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Lindenwood University-Belleville will host its fifth annual Sibley Day on Wednesday, Feb. 20, in honor of University founders George and Mary Sibley. Students will be excused from classes in order to attend their choice of a variety of presentations and events scheduled throughout the day.
Sibley Day began in 2009 as an opportunity for faculty, staff, and students to expand their knowledge base and to celebrate the school's philosophy of offering unique educational experiences. This year's event, themed "Reach for the Stars," will offer a wide range of activities designed to appeal to many different areas of interest.
The public is invited to attend the keynote presentation by Dr. Martha Ackmann, Lindenwood alumna, author, and senior lecturer in gender studies at Mount Holyoke College, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb.19, in the Lindenwood Auditorium. Ackmann will be speaking about her book, The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight (Random House). During her presentation, she will detail the experiences of women pilots in the 1960s who were secretly tested to be astronauts. The book was named one of the top nonfiction books of the year (2004) by BookMarks and the Boston Globe and won the Amelia Earhart Medal and the media prize from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
On Wednesday, Feb. 20, Dr. Martha Ackmann will return to co-host a creative writing workshop for staff and students with faculty member Dr. Brooke Taylor. The day will feature additional faculty presentations on topics, such as "The History of Belleville and Mary Sibley," "Gender and Sports," and "Dress for Success."
Other Sibley Day activities will also include a student, faculty, and staff improvisation session, as well as one faculty member's presentation and musical demonstration of the bands Uncle Tupelo/Wilco and Jeff Tweedy, whose members attended Belleville Township High School. The Lindenwood Student Government Association will hold a formal tea party with special guests, modern-day Mary and George Sibley.
LU-Belleville's Sibley Day 2013 will be a blend of historical, motivational, and fun activities designed to inspire everyone to "reach for the stars."
For more information on Sibley Day events, please contact Marsha Parker at (618) 239-6175.
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Digoxin helps slow the heart rate by blocking the number of electrical impulses that pass through the AV node into the lower heart chambers (ventricles).
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Why It Is Used
Digoxin slows heart rate and strengthens heart contractions in people who have atrial fibrillation. Digoxin can also be used to treat heart failure, so it is useful for treating people who have both atrial fibrillation and heart failure.
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- Loss of vision.
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- Change in heartbeat (fast, slow, or irregular).
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Tell your doctor all of the medicines, vitamins, and supplements you are taking. Other medicines can change the amount of digoxin in your blood so that you have too much digoxin. Too much digoxin causes serious symptoms of an overdose, also known as digoxin poisoning.
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You may have regular blood tests to check the level of digoxin in your blood. Your doctor will make sure you are taking a safe amount of digoxin. Your doctor will likely let you know when you need to have the tests. When you start taking digoxin, you initially may need to have frequent blood tests to monitor the level of the medicine. These tests may be done less frequently after you have been taking digoxin for some time.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
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1A member of a people that inhabited parts of central and northern Germany from Roman times, many of whom conquered and settled in much of southern England in the 5th-6th centuries.
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- There was relative peace with British rule over the western half of the country and Germanic rule in the east for the next fifty years, and it seems likely that the Britons may even have regained some areas of central England from the Saxons.
- Faced with invasion by a coalition of Picts and Saxons, the Roman citizens of Britain appeal to the Emperor for help; but Honorius is in no position to aid them.
- When Charlemagne conquered the Saxons, he extended his empire to the borders of Viking realms: specifically, to Friesland in southern Denmark.
1.1A native of modern Saxony in Germany.
2.1 (Old Saxon) The West Germanic language of the ancient Saxons.
2.2 another term for Old English.
1Relating to the Anglo-Saxons, their language (Old English), or their period of dominance in England (5th-11th centuries).
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- Wales is contiguous to England and had been the subject of Saxon raids for centuries.
- For much of the Saxon period it was probably fairly wide and marshy, perhaps acting as a separator between Westwyk and Conesford.
- Across much of midland England wide-ranging changes took place in the countryside in the late Saxon period.
1.1Relating to or denoting the style of early Romanesque architecture preceding the Norman in England.
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- The site develops with the construction of an aisled Late Saxon timber hall, which was one of King Cnut's royal manors.
- Within the church, parts of the Saxon north wall can be seen above the Norman arcade.
