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After 38 Years, Standards Still Play an Essential Role
By James Amano, director, SEMI International Standards
The first SEMI Standards Committee was formed in 1973 to address silicon wafer dimensional specifications. At the time, there was a proliferation of over 2,000 different wafer specifications, leading to major inefficiencies at a time when the industry was just getting underway. In order to address this problem, a group of wafer suppliers banded together under SEMI and rapidly developed consensus specifications for 2-inch and 3-inch wafers, and by the mid-1970s over 80% of wafers being shipped conformed to these new standards.
Since that time, the SEMI Standards Program has expanded, both geographically and technically. The program now has 23 technical committees in Europe, Japan, Korea, North America, and Taiwan, tackling technological challenges in the microelectronics, display, and photovoltaic industries. This release of Standards Watch takes a look at our newest committees: 3DS-IC (Three-dimensional Stacked IC), High-Brightness LED, and PV Materials.
A common characteristic of these new committees is the strong interest from key industry players. Over the years, several studies have reinforced the fact that standardization has played an essential role in enabling industry growth and cost reductions. For example, a 2007 NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology study, part of the United States Department of Commerce) estimated $9.6 billion in benefits between 1996 and 2011 due to standard test methods and software standards. Standards have been crucial in empowering the microelectronics industry to become one of the most dynamic in the world, and have the potential to play the same role in HB-LED, 3DS-IC, and photovoltaics.
Of course, creating the committees is just the first step. To create the high-impact standards necessary for cost-effective, high-volume manufacturing, technological expertise from every step of the industry supply chain is required. If your company is active in the 3DS-IC, High-Brightness LED, or photovoltaic materials, make sure to register for the new committees. Registration is free and ensures that you will be informed of meeting schedules, ballots, meeting minutes, and other pertinent committee information. www.semi.org/standardsmembership
January 2011

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A tiny aquatic microbe that has been swimming around the planet for more than a billion years has stunned scientists who have discovered that it has a sophisticated communications network that is more elaborate than that found in higher life forms, including humans. What makes the finding particularly surprising is the microbe has only one cell, so it's sort of like living in a community with only one telephone. Who are you going to talk to?
The microbe, known as Monosiga brevicollis, has fascinated scientists for more than a century because it could be the bridge between fungus and multi-celled animals, and thus, the pathway the first organisms followed into the animal kingdom. We share some of the same genes, tyrosine kinases, except the microbe has a lot more of them, 128 to just 90 found in humans.
That particular gene allows the cells in a human body to talk to each other, and respond to external stimuli, talents that would seem to be of little use to a single-celled organism.
Earlier this year scientists from several research institutions completed mapping the microbe's genome, but when some of them took a closer look at the data, they found far more kinases than they had expected.
"We were absolutely stunned," said computational biologist Gerard Manning of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif. Manning is the lead author of a report on the findings in a recent online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
This particular microbe has been suspected of being at least part of the bridge to the animal world, and the first critter across the path is believed to have been the sponge, Manning said in a telephone interview. If that's true, then another gap in the evolutionary trail has been closed, but that's not the only reason scientists are excited over the findings.
It turns out that this very simple microbe is a lot like us, and the more we understand it, the more we are likely to understand ourselves, Manning said. It's important, he added, because the same gene that gives the microbe the ability to communicate is implicated in most forms of human cancer.
"One reason this kind of research is important is we don't really understand our bodies," he said. "We don't fully understand how we work, and how things break down in disease. My background is working on these kinases in cancer. While this isn't going to directly cure cancer, it's going to help us learn more about the fundamentals, and sooner or later, that will trickle down into understanding humans, and understanding sick humans.
"If we understand kinases, we will understand more about cancer."
Of course, that's not the only reason. It's also because it's "amazing," he added.
The microscopic microbe is found in nearly every body of water, from the Arctic to the swamps of Florida. While no fossils have been found, scientists are confident it was here more than a billion years ago because of genes it shares with fungi that came before it, and animals that came later, especially the sponge, where many believe it all began.
And as might be expected, they live a pretty simple life, which probably hasn't changed much since the very beginning, although nobody knows all that much about them. Scientists don't even know if the microbes have sex, or reproduce by dividing.
So, it's no surprise that no one knows why the microbes, that have survived all these years by eating bacteria, have such an extensive communications system, but Manning has a hunch.
"These organisms spin around, and that causes bacteria to swim into them," he said. "They have a little collar that traps the bacteria, then they eat them. So, you could guess they need to talk to the bacteria, or find out when they've landed on them, and that's communication."
And it's quite possible, he added, that they do talk to each other, at least when they are nearby.
At this point, the microbe appears to be the "first one-celled organism that looks so much like humans," at least genetically speaking, Manning said. But this research is only one element in a rapidly growing scientific field that affects virtually everything we know about life on Earth.
For decades, scientists were left with yeast and fruit flies and that worm, C. elegans, to piece together the genetic framework for life. But the rage now is to complete the genetic story, or the genome, of every creature, and that is changing everything.
It is a very good time to be studying genetics.
"It's amazing," Manning said. "I never stop thinking how lucky I am.
"I'd like to think that, in a thousand years, this is the stuff that people will still know," he added. "They will have forgotten about George Bush and Iraq and the Dow, but this is the stuff we are made of."
Lee Dye is a former science writer for the Los Angeles Times. He now lives in Juneau, Alaska.


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We are planning to create an ecological pond at Eumelia
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Women who have experienced menopausal hot flashes—and the men around them—know how uncomfortable the experience can be. Hot flashes are typically thought to be the result of dropping estrogen levels associated with menopause. However hot flashes may originate for a more adaptive purpose; post-partum women also experience a drop in estrogen levels and hot flashes during the breast feeding period.
As part of her Student Assistantship in Family Research, UMass Amherst senior Amanda Otto '12 is examining the link between post-partum hot flashes and those experienced by menopausal women. The Center for Research on Families funded Amanda with a research grant to work under the guidance and mentorship of Lynnette Leidy Sievert, professor of anthropology, to study recent mothers in the Pioneer Valley.
Literature on the subject is relatively new, and sparse. The first published study documenting hot flashes in post partum women appeared in 1992, by William Marshall. In 1994, Fred Naftolin, M.D first suggested that menopausal hot flashes are a remnant of a mother's response to falling estrogen levels after giving birth. In 2011, he elaborated that women experience hot flashes in the post-partum phase to warm nursing infants.
The study that Amanda and Dr. Sievert are conducting looks at hot flashes experienced by post-partum women in comparison to women who are not recent mothers. They are testing the hypothesis that recent mothers will experience hot flashes at higher rates than women whose estrogen levels are unaffected by pregnancy, delivery, and breastfeeding. The study examines 24 women, 12 recent mothers and 12 age-matched control participants in the Pioneer Valley. A sternal skin conductance monitor measures sweat production to detect hot flashes; skin conductance levels rise in participants experiencing hot flashes .
Dr. Sievert hopes that the link between menopausal and post-partum hot flashes will provide comfort to menopausal women. "If we can explain why we have hot flashes at menopause by referring back the mother infant dyad, I think that makes hot flashes a little more tolerable." As Amanda puts it, for many women, learning about the connection "gives a sense of purpose to the hot flashes."
Having wanted to do this study for a while, Dr. Sievert approached Amanda, one of the best students in her Introduction to Biological Anthropology class, and pushed her to "try her hand at research". Dr. Sievert, a Family Research Scholar ('04-'05, '08-'09) encouraged Amanda to apply for the Family Research Assistantship offered by CRF. The Family Research Assistantship is given to undergraduate students who exhibit the potential to make outstanding contributions to the field of family research and seek further mentoring in this area. Paired with a faculty mentor, students assist in their mentor's research on issues related to the family.
