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35 [a]James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, *came up to Jesus, saying, "Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask of You." 36 And He said to them, "What do you want Me to do for you?" 37 They said to Him, "[b]Grant that we may sit, one on Your right and one on Your left, in Your glory." 38 But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?" 39 They said to Him, "We are able." And Jesus said to them, "The cup that I drink you shall drink; and you shall be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized. 40 But to sit on My right or on My left, this is not Mine to give; but it is for those for whom it has been prepared."
41 Hearing this, the ten began to feel indignant with [c]James and John. 42 Calling them to Himself, Jesus *said to them, "You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them; and their great men exercise authority over them. 43 But it is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant; 44 and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be slave of all. 45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His [d]life a ransom for many."
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Know Your 5 Important Biomarkers to Stay Alive
What if you could predict or see your future health history, or for that matter, your future illnesses and diseases and what ultimately will claim your life? What if, like a crystal ball, you could see the road you were on and where it was headed? Would you want to know? If you could then alter that path in a positive, healthier direction, I think the answer for most of us would be, "Yes." Well, I'm here to tell you that is available to you right now. They say that the best way to predict the future is to create it and I agree. However, on any journey, you must first know your starting point and destination. When it comes to your health right now, do you know where you are precisely? In my 28 years of practice, I find that most people truly don't have an accurate picture of their health. Many people think they are healthy, and most people have a "positive illusion" of health. RESEEARCH HERE Meaning, they think they are a lot healthier than they really are because they feel ok. However, most people don't know that health has very little to do with how a person feels. Feeling good or not feeling good can be an illusion and gets us into big trouble sometimes. Let me give you a recent example. About 2 months ago, my wife got a call from a good friend that her husband was being rushed to the hospital because he was having intense chest pain. By the time he got to the hospital, he had coded several times meaning his heart stopped, and he had to be resuscitated. It turns out that he had a ruptured aortic aneurysm and thank God, the surgeons were able to repair it and save his life. He felt fine one moment and then felt what he called "shattering glass" in his chest the moment before he started not feeling well. I want you to think about that situation and ask yourself a question, "When do think his health started to deteriorate and were their clues in his body and in his blood that could have predicted that he was on a collision course with a major life-threatening event?" The answer is a resounding yes. Did he develop the heart disease that led to his life-threatening event the day of, or the day before he was rushed to the hospital? The obvious answer is NO. We must stop judging our health based on the way we feel and start basing it on real-time data.
Let's discuss this further by using an example that we all can relate to, our cars. What if you never had a gas gauge in your car, or a temperature gauge, or a check-engine light that told you that indicated a problem? What if you had to "guess" if you were going to run out of gas? Would you want to take that chance? "I think I have enough gas today?" I bet many more cars would be on the side of the road waiting for AAA to come rescue them. What if your car was beginning to overheat? Would you want to wait until it started smoking or would you like to see the needle on the gauge climbing towards the red, so you knew to stop before it overheated? Of course, you want to know if your car is overheating, and for that matter, any other looming problems in your car. It just makes good sense if you want to have a car that last long and performs well. Well then, why are our bodies any different? We have systems in our bodies just like a car has systems (electrical system, fuel system, steering system, etc.). We have an electrical system and it's called our nervous system. We also have a fuel system called our digestive system and a steering system called our muscular system. We have to understand how those systems work best to manage them and the best way to do that is to measure the data that is coming from that system.
Unfortunately, we don't have gauges on our body that warn us when there are problems in its systems, such as the circulatory system (heart disease), nervous system (MS or Alzheimer's), digestive system (ulcerative colitis or colon cancer), etc.
In the human body, we call the data that we measure to express function physiological markers or "biomarkers." These indicate our biological makeup at any given point in time. We like to say that "physiology never lies but sometime people do".
The more complex a system, the more "gauges" it requires to manage. Think about a plane vs. a car. A plane requires the pilot to be aware of many systems and lots of data needs to be managed for the plane to operate effectively and safely. Our cars require less data for us to operate them efficiently. However, there are a few critical systems that you are always paying attention to in your car such as the gas gauge.
Likewise, our bodies may be complex, but having a working knowledge of the critical gauges and data to pay attention to is vitally important. We can look at a lot of data in the human body to assess its performance, but "know your 5 to stay alive" looks at 5 of the most important pieces of information and data that will determine your performance and longevity now and in the future.
These 5 important Biomarkers are:
- Body Composition: Muscle vs. Fat and where you are carrying your fat.
- Blood Pressure and Resting Pulse: An indicator of how your cardiovascular system is functioning.
- Anterior Head Carriage: A measurement of how far forward you head is in relationship to your hips.
- HbA1C: Hemoglobin A1C, a biomarker of aging and sugar metabolism
- Triglyceride/HDL ratio: The strongest predictor of our #1 killer, heart disease.
# 1. Body Composition Biomarkers (muscle vs. fat ratio). Body composition is much different than weight. We seem to have a fascination (especially women) with weight and Body Mass Index (BMI). However, body composition is not BMI, and BMI doesn't tell us much unless the number gets over 30, in which a person is considered obese. At this point chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, etc. start to become much more prevalent. Other than that, weight doesn't tell us much about how healthy you are.
Body composition is more about the quality of your weight, not the quantity of your weight. It tells us how much muscle (in pounds and as a percentage of your overall weight) you have compared to the amount of fat on your body (in pounds and as a percentage of your overall weight). Muscle takes about 1/3 less volume than fat and burns 5 times more calories at rest. It's SO important to our health and proper function! It maintains our balance and strength and I believe is one of the most important tissues in our bodies to maintain and not lose as we age. In fact, most people lose about 3-5% of our muscle each decade after the age of 50. But we can absolutely do something about this.
In fact, a recent meta-analysis published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise reviewed 49 studies of men ages 50 to 83 who did resistance training and found that subjects averaged a 2.4-pound increase in muscle mass.
Now let's talk fat. Even saying the word "fat" doesn't sound good but we have to confront the brutal reality of our situation. If you are carrying too much fat, especially centrally on your body, you are in trouble. The fat that accumulates in your belly (centripetal obesity) is a hormone producing machine. In fact, belly fat produces 17 hormones and many of them are interfering with our health. For example, estrogen and inflammatory chemicals are produced by adipose tissue that is carried in the belly and mid-section. This is why we now see young boys who are being "feminized" by having breasts because their obesity and estrogen-producing belly fat. Estrogen produced by belly fat causes little boys to develop little boobies. However, this isn't normal and it is due to the belly fat these boys are carrying.
To measure this important biomarker, we use a diagnostic piece of equipment called an In-Body and it measures your muscle mass in pounds and as a percentage of your overall weight. It also measures your fat mass in pounds and as a percentage of your overall weight. Also, it can measure WHERE you are carrying your muscle and fat and it gives you a "visceral fat index" which is a number that goes from 1-20 and represents the square centimeters of fat you have in your midsection or belly, which is the worst place to carry fat for your health.
# 2. Blood Pressure and Resting Pulse make up the next key biomarker. Combined, these numbers will tell you a lot about your cardiovascular health. Let's talk about blood pressure first. Normal blood pressure is 120/80 mm hg. Blood pressure represent the pressure being applied to the inside wall of the artery. Think of water flowing through your pipes, you need some pressure to keep the water going but too much pressure isn't good because it can cause damage to the pipe. There are many things that can raise our blood pressure such as arteriolosclerosis, increased stress which can cause the blood vessels to constrict. Unlike the pipes in our kitchen, the blood vessels dilate and constrict based on the amount of blood needed in an area. Blood pressure is associated with longevity. If it is low, your chances of living a long life are good and if it is high, your chances of dying go up significantly. A Norwegian study of 16,000 men revealed that high blood pressure was associated with a five-year reduction in life expectancy. The participants with the highest blood pressure had an average lifespan 7.2 years shorter than the participants at the other end of the spectrum. Having a blood pressure of 140/90 or greater for an extended period of time can really increase your risk of dying so know your blood pressure. Know the common causes of hypertension and address them if necessary. These include lack of sleep, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, smoking, magnesium deficiency, and chronic stress.
