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Origami in the Garden at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
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A premier art exhibit of origami bronze, steel and aluminum sculptures makes its mid-Atlantic debut at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden this spring and summer. Origami in the Garden is an exhibition of larger-than-life outdoor sculpture inspired by the art of paper folding. Santa Fe artist Kevin Box collaborates with his wife, Jennifer Box and origami masters Robert J. Lang, Te Jui Fu, Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander to celebrate the art of origami in museum quality sculpture and educational programming.
- 16 vignettes featuring 21 sculptures
- some sculptures are over 7 feet tall; others are small as a mouse
- all are based on prototypes created with origami: one folded sheet of paper, no cuts
- forms are cast in bronze, steel, and aluminum
- artist Kevin Box creates these using a unique process he developed in order to capture the delicate details of paper in museum-quality metals using the lost wax technique
- installed throughout the Garden with many associated activities and programs
- celebrates nature, the "master origami artist," seen in everything from leaves unfurling to butterflies emerging from a chrysalis
- visit the Garden's Library to explore four unfolded wall hangings displayed with the four corresponding folded origami pieces
Activities for Families and Children Include:
Origami Folding Station
Stop by this self-guided folding station to try your hand at creating a simple origami form. Take your art with you or leave it to be displayed in the library windows!
Location: Lora M. Robins Library
Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Saturday – Sunday, 1 – 4 p.m.
Paper Airplane Station
Inspired by Folding Planes, fold a simple piece of rectangular paper into your best aerodynamic airplane. Test it out by flying it into one of the targets set up in the Children's Garden Breezeway.
KidQuest Scavenger Hunt
Go on an origami-themed scavenger hunt throughout the Garden, discovering six sculptures along the way!
Pick up a copy at the Admissions Desk in the Robins Visitors Center.
Cost$13adult/$11senior/$8child age 3-12/under3free
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Event ContactLewis Ginter Botanical Garden
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Python expectaton library
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The whole point of the expect pattern is to allow concise assertions that generate predictable and good error messages.
Best viewed in an example:
>>> expect(3).to.equal(4) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<input>", line 1, in <module> File "expect.py", line 146, in __call__ AssertionError: Expect 3 to equal 4
Line noise is reduced as much as possible, so the error message is displayed as near to the problematic code as possible. No stack traces to dig through, clear and consistent error messages that tell you what went wrong. Thats how assertions should work.
Why should I use expect() over self.assert*?
This is best explained in cotrast to the classic assertion pattern like the python unittest module uses. In addition to all that however, these assertions can be used anywhere and do not depend on any unittest package. But lets start with an example:
self.assertEquals('foo', 'bar')
In this assertion it is not possible to see which of the arguments is the expected and which is the actual value. While this ordering is mostly internally consistent between the different assertions within the unittest package (sadly only mostly), it is not consistent between all the different unit testing packages out there for python and especially not between different languages this pattern has been implemented on.
To add insult to injury some frameworks will then output the error message like this: (Yes unittest I'm looking at you!)
'bar' does not equal 'foo'
It's easy to spend minutes till you remember or figure out that your framework fooled you and inverted the order of arguments just to make it harder for you to understand the code you are reading.
If you are as annoyed by this as I am, allow me to introduce you to the expect pattern. An assertion like this:
expect('foo').to.equal('bar') # or this expect('foo').equals('bar') # or even this expect('foo') == 'bar'
Makes it absolutely plain what is the expected and what is the actual value. No confusion possible. Also the error messages are designed to map cleanly back to the source code:
Expect 'foo' to equal 'bar'.
Thus the mapping from the error message is immediate and complete saving you minutes each time, enhancing your focus, productivity and - most important - your enjoyment when working with unit tests.
As a bonus all these exceptions are not coupled to any TestCase class so you can easily reuse them anywhere in your code to formalize expectations that your code has about some internal state. Sometimes called 'Design by Contract' or 'Fail Fast' programming. Oh and these expectations are generally shorter, so you even have less to type while getting clearer and more to the point assertions into your tests. Almost like having a cake and eating it too!
So give me the features!
Glad you ask! Here you go
Lots of included matchers: Take a look at the source to see all the assertions you need to get started. From equals over be or is_ and raises till matches - we've got you covered. And not only that, but each matcher has some aliasses so you can use the variant that reads the best in your assertion.
Some examples:
expect(True).is_.true() expect(True).is_true() expect(True).equals(True) expect(True).is_.equal(True) expect(True) == True expect(raising_calable).raises() expect(raising_calable).to_raise()
Should an important alias be missing, pull requests are welcome.
Ease of use: expect() can be arbitrary chained with whatever you can think of (provided it's a valid python identifier) to give you the cleanest description of your assertion possible:
expect(23).to.equal(23) expect(23).is_.equal(23) # or go all out - but just because it works doesn't mean it's sensible expect(23).to_be_chaned.with_something.that_makes_sense_in\ .your_context.before_it.calls_the.matcher.as_the_last.segment(23) # Here .segment(23) would be the matcher that is called
Choose whatever makes sense for your specific test to read well so that reading the test later feels natural and transports the meaning of the code as best as possible.
Simplicity of extension: In all other python expect implementations I've looked at, at least some aspects of them are way more complicated. Each matcher is a class or something that needs to be registered via a more or less complicated process, arguments are not just straightforward method arguments, not is not supported as a native framework concept…
In contrast in pyexpect if you want to register a new matcher, it's as easy as defining a method and then assigning it to as many instance method names as you want, asserting what you want to assert within and clearly define the error message that is going to be raised:
def falseish(self): # See expect() source for availeable helpers self._assert(bool(self._expected) is False, "to be falseish") expect.is_falsish = expect.is_falseish = expect.falsish = expect.falseish = falseish
Also note how the matcher clearly communicates what is important: what it asserts, and what error message it generates. No fluff included! (tm)
Native not support: If you define a matcher, you don't have to define the inverse of it too or do anything special to get it. That means that for every matchers like equals, you automatically get the inverse of that, i.e. not_equals. This inverse can be invoked in a number of ways:
You can just prefix the matcher with not_ like this
expect(foo).not_equals(bar) expect(some_function).not_to_raise()
You can include not as part of the path before the matcher like this:
expect(foo).not_.to_equal(bar) expect(foo).not_to.equal(bar) expect(foo).to_not.equal(bar) expect(foo).to_not_be.equal(bar) # or go all out - but just because it works doesn't mean it's sensible expect(foo).is.just_a_little.not_quite_the_same_as_it.equals(bar)
That is you can include the word not at the beginning, middle or end of an identifier - just ensure to separate it from the identifier by snakecase.
This works for all aliasses of each matcher, so no additional work there.
For more examples, have a look at the testsuite for the matchers.
If you want to add your own matchers, sometimes the inverse doesn't work automatically if you implement your expectations as multiple consecutive checks. In that case the inverse matcher might assert the wrong thing, because the order of the checks doesn't make sense in the inverted case. Should that happen, take a look at expect._assert_if_positive(), expect._assert_if_negative() and expect._is_negative(). Be advised however, that good matchers should need this only very rarely.
Great error messages: pyexpect takes great care to ensure every aspect of experiencing an error is as concise and usefull as possible. All error messages have the same format that always starts with what is expected and then is customized by the matcher to pack as much information as possible.
expect(23).not_to_equal(23) Expect 23 not to equal 23
If you write your own assertion methods to enhance your unit testing, it's quite easy to get long stack traces because the actuall assertion happens some stack frames down in one of the called matchers.
Consider assertions like this (a little fabricated, ok. But I'm sure you've seen this happen in your projects):
from unittest import TestCase, main class Test(TestCase): def assert_equals(self, actual, expected): self.assertEquals(actual, expected) def assert_something(self, something): self.assert_equals(something, 'something') def test_something(self): self.assert_something('fnord') main()
It will give you output like this:
FAIL: test_something (__main__.Test) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): method test_something in test.py at line 11 self.assert_something('fnord') method assert_something in test.py at line 8 self.assert_equals(something, 'something') method assert_equals in test.py at line 5 self.assertEquals(actual, expected) AssertionError: 'fnord' != 'something'
Even in this simple case the actual error is 4 lines removed from the actual error.
