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SYRACUSE, N.Y. - After starting and winning more games at Syracuse University than anyone before him, Brandon Triche was understandably disappointed when he was not picked in the NBA Draft. But the Jamesville native is not about to give up.
Triche will get another chance to show he belongs in the NBA with the Charlotte Bobcats' summer team, which plays in the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas beginning July 17. His hope is to impress either Charlotte or another team enough to get a training camp invite.
Mt. Pleasant Golf Club head pro Mike Mullavey is retiring after 40-plus years at the club. SUN/DAVID H. BROW
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LOWELL -- Mike Mullavey has been head pro and a respected gentleman at Mt. Pleasant Golf Club for 40 years. Come December, though, Mullavey will shed his "club pro" title and finally get to play some golf.
Mullavey is "retiring" as club pro, though plans to remain on as club manager for a few more years.
"Right now, I play about five rounds of golf a year," says Mullavey, 66. "I'm looking forward to playing five rounds a week ... and fishing."
Mullavey, 66, grew up in Portsmouth, N.H., where he caddied at Portsmouth Country Club. Among those he caddied for during pro-ams there was Peter Hanscom, then the pro at Mt. Pleasant. Mullavey at 24 became Hanscom's assistant. Two years later, he succeeded Hanscom as the head pro at Mt. Pleasant.
Mullavey has always loved teaching golf and soaking in the surroundings on a course. He says as a young player he easily became distracted admiring course layouts. He played golf at St. Thomas Aquinas High in Dover, N.H., and at the University of New Hampshire.
Mullavey from 1971-76 gave lessons at King's Bay Yacht & Country Club in Miami during the winter, and later did so at Lehigh Acres in Florida. But home has been Mt. Pleasant, where Mullavey has watched four generations of local families tee it up.
Mt. Pleasant prides itself on its family atmosphere. The kindly Mullavey has nurtured that. He is proud also that the club for 20 years has provided golf lessons for students from the Perkins School
for the Blind.
"Mt. Pleasant is a pretty special place," says Mullavey. "I've found it to be very rewarding. We have squabbles like any family. But when it comes to the important stuff, everybody stands behind you."
As for his real family, Mullavey's son, Mike Jr., 25, is a law student at the University of Florida, who played golf at St. John's Prep and Emory University. Mike Jr. has been a club champ at Mt. Pleasant and is a City Tournament regular.
Mullavey's wife Sarah is a non-golfer who is principal at the Rita Edwards Miller School in Westford. Their daughter, Jaclyn, 32, teaches seventh-grade in Dracut. She is a former Celtics dancer who has a 2008 championship ring.
Actor and activist Khaled El Nabawy in Tahrir in 2011
All I can do is look on from a distance as Egyptians tackle the latest bout of revolts. It is the age of discontent, and all over the world we are disagreeing, disputing and disrupting, but can we really know where this is taking us? What I know for sure is that as a woman, I feel less and less safe, because while we play out this global restlessness, no one is watching our back. If the last time around in Tahrir is any indication, women will once again end up being the unmentioned victims of the unrest.
But not if Egyptian superstar and activist Khaled El Nabawy can help it. When I ran into him in Cannes this year, where he was announcing the US release of his first English language film The Citizen later this summer, he told me about his "Egypt Is Not to Be Harassed" campaign to stop violence against women. Four short videos less than two minutes each, starring the beautifully strong Nahed El Sebai and produced by El Nabawy's own production house, the public service announcements show a woman attacked by a man, in a variety of settings with a variety of outcomes. Thankfully, all turning out positive for the heroine, like this one below.
In a report published years before the Egyptian revolution, in 2008, the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights already found that "83 percent of Egyptian women reported experiencing sexual harassment on the street at least once and nearly half of the women said they experience it daily" and added that wearing a veil did not lessen a woman's chance of being a victim. Nearly 62 percent of men polled admitted to perpetrating harassment. The figures have gotten worse in later years with a 2013 study by UN Women -- the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women -- stating that "Through this study we are able to confirm the spread of sexual harassment in Egypt to unprecedented levels. Of the female respondents, 99.3 percent replied that they have been subjected to one form or another of harassment."
When I asked El Nabawy his personal reasons for producing the videos, he both inspired and provoked with his answer:
Actually I decided to do something as an activist against all un-human acts and I believe there are lots of them on our planet. Why did I create "Egypt Is Not to Be Harassed"? Because on the 25th of January, 2011 Egyptians paid with their lives for Egypt's freedom and for a better life and after 2 years I found out that they have now ranked Egypt the second worst country in the world for sexual harassment. I said to myself this is not my country and the future I went to the streets for. So I decided to write them, direct and produce them from my own money and I was very satisfied doing this. I will keep doing it to enhance the entire humanity and not only of my country. First I wrote about harassment but now I have full attention for the 30th of June in the streets, all over Egypt to complete our great dream.
