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Eberhard Zangger (né le 9 avril 1958 à Kamen, en Allemagne) est un géoarchéologue, conseiller en communication et éditorialiste suisse. Il acquiert une renommée internationale en défendant la thèse qu'une civilisation louvite a existé en Anatolie occidentale durant le  millénaire  En 1992, Zangger élabore la thèse selon laquelle le témoignage de Platon sur l'Atlantide serait le récit de l'histoire de Troie racontée du point de vue des Égyptiens.

Vie et œuvre
Zangger étudie la géologie/paléontologie à l'Université de Kiel et obtient un doctorat après des études de deuxième cycle à l'Université Stanford entre 1984 et 1988. Il devient par la suite collaborateur scientifique de l'Université de Cambridge. De 1991 à 1999, Zangger gère le bureau de conseil Geoarcheology International à Zurich, qui participait à environ six projets archéologiques par année en Méditerranée orientale.

À partir de 1982, Zangger se spécialise dans le domaine de la géoarchéologie. Parmi ses premiers objets d'étude et découvertes, on compte le site côtier néolithique de Dimini Magoula en Grèce centrale, l'extension du lac de Lerne, la datation exacte et le fonctionnement du détournement des rivières par les Mycéniens ainsi que la basse-ville de Tirynthe, le caractère insulaire d'Asinè, le port artificiel de Nestor près de Pylos et même un mécanisme de lavage d'eau potable et un barrage artificiel sur site minoen de Monastiraki en Crète centrale.

Zangger a acquis une notoriété internationale en 1992 avec son interprétation affirmant que l'Atlantide de Platon serait en fait Troie, qu'il exposa pour la première fois dans son premier livre The Flood from Heaven Platon aurait transformé sans le savoir une variante égyptienne du récit de la chute de Troie en son mythe de l'Atlantide. L'argumentation de Zangger établit un parallèle entre les indications de Platon sur la guerre opposant la Grèce et l'Atlantide et différentes sources antiques sur la guerre de Troie. Dans un article de l'Oxford Journal of Archaeology de 1993, Zangger énumère de nombreux points communs entre la description de l'Atlantide par Platon et les représentations de Troie au Bronze final.

En 1994, il poursuit avec un autre livre, Ein neuer Kampf um Troia, dans lequel il établit un lien entre les inscriptions des temples égyptiens au sujet des invasions des peuples de la mer vers 1200  et la tradition sur la guerre de Troie. Dans ce livre, il présente pour la première fois une chronologie de l'évolution politique et économique dans le bassin méditerranéen oriental au cours du , selon sa perspective. Il interprète la légende de la guerre de Troie comme le souvenir d'une « guerre mondiale » au cours de laquelle les nations du bassin méditerranéen oriental se sont en grande partie effondrées vers 1200  Dans sa thèse, Zangger donne une importance plus grande aux nations de l'Anatolie de l'Ouest et du Nord-Ouest – les petits royaumes louvites mentionnés dans les documents hittites tels que Arzawa, Mira, Wilusa, Lukka et le Pays de la rivière Seha – que ce qui se pensait alors communément. Selon lui, si ces petits pays s'étaient unis, ils auraient égalé l'importance militaire et économique de la Grèce mycénienne ou de la Crète minoenne. Ils s'opposaient au royaume hittite et réapparaissent en tant que «peuples de la mer» dans les sources égyptiennes du temps de Mérenptah et Ramsès III. Cette coalition était formée par l'Assyrie, les Gasgas et les tribus libyennes. Les Hittites comptaient (outre les royaumes vassaux d'Amurru et Ougarit) l'Égypte et la Grèce mycénienne comme alliés.

En 1998, dans son troisième livre, Die Zukunft der Vergangenheit, Zangger esquisse l'évolution des événements au cours du , après la guerre de Troie. Des groupes dispersés de survivants des invasions des peuples de la mer et de la guerre de Troie fondèrent de nouvelles colonies en Italie et en Syrie/Palestine, et participèrent ainsi à la naissance des cultures étrusques et phéniciennes, selon la théorie de Zangger. Il argumente par ailleurs que l'éruption de Santorin au  n'a pas pu donner lieu à l'effondrement de la caldeira, et donc à aucun tsunami. Pour Zangger, le rôle des catastrophes naturelles dans les bouleversements culturels a été surévalué. Il plaide au contraire pour une plus grande implication des sciences naturelles et une participation accrue des spécialistes en urbanisme et génie hydraulique dans l'archéologie.

En 1998, en collaboration avec l'Institut fédéral des géosciences et des ressources naturelles allemand (BGR) de Hanovre, Zangger prépare également un projet d'exploration par hélicoptère de la plaine de Troade pour y localiser des structures urbaines et des bassins portuaires artificiels à l'aide de mesures géomagnétiques Mais le ministère turc de la culture n'a pas autorisé le projet.

Zangger annonce en avril 2001 lors d'une conférence devant l'Académie des sciences de Heidelberg qu'il abandonne la recherche pour un certain temps En 1999, il devient consultant en relations publiques dans une agence de communication établie à Zurich.En 2002, il travaille comme indépendant et fonde le cabinet de conseil pour la communication d'entreprise science communications GmbH à Zurich.

Depuis avril 2014, Zangger est président du conseil de la fondation internationale à but non lucratif Luwian Studies. Le but de la fondation, tel qu'il apparaît dans le registre du commerce du canton de Zurich, est « la recherche sur le deuxième millénaire avant Jésus-Christ en Asie Mineure occidentale ainsi que la diffusion des connaissances à ce sujet ».

Le magazine « Der Spiegel » a consacré aux projets et publications de Zangger sept articles de plusieurs pages entre 1992 et 1999, dont un article de couverture, et l'a qualifié à différentes reprises d'« Einstein de l'Antiquité ».

Publications
 The Landscape Evolution of the Argive Plain (Greece). Paleo-Ecology, Holocene Depositional History and Coastline Changes. Thèse de doctorat à l'Université Stanford , University Microfilm International, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1988.
 Prehistoric Coastal Environments in Greece: The Vanished Landscapes of Dimini Bay and Lake Lerna. Journal of Field Archaeology 18 (1): 1-15. 1991.
 The Flood from Heaven – Deciphering the Atlantis Legend. Sidgwick & Jackson, Londres 1992 .
 The Geoarchaeology of the Argolid. (Édité par l'Institut archéologique allemand à Athènes), Mann, Berlin 1993 .
 Plato's Atlantis Account: A distorted recollection of the Trojan War. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 18 (1): 77-87. 1993.
 The Island of Asine: A paleogeographic reconstruction. Opuscula Atheniensa XX.15: 221-239. 1994.
 Ein neuer Kampf um Troia. Archäologie in der Krise. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1994 .
 En collaboration avec Michael Timpson, Sergei Yazvenko, Falko Kuhnke y Jost Knauss: The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project; Landscape Evolution and Site Preservation. Hesperia 66 (4): 549-641. 1997.
 Das Atlantis=Troja-Konzept – Auf den Spuren einer versunkenen Kultur in Westkleinasien. Vierteljahresschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 143 (1), 13-23. 1998.
 Die Zukunft der Vergangenheit. Archäologie im 21. Jahrhundert. Schneekluth, Munich 1998 .
 En collaboration avec Michael Timpson, Sergei Yazvenko y Horst Leiermann: Searching for the Ports of Troy. Dans: Philippe Leveau, Frédéric Trément, Walsh Kevin, Barker Graeme (éd.) Environmental Reconstruction in Mediterranean Landscape. Oxford 1999 .
 Some Open Questions About the Plain of Troia. Dans: Troia and the Troad – Scientific Approaches. Springer, Berlín, 317-324. 2003 .

Références

Liens externes

 Biographie (version du 4 février 2004 sur Internet Archive) sur zangger.org (archivé).
 Atlantis = Troie (version du 30 octobre 2004 sur Internet Archive) dans les mots-clés sur zangger.org (archivé).

Article sur le thème Atlantis = Troie
 Ist Troja gleich Atlantis? Viele Parallelen erkennbar. (version du 3 novembre 2005 sur Internet Archive) ZDF, 28 septembre 2003.
 Das Puzzle des Philosophen Der Spiegel, 29 décembre 1998, accroche sur le projet de Troie (PDF).
 Projet d'exploration par hélicoptère à l'aide de mesures géomagnétiques pas autorisé par la Turquie (version du 19 juin 2002 sur Internet Archive) (archivé).

Interviews
 Die End-Zeit der Diven Dans: Schwäbisches Tagblatt. 18 février 2002, à l'occasion de la conférence sur Troie de Tübingen (version du 9 novembre 2003 sur Internet Archive; archivé).
 Geoarchäologie: Provokateur Eberhard Zangger Dans: Merian. Creta, octobre 2000, pages 34–37.

