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Good Morning America is a breakfast television news and talk show broadcast on the ABC television network; the show has been airing five days a week since November, 1975. Show hosts have included Diane Sawyer, Robin Roberts and Christopher Cuomo. Longtime anchor Charles Gibson left the program in 2006 to become the lead anchor of ABC World News until retiring in 2009, with Diane Sawyer taking over Gibson's spot. Weekend anchors include Kate Snow. Sam Champion is the show's longtime weather anchor.
The Muppets have appeared on the show many times. They are a particular favorite of Gibson's, and Kermit the Frog appeared on Gibson's final broadcast in 2006 to say goodbye.
In 1992, the Muppets appeared in a series of ten weekly sketches produced for Good Morning America, spoofing current events of the day -- the presidential election, the Winter Olympics and tax day. These sketches were written by Jim Lewis and Craig Shemin, under the supervision of Jerry Juhl.[1] See below for details and video clips.
- Summer, 1976 : Kermit the Frog
- June 23, 1981[2]
- February, 1988 : Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy
- August, 1989 : Jim Henson and Michael Eisner, to discuss the prospective Henson/Disney deal. Henson wore a Mickey tie; Eisner wore a Kermit tie.
- May 1991 : A behind the scenes feature about Muppet*Vision 3D. Joel Siegel interviews Frank Oz, Michael K. Frith, Rizzo the Rat and Miss Piggy.
- February 18 - April 21, 1992 : Series of weekly Muppet sketches; see below
- December 11, 1992 : Brian Henson promotes The Muppet Christmas Carol
- February 7, 1996 : Kermit and Piggy promote Muppet Treasure Island and announce Muppets Tonight. Bad Polly and Clueless Morgan make their TV debut.
- December 23, 1997 : Santa Kermit and his frog elves stop by to sing "Jingle Bells."
- May 1, 1998 : Kermit the Frog appeared to say farewell to Gibson when he left the first time to give the spot to Kevin Newman.
- December 15, 2004 : "Muppet Day at GMA!" with Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Statler and Waldorf, and Penguins
- May 19, 2005 : Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and Ashanti to promote The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
- February 2, 2006 : Kermit the Frog, to promote his upcoming commercial for the Ford Escape Hybrid
- June 28, 2006 : Kermit the Frog, for Charlie Gibson's last day
- December 7, 2006 : Kermit the Frog, to promote Before You Leap and A Green and Red Christmas
- June 19, 2007 : Elmo promotes the book C is for Cooking
- May 4, 2008 : Rosita appears to promote Talk, Listen, Connect, with Jeanette Betancourt (Sesame Workshop Vice President for Education, Research and Outreach), and a military family. (ABC.com video)
- July 31, 2008 : Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy appear on ABC News Now via satellite to promote Studio DC: Almost Live. (ABC.com video)
- November 17, 2008 : Pepe the King Prawn appears on Good Morning America's ABC News Now to promote It's Hard Out Here for a Shrimp. (ABC.com video)
- October 5, 2009: Kermit the Frog appears to promote Give a Day. Get a Disney Day.
- November 9, 2009: Oscar, Zoe, Grover, Abby Cadabby, Roscoe Orman, Joan Ganz Cooney, Fran Brill, Caroll Spinney appear to promote Sesame Street's 40th Anniversary. (ABC.com video)
- September 24, 2010: Elmo, Super Grover 2.0, and Carol-Lynn Parente appear to promote Sesame Street's 41st season and discuss the show's controversial Katy Perry video. During the segment, George Stephanopoulos repeatedly asks Elmo for his autograph, to give to his daughter; Elmo tried to defer it to after the segment, given Elmo's rod arms.
- November 26, 2010: Elmo and Mariana Chilton of Witnesses to Hunger share healthy eating tips in segment "Elmo's Healthy Message". Pre-taped with Dan Harris. (ABC.com video)
- May 20, 2011: Elmo appears to promote Sesame Street's latest resource video For Me, For You, For Later and explains how saving money helps kids and their parents learn how to manage the saving of the value of money.
- September 20, 2011: Elmo, Grover, Rosita, Cookie Monster, Oscar, Slimey, and Carol-Lynn Parente appear to promote Sesame Street's 42nd season.
- November 17, 2011: The Muppets: Kermit, Miss Piggy, The Swedish Chef, Gonzo, Rizzo, Animal, Fozzie, Camilla, a Turkey, Pepe, Mahna Mahna, and the Snowths, make appearances. A GMA version of The Muppet Show Theme is sung and "Mahna Mahna" is performed. The Muppets, its soundtrack, and the Never-Ending Mahna Mahna Phenomahna are promoted.
- January 5, 2012: Elmo and Cookie Monster appear to promote B Is for Baking: 50 Yummy Dishes to Make Together and explain how to make "Elmo's Red Velvet Cupcakes".
- March 13, 2012: Kermit, Miss Piggy, and Walter make appearances to promote The Muppets video release. Kermit is featured early on wearing his reporter outfit. Later, the three of them lead a sing-along of "The Rainbow Connection."
- September 19, 2012: Elmo, Big Bird, Grover, Bert, Abby Cadabby, Rosita, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster and Murray Monster appeared to promote the 43rd season of Sesame Street.
Good Afternoon America
An afternoon edition of the show titled Good Afternoon America is also airing from July 9 to September 7, 2012.
- August 22: Grover makes an appearance; he is first called in as a special correspondent on the upcoming documentary I Am Big Bird. Later on, Grover helps promote Healthy Teeth, Healthy Me, encouraging a group of children to brush their teeth to the music video "Brushy Brush."