Using pyexpect however a test like this:
from pyexpect import expect def something(self): self._assert(self._expected == 'something', "to be 'something'") expect.something = something from unittest import TestCase, main class Test(TestCase): def test_something(self): expect('fnord').to_be.something() main()
Gives you this output (standard unittest.main()):
FAIL: test_something (__main__.Test) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "test_example.py", line 11, in test_something expect('fnord').to_be.something() File "/Users/dwt/Code/Projekte/python-expect/pyexpect.py", line 150, in __call__ raise assertion AssertionError: Expect 'fnord' to be something
In nosetests:
FAIL: test_example:Test.test_something mate +11 test_example.py # test_something expect('fnord').to_be.something() mate +150 pyexpect.py # __call__ raise assertion AssertionError: Expect 'fnord' to be something
py.test this is even prettier:
self = <test_example.Test testMethod=test_something> def test_something(self): > expect('fnord').to_be.something() E AssertionError: Expect 'fnord' to be something
Notice here, that the actual matcher someting() calls another method _assert to do the actual assertion and compose the error message, but none of this is visible in the stack trace? That is true for any methods you call in the matcher, so call into your api or whatever you need to trigger the assertion and enjoy readable error message none the less.
Therefore, error messages are much easier to read and there is less fluff in between the error and the cause to distract you. As it should be.
Usage outside of unit tests: You can use this package as a standalone assertion package that gives you much more expressive assertions than just using using assert and refined error messages to boot.
Just assert away wherever you need it to get robust code by failing fast:
from pyexpect import expect def some_method(some_argument): expect(some_argument).is_.between(3,20) something(some_argument)
And should you need it, you can switch the assertions from throwing to returning a (bool, string) tuple so you can reuse it in your api.
from pyexpect import expect def some_api(something): was_success, explanation = expect.returning(something) == 23 if not was_success: register_error(explanation)
And should you need it, you can override the error messages generated without needing to change the matchers. See expect.with_message() for details.
Test coverage: Of course pyexpect has full test coverage ensuring that it does exactly what you expect it to do.
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Manchester City 3-1 QPR
City claim deserved win over QPR
Yaya Toure, Edin Dzeko and Carlos Tevez struck as a dominant but wasteful Manchester City narrowly saw off QPR at the Etihad Stadium once again.
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Sixteen weeks after the dramatic season finale that saw City crowned Premier League champions at the same ground, the hosts survived another scare against the side managed by their former boss, Mark Hughes.
Despite creating a multitude of chances, City needed a quick response from Dzeko after Bobby Zamora cancelled out Toure's effort but Tevez made the scoreline more convincing in injury time.
Apart from QPR's recovery after falling behind, the match had little in common with that in May.
The visitors were hardly a factor for long spells and only three of their starting line-up were in the team that memorable afternoon.
Their changes included a debut for new signing Esteban Granero while goalkeeper Robert Green, dropped from the England squad this week, started what could be his last match as first choice.
The 32-year-old only joined the club in the summer but now faces an uncertain future following this week's capture of Julio Cesar from Inter Milan.
Scott Sinclair was the only one of City's five deadline day signings to make their squad but did not get off the bench.
City, watched by Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho ahead of their Champions League meeting, soon established control with Toure bossing the midfield.
QPR survived a scare in the first minute when Dzeko, starting for the first time this season, glanced a header wide from a corner.
The Bosnian went even closer as he was first to meet another corner but this time Fabio da Silva, on loan from Manchester United, did well to hack off the line.
Toure powered in on the rebound but this time former City playmaker Shaun Wright-Phillips blocked.
The City pressure continued as Rangers were starved of possession and an Aleksandar Kolarov cross almost fell for Jack Rodwell after a touch from Tevez.
QPR's first opportunity came from a City mistake as Rodwell overhit a backpass and the ball dropped over his own bar for a corner. The visitors were unable to capitalise.
It seemed inevitable City would take the lead and their opener came in the 16th minute as Tevez saw an effort blocked from yet another corner but Toure followed up to thump home.
Green got a hand to it but could do little on what was shaping up to be a difficult afternoon for him.
Former Real Madrid man Granero had QPR's first shot when he found space outside the area but Joe Hart was not troubled.
David Silva tricked his way into the QPR box and dug the ball out from under his feet to force Green to save and Samir Nasri was unable to follow up.
Silva spurned another opportunity when he was played through by a superb long ball from Kolarov. The Spaniard failed to get away a shot quick enough and Fabio produced another timely block.
Tevez fired over as City continued to power forward and Rodwell wasted an opening when he opted to pass instead of shoot.
QPR's opportunities were limited but Granero looked composed when allowed time on the ball but missed the target with another attempt.
City returned for the second half with much the same approach as the first and threatened a second straight from the restart as Tevez drilled an awkward shot at Green.
The tireless Pablo Zabaleta, probably knowing new signing Maicon might be after his place, went even closer as he took a fine pass from Silva and curled an effort onto the bar.
Yet as much as they were dominant, recent history threatened to repeat itself as QPR levelled against the run of play just before the hour.
Andrew Johnson stole possession outside the area and forced a good save from Hart with a deflected shot. Hart could not recover his footing quick enough to regather and Zamora stole in to head home.
Yet in contrast to last May, City began their reply earlier and without falling behind.
They swiftly moved back up the field and Tevez did well to keep the ball in play and cross for Dzeko to head home at close range.
It should have been the sign for City to wrap up the game but despite continuing to carve out chances – Dzeko twice shooting only to be flagged offside – it remained a slender lead.
There were definite signs of nerves when Granero whipped in a free-kick and Ryan Nelsen narrowly failed to touch in at the far post.
City wrapped up the job in injury time as Tevez, moving back into an onside position, diverted the ball home from Dzeko's shot.
After apparently being told off for lifting his shirt in recent weeks, he kept it down this time.
Manchester City 3-1 QPR


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International Corporate Reportingis a modern, practical and pedagogically-rich approach to the changing world of international accounting and reporting. It aims to enable students to analyse the similarities and differences in accounting, reporting and regulation around the world, and to familiarize them with the growing body of research into international accounting practices.Key Features Up-to-date, detailed and comprehensive coverage that encompasses changes in the international corporate reporting landscape such as cultural issues, ethics and the environment, whilst retaining country-by-country comparison. Plentiful case studies and examples of reports from well-known companies in the US, UK, Japan, China, France, Germany and other countries. Student friendly style, good questions and activities well-supported by time-saving lecturer materials.New to this edition A revised focus on the background and context of international standards and remaining national and cultural differences in reporting and regulation. A fresh start to the book covering international accounting context and the arguments for and against globalization of accounting standards. New coverage of political aspects of international standard setting. A new chapter on arguments for and against globalization of accounting standards. A developing focus on narrative reporting as continuing evidence of national diversity.International Financial Reporting: A Comparative Approachis ideal for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of international accounting and international business, studying in any country throughout the world.'Roberts et al provides real examples, useful illustrations, a variety of interesting case studies and interesting assignment material. The students find the country chapters interesting and they complement the coverage at an overview level well.'- Professor Peter Secord, The Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University, CanadaClare RobertsBSc MSc PhD is Professor of Accounting at the University of Aberdeen. She has held permanent teaching positions in the UK at Glasgow and Exeter Universities, and visiting positions in the US at Texas A & M University and the University of California Santa Barbara, and in Australia at Newcastle University, New South Wales.Pauline WeetmanBA (Oxon) BSc PhD CA is Professor of Accounting at the University of Glasgow, formerly of Strathclyde and Heriot-Watt Universities. She received the British Accounting Association's Distinguished Academic Award in 2005.Paul GordonBA MA FCA is Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Heriot-Watt University, having held positions at Glasgow, Aberdeen and Wales (Bangor).Roberts, Clare is the author of 'International Corporate Reporting: A comparative Approach', published 2008 under ISBN 9780273714736 and ISBN 0273714732.[read more]
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Days after trade, Lackey reunited with Red Sox
ST. LOUIS -- How much things have changed in the span of 10 months. The last time the Red Sox and Cardinals played before Tuesday's series opener, John Lackey was the winning pitcher in clinching Game 6 of the World Series for Boston.
