Up next for UConn football: N.C. State

Up next:

N.C. State

NICKNAME: Wolfpack

CONFERENCE: ACC

SERIES: N.C. State leads 1-0. Led by Philip Rivers, the Wolfpack rallied past UConn and QB Dan Orlovsky 31-24 in 2003.

2012 RECORD: 0-1

LAST WEEK: Lost to Tennessee 35-21. The Vols, who were 1-7 in the SEC last season, scored 16 points in 38 seconds at the end of the first quarter. They exploited All-American cornerback David Amerson on defense and forced four interceptions of quarterback Mike Glennon.

CONNECTICUT CONNECTION: UConn coach Paul Pasqualoni and N.C. State coach Tom O'Brien go way back. They coached against each other for eight straight seasons from 1997-2004 when Pasqualoni was at Syracuse and O'Brien was at Boston College. O'Brien is 4-0 against UConn and Pasqualoni is 0-2 against N.C. State in their careers.

NOTES AND NOTIONS: Since 2003, N.C. State's only wins against teams from BCS conferences have come against schools from the Big East and the ACC. ... The Wolfpack fell to 0-4 under O'Brien when opening against teams from the Bowl Subdivision. ... O'Brien said Monday the NCAA has suspended cornerback C.J. Wilson for four games because of an academic issue. He also missed the Tennessee game.

DID YA' KNOW?: Wolfpack sophomore linebacker Rodman Noel, the son of Haitian immigrants, is the brother of Nerlens Noel, the highly regarded freshman basketball player at Kentucky.

-- STAFF REPORTS

Source: http://www.newstimes.com/uconn/article/Up-next-for-UConn-football-N-C-State-3839782.php

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The History of the UK Ordnance Survey

In the UK the national mapping agency is called Ordnance Survey. The original purpose of which was for the military. The OS can trace its roots back to the Jacobite Rebellion in 1745 and the aftermath when King George II hired engineer William Roy and artist Paul Sandby to produce a detailed military survey of the Highlands in 1745. They created a survey that was to a scale of 1 inch to 1000 yards and such was the success of this map that in 1790 the Board of Ordnance chose to do a complete military survey of the British Isles.

In 1791 a new invention became key to mapping and that was the Ramsden theodolite. The Board of Ordnance worked on mapping the south of England using the first surveys that had previously been done by William Roy as a guide. The first 1 inch to 1 mile map was published in 1801 which gave a comprehensive map of Kent in the South East of England, however this was a private commission which finished at the county?s borders and it was not long afterwards that another map was published this time by the Board illustrating the counties of Essex and Kent without too much emphasis on the county borders. This lack of highlighting the borders was to become a characteristic of OS maps. It took around 20 years to map approximately one third of England and Wales and during 1819 Major Thomas Colby walked over 500 miles in 22 days during the survey. Major Colby then transferred to Ireland in 1824 to survey the Emerald Isle and this was completed in 1846.

In 1841 with the boom in the railways, the Ordnance Survey Act came into force and this granted rights to enter properties for the purpose of surveying. Unfortunately, a fire at the Tower of London damaged the Board?s headquarters in 1841 which led to complete disarray for a number of years with disputes about what scale to use for mapping among other things. The Board of Ordnance relocated to Southampton and the first 25 inch to 1 mile survey was finished in 1895.

Continuing its military heritage, Ordnance Survey was involved in creating maps of France and the Low Countries during both World Wars and in fact during the Second World War, a map of Holland complete with particulars of German occupation areas was created and this was just the sort of information that was vital to the military.

The Davidson committee was set up in 1935 to review the future of the OS and the then Director General, Major-General Malcolm MacLeod arranged for concrete trig points to be built on prominent hilltops throughout the entire United Kingdom. The purpose of these points was to create a constant position for theodolites to carry out accurate measurements. The final report by the Davidson Committee set the course for OS to move forward in the 20th century with the metre as the new unit of measurement. A trial map was introduced with a scale of 1:25000. As time and technology have progressed, so too has Ordnance Survey and in 1995 OS had digitised approximately 230,000 maps. The United Kingdom became the first country in the world to have such a large databank of electronic mapping. Ordnance Survey is no longer a military agency but still has government agency status.