For Amanda, who is currently applying to graduate school to study both anthropology and public health, this has been a great opportunity to get out of the library and learn how to conduct research in the field. Prior to this experience, "I never really had much experience past writing a research paper…I went from zero understanding on how research works beyond the theoretical. Dr. Sievert has shown me every step of how to do research." It has also given her a strong mentor with years of experience to help her through the research process. "Usually you're just thrown out there and people expect you to know how to do it without ever being mentored," says Amanda.
However, the mentoring relationship has not been without benefits for Dr. Sievert. "It's not a one-way street," says Dr. Sievert. "There have been a number of times where Amanda will see the way I've been doing something, and has said 'what about doing it this way', which has saved time and effort ."
Dr. Sievert, who has sat on the board of the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program, believes that students with research experience are more competitive in the application for NSF funding proposals. "As faculty we should be helping to make our undergrads competitive for those kinds of opportunities. CRF's Student Research Grants and Awards Program is one way of preparing our undergrads to be competitive."
As part of the assistantship, Amanda has also been able to interact with CRF's graduate student fellows as part of an ongoing working group of CRF student awardees -- an experience she enjoyed. "I feel like undergraduates stick in their own field of study with undergrads, and they don't really go out and look at the interconnectedness of social research. It's been interesting because I get exposure to grad students, what they're doing, and it's interdisciplinary."
And for her graduate school application, learning these skills has narrowed her focus and made her a more self-assured and stronger candidate. "It gives me confidence because -- I'm like WOW -- I'm here with graduate students! And I talk about my research as an equal!" exclaims Amanda.
Dr. Sievert praises CRF for "extending its role beyond faculty and increasing the awareness of research on families to graduate and undergraduate students."
For information on CRF's opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, please visit: http://www.umass.edu/family/students.


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Fans of the Minnesota Orchestra have every reason to breathe easier these days. Osmo Vänskä is back as music director, eager to rediscover the orchestra's virtuosity.
"Collaboration" is the new mantra among board leaders. The community has rarely been this focused on the 111-year-old orchestra and all stakeholders — still feeling the trauma of a 16-month lockout of musicians — appear to have the will to rebuild.
Yet financial realities that extend from ticket sales to fundraising to endowment health remain issues for an organization that also needs a new CEO.
"This is like a thousand-piece puzzle we all must put together," Vänskä said recently, as he talked about getting to work.
The orchestra has reported three straight years of deficits (including last year's abnormal results during the lockout). Balanced budgets in previous years were the result of extraordinary draws from a $58 million endowment that is slowly being rebuilt (total investments including trusts are $147 million).
Lee Henderson, a Minneapolis attorney who became an opinion leader for orchestra fans during the labor dispute, said that the quality of the orchestra clearly will get better and better, "but that doesn't solve the economics that were there at the beginning and haven't gone away."
"The greatest challenge is to get all this enthusiasm focused in a positive direction," said Paul DeCosse, co-founder of the citizen group Orchestrate Excellence. "If we don't create common ground, the danger I see is that we could charge off in different directions."
Contributed funds, comprising about 30 percent of the annual budget, saw a small spike following the rehiring of Vänskä. However, several key corporate leaders left the board after CEO Michael Henson was eased into a resignation. Whether those leaders have taken their money with them — and whether it can be replaced — will not be known until the fiscal year ends in August.
Mark Stryker was rather unsparing as he hit the TweetDeck recently.
"Osmo Vänskä returning to the Minnesota Orchestra is by no means a panacea," the Detroit Free Press music writer posted on Twitter. "The challenge for the orchestra is not how to sound great at Carnegie Hall but how to create a sustainable orchestra that best serves the needs of the Twin Cities."
Stryker is somewhat better positioned than other 140-character warriors to offer opinions on the orchestra. He has watched the Detroit Symphony rebound over the past three years, following a six-month strike.
That ensemble took the approach that business as usual would not improve the conditions that led to the work stoppage. Detroit got out into neighborhoods, played reduced-price concerts, developed audiences and replaced an air of distrust with a sense of respect and commitment.
Classical vs. pops
The orchestra is nearly five months behind in announcing its next season. Meetings between Vänskä, musicians and staff have resulted in a draft for the 2014-15 season that emphasizes a stronger diet of classical concerts.
"We're going to test to a high degree the appetite of the community to buy tickets for classical concerts," said board member Ron Lund, who has sat in on planning sessions. "A lot of people have felt classical music won't sell, and I think that was probably behind the decision to diminish classical in the past and enhance pops concerts. We're now beyond that."
Box-office results from the 23 classical concerts the orchestra has played since returning Feb. 7 offer both hope and caution.
On one hand, the orchestra has achieved its attendance goal for the truncated season, with 12 more dates through the end of July.
However, average attendance of 1,600 per concert is essentially the same as it was in 2011-12, the last full season in Orchestra Hall. In the new hall's configuration, that figure represents 77 percent of capacity.
"We're very pleased with the community response," said Cindy Grzanowski, director of marketing for single-ticket sales. "In terms of capacity being flat, that's a tremendous achievement, because we're up against a lot of unknown odds."
That is true, but rarely has attention been more fixed on the orchestra than it is now.
Looking ahead, the challenge is to manage the erosion of season-ticket buyers, who once provided the backbone of the orchestra's earned revenue. In the past five years, the move to single-ticket decisionmakers has accelerated. Marketers can't start selling subscriptions for 2014-15 until the season is announced, probably at the end of this month or early June.
Back in the community
The orchestra was in Hibbing this weekend as part of the Common Chords program.
Small ensembles played at a Hibbing senior-citizen residence, hospitals, schools and a Salvation Army center. The full orchestra performed at Hibbing High School on Friday night.
Cellist Marcia Peck, who was there, said the musicians' mood is very positive.
"We have the main bricks in place — a settlement, a contract and Osmo back as music director," Peck said. "Now that those issues are resolved we can look forward to putting Humpty Dumpty back together again."
Four months after the contract was settled, the musicians have kept their independent Minnesota Orchestra Musicians website operating.
They actually produced the recent concerts with Vänskä that were part of Northrop Auditorium's reopening, and they continue to make community and school appearances.
Some board members privately have grumbled that the separate organization represents mistrust and a competing interest. Why is there still a need for a separate musicians' organization with its own programs and public-relations effort, they ask.
Board chair Gordon Sprenger did not indicate those concerns in a statement that said the Northrop concerts had been committed to before the labor dispute ended.
"The board's intent is that musicians will play an integral role working with board and staff to plan Minnesota Orchestra programs and projects, with all constituents working together," Sprenger said.
Miles to go
Seven months ago, in the wake of Vänskä's resignation during the lockout of musicians, several bloggers more or less declared the orchestra dead. If it broke apart, this argument went, then something new might be able to grow up in its place.
Lund recalled those assessments last week as he expressed surprise at the organization's resiliency.
"There's a lot of healing to be done, but in terms of the orchestra walking out and performing, the recovery is more rapid than I thought it would be," he said.
Board leadership has turned over, and Henson will leave in August. Sprenger has begun soliciting names and retaining a search firm to find Henson's successor. He did not suggest a timetable.
Henderson, looking in from the outside, wonders if there are governance problems the board needs to examine.
"There is no way you come through something like this and not find the need to rebuild in a lot of places," he said.
Regardless of the answers, everyone seems to agree that the effort will not succeed without a new ethic of collaboration among all the stakeholders.
"The institution won't make it without musicians, board, executives, music director and donors all committed to the same path of reinvention," Stryker tweeted. "They've got a lot of work to do."
Staff writer Kristin Tillotson contributed to this article of
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Fort Hood trial a rare military death penalty case
DALLAS (AP) — The trial of an army officer charged with killing 13 people at Texas army post starts Tuesday, a rare and complicated U.S. military death penalty case that has faced numerous delays since the massacre nearly four years ago.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan doesn't deny that he carried out the November 2009 rampage at Fort Hood, one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. There are dozens of witnesses who saw it happen. Military law prohibits him from entering a guilty plea because authorities are seeking the death penalty.
Although the Hasan case is unusually complex, experts also say the military justice system is unaccustomed to dealing with death penalty cases and has struggled to avoid overturned sentences.
