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TEMPE, Ariz. – Young slugger Mark Trumbo could thrust himself into the picture for the Angels with a strong spring, Angels manager Mike Scioscia said on Sunday in his daily session with the media.
"Mark's got an opportunity to win a lot of playing time," Scioscia said. "We're going to get him acclimated to first base to begin with and get him some work in the outfield."
A pitcher and all-around athlete when he was drafted in 2004 out of Villa Park High School, about 15 minutes from Angel Stadium, Trumbo has been primarily a first baseman in six Minor League seasons.
He has played some corner outfield the past two seasons but was not given any starts there in the Venezuelan Winter League, where he put up more big numbers after leading Minor League baseball with his 36 homers for Triple-A Salt Lake last year. A number of fans would like to see the Angels give him a look at third base.
"They tried him as a third baseman [after he signed], and we've talked about revisiting it," Scioscia said. "He's still a work in progress at first base. His tool set lends itself to the outfield."
Trumbo, who goes 6-foot-4 and about 220 pounds, gets great leverage and drives the ball with tremendous power. His ongoing challenge involves pitch recognition and not putting himself in bad counts. He launched mammoth shots in the Pacific Coast League that his Bees teammates are still talking about.
Scioscia's daily Kendry Morales report after an impressive hitting exhibition on Saturday: "There's some work he needs to do. From the offensive side, that's the least of his concerns. His first round of fielding drills was very encouraging. From the offensive side, I don't think there's any question he could swing the bat on Opening Day. Whether [or not] he can get through Spring Training with flying colors, there are definitely going to be some DH days for him to get a little different look."
Scioscia's daily Scott Kazmir report: "We're seeing him throw the ball with better velocity and less effort, which should theoretically help his command. We're seeing arm speed creating better spin on his slider. His changeup is a really good pitch. It's early, but he never threw the ball last spring as well as he is now."
Scioscia on Maicer Izturis' durability issues: "He played 114 games two years ago and probably could have played 130. This guy works out as hard as anybody in the clubhouse. He's experimented with trying to back off, with different routines. He's had a little issue with durability. If we get anywhere from 90 to 110 games from him, we're going to be very happy. If we get more, we've got to consider it a bonus."
Scioscia on Mike Trout's ETA with the Angels: "This guy's as far advanced as anybody the past few generations we've seen. He's got a great head. We're excited to see him as a player, but we're not expecting him to run routes in center like Torii Hunter did or run the bases like Chone Figgins did. There's growth he needs before he's a Major League baseball player. This guy's got a plan every day. This guy's going to be a very good player very soon. What his numbers are going to be in 10 years, nobody knows."
The second full day of workouts on Sunday was cut short by heavy rains that cleared the fields soon after the players had gone out to work. Brandon Wood began to swing on soft toss for the first time after experiencing some back stiffness.
The following Angels games will be broadcast over MLB Network this spring: Feb. 27, at Dodgers, noon PT; March 1, Reds, noon; March 3, Royals, 6 p.m.; March 4, White Sox, noon; March 6, Diamondbacks, 4 p.m.; March 8, Rangers, 8 p.m.; March 21, Cubs, 1 p.m. —Lyle Spencer
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Good Afternoon,,, I'm a big Bobby Abreu fan and I, for one, really want to see Bobby back in 2012, his option will vest with 433 P.A.-(Bobby's avg: 699 P.A. per year)– that being said, do you think the Angels will limit Bobby's P.A.'s for the sole reason to make sure his option does Not vest? I don't want to see that happen, But I also understand it's a possibility… I Believe Bobby Abreu is going to have a Great 2011 and Still be very productive for 2012………. So, I'm wondering if I'm alone in thinking that the Angels would sit him down simply to limit his Plate Appearances???
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Good Afternoon,,, I'm a big Bobby Abreu fan and I, for one, really want to see Bobby back in 2012, his option will vest with 433 P.A.-(Bobby's avg: 699 P.A. per year)– that being said, do you think the Angels will limit Bobby's P.A.'s for the sole reason to make sure his option does Not vest? I don't want to see that happen, But I also understand it's a possibility… I Believe Bobby Abreu is going to have a Great 2011 and Still be very productive for 2012………. So, I'm wondering if I'm alone in thinking that the Angels would sit him down simply to limit his Plate Appearances???
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Trumbo at third, hadn't thought about that. Makes things interesting come trade time later this season concerning Callaspo, Izzy, and Wood. If all three are having decent seasons and Trumbo is ready to come up and take over at the hot corner…..could be interesting. I can't see him coming up to play that position though without some significant time in the minors to learn it. I guess the key indicator on the clubs intentions is that if Trumbo doesn't make the opening day line up and is sent down, seeing where they play him may broadcast some intentions. Keep the updates coming buddy, I'll be there after the allstar break!!
Good Afternnon,,,, I watched the game against the Reds today with Brandon Wood starting at 3rd base and I liked what I saw, compared to last year.. Last year he kind of looked Intimidated and Un-easy at the plate and yet today he looked like a completely different player, at the plate.. His face said it all, Confident, thats what I saw from him today, that and if I'm correct, it looks like he has opened up his stance a little and had his hands and bat a little bit higher and actually hit a double with 2 strikes against him.. Now as much as I'd like to see him turn the page from last year and have a great year whether at 3rd or where ever,, Do you think he will be able to not only make the 25 man roster but actually get the opportunity to play?? Because I am rooting for Brandon to be able to do just that…….. Thank You………


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I understand that discussions that would have seen Pamplona Capital, a private equity firm, acquiring control of Stock Spirits Group, fell apart last week.
People close to the deal said that Oaktree Capital Management, Stock Spirits' current owner, had become uncomfortable with the roughly-£590m price-tag for which it had agreed to sell the company.
The collapse of the talks represents the second time that Oaktree has failed to offload Stock Spirits following an earlier attempt to float the business on the stock market.
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Pamplona's backers include Alfa Group, a company headed by Mikhail Fridman and one of the members of the AAR alliance which last year agreed to end its conflict-plagued joint venture with BP in Russia by selling out to Rosneft, the Kremlin-controlled energy giant. The deal netted Mr Fridman and his partners at least $7bn each.