Resting pulse is also linked with longevity. A study, published in Heart, suggests that a higher resting heart rate is an independent predictor of mortality — even in healthy people in good physical condition.
A Danish study of 5,249 healthy middle-aged and elderly men found that the higher the resting heart rate, the greater the risk for death. Compared with men with rates of 50 beats a minute or less, those at 71 to 80 beats had a 51 percent greater risk of death. At 81 to 90 beats, the rate of death was doubled, and over 90 the risk of death it was tripled.
Staying hydrated, exercise (especially high-intensity interval training), limiting stimulants such as coffee, reducing and managing stress, eating more fish, getting more sleep, and practicing mindfulness techniques such as meditation and yoga will all have a positive impact on your resting heart rate.
# 3. Anterior Head Carriage Biomarkers:
Anterior is the descriptive term that describes the front of your body, and posterior is the back of your body which is why your rear-end is sometimes referred to as your "posterior". So, anterior head carriage is when the head shifts forward out in front of the body. It what you would refer to as "bad posture" or "hunch-back". Research shows that for every inch the head moves forward out in front of the hips, it adds 10 pounds of force on the body. The human head weighs about 7.5% of its total body weight so in a 150 pound person, the head would weigh about 11 lbs. If you take an 11 pound mass and start moving it away from center of gravity, it gets heavier and becomes harder to carry. Think about how we carry a bag of groceries into the house. We hug it into our body or carry it alongside our body. What we don't do is hold it and carry it out in front of our body with our arms extended away from us. It would make no sense because it would become much harder to carry. The term in physics is called "torque". Anterior head carriage puts torque on the back of our spine because the weight is pulling us forward and putting a strain on our body. Structurally speaking, a building should not be out of alignment like the leaning tower of Pisa. It should be perfectly straight up and down, so the loads are distributed properly. In your body, the head should be right over the shoulders, shoulders over the hips, hips over the knees and knees over the ankles. From the front, the head, shoulders, rib cage, pelvis, hip and knees should all be level. Take a look at yourself from the side and from the front. Better yet, have someone take a picture from the side and the front. We take digital pictures of patients and evaluate them using a computer program that analyzes alignment and posture and give specific details on where alignment problems exist.
A study by Kamitani et al of 804 participants done in 2013 showed that anterior head posture or "spinal inclination" as they called it was a significant predictor of decreased life span and disability. In other words, the more forward the posture, the greater the chance of disability and death.
I've seen this in my 27 years of practice. One of my favorite quotes is that "Posture follows movement like a shadow". People with poor posture, whether that is in the frontal plane or side plane, don't move well and if you don't move well, you won't age well. Movement is the foundation of life and good posture is the foundation of movement.
Good posture is not a matter of just standing up straight. It's so much more than that. Good alignment of the spine, pelvis and hips, a strong core, a flexible core and some work is what it takes to develop good alignment and posture. It's not good luck, its hard work.
# 4. Hemoglobin A1C is a blood test that is an indicator of how much "glycation" is happening in the body. Glycation occurs when sugars combine with certain amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) or fats causing advanced glycation end-products (AGE's) to form. This process of glycation changes the proteins and fats in your body by "stiffening" them rendering them less useful in the body and aging the body. Flexibility, even at the cellular level, is critical.
Glycation and elevated A1C is more likely to occur when blood sugar is elevated, which explains the higher levels of AGEs in people with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes. One danger of AGEs is that they can clog the very small blood vessels (microvascular system) throughout the body, especially in the kidneys, eyes, heart, and brain, which may contribute to the risk of various diabetic complications. According to the British Medical Journal, the predictive value of HbA1C for total mortality is stronger than that documented for cholesterol concentration, body mass index and blood pressure.
This test is easy to run and should be a part of your normal yearly physical in your doctor's office. We run this test routinely in our 8 Weeks to Wellness patients and see a significant positive change when patients finish the program. This demonstrates the positive impact of dietary changes on HbA1C levels. See the chart below for normal, pre-diabetic and diabetic ranges.
# 5 Triglyceride/HDL Ratio is one of the most important blood ratios you should know. Traditionally, cholesterol was the "gold standard" for predicting heart disease, the number one killer of men and women in the U.S. However, research in the past 30 years has shown that it's not your total cholesterol that matters but your ratio of good cholesterol particles (big, fluffy particles) to bad cholesterol particles (small, dense particles). We now know that it is not the cholesterol that causes arteriosclerosis but the protein that carries the cholesterol that is the culprit. Cholesterol can't float freely in our blood; it has to be transported by proteins and these proteins are called "lipoproteins". A study found that Triglyceride/HDL ratio above 4 was the most powerful predictor of cardiovascular disease independent of total cholesterol. Other studies have shown that 50% of the people who die of cardiovascular disease has normal cholesterol levels.
Interestingly, it has been found that the Triglyceride/HDL-C ratio can predict cholesterol particle size and particle size is the key to understanding who will develop cardiovascular disease and who won't. One study found that 79% of individuals with a Triglyceride/HDL ratio above 3.8 had a preponderance of small dense LDL particles, whereas 81% of those with a ratio below 3.8 had a preponderance of large buoyant particles. Bottom line is you want your cholesterol to be large and fluffy like tumbleweeds not small and dense like golf balls and Trig/HDL can predict this.
Triglyceride/HDL ratio can also be a marker of insulin resistance. A study in which most of the participants were Caucasian and overweight identified TG/HDL-C ratio of 3 or greater as a reliable predictor of insulin resistance. See the chart below for what is considered low risk vs. high risk for Trig/HDL ratio.
If you want to live a long, healthy life, it is important to know the key biomarkers that can accurately predict how well you are doing, not just on the outside but on the inside of your body. We put lots of time and money on "looking good" on the outside but truthfully our insides are just as important if not more. We would do well to understand and take care of the inside of our bodies, those parts we can't see with the naked eye. These "know your 5 to survive" numbers can let you know how beautiful you look on the inside, and how long and how well you will live into the future.

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Today was the graduation day and judo demo and family night for the end of our first season of Kid's judo here at Mokuren. If you're coming into this story late, we decided to run kids' judo on a seasonal sports model, like teeball or soccer, since so many of the parents around here understand that sports model better than the usual 2-3 classes/week all the time model. We ran the season from last September till today and will take off during the busy baseball season and the intolerable heat of summer, to begin again this coming September. We practiced once per week and had club judo tournaments each month. It was a lot of fun and the kids learned a lot and we all had a lot of fun.
Following is the text of the program for tonight's judo demo for those interested:
Judo Embu (Demonstration)
In Feudal Japan, samurai warriors learned jujitsu, a form of empty-hand combat, as a backup plan in case they were disarmed on the battlefield. But after the Restoration of the Meiji Emperor to the throne in 1868, Japan began to pull itself out of feudalism through a long process of westernization and modernization. During this modernization, the old feudalistic samurai arts, including jujitsu were considered no longer necessary, and perhaps even backward. Hundreds of years of refinements of the jujitsu arts were in danger of dying out within the space of a generation.
In the 1880's, Jigoro Kano, a master of several of the ancient jujitsu arts, came up with the idea to preserve the aspects of jujitsu that were still beneficial to individuals and to society - qualities like strength and courage and discipline. Kano took some of the techniques from the ancient jujitsu arts and used them to create a wrestling sport, which he called Judo. Judo rapidly grew in popularity in Japan, Europe, and throughout the world as both a sport and a form of self-defense.
Tonight you will see a demonstration of some of the skills that your children have learned over the course of the last few months; demonstrations of their maturing strength, technique, persistence, and courage. Thank you for joining us in this celebration of their achievement.