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Icebreaker: Name Memory!
The goal of this game it to help students learn and remember the names of the people in the group.
Get everyone in a circle (or multiple circles depending on the size of your group) and ask for a volunteer to start by giving their name. The person to their right then has to then say the first person's name as well as their own and so on around the circle. The last person to go has the hardest job because they have to recite everyone else's name before introducing themself.
Note: Many in your group may know each other already, so consider adding a piece of trivia along with the names of the people in the group. Possible trivia questions may be: favorite animal, favorite place they have traveled to, favorite animated movie, birth month, least favorite food.
When the game is over, ask students to rate the difficulty of remembering all the names and trivia points on a scale of one to ten. Then ask, "What other things do we struggle to remember?" After this question has been discussed, pivot into the scripture lesson.
Lesson:
The book of Jeremiah is written to encourage the Israelites who are living in exile, reminding them that they have a good future, and an identity and home with God. Jeremiah was a prophet sent by God to the nation of Israel to remind them who they were, and who they belonged to. Through this constant reminding, Israel was able to keep hold of their identity, even when they were surrounded by other persuasive influences. In Jeremiah's context, exile was used as a tool for strong nations to dominate and eventually absorb another nation. Through the process of exile, the people of the weaker nation would tend to abandon their practices of faith, the rituals that helped shape their lives in their homeland, and adopt in their place the habits and even the faith of the dominant nation.
Read Jeremiah 31:31-34.
What message did God give Jeremiah to remind the Israelites of their identity?
If you have a whiteboard, write "Promise" at the top and make two columns on the rest of the board. Label one column "Will be" and the other column, "Will not be". IF not have someone do it on w a piece of paper.
Covenant is a specific kind of promise. In the Ancient Near East, when nations were against one another, the stronger one would try to capture the weaker one and take them into the country of the stronger nation. This was what the word exile meant. However, there was another possible relationship between nations. When the stronger nation wanted to make an alliance with the weaker nation, the two nations would make a covenant together. That covenant was an official promise that specified the terms of the relationship.
So, when God makes a covenant with Israel, he is acting in direct contrast to Israel's oppressors. God makes a covenant as the stronger member of the relationship, using his strength to support them through making an alliance with them. God gives Israel the chance to identify with him rather than lose their identity in exile. Jeremiah 31:31-34 lists the terms of God's promise, noting specifically what his promise will be and what it will not be.
Ask a different student to read each verse again (Jeremiah 31:31-34), pausing in between verses.
In between each verse, fill out the columns together, calling out what that verse says about God's promise. (Note: when scripture says "I will" put it in the "will be" column. When the scripture says, "will not" or "no more" put it in the "will not be" column.) By the last verse, you should have a good-sized list of the implications of God's promises.
With that list in the background, ask some discussion questions choose from the following list:
Why do you think God is making a new covenant or promise with the Israelites?
What do you think the significance may be of having a promise that is new instead of old (e.g. "Not like the covenant I made with your ancestors" vs.32)
What is God explicitly promising to do?
What is God promising to remember?
Is there anything God is promising to forget?
How do you feel/what do you think about the idea that God can choose to forget some things?
Is there anything going on in your life that you hope God specifically remembers?
What does God's promise have to do with how the Israelites see themselves? Said another way, What is the relationship between God's promise and the Israelite's identity?
Does it matter that this promise is made to the Israelites in exile? Would it change anything for the Israelites if God made this same promise when everything was going well for them?
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Of course, we all know about the Wild West. Men wore cowboy hats—white stetsons for good guys, black for bad ones. Everyone was armed with a six-shooter, and cowboys were old white dudes with names like "Tex" who'd grown up on the open range. Women came in two kickass models: good (frontier wives/ preachers' daughters) and bad (dance-hall girls/Soiled Doves such as Big Nose Kate, Doc Holliday's common law wife). Occasionally, the Soiled Doves—if they had a Heart-of-Gold—would become good saloon owners (like Miss Kitty in Gunsmoke) or even wives. On any given noon, there could be shoot-outs on Main Street. Or perhaps a gang of black-hats wearing long dusters would arrive in town, scope out the saloon, and then rob the bank, shooting their way out of town in a hail of bullets as they hightail it back to the Hole-in-the Wall/territory line/Mexico.
Andrew Joyce doesn't so much take on the stereotypes, as he presents a revisionist history of epic events from a human scale. But in the light of recent elections, I also have to say that it feels like a cautionary tale. As Americans, we're invited to examine our past, and to take an honest look at what happens when we stop viewing other people—their lives, their looks, their cultures—as having the same level of human value as our own.
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Q: Seperate row in column with SQL query I have a row with
(name1, name2, name3, name4)

AND another row with
(2, 3, 4, 5, 7)

I need to present that data in two columns, the name with the number in the same place like this:
NAMES  |  NUMBERS
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name1     2
name2     3
name3     4
name4     5

I tried with SUBSRTING_INDEX but I repaet the same number at first

A: I think in MySQL it might be done in a way similar to this:
CREATE TABLE t (names char(255), numbers char(255));
INSERT INTO t(names, numbers) VALUES('name1,name2,name3,name4', '2,3,5,7');

SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(t.names, ',', idx), ',', -1),
       SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(t.numbers, ',', idx), ',', -1)
FROM t, (select 1 idx union all select 2 union all select 3 union all select 4) r

Here is complete sqlfiddle
Sure, subquery generating number sequence should be adjusted to your case. There are a number of examples on stackoverflow how to achieve this particular task.
Update:
Here is an example how to handle up to 10000 elements in a row.
SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(t.names, ',', idx), ',', -1),
       SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(t.numbers, ',', idx), ',', -1)
FROM t,
(SELECT @row := @row + 1 AS idx FROM
(SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 3 UNION ALL SELECT 4 UNION ALL SELECT 5 UNION ALL SELECT 6 UNION ALL SELECT 6 UNION ALL SELECT 7 UNION ALL SELECT 8 UNION ALL SELECT 9) n,
(SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 3 UNION ALL SELECT 4 UNION ALL SELECT 5 UNION ALL SELECT 6 UNION ALL SELECT 6 UNION ALL SELECT 7 UNION ALL SELECT 8 UNION ALL SELECT 9) n2,
(SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 3 UNION ALL SELECT 4 UNION ALL SELECT 5 UNION ALL SELECT 6 UNION ALL SELECT 6 UNION ALL SELECT 7 UNION ALL SELECT 8 UNION ALL SELECT 9) n3,
(SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 3 UNION ALL SELECT 4 UNION ALL SELECT 5 UNION ALL SELECT 6 UNION ALL SELECT 6 UNION ALL SELECT 7 UNION ALL SELECT 8 UNION ALL SELECT 9) n4,
(SELECT @row:=0) n5
WHERE @row < (SELECT max(LENGTH(NAMES) - LENGTH(REPLACE(NAMES, ',', '')) + 1)
FROM t))r

Notice that to reduce amount of operations on strings we at first find maximum amount of elements in one row using a subquery.

A: I found the answer i used the function GROUP_CONCAT()

