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TORONTO - CBC commentator Kevin O'Leary is leaving the public broadcaster after five years as co-host of "The Lang & O'Leary Exchange."
The broadcaster announced the departure late Monday in a news release that said O'Leary had "made the decision to pursue new opportunities."
O'Leary partnered with his long-time BNN co-host Amanda Lang in 2009 to launch "The Lang & Leary Exchange."
The duo debated the top business stories of the day, with Lang often providing the opposing view to O'Leary's staunch support of free markets.
O'Leary had made a name for himself as an investor and businessman before becoming a television personality. Earlier this year, he said he was leaving the CBC reality series "Dragon's Den."
His remarks on "The Lang & O'Leary Exchange" occasionally sparked controversy, such as when he called an Oxfam report that showed the 85 richest people in the world had the same wealth as the 3.5 billion poorest people "fantastic news."
O'Leary, 60, called the public broadcaster "a national treasure" in the statement.
"I'm proud to have been part of its expanding role as a place where ideas that matter to Canadians can be debated from all sides," he said.
"At the CBC, I've had the opportunity to work with world-class producers and journalists, particularly Amanda Lang, with whom I enjoyed having so many intriguing and lively discussions over the years."
The CBC did not say whether O'Leary's departure was due to its ongoing budget struggles.
After announcing in April that 657 jobs would be cut due to a $130 million shortfall, the public broadcaster revealed last month that another 1,000 to 1,500 positions would be eliminated over the next five years.
The network said Lang would take the helm of a new business program replacing "The Lang & O'Leary Exchange" this fall.


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Tillis beats tea party in N.C.
The GOP establishment scored a victory Tuesday when its preferred candidate soundly defeated a pair of grass-roots insurgents in a North Carolina primary that could prove critical to the party's chances of winning the Senate this fall.
With almost 99 percent of precincts reporting, Thom Tillis, the state House speaker, had won 45.7 percent of the vote, according to The Associated Press — well above the 40 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff. Libertarian and tea party favorite Greg Brannon was second with 27 percent of the vote, while Charlotte pastor Mark Harris had 17 percent.
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Tillis will now take on Sen. Kay Hagan, a highly vulnerable Democrat, in a year when Republicans are increasingly hopeful they can net the six seats they need to take the chamber. Hagan's team quickly pounced on Tillis, saying his positions are untenable for the poor and the middle class.
( FULL RESULTS: Primary elections in North Carolina, Indiana and Ohio)
Voters in Ohio and Indiana, as well as North Carolina, cast ballots Tuesday for candidates as wide-ranging as House Speaker John Boehner (who easily won his primary) and "American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken (who was in a tight race for the Democratic nomination for a House seat in the Tar Heel State as of late in the day).
Those primary races and upcoming May contests in states across the country, including Kentucky and Georgia, are the first significant battles pitting the GOP's main two wings against each other since 2012.
The North Carolina Senate result is a boost to GOP establishment leaders who are eager to avoid repeating the mistakes of 2010 and 2012, when some tea party candidates won their primaries but lost in the general election because they could not appeal to more moderate voters.
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In comments Tuesday night that appeared aimed at a general election audience, Tillis, while blasting Hagan's "liberal voting record" as being "partisan" and "out of touch" with the state, promised to "work across party lines to pass an agenda focused on generating growth and opportunities for middle-class families and small businesses."
Establishment-aligned outside groups, such as Karl Rove's American Crossroads and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, spent more than $10 million to boost Tillis, on top of the more than $2 million his campaign spent. He was also endorsed by former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
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Tillis and his allies were especially keen to avoid a July 15 runoff, partly because such a battle would have allowed Hagan to continue to add to her war chest while Tillis would have been forced to spend money he could have devoted to his general election campaign.
Brannon appeared to gain ground toward the end of the race, even earning the backing of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a tea party favorite, who spoke at a rally for Brannon on Monday. Harris, a favorite of evangelicals, had meanwhile earned the support of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Shortly after Tillis' victory, Paul, a potential 2016 presidential contender, released a statement endorsing him and calling on the GOP "to unite to defeat" Hagan, whom he bashed for supporting President Barack Obama's health care law.
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Republican establishment types had been especially concerned that Brannon might win. The OB-GYN and first-time candidate compared food stamps to slavery, among other controversial statements. A Wake County jury also recently found that he had misled investors in a tech startup. Tillis allies fretted that voters would reject Brannon in a general election.
Although Tillis' victory officially starts the general election race, both he and Hagan, who had negligible competition in her primary, have been attacking each other for months.


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I have a treat for all you Naruto fans out there. I was looking for some ideas to draw a new chibi character and it came to my surprise that there is no tutorials on "how to draw chibi Naruto", step by step. That is totally insane because Naruto is one of my favorite characters from the series. I mean there is like one place and the lesson is pretty cool, but that is exactly what it is a basic head lesson on chibi Naruto. I thought it would be cool to draw a full bodied image of this popular character. I didn't just want him standing there doing nothing so I drew him in active motion. He is holding one of his favorite eating tools, a pair of chopsticks. Naruto's favorite food is Ramen Noodles and that is why I chose to draw him holding chopsticks. All in all I think that this chibi Naruto character came out looking pretty cool. The tutorial itself is also really easy too so learning "how to draw chibi Naruto" should be an absolute breeze. He really looks like he is having such an awesome time doesn't he? I love the way chibi Naruto's clothes came out too and his little feet and hands. I know that this lesson is going to be a big hit and I will return later with more drawing fun so stay tuned in folks and try this tutorial on for size. Peace out gang and happy drawing!
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Jane Lynch was one key person not aware that some serious negotiations were going on between "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy and "Saturday Night Live" chief Lorne Michaels.
The fantastic end result of the bargaining was Murphy agreeing to let his "Glee" star do "Saturday Night Live." Great news!
Oh, and he let Lynch know via text.
"I said, 'Lady, you're doing 'Saturday Night Live,' " Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter. "And she literally wrote back, 'What are you talking about?'"
It turns out Ryan's discussions about giving Lynch the time off to do the famed comedy show had taken place apparently without Lynch getting a hint.
"'Saturday Night Live' called to say, 'Would you give us Jane for a week in October?'" explained Murphy. "We just don't do that, but for Lorne Michaels, I said yes."
Now that Lynch knows, she can prepare herself. But even Lynch just showing up on the day of the show would be better than the majority of guests the famously uneven show throws up there (the unrelenting Betty White one recent and notable exception).
It's going to be must-watch television for all, including the cast of "Glee."
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For a long time now I have suspected that calling perl subroutines is slow. And I couldn't figure out from the language shootout which benchmark tested subroutine calls (did it use to be Ackermann?) so I made up my own benchmark.
Perl in comparison to its closest rival – CPython.
I tested a few things:
First, a loop that does nothing, to see how much is loop overhead
Next a zero parameter function
Then a function called with two integers
And finally, declaring those two integers inline.
I'm assuming that an optimiser doesn't come along and remove code that does nothing. From the results, it seems like a safe assumption.