There are three other videos with English subtitles, including this one so appropriate for the days ahead, all available to watch on the KNZ Production YouTube channel.
Image courtesy of Khaled El Nabawy, used with permission.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is committed to arranging a peace conference on the Syria conflict but other countries and groups are complicating matters by trying to set preconditions, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
Lavrov, who will meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry next week to discuss the planned conference, also said shipments of weapons to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "contradict the concept of the conference".
Russia, which has backed Assad by sending Damascus arms and protecting him from U.N. Security Council resolutions, agreed with Washington in May to help try to bring the warring sides to a peace conference. But preparatory talks this week in Geneva between Russian, U.S. and U.N. officials made no headway.
"The opposition, which is supported by the West, and other countries in the region announced they are not going to the conference as long as the regime doesn't agree to capitulate," Lavrov said after talks with Morocco's foreign minister.
He underlined that when the joint Russian-American initiative was rolled out, it was agreed that the participants would not be allowed to set any preconditions.
No date has been set for the conference. Russia, which opposes external intervention in the crisis, says it is not defending Assad but says his removal from power cannot be a condition for the talks to take place.
(Reporting by Thomas Grove, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
why?should stock prices decline if bond prices do?
The main argument that they should is an economic one?that demand for stocks (or bonds, for that matter) is only one expression of a more basic demand, a desire for savings. ?That demand expresses itself in interest in liquid vehicles like stocks, bonds, or cash, as well as illiquid ones like real estate or hedge funds.
Allocation among investment vehicles is partly a function of individual preferences, partly one of price/expected return. ?In theory, investors change their allocation among liquid alternatives like stocks, bonds and cash depending, at least to some degree, on their perception of relative value. ?So, if bond prices go down (bonds become cheaper), investors will allocate more new money to bonds?and?will sell some of their (now relatively more expensive) stocks to buy bonds. ?Professional arbitrageurs may join in, too. ?This selling makes stocks go down, too.
In the real world, however, this doesn?t always happen.
Look at recent history. ?Stocks are up 150% over the last four years, while individuals have shunned equities and poured money into bonds. ?No judgment of relative value there. ?No consideration of potential future returns.
What about the AAPL bond offering?? Only a few weeks ago, people were more than happy to buy AAPL 30-year bonds with a(n ultra-low) coupon of 3.85%, even though the Fed had been making it clear for a long time that the normal rate on cash should be higher than that. ?No long-term thinking here. ?Those bonds are now more than 10% lower, as sentiment has changed.
end of recession vs. end of the business cycle
When the economy is overheating and chronic inflation threatens (not the situation we?re in now), the Fed raises rates. ?Bond prices drop. ?Anticipating lower profits, stocks also fall.
At the end of recession, on the other hand, the Fed raises rates from emergency lows back to what it judges to be normal (inflation + a real return for lenders). ?Bond prices fall. ?Historically, in this situation stock prices don?t. ?Historically, they go sideways to up, because the Fed?s intention is to remove emergency assistance, not to slow profit growth.
It seems to me that this is a key difference that Wall Street is overlooking so far. ?I can understand why the bond market is upset, though. ?I would be too if I thought that thirty years on cruise control, riding the gravy train of ever-lower interest rates, is over.
does the absolute level of interest rates matter?
Jim Paulsen?s comments that I wrote about yesterday made me think back to a simpler time?the mid-1980s. ?Arguably, you have to go back that far to get a period when markets weren?t distorted by Alan Greenspan?s penchant for very loose money policy.
Back then, it seemed to me that investors looked carefully at the return they could get on a cash deposit vs. what the stock market might offer. ?If money markets began to yield, say, 5%, some market participants would begin to shift money out of stocks and into cash. ?The idea seemed to be that a 5%, 0r a 6%, return that was very likely over the following twelve months and that involved very little risk was preferable to a potential 8%-10% return that required taking the risk of owning stocks.
I don?t know, but it may be that the absolute yield on cash will be a more important consideration again today for stocks than their relative value vs bonds. ?If so, in today?s world, a 4% yield on cash might be the threshold for switching out of stocks. ?Maybe it?s 3.5%. ?But it?s certainly not the current zero.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? The lead plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned California's same-sex marriage ban tied the knot at San Francisco City Hall on Friday, about an hour after a federal appeals court freed gay couples to obtain marriage licenses for the first time in 4 1/2 years.
State Attorney General Kamala Harris presided at the wedding of Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, of Berkeley, as hundreds of supporters looked on and cheered. The couple sued to overturn the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban along with Jeff Katami and Paul Zarrillo, of Burbank, who planned to marry Friday evening at Los Angeles City Hall.
