is also evident in the pain and anger brought about by the mere mention of Thanos' name. In trying to avoid his shame, he actually becomes shameful.
Natasha "Black Widow" Romanoff, the only original Avenger still acting like one, has become a workaholic. She tries to fill the role of leader and rescuer, but finds that there is simply little rescuing to be done. Her bargain, perhaps, is that if she can still save people she can still have meaning and purpose, as well as keep the pain and responsibility of further loss away. I see this as well in many who go through loss trying to keep busy as a way to both show that things haven't changed and to not process their grief.
Clint "Hawkeye" Barton to me fares the worst of the remaining Avengers because he has lost the most. In dealing with the loss of his entire family he has become trapped in anger and rage. He has turned from hero to vigilante, exchanging his bow, which keeps enemies at a distance, for a much more bloody and "up-close-and-personal" katana. He takes his bloodthirst out on the worst of society because they are most deserving of it, but it is clear that he is becoming as lost as they are. He suffers even more in the film as he not only loses his family (he's the only Avenger with a family) but Natasha as well.
Tony "Iron Man" Stark is apparently doing the best of our group of Avengers. He has a wife and daughter and is living a rather idyllic country life focused more on family than fame. He seems to have reached a level of acceptance and has made positive changes in his life. But beneath the surface we see that he remains fearful of any further loss and refuses to help his former team if it will cost him anything. His personal failure and their collective failure to stop Thanos has weighed heavily on him and he is afraid of losing again. We see that he has cut himself off not only from his team but from the whole world because that is the only way he can keep what he now loves safe.
Even Steve "Captain America" Rogers is not faring as well as it seems. He attends a bereavement group but is so focused on helping others that he fails to help himself. I was never sure if he was leading the group or participating in it. He encourages others to open up and be vulnerable but is not vulnerable himself. He later reveals to Natasha what is plainly evident, "I keep telling everybody they should move on. Some do. But not us." Rogers has throughout the series been the epitome of selflessness, and here we see how damaging that selflessness can be for those who don't take care of their own pain.
As the group goes back in time to retrieve the Infinity Stones in order to repair what Thanos has done, Thor, Iron Man and Captain America have the opportunity to meet again with loved ones who have died. This experience gives them the chance to say the things that had been left unsaid and heal past wounds. In Cap's case, even though he doesn't interact with Peggy Carter, the encounter reminds him of his love for her and inspires him to, quite literally, do life over again. His marrying of Peggy and his kind refusal to tell his friends about their life are probably the only selfish things he's ever done. In real life, grief therapists have found that reconnecting with the deceased through letters, reflection and memorials is very helpful in working through pain and avoidance. In Endgame these moments become turning points for our characters and the resolution of their internal conflicts in turn allow them to have the strength to resolve their external conflict.
Tony's act of selfless heroism at the end of the film (maybe the only unselfish thing he's ever done in contrast to Cap) costs him his life and really brings the emotional weight of grief and loss to the forefront. I found this to be a very refreshingly un-Hollywood-like death. Tony had no final words of comfort to his wife or friends. She didn't beg him to stay or rush to save him. Tony doesn't die triumphant with a smile on his face. Instead the film shows Tony in his final moments of helplessness and lets Pepper tell him the two things that I tell every family member they need to say to their dying loved one: "we'll be OK" and "you can rest now". The funeral scene is dramatic and touching in so many ways, and both times I watched the movie people audibly cried during it.
One of the things that makes the Marvel films so good is that they recognize and emphasize the "human" in "superhuman" where the DC films seem to emphasize the "super". Endgame could have easily been a film where punching Thanos really hard solves everything. But Thanos is not the problem in Endgame, loss and the fear of loss is. Overcoming that grief and fear is really the biggest challenge faced by our heroes.
Which brings us to ending well. Avengers: Endgame represents the culmination of many things. It is the conclusion of a story that spanned ten years and twenty-two films. It is the conclusion of the battle between good and evil at least as represented by Thanos and the Avengers. It is how things are made right again. But at its core it is about how the stories of how Iron Man and Captain America end well.
One of the major arcs of the MCU movies has been the relationship of Captain America and Iron Man. Their ideological battles about individual liberty, responsibility, and morality, as well as their contrasting personalities, were the backbone of films including Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War. Endgame, we find out, is not just the end of Thanos but also of Iron Man and Captain America. In both cases we can say that they ended well. Tony overcomes his fear of loss to become the hero we always thought he was. We're able to see him say good-bye to his loved ones both at the beginning and the end of the film, and the contrast between the two messages reveals how much Tony's character has grown. We feel Spider-man's pain as he weeps for his mentor as well as Pepper's as she comforts Tony in his final moments. Captain America's ending is quite different but just as satisfying. As rewarding it was to see Iron Man give his life for his friends, it was maybe even more rewarding to see Cap basically get to live his life over again not as a superhero but as Steve Rogers, ordinary guy with the person he loves. While both lives had different outcomes, we can clearly say that they both ended well.
The psychologist Erik Erikson spoke of the last crisis of life is that of integrity versus despair. As we enter our final stage of life, do we look back with a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction or failure? This crisis is one I see at play in many of my hospice patients and their families who are struggling with what it means to end well. While many indeed approach the end of life with a sense of peace and satisfaction, I've heard more than once how whoever coined the phase "the golden years" was a liar. Grief can come at the end of life not just from death, but from the loss of what could have been and never was. That despair can be projected outward at an unjust universe or a baffling God, or inward as self-blame and shame. Going back to revisit the past and reframing not just our losses but our accomplishments, as well as forgiving and being forgiven by those we've lost previously, can impact how people perceive their own lives and create meaning where there may be meaninglessness.
Finally, I think Avengers: Endgame itself is an exercise in ending well. It seems more often than not that movie sequels and series disappoint in the end. Perhaps it's because movie studios really don't want things to end just in case they can make more money off of the franchise (the last Indiana Jones movie or The Hobbit trilogy), or because they think moviegoers are more interested in flash than feelings (Justice League). But Endgame is important in that it really is an ending, and as sad as that ending is it is also very satisfying. That satisfaction comes not just from being wowed or by seeing the good guys win, but by seeing good people do good things. We've seen them grow and struggle in ways we can relate to, and seeing them come out on the other side of crisis as better people can perhaps inspire us that we can do the same.
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Mobilizing Mass Action through Mobile Devices: Challenges and Opportunities for Science, Policy, and Governance – PDF
Authors: Paul Chatterton¹ and Linda See².
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Citizen science and crowdsourcing have become increasingly popular ways of involving citizens in scientific research and for carrying out a variety of micro-tasks. There are many examples of successful citizen science projects and crowdsourcing platforms including the LandMapp project for community-based land tenure mapping; Moabi, which allows citizens to report illegal logging in the Congo jungles, (both of which have been supported by IIASA and WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature)); and Geo-Wiki, a tool for visualization, crowdsourcing and validation of global land cover, developed at IIASA. This talk will provide a brief overview of citizen science and crowdsourcing followed by the main achievements and lessons learned from the LandMap, Moabi, and Geo-Wiki projects. A number of challenges remain such as how to move citizen participation from data collection to environmental stewardship, and how to scale up these efforts to tap into the large citizen networks and initiatives that are currently ongoing, for example, WWF's Earth hour, which reaches a billion people. We will discuss these and other challenges in light of new opportunities in climate funding and other new sources of private funding, for green businesses, for instance.