- On the outside of the north wall, (about a third of the way down the Nave), the remains of a Saxon doorway can be seen, complete with round headed arch and jambs of flint.
2Relating to Saxony or the continental Saxons or their language.
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- As a place of cure and fashion, it developed rapidly in the late nineteenth century following approval by the Saxon kings.
Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin and Greek Saxones (plural), of West Germanic origin; related to Old English Seaxan, Seaxe (plural), perhaps from the base of sax2.
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Bat Cave Baptist Church is collecting donations to help Sarah Lawter, who lost the home she resided in for decades on Lake Lure Highway to a fire last week. Nearly all of her possessions were destroyed in the blaze, which also scorched six acres of land before it was finally extinguished.
The church is accepting money and other donations. Monetary donations can be mailed to Bat Cave Baptist Church, Attention: Richard Barnwell, PO Box 247, Bat Cave, NC 28710.
The church hopes to have a trailer set up in the near future for furniture donations. To make a donation, call Barnwell and leave a message at 828-243-9163.
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HENDERSONVILLE— Joel "J.W." Wayne Patterson Sr., 68, of Hendersonville, NC passed away Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at his home.
He was a native and lifelong resident of Henderson County. He was the grandson of the late Rev. Sherman Patterson of Faith Tabernacle, the son of the late Raymond and Evelyn Patterson and was also preceded in death by a brother, Bill Patterson SR and a sister, Sandra Newman.
He retired from the US Army having served three tours in Vietnam. He is survived by two sons, Joel Wayne Patterson JR and his wife Sue of Flag Pond, TN and Jeffrey Patterson of Polk County, NC; two daughters, Deborah Patterson Plott and her husband Tim of Erwin, TN and Gloria Patterson of Hendersonville; a brother, Richard "Pat" S. Patterson and his wife Patsy of Columbus, GA; three grandchildren, Bonnie, Timothy and Holly; six great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews and a grand-puppy Fred.
A memorial service will be held 6:00 PM Saturday, December 1, 2012 at the Chapel In The Pines of Jackson Funeral Service. Military honors will be conducted by the Henderson County Honor Guard. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service in the chapel. Condolence cards may be sent to the family at www.jacksonfuneralservice.com or PO Box 945, Hendersonville, NC 28793.
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Why the Moon landing wasn't faked Jan 22 2013
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Lenzia Lathan Wilson of Dunsmuir passed away on Sept. 26, 2012 at Mercy Medical Center Redding. He was 86 years old.
Lenzia was born on March 22, 1926 in Downsville, La. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served during WW II. Lenzia moved to Siskiyou County in 1967 from Berkeley. He was a heavy equipment operator for Southern Pacific Railroad for 34 years.
Survivors include his son Lathan Wilson of Daly City and his grandchildren Kiyontai Wilson and Fonzell Wilson, both of Dunsmuir.
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Attaching super-sized significance to the outcome of one game is as much a part of the college football season as BCS controversy.
Stanford looked like a top-10 team against USC and a top-50 team against Washington.
The truth is probably in the middle.
The defense is very good but not quite dominant. The offense is . . . erratic? . . . mediocre? . . . limited?
That's essentially how everyone viewed the Cardinal coming into the season -- the reason Stanford was projected to win eight games, give or take, in the post-Luck era.
Result: Lost at Washington 17-13.
Grade: C-
Comment: Grade is a combination of an F for the offense (no touchdowns, no running game, dropped passes, etc.) and a B for the defense, which dominated for most of three quarters then allowed two game-changing plays.
He's a fairly straight shooter as coaches go, which tells me the unit must be playing reasonably well in practice.
But the games are another matter -- as they have been since the beginning of last season.
Ty Montgomery caught six passes and dropped three. Two of the drops were well-thrown deep balls by Josh Nunes that could have changed the game (and reminiscent of Chris Owusu's slippery fingers).
None of the other receivers caught a pass.
Without breaking down film on a route-by-route basis, it's difficult to know if they aren't getting separation, if they run inefficient routes, if Nunes does a poor job locating them . . . or a combination thereof.
But the bottom line is that the unit -- and I'm including Montgomery, because of his drops -- has made little tangible progress on Saturdays.