- Line-up, salutes, and warm-up
- Safe falling skills (forward roll, forward fall, left fall right fall, back fall)
- More falling skills with a spotter (deashibarai, teguruma, hizaguruma, seoinage)
- Throwing skill: osotogari (the big outside reap), that we call the "1-2 throw"
- Holding skill: osotogari→kesagatame (the scarf hold)
- Escape skill: osotogari→kesagatame→uphill escape
- Ground grappling skills: crawling man contest
- Standing wrestling skills: standing randori
Presentation of certificates and new belts
- All students will be presented with certificates, and the older students will be presented with new belts. The younger students' new belts are on back-order and will be presented during a post-season play-day during the Summer.
- Gavin - Yellow Belt - Gavin is the oldest, and because of the age and mass advantage, had the coordination and strength to do well. Gavin especially improved in his mental control of his frustration when someone (like Whit) would grind him or play rough.
- Whit - Yellow Belt - Whit is naturally athletic and coordinated. Particularly agile on his feet, he was able to dominate much of the standing work. Whit developed a good osotogari and a fair deashibarai this season and he is making progress in learning to control that alpha-male ego thing that he has going.
- Mason - Yellow Belt - Mason is nearly indomitable on the ground because of his fierce persistence. He absolutely refuses to lose if there is anything he can do about it. He has also shown a great deal of control over natural frustration when he is dominated to the point of exhaustion on the ground by a larger opponent (like Gavin). Mason also has a naturally good leg pick.
- Knox - White&Yellow Belt - Knox is the kind one. He has enjoyed being able to develop and express a more vigorous aggression in randori this season, but tonight in standing randori he absolutely refused to throw Emma because he thought he might hurt her.
- Emma - White&Yellow Belt - It's hard (impossible?) to keep the attention of kids this young, but Emma has done very well and has improved her attention span greatly. She has had a lot of fun especially in the randori and groundwork games with Knox and Quin.
- Quin - White&Yellow Belt - Got a late start this season, and was handicapped by his small size (a 000 gi swallows him), but he has a natural aggression and a will to power that will serve him well in judo as he picks up a little more mass and coordination.
Congratulations to all of our newly advanced students!


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CONVICTED paedophile Gary Glitter has been told he is not welcome at Welsh universities.
The disgraced former 'glam' rock star - real name Paul Francis Gadd - hoped to perform a Christmas comeback tour with a series of student concerts at Bangor, Aberystwyth and Cardiff.
But Gadd, 57, who was sentenced to four months in jail in 1999 after admitting possessing 54 indecent photos of children on his computer, was quickly given the brush-off by student unions, disgusted by his "depraved behaviour".
Kate Richards, deputy president of the National Union of Students in Wales, said: "It would be totally unacceptable for Gary Glitter to perform in any university and he will not be welcomed by students in Wales.
"He may have been popular with students in the past, but not any more."
The President of Bangor University Students' Union, James Brownsell, said he believed Glitter's agent approached the union about arranging a concert date.
But he said: "In a Students' Union you promote the spirit of equal opportunities. Great though a performer may be, when he personifies depraved behaviour we cannot have him performing here. It would have sent out the wrong message."
Gadd was convicted in 1999 after pleading guilty to charges arising from possession of child porn images.
The ageing star had been arrested after taking his computer to a store to be repaired. The engineer accessed a file and turned the images he found over to police.
Gadd, who had earlier been acquitted by a jury at Bristol Crown Court of eight charges of indecent assault and serious sex charges against a fan over a period of years starting in the 1980s, was then sentenced to four months' imprisonment of which he served two.
Following his release, he fled overseas, but his one-time best- selling recordings spanning 20 years and including "classics" such as C'mon, C'Mon, Touch Me, and Boys Will Be Boys, no longer found favour with audiences in Britain.
Tom Watson, a member of the Government's Home Affairs Select Committee, wrote to the British Phonographic Institute calling for an outright ban on what he described as "a convicted paedophile selling his wares".
And Glitter's latest Lost on Life Street album, which was partly recorded before his 1999 court case, is not being distributed in the UK.


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Country Coach, the financially ailing Junction City, Ore., RV maker, has yet to file a reorganization plan to get itself out of bankruptcy. And now a judge is demanding that company officials explain why he shouldn't order that its assets be liquidated, according to The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.
A hearing on Country Coach's Chapter 11 bankruptcy case is set for Oct. 22, at which time company officials will have to convince U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Albert Radcliffe that it has a viable plan for returning to profitability. If not, Radcliffe could order the case converted to a Chapter 7 case, which means its assets would be sold off to satisfy creditors, or he could dismiss the case outright, which would allow creditors to sue to seize the company's assets.
The hearing could mark a turning point for Country Coach, which filed for bankruptcy protection in March so it could reorganize its finances while getting breathing room from creditors, chief among them California-based Wells Fargo Bank.
Country Coach, a privately held maker of luxury motorcoaches, closed its Junction City plant in November, putting about 500 employees out of work. It resumed production in April, although on a much smaller scale. Company officials have said between 100 and 120 employees have been working at the plant, turning out about one coach per week.
Company spokesman Matt Howard said Wednesday (Sept. 23) the plant has been shut the past two weeks, but the company is planning to reopen Monday. He declined to comment on legal issues.
Since it resumed production in April, Country Coach has posted losses of $6.8 million, according to a financial statement it filed with the court Sept. 15.
Judge Radcliffe initially set an Aug. 31 deadline for Country Coach to file a reorganization plan. That was extended, at the company's request, to Sept. 15. Radcliffe said he wouldn't consider further extensions unless Country Coach's main creditor, Wells Fargo, agreed to extend its financing past Dec. 31. Country Coach lawyer Brandy Sargent said in a motion that Wells Fargo had agreed to extend the financing through Feb. 15 and asked that the deadline for filing a plan be extended to Oct. 15.
Sargent said the company recognizes that "there remains a material risk that it will not be able to proceed to confirmation of its plan," and she outlined a series of hurdles Country Coach must clear to get its plan confirmed by the court. Those include coming to terms with its landlord, Lee Joint Ventures, with Wells Fargo, and with its would-be partner, Recreation Live LLC.
The U.S. Trustee's office, meanwhile, objected to the company's request for another extension. The company has not filed documents supporting its assertion that Wells Fargo has agreed to extend its financing, nor has Wells Fargo filed any documentation indicating that it agreed to an extension, according to a brief filed by Rebecca Kamitsuka, attorney for the U.S. Trustee.
Further, Kamitsuka said, when she asked a Country Coach lawyer for a copy of the loan modification agreement, he faxed her a single-page document, marked as Page 6 of 6, with just a signature page, but without the text of the agreement.
Country Coach, Kamitsuka wrote, "cannot hide the ball on these matters in its fiduciary capacity."


text: Recent high-profile debates about "unlawful" or "unprivileged" combatants call for fundamentally rethinking the role of international law in relation to war. In the conventional view, the laws of war, both jus ad bellum and jus in bello, primarily seek to oppose or restrain the practice of organized violence. This Article, focusing on the legal doctrines crucial to the combatants' privilege, argues for three contrary propositions. First, law's role in relation to war is primarily not one of opposition but of construction–the facilitation of war through the establishment of a separate legal sphere immunizing some organized violence from normal legal sanction and, inevitably, privileging certain forms of violence at the expense of others. Secondly, the forms of this legal construction of war are highly contingent, the subject of historical variation and political contestation. Thirdly, the legal construction of war as a separate sphere has been considerably destabilized in our time, in particular by the strategic instrumentalization of the legal categories by state and non-state participants in violence. Both the "war on terror" and the fourteen year conflict with Iraq provide paradigmatic instances of these phenomena. This Article analyzes the legal construction of war in relation to two broad questions: "what is war?" and "who is a warrior?" It also examines current conflicts in historical perspective, drawing on past experience from the occupation and colonial contexts. In the Epilogue, it applies its analysis to some aspects of recent Supreme Court decisions on the "war on terror."