Dr. Linda See has a PhD in spatial applications of fuzzy logic from the School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK, where she taught for 11 years as a senior lecturer in Computational Geography and GIS. She has an MSc and BSc in physical geography and environmental management from McMaster University and the University of Toronto, Canada. In between her MSc and PhD, she spent one year working at the Max Planck Institute for Atmospheric Sciences in Germany, followed by four years at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Italy on agrometeorology and early warning for food security.
See's research interests include artificial intelligence-based methods (neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, agent-based modeling), GIS, and more recently, gaming and crowdsourcing. As part of the IIASA Ecosystems Services and Management Program she is now working with Steffen Fritz on Geo-Wiki and land cover validation issues. She is an active member of the Geo-Wiki team and has worked on a number of crowdsourcing aspects including quality issues, community building, and a branch of Geo-Wiki concerned with validation of urban land cover.
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these examples of street art were chosen (by me, of course) for their outstanding beauty, creativity, and/or inspirational message.
This colorful many-eyed beetle was created by Nomada, one of a family of Colombian street artists who are known for their "animales fantasticos" (fantastic animals).
A gorgeous mural with an Asian theme. The artist's name is on the right side.
I included this mural because it was painted by a female artist, a relative rarity on the street art scene. What does the butterfly symbolize? Your guess is as good as mine.
I enjoyed The Bogota Graffiti Tour so much that I did some research on street art after I returned home. I plan to continue to seek out graffiti and street art as I travel to other cities and countries. It's a great way to learn about the social and political issues of an area, as well as gaining insight into its history, culture and contemporary (and temporary!) art.
Sylvia Renfro grew up in Needles, CA (pop. 6,000) and has never lost her affection for small towns. She received a BA in journalism from San Francisco State University, and an MA in Teaching English as Second Language from Northern Arizona University. Persistence and good juju have enabled her to work at the two things she loves best—teaching and writing.
Sylvia Renfro is the author of The Drunkard's Path, A Quilting Romance, Poppy's Place, and Tortillas And Second Chances.


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Michelle Sheppard is a Trans Woman, public Speaker, advocate, and radio personality. She is also a Makeup Artist, and proud parent of two daughters. She embodies dignity, grace and the change the change that is needed to make a positive difference in others lives.
ESSENDON BOMBERS HEAR TRANS AND NON-BINARY ACTIVISTS ON POWER OF PRIDE IN SPORT
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Footballer Hannah Mouncey, trans advocate Michelle Sheppard, and non-binary activist Joe Ball were invited to speak to the club about LGBTI inclusion.
LAURENCE BARBER — JULY 18, 2018
A trio of trans and non-binary activists have spoken to players and staff at the Essendon Bombers football club about the impact of visibility in sport.
Trans footballer Hannah Mouncey, advocate Michelle Sheppard, and non-binary activist and Switchboard CEO Joe Ball were invited to speak to the club thanks to the organisation of Jason Tuazon-McCheyne, head of the Essendon LBTI supporters group the Purple Bombers.
The players listened to Mouncey, Sheppard and Ball speak about their lives, pronouns, and family life post-transition, The Age reported.
"Ninety per cent of people will be fantastic," said Mouncey, who addressed the players along with another prominent trans person, Michelle Sheppard, and non-binary activist Joe Ball.
"The other 10 per cent will be really, really extreme in their hate. There's two games this year where I was pretty glad to get off the field and not get shot, which sounds extreme…that is where the extreme end of the hate is.
"We don't look to politicians for leadership. We don't. We look to athletes and sporting teams and clubs."
Mouncey was barred from entering the AFLW draft last year but has since found a place playing in VFLW.
She stressed that local teams are following suit after an increase in the prominence of pride games at the highest level.
"Otherwise it never would have happened."
Mouncey's simple point was to tell the players to treat trans people with the same respect they would anyone else.
"Don't overthink it. You know how to be a good person. Don't treat the trans people differently to anyone else."
Sheppard discussed the struggles she had as a parent, saying, "My ex-wife was uncomfortable with [me] taking my kids to school, and my kids were desperate for me to come to school."
"There's a lot of people like myself who don't see ourselves as either," Ball told the players, saying to use "the pronouns they/them'' for non-binary people.
"Really, I just want you to call me by my name. I just want to say, 'Hey, Joe'. So don't really focus on my pronouns, just think about who I am as a person."
They explained that inclusion in sport could be an "antidote" against LGBTI people, and especially LGBTI youth, struggling with mental health and suicide.
Bombers player Brendon Goddard is the club's fiercest champion for LGBTI inclusion, crediting Tuazon-McCheyne for the shift in his perspective.
"I was quite judgmental growing up," Goddard said. "Being part of football opened up my eyes."
"If [AFL clubs] can have a positive influence, why shouldn't they?" he said. "I haven't heard any other good argument on the other side of it."
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Does he truly believe a team rivalry would be enough to investigate this scandal?
Many people praised Jerry Sandusky as a defensive coach.
You may think you know someone and that something like this will never happen to you or your favorite team, but it's just a matter of time before it catches up to you.


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Our talented chefs offer an extensive menu from tapas-style small plates, perfect for sharing, to a full a la carte menu in the evening, speedy lunches on Thursdays and Fridays and restorative brunches on the weekend.
Combining elegant sophistication with a relaxed suburban setting, and with an emphasis on quality and service rather than bluster and bravado, The Hop Garden may be the answer to all your questions.


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Grimm Tidings
If you feel as though the blog has focused a bit more on my visual works recently,
well, it has. That's due in part to me simply having so much fun putting together those Pictogags. But this entry is due to me going through files to get old articles entered for digital storage and eventually archived up on the Interwebs, files amongst which I'm also finding old sketches and cartoons.
The 1995 drawing above right is a mock cover to the nonexistent series Mr. K-a's
Pal, Benjy Grimm, done for CAPA-Alpha, riffing on the cover to an issue of DC Comics' Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen, above left — dated June 1967, penciled
by Curt Swan, inked by George Klein, and lettered by Ira Schnapp.
I brainstormed the piece for/with a fellow member of CAPA-Alpha, a.k.a. K-a, Mike Valerio. Mike and this very picture were first mentioned on the blog a couple of years ago in a mishmash post shortly after his passing, while CAPA-Alpha was described in detail before that.
Mike pitched me an idea for what I recall was a month devoted to either writing about inter-company crossovers or producing intra-K-a collaborations, if not both, around the time that the big-deal DC vs. Marvel event was happening. Mike was an admirer of Stan Lee & Jack Kirby's ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing, alias Ben Grimm, of the Fantastic Four; the character's motto "It's Clobberin' Time!" was at least one of Mike's 'zine titles. He also appropriated a version of Steve Ditko's absolutist hero Mr. A as Mr. K-a for his contributions (which is a reference that if you don't get you're invited to research on your own). Mike presented me with both the cover that he wanted me to copy and the cover copy — what The Thing, in place of Jimmy Olsen, would be saying plus a torrent of strident text to stuff into Mr. K-a's mouth. I surprised Mike by drawing us in as the institution's security guard and doctor, respectively.
I dearly wish that I'd been able to accommodate more of what Mike wrote for Mr.
K-a's spiel. We planned from the start that parts of the massive word balloon would be obscured, but much to Mike's credit when I apologized for how it was laying out and suggested that we could fudge things — make the partially obscured parts nonsense and the totally obscured parts irrelevant, so that everything you saw could be read straight — he agreed with me that even in a silly context like this it seemed like a cop-out; Mike was valiant in preserving the humor of the situation, darling prose be darned, just as I was diligent in spacing out what wouldn't end up being lettered. I also wish that I'd been less sloppy with my lettering.
Here's a larger version of the art so that you can better read what is there.