"By joining the case against Proposition 8, they represented thousands of couples like themselves in their fight for marriage equality," Harris, who had asked the appeals court to act swiftly, said during Stier and Perry's brief ceremony. "Through the ups and downs, the struggles and the triumphs, they came out victorious."
Harris declared Perry, 48, and Stier, 50, "spouses for life," but during their vows, they took each other as "lawfully wedded wife." One of their twin sons served as ring-bearer.
Although the couple fought for the right to wed for years, their wedding came together in a flurry when a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a brief order Friday afternoon dissolving, "effective immediately," a stay it imposed on gay marriages while the lawsuit challenging the ban advanced through the courts.
Sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban called the appeals court's swift action "outrageous."
"The resumption of same-sex marriage this day has been obtained by illegitimate means. If our opponents rejoice in achieving their goal in a dishonorable fashion, they should be ashamed," said Andy Pugno, general counsel for a coalition of religious conservative groups that sponsored Proposition 8.
"It remains to be seen whether the fight can go on, but either way, it is a disgraceful day for California," Pugno said.
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday that Proposition 8's sponsors lacked authority to defend the measure in court once Harris and Gov. Jerry Brown, both Democrats, refused to do so.
The decision lets stand a trial judge's declaration that the ban, approved by voters in November 2008, violates the civil rights of gay Californians and cannot be enforced.
Under Supreme Court rules, the losing side in a legal dispute has 25 days to ask the high court to rehear the case. The court said earlier this week that it would not finalize its ruling in the Proposition 8 case until after that time had elapsed.
It was not immediately clear whether the appeals court's action would be halted by the high court, but Gov. Jerry Brown directed California counties to start performing same-sex marriages immediately in the wake of it.
A memo from Brown's Department of Public Health said "same-sex marriage is again legal in California" and ordered county clerks to resume issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.
Given that word did not come down from the appeals court until mid-afternoon, most counties were not prepared to stay open late to accommodate potential crowds. The clerks in a few counties announced that they would stay open a few hours later Friday.
A jubilant San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced that same-sex couples would be able to marry all weekend in his city, which is hosting its annual gay pride celebration this weekend.
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Associated Press writers Jason Dearen, Paul Elias and Mihir Zaveri contributed to this story.
At at time when the authorities and the Patriots have taken stunning and decisive action against Aaron Hernandez, the National Football League has done nothing.
The NFL will continue to do nothing, until it has a reason to do something.
?NFL clubs were advised today that if Aaron Hernandez enters into a player contract prior to the resolution of the charges pending against him, the contract will not be approved or take effect until Commissioner Roger Goodell holds a hearing,? the league said in a statement forwarded to PFT by NFL spokesman Greg Aiello.? ?The purpose of the hearing would be to determine whether Hernandez should be suspended or face other action prior to the charges being resolved.?
The league?s position makes sense.? Why suspend a guy who is unemployed, and currently unemployable?? The league?s stance makes teams even less likely to be interested in Hernandez, since it makes clear that, if anyone tries to give the guy a job, they?ll first have to deal with persuading Goodell to let them employ Hernandez.
As a result, Hernandez?s status won?t be relevant unless and until he is cleared on murder charges.? And things could get interesting if he?s acquitted in an O.J. Simpson-style outcome, where half of the country or more believes that, even though he was found not guilty, he still did it.
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Grant to further childhood sarcoma therapeutic researchPublic release date: 26-Jun-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Mary Ellen Peacock maryellen.peacock@nationwidechildrens.org 614-355-0495 Nationwide Children's Hospital
Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital will use a $6.3 million grant to further their study of pediatric sarcomas, a rare form of the disease that affects bone or soft tissue and accounts for 11 percent of all childhood cancers. The project, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute, will be led by Peter Houghton, PhD, director of the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's.
"The ultimate goal of this project is to develop novel therapeutic approaches for advanced childhood sarcoma," said Dr. Houghton, who has spent more than three decades studying pediatric cancer through work designed to bring knowledge from the laboratory to the bedside.
While more than 70 percent of children with sarcoma are cured, the outcome is still poor for those with advanced or metastatic disease. Specifically, the five-year, event-free survival rates are 30 percent or less in children with advanced or metastatic Ewing sarcoma, osteosarcoma or rhabdomyosarcoma. Intensive chemo-radiotherapy has not significantly altered this outcome, making the search for effective new therapies a critical pursuit.
Each of the three sarcomas targeted by this grant has distinct characteristics requiring in-depth analysis of disease pathways and treatment opportunities.