Now Lackey is with the Cardinals following the July 31 trade that sent him to St. Louis in exchange for Allen Craig and Joe Kelly.
Lackey, who won't pitch in this three-game series, greeted several of his former teammates before the game.
"It's great to see some friends, for sure," said Lackey. "Talked to a couple of them yesterday on the phone and stuff. Definitely some guys you'll miss, but it's kind of part of the deal."
Shortly after arriving in St. Louis, Lackey confirmed that he will pitch in 2015 at the player minimum that was negotiated into his original contract with Boston.
However, it remains unclear if Lackey would have done the same had he stayed with the Red Sox. Reports surfaced a few weeks back that he considered taking 2015 off rather than pitching at the minimum.
"I don't know about that, honestly. I didn't get that far ahead to think about it at that point," he said.
He understands that the Cardinals wouldn't have traded for him without knowing they could have him in 2015.
"They definitely wanted assurance, for sure, that I intended on playing next year," he said.
The sixth-year option at the player minimum was negotiated into Lackey's contract contingent on if he missed significant time with a pre-existing elbow injury. Lackey didn't pitch in 2012 after undergoing Tommy John surgery, and that's when the '15 option vested.
Why would it be different pitching at that price for St. Louis than Boston?
"You guys are trying to stir stuff up. I didn't get that far ahead thinking about it," said Lackey.
But he will allow himself to think at least a little bit ahead to October.
"That's the only reason I'm still playing," he said. "I'm still playing to try to win a ring. That's the only reason I'm still here. To be able to be here and have that opportunity to make a playoff run or try to get into the playoffs is where I want to be."
How about the chance to pitch against former teammate and new Athletics ace Jon Lester in the World Series?
"Oh yeah, we talked every other day [since the trades], at least," said Lackey. "We've already talked a little trash. Hopefully I'll see him later on. Hopefully it works out."
Lackey certainly experienced the extremes of playing in Boston, going from being the target of boos to receiving a rousing ovation following his performance in Game 6 of the World Series.
"There were definitely some ups and downs, for sure, some fun and some not so fun, I guess," he said.
What will he remember most?
"I'll concentrate on last year and winning a championship and really enjoying that year and having fun with those guys."


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This month my spotlight on design features Asheville, North Carolina's father and son design team, Gerry and Teal Brown, at Wishbone Tiny Homes. They were recently spotted at the Tiny House Conference this past spring. With their new location in the up and coming west side of Asheville, they are creating homes that offer "a return to some natural truth…a universal and natural connection to small" as Teal described when I spoke to him last month.
How did you discover the tiny house movement and what drew your interest?
Although we site Sarah Susanka, Jay Shafer, and Dee Williams as some of the trailblazers of the tiny house movement, we have been inspired by dwellings throughout world history that would be considered "tiny" by current standards. Indigenous cultures have always lived in spaces that accommodate necessary daily activities but do not demand excessive resources to build and maintain. You can see these principles in action in the modern, urban context as well. Looking even further into the subject, wild animals tend to build with locally sourced, sustainable resources, and usually take only what they need for their nests. The way we see it, tiny houses represent a return to some natural truth that we have somehow collectively forgotten as we have enabled our technologies to distance us from co-existing with the land around us. The urge to build tiny comes from a deep, innate place in our human existence, and we seek to explore that.
What is your ideal vision in building and sustaining tiny house construction and what life experiences brought your developing such housing?
My dad has been building houses and doing fine woodworking for 40 years +. I learned a tremendous amount growing up under his lead. I also took and loved furniture and cabinetmaking classes in high school. Additionally, I have several building science-related certifications that provide a firm understanding of energy efficiency, sustainability, and renewable energy as they relate to residential construction. Tiny house design provides the ultimate platform to reflect these concepts in the highest form. My dad and I have always enjoyed working together. We share the same mind but also manage to compliment each other's skills. The mere fact that we can do something as a team that we find meaningful to society keeps us motivated to push forward. We like to help people achieve their dreams too. This means that we might consult on one tiny house and build another. In whatever capacity we can be involved in making a tiny home come true, we are eager to do that.
What influences stylistically are you basing your designs off of?
Rustic Modern, Craftsman, Japanese architecture, Greene and Greene, an architecture firm of the early 20th century which greatly influenced the American Arts and Crafts movement as well as aspects of Contemporary in regards to functionality, space saving techniques and energy efficiency.
What demographic are you attempting to reach?
Honestly, there isn't a demographic we aren't trying to reach. We believe that the inherent versatility of tiny structures (especially those on wheels), makes them relevant to all walks of life. A tiny home can represent a dignified solution to affordable housing for one group and a unique camping experience for another. In this burgeoning share economy, tiny homes can provide a legitimate investment opportunity as a rental as well.
Are you going to have workshops this summer geared towards building tiny houses?
We will hold workshops in the near future. In a previous career I worked for a company that specialized in job-skill training. During my time there I learned the cradle to grave process of curriculum development and delivery. Solar was my particular program and I was charged with creating a classroom and hands-on learning experience for our students. We created a 1KW roof-mounted array that simulated both grid-tied and off-grid applications. We are working on developing a similar program for Wishbone Tiny Homes that combines a classroom portion with an innovative hands-on training module to teach students the whole process of building tiny. More on that soon!
Keep up with the latest from Wishbone on their website and through their blog.
Thanks Teal for taking the time to talk to The Tiny Life. We look forward to seeing Wishbone flourish and expand that tiny life love.
Your Turn!
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More than 12 percent of babies are born prematurely, up more than 20 percent from 1990*, and as premature birth rates continue to climb, neonatologists at Nationwide Children's Hospital are focusing their attention on the nutrition provided to premature infants during their first few days of life.
Preliminary findings of a newly concluded study out of Nationwide Children's Hospital found that preterm infants, when provided amino acids immediately after birth, showed significantly improved weight at discharge compared to preterm infants receiving amino acids later in their care.
One of the most common complications in premature infants is slow growth after delivery that has been attributed to lack of early nutrition support. Amino acids are the building blocks for protein, which is essential for growth.
"Many of our premature infants are born before the last trimester, when significant nutrition accumulation occurs, as well as a lot of growth," said the study's lead author, Christina Valentine, MD, MS, RD, medical director for neonatal nutrition services at Nationwide Children's Hospital and a fellow at The Ohio State University Medical Center. "Our findings suggest that the first 24 hours of life is a crucial time for the administration of nutrition."
The study was conducted in four neonatal intensive care units (NICU) contracted by Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio and included 440 preterm infants born between 2004 and 2006, weighing less than 1500 grams at birth and surviving the first two weeks after delivery. Three hundred eight infants born in 2005 and 2006 were administered amino acids intravenously within the first 24 hours after delivery, and their results were compared with those of 132 preterm infants from 2004, who did not receive the early amino acid diet. Infants born in 2005 and 2006 weighed significantly more at discharge, with a mean weight of 2,342 grams, than those born in 2004, with a mean weight of 2,242 grams – despite statistically smaller birth weights among those born in 2005 and 2006, as compared to 2004.
"Preterm infants often face acute diseases immediately upon entering the world, so in years past, their nutrition has typically gone on the back burner," said Stephen Welty, MD, chief of neonatology at Nationwide Children's Hospital and a faculty member at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. "The more we learn, the more we are realizing that nutrition should probably go on the front burner, because the evidence suggests nutrition may play a vital role in improving their overall health, even in the first few days of life."