Cover to Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #102 © 1967 DC Comics. Mock-cover concept and most text © 1995 Mike Valerio. Mock-cover art © 1995 Brian Saner Lamken. Superman and related elements, Thing / Benjy Grimm, and Mr. A respectively TM/® DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and Steve Ditko.
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A capital gain on which one owes taxes even if one takes a capital loss in the aggregate. The most common type of phantom gain occurs when a mutual fund sells some of its securities at a gain but its own shares decline in value. Because the fund's shareholders technically owned the securities that were sold for a gain, they must pay taxes on those gains even though they have actually lost money on their investment. A phantom gain should not be confused with a paper gain. See also: Phantom Income.
Phantom gains are capital gains on which you owe tax even if your actual return on the investment is negative.
For instance, if a mutual fund sells stock that has increased in price, you, as a fund shareholder, are liable for taxes on the portion of the gain the fund distributes to you.
The rule applies even if you bought shares of the fund after the stock price increased, and didn't benefit from the stock's rising value. You also owe the tax if you purchase shares in the fund after the stock has been sold but before the fund has made its distribution.
Phantom gains can also occur in a falling market, when a mutual fund may sell investments to raise cash to repurchase shares from shareholders who are leaving the fund.
If you're still an owner of the fund at the time any gains from those sales are distributed, you'll owe tax even though the value of your investment has decreased.
The backstage area where the Phantom gains access to his subterranean lake is represented by the curved outside of the cylinder.
Refund claims for phantom gains and the statute of limitations (SOL).
Phantom gains tax has proved to be a major obstacle to lender takeovers of property.
This left no suitable means of protecting against phantom gains tax liability and led to our request for a ruling to validate a new approach for limiting the tax to the true economic gain realized in a transfer of property to a lender (usually, zero).
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35. The five rings of the Olympics were printed on the front of the sportswear. It was the first time that the symbol (象 征) appeared on stamps of the Winter Olympics. In the 1950s, the stamps of this kind became more colorful. When the Winter Olympics came, the host countries as well as the nonhost countries published stamps to mark those games. China also published four stamps in February, 1980, when the Chinese sportsmen began to march into the area of the White Olympics. Japan is the only country in Asia that has ever held the White Olympics. Altogether 14,500 million stamps were sold to raise funds(经费) for this sports meet. Different kinds of sports were printed on these small stamps. People can enjoy the beauty of the wonderful movements of some athletics.
32. B. Publishing stamps is a way of raising money for the sports meet. C. In Asia only Japan held the Winter Olympics. D. In the 1950s all the countries published stamps to mark the games. 难句注释 ① The first stamp marking the opening of the White Olympics was issued on January 25, 1932 in the United States to celebrate the third White Olympics. Total words:226 Reading time: Reading speed: 为了庆祝第 3 届冬季奥运会,纪念其开幕的第一枚邮票于 1932 年 1 月 25 日在美国发 行. ② to observe the fourth Winter Olympic Games 为了庆祝第四届冬季奥运会.
D. his secretary wasn t there to meet him 难句注释 ① He is remembered as a smart diplomat. 在别人的记忆中,他是个精明的外交家. Total words:202 Reading time: Reading speed: ② ...feeling not unlike a small boy who had got lost... 感觉不啻于一个迷路的小男孩…… Passage D 完形填空 "A robbery (抢劫案)..." a voice came from the radio. John was driving home late last night from a trip, and now he was having trouble staying 1 .① He turned 2 the radio and tried to fix his attention on the 3 , but his eyes kept on closing. It was 4 that he noticed the hitchhiker (搭便车者) by the road.② 5 even thinking about what he was doing, he stopped the car. "To Midrille?" "Get in." The hitchhiker got in and immediately John was 6 that he had picked him up. The young man 7 a strange face and long hair. When John asked him questions about himself, he changed the 8 . John 9 the news. He began to sweat (出汗) and his thoughts 10 nervously (紧 张地) to all the money he was 11 . At the next small town he stopped his car and said, "I m sorry. I m so 12 that I can t drive you to Midrille. I think I ll find a 13 and spend the night." The young man slowly 14 into his pocket. "This is it!" thought John. At that 15 moment he considered shouting for help, but instead of a gun, the hitchhiker pulled out several 16 . "Oh, no. I don't want your money. Just get out. Okay?"
①...and now he was having trouble staying awake. 现在他很难保持清醒. ② It was then that he noticed the hitchhiker by the road. 就在那时他注意到马路边有个搭便车者. 此句是 It is/was...that...的强调句型. ③ John watched until his passenger had disappeared from sight, then stepped on the gas and drove out of town. 约翰一直注视着他的乘客直到他消失在视线之外,然后踩足油门驶出了小镇. Passage A 本文介绍了为庆祝冬季奥运会的召开,各国常发行一些纪念邮票.
2. A. 中国在 1980 年第一次参加冬奥会.
3. D. 其他三项原文都有提到. Passage B 本文介绍了滑旱冰这一体育运动的由来.
4. C. 根据"Nobody forgot Merlin s grand entrance for a long time!"可知 Merlin 取得了超出他预想的成功. Passage C 本文介绍了一位精明的外交家心不在焉的两个轶事,从侧面反映其不拘小节.
1. D. 根据本文所举的几个例子可以看出本文主要讲 Morrow 的 absentmindedness.
2. A. 从"I need to know where I m going!"可得出正确答案.
Passage D 本文记叙了 John 在旅行回家途中让一个人搭便车,却误认为他会抢劫而在半路让其下 车的事.
1. D. stay awake 指"保持清醒的状态",下文有暗示.
5. A. without thinking 意为"不假思索".外国人有让人搭便车的习惯.
12. D. 根据第一小节中"he was having trouble staying awake"得出 sleepy (瞌睡 的).
13. C. 根据后文的"spend the night"来推测应是找"旅馆".
14. A. reach into his pocket 意为"把手伸进口袋".
16. D. bill 意为"纸币",英国人常用 note.
17. B. looked puzzled 意为"看上去迷惑不解".他不明白为什么司机不要他的钱.
18. A. giving 意为"给";offering 意为"主动提供",往往是出于帮助而行善.
19. C. 此空格根据 his 应选 passenger 意为"他的乘客".
20. B. step on the gas 意为"踩油门"


Thomas Blakely, a Choctaw Indian teenager, lives with his family in Idabel, Okla., one of many poor, rural communities within the sprawling Choctaw Nation in southeastern Oklahoma.
HUGO, Okla.— As a low winter sun faded over McCurtain County, Jesse Pacheco rumbled down Highway 70 toward a little rural town where a mother and her boy were waiting.
Pacheco has traveled this forlorn stretch of highway countless times before, into the heart of one of the poorest parts of the Choctaw Nation, a sprawling area in southeastern Oklahoma that includes nearly 11 counties and 11,000 square miles.
Pacheco, a Choctaw himself and a youth outreach worker, racks up 3,500 miles a month driving to rural communities and one-stoplight towns to deliver tough love to native boys. Some have had run-ins with the law or been pushed out of school.
Nearly all the young men he visits are impoverished or have parents who struggle with substance abuse. Many live with aging grandparents who don't have the financial means or energy to follow after rebellious teens. Most are angry, and nearly all of them live in far flung, relatively isolated communities with few job opportunities and little more than trouble and girls to chase.
Across the country American Indian youth suffer disproportionately high rates of school drop-out, suicide, poverty and teen pregnancy. As other historically oppressed minority groups have seen major academic gains in recent years, the educational performance of Native American youth has slid in the opposite direction.