In fact, he completed a higher percentage of passes against UW (48.6) than he did against USC (46.8).
He threw one-hoppers prior to the UW game and he threw one-hoppers against the Huskies.
It's the same Nunes I saw in the spring practices and training camp scrimmages that were open to the media.
Bottom line: It's who he is at this point in his career.
Stanford's season will be defined by 1) how much Nunes improves over time, and 2) how consistently Shaw and offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton put Nunes, with his skill set, in positions to succeed.
The coaches had it relatively easy for three years with you-know-who.
Stanford's postgame comments centered on lack of execution and getting outplayed, but let's make no mistake: The Cardinal was out-coached, as well.
UW defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox loaded the box to stuff the running game and force Stanford into long-yardage situations.
The Cardinal responded with a noticeable lack of creativity: Very little in the way of trick plays or misdirection to counteract the hard-charging UW defense.
Instead, we saw the staples: Stepfan Taylor between the tackles, short crossing passes, the long sideline lob pass to Levine Toilolo.
Yes, it tried a screen pass to Taylor, but it was the same screen Stanford used against USC and the Huskies pounced.
Tight end Zach Ertz was terrific, but his effectiveness was limited to the middle of the field. Stanford again failed to convert red-zone opportunities into touchdowns and is 5 of 13 on the season (38 percent).
1. Don't know if it was called from the sideline or if Nunes changed into it, but the fourth-and-4 pass on the final drive (to Toilolo) was far too risky given the situation.
2. The delay-of-game penalties must be eliminated.
Game-management issues were understandable in Week 1, but we're a month into the season.
3. You'd better believe every defensive coordinator in the conference will study UW's game plan and try to replicate it.
Some teams probably won't have the personnel to pull it off. Some teams have better personnel than the Huskies.
But everyone associated with the Cardinal offense -- players and coaches -- must do a better job.
Next up: vs. Arizona.
The matchup: Favorable for Stanford.
It's nothing Stanford's defense can't handle, if it plays with requisite discipline and tackles well in the open field.
(Speaking of: Look for the Wildcats to throw the same hitch pass to receiver Dan Buckner that UW's Kasen Williams turned into a touchdown by running through Terrence Brown's tackle.)
Arizona plays a 3-3-5 defense that's fast but not overly physical, as we saw Saturday:
Oregon State, which is comparable to Stanford in its ground-and-pound approach, rushed for 180 yards against the Wildcats.
Of course, OSU quarterback Sean Mannion (one of the best in the Pac-12) and his talented receivers were able to convert play-action opportunities when Arizona overplayed the running game.
Stanford must do the same, or it could be close into the fourth quarter.
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With the announcement this week of the new Xbox One and Playstation 4, I thought I would share my first gaming system-an Atari. I would spend hours playing Frogger, dodging my little frog between the cars or jumping over logs. Although I've upgrading throughout the years to news systems and more advanced games, there's nothing like an old school game of Frogger on an Atari.
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"We lost a tough one tonight to Battle Mountain," Summit boys' basketball coach Phil Tronsrue said after Wednesday's game on the road.
The 50-48 loss showcased a back-and-forth game with Summit behind two points at the end of the first quarter, only to take the lead by four points at the half and maintain the lead by one point at the end of the third quarter. It was in the final minutes of the game when Summit lost its lead. Despite sinking a three-pointer at the buzzer, it wasn't quite enough to make up the deficit.
"We ended up having some empty possessions and lost the lead, but fought back but didn't quite have enough," Tronsrue said.
Before fouling out of the game, Markeith McDonald tallied 11 points and 11 rebounds as the team leader. Cayman Lee rallied in the post to put up 10 points.
Battle Mountain's players are slightly taller than Summit's, but aside from that, the teams are comparable. Tronsrue noted that Battle Mountain seemed to shoot better from three-point range, with Jerry Carrasco shooting nearly 100 percent from the outside.
"I expect them to be a little better (this year) with more height at the post," Tronsrue said.
Tronsrue wants to use the week following Wednesday's season opener to hone the outside defense and work on rebounding, which proved to be an issue particularly on offense.
"We gave up in the neighborhood of nine to 11 offensive rebounds," Tronsrue said. "Four or five came off missed free throws. That really hurt us."
On the flip side, the team performed well under full-court pressure, Tronsrue said.