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I became interested in Nutrition as a result of depression, learning difficulties and attention deficit symptoms. Generally speaking, feeling bad all the time had led me to spend all of my teens taking drugs as a means of escape. When I discovered the concept of using nutrition as a means to affect my mood, it made total sense. It seemed logical that many of my symptoms had roots in chemical imbalances caused by toxicity, allergies and deficiencies from eating a poor vegetarian/junk food diet.
I was desperate, miserable, and exhausted but committed to finding an approach which would work for me. I tried everything from extreme water fasts to a fruit diet, and such extremes undoubtedly only weakened me further. After a while I stopped trying to be so extreme and realized this was not the way forward.
Then, whilst I felt I was making progress with one particular approach, I caught a serious tropical illness which led to me being hospitalized through extreme weight loss and chronic fatigue symptoms. A year later, and still very underweight, a DIY accident left me once again back in hospital – this time with a broken leg and blood clots in my lungs which required constant use of blood thinning medication!
Things could not get much lower – I kept hitting dead ends, and all the supplements, herbs and therapies I tried did little to affect my recovery – added to this was the fact I became increasingly frustrated with all the contradicting views in the field of nutritional healing.
Out of the blue I heard about a seminar on pH balancing, live and dry blood microscopy, and the work of Dr Robert O Young. So I went along, still exhausted and on crutches but still hopeful of finding the missing link.
I was amazed by what I learned – this was indeed the missing link for me, and it became very clear why my current approach was not working. I discovered that an acidic pH within the body can nullify healing – regardless of your particular symptom or health challenge. The blood is the river of life and if it is not pH balanced, every organ and system will suffer. Dr Young talks in terms of changing the whole inner environment of the body, as opposed to just focusing on the symptom or localized problem. He emphasizes that if you alkalize the body you are creating a favourable environment for healing, and that the body will take care of the rest in terms of healing the symptom or health challenge.
I subsequently had a live and dry blood test which revealed that I had a systemic acidity problem and that my body was not eliminating the acids properly. I was offered an alkalizing diet to follow, along with an alkalizing green drink. The benefits were noticeable almost immediately, and within a few short weeks I was so impressed with the results that I had booked a flight to California to go and train with Dr Young as a nutritional blood microscopist. Within 12 weeks I had achieved more in terms of greater health and energy than I had in the whole three years of trial and error with other approaches. I had even defied my GPs predictions and was able to come off my blood thinning medication, as my blood had stabilized itself naturally with my new alkaline inner environment. Part of the problem with my previous approaches was that I had always been 'chasing' my symptoms. Every symptom has a cause; our cells and our body as a whole don't just malfunction and get sick mysteriously.
Think of your body as a fish tank!
If you had a goldfish bowl and didn't change the water for ages, chances are that the fish would get sick. If you had the choice, would you treat the fish or would you change the water? The very obvious thing to do is to empty the old stagnant water and pour in some nice, fresh oxygen rich water for the fish to swim in, and it is more than likely that the fish will recover.
Imagine for a moment that the fish in this example represent the cells in your body, and that the water in the fish bowl represents the blood and fluids which the cells swim in. In western medicine, and indeed even in many holistic therapies, we have become obsessed with treating cells or organs in isolation when an illness arises, and we point the finger at genetics or bacteria and viruses. What we really need to be thinking is in terms of literally 'changing the water' which surround the cells.
In the same way that the health of the fish was influenced by the quality of the water – the health of our cells is dependent on the quality and health of the fluids which surround them. Even if you are not ill and just want better health and fitness and increased energy, then it is important to understand this – if you look after your internal rivers and streams then you cannot help but benefit in the long run.
Blood is more like a huge, living flowing organ – as opposed to just a fluid. The blood is like the water in our fish bowl and is referred to by Dr Young as our inner environment or inner terrain – the integrity of which must be maintained if good health and sustained energy are to prevail.
Diet and lifestyle choices have the biggest impact on the integrity of our inner terrain; our emotions also have a very significant impact. If your diet is healthy and nourishing, then this will be directly reflected in the state of the blood. When viewed under a high powered microscope, the blood cells will appear round, symmetrical, floating freely and will be full of oxygen – the plasma will be clean, free from excessive debris. Healthy oxygenated blood simply translates to more energy and better health. The cells and organs can 'swim' in a supportive environment. On the other hand, if the diet is unhealthy, then the cells will appear dark, misshapen and clumped together, which translates to less energy and less opportunity for glowing radiant health. If the blood is really acidic and unhealthy, then the whole body will suffer, as it is choked from top to toe by a sick and polluted blood terrain.
To treat a person's symptom/s without paying attention to the blood terrain is similar to mopping up water from a burst pipe without turning the water off at the mains.
One very specific and comprehensive area of Dr Young's blood research is surrounding the correct pH of the blood and tissues of the body. The pH of the blood is 7.3 (7.365 to be accurate) – the blood pH is very delicate with precise alkaline balance which can only move within a very narrow range. This pH balance is similar to the body's temperature balance, in that it is very precise and that it cannot fluctuate very far in either direction without consequence.
If a person's diet is too acidic for example, the body must compensate by dumping alkaline minerals (calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium etc) into the blood to buffer the acids and stop them from spilling over into the blood and causing serious harm. It is just like the body's response to external temperature changes, i.e. if it is cold outside then the body senses a problem and generates heat to keep us safe and comfortable. But in the same way that the body's capacity to deal with temperature extremes has its limitations, so does its capacity for dealing with constant bombardment of excess acidity.
In many cases, what we perceive as disease are just signs and symptoms of the body being very resourceful, and using all its efforts to try and maintain alkalinity, to keep us alive in very challenging conditions.
Osteoporosis is perceived as a disease which 'attacks' the bones. According to Dr Young it is the result of a lifetime of acidity resulting in depletion of alkaline minerals from the bones and tissues. Arthritis is where acids and mycotoxins (fungal by-products) get crystallized and then dumped in the joints and tissues – a bit like sweeping the acids under the carpet. Overweight is a sign of acids being 'parked' out of harm's way in purpose-built fat deposits – so it is not calories you need to watch but the acidity of the food/drinks, which is more significant. Skin complaints are the result of excess acids being pushed out through the pores in the skin causing eruptions – this is why spot creams don't work, because it is an acid problem and not a skin problem. Your particular symptom depends on your body's chosen, genetically predisposed avenue for coping. I am a very slim person so acids went to my liver, kidney, brain and nervous system causing foggy muddled thinking, depression, fatigue and poor digestion.
According to Dr Young the ideal diet should consist of about 80-90% highly alkaline forming foods. The average western diet, however, contains about 80-90% highly acid forming foods.
Acids are stronger than alkalis, and it takes about 20 parts alkaline/base to buffer one part acid. So you can see that the biochemistry is such that it is much easier to accumulate excess acidity than excess alkalinity.
Another factor is the way in which the pH scale works. (For the benefit of readers who do not remember the pH scale from school, anything below seven is acidic and anything above seven is alkaline). The pH scale moves in increments of ten, therefore pH7 is neutral, pH6 is ten times more acidic, pH5 is 100 times more acidic, pH4 (think cup of coffee) is 1,000 times more acidic than the pH of the blood (yes, even if it's organic or decaff!). It takes 20 parts base to buffer one part acid, so this puts tremendous demands on our alkaline reserves, making it very unlikely that a person could become too alkaline.
We now live in a world which exposes us to far too much acidity (stress, diet, pollution, etc.), and so we need to be very heavy on the use of alkaline foods to stay balanced.
In an ideal scenario we all would have a plentiful reserve of alkaline minerals, but for most this is not the case. Even our organic vegetables are often grown in mineral poor soil, and constant alkaline withdrawals from our internal mineral supplies mean there is more going out than coming in, and many are now running low or often running on reserves. We need to really tip the scales back in our favour.
We are exposed to more immune suppressing and acidic toxins than ever before, and we are also physically weaker and less well-equipped to deal with stress as a result of widespread use of antibiotics, amalgam dental material, vaccinations, formula feeding as opposed to breast feeding and other health draining practices.
We Don't Get Old… We Mould!
In his books, Dr Young explains how an acidic terrain makes you an ideal breeding ground for bacteria, yeast, fungus and mould, and other unwelcome house guests, such as worms and parasites.
Bacteria, yeast, fungus and mould (B, Y, F, M) are Nature's undertakers, designed to recycle plants, trees, animals, dinosaurs and people, just as mushrooms rot dead wood. This is a very helpful part of the carbon cycle, as it means the planet is not cluttered up with dead items. In humans the compost/recycle button is triggered by acidity – when we stop breathing, CO2 builds up and the environment changes from alkaline to acid, and this is the biochemical signal that we are dead and that we need to be recycled.
Under a microscope many westerners have yeast in their live blood sample. This can make alkalizing a bit more challenging, as these yeast/fungus forms compound the problems associated with regular acidity.
Yeast is destructive by design, and destroys everything in sight (glucose, protein, vitamins, minerals, even EFAs). This causes deficiencies and blood sugar imbalance leading to hyper/hypo glycaemia type symptoms and the subsequent sugar cravings. In an attempt to make the environment more acidic and biodegradable, and also as a natural by-product of metabolism, they spew out mycotoxins which poison and choke the cells even further. They also breed and colonize (especially in the colon), and do all they can to tear the body down as quickly and efficiently as possible. So, on one side you have your own cells mutating and trying to recycle you, and on the other hand you have your white blood cells working overtime to kill the yeast and keep you alive. This is the battle we take for granted, one which can be seen during a live blood assessment.
Yeast infections are an outward manifestation of an internal composting problem, and should more accurately be called an "outfection," as coined by Dr Young.
When we are pH balanced, our environment is not conducive for pathogenic micro organisms, and it is much less likely that external germs will get a foothold or cause illness. Alkalinity is our primary immune defence. When we are acidic we not only generate internal overgrowth but also leave ourselves wide open to external germs, viruses, bacteria, parasites, etc.
When an individual has a yeast problem it creates what Dr Young calls the cycle of imbalance, whereby acidic food choices cause the initial overgrowth of micro organisms, creating toxicity, deficiencies (in B vitamins, etc.) and low blood sugar, which in turn creates fatigue, depression, muddled thinking and makes one feel generally unwell. This sets up a desire for things like sugar, coffee, bread, alcohol, etc., to provide a quick energy fix, or escape from the problem. This way more acid is created and the cycle of imbalance continues.
The best solution is to break the cycle and alkalize and energize. You don't want to kill the yeast because the yeast is 'you'. You simply need to change the environment so the bugs don't feel welcome. Yeast can only survive in an acidic environment – so all you need to do is remove the acid. It is not enough to just take anti-fungal supplements or drugs; you must also change the whole environment.
In all of Dr Young's books he details a way of living and eating which is designed to reduce acidity, cause disappearance of pathogenic micro-organisms, and also to heal, energize and strengthen the body.
All avenues for eliminating acids need to be utilized, and this is achieved by improved hydration and digestion to move acids out via the bowels. Sweating is another important component, as this allows acids to exit via the skin which is the largest elimination organ.
As acids begin to be eliminated, the body can begin to heal and re-mineralize – in the early stages of the process there may be some initial detox symptoms, but this should be viewed as a positive thing, as they usually pass quickly.
The general rule of thumb is to eat lots of fresh whole food. It is generally advisable to change one thing at a time; however, if you have a significant health challenge, or if you feel you want to boost your energy levels quickly, it may be wise to go 100% alkaline for a few weeks or longer – that is, to eliminate all acidic foods and even temporarily eliminate the healthy grains/sugars which can still add fuel to an existing infestation. Once balance has been restored, Dr Young's recommendation is to aim for the 80/20 ratio – that is 80% high alkaline food and 20% mildly acid forming food.
One important measure of the healing/damaging potential of food is how 'alive' or how 'dead' the food is. Fresh food and vegetables have an energy field/electron field, and Kirlian photography has been used in Dr Young's research to demonstrate the 'life force' or 'zeta potential' of food.
Living foods are biogenic; they 'give' their energy to our cells, and Dr Young recommends that we eat lots of foods with a high frequency. You should look for foods which contribute energy, and also to reduce the ones which force the body to sacrifice its own life force/energy in the process of digestion/elimination. Also when you cook food you alter the molecular structure; you loose zeta potential and food becomes more acidic.
Good fats are essential to keeping blood sugar levels nice and stable. They provide a slow release of energy which prevents the fungi stimulating blood sugar spikes associated with carbohydrates. This allows the pancreas to 'rest' and to heal. Fats are alkalizing and are used by the body to buffer acids – they insulate cells (red blood cells need omega 3 and 6 to build a strong healthy cell membrane). Fats are a good 'clean' fuel as opposed to carbs which are 'messy' by comparison when metabolized. Fats 'burn' more efficiently as they generate about half the acidic metabolic by-products than carbohydrate metabolism.
Lemons and limes are very alkalizing (with 1/3 available oxygen). Tomatoes (alkaline when raw) grapefruit, cucumber (very alkaline/electron saturated). Avocado, eat several per day, as it is alkalizing (even if you are O blood type!) and a great source of energy, antioxidants, potassium, good fats, etc., and very easy to digest. LOW sugar fruits have all the benefits of high sugar fruit (mango, etc.) but without the fungus stimulating properties of fructose. All are alkalizing and energizing. They can be combined with carbohydrates and protein.
Redmond Real Salt and Himalayan Salt are two good brands of salt to use. Very alkalizing and healthful. Real, unrefined, unprocessed salt is essential for good health.
Green foods are the key to success, and the greater the quantity of green foods you consume, the greater the health benefits you experience. Grasses, such as wheat grass and barley grass, are an excellent addition to your diet. Grasses and greens in general are anti-fungal/ mycotoxin, high in fibre, enzymes, vitamins, amino acids, and alkaline salts, and also rich in antioxidants. Chlorophyll will help to protect you against heavy metals and electrical pollution, and when added to water can neutralize chlorine and fluoride. Chlorophyll, the blood of green plants, is virtually identical to the molecular structure of hemoglobin (the part of your blood cells which holds oxygen) – this is what nature has provided us with for building good blood. You need to flood intestines with green foods and drinks – this will ensure you provide chlorophyll and other essential foundational elements to build new blood.
It is important to 'soak' nuts and seeds to make them edible. Hemp, flax, sesame and almonds are good.
Visit www.phmiracleliving.com for information on good water filters and ionizers.All alkalizing foods are electron rich. Electrons bind and neutralize protons (associated with acidity).