No active-duty U.S. soldier has been executed since 1961.
If Hasan is convicted and sentenced to death there are likely years, if not decades, of appeals ahead. He may never make it to the death chamber at all.
The attack occurred in a building where hundreds of unarmed soldiers, some about to deploy to Afghanistan, were waiting for vaccines and routine checkups.
Hasan walked inside with two handguns, climbed onto a desk and shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — an Arabic phrase meaning "God is great!" Then he fired, pausing only to reload.
A reversed verdict or sentence on appeal in the Hasan case would be a fiasco for prosecutors and the Army. That's one reason why prosecutors and the military judge have been deliberate leading up to trial, said Geoffrey Corn, a professor at the South Texas College of Law and former military lawyer.
"The public looks and says, 'This is an obviously guilty defendant. What's so hard about this?'" Corn said. "What seems so simple is in fact relatively complicated."
Hasan is charged with 13 specifications of premeditated murder and 32 specifications of attempted premeditated murder. More than 30 people were wounded in the shooting.
Thirteen officers from around the country who hold Hasan's rank or higher will serve on the jury for a trial that will likely last one month and probably longer. They must be unanimous to convict Hasan of murder and sentence him to death. Three-quarters of the panel must vote for an attempted murder conviction.
Death penalty cases are rare in military courts.
A study in the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology identified just 41 cases between 1984 and 2005 where a defendant faced a court-martial on a capital charge. Eleven of the 16 death sentences handed down by U.S. military juries in the last 30 years have been overturned, according to the study and court records.
Meanwhile, more than 500 people have been executed since 1982 in the civilian system in Texas, the nation's most active death-penalty state.
While lawyers and judges in Texas may get multiple death penalty cases a year, many military judges and lawyers often are on their first, said Victor Hansen, another former prosecutor who now teaches at the New England School of Law.
The military courts that are required to review each death-penalty verdict are also more cautious and likely to pinpoint possible errors that might pass muster at a civilian court, Hansen and Corn said.
The trial's start has been delayed over and over, often due to requests from Hasan. Any of the hundreds of decisions large or small could be fair game on appeal. The entire record will be scrutinized by military appeals courts that have overturned most of the death sentences they've considered.
Hasan has twice dismissed his lawyers and now plans to represent himself at trial. He's suggested he wants to argue the killings were in "defense of others" — namely, members of the Taliban fighting Americans in Afghanistan. The trial judge, Col. Tara Osborn, has so far denied that strategy.
Hasan has grown a beard while in custody that he says expresses his Muslim faith, but violates military rules on decorum. After a military judge ordered him forcibly shaved, an appeals court stayed that order and took another judge off the case.
The last man executed in the military system was Pvt. John Bennett, hanged in 1961 for raping an 11-year-old girl. Five men are on the military death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, but none are close to being executed.
An inmate was taken off death row just last year. Kenneth Parker was condemned for killing two fellow Marines in North Carolina. But Parker was given life without parole last September by an appeals court. The court found his trial judge should have not allowed him to be tried for both murders at the same time, nor should the judge have allowed testimony that the appeals court said was irrelevant to the crimes.
Parker's accomplice in the killings, Wade Walker, was also sentenced to death, only for the sentence to be overturned.
If Hasan is convicted and sentenced to death, his case will automatically go before appeals courts for the Army and the armed forces. If those courts affirm the sentence, he could ask the Supreme Court for a review or file motions in federal civilian courts.
The president, as the military commander in chief, must sign off on a death sentence.
"If history is any guide, it's going to be a long, long, long time," Hansen said.
Associated Press writer Allen G. Breed contributed to this report.
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2014 FIVB World Championship Qualifier
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, July 19- Ghana women volleyball National team secured gold medal at African Women Pool D qualification for the 2014 Women's World Championship following their second victory over Cote d'Ivoire at Palais des Sports in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on Friday.
Ghana dominated the match to fly past Cote d'Ivoire team 3-1 (26-24, 22-25, 25-20, 25-21) in 97 minutes to improve their win- loss ratio to 2-0, while the loser start their competition campaign with 0-1 record.
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Camera traps in Indonesia
The cameras will also help provide invaluable information on the number of rhino and tigers living in various habitat types and determine whether there are adequate food resources for them to survive. The results could have significant implications for species and forest preservation here and around the world.
Javan rhino
Ujung Kulon is absolutely critical for the survival of the Javan rhino. Anti-poaching patrols, supported by WWF and other conservation partners, have helped the park's rhino population recover and these patrols continue to safeguard them today.
WWF is also using camera traps to gain a better understanding of the rhino's current population structure and behaviour patterns. To date, the cameras have helped record the birth of a baby rhino and the movements of two juveniles.
WWF will continue to assess habitat and rhino food availability in Ujung Kulon, as well as the feasibility of translocating rhinos to establish a new population elsewhere, once a suitable and secure site is identified.
Chasing rhinos in Indonesia's Ujung Kulon National Park
Sumatran tiger
Accelerating deforestation and rampant poaching across the Sumatran tiger's range mean that unless urgent action is taken, the Sumatran tiger will shortly follow the fate of its extinct relatives of Java and Bali.


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Brooklyn Brewery Brewmaster Garrett Oliver Talks Beer
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Beer and cheese have long been two of America's favorite things. On October 19, Brooklyn Brewery Brewmaster Garrett Oliver and Aaron Foster of Murray's Cheese will lead the Museum's Adventures in the Global Kitchen: Beer and Cheese, an exploration of how carefully crafted pairings can bring out the best in both, complete with tastings of multiple seasonal beers and cheese. Oliver, who recently edited The Oxford Companion to Beer, answered a few questions about the popular beverage.
California Student Investigates Effects of Plastic Debris on Ocean Insects
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Growing up near coastal California, 17-year-old Marci watched plastic litter enter the ocean at an alarming rate. After reading about how this debris affected large vertebrates, she wondered how animals lower on the food chain fared.
Marci decided the water strider species Halobates sericeus would be the ideal subject for her experiment. "Since these fully pelagic water striders live solely at the sea-air interface, their life is played out completely on the two-dimensional surface of the ocean," where most plastic debris collects, wrote Marci in her essay Effect of Neustonic Microplastic Debris on the Pelagic Insect Halobates sericeus. Her experiment earned her a 2011 Young Naturalist Award.
Meteorite Mementos
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A crater's scar on the landscape is the most recognizable remnant of a meteorite impact. But meteorites have left other, much smaller markers of their presence on the surface of the Earth: splash droplets called tektites.
During a meteorite impact, "the ground and the object are trying to occupy the same space instantaneously," says Denton Ebel, curator in the Museum's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. "It's an explosion at that point."
Chipping Away at the Mystery of Mercury
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After only six months in orbit about Mercury, a NASA spacecraft has collected measurements that have discredited most theories about how our solar system's innermost planet formed. Data gathered by instruments on MESSENGER reveal that Mercury's surface has Earth-like levels of potassium and an even higher sulfur abundance, evidence that is at odds with most theories for how the super-dense planet came to be.
Launched in August 2004, MESSENGER stands for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging. It entered orbit about Mercury—the first spacecraft to do so—in March of this year.
Some of these new findings, published in a set of seven Sciencepapers available online today, were first predicted in 2003 by Denton Ebel, curator in the Museum's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Conel Alexander, a researcher in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The two scientists recently published a separate paper highlighting their model in Planetary and Space Science.
SciCafe Returns Oct. 5 To Debunk the Scientific Myth of Race
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On the first Wednesday of every month, the Museum hosts inquisitive minds for cocktails and conversation about the latest science topics at SciCafe. The popular after-hours series returns on October 5 with an evening devoted to scientific evidence about the nature of race and "racial" differences led by Museum Curators Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle, who recently co-authored a book on the subject.