The world of maps is being changed by technology and this is changing the way we view the world. This short article provides you with a bit of history about how the Ordnance Survey in the UK started. For more information on digital maps see http://www.promap.co.uk

Source: http://toddsblogs.com/referenceandeducation/2012/09/06/the-history-of-the-uk-ordnance-survey/

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Teenager with Down syndrome not allowed to board American Airlines flight

By A. Pawlowski, NBC News contributor

The parents of a teenager with Down syndrome say they suspect they were kept off an American Airlines flight because the pilot didn?t want a disabled child in first class, while the carrier counters the decision was made for safety reasons.

It happened Sunday as Robert Vanderhorst, his wife and their 16-year-old son Bede were set to fly on American Airlines from Newark, N.J. to Los Angeles, after attending a family reunion over the Labor Day weekend.

?We went from first class to last class,? Vanderhorst told NBC News. ?From the front of the bus to the back, and the only thing I can conclude is that the airlines do not want people like my son to sit in first class...who may disturb them in some way.?


But American Airlines said the boy was agitated and running around the gate area before boarding, prompting concern from the crew.

"Our pilot noticed and asked a customer service manager to talk to the family to see if we could help him calm down," said airline spokesman Matt Miller.

"That effort was ultimately unsuccessful, and we made the decision to have the family rebooked on a different flight out of concern for the young man's safety and the safety of others."

Vanderhorst, who is an attorney in Porterville, Calif., said the family had coach tickets, but when they got to the airport, his wife decided to splurge and pay $675 for all of them to upgrade to first class. Bede had flown about 30 times before, but never in the premium cabin, so the family was excited about the trip.

Vanderhorst walked Bede around the terminal before the flight. The boy sometimes hums or talks to himself, but doesn?t do it in a loud voice, Vanderhorst said. Bede wasn?t excitable, never ran and did not misbehave in any way, he added.

When it was time to board, the family was approached twice by a customer service representative who told them the pilot was concerned the boy could create a disturbance, according to Vanderhorst?s account. There was alleged unease about Bede?s size ? he is 5?1? and weighs 160 pounds ? and his seat?s proximity to the cockpit.

"He said, it?s not discrimination, it?s a security issue," Vanderhorst said. "That was a lame excuse."

"Maybe the pilot was scared that I couldn?t control him," he added. "But that?s insane because how do you know I can control my wife on the plane?"

Vanderhorst?s wife recorded part of the incident with her cell phone?a video that also showed Bede sitting quietly.

But American Airlines said that clip was filmed during a calm moment.?There were times the boy was calm, but he continued to be agitated when it came time to board, Miller said, so the airline asked the?family to take a different flight. The decision was made with careful consideration and based on the boy?s behavior, he added.

The family was rebooked in economy class on United and American has refunded their upgrade fees, Miller said.

Vanderhorst said they were seated in the last row of the plane and noticed that the immediate rows in front of them and next to them were empty.

"We were put in the back seat of the bus and there was a buffer zone around us," he said. "I don?t think the airlines wanted us chatting with our fellow passengers about what had just happened at American Airlines."

He?s convinced flying first class is what prompted the incident?concern that his son would somehow disrupt the comfort and enjoyment of the other first-class passengers.

?Those gentle, kind people spend a little extra for that privilege. But hey, I just spent (an extra) $675 for that privilege as well,? Vanderhorst said.

The family is considering whether to take legal action.

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Nokia shows off new Windows smartphones

NEW YORK (AP) ? Nokia revealed its first smartphones to run the next version of Windows, a big step for a company that has bet its future on an alliance with Microsoft. Investors were disappointed, and Nokia's stock fell sharply on Wednesday.

Nokia Corp.'s new flagship phone is the Lumia 920, which runs Windows Phone 8. The lenses on its camera shift to compensate for shaky hands, resulting in sharper images in low light and smoother video capture, Nokia said. It can also be charged without being plugged in; the user just places it on a wireless charging pod.

Nokia also unveiled a cheaper, mid-range phone, the Lumia 820. It doesn't have the special camera lenses, but it sports exchangeable backs so you can switch colors.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said the new phones will go on sale in the fourth quarter in "select markets." He didn't say what they would cost or which U.S. carriers would have them. AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA have been selling the earlier Lumia phones.