In 2017, Roberta Little and Stella Scott of the former Mala Galleria, began Thank You Project. They focused on the community of Kennett Square to encourage feeling, expressing and living in gratitude. While Thank You Project's slogan is Gratitude Mushrooms in Kennett Square, it's mission is to document gratitude spreading here and eventually everywhere. Since it's conception, many local businesses, service groups, clubs and individuals have participated with posts now seen on Thank You Project's social media pages.
With the assistance of Kennett Middle School teacher, Ms.Tamara Fellows, students have contributed over two hundred creative photos and mini movies. Ms. Fellows is now engaged in the 2018 project along with teachers at Greenwood Elementary School.
In addition, Thank You Project is currently partnering with Mary Pat's Provisions at The Market At Liberty Place, 148 West State St., in Kennett Square, PA, through the end of November. The World's Littlest Art Gallery, created and designed by Roberta, is the focal point of a wacky whimsical community project. This mini mobile community gallery is presenting its first interactive gratitude based art exhibit. The "artist" is YOU! You write, rhyme and/or draw your expression of gratitude then clip it to the growing display.
Thank You Project will open a second location at the Kennett Library, 215 State St., on November 13, through Saturday November 17. This will also be an interactive art show featuring YOU as the artist. All visitors are encouraged to design and hang their contribution in and around The World's Littlest Art Gallery II.


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PROJECT: Japan Disasters Digital Archive Project
The Japan Disasters Digital Archive (JDA) is an advanced search engine for materials "from all over the web, individuals' testimonials, tweets, prominently including content from international partners who are building digital repositories about the disasters" of 2011. In addition to facilitating searching through the archive's materials, users can also use the site to create their own curated ...
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PROJECT: Machine Learning Jim Crow
On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance, a digital project from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, uses collections as data and machine learning approaches to discover Jim Crow and racially-based legislation signed into law in North Carolina between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement. The project is in honor ...
PROJECT: Volta River Commodities
As part of the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative, Ryan Carty, a third-year PhD student in the History Department at Michigan State University, created the Volta River Commodities, a digital history project that focuses on trade statistics maintained by colonial officials stationed along the Volta River. Carty used commodity data obtained in the National Archives in ...
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PROJECT: Fighting Fascist Spain: The Exhibit
Montse Feu, an associate professor at Sam Houston State University, introduces Fighting Fascist Spain: The Exhibit, a project that visualizes the story of the Sociedades Hispanas Confederadas (SHC), a group of US Hispanic cultural and mutual aid societies devoted to the antifascist cause. This group was known for its activism and publication of, particularly through ...
PROJECT: Innovator Brian Foo Incorporates "Citizen DJs" into Design Process
Brian Foo, Library of Congress's Innovator in Residence, authored a guest post on LOC's The Signal blog on the Citizen DJ project. Foo describes the "central goal" of Citizen DJ is "to invite the public to create new music using audio and video material from the Library of Congress. Materials were handpicked for this project ...
PROJECT: Digital El Diario
Digital El Diario, "a digital humanities project centered on archival justice and historical recovery of the Chicanx student movement at the University of Colorado Boulder," focuses on El Diario de la Gente, "an independent newspaper primarily published for and by Chicanx students at the University of Colorado Boulder between 1972 and 1983." The creators of the project ...
PROJECT: Open Access Pilot for Latin American Monographs
The Latin American Research Resources Project (LARRP) is collaborating with the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), JSTOR, and Latin American bookseller García Cambeiro on a pilot project that will work to introduce a "sustainable Open Access model for monographs to be developed and supported by the library community." The first phase of the ...
PROJECT: Food Mapping in Digital Historical Research
Dani Willcutt, a second-year Ph.D. student in the History Department at Michigan State University and CHI (Cultural Heritage Informatics) Fellow for the 2019-2020 year, is working on a project to combine food mapping and digitizing culinary resources. This specific project will "bring Malinda Russell's A Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for ...
PROJECT: DH Unplugged
Carleton University's DIGH5000 graduate class has released DH Unplugged, a collaborative deck-building and storytelling game addressing current issues through critical Digital Humanities. The game, which is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, aims to provide an introduction to the digital humanities by encouraging players to come up with creative combinations of DH ...
PROJECT: Unsettling Colonial Mapping: Sonic-Spatial Representations of amiskwaciwâskahikan
Kateryna Barnes and Kendra Cowley (University of Alberta) have developed "Unsettling Colonial Mapping: Sonic-Spatial Representations of amiskwaciwâskahikan," a digital project exploring sonic landscapes of the University of Alberta. You can listen on Soundcloud here. This map is a sonic exploration and representation of the North Campus of the University of Alberta. Campus has a long history ...
PROJECT: Freedom on the Move
Freedom on the Move is a database of fugitive slave advertisements that are being compiled by an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional team. The database includes thousands of "runaway ads" from newspapers, which tell thousands of stories through the details provided by the enslavers; "the ads ultimately preserved the details of individual lives–their personality, appearance, and life ...


