The United States will have more adults aged 65 and over than children by the year 2035, the US Census Bureau says As the American population ages, the demand for services and care for older adults is growing.

SenCura is a company that provides non-medical at-home care for seniors in the northern Virginia area. Cliff Glier founded the company 12 years ago. He says its services include help with bathing, transportation, getting dressed and planning and preparing meals.

Hollie is one of SenCura’s professional caregivers. She visits 88-year-old Olga Robertson’s home every day for three hours. Robertson says she likes having Hollie’s help.

“Well, she cooks for me and she does a good job. She takes me to appointments (约会) and things like that and whatever I want to do. Sometimes, we go to walk in the mall if it’s cold out in the winter time.”

But when Hollie is not around, Robertson still has a caregiver—a robot named Rudy, who can have a conversation and also tells jokes and plays games and dances with Robertson.

In addition to keeping Robertson mentally and physically active, Rudy provides services 24 hours a day. He watches for lost things, reminds Robertson about her doctor’s appointments and tells her when it is time to take her medicine. The robot is a little more than one meter tall. It has a screen that makes checking in with family and caregivers easy.

Anthony Nunez is the founder of INF Robotics, the company that created Rudy. He says the idea for the robotic caregiver was inspired by what his own mother lived through when his grandmother got older.

SenCura’s Cliff Glier met Nunez and his team at an event more than a year ago. He became interested in introducing Rudy to his own customers. Glier says Rudy is not competition for human caregivers. He says the robot is there to help but cannot do all the things that caregivers do, like bathing and dressing seniors.

Is there a newspaper at your school? If your school doesn't have one, you can help start one online. If your high school already has a printed newspaper, adding an online version can help you reach new audiences and add new content.     5     An online newspaper can be a chance for high school students to gain experience with journalism and with working online. So it's necessary to know how to start an online newspaper.

    6     If your news site will only have an article or two a day, you may want to use a blog template (模板). If you plan to publish a more magazine-style weekly edition with more stories, you will probably want a more complicated front page to show what's in it.

Try to spend some money. Although it's possible to start a website for free, even $50 will help your newspaper buy a memorable website address.     7     Therefore, don't feel unwilling or worried when you need to spend some money.

Create content for your newspaper. Along with written articles, an online newspaper is a great place for photo slide shows, videos, polls, forums and calendars.     8    

Market your newspaper. You can promote it through old-fashioned announcements such as flyers (宣传单) and word of mouth.     9     You can make good use of Facebook, Myspace and Twitter.

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There is an old suitcase in my house which represents the dreams and hopes of my family.

I’m always taking photos of the little _______ I find in the world around me. A few weeks ago, I visited my parents. My father was an _______ when he was young. I took a photo of something that I would _______ as a pretty big wonder. At first _______, it might not look like much. It was just a _______ brown suitcase with two silver locks up on the top. But to me, it’s _______ what a miracle (奇迹) looks like.

That suitcase is the very one my dad brought with him when he _______ to the US from Turkey in 1965. He was just a 19-year old boy at the time who didn’t know a _______ of English. He _______ all his friends and family, ________ that he would become an excellent engineer one day. That suitcase carried my dad’s most valuable ________ — many black-and-white photos from home and his science and math textbooks, etc.

As a kid, I was ________ about the suitcase. It lived on the top of my bookcase. I never ________ much about it, though. It wasn’t until I got ________ that I actually asked my dad about it. Looking inside, I found tons of photos and the ________ my parents wrote to each other, back and forth between the US and Turkey.

That’s when I ________ how beautiful that dirty old suitcase actually was. It’s a ________ of not only the hardships my parents ________, but also all the wonderful things they ________. How they found love, how their dreams ________ and how they got through them all.