Thomas Blakely's father Nate and mother Wilanda at home in Idabel. Thomas's mother says that since Thomas began visiting with an outreach worker, his behavior and attitude have gotten better. Both parents worry though that Thomas will never make it out of their small town.
While young Choctaws fare better than many of their counterparts in the more than 560 federally recognized Indian tribes, their suffering is still widespread.
Congress's sequestration cuts and other austerity measures have put a strain on many of the Choctaw Nation's programs for students and at-risk youth. Hiring more outreach workers has slowed and wait-lists have swelled.
But January brought new hope for the tribe's young people, when President Barack Obama announced the formation of five so-called Promise Zones in impoverished areas across the country. The Choctaw Nation made the list, along with communities in San Antonio, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and southeastern Kentucky.
On either side of the highway a blur of timber and farm land froze in the twilight. Pacheco hunkered down for the long ride deep into Indian country, gesturing to where a chicken plant or saw mill had been.
It had been months since Pacheco had last seen the 13-year-old, Thomas. He was worried.
Money had been extremely tight for the family. Thomas's estranged father was back in the picture. And the teen's frequent and increasingly volatile outbursts in school had become yet another issue that needed to be addressed.
Hokli Nittak means Seize the Day in Choctaw. Several times each week a little corps of outreach workers fan out into the far reaches of the Nation to seize the day and the hearts and minds of as many at-risk Indian youth as they can.
The emotional and financial costs are steep. While the tribal government funds a wide array of programs with the spoils of a lucrative gaming operation, many others have been funded by a number of dwindling grants offered by the federal government.
The five Promise Zones are the first of 20 scheduled to be created over the next three years. Obama announced the initiative during his 2013 State of the Union Address, borrowing from concepts developed by the Harlem Children's Zone in New York City, which takes a comprehensive approach to addressing the social, economic and educational needs of children within a 24-block radius of the school.
A mother and her child in Broken Bow, another rural town, located in McCurtain county, one of the poorest areas within the Choctaw Nation.
The communities selected as Promise Zones were chosen from hundreds that applied, based on their demonstrated ability to collaborate with private businesses, federal, state, tribal and local officials, as well as parents, faith-based and non-profit organizations.
The initiative doesn't necessarily offer a lot of new and desperately needed funding. It's intended instead to enhance the relationship between the communities and federal partners, help with accessing federal resources and grants, and offer tax breaks and tax credits for businesses.
As part of the president's 2015 budget proposal, Obama asked for $100 million to support the current Promise Zones and $200 million to expand the program to include an additional 40 communities.
Many of the program's details remain vague. And while the launch of the zones highlight Obama's efforts to keep a promise to make 2014 a year of robust executive action, the sheer depth of the social and economic problems facing young Choctaws and Native American youth on and off reservations show such efforts to be a pebble in the proverbial pool of despair.
The Choctaw Indian tribe was forcibly relocated to "Indian Territory" in Oklahoma in 1831. Today, the tribe continues to struggle with poverty and isolation.
About 23% of those living in the Choctaw Nation live below the poverty line – 7 points higher than the national average. In some communities the poverty rate balloons to around 50%. Many children here are impoverished, living in homes without running water. In McCurtain County alone, which has among the highest population of Choctaw, about 34% of the children live in poverty. The teen pregnancy rate is nearly twice the national average, higher than all other races combined. The STD rate is nearly quadruple the national average, according to youth outreach workers. And almost one-fourth of area students are enrolled in special education programs.
Choctaw officials said they hope the Promise Zone designation will allow the tribe access to additional grants that could bolster funding for programs in the tribe's service area. (Choctaw Nation is not on a reservation, rather it serves tribal members in a geographic area roughly the size of Vermont.) Such programs would include afterschool and summer school initiatives and partnering with local universities.
The tribe also hopes to target youth and students across 85 school districts with the expansion of Choctaw Language courses, early literacy and parent support programs.
Hokli Nittak and its sister program for pregnant teens and young parents have been central to the Nation's youth outreach.
As Pacheco cruised down the highway headed toward Idabel, the small town where Thomas and his mother live, he lamented the dire state of far too many rural Native youth. Too many are poor. Too many have low self-esteem. Too many don't see school as a viable option. Too many can't imagine life outside of their small worlds or away from their families— not for a job, not for college, not for anything.
Pacheco, now 44, sees much of himself in the boys he works with.
He grew up poor in a small town with a single mother who worked hard for meager wages— picking pecans, cleaning houses and working as a home health aide. By the time he was 13 he started drinking and fighting, habits that would haunt him for much of his young adult life, through two marriages and a stint in jail.
Pacheco ranked near the bottom of his high school class. He had little interest in school and his bad attitude preceded him.
Mike Sisco, (center), a 17-year-old Choctaw at wrestling practice. Sisco a husband and father of a 2-year-old boy. The teen pregnancy rate in the Choctaw Nation is double the national average.
"My attitude toward life was, I didn't think I had as many chances as other people," Pacheco said.
Partying offered an escape. He dabbled with drugs. "I tried them all," he said.
But alcohol had the strongest grip on his life.
At 15 he was kicked off of the football team for blowing off a practice to drink. After high school he cycled in and out of college. At 18 he had his first child, a son. He and the boy's mother were married and divorced within a year. The drinking got worse. He wasn't involved in the child's life. From 20 to 27 his life continued to spiral out of control.
By then Pacheco had gotten married again. And on one drunken night an argument got out of hand, turned physical, and Pacheco was arrested and sent to jail for domestic violence. It was a blessing in disguise. After 90 days of jail and rehab, Pacheco said he was able to wean himself from alcohol. He hasn't had a drink since.
This year marks Pacheco's 17th year of sobriety.
As a young man there were so many people— family, neighbors, church folks— who said they saw his potential and tried to steer him away from the self-destructive path he was on.
"I just couldn't see it for myself," Pacheco said.
He said he knew he wanted more for himself, but at the time didn't know how to go after it. He sees the same struggle in the eyes of many Indian teens.
After his release from jail Pacheco enrolled in college and earned a bachelor's degree in psychology. Later he earned his master's degree in behavioral science.
"I always knew that I wanted to come back and work with my people," said Pacheco, who is also a minister and certified counselor.
That calling hasn't always been simple or easy.
One former client murdered someone on his 18th birthday. Others have been unable to shake the pull of crime, depression or addiction.
The long and rocky road— both figuratively and literally—Pacheco and his tribe have traveled is a trail of hurt carved more than 180 years ago.
In 1831, the Choctaw were one of the so-called "Five Civilized Tribes" to be removed from their homeland, along with the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole. The U.S. government forced them to decamp from what is now Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi to "Indian Territory" in Oklahoma, during what came to be known as the Trail of Tears. Nearly 2,500 Choctaw died along the route.
By then, the Choctaw had largely embraced white culture. Many had intermarried, converted to Christianity and even held slaves. They sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War, and after the war they were forced to free their slaves and give them freedmen rights.
Melissa Bohnan (80 years-old), at her home in Battiest, watching over a dozen children and grandchildren. She is among a fading generation of Choctaw whose original language is Choctaw. Many younger Choctaws have intermarried with other races, don't speak the Choctaw language and have adopted the culture of white Southerners.
In 1889 the U.S. opened up land to white settlers in the Oklahoma Land Rush. The Choctaw became victims of the expansion, including land thefts and killings.
During World War One, Choctaw soldiers served as the much-heralded "Code Talkers" for the U.S. Army, using their native Choctaw language to deliver coded messages undecipherable by the Germans.