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Facilitating Aviation – Decision-Making at Level 4
The Nature of Regulation
Level 4 in my hierarchical model comprises those entities that facilitate the conduct of aviation, both private and commercial. They provide some of the tools of production - the most obvious being airports and air navigation services - and also the regulatory frameworks and infrastructure without which modern aviation would be impossible. They may be state-run entities, private companies or some form of private/public enterprise. I have argued that the distinguishing feature of each level in the hierarchy is the mandate it holds to make specific classes of decisions. At Level 4, agencies make decisions about the provision of asset and the granting of permissions to lower-level actors. For example, governments build airports and runways. They also fund satellite systems that allow aircraft to navigate. Pilots cannot fly without a license issued by an authority. Airlines cannot do business without an operator's certificate granted by an authority. A manufacturer cannot sell an aircraft unless it has an airworthiness approval, again, issued by an authority. Organisations at this level do not fly aircraft for gain, but without them, commercial aviation is not possible.
In this chapter, I will elaborate on the role of Level 4 agencies, how they exercise control and, importantly, some of the challenges they face that can give rise to failure. I want to look specifically at regulators and accident investigation agencies. Both are established by state legislation and exist in a symbiotic relationship. While aviation authorities exercise control, investigation agencies act as a feedback channel. Investigators need independence if they are to do their work properly but, while they inhabit the same ecosystem as authorities, they act in an advisory capacity. They lack power, and this has implications. Both create and promulgate rules and procedures, advice and guidance that shape activity, directly and indirectly, at lower levels. In the context of this book, activity at Level 4 creates opportunities for cross-scale interactions in the system, some of which we have seen in previous chapters. The impact of Level 4 on operations, then, is both direct through the need to comply with regulations but also indirect, because of the system dynamics. The key emergent property, I suggest, is trust. Failure on the part of either of these two key actors damages the travelling public's trust in the aviation system and, hence, its economic viability.
I start with a discussion of the nature of regulation and then explore the dynamics of Level 4. As I write, the manufacturer, Boeing, is mired in the fallout from its ill-fated introduction of the B-737MAX. Although the story is ongoing, I will use what we do know about the certification of the aircraft to examine the relationship between authorities and manufacturers. I then explore the ditching of an aircraft off the coast of Norfolk Island, in the Pacific, in 2009 to throw light on the workings of an investigation and how the act of investigation is rarely a search for a simple truth. I concluded by looking at the relationship between Level 4 and the lower levels in my hierarchical model.
I want to start with a very brief look at how regulation has developed in aviation. The first powered, controlled, heavier-than-air manned flight took place on 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In France, Santos-Dumont flew his aircraft in 1907 while the Wright Brothers travelled to Europe in 1908. Bleriot made the first crossing of the English Channel on 25 July 1909. In less than 6years, aviation had gone from a 12-second hop to a 30-minute international flight. The subsequent development of aviation has been phenomenal. Prior to 1914 and the outbreak of war, in the United Kingdom, regulation was primarily aimed at keeping people on the ground safe. The Board of Trade was responsible for the registration and certification of aircraft and pilots. War is often a crucible for technological development and, by the end of the 1914-1918 war, aircraft capable of carrying passengers for some distance became available as military bombers were decommissioned and converted. After 1918, although regulation remained focused on the airworthiness of structures, the promotion of the growth of air routes connecting the outposts of the empire became important, and we can start to see the emergence of a commercial imperative in regulation in addition to safety. It was originally the British government's intention to delegate oversight to a registry, following the maritime model. The registry would verify the airworthiness of aircraft and, presumably, issue certificates. Up to this point, progress was driven by aircraft manufacturers, hence the emphasis on airworthiness. In 1933, the Gorell Committee was established to look at the broader aspects of aviation (Chaplin, 2011). As part of their work, analysis was undertaken of the 355 aircraft accidents that had occurred between 1926 and 1933. Of interest to us is the fact that in 258 cases (72.67%), 'no part of the aircraft or power plant was in any way at fault'. Specifically, 177 cases (49.85%) were attributed to 'errors of airmanship alone'. The committee concluded that 'entirely the wrong values have been placed on the relative importance of the pilot, the machine and operational activities in arriving at the regulations'. Furthermore, 'the failure of the pilot is by far the most potential source of accidents in flying'. Hobbs (2004) in an analysis of 100 aircraft accidents in Australia between 1921 and 1932 found a similar result, rather undermining the myth that increasing aircraft reliability prompted a need for crew resource management to look at the 'human factor'. It has always been there, we just never looked for it. The publication of the Gorell Committee's report followed that of the investigation into the R101 airship disaster and emphasised the need for a more comprehensive approach to aviation regulation. From the outset, then, it seems that the framing of regulations was problematic. The entity to be controlled - pilot or aircraft - was open to debate, and the initial assumptions about the issues to be guarded against were proving to be ill-found.
The Second World War (1939-1945) further disrupted the development of commercial aviation, but as it was drawing to a close, the Allied Powers began to build the frameworks that would govern the coming peace; one of which was to set up the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), a branch of the UN, that would set the standards for global aviation. In the United Kingdom, increases in the technological complexity of aircraft, such as the de Havilland Comet, the world's first jet airliner that flew' in 1949, and moves towards broader international cooperation, exemplified by the Concorde project, provided an added impetus for collaborative approaches to regulation. The harmonisation of rule-making in Europe has led, ultimately, to the formation of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Within the United Kingdom, regulation had been undertaken by different branches of government, but an independent authority, answerable to a government minister, was established in 1969 w'ith responsibility for:
• the economic regulation of route licensing
• the control of air traffic
• the regulation of safety
In the USA, aviation developed along different lines to those seen in Europe. The carriage of mail was a significant stimulus in the development of commercial aviation, and legal oversight w'as the responsibility of the Department of Commerce. The death in an air crash of a famous American Football coach in 1931, followed by that of a US senator in 1935, prompted Franklin D. Roosevelt to sign the Civil Aeronautics Act into law', creating the independent Civil Aeronautics Authority. Accidents have often been significant triggers of regulatory change. For example, in 1919, the collision between tw'o Vickers Vimy aircraft flying in opposite directions, in bad weather, and following the same railway track north of Paris resulted in the introduction of the semicircular flight rule. In June 1956, tw'o passenger aircraft collided over the Grand Canyon, killing all the 128 passengers and crew' on board. The accident highlighted the fact that although aviation had grown significantly, oversight had not. In 1958, a law' that created the Federal Aviation Agency w'as passed, with a mandate to provide safe and efficient use of the national airspace. In both the UK and US cases, oversight was originally framed around registration, guarantees of airworthiness and commercial development. The system safety responsibility w'as a later addition.


The St. George Socialites was organized in 1999 upon the recommendation of Father George Xenophanes, our interim priest at the time. Both Mrs. Xenia Morris and Mrs. Stavroula Panas initiated the first meeting and the senior Socialites organization was formed. It was decided that a volunteer council would serve rather than an elected executive board. It consisted of the late Crystal Aridas, Sophia Anest, Esther Chrisicos, Lu Kosaitis, Susan Aschettino and Florence Pascal.
The main purpose of the Socialites, parishioners 55 plus, is to get together for periodic luncheon meetings and trips. Since 1999, multi-day bus trips have been to Cape Cod, Montreal, Quebec, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Williamsburg, VA, Washington D.C., Boston, Las Vegas, Alaska, Asheville NC, Nashville TN, and the Hamptons. This year, the Socialites are headed on a 5 day trip to Charleston, SC October 23-27, 2012.
The Socialites have enjoyed numerous Broadway and Count Basie shows, as well as numerous Atlantic City Casino Shows. We also consistently plan annual trips to New York City and Astoria where we combine a cultural excursion such as visiting a museum with lunch and a shopping trip to Astoria's Titan during teh Pascha Lenten period.
The Socialites may be somewhat mature in years, but they are definately "young at heart." We have between 60-65 members and more are always welcome. If you are interested in joining, please contact the Church Office 732-775-2777.


