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Arthritis Pain Reliever
Several health care workers may be part of your pain management team: your physician, physical therapist, occupational therapist, a psy¬chiatrist or psychologist and perhaps even a practitioner of alternative medicine such as acupuncture. They may use various methods and techniques to help you manage your pain.
Physical control of pain
Exercise is perhaps your best defense against pain. A physical therapist may work with you to develop an exercise program that maxi¬mizes your range of motion and strengthens your muscles around painful joints.
Massage can improve your circulation, help you relax, decrease local pain and reduce swelling. Some therapists are specially trained in massage techniques for people with arthritis.
If you would like to give yourself a massage or train a family member to do it, remember to stop if the massage is painful. If your joint is very swollen or painful, skip the massage of the joint and instead massage adjacent muscles. Also try a warming or cooling treatment to the joint or muscles or both. And, when giving a massage, use a lotion or massage oil to help your hands glide smoothly over the skin.
Helpful Hint:
If you use a massage oil or lotion, wash it off before any heat treatment to avoid burns.
Additional heat treatments
Unlike the more simplified home heat treatments, a physical therapist may use specialized techniques or equipment to provide pain relief.
Heat treatments might include soaking sore joints, particularly your hands, in a warm paraffin bath. For deep heat penetration, a physical therapist can use ultrasound or short-wave diathermy. This technique requires monitoring and can worsen some forms of arthritis.
Steroid injections
Steroids reduce pain and inflammation. Your doctor may occasionally inject a cortisone drug into an acutely inflamed joint ¬for example, your hip, knee or ankle.
Because frequent steroid injections could accelerate joint damage, your doctor may limit the number of injections to no more than two or three each year.
Nerve block
This is an anesthetic that blocks the nerves to a painful area. Its use is limited because the pain relief may last only a short time.
TENS, or transcutaneous (across the skin) electrical nerve stimu¬lation, stops pain by blocking nerve signals from reaching your brain. A therapist tapes electrodes on your skin at the site of your pain. The elec¬trodes are linked to a battery-operated stimulator, which delivers a tiny, painless electrical current.
TENS also may help release hormones (endorphins) that fight pain.
Alternative treatments
Other treatments such as acupuncture are gain¬ing some acceptance in the scientific community.
Psychological control of pain
Maintaining a positive mindset is essential to coping with chronic pain. However, you may reach a point at which you need some extra support or training to cope successfully. View this as an opportunity to discover a new dynamic to taking charge of your arthritis.
Behavior therapy
The goal of behavior therapy is to identify and modify some of your reactions to the pain, as well as to make changes to better manage your life despite your pain. This approach may include making changes in your daily routine and incorporating a balance of activities to maintain your ability to be active. You may learn to cope more effectively with changes in your lifestyle, evaluate your priorities and your response to stress and understand and accept your pain.
Related treatments
In addition to learning behavior approaches to managing your pain, there are related treatments that can improve your functioning and may lessen your pain.
Biofeedback Your body has some automatic reactions to stress: muscle tension, changes in skin temperature and changes in blood pressure and heart rate. The goal of biofeedback is to teach you to recognize your body's reactions to pain and learn to modify them.
During a session with a therapist, you are attached to monitors that track your physiologic systems-heart, respiration, muscle ten¬sion and skin temperature. The therapist will help you learn to relieve the symptoms of stress throughout your body through relax¬ation techniques.
Relaxation training
There are several ways you can learn to relax your body and mind. These include progressive muscle relaxation, deep breathing, guided imagery and meditation exercises.
One of the most commonly used strategies for pain is progressive muscle relaxation. You learn to focus on each muscle progressively. First, you tense a muscle and hold the tension for 5 or 10 seconds, focus¬ing on the sensations of tension and identifying specific muscles or mus¬cle groups. Then, you slowly release the muscle while focusing on the sensations of relaxation and released tension. This procedure is repeated in the major muscle groups of your body so you become familiar with the sensation of relaxing your entire body.
The ideal setting for learning relaxation is a quiet room where you can rest comfortably on the floor or in a reclining chair or bed. You need to feel relatively at ease but not tired. An instructor can be a great help in directing your attention toward your inner self. You will learn to con¬centrate and to relax at the same time-and be able to do it yourself at home. You may listen to a tape, although live training may be more effective. Eventually, you learn to relax without verbal cues from another person.
The goal of any relaxation strategy is to reduce the level of tension in your body. You can use relaxation throughout the day, when you feel tension or pain building. In this way you can often prevent a worsening of the tension or pain and successfully complete your activities.
Chronic pain centers
If your pain is severe your doctor may recommend a chronic pain center. In this setting, you may participate for several days and work with physicians and therapists representing various specialties. Some centers require overnight stays, whereas others offer outpatient treatments.
This team approach is essential, because it is unlikely that anyone technique will work in controlling your pain. The professionals in an interdisciplinary center can treat both your pain and its potential conse¬quences, such as disruption within a marriage and family, loss of income, depression and anxiety.


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Jobs and opportunity await inaugural graduating class from Chicago State's College
of Pharmacy
Residency match for first class tops 70 percent for Doctors of Pharmacy who often start out earning $95K
(May 16, 2012) – Today, the inaugural class of the Chicago State University College of Pharmacy (CSU-COP) took their oaths as Doctors of Pharmacy (Pharm. D.) and received hoods
that affirm each graduates' commitment to professional, confidential and compassionate
patient care. Next up is the official graduation ceremony with the entire CSU student
body at 11 a.m., Thursday, May 17 at the Emil & Patricia Jones Convocation Center
at CSU.
"This is an exciting time for the pharmacy profession," says Dr. Miriam A. Mobley Smith, dean of the College of Pharmacy. "Pharmacists have evolved from dispensers of medication to providers of health care services, yet their roles continue to expand. At CSU we are preparing our pharmacy students, not just for today, but for future patient care needs, clinical management and policy thought leadership."