From the 1940s to the 1960s the U.S. pushed a policy called Indian termination and assimilation. The rights of sovereign Indian Nations were stripped and an attempt was made to assimilate Indians by forcing them to boarding schools where they were often physically abused and barred from speaking their language or practicing their traditions.
The darkness of those periods lingers for many older Choctaws, who saw grandparents and parents institutionalized or were even institutionalized themselves.
"For generations we were taught to be ashamed of being Choctaw," said Teresa Billy, assistant director of the School of Choctaw Language, which beams Choctaw language courses into dozens of public schools.
Much of that history, good and bad, has been lost on younger Choctaw who are more apt to be of mixed-race and identify more with white, rural culture than that of the Choctaw.
One of the first things the tribe did when it arrived in Oklahoma was set up a school. Today the Choctaw Nation offers college scholarships, summer school and summer employment programs. It also operates three daycare centers, 14 head start programs and a number of adult education and GED programs.
Pacheco finally made it to Idabel as darkness fell, pulling up a short dirt driveway to a weather-beaten, white clapboard house.
A shadow appeared in the doorway, pushing through a rickety screen door to the front steps. It was Thomas, a brown, bespectacled boy with an Afro.
He offered a soft hello.
Inside, Thomas's mother, Wilanda Blakely, waved Pacheco in. She sat in a blue-grey reclining chair tucked in the corner of the small living room, beneath a large painting of Thomas as a toddler and a pair of Indian heads that hung on an exposed chipwood wall.
Thomas sat down on a small sofa, his eyes on his shoelaces.
Blakely was happy to see Pacheco. Before the family had connected with him and the Hokli Nittak program, they'd had a series of bad experiences with school counselors.
Thomas Blakely standing behind his family's weather-beaten, clapboard house holding Wicked, a 3-year-old Pug-Shitzu. There's little to do in his small town. Thomas's family have done all they can to keep him focused and out of trouble.
Thomas is a bright boy, Pacheco and Blakely said. He's always scored high on standardized tests but around 3rd grade, his school work began to slip and his behavior became erratic.
He stopped doing his homework and Blakely began getting calls about Thomas's emotional outbursts in school.
One counselor asked if Thomas heard voices. He told her yes, that sometimes he thinks he hears someone calling him, Blakely recalled. The counselor wrote in her notes something about psychosis or hearing voices, and Blakely demanded the counselor remove it.
She explained how their house, which she grew up in, was haunted and she receives occasional visits from loved ones who've passed on.
That episode with the school counselor, Pacheco said, is consistent with the kind of culture clash many Indians encounter when dealing with non-Indians in so many ways.
Since Pacheco has started visiting with Thomas, Blakely said she's seen a turnaround in his grades and he's starting to get a handle on his emotions.
Thomas said he'd gotten into it with another boy in school, Michael, who had tormented him for much of the school year.
The other day Thomas said the two of them were horsing around in the hallway when Michael smacked his glasses from his face. Thomas looked over at Pacheco, as if gauging his reaction.
"What do we always talk about," Pacheco asked.
In the end, Thomas said it was Michael who got a paddling from the school principal and not him.
It was a small victory for the boy, but a victory nonetheless.
Blakely leaned back in her chair, smiling. There was hope.
Editor's note: this is the first of two stories on the Choctaw Nation, exploring the tribe's outreach efforts to young Indians struggling with poverty and teen pregnancy. The Choctaw Nation was recently selected by the Obama administration as one of five Promise Zones, a federal initiative aimed at helping impoverished communities across the country.
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My hopes in starting this site was to generate content and money. But if anyone knows me, they know that I am a messed up frazzled dude looking for my piece of the pie. Well, I'm not going to find my pie trying to be like all of the other "gurus" out there. I am my own man and even though I might have so much to offer in my own way I am still trying to figure some stuff out. So I am dedicating this site to myself, what I am interested in, and my plan for constant and never ending improvement. If you can draw inspiration from it then great. Please join me into my journey of self discovery and watch me get burned on the stove of life while I try to figure this out.
It has been some months since I have started this journey and I can't say that I am much farther than where I have started. But this is a marathon and not a sprint.
I am still going on with the children's book but it has been delayed due to the illustrator taking her sweet time. If I don't get some real results soon I will cut ties and go another route. Gotta keep moving forward.
So in the meantime while waiting I am pursuing a couple of other avenues. One is more of a fun test. I started a brand of beard balm. Yes, I said beard balm. I plan on launching on Amazon as soon as I can. It's a little more labor intensive than I would like it to be but if it is successful then I will find somebody else to make and pack it for me. I plan on having Amazon fulfill the orders for me using the Amazon FBA program. I will be pursuing some marketing avenues to get the word out before it goes live. I probably have about 3-4 weeks before it will be up on Amazon.
Another venture that I am doing is an ecommerce site that I set up selling a very niche product made on my laser cutter. I was very motivated when I started because I had never set up an ecommerce site before. It was a first attempt and it is a functional site. But after looking at it I think it is ugly and that I could do better so I will be taking efforts this week to revamp the site. I have already been getting some hits and larger orders so I think a little extra effort will pay off.
Oh! At the beginning of this journey I found a lot of motivation and guidance with Pat Flynn's Smart Passive Income blog but I am outgrowing the information that he is dishing out and also I am finding that a lot of what he focuses on (Blogging, podcasting, digital products, and affiliate marketing) does not really apply to the direction that I am heading.
So while I was scrolling through a million of Pat's podcasts I went back to one that I found very interesting. It was an interview with Ryan Moran of Freedom Fastlane where he spoke about how he grew his Amazon business. So I gave Ryan's podcast a shot and I am hooked. This podcast is much more "my style" and I hope to gather more inspiration and motivation from future episodes.
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So, what am I going to do to make my money? I have been told time and time to not chase dollars but to chase pains. I am already seeing this come to fruition since the couple of things that I have done have not been easy and maybe because I am not doing it for the right reasons or because there is no audience for it yet. But alas I shall detail what is going on inside of my mind. These are the things that I am starting to take action on and hope to see some benefits from.
1) Writing a children's book.


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An A-Z of Women Pushing Boundaries in Science and Tech
On International Women's Day, here's just a small sample of women whose work we've been following.
by MOTHERBOARD STAFF
Mar 8 2016, 1:30pm
Samantha Cristoforetti. Image: ESA/NASA
March 8 is International Women's Day, and to mark the occasion we've put together a list of just a small sample of women currently doing groundbreaking work in the fields of science and tech. History has overlooked or undermined women's achievements in these areas in the past, and there's still a clear gender divide today: Women are underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and continue to face issues from unconscious bias to open harassment. Here are just 26 women across disciplines whose work Motherboard has been keeping an eye on.
Katrin Amunts
Amunts is helping to map one of biology's greatest conundrums: the human brain. The German neuroscience professor is one of the most forward-thinking brain scientists in the world, and her lab has worked on a revolutionary 3D model with detailed resolutions as small as 20 micrometers. By scanning 7,400 slices of a preserved human female brain, Amunts and her team were able to create a 3D map depicting the organ's anatomy in microscopic detail.
Breazeal is an associate professor of media arts and sciences at MIT's Media Lab. She founded and directs the Personal Robots Group there, and is the founder of Jibo Inc., a company that created the world's first social robot designed to be used in homes. Her recent work investigates the impact of social robots on the quality of human life. She also wrote Designing Sociable Robots and has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from robot learning to autonomous robots.
European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has had a career marked by superlatives: She was the first Italian woman in space and also holds the record for the longest single spaceflight for a woman at just hours under 200 days. During the Fortuna mission to the International Space Station, which launched in late 2014 and came to an end last June, she became well-known for her regular photos, videos, and taco-making skills.