And, I'm not running benchmarks multiple times or with many iterations because, frankly, I don't care that much. I just want to get an idea as to how Perl stacks up.
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def f1(): pass def f2(a, b): pass # return a, b for i in xrange (1, 10000000): pass # f1 # f2(1, 2) # x,y=1,2
Python Results
$ python -V Python 2.6.5 $ time python ./func.py # (pass) real 0m0.722s user 0m0.720s sys 0m0.004s $ time python ./func.py # (x,y = 1,2) real 0m2.030s user 0m2.024s sys 0m0.004s $ time python ./func.py # (f1) real 0m2.265s user 0m2.244s sys 0m0.012s $ time python ./func.py # (f2 - pass) real 0m2.885s user 0m2.880s sys 0m0.004s $ time python ./func.py # (f2 - return a, b) real 0m3.190s user 0m3.144s sys 0m0.012s
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sub f1 { } sub f2 { my ($x, $y) = @_; } for ($i = 0; $i < 10_000_000; ++$i) { 1; # f1(); # f2(1, 2); # my ($x, $y) = (1, 2); }
Perl Results
$ time perl ./func.pl # (1) real 0m0.893s user 0m0.888s sys 0m0.004s $ time perl ./func.pl # (f1) real 0m2.932s user 0m2.924s sys 0m0.004s $ time perl ./func.pl # (f2) real 0m5.607s user 0m5.580s sys 0m0.004s $ time perl ./func.pl # (my ($x, $y) ...) real 0m2.687s user 0m2.672s sys 0m0.008s
A few things jump out at me.
1. 10 million subroutine calls take around a couple of seconds. Would reducing call speed actually affect any real program much?
2. Declaring the variables and assigning the values takes almost as long as the empty function call.
3. Python function calls are faster than perl function calls but it's not by enough to worry about.
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Riley's Trademark Aids More Than Team
Wordplay can be serious business. Just ask famed NBA coach and now Miami Heat president Pat Riley.
Fresh off the Heat's second straight NBA championship, the legendary story of Riley having been savvy enough 25 years ago to trademark the term "three-peat" is being resurrected once again – and Riley is not the only one who stands to benefit financially.
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After all, Riley works to raise money through a variety of charitable efforts. Among those is The Miami Heat Family Outreach which, according to the Miami Heat website, he and his wife founded in 1997 and has raised more than $15 million for the South Florida community. Primary beneficiaries include a center for seriously ill children, a domestic violence shelter for women and their children and the Miami Coalition for a Safe and Drug-free Community. Riley is also involved in the Pediatric AIDS Foundation's Kids for Kids organization which they started in 1992 in New York. He's been involved in other charity efforts as well.
Now, he could combine that savvy business move with a stellar NBA season to further benefit those in need.
According to Fox Sports Florida, Riley gets a portion of the proceeds when "three-peat'' is used on apparel and for other marketing purposes, including when the term is on mugs, plates, posters and bumper stickers. Plenty of such stuff was sold when some of the most popular teams in sports history went back to back to back over the past two decades.
"We have over the years made a considerable amount of money off that trademark and most of it, a good portion of it, always goes to charity,'' said Riley, who has won nine NBA championship rings as a player, assistant coach, head coach and executive but never three in a row. "It goes to foundations and stuff. But I do have a partner in it.''
So how did Riley even come to be in this position of making coin off a coined term?
The story goes that it was Los Angeles Lakers star Byron Scott who actually came up with the term during the 1988 Lakers victory parade. LA had already won two in a row and Scott blurted out the word with the hopes of winning the following year. Shortly after, Riley, who at the time was the Lakers head coach, mused during a conversation with a friend about whether he could somehow make money off the term.
The whimsical concept turned into a serious reality with Riley forming a licensing group that then registered "three-peat" as a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office web site. From that point on, anyone printing the word "three-peat" on clothing, hats, towels or mugs would owe Riley a percentage. Riley even struck a licensing agreement with the NBA. When did he cash in?
Sadly, the Lakers failed to make it three in a row after getting swept by the Detroit Pistons in 1989, but don't cry for Riley. While there's no public information on how much money Riley has raked in by owning the term, it's estimated that after the Lakers' arch rivals the Chicago Bulls won three straight championship titles from 1991 to 1993, Riley scraped 5% off the top of all sales of apparel and novelties with the word "three-peat" on them.
But what are the realistic numbers?
According to trademark and copyright attorney Jeff Sladkus of The Sladkus Law Group, Riley appears to be very much on top of renewing his protection of the terms, perhaps a clear sign that his original trademarking of the word has paid off. Sladkus, who does not represent Riley, says it's a good bet that Riley has made anywhere from 5 to 10 percent from "owning" the word.
"There are more or less industry standards for licensing fees," he said. "With the deals I've done in the past for apparel, those average around 7 percent, so anywhere from 5 to 10 percent would not be abnormal. (Riley) still owns them: four registrations for different variations. "Three peat" "Threepeat" "3-peat" and "3peat." Some of his licenses he has are for bumper stickers, decals, novelties. You need to show the trademark office examples of how you're using it. The packaging indicates he licensed the trademark to a third party who manufactured it.
"With clothing, it looks like (Riley) has had a tougher time. There's a nuance when you're selling clothing: when you trademark something, it's usually for use on the back of the clothing tag. Riley has Threepeat on the shirt. That's just ornamentality. It's not protectable but he relied on the exception: if you've been using it for five years ornamentally, you get to retain the trademark royalties. I would think that in a situation like this, Riley would get a royalty on the sale of the manufacturer to the retailer, 5 percent of the gross."
Keep in mind that in today's terms, trademarking a word like "three-peat" is somewhat like having locked in a url or website name starting with the letter 'i'.. sure to vex Apple in its quest to own everything from iPhone to iChat to i-you-name-it.
When the Bulls pulled off a repeat of the three-peat from 1996 to 1998, it was money in the bank again for Riley who by then had done a stint as the New York Knicks' head coach and then had landed in Miami.
Riley has yet to make money off a team he's coached or run. None have hit the three-peat status, triggering those pennies from NBA heaven. The Heat are close, but Riley knows how that goes from his Laker days.
And he knows how to best take advantage of his trademark.
"When you get a trademark registered, you need to show evidence that it's still being used within the fifth and sixth year of registration," Sladkus said. "On the 10th anniversary you have to show that it's still being used. After that 10th year renewal, it's good for the next decade. You gotta use it or you'll lose it."
With the ever-elusive three-in-a-row championship wins out of reach for now, it still has the rest of us wondering how to make money off words, with or without friends. If you're thinking about registering "four-peat," forget it.
Apparently a third party in Chicago has already locked that one in.
"Five-peat?" Now you're just dreaming.


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Dolly commended for highlighting the life of young carers
In 147 pages of beauty and fashion shopping, advice and advertising , along with tips on catching your "crush" this summer, there are, fortunately, a few articles that will actually help girls.