This inaugural CSU-COP graduating class boasts some impressive firsts in it short history. Among them:
The program has also been recognized as the most diverse pharmacy program in Illinois
and one of the most diverse in the nation, ranking No. 11 in underrepresented minority
student-pharmacist enrollment, according to the American Association of Colleges of
Pharmacy (AACP). The composition of the 2012 graduating class is one-third Caucasian,
one-third Asian and one-third African-American.
What this means is this class will heal the world: The COP has, as its goal, producing pharmacy professionals who will positively affect the health care needs of a global community.
In the midst of a challenging economy, statistics show that the employment outlook for those holding a Doctor of Pharmacy degree to be high, with starting salaries above $95K, according to AACP. Further, employment for pharmacists is expected to increase by 25 percent by 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Pharmacists can also expect an array of options as to the setting in which they work, ranging from community pharmacies to hospitals and intuitions, pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors, and state and federal agencies.

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CHICAGO -- Selected patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) had 2-year disease-free survival exceeding 90% after surgery plus adjuvant erlotinib (Tarceva), results of a small multicenter clinical study showed.
The trial results surpassed the target 2-year disease-free survival (DFS) of 86%, reported Joel Neal, MD, of Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., and colleagues at the Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology meeting.
"Adjuvant erlotinib appears to have, at the very least, a cytostatic effect on micrometastatic disease," Neal said. "Only one patient recurred during treatment."
On the basis of the results, the initial 36-patient cohort has been expanded to 100 patients to permit an analysis of survival by disease stage, he added.
Reviewing the background that led to the study, Neal noted that adjuvant chemotherapy has demonstrated a survival benefit in NSCLC, but a substantial proportion of patients have recurrent disease.
The subgroup of patients with activating epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations have "exquisite sensitivity" to EGFR inhibitors. Data from a retrospective cohort study showed a 2-year DFS of 89% in patients with EGFR-mutant tumors treated with erlotinib or gefitinib (Iressa) versus 72% for patients whose surgery was not augmented with adjuvant EGFR inhibition, Neal added.
Given the preceding clinical experience, investigators conducted a prospective single-arm phase II study to evaluate 2-year DFS in patients with stage I-IIIa EGFR-mutant NSCLC. Following surgery, all patients began treatment with erlotinib, which continued for 2 years.
The patients had CT chest imaging at 6-month intervals for 3 years and then annually thereafter. The primary endpoint was DFS, with a 2-year target of 86%. Overall survival and safety/tolerability were the secondary endpoint.
The 36 patients, enrolled between 2008 and 2009, included in the analysis had a median age of 63 and three-fourths of the patients were women while 44% of them had a history of smoking. A majority (53%) had stage I disease, 19% had stage II, and 28% had stage IIIa NSCLC.
Mutation analysis showed that 22 patients had exon 19 deletions, 13 had L858R mutations, and one patient had L861Q mutation.
After a median follow-up of 2.7 years, the cohort had a 2-year DFS of 94%. All but two of the patients remained alive at the time of the analysis, Neal said.
No unexpected adverse events occurred. The most common adverse events were rash (89%), diarrhea (78%), fatigue (61%), cough (42%), nausea/vomiting (39%), dry skin (39%) nail changes (36%), dyspnea (28%), alopecia (25%), and eye irritation (25%).
Grade 3 events consisted of rash (17%), diarrhea (3%), fatigue (6%), and cough (3%). Rash, diarrhea, and fatigue did lead to dose reductions in some patients. No patient had adverse events of grade 4 severity.
Neal reported that 69% of patients completed more than 90% of planned therapy, and 39% of the patients required dose reductions.
At the time of the analysis, 12 patients had progressive disease, only one of which occurred during treatment with erlotinib. Of the remaining patients who progressed, some completed the planned 2 years of erlotinib treatment and others did not. The time to recurrence ranged from 3 to 24 months after completion of erlotinib therapy.
The fact that most patients who recurred did so after stopping erlotinib suggests that continuing treatment beyond 2 years might afford ongoing protection against metastatic recurrence, the authors said.
Neal disclosed a relationship with Genentech. Co-investigators disclosed relationships with Genentech, Boehringer Ingelheim, OncoGenex, Teva, Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, OSI, Roche, LabCorp, Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Astex, Partners Healthcare, Clovs, Celgene, Daiichi-Sankyo, and Merrimack.
- Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner
- This activity is part of our Clinical Context curriculum in Lung Cancer
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Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic OncologySource Reference: Neal JW, et al "The SELECT Study: A multicenter phase II trial of adjuvant erlotinib in resected epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)" CTS 2012; Abstract 16.


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Having never had a serious health problem, Berthold-Bond became severely chemically sensitive after being exposed to pesticides in 1980. Her illness required that she be in an environment free of petroleum-based chemicals. Not an easy task in the late twentieth century, she began doing research into practical, nontoxic ways of cleaning and maintaining a home, learning willy-nilly as she went along. After getting well enough to have a child, she became particularly concerned about the environmental exposures of children, and the consequences of society's over-reliance on chemicals and their effect on the environment as a whole. She lives in Rhinebeck, New York with her husband Daniel, daughter Lily, two dogs, and an abundance of deer, wild turkey, and other wild birds and animals. She is continually adding to her large database of healthier alternatives and is committed to providing people with information to help them establish more natural lifestyles.
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i'm still basking in the glow of DAYTIME. at the same time, yesterday brought me back to the reality that it's still pretty tiring to work a 10+ hour day! i was thisclose to bailing on my workout yesterday, but decided to change my mindset a little bit and think of it as a relaxing way to get the kinks out of my running-fatigued limbs (and catch up on a little trashy-magazine reading). this worked, and i was glad i went.
tonight, though, promises some relaxation of a different sort. my night float buddy a (we were on alternating nights and left little notes and presents for each other -- definitely one of the things that got me through!) and i are celebrating our evening freedom with a little bit of this . . .
[image from yoga journal]
and a little of this.
in that order, of course. i'm already psyched!