In 1992, the Muppets appeared in a series of short comedy sketches that appeared on Tuesdays.
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February 18
Miss Piggy and Gonzo face off in a political debate. Gonzo behaves bizarrely, keeps changing the subject, and basically does everything except address the issues. Naturally, he wins the debate.
February 25
A report by Lewis Kazagger on the Geek Winter Games (a much cheaper alternative to the Winter Olympics), where founding geek Gonzo demonstrates demolition speed skating.
March 3
A stressed out monster executive (Behemoth) listening to the radio hears a pyschologist suggest that everyone should release their "inner child." Much to the monster's dismay, a child monster (Boo) literally keeps popping out from inside him.
March 10
Gonzo and Rizzo (two candidates from the 1992 election) try to persuade Muppets to vote for them (leading to a messy tug of war with a whatnot).
March 17
Lewis Kazagger reports live from a baseball game, talking to the baseballs themselves.
March 24
Two Whatnots demonstrate how to change the blinking 12:00 clock on your VCR (leading to one of the Whatnots going insane and blowing up the VCR.)
March 31
Miss Piggy reviews a book written by a levitating author.
April 7
Two news reporters interview campaign front runner Gonzo the Great, but when Gonzo develops a sore elbow, the reporters start hounding him with a series of increasingly tabloid-style questions.
April 14
A IRS auditor questions Fozzie Bear about outrageous deductions for items such as a rubber chicken, banana peels and custard pies. When Fozzie asks what the IRS wants from him, the auditor responds with a new rendition of "Money."
April 21
In honor of Earth Day, Kermit the Frog presents a live report from Planet Koozebane on their holiday rituals. The two Koozebanians in this sketch were originally used as Brool the Minstrel and Aretha on Fraggle Rock.
- In episode 103 of The Jim Henson Hour, Fozzie Bear accidently locks Willard Scott in a closet and runs onto the set of The Today Show for help. When Fozzie finds out that he's on camera, he says "Good morning, America!", to which Jane Pauley responds "You watch your language!"
- Many episodes of Dinosaurs feature a fictitous show called Good Morning Pangea.


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Novell carbon copies another quarter
No silver lining yet
Operating system maker Novell had about as good - or bad - a recent quarter as everyone else in the IT racket.
For its quarter ended April 30, Novell sales fell by 8.5 per cent to $215.6m. But because it has been tightening the belt and it had a pretty bad corresponding quarter last fiscal year, bringing $15m to the bottom line looked good by contrast. Nonetheless, Novell has a ways to go before it is as profitable as it needs to be or investors want it to be, and as it turns out, key product lines are not profitable.
In its fiscal Q2, Novell's software license sales plummeted by almost 32 per cent to $30.3m, and services sales fell by a similar 33.1 per cent to $27m. Maintenance and software subscriptions, thanks in part to renewals of SUSE Linux, rose by 4.9 per cent to $158.3m.
Novell dialed back product development and overhead costs a bit compared to a year ago, but cut its sales and marketing budget by $18.2m, which was the main reason why it was able to report that net earnings increased almost three-fold compared to the year-ago quarter.
In the Open Platform Solutions group, which is where Novell has hitched its wagon to the open source Linux platform, maintenance and subscription sales amounted $38.8m, up 23.4 per cent, driven by 25 per cent growth in Linux support contract sales, which came in at $36.7m. Overall, the Open Platform Solutions group booked $44.1m in revenues, including software licenses for closed source products and services, which was an increase of 17.6 per cent compared to fiscal 2008's Q2.
Significantly, gross profits for this piece of Novell rose by 30.2 per cent, to $34.75m. But in a conference call with Wall Street analysts, Novell Chief Financial Officer, Dana Russell said that "profitability continues to move in the right direction" for the Open Platform biz and conceded that it would take a year to 18 months more ramping for it to become profitable.
He added that Novell had $40m in SUSE Linux invoicing in the quarter, up 2 per cent, and that it had invoiced $213m, or 89 per cent, of the $240m SUSE Linux coupon deal that Novell cut with Microsoft in November 2006. (In late 2008, Microsoft extended this deal with another $100m of coupons, and prepaid $25m of that even before it had burned the coupons in the original deal to help goose Novell's fiscal Q1 three months ago.)
If you do the math, that means $15m of the original Microsoft Linux coupons were invoiced in fiscal Q2, which was a lot better than the $4m in fiscal Q1. But the pace is still way lower than the uptake was a year ago, and it is reasonable to wonder how long it will take to burn the remaining $127m in coupons Microsoft has acquired.
All vendors practice obfuscation in their financials, and Novell combines its Open Enterprise Server - which is really SUSE Linux with some NetWare services as well as licenses to the real NetWare 6.5 that can run inside partitions - and NetWare businesses into one business unit, called its Workgroup group, to try to cover up the decline in its NetWare biz. (GroupWise collaboration software and a bunch of other things get tossed into this Workgroup category, too.) Anyway, the sales of OES and NetWare licenses, subscriptions, and maintenance came to $44.8m in fiscal Q2, a fall of 12.5 per cent, and GroupWise sales hit $24.4m, down 13.8 per cent.
Total Workgroup sales were $79.4m, down 13.8 per cent as well. Russell said Novell believed that the decline rate in this NetWare-OES business would "moderate to single digits over the long term." Part of the reason why Novell believes this is that some 75 per cent of OES and NetWare shops that have deployed atop the NetWare kernel (using earlier OES versions) have started some porting activities to the OES variant running atop the SUSE Linux kernel.
