Our family sponsorship program allows families in the US to sponsor a family in Africa who struggles to meet their basic needs. A.S.A.P. partners with A.S.I.G.E. organization in Ghana to locate families experiencing particular hardships and connects them with a US family who wants to help. The goal is to assist the family in developing a financial plan to be able to support themselves independently while also receiving encouragement and moral support from the sponsor family. The sponsor family will learn about the real life and challenges faced by a family in a completely different culture and has the satisfaction of being able to empower the family as well as the whole community to thrive.
Only $37 a month can help a family get back on their feet and give them the hope for a better future.
Exactly where does my money go?
We are completely transparent and are happy to tell you exactly where your sponsorship money will go.
Approximately $7 a month will go towards costs of administering the program by Americans Serving Abroad Projects and ASIGE. These include the cost of accounting, transferring the funds, opening a savings account for the family, education on money management and financial planning, assisting the family in developing a plan to become self sufficient, supervision in ensuring the money is used properly, obtaining and delivering periodic correspondence/pictures/videos to and from both families, and quarterly reports on the sponsored family's progress.
Approximately $5 a month will go into a community account to be spent on community development projects for the community in which the family lives. Experience shows that improving conditions and education in the general community also directly benefits the sponsored family.
The remaining $25 will go to the sponsor family and will be spent according to the plan developed by the sponsored family and ASIGE (some for essential needs, some into savings to start a business or for education) The sponsoring family will be given info on the plan that is developed as well as the progress.
If these allotments change based on the particular needs of the family and/or community, the sponsoring family will be notified.
Can my family correspond with the family we sponsor?
Absolutely! That's a core part of the program. Though not required, we encourage each member of the sponsoring family to send letters, pictures, and videos to the family you are sponsoring. This is an important piece that will help the sponsored family feel supported and encouraged. You will be given a profile of the family you sponsor and will receive monthly communications from them also. We want you to develop a relationship so that you know your support is vital. All communications will go through ASAP and ASIGE in the form of emails. Communications you send to your family through ASAP will be printed and delivered to the family by ASIGE staff. As most families in that area do not know much (if any) English. correspondence will need to be interpreted. Likewise, communications from the sponsored family will be obtained from and interpreted by ASIGE and delivered to you via email from ASAP. You may also send videos which ASIGE will show to the family on their mobile phone. ASIGE may take videos of the sponsored family from time to time which ASAP will email to you. You will also have the option of sending an extra amount of money on special holidays if you desire.
Am I obligated to continue sponsorship for a certain period of time?
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What happens when the family I sponsor establishes independence or has to leave the program for other reasons?
If the family you are sponsoring no longer needs the program or leaves the program for other reasons, you will be given the choice of sponsoring another family in need or discontinuing sponsorship.
Can we visit the family we sponsor?
If you have the desire and the means, ASAP and ASIGE can help you make arrangements for a visit if the family agrees.
Can we send packages to the family we sponsor?
No, we do not recommend sending packages as customs fees can be high and mail is unreliable so we cannot guarantee the family will receive it. If ASAP is doing a visit to the area we will inform you so that you may send a small package with us to deliver to the family. Likewise, on our return you may also receive a surprise package!
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HHS seeks Common Rule delay as informatics researchers await final rule
by Evan Sweeney |
OMB is reviewing an HHS proposal to delay Common Rule changes until 2019.
The Office of Management and Budget is reviewing a proposed one-year delay for updates to the Common Rule that have been in limbo since the Trump administration took office.
Changes to the Common Rule were finalized by the previous administration on Barack Obama's last day in office and then quickly put on hold by the White House as part of a broad regulatory freeze. The final rule included a number of modernized changes to the 1991 regulation that oversees the ethics of biomedical and behavioral research. The changes were scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2018.
OMB indicated it is reviewing a proposal from the Department of Health and Human Services that would delay implementation for one year "while allowing the use of three burden-reducing provisions during the delay year." The review was first reported by Politico.
RELATED: AMIA wants a decision on Common Rule updates
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), which had grown impatient over the lack of clarity regarding the final rule said it "appreciates and supports" the one-year delay and looks forward to "learning which provisions will be available for use before January 2019."
1 year delay for #CommonRule implementation? Proposal making its way through #OIRA. Which 3 provisions can you implement sooner? Stay tuned.