Q&A: edible illusion?
another anonymous portal question that surprised me! here it comes:
"i've always wondered . . . Do you only eat what you show on the plate when you take a food picture, or do you prepare a photogenic plate and have seconds later? Your meals look so tiny for someone who runs + has an active job."
this one came as a surprise because compared to a lot of healthy food bloggers out there, i think i eat a lot! i also don't tend to make super-light entrées all the time like many 'healthy lifestyle' bloggers do (what can i say, i love real cheese).
so: the answer to the above question is that no, i don't tend to eat more than pictured for dinner (josh is another story, however). i do eat something sweet after dinner pretty much every night, whether in the form of chocolate, ice cream/fro-yo, or other baked good. enjoying dessert is just something i was brought up with and i don't think i'll ever want to let it go! i'm also a snacker and NEVER (ever) make it from lunch to dinner without some kind of fuel.
in answering this question, i also started thinking about photo angles and how it really is hard to gauge portion size based on pictures of food. for example, doesn't this:
look like less than this?
workout: 45 minutes elliptical, levels 9-12
reading: and teaching!!! YES i got in both of these yesterday -- i spent some time teaching our med student + intern some off-the-cuff stuff about RSV, and did 8 PREP questions (+ answer-studying) after work.


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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
At its core, making chamber music is about impromptu gatherings and quick partings. So when a professional ensemble stays together for a few years, let alone several decades, it is something to celebrate.
On Sunday evening at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, the estimable Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio gave a colorful concert to mark its 30th anniversary. The evening was pure KLR (yes, the group has a long enough name and history to go by an acronym). Hearty doses of Beethoven and Brahms bookended a new work from American composer Richard Danielpour. At every turn were the full sound, intense expression and common purpose that have helped the group endure.
KLR will perform Beethoven's piano trios in a multi-evening celebration in its New York home later this year, yet Washington was an apposite setting for this more modest affair. The ensemble made its official debut in the District on the exact date three decades ago, playing at Jimmy Carter's inauguration, and it has kept close ties with the city since then. For the past decade, pianist Joseph Kalichstein has directed the Kennedy Center's Fortas Chamber Music Series, which presented the Sunday concert.
The trio members used their deep experience to bring out the full contours of Beethoven's Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 1, which, unlike the taut arguments of the other two trios in the composer's stunning first opus, breathes with an amiable ebb and flow and courtly grandeur. Wearing its charms on the sleeve, the music bursts forth with masterly craftsmanship and poetic depth that to this day announce the arrival of a major artist.
In the opening, violinist Jamie Laredo's sweetly pure tone matched well with the warm pulse from the cello of his wife and musical partner, Sharon Robinson. Touching melodies went from player to player in the slow second movement, while the Scherzo was rollicking, spritzed with ambling and more sprightly sequences. The finale danced with insouciance, as Kalichstein launched rippling themes down the keyboard.
Violist Kirsten Johnson joined the musicians to give the Washington premiere of Danielpour's attractive new piano quartet, "The Book of Hours." Danielpour's compositions take flight on extra-musical notions, and this work deals with life's inevitable arc from birth to death with depictions in four movements of dawn, daily bustle, evening leisure and night's darkness.
If the 24 hours of the day did not make for the most original metaphor for the circle of life, and if the effects sometimes came off predictably (sunrise is a climbing theme out of murkiness, while nighttime is jazzy romp), Danielpour conjures up music of strength and allure, particularly some bewitching melodies and translucent harmonies, which the trio gave feeling and nuance.
One of the trio's signature works, Brahms's Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8, closed out the program with tuneful effusions and symphonic colors. The trio took a slow tempo that put details and those poignant extended lines in high relief. If syrupy at points, each movement nonetheless emerged with grace and polish, while the finale was a colossal swell of sound.


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Many a soul has been ruined by too much pleasure and prosperity, and many a heart has been cured of its worldliness and brought back to God by the remedy of pain.
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What can Aloe Vera do for me?
Aloe Vera's first recorded use was over 5000 years ago in early Egyptian times, but this amazing plant now is used to treat hundreds of different ailments ranging from sun burn to constipation and is growing in popularity at an amazing pace.
The aloe vera plant is constructed with the basic building blocks of life, including essential vitamins and minerals, proteins, polysaccharides, enzymes, and amino acids (some people drink aloe vera for physical endurance and stamina, instead of energy drinks)! The bulk of the aloe vera leaf is filled with gel, which is approximately 99% water. The other 1% contains over at least 75 known nutrients including 20 minerals, 12 vitamins, 18 amino acids, 200 active plan compounds called phytonutrients, enzymes and of course, water.
So what can it do for me?
Currently there is an ever grown body of evidence suggesting Aloe Vera can help diabetics by helping to control blood sugar levels. Another is its ability to lower cholesterol although data is still insufficient to support these claims
What we do know:
Anti-fungal / Anti –inflammatory
It's these properties that make Aloe Vera the ideal choice for minor burns and skin conditions as well as fungal infection such as athlete's foot.
Use as a moisturizer
Aloe Vera is an Emollient they work by binding on the surface of the skin helping to prevent loss of moisture.
Internal uses
- A source of several vitamins and minerals that are vital to healthy cell growth
- Contains several antioxidants that protect the body against free radical damage
- Contains multiple enzymes to aid the process of digestion
- Helps stop Candida overgrowth in the body
- Helps the body's natural wound healing process function properly
- Aids in detoxification and helps keep the colon clean and regular
How to take it?
There are no official guidelines as to use of Aloe Vera but here are some guidelines to help you get the most from your supplements.
Creams and gels with aloe vera can vary in dosage. Some creams for minor burns have just 0.5% aloe vera. Others used for psoriasis may contain as much as 70% aloe vera. As an oral supplement, aloe has no set dose. For constipation, some use 100-200 milligrams of aloe juice — or 50 milligrams of aloe extract — daily as needed. For diabetes, 1 tablespoon of the gel has been used daily.