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March 2013
March 29, 2013: The auto show circus stopped in New York this week. Plenty of new sheetmetal, new tech and new ideas mixed with enough facelifts, refreshes and updates to keep journalists on their toes. Even Hyundai, which showed off its revised Equus luxury sedan, got into the act with a reveal that combined lounge and trendy eatery on the show floor, and made company President and CEO John Krafcik look as though he was trying out for Leno's slot on The Tonight Show. You can read about the more interesting models in our New York coverage. Under the Driver's Seat heading you'll also find a comparison of Toyota's Camry and Ford's latest Fusion. The best-selling Camry had a higher trim level than the Ford, but that didn't hold Dearborn's mid-size sedan back. It came out swinging. See if it landed a knockout or got its clock cleaned. On the lighter side, though the folks from Consumer Reports probably didn't intend it that way, is a report on motorcycle reliability. It's an eye-opener for reasons other than the obvious. And Al Vinikour tells tales of car salesmen and their tricks.
March 22, 2013: The weather in The Soo, as it's called, was great, and so were the technologies shown by Continental Automotive Systems. You can read about them here. Speaking of technology, it's a big week for new tech at The Virtual Driver. Xtrac shows off a hybridized automated manual gearbox for supercars that cuts emissions, increases efficiency, improves shift quality and costs less than a DCT. Not to be outdone, the folks from CVT maker Torotrak have taken a financial interest in Flybrid, makers of flywheel-powered hybrid units. McLaren Automotive, meanwhile, put out a video to celebrate the Stateside arrival of the MP4-12C Spider, and shot it on a cold and snowy pass in Colorado. Speaking of marketing, why is Chrysler doing better than Lincoln despite spending far less money? We have an opinion. Saab's creditors are auctioning off the last 78 vehicles in their possession, including a few rare treats. Detroit Electric rises from the ashes with two ex-Lotus types at the helm, and promises a new electric sports car that's built in Detroit with the help of a "global manufacturer." Meanwhile, Hyundai teases its next-generation Genesis Coupe with a concept to be shown at the South Korean Motor Show. And Al Vinikour goes off on a tirade about gas caps and the people who ignore them.
March 14, 2013: We're a little early this week as the staff is heading for beautiful Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan to drive vehicles with new technologies from the folks from Continental Automotive. Given that this Upper Peninsula paradise just got seven inches of new snow, it might be a great place for the Ford Explorer Sport we just tested. The Terrain Management System and all-wheel drive would be a big help, but its relative thirst and sporty pretensions might not. Another non-starter in the snow sweepstakes would be Harley-Davidson's new bike, the Breakout. The chopped fenders and fat rear tires are best left for sunny weather. Speaking of vacations, how about renting a supercar the next time you travel to Europe? Hertz Supercars has a lineup you won't want to miss. However, if low-volume exotic that doesn't need constant care is more your style, check out Infiniti's QX60 Hybrid. It's powered by a combination of a supercharged four-cylinder engine and electric motor. Speaking of force-fed small displacement motors, the rumor mill is full of talk that McLaren will dump Mercedes power for Honda in 2015. And our own Al Vinikour spouts off about manually shifted automatic and automatically shifted manual transmissions. He's not happy, though that's nothing new.
March 8, 2013: The Geneva Motor Show was this week, and saw the introduction of a number of new cars. Perhaps the most interesting, as much for its technology as its name, was the Ferrari LaFerrari. (You read that right.) This hypercar brings F1 technology to the street, and is a direct competitor for the McLaren P1. Speaking of the LaFerrari, Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo's statement about who the car is for is perhaps one of the most cynical utterances ever, and raises the question about the need for such machines. You can read our take, here. At the show, Rolls Royce pulled the wraps off its gargantuan Wraith Coupe. And Toyota and Buick (through Opel/Vauxhall) showed a pair of convertibles destined for these shores. Back in the real world, we test a Mazda MX-5 Miata in the snow, and like it. Ditto the Mercedes C300 Al Vinikour piloted, though with the bonus of 4Matic all-wheel drive. Al also takes to task the "geniuses" who measure out parking lot slots.
March 1, 2013: We spend time with Jon Bereisa, spiritual father of the Chevy Volt and all-around smart guy to talk about EVs, hybrids, Tesla and more. Bereisa pulls no punches, lays out the plusses and minuses of our current trip down the road to vehicle electrification, and gives a fascinating look into what the cars of 2040 might be like. Closer to this decade, Al Vinikour drives the 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee, and disses a girly-man who gets in his way. Chris Sawyer takes a first look at the 2014 Kia Forte. But does this handsome compact sedan promise more than it delivers? Finally, Al gets a truck delivered to his home, and finds technologies he forgot existed inside.


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No sleep in for me. I was up early and into Warrnambool for a bracing walk along the beach with a fun group of ladies from the Warrnambool &
Surrounds 12wbt crew. We met at 9am and walked for an hour before heading to 'Simons' on the beach front for brunch and lots of talking.
Although there was a hold up on the road while I had to wait for a wayward koala who decided to take his time and cross without a care in the world.
Mike however bragged later that he didn't get up until 9.30am, lazy bones!
I stopped on the way home to take some photos of "the girls" in the paddock, one of which obliged me with a pose. I don't know what the farmer must have thought if he saw me peering over his fence.
I decided in the afternoon that I have to get a grip on things for Christmas so out came the Christmas card list which much to Mike's chagrin he is going to start writing out some cards tonight. Somehow it's usually left to me, not sure where that was in the marriage contract!!
Mike pottered in the shed most of the day with his new milling machine. I have no idea what it does but he's excited about it, which is all that matters.
I adore the funny garden fence ornament I bought in Daylesford yesterday. The wise old crow is sitting proud on the inside fence.
A terrific new dish tonight was on the menu, which consisted of lamb, coriander, pine nuts, beans, pumpkin and feta. So simple and so incredibly tasty. It got the two thumbs up and looks like it will be a regular. Yum!
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Goulding wins it
Super-sub Jeff Goulding scored a superb goal to give Cheltenham a 1-0 victory after Barnet had missed a penalty.
The striker had been on the field less than a minute before finding the net with his first touch, a curling 25-yard effort beyond the reach of goalkeeper Graham Stack 10 minutes from time.
Chances were at a premium in the first half as the players struggled with the driving rain. Barnet's Mark Byrne forced a save from Scott Brown midway through the half with Shaun Harrad firing wide at the other end.
But the game burst into life after break with Graham Stack forced into two excellent saves to keep the Robins at bay.
He dived full-length to palm away a Chris Zebroski effort six minutes into the half and then managed to turn a deflected Harrad strike around the foot of the post on 70 minutes.
There had been drama at the other end five minutes earlier when Cheltenham's Darren Carter was penalised for handball only for Brown to keep out Byrne's spot kick.
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Average retail gasoline prices in Arkansas have fallen 2.7 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.08/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 1,826 gas outlets in Arkansas. This compares with the national average that has increased 0.7 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.26/g, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.
Including the change in gas prices in Arkansas during the past week, prices yesterday were 12.8 cents per gallon lower than the same day one year ago and are 3.2 cents per gallon higher than a month ago. The national average has increased 1.9 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 8.9 cents per gallon lower than this day one year ago. "While gasoline prices have seemingly remained virtually unchanged in many areas across the U.S. in the last week, that has meant that some areas are still seeing prices remain much lower than a year ago," said GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan. "Gasoline prices in the Rockies generally remain under their year ago levels, with the lowest price in the country in Laramie, Wyoming, where gasoline has plunged to $2.35/gallon. The national average now lags prices one year ago by 9-cents per gallon, which is a more optimistic start to the year than I would have expected," DeHaan said. About GasBuddy GasBuddy operates ArkansasGasPrices.com and over 250 similar websites that track gasoline prices at over 140,000 gasoline stations in the United States and Canada. In addition, GasBuddy offers a free smartphone app which has been downloaded over 25 million times to help motorists find the lowest gasoline prices in their area.