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This ad for Grey Goose Le Melon celebrates the vodka brand's history and heritage. Infused with French cavallion melon, Grey Goose's newest product embodies quality and sophistication. The world-renowned vodka brand may not hail from Eastern Europe but has become a world class player in the beverage industry in the last few years.
Each bottle of Grey Goose Le Melon is made with the freshest of cavallion melon ingredients and is put through a process that relies on the expertise of local farmers and distillers.
In this short film, Grey Goose cellar master Francois Thibault travels to the south of France to oversee how his fruit-infused product is made. The short film features a lesson from cultural historian Corinne who describes the region's climate and irrigation system, the oldest in France.
The clip also introduces viewers to melon farmer Bernard Ivy who described his passion for the finest ingredients. Targeting a more mature consumer, Grey Goose replaces traditional nightclub and party branding with marketing that is more focused on quality and brand authenticity.
This commercial celebrates craftsmanship and reminds one that a great product is 'more about passion than history.'
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Saint John's Abbey and University will bestow its highest award, the Pax Christi Award, upon well-known liturgical composers David Haas, Marty Haugen, and Fr. Michael Joncas, this coming June.
In their letter to honorees, President Michael Hemesath and Abbot John Klassen, OSB, noted,
You have generously offered your musical talents and contributed greatly to the "full, conscious, and active participation" of the people of God in the liturgy as called for by the Second Vatican Council. Your compositions are sung by congregations and choirs and ensembles around the world, across a wide variety of Christian traditions. In your writing, speaking, and presenting, you have evocatively connected liturgical music with the work of the churches for peace and justice. Your commitment to sung liturgy exemplifies the Benedictine spirit, as shown in the first scholae cantorum founded by Benedictines in the 7th century to teach sacred music to youth, through the work for liturgical reform by our Fr. Virgil Michel and other leaders of the Liturgical Movement.
Previous recipients of the Pax Christian award include Cardinal Walter Kasper, historian Martin E. Marty, Cardinal Joseph Bernadin, Methodist ecumenist Albert Outler, social activist Gordon Zahn, apostolic delegate Archbishop Jean Jadot, Vatican Two council fathers Cardinal Leo Josef Suenens and Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, Lutheran (later Orthodox) historian Jaroslav Pelikan, and religious liberty theologian Fr. John Courtney Murray.
Among other award recipients in the field of liturgy are liturgical reformer Msgr. Frederick McManus, former executive director of the International Commission on the Liturgy John Page, and renowned liturgical composer Richard Proulx.
The award will be bestowed at Saint John's in Collegeville on Sunday, June 25, 2017. The community Mass will feature compositions for congregation and choir composed by the award recipients. Singing at the Mass will be the National Catholic Youth Choir, the Saint John's Boy Choir, and the Abbey Schola. The award will be presented at a banquet following the Mass.
St. John's is home to Liturgical Press, the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, the Saint John's Bible, Saint John's Preparatory School, and Saint John's University which includes the School of Theology and Seminary, which offers the M.A. in Liturgical Music.


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Zeebox 'TV Sidekick' App Launches in U.S.
TV junkies, rejoice: the zeebox "TV sidekick" debuted in the U.S. today with a number of big-name media partners.
Cloud-based zeebox was created by former EMI executive Ernesto Schmitt and former BBC iPlayer CTO Anthony Rose, with the intention of turning TV watching into a more social experience.
According to zeebox, the app enhances the TV experience with relevant content about the show you're watching from various websites, social networks, and advertisements. Consumers can find more in-depth information about TV shows and even buy products they see on TV directly through zeebox.
Zeebox is enhanced by the support of launch partners Comcast Cable, NBCUniversal, HBO, and Cinemax, which will provide an enhanced experience on zeebox for some of their most popular shows, like The Voice, Notre Dame Football, Boardwalk Empire, True Blood, and Strike Back.
NBCUniversal said it already demonstrated the importance of a second-screen experience during the summer Olympics. "We think the zeebox technology presents tremendous opportunities for our views and our advertisers," CEO Steve Burke said in a statement.
Zeebox's Schmitt called his lineup of partners a game-changing roster, adding that the companies all "recognize the importance of fully meeting Web-empowered customer expectations."
The new app launches with a comprehensive seven-day TV program guide for all major U.S. channels, allowing for customized channel lineups and future-TV reminders. It also comes equipped with Facebook and Twitter integration, as well as in-depth details about shows, talent, topics, and products mentioned on TV, synchronized second-by-second with the live show.
"As consumers continue to flock to social media and the web to experience a program beyond what is on the screen, zeebox gives content owners and programmers a direct line of communication, feedback and engagement that has never before been possible," Schmitt said in a statement.
Zeebox launched in the U.K. last year, bringing consumers a way to discover what to watch by browsing comprehensive TV listings, social media, and personalized recommendations.
The free app is now available for free download in the iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPad and the Google Play store, as well as the Web. Zeebox is optimized for the iPhone 5 and iOS 6, and comes with a Facebook single sign-on option.
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The Unconventional Guide to Broom Closet
Broom closet is a must for home, as broom and other cleanings supplies are not those items which you like to put on a show. You need to hide all cleaning items in the best way and that is none other than setting them in a closet. Today, you will get an idea about different placing for building this kind of closet. In addition, you would be able to discover some amazing design and organization ideas.
5 Best Places for Broom Closet Placement
Here are some places where you can set this closet.
If you have a large kitchen space, then definitely you can keep broom and other supplies in a cabinet. You have many cabinets in a kitchen, so it is quite easy for you to designate a specific large cabinet for this purpose.
If your garage is not very far from your home, then definitely you can build a closet in this area. Your garage has other tools as well, so try to create a build closet with many cabinets. A big cabinet will allow you keep not only mop, broom, cleaning supplies but also some tools and machines.
3.Kitchen Pantry
If you have a big kitchen pantry then you need to get a separate cabinets for keeping your home cleaning supplies and tools. A big cabinet is usually require with one shelf. Keep all supplies in a big basket and set in on shelf. Place mop, brushes, wiper, broom, etc in a standing position in a tall cabinet.
4.Storage Room
Another best place to keep your home cleaning goods is this one. You can build a closet for broom in it or just grab a free standing broom closet. Both options allow you to organize these items in the best way.
It is a common place of keeping all essential cleaning related items, tools and machines. So, if you have separate laundry, then use one cabinet for sole storage of a broom and other cleaning supplies.
Must Consider Size of Broom Closet Cabinet
When you are going to build a separate closet or a cabinet for home cleaning supplies, then you have to pay close attention to dimensions. As you have to keep sweep, dustpan,push, sweetbase ball, witch broom in a cabinets, so you need to keep in mind tall structure of all such items. In another words, length of cabinets should be more than 84 inches (normally a standard length). So, if you are going to build closet own your own or simply going to customize it then you should go with right width, length and depth.