Still, the fact remains that since Novell acquired SUSE Linux, the increase in Linux revenues has not been enough to offset declines in NetWare and GroupWise sales. Novell is still managing a decline.
Sales in Novell's Systems and Resource Management group, which sells ZENworks and PlateSpin tools, among others, had $40.1m in sales, down 1.9 per cent, and Ron Hovsepian, Novell's president and chief executive officer, said that this business unit was not yet profitable and added that he hopes that it will be profitable in the next 12 to 18 months, just like the Linux business.
Novell's Identity and Security Management group business had flat sales, at $30.3m, and Hovsepian said that this unit should be profitable in 12 months or less. Interestingly, Hovsepian said that starting in fiscal 2010, Novell will break out complete profit and loss statements for each operating group, and Russell said that Linux was the biggest "consumer of resources" at the company.
Novell booked $7m in restructuring charges in the quarter, and its headcount was the same as it was at the end of the last quarter, with 3,900 employees. Russell said that in a normal fiscal year, the second half usually sees a revenue bump, but he warned that sales could stay flat quarter to quarter (as they did so far in fiscal 2009), and that means Novell is going to be under pressure to cut costs to keep in the black.
Hovsepian said that in terms of the economy, things seemed to be a little bit better than they were in the past quarter, when Novell's sales pipeline broke apart.
"It feels like we have hot the bottom in the United States, but Europe seems to be lagging behind by about six months," he said. ®
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Organizations interested in creating System-to-System (S2S) solutions to submit grant applications to NIH should first work with Grants.gov to establish S2S connectivity with the Grants.gov system. The Grants.gov website provides the basic information required to get started.
Once the S2S solution is tested with Grants.gov you will want to do further testing with NIH to ensure the solution can successfully submit applications that pass the NIH validations process.
Basic Information
- Testing
- eRA System-enforced Validations
- Assembled Application Images
- eRA Web Services
- Enhancements and Validations in Development
- Known issues affecting S2S applications
- NIH Application Forms and Activity Code Mapping - FORMS-E (Excel)
- List of Activity Codes Processed Electronically by eRA (PDF)
- NIH Electronic Multi-project Applications (PDF) – Reference for S2S solution providers
- NIH's SF424 (R&R) Application Guides
- S2S FAQs
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Subscribe for news and updates specific to system-to-system services and test environment information.
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Phone: 1-866-504-9552
Not all help desk agents are well versed in System-to-System (S2S) issues and they may need to forward your ticket to the S2S team.
Email: email@example.com
This email address will get you directly to the team within the help desk most familiar with S2S issues. Be sure to include in your description whether your issue is in production or our Ext-UAT environment.
Web ticket: https://public.era.nih.gov/commonshelp
Use your production eRA Commons account to login to the ticketing system (even if the issue you are reporting is in Ext-UAT)
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From Proteopedia
Structure of the rhombohedral form of the M-cresol/insulin R6 hexamer
Structural highlights
[INS_HUMAN] Defects in INS are the cause of familial hyperproinsulinemia (FHPRI) [MIM:176730].[1] [2] [3] [4] Defects in INS are a cause of diabetes mellitus insulin-dependent type 2 (IDDM2) [MIM:125852]. IDDM2 is a multifactorial disorder of glucose homeostasis that is characterized by susceptibility to ketoacidosis in the absence of insulin therapy. Clinical fetaures are polydipsia, polyphagia and polyuria which result from hyperglycemia-induced osmotic diuresis and secondary thirst. These derangements result in long-term complications that affect the eyes, kidneys, nerves, and blood vessels.[5] Defects in INS are a cause of diabetes mellitus permanent neonatal (PNDM) [MIM:606176]. PNDM is a rare form of diabetes distinct from childhood-onset autoimmune diabetes mellitus type 1. It is characterized by insulin-requiring hyperglycemia that is diagnosed within the first months of life. Permanent neonatal diabetes requires lifelong therapy.[6] [7] Defects in INS are a cause of maturity-onset diabetes of the young type 10 (MODY10) [MIM:613370]. MODY10 is a form of diabetes that is characterized by an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance, onset in childhood or early adulthood (usually before 25 years of age), a primary defect in insulin secretion and frequent insulin-independence at the beginning of the disease.[8] [9] [10]
[INS_HUMAN] Insulin decreases blood glucose concentration. It increases cell permeability to monosaccharides, amino acids and fatty acids. It accelerates glycolysis, the pentose phosphate cycle, and glycogen synthesis in liver.
Evolutionary Conservation
Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
The structures of three R(6) human insulin hexamers have been determined. Crystals of monoclinic m-cresol-insulin, monoclinic resorcinol-insulin and rhombohedral m-cresol-insulin diffracted to 1. 9, 1.9 and 1.78 A, respectively, and have been refined to residuals of 0.195, 0.179 and 0.200, respectively. In all three structures, a phenolic derivative is found to occupy the phenolic binding site, where it forms hydrogen bonds to the carbonyl O atom of CysA6 and the N atom of CysA11. Two additional phenolic derivative binding sites were identified within or between hexamers. The structures of all three hexamers are nearly identical, although a large displacement of the N-terminus of one B chain in both monoclinic structures results from coordination to a sodium ion which is located between symmetry-related hexamers. Other minor differences in structure arise from differences in packing in the monoclinic cell compared with the rhombohedral cell. Based upon the differences in conformation of the GluB13 side chains in T(6), T(3)R(f)(3) and R(6) hexamers, the deprotonation of these side chains appears to be associated with the T-->R conformational transition.