Neonatologists at Nationwide Children's Hospital have developed a collaborative approach to providing early, aggressive nutrition for premature infants. The neonatal nutrition team, directed by Valentine, is comprised of neonatal dieticians, lactation consultants, peer counselors, pharmacists and a diet technician. The team assesses infants on an individual basis to determine their unique nutritional needs and prescribe individualized action plans, aimed at increasing weight and warding off diseases commonly associated with preterm birth.
*Births: Final Data for 2005, National Vital Statistics Reports; vol 56 no 6. National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention 2007
Study Finds Premature Infants Benefit from Diets Rich in Protein
May 1, 2008
More than 12 percent of babies are born prematurely, up more than 20 percent from 1990*, and as premature birth rates continue to climb, neonatologists at Nationwide Children's Hospital are focusing their attention on the nutrition provided to premature infants during their first few days of life.
About Nationwide Children's Hospital
Named to the Top 10 Honor Roll on U.S. News & World Report's 2019-20 list of "Best Children's Hospitals," Nationwide Children's Hospital is one of America's largest not-for-profit freestanding pediatric health care systems providing wellness, preventive, diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitative care for infants, children and adolescents, as well as adult patients with congenital disease. Nationwide Children's has a staff of more than 13,000 providing state-of-the-art pediatric care during more than 1.5 million patient visits annually. As home to the Department of Pediatrics of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Nationwide Children's physicians train the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric specialists. The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital is one of the Top 10 National Institutes of Health-funded freestanding pediatric research facilities. More information is available at NationwideChildrens.org.


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GENEVA, N.Y. – Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse used runs of six and seven unanswered goals to win its ECAC Lacrosse League regular-season finale on Saturday, 19-11, at host Hobart College.
Loyola (10-3 overall, 6-1 ECAC) scored the first six goals of the game, and after Hobart (6-7, 2-4) reeled off the next five, the Greyhounds strung together a 7-0 run that spanned both halves to take control of the game.
The Greyhounds' starting attack of Mike Sawyer (four goals, two assists), Zach Herreweyers (three, two) and Justin Ward (three, one) combined to score 10 goals and finish with 15 points, and Loyola's defensive midfield tallied four goals and two assists. Scott Ratliff recorded a pair of goals and an assist, while Josh Hawkins carded his third-straight two-goal game. Kyle Duffy added an assist for Loyola.
Ratliff also led the Greyhounds with seven ground balls and three caused turnovers.
It took Loyola just 150 seconds to score its first three goals of the game. Herreweyers scored the first and drew a slash on Hobart, giving a man-up opportunity on which Sean O'Sullivan scored from at 13:05.
A Sawyer shot was saved, but Ward picked up the ground ball and scored his first of the game at 12:30 to put Loyola in front, 3-0.
Loyola did not score for nearly nine minutes, but it was Ward again who scored for Loyola at 3:50. More than a minute later, O'Sullivan ran right-to-left and dumped a pass to Davis Butts who used a face-dodge to beat his defender and score from seven yards out at 2:12.
Ward then tallied his third of the quarter, taking a Harry Kutner feed to score on an extra-man opportunity at 1:23, pushing the Greyhounds' advantage to 6-0 before the end of the first quarter.
Hobart, however, controlled possession early in the second frame and scored five-straight goals in a span of less than 10 minutes.
Cam Stone put the first point on the board at 14:09, and Branden Kessler made it 6-2 at 11:36. Jake McHenry shoveled in a loose ball from just outside the crease at 10:59 before Alex Love scored back-to-back goals for the Statesmen at 8:19 and 4:24.
Love's final goal cut the Greyhounds' lead to 6-5, but a Jack Runkel save started a transition opportunity for Loyola, and Sawyer fed Ratliff for his first goal of the game at 3:18.
Ratliff's first sparked a 7-0 run that would see Loyola go up 10-5 at the half and 13-5 late in the third quarter.
Sawyer scored his first of the game shortly after Ratliff's goal, taking a Ward feed from behind for a high-to-low shot, and he scored his second with 39.7 ticks left in the first half after Ward shot a pass out to Herreweyers on the top right, and the freshman quickly got a pass to Sawyer for a goal.
After scoring the first goal of the first half, Herreweyers repeated the feat in the second, scoring at 11:56 off a Sawyer assist, and Sawyer scored his second of the day, in transition 15 seconds later after a give-and-go with Ratliff.
Ratliff caused a turnover and executed a clear with Duffy, taking a pass and scoring at 6:50 to put Loyola up 12-5, and Hawkins capped the run with a goal at 4:38. He used a fake-flip to Sawyer, keeping the ball while running in from the left to score.
Hobart got a pair of goals back at 3:29 and 3:08 as McHenry scored on a man-up possession, and Jake Silberlicht tallied his first of two.
Loyola returned to the scoring column with 2:29 left in the third quarter when Butts raced past his man on the right side and fed O'Sullivan who scored his second of the game.
Love bounced a goal in with just over 32 seconds left in the third quarter, pulling the Statesmen within six, 14-8, entering the final quarter.
The Greyhounds stretched their advantage back to seven 3:11 into the fourth quarter when Herreweyers came up with a groundball in an unsettled situation behind the cage and fed Sawyer who whipped a 13-yard sidearm shot for his game-high fourth goal.
Silberlicht scored one for Hobart at 8:58 before Herreweyers caught a hard Nikko Pontrello pass and used a multiple shot-fake to score his third of the afternoon.
Loyola scored two goals with the 30-second timer on, wrapped around a Hobart goal. Kevin Ryan scored unassisted at 5:20, and Chris Layne used a Brian Schultz in-stride feed to tally one at 2:26.
After the Greyhounds killed a penalty late, Hawkins tallied his second after caused turnover by Joe Fletcher. Patrick Fanshaw assisted on the Hawkins' score.
Loyola outshot Hobart, 49-35, and the Greyhounds cleared the ball successfully in all 27 of their attempts.
Jack Runkel made 10 saves in three quarter of action in goal for the Greyhounds, allowing eight goals. Pat Frazier caused a career-high three turnovers, while Fletcher and Hawkins each caused two.
The Greyhounds close the 2013 regular-season on Saturday, April 27, at 1 p.m. when they travel down Charles Street to face Johns Hopkins University.


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Your local farmer's market is loaded with all the ingredients for your fall feast.
In my mind, there is no better time to be in the kitchen than right now. The cooler temperatures cry out for warm, hearty meals that bring everyone together.
Normally I'm the only one in our house who will eat squash. But, there is something about this creamy, slightly spicy, butternut squash soup that makes it pass the test. Paired with a second season greens salad and a loaf of fresh bread – all purchased at the farmers market – it's perfect for a fall lunch or dinner.
2 medium butternut squash
4 tablespoons finely chopped onion
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons olive oil
3 cups chicken broth
½ teaspoon dried marjoram
¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
¼ teaspoon sea salt
1⁄8 teaspoon ground cayenne
¼ teaspoon Sriracha sauce
8 ounces cream cheese, softened (you can use light or regular cream cheese)
Roasted butternut squash is ready to be added to the soup
An immersion blender creates a smooth
Garnish the soup with a little fresh rosemary,
Cut the butternut squash in half and clean out the seeds. Place the squash on a jellyroll pan and roast in the 350 F for an hour or until soft.
While the squash is roasting, heat olive oil over medium heat in the bottom of a large soup pot. Add the butter and heat until it is melted. Add the chopped onions and cook just until they're translucent. Add the broth and spices to the onion and heat to a boil.
Lower the heat. Remove the squash from the oven and scrape the flesh from the skin and put in the soup pot. Discard the peels.
Add the cream cheese and mix everything together with an immersion blender. If you don't have an immersion blender, you can process the squash and the cream cheese separately in a food processor or blender, then add to the soup.
Heat the soup through, making sure it doesn't boil.
A version of this article appeared in a November/December 2016 print edition of
State-by-State Gardening.
Photography courtesy of Kathleen Hennessy.