Stock, which is based in Britain, has been owned by Oaktree since 2007. Sky News revealed its talks with Pamplona last month.
The drinks company traces its roots back to the Austro-Hungarian empire of the late 19th century, and now claims to be the biggest spirits producer by volume in the Czech Republic and Poland. It is also a major player in markets such as Croatia, Italy, Slovakia and Slovenia.
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This Date In Baseball History
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1907 — Walter Johnson pitched the Washington Senators to a 7-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians for the first of his 417 victories.
1922 — Ken Williams of the St. Louis Browns hit two home runs in the sixth inning of rout over the Washington Senators.
1923 — Cleveland's Frank Bower went 6-for-6 with a double and five singles as the Indians routed the Washington Senators 22-2.
1956 — Before a crowd of 57,000, the largest in minor league history, 50-year-old Satchel Paige of Miami beat Columbus in an International League game in the Orange Bowl.
1968 — Joe Keough of the Oakland A's hit a pinch home run in his first major league at-bat in the eighth inning of the second game of a doubleheader against the New York Yankees. The A's won the nightcap 4-3 in 10 innings after dropping the first game 3-0.
1971 — The New York Mets beat the Braves 20-6 at Atlanta. Ken Boswell led the Mets with four hits and five RBIs, including a grand slam off Mike McQueen.
1985 — Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth ended the strike by the Major League Baseball Players Association with the announcement of a tentative agreement. The season resumed Aug. 8.
1999 — Wade Boggs became the first player to homer for his 3,000th hit, with a two-run shot in Tampa Bay's 15-10 loss to Cleveland. Boggs already had a pair of RBI singles when he homered off Chris Haney in the sixth inning.
2004 — Greg Maddux became the 22nd pitcher in major league history to reach 300 victories, leading the Chicago Cubs to an 8-4 victory over San Francisco.
2007 — San Francisco's Barry Bonds hit home run No. 756 to break Hank Aaron's storied record with one out in the fifth inning, hitting a full-count, 84 mph fastball from Washington's Mike Bacsik. Noticeably absent were Commissioner Bud Selig and Aaron. The Nationals won the game, 8-6.
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2010 — The Toronto Blue Jays became the first team to hit eight homers in a game in three years, getting two apiece from Aaron Hill and J.P. Arencibia in a 17-11 victory over Tampa Bay. Jose Bautista, Adam Lind, Edwin Encarnacion and Lyle Overbay also connected for the Blue Jays.
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Speech-language pathologists and audiologists help people to communicate more effectively. Because communication disorders may occur at any age, hearing and communication specialists work with a wide range of clients, from infants and children with developmental delays to adults and the elderly who experience health problems that result in difficulties with communication.
In your freshman and sophomore years, you'll take classes covering typical speech, language, and hearing development and learn about a range of communication disorders. This foundational coursework will prepare you to begin intensive, guided, clinical observation experiences.
During your junior year, you'll spend a substantial amount of time in the Sir Alexander Ewing-Ithaca College Speech and Hearing Clinic, observing therapy and and learning how to plan and carry out therapy sessions. Our program is flexible enough that many students choose to study abroad during their junior year. If you choose to study abroad for a full semester, you will engage in your clinical observation experiences during the fall of your senior year.
As a senior, you'll have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience through our close association with local Head Start programs, in our speech and hearing clinic, or through selected alternative settings.
Although some of our students enter the workforce upon completion of their undergraduate studies, most pursue graduate study at Ithaca College or at other fine institutions. Our students are well prepared for graduate study in speech-language pathology or audiology, or even in related fields such as early childhood education.
Graduate programs in audiology and in speech-language pathology are highly competitive and selective. We offer automatic acceptance into our speech-language pathology graduate program for students who meet the admission criteria in place at the time they submit their graduate program application. Graduate study at Ithaca provides students with an education that meets all of the requirements for state licensure and for national certification as speech-language pathologists.


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Boca de Yuma Travel Guide
On the northeastern tip of Parque Nacional del Este sits Boca de Yuma, a pueblo that has been passed over by mass tourism because of its lack of accessible beachfront, though there is one fairly nice stretch of sand across the river. Boca de Yuma's setting along squat, ocean-pounded bluffs is undeniably impressive and it makes a pleasant stop for independent travellers seeking to experience everyday life in one of the DR's quieter corners. There's also great fishing in the area, and the town makes a good alternate entry point to many of the sights within Parque Nacional del Este. From here you can also take in the former stronghold of conquistador Ponce de León.
Within the village it's possible to wander along the shore, its rocks sculpted over time by the crashing surf, or pay a local fisherman RD$1200 to ferry you across the Río Yuma (and collect you later) to a pretty little beach called Playa Borinquen that you'll share only with a couple of grazing cows. Most of the little boats lining the beaches are still used primarily for fishing; this is one of the best fishing grounds for marlin in the entire Caribbean. Renting a boat and captain for the day will cost around RD$5000, more if you want to head for Isla Saona.
A short walk west of town along the waterfront is the national park station at the eastern entrance to Parque Nacional del Este (RD$100), from where you can hire horses (RD$1000 per person) or walk for an hour along the water to a natural land bridge from which turbulent jets of sea water rocket into the air. Just a short walk north of the park station, the cavernous Cueva de Berna, a large cave once inhabited by Tainos, makes for an alternate, if less spectacular, goal than the caves near Bayahibe. Along with hundreds of bats and small birds, you'll see Taino caritas (little faces) carved on the walls, though some have been defaced by graffiti.
A kilometre further inland from Cueva de Berna is another major Taino cave site, El Manantial del Guano, which includes three large underground lakes and a stone circle below a small hole in the cave roof, with dozens of petroglyphs representing Taino mythology, including the creation of humanity through the fertilization of the moon by the sun. Some anthropologists believe this may have been a Taino astronomical observatory, as the light through the chink in the ceiling hits a different petroglyph for every cycle of the moon. You can only visit the site with a guide (around RD$800) from the park station at Cueva de Berna.