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Honorable Reverend Everett D. Mitchell Shares Lesson in Persistence and Faith
by Hywania Thompson | August 30, 2022 | Community Profile & Events | 0 comments
Before being elected to the bench, Judge Mitchell served as Director of Community Relations for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Under his leadership, UW-Madison invested $350,000 in opening the South Madison Partnership Space to better promote University and Community relationships. Before going to the University, Judge Mitchell served Dane County as Assistant District Attorney.
Growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, Everett Mitchell experienced unspeakable trauma. He witnessed sexual abuse and was also a victim of abuse. And he was illiterate.
"It was a secret I had," said Mitchell, who now serves as a Dane County Circuit Court judge and heads the congregation at Christ The Solid Rock in Madison. "I used to hide it well because I could do things like mathematics and chemistry."
When Mitchell graduated from high school, he was set on working as a bagger at the local grocery store, until he received a call from Jarvis Christian College, historically Black Christian university in Wood County, Texas.
Mitchell enrolled at Jarvis. In the beginning, it was tough. He said he failed at everything. However, two women, Daisy White and Margaret Bell worked with him.
"They saw me and told me I was a diamond in the rough," Mitchell recalled. "They taught me how to read, they taught me how to study, they taught me how to take boomboxes up to the library and just read books and give my time from 5 to 10 every night."
He is a graduate of Morehouse College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Wisconsin Law School. One of his quotes he believes in is by James Baldwin, "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
Mitchell's inspiration for attending law school was a man named Eddie whom he met, while at Madison Urban Ministry. Mitchell supported men and women coming out of prison and had been working with Eddie to get him a job. Mitchell said people were disrespectful to Eddie and other clients.
"I said to myself if I had a law degree, I bet you they wouldn't talk to me like that," said Mitchell, who is a proud member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
Mitchell studied for the test and met with a counselor at the law school. He was accepted in March 2007.
Many people like Eddie, White and Bell have made a positive impact on Mitchell's life. Among them being UMOJA Magazine founder, Milele Chikasa Anana, who was one of the first people Mitchell met when he moved to Madison in 2004.
"She had a special place because she taught me about the power of media and telling the right story, in the right time for the right cause," he said.
Mitchell still has a letter Ms. Milele wrote to him years ago.
Mitchell also said Dr. Virginia Henderson, Dr. Perry Henderson, Dr. Floyd Rose, his wife Dr. Mankah Zama Mitchell and many others have had an impact on his life.
"You don't make it by yourself," said Mitchell. "They don't all come at one time but at that moment when you need them to be present, they are present."
Mitchell advocates for youth and stresses the importance of education, experiences, and exposure. He worked with the Madison school district several years ago to set up the Office of Youth Re-Engagement. The office focuses on restorative justice and alternative learning experiences for youth. Mitchell said without education there is no path to success.
"We can sugar coat and talk about justice and fairness but at the root of it, there has to be a commitment to education," he stated.
Mitchell also works with Above the Clouds, (now called Young Eagles "Wings to Fly"), a program that offers youth an opportunity to experience flying.
"The more exposure you give them, the more experiences you give them, then they will most likely make a different decision when an opportunity comes for them," he said.
Susan Schwaab with Young Eagles was a trusted advisor and supporter when she started the program in 2019.
"Not only did he help identify youth who could benefit from the program but also volunteered at many events," Schwaab said. "As a member of his church, I have seen the impact of his caring presence and the admiration that youth have toward him."
The importance of youth having supportive people in their lives and seeing representation in the community is not lost on Mitchell. Although he serves as the judge presiding over the county's juvenile division and drug court program, Mitchell remains pastor of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church. He said he's continued to serve as pastor to be an example for youth in his church. Mitchell said he didn't want the first time they saw a Black judge to be in the courtroom.
"Most kids don't know a doctor in their circle, they don't know judges in their circle, they don't know administrators and professors in their immediate circle and it's being inside that immediate circle that matters the most," said Mitchell.
Mitchell's advice to young people who may face challenges when reaching for their dreams is to keep going.
"Don't be overwhelmed by starting small," said Mitchell. "It's the small seeds that you plant that can grow into big fields that can transform your world later on."
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Memorandums of Understanding (Archived)
MOU between DOL and DOE
Information Date:
Agreement Agency:
Interagency Agreement
U. S. Department of Energy
I. PURPOSE
The purpose of this agreement is for the U. S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Directorate of Federal-State Operations (FSO) to provide assistance to the U. S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Occupational Safety (EH-31) in the development of the DOE Voluntary Protection Program (DOE-VPP) at Government-Owned-or-Leased Contractor-Operated (GOCO) facilities.
II. BACKGROUND
On August 10, 1992, OSHA and DOE entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which formalized the working relationship and clarified jurisdiction between the two agencies. The MOU provides for information and personnel exchange, program evaluations, consultation, and working arrangements. It specifies that any request for technical assistance and/or consultation which involves a commitment of resources will require a specific Interagency Agreement between the parties covering the scope of work, timing, and reimbursement.
III. SCOPE OF AGREEMENT
A. Personnel Exchange:
DOE and OSHA intend to exchange personnel to serve on OSHA VPP and DOE-VPP evaluation teams for the purpose of off-site and on-site review, evaluation, and ultimate recommendation for approval of a worksite applying for participation in these VPPs. For example, DOE (EH-31) may provide DOE personnel and/or DOE contract support personnel to serve on an OSHA VPP team conducting an evaluation of a safety and health program at a participating or potential OSHA VPP site. Likewise, DOL (OSHA-VPP) may provide OSHA personnel to assist in evaluating a safety and health program at a DOE Government-Owned-or-Leased Contractor-Operated (GOCO) facility applying for participation or continuation in the DOE-VPP.
Custody and control of records and evidence will be the responsibility of the agency conducting the program evaluation.
B. Onsite Support
DOE (EH-31) will provide OSHA an individual for onsite support at the OSHA National Office for a period mutually agreed upon by both agencies. The duties of that individual will be directed by DOE and will be focused on VPP activities which will benefit both agencies.
In addition, DOE EH-31 agrees to furnish three (3), three-member teams (Safety and Health Manager, Safety Specialist, and Industrial Hygienist) to assist OSHA VPP in onsite evaluations of OSHA VPP applicant sites and existing OSHA VPP sites. A program plan setting forth the assistance logistics of up to nine (9) site visits beginning not earlier than October 1, 1993 and ending September 30, 1994, shall be developed as mutually agreed upon by both parties.
OSHA's Federal-State Operations agrees to furnish a team leader from the VPP National staff and/or a Regional representative from the appropriate Region for assisting DOE teams in the evaluation of up to four (4) DOE-VPP sites beginning in the second quarter of FY 94.
C. Transfer of Authority
DOE's EH-31 and OSHA's Federal-State Operations agree to develop and implement a cooperative process for sanctioning future DOE-VPP sites under OSHA's VPP. At a minimum, the following is agreed to by the two parties.
Prior to any transfer of authority of DOE to OSHA, DOE shall submit to OSHA's Federal-State Operations basic site information for each DOE-VPP participant at the time of approval, and thereafter submit appropriate status reports.
If there is a change in jurisdiction which would result in transferring DOE authority to OSHA, OSHA agrees that those approved DOE-VPP sites will be deleted from OSHA's enforcement inspection schedules until appropriate reviews of files and recommendations regarding each site's OSHA VPP status can be made by Federal OSHA.
Normal OSHA enforcement procedures shall apply at sites regarding any fatalities and catastrophes, employee complaints, and significant chemical spills or leaks.
Upon authority transfer from DOE to OSHA, DOE agrees to expeditiously forward the files of those DOE approved VPP sites to the appropriate OSHA Regional offices with copies to OSHA's Federal State Operations for appropriate actions.
IV. WORKING ARRANGEMENTS
A. Funding:
Each agency shall incur all costs of salaries, benefits, and other direct or indirect costs involved in the assignment of personnel to implement this agreement.
B. Official Time and Attendance:
Each agency shall be responsible for official timekeeping for personnel assigned to implement the terms of this agreement. Applicable rules and regulations of each agency shall apply. Personnel assigned to implement this agreement shall remain under the administrative control of their agency.
C. Travel:
DOE will be responsible for all costs associated with required travel for DOE personnel or DOE contract support personnel in the implementation and operation of this agreement.
Travel costs for DOL (OSHA) personnel assisting in DOE GOCO safety and health program evaluations will be fully funded by DOE, subject to the availability of funds. The travel authorizations and other necessary arrangements for the travel of OSHA personnel to DOE VPP sites and other travel of OSHA personnel for the purpose of assisting DOE in the implementation and operation of this agreement will be prepared and processed by DOE for reimbursement to the traveler.
D. Administration:
Activities involving VPP issues shall be coordinated between DOE's Division of Technical Support, Office of Occupational Safety, and OSHA's Office of Cooperative Programs, Directorate of Federal-State Operations.
V. DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Resolution of disputes will initially be handled by discussion between DOE's EH-31, and OSHA's Directorate of Federal-State Operations. If a mutually acceptable resolution cannot be reached, the dispute will be elevated to the Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health, DOE, and the Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health, DOL.
VI. EFFECTIVE DATE, AMENDMENT, AND TERMINATION
This agreement is effective from the date of final signature, for a period not to exceed 3 years, or until otherwise amended, canceled or reauthorized. It may be modified or amended by formal written notice from either party if there is joint agreement on the proposed modification as evidenced by the signatures of designated officials representing both parties. Any amendment(s) are effective as of the date of the final signature.
This agreement may be terminated upon written notification by either agency to the other. A written notice of intent to terminate the agreement shall be served 90 days prior to the actual date of termination.
The following signatures constitute acceptance of this agreement by the Department of Labor and the Department of Energy:
The Occupational Safety
and Health Administration
David C. Zeigler, Director
Directorate of Administrative
Office of Environment, Safety
and Health
Joseph E. Fitzgerald, Jr.
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Safety and Quality Assurance