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Materials & Coatings
Metal-Sourcing Website Adds Attention-Grabbing Application Videos
Metal Resources Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, has launched a new website stocked with a series of noteworthy videos highlighting—in unusual s—the many applications for fabricated metal products. Included in the library are videos showing an open-top steel-coil train, architectural-steel building panels that change colors, and a robotic automotive-production line. Metal Resources, which sells to customer specifications, provides coil, plate, sheet and bar in carbon- and stainless-steel and aluminum alloys, and is a purchaser of excess and obsolete inventory.Metal Resources inc.: www.metalresourcesinc.net
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text: My wife Meg makes A Mean Chocolate Chip Cookie. That is to say, she asked her readers for their best chocolate chip cookie recipes, averaged the ingredient amounts, baking times, chilling times, butter consistencies, and other various techniques and baked according to the resulting recipe (which she includes so you can bake up your own batch). Some of the ingredients: "2.04 cups all-purpose flour; 0.79 tsp. salt; 0.79 tsp. baking soda; 0.805 stick unsalted butter, softened to room temperature; 0.2737 stick unsalted butter, cold; 0.5313 stick unsalted butter, melted." Reminds me a bit of The Most Wanted Paintings project by Komar & Melamid, who averaged aesthetic preferences and taste in painting to produce works of art that appealed to everyone (to hilarious effect). (digg this?)


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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
TWD: Brownie Buttons
Yes, I realize it's been like weeks and weeks since I've participated in a Tuesdays with Dorie. I have some good excuses though... among them: 10 day vacation in Montana, Preparing to run back-to-back marathons, cutting sugar out of my diet. None of these things are particularly conducive to belonging to a baking club.
But, vacation is over, marathons are completed, and while I'm back on the no-sugar train. I've got some occasions where I can bake for other people. Hooray!
This week Jayma of Two Scientists Experimenting in the Kitchen chose Brownie Buttons. Essentially, these are brownies baked in mini-muffin cups... I like this idea in theory... small portions= fewer calories. Except... when you eat 9 of them, you're getting the same calories as you would in eating 1-2 regular size brownies. Oh well.
My family really liked these. We served them with some vanilla ice cream. But, I had a bite of them (normally, I could have easily said no because they kind of looked gross (a master decorator, I am not) but, I was intrigued by the fact that there's orange zest in the brownies and I wanted to see how that tasted). I didn't like them, though. For whatever reason, I just cannot get my palate sophisticated enough to like fruit and chocolate together (except cherries. but then again, I can practically eat cherries with anything). I took a bite of these brownies and though they didn't taste "orange-y" they tasted... floral-y. Fragrantly floral. Like... someone had sprayed perfume on the brownies or something. Ehhh... not my cup of tea. Maybe if I didn't know there was orange zest in them, I might have enjoyed them more... but since I could easily identify that "floral whang" in them, I was like.. blech. Orange and chocolate! No thanks.
Oh well, I tried.
Even without the orange zest, the texture of the brownies weren't really my favorite either. Too cake-y... not fudge-y enough. Que Sera Sera.
Check out Jayma's blog if you like floral brownies, or if you just wanna try something different. (And by the way... the orange zest is optional in the recipe, but without it... they're just regular ole cake-y brownies).
8 comments:
FEWER calories.
- August 11, 2009 at 6:57 AM
- Sihan said...
tell me about it, I'm super particular about my brownies too. Definitely fudgey is the way to go. Hoped your marathon season went well. Now it's time to rest and recover!
- August 11, 2009 at 7:48 AM
Sounds like your family had no problems polishing these off. You've been busy! Glad you had time to bake this week.
- August 11, 2009 at 8:03 AM
- Amy said...
Thanks Anonymous Grammar Nazi! I fixed it.
- August 11, 2009 at 8:19 AM
- Jessica of My Baking Heart said...
Glad to see you back! These weren't a fave of mine either... I'll stick to my tried and true any day! :)
- August 11, 2009 at 11:46 AM
Those are good excuses! A 10 day vacation in Montana sounds Great!
Sorry you didn't like the orange zest in your brownie buttons - they sure look yummy!
I had to get them out of my hands after I ate 2 of them...
- August 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM
- chocolatechic said...
So glad your back.
I frosted mine with Orange cream cheese frosting.
- August 11, 2009 at 3:16 PM
- TeaLady said...
But they look good. Sorry they weren't your thing. And good for you on no-sugar. I'm trying.
- August 14, 2009 at 8:13 PM


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Fortunate Moyo — part-time bartender, part-time musician and full-time jewellery apprentice at Keith White Designs in Johannesburg — does "a lot of creative work".
His first job at White's unassuming workshop was to work on a plain wedding band.
"Everyone starts with that," White says. Moyo adds: "As simple as it is now, it was quite complicated. You need to develop that jeweller's eye for detail."
White launched his Black & White master apprenticeship programme in January 2010, hoping to contribute to a legacy of more than just precious stones and metal. Moyo, now 21, joined him in April that year and in another two to three years he will be eligible to take his trade test.
As part of his portfolio, Moyo is required to keep a written record of his designs, including his technical drawings.
On the sketches of his plans for a sterling silver dustbin locket is a little note to himself: "Dynamite comes in small packages."
Every element of the locket has been crafted by Moyo's own hands — from melting the silver granules to create the sheet that was turned into the bin's cylinder and lid, to the grooves ground into the sides of the bin and the lid and the gold-plated dome that sits inside the bin set with silver blocks and citrines and sapphires.
"My theme came from the saying 'one man's trash is another man's treasure'," Moyo says. "An artist can find beauty in things people take for granted."
Moyo says White is a perfectionist and that every detail on the bin, including the handles and lid, had to be perfect.
White's other apprentices — William Ngomane, Sandra Ndhlovu, Maki Maphisa and Mpho Helepi — have also created beautifully detailed lockets and rings (all made in silver), which will be on show at Tinsel in Parkhurst, Johannesburg, until the end of the year.
Ndhlovu has made a satchel referencing the 1976 Soweto uprisings; Ngomane has a playful love letter (with moveable type inside; you have to find the words) and a tiny fish tank with a bobbing shark; Maphisa has a gold spider set with rubies hiding inside a locket encrusted with flowers; and Helepi made a ring with metal petals that close in on the central stone. Many of the pieces' most difficult parts — tiny springs and latches — are hidden from sight, as they should be.
The Black & White student jewellery exhibition is open at Tinsel, 25 Fourth Avenue, Parkhurst, Johannesburg. Visit tinsel.co.za and keithwhite.co.za.


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Seminary Hall Council
Seminary Hall Council strives to provide a variety of activities for its residents throughout the year. Its purpose is to promote, integrate, and exchange the ideas of the members of the council toward the ideals of social compatibility and personal responsibility with the first year community. Activities include holiday events, finals food, and an annual end of the year charity cook-out to benefit the Boys and Girls Club.
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The Rev. Anthony Lawson discusses what a Christian's response should be to this presidential election, a campaign that so greatly divided the population.
As I write this entry for The Free Press, today�s date is Nov. 1, 2012. Today�s date is before the presidential election.
The polls today say that the presidential race is even. Both candidates have about the same percentage of citizens saying they are going to vote for them. When this article is printed, the President of the United States will have been selected.
This election has greatly divided the population. But what must our response be after the election toward the chief executive of our land? What must our reaction be as Christians?
Christianity is one of the most loosely used words in the English vocabulary. Webster�s Dictionary defines Christianity as �the religion derived from Jesus Christ that is based on the Bible as sacred scriptures.�
If we are Christians, our leader and example is Jesus Christ, and our basic instruction book for living as a Christian is the Bible. B=basic, I=instruction, B=book, L=living, on E=earth.
What should the Christian response be to whomever becomes President of the United States? The Christian is duty bound to pray for the President whether he is Republican, Democrat or Independent. In the Bible, (the Christian instruction book) the Apostle Paul says in I Timothy 2:1-3, (KJV) �I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour.�
After we have voted our conviction and the votes are tallied, the Christian responsibility is to pray for our leaders whether they are local, state or national. The Bible says in II Chronicles 7:14, �If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.�
I challenge all Bible believing Christians to bow their heads right now and say a prayer for the President and all leaders, so God can heal our land and we can live quiet and peaceful lives. God, please direct the President; God, please bless America. Amen.