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U.S. Paralympic National Team Ties Venezuela in Parapan American Games
TORONTO (Aug. 10, 2015) – The U.S. Paralympic National Team came back to tie Venezuela 1-1 at the Parapan Am Fields in Toronto at the 2015 Parapan American Games.
The U.S. went down in the 41st minute when Asdrubal Olivares Mora capitalized on a penalty kick.
"We went into this game firmly focused on getting a win and therefore a draw was far from the desired result," said U.S. PNT head coach Stuart Sharp. "The game had no rhythm to it with the Venezuela players constantly using delay and some unsavory tactics throughout the match. No excuses though, we once again could not finish the multiple chances we had to win the game and got drawn into a scrappy encounter that was below our standard of play. We are now faced with two very difficult games that will see goal difference come into play if we want to make it into the Bronze medal match later in the week."
David Garza pulled on back for the U.S. in the 61st minute when Seth Jahn found Garza with a throw in from the right said. Garza headed it past goalkeeper Frank Pineda Teran to level the score.
The U.S. faces Argentina on Wednesday, Aug. 12, and closes out the group stage against Brazil on Thursday, Aug. 13.
U.S. Paralympic National Team Match Report
Match: U.S. Paralympic National Team vs. Venezuela
Date: Monday, Aug. 10, 2015
Competition: 2015 Parapan American Games
Venue: ParaPanAm Fields; Toronto, Canada
Kickoff: 11 a.m. local
Scoring Summary: 1 2 F
VEN – Asdrubal Olivares Mora 41st minute
USA – David Garza 60+1
USA: 1-Keith Johnson (22-Marthell Vazquez, 45); 4-Tyler Bennett (14-David Garza, 31), 5-Jordan Weise, 6-Adam Ballou, 9-Seth Jahn, 10-Kevin Hensley, 11-Mason Abbiate
Subs not used: 2-Gavin Sibayan, 3-Bryce Boarman, 12-Daniel Hoffman, 19-Michael moore, 20-Jackson McCabe
Head Coach: Stuart Sharp
VEN: 99-Frank Pineda Teran; 3-Peter Alvarado Gonzalez, 5-Daniel Sanchez, 6-Richard Mogollon Melendez, 8-Asdrubal Olivares Mora, 11-Saul Torres Villegas, 17-Jose Quintana (9-Angel Molina Camacho, 56)
Subs not used: 1-Marlon Bello, 2-Gabriel Medina Diaz, 4-Marcos Cardenas Nieto, 7-Pedro Suarez Rico, 10-Jessy Yari Villegas, 12-Carlos Carasquel Torres
Head Coach: Jose Betancor Perez
Stats Summary: USA / VEN
Shots: 22 / 11
Shots on Goal: 13 / 9
Corner Kicks: 3 / 2
Fouls: 7 / 4
Misconduct Summary:
VEN – Peter Alvarado Gonzalez (caution) 14th minute
VEN – Jose Quintana (caution) 25
VEN - Asdrubal Olivares Mora (caution) 60
VEN – Angel Molina Camacho (caution) 60+5
Referee: Yusri Rudolf (CAN)
Assistant Referee 1: Miryam Jabali (CAN)
Assistant Referee 2: Skye Arthur-Banning (USA)
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Bernal Heights, call the fire department! Your neighborhood appears to be one of San Francisco's "hottest" neighborhoods for single family homes in 2013. This post is part of a continuing series that looks at 2013 single family home sales, and includes the The Number One Overbid for a Single Family in 2013 as well as 3 out of 4 homes sold for over asking in 2013.
I took all of the sales data for single family homes in San Francisco that were reported in the San Francisco Multiple Listing Service. I then calculated the percentage over asking the house sold for based on the original list price (not the most recent list price, in case there was a reduction along the way). The sales are all plotted below:
- Blue dots represent homes that sold at or near the asking price
- Orange dots represent homes that sold over the asking price by 15%
- Red dots represent homes that sold over the asking price by 30% or more
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You can click on the image above to go to the source map that I created on openheatmap.com.
One Very Important Reminder:
- This data is for single family homes only! If you are looking at the north-east corner of San Francisco and wondering where the sales are, most of the homes in that area of town are condo/co-op/or tenancies in common. This data will be shared in another heat map to follow in the next few days.
I don't know what stands out to you, but I'd say Bernal Heights seems to be the neighborhood that most consistently went over the asking price. The blue dots in other neighborhoods don't mean that the overbids weren't happening there – it just means that the overbids were a lot closer to the asking price. I may post another version that is slightly more granular – say in the 0% (at), 5%, and 10% over asking ranges.
What stands out to you about the data? Are you surprised to see so many red dots at the south end of the city? Were you expecting more (or less) in any particular neighborhood or area? I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!


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- It was chance that brought motorcycle-riding attorney Evan Henderson to Paradise, Arizona-and left him stranded there. Then again, as he gazed at the beautiful Good Samaritan who had stopped to give him a lift, Evan felt his luck was about to change. Reclusive Lissa James had good reason to distrust men, lawyers and big cities, and in the man who'd just climbed into her truck she'd found someone who hit the bull's-eye three times. Still, she'd spent a lifetime waiting for her white knight-and Evan was starting to fit the bill most admirably....
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When Will Americans Buy Electric Cars?
There's no doubt that Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) has found the formula for electric-car success. Tesla's Model S has won almost every award worth winning - and found plenty of happy customers, too.
The Model S, like Tesla's first car, the Roadster, proved that battery-electric vehicles could be gorgeous and fun to drive, while being just as functional in the real world as regular gas-powered cars. But the Model S is far from the only electric car on the U.S. market right now. And most of the others are finding sales to be much harder to come by.
Tesla's Model S sedan. Photo credit: Tesla Motors.
Cutting electric-car prices to try to spark sales
The latest evidence that non-Tesla EVs are proving a hard sell came from Honda , which said on Thursday that it would slash the cost of a lease on the electric version of its popular Fit subcompact.
As mass-market electrics go, the Fit EV is a decent one. Its EPA-rated range is 82 miles, ahead of the Nissan Leaf's 75-mile rating. It's said to be pretty fun to drive, in a Honda sort of way, and comes fairly well-equipped.