"The projects will characterize the interrelationship of these pathways and identify combinatorial inhibitory approaches most likely to yield biologic activity in the clinical setting," said Dr. Houghton, also a faculty member at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
Experts in sarcoma biology, cellular signaling pathways and drug development will collaborate on the grant, bringing together researchers from Nationwide Children's and The Ohio State University. Dr. Houghton is the principal investigator on the grant, and Nationwide Children's is responsible for its management. The researchers will collaborate on each of six smaller sections of the grant, sharing personnel and facilities. Each division of the grant will be overseen by a special director and team to create the best opportunity for synergy and innovation.
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Grant to further childhood sarcoma therapeutic researchPublic release date: 26-Jun-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Mary Ellen Peacock maryellen.peacock@nationwidechildrens.org 614-355-0495 Nationwide Children's Hospital
Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital will use a $6.3 million grant to further their study of pediatric sarcomas, a rare form of the disease that affects bone or soft tissue and accounts for 11 percent of all childhood cancers. The project, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute, will be led by Peter Houghton, PhD, director of the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's.
"The ultimate goal of this project is to develop novel therapeutic approaches for advanced childhood sarcoma," said Dr. Houghton, who has spent more than three decades studying pediatric cancer through work designed to bring knowledge from the laboratory to the bedside.
While more than 70 percent of children with sarcoma are cured, the outcome is still poor for those with advanced or metastatic disease. Specifically, the five-year, event-free survival rates are 30 percent or less in children with advanced or metastatic Ewing sarcoma, osteosarcoma or rhabdomyosarcoma. Intensive chemo-radiotherapy has not significantly altered this outcome, making the search for effective new therapies a critical pursuit.
Each of the three sarcomas targeted by this grant has distinct characteristics requiring in-depth analysis of disease pathways and treatment opportunities.
"The projects will characterize the interrelationship of these pathways and identify combinatorial inhibitory approaches most likely to yield biologic activity in the clinical setting," said Dr. Houghton, also a faculty member at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
Experts in sarcoma biology, cellular signaling pathways and drug development will collaborate on the grant, bringing together researchers from Nationwide Children's and The Ohio State University. Dr. Houghton is the principal investigator on the grant, and Nationwide Children's is responsible for its management. The researchers will collaborate on each of six smaller sections of the grant, sharing personnel and facilities. Each division of the grant will be overseen by a special director and team to create the best opportunity for synergy and innovation.
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Our family is big on celebrations. Heck, I even wrote about a book it: Fashion + Food: Entertaining at Home in Style
We often celebrate at home with a meal combining home cooked favorites and store bought choices. It was my Aryanna?s 17th birthday last week and we did something special and different.
So instead of our fine china, we raided a party place and bought paper plates and cups, plastic utensils, napkins and other birthday paraphernalia for that fun birthday party feel! Birthday girl and I bumped into a party store in Powerplant Mall called Celebrations Party Central in Powerplant Mall, Rockwell and we thought it a good idea to celebrate with a kiddie-themed family dinner before her coming of age 18th birthday next year!
The birthday girl
Adorbs party set-up
Pretty pails
Blow and sip in style
For the stylish celebrants: chevron and polka dot printed paper loot bags
Aryanna and I wanted to buy a pi?ata but decided against it as Tom might use the bat to hit us instead of the pi?ata because of our crazy idea! Kidding!
Super kyooooot paper napkins!
Kid and drunken adult-friendly plates and stemware
Colorful cutlery and cups
Party favors
Always the joker
One happy shoppingera!
On the menu: our own recipes of sweet spaghetti (with carrots, fresh tomatoes and bell pepper, click here for the recipe) and one of Aryanna?s favorite desserts homemade apple pie along with some of her favorites: Aling Nene?s BBQ and Mc Donald?s French Fries
Tom and I baked a pie the night before Aryanna's birthday. We surprised her in the morning with her favorite pie and some gifts! It was a success!
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Check out what Aryanna and I bought at Celebrations!
We bought paper plates, plastic cutlery and cups in gold, some napkins and boxes in pink and paper bags in printed black, white and pink. We also got different party cups and plastic Margarita stems from Celebrations, 3L Powerplant Mall, Rockwell.
The set-up:
Partying kiddie style? for my baby?s last year before adulthood (*cries*)! Every reason to celebrate!
Eto na ang plato-platuhan na walang hugas-hugasan!
Tip: For a grown-up kiddie party themed table setting, choose paper plates, cups and plastic cutlery in gold color for a glam look.
Tip: Use party loot boxes as your sweet spaghetti container
Tip: Party paper bags can be used to hold the french fries. You can add powder flavorings and guests can shake the bags to flavor their fries.