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December 15, 2010
In September of this year, President Obama signed the Creating Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 into law. One of the primary attractions of this law is that for stock purchased between September 27, 2010 and December 31, 2010, a taxpayer will not have to pay any capital gains tax on the gain attributed to that stock at the time the taxpayer sells the stock.
Under the old law: a taxpayer who sold qualified small business stock could exclude 50% of any capital gains from the sale of that stock if the taxpayer held the stock for more than five years prior to the sale.
In early 2009, Congress revised the law so that a taxpayer could exclude 75% of any capital gains for the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock acquired after February 17, 2009 and before January 1, 2011. However, under this new law, that 75% exclusion was further increased to a 100% exclusion of capital gains from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock acquired after September 27, 2010 and before January 1, 2011.
In order to qualify for the 100% elimination of federal1 capital gains taxes granted by the Creating Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, the following criteria must be met:
• Qualified small businesses are limited to domestic C-corporations only. As a result, a taxpayer who invests in an S-corporation, a limited liability company or a limited partnership will not qualify for this exclusion.
• Stock must be acquired directly from the corporation as original issue.
• Payment for the stock must be in the form of money, other property (not including stock) or as compensation for services provided to the corporation.
• At all times prior to and after the stock is issued, the gross assets of the corporation must be less than $50 million.
• The corporation must use 80% or more of the value of its assets in the active conduct of one or more qualified businesses. Corporation that do not engage in a "qualified business" include any business that operates a hotel, restaurant, farm or any businesses that involves the performance of services in the fields of health, law, engineering, architecture, accounting, financial services, brokerage services, or any business where the principal asset is the reputation or skill of one or more of its employees.
• Finally, the taxpayer must hold the stock for a minimum of five years before selling the stock.
If you are considering investing in or starting a qualified small business before the close of 2010, please consider the impact of this Act with your lawyer or CPA.
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OEF Summary, Feb. 24, 2010: Forces in Afghanistan Nab Bomb Maker
Dispatches from the Front:
KABUL, Feb. 24, 2010 -- A combined Afghan and international security force arrested a suspected bomb maker after discovering an explosives cache in Afghanistan's Helmand province yesterday as part of Operation Moshtarak.
The cache consisted of more than 100 pounds of explosive, 220 pounds of ammonium nitrate, an 8 2mm mortar fuse, three ammunition-filled vests, and various explosive components such as anti-tamper switches.
The bomb maker was found with blasting caps on his person. The explosives were destroyed on site.
In other operations yesterday:
- A combined Afghan and international security force searched a vehicle in Helmand province after intelligence reports indicated militant activity. A search of the vehicle indicated a Taliban commander was possibly in a nearby village, which the combined force searched with the assistance of local elders. The security force detained several men for further questioning.
- A combined patrol discovered a weapons cache consisting of 22 mortar rounds in Khost province. The ordnance was destroyed on site.
- In Helmand province, a patrol discovered 15 bags of marijuana totaling more than 200 pounds. The drugs were destroyed.
- A separate patrol discovered a weapons cache while searching an insurgent bunker in Helmand province as part of Operation Moshtarak. The cache consisted of three 107 mm rockets, five rocket-propelled grenades, two anti-personnel charges, an artillery fuse and a hand grenade. The ordnance was destroyed.
- Afghan National Police defused four mines and discovered 110 pounds of explosive materials in Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan and Kunduz provinces yesterday.
- In an operation conducted in Herat province, Afghan police discovered a machine gun, three mines, three hand grenades, five rocket rounds and 1,150 rounds of rifle ammunition.
- A patrol discovered an explosives cache in Kandahar province. The cache contained nearly 90 pounds of ammonium nitrate, eight 155 mm shell casings, two radios, a dismantled radio, a circuit board and a large spool of wire. The materials were destroyed on site.
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A record-breaking storm that dumped 4 feet of snow in parts of western South Dakota left tens of thousands of people without electricity on Monday and ranchers bracing for heavy losses as they assess how many of their cattle died during the unseasonably early blizzard.
The weekend storm was part of a powerful weather system that also buried parts of Wyoming and Colorado with snow, and spawned destructive tornadoes in Nebraska and Iowa. At least four deaths were attributed to the weather, including a South Dakota man who collapsed while cleaning snow off his roof.
Cattle ranchers throughout western South Dakota were reporting losing between 20 percent and 50 percent of their herds, and early estimates suggest the region may have lost 5 percent or more of its cattle, said Silvia Christen, executive director of the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association.
Christen said the storm not only killed calves that were due to be sold soon, but also cows that would produce next year's calves.
"This is from an economic standpoint something we're going to feel for a couple of years," Christen said.
National Guard troops were helping utility crews pull equipment through the heavy, wet snow to install new electricity poles in western South Dakota, where more than 22,000 homes and businesses remained without power Monday afternoon, according to utility companies.
At least 1,600 poles were toppled in the northwest part of the state alone, and workers are expecting to find more as they make their way into rural prairie areas, Grand River Electric Coop spokeswoman Tally Seim said.
"We've got guys flying over our territory, counting as they go. We're finding more as we are able to access the roads. The roads have been pretty blocked on these rural country roads," Seim said.
"One of our biggest challenges is getting access to areas that are still snowed in," added Vance Crocker, vice president of operations for Black Hills Power, whose crews were being hampered by rugged terrain in the Black Hills region. "Safety is our No. 1 concern for both our customers and employees working in this treacherous terrain."
In Rapid City, where a record-breaking 23 inches of snow fell, travel was slowly getting back to normal.
The Rapid City airport and all major roadways in the region had reopened by Monday. The city's streets also were being cleared, but residents were being asked to stay home so crews could clear downed power lines and tree branches, and snow from roadsides.
"It's a pretty day outside. There's a lot of debris, but we're working to clear that debris," said Calen Maningas, a Rapid City firefighter working in the Pennington County Emergency Operations Center.
Still, schools across the region were closed, along with many public offices.
Cleanup also continued after nine tornadoes hit northeast Nebraska and northwest Iowa on Friday, injuring at least 15 people and destroying several homes and businesses. Authorities also are blaming the weather for a car accident that killed three people along a slick, snow-covered road in Nebraska.