"Initially, we turned over the ball a few times," he said. "But, in the middle of the first quarter, we began to handle the pressure when they went with the full-court press."
The team did well splitting the traps, breaking the press and finding openings down the floor.
Tronsrue also named Lee the player of the game.
"He's been a question mark coming in this year, but he had a pretty sound game," the coach said, explaining that he wanted to see more aggression and attack from his post player last season - and Lee stepped it up in Wednesday's game.
"He played the position soft last year, and this year he's showing more aggressiveness and getting up to the square of the backboard," Tronsrue said. "He definitely attacked the rim (Wednesday) night."
On Dec. 5, the team heads to the Skyline Tournament, where they'll face off with Skyline before meeting the winner of the Sterling-Thornton game.
"Both (Sterling and Thornton) are good and sound. They'll give us some good challenges," Tronsrue said. "We're on the better end of that bracket. Hopefully, it prepares us for some more Western Slope play."


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21.11.2012 - The Dutch biotech company Kiadis BV has raised €10m in a financing round led by its largest investor.
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We are in the process of selling our house. Everything is in place and contracts have all been signed except for the buyer who is purchasing our property. When we filled in our fixtures and fittings list we clearly stated that the washing machine and fridge freezer weren't being left. Our buyer has had the list since the end of January. Yesterday he signed all necessary paperwork except for the actual contract as he is saying that he thought the two items were being left with the house. We have said we will leave the washing machine at a minimum cost to him, but we need the fridge freezer. He has said that he now wants money off the price of the house to compensate! He is a cash buyer and already has £3K off the asking price because of this. I know he is pulling a fast one. Obviously we don't want to lose the house we are buying by delaying too much, but I don't want to be held to ransom over this either! I feel like telling him where to go rather than give him the option of getting one over on us. The EA has said that he will sort it all out and get to the bottom of this - I've told the EA that if they have told him that these two items are staying then it is them at fault and perhaps it should come out of their selling fees! However, EA is insistent they would never say this sort of thing. Has anybody been in this position before - at the end of the day I know its only a washing machine and a fridge, but I feel our buyer is being very crafty and has us over a barrel. We are due to exchange the back end of this week with the completion date set for a couple of weeks time. Many thanks.
not too outragous, i can see both points of view. but its the comments/replies that really get me
He hasn't yet suggested a new price - not that we will allow it. Because he is a cash buyer and a first time buyer at that he thinks he is in control and calling the shots! We have other parties interested in the house who will pay the full asking price and I'm tempted to take their offers even though it will delay the move by a few more weeks. It disgusts me people do these underhand tactics - we have been honest and fair and quick throughout the whole process and then a few days from exchange, he does this. Why can't people just be a bit more upfront and honest. If we do decide to sell to somebody else, then he will lose the money he has paid out on the survey and solicitors costs etc, but like you say are we willing to lose out over the price of a fridge and w.machine. I have offered the washing machine for a price of £100 - its only 1 year old and in excellent working condition, but I want to take my fridge freezer with me!
they are prepared to end the sale over £100 - some people need to really REALLY think what they are doing
i hope i never get to be in any form of sale or purchase with cheeswright
we had buyers like this - I suggest you loook very carfully at the terms of you contract - you will find that although you may for instance have agreed to leave curtains - which ones arent specified...we for instance happened to have an old bag in the loft - with added mould spots
light fittings could infact be any old tat - the specifice ones arnt stated
door keys - other than the front door arnt in the contract...including windows and radiator keys
look around - check whats not in the contract - it dosnt have to have an intrinsic value of £400 - it just has to cost that to replace
manuals - instructions etc are a pig
oh and get your power and gas cut off - not tranferred as you leave - there is no legal obligation to tranfer
and you can quite legally point this out to him
and if that dosnt work leave with a smile remembering.....
carpet dosnt need to be those beautifully clean and fitted ones you have...they can be the filthy ones left after your movers have dragged every potted plant from your back garden through to the front....in muddy shoes on a rainy day....
he dosnt hold all the cards he just thinks he does...
ps - plumming fittings are part of the contents and cant be removed - but every single joint can be loosened..
oh and of course you can say you will tell of of his new neighbours how he has behaved if he wont sign - so perhapse he should really consider how much he's going to enjoy living there.....