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An earlier version of the story linked to a draft version of the amendment that has since been changed.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) may attempt to handcuff U.S. EPA's ability to regulate stationary sources of greenhouse gases with an amendment to the agency's annual spending bill.
Murkowski, ranking member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, may introduce an amendment to the fiscal 2010 Interior and environment appropriations bill that would allow EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions only from mobile sources, and prohibit the agency from regulating heat-trapping emissions from stationary sources like power plants and industrial facilities.
"Senator Murkowski is concerned about the economic consequences of EPA command-and-control regulation of emissions," said spokesman Robert Dillon. The senator plans to file the amendment, Dillon said, adding that he did not know whether a decision has been made to press for a vote.
The Senate began debate yesterday on the $32.1 billion spending bill for the Interior Department, EPA and Forest Service. The chamber is expected to resume consideration of the measure Monday.
Murkowski's amendment comes as EPA works to finalize its "endangerment finding," which would trigger broad regulations of greenhouse gas emissions. The endangerment finding comes in response to the 2007 Massachusetts v. EPA Supreme Court decision that ordered EPA to reconsider whether greenhouse gases are pollutants subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act.
Murkowski wants to fully respect the court's decision on mobile sources, Dillon said, which is why the amendment would "request a one-year timeout on money that would be spent on regulation of nonmobile sources." The moratorium would give Congress a year to come up with a legislative solution, he said.
Environmentalists assailed the amendment, saying it would basically instruct EPA to ignore the law.
"This amendment suggests that if global warming pollution comes from a power plant, it is safe, but if it comes from a car, it is harmful," said David Moulton, director of climate policy and conservation funding at the Wilderness Society. "That is a preposterous distinction that cannot be supported in either law or fact."
Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch called the amendment "an outrageous assault on EPA's ability to interpret the Supreme Court decision."
Opponents said the amendment was particularly troubling given that it comes from a senator whose state is among the areas that could be hardest hit by climate change.
"From a senator who has talked about how her state is ground zero for climate change impacts, it is disappointing to see a move like this," said David Doniger, policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate center.
Doniger also said he feared that the amendment could wind up handcuffing EPA for more than one year. "These riders have a way of repeating themselves and becoming long-term," he said.
The tactic is not a new one. Republicans, led by then-Rep. Joseph Knollenberg (R-Mich.), successfully included language in several EPA spending bills in the late 1990s that blocked the agency from implementing any part of the Kyoto Protocol.
Lawmakers mull additional amendments
Also on the Interior bill, Murkowski is considering offering an amendment on construction of a controversial road through Alaska's Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
She included a provision allowing the road, in exchange for additional wilderness for the refuge, in the omnibus public lands package that was signed into law in March. But environmentalists have asked Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to kill the provision by declaring that it is not in the public interest. Murkowski's rider would require Salazar to find that the land exchange is in the best interest of the nation, Dillon said.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has filed at least 16 amendments that would slash earmarks throughout the legislation. He took a similar approach during Senate debate on the bill to fund the Energy Department and other agencies, where he filed 24 amendments to strike earmarks (Greenwire, July 28).
Kansas Republican Sen. Sam Brownback filed an amendment that would fund a wastewater treatment project in Wichita, Kan., and a sewer extension project in Manhattan, Kan.
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said yesterday he is still planning an amendment to speed an EPA decision on allowing ethanol blends in gasoline above 10 percent (E&E Daily, Sept. 17).
"We're working on an amendment relating to the EPA and their ... glacially slow progress, or lack of progress on determining to go to a standard of 15 percent ethanol from 10 percent ethanol," Nelson said. "I know that this requires some study, but the amount of time that's been taken just seems inordinate and this is one way to stop that."
Reporters Darren Samuelsohn, Eric Bontrager and Ben Geman contributed.
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scotty72 wrote:Jumping in a little late.
But after a similar conversation with a mate of mine, I went out with my 305 to do the math.
Ryedale Rd. (23.5% max)
The roads around Calga are no where near this - but they are much bigger climbs.
The top of Kissing Pt Road at Turramurra is pretty nasty. It comes in at about 16% max, but it is the 3km climb before that makes this hurt.
Ryedale Rd is nasty, but i would be very suspicious of the 23.5% max. It could be an error due to insufficient satellites in its antenna's view. Does it tell you anything about the no. of satellites or VDOP ? Or did you notice how many meters you could read that value for ?


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|October 30, 2017
|RHP Jarred Cosart elected free agency.
|October 30, 2017
|San Diego Padres sent RHP Jarred Cosart outright to El Paso Chihuahuas.
|October 30, 2017
|RHP Jarred Cosart roster status changed by San Diego Padres.
|July 27, 2017
|San Diego Padres transferred RHP Jarred Cosart from the 10-day disabled list to the 60-day disabled list. Strained right elbow.
|June 6, 2017
|San Diego Padres placed RHP Jarred Cosart on the 10-day disabled list retroactive to June 5, 2017. Foot contusion.
|May 14, 2017
|San Diego Padres activated RHP Jarred Cosart from the 10-day disabled list.
|May 7, 2017
|San Diego Padres sent RHP Jarred Cosart on a rehab assignment to El Paso Chihuahuas.
|May 2, 2017
|San Diego Padres sent RHP Jarred Cosart on a rehab assignment to Lake Elsinore Storm.
|April 19, 2017
|San Diego Padres placed RHP Jarred Cosart on the 10-day disabled list. Right hamstring strain.
|July 30, 2016
|San Diego Padres activated RHP Jarred Cosart.
|July 29, 2016
|San Diego Padres traded Andrew Cashner, Colin Rea, RHP Tayron Guerrero and cash to Miami Marlins for RHP Jarred Cosart, RHP Carter Capps, RHP Luis Castillo and 1B Josh Naylor.
|July 25, 2016
|Miami Marlins recalled RHP Jarred Cosart from New Orleans Zephyrs.
|July 15, 2016
|RHP Jarred Cosart assigned to New Orleans Zephyrs from Jupiter Hammerheads.
|July 9, 2016
|RHP Jarred Cosart assigned to Jupiter Hammerheads from New Orleans Zephyrs.
|July 4, 2016
|New Orleans Zephyrs sent RHP Jarred Cosart on a rehab assignment to GCL Marlins.
|June 7, 2016
|New Orleans Zephyrs placed RHP Jarred Cosart on the 7-day disabled list.
|April 26, 2016
|Miami Marlins optioned RHP Jarred Cosart to New Orleans Zephyrs.
|September 4, 2015
|Miami Marlins recalled RHP Jarred Cosart from Jupiter Hammerheads.
|August 27, 2015
|RHP Jarred Cosart assigned to Jupiter Hammerheads from New Orleans Zephyrs.
|August 22, 2015
|New Orleans Zephyrs sent RHP Jarred Cosart on a rehab assignment to GCL Marlins.
|July 20, 2015
|New Orleans Zephyrs placed RHP Jarred Cosart on the 7-day disabled list.
|July 5, 2015
|Miami Marlins optioned RHP Jarred Cosart to New Orleans Zephyrs.
|June 25, 2015
|Jarred Cosart roster status changed by Miami Marlins.
|June 21, 2015
|Miami Marlins sent RHP Jarred Cosart on a rehab assignment to Jacksonville Suns.
|June 11, 2015
|Miami Marlins sent RHP Jarred Cosart on a rehab assignment to New Orleans Zephyrs.
|May 19, 2015
|Miami Marlins placed RHP Jarred Cosart on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to May 14, 2015. Vertigo
|August 1, 2014
|Miami Marlins activated RHP Jarred Cosart.
|July 31, 2014
|Houston Astros traded RHP Jarred Cosart, LF Enrique Hernandez and OF Austin Wates to Miami Marlins for CF Jake Marisnick, 3B Colin Moran, RHP Francis Martes and .
|July 23, 2013
|Houston Astros recalled RHP Jarred Cosart from Oklahoma City RedHawks.
|July 13, 2013
|Houston Astros optioned Jarred Cosart to Oklahoma City RedHawks.
