Build a Healthy Lunch

             Do you know how to make a power packed lunch?

Healthy lunches should include food from all, or at least most, of the food groups: fruits, vegetables, whole grains, protein, and dairy. Eating a variety of foods at lunch time will help you get the nutrients your body needs to be strong and healthy and can give you energy that will last through the afternoon.

Can you figure out what's missing from this lunch? 
Grab the missing foods and make this healthy lunch complete!

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Meet Our Youth Advisors

We are four youth advisors from the Greater Boston Area, participating in the Youth Advisory Program at Boston Children's Hospital. We are three high school students and a college student who have been trained to educate our peers about health issues.

We take field trips to different community organizations in the Boston area, and provide peer-to-peer education on many health topics.

We also surf the web to find reliable health information for you, and evaluate educational pamphlets. We write articles for our quarterly e-newsletter called Teen Talk. We also do outreach in our adolescent outpatient clinic and area high schools, and help to staff our Resource Center that is open to the public, Monday-Friday, 1-5pm.

Check out our blog, too!

The "Peers are Here" map below shows where in the community we've presented lately, and the topics we've given presentations on.

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Very Nice car

1. When he embraced his teammate after a goal.

2. And when he was just happy and wanted to show someone his love:

3. When he made this “I’m about to hug you” face:

4. And took it a step further with this big hug AND kiss for his fellow teammate, Jack Wilshere:

Octocopter named “HorseFly” takes flight

This HorseFly has eight rotors, a wirelessly recharging battery and a mission to deliver merchandise right to your doorstep. The new drone was developed as a result of collaborative efforts from the Univ. of Cincinnati, AMP Electric Vehicles and the Unive. of Cincinnati Research Institute.

The University of Cincinnati and AMP Electric Vehicles, makers of the WorkHorse all-electric delivery truck, collaborated on the HorseFly "octocopter" through an innovative partnership made possible by the University of Cincinnati Research Institute (UCRI).

The newly designed, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was developed to work in tandem with AMP's delivery trucks, creating a safe, fast and never-before-seen method of delivering goods.

Steve Burns, CEO of AMP, explains the process like this: The HorseFly will be positioned atop a delivery truck, awaiting a package from the driver. When loaded, the HorseFly will scan the barcode on the package, determine the path to the delivery address via GPS and fly away—completely self-guided—to the appropriate destination. Meanwhile, the delivery truck will continue on its rounds. After successful delivery, the HorseFly will zoom back to the truck for its next delivery run and, if needed, a roughly two-minute wireless recharge.

"Our premise with HorseFly is that the HorseFly sticks close to the horse," Burns says. "If required, the HorseFly will wirelessly recharge from the large battery in the WorkHorse truck. The fact that the delivery trucks are sufficiently scattered within almost any region during the day makes for short flights, as opposed to flying from the warehouse for each delivery."

Paul Orkwis, head of UC's Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, looks at the HorseFly and sees its potential to be something more.

"If you want to get really far-fetched and look into the future, at something like a flying car, that's possibly what you could be looking at with this," Orkwis says.

  New age of airmail

The UAV-truck delivery method is an ingeniously simple concept powered by some very complex technology. UC aerospace researchers have developed an experimental capability to capture the dynamic behavior—response to outside forces, such as wind gusts—of the UAV platform.

The researchers use computer models to analyze how a UAV behaves in a dynamic environment, allowing them to develop an autonomous controller and essentially put the UAV on autopilot. Flight tests have shown UC's modeling system to be highly accurate.

The novel, reconfigurable design of the HorseFly UAV is a product of this research, says Kelly Cohen, an associate professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics. Cohen's team is led by his PhD student Wei Wei with support from fellow students Bryan Brown, Nicholas Schwartz, Vince DeChellis and Nathaniel Richards.

"With the HorseFly project, we developed a brand-new aircraft and airframe from scratch, and we built the system with the ability to look into different applications. Now we can build a family of octorotors and find out the best possible configuration," Cohen says. "There is no textbook on multirotor aircraft design. Here we have been pioneering this effort, and we've come up with something successful."

Experts on flying safely

Key to that success and a primary reason AMP teamed with UC has been the researchers' ability to make the HorseFly safe and resilient. In addition to the sophisticated autonomous controller system, the HorseFly will have multiple built-in hardware redundancies (rotors, onboard computers, battery packs). So if, for example, multiple rotors were to fail, the HorseFly and its payload still could be retrieved safely.

"An important part of the HorseFly project is that we make a vehicle that will not drop out of the sky," Burns says. "This is the particular point that UC specializes in and where we are relying on their expertise to help us build such a safe and resilient craft."
Burns also noted that the HorseFly can be supported by human pilots in a flight control center who can access the aircraft's cameras to choose the safest landing spot.  

Strategic partnership with industry

The partnership between UC and AMP was secured through UCRI, an independent nonprofit entity connecting UC experts to industry partners, facilitating commercialization of research and enhancing experiential learning for UC students.

For HorseFly, Burns connected with Orkwis to explain his vision for the project. Then an agreement was developed in a matter of days with help from UCRI CEO David Linger.

“UCRI supports businesses, small or large, that want to access and leverage the university’s expertise: faculty, students and labs to collaborate with the firm’s researchers,” Linger explains. “The partnership with AMP is a great example of how UCRI can facilitate the path to innovation between private industry and university resources.”

According to Linger, partnerships between the university and private businesses have traditionally been limited to the co-op program or privately-funded research, and were often complicated and time-intensive to undertake. But because it is an independent, small nonprofit, UCRI can leverage the full expertise of the university while executing with agility and efficiency.