Investors seem to have expected more specifics, or an earlier launch. Nokia shares fell 32 cents, or 11 percent, to $2.51 in afternoon trading in New York. The stock is at its lowest levels since the 1990s. It had dropped to as low as $2.41 after the announcement.

Apple Inc. is expected to reveal the iPhone 5 at an event in San Francisco next week, which means the holiday quarter is going to be a tough one for competing smartphones.

Nokia, a Finnish company, revealed the new phones in New York. The American market is a trendsetter, but Nokia has been nearly absent from it in the past few years. One of Elop's goals is to recapture the attention of U.S. shoppers.

Facing stiff competition from Apple's iPhone and devices running on Google's Android software, Nokia has tried to stem the decline in smartphones in part through a partnership with Microsoft Corp. announced last year. It has moved away from the Symbian operating platform and has embraced Microsoft's Windows Phone software.

Nokia launched its first Windows phones late last year under the Lumia brand, as the first fruits of Elop's alliance with Microsoft. Those ran Windows Phone 7 software, which is effectively being orphaned in the new version. The older phones can't be upgraded, and they won't be able to run all applications written for Windows Phone 8.

Nokia sold 4 million Lumia phones in the second quarter, a far cry from the 26 million iPhones that Apple Inc. sold during those three months. So far, the line hasn't helped Nokia halt its sales decline: Its global market share shrunk from the peak of 40 percent in 2008 to 29 percent in 2011, and it is expected to dwindle further this year.

For Microsoft, the alliance with Nokia is its best chance to get into smartphones again, where it has been marginalized by the rise of the iPhone and then phones running Google Inc.'s Android software. The launch of Windows Phone 8 coincides roughly with the launch of Windows 8 for PCs and tablets. That launch is set for Oct. 26.

"Make no mistake about it ? this is a year for Windows," said Microsoft Steve Ballmer, who joined Elop, a former Microsoft executive, on stage.

Shares of Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash., increased 5 cents to $30.43.

The new Windows Phones come as Google and makers of Android phones have run into legal trouble, which could slow the momentum of Android devices. A jury in Silicon Valley ruled two weeks ago that some Samsung Android phones infringed on Apple patents. The jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple $1.05 billion, and Apple is seeking a ban in the U.S. on some Samsung devices.

U.S. phone companies are also eager to build up Windows Phone as an alternative to the iPhone and Android, to reduce the leverage Apple and Google have over them. Android and Apple devices dominate in smartphones, with 85 percent of the worldwide market combined, according to IDC.

Samsung Electronics Co., which has succeeded Nokia as the world's largest maker of phones, showed off a Windows 8 phone last week. It didn't announce an availability date either.

At Wednesday's event, Nokia executive Kevin Shields demonstrated the wireless charging technology by placing the phone on top of a JBL music docking station, which charged it. Wireless charging has shown up in other phones, most notably the Palm Pre of 2009. But Nokia is making its phone compatible with an emerging standard for wireless charging, called Qi. That means the phone can be charged by third-party devices.

The docking station also played music from the phone, even though it wasn't plugged in. The music was transferred from the Lumia's near-field communications chip, which can connect automatically to other devices at short range. Coupled with the right apps, NFC chips can also be used to pay for things in stores, by tapping the phone to credit-card terminals.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nokia-shows-off-windows-smartphones-162926527--finance.html

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'Morgan Freeman' Reads '50 Shades'; The Science of Orgasms

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'I knew it all along?didn't I?' - Understanding hindsight bias

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The fourth-quarter comeback to win the game. The tumor that appeared on a second scan. The guy in accounting who was secretly embezzling company funds. The situation may be different each time, but we hear ourselves say it over and over again: "I knew it all along."

The problem is that too often we actually didn't know it all along, we only feel as though we did. The phenomenon, which researchers refer to as "hindsight bias," is one of the most widely studied decision traps and has been documented in various domains, including medical diagnoses, accounting and auditing decisions, athletic competition, and political strategy.

In a new article in the September 2012 issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychological scientists Neal Roese of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Kathleen Vohs of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota review the existing research on hindsight bias, exploring the various factors that make us so susceptible to the phenomenon and identifying a few ways we might be able to combat it. This article is the first overview to draw insights together from across different disciplines.