On the theme of really petty revenge...
Unplug the items before you leave. Cut the plug off and shorten the wire so that it just doesn't quite reach the nearest plug socket. Re-wire the plug.
Alternatively, find a similar item for sale on e-bay. Forward a link to that item to the estate agent and ask them to pass it on. Tell him that you are taking YOUR fridge/washing machine and he can find his own with little effort. If he doesn't play ball, buy the stuff off e-bay for him.
I'm sure that when buying a house the contract can't specify WHICH fridge-freezer is left, just A fridge-freezer. Get one off freecycle (the scummier the better) and leave it behind for him. Same with the washing machine. There'll be absolutely nothing he can do about it.
That's a good point re the changing of the items - may consider it. EA has disappeared off the face of the earth and now solicitor is away from office until Friday. Will just sit tight and wait. Not prepared to lose house we are buying for the sake of these two items - just incenses me that people can be right sh*ts during the last week or so of the house process! We've been upfront and honest all the way through to both our seller and buyer and you do expect a level of courtesy back - however it just goes to show there are some nasty people around!
We had every intention of doing the same thing as our buyers refused the EA's suggestion of each party (EA, buyer and ourselves) bearing one third of the cost of a new Rangemaster for us (or at least a good second hand model) but our buyers refused to play ball......admittedly it wasn't entirel their fault, but a misunderstanding, but it had originally been their suggestion to do this.
We had v.expensive solid pewter handles on our kitchen units which we almost replaced with bog standard Been & Queued ones as well as a cheapo butler sink tap which we were going to swap for our perrin & rowe one, but in the end time got the better of us and we merely left the house not quite as well hoovered as we would have liked......
Also there was a crack in the glass conservatory roof which their surveyor hadn't noticed and we intended to have fixed before completion, but in the end we left it.......not long after moving day DH had to return to the area for something and bumped into our buyers who said a few days after moving in a torrential downpour caused the conservatory roof to leak buckets.....whoops
i can beleive some of these people. asi know what peopel are like, but i just cant beleive what i have read.
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The CPUC is also encouraging large-scale power production from solar thermal energy. In December, the CPUC approved a contract for San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) to buy 300 megawatts of solar power from Stirling Energy Systems. The company plans to build an array of Stirling solar dishes on a three-square-mile site in California's Imperial Valley. The solar dishes use a dish-shaped array of mirrors to focus the sun's energy on a Stirling engine, which converts the heat into electricity. SDG&E also has options on two future phases that could add an additional 600 megawatts of solar power. The CPUC had previously approved a contract for Southern California Edison to buy power from a 500-megawatt solar power plant near Los Angeles, also to be built by Stirling Energy Systems. See the press release from SDG&E's parent company, Sempra Energy.
Unfortunately, having a contract in hand does not necessarily mean a renewable energy project will actually be built. In fact, a new report prepared for the California Energy Commission (CEC) concludes that utilities should expect at least 20 to 30 percent of their renewable energy contracts to fail. See the report on the CEC Web site (PDF 851 KB). Download Adobe Reader.


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The Futile Pursuit of Happiness
By Jon Gertner
Published: September 7, 2003
If Daniel Gilbert is right, then you are wrong. That is to say, if Daniel Gilbert is right, then you are wrong to believe that a new car will make you as happy as you imagine. You are wrong to believe that a new kitchen will make you happy for as long as you imagine. You are wrong to think that you will be more unhappy with a big single setback (a broken wrist, a broken heart) than with a lesser chronic one (a trick knee, a tense marriage). You are wrong to assume that job failure will be crushing. You are wrong to expect that a death in the family will leave you bereft for year upon year, forever and ever. You are even wrong to reckon that a cheeseburger you order in a restaurant -- this week, next week, a year from now, it doesn't really matter when -- will definitely hit the spot. That's because when it comes to predicting exactly how you will feel in the future, you are most likely wrong.