Cohen said working with UCRI has opened new doors for his department.

"AMP came up with a vision, and we made suggestions. Those suggestions were translated into a very quick project, something that would have been impossible without UCRI," Cohen says. "Now, we have the possibility of becoming strategic business partners working with industry, pushing the envelope together as we transition technology as well as business ideas due to our knowledge of the market."

Terms of the agreement called for AMP to receive a working, flight-tested design prototype, and a final report and demonstration. AMP provided funding for minimal overhead costs and tuition support for Wei.

Orkwis credited UCRI for streamlining the process and accommodating student involvement in the project. He says the importance of Wei's role was exemplified at a recent flight demo where Wei piloted the HorseFly for AMP investors—a unique real-world experience that is Cincinnati Smart.

"A lot can be attributed to Wei's own can-do attitude. That's really what it comes down to. If you sit back and say, 'No it can't be done,' then who wants to come and work with you?" Orkwis says.

UC and AMP will continue to develop the HorseFly project in anticipation of new Federal Aviation Administration regulations on commercial use of unmanned aerial vehicles. As of now, limited recreational use of UAVs is permitted in the U.S. but commercial activity is not allowed. New FAA rulings are expected soon and could arrive in 2015.

AMP Electric Vehicles

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Physicians use Goggle Glass to teach surgery abroad

Imagine watching a procedure performed live through the eyes of the surgeon. That’s exactly what surgical leaders in the U.S. were able to do while overseeing surgeons training in Paraguay and Brazil with the help of Univ. of California, Los Angles (UCLA) doctors and Google Glass.

UCLA surgeon Dr. David Chen and surgical resident Dr. Justin Wagner have made it their mission to teach hernia surgery around the world and are harnessing the latest technologies to help.
“Hernia repair is the most common operation performed worldwide,” said Chen, assistant clinical professor of general surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. “From a global health perspective, it is as cost-effective as immunizations because it allows patients to regain function and resume work and other daily activities.”

It is also an easily teachable procedure that lends itself to the advent of this kind of technology, according to Chen, associate director of surgical education and clinical director of the Lichtenstein Amid Hernia Clinic at UCLA.

The team used Google Glass, which is worn like conventional glasses, but houses a tiny computer the size of a Scrabble tile outfitted with a touch-pad display screen and high-definition camera that can connect wirelessly to stream live.

With Chen and Wagner’s help, local surgeons at a hospital in Paraguay in late May wore Google Glass while performing adult surgeries to repair a common type of hernia in which an organ or fatty tissue protrudes through a weak area of the abdominal wall in the groin. This type of hernia is commonly found in both children and adults.

Through Google Glass, the surgeries were viewed “live” via wireless streaming in the U.S. to a select group of leading surgeons who could watch and oversee the procedures. The experts could also transmit their comments to the surgeon, who could read them on the Google Glass monitor. The surgeries are also being archived for later training purposes as well. Chen added that the educational program ensures competency and quality of the operations.

“We are one of the first to use Google Glass in teaching and training surgeons from outside a country,” said Chen. And he says hernia surgery is just the beginning. 

“Our goal is to utilize the latest technologies like Google Glass, Facebook and Twitter in connecting everyone in medicine worldwide for educational purposes that can help improve medical care in resource-poor countries,” said Chen. “These cost-effective applications can ultimately be used for other surgical procedures and medical training as well.”

The UCLA team also visited Brazil, where they used Google Glass during three hernia surgeries and also streamed a live debriefing session afterwards. The team plans to train 15 surgeons from around the country in September. These surgeons will then become trainers to teach other surgeons at several regional hospitals for underserved patients. Similar programs will be implemented in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Ecuador this fall.

These training projects are part of an educational arm of Hernia Repair for the Underserved, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free hernia surgery to children and adults in the Western Hemisphere. Chen, who serves on the organization’s board, is spearheading these educational projects with the UCLA team to help “train the trainers” and increase the number of surgeons performing this procedure in underprivileged countries in the Western Hemisphere.

Chen and Wagner also work closely with UCLA’s Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology (CASIT) in developing new ways to help educate doctors remotely.

They have even streamed surgical lectures to Haiti from UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica.

“We are developing practical applications for these technologies so that surgeons in any setting can have access to the global surgical community from within their own operating rooms,” said Wagner. “Even after the training is over, local surgeons can be teleproctored remotely so they will remain connected to experts worldwide.”

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IT services and software

In 2013, software and IT services firms will have their heads in the clouds. The spread of “cloud computing” will spur investments in flexible, mobile services that are delivered online and charged according to usage. “Big Data” projects will also gather steam as companies in many industries look for insights by sifting through huge volumes of data, a task that requires both whizzy software and bright minds. Global software spending will grow by 6%, almost twice the rate in 2012. IT services will also do well, although growth will be around 3%.

Coders will crank out software for mobile devices. Revenue from apps will grow by more than 50% a year through 2016, according to Juniper Research. Gartner, another research firm, estimates that a staggering 81bn apps will be downloaded in 2013, almost twice as many as in the year before. 

To watch: Something for nothing. In an increasingly crowded market for mobile apps, the “freemium” business model will falter. A tiny fraction of users convert from free to paid versions of apps, so it takes a huge number of downloads to make the economics work, benefiting established brands with marketing muscle. Most developers will either heavily restrict features in free versions of apps or charge outright for downloads.

From The World In 2013 print edition

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