With the seemingly nonstop devaluations and a lack of transparency when it comes to award travel costs, many award travelers have avoided Delta's SkyMiles program for the past several years. Still, that's not to say you can't find some good value in SkyMiles, such as short-haul flights for just 10,000 miles per ticket.
The road to choosing the best credit card for Delta flyers may not be as straightforward as you think. For instance, due to its branding, the Gold Delta SkyMiles® Credit Card from American Express may seem like the obvious choice. But when you break it down, The Platinum Card® from American Express is a better option, earning 5x Membership Rewards points on airfare purchases (which can be transferred to Delta at a 1:1 ratio) compared with 2x SkyMiles for Delta purchases on the Gold Delta card.
Delta partners solely with American Express for its cobranded cards and, in my opinion, these options offer nice-to-have but not essential benefits. The Gold Delta SkyMiles Credit Card from American Express, the Platinum Delta SkyMiles® Credit Card from American Express and the Delta Reserve® Credit Card from American Express all offer priority boarding, a first checked bag free for you and companions (for a total of up to nine traveling on the same reservation) and no foreign transaction fees. Keep in mind there are also business versions of all three cobranded cards.
Gold Delta Amex $95, waived 1st year (See Rates & Fees) 30,000 bonus miles after spending $1,000 in purchases on your new Card in your first 3 months and a $50 statement credit after you make a Delta purchase with your new Card within your first 3 months.
There's also a more recently introduced no annual fee card (See Rates & Fees), the Blue Delta SkyMiles® Credit Card from American Express. With this card, you can get 2x miles on Delta purchases, as well as on spending at US restaurants, 1 mile per dollar on everything else and 20% off eligible inflight purchases when you travel with Delta. It's currently offering a bonus of 10,000 SkyMiles after you spend $500 in the first three months. Unlike the other Delta Amex cards, it does charge a 2.7% fee on foreign transactions (See Rates & Fees).
Overall, I think the cobranded cards offer a fair value based on their respective annual fees. The ability to earn MQMs on the Platinum and Reserve cards may make them worth the annual fees to some Delta loyalists, especially if they're big credit card spenders and fall short on paid flights for the year.
Plus, with the Platinum and Reserve cards, you'll receive a companion certificate for travel on Delta each year after your account anniversary. With the Platinum, you get a domestic companion certificate good for the main cabin, but with the Reserve it's good for first class, Delta Comfort+ or the main cabin (also with a max of $75 in taxes and fees). Just keep in mind the restrictions, such as that the ticket is only eligible for travel within the 48 contiguous United States (though those who live in Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands can originate from their home to a destination in the 48 contiguous states).
Additionally, you can use Delta cobranded cards to waive the Medallion® Qualification Dollar (MQD) requirement for Delta elite status. If you spend $25,000 on Delta SkyMiles Amex cards in a calendar year, you'll get an MQD waiver for status levels up to Platinum, but to get the MQD requirement waived for Diamond Medallion status, you now have to spend an outrageous $250,000 on cobranded cards in a calendar year. Needless to say, we don't recommend going this route — especially since you can meet the MQD requirement for Diamond status by spending a much lower amount on Delta and partner flights in a calendar year.
When it comes to the Delta Reserve, I personally don't think Sky Club access justifies the $450 annual fee. In my experience, the lounges are always packed and offer little in the way of complimentary refreshments. That said, the airline continues to charge higher and higher prices to enter its lounges, so if you fly Delta frequently and don't have any lounge access through another card, this benefit could appeal to you. My recommendation is to only go after the Reserve card if you can put $60,000 on the card in a year to capture 40,000 MQMs, including the introductory bonus.
As previously mentioned, Membership Rewards transfer to Delta at a 1:1 ratio, opening up another avenue in your SkyMiles-earning strategy. However, MR-earning cards aren't the only Amex options for racking up significant SkyMiles, and you can actually get a much higher return on spending with some non-Delta-branded options from Amex.
Let's take a look at other cards from the issuer that can be very beneficial to the Delta flyer.
Benefits: Since late 2016, the Amex Platinum has been offering 5x points on all airfare booked directly with airlines. This allows you to effectively earn a very healthy 5 miles per dollar instead of the 2x earning rate of the cobranded cards. There's a $550 annual fee (See Rates & Fees)(offset by premium benefits like up to a $200 annual air travel credit, up to $200 in annual Uber credits and up to $100 Global Entry or TSA PreCheck application fee credit) and no foreign-transaction fee (See Rates & Fees).
Bonus: The card's currently offering a bonus of 60,000 points after you spend $5,000 in the first three months.
Benefits: Not quite as impressive as the Amex Platinum now that it offers 5x points on airfare, but this card will net you 3 points per dollar on all airfare purchased directly from the airline. In addition, it offers spending bonus categories of 4x points at restaurants. Overall, you can earn more miles on everyday spending with this card than on the cobranded options. The annual fee is $250 (See Rates & Fees).
Bonus: The card's currently offering a welcome bonus of 35,000 points after you spend $2,000 in the first three months of account opening.
Benefits: If you're a big spender and don't need MQMs, this card could be a good choice for earning a lot of redeemable SkyMiles. For every billing period in which you use the card for 30 or more transactions, you'll earn 50% extra Membership Rewards on your purchases. You'll also earn 3x points on the first $6,000 of annual spending at supermarkets and 2x points on gas. Those bonuses are before the 50% monthly billing period bonus, effectively turning the earn rates into 4.5 and 3 points per dollar. The card carries a $95 annual fee.
Bonus: The standard welcome bonus is for 15,000 points after $1,000 in spend in the first three months of account opening.
Benefits: Why should you use a hotel credit card to earn airline miles? You get a lucrative 5,000-mile bonus for every 60,000 Marriott points you transfer to any of its airline partners.
Bonus: 100,000 bonus points after you spend $5,000 in the first three months. Apply by Apr. 24.
If you're serious about award travel, you need to maximize every tool in your arsenal to ensure your rewards account balance is as high as possible. One of the first steps is calibrating the credit cards in your wallet. If you don't have a good credit card strategy, you could lose out on a ton of extra miles through bonus spending categories, ultimately hindering you in the quest to meet your award-travel goals.
Unless you're the most die-hard Delta flyer alive and refuse to fly other airlines, I don't see the cobranded cards as being your best option unless you're after the introductory bonus or are in desperate need of some last-minute MQMs. The ancillary benefits the cobranded cards offer are nice, but they're not game-changer. The flexibility offered by the other American Express cards, along with bonus categories that earn you more SkyMiles, makes much more sense for the average Delta flyer.
This is The Points Guy's permanent page with the best current cards for Delta flyers, so you can bookmark it and check back regularly for updates. Keep in mind you may see some reader comments referring to older offers below.
For rates and fees of the Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant Amex Card, please click here.


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New item in ISO 639-2 - Zaza
Thu Aug 24 20:55:15 CEST 2006
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Mark Davis scripsit:
> I think you may have gotten the numbering wrong. You say:
Oops, quite right.  "Post in haste, repent at leisure."
> Under #2, all of a sudden 'ams', 'kzg', 'ryn', 'tkn', 'okn', 'ryu', 'xug',
> 'yox', 'mvi', 'rys', 'and' 'yoi' and everything using as the language subtag
> would be deprecated; a big change.
True, and a very good reason why we should stop such things from happening
at the RA/JAC level.
> Under #1, we just add 'rkn' as a code. We would add information to the
> registry that it has become a macro language for 'ams', 'kzg', 'ryn', 'tkn',
> 'okn', 'ryu', 'xug', 'yox', 'mvi', 'rys', 'and' 'yoi'; it is then up to
> people implementing fallback algorithms to add that information, but it
> doesn't cause any subtags to be deprecated.
Currently we have no such facility in the registry and no provision for
it in the matching draft.
> I still don't understand something. Why should the existence of a
> macrolanguage that contains X make the difference between whether "X-...."
> is valid or not? As I understand it, the difference between cmn and hak, for
> example, is no less than the difference between de and nl; why should we say
> that cmn-CN and hak-CN must have the prefix zh-, where we don't require a
> prefix for de and nl?
History.  The tag "zh" has been around a long time, and used to represent
documents (using that term broadly) in all kinds of Sinitic languages.
Furthermore, we already have an existing pattern of use in zh-cmn,
zh-yue, zh-this, zh-that.
What's more, people actually do (and this is critical) refer to the
Sinitic languages as a single language, "Chinese".  Nobody has done
that for German/Dutch since the 17th century; certainly 639-2 is not
likely to introduce such a single-language code element.  (639-2 or
639-5 might conceivably include a language-collective code element for
"Non-Ingvaeonic West Germanic languages", but that wouldn't affect us;
we have no reason to take language-collection subtags into account except
for those provided in 639-2.)
So it's not just that languages are related that causes a macrolanguage
code element to be created, nor even that the cluster of languages
are treated in some contexts as a single language.  It is further a
requirement, at least in practice, that 639-2 has an individual-language
code for it.  It is providing fallback according to the basic matching
algorithm (not refinements of it that depends on having the registry
available at matching time) that is the main benefit of solution #2.
Si hoc legere scis, nimium eruditionis habes.