The Rev. Anthony Lawson is pastor of Jumping Run Church in La Grange. Reach him at email@example.com.


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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2013, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
The embattled dean of the University of Utah's architecture school resigned Thursday.
"I am very proud of the tremendous record of progress made in the college during my 11-year tenure," said Brenda Scheer, who will step down on Dec. 31, in a statement.
Scheer was widely blamed for what was seen as the forced resignation of popular architecture chairman Prescott Muir in late February. After students and faculty called for an investigation of his departure, Scheer apologized, and Muir agreed to stay on.
"I regret that I acted hastily, without full information and without full consideration of [those] views …" Scheer said in a statement earlier this month, though she maintained Muir's resignation wasn't forced. "I am sure that there would have been a far different outcome had I been more inclusive."
On Thursday afternoon, the U. announced Scheer will take a yearlong sabbatical to write a book, then return to the college as a full-time professor.
"In the next few months I have the goal of moving our proposed building addition forward, instituting new procedures for assessment of programs and student learning ... as well as facilitating a smooth transition to a new dean," she said in her statement.
U. officials didn't immediately name a replacement or detail a process for finding a new dean.
"I want to thank Brenda for her leadership and commitment to sustainability and encouraging student engagement with important issues in the community," said President David Pershing in a statement, calling the College of Architecture and Planning a "model" for "student success efforts."
Graduate student Jane Collette said she was glad to see a change in leadership.
"I'm happy the administration took the problem so seriously and acted quickly to solve it," she said. "I think the problems were serious enough that this was the inevitable result."
Scheer announced her departure "with some regret and lots of anticipation" in an email to students.
Her return to the classroom could be a good development for students, said graduate student Aric Farnsworth, who said Scheer had a solid reputation as a teacher.
"For her to interact with students the way she used to would probably be good for everyone's perspective toward her," he said, adding that he hopes the next dean will be "involved in our education, interested in what's best for us and open to our feedback."
Scheer came to the school after a career as an architect and professor in Cincinnati. A subsequent 2007 accreditation report praised the choice of a female dean and the hiring of four female professors for adding needed diversity to the school, as well as her community involvement.
Scheer brought national recognition to the U.'s City and Metropolitan Planning program, where she introduced a master's degree and a doctorate, and several other programs at the college, according to the U. statement.
The architecture school, though, had "a lot of problems" that surfaced during a February accreditation visit, Scheer previously told The Salt LakeTribune. She said Muir's resignation came after she drew his attention to those issues, some of which centered around governance and communication.
Muir's predecessor, Patrick Tripeny, told the Tribune his departure under Scheer was "not by choice."
Muir, hired as chairman of the School of Architecture in 2009, is also a prominent Utah architect. He designed the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City, the Ethel Wattis Kimball Visual Arts Center at Weber State University, the Stag Lodge at Deer Valley and Swaner Nature Preserve Education Center in Park City.
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Liver cancer screening highly beneficial for people with cirrhosis
Liver cancer survival rates could be improved if more people with cirrhosis are screened for tumors using inexpensive ultrasound scans and blood tests, according to a review by doctors at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
The meta-analysis of 47 studies involving more than 15,000 patients found that the three-year survival rate was much higher among patients who received liver cancer screening— 51 percent for patients who were screened compared to 28 percent of unscreened patients. The review also found that cirrhosis patients who were screened for liver cancer were more likely to receive curative treatment rather than palliative, or end-of-life, care.
"Curative therapies, such as surgery or a liver transplant, are only available if patients are found to have liver cancer at an early stage. Unfortunately, right now, only a minority of patients' cancers are found at an early stage," said Dr. Amit Singal, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Clinical Sciences, and Medical Director of the Liver Tumor Clinic in the Harold C. Simmons Cancer Center, the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in North Texas and one of just 66 NCI-designated cancer centers in the nation.
Rick Curiel, 60, of Forney, Texas, said liver cancer screening saved his life. Mr. Curiel, one of Dr. Singal's patients, had cirrhosis and a 2012 screening found tumors on his liver. The cancer was surgically treated at the Simmons Cancer Center, paving the way for him to have a life-saving liver transplant at UT Southwestern in 2013.
"Without the screening, they wouldn't have discovered it," said Mr. Curiel who was eventually able to return to work installing hardwood floors. "I am living proof that this works."
Liver cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. People with cirrhosis are at a higher risk for liver cancer, with 3 to 5 percent of those with cirrhosis developing liver cancer every year. The rate at which the incidence of liver cancer is increasing is one of the fastest among all solid tumors in the U.S.
Dr. Singal's findings, published in the Public Library of Science Medical Journal, are particularly significant for Texas because the state has high rates of fatty liver disease and Hepatitis C, both of which are correlated with cirrhosis. Texas also has the second highest incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma, or HCC, the most common type of liver cancer in the U.S. Many cases of HCC can be caught early with screening.
"We have a simple test, an abdominal ultrasound which is painless and easy, but we found that less than 20 percent of at-risk people have the test done, largely due to providers failing to order it," Dr. Singal said.
He said he hopes his study will encourage both patients and doctors to request the test.
Dr. Singal pointed out that liver cancer screening is not yet recommended by the United States Preventative Services Task Force, in part because a randomized study has not yet been done, which points to a conundrum in the field. When a randomized study was attempted in 2005, many patients opted out when they heard evidence that liver cancer screening could be so beneficial. None of the patients wanted to be the ones randomly chosen to not get the tests.
Dr. Singal hopes his findings will convince more cirrhosis patients and their doctors that screening is worthwhile.
"Just because we don't have a randomized trial doesn't mean there isn't a benefit. We're stuck in the middle ground where we've gone halfway. People are starting to believe liver cancer screening is helpful, but there's not enough evidence to prove a definite benefit," Dr. Singal said. "Part of our goal is providing evidence to both patients and physicians that liver cancer screening is beneficial."
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Targeting Grandpa: China's Seniors Hunger for Ads
As stores stock shelves with youth-targeted products and malls lease to retailers such as Forever 21 Inc., China's seniors are feeling left out.
According to a new report from global market research firm Mintel, only 8% of elderly Chinese consumers feel that marketers adequately target them with advertising and products.
The study, which surveyed 600 Chinese elderly in 10 cities and 3,000 online, said seniors are eager for more offerings geared to them, such as food, beverages and travel services.
The senior segment of society is increasingly critical in China, as the number of people aged 60 and above is expected to exceed 200 million this year, and increase by 10 million annually in the years to come, according to statistics from the China National Committee on Aging.
Yet the number of marketers targeting the elderly is still only a fraction of the multitude of companies aiming for the youth.
Marketing experts say most companies look for the biggest spending pool when rolling out their strategies for any country. In China, those tend to be younger consumers, age 21 to 45, said Kunal Sinha, chief knowledge officer at advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather China.
But many companies have underestimated the influential power of seniors in the Chinese household, said Mr. Sinha, noting that seniors will make up around 12% of the population by 2025. Now about 47% of children are cared for by grandparents, who make the bulk of household purchases, he said.
Some marketers are beginning to figure that out, said Mr. Sinha. Last year, Volkswagen Group Import China launched an advertisement for its Beetle, featuring senior citizens trying out activities associated with youth: skateboarding, dancing at a rave, tagging a wall with spray paint.
"Companies may not realize how much power elders have in the family, but it shouldn't be overlooked" said Mr. Sinha.
While Chinese companies have more products available for China's seniors, such as cell phones with simpler functions and larger displays, some Western companies are rolling out products for the elderly Kimberly Clark, which makes Huggies diapers and paper towels, recently rolled out its Depend adult diapers in China. Private retirement facilities are also quickly expanding.
For an idea of what seniors may be looking for, Mr. Sinha notes that it's important to look at their spending habits. Seniors aged 55 to 65 in China's largest cities spend half their expenditures on food and only 7% on apparel, according to Ogilvy data, while those a decade younger allocate 38% of their spending to food and 13% to apparel.