|July 12, 2013
|Houston Astros recalled Jarred Cosart from Oklahoma City RedHawks.
|March 13, 2013
|Houston Astros optioned Jarred Cosart to Oklahoma City RedHawks.
|November 20, 2012
|Houston Astros selected the contract of Jarred Cosart from Oklahoma City RedHawks.
|August 18, 2012
|Jarred Cosart roster status changed by Oklahoma City RedHawks.
|July 28, 2012
|Oklahoma City RedHawks placed RHP Jarred Cosart on the 7-day disabled list.
|July 26, 2012
|RHP Jarred Cosart assigned to Oklahoma City RedHawks from Corpus Christi Hooks.
|July 15, 2012
|Jarred Cosart roster status changed by Corpus Christi Hooks.
|July 6, 2012
|Corpus Christi Hooks placed RHP Jarred Cosart on the 7-day disabled list.
|May 10, 2012
|RHP Jarred Cosart assigned to Corpus Christi Hooks from Oklahoma City RedHawks.
|May 5, 2012
|Jarred Cosart assigned to Oklahoma City RedHawks from Corpus Christi Hooks.
|March 25, 2012
|RHP Jarred Cosart assigned to Houston Astros.
|July 30, 2011
|Houston Astros Traded RF Hunter Pence to Philadelphia Phillies; Clearwater Threshers Traded 1B Jonathan Singleton and RHP Jarred Cosart to Lancaster JetHawks and Reading Phillies Traded RHP Josh Zeid to Corpus Christi Hooks.
|July 11, 2011
|Jarred Cosart roster status changed by Clearwater Threshers.
|July 8, 2011
|Clearwater Threshers placed RHP Jarred Cosart on the temporarily inactive list.
|April 3, 2011
|RHP Jarred Cosart assigned to Clearwater Threshers from Lakewood BlueClaws.
|September 23, 2010
|Jarred Cosart roster status changed by Lakewood BlueClaws.
|June 27, 2010
|Lakewood BlueClaws placed RHP Jarred Cosart on the 7-day disabled list.
|May 4, 2010
|Lakewood BlueClaws activated RHP Jarred Cosart from the 7-day disabled list.
|April 25, 2010
|Lakewood BlueClaws placed RHP Jarred Cosart on the 7-day disabled list. Blister on right hand.
|April 5, 2010
|RHP Jarred Cosart assigned to Lakewood BlueClaws from GCL Phillies.
|July 30, 2009
|Jarred Cosart roster status changed by GCL Phillies.
|June 23, 2009
|Philadelphia Phillies signed RHP Jarred Cosart.
|June 23, 2009
|RHP Jarred Cosart assigned to GCL Phillies.
Jarred Lynn Cosart…graduated from Clear Creek High School (TX) in 2008, where he was a Rawlings Second Team All-American.2016
Made his third-straight Opening Day roster, making three starts for the Marlins in April before being optioned to Triple-A New Orleans on 4/25...Made eight starts with New Orleans from 4/28 - 6/3, posting a 3.92 ERA (17 ER, 39.0 IP) in those starts, before landing on the seven-day DL…made one rehab start with the Gulf Coast League Marlins on 7/4 before being reinstated from the seven-day DL on 7/9 and making a start for Single-A Jupiter…transferred after the Jupiter start back to New Orleans where he made two starts before being recalled by Miami for a start on 7/25 vs. PHI, working 5.0 shutout innings that day...Acquired by the Padres on 7/29 from Miami via trade...Spent the remainder of the season with San Diego after being acquired by the Padres, going 0-3 with a 6.03 ERA (25 ER, 37.1 IP) in nine starts...Over his first five starts for the Padres from 8/1 - 8/26 he posted a 2.88 ERA (8 ER, 25.0 IP) with 20 strikeouts against 12 walks, with the Padres 2-3 in those starts…over his final four starts he posted a 12.41 ERA (17 ER, 12.1 IP) from 9/1 - 9/24...Left his start on 9/7 vs. BOS with a strained right hamstring and strained right groin in the fourth inning…his next start came on 9/18 at COL...Left his final start on 9/24 vs. SF after just 1.0 inning pitched with right elbow inflammation...Underwent surgery following the season in October to remove loose bodies from his right elbow.2015
Completed season with just 13 starts and one relief appearance for Miami, going 2-5 with 4.52 ERA (69.2 ip/35 er). Missed considerable time due to vertigo, and a later reoccurrence of symptoms associated with vertigo...Prior to being placed on 15-day DL on May 18 (retro to May 14), was 1-3 with 4.08 ERA (39.2/18) in seven starts. Made three rehab starts between Triple-A New Orleans and Double-A Jacksonville, with no record and 3.94 ERA (16.0/7) prior to returning from Major League DL on June 24... Made two starts with Marlins following return on June 24 and allowed nine runs in 5.2 innings. Optioned to NOLA on July 5 and made two starts before going on 7-day DL with a reoccurrence of symptoms. Started three games between GCL Marlins and Single-A Jupiter, going 0-2 with 4.85 ERA (13.0/7) before being recalled by Marlins on September 4...Had considerably better numbers at home than on road, going 0-2 with just a 1.38 ERA (32.2/5) in six starts at Marlins Park. In seven road assignments, was 2-3 with 7.64 ERA (33.0/28)...Took loss in season debut, April 11 vs. Tampa Bay, despite allowing just one run in 6.0 innings. Marked first career loss to Rays, previously going 3-0 with 1.17 ERA (23.0/3) in three career starts against TB...Picked up first win and evened record at 1-1 on April 22 at Philadelphia. Allowed one run on four hits (one home run) with no walks and four strikeouts over 6.0 innings. Was one of just two road starts in which he allowed two-or-fewer runs (also Sept. 17 at Washington)...Took second and final home loss on May 3 vs. Philadelphia. Allowed three runs on five hits and a walk while striking out season-best six in 5.0 frames...Made first career relief appearance on June 26 vs. Dodgers, tossing 4.0 innings...Allowed two runs on six hits and three walks (one intentional) with three strikeouts and two wild pitches. Marked third relief appearance of 4.0+ innings by a Marlins reliever this season...From May 3-July 4, went 0-3 with 9.00 ERA (20.0/20) in five games (four starts). Made second-shortest start of career on July 4 against Cubs at Wrigley Field, allowing career-high tying seven runs on four hits and three walks while striking out two in just 1.2 innings. Shortest career start was a 0.1 inning outing on April 18, 2014 at Oakland (3 h, 7 r, 7 er, 4 bb, 2 hr)...Over final five starts of season, went 1-1 with 2.96 ERA, limiting opponents to eight runs in 24.1 innings. Held foes to two-or-fewer runs in four of five starts in that span, including two scoreless efforts: Sept. 11 vs. Washington and Sept. 24 vs. Philadelphia.2014
Split season between Houston and Miami, combining for 13-11 record and 3.69 ERA (180.1/74) in 30 starts...In 20 starts with Houston, posted 9-7 record with 4.41 ERA (116.1 IP/57 ER). Made 10 starts with Miami, going 4-4 with 2.39 ERA (64.0/17)...Acquired from Houston at the Non-waiver Trade Deadline and made Miami debut on August 1 vs. Cincinnati. From that date on had 13th-best ERA in National League...With victory vs. Atlanta on September 5, became first pitcher in Marlins' history to earn at least four wins with ERA under 2.00 in first six career starts with team, according to Elias. The win also extended winning streak to four games, which tied a career high; lost next start, on Sept. 10 at Milwaukee...Had streak of eight consecutive quality starts snapped in final outing of season. Issued career-high eight walks in 5.0 innings of work in Game 1 of doubleheader at Washington on Sept. 26. The loss also extended losing streak to three games, tying career-long streak...Prior to season finale, had posted a 2.14 bb/9 rate in nine starts (59.0 IP) with Marlins, down from 3.95 mark in 20 starts (116.1 IP) with Houston. Final bb/9 rate with Miami was 3.09...Posted 1.64 ERA (33.0 IP/6 ER) in August, second-best among NL starters behind Madison Bumgarner's 1.57 ERA (46.0/8). Was second-best ERA in a calendar month behind first month in Majors, July 2013 (0.86 ERA)...Owned a 55.3 ground ball rate, which ranked 10th among Major League starting pitchers...In start on August 25 at Angels, threw 80 of 107 pitches for strikes (74.8 percent). Ranked as fourth-highest strike percentage in single game among Marlins pitchers since 2000 (min. 100 pitches). Josh Beckett had highest mark, tossing 75.7 percent (107/81) on July 21, 2003 vs. Montreal, followed by Brad Penny (75.5; 106/80) on July 21, 2001 vs. Cincinnati and Javier Vazquez (75.0; 100/75) on July 16, 2011 vs. the Cubs. - Elias..Prior to start on August 12, skipped turn in the rotation due to left oblique soreness...Had not allowed a home run in 49.2 consecutive innings before surrendering home run to Freddie Freeman in seventh inning on September 5 vs. Atlanta...Dating back to Major League debut on July 12, 2013, owns third-best HR/9 rate (0.45) among qualified starting pitchers, behind Anibal Sanchez (0.33) and Clayton Kershaw (0.40)...Matched career-best with eight strikeouts in consecutive starts on June 4 against Angels and June 9 at Arizona. Also had eight-strikeout game on April 12 at Texas.2013