In South Dakota, the 19 inches of snow that fell in Rapid City on Friday broke the city's 94-year-old one-day snowfall record for October by about 9 inches, according to the National Weather Service. The city also set a record for snowfall in October, with a total of 23.1 inches during the storm. The previous record was 15.1 inches in October 1919.
Temperatures in the Rapid City area were expected to warm into the 60s on Monday to continue melting the heavy snow, according to the National Weather Service.


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Researchers at the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP, Spain), the universities of Zaragoza and Autonomous of Barcelona (Spain) in collaboration with the University of Manchester (UK) and University of Liverpool (UK) have just published in the journal PLOS ONE. Their study of trackways confirms that the titanosaur sauropod dinosaurs that lived in Fumanya (Catalonia, Spain) during the Late Cretaceous walked in the same way, independently of their body size.
|Walking just like its giant parent, a sauropod plays 'catch-up' moving just like an adult!
Titanosaurs were a group of sauropod dinosaurs that had a characteristic arrangement of the femur and pelvic girdle that is reflected in the trackways that have been preserved in the fossil track record. Their gait was wide and the footprints left yield a characteristic 'wide-gauge' trackway.
Reconstruction of a dinosaur from the Catalan, pre‐Pyrenees, about 70 million years ago. Credit: Oscar Sanisidro. Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont.
|Juvenile Titanosaur trackway from Fumanya, picture by Bernat Vila
Fumanya, a unique dinosaur site
The Fumanya sites of Fígols and Vallcebre, were declared a Site of National Cultural Interest in 2005. The paleontological site includes the ancient open-cast coal mines in Fumanya Sud, Mina Esquirol, Fumanya Nord and Tumí. On the site, which covers an area of more than 38,000 square meters, more than 3000 dinosaur footprints have been have been found and fossil remains of eggs and bones have been identified, together with tree trunks and leaves from different types of palms. It is considered to be one of the most important sites in Europe for fossil remains of dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous.
|From left to right, Manning, Vila, Egerton and Galobart collect LiDAR data on juvenile
trackway using a Z+F LiDAR unit.
Fumanya, a unique dinosaur site
|Titanosaur trackways from Fumanya: LiDAR helps lift the detail.... see paper in PLoS One!
Fumanya, a unique dinosaur site
The Fumanya sites of Fígols and Vallcebre, is for me one of the best examples of Titanosaur trakway surface in the whole of Europe, if not the world. The paleontological site includes the ancient open-cast coal mines in Fumanya Sud, Mina Esquirol, Fumanya Nord and Tumí which were the reason behind in the discovery of the track-bearing horizons by a local school teacher. When you have over 38,000 square meters of exposure and more than 3000 dinosaur tracks...LiDAR is the only way to record, measure and analyse such a vast site. The Manchester team has been working with the ICP team on this site for nearly seven years now and we all know there are many more tracks and trails to be teased from this ancient surface using the light fantastic of LiDAR!
Bernat Vila, Oriol Oms, Àngel Galobart, Karl T. Bates, Victoria M. Egerton and Phillip L. Manning. "Dynamic similarity in Titanosaur sauropods: evidence from the Fumanya ichnological tracksite dinosaur (Southern Pyrenees)." PLOS ONE http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057408


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Police: Drug Deal Resulted in Fatal Shooting
GLADSTONE (AP) — Police in a Kansas City suburb say a double shooting in an apartment complex that left one man dead was the result of a drug deal gone bad.
A source reports an 18-year-old Kansas City man has been charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the shooting death of 23-year-old Ashton Gann early Friday morning in Gladstone.
Gann was found shot multiple times about 4 a.m. at the entryway of an apartment complex. An hour later police found a second man -- who was charged with killing Gann -- in the entryway of a separate building, also suffering from a gunshot wound.
Witnesses told police Gann and another man went into the apartment complex to participate in a cocaine deal.
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The root cause of why any company prospers and accomplishes success is not because of the fact that it has resources, but because of the fact that the people who are employed in that company are discharging their duties very effectively and efficiently. Thus, in order to increase the productivity of the company and make it reach greater heights, the employers have to make sure that they hire the right kind of people for the right kind of job.
If the hiring process is compromised, then in the longer run, the company might have to compromise on the profits. The experts who hire employees for job vacancy in Bhopal agree with several other experts that the quality of employees is something that should be given utmost importance.
Here are the 6 most essential qualities that the employers should look for when they hire employees:
- Self-Motived: A company looks forward to hire those people who have their own direction in life and are motivated to work. Such employees work for the betterment of the common good and take their work seriously and enjoy it. Such people are aware of their goal in life and also know that in order to achieve that they need to work really hard.
- Self-Awareness: A candidate who has a thorough analysis of his character is likely to prosper everywhere he goes. If he is aware of his dos and don'ts, then he will be able to accommodate in any situation and transform the conditions that target his weakness to the conditions that are his strength.
- Logic: No company wants an employee who is simply a person who mugs up information. The employers look forward to hire those people who apply logic and radical thinking when it comes to solving complex problems. The more the person can use his or her mind to explore options, the better he will be at solving any challenges at hand with relative ease without panicking.
- Proactive: People who are pro-active make use of the time that is available. They do not always wait for instructions and do something productive when they have ample time. Such kind of the people are the ones who come up with innovations as they come up with new ideas and better ways of optimization when they are free.
- A Good Learner: When people join a workplace, there is a huge transition between the two worlds. Many people thus fail to cope up with the transformation, but those who are good learners are able to adapt to the change very quickly. When you enter a workplace, there are so many things that are absolutely new for you and you have to learn all those things. If you are not a fast learner, then the competition is going to overpower you.
- Dependable: If the employee is dependable then you can trust him with your company. He is going to remain loyal to his work and will not work with dishonesty at all.


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Music publication Billboard is reporting that Beats Electronics co-founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine could be added to Apple's executive team if the rumored $3.2 billion Beats acquisition goes through. "People familiar with the Beats Electronics acquisition talks" say that the pair would be given "yet-to-be-confirmed executive roles" on Apple's team and that Apple could announce the hirings at its Worldwide Developers Conference in early June.Speculation about the Beats deal has continued to swirl since the story broke last Thursday—this would be the largest acquisition in Apple's history, but the company has so far remained silent about its intent. The Billboard report states that Iovine "would likely oversee all of Apple's music strategy and handle relationships with labels and publishers," which would be a major change for the company. Iovine is a music producer who, in addition to co-founding Beats, was the co-founder of Interscope Records and is the chairman of Universal Music Group's Interscope Geffen A&M umbrella label.