You'd think the fact that it's a Honda would help sales. After all, the brand is quite popular in the coastal U.S., where green cars seem to do best. But through April, Honda had sold just 68 Fit EVs so far this year.
That doesn't compare too well with the 636 Focus Electric EVs sold by Ford over that time span, much less the 5,476 Leafs sold by Nissan over the same period (and the likely 6,000-plus sold by Tesla).
But Honda is really following the direction of the market here. Both Ford and Nissan cut the prices of their slow-selling EVs earlier this year. And General Motors , which is entering the EV market with its little Chevy Spark EV shortly, has matched Nissan's inexpensive lease terms.
Still a tough sell here in America
It's not hard to see why battery-electric cars have been a hard sell in the U.S. Batteries are still heavy, bulky, and expensive, and that means that even small electric cars are heavy, cramped, and relatively expensive - and don't have anything like the range of their gas-powered equivalents. And places to recharge are still few and far between.
Tesla's Model S is the exception to most of those drawbacks, of course. But the Model S was designed from the start around a big battery pack that would give well more than 200 miles of range -- and designed as a luxury car, so that its price would be competitive with gas-powered rivals.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has promised a "mass market" Tesla within a few years, but it sounds like his idea of "mass market" is more like a BMW 3-Series in terms of size and price than it is like a Focus or a Fit.
Meanwhile, the mass-market automakers are trying to get traction with simpler offerings aimed at green-minded commuters. (Or at least to placate regulators in states like California, which requires automakers to offer a zero-emissions vehicle.) So far, though, that market traction hasn't been happening -- except for the Leaf, which is selling in numbers close to Tesla's.
Do we still think that battery-electric cars are the future?
Just a few years ago, many observers expected battery-electric cars to have strong sales by now. But those sales haven't materialized, in part because consumers have adjusted to higher gas prices and in part because a lot of those observers anticipated breakthroughs in battery technology that haven't happened -- yet.
So do battery-electric cars have a future here? Tesla seems to have found a solid niche market for the moment, but whether it will be able to ultimately achieve the 500,000 yearly sales volumes it hopes for remains to be seen. And the Leaf has a following, albeit a small one by Nissan's usual standards.
But outside of areas like Silicon Valley and MetroWest Boston, where green-minded gadget geeks tend to congregate, battery-electric cars haven't made much of an impression on American car buyers. And I don't think that's likely to change unless the technology makes a big leap forward.
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How to Read a Scientific Paper
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1 How to Read a Scientific Paper What is a scientific paper? Scientific papers are peer reviewed Anatomy of a scientific paper... 4 How to read a scientific paper 5 Ethics in research and publishing... 6 Understanding numerical data.. 7 What does statistical significance mean?... 8 Case study: Buy My Oranges....9 Appendix: Numerical analysis Additional resources and credits 13
2 What is a scientific paper? Scientific papers go straight to source If someone asks you about a new movie you haven t seen yet, what do you say? Maybe, I haven t seen it, but I ve heard it s good. We generally try to distinguish first-hand from second-hand use in new ways to address different questions. The authors of scientific papers also provide an interpretation of what y think ir new information means and how it contributes to our understanding of how natural world works. By presenting data itself as well as analysis, or authors can evaluate se interpretations for mselves. Because our understanding is always changing, sometimes interpretations of data can be reevaluated in light of new ideas and new data. information. Like children s game of telephone, information can change as it is passed along. To get real story, wher a film review or results of a new research study, go to source. Scientific papers present data and interpretations Scientists report results of ir research by writing and publishing scientific papers, which are written in a very formal style. One of objectives of a scientific paper is to make available data from a set of studies so that ors can learn from m and build on m to address new questions. By publishing and sharing data, scientists work toger to advance our understanding. Some articles include results from a few targeted studies, and ors present large datasets that or scientists can Society needs scientific literature Much scientific research is publicly funded, and knowledge and technologies that emerge from research have social impacts. Traditionally, output from scientific research has been published in journals that are not widely available outside of university libraries, but in past decade re has been a trend toward increasing openness in science and a desire to make research articles more broadly available. However, it is not sufficient to make se resources available, as in many cases y are written for experts and practicing scientists and refore not readily comprehensible to those who haven t been trained in discipline. We ve written this article as a guide to help people learn to read scientific literature, with goal of increasing access to science and communication about science. Copyright 2013 American Society of Plant Biologists.
3 Scientific papers are peer-reviewed Peer review is a tradition in scholarly publication. Prior to publication, an article is evaluated by or experts, usually anonymously, and se evaluations are used to improve paper. The reviewers may recommend that additional data be collected and analyzed or thatt claims not well supported by data be removed. In standard process, shown to right, authors submit ir paper to a journal editor, who evaluates wher topic is a good match for journal. If so, paper is sent to two or more experts, who read it and provide ir frank evaluations, including wher conclusions are supported by evidence and wher study is novel, important, and interesting. The editor forwards comments to authors, along with a decision to accept paper, to request revision, or to reject it. The role of reviewer is to evaluate experimental design and data presented, as well as interpretation of results. Sometimes, reviewer will find that experimental design was not rigorous enough to support interpretations made by authors, in which case reviewer might recommend that additional experiments be performed or that analysis of results be revised. Most of articles of masss media (newspapers, magazines, and blogs) are not subject to peer review. Although y can be effective at introducing scientific topics to a broader audience, y are not always sufficiently cautious in ir analysis of results of study and sometimes overstate conclusions. For example, mass media often states that high fructose corn syrup causes obesity, although ree is little convincing data to support this claim. Similarly, a research report might show that under laboratory conditions, a new drug slows rate of growth of cultured cancer cells, but media may describe it as a new cure for cancer. If you want to know more about a news report on a scientific breakthrough, find original, peer-reviewed article and read what researchers actually discovered.