As you know, I always search for the personal stories which convey the reality of girls' lives as well as inspiring resilience and hope. Not all girls are as carefree as the slim, sun-kissed, smooth bum-cheeked, glowing girls in the full page Rip Curl ads (as noted in the past, the re-touch free zone and claims to want to represent a diversity of bodies in young girl mag pages, has never incorporated advertising).
I commend Dolly's editors for the piece 'Life as a young carer'. Most of us have no idea of the reality of so many young people who care for physically and mentally ill parents or siblings. There are 347,700 young carers in Australia – about two teen carers in every classroom. 56% of young primary carers are not employed or at school. Jazelle, 18, has been primary carer for her mum since she was 10. Her mother broke her back in a motorbike accident as a teen however needed more help when she was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease five years ago. She is in and out of hospital and because she requires so much care, Jazelle does distance education. A timeline of an average day for Jazelle shows the extent of her caring role. Carers have the lowest level of wellbeing of any Australian group, with over half reporting some level of depression and need more support. Support can be found through your local Commonwealth Carer Resource Centre on 1800 242 636 or youngcarers.net.au for services in your local area. Dolly has initiated Young Carers Week (November 25 – December 1) – not much time for readers to act given this is the December issue, however hopefully the week will be more developed for next year. Readers are encouraged to reach out to any young carers at school, offer help and to send messages through Dolly to young carers. I really hope they do. Read more here.
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You'll Like The 2012 GMC Sierra 2500HD If...
If you're a GMC loyalist, the 2012 GMC Sierra HD truck line is bound to keep you coming back for more. Those who worry about dirtying up the inside of their truck will appreciate the heavily vinyl trappings of the Work Truck line.
You May Not Like The 2012 GMC Sierra 2500HD If...
Although both the Ram HD and Ford Super Duty trucks look nearly identical on paper, the two competitors offer bolder styling and more upscale editions than does the 2012 GMC Sierra HD line.
What's New
The 2012 GMC Sierra HD sees a few improvements for this model year. A new hard-drive navigation radio is offered, while Work Truck models gain cruise control and lockable spare tire. Denali trims gain as standard equipment heated and cooling front seats, a heated steering wheel, a rearview camera and, on 3500 dually models, 17-inch polished wheels.
Interior Features
The 2012 GMC Sierra HD Work Truck (WT), SLE and SLT interiors are designed to work in conjunction with the trucks' duties, yet are still nicely appointed and on Denali trims, downright opulent. While there are not as many storage bins and compartments as in the Ram and Ford HD trucks, the 2012 GMC Sierra HD nevertheless has a number of useful storage ideas for everything from laptops to the errant tool. The 2012 GMC Sierra HD truck's cab makes for the perfect mobile office, with such options as mobile Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and navigation, as well as SiriusXM NavTraffic updates and the OnStar suite of telematic aids. Denali models feature specific brushed-aluminum trim, heated and cooling 12-way power seats, power-adjustable pedals, and a Bose premium surround audio system.
Exterior Features
The 2012 GMC Sierra 2500 and 3500 HD trucks sport a large, 3-bar chrome grille resting atop a full-size chrome bumper to create as imposing a sight as you'll ever want see in your rearview mirror. The Sierra HD's massive power dome hood is decked out in powertrain badging and features functional louvers for better engine cooling. The upscale Denali trims can be spotted by their 4-bar mesh design grille and color-keyed bumpers fitted with a mesh-style lower air intake surrounding the front tow hooks. Other features unique to the Denali include chrome door handles and accents, and polished forged-aluminum wheels.
Driving Impressions
Thanks to its torque-heavy 6.6-liter Duramax turbodiesel V8, we found that towing a 10,000-pound trailer behind the 2012 GMC Sierra 2500 HD truck posed absolutely no challenge whatsoever. The 2012 GMC HD's available Duramax turbodiesel develops 397 horsepower and 765 pound-feet of torque (that's more horsepower but less torque than the Ram HD, and less horsepower and torque than the Ford PowerStroke diesel). Despite the difference in power from its main rivals, the Sierra HD still takes top honors in fifth-wheel and conventional towing, as well as payload figures. The Duramax diesel is a bit loud, but you wouldn't know it from inside the passenger compartment. One of our favorite features on the diesel truck is the "smart" exhaust-braking setup. The system works by progressively restricting the diesel's exhaust, depending on speed and grade, to help slow the rig with added compression braking. We tested a number of 2012 GMC Sierra HD trucks, with gasoline and diesel engines, long and short beds, and basic to plush trim levels. We found all exhibited a firm suspension, good steering ability and fairly compliant ride.
Pricing Notes
The 2012 GMC Sierra HD is offered in Work Truck (WT), SLE and SLT trim levels with prices starting at a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of just under $30,000. The Denali models start close to $46,500. The available Duramax turbodiesel V8/Allison transmission combination adds about $7,200 to the Sierra's bottom line. Pricing for the GMC Sierra line is roughly on par with its Ram and Ford counterparts when comparably equipped. To make your best deal on a 2012 GMC Sierra HD truck, be sure to visit kbb.com and check the Fair Purchase Price, which shows what others in your area paid for their trucks. Based on past experience, the Sierra's 5-year resale values should be roughly comparable to the Fords and better than the Rams.
Notable Equipment
Four-wheel-disc brakes with ABS and Intelligent Brake Assist and a 6-speed automatic transmission are standard on all models, while StabiliTrak electronic stability control, Trailer Sway Control and Hill Start Assist (but not Hill Descent Control) are standard on single-rear-wheel (non-dually) models, and a "Smart" Exhaust Braking comes with the available Duramax Diesel. Also standard are chrome front and rear bumpers, engine- and transmission-oil coolers, a driver information center, tilt steering wheel, cruise control, air conditioning, automatic headlights and front tow hooks. Standard safety features include front-seat airbags and a new high-strength tubular steel-frame crossmember that improves crashworthiness.
Notable Options
Optional (or unavailable) on base 2WD GMC Sierra Work Trucks are power locks, windows and mirrors and a rear-window defroster. The next-level SLE trim provides those plus remote keyless entry, OnStar, XM Satellite Radio, and a CD player, but not the rear-window defroster. The top-of-the-line SLT trim (available on Extended and Crew Cab models) adds leather, power seats and much more, while Denali models are fully loaded. Option packages are available, and other major options include navigation, a CD changer, a rear-seat DVD entertainment system, remote start, premium wheels, a sunroof, a rearview camera, an integrated trailer-brake controller and pelvic/thorax and head-curtain airbags.
Favorite Features
Exhaust braking
This system progressively restricts the diesel's exhaust – depending on speed and grade – to help slow the rig with added compression braking.
Remote starting
A favorite on any vehicle, this available feature is much appreciated on working trucks that operate in hot and cold weather extremes.