Apple has been a major player in the music industry for quite a while now, but digital song and album sales both began to shrink in earnest last year. Some of last week's speculation centered on Beats' streaming music subscription service, which could theoretically be used to complement song downloads from the iTunes Store and the Pandora-like music streaming offered by iTunes Radio while competing against newcomers like Spotify and Rdio.
Lest you add Apple hiring Dre to the list of ill-fated relationships between tech companies and celebrities, remember that Dre is an entertainer and celebrity, but he (together with Iovine) has built and successfully run a boutique consumer electronics company for more than half a decade. That's a business acumen that Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga, and will.i.am lack.


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Hotel Inglaterra in about 1900
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Inglaterra By Night
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Founded in 1875, the Inglaterra is Cuba's oldest hotel and has been declared a National Monument. It was exceedingly popular in the nineteenth century and is still favoured by visitors who particularly enjoy hanging out in its covered café, having drinks or sandwiches on tables individually decorated by Cuban contemporary artists and watching the world go by.
A hiss through the potted plants could signal your chance to buy a coin with Che on it, or a newspaper, or rather more exotic wares. But if that vexes you there is always the wonderful Seville-style tiled bar to visit, with its gilded flamenco-dancer statue, thought to be of the celebrated nineteenth century Spanish courtesan La Belle Otero.
The rest of the ground floor of the Inglaterra is also lavishly decorated, with chandeliers, stained glass, ornate wrought iron, marble floors and moulded ceilings.
The pavement café has a distinguished history. It used to be known as La Acera del Louvre (the pavement of the Louvre café which stood on the site) and became a meeting place for supporters of Cuban independence from Spain. A prominent Spaniard was even converted to their cause on the site – on 27th November 1871, when the Spanish military captain Don Nicolás Estévanez, heard the shots of eight innocent medical students being executed he broke his sword in two and renounced his military career with the words 'Humanity and justice are more important than my fatherland'. Stirring stuff, and although the Inglaterra isn't one of Havana's most shipshape hotels it is extremely popular for its evocative atmosphere and location.
© 2012 Nigel Hunt
Air conditioning
Busy street
Cafe / snack bar
Car rental desk
Elevators / lifts
International cuisine
Internet on hotel's PCs
Malecon max 5min walk
Mastercard & Visa (not USA bank issued) accepted
Medical services
Money exchange
Nightclub nearby
Old building restored
Reception staff speak Spanish, English, French, German, Italian
Safety - uniformed security personnel 24hrs
Shop(s) with basic supplies, souvenirs & gifts
Shops max 2min walk
Snacks and drinks 24 hours a day
Taxis desk
Telephone - national & international calls
Tours & tourist information desk
TV room/bar (international channels & videos)
Voltage 110/120
Voltage 220/240
Very similar to the standard rooms with balcony and view on the busy centre of Havana.
© 2012 Nigel Hunt
110 volt outlets
220 volt outlets
Air conditioning
Baby's cot (on request)
Bathroom (ensuite)
Bathtub or shower
Bedside tables
Desk with chair
Double bed
Hot & cold water
In-room safe
Minibar / Fridge
Satellite TV
Twin beds
Rooms at the Inglaterra are cosy rather than sleek, but given the age of the building it would be churlish to expect gleaming sophistication. The rooms come in all shapes and sizes and those facing the street are more spacious than those facing into the building's courtyards.
Interiors are rather chintzy, with rose-strewn frills and flounces on curtains and bedspreads. The chandeliers are horrid but the old built-in cupboards are endearing. The modern furniture is slightly bashed about but the colonial rocking chairs found in some rooms are attractive. The original tiled floors are very pretty.
Please note none of the rooms at the Inglaterra are double-glazed. Please be prepared for a certain amount of ambient racket from canaries in cages, passing traffic and voluble Cubans.
© 2012 Nigel Hunt
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Revolutionary Knitting with Daniel YuhasKnitting from the center out is a 'revolutionary old technique' for making just about anything. Working on double-pointed needles and beginning with just a few stitches, our work will grow outwards with each spin around the needles. In this class we'll learn the disappearing loop cast-on and knit a beautiful pinwheel pattern. What you begin in class could become a coaster, a holiday ornament, a hat, a baby blanket, a pillow, or a tablecloth—the choice is yours!
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I'd like to see iGigbook implementing a force virtual keyboard feature when a blue tooth foot pedal is connected. I own Forescore and it has that feature which is very handy. Also, while at, it would be great to be able to turn pages back.
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Re: Force Virtual Keyboard
The page turner devices that emulate a keyboard to me have this problem as a design flaw but the brilliance on the part of the makers of these devices is that they get the developers of apps to create a workaround for that design flaw. I think the makers of these devices should get together with Apple so that a global switch can be implemented to display the virtual keyboard at all times because when you have one of these devices connected, it affects all apps that need keyboard input. I don't view what Forscore does as a feature, it's more of a workaround for a bad design.
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Re: Force Virtual Keyboard
The design flaw seems to be rather with the IOS itself: it disables the on screen keyboard when an external blue tooth keyboard(page tuner) is connected. Foresocre has a feature called force virtual keyboard, which, when turned on, will bring up the virtual keyboard. I hope that iGigbook will consider implementing the same feature in the next update.
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Nick Clegg will demand a culture change across British industry to tackle "old-fashioned attitudes" to flexible, family-friendly working practices.
The Deputy Prime Minister will say that despite efforts to introduce flexible parental leave and extend free childcare there are "hidden prejudices" which can limit women's career ambitions and men's ability to spend time with their families.
He will urge parents and teachers to inspire girls to focus on high-flying careers and insist that countries such as Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands have shown that it is possible to have family-friendly working conditions while remaining competitive.