— Heather Pierce (@HeatherHPierce) October 10, 2017
"Combined with rapid adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by care providers and dramatic improvements in computing technology, we believe the final revisions to the Common Rule are necessary to improve discovery of new health insights and advance healthcare transformation," the group said in an emailed statement.
In June, AMIA sent a letter to then-HHS Secretary Tom Price and OMB Director John Mulvaney asking the officials to finalize updates to the Common Rule, noting that it would allow researchers to access and leverage patient data to drive new medical discoveries. The organization argued that the updates were critical to the success of national research initiatives like the National Institutes of Health's "All of Us" campaign.
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Maternal health startup Mahmee raises $3M from Williams, Cuban
Mahmee, a startup focused on maternal and infant health, just closed a $3 million funding round that includes Mark Cuban and Serena Williams.
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Physician interest in telemedicine doubles, report finds
When it comes to telemedicine, more physicians are getting on board, with interest doubling over a three-year period.
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Industry Voices—5G and the future of healthcare
Just as it promises to increase speeds and reduce latency for consumers, 5G technology also has the potential to transform how healthcare is delivered.
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Mayans in Miami and Muvians in Japan
If anyone is interested—and I can't imagine many will be—Richard Thornton published his latest screed attempting to vindicate the episode of America Unearthed on which he appeared nearly two years ago. In it, he complains about "those who had set up web sites to attack" America Unearthed and the tyranny of the cabal of professors who are suppressing the truth about the Maya, this time in terms of their supposed visits to Miami. Thornton is particularly upset this week about scholarly rejection of the claim that the Mayaimi, who gave their name to Miami, were really Maya based on a shared syllable. He falsely claims that people believe Mayaimi to mean "Big Water" (rather than "Maya") because of Wikipedia:
Another clue was that Wikipedia cited as its authoritative source on the translation of Mayaimi, a 1956 publication by the Florida Geological Survey, entitled, "Florida Place-Names of Indian Derivation." Such booklets are notorious for using folklore to translate Native America words. Florida's version is much more accurate than most because the majority of Florida's Native American place names are derived from either the Itsate-Creek or Muskogee-Creek languages. Speakers of both languages still live in Florida. However, Mayaimi is not a Creek word. The Florida booklet based its translation on folklore. Because Lake Okeechobee gets its modern name from the Itstate-Creek words meaning "Big Water" someone the past speculated that the original name of the lake, Mayami, also meant "Big Water."
This is wrong. The reason scholars believe Mayaimi means "big water" is because that's what Hernando d'Escalante Fontenada reported when he visited and talked to the people in question in 1575: "They are masters of a large district of country, as far as a town they call Guacata, on the Lake of Mayaimi, which is called Mayaimi because it is very large." Granted, this is not definitive proof, but it is more than simply folklore.
I believe with this piece Thornton has now written a separate article covering each segment of that long-ago episode of America Unearthed.
So let's look at something completely different. Over at Graham Hancock's website, his current author of the month is Avery Morrow, the author of The Sacred Science of Ancient Japan, and a graduate student with an interest in what he calls "parahistory." Morrow introduces some of the strange sidelights of Japanese mythology, but he plays coy about whether we are to believe that the texts he discusses—and which he says are of "dubious provenance"—should be considered anything other than modern forgeries.
The most important of these texts are the Takenouchi Documents, which were publicized in 1928 but were supposedly written in ancient times. According to the documents, Japan was a sort of Asian Atlantis, with an ancient culture that served as the font for all world culture. Religious leaders from around the world came to Japan to learn spiritual truths, and Jesus himself died in Japan. Moses flew to Japan in something resembling an airship. At the time that the documents came to light, Japan was beginning its militaristic expansion overseas (and had indeed been the colonizer of Korea since 1910 and the occupying power of the ex-German Pacific mandates since 1919). By sheer coincidence, the documents just happened to provide an ideological and mythological rationalization for Japan's right to rule over the rest of the world by force of its superior culture and world-historical position, according to Prof. Ichiro Yamane.
I'm more intrigued by the Hotsuma Tsutaye, an archaizing epic poem written in a faux version of ancient Japanese and intended to be passed off as a composition from 100 CE. Manuscripts date back to the eighteenth century and offers a rationalized history very similar to Donnelly's Atlantis: The Antediluvian World in which the gods were really human kings of a fabulous ancient civilization. It's intriguing that the composition seems to date to the same time that Western mythologists like the Abbé Banier were creating similar rationalized accounts of Greek mythology.