Under the Hood
The 2012 GMC Sierra HD features as standard a heavy-duty Vortec 6.0-liter gasoline V8 with a cast-iron block, aluminum heads and cam-in-block variable valve timing (VVT). The VVT system allows the engine to use late intake valve closing to improve efficiency and achieve an optimal balance of low-rpm torque and free-breathing, high-rpm horsepower. The 2012 Duramax turbodiesel offers plentiful power and torque, improved strength and durability, and a "smart" exhaust braking with the Allison 1000 6-speed automatic transmission and full B20 biodiesel capability. Its NOx emissions are reduced by 63 percent via a Selective Catalyst Reduction after-treatment system that uses urea-based Diesel (Emission) Exhaust Fluid (DEF) in a 5.3-gallon tank that needs to be replenished about every 5,000 miles.
6.0-liter V8
360 horsepower @ 5,400 rpm
380 lb-ft of torque @ 4,200 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: NA
6.6-liter turbodiesel V8
397 horsepower @ 3,000 rpm
765 lb-ft of torque @ 1,600 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: NA
Editors' Notes
Although many people consider GMC and Chevrolet's trucks to be interchangeable, GMC has been working hard to establish its own identity, something the company likes to call "professional grade." The 2012 GMC Sierra Heavy Duty (HD) trucks are a good example of this new image, sharing almost all of their parts with the Chevrolet Silverado HD trucks, but adding more upscale features such as the Denali trim line, which has no equal on the Chevy side. The 2012 Sierra HD trucks are a powerful lineup of 3/4-ton and 1-ton models, made all the better by last year's improvements to the frame, suspension and Duramax diesel engine. And, while the 2012 GMC Sierra HD trucks are not the most powerful in the segment, they do take top honors for fifth-wheel and conventional towing, as well as payload.


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Interview: Jessica Queller, Pretty is What ChangesTuesday, June 24th, 2008
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Stress disorders and suicides among veterans and service members are at epidemic proportions. To do my part to fight these tragedies, I extend an offer to our community to treat three veterans with post traumatic stress disorder free of charge in my clinic.
I was motivated to offer free treatments when I read an article about the results of a 2010 study that found 22 service members commit suicide every day. Paul Rieckhoff, the founder of Iraq and Afganistan Veterans of America called the epidemic of suicides an "outrage." He urged national attention to the problem of vets struggling with "invisible wounds," and said traditional risk assessments are no longer adequate to the problem. We need to add "ways to identify life stressors and concerns earlier," he said. Current treatment options at SFVAMC are limited to medication and psychotherapy. The meds can have unhealthy side effects and the therapy can take precious time that many vets simply do not have.
As a Chiropractor and Functional Neurologist, I have taken great interest in the brain's ability to regulate the body. Gray's Anatomy, the accepted anatomical authority says,-"the nervous system controls all the organs, systems and cells of the body," making it the driver of healthy function. It is critical that messages from the brain travel down the spinal cord and reach the body's systems without interference. The cause of interference can be chemical, physical and psychological. Chiropractic adjustment reboots the system, impacting all three causes.
In the healing arts, it has been well understood for years that all diseases are of two general kinds a state of under-activity or a state of over-activity. Medicine's traditional approach has been to develop drugs that either stimulate or depress the system to attempt a normal balance (homeostasis). If disease is a result of imbalance (that is, over- or under-arousal), then good health is a balanced state.
A person in a balanced state of health would experience strong recovery ability, high energy, few symptoms, resistance to infections, positive mental attitude, present time consciousness, mental alertness and excellent health. He or she would look younger and would remain active and vibrant.
We can measure the state of balance by observing the action of the normal physiological responses of the body, including brain wave activity, heart rate, heart rate variability (the ratio between heart rhythm and respiration rhythm), respiratory rate, hand temperature and skin conductance (skin moisture).
What if the body doesn't have balance? Then the system cannot adapt to all the activities and stressors of life without consuming more energy. Energy destined for growth and repair now has to go toward keeping everything working the best it can. The system is stressed. It is in one of four states of imbalance: over-arousal, under-arousal, instability and exhaustion. Any of these conditions can be mild, moderate or severe.
Stress is a maladaptive response pattern. In the case of someone with PTSD, the system is over-aroused and chaotic. It reflects conditions associated with hyper-vigilance or panic attacks, loss of quality sleep, and a host of other symptoms. An effective treatment of PTSD ascertains the severity of imbalance by measuring brain waves.
Information is communicated within the brain by electrical/chemical impulse. The impulses can be measured in hertz by an EEG, or electroencephalogram.
The cortex area of our brain stores most of our memories and emotions as well as sensory motor functions. When the patterns of frequency become dysregulated then symptoms and conditions appear. With EEG we can monitor the brain rhythms in the cortex that modulate this system in its response to stress. We can also determine courses of action to change a dysregulated system into a well regulated one.
In my clinic, I employ a treatment protocol that reorganizes brain and nervous system function. It includes spinal adjustments to the nervous system to reset/reboot the system, health awareness (good habits; bad habits), nutritional and physical reconditioning education, biofeedback, neurofeedback and brain entrainment protocols.
Through ongoing evaluations, I establish a course of treatment that addresses changing chemical, physical and psychological contributors to neurological stress. Symptoms are an indication of a dysregulated system. By correcting this imbalance, a healthy state can be achieved.
Participants in the free program would visit my office in Oakland (6 blocks from Rockridge BART) between 3pm and 7pm Monday through Thursday twice a week for the first two months and once a week over the following year.
Inquiries can be sent to me at 6245 College Ave. Oakland, CA 94618 or email@example.com. My website is http://www.Pridechiropractic.com. Please forward this to any service connected individual you feel is in need. Participants will be chosen based on need and the ability to commit to the terms of the program.
Our fellow veteran Paul Rieckhoff is right. To stem the loss of life and talent to suicide and PTSD requires innovation and commitment – one veteran at a time.
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Stress disorders and suicides among veterans and service members are at epidemic proportions. To do my part to fight these tragedies, I extend an offer to our community to treat three veterans with post traumatic stress disorder free of charge in my clinic.


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Due to a wonky standard curve, I repeated the qPCR from earlier this week.
Standard curve was p18RK7 from 20161128.
All samples were run in duplicate.
Master mix calcs are here (Google Sheet): 20170619_qPCR_WSN1_Ava_Samples
Plate layouts, cycling params, etc. can be seen in the corresponding qPCR Reports (see Results below).
Baseline threshold was manually set to 580, based on Lisa's development of the withering syndrome qPCR assay.
qPCR Report (PDF): Sam_2017-06-21 07-39-31_CC009827.pdf
qPCR Data File (CFX96): Sam_2017-06-21 07-39-31_CC009827.pcrd
Well, unfortunately, it looks like the curve has gone wonky. This is two consecutive runs with the same behavior. A new curve will have to be made and tested.


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Will an IPO Ruin Twitter?
Though most of Twitter's 200 million users have probably not even given 140 characters' worth of thought to the company's upcoming IPO, the social media giant's decision to go public will likely change the site in innumerable ways. Quentin Fottrell reports on Lunch Break. Photo: Getty Images.