In a speech at the launch of Cityfathers, a network for working dads in the City of London, Mr Clegg will say that "radical change" is needed, including sweeping away the "Edwardian rules" which hold back working families.
Mr Clegg will say how he "fought to drag those clapped out rules into the 21st century".
As well as measures to improve access to childcare, including the tax break worth up to £2,000 due to come into effect next autumn, Mr Clegg will highlight the changes allowing fathers to share parental leave from April next year.
But he will say that changes to the law are "only the start" and "culturally, we also need to recognise that we can't build a more family-friendly Britain unless all of us see the world differently".
Mr Clegg will say: "We need to tackle once and for all the hidden prejudices which still limit the choices of many men and women. And we need to create the same equal opportunities for both sexes to care as well as earn.
"How do we do that? Well, we've got to tear down those barriers which still prevent too many brilliant women from reaching the top of their professions.
"For example, despite progress in recent years, women still account for just 21% of board positions on FTSE 100 companies. And only four of those companies have a female CEO.
"That impacts on all of us, with estimates showing that the UK could boost its GDP by up to £23 billion if we use the skills of our female workforce more effectively.
"Parents and teachers have an incredibly important role to play here: inspiring every young girl to think big and aim high for their future. If they've got the talent and ambition to succeed, then no job should be closed off to them - whether it's to build their own business, lead a top company or work at the cutting edge of science, technology or engineering."
More also needs to be done to encourage men into caring professions, Mr Clegg will say, with people making choices "based on what's right for them not outdated preconceptions about their gender".
He will say many fathers are "pushed to see themselves as a breadwinner first and carer second" and around a quarter of new fathers take only a week or less of paternity leave.
Mr Clegg will say that some City firms had already recognised the benefits of a better work-life balance.
" Yet that kind of fantastic corporate support still isn't translating into the wholesale shift in attitudes we need," he will say."That's especially true in jobs with an entrenched long hours' culture like here in the City."
He will urge business leaders to ensure every family who can benefit from the new rights is able to do so, adding that " together we can generate a once-in-a-generation chain reaction across our offices, factories and other workplaces".
He will say: " As competition increases, no successful business leader would think twice about investing in the latest technology to help their business get ahead. In the same way, we need to show how an upgrade in old-fashioned attitudes to flexible working can sharpen competitiveness even more."
Parenting charity NCT's chief executive Belinda Phipps said: "We welcome the focus the Government has placed on this issue and we're pleased to see a spotlight on the need for better equality in the workplace.
"It's shocking that so few fathers currently feel able to take advantage of paternity leave. One of the problems behind this is the low level of statutory maternity and paternity pay - less than the weekly national minimum wage.
"NCT would like to see the Government take action to increase maternity and paternity pay and ensure fathers can afford to take advantage of shared parental leave when it comes into effect."


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Bring business analysis to streaming events
AptSoft's and iSpheres' complex event processing solutions provide effective ways to sift business meaning from system events in real time
It's no secret to IT people, or any business executive worth his Beemer, that an amazing wealth of actionable business intelligence is coursing through enterprise applications, databases, and even system logs nearly every moment of every day. The problem has not only been plucking the meaningful events from the unimportant ones but also finding the often seemingly unrelated patterns between them, and doing so before it's too late to make a difference -- before the supplier raises the price, the shopper leaves the Web site, or the scammer transfers the funds.
CEP (complex event processing) promises to help you capitalize on the rich information hidden in your data streams -- information typically tossed away in log files and data warehouses. CEP helps users correlate complex events (often seemingly unconnected ones), spot trends, trap anomalies, and trigger alerts that can be used to seize opportunities or mitigate risks.
Tapping into distributed message buses to unearth important combinations and patterns of events that span multiple, disparate systems and lengthy, dynamic business processes, CEP meets challenges that traditional analysis and automation tools are inadequately suited to address. As a result, CEP is catching on in industries such as banking and insurance, where early adopters are using it to detect fraud and compliance violations. Other promising applications of CEP are RFID and CRM, where the objects, actions, and rules for handling them are constantly changing.
The science behind CEP is the ability to create high-level "business" events from numerous low-level system events. CEP events are created by filtering real-time data (from middleware, applications, databases, and Web services, for example) and infusing it with defining detail such as dependencies or causal relationships discovered by correlating other events.
For example, you could construct a CRM event from an "abandoned shopping cart" message (parsing out the transaction, customer ID, and time), using other filters to extract the value of goods in the cart and tapping the correlation capabilities of the CEP system to add causal indicators such as whether the commerce site was suffering performance problems. Your CRM event might also include customer value or rank from the customer database.
CEP solutions don't discover meaningful events and patterns on their own. You need to define what you're looking for. One of the biggest challenges for CEP vendors has been to develop an EPL (event processing language) that is lightweight enough to run in real time, powerful enough to correlate complex data and manage anomalies, and yet easy enough to be used by business analysts.
Regardless of whether the EPL is accessible to humans, the ongoing participation of business analysts is key to the success of any CEP project. Click for larger view. Configuring meaningful CEP rules and filters -- and adapting them to evolving business conditions -- will require a deep understanding of the underlying business process.
If you get it right, CEP can be far more flexible, responsive, and cost-effective than using traditional BAM (business activity monitoring) and BPM solutions. CEP doesn't require ripping out or recoding existing systems, and it is actually best applied in modest increments -- allowing for frequent and easy comparison of ROI metrics to rule sets.
Following is a look at products from two pioneers offering business-grade CEP applications. AptSoft Director for CEP 4.0 provides an infrastructure for CEP well-suited to apps such as fraud detection and CRM, whereas iSpheres Event Server 5.2 focuses on financial apps, RFID, and CRM. Both are doing great work applying CEP to their respective areas of expertise.
AptSoft Director for CEP 4.0
AptSoft took the wraps off its shiny new Director for CEP 4.0 release in February. The solution layers a Java-based event-processing engine atop metadata and policy modules for collecting and analyzing event stream data. Perhaps most importantly, Director provides easy-to-use, plain-English tools that business analysts can use to construct the complex rule sets and filters required to draw business intelligence from low-level events.