R6 hexameric insulin complexed with m-cresol or resorcinol.,Smith GD, Ciszak E, Magrum LA, Pangborn WA, Blessing RH Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2000 Dec;56(Pt 12):1541-8. PMID:11092919[11]
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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More than 8,800 firearm background checks have been submitted to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation in the past week.
As of Sunday morning, about 10,000 background checks were in the bureau's queue, waiting to be processed, said Susan Medina, spokeswoman for the CBI.
About 3,000 checks are being submitted a day — "these are unprecedented numbers," Medina said.
The wait time for a background check was at 68 hours Saturday.
The process, required to purchase a gun, usually takes minutes, Medina said.
Sunday afternoon, the CBI was processing background checks from Thursday, according to the CBI Twitter page.
On Dec. 15, there were 573 background checks for firearm purchases in the CBI queue, Medina said. Wait times were just over 15 minutes.
Background checks are cross-referenced through federal and local law-enforcement databases.
The flood of submittals has prompted that department to expand hours of operation from 6 a.m. to midnight, Medina said.
"The goal every day is to get it down to a zero balance," she said. "They processed 1,600 Saturday."
The background checks began pouring in Dec. 15, one day after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut and on the heels of politicians calling for bans on certain weapons and extended gun magazines.
The bureau is closed only on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Staff, including those from other departments, will be working to process as many checks as possible, Medina said.
In 2012 through November, there were 34,117 more background checks submitted to the CBI for processing than in all of 2011 — a 14 percent increase, according to CBI data.
Over the past five years, the number of checks has climbed 58 percent because of safety concerns for some and worries for others that the Obama administration might impose gun controls, according to political- and social-science experts.
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Without even knowing what the Cubs general plan is going to be this offseason, it's very difficult to look ahead to the offseason with any confidence of what they may do. They could decide to go all in and go after guys like Albert Pujols or Prince Fielder and CC Sabathia. They could pass on all of them and stand pat with what they currently have. They could trade a bunch of players and begin a rebuilding process. I'm more inclined to think that they're more likely to trade a bunch of the veterans than they are to go all in and try to contend next year.
The new GM isn't going to come out and just say that the Cubs won't be contenders for a few years. That kind of honesty is rare in sports. Not to mention the uncertainty. Bad teams can contend and have and will continue to do so. Don't be surprised to hear the GM talk about a 5-year plan, which is about what it's going to take to rebuild the Cubs farm system and begin to produce the talent necessary to contend. At that point they can fill the holes with expensive free agents.
If that is the direction the organization is heading, I figured it might be worth taking a look at the most obvious candidates to be traded. All players are tradable, but some are more likely to be traded and help accomplish a goal than others. I've reached the conclusion that this is what the Cubs will do. I may be wrong and if I find out then I'll have to think differently, but for now I'm going with this.
The first thing I want to add is that teams don't have to have a fire sale in order to get better down the road. There are two ways that teams can add talent: trading players and signing players. Trading players subtracts some talent, usually at the big league level in favor of potential talent down the road. Trading is also done for the exact opposite reason (trade potential for production now). Signing a player only adds talent. The Cubs got a good start on that this past summer when they spent more than $20 million on amateur free agents. But if the plan is to contend down the road, some players are more useful for the young talent they can bring in a trade. Not all players will bring much in return, but are still candidates.
The list:
Matt Garza
Geovany Soto
Sean Marshall
Carlos Marmol
Ryan Dempster
Randy Wells
Jeff Baker
Blake DeWitt
Marlon Byrd
Alfonso Soriano
Carlos Zambrano
Starlin Castro
You may be surprised by the last player in that group, and I admit that it would be surprising to see Castro traded, but if the Cubs do go through a 5-year rebuilding plan, Castro is going to be very expensive and either on the verge of free agency or already a free agent. He also could bring more talent in return than most of them combined. Castro's 2012 season will be his last at league minimum and then he has 4 years of arbitration as he'll almost certainly be a super-two. He does have 5 years of club control left so he's more like a borderline candidate.
Some of these players are less likely to be traded than others. Would Ryan Dempster accept a trade if he's told by management that the team will be rebuilding? Only Ryan Dempster knows that, but Chicago is important to him becasue of his family. I would think it's more likely Dempster would accept a trade if told the team would rebuild, but I'm not sure if that means a trade is more likely than not. Dempster has been in the league for 10 years and 5 with the Cubs so he has 10 and 5 rights (no trade rights).
The same is true for Soriano and Zambrano. People will talk a lot about the no-trade clauses the Cubs have given out, but at this point they're irrelevant. They have the no-trade clause because of service time and length of employment by one team. Soriano, Zambrano and Dempster can all reject trades. It's entirely up to them if they want to accept a trade and there's nothing the Cubs can do about that.
Matt Garza, in my opinion, is the most likely player of decent value traded by the Cubs this offseason. He has 2 years of club control left and although he's arbitration eligible each year and therefore more expensive than some of the others, he's also the most valuable player listed there not named Starlin Castro. In terms of pure value (disregarding salary), Garza is the most valuable of them all.
When you look back at what the Cubs gave up to acquire him, it's quite likely they would receive more than they gave up last offseason. Not only is Garza a better pitcher now, but the Cubs also got him for relatively little. The 5 players traded makes it sound like a lot more, but once Chris Archer struggled this season the deal looked a hell of a lot better. Considering the scouts opinions on Archer, it probably will remain that way.