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Ground Balls: 5 (Yale, 3/26/11)
Draw Controls: 2 (twice, most recent vs. Holy Cross, 4/13/11)
Caused turnovers: 3 (Dartmouth, 4/29/11)
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Started in four of 11 games played … Led the team in caused turnovers (16) and was fourth on the team in ground balls (21) … Won six draw controls … Had four ground balls, two caused turnovers and a draw in win over Boston University.
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Four-year letterwinner in field hockey and lacrosse … Captained field hockey and lacrosse teams as a senior … Helped high school team to four consecutive Nassau County Championships, four Long Island Championships and four consecutive New York Class B State titles … Team went undefeated during her senior season and was ranked as high as No. 2 in the national polls by ESPN Rise and Laxpower.com … Two-time US Lacrosse Academic All-American … A two-time All-Nassau County recipient … NYSPHHSAA State Lacrosse Championships All-Tournament team honoree in 2009 … Winner of the 2010 Donna Walsh Award for on-field excellence and team leadership … Received the New 12 Long Island/MSG Varsity Scholar-Athlete and New 12 Long Island/MSG Varsity Scholar-Athlete Scholarship … Four-year member of the Long Island Yellowjackets Elite Lacrosse club … Two-time NFHCA first-team All-American in field hockey … Three-time NFHCA All-North region recipient .. Also a three-time All-New York State and four-time All-Nassau County … Won a silver medal at the Empire State Games, a bronze medal at the AAU Junior Olympics and the Disney Field Hockey Showcase … Alternate for the junior National Camp … Won four Nassau County Championships, four Long Island Field Hockey Championships, made four state final four appearances and won two New York State titles … All-time assists leader at Garden City High School with 53 …AP Scholar with Distinction … Earned National Latin Examination Gold Medal twice … Member of the National, Latin and Italian honor societies … National Merit Commended Student … Four-year member of the math team … Altar server at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church … Sister, Michaela, a 2010 graduate of Harvard, rowed for Radcliffe … Brother, Matthew, a 2008 graduate of Amherst College, played football for the Lord Jeffs … Will also play field hockey for the Crimson.


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A military wedding may be officiated by a Christian minister in a church or Jewish rabbi in a synagogue. The military wedding may also be held at a chapel on the base site. Those who marry at a military chapel are military academy graduates, a child of the graduate, a staff member or a faculty member. When the grooms residence is at a military post, officers and their spouses, as well as civilians are invited to the wedding and reception. The American flag is displayed at the wedding.
If the service is performed by a military chaplain, there is never a fee. He or she should be consulted before hiring musicians or a photographer.
Military custom dictates that a formal invitation to the reception be extended to the chaplain and his or her spouse.


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Green plumbing fixtures these days are not only designed to be water and energy efficient, they are also designed to save time for installers, users, and maintenance personnel. Moreover, many new products are aimed at improving the user experience as much as they seek to improve the environment.
Modern water-efficient products are a far cry from the industry's first attempts at low-flow, when the Energy Policy Act of 1992 first mandated the 1.6 gallons per flush (gpf) requirement for toilets. "I would be the first to say that when the industry introduced 1.6-gpf toilets, they were a bit of a disaster," said Ken Martin, senior director of commercial sales for Delta Faucet Co. "The government mandated the change, the industry tried to scramble to catch up, and although they could easily lower the flows, the water closets didn't perform. Now with the recent high-efficiency toilets, they're actually putting some effort into designing those water closets so they actually do work."
More and more Building Teams are looking to increase water efficiency in projects, but performance is still king. While green is great, fixtures still need to just plain work properly. "Users want them to work the same as or better than the old products," said Rob Zimmerman, manager of engineering, water conservation, and sustainability for Kohler Co. "Performance matters more than water efficiency. If we're going to make water-efficient toilets that don't work as well, and we've been through this in the '90s, people will not accept them."
Since the dark days of those first 1.6-gpf toilets, manufacturers have met and surpassed the low-flow challenge. Today, there are more eco-friendly faucet, showerhead, and toilet fixtures than ever, and they perform better than ever. Now, manufacturers are moving to provide plenty of options and features that improve both user experience and ease of installation and maintenance.
Expanding the world of choices
If performance is the top consideration, providing lots of options is a close runner-up. "There are some products that are better fits for certain applications than others," said Zimmerman. "What we've tried to do is provide those options." While a waterless urinal may sound great for the environment, it might not be right for a particular building or application. But whatever the specification or preference, manufacturers aim to fit the bill.
Another benefit to options: they allow plumbers and contractors a step-down program of sorts to familiarize themselves with the new technologies and become comfortable working with them. Kohler offers a variety of flow capacities in both toilets and urinals for just that reason. In addition to the standard 1.6-gpf toilets and 1.0-gpf urinals, the company now offers 1.28- and 1.0-gpf toilets, one-pint urinals, and waterless urinals.
As low-flow becomes more commonplace, companies also are developing innovations that save water in other ways. Low-flow fixtures can be complemented with standard-flow fixtures that guard against wasting water. Delta takes its toilet fixtures a step further with its 81T series flush valves, equipped with automatic dual-flush technology. An H2Optics sensor determines whether to use a 1.6- or 1.1-gal flush by measuring not only the time a user spends at the toilet, as is common with many automatic dual-flush valves, but also the user's distance from the toilet.
According to Martin, the technology is similar to that of a point-and-shoot digital camera, which sends out a beam of infrared light that bounces off the user to determine how far away he or she is. "The flush valve itself is going to know when you're within a certain distance, whether sitting down versus standing up," he said. "It couples that with time to make the determination on whether to go with a full flush or a partial flush, the concept being to try to predict whether you have a liquid load of a solid load to remove."
Improved sensing technologies also can help faucets avoid unnecessary water waste. Delta's Proximity Sensor creates a four-inch field around the faucet that activates the flow when a hand enters the field, without the need for sensors or infrared technology. The field is self-calibrating upon installation, adding convenience for the installer. The company also offers a manual option—a faucet that starts and stops with tap of a finger. The one-touch activation improves hygiene, while reducing the number of false activations.
Kohler's Insight Touchless Technology adapts to the lighting conditions of a restroom to avoid unnecessary activation. Most of the new faucets also include preset shutoff features, which can be set to a stop the flow of water at a desired time.
Give users what they want
The pervasiveness of eco-friendly products on the market also means that manufacturers need to add something extra to their products to differentiate them from every other low-flow fixture out there. Improved user experience and easier installation and maintenance are features that manufacturers are focusing on to make their products stand out.
"We talked to facility managers and plumbers, people who are involved with servicing these products," said Zimmerman. "They said the real issue for them is maintenance." In response, Kohler developed the Hybrid energy system for its Insight Touchless Technology. The Hybrid system uses a layered capacitor that collects small electrical discharges from the battery, which the faucet then uses for power. The cell is able to store power, and since the Insight technology uses very small amounts of energy, the battery can last for 30 years or more, according to the manufacturer.