Fantastic Design ideas of Broom Closet
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text: Talking "the talk" with my daughters: I accidentally avoided talking about sex with my kids #Being Parents#Offbeat Papas#big kids#sex Updated Oct 12 2015 (Posted Mar 22 2013) Guest post by Mark Freeman By: Yasuyuki HIRATA – CC BY 2.0 On a recent trip home from my daughters' horseback riding lessons, we got on the subject of puppies, pregnancy, and birth. My daughters were trying to wrap their minds around the size of litters and giving birth to so many babies. What was confusing them was whether the mother had all the babies at once or if they emerged one at a time, and if so, how did the babies know to come out in "a line." My daughters asked if it was hard for the mom, and I explained that it's tough to gauge pain or discomfort in animals, but it did seem like animals exhibited signs of pain while birthing their babies. The topic eventually worked its way to human babies and pregnancy. My oldest daughter finally asked the question, "Does it hurt?" So, being a father and not wanting to miss an opportunity I said, "Yes, excruciatingly so." I figured, why not, right? I am prone to hyperbole, but I felt my wife and most moms I know would back me up on this one. And a little fear of horrific pain might prolong their desire to become moms in, what seems entirely too near, the future. I know, I was using my honesty to mask my own parental fears of my daughters growing up, but… so what? The girls were quiet for a moment and then my youngest finally said, "Well, I'm not having one then!" Internally, I cheered. My oldest waited a beat and then asked, "Do we have to have a baby if we don't want one?" I didn't waste much time thinking over my answer this time either. "No," I said. "It's your choice, sweetheart, if you want to have babies or not." Not to politicize a conversation with my daughters, but it wasn't hard for me to make the connection between this innocent question from my daughter, and what seems an attempt at retracting the hard-fought equal rights for woman in the past few years. "Okay, good," she said. At this point I was feeling pretty good about myself and the conversation. I felt I'd taken a stand for equal rights and promised to defend my daughters' reproductive rights. I was feeling much like a bona fide father of the year candidate when I was blind sided by the next question. Related Post The Talk This week we received a sheet of paper from the district—a head's up, if you will—about a few films that will be shown to the... Read more "So, how do they get in there then?" she asked. "Um, what?" I asked, very quickly fearing the turn in the conversation. She wasn't asking what I thought she's asking, was she? C'mon, I still have a few years yet before I have to talk to my little girl about that, don't I?! "Well, if I don't want to have a baby, how do I not have one? How do they get in there?" Damn it. I was sunk. I have to admit, I wasn't ready for the question. I stammered, and admittedly, it wasn't my proudest dad moment ever. I looked in the review mirror and saw my two daughters' small faces, button noses, and blue eyes awaiting my answer. They were looking to me, their dad, to drop some knowledge on them, and never had I been at such a loss before. Especially for them. "Well," I started just as we passed the last few trees before our house came into view. "MOMMY!" my girls exclaimed as they noticed their Mom's car, revealing she'd beaten us home. I was saved, the girls had forgotten their line of interrogation and their minds had moved on to the excitement of mom being home. I had, luckily, avoided this particular topic for — hopefully — another decade or so. I let them down, but almost — I feel — really let them down. You see, in that split second before seeing my wife's car, my mind had come up with two paths to follow — neither of which were very good options. But, you see, here's the thing: I haven't been able forget about it. I let them down, but almost — I feel — really let them down. You see, in that split second before seeing my wife's car, my mind had come up with two paths to follow — neither of which were very good options. My first thought was to bury them in science and technical terms. Put my biology degrees to good use in stonewalling having to give my daughters a real explanation for sex and pregnancy. My other thought, and the one I nearly knee jerked into telling them, was that "When two parents love each other, they make a baby together." Where this came from, I really don't know, but it has really given me quite a bit of consternation since it leapt into my mind. Why would I tell my daughters that? Well, I know why, because if I could I would line their clothes in bubble wrap, I would install airbags into the knees of their jeans, and surround their hearts in rainbows and marshmallows. But how would that ever empower them and honestly answer my daughter's question? It wouldn't. It would only empower the Todd Akins of the world — something that I won't abide. However, I want them to know and believe they were created out of love. They weren't made from it, "No," I'll say. "You were made with a sperm and an egg. Simple as that." However, I will be emphatic that because their Mom and I loved each other very much, we wanted to bring them into this world. And, since that moment, they have shown me a whole new plane of existence and love. Every day they teach me more about love than I ever would have guessed. My daughters, simply at being born and taking breaths, have given my life purpose. I will tell them that. Every word. But, I will also tell them that love isn't what made them or put them in their Mom's belly. No, that takes an egg from the mom and a sperm from the dad. Happens all the time in dogs, cats, whales, and millions of other species. It doesn't take any love at all to make a baby. There's nothing mysterious or magical about it. I know too many people who have more love than most, but who will never make a baby. It is not for lack of any amount of love, but because of biology that they can't make a baby of their own. I have friends who have lost babies, but it was never because of an over abundance of love. It was, sadly, because of biology. Babies should be born into a safe and loving place, but that's not always the case. Sometimes they're not made because of love, "Not like you were," I'll say, but sometimes in apathy or even brutality. And, "That's not okay," I'll say, but it is true. I'll tell them again because I actually got this bit right, that it will always be their choice whether to have a baby or not. Because, it is their choice. So, I feel better now. I feel ready for the conversation, which I still hope has been delayed for a lengthy amount of time. I'm now ready to have "The Talk" with my daughters about how babies are made and where they come from. I'm still embarrassed about being ill prepared before, but at least I rallied and am ready for them now. Which is good, at least, because I don't know if I'll ever be ready for them to actually make any. You might also be interested in… Talking to tweens about sex and masturbation: keep calm and spank on Sex Ed and the four-year-old How I'm preparing myself for my daughter's future sex life Reporter Name * Reporter Email * Original text Enter the original text here. Edited text* Enter your suggested copyedit here. Notes You can add a note for the editor here. * Required information. Fix Typo Guest post written by Mark Freeman Mark lives and writes with his wife and two daughters in northern Vermont. A geeky stay-at-home-dad, writer, and filmmaker, Mark spends most of his time folding laundry, baking brownies, and playing with his daughters. http://markfreeman.wordpress.com PREVIOUS What are your favorite animal-friendly, beautifully-illustrated kid's books? NEXT How To Hair Girl wants to show you how you can do your own hair at home Show/Hide comments [ 33 ] Thank you for this. I'm getting pregnant in a doctor's office, and though I'll have love for my future children, and I've spent lots of time and energy and (honestly) money making them eventually happen, the only love involved presently does not involve anyone other than me. I'm really glad I'm included in your explanation. 🙂 Reply You're welcome, Marie. I've come to believe our children come to us in so many different ways and shapes that all that matters is that we do right by and love them. The only definition of family I believe in is love and kindness. The physical make up of the family doesn't really matter so much. Thanks for reading and sharing your story! Reply Have to jot down a few notes from this for when I inevitably have to have the talk with my daughter. I love that you emphasize that love is not needed to make a baby, but love was why she was made. Always remind them that they were a product of a loving relationship. Reply What if they weren't? Reply That loving relationship may simply be the love of parent for child. With abortion and Plan B readily available these days, we hope that any parent having a child is doing so out of love for the child. Even a child put up for adoption was loved enough that the parent wanted to give it a loving home rather than terminate. Reply "readily available" is open to some interpretation – not the words i would use in my location/culture. if they weren't – well, i would stick with the idea that love doesn't make a baby, but it can make a family (however you are choosing to define that – or makes a relationship, if you're talking about a kid who's not your family). Reply This is a nice answer. Thank you. I agree, babies aren't made out of love, but love is certainly a (the?) main component of a family. Marie, it sounds like you've worked very hard to bring your children into this world, and it sounds to me like quite the testament of love. However our families are made up, single parent, two parents, same gender, not, love should be the only thing that truly matters. That's my opinion for what it's worth, at least. Good luck with your pregnancy! I agree. My aunt and uncle have been trying to figure out how to have this conversation with their adopted son – he was not particularly created out of love, his mother absconded from the hospital after his birth and they've heard neither hide nor hair of her for six years. However, he is most certainly loved and valued as part of the family. This is a lovely way to put it. You're not the only one who has been surprised with a question! One day I was driving my (new- as in had been living with me for less than a month) foster son home from school and he was singing a rap song I didn't know. It involved the word "clitoris" and he promptly asked me "What's a clitoris?" I've been