I think there's a very good chance that Soto is gone. I probably should have talked about him before Garza as I think Soto is traded regardless of what the Cubs intend to do next year or in the future. After Soto's 2008 breakout season in which he was worth 4.1 rWAR, he's combined to be worth 5.1 rWAR over the last 3 seasons. His walk percentage is at a career low and under 10% and his strikeout percentage is at a career high at 26.3%. He'd been between 19 and 21% the other 3 full seasons. His walk rate was 11% in 2008, 12.8% in 2009 and 16% in 2010. He's absolutely horrible on the bases and over his career his fielding runs is below average.
I think Soto is a better player than most people do, but he's getting older and more expensive and probably isn't going to be a significant part of the next Cubs team that contends. It also helps that the Cubs have Welington Castillo who can step in to replace Soto. It's not likely he'd replace Soto's production, but if the team is rebuilding that's not necessary.
Sean Marshall has 1 year left of club control while Marmol has 2 more years. I think Marshall has made a strong case at this point that he is the better reliever. At least I'm certain of it. He's certainly more reliable and he makes less money than Marmol. If the Cubs are going through a 5-year plan, there's little reason to keep both of them and there may be little reason to keep either. Marshall will bring more in a trade, but if the Cubs keep one of them I'd prefer it be Marshall.
Jeff Baker and Blake DeWitt will probably draw some interest from various teams looking to solidify their bench. I don't think the Cubs trade both of them as they still have to field a team next year, but I'd say at least 1 of them is gone. Neither will bring much in return, but neither are going to be on the next contending Cubs team.
Randy Wells is interesting and I'm going to write more about him in the next week or so. He's not so valuable that you can't trade him, but his valuable that the Cubs may get something useful in return. The Cubs haven't been sold on Wells as a starter since his breakout seasons. Each of the last 2 years the Cubs have hinted that he may be moved to the bullpen. That there tells us there's a strong chance he'd be traded.
Marlon Byrd is still a valuable player. His rWAR this year is 1.9 and his fWAR is 2.1. He'll be paid only $6.5 million in 2012, which is the final year of his contract. He'll easily be worth the money and probably a little more. If the Cubs are confident in either acquiring a cheaper outfielder or bringing Brett Jackson up (or even going with Tony Campana to start the season) there's a decent chance the Cubs trade Byrd. They'll get something in return. He's not a great player and never has, but he's still a regular player and is about league average.
The Cubs would love to trade Alfonso Soriano and as Tom Ricketts even said, it's hard to imagine Carlos Zambrano ever returning to the Cubs. Both are 10 and 5 players as I said above so they can reject any trade. Zambrano has sounded more than willing to accept a trade if the Cubs don't want him and based on Soriano's comments he'd accept one too. The question is how much money will the Cubs have to send along?
Soriano has 3 years and $54 million left on his contract while Zambrano will be in the final year of his deal and be paid $18 million. I'd be very surprised if any team paid more than $1-2 million for Zambrano so that's at least $16 million being spent to make him go away. The hope would be that you get a valuable prospect in the trade by sending along so much money. The same is true for Soriano though, in my opinion, it's going to be even harder to trade him than Zambrano. The Cubs made it clear at the deadline they'd eat a huge chunk of his remaining contract and not one team was the least bit interested. If we look at Soriano's rWAR it's kind of funny because the bulk of his value this year has been defensively. I don't buy it and I don't think many of you buy it either. I certainly don't think any 1 of the other 29 teams is going to buy it. if Soriano is traded, it's most likely to an American League team where he can DH. Moving to the AL would only further suppress his numbers when you consider the negative impact not playing the field has on a hitter.
I don't think either of these guys return. I think the Cubs pay off some team to take Zambrano and get something interesting in return. I think the Cubs just cut their losses with Soriano and release him.
I don't have any idea if some, none or all of these players will be traded, but it seems to me they're the most likely players traded. This is, as I've said, partly because I expect the Cubs to rebuild for the future. I don't think contending in the next few years is a top priority.


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Whiteboards are cool, I guess. Fast, easy, familiar. But really, they're nothing compared to digital sketching. At Cooper, we use digital sketching in almost all of our projects, and almost always in OneNote. In the next few posts I'll share how we use it and why we think it's awesome, see what you think. But first, to whet your appetite, some example drawings from Cooper designers straight out of the program.
These aren't meant to be finished designs, of course, but examples of how communicative and illustrative designers can be with their earliest ideas using the tool, and doing so very quickly. Each of our designers has their particular way of working, but in general we share the same setup.
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[From the video:] When roughing out a framework for a design, we want a tool that supports getting ideas out there, quickly and easily, letting everyone on the team see the ideas to discuss them in real time, and then make it easy to edit and modify them. The best setup we've found so far for this combines four technologies.
- A Tablet PC with a stylus, in slate mode
Note that the speed and flexibility gains we're looking for only occur when using a stylus with a slate computer like the Tablet PC.
- A projector or large shared monitor
The shared monitor helps the the team see the design ideas in process and engage them in real-time. (This is part of a larger practice we call pair design.)
- Microsoft OneNote
OneNote's handwriting tools make it quick and easy to sketch out ideas, copy and paste them for modification, scale them, share them the client, and export them to other programs if need be.
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To overcome some of the limitations of the program, Snag-it helps us make handwritten lines into graphics that we can draw on top of and make selections more easily.
We have at times challenged this setup and its components, seeking to overcome its limitations, but nothing has yet come close.