This is all fine and dandy, but what Morrow doesn't discuss in his brief article (though I'm sure it's covered in his book) is that the Takenouchi Documents' parallels to James Churchward's idea of Mu (published just two years earlier) led the Mahikari cult to fold the two together and declare that Japan was the remnant of Mu and used this claim to support the idea that the cult's leader, Okada, was possessed of not just ancient wisdom, but the purest of all ancient wisdom. The cult formed in 1963 on the claim that while experiencing a fever in 1959 Okada went to the spirit realm and met a god who was doing laundry. He would later claim that the "yellow" race was earth's first and dominant people, and that the pyramids of the earth were erected in honor of the ancient pyramids of Japanese-dominated Mu, which had a nuclear war with Atlantis!
It's rather hard not to see Mu's nuclear victory over Atlantis as a fantasy inversion of America's nuclear bombing of Japan at the end of World War II, with a hefty assist from the Soviet "ancient nuclear war" claims (repeated by Morning of the Magicians and other ancient astronaut texts) in the years leading up to the founding of Mahikari.
Here's a map from the cult's textbook showing how Japan-Mu seeded all the world with their culture:
There was a scandal back in the 1990s when the Australian government recognized Mahikari as an educational organization and provided financial support for its "educational" efforts, aimed at teaching children the "truth" about world history and the Japanese origins of the Jews.
It's particularly intriguing the way Okada has appropriated Churchward's fantasy and inverted its colonialist undertones. For Churchward, Mu was dominated by the white race, who formed its aristocracy and ruling class. (This is where David Childress derives some of his more unfortunate racial claims, such as his hierarchy of races in 1996's Ancient Tonga and the Lost City of Mu'ua.) But Okada has raised his own people to the top of the heap (and in fact further divides the "yellow" people so that the Japanese are paramount above the Chinese and Koreans). His is a Japan-centric version of pseudo-history, and so far as I know one that is largely unknown outside of Japan.
I am going to have to read this post a few times. This is about as bizarre as I've heard in terms of fringe theories. The map alone is priceless... :)
I like the fact that just about the only place they won't take credit for is sub-Saharan Africa. There aren't any arrows going there!
Jason, I'm surprised you did not include Mahikari's diagram of the Modern Man... :)
Duke of URL
"Moses flew to Japan in something resembling an airship."
YOU MEAN IT WASN'T NECESSARY TO SPEND ALL THOSE YEARS WANDERING AROUND THAT STUPID DESERT??? Aaarrghh...
While I agree that many academics can be as closed-minded and tribalistic as anyone when their status quo is challenged, fringe historians just aren't the ones to do it - even if they had a shred of concrete evidence to support their positions. Emotionally, they're all little kids.
Of course! That's why Kennewick Man resembles the Ainu! He must have been a pilgrim from Mu!
On a separate note, I like how the map incorporates the three major imaginary sunken continents. You don't often see Mu and Lemuria depicted together.
Even Japan's creepy cults are famous for compactness and efficiency of their products! :)
PaulN. link
Does anybody remembers V.T.Hamlin's Alley Oop? He was from the kingdom of Moo (Mu), back in the Bone Age The neighboring kingdom was Lem (Lemuria), and they were always in some kind of disagreement.
Uncle Ron
And he rode around on a brontosaurus. There was even a "hit" song about him on the radio for a while.
Colonial times does not really mean ancient times, and there are forgeries all over, apparently. Then these fantasy historians run off and think this stuff is true. At least Dan Brown later claimed his works were fiction. This is just nuts.
Oh the Mu cult couldn't have hat its own agenda, not at all. Lol. To sell their story to their followers.
The Maya and Miami thing is as nuts as thinking Martha's Vinyard is Viking. The fringe cannot rationally think that modern names for things equate to ancient ones, as much has changed since those times. Maybe they think Columbus, Ohio and Columbia are colonies set up by Columbus, on that logic. Nonsense.
Sure the Mayas had been around but to think that a modern colonia name for a word in Creed is somehow the same word in Mayan is silly. The Mayans were not called 'big water' but Miami was. Near as I can tell looking this up on the net here, the current spin off populations of the Mayans, who did not disappear as alleged, live mainly in Mexico and Central America and the name seems to mean 'collective' not 'big water'.