teaching sex ed to underserved populations for YEARS and I STILL stammered and gave a half assed answer that I'm still a little ashamed about. It's funny, we think we're totally prepared, we have the answers to all these questions ready to go, but when it's dropped on us as we're driving down the street it all goes right out the window. I will also say, the line "surround their hearts in rainbows and marshmallows" is the perfect way to describe how I feel as a parent. Perfect! Reply That's fantastic, Amanda! And…thank you. I now need to go Google "rap song" and "clitoris"….:) Reply Yup, that line totally made me go 'awwww' too. <3 Good job, Mark. I'm glad you're ready for next time! Reply Beautiful. Well-written, well-spoken, and wonderfully honest. Your girls are lucky to have you as a dad. Reply Thanks, Andrea! Reply It's so funny for me to think on "the talk"… as the daughter of a midwife, there was never NOT talking about it. All of it. In detail. With medical terms (hell, I got into a fist-fight at age 5 over whether Barbie had "breasts" or "boobies" — how DARE that other girl use such a stupid word to describe Barbie's breasts!). By the time I was 10, I was always like GOD MOM CAN WE PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT VAGINAS AND BABIES ALL THE TIME. Moral of the story: the quickest way to not have to answer questions about sex with your children is to talk to them about it all the time. Reply That was me- and I educated other kids about it too, which both embarrassed and delighted my mother. Reply Totally agree x 1000 Any time my 11 year old boy-kid has raised anything that could even remotely segue to a reproductive/physical boundaries/human body topic, I have jumped all over it. I tend to keep information factual but the conversations are usually short and therefore not overwhelming. For example- ad on TV for menstrual product: Kid- What is that ad for? Me- short recap on periods, made way easier thanks to previous discussions about wombs, eggs, sperm and and babies. Then quick explanation of the purpose of the product. Kid- that is the most revolting thing I have ever heard Me- yeah, I know it sounds gross, but that's what happens. Its been happening to me for years Lesson over. I have paved another stone on the pathway to an informed teenager (then adult) who understands the male and female body. Who will not NOT know stuff. I see so many pluses to this ahead in the teenage years- realistic ideas about female bodies, awareness of safe sex, respect for sexual partners, comfort with own sexuality and body….. I also sporadically just flat-out ask him if he has any questions about sex. Usually the answer is no, to which I respond with an open offer to come back to me if he thinks of anything. So the biology of menstruation, sex, contraception and babies is pretty much de-mystified in our house, which is great. What I have found though, is that I get asked OTHER types of questions that I have to think on my feet to answer, such as 'do you like having sex with Dad'? I think I was ill-prepared for that one. Maybe our kids are just always going to push us out of our comfort zone- they probably have an in-built radar for it. Reply Lovely piece, and I really enjoyed reading it. I don't, however, think you necessarily did your daughters any favours by describing birth as "excruciating". People's experiences vary; for some that's true (maybe it was true for their mother?), but others wouldn't describe it like that. It sounds like they're young and probably they won't remember, but I wonder if you may have frightened them more than was necessary. Reply Thanks, QoB! I appreciate your comment and note. First off, I was attempting to be funny in the article, sorry if that didn't come across. Secondly, I was unaware that some folks experience a (natural) painless child birth. As a guy, I really can't way in on it, but from most of the birth stories and friends (mid-wives and doulas among them) I've discussed the matter with, all have had varying degrees (you're right) of pain. But some pretty good pain in most cases. I felt it was fair of me to explain that it was a painful experience (had I not, I feel I might have had a fair number of people pointing out my lack of empathy). And, thirdly, I said I was prone to hyperbole. I also think it's fair of me to hope that my five year old is thinking of things other than birthing babies for the next few years. They have heard their birth stories, with less hyperbole and more facts, many times. In the next few years they will continue to hear them as well as the wonderful experience of parenthood (and read many blogs about our misadventures), so I am sure I haven't done any lasting damage in discouraging them from becoming mothers in the future. Thanks again for the comment. Reply I was going to say something like this. Often time the reason birth is painful has to do with fear, and fear of pain. Fear is taught to us as girls from a very young age. I understand why a father or parent would want to say something like this, though. You just don't want your girl to rush into something, so you want her to be afraid of it. My mom didn't hide the pain part of it, but she was much more gentle describing it. she said something like, "It hurts, then it's a lot of work, then it's over, and I had you to make it all worth it." She made it seem beautiful, not horrifying. Reply EXACTLY. That was the one thing that I wanted to comment on too, and I'm glad it was brought up. My mother had me & my 3 siblings all naturally but I was still terrified of the idea of birthing a baby for most of my life, as a child growing up is influenced by everything around them and not just their parents. The vast majority of our world teaches that childbirth is terrifying, excruciating and horrendous, to be dealt with only by drugs, surgery, and/or vein-popping screaming. It took a whole lot of research, classes and methods to un-learn all of that and deal with it from a more practical standpoint–working with your body, understanding what is happening and leaving the debilitating fear behind. I had a wonderful unmedicated birth that, while it wasn't a walk in the park, it was nothing I couldn't handle, and not nearly as bad as the rest of the world had lead me to believe. I wouldn't have traded that incredible experience for anything. Part of that was luck, but I also very strongly believe that part of it was not being terrified and tense and panicked. Not that we want every little girl to think giving birth is pain-free, but a healthy dose of "you're strong, don't be afraid, you can do it" is the loudest message we should be sending. With that said, it sounds like your 2 little girls have some good parents looking after them and they will make informed decisions about when and if they want to become mommas. And you might be surprised at how thrilled you'll be when they finally do… as well-adjusted young women starting families & giving you grandkids? They might be more embarassed by you bringing up the topic by then 🙂 Reply "It doesn't take any love at all to make a baby." that is so important. and thank you for putting into words what squicks me out so much about the "mommy+daddy+love=baby" narrative (well, one of the many things). Reply Great point, even as a parent in a 'typical' nuclear family, our narrative was a bit more complicated- Boy + Girl + love + fuckin' lots + lotsa party drugs + forgot to take the one pill I should have been taking = WTF!?? = freakout = baby My child has a stable home life and is deeply loved and wanted. I have always felt funny about how there seems to be an unspoken link drawn between whether a child was planned and how much they are loved and wanted. Reply I know you're just joking around, by why would you want to wait to talk? The stuff kids pick up on their own is simply atrocious, and they start sharing misinformation years sooner than you would believe. If you're too tongue tied, there's all sorts of great children's books out there to help. When I was a wee one I was entranced by Lennart Nilsson's Life book. My mom has a whole box of crooked blobby crayon fetus drawings based on it. Reply Thanks, Kaete. The point of the story wasn't that I don't want to discuss it, but that I was blind-sided by the question. My daughters are 8 and 5 now, and I wasn't expecting the question right then while driving home. We actually, as many of you have also noted, have a very honest and factual home. My daughters don't use "cutesy" terms for body parts, nor are they or my wife and I squeamish about discussing bodies, body functions, or reproduction. We're comfortable with our bodies and have no problems with discussing them. I'll also be completely honest and say I also want my girls to be kids for as absolutely long as possible and don't want them to start fixating on "grown up" things or topics. So, the notion of sex popping up on my kids radar doesn't really thrill me. Maybe I'm wrong in this idealistic notion of letting them stay children, liking children things, and not growing up too soon. But, if that's my biggest mistake as a parent, I'll take it. I'm a biologist by education and training and my girls have seen puppies being born, etc. I have no problem telling my girls, and have since, that a baby is made when a sperm and an egg are joined in the mother's womb and form a zygote, which grows into a fetus, and then into a baby. That wasn't the question, the question was how does it get in there. I have no problem telling them that the father puts the sperm in the mother. However, my daughters question was much more pointed at that time, and I was taken by surprise. Reply thanks for the thoughtful, and obviously loving piece Mark. I'd say to go with your instincts on when is right to have the talk with your daughters. I'll share something though in case it helps, which is that I wish someone had given me at least a basic version of "the talk" by about the age of your eldest daughter. It was that age that I was molested by a family friend, and having very limited understanding of how a baby gets inside I convinced myself that I was pregnant by just having been touched. It was a very painful time for me that could have been *far* less traumatic if I had had a simple, straightforward education on how one actually gets pregnant. It's fairly obvious you're a lot more involved in your kids' lives (you write a blog about parenting!), but perhaps consider a talk sooner than later (ten years was probably a joke, I get it). Maybe when the time comes it could incorporate setting boundaries, saying "no", why those places on our bodies are special could be a segue to the reproduction topic. though, yea, I wouldn't want to start them off scared. Thanks for the honest piece. You sound like