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When considering competing ideas, he'll draw them both out so they can be discussed. When an idea is dumped, he'll write down the reason why and put a red line through it.
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When diagramming scenarios, he'll connect screens with arrows that describe the point of interaction and the result.
Once the big ideas are iterated to satisfaction, we'll often move to a more formal drafting software, like Adobe Fireworks to test out the screen ideas at a more realistic pixel level. We rarely stay in OneNote for the whole of a project.
Using this setup, teams are able to concretely iterate ideas: quickly and in a cheap, fast, malleable medium that easy exports to other tools and easily meshes with subsequent steps in the design process. Once designers start working this way they rarely want to go back.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The meeting between the two women was brief but full of emotion. It was a surprise for one. For the other, it was carefully orchestrated.
Broadway actress Jessie Mueller met singer-songwriter Carole King only once last fall, but both sides came away happier — the actress with implicit approval to play King, and King pleased with the way things were going.
Mueller had been playing King for years as she helped develop the Broadway-bound "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical," but King couldn't bear to rehash her early years so she kept it at arm's length.
Then, on the first day of rehearsals back in New York after playing an out-of-town tryout in San Francisco, Mueller spotted something at the door amid the hubbub of cast and crew.
"I see the hair," she recalls, referring to King's signature cascading curls. "I went, 'OK, I guess this is happening today.'" King was with her daughter, Sherry Kondor, the singer's manager and a producer of the show.
King and Mueller found each other in a crowded elevator, which then deposited them on the same floor. "There was no avoiding it then," says Mueller. "I think Sherry said, 'I have someone I'd like you to meet.'"
Mueller was a virtual expert on King, who wrote or co-wrote some of the greatest pop singles of the early 1960s.
She had been wading through King's catalog — from co-writing The Shirelles' hit "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" to Little Eva's "The Locomotion" to her masterpiece album "Tapestry."
The 30-year-old actress had brushed up on her piano work to more faithfully appear as a young King onstage, altered her singing voice to sound more like King and read everything about the songwriter. Still, seeing her in the flesh was striking.
"I think she makes people feel like they know her because of her music and because I'd been watching her and studying her, it was the strangest thing of feeling like 'I feel like I know you but I know I don't. So I don't want to overstep,'" says Mueller. "But she's so warm and open."
After the hug, King graciously met the rest of the cast and told stories. Then the 70-year-old sneaked away, leaving the stage pros to get on with portraying her budding career and first marriage, to Gerry Goffin.
"She didn't want there to be any kind of fuss, anybody getting dressed up or any kind of anticipation," says Kondor. "She just wanted to come in, find them in their zone and just say 'hello.'"
The show opened this month with mixed reviews but almost universally positive notices for Mueller, who previously starred in "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" with Harry Connick Jr. She replaced Kelli O'Hara in "Nice Work If You Can Get It."
King may be keeping her distance, but Kondor says her mother has seen video footage and has been impressed. "Everything she's seen of Jessie, she's so thrilled with," says Kondor. There's even one scene in which Mueller belts out "(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman" and turns with a big smile to acknowledge her fellow musicians. "Carole looked at that and said, 'I do that! How does she know I do that?'" says Kondor.
Finding someone to play King on Broadway wasn't easy. Theater professionals are known to be polished-looking belters, something Carole King really wasn't.
"There are not a lot of Carole Kings running around looking for work on Broadway," says Kondor. "There was something about Jessie when she walked into the room. Just looking at her, I thought to myself, 'This one could be Carole-like. Wait a minute.' The more she did her audition, the more it was clear, 'There's something about her.'"
Mueller is the third of four children raised by actors in Chicago. All of her siblings are in the business: sister Abby is in "Kinky Boots" on Broadway, brother Matt is in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" in Chicago and brother Andrew just closed the off-Broadway production of "Peter and the Starcatcher." Her father wasn't able to come to the "Beautiful" opening because he's in "42nd Street" back home.
Mueller knows she doesn't always sound exactly like King or look like her, but hopes she gives an honest overall impression. But King's own daughter says she does better than that.
"Watching it, there are those moments where I get so comfortable with it that it's like it feels like, 'That's my mommy!' It's very strange," she says. "Now, I'm not stupid. I know that's not my mom. But it's a little trigger in my brain that is kicking off whatever mommy neurons fire."
Jessie Mueller met Carole King once. That enough?
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The Barossa Valley is most strongly identified with Shiraz, its signature grape. These wines are powerful and full-bodied, taking on a variety of notes depending on the soil and cultivation.
In Hunter Valley, the most iconic variety is Semillon, a dry, sweet white wine made with golden grapes. It was first produced in the area in the early 19th century.
Margaret River wines are varied, and are roughly evenly split between whites and reds, including Sauvignon Blanc, Merlot and Chenin Blanc.
Yarra Valley is renowned for Chardonnay, sparkling wine and Pinot Noir. It has become one of the most popular and most-visited wine regions in the country, hosting millions of tourists every year.
Visit Ayers Rock
Ayers Rock, also known as Uluru, is a large sandstone formation in Central Australia. One of the country's most recognizable landmarks, it has been designated a World Heritage Site due to its geographic and cultural significance.
For aboriginals, it is a sacred monument. The local Pitjantjatjara tribe believes that it rose during the fabled Dreamtime, which imbued it with ancestral spirits.
It is visually stunning, glowing different colors depending on the time of day and year. Most notably, it shines red at dawn and dusk. Its beauty and history make it one of the most culturally important things to do in Australia.