I can?t believe Tom and I have a 17-year old teenager! It just seemed like it was yesterday when she was a toddler like our son Dylan, running around the studio, talking to models, showing off her fairy wings, doodling everyone she meets and just being a kid. She still does some of those things and more ? she still asks me to put her to bed, she enjoys playing games with her brother, she likes going on dad and daughter adventures with Tom, she still watches cartoons, she hasn?t out-grown her love for Barbie, she still prefers to stay home than party with friends and she still expects a special birthday dinner at home with her family. We?re glad that she is not in a rush to grow up fast.
Happy birthday, sweetheart! You have grown-up to be an intelligent, beautiful, sweet, talented, caring, kind-hearted and smart young lady! You make us so proud and we can?t wait for you to achieve all your dreams! Remember that you deserve the best in life and love. Our birthday wish for you is to have a happy and healthy life. We love you, Aryanna!
May all your wishes come true!
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UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva is in "Tapped," the latest movie to try to profit off of capture the beauty of MMA. The trailer shows Lyoto Machida and Krysztof Soszynski are in it, too. What the trailer does not show is what the movie is about, except for maybe punching bags and getting choked out by Silva?
A disgruntled teenager, sent to do community service at a rundown Karate school, enters an MMA tournament to face the man who killed his parents.
Obviously. Here's the other part we learn from IMDB: It stars Martin Kove. If you don't recognize the name, perhaps you remember John Kreese, the terrifying sensei of Cobra Kai? The guy who ordered Daniel-San's leg swept at the All-Valley Karate Tournament? Yes, Silva got to work with the villain from "The Karate Kid."
In the past, Silva has worked with Steven Seagal. The movie star was even cageside for Silva's fights and took credit for teaching him the kick that knocked out Vitor Belfort. But with this movie and work with Kreese mean we'll be hearing Silva yell, "Cobra Kai, never die!" at UFC 162?
Published: 10:47AM Wednesday June 26, 2013 Source: Fairfax
Dominion Finance's Richard "Rick" Bettle
The last of the Dominion Finance directors facing court action pleaded guilty to Financial Markets Authority (FMA) charges against them, at the High Court in Auckland this morning.
Vance Arkinstall and Richard Bettle pleaded guilty to five FMA charges each, and Paul Forsyth pleaded guilty to seven of the Securities Act charges brought by the FMA.
The men had originally pleaded not guilty and were set to go to trial next week.
The charges of misleading investors were laid by the FMA against all directors of Dominion Finance after it collapsed into receivership in 2008 owing more than 5900 public debenture investors $176.9 million.
North South Finance, a subsidiary company that operated under the same directors, was placed in receivership in 2010 owing $31 million to 3900 investors.
Earlier in the month former Dominion bosses Ann Butler and Robert Barry Whale were sentenced to home detention for their part in the company's collapse.
Butler's husband, Terry, was due to face the same charges but died of cancer this year.
Terry Butler also faced charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) before his death, on which Dominion Finance chief executive Paul Cropp was found guilty of in April.
Justice Lang found Cropp guilty of knowingly breaching the trust deed of Dominion Finance and its subsidiary North South Finance, which said the company was not able to make loans to related parties.
Last month Cropp was sentenced to two years and seven months jail on the four Crimes Act charges of theft.
The maximum possible sentence was five years' jail or a fine of up to $300,000 on each charge, but finance company directors in similar circumstances have been sentenced to home detention.
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We'd love to tell you that the researchers at North Carolina State University aren't monsters who implant circuits on living things so that those living things do their bidding, but we'd be lying. They totally do that, roaches are their primary victim, and now they're using Microsoft's Kinect to help them control the insects. Sure, why not!
As Dr. Alper Bozkurt of NCSU says in today's new release, "Our goal is to be able to guide these roaches as efficiently as possible, and our work with Kinect is helping us do that." Apparently the researchers are employing Kinect for data collection as well, determining how effectively the cyborg survivors respond to electrical impulse-motivated control. They say the end goal is to use the partially mechanized arthropods to, "explore and map disaster sites." For now, there's some very weird stuff happening in North Carolina. Head below for a video of the roaches in action.
June 24, 2013 ? Robotic animals can help to improve the quality of life for people with dementia, according to new research.
A study has found that interacting with a therapeutic robot companion made people with mid- to late-stage dementia less anxious and also had a positive influence on their quality of life.
The pilot study, a collaboration led by Professor Wendy Moyle from Griffith University, Australia and involving Northumbria University's Professor Glenda Cook and researchers from institutions in Germany, investigated the effect of interacting with PARO -- a robotic harp seal -- compared with participation in a reading group. The study built on Professor Cook's previous ethnographic work carried out in care homes in North East England.