4 Anatomy of a scientific paper TITLE AUTHOR INFORMATION ABSTRACT: A summary of study and findings, written by author. INTRODUCTION: A statement of what is currently known about study subject that articulates questions being investigated. It cites or scholarly works, lays foundations for study, and sometimes states a hyposis to be tested. RESULTS: A description of research conducted and results obtained. Results are presented as tables, large datasets, and figures, which can include graphs, videos, diagrams, and photographs. Figure legend Some papers include additional supporting data as a supplement. DISCUSSION: An analysis and interpretation of data presented that integrates new information with prior findings, states implications of work, and sometimes generates new hyposes tobe tested. METHODS: A description of how studies were conducted, with sufficient detail so that ors can repeat m exactly. REFERENCES: The list of articles cited in paper that provide information on research topic and methods used.
5 How to read a scientific paper Although scientific papers seem short, of Results. Once you ve read y are quite dense, and it takes a bit of authors conclusions and interpretations, time and effort to read one! Here are a go back to Resultss section to examine few tips to help you get used to format data on which y based ir and make sense of paper. conclusions. Read Title The title should indicate topic of research, including name of subject organism. Read Abstract The abstract should summarize question being addressed, approach taken, and major findings and ir significance. Read Introduction The Introduction section of paper will provide necessary background information to help you understand goals of study and why study is important and interesting. It also will cite references to previous publications and or relevant work. The references within text are often cited by author and year, but sometimess by a number. The complete citation for each reference is found at end of paper. If you are reading paper online, ree are often hyperlinks to cited references. Read Discussion Most people find that paper is easier to understand if y read it out of order and read Discussion section of paper before Results section. The Discussion summarizes findings of research and explores implications Read Results and Methods The Resultss section describes experiments carried out and data obtained. Be sure to examine figures and tables as you read through text. Do data support authors conclusions? The Methods section provides more information about experiments and statistical methods, ncluding citations to or papers that describe standard methods. Some of methods and terminology in se sections may be unfamiliar, but you can often find more information in or online sources or a textbook. Look at References The cited eferences can lead you to additional information that may help you understand paper. Often se eferences can be found throughh a hyperlink in online article. Look at Citing Articles An online article that has been published a year or more ago usually lists links to articles that have cited it. This information is useful because from se papers you can find out how or authors interpret results and conclusionss of paper you are reading and how or studiess have extended se findings.
6 Ethics in research and publishing Scientific research and publishing are governed by ethical principles and a code of conduct. Researchers and authors must carry out ir work with honesty, integrity, fairness, and respect. Serious misconduct, such as data fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism, is rare, but can make headlines. Journal editors and reviewers are held to a code of conduct that requires y suspend ir personal biasess and act as objectively as possible. For example, a reviewer has to treat unpublished work as confidential and cannot pass along information to ors. The reviewer also has to fairly evaluate work in paper, even if it threatens to scoop or contradict reviewer s own work. Scientific misconduct undermines public s trust, disrupts progress of research, and if undetected, can lead to wasted efforts as ors try to build on unsubstantiated, false, or fabricated claims. Many organizations have developedd materials that explicitly definee ethical guidelines and that can be used for training young scientists; a few of se are listed below. Resources The American Society of Plant Biologists has developed a suite of policies for ethics in publishing: ( thics.cfm). The US Office of Research Integrity (ORI; One of many training tools ORI has developed is an interactivee video drama called The Lab, in which viewer selects a character and makes choices as an issue of research misconduct unfolds ( The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE; provides guidelines, training, and codes of conduct for editors and publishers of peer- Xi reviewed journals. The Scientificc Research Society Sigma has a wealth of resources about ethics in research and publishing ( dex.shtml). A set of six essays on ethics published in its journal American Scientist is available as a free PDF ( ortherecord.pdf). The U.S. National Academies of Sciences has published a book called On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research, which is free to download and includes nteresting case studiess for discussion ( catalog.php?record_idd =12192).
7 Understanding numerical data Scientistss use many complementary and distribution of values are very methods in ir investigationss and often different in each sample. (These data are include numerical data. For example, a represented as a histogram, in which scientist who wants to develop drought- x-axis showss value of tolerant soybeans might count number measurement, and y-axis shows how of seeds produced by standard and many times that measurement was drought-tolerant variety, or might quantify counted). amount of oil or protein contained in those seeds. The standard deviation of mean The standard deviation of mean (often Numerical data are very powerful but can simply called standard deviation) is a be easily misunderstood or measurement of how much misrepresented. The methods used to set of data varies analyze numerical data must be around mean. The appropriate for method used to collect standard deviations of data, distribution of data data sets below are 3.2, values, and parameters measured. 13, and 23, from left to When measurements are collected from right. The more spread out independent samples, values can be data, larger used to determine averagee value and standard deviation. On also how much variation ree is in right, we ve represented sample population. mean of each sample as a bar of height 10, with The arithmetic mean an error bar that extends The arithmetic mean is value we beyond mean by one usually have in mind when we talk about standard deviation. an average. It is calculated by adding up value of each measurement and The simplest way to dividing sum by number of calculate standard deviation is to use measurements. a spreadsheet program like Excel (see Appendix for more information). Sometimes mean value can also Clearly, a single value such as mean coincidently be most common value does not convey enough information to be ( mode) or fall right in middle of informative on its own. A measure of range of values ( median), but not variation of data, such as standard always. For example, mean of each of deviation, is also necessary and should be three datasets shown below is 10 included in a research article. (indicatedd by a red arrow), but range
8 What does statistical significance mean? which is probability that null Significant, but statistically significant? When comparing samples or populations, differences in measured values can be small but neverless meaningful. To determine if observed differences are meaningful, scientists use statistical tests. If hyposis is true. By convention, biologists typically reject null hyposis if p<0.05. That is, unless p<0.05, re is no differencee between samples, and alternative hyposis (that samples are different) is rejected. a measured difference is supported by statistical test, it can be said that difference between sampless is statistically significant. Note that this does not mean that difference is real, just that re is a strong probability that samples are different. When we apply t-test on our height samples, calculated p-value is 0.5. Therefore, we do not reject null hyposis, and we conclude that re is no statistically significant difference between heights of people at west-side restaurant (WR) and east-sidee Taller, or not? restaurant (ER). As an example, let s see if people who live on east side of town are taller than those on west side of town. It would be extremely difficult to measure height of every person in town, so instead we will measure a subset of people and n apply a statistical test to help us interpret data. We can also measure height of people in a school cafeteria in west side of town (WS). In this sample, mean and standard deviation of heights measured at school are cm (18). We can compare se values to those measured at west-sidee restaurant, which had a mean We measure height of 20 people at fast- of food restaurants on east or west side town and calculate mean and standardd deviation of each sample ( standard deviation is often indicated in parensess of cm (11). Now when we apply t- test to se samples, result is p<0.05. Therefore, we reject null hyposis and say that difference in height between people at WR and at WS is following mean). On west side of town, mean of measured heights is cm (11) and on east, cm (11). They don t look different, but are y? To find out, we can use a statistical test that is commonly used to compare two sets of related but unlinked data, called a Student s t-test (which can be done in Excel; seee Appendix). statistically significant. In graph to right, mean values and standard deviations for three samples are shown. To indicate that measured values in WS sample differ significantly, we highlight m with a star. Statistically significant, but significant? * By convention, a t-test calculates probability that null hyposis is true. The null hyposis states that two samples are same. The alternative hyposis is that two samples are different. The outputt of a t-test is a p-value, Just becausee a result is statistically meaningful doesn t make it important. Is it newsworthy to find that school kids are shorter than adults?