Manufacturers also concentrate on user experience to further improve low-flow technology. One of Delta's major innovations concerns low-flow showerheads. "We went to 2.5 gallons per minute back when the toilets went to 1.6 gpf, and not a lot of people were all that happy with them. We're kind of used to them now," said Martin. The low-flow standard has since dropped to 1.5 gallons per minute, which is relatively easy to achieve simply by restricting the flow of water from the showerhead.
But, says Martin, that low flow can affect the user's ability to keep warm and still get wet enough to wash. Delta's solution is H2OKinetics technology, which keeps the flow at 1.5 gpm, but increases the size of the water droplets in order to save both water and energy. "The bigger the drop of water, the more heat it's going to retain when it hits you," he said. Since the water stays warmer, users are less likely to crank up the heat. That saves energy and will result in a more satisfactory showering experience.
What's next for green plumbing?
Although plumbing fixture performance has greatly improved in the last two decades, the introduction of increasingly stringent low-flow standards has created problems of its own. "As the flows get driven down, it's getting more and more challenging to do the job, so to speak, of what the product is supposed to do, particularly in the case of the flush valves or urinals," said Martin. That is, there is concern whether the new fixtures provide enough water flow to flush the system.
The plumbing products industry is looking to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) WaterSense program to not only increase industry accountability that green products continue to perform, but also to raise consumer awareness and acceptance of these products.
"Their criteria in those standards are not just about lowering the flow, they're also about how the fixture performs," said Martin. He points to the showerhead standard that WaterSense recently released, which not only drops water use to two gallons a minute, but also provides for heating, thermal, and wetting property standards that have to be met by the showerhead as well."In other words, you can't just put a pencil stream of water out there and drop the flow," said Martin. "It actually has to feel good."
WaterSense also provides municipalities a sort of guide to follow when determining local flow standards, helping both manufacturers and specifiers by increasing code uniformity. "What we in the industry get worried about is when individual municipalities unilaterally start cranking down flow rates without any regard for safety or performance issues," said Martin. "WaterSense is creating a common sort of standard, if you like, that municipalities can look to and say, We'll just require that."
The potential of not having enough water in drains and pipes to carry waste from toilets and urinals—the so-called "drain line carry problem"—is already starting to become the next big concern in eco-friendly plumbing. "Here's the problem: you've got a big infrastructure already in place throughout the country that's designed to remove waste on the assumption that these toilets are going to flush 3.5 or more gallons per flush," said Martin. "These systems work fine at 3.5 gpf, but when they start dropping the water flows that go into the sewer, then you're basically going to end up with sludge."
Municipalities in the U.S. have not faced this problem yet, but that may be because low-flow toilets and urinals are still relatively new, said Kohler's Zimmerman. "I have heard very sporadic comments and anecdotes out there, but nothing that suggests a major trend," he said. "There are still a lot of water-wasting toilets, urinals, and faucets in the marketplace. As those gradually get changed out and the amount of water in the system is decreased, the drain line problem may sneak up on us." BD+C
A 'Nonaqueous' Way to Conserve in the Restroom
While water and energy conservation get a lot of the fanfare, PMRG Realty, a building management company, found another way to help its client improve its ecological footprint at a Dallas office building. PMRG recently renovated the restrooms at the one million-sf Campbell Center office complex, but found that paper towels were being wasted. "They fall to the floor and aren't picked up, so the tidiness and waste were the two main reasons we were looking for some sort of solution," said Rebecca Jack, assistant property manager for the complex.
PMRG solved the property manager's problem with Bobrick-Koala TowelMate Towel Dispenser Retainers. These stainless steel inserts fit into existing folded towel dispensers and limit the number of paper towels that can be dispensed at one time to just a single towel. This prevents guests from pulling out a handful of towels and possibly dropping some on the floor. According to the manufacturer, the TowelMate reduces paper usage and waste by as much as 20%. The inserts accommodate recycled paper towels for added conservation.
In the two months since they were installed in her building, says Jack, the retainers have worked flawlessly. "Because of this product, there's no waste going on, and the restrooms are tidy," she says. BD+C


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The Department of Psychology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky invites applications for a tenure track position at the rank of assistant professor in clinical psychology to begin Fall, 2020. We intend to hire a clinical neuropsychologist for our neuropsychology concentration. We seek applicants with a strong research program, potential to attract extramural funding, a commitment to excellent mentoring and teaching, who are license eligible, and who hold or can pursue ABPP-CN diplomate status. We are eager to further advance the diverse quality of our faculty. Our clinical program has a clinical science focus; we are a founding member of the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System and most of our graduates are active researchers. We are also accredited by APA. The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. or Ph.D. All But Dissertation (ABD) in Psychology. Interested applicants should apply online at: http://ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/249013 . Applicants must include the following: 1) cover letter, 2) CV, 3) statements of research and teaching interests (upload under Specific Request 1), 4) a review of applicant training and experience in neuropsychology (upload under Specific Request 2), 5) three representative publications (upload under Specific Request 3), and 6) a statement on inclusivity (upload under Writing Sample): As a department and university, we are strongly committed to creating an inclusive and effective teaching, learning, and working environment for all. In one to two pages, applicants should reflect on their commitments, approaches, and insights related to inclusion, diversity, and equity. In addition, please provide the names and contact information for three references when prompted in the academic profile. This information will be utilized to solicit recommendation letters from your references within the employment system. Review of applications will begin immediately. Deadline to apply is November 2, 2019. The University of Kentucky is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from veterans, individuals with disabilities, women, African Americans, and all minorities.
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The hearing, which was held at the Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel, marks the beginning of the public discourse over the groups proposed 2009 budget that would increase fares in every division of the MTA and simultaneously dramatically cut train service to parts of Brooklyn and Queens.
According to the MTA, the increases in fare and reductions in service are needed to close an ever-widening budget gap that brought on last year's fare hike. According to MTA representatives, the faltering New York City economy is directly to blame for their budgetary crisis, as more and more of the agencies funding has become dependent on taxes from real estate transactions, a well that has dried up over the last nine months.
The MTA has said that they would need to increase fares by 23 percent in order to close the budget gap without cutting service.
The MTA's Board of Executives put their support behind the recommendations of the Ravitch Commission, which proposed creating a new payroll tax in New York State and turn authority of the East River bridges over to the MTA in order to raise enough money to close the gap.
State legislative bodies have so far appeared unwilling to consider the Ravitch Commisison's proposal, and so the MTA is proceeding with the process of putting forward a budget that includes fare increases and service cuts, a process that begins with public hearings.
"The MTA, with federal, state, and city assistance, must end the shifting in financing transit projects to the fare box," said Kathy Masi, on behalf of the Queens Civic Congress. "[We question] any need for hikes, when creditable resources exist to support MTA operations and projects."
Councilwoman Helen Sears was perhaps the most understanding of the MTA's situation, although she still described their proposal as unnecessarily extreme.
"As budget negotiator for Queens, I am well aware of the dire fiscal straits we are in," she said. "Some fare increases are unavoidable, but a nearly 25 percent increase is unnecessarily severe."
Borough President Helen Marshall spoke against tolls for the East River bridges, citing the lack of appropriate mass transit for many neighborhoods throughout Queens.