PARO is fitted with artificial intelligence software and tactile sensors that allow it to respond to touch and sound. It can show emotions such as surprise, happiness and anger, can learn its own name and learns to respond to words that its owner uses frequently.
Eighteen participants, living in a residential aged care facility in Queensland, Australia, took part in activities with PARO for five weeks and also participated in a control reading group activity for the same period. Following both trial periods the impact was assessed, using recognised clinical dementia measurements, for how the activities had influenced the participants' quality of life, tendency to wander, level of apathy, levels of depression and anxiety ratings.
The findings indicated that the robots had a positive, clinically meaningful influence on quality of life, increased levels of pleasure and also reduced displays of anxiety.
Research has already shown that interaction with animals can have a beneficial effect on older adults, increasing their social behaviour and verbal interaction and decreasing feelings of loneliness. However, the presence of animals in residential care home settings can place residents at risk of infection or injury and create additional duties for nursing staff.
This latest study suggests that PARO companions elicit a similar response and could potentially be used in residential settings to help reduce some of the symptoms -- such as agitation, aggression, isolation and loneliness -- of dementia.
Prof Cook, Professor of Nursing at Northumbria University, said: "Our study provides important preliminary support for the idea that robots may present a supplement to activities currently in use and could enhance the life of older adults as therapeutic companions and, in particular, for those with moderate or severe cognitive impairment.
"There is a need for further research, with a larger sample size, and an argument for investing in interventions such as PARO robots which may reduce dementia-related behaviours that make the provision of care challenging as well as costly due to increased use of staff resources and pharmaceutical treatment."
The researchers of the pilot study have identified the need to undertake a larger trial in order to increase the data available. Future studies will also compare the effect of the robot companions with live animals.
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NREL drives toward the future with fuel cell EVsPublic release date: 25-Jun-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: David Glickson david.glickson@nrel.gov 303-275-4097 DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Efforts currently underway at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are contributing to rapid progress in the research, development and testing of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.
Building from more than 10 years of support from the Department's Fuel Cell Technologies Office on these topics, NREL has received four Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicles Advanced (FCHV-adv) on loan from Toyota. These vehicles will help NREL enhance its research capabilities related to hydrogen fueling infrastructure, renewable hydrogen production, and vehicle performance.
Zero-Emission Fuel Cell Vehicles are Rapidly Evolving
The Toyota vehicle represents another step toward the commercialization of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Hydrogen fuel is most often produced using domestic resources and can also be produced using clean renewable energy technologies. When hydrogen is used to power an FCEV, the vehicle has zero tail pipe emissions.
The fuel cells in the Highlander FCHV-adv are representative of the FCEV designs being demonstrated today by automobile companies around the world, making this design an excellent platform for NREL's research activities. Toyota also plans to introduce an FCEV sedan to the U.S. commercial market in 2015.
The zero-emission FCHV-adv, based on a mid-size sport utility vehicle (SUV) platform, has an expected driving range of 325 miles and a fuel economy estimated at 60 miles per gallon of gasoline equivalent (GGE). GGE is a method for measuring the fuel economy of alternative fuels compared to gasoline and represents the amount of an alternative fuel equal to the energy in one liquid gallon of gasoline.
The vehicle is powered by a fuel cell system with light weight, high-pressure hydrogen tanks, an electric motor, a nickel hydride battery, and a power-control unit that determines the split of power from the battery or fuel cell stack to power the vehicle.
NREL to Explore Wide Research Platform
A man stands in front of the open hood of the vehicle. A group is gathered around him looking at the components of the vehicle under the hood. Enlarge image
Refuel Cell and Hydrogen Technologies Laboratory Program Manager Keith Wipke, (in red) explains what's under the hood of the Toyota Highlander fuel cell hybrid vehicle at the NREL Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle Ride and Drive Event. These vehicles will help the lab enhance its research capabilities related to hydrogen infrastructure, renewable hydrogen production, and vehicle performance.
Credit: Dennis Schroeder
The four FCEVs, on a two-year loan from Toyota as part of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with NREL, will be put through a wide platform of testing and analysis at the lab. The vehicles were originally deployed in California in 2009 and have been redeployed to NREL as part of this CRADA.
"We're looking at the whole system from renewable hydrogen production and vehicle fueling equipment to the impact of driving patterns and behavior on vehicle performance," said Keith Wipke, NREL Laboratory Program Manager for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technologies. "Because the vehicles will be four or five years old by the time our loan period ends, we will be able to observe extended durability and reliability, which are critical to the commercial success of these types of vehicles."