A professor in Harvard's department of psychology, Gilbert likes to tell people that he studies happiness. But it would be more precise to say that Gilbert -- along with the psychologist Tim Wilson of the University of Virginia, the economist George Loewenstein of Carnegie-Mellon and the psychologist (and Nobel laureate in economics) Daniel Kahneman of Princeton -- has taken the lead in studying a specific type of emotional and behavioral prediction. In the past few years, these four men have begun to question the decision-making process that shapes our sense of well-being: how do we predict what will make us happy or unhappy -- and then how do we feel after the actual experience? For example, how do we suppose we'll feel if our favorite college football team wins or loses, and then how do we really feel a few days after the game? How do we predict we'll feel about purchasing jewelry, having children, buying a big house or being rich? And then how do we regard the outcomes? According to this small corps of academics, almost all actions -- the decision to buy jewelry, have kids, buy the big house or work exhaustively for a fatter paycheck -- are based on our predictions of the emotional consequences of these events.
Until recently, this was uncharted territory. How we forecast our feelings, and whether those predictions match our future emotional states, had never been the stuff of laboratory research. But in scores of experiments, Gilbert, Wilson, Kahneman and Loewenstein have made a slew of observations and conclusions that undermine a number of fundamental assumptions: namely, that we humans understand what we want and are adept at improving our well-being -- that we are good at maximizing our utility, in the jargon of traditional economics. Further, their work on prediction raises some unsettling and somewhat more personal questions. To understand affective forecasting, as Gilbert has termed these studies, is to wonder if everything you have ever thought about life choices, and about happiness, has been at the least somewhat naïve and, at worst, greatly mistaken.
The problem, as Gilbert and company have come to discover, is that we falter when it comes to imagining how we will feel about something in the future. It isn't that we get the big things wrong. We know we will experience visits to Le Cirque and to the periodontist differently; we can accurately predict that we'd rather be stuck in Montauk than in a Midtown elevator. What Gilbert has found, however, is that we overestimate the intensity and the duration of our emotional reactions -- our ''affect'' -- to future events. In other words, we might believe that a new BMW will make life perfect. But it will almost certainly be less exciting than we anticipated; nor will it excite us for as long as predicted. The vast majority of Gilbert's test participants through the years have consistently made just these sorts of errors both in the laboratory and in real-life situations. And whether Gilbert's subjects were trying to predict how they would feel in the future about a plate of spaghetti with meat sauce, the defeat of a preferred political candidate or romantic rejection seemed not to matter. On average, bad events proved less intense and more transient than test participants predicted. Good events proved less intense and briefer as well.
Gilbert and his collaborator Tim Wilson call the gap between what we predict and what we ultimately experience the ''impact bias'' -- ''impact'' meaning the errors we make in estimating both the intensity and duration of our emotions and ''bias'' our tendency to err. The phrase characterizes how we experience the dimming excitement over not just a BMW but also over any object or event that we presume will make us happy. Would a 20 percent raise or winning the lottery result in a contented life? You may predict it will, but almost surely it won't turn out that way. And a new plasma television? You may have high hopes, but the impact bias suggests that it will almost certainly be less cool, and in a shorter time, than you imagine. Worse, Gilbert has noted that these mistakes of expectation can lead directly to mistakes in choosing what we think will give us pleasure. He calls this ''miswanting.''


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I criticized the paper for a really racial comment being on here - hit the abuse button - they pulled all the posts concerning the nasty one, including mine. As for his prices - he will figure out he has to lower them or his business will not succeed.
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PN&S pulled my post about me calling some of the people in the area racist. I lived there in the past and I should know. Why they pull my post is because they are just as gulity. WTTR living in Parkersburg
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He's gonna have to lower his gas prices to be competitive with the other stations in town..
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Racist comments always get a report abuse from me so go ahead - we will see who's fingers are faster. Unless you are of American Indian descent - your people here now came from somewhere else. We all came from immigrants. He is starting a business, providing jobs, becoming a member of the community. He works and pays taxes - sounds like a good American to me - welcome to the area, most here will welcome you, don't let the few who don't get you down.
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I am really glad that another ethic race has come to the area. Although I never saw or know where this gas station is located but I will go out of my way to go there when I come in for the holidays. We need a more diversity Police Force, we need more Asians,Hispanics, African Americans and even middle Easterns on the Force as well.
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You really needed to post that comment? Anyone opening a business here is welcome by me. Also, New Jersey is not part of America now?