Roese and Vohs propose that there are three levels of hindsight bias that stack on top of each other, from basic memory processes up to higher-level inference and belief. The first level of hindsight bias, memory distortion, involves misremembering an earlier opinion or judgment ("I said it would happen"). The second level, inevitability, centers on our belief that the event was inevitable ("It had to happen"). And the third level, foreseeability, involves the belief that we personally could have foreseen the event ("I knew it would happen").

The researchers argue that certain factors fuel our tendency toward hindsight bias. Research shows that we selectively recall information that confirms what we know to be true and we try to create a narrative that makes sense out of the information we have. When this narrative is easy to generate, we interpret that to mean that the outcome must have been foreseeable. Furthermore, research suggests that we have a need for closure that motivates us to see the world as orderly and predictable and to do whatever we can to promote a positive view of ourselves.

Ultimately, hindsight bias matters because it gets in the way of learning from our experiences.

"If you feel like you knew it all along, it means you won't stop to examine why something really happened," observes Roese. "It's often hard to convince seasoned decision makers that they might fall prey to hindsight bias."

Hindsight bias can also make us overconfident in how certain we are about our own judgments. Research has shown, for example, that overconfident entrepreneurs are more likely to take on risky, ill-informed ventures that fail to produce a significant return on investment.

While our inclination to believe that we "knew it all along" is often harmless, it can have important consequences for the legal system, especially in cases of negligence, product liability, and medical malpractice. Studies have shown, for example, that hindsight bias routinely afflicts judgments about a defendant's past conduct.

And technology may make matters worse. "Paradoxically, the technology that provides us with simplified ways of understanding complex patterns from financial modeling of mortgage foreclosures to tracking the flow of communications among terrorist networks may actually increase hindsight bias," says Roese.

So what, if anything, can we do about it?

Roese and Vohs suggest that considering the opposite may be an effective way to get around our cognitive fault, at least in some cases. When we are encouraged to consider and explain how outcomes that didn't happen could have happened, we counteract our usual inclination to throw out information that doesn't fit with our narrative. As a result, we may be able to reach a more nuanced perspective of the causal chain of events.

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For more information about this study, please contact: Neal J. Roese at n-roese@kellogg.northwestern.edu.

Perspectives on Psychological Science is ranked among the top 10 general psychology journals for impact by the Institute for Scientific Information. It publishes an eclectic mix of thought-provoking articles on the latest important advances in psychology. For a copy of the article "Hindsight Bias" and access to other Perspectives on Psychological Science research findings, please contact Anna Mikulak at 202-293-9300 or amikulak@psychologicalscience.org.



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The fourth-quarter comeback to win the game. The tumor that appeared on a second scan. The guy in accounting who was secretly embezzling company funds. The situation may be different each time, but we hear ourselves say it over and over again: "I knew it all along."

The problem is that too often we actually didn't know it all along, we only feel as though we did. The phenomenon, which researchers refer to as "hindsight bias," is one of the most widely studied decision traps and has been documented in various domains, including medical diagnoses, accounting and auditing decisions, athletic competition, and political strategy.

In a new article in the September 2012 issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychological scientists Neal Roese of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Kathleen Vohs of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota review the existing research on hindsight bias, exploring the various factors that make us so susceptible to the phenomenon and identifying a few ways we might be able to combat it. This article is the first overview to draw insights together from across different disciplines.

Roese and Vohs propose that there are three levels of hindsight bias that stack on top of each other, from basic memory processes up to higher-level inference and belief. The first level of hindsight bias, memory distortion, involves misremembering an earlier opinion or judgment ("I said it would happen"). The second level, inevitability, centers on our belief that the event was inevitable ("It had to happen"). And the third level, foreseeability, involves the belief that we personally could have foreseen the event ("I knew it would happen").

The researchers argue that certain factors fuel our tendency toward hindsight bias. Research shows that we selectively recall information that confirms what we know to be true and we try to create a narrative that makes sense out of the information we have. When this narrative is easy to generate, we interpret that to mean that the outcome must have been foreseeable. Furthermore, research suggests that we have a need for closure that motivates us to see the world as orderly and predictable and to do whatever we can to promote a positive view of ourselves.