an awesome dad. Reply It's really hard when kids blindside you with those kinds of questions. I'm a big fan of the line, "that's a really good question! Let me think about it a little & then we can talk." However, I've only used this on older kids (8+), not sure how it would work on the little ones who may not grasp the concept of "later" very well. Reply I love hearing from Dads on OBF! Great piece – well written and well thought out besides being funny! It's great that you have an awareness not only of how this discussion will affect your daughter's attitudes about love, sex, and family, but also about politics and their worth as full humans. My parents used the "when a mommy and daddy love each other" bit when we were very young, plus the seed/water/flower analogy, but it didn't take long for them to explain the nuances of biology and the different kinds of families that exist – and embarrassing (thought appreciated) offers of condoms and BC pills. (Though not, as my dad later admitted he wanted, a fishbowl full of prophylactics on the mantle.) Reply This is a great book to help explain: How Babies Are Made It starts out with how plants reproduce, then animals, then people. It's scientific, but not over the heads of most kids. Pictures are realistic without being graphic. I think for some parents who feel less comfortable with it, it might be easier to read from a book. Reply We also have this post from 2010: Offbeat kids books about sex and bodies. Reply I loved this. It made me smile. I am the oldest of five, four of us being girls with a much younger brother. We used to blind side my dad with this kind of stuff all the time. I now have a daughter of my own and hope that my husband and myself will know the right thing to say when the time comes. My brother is 18 years younger than I am and has often caught me off guard with these types of questions, he also asked me "how she got in there" when I was pregnant, I wish I had thought to explain it less scientific. I also loved when you wrote "babies aren't made out of love, but love is certainly a (the?) main component of a family" why didn't I think of that! Well said! Reply Yeah, I remember asking my mom about this when I was 10 (and had been taunted by a former friend at school, "I bet you don't even know what sex is!"); she was very cool, as I recall, and my dad took my sisters downstairs to play while Mom pulled out her Our Bodies, Ourselves book–a very handy resource for explaining the process. I don't know whether she felt she did an adequate job, but what adults perceive as "adequate" and what kids are happy with are two totally different things, as my 2 year old teaches me every day. Reply i taught preschool and feel like i mastered the avoidance-of-the-question, which i was asked surprisingly often by kids between 3-6yrs old. i didn't want to lie, or overshare to kids whose parents have the right to answer openly, vaguely, or however they feel is appropriate for that age. the first time i was asked, i paused in shock…but i played it off like i was thinking reeeeeally hard about the answer and came up with "hrmmmm…i don't HAVE any babies, maybe you should ask your mommy/daddy when you get home!" Reply Join the conversation Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Subscribe me to your mailing list No-drama comment policy Part of what makes the Offbeat Empire different is our commitment to civil, constructive commenting. Make sure you're familiar with our no-drama comment policy.


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Engineering consulting firms provide engineering services and expertise to companies in need of a specialized skill-set. Generally, the consulting service company has experienced engineers able to provide short-term technical advice for a fee. Consulting professionals work with clients to define solutions to problems or to help determine and recommend the best course of action for a given initiative. Engineering consulting services can save time, effort, and money for companies that do not have the knowledge or expertise for handling a specific task.
Consultant Selection Process
The process for selecting a consulting firm usually involves three steps: problem identification, response, and negotiation.
Project Identification
The client company must first define the project or task that requires the assistance of the consultant. This involves:
- Describing the purpose, objectives, and needs of the project.
- Setting a project timetable.
- Identifying potential problems.
- Determining project budgets and estimates.
- Selecting consulting firms that offer the required services.
- Providing the project information to the clients, along with an invitation to submit a proposal.
The consulting companies then respond with a proposal for the project. A quality proposal will:
- Include a letter of interest.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the project.
- Provide evidence of the firm's ability to perform the work.
- Include profiles of the staff who will be assigned to the project.
- Provide references.
Finally, the client company selects the most suitable consulting firm to the project and negotiates the business contract. Steps in the negotiation process include:
- Evaluating the responses and selecting the appropriate firm.
- Finalizing the Scope of Services Agreement (SSA).
- Negotiating a fair fee and contract.
If agreement on a price can't be made, the client should then select the second most qualified firm and repeat the negotiation process.
Selection Tip: The technical qualifications and experience of an engineering consulting company should be the first priority in the selection process. Reputation and price are secondary factors to decide between qualified candidates.
Often it is important for a client company to establish an informal relationship with consulting firms or individual consultants before their services are required. This is because consulting needs are often immediate when they arise, and finding the right consultant can be difficult.
Categories of Services
There are many types of services that engineering consulting firms may advertise to offer. Some of the categories of services include:
Process Development - services designed to help companies improve customer satisfaction and marketing productivity.
Industrial - services designed to improve the operation of a facility.
- Factory layout
- Lean manufacturing
- Process design
- Process control
- Production flow
- Safety analysis
Finance / Labor
- Cost analysis
- Feasibility analysis
- Legal Services
- Negotiations
- Procurement
- Recruitment
Software / IT
- Database design
- Data mining
- Networking
- Web development
- Engineering analysis
- Product design
- Product development and prototyping
- System Integration
- Technical Support
Research and Development (R & D)
- CAD design
- New product development
- Packaging design
- Patent disclosures
- Reverse engineering
- Simulations
Consulting Expertise
The expertise and knowledge that consultants can offer a company spans the entire range of engineering disciplines and practices.
Research and Development
CAD design - Computer Aided Design (CAD) is used to design products quickly and accurately.
Ergonomic design - Ergonomic design services, also known as human factors services, are suppliers offering services that apply human-needs theory, principles, data and methods, to improve human well-being and performance, both inside and outside the workplace.
Industrial design - Industrial design service suppliers develop and enhance the appearance, usability, and value of many types of products. Design considerations include product styling and architecture, and ergonomic and safety considerations.
Machine design - Machine design companies specialize in the design and fabrication of custom machinery.
Materials research - Materials research service providers undertake scientific study of the properties and applications for materials of construction or manufacture including ceramics, glass, metals, polymers, and composites.
Modeling - Modeling service suppliers develop conceptual representations to design, analyze, and predict responses and interactions for applications such as materials, structures, chemical and biological processes, electronic system performance, etc.
Packaging D\design - Packaging design service providers utilize design experience, industry knowledge, and technology in the creation of consumer and industrial packaging containers, shipping fixtures and packing supplies.
Process design - Process design or development service suppliers develop new processes, run process research and development programs, perform optimization studies, improve current processing methods, and provide other assistance in process development activities. Process designers optimize interdependent tasks, transforming input elements into products.
Product design - Product design is the process of generating an idea, developing a concept, and then testing and producing a physical object or intangible product or service.
Scientific research - Scientific research, also known as "basic research", is a technical service where providers perform creative work on a systematic basis in order to increase knowledge and understanding of fundamental scientific principles and their application.
Simulation - Simulation service suppliers mimic a process or a system (e.g., electrical, optical, or mechanical) for the purposes of testing or calibration.
Software development - Software development service providers create new software for the expressed purpose of managing a particular job function or operational procedure. The new software may be for a computer, an embedded system, a programmable logic controller (PLC), networking equipment, or for any other device requiring programming logic. Firmware and ladder-logic developers are included in this category of service provider.
Systems design - Systems design is the engineering service of defining architecture, components, modules, interfaces, and data for a system, to satisfy specified requirements.
Testing, Inspection, and Certification
Condition evaluation - Condition evaluation is performed by firms with expertise and resources for objective testing of a client's products or resources pertaining to performance and/or conformance.
Environmental compliance - Environmental compliance testing is performed by firms with expertise and resources to ensure their clients comply with all government and industry environmental regulations.
FDA & regulatory compliance - FDA and regulatory compliance testing is performed by firms with expertise and resources to ensure their clients comply with all government and industry regulatory matters involving food and drug production and handling.