"For the thousands of Queens residents, public transportation is not an option," she testified. "I believe that we must not punish those who have been ignored by government's failure to provide meaningful mass transit options. Our subway system does not serve the entire borough, and bus service and the all-too-infrequent Long Island Railroad are the only other options."
"Instead of increasing fees, the MTA should focus its efforts to cut administrative costs and reform its internal organizational and managerial structure," said Councilman Tony Avella. "The MTA should also develop alternative funding sources instead of relying on the hard-earned dollars of low- to middle-income families."
The councilman also renewed his calls for the control of the MTA to be transferred to the city.
The decision to hold the hearing on Inauguration Day ruffled a few feathers as well.
"The decision to hold this hearing on Inauguration Day is questionable, considering how many New Yorkers who ride the subways and buses that might want to air their concerns about the proposed subway cuts are away in the nation's capitol for the festivities," said State Senator Toby Stavisky.


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Fiction has an entrepreneurial element, akin to the inventor's secret machine, elixir, or formula. Many novelists have had the experience of falling upon the perfect scene or situation or character, the one that will breed meaning and metaphor throughout the book. Gogol surely knew that he had invented a devastating symbolic structure when he came up with the story of a devil figure who travels around Russia buying up the names of dead serfs; he carefully garaged his secret—in a letter, he warned his correspondent not to tell anybody what "Dead Souls" was about. When we read "Herzog," we think: how brilliant and simple, like the best of inventions, to have turned something we all do (writing letters in our heads to people we have never met) into a new way of representing consciousness. And when we read "Midnight's Children" we feel that Salman Rushdie has found a powerful controlling image in the impending midnight of Indian partition, the clock's hands meeting in prayer.
I don't know whether Joseph O'Neill jumped out of his bath in Manhattan shrieking "Eureka!" when he realized that, of all the possible subjects in the world, he had to write a novel about playing cricket in New York City, but he should have. Despite cricket's seeming irrelevance to America, the game makes his exquisitely written novel "Netherland" (Pantheon; $23.95) a large fictional achievement, and one of the most remarkable post-colonial books I have ever read. Cricket, like every sport, is an activity and the dream of an activity, badged with random ideals, aspirations, and memories. It popularly evokes long English summers, newly mown grass, the causeless boredom of childhood. Its combat is so temperate that, more explicitly than other sports, it encodes an ethics (as in the reproving British expression "It's not cricket"). But cricket in this novel is much more than these associations: it is an immigrant's imagined community, a game that unites, in a Brooklyn park, Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, Indians, West Indians, and so on, even as the game's un-Americanness accentuates their singularity. Most poignantly, for one of the characters in the novel cricket is an American dream, or perhaps a dream of America; this man is convinced that, as he claims, cricket is not an immigrant sport at all but "the first modern team sport in America . . . a bona fide American pastime," played in New York since the seventeen-seventies.
The man's name is Chuck Ramkissoon, and we first hear of him as a corpse. It is 2006, and the novel's narrator, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek, receives a call in London from a New York Times reporter. The remains of Khamraj Ramkissoon—"It's Chuck Ramkissoon," Hans corrects, on the phone—have been found in the Gowanus Canal, and wasn't Hans a business partner of the victim? No, just a friend, Hans says. Later, to his wife, Rachel, Hans describes Chuck as "a cricket guy I used to know. A guy from Brooklyn." We don't realize it yet, but the novel has just unfurled its great theme: this "cricket guy," an Indian from Trinidad, is an American visionary—Chuck, not Khamraj—and cricket is the macula of that mad vision, and "Netherland" has opened where "The Great Gatsby" ends, with its forlorn dreamer dead in the water.
The unhappy news prompts Hans to recall his years in New York, and the first time he met Chuck, on a cricket field in Randolph Walker Park, on Staten Island, in the summer of 2002. Hans and his wife and son had been living in the Chelsea Hotel, their domicile after the September 11th attacks, "staying on in a kind of paralysis even after we'd received permission from the authorities to return to our loft in Tribeca." Hans has his own kind of paralysis: large and fair, he is one of nature's flâneurs, willing to be swept along by powerful events and people, curious but happy to turn a blind eye to human imperfection, fastidious but uncensorious. This reflective sluggishness maddens Rachel, who, already on edge after September 11th, announces that she is leaving him and America. Hans drifts, visiting his wife and son in London twice a month, amiably acquainting himself with some of the eccentrics at the Chelsea Hotel, and eventually taking up cricket, the game of his Dutch childhood.
There are moments when Rachel's hostility seems a little undeveloped, and one suspects her absence from New York to be merely the necessary fictional trigger for Hans's hospitable sloth. But, as with "Sentimental Education," one can forgive a lot of stasis when the verbal rewards, page after page, are so very high. As Hans takes the measure of his newfound city, so the prose finds its own perfect calibrations. O'Neill writes elegant, long sentences, formal but not fussy, pricked with lyrically exact metaphor. Here Hans recalls the days not long after September 11th, when the city was an acoustic sensorium:
Around the clock, ambulances sped eastward on West Twenty-third Street with a sobbing escort of police motorcycles. Sometimes I confused the cries of the sirens with my son's nighttime cries. I would leap out of bed and go to his bedroom and helplessly kiss him. . . . Afterward I slipped out onto the balcony and stood there like a sentry. The pallor of the so-called hours of darkness was remarkable. Directly to the north of the hotel, a succession of cross streets glowed as if each held a dawn. The taillights, the coarse blaze of deserted office buildings, the lit storefronts, the orange fuzz of the street lanterns: all this garbage of light had been refined into a radiant atmosphere that rested in a low silver heap over Midtown and introduced to my mind the mad thought that the final twilight was upon New York.
This is attentive, rich prose about New York in crisis that, refreshingly, is not also prose in crisis: it's not overwrought or solipsistic or puerile or sentimental, or otherwise straining to be noticed. A steady hand and a good ear are required to dare the paradox of "all this garbage of light," in which the noticer is both enraptured and faintly alienated, and which accurately tracks the forked European perspective of the novel's narrator. The eye that sees the "orange fuzz" of the street lights is the eye that, elsewhere in the novel, alights on the "molten progress of the news tickers" in Times Square, the "train-infested underpants" of Hans's little boy, "a necklace's gold drool," "the roving black blooms of four-dollar umbrellas," and which sees, in one lovely swipe of a sentence, a sunset like this: "The day, a pink smear above America, had all but disappeared."
Perhaps Joseph O'Neill is the writer this city has been awaiting: born in Ireland, reared in Holland, educated in England, and resident in Manhattan. If his writing has an English ease and classicism, it also has a world-directed curiosity, an interest in marginal lives which might owe something to O'Neill's origins. (His mother is Turkish. His Irish and Turkish grandfathers were separately imprisoned by the British, one in Ireland and one in British Palestine, a history that he related in his involving, spacious memoir, "Blood-Dark Track," which appeared in 2001.) As Hans moves around the city, he sees both natural and human wonders. There is the Hudson, covered with ice:
Ice was spread out over the breadth of the Hudson like a plot of cloud. The whitest and largest fragments were flat polygons, and surrounding these was a mass of slushy, messy ice, as if the remains of a zillion cocktails had been dumped there. By the bank, where the rotting stumps of an old pier projected like a species of mangrove, the ice was shoddy, papery rubble, and immobile; farther out, floes moved quickly towards the bay.