Kate Darling
Darling is at the forefront of technology and the law and a leading expert in robot ethics. As a research specialist at MIT's Media Lab, a fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and a visiting fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, Darling has written extensively about robot ethics, intellectual property, and the intersection of technology and society. She has also written about interesting and novel ideas like extending legal protections to social robots.
Sylvia Earle
National Geographic explorer-in-residence and former NOAA chief scientist Sylvia Earle has gone—literally—where no one has gone before. She's a marine biologist, explorer, and ocean advocate who counts more than 100 deep sea explorations under her belt and broke records by diving solo at a depth of 1,000 meters. Earle also led an all-female team of explorers called the Tektite Project, who lived in an underwater laboratory to study ocean species and the effects of underwater living on human bodies. She's since founded multiple research foundations and currently focuses on the role oceans will play in climate change.
Inez Fung
Inez Fung is a mathematician and professor of atmospheric science at the University of California at Berkeley. She developed the first 3D atmospheric models that projected how carbon cycles and climate change scenarios will affect the earth. Her research later led to the founding of a new scientific field called "biogeoscience." Fung has been a contributing scientist to the International Panel on Climate Change and currently serves on the National Science Board.
Fabiola Gianotti
Fabiola Gianotti. Image: Claudio Marcelloni De Oliveira/Wikimedia
On January 1, Gianotti became director general of CERN, the first woman ever named to the position. For the next five years, she'll help select the experiments performed at the world's most famous particle collider. A noted lover of the font Comic Sans, Gianotti helped lead the team that discovered the Higgs boson.
Julia Hu
If you're going to quit your MBA program to launch a tech startup, you'd better be sure you've got one hell of an idea. Fortunately, Julia Hu knew exactly what she was doing when she left MIT to start her health and fitness company Lark Technologies. She developed both a fitness app and wearable that collect your personal activity and biometric data and work as a digital personal trainer and motivational coach. In just a few years, Hu grew the company to become one of the most popular Apple HealthKit apps and it comes standard on Samsung S5 phones.
Walida Imarisha
Perhaps best known for coining the term "visionary fiction," Walida Imarisha is an activist, author, academic, and editor who's pushing boundaries on the sci-fi frontier. Last year, she was behind the essential Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, an Octavia Butler-inspired work that linked activism to speculative fiction.
Mae Jemison. Image: NASA
The first African American woman in space, Jemison has spent her terrestrial days dreaming up ways to send humans into deep space. She's currently the principal of 100 Year Starship, a DARPA-backed organization dedicated to achieving interstellar human space flight by 2112. Better hope we get started on some serious life-extension technologies while we're at it.
Victoria Kaspi
As an astrophysicist at McGill University in Montreal, Kaspi hunts down and studies neutron stars—the zombie stars of the Milky Way—and discovered the fastest rotating star we've seen. Neutron stars are incredibly dense: a teaspoon would weigh around 100 million metric tons. These dead stars will feed on others that get too close. This year, Kaspi became the first woman to win Canada's top science award, the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal, which comes with a $1 million grant to further her work.
Janna Levin
Janna Levin's fascination with the universe and its origins bridges science and storytelling. Her 2002 debut book, How the Universe Got Its Spots, melded geometry, topology, chaos, and string theory to demonstrate the ways cosmologists like her hunt for the true size and shape of the universe. A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines delved into math, history, and fiction, and earned her a PEN/Bingham Fellowship for Writers. Her next book sheds light on the hunt for evidence of the holy grail of modern cosmology: gravitational waves. A professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University, Levin has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of Brooklyn's madcap art-and-engineering Metropolitan Exchange, and a scientist-in-residence at Pioneer Works, where she hosts a public discussion series about scientific controversies.
Maryam Mirzakhani
In 2014, mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal for her work in geometry and dynamics. Currently a professor at Stanford University, she was the first woman to be awarded the prize—often considered the highest in mathematics—since it was first introduced in the 1930s.
Kathy Niakan
Developmental biologist Kathy Niakan became this year the first scientist to get regulatory approval to genetically modify human embryos. Based at the UK's Francis Crick Institute, Niakan is researching the genes needed for an embryo to develop, which could help in the development of fertility treatments and the prevention of miscarriages.
Naomi Oreskes
A historian of science, Oreskes has honed in on the ways that climate science has been distorted by a system of climate denial. She and co-author Erik Conroy documented the ways that "merchants of doubt"—scientists, journalists, and executives in the pocket of conservative groups and energy companies—have sought to tear apart evidence about anthropogenic climate change, just as they had once sought to question the dangers around cigarettes on behalf of the tobacco industry. In the process she's been vilified by her critics, labeled a communist, and worse. None of it has deterred her; last year she and Conroy even delved into science fiction. Set in the future, their The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View From the Future makes the argument that those who choose to ignore climate change will eventually bring about the big government regulation they often fear. Oreskes is a professor of the history of science at Harvard University.
Whitney Phillips
Phillips wrote This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, a sociological and anthropological journey into the depths of 4chan and the world of online trolling. Phillips spent four years posing as a 4chan troll, eventually revealing herself to be a researcher. She's currently a professor at Mercer University, where she regularly researches the cultural impact of memes, online harassment, trolling, and the online spaces we all inhabit.
Deborah Quazzo
After working in finance and investment banking during her post-college years, Quazzo eventually went on to found GSV Advisors, a firm that provides advisory services to educational tech companies. Her firm, along with Arizona University, co-hosts the annual ASU GSV Summit, a prestigious conference celebrating educational startups and new technologies changing the way we learn.
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Rionge is a serial entrepreneur from Kenya who co-founded Wanachi Online, an internet service provider that became one of East Africa's most successful cable, broadband, and internet-based phone companies. She has also co-founded several other companies, including a startup incubator and coworking space. Rionge got her start selling yoghurt and working at the local hairdresser, before venturing into business.
Deb Socia
Socia heads up Next Century Cities, a nonprofit coalition of 128 cities (and counting) that have vowed to find a way to provide their residents with gigabit fiber broadband internet connections. Founded in 2014, Next Century Cities's plan is to help American communities get fiber via any means, whether it's partnering with an internet service provider or building out a network themselves. Socia is dedicated to providing everyone with high speed, affordable internet.
Thuy Truong
Thuy Truong is a budding entrepreneur who the BBC recently dubbed "Vietnam's start-up queen." Born in Vietnam, she was educated in the US and then moved back to Vietnam to start up several business ventures with friends. After testing the waters with a frozen yoghurt business and a collaborative drawing app, Truong founded a social messaging app called Tappy. Around 10 months after it launched, Silicon Valley-based mobile gaming company Weeby acquired the app. Truong is currently working as Weeby's Asia business development director, splitting her time between San Francisco and Vietnam.
Corinna Ulcigrai
After receiving her PhD in mathematics from Princeton in 2007, Italian mathematician Corinna Ulcigrai went on to receive an award from the European Congress of Mathematics for solving a long-standing question about chaotic properties of area-preserving flows. She was awarded the European Mathematical Society Prize in 2012, and the Whitehead Prize in 2013. She now teaches at the University of Bristol in the UK.
Lydia Villa-Komaroff
Born to a Mexican family in Santa Fe, Villa-Komaroff went on to receive a PhD in cell biology from MIT and to become one of the founding members of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). In 1978, she became the first author of a report showing that bacteria could be induced to make proinsulin—representing the first time a mammalian hormone was ever synthesized by bacteria. She is also the recipient of the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award, and she has been inducted into the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Hall of Fame.