Testing will include observing how the vehicles interact with fueling infrastructure and fueling stations that operate at different pressures. While most hydrogen is currently produced from natural gas, at NREL, the vehicles will be fueled with renewable hydrogen made from wind and solar energy as part of the Wind-to-Hydrogen project at the lab's National Wind Technology Center. This project uses wind turbines and solar arrays to power electrolyzers that split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
"These vehicles are emission free, but in most scenarios you still have emissions during the hydrogen production," Wipke said. "If you can make the hydrogen using renewable resources you have the potential for this to be a truly zero-emission fuel source. We're pleased to have the opportunity to further investigate this potential."
Other tests will investigate how drivers interact with the vehicles and influence performance over the test period. Researchers will look at the effects of environment and driving patterns on the vehicles' energy storage and propulsion systems, and demonstrate the vehicles operational capability in real-world activities.
On behalf of the Energy Department, NREL is also planning public outreach and education efforts to better prepare the market for the deployment of these types of vehicles. NREL will offer first-hand exposure to hydrogen and fuel cell vehicle technologies to a variety of audiences, including the general public, academia, and the automotive industry.
Getting Ready for Our Transportation Future
A white Toyota sport utility vehicle is parked in a parking lot. Two people are standing in the parking lot looking at the vehicle. Enlarge image
NREL employees investigate a Toyota Highlander fuel cell hybrid vehicle at the lab's Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle Ride and Drive Event.
Credit: Dennis Schroeder
FCEVs use hydrogen, stored in high-pressure tanks made of carbon fiber resin, which is fed to the fuel cell stack where it combines with oxygen from the air. The electricity produced by this chemical reaction is used to power the electric motor and charge the battery.
"For someone like myself who is not an electrochemist, it's truly a fascinating technology," Wipke said. "Hydrogen atoms interact with a membrane coated with small amounts of platinum, which splits the hydrogen into protons and electrons. The protons pass through the membrane, and the electrons go around a different path and do the useful electrical work. Eventually, they meet on the other side with oxygen from the air, and form water, which along with a little heat is the only byproduct of the process."
Fuel cell technologies and the use of hydrogen as a transportation fuel are becoming more visible as automotive manufacturers move these concepts closer to market.
But while these fuel cell technologies are proven and effective, there are still challenges in deploying them, particularly in terms of reducing cost and increasing durability. NREL's long-term durability testing for FCEVs will provide important data toward solutions to these two interrelated challenges.
Another significant issue with deploying these technologies is the need to develop infrastructure around hydrogen production, delivery, and fueling stations.
"We need a lot of infrastructure in place for FCEVs to have widespread consumer acceptance," Wipke said. "Most hydrogen fueling stations use delivered hydrogen instead of on-site production. That is the most economical pathway right now, but with our capabilities here at NREL we are able to fully explore the opportunities for on-site production."
Despite the challenges, Wipke sees a strong future for the FCEV technology.
"Most automakers are committing to get to market with these vehicles before this decade is out. That is encouraging," Wipke said. "The biggest reasons that they are so excited about this option for the future is that range and refueling time are not a concern compared to other new transportation technologies. This makes it a potentially very consumer-friendly transportation technology, one that will function much like what drivers use today."
"It's an exciting opportunity to help move these technologies forward, and we're pleased to have an important role here at NREL."
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Learn more about NREL's hydrogen research.
David Glickson
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NREL drives toward the future with fuel cell EVsPublic release date: 25-Jun-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: David Glickson david.glickson@nrel.gov 303-275-4097 DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Efforts currently underway at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are contributing to rapid progress in the research, development and testing of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.
Building from more than 10 years of support from the Department's Fuel Cell Technologies Office on these topics, NREL has received four Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicles Advanced (FCHV-adv) on loan from Toyota. These vehicles will help NREL enhance its research capabilities related to hydrogen fueling infrastructure, renewable hydrogen production, and vehicle performance.
Zero-Emission Fuel Cell Vehicles are Rapidly Evolving
The Toyota vehicle represents another step toward the commercialization of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Hydrogen fuel is most often produced using domestic resources and can also be produced using clean renewable energy technologies. When hydrogen is used to power an FCEV, the vehicle has zero tail pipe emissions.
The fuel cells in the Highlander FCHV-adv are representative of the FCEV designs being demonstrated today by automobile companies around the world, making this design an excellent platform for NREL's research activities. Toyota also plans to introduce an FCEV sedan to the U.S. commercial market in 2015.
The zero-emission FCHV-adv, based on a mid-size sport utility vehicle (SUV) platform, has an expected driving range of 325 miles and a fuel economy estimated at 60 miles per gallon of gasoline equivalent (GGE). GGE is a method for measuring the fuel economy of alternative fuels compared to gasoline and represents the amount of an alternative fuel equal to the energy in one liquid gallon of gasoline.