Factor in provisions for dynamic data retrieval, active insight and monitoring, and support for nonlinear, stateful workflow, and Director shapes up to be one of the more advanced CEP suites on the market.
Capable of processing roughly 1,600 events per second, Director is well-suited to small and midsize projects in need of flexible rule creation and maintenance. Included templates -- such as those for bridging communication with CRM applications Salesforce.com and Salesnet -- help put development over the top.
Setting up Director was a rather tedious process, requiring a good deal of manual tweaking to the underlying test bed and post-installation modifications. AptSoft would do well to beef up the wizard-driven configuration tools. Nevertheless, all went off without a hitch.
Event processing in Director involves capturing the message streams from your business systems -- or Touchpoints -- such as off a JMS (Java Message Service) message queue to create intermediate event objects for analysis. Successful matches to comparative rules, which can include relationship and temporal assessment, can invoke actions such as an alert or an e-mail to a customer, or they can spawn an entirely new event.
Touchpoints can come from any JMS-ready source, Web service, or via a custom adapter, allowing you to incorporate transactional data from your sales-force automation application, call center systems, EAI applications, or Web site. Although AptSoft doesn't offer any custom integration adapters itself, partner iWay Software can assist, or you can do it yourself using the modest SDK.
Design is definitely a strong suit for AptSoft. The plain-English syntax and graphical tools used to create pattern matching rules and temporal filters are inspired. Compared with iSpheres EPL, creating rule sets and event flows was a snap. Nontechnical business consultants will be able to sit down and immediately become productive -- really. Deployment to the servers is a one-click process.
Director's intermediate objects can also dynamically draw in static data sources without custom coding, so rules can easily combine RDBMS queries -- for a customer's VIP status, for example -- with real-time inputs to produce finely tuned actions such as placing a customer service ticket on the call-back queue.
The functions for time-based correlation and sequencing are superb. For capturing events in nonlinear flows, the optional workflow designer module's graphical tools proved quite nimble. The Interact module, also available at additional cost, allows you to build human interaction into the system: An exception alert -- anything that requires human intervention or approval -- fires off an e-mail that solicits responses for continued processing.
A number of other features make Director stand out. In-memory queuing of the event dispatcher improves nonpersistent rules processing and transaction speed. Hot fail-over boosts reliability, and newly improved clustering capability helps ensure availability of mission-critical processes.
An onboard rules repository provides basic check-in/check-out, and template adapters for parsing IBM Lotus Notes and Novell GroupWise e-mail help Director slip into enterprise communications infrastructures.
Nevertheless, Director has room to grow. Event flow simulation would be a useful addition, and I would like to see the opportunity to import processes from external modeling tools. AptSoft indicated it would begin adding BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) support in the near future.
Furthermore, although the browser-based dashboard provides decent real-time monitoring of run-time activities, reporting facilities proved lackluster. In most cases, reports amounted to little more than static data dumps. Support for user-customizable reports and tools for onboard data analysis, as well as deep drill-down capabilities with correlation and grouping, would go a long way toward unearthing the wealth of event data buried in noisy messaging environments.
Using AptSoft Director for CEP 4.0, businesses can begin to comprehend the real patterns and trends developing within their event-based ecosystems. Requiring no modification to existing systems, and priced at a fraction of the cost of less-flexible BPM solutions, Director makes it possible to draw meaningful correlations among the blizzard of low-level events otherwise obscured from decision-making processes.
iSpheresEvent Server 5.2
The iSpheres Event Server 5.2 and its companion IDE, EPL Studio, deliver a lightweight but sturdy platform for CEP applications focusing on activities within relatively narrow time windows.
Clocking in at more than 470,000 events per second, this Java-based package -- adapted from research out of a Caltech/U.S. Air Force project in the late 1990s -- can burn through streams of real-time data with exhaustive analysis. On the downside, Event Server lacks the comprehensive persistence, clustering, and load balancing capabilities of AptSoft Director. Limited means to uniformly administer distributed CEP farms and only bare-bones reporting also make Event Server a rougher ride than Director, but still well worth a look.
Installation and setup of the Event Server was a swift and truly painless process, due in part to the lightweight infrastructure on which it runs. Event Server consists of an event-monitoring engine -- capable of capturing and processing JMS and SOAP data streams -- and several console and browser-based management interfaces for basic local and remote server administration.
As opposed to AptSoft Director, Event Server neither requires nor supports an RDBMS for persisting events. Instead of pushing data out to a relational database, Event Server uses a flat file on disk. Nor is there a need for a Web or application server, as iSpheres bundles the Jetty HTTP Server and Servlet container.
This low-overhead assembly is an efficient processing mechanism, capable of standing up to heavy volume, but it comes at the expense of enterprise-grade persistence over long-running, concurrent processes. Event Server would be well-suited to detecting an arbitrage opportunity or for monitoring brokers for market timing, where the tell-tale events happen quickly and in no particular order. It would be less suited to monitoring longer running processes that involve parallel, concurrent transactions, such as those found in commercial lending and other financing scenarios.
At this stage of the game, all EPLs are proprietary; no open standards yet exist. Whereas AptSoft's rule language is friendly to businesspeople, iSpheres' is quite friendly to developers. iSpheres EPL is fully extensible, allowing users to add new functions and extend the functionality of EPL's keywords and components. Enterprise developers will appreciate the ability to tinker under the hood to meet custom specifications.
I found the EPL syntax clean and unambiguous. Using its On-When-Then framework (with Catch for exception handling) I could set up triggers, conditions, and actions in response to stream events. The EPL Studio -- used for programming in EPL -- offers a menu-driven UI for defining Event Server applications, enabling me to specify stream and data providers, build listeners, and construct templates and event definitions -- EPL rules -- over time-based constraints. With features such as one-click EPL code verification and dependency checking, EPL Studio proved helpful.
On the downside, the coding editor offered only stark basics, namely color-coded keywords. Niceties found in commercial development environments -- syntax checking, type ahead, auto-indent -- are nonexistent. Worse, EPL provides none of the plain-English abstraction found in AptSoft.