According to the Mintel study, pharmaceuticals top the list of goods post-retirement consumers are buying, followed by small electrical appliances, household cleaning products, consumer electronics and toiletries.
In addition, seniors are looking for financial services geared to their needs, said Matthew Crabbe, research director of Mintel's Asia-Pacific division.
Yet seniors are also pretty open minded and willing to try out new products, he added. That's backed up by some seniors who are game to sing Lady Gaga on TV, dance like Michael Jackson or even cross-dress.
-- Lilian Lin and Laurie Burkitt. Follow them on Twitter @LilianLinyigu and @lburkitt
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Women and men are different when it comes to money. We don't need an MIT study to prove it. All it takes is listening to a his and her discussion about where to spend, invest or shop.
But for those who might think that isn't the case, below is an infograph from CreditCards.com to prove the point. Data in it comes from TD Ameritrade and LearnVest.


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Jorge Masvidal
TRAINING: Just grinding. Working my cardio, wrestling, jiu-jitsu and striking
When and why did you start training for fighting? At age 14, because I liked to fight; it just came naturally for me
What ranks and titles have you held? Undefeated in the streets, AFC Welterweight Champion
Do you have any heroes? Jesus Christ
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? No
What was your job before you started fighting? Fighting was my first job
Specific accomplishments in pro competition? Beat a lot of top 10 ranked fighters; Beat the reigning Japanese champion, Satoru Kitaoka, by KO
Favorite grappling technique: Punching into submission
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CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Reel passion: Ford takes it to the Bridge
When I met James Ford eight years ago, he was burning with creative energy as a high school student enrolled in Light House Studio's first video workshop. Since then, he's studied film and video at the California Institute of the Arts and interned at Anthology Film Archives in New York City, transforming himself into a veritable walking encyclopedia of the moving image.
Now Ford's back in Charlottesville as the director of the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative's Film Series. And he's still on fire.
The Bridge Film Series originated in February 2006 when volunteer Sarah Lawson suggested using the organization's gallery space at 209 Monticello Road to screen shorts by avant-garde filmmaker Hollis Frampton. Bridge Founders Greg Kelly and Zack Worrell welcomed the chance to offer more than "just art on the walls," and that first night led to screenings every other Thursday evening.
In keeping with its mission, the Bridge invited community members to curate film nights (UVA art professors Kevin Everson and William Wylie, among others, have each hosted programs). Ford jumped at the chance, and after putting together several well-received nights of little-seen footage, including "Experimental Abstraction" and "Narrative Deconstruction," he took over as the Film Series director this past winter.
"There are just so many films out there being made and not shown," he says. "I'm finding new films every day."
Ford opened the Series summer schedule June 28 with a night of skate videos, co-sponsored by the Black Cat Skate Shop. On July 12 and 26, Ford will present a two-part series, "Experimental Travelogues." Among its highlights are The Glass System, a film about Calcutta by Mark LaPore, and several shorts by noted filmmaker Jonas Mekas.
Ford is particularly excited to screen Mark Rose's The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough, which features footage Rose shot while traversing a suspension cable of the Golden Gate Bridge. "It's touching and technically mind-boggling." Ford says. The summer series concludes August 9 with a bike-in night of two-wheeled entertainment, co-sponsored by Community Bikes.
Ford's future Film Series plans include finding more ways to involve the community. Among other things, he'd like to put together programs to foster discussion of the works presented. Nevertheless, he hopes to keep the relaxed atmosphere where people can see something unexpected and then shout out questions while he changes reels.
"It's just going so well," he says, "and I just enjoy it so much."
On July 12 and 26, the Bridge Film Series presents "Experimental Travelogues," beginning at 8pm each night. $5. 209 Monticello Road. 984-5669. For more information and schedule updates, see thebridgepai.com


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Participants in Derek "Deek" Diedricksen's Tiny House Summer Camp in early July ranged in age from 13 to 62. A teenage woodworker and his dad came all the way from Oakland, California. There were three Vermonters in attendance who planned to build tiny houses and put them on trailers. When the long weekend was over, two new structures were nearly complete, which means there will likely be more space for aspiring builders to sleep in next summer if Diedricksen decides to do another Tiny House Summer Camp. Deek has another weekend workshop coming up in November at his home in Stoughton, MA. Check his site for details.
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It's no secret that Kanye West is a perfectionist.
The rapper cut short his sixth and final show at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. Thursday night. As his performance of "Only One" was reaching its end, he asked the house crew to turn the lights on. "My voice is so hoarse," West said. "I can't finish the show...I can't let y'all have a show where I can't perform for you." The crowd initially booed before chanting the rapper's name. "I'm very sorry. I love you," he said. "I'll give everyone a refund. I'll do better next time."
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West had performed 45 minutes of his set when he decided the show was over. E! News reached out to reps for West and Live Nation to get further details regarding the refunds.
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The next stop on West's Saint Pablo Tour is scheduled for Nov. 17 in San Jose, Calif.
In mid-October, Live Nation announced that West would be extending his nationwide tour, playing 21 more shows. With the added dates, the tour will end in Brooklyn on New Year's Eve.


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What do I do @ work?
I recently moved withing Canonical from being a paid developer of Bazaar to take on a larger challenge Technical Architect for Launchpad. Its been two months now, and its time to put my head up out of the coal face, have a look around and regroup.
When I worked on Bazaar, every day when I started work got up I was working on a tool anyone can use, designed for collaboration upon sourcecode, for people writing software. This is a toolchain component right at the heart of the free software world. Bazaar and tools like it get used everyday to manage, distribute and collaborate on the sourcecode that makes up the components of Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and so forth. Every time someone new starts using Bazaar for a new free or open source project, well I felt happy – happy that in my small part I'm helping with this revolution we're carrying out.
Launchpad is pretty similar to Bazaar in some ways. Obviously they are both free software, both are written in Python, and both are sponsored by Canonical, my employer. And they both are designed to assist in collaboration and communication between free software developers – albeit in rather different ways.
Bazaar is a tool anyone can install locally, run as a command line, GUI, or local webserver, and share code either centrally (e.g. by pushing to Launchpad), or in a peer to peer fashion, acting as their own server.
Launchpad, by contrast is a website which (usually) folk will use as a service – in their browser, from the comand line – FTP (for package building), ssh (for Bazaar branch pushing or pulling), or even local GUI programs using the Launchpad API service. This makes it more approachable for first time collaborators, but its less able to be used offline, and it has all the usual caveats of web sites : it needs a username and password, it's availability depends on the operators – on the team I'm part of. So there's a lot less room for error: if we do something wrong, the system is unavailable, and users can't just 'apt-get install' an older release.
With Launchpad our goal is to to get all the infrastructure that open source need out of the way, so that they can focus on their code, collaboration within their team – and almost uniquely – collaboration with other teams. As well as being open source, Launchpad is free for all open source projects to use – Ubuntu is our single biggest user – they use it for all bugtracking, translation and package building, and have a hugefraction of the total storage overhead in the database.
Launchpad is a pretty nice system, so people use it, and as a result (on a technical basis) it is suffering from its own success: small corner cases in the code turn up every day or two, code written years ago to deal with a relatively small data set now has to deal with data sets a thousand or more times larger (one table, for instance, has over 600,000,000 rows in it.
For the last two months then, I've been working on Launchpad. As Technical Architect, I need to ensure that the things that we (users, stakeholders and developers of Launchpad) want to do are supported by the structure of the system : the platform(s) we're building on, the way we approach problems, coding standards and diagnostic tools. That sounds pretty dry and hands off, but I'm finding its actually very balanced. I wrote a presentation when I started the job, which encapsulated the challenges I saw in front of the team on this purely technical front, and what I thought I needed to do.
I think I was about right in my expectations: On a typical day, I'll be hands on in a problem helping get it diagnosed, talking long term structural changes with someone around how to make things more efficient / flexible / maintainable, and writing a small patch here or there to help move things along.