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House Republican women oppose paid, commercial surrogacy
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Rep. Melanie Stambaugh leads resolution honoring children
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Stambaugh appointed to Homeless Youth Advisory Committee
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Bill co-sponsored by Stambaugh to improve educational outcomes for homeless students signed into law
A bill co-sponsored by Rep. Melanie Stambaugh to improve education outcomes for homeless students has been signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee.
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The House has approved Rep. Stambaugh's House Bill 2906, which would add rehabilitation and reintegration as priorities of the Juvenile Justice Act of 1977.
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Essay, Humor, Things Happening RN
I'M EAVESDROPPING
February 1, 2018 Danny McCarthydropping hints, eavesdropping, funny, Super Bowl, workplace Leave a comment
THURSDAY, STARBUCKS – I just spent twenty minutes listening to two teenager/twentysomething girls complain about their babysitting wards, specificially some kid named Soren. I kept meaning to start writing something, but I was drawn in beyond understanding. Soren dropped something on the floor and then just walked away. She would totally clean it up no problem, one girl assured, but it was the laissez-faire attitude Soren possessed that really irked her. By the way, that's never true. It's never that you would totally clean something up but the person was rude about it – you also don't want to have to clean it up. But for some reason, it's unacceptable to say, "I don't want to clean up after you, Soren!" I laugh so hard at this fake, imaginary person who loves cleaning up after people but loves politeness more.
"Do the parents care?" "No. I mean, they get mad, but they don't really do anything."
I've been doing a lot of eavesdropping lately. Not necessarily on purpose, but it's just been happening. I work at a moderately hipster, reasonably priced popular grocery chain. And what I've learned in the almost five months I've been there is that nothing makes you more invisible to people than working retail. People, bless their hearts, really are blind to you.
The other day, I was manning a register when, behind me, a customer was loudly monologuing about the upcoming Super Bowl. "Tom Brady's so mentally strong," she was trying to convince my co-worker who, bless her, does not watch football. "He's totally mentally strong," she shouted into the void. When I turn innocuously to catch a glimpse of her, she latched onto me. "You watch football right?" she asked without waiting for me to answer. It's a minute later before I found a dip in the conversation to say, "No, not really." She bore a more-than-passing resemblance to Jenna Lyons, the former creative director and president of J.Crew – slightly more mannish and full, but strangely magnetic.
Even after we've all affirmed that we, unlike her, do not watch football – I've watched one game this season – she continued to launch several rhetorical questions into the open air. Receipt in her hand, she kept going. Next customer being rung up, still she stood talking. And finally, when she said her goodbyes and pushed her laden cart out of the store.
Days later, she came to my register and started talking – mercifully, not about football. She was ranting about The Walking Dead before offering up, sans spoiler alert, "Yeah Carl was bitten." And when I said, "Oh I don't watch that show," she repeated the spoiler, "Yeah, he's the son. He's annoying. He's dead, well, not yet but he will be. That show's really going off the rails." To so brazenly offer up what was surely a pivotal twist in the series without even the slightest concern or spoiler alert – what if I were watching the show? – was shocking. When I offered up that I was currently watching The Crown, she pivoted easily and naturally. She had not seen the show but her brother-in-law was the owner of some football team and also an ambassador to the U.K. She dug up a picture of him meeting the Queen and attempted to show me several more Instagrams before the lack of Wi-Fi foiled her. She would, she promised me, show me the photos next time.
As she left, I had to fight a smile from creeping across my face. When I first escaped her football speech, I pictured what the rest of her day must look like, as I often do with customers. I pictured her talking the ear off of other mothers at drop-off; I pictured her loudly holding court at the dinner table. I pictured her as loving fiercely, but suffocatingly. But something about her vicious lack of wherewithal about name-dropping shifted my lens of her.
She just, bless, didn't give a fuck. She wanted to name-drop, and so she did. She had opinions about The Walking Dead, so she shared them. She had an effusive admiration of Tom Brady, so she expressed it. It didn't matter to her that no one shared in her journey; an audience was entirely beside the point. What I had interpreted as an inability to read the room was actually just blind conviction. And there's something about bald and bold confidence that draws me to people. People so often step around how they feel, like those girls did with Soren. Instead of just saying, "Fuck off Soren, I'm not your maid, I'm your babysitter. Now clean up the floor," she couched it in the way he (or she, the name Soren leaves the gender mysterious) handled the dropping. But I imagined that "Mentally Strong" would have no problem eviscerating Soren. And Soren would probably, eventually, be grateful for the straight talk.
People so rarely say what they mean. We're wrapped up in manners and culture – it's not necessarily a bad thing – but it was so arresting to see someone so unconcerned with the norms. A normal person would exchange meaningless banter at the register – their weekend, the weather, perhaps a recipe or two. But for her, all the world's a stage.
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Canadian class-action lawsuit filed against Mt. Gox, Mizuho Bank
By Amanda Becker
March 14 (Reuters) - A class-action lawsuit has been filed in Canada against Mt. Gox, the leading bitcoin exchange that lost more than $400 million of customers' digital currency, along with Mizuho Bank Ltd, one of Japan's largest lenders.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, comes just days after Mt. Gox, based in Tokyo, filed for a U.S. Chapter 15 bankruptcy, which shields the company from lawsuits in U.S. courts.
The plaintiffs are Canadian residents who allege they are owed currency and the value of bitcoins by Mt. Gox that they have been unable to withdraw.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of "all persons in Canada who paid a fee to Mt. Gox to buy, sell or otherwise trade bitcoins" and all those who had bitcoins or currently stored with Mt. Gox on Feb. 7.
The filing alleges that a lengthy security breach at Mt. Gox resulted in "the pilfering of millions of dollars' worth of its' users' bitcoins."
On Feb. 25 the website was shut down and users who had currency, including bitcoins, in Mt. Gox accounts could no longer access those funds. Approximately 750,000 of users' bitcoins were lost, the lawsuit states.
Mizuho Bank is named in the lawsuit because "all non-bitcoin currency received by the Mt. Gox Defendants from its users was held in an account or accounts" at the Japanese lending institution, the lawsuit said.
The case is David Joyce, et al and MtGox Inc, et al, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, CV-15-500253-00CP. (Additional reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)


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Meeting with Susan Whitcomb to Discuss the Hurricane and Haiti
October 24, 2016 Kids and Community Service501(c)(3), book lovers, Cayes-Jacmel, children's book clubs, Community Service, current-events, Haiti, Haitian Educational Initiatives, Haitian-Creole, Hurricane Matthew, Inspired by Literature, Jacmel, Wonderland BookSaversmadelinelangdon Leave a comment
Last Friday, we met with our long-time community partner, Susy Whitcomb, the Founder and President of Haitian Educational Initiatives. Haitian Educational Initiatives was established as a response to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010. Hurricane Matthew has razed Haiti, and we have been supporting Haitian Educational Initiative's recovery efforts following the natural disaster.
Headlines about Haiti and Hurricane Matthew from BBC, Reuters, and The Weather Channel
During the 2015-2016 school year, we undertook the task of donating $1,099 worth of Haitian-Creole books to Haiti. Haitian-Creole has only been a written language since 1979, making Haitian-Creole books incredibly rare. First, we held a community event at the Barnum School in Bridgeport to raise awareness. Then, we partnered with the corporate healthcare business ZappRx. We met with the ZappRx PR team in Boston when we donated 2,000 books with ZappRx stickers to the Reach Out and Read program at Tufts Floating Hospital for Children. In exchange, Zoe Barry, the Founder and CEO of ZappRx donated us funds she won from the contest ONEin3, which is sponsored by the mayor of Boston. One of the initial reasons we decided to transform into a 501(c)3 was so that we could accept these funds and purchase Haitian-Creole books.
Haitian-Creole books
Our Sneetches community event at Barnum
posing with some of our books donated to Tufts Floating Hospital for Children
Children reading our donated Haitian-Creole books
We sat with Susy to discuss the conditions of the children, their families, their homes, and their schools. Haitian Educational Initiative's schools in Jacmel and Cayes-Jacmel both sustained damage, and the school in rural Cayes-Jacmel was afflicted with severe flooding. Fortunately, our books were not harmed; proper precautions were exercised to ensure that our books and other school supplies were not damaged by the hurricane. For the most part, the children and their families were safe, but 80% of their crops and livestock were swept away.
Susy affirmed that since the children are equipped with education, during these dire times, the children are actually more apt and able to recover. Unlike their parents, the children can read, and have a breadth of academic knowledge. At school, the children have also learned crafting skills to create goods to sell at the market. These goods range from clothes, to sunglasses made from plastic bottles, to bracelets and jewelry, to pottery, and many other items.
A Haitian bowl made from a special paper mâché technique
Susy showed us pictures of the school in Cayes-Jacmel. In the pictures, rapids of muddy brown water race over the concrete platform of the school. The school in Cayes-Jacmel is open air, and consists of a concrete foundation with posts from which a tarp is draped over to provide shade, or protection from rain. Susy explained that now the school is being excavated from the thick layers of mud and debris.
Flooding in Haiti. Photo credit: HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images
While most of the children and families Haitian Educational Initiatives serves were unharmed, a fourteen-year-old boy was injured during the hurricane. Susy explained how the boy, who attends the school in Cayes-Jacmel, was crushed by a tree, breaking both of his legs. He is receiving medical attention, but the medicine in Haiti is not very advanced, and this injury could have severe, lasting effects. We have asked Susy to put us in contact with the boy and his family, and we hope to assist him in any possible way. We are hoping to deliver him some books and other school supplies so he can continue studying while he recovers.
After meeting with Susy, we presented her with a check written by Reid to support the relief Haitian Educational Initiatives is providing. If you wish, you may donate to Haitian Educational Initiatives to provide food, clean water, and the basic living necessities here.
Presenting Susy with relief funds
Additionally, at the end of our meeting, Susy presented us with gifts from the children in Haiti. When we donated the children in Haiti books and school supplies, we also sent poster pals, which are banners with notes of love, drawings, and pictures from us and school children in our area. In return, we received paper mâché figurines and pottery.
We are very grateful for our wonderful friends in Haiti and we will continue to assist them and Haitian Educational Initiatives in every way possible.
Wonderland BookSavers Brings 1,000 Books to Boston
August 24, 2016 Kids and Community Service501(c)(3), book lovers, Boston, children and community service, Community Service, donating children's books, homeschooling community service, Inspired by Literature, kids and community service, kids service projects, Reach Out and Read, Tufts Floating Hospital for Children, Wonderland BookSavers, ZappRxmadelinelangdon View all 2 comments
Written by Madeline
Last December, we traveled to Boston, bringing with us 2,000 books which we donated to the Reach Out and Read program at Tufts Floating Hospital for Children.
a little girl selects one of our donated books at the hospital
pushing books into the hospital with a camera man on the ZappRx PR team
Pictures from our December donation in Boston
Every time a child visits the hospital, they are able to choose a book to keep and bring home with them.
On August ninth, we trekked back up to Boston with another 1,000 books to replenish the bookshelves at the hospital. When we arrived, we were greeted by community partners Zoe Barry, the founder and CEO of ZappRx; Reach Out and Read coordinator Marika Michelangelo; Anne Carroll from Tufts Floating hospital; and hospital and Reach Out and Read interns.
an intern helps us transport boxes
We unloaded boxes of books from our cars, placed the boxes on dollies, and carted the dollies through the hospital and into the elevators.
When the metal elevator doors opened, we guided the dollies through the hallway, and unloaded some of the boxes into the closet where extra books are kept for the hospital to refill their shelves with. Next, we brought our books over to the same bookshelves we filled last December. Almost all of the 2,000 books we had brought 9 months ago had been selected and taken home by children.
We opened our boxes of books which had already been sorted into three levels: pre-school through third grade, fourth to sixth grade, and middle/high school. We then stocked the books on the shelves in those respective categories and order.
The hospital and Reach Out and Read personnel briefly interviewed and questioned us about our project, and after our discussing our charity, we thanked everyone and departed.
After leaving the hospital, we went to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, which is the second presidential library we have visited as a team. We explored the museum and archives.
Our excursion to John F. Kennedy's Presidential Library concluded our trip to Boston, but we will look forward to bringing more books to Boston in the near future.


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