9 Case study: Buy my oran ges You like fresh orange juice, and you also If I haven t convinced you to buy like to get some vitamin C in morning. my oranges, how can I convince I have developed a new variety of you? What or questions do oranges, BETTER ( B), that I m marketing you have? How would you get based on ir higher-than-usual vitamin C content. your questions answered? You ve always bought AVERAGE (A) oranges, but when you go to farmers market, you notice me selling new variety. To show you how amazing my oranges are, I squeeze juice from an A and a B orange and let you taste m both. They re both delicious, and you don t notice any difference in ir flavor. They also produce exactly same volume of juice per orange. Now I use my portable spectrophotometer and an indicator dye, which reacts with vitamin C to give a color that indicates amount of vitamin C in juice. I show you results. The data show that A has 18.3 mg of vitamin C per 100 ml juice, and B has 19.8 mg of vitamin C per 100 ml juice. Given that juice from B tastes just as good, and oranges produce same amount of juice, but B produces more vitamin C, will you start buying B instead of A? Why or why not?
10 Are y really different? You probably are concerned that differencee between amounts of vitamin C in two juices is fairly small (B has about 8% more than A) and wonder if that difference is real or random. Maybe I just got lucky and picked a B orange with a slightly higherthan-average level of vitamin C. You probably want to know if difference I observed is repeatable and wher a small difference of less than 10% has any real meaning. It is possible to answer both se questionss by measuring vitamin C content from several oranges of each variety and analyzing mean and standard deviation of both datasets. Let s look at two scenarios. In one, two types of oranges are not really different and I just got lucky. We ll call that null hyposis, meaning that re is no difference. In alternative hyposis, two types of oranges are different. If we measure vitamin C content of lots of different oranges, we can begin to figure out which of se scenarios is supported. A histogram plot showing measured vitamin C values from type A (blue) and type B (orange) for two different scenarios is shown below. Just looking at data, we can get a sense that values for B tend to be higher than values for A in bottom plot, but we can actually assign a certainty to this interpretation by analyzing numbers. In first dataset, mean (with standard deviation shown in parenses) of A and B respectively are (0.67) and (0.67). In second dataset, values are (0.39) and (0.35). The * Student s t-test confirms that second dataset really is different: p< <0.05, whereas for first set, p= =
11 Therefore, by repeating measurement, we can work out wher two samples are different or same. Because scientists regularly measure small but meaningful differences, replication, numerical analyses, and statistical testing are essential tools for scientists. Or considerations Which of se statements are supported by this study? B oranges are healthier. If I eat B oranges I will get fewer colds. B oranges are a better value. B oranges always have more vitamin C. The answer is that none of se statements are supported by data presented in this study. Based on distribution of values shown in second, alternative hyposis, dataset our study showed that re is slightly more vitamin C on average in B oranges, but any claims beyond that are unjustified extrapolations. To investigate se issues, we would have to design and perform additional experiments. We could also examine scientific literature to investigate relationship between vitamin C consumption and incidence of colds. Furrmore, characteristics of a fruit are somewhat variable and depend on conditions in which it was grown. Perhaps next year vitamin C level will not be different between A and B. It would be nice to see a difference that extends over more than one harvest season and more than one growing region. Science provides us with a set of very powerful tools with which to understand world, but our knowledge accrues in small steps. Any single study provides an incremental advancement, but also lays groundwork for furr studies. Caveat emptor If you wanted to buy a car, you wouldn t take advice of salesperson on car lot, would you? You would first do a side-by-side analysis of cars you like to compare fuel efficiency, safety ratings, and reputation of manufacturer. An educated consumer makes good choices by looking at evidence. We are all consumers of science, wher it informs our decisions about voting, health care, eating, purchases, energy use, or merely how we understand world. Although scientific literature can be a bit daunting, it is an important resource. Learning to read scientific papers empowers you to cut through hyperbole and hype, to see for yourself evidence that lies behind claims, and to draw your own informed conclusions from studies.