Named the Astros Rookie of the Year by the Houston Chapter of the BBWAA...made 10 starts for the Astros, posting a 1.95 ERA (13ER/60IP)...his ERA thru his first 10 career starts is the lowest by an Astros pitcher in their first 10 MLB starts in franchise history...LHP Carlos Hernandez held the previous mark with a 2.05 ERA (14ER/61.1IP) thru his first 10 starts (Aug. 18, 2001-May 15, 2002)...the last MLB pitcher to post a lower ERA thru their first 10 career starts was Shelby Miller (1.57, 11ER/63IP), who did so from Oct. 3, 2012-May 20, 2013...since the date of his debut (July 12), led the American League and ranked fifth in the Majors in ERA (min. 60IP)...ranked immediately ahead of Ubaldo Jimenez (2.15) and Anibal Sanchez (2.20)...was one of three Astros pitchers to make their first MLB start in 2013 (also, Clemens, Oberholtzer)...the Astros finished their season with four rookie starters pitching well since July 12 ... over that time frame, Clemens, Cosart, Oberholtzer and Peacock combined for a 2.70 ERA (63ER/209.2IP) in their 35 starts...allowed just a .220 (46x209) opponent's batting average, including a .173 (22x127) mark against lefties ... recorded most of his outs on ground balls (2.33 GB/FB ratio), which ranked second on the club...fanned just 33 hitters in 60.0 MLB innings compared to his 93 strikeouts in 93.0 innings at Triple A this season...posted a 1.23 ERA (6ER/44IP) and allowed a .184 (27x147) opponent's batting average in seven road starts this season ... since his debut (July 12), ranked second in the Majors in road ERA (A. Sanchez-1.17) and second in road OBA (Scherzer-.177)...began the year with Triple A OKC and made 18 appearances (17 starts) before his first MLB recall on July 12...made a start that night (July 12 at TB) and was immediately optioned back to OKC following the game ... recalled on July 23 and made 10 starts before being shutdown for the season after his start on Sept. 9...pitched a combined 153.0 innings between the two levels...set a franchise record by pitching at least 5.0 innings and allowing no more than three runs in his first eight Major League starts...the record was previously held by LHP Mike Maddon, who's streak ended at seven for the 1983 Astros...the only other pitcher to toss 5.0+ innings, while allowing three runs of less in their first seven starts in an Astros uniform is LHP Randy Johnson (11g) in 1998 ... thru his first six starts, did not allow a home run before an Adrian Beltre two run shot on Aug. 20 at TEX ... Cosart's streak of 44 innings without surrendering a long ball was the longest by a Houston pitcher to start his MLB career since RHP Brad Lidge went 54.1 innings from 2002-03 (Elias)... it was also the second-longest start-of-career streak in team history by a pitcher who was used exclusively as a starter ... RHP Dan Larson began his career with 53.1 homerless innings in 1976...prior to Cosart, the last Major Leaguer to allow one ER or less while going 6.0 or more innings in his first four Major League starts was RHP Wayne Simpson in 1970 (4 starts, April 9-24)...only five starters in MLB history have had a streak like this: Dana Fillingim (7 starts, 1918), Ernie Wingard (5 starts, 1924), Cosart, Simpson and George Mogridge (4 starts, 1916)...was the first pitcher to have an ERA under 1.00 (0.96) after his first four ML starts since RHP Jorge Campillo, who had an 0.56 ERA for the Mariners & Braves from 2005-08...the only Astro ever to accomplish this was RHP Chris Sampson with an 0.46 ERA from June 7, 2006-April 10, 2007 (Elias)...made his MLB debut on July 12 at TB and defeated reigning Cy Young Award winner David Price and the Rays, holding the club to two hits over 8.0 shutout innings (2-1 win) ... had a no-hit bid thru 6.0 innings and became the first pitcher in Astros history to toss 8+ scoreless innings in his MLB debut...became just the third pitcher since 2000 to make his debut against a reigning Cy Young Award winner and earn the victory...became the fourth Texas-born pitcher to make his MLB debut as a starting pitcher for the Astros (Elias)...also, Troy Patton (Aug. 25, 2007 vs. PIT), Butch Henry (April 9, 1992 vs. CIN) and Bill Greif (July 19, 1971 vs. PHI) ... went 7-4 with a 3.29 ERA (34ER/93IP) in 18 games (17 starts) for Triple A OKC this season and was the Pacific Coast League's starting pitcher in the Triple A All-Star Game on July 18...allowed just 74 hits in his 93.0 innings of work while tallying a strikeout per IP with 93 K's...at the time of his callup, led the club in starts (17), wins (7), IP (93.0) and strikeouts (93)...in April, was named the RedHawks Pitcher of the Month by the Astros ... went 3-0 with a 2.63 ERA and struck out 29 batters over 27.1 innings...tied a career high with 10 strikeouts on May 7 vs. Tacoma...became first RedHawks pitcher with a double-digit strikeout game since RHP Rich Harden on Aug. 18, 2010 vs. Reno...had been one of the highest-ranked Astros minor leaguers the last two seasons...among Astros prospect rankings, he was tabbed at No. 4 (MLB.com), No. 5 (ESPN.com, Baseball Prospectus) and No. 7 (Baseball America) entering the 2013 season...MLB.com ranked him as MLB's No. 74 overall prospect, while ESPN.com tabbed him at No. 86.2012 Posted a 6-7 record with a 3.30 ERA (42ER/114.2IP), 92 strikeouts and a 2.01 groundballs per flyball ratio in 21 games (20 starts) between Triple A Oklahoma City (6g) and Double A Corpus Christi (15g)... battled a reoccuring blister issue throughout the season...spent the majority of the 2012 season with Double A Corpus Christi, where he was a Texas League Midseason All-Star...went 5-5, posting a 3.52 ERA (34ER/87IP) with 68 strikeouts and a 2.12 GB/FB ratio in 15 starts...put up a 1.74 ERA (6ER/31IP) over his final five starts with the club from June 19-July 21...was named the Texas League Pitcher of the Week for the week of June 18-25, 2012...struck out nine in 13.0 scoreless innings over two starts to earn the award... made six appearances (five starts) for Triple A OKC over two stints with the club...went 1-2 with a 2.60 ERA (8ER/27.2IP) and 24 strikeouts...gave up just one earned run over his final 18.0 innings with OKC from Aug. 18-Sept. 1...entering the season, was ranked by Baseball America as Houston's No. 2 prospect and the No. 50 prospect in all of baseball...rated as having the 'Best Fastball' and 'Best Curveball' in the Houston organization by the publication heading into the season...ranked by BA as Houston's No. 7 prospect with the 'Best Curveball', and the No. 19 prospect in the Texas League following the conlcusion of the season... pitched for the Mesa Solar Sox in the Arizona Fall League......gave up 13 earned runs in 18.0 innings with 15 strikeouts and a 2.60 groundballs per flyball ratio...was the East Division starting pitcher in the 2012 AFL Rising Stars Game. 2011 Posted an even 10-10 record with a 4.12 ERA (66ER/144.1IP) and 101 punchouts in 27 games (26 starts) between Class A Advanced Clearwater (20g) of the Philadelphia organization and Double A Corpus Christi (7g)...went 9-8 with a 3.92 ERA (47ER/108IP) for the Threshers, and was a Florida State League Midseason All-Star before heading to the Astros organization as part of the Hunter Pence deal...made seven starts for the Hooks, going 1-2 with a 4.71 ERA (19ER/36.1IP) and 22 strikeouts...entered the season ranked by Baseball America as the No. 4 prospect in the Philadelphia organization and the No. 70 prospect in all of baseball...was ranked by the publication as the No. 9 prospect in the Florida State League following the season. 2010 Went 7-3 with a 3.79 ERA (30ER/71.1IP) and 77 strikeouts in 14 starts for Class A Lakewood...was selected to participate in the Futures Game but was replaced due to injury...entering the season, was ranked by Baseball America as the No. 8 prospect in the Philadelphia system. 2009 Pitched in seven games (five starts) for the Gulf Coast League Phillies, going 2-2 with a 2.22 ERA (6ER/24.1IP) and 25 strikeouts...ranked by Baseball America as the No. 23 prospect in the Philadelphia system entering the season, and the No. 4 prospect in the Gulf Coast League following the season.