Sydney Harbor Bridge
Built in 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the most stunning things to see in Australia. Simply called "the Bridge" by locals, it is the sixth-longest spanning-arch bridge, and the tallest steel arch bridge in the world, measuring 440 feet from sea level to the top.
The silhouette of the bridge, lit up against the night sky, is one of the most quintessential images of Australia. As a symbol of national pride, it has been featured prominently in a number of campaigns, including the area's annual New Year's Eve celebration, where it can be seen illuminated by fireworks.
American and Canadian citizens must have a passport that is valid for at least 90 days beyond the intended return date in order to enter and depart the country. Tourists must also provide proof of return or onward travel. Each traveler is responsible for ensuring that his/her passport is up to date. Citizens of other nationalities should check with respective authorities before departure.
Please ensure that the name on your passport matches all travel documents we have issued. If this is not the case, please contact us immediately.
Please make a photocopy of your passport's identification page and keep it separate from your original. It's also a good idea to leave a digital copy with someone at home. This may speed up the replacement process should you lose your passport.
Travelers to Australia are required to obtain a visa before traveling to the country for any purpose. US and Canadian citizens are eligible for Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) which cost AUD20 and are electronically linked to your passport, allowing for easy travel to Australia. These requirements change often and therefore it is best that you check with the Australian Embassy for the most up-to-date visa information.
Cancelation and Medical Insurance is highly recommended as it can safeguard against the expenses associated with in-country medical emergencies, lost or delayed baggage and emergency cancelation or interruption of your trip. Medical facilities in Australia are comparable to North American facilities. Please ensure your policy will provide you with upfront medical coverage so that you are not responsible for a hefty medical bill. Insurance can be purchased through us.
Currently Required Vaccinations: None
We always recommend that you see a doctor or health-care provider who specializes in Travel Medicine. They will best determine your vaccination and medication needs based on your health and immunization history, areas of the country you will be visiting, planned activities and up-to-the-minute requirement changes.
If there are any medical items that are essential to your health, such as prescription drugs or corrective eye wear, bring duplicates and divide them between your checked bags and hand luggage. While non-prescription drugs such as aspirin are generally available, it is difficult to replace prescription items.
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Australia is a large island and as such, the climate varies greatly from region to region. In general, the north end of the country receives hot and tropical weather, while the south end is sub-tropical and temperate. Most rainfall occurs around the coasts. The winter season is from June-August while the dry season, and the wet summer season is from December-February. In many parts of the country, seasonal high and lows can be great with temperatures ranging from above 50 °C (122 °F) to well below zero. For up-to-date forecasts, check weather.com.
Electricity in Australia is supplied at 220-240 volts. Square, three-pin sockets are standard in Australia. A multi-adaptor with different plug configurations can be very useful. We advise not to bring a hair dryer as it could blow a fuse.
Phone: Roaming charges vary between carriers, but tend to be quite costly. Consult your phone provider prior to departure to discuss overseas rates and international package options. It is also possible to purchase a SIM card locally to avoid international charges when calling numbers within Australia. (You should check to see that your cell phone is SIM card compatible.)
Internet: There are a variety of internet cafes and centers in most urban areas.
Generally speaking, we advise bringing $70-100 per day, per person, for spending money. Be sure to bring lots of small bills for porters, wait staff and housekeeping (not obligatory and based on your satisfaction). Bills come in different colors and denominations: 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 dollar notes are available. Australian coins come in denominations of 5, 10, 20, and 50 cents as well as 1 and 2 dollars.
We recommend that you get local currency from your bank before you leave home or from a bank machine in-country which is much cheaper than an exchange service at the airport or in tourist areas. Your bank card may work, but Visa or MasterCard are also widely accepted. It is suggested to call your bank and inform them of your travels before leaving, so suspicious activity is not suspected.
Capital: Canberra
Language: English
Currency: Australian Dollars (AUD)
Religion: No official religion
Time Zone: UTC +8 to +10
Electricity: 240V/50Hz
Telephone: Country code for calling you from outside Australia is +61
Calling North America: Dial 001 and your 10 digit number
Emergency numbers in Australia: Dial 000 or 112 for any type of emergency.


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Ingrate:'Jeopardy' champ Ken Jennings blasts show1 hour, 22 minutes agoNEW YORK - "Jeopardy!" ace Ken Jennings, who won $2.5 million during his 74-game winning streak, has a few unkind words to say about the show and dapper host Alex Trebek."I know, I know, the old folks love him," Jennings writes in a recent posting, titled "Dear Jeopardy!" on his Web site."Nobody knows he died in that fiery truck crash a few years back and was immediately replaced with the Trebektron 4000 (I see your engineers still can't get the mustache right, by the way)."Jennings also takes aim at the show's "effete, left-coast" categories and "same-old" format."You're like the Dorian Gray of syndication," he says. "You seem to think `change' means replacing a blue polyethylene backdrop with a slightly different shade of blue polyethylene backdrop every presidential election or so."A call by The Associated Press to "Jeopardy!" spokesman Jeff Ritter was not immediately returned Tuesday.Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, snagged 74 wins on "Jeopardy!" in 2004 before he was beaten by challenger Nancy Zerg.Trebek, 66, has hosted the show since 1984. In a "correction" posted Monday on his Web site, Jennings offers an apology of sorts."We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a `cyborg,' not a `robot.'"http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060725/ap_en_tv/people_ken_jennings
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Firefighters who want to live in high-priced cities can work two jobs, said W. Michael Cox, chief economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. I think its great, he said. It gives you portfolio diversification in your income. Pay for essential workers like plumbers and cabdrivers will tend to go up, he said.
