Such experts speak of a postchildhood, postfamily-rearing, вЂњthird ageвЂќ of вЂњproductive agingвЂќ and вЂњpositive aging.вЂќ вЂњRetirement gives them the opportunity to flex their experience,вЂќ Dr. Winn 3d, a psychologist in Boston who works for New Directions, a firm that helps guide retiring professionals and executives to new ventures. He cannot tie your tie.ДЇree of the constraints of the workplace, these retirees are the beneficiaries of life-stretching health care and a plunge in the poverty rate of elderly Americans (itвЂ™s 10 percent now, down from nearly 30 percent 50 years ago.) вЂњThe idea of children at play occurs to me,вЂќ says William A. Unlike Rube GoldbergвЂ™s whimsical contraptions, Mr. Knot can detect the occasional misstep or tear, untie the knot and get it right. Grasping, pulling, aligning and winding the lengths of the tie, Mr.

вЂњWhy Knot?вЂќ for example, uses 10 electric motors to drive 10 mechanisms to construct a four-in-hand knot on a necktie that it wraps around its own neck. He is pushing the envelope of engineering and hoping to stir the imaginations of young engineers to push their own envelopes. Goldstein makes machines that lack any commercial or - with the exception of the woodpecker - functional utility. One innovation is a supple spaghetti-thin catheter that a surgeon guides into an inoperable brain tumor to deliver chemotherapy, while minimizing side effects and damage to other tissues. Goldstein retired from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, where he was a biomedical engineer. The American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore, which is exhibiting one of his works, calls him a kinetic sculptor. With four degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Pull the cord, and the beak moves back and forth, striking the wall louder than any doorbell.ДЄ 75-year-old, 5-foot-5, 120-pound sparrow of a man comes to the door. A retractable cord from an expired vacuum cleaner hangs from the woodpeckerвЂ™s tail.

Goldstein and his wife Paula Stone tear it from local woodlands and shape it into railings for the steps and into sculptures they show at community art exhibits.ДЄt the top of the steps to the right of the door they have attached a replica of a red-crested pileated woodpecker. Tickets for Play on Victoria go on sale at 3pm on Friday, October 22 viaВ Ticketek.LINING the steep flagstone steps to a glass-walled house in a rocky, tree-shrouded neighborhood near Washington are two- and three-inch-thick twisted branches of an invasive vine that strangles the areaвЂ™s hardiest oaks and sycamores. You'll also be spread across the bowl,В in allocated seating and in picnic areas. If you wish to attend the concert (and who wouldn't) you're going to need to be fully vaccinated and wear a mask for the duration of the event (unless eating or drinking вЂ“ refreshments will be available to purchase). The concertВ is part of Victoria's 'vaccinated economy' trials, which will test event settings that are attached to the state's 80 per cent double vaccination target, which we could hit as early as November 1. Better yet, tickets to Play on Victoria are a measly $29.90.Д«aker Boy said: 'I'm so pumped to be performing at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl for Play On VIC! I have just had to postpone my headline tour because of ongoing border restrictions so it feels really great to have this kind of support in Victoria! I think I'm more excited for the punters to be honest, I'm so stoked for people who have been in lockdown for so long to have a gig like this! I can't wait to break it down and party with them!'

Play on Victoria has lined up a pretty banging line-up for the event, withВ Baker Boy, Grace Cummings, Amyl and the Sniffers, Vika and Linda Bull, and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard all signed on to perform. The concert is the first major music event to happen since Melbourne closed its live music venues for lockdown, with 4,000 lucky fans able to attend the outdoor gig. Live music returns to Melbourne on October 30 with the Play on Victoria concert at Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

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