It's funny how the fringe claims they all died out, whereas there are actually Mayan descendants living in the Yucantan and other places today. They interpreted all that 2012 stuff as bunk long ago and said it's just a calendar. Miami, Florida has about as much connection to them as York has to New York (which originally had been called New Amsterdam). Actually with New York there probably is more of one, as the settlers could have been from both, but it's not likely the Florida Indians and the Yucatan Indians settled on the name or had any reason to get together and decide it. Miami is no more a colony of them than it is a colony of the Spanish at this point. Less even.
Kal the Infamous
No mention is made of there being any connection to the Mayans on the Miami city page.
http://www.city-data.com/us-cities/The-South/Miami-History.html
An Over-Educated Grunt
Nieuw Amsterdam was renamed New York as a nod to its colonial patron, James, Duke of York, under Charles II. That one at least has a connection - same as the Virginia Company was chartered by Elizabeth. Least they didn't call it Gloriana.
Believe it or not, Jason's discussion of the Japanese pseudohistory-driven cults merely scratches the surface of the crazy.
These cults have millions of followers and are conducting aggressive international expansion. Oh, and they are a serious force in the struggle to revise Japanese history textbooks to whitewash their actions in WW2.
Sadly, far too much of the material is in Japanese, which I don't speak. It's hard to analyze claims I can't read in the original.
If you like, I can send you some more references. I've assembled a veritable library of this stuff over the last couple of days.
Jean Stone
I'd be interested to see some of that material, might be a fun test of my Japanese if it's not too esoteric. I'd heard of the Takenouchi Documents before since they're claimed as the source of some nonsense about magic metal that has cropped up a lot in pop culture contexts.
Reminds me how I saw someone years ago trying to link Japan to the Lost Tribes of Israel. Next up: Susanoo was a Nephilim, or maybe the Templars fled to Japan?
And Orochi was a Reptilian!
@ Jean Stone
No, but King Tut was a Japanese prince and Jesus performed his miracles with Shinto magic he learned while in Japan :)
Dave Lewis
@EP I would also like to read more about the Japanese cults. Thanks in advance for providing references.
Dave, Jean, and whoever else is interested, I regret that I cannot be more helpful with the primary sources, since I don't know Japanese either. However, there is a substantial body of work by respectable scholars who do, including anthropologists who did field work with these cults. The teachings of Mahikari (the family of cults that is the main contemporary source of this brand of lunacy), moreover, can be found in the writings of Andris Tebecis, Mahikari's leading Western exponent. He's a typical lying New Age windbag, who loves to inflate and brag about his credentials - but check out "Thank God for the Answers at Last" and "The Future Is in Our Hands".
Anyway, the place to start is Winston Davis's book "Dojo: Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan" (much of it, including the chapter on Mu and the rest, can be read on Google Books - do check out the diagram of the Modern Man I mentioned in a comment above!). Other scholars who have done a lot of work on Mahikari (and many of whose articles are freely available online) are Brian McVeigh, Catherine Cornille, and W. S. Pfeiffer.
It is not always easy to find reliable information about these religious movements, since their teachings are (a) improvised by the cult leaders to suit their present goals, (b) are imparted esoterically, via different levels of initiation and courses, and (c) often refer to apocryphal or non-existent sources. For instance, the notorious Takenouchi Documents are triply false: (1) their contents are fictional (duh!), (2) they are a forgery (duh, again!), and (3) the originals are said to have been destroyed by the government and may never have even existed or contained anything like their alleged paraphrases.
Oh, and Dave asked about "the Japanese cults". I am by no means an expert but Mahikari is by no means the only one that makes you go "wait, what?" - there is also one that worships the creator of Esperanto a god, as well as one that believes that
And then there is Aum Shinrikyo, which executed deadly terrorist attacks on Tokyo subway in 1995 and tried to acquire nuclear weapons in Russia. Their worldview was heavily influenced by the anime series Space Battleship Yamato.
Sorry, last sentence in the first paragraph of the comment above should read: "...as well as one that believes that in order to save the world we must build weird monuments in remote locations around the world."
Jose Simental
Ok, let me get tjis right, if Miami FL is proff of Mayans in Florida, then.... The Great Miami and Little Miami rivers, and the Miami Valley in southwestern Ohio could prove that Mayans were there too. Maybe they were the ones that stole the missing copper shiping it south via the Ohio to the Mississippi and the gulf... What a great episode of Fringe History episode this could make..... :-)
Anyway, and in all seriousness, the rivers and valley are named for the Miami, an Algonquian speaking Native American tribe who lived in the region when thi first Europeans setteled the area.


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