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About the Book
A finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction
Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell, is surfer and former war reporter Chas Smith's wild and unflinching look at the high-stakes world of surfing on Oahu's North Shore—a riveting, often humorous, account of beauty, greed, danger, and crime.
For two months every winter, when Pacific storms make landfall, swarms of mainlanders, Brazilians, Australians, and Europeans flock to Oahu's paradisiacal North Shore in pursuit of some of the greatest waves on earth for surfing's Triple Crown competition. Chas Smith reveals how this influx transforms a sleepy, laid-back strip of coast into a lawless, violent, drug-addled, and adrenaline-soaked mecca.
Smith captures this exciting and dangerous place where locals, outsiders, the surf industry, and criminal elements clash in a fascinating look at class, race, power, money, and crime, set within one of the most beautiful places on earth. The result is a breathtaking blend of crime and adventure that captures the allure and wickedness of this idyllic golden world.
A finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction
For two months every winter, when Pacific storms make landfall, Oahu's paradisical North Shore turns into a fiery hell. Its normal population of sixteen thousand more than triples and this explosion of mainlanders, Brazilians, Australians, and Europeans creates one of the most combustible milieus on earth. Waves, like gold and oil, are a limited resource and, as such, are fiercely fought over by the visiting hordes, the surf industry, other Hawaiian islanders, and North Shore residents. The otherwise sleepy North Shore becomes a lawless, violent, drug-addled, and adrenaline-soaked mecca.
It takes uniquely fearless men to paddle into thirty-foot waves breaking over a razor-sharp reef hidden beneath three feet of water. Death and maiming are regular occurrences during North Shore winters. Yet when the sun dips, the fearless become truly scared. You see, the ocean has rules. The men who haunt the land do not. And so they whisper about helter-skelter violence dished out by larger-than-life Hawaiians. They whisper about being choked, slapped, and bloodied for breaking unspoken codes of conduct. About the protection money extracted from the surf brands that want to hold their contests on the North Shore. About drug running, fights, and maybe even murders. And then they return to multimillion-dollar beachfront homes and drown their anxiety with cocaine and booze. But they know they are not safe. Because no one is ever safe here.
The surf world is far more volatile and complex than outsiders know or popular depictions would have us believe, and the North Shore during winter is its most extreme representation. It is downright dangerous but also exhilarating, and this story paints a true picture of what it feels like to be in the middle of it all. It is both a breathtaking and wildly funny tale of beauty, wickedness, and the unyielding allure of ocean waves in all their glory.
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[A] ripping profile of the surf culture on Oahu's North Shore . . . Smith['s] storytelling is taught . . . — Wall Street Journal
"Chas Smith is a stone-cold original-a globe-trotting, war-reporting, motorcycle-driving, cigarette-smoking, tube-riding, fashion-obsessed international dandy with a penchant for dangerous people, places, and, most of all, prose. Welcome To Paradise, Now Go To Hell is absolutely the most entertaining surf book in years, a breathless adrenalized romp." — Daniel Duane, author of Caught Inside, A Surfer's Year on the California Coast
"Absolutely the most entertaining surf book in years, a breathless adrenalized romp. More importantly, it's a jaw-dropping introduction to Smith's greatest--and most promising--literary creation, himself. This man-and this book-are both going places." — Daniel Duane, author of Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast
A vivid and somewhat disconcerting depiction of the world of surfing and its attendant problems . . . An uncommon read for those interested in surfing or those seeking a look at Hawaii from a vantage point not normally found in history books. — Library Journal
A hip exposé of Hawaii's North Shore surfing culture . . . entertains, while superior reporting informs and illuminates much about the surf industry's peculiar machinations, its cavalcade of sun-bleached heroes and the troubled history of Hawaii itself . . . effortlessly shifting from the profound to the profane. — Kirkus
A mix of reportage and gonzo journalism…. [with] trenchant…astute observations…. If Hunter S. Thompson circa Hell's Angels merged with a fashion critic to write about surfing for Maxim, the result might be similar. — Publishers Weekly
Smith grabs us with his first sentence [with] this exciting and revelatory book — Booklist
A book of real literary style and grace . . . gleefully mischievous . . . handles like a '54 Porsche: smooth, glamorous, and totally out of control. — Flaunt
Made me think hard about the North Shore . . . To the best of my knowledge, nothing like it exists." — The Inertia
Smith doesn't simply stand in judgment. He loves the world of the North Shore, and he hates it. With gleeful defiance and feral wit, he harnesses his ambivalence to fuel this compulsive, wild ride of a book. — Sydney Morning Herald, Pick of the Week
A wild and unflinching look at the adrenalin-soaked world of surfing. — Melbourne Herald Sun
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Let's just get this out of the way. I'm going to explore the darker side of the dot-com party scene, but it might not be the one you are hoping to read about. It's not sex, or drugs, or any other vices you expected to find here. Sorry.