Event Server also lacks a code repository, simulation tools, graphical event flow modeling, and an integrated test facility. Debugging can be enabled at the server level, but the IDE offers no interface for it. You must leave the console to run the newly created server. On the plus side, I found the multi-event macros and named views beneficial in defining complex event situations.
Event Server's reporting facilities amounted to little more than text screens, with no ability to sort or correlate among events. You will need to build your own or bridge the reporting gap with external BI tools for analysis. Officials at iSpheres indicated the next release would offer a report module.
Administrative tools for server and process management provided granular views of operating parameters. I could not only see current streams but even change and add event definitions -- that is, EPL rules -- to my server on the fly. Although change controls would be a nice addition, this does show how quickly you could update processing rules in fluid business circumstances.


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If one more person asks me if I'm racing in the Tour of Missouri, I am going to lose it. For real.
I should probably just ask the next person who queries me on the subject, but I honestly hope no one approaches me with this question ever again. Do they think it's an event open to just anyone? Do they understand it's a pro-level race and they think they're being cute or original by asking me? I'm not sure.
Thus far, my response has been another (hopefully rhetorical) question of "Do you take your car out to Kansas Speedway and race the professionals whenever NASCAR is in town?!"
The question started popping up a few weeks ago. It was about once a week. Yesterday and today, though, I've gotten the question probably 20 times, sometimes with only seconds between them. This morning in the elevator lobby, a guy (who asked me if I was riding in the ToM YESTERDAY in the elevator) asked if I rode my bike today. I held up my helmet. The guy next to him asked if I am riding in the ToM. The guy who asked yesterday thankfully answered for me with a nicer reply than I would have given. "No, he doesn't race."
So, we shuffle into the elevator. In walks a guy who I work with, who asked "Aren't you going to be in that bike race thing?" Okay... He obviously wasn't in the lobby 20 seconds ago. Ugh.
Not everyone with a car is a race car driver (although quite a few people think they are). Not everyone with feet is a marathon runner. Not everyone with a bicycle is a pro-level racer (although many of them dress up like they are so they can ride to starbucks).
At least I rode to Starbucks today in my WORK CLOTHES. Haha. That's only because I don't have a swanky team jersey for some racing team that I'm not even on. Think Slipsteam will take me? I'm not a doper! I think I really need to accentuate my massive gut and glutes with some tight-fitting team gear. Then I'd be really, really fast on my way to get my morning coffee. I mean Lance fast. Yeah!
Anyhow, I'm done ranting about that. I felt like absolute CRAP yesterday, and it didn't get much better overnight, despite the fact that I got about 7 hours of sleepy time. Taking the bus is becoming the rule rather than the exception lately. So far this month I've had 8 one-way bike/bus trips and three one-way trips totally by bike. I really hate the bus, but something is happening with my sinus infection (I think) and it's not letting up. It's working its way down my throat now. I probably shouldn't have even come in to work today, but I did. I threw on my work clothes and rode to the express bus, then I hit Starbucks with Lorin on my way to work. I saw JR's Trek 730 outside again. Lorin and I debated operating systems (Windows vs. OS X vs. BSD vs. Linux) and enterprise IT philosophy over coffee for about half an hour then decided to get to work. We're nerds.
Random Tunage:
Nine Inch Nails - Into the void
Nine Inch Nails - Sanctified
I swear, my random playlist played two NiN tracks back to back! It should come as no surprise, though. My 5-star playlist is about 750 songs, and almost 90 of those are are 'Nails tracks and/or remixes. Maybe a few repeats.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
If one more person asks...
If one more person asks me if I'm racing in the Tour of Missouri, I am going to lose it. For real.
11 comments:
- Doug said...
During the TDF a co-worker asked me why I wasn't riding in that race in France. I explained 1)I don't race and 2) I'm a little past my prime. Her reply was, "Oh you should do it, what with all the riding you do you'd do great". I politely thanked her and found a reason to excuse myself.
- September 12, 2007 8:28 AM
This situation doesn't surprise me; this is part of riding a bike all the time (hobby, passion, commute, whateva)... I've been asked if I dope when I ride, the same question you got asked, how do I keep my butt from hurting on that little saddle, having people going to church flip me off for giving them some extra space to make a left turn..you get the idea.
Just consider it an opportunity to inform them about cycling and preach the gospel of 2-wheeled joy....hehe.
I was a volunteer for the ToM yesterday and it was great to tell spectators what was going on, when the finish would happen, etc.
You're already a great bike evangelist with this blog and the ToM is out of town now so maybe things will calm down.
Also get some recovery time in and get well, buddy :)
- September 12, 2007 9:23 AM
I think I really need to accentuate my massive gut and glutes with some tight-fitting team gear. Then I'd be really, really fast on my way to get my morning coffee.
Hahaha, thanks, I needed that laugh today.
I would have told them, that yes, I'm riding in the race, but in the 3 wheeler division.
- September 12, 2007 11:23 AM
Geez! I feel almost offended that no one has asked me if I'M riding in the ToM. :-)
- September 12, 2007 11:29 AM
not trying to be rude, but...so what? tell them what's going on. the frustration i've see from most folks is not knowing about the race. once they found out about it, they were really excited.
yesterday was a great day--people left their offices in droves to watch it.
- September 12, 2007 1:03 PM
- Noah said...
You don't seem to understand.
I'm not even joking when I tell you that I got asked the question on average EVERY TWENTY MINUTES yesterday while I was at work. About 20 times over the course of my 8-hour workday.
Then, right before I made this blog post, I was asked the same thing twice in under one minute.
You'd rant, too.
- September 12, 2007 1:14 PM
you need to be more anti-social at work so people stop talking to you. ;^)
- September 12, 2007 4:16 PM
Ahhhh the price of being a famous bike commuter :)
- September 12, 2007 5:24 PM
- Warren T said...
Tell them you were disqualified due to massive steroid use. Then glare at them...
- September 13, 2007 10:12 AM
- Scott said...
My response has been that I was holding out for more money. :)
- September 13, 2007 7:06 PM
- Noah said...
Okay, that's definitely a keeper. Thank goodness the week is almost over. And I think everyone on my floor finally has gotten around to asking me, so the inquisition might be gone... for now!
- September 13, 2007 7:46 PM
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