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CVS Caremark's first-quarter earnings jumped 18 percent as generic drugs and an acquisition helped the drugstore chain and pharmacy benefits manager weather rough winter storms.
The company runs the nation's second-largest drugstore chain, with many of its nearly 7,700 stores on the East Coast and in the Midwest, areas blasted by snow storms and sub-zero temperatures this past winter. CVS Caremark said that weather, plus a weaker flu season compared to last year, hurt sales at its established stores.
CEO Larry Merlo told analysts during a Friday conference call that the company normally doesn't blame the weather when it explains results, but it was making an exception.
"This quarter, the amount of extreme weather was so abnormal that, quite frankly, it's hard not to talk about it," he said.
CVS Caremark Corp. also runs one of the biggest pharmacy benefits management operations, and that segment played a large role in its growth during the quarter. Sales from that unit, which runs prescription drug plans for employers and other clients, climbed more than 10 percent to top $20 billion in the quarter. It was helped in part by rising drug prices, as well as the company's acquisition of the drug infusion business Coram.
Growth in generic drug use also helped the company's bottom line, as it has done for several quarters now for CVS and other drugstores. Generics, which are cheaper than brand-name drugs, provide a wider margin between the cost for the pharmacy to purchase the drugs and the reimbursement it receives.
CVS earned $1.13 billion, or 95 cents per share, in the three months that ended March 31. That compares with earnings of $954 million, or 77 cents per share, in last year's quarter. Revenue climbed 6 percent to $32.69 billion.
Adjusted results totaled $1.02 per share. That was 2 cents shy of Wall Street expectations and a penny lower than what the company expected.
But CVS Caremark beat analyst projections for revenue of $32.3 billion in revenue, according to FactSet.
The company also reaffirmed on Friday a forecast it first made in December for 2014 adjusted earnings of between $4.36 and $4.50 per share. Analysts expect earnings of $4.47 per share.
CVS Caremark gained national attention in February after vowing to phase out tobacco products from its stores by October. CVS anticipates a $2-billion hit to its revenue because of the decision, but it doesn't expect the move to affect its earnings forecast.
The company, like other drugstore chains, has been raising its focus on health care by adding in-store clinics and seeking to work more with doctors and hospitals to manage patient care. Company leaders told analysts on Friday that they don't expect the products they put in tobacco's shelf space to replace the lost revenue from cigarettes and cigars, but they do expect to gain health care business because of the move.
Company shares climbed 29 cents to $73.38 in midday trading, while broader indexes were largely flat.


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ST. CHARLES – The St. Charles North softball team handed previously unbeaten Naperville Central its first loss of the season Saturday, rallying for a 5-4 victory in the nightcap of a doubleheader after losing the opener, 10-4.
North trailed, 4-3, with two outs and the bases empty when it struck in the seventh inning of Game 2. Amanda James' bloop single to right field started the charge before Sabrina Rabin walked and a Kaitlyn Waslawski hit produced an obstruction call against the Redhawks (27-1) that led to the game-tying run.
Rabin scored the winning run on a passed ball with Abby Howlett at bat.
"Our kids really believe now that until that 21st out is in the books that they have the chance to win," North Stars coach Tom Poulin said. "They showed a lot of character and a lot of heart. This was big."
The North Stars (18-5) were playing without regular cleanup hitter Emily Brodner, who was out of town on a family obligation. North trailed the first game, 5-3, after five innings before Naperville Central pulled away.
"I think we can draw so much confidence from this," Poulin said. "We haven't seen anybody on the level of Naperville Central yet this season, so it was good to compete against somebody like that before the [state] tournament."
Geneva 8-17, Rosary 0-3: At Aurora, Emily Plocinski pitched a two-hitter for Geneva (11-14) in the opener before the Vikings struck for 19 hits to win the nightcap in five innings.
The Vikings' Anna Geary finished the day 8 for 10. Rosary fell to 9-14.
Kaneland 5, Sterling 4: At Sterling, Kaneland pitcher Ellissa Eckert threw home to catcher Paige Kuefler to start a game-ending, 1-2-3 double play with the bases loaded to seal the Northern Illinois Big 12 crossover.
"We were pretty much in control," Knights coach Brian Willis said. "They were trying to rally in the bottom of the seventh after we made it interesting, but we ended it in nice fashion."
Lanie Callaghan doubled twice for 19-3 Kaneland.
Wheaton Academy 14, Aurora Central Catholic 10: At Aurora, left fielder Bridget Koehler's diving catch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh helped Wheaton Academy (6-9, 6-6 Suburban Christian Conference Gold) hold on to win. Jess Bosse was 3 for 4 with four RBIs to pace the Warriors. Paige Miller and Andrea Bieritz doubled for ACC.
St. Francis 13, Aurora Central Catholic 1: At Aurora, St. Francis romped in the SCC crossover to improve to 20-3. ACC (7-14) hosted the Spartans after the Wheaton Academy game.
Geneva 6-12, Elgin 3-1: At Geneva, Geneva scored a conference sweep behind a pair of complete games. Jordan Touro scattered two hits and five walks in seven innings in the opener, while Tony Landi pitched five innings of three-hit, one walk-ball in Game 2, which ended via the run rule.
Dan Berendt and Bobby Hess homered in both games for the Vikings (16-13, 13-11 Upstate Eight Conference River Division).
Kaneland 2, Streator 1: At Streator, John Hopkins spaced one run, five hits and eight strikeouts in a complete-game victory for Kaneland in the NI Big 12 crossover. Hopkins also doubled and drove in a run for the Knights (11-14), who also got a double from Josh Cohrs.
Marmion takes SCC title: At Wheaton, Marmion boasted four of five champions – including Ricky Angsten and Kevin Hoss at No. 2 doubles – to win the Suburban Christian Conference title for the fifth straight season.
The Cadets totaled 17 team points to top co- runners-up St. Francis and Wheaton Academy, who both had 12 points. Aurora Central Catholic took sixth in the eight-team event with two points.
Chris Chacko placed second at No. 1 singles for host St. Francis. Wheaton Academy had a pair of second-place doubles teams, including the No. 1 tandem of Reid Bertsche and Jack Bell.