No, this about the economic and cultural implications of the parade of after-work gatherings that have become required fare for Internet companies. Sociologist Gina Neff has studied them, and far from being frivolous outlets for blowing off steam, the parties tell us quite a bit about the way work and risk have changed, she argues.
In her research, Neff found that attending parties has become a necessary method of self-preservation in an industry and era where job security is close to zero. It's part of a larger trend in which companies have shifted employment risk away from themselves and on to individuals who are told success is theirs if they just work hard and network enough.
Think of it like this. Once, workers had unions. Now, they have parties.
Neff writes: Dot-com workers "saw parties as one of their most important business activities and spoke of their social connections within the industry as a form of unemployment insurance, their hedges for risky ventures, and buffers for difficult times."
The examination of dot-com parties comes in Neff's recently released book, "Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries." Neff is an associate professor of communication at the University of Washington, but is currently on a sabbatical and living in New York, where she is a fellow at Princeton's Center for Information Technology and Policy.
Which, in a way, brings her full circle. Neff was in college in New York in the mid-90s when the dot-com scene began to emerge. The rise and fall of the so-called Silicon Alley became the focus of the study that lies at the hear of "Venture Labor."
Silicon Alley? In 1999? OK, that might feel about as far away and as relevant as a study of Roman orgies. But trust me, the same dynamics Neff describes in Silicon Alley existed in Silicon Valley's own dot-com bubble economy. And with the Web industry resurgent, the parallels and lessons remain striking.
I caught up with Neff this week while she in town to give a talk at the Berkeley Center for New Media. Neff said she fell into the study in some ways because her roommate was an event planner for many of the earliest dot-com events for a New York group called the "World Wide Web Artists Consortium" or "WWWAC." ("Pronounced 'wack,' slang for cool," Neff helpfully points out to her academic audience.)
Living the study was not as glamorous as you might think.
"I always felt like a poser at the parties," Neff said. "In the ivory tower, nobody believes me. But they were hard to go to. Every single field note starts with, 'I don't want to be here.'"
But those in the industry felt they had little choice. One woman Neff interviewed laments that her inability to attend parties after she got pregnant hurt her career: "That's what derailed my rise. Because a lot of this is about going out and networking a lot and I just stopped."
That's one of several ways the parties, which many in the industry see as a way to build community, actually created new divisions. Older people with kids found it hard to keep up. Cliques developed, with the beautiful people thriving over the socially awkward. People felt the pressure of constantly needing to be "on" and perform as the line between work and leisure blurred.
"And the parties were pretty charged environments," Neff said. "People were marketing their companies. But they were also looking for dates. So, if you weren't comfortable in boozy night clubs, you were really at a disadvantage."
This is particularly true for the Web industry, though it is increasingly true for other industries as well, Neff says. Companies have done a masterful job of absolving themselves for any responsibility for our careers, in part by convincing everyone that if they are just willing to take enough risk, be entrepreneurial enough, nurture their networks, then it won't matter if they are constantly being laid off.
"Any blame for not having a job, for losing a job, for having out-of-date skills comes back onto the self," Neff writes.
Indeed, many of the people Neff interviewed responded to that in a positive way. In an era of less employment security, the new Internet industry promised a measure of power and control over their careers. They believed their future was firmly within their grasp.
Which was all fine, until the entire industry collapsed.
"We thought we might lose our job," one person told Neff. "We never thought we'd lose all the jobs."
When that happened, the dot-com employees found their party-driven networks useless. Those networks lacked diversity because everyone was in the same industry and out of work.
Those times Neff writes about are more than a decade behind us, but the issues remain the same. It still often seems that if you want to get ahead in the Internet industry, you have to keep partying like its 1999.
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