12 Appendix Numerical analysis Here are numbers graphed on page titled Understanding numerical data. Graph 1 Graph 2 Graph Here are numbers used on page titled What does statistical significance mean? West East Rest. West Rest. School Mean StDev The mean and standard deviation were calculated using functions in Excel (2010). To calculate mean of a group of numbers, in an empty cell below m, type =average( ). The space between parenses is filled with first and last cell in column for example, (A6:A29). After you type left parensis, you can use your mouse to draw a box around column of numbers and n type right parensis. To calculate standard deviation, type into an empty cell =stdev(a6:a29). Mean StDev t test (ER vs. WR) (WS vs. WR) The mean and standard deviation were calculated as described previously. The t- test was also calculated using a function in Excel. Click on function box (fx) icon at top of page. In pop-up window, select category statistics and n T.Test. In pop-up box, select one set of numbers for Array 1, second for Array 2. For this kind of data, (independent, Gaussian distributed), select 2 for tails and 2 for type.
13 Additional Resources and Credits Additional Resources American Statistical Association: Education. ( Benchpress Project. (2012). Resources to teach journalists about scientific papers and statistics ( Hans Rosling. (2010). The Joy of Stats (Video) ( Sense About Science Making sense of statistics ( Peer review: The nuts and bolts ( I don t know what to believe: Making sense of science stories ( University of California Museum of Paleontology Understanding Evolution The journal club toolkit Understanding science: How science really works The social side of science: A human and community endeavor ( Publish or perish? ( Scrutinizing science: Peer review ( A blueprint for scientific investigations ( Visionlearning Scientific communication: Understanding scientific journals and articles ( Scientific communication: Peer review ( Scientific communication: Utilizing scientific literature ( Scientific research: The case of ivory-billed woodpecker ( Produced by Mary Williams for American Society of Plant Biologists ( About American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) WHAT IS ASPB? ASPB is a professional society devoted to advancement of plant sciences. It publishes two world-class journals and organizes conferences and or activities that are key to advancement of science. Membership in American Society of Plant Biologists is open to anyone from any nation who is concerned with physiology, molecular biology, environmental biology, cell biology, and biophysics of plants and or related matters. WHAT IS A PLANT SCIENTIST? A plant scientist specializes in scientific study of plants. Within plant biology re are many areas of interest, including cellular and molecular biology, genetics, development, evolution, physiology, and biochemistry. Plant scientists are working worldwide in nearly all sectors including academia, corporations, pharmacology, research, nonprofits, and government.
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From the Desk of the Executive Director
Board Approves 2013–2014 Annual Plan
By Andrew Prazuch
The King County Bar Association continues to thrive under the leadership and stewardship of its Board of Trustees, committee and section chairs, and professional staff. The past year has seen many accomplishments that have advanced the bar's mission. These include public policy leadership on abolition of the death penalty and building a new juvenile justice courthouse, thousands of hours of pro bono services offered to the indigent in our community, and the introduction of new revenue sources from publications, special events and online education offerings. A review of the five-year strategic plan adopted in 2011 shows that KCBA is making progress in most areas identified for attention (see May's column).
The bar's most fundamental challenge remains demonstrating relevance to an ever-evolving profession while still providing value to seasoned practitioners. While the Association's membership roster has remained consistently at the 5,400 level for the past five years, more than 8,000 potential members practice law in King County, but do not choose to join this voluntary association. The more KCBA can understand motivations for attorneys choosing and not choosing membership, the more the bar can craft its programs and services to meet the needs of the local bar and bench.
In addition to membership, KCBA needs to build upon its ongoing and well-regarded member services, assistance for the indigent, support for the justice system, and efforts to better diversify the bench and bar. We will complement these efforts as the new membership year begins. For example, new improvements to KCBA's judicial screening and evaluation programs need to be implemented and publicized.
New member services, including communications efforts, must be explored, such as a fresh look at lawyer referral systems and the robustness of the online library archive of past bar educational programs. Expanded pro bono programs will allow KCBA to meet a larger amount of the need for civil legal aid services. Finally, planning for new bar office space as the current lease expires presents the bar with a once-in-a-decade opportunity to meet member and staff needs in doing the bar's business.
The challenges that face KCBA as it plans for continued success are not insignificant. Yet, by leaders and staff working together to achieve their goals, the future is filled with more than enough opportunity for the bar to remain relevant in the 21st Century.
To advance the mission of the King County Bar Association, the Board of Trustees adopted on June 19 an annual plan for our new membership year (July 1 through June 30). The following is a review of the key provisions of that plan.
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After the financial crisis a few years back, and especially in light of the recent banking news coming out of Cyprus, many investors are scared to invest in big banks because they don't have a good way to gauge the risk that they're getting involved with.
In this video, Motley Fool financial analysts Matt Koppenheffer and David Hanson discuss one great metric for assessing the risk with a particular bank: its leverage ratio. They also discuss how some of the biggest banks in the nation, such as Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC), stack up against other banks, both domestic and international.
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The rumor mill churns once again with Instagram at the focus of this speculation. While no one is talking for obvious reasons, we're confident that Instagram is being readied for its Windows Phone debut. We just haven't known when, until quite possibly today.
WPDang, a Chinese technology blog, points out that "news sources" indicate that the Windows Phone 8 app may be launching on a Wednesday sometime in June, although the exact date is tentatively June 26. At the same time, Nokia may be the exclusive Instagram launch partner for WP8.
The Instagram-Windows Phone 8 rumors started with an (maybe) accidental peek at Instagram's app on Nokia's promotional ad in September of last year, although later reports suggested that the app just may have been a Vimeo app. However independent confirmations have popped up since suggesting that Instagram for Windows Phone is on the way.
In fact, Nokia has been leaking (or hinting) at an Instagram app left and right. The company started off on Twitter tweeting that the app was in development, and later was caught red-handed on Facebook when a Nokia representative confirmed the app's existence after being approached by a curious bystander.
More recently, Nokia may have slipped up in Portugal. A poster ad in Portugal clearly displays the Instagram logo inside of the Windows Phone 8 interface, as first reported by WPCentral.
We get it, Nokia. You're like Instagram's WP8 launch partner, and you want the world to know how excited you. How about just leaking a release date?


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I meant to take photos to show you how much the ladies got done in class, but I forgot. The first two photos in this post are snippets from other photos. Not the best photos, but all I have.
Unfortunately things don't always go smoothly as Sue is demonstrating. Perhaps this has happened to you.