Ultimately, hindsight bias matters because it gets in the way of learning from our experiences.

"If you feel like you knew it all along, it means you won't stop to examine why something really happened," observes Roese. "It's often hard to convince seasoned decision makers that they might fall prey to hindsight bias."

Hindsight bias can also make us overconfident in how certain we are about our own judgments. Research has shown, for example, that overconfident entrepreneurs are more likely to take on risky, ill-informed ventures that fail to produce a significant return on investment.

While our inclination to believe that we "knew it all along" is often harmless, it can have important consequences for the legal system, especially in cases of negligence, product liability, and medical malpractice. Studies have shown, for example, that hindsight bias routinely afflicts judgments about a defendant's past conduct.

And technology may make matters worse. "Paradoxically, the technology that provides us with simplified ways of understanding complex patterns from financial modeling of mortgage foreclosures to tracking the flow of communications among terrorist networks may actually increase hindsight bias," says Roese.

So what, if anything, can we do about it?

Roese and Vohs suggest that considering the opposite may be an effective way to get around our cognitive fault, at least in some cases. When we are encouraged to consider and explain how outcomes that didn't happen could have happened, we counteract our usual inclination to throw out information that doesn't fit with our narrative. As a result, we may be able to reach a more nuanced perspective of the causal chain of events.

###

For more information about this study, please contact: Neal J. Roese at n-roese@kellogg.northwestern.edu.

Perspectives on Psychological Science is ranked among the top 10 general psychology journals for impact by the Institute for Scientific Information. It publishes an eclectic mix of thought-provoking articles on the latest important advances in psychology. For a copy of the article "Hindsight Bias" and access to other Perspectives on Psychological Science research findings, please contact Anna Mikulak at 202-293-9300 or amikulak@psychologicalscience.org.



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Gallaudet University, Offers Programs Specifically for the Deaf

Tatum is hard of hearing and attends Gallaudet University, an institution of higher learning that offers programs specifically for the deaf.

Located on a lush green campus in the US capital, the school whose charter was signed by then president Abraham Lincoln in 1864 has developed into a hotbed of architectural design geared toward a community that predominantly interacts through the motioned -- not the spoken -- word.

The latest example is Tatum's dormitory, an $18.5 million state-of-the art building with 175 beds.

"It's very deaf-friendly," said Tatum, who sports prominent gold earrings in addition to a hearing aid. "You can see everything and that's what I like about it."

What makes the Living and Learning Residence Hall 6 innovative is that it is built according to a set of design principles dubbed DeafSpace.

"DeafSpace, in short, is a term that's been coined here at the university to refer to a way of building buildings, designing buildings, and also just a way of thinking about creating an environment that's conducive to, and really in tune with, deaf sensibilities," said Hansel Bauman, Gallaudet's director of campus design and planning.

A tour of the five-floor building -- which has a friendly, modern and airy feel -- reveals how this notion is more than mere theory and extends well beyond visual alerts for fire alarms and doorbells.

The most striking of the construction's myriad of characteristics is an abundance of light that seeps in through wide windows or emanates from an array of lamps in a way to avoid glare.

Large open spaces and even moveable walls on wheels, meanwhile, allow the formation of conversation circles that enable everyone in a group of deaf and hard of hearing people to visually take part in a dialogue.

Then there are the wider hallways and sidewalks to accommodate signers as they stroll side by side while maintaining enough space between themselves to gauge facial expressions.

Not to be forgotten are the sensor-operated front doors and ramps that promote continued interaction often stymied -- and even rendered dangerous -- by steps or stairs.

What also strikes visitors is that some walls are painted a special shade of blue -- a color that serves as an agreeable backdrop for people whose eyes perform a key information-gathering role and can become strained, according to Bauman.

"The color of the wall almost is the page that the visual word is written against," he said, adding that blue, a cooler tone, contrasts with the warmer tones of skin and provides "crispness".

"All day, people are reading sign language and you're also managing space visually -- so that tends to create eye fatigue," he said.

While it may seem counterintuitive at first, acoustics play an important role among the deaf and hard of hearing.