Terrie Williams
Williams is professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work focuses on large mammalian predators, especially aquatic species. She has traveled around the world studying animals such as whales, seals, and dolphins. Her research interests primarily include swimming and running energetics. In 1989, she began dedicating much of her time to conservation. During the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Williams was on the front lines, directing sea otter rescue efforts. Each year since the spill, she has traveled back to Alaska in order to train a new batch of wildlife responders, so that when another spill happens there is a team prepared to handle it.
Jian Xu
Women In Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame inductee Jian Xu works as a distinguished engineer at IBM and is part of the IBM Academy, an elite group of the company's top engineers. She held the highest non-executive position as an engineer at IBM, and now runs the company's China Systems and Technology Labs in Shanghai. She has filed over 20 patents and mentors fellow women engineers.
Tu Youyou
Chinese scientist Tu Youyou became her country's first female Nobel Prize recipient when she won the award for medicine in 2015. She was honored for her kickass research on malaria, which paved the way towards a new treatment for the disease. Tu and her team extracted a substance from Artemisia annua, a kind of roundworm, that proved capable of reducing malaria rates for millions across the globe. She won the award with two others, America's William Campbell and Japan's Satoshi Omura. What makes Tu even more badass is that she doesn't have a medical or doctorate degree, but got her start instead as a researcher at the Academy of Chinese Traditional Medicine after attending pharmacology school.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Bhilwara to address the public. What he is saying is notable. He attacked Congress over their comment: "nobody knows about the PM's father." He also hit the political party for asking his caste. "Koi ma ko gali deta hai, koi meri jati ko lekar sawaal poochta hai… bolne wala koi bhi ho, bolwane wala to namdaar hi hai," he slammed Congress.
The surgical strike which gave a befitting reply to Pakistan was a laudable effort by PM Modi. However, Congress is still asking for a video proof. The terror strikes have gone incredibly reduced under the BJP rule.
He also reflected on the suppressing and atrocities on the Dalit community in 2010 in Haryana's Michipur village, in 2005 in Sonepat's Sonaha and in 2000 in Karnataka. In all these state, Congress was ruling and the result was oppression.
The government led by CM Raje has increased the water levels in the state via her groundbreaking scheme named Mukhyamantri Jal Swavlamban Yojana. PM Modi grouped the water condition of Gujarat and Rajasthan and said that under the leadership of CM Raje (also known as the Queen of Rajasthan's Water Revolution), Rajasthan will soon be devoid of water scarcity issues, a state which Gujarat is enjoying.
Additionally, PM Modi also lauded Raje for opening several higher secondary schools and medical colleges. He informed the public that she has opened as many higher secondary schools and medical colleges in 5 years as Congress did in 50 years.
He said for the development that CM Raje ha done in 5 years, the public would otherwise have had to wait for 50 years in the Congress rule.
Next articleUnion Minister Rajnath Singh mocks Congress in Rajasthan, says its "A Marriage Without Groom". How true is this statement?


This was a tough weekend for me. Late Friday I came down with what appeared to be the flu that was not prevented by this year's flu vaccine. It just blew me away. I didn't do anything but sleep for three days. Several times it occurred to me that I should probably go the hospital. When I finally got in to see my doctor on Monday, he said I probably should have done exactly that.
X-rays revealed that I'm suffering from pneumonia. The doctor was concerned enough that he made an appointment for me Tuesday morning to make sure that I was getting better. Since I'm home typing this, I must be making some positive progress, but that seems like a real relative term.
Anyway, I'm sure not going to be out and about shooting pictures this week. And at the moment i just don't feel well enough to read poetry, so postings may be rare this week.
I managed to take Skye on his twenty minute walk today in very brisk weather, though we walked a little slower than usual. I managed to read 60+ pages of poetry and write a little commentary. Though I'll be on medicine for nearly two more weeks, I think I'm well on my way to recovery.
Thank you for all your good wishes, here and at Facebook. I thought by closing comments I might avoid that, but will admit that it still made me feel good to get all those good wishes.


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What's Its Role in Personal Transformation?
Well, to start with… "integration" is, in my opinion, a kind of transformer of human life. Integration can simply be defined as the interweaving of differentiated parts. Applying that to us, for example, it could be the interweaving our higher, essential (spiritual) qualities, our awareness of our somatic experience, and the psychological aspects of our existence.
It's important to consider this. Bringing together key, vital elements of our lives, of our being, is part of our path to becoming a more, whole, "integrated" individual. Interweaving the higher qualities of our essence, into our personality, for example, is one particularly valuable integration process to pursue. In addition, the integration process addresses all the functional triads of Enneagram training: our three energies, our three centers of intelligence, our three biological imperatives (subtypes), our three forms of emotional regulation/conflict resolution, and our lives with those in our lives.
The process of integration requires our working with the 5As — the Universal Growth Process — of Awareness, Acceptance, Appreciation, Action, and Adherence. In order to do this work, the work of integration, it's important to become "grounded," centered, and present. Then we need to focus on entering a state of open-heartedness, which better enables us to explore our somatic (bodily sensations) reactivity. Allow ourselves to sense into our limitations. What are you afraid of? Disappointed by? Upset with? Frustrated as a result of? Resistant to? What do any of these feel like, in the body?
This is the start of integration. The practice of feeling into "what's really there." Integration can be realized only when any of our more difficult experiences are acknowledged and "surfaced," when our joy is allowed flow through us freely, when we integrate what's really happening to us with what we'll allow ourselves to feel in our being, without judgement and resistance.
What about your thoughts on somatic awareness and its role in personal transformation?
What experiences have you had where the psychological and spiritual sides of you came together?
Take a moment to consider truly peak experiences you've had, where your memory is vivid, your awareness was somatic, spiritual, and life-engaging.
As I recall this, all of my senses come alive. At the age of 25, I was an intern on the hematology ward of the University Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I had a young, married woman who was also 25 under my care. She had leukemia and little more could be done beyond providing her love and comfort. Her husband having come from Northern Michigan was in her room holding her as she lay in a metal hospital bed. They asked for a pass to go outdoors on the coming Sunday afternoon. I walked to the window and viewed the lovely Huron River and valley. The trees were painted with autumn, and the grassy area bathed in sunlight.
I couldn't deny them their request, even though to do so I had to violate hospital rules. That evening when they returned, full of gratitude and holding each other, I felt a kind of bliss in my body, in my heart and in my soul. When he left that evening, she thanked me once again for allowing her to have such a beautiful, intimate, and as it turned out final time with her beloved husband. She passed away three days later. As an Enneagram Type 6 (my type unknown to me at the time), I somehow found the courage to violate hospital policy, take action from my heart, and grant her a pass.
In that moment, I was fully integrated. Aware of my own fear and trepidation, but equally feeling into my heart, I was able to override my "don't get in trouble" reactivity and reach beyond safety and personal comfort. This was what I needed to do, and it was a calling from a much higher place.
I was in fact reprimanded and threatened with probation. But the gift I gave them that afternoon of their being together on a beautiful fall afternoon was what really mattered.
Dear Dave,I remember talking to you in one enneagram meeting-perhaps the first international in California. I could sense that you were someone on the Path. Your sharing of that episode at 25 perhaps stands out as one of your "full"experiences.The way you describe it sounded to me that in some way that couple reflected who were you at the time so that when they left your life,you carried their togetherness as if they had passed their baton to you to carry and pass it on to us -as you do here!
Thank you for this thoughtful comment. I think we can all pass the baton when we are fully present and receptive. We just all need to learn to pause, be present, reflect, and respond from all three centers of intelligence.