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The new Chevrolet Camaro has arrived in Hudson, FL. This fantastic car beats the competition, thanks to its powerful engine and sophisticated, nimble handling capability. The interior of this vehicle is as spectacular and brilliant as its exterior. The interior's rich texture, premium materials and the best-in-class technological features, all make driving the new Chevrolet Camaro an experience in itself. We are glad to feature a wide inventory for our Hudson, FL drivers who will settle for nothing less than the best.
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Assignment Full-time, full-year position Regionally competitive benefits package. Starting salary range is $70,000+ with actual placement depending on experience and qualifications. Reports to the Superintendent Note: This position is not part of any collective bargaining group and the incumbent will be placed on an individual contract with the Minnetonka Public Schools. Primary Objective of Position Manage the entire aquatics activities of the community facilities. Coordinate all aquatics, swim club, and first aid and training programs. The five areas of focus for this position include safety, compliance, people management, program and financial management along with aquatic leadership in the community. Job Responsibilities 1. Manage the aquatics facilities in the Minnetonka School District and surrounding beach areas within the District. 2. Coordinate the scheduling of all events at the aquatics facilities. 3. Supervise the Head Swim Club Coach, Head Age Group Coach, Lifeguard Services Coordinator, Aquatics Recreational Activities Coordinator, and Masters Swim Coaches, and Aquatics Office Assistant. 4. Work closely with the Coordinator of Facilities Services in regard to maintenance, mechanical or custodial issues. 5. Coordinate the purchasing, inventory and maintenance of pool equipment. 6. Manage programs, clinics and classes associated with the facilities including scheduling registration and payroll. 7. Work with staff to investigate and recommend strategies to effectively manage risk in aquatics facilities. 8. Maximize revenue producing opportunities through traditional and non-traditional usage of aquatics facilities. 9. Develop and monitor annual budget for aquatics facilities and programs. 10. Coordinate with physical education staff and district administration on the use of aquatics facilities. 11. Coordinate with the Anchor Club in the support of all aquatics activities. 12. Performs other duties of a similar nature or level. Job Requirements 1. Bachelor's Degree in Recreation, Sports Administration or related field is preferred. 2. Minimum of two years of successful related experience, including experience in a supervisory or leadership role. 3. Considerable knowledge of sports and recreational administration. 4. Considerable knowledge of the equipment, facilities, operations and techniques used in a comprehensive community aquatics program. 5. Ability to develop, coordinate, and direct varied activities involved in a community aquatics program. 6. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, supervisors, other agencies, participants, instructors, community leaders, and the general public. 7. Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing. 8. Ability to plan and supervise the work of paid staff and volunteers. *Note: It is possible to combine the Aquatics Director position with the girls' and/or boys' high school swimming and diving head coach assignments beginning with the 2020-21 season. Each of these coaching assignments provides an annual stipend of $6,077.
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At right, a patient gets a denture fixed in his mouth from self-styled roadside dentist Gurdeep Singh at his shop in Amritsar, India on Wednesday.
Most of these roadside dentists do not have any degree or authorized qualification but gained some sort of dental expertise either by working as a technician with a dentist or as a helper. Singh says he learned his skills from his late father and he has been doing this job for the last 40 years.
Many people who cannot afford the fee of a qualified dentist, go to roadside dentists to cure problems related to their teeth. According to Singh, he earns about $1.80 or more per day from his work, depending upon the number of patients.
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Self-styled roadside dentist Gurdeep Singh (in pink turban) works on making a denture at his shop in Amritsar, India.
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Gurdeep Singh shows various types of artificial teeth which he uses for his patients at his shop in Amritsar.
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Roadside dentist Gurdeep Singh waits for patients near a busy street in Amritsar.
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MIDDLETOWN — The planned medical school in Middletown may be the first in the country to teach students about anatomy and dissection using three-dimensional holograms of human cadavers.
MIDDLETOWN — The planned medical school in Middletown may be the first in the country to teach students about anatomy and dissection using three-dimensional holograms of human cadavers.
"For a long time, anatomy has been taught using cadaveric dissection, (but) there are both practical and educational limitations," said Dr. Alan Kadish, president and CEO of Touro College and University System, which is opening a medical school at the former Horton Hospital campus.
An actual organ or body can only be cut in the same spot once, Kadish said, so if a student makes a mistake they can't go back. Also, he said, there are practical, financial and ethical issues with obtaining, storing and disposing of human bodies.
And, he said, doing surgery on a cadaver doesn't train the students for everything they have to do on a living person — differences in tissue texture, flowing blood and working organs.
Also, with the holograms, students can add and take away layers of a body, or zoom in on different areas — as close as to the cellular or DNA level — Dr. David Lenihan, Touro's preclinical dean and associate professor of neuroanatomy and neuroscience, said in a news release.
"(There's) a lot more gained than lost" by using the holograms, Kadish said.
The Virtual Learning Center will be able to accommodate 15 students at a time. Touro officials said in news release that it will cost about $300,000 to build, with updates of about $20,000 yearly. Kadish said they would also use plastic models, and a few actual bodies, as teaching aids.
The medical school is scheduled to open in August 2014, and Kadish said they're on track to make that date — they've done some construction preparation, and he said they expect to get accreditations that they need in May.
He said there aren't any medical schools in the United States now that are using hologram cadaver technology, but that there are some in Europe that use similar technology.