The vehicle is powered by a fuel cell system with light weight, high-pressure hydrogen tanks, an electric motor, a nickel hydride battery, and a power-control unit that determines the split of power from the battery or fuel cell stack to power the vehicle.
NREL to Explore Wide Research Platform
A man stands in front of the open hood of the vehicle. A group is gathered around him looking at the components of the vehicle under the hood. Enlarge image
Refuel Cell and Hydrogen Technologies Laboratory Program Manager Keith Wipke, (in red) explains what's under the hood of the Toyota Highlander fuel cell hybrid vehicle at the NREL Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle Ride and Drive Event. These vehicles will help the lab enhance its research capabilities related to hydrogen infrastructure, renewable hydrogen production, and vehicle performance.
Credit: Dennis Schroeder
The four FCEVs, on a two-year loan from Toyota as part of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with NREL, will be put through a wide platform of testing and analysis at the lab. The vehicles were originally deployed in California in 2009 and have been redeployed to NREL as part of this CRADA.
"We're looking at the whole system from renewable hydrogen production and vehicle fueling equipment to the impact of driving patterns and behavior on vehicle performance," said Keith Wipke, NREL Laboratory Program Manager for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technologies. "Because the vehicles will be four or five years old by the time our loan period ends, we will be able to observe extended durability and reliability, which are critical to the commercial success of these types of vehicles."
Testing will include observing how the vehicles interact with fueling infrastructure and fueling stations that operate at different pressures. While most hydrogen is currently produced from natural gas, at NREL, the vehicles will be fueled with renewable hydrogen made from wind and solar energy as part of the Wind-to-Hydrogen project at the lab's National Wind Technology Center. This project uses wind turbines and solar arrays to power electrolyzers that split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
"These vehicles are emission free, but in most scenarios you still have emissions during the hydrogen production," Wipke said. "If you can make the hydrogen using renewable resources you have the potential for this to be a truly zero-emission fuel source. We're pleased to have the opportunity to further investigate this potential."
Other tests will investigate how drivers interact with the vehicles and influence performance over the test period. Researchers will look at the effects of environment and driving patterns on the vehicles' energy storage and propulsion systems, and demonstrate the vehicles operational capability in real-world activities.
On behalf of the Energy Department, NREL is also planning public outreach and education efforts to better prepare the market for the deployment of these types of vehicles. NREL will offer first-hand exposure to hydrogen and fuel cell vehicle technologies to a variety of audiences, including the general public, academia, and the automotive industry.
Getting Ready for Our Transportation Future
A white Toyota sport utility vehicle is parked in a parking lot. Two people are standing in the parking lot looking at the vehicle. Enlarge image
NREL employees investigate a Toyota Highlander fuel cell hybrid vehicle at the lab's Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle Ride and Drive Event.
Credit: Dennis Schroeder
FCEVs use hydrogen, stored in high-pressure tanks made of carbon fiber resin, which is fed to the fuel cell stack where it combines with oxygen from the air. The electricity produced by this chemical reaction is used to power the electric motor and charge the battery.
"For someone like myself who is not an electrochemist, it's truly a fascinating technology," Wipke said. "Hydrogen atoms interact with a membrane coated with small amounts of platinum, which splits the hydrogen into protons and electrons. The protons pass through the membrane, and the electrons go around a different path and do the useful electrical work. Eventually, they meet on the other side with oxygen from the air, and form water, which along with a little heat is the only byproduct of the process."
Fuel cell technologies and the use of hydrogen as a transportation fuel are becoming more visible as automotive manufacturers move these concepts closer to market.
But while these fuel cell technologies are proven and effective, there are still challenges in deploying them, particularly in terms of reducing cost and increasing durability. NREL's long-term durability testing for FCEVs will provide important data toward solutions to these two interrelated challenges.
Another significant issue with deploying these technologies is the need to develop infrastructure around hydrogen production, delivery, and fueling stations.
"We need a lot of infrastructure in place for FCEVs to have widespread consumer acceptance," Wipke said. "Most hydrogen fueling stations use delivered hydrogen instead of on-site production. That is the most economical pathway right now, but with our capabilities here at NREL we are able to fully explore the opportunities for on-site production."
Despite the challenges, Wipke sees a strong future for the FCEV technology.
"Most automakers are committing to get to market with these vehicles before this decade is out. That is encouraging," Wipke said. "The biggest reasons that they are so excited about this option for the future is that range and refueling time are not a concern compared to other new transportation technologies. This makes it a potentially very consumer-friendly transportation technology, one that will function much like what drivers use today."
"It's an exciting opportunity to help move these technologies forward, and we're pleased to have an important role here at NREL."
###
Learn more about NREL's hydrogen research.
David Glickson
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