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Airbus and Boeing's productivity improved 2.6% in May; 26% of units went to low-cost operators; Air Italy greets first 737 MAX 8
Air Italy became the newest operator of the 737 MAX 8 in May, with its first of the type seen here on arrival at its new home of Milan Malpensa, with the Italian hub greeting the aircraft with a water arch salute. "The touchdown of Air Italy's first 737 MAX in new livery at Malpensa marks the beginning of a new travel experience for the people of Italy. Not only are we pleased to be part of this memorable moment, but we are delighted to be supporting it by leasing Air Italy with five A330-200s this year from the Qatar Airways fleet," commented Akbar Al Baker, Group CEO, Qatar Airways.
Airbus and Boeing combined handed over 119 aircraft in May, up 2.6% (three units) from the 116 that the duo managed to achieve in the same month of 2017. The result is also an improvement compared to the companies' joint results for April, when the two saw productivity fall 3.1% versus April last year. Of all deliveries in May, 74% were narrow-body variants, with the remaining 26% wide-body. It should also be noted that April's deliveries reveal that 31% of Airbus' deliveries went to LCCs, while of Boeing's 68 unit handovers, 22% were destined for a low-cost operator, giving an average for all deliveries in May of 26%.
Between the two companies, Boeing, for the fourth time in 2018, was the leading manufacturer when it came to aircraft handovers. The North American giant distributed 68 units in May, with Airbus only managing 51, equal to the European's delivery total for April too. The result means that Boeing has edged further ahead in the 2018 delivery race, with it now holding a 73-unit lead over Airbus for the first five months of this year. Overall 519 units were delivered during the first five months of 2018, equal to what the two managed to achieve during the same period of 2017.
Airbus: 51 deliveries in May (41 narrow-body; 10 wide-body)
Source: Airbus.
During May, Airbus handed over 51 aircraft, matching its total for the month previous, however the result was nine units lower than the 60 aircraft it managed to deliver during the same month of 2017. During the fifth month of 2018, Airbus distributed 41 single-aisle and 10 wide-body aircraft. This compares to 46 narrow-body and 14 wide-body deliveries in May 2017.
Overall Airbus delivered aircraft to 34 airline customers in May 2018. It should be noted that 14 of the carriers that received Airbus aircraft in May are Asia based, nine European based, six Americas based, four Middle East based and one, namely Ethiopian Airlines, Africa based.
The most popular aircraft type to be delivered in April was the A321 (23 units), followed by the A320 (18). The largest recipient of the A321 was Delta Air Lines which collected six of the type in May. The second biggest carrier to pick-up the A321 was Interjet, with the Mexican airline receiving four. The premier carrier of the A320 was Indian operator GoAir which collected three, while easyJet was the second largest airline, with Europe's second biggest LCC receiving two of the type.
Looking at the wide-body market, Airbus handed over 10 aircraft, five less than it managed in April. The A350-900 was the premier model for the world's airlines, with seven being handed over to six airlines, a result of Lufthansa collecting two of the type in May. Along with the A350-900, two A330-200s were handed over to customers, including one destined for LEVEL (operated by OpenSkies), which recently put the aircraft into use at its new Paris Orly base. One A330-300 was also delivered in May, with it heading to Shenzhen Airlines in China, a carrier which has confirmed that it will begin long-haul operations on 30 October from its home base of Shenzhen to London Heathrow.
Boeing: 68 deliveries in May (47 narrow-body; 21 wide-body)
Source: Boeing.
Boeing distributed a total of 68 aircraft in May, 12 more than it managed to during the same month of 2017, 24 more units than its April result. Boeing's unit deliveries in May were made-up of 47 narrow-body and 21 wide-body variants. This compares to a 36/20 split in May 2017.
Like Airbus, Boeing's customers in May came from multiple geographic locations around the world, with 13 being Asia based, six Americas based, six European based, and two Middle East based, with the rest of the unit deliveries going to either cargo or private users. Therefore although Airbus managed to deliver less units than Boeing, it managed to distribute to 34 carriers, versus Boeing which only handed units over to 27 clients.
The most popular Boeing aircraft type to be delivered in May was the 737-800, with 24 being handed out to customers. Ryanair was the leading customer of the -800 series once again, with it collecting eight in May, with this coming off the back of it receiving five in April and seven in March, meaning the Irish LCC has collected 20 new aircraft between 1 March and 31 May. The 737 MAX 8 was also a highlight, with Boeing noting 16 hand overs during the fifth month of 2018, with one of these being the first of the type to be delivered to Air Italy.
With regards to Boeing's wide-body production, the most memorable delivery for May 2018 was Singapore Airlines receiving its third and fourth 787-10. To date it is still the only airline operating the stretched version of the type. Along with the 787-10, a further 10 787-9s were also handed over to customers in May, along with one 787-8 which headed for Uzbekistan Airways. Along with these deliveries, five 777-300s, one 777-200 and two 767-300s were also delivered to clientele around the world.
Airbus delivered an A330-200 to LEVEL in May, with this being the airline's first aircraft to be operated by OpenSkies rather than Iberia. The airline used the aircraft to establish its Paris Orly base, with the carrier's first flight to Montreal seen here being greeted by a water arch salute. Overall Airbus delivered 10 wide-body aircraft in May.
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Trump and officials meet with pharma on coronavirus treatments
President Trump wanted to know how quickly pharma could have a vaccine or treatment ready for public use.
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The Trump administration is putting aside drug price drama and trying to help pharma develop coronavirus treatments and vaccines faster.
On Monday, President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar met with pharma companies as they develop treatments for coronavirus.
"We're here working with the pharmaceutical company leaders on three key issues: how do we speed vaccines, how do we speed therapeutics, and what are the supply chain challenges that we may be facing for pharmaceutical products here in the United States," Azar said in the meeting. "With regard to therapeutics and vaccines, we want to know how we can not get in their way but rather speed that development process along."
Administration officials met with 10 pharma companies: GSK, Sanofi, J&J, Pfizer, Gilead, Regeneron, Moderna, Inovio, CureVac and Novavax.
Each company described what its treatment was focused on and the technology behind it. President Trump seemed most concerned about pharma companies working together and the timing of a vaccine or treatment.
Leaders from pharma companies including Sanofi, Regeneron and Novavax said they expect to have a vaccine ready for phase 1 trials by the summer and could have a final product ready in about a year.
But Trump continued to push these companies on how quickly they could have the treatment ready. Lenny Schleifer, founder and CEO of Regeneron, explained the danger of bringing a product to the market too quickly.
"I sense the cautiousness of [Tony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] and he's right to be cautious," Schleifer said in the meeting. "Vaccines have to be tested because there's precedence for vaccines to actually make diseases worse. You don't want to rush and make it — you don't want to rush and treat a million people and find out you're making 900,000 of them worse."
Other officials, including Azar and Fauci, jumped in to manage expectations when Trump claimed that a vaccine or treatment would be ready in just a few months, explaining that was when human trials would begin.
"Would you make sure you get the President the information that a vaccine that you make and start testing in a year is not a vaccine that's deployable," Fauci said. "He's asking the question, 'When is it going to be deployable?' and that is going to be, at the earliest, a year to a year and a half, no matter how fast you go."
A member of the press asked whether the federal government would provide money to pharma companies to develop these vaccines, but Trump dismissed the idea, saying "they're so rich … they don't need money."
"They need time," he continued. "I think what they need more than anything else … is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and [Fauci] to help them get through the [trial and approval] process as quickly as possible, the bureaucratic stuff."
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