That's because many wear cochlear implants or assistive hearing devices that turn reverberation found in tall spaces, for instance, into a type of echo.

"That echo becomes noise rather than a signal, it clouds the spoken word or the specific sound you want to hear," Bauman explained, motioning to dark insulation panels on the ceiling meant to minimize the phenomenon.

Sometimes, it's the little things that have the most impact.

Tatum for one, pointed out that the light switch for the bathroom he shares with his suite mates is positioned in the communal space -- replacing a bang on a closed door when duty calls with the flicking of the switch.

David Lewis, partner at LTL Architects who was picked for the project and whose team spent "thousands" of hours on it until completion, wants the residence to become a research tool.

"I very much hope that this building can not only become a home and a site for living and learning but also a real testing ground, a place to learn from," he said.

Howard Rosenblum, chief executive officer of the National Association of the Deaf, praised Gallaudet's staff, calling them "pioneers".

"Architecture has come a long way in terms of universal design, and only recently has DeafSpace design been considered," he said. "This consideration is long overdue."

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Valentine: Threat to punch radio host was a joke

SEATTLE (AP) ? Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine insisted Wednesday he wasn't serious when he threatened to "punch" a radio talk-show host in the mouth.

Valentine said he made it clear he was kidding when he made the comment earlier in the day during an interview on Boston station WEEI with hosts Glenn Ordway and Michael Holley.

"Didn't I go, 'Ha, ha?'" the embattled Valentine asked before his fourth-place team played the Seattle Mariners. "I don't think physical violence is necessary for 60-year-old people."

Ordway, sighting a newspaper report that Valentine arrived later than normal for a game last week in Oakland, asked if the manager had "checked out" on the season.

Valentine responded on the air:

"What an embarrassing thing to say. If I were there right now, I'd punch you right in the mouth. Ha, ha," Valentine said. "How's that sound? Sound like I checked out? What an embarrassing thing. Why would somebody even, that's stuff that a comic strip person would write. If someone's here, watching me go out at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, working with the young players, watching me put in the right relief pitchers to get a win, putting on a hit-and-run when it was necessary, talking to the guys after the game in the food room ? how could someone in real life say that?"

Meeting later with reporters in Seattle before the game, Valentine acknowledged he took offense to Ordway's question and explained that he arrived at the Coliseum in Oakland later than usual ? but still 3 hours before the game ? because he had picked up his son from the airport and got stuck in traffic.

"If anyone in this room or any other room I've been in in my life wants to question my integrity, I will ask someone to referee that situation," he said.

Valentine added that if a writer "thought that was important and wanted to write seriously about it, they could have asked what the situation was and I would have been happy to tell them. No one asked the reasons."

He went on to describe them.

Valentine said he picked up his son from the San Francisco airport in the morning for his first visit on the road during "this lousy season." The plane was late, then he had to return to his San Francisco hotel to pick up his game information before driving over the Bay Bridge to the Coliseum.

"That was a mistake," Valentine said. "There was traffic around the hotel and an accident on the freeway. I got there a little later than normal, not late. My workday starts at 4:30 p.m., in my opinion. I got to the stadium at 4:04 p.m."

He said he had called in that night's lineup at 2 p.m. and had checked with the trainer on the condition of injured players.

"To see my son for a couple more hours," he said, "is more than worth the trade-off of sitting around in my underwear in the clubhouse for two hours.

"Just ask me the question. Don't think everyone in the room is smart enough to figure out what I meant? That's not my fault."

Valentine said he told his coaches he would be a little late, and he called in to say he was delayed in traffic on his way to "the stupid Oakland Coliseum."

"For someone to say that I was late is an absolute disgrace to their integrity if they have any," he said.

During the radio interview, Valentine went on to say that his first season as Red Sox manager has been "miserable."

Asked to clarify later, he said: "The last two weeks have been very trying. Lots of obstacles in my way and I thought I've jumped them, and sometimes you get knocked down by them.

"It's turned out to be not what I expected. It's been a little misery, yeah," he said. "I'm not sure it's 24/7, but I would think after a loss I'm miserable. ... It's been adventurous, challenging."

Valentine signed a two-year deal last winter and has said he wants to return in 2013. Red Sox management has maintained that no decision will be made until after the season is over.

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