Investigative studies - Investigative studies companies engage in investigations, forensic analysis and studies to understand the unique capabilities of a client, their needs and/or the needs of their customers.
Laboratory testing - Laboratory testing is offered by firms with expertise and resources for objective testing of a client's products or resources pertaining to performance and/or conformance.
Materials testing - Materials testing is offered by firms with expertise and resources for objective testing of a client's materials or the physical properties of their products.
Reverse engineering - Reverse engineering is performed by firms that engage in understanding the design, manufacture and performance of competitive products.
HVAC - HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning), sometimes referred to as "climate control", is important in the design of commercial and industrial facilities where humidity and temperature must be regulated in order to maintain a consistent and healthy work environment.
Maintenance - Maintenance firms engaged in the upkeep of property or equipment.
Quality assurance - Quality assurance programs are implemented for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of projects, services, or operations to ensure that standards of quality are met.
Recycling - Recycling is the reprocessing of materials into new products. Recycling generally prevents the waste of potentially useful materials, reduces the consumption of raw materials and reduces energy usage compared to virgin production.
Remediation - Remediation deals with the removal of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment, or surface water for the general protection of human health and the environment.
Surveying and mapping - Surveying companies measure areas of the earth's surface, noting lengths and directions of bounding lines, mapping the contour of the surface, and accurately delineating their findings manually (on paper) or digitally.
Water & wastewater - Water treatment describes a process used to make water more acceptable for a desired end-use. These end-uses can include drinking water, industrial processes, medical and many other uses. The goal of all water treatment process is to remove existing components in the water, improving it for subsequent use.
Business consulting - Business consulting services include high-level business endeavors such as strategic planning, market positioning consulting, business plan development, enterprise architecture, and information infrastructure planning and development.
Communication services - Communication services are specialty or proprietary services related to voice and data communications.
Financial services - Accounting, finance, and banking services are focused on providing/investing capital and properly recording the exchange of money. Investment and venture capital specialists are included in this group.
Human resources & staffing - Human resources services administer a company's employee policies, compensation plans, and benefits such as vacation time and health insurance. They may also evaluate management performance and oversee employee relations.
Legal services - Legal services consist of lawyers, law firms, and providers of services related to intellectual property (e.g., patenting, licensing, and trademarking), incorporation, contract development, law suits, and other legal matters.
Marketing & sales support - Marketing, advertising, and sales support service providers assess client's needs, develop strategies to reach markets, create branding plans, design advertisement schemes, and prepare sales literature.
Project management - Project management of engineering projects related to construction, R&D, production scale-up, and more.
Systems integration - Network system integrators install and setup computer networks for information systems; automation equipment and system integrators provide equipment and solutions for manufacturing processes.
Industries Served
Engineering consulting companies cater to all types of engineering projects. Some engineering industries include:
- Aerospace - Companies have particular expertise to serve the aerospace market, including avionics, aerospace design, assembly, operations and more.
- Agriculture - Companies have particular expertise to serve the agricultural, farming and related markets.
- Automotive - Companies have particular expertise to serve the automotive and vehicular markets.
- Building / Construction - Companies have particular expertise to serve the building and construction markets.
- Chemicals - Companies have particular expertise to serve the chemical manufacturing and processing markets.
- Computer Systems - Companies have particular expertise to serve the computers, systems and data processing industries.
- Electrical / Electronics - Companies have particular expertise to serve the electrical and electronics markets.
- Environment - Companies have particular expertise to serve the environmental market including water, wastewater, air, sea, ground, and local surroundings.
- Food / Beverage - Companies have particular expertise to serve the food and beverage market.
- Health & Safety - Companies have particular expertise to serve the health and safety industries.
- HVAC - Companies have particular expertise to serve the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and related markets.
- Manufacturing - Companies have particular expertise to serve the general manufacturing operations that serve all industry.
- Marine / Naval - Companies have particular expertise to serve the marine and naval markets.
- Medical - Companies have particular expertise to serve the medical, healthcare, and related markets.
- Mining / Geological - Companies have particular expertise to serve the mining and geotechnical markets.
- Network / Communications - Companies have particular expertise to serve the telecommunications and networking industries.
- Oil and Gas - Companies have particular expertise to serve the oil and gas industries.
- Pharmaceutical - Companies have particular expertise to serve the pharmaceutical and biotechnology marketplace.
- Utilities and Energy - Companies have particular expertise to serve the utilities and energy providers.
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Personal Care Services
Effective July 1, 2008, districts may be reimbursed by Medicaid for personal care services. In Wayne County, the recording of personal care services is mandatory for Act 18 programs. Reporting for non-Act 18 programs is at the district's discretion. Note that if a paraprofessional is federally funded, they cannot record personal care services.
Definition of Personal Care Services: Personal Care Services are a range of human assistance services provided to persons with disabilities and chronic conditions which enables them to accomplish tasks that they would normally do for themselves if they did not have a disability. Assistance may be in the form of hands-on assistance or cueing so that the person performs the task by him/her self.
Billing Requirements:
- The service must be medically necessary (needed to attain or retain the capability for normal activity, independence or self care).
- Personal care services must be authorized by a physician or other licensed practitioner operating within their scope of practice. The "other licensed practitioner" could be of the same discipline as the service in question. For instance, a licensed occupational therapist could authorize the provision of services, as long as doing so is within their scope of practice.
- The need for personal care services must be documented in the student's IEP. In order to facilitate this documentation, page 3 of the Wayne RESA IEP form includes wording similar to the following:
"Is the severity of the student's impairment such that it requires a licensed practitioner's authorization for personal care services?" Yes or No
- In addition to the checkbox on the IEP, a Personal Care Authorization form must be completed and placed in the student's file.
Personal Care Authorization Form
Personal Care Services:
Services may include, but are not limited to, assisting with the following:
- Eating/feeding;
- Respiratory assistance;
- Toileting;
- Grooming;
- Dressing;
- Transferring;
- Ambulation;
- Personal hygiene;
- Mobility/Positioning;
- Meal preparation;
- Skin care;
- Bathing;
- Maintaining continence;
- Assistance with self administered medications;
- Redirection and intervention for behavior; and
- Health related functions through hands-on assistance and cueing.
Personal Care Paraprofessional Provider Qualifications:
The personal care paraprofessional personnel shall be qualified under the requirements established by their respective ISD plan. Providers must be trained in the skills needed to perform covered services, and must be under the direction of a qualified professional as designated in the IEP/IFSP. Paraprofessional personnel include:
- Teacher Aides
- Health Care Aides
- Instructional Aides
- Bilingual Aides
- Program Assistants
- Trainable Aides
- Follow That Kid Aides
Personal care services must be medically necessary and the need for the service documented in the student's IEP/IFSP. Each child's school clinical record must contain a completed, signed and dated monthly activity checklist.
All Medicaid documentation must be kept on file for seven years.
Procedure Code:
The following procedure code may be used to bill for personal care services:
T1020 - Personal care services, per diem
Personal Care Checklist:
A completed, signed and dated activity checklist must be completed for each student for whom personal care services will be reported. Below are a monthly and a weekly version of the Personal Care checklist. Districts have the option to use either of these lists or may create their own.
Personal Care Monthly Checklist (EXCEL)
Personal Care Weekly Checklist (EXCEL)
The checklist process should works as follows:
- The district will add the names of the students receiving personal care services to each paraprofessional's checklist so that each has their own checklist for logging encounters.
- Each para-professional will record the services they render to each student on their checklist on a daily basis.
Data Entry:
- At the end of the week (or month), the para-professional will enter their servcies into Service Tracker, and then turn in their signed and dated checklists to the designated person/location in the district.
- The paper checklists must be filed and kept by the district for seven years in case of an audit.
III. Training is available:
Link to Medicaid-Related training
Medicaid Help Line
(734) 334-1821
Office Hours
7:30 am-4:00 pm
(734) 334-1824
To help a student or family apply for Medicaid in Michigan, call your local Department of Health and Human Services Office.