In the two months since I took on this challenge, we've made significant headway on the problem of performance for Launchpad : many inefficient code paths have been identified and removed, some new infrastructure has been created as is being rolled out to make individual pages faster, and we've massively increased the diagnostic data we get when things go wrong. We've introduced facilities for responding more rapidly to issues in the software (but they have to be rolled out across the system) and I hope, over the next 4 months we'll reach the first of my performance goals: for any webpage in Launchpad, it will complete rendering in 99% of the time. (Note that we already meet this goal if you measure the whole system, but this is biased by some pages being very frequently hit and also being very small).


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After the release of the highly anticipated "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life" on Netflix, "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie sat down with stars Lauren Graham, Kelly Bishop and Scott Patterson.
"It just felt like a release to finally be able to talk about (the episodes) and share them with people," Graham said. "We were so excited when we did it and we've been asked about it for so many years that to finally have it out there is really fun."
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Only one of the Gilmore Girls made it to set however. Alexis Bledel got caught in traffic on her way to the studio. But she called in and said she hoped the final episodes provide some closure for fans.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – This past Saturday, the lightweight men's crew traveled to Princeton University as a guest in the Murtaugh Cup which traditionally features the host Tigers and the U.S. Naval Academy.
With only two weeks of water time to prepare for the race, athletes and coaches worked hard over spring break to tune-up boats and hone race skills. Despite the short time period in which to prepare, the Engineers' performance was undoubtedly bolstered by a strong showing during the winter training period, during which nearly 100% of athletes showed physiological improvement over past years, many making hard-won technical gains in the process.
Saturday morning found the three crews on the line facing a stiff headwind. In all three events in which MIT competed (1V, 1F, 2F), the Tigers and the Midshipmen jumped out to an early lead. Left trailing, the Engineers rowed hard, consistent races, but finishing times demonstrated how essential water time is in preparing for early season races.
"The guys did the things we'd practiced well," said Head Coach Will Oliver. "We certainly could have used a little more time to prepare, but Navy and Princeton are both extremely fast crews, so it's good to see what we're up against early. The team realizes that it has a lot of speed to pick up. Some of it will come from working on our racing skills; our starts, our sprints, and our rating. Some of it will come from just rowing together over the course of the spring. It's a young boat, and they still have a lot of speed to find and some good races to look forward to. When we see these two crews again at Sprints, we'll definitely be a lot faster."
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A postcard from Edinburgh
Oliver Condy reports on the riches on offer at the Edinburgh International Festival
No one could accuse the Edinburgh International Festival of sitting on its programming laurels – in just over 24 hours, we've been treated to a piano recital, two talks, an orchestral concert and a programme of heart-breakingLieder.
Pianist and BBC Music Magazine newcomer Francesco Piemontesi's recital at the Queen's Hall earlier yesterday was a display of virtuosity and versatility – crystal-clear Mozart and triumphantly cheerful Schumann contrasting with Webern's tightly-knit, terse Op. 27 Variations and Schubert's Sonata D845. Piemontesi possesses a superb touch – or perhaps that should be touches, every work crafted as if played, each time, on a different piano. Piemontesi isn't pigeon-holing himself. Long may that continue.
Tuesday evening's concert at Usher Hall brought the CBSO and Andris Nelsons together with his fellow Latvian, violinist Baiba Skride for Sofia Gubaidulina's extraordinary concerto 'Offertorium'. Its exploration and gentle pulling-apart – or offering up – of the theme from Bach's Musical Offering yielded extraordinary sounds from the orchestra both conflicting with and complementing Skride's solo part. If the concerto seemed like a battle of wills between soloist and orchestra, the final chorale-like section brought ultimate peace and resolution, as if a painful sacrifice had been worth it all along. Gubaidulina is a superb orchestral architect - her textures and musical archolding our attention throughout the concerto's 45 minutes.
Finally, Wednesday morning's Lieder recital by another English tenor, Toby Spence, was a return to the stage after months away from singing following an operation earlier this year to remove a tumour from his thyroid. On the bill was Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte, songs from Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Schumann's Dichterliebe. Spencer's voice is very beautiful and expressive, but today it teetered, his high notes at times sounding a little tight. However, for someone coming back to a major stage (and live broadcasting) after a period of rest and recuperation, this was a stunning, defiant return. In lots of ways, his vocal struggles matched the pain and anguish contained within the repertoire, making his two-hour recital an emotional journey.
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Newborn to 3 Months: Babies cannot do much at this stage but their senses are eager for stimulation. Childrens educational toys with high-contrast patterns and bright colors will capture little ones attention. Babies can see color from birth but have difficulty distinguishing between similar tones. Educational toys designed with bright and distinctly different colors like red, green, black and white help babies differentiate shapes and patterns. Babies spend a good deal of time on their backs and sides at this age making colorful mobiles that play music a great educational toy choice. Babies are fascinated by their reflection in safety mirrors. They are not able to recognize themselves but the activity is great visual stimulation. Baby gyms are excellent educational toys because of the variety of stimulation they offer. Baby gyms have bright colors, a variety of attachments with different shapes, textures, and sounds. Most gyms now play music and have lights as well. These educational toy gyms require baby to pull, kick, or bat something to set off the stimulus helping to develop motor skills.
Though it is a constitutional obligation, the non-availability of funds and vested administrative setup have led to the mushrooming of universities, fake campuses, private enterprises and numerous makeshift centers of education as also fly-by-air foreign campuses. It has proved to be a great financial endeavor with hardly any risk involved because it does not come under VAT or any other financial constraints. India has by now more institutions of such type than colleges, an excellent opportunity to rope in knowledge seeking youth and those who desire to fly off to greener pastures.
Students of various educational institutes go on strike, almost yearly, demanding withdrawal of excessive fee hike. The tuition fees make up only about 13 per cent of annual expenditure in the present university education. It is now a formidable industry and the aim is to make money. Poor students, however, intelligent they may be, cannot afford to join colleges, professional institutions or courses. They may join such courses by putting their families under heavy debt of banks or financial institutions. Even in the USA, tuition fees contribute to about 15 per cent of the total annual expenditure on higher education. Nehru said: If all is well with universities, it will be well with the nation. Whereas Rabindranath Tagore once compared educated classes in India to A second storey in an old building that was added in, but unfortunately the architect forgot to build a staircase between them.
Sounds Babies respond to sound and some of the best educational toys include rattles and musical toys. Soothing music such as lullabies is usually best. Auditory and musical toys are known to stimulate logical thinking and imagery in babies and in adults for that matter. One good educational auditory toy is the Electronic Metal Keys. These keys are good for a child 6 months and up. The Electronic Metal Keys are an imitation of the parents car keys. However, the Electronic Metal Key toy is safe for the child to chew on and has a push button that emits sounds like a car horn, doorbell, ignition, and remote control door.
When it comes to the formulation of policies about higher education, structuring the system, financial assistance, grants and salary, the statutory body-University Grants Commission-is mentioned like a sacred cow worshipped as well as butchered in the streets. How far the UGC is autonomous is a common knowledge. It has become a post office, a government organization, disbursing petty grants, sanctioned by the Central Government, among universities or institutions with a number of tags attached to them depending upon the status of the recipient institutions, state, Central, autonomous or deemed universities. There is a perpetual complaint about the non-availability of funds. The administration should appreciate that the jumbo cabinet and expenditure on legislatures could be cut down to feed and educate a few villages. The teacher wants to be a ladder upon which students could climb and scale new heights.
Red displays come from Lithium, Rubidium and Strontium. These metals give different intensities in color and some even play other roles. Lithium and Rubidium are metals in group one of the periodic table. Lithium gives a medium red color and is most useful, for this purpose in its carbonate form. Rubidium on the other hand gives a deep red/ violet-red flame and is also used to oxidize the mixtures in these explosives; without oxidation, they will not burn properly. Strontium burns with an intense red but it also has the job of stabilizing the elements used to make the fireworks.
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