But there is also Coney Island Avenue:
That low-slung, scruffily commercial thoroughfare that stands in almost surreal contrast to the tranquil residential blocks it traverses, a shoddily bustling strip of vehicles double-parked in front of gas stations, synagogues, mosques, beauty salons, bank branches, restaurants, funeral homes, auto body shops, supermarkets, assorted small businesses proclaiming provenances from Pakistan, Tajikistan, Ethiopia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Armenia, Ghana, the Jewry, Christendom, Islam: it was on Coney Island Avenue, on a subsequent occasion, that Chuck and I came upon a bunch of South African Jews, in full sectarian regalia, watching televised cricket with a couple of Rastafarians in the front office of a Pakistani-run lumberyard.
It is Chuck Ramkissoon who tutors the narrator in the marvels of this ethnic "miscellany," when he decides to help Hans pass his driving test by appointing the Dutchman his unofficial chauffeur, responsible for insuring that Chuck gets to his various appointments in his 1996 Cadillac, "a patriotic automobile aflutter and aglitter with banners and stickers of the Stars and Stripes and yellow ribbons in support of the troops." Chuck is reminiscent of Dr. Tamkin, in Bellow's "Seize the Day," one of the noisy urban braggers, possibly a charlatan but mysteriously seductive. Unlike Tamkin, Chuck has charm, and Hans succumbed to it in the summer of 2002, when he met him on Staten Island, and heard him talk about how cricket is "a lesson in civility," and how "Benjamin Franklin himself was a cricket man." Like the reader, Hans wants to know more about this dark-skinned Trinidadian, whose family came originally from southern India, and who wants so deeply to make himself an American.
Chuck bristles with enterprises. He has a kosher sushi restaurant, runs a private lottery (it is probably this activity that gets him killed and thrown in the canal), and has designated himself president of what he grandly calls the New York Cricket Club. O'Neill parentally rations our exposure to Chuck, using the novel's temporal intricacy—it moves back and forth between 2001, 2002, 2003, when Hans returns to London, and 2006, when he hears of Chuck's death—to give us suggestive pictures of the man's flamboyance and yearning. The danger with self-exaggerating characters is exaggerated writing, but O'Neill knows how to sign rather than autograph. We get a quick sense of the man—of both his appeal and his type—when Chuck tells Hans that he needs a permanent wife and a permanent mistress: "Anne and me . . . we've known each other since we were babies. She's been with me through thick and thin. . . . So we're together for life. But my theory is, I need two women. . . . One to take care of family and home, one to make me feel alive. It's too much to ask one woman to do both."
Chuck may not have read C. L. R. James's classic cricket memoir "Beyond a Boundary," but he would have agreed with the Trinidadian writer about the sport's affinities with all forms of authentic drama. One day, in January, 2003, Chuck takes Hans to the field he has leased in Brooklyn. This is where his New York Cricket Club will be—at what Chuck names Bald Eagle Field. ("It's got scale. It makes it American.") Hans looks at the frozen, snowy space and is silently skeptical. Now cricket begins to generate its meanings in the novel as easily as lilacs blossom, for O'Neill is alive, as Hans perhaps is not yet, to the larger implications of Chuck's desire. The immigrant is choosing his plot of ground, and calling it his, as the original colonists did with their America. This is where "Netherland" becomes extremely subtle. Hans tells us that when he joined the cricket club in New York he was "the only white man I saw." He plays with people from Trinidad, Guyana, Jamaica, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and becomes an honorary brown man. But, as a white Dutchman, educated in classics at Leiden and reared in a conservative family in The Hague, Hans is not a "colonial" like his fellow-cricketers but a colonist, part of the history of Dutch imperialism that has marked places as different as Java and America. Chuck talks about how cricket civilizes one; but Hans can talk unself-consciously about how a player is a specialist in "fizzing Chinamen" (a Chinaman being an unorthodox left-arm bowl).
Cricket in America puts all this, quite literally, in play. Hans, the white banker, can be only an honorary immigrant, something that O'Neill acknowledges by teasing out the question of Hans's American driving test. It takes him the entirety of the novel to pass it, and he succeeds only at the moment when he no longer needs a license—weeks before his departure. The sort of document that would be crucial to a Chuck Ramkissoon is a bit of a joke to a Hans van den Broek. O'Neill beautifully counterposes the different origins and expectations of these two men, united by cricket: the upper-class Hans, who can come and go in America on a banker's whim, and is paralyzed by the expensive torpor of his marital woes, and the modest Trinidadian, dynamic with designs, ever eager to be grounded in America. Chuck is excited by Hans's Dutchness, and compliments him, in his usual showy way, on being, after the Native Americans, a member of New York's "first tribe." This ideological affection arises partly from Chuck's determination to argue for cricket's aboriginal status as the first American sport. The immigrants playing cricket in New York are the real Americans, the true natives, at once colonials and the first colonists. The colonials want to be colonists; Hans, the ancestral colonist, wants to be a colonial. In the summer of 2003, he is gripped by "real cricket madness."
And all this would be abstract if it were not itself grounded by the novel—again, quite literally. Three times O'Neill takes us to Bald Eagle Field. The first time, it is Chuck's snowy dream. The second time, sixty pages later, it is the summer of 2003, and Hans is astounded: the field is green and tended. "Jesus," he says to Chuck, "you did it." The colonial has successfully colonized his green breast of America. A hundred pages later, in 2006, Hans has left the States, is reunited with his wife in London, and has heard the news about Chuck's demise. He sits at a computer and uses Google Earth to zoom over the old cricket field, and finds that it has browned:
There's Chuck's field. It is brown—the grass has burned—but it is still there. There's no trace of a batting square. The equipment shed is gone. I'm just seeing a field. I stare at it for a while. I am contending with a variety of reactions, and consequently with a single brush on the touch pad I flee upward into the atmosphere and at once have in my sights the physical planet, submarine wrinkles and all—have the option, if so moved, to go anywhere. From up here, though, a human's movement is a barely intelligible thing. Where would he move to, and for what? There is no sign of nations, no sense of the work of man. The USA as such is nowhere to be seen.
Reflection on what became of Chuck and his cricket dream causes Hans to recall a recent holiday in India, where he saw a column of poor workers by the side of the road. "They were small and thin and poor and dark-skinned, with thin arms and thin legs. They were men walking in the forest and the darkness." For some reason, Hans tells us, he keeps on seeing these men. "I do not think of Chuck as one of them, even though, with his very dark skin, he could have been one of them. I think of Chuck as the Chuck I saw. But whenever I see these men I always end up seeing Chuck."
The simplicity of the writing here and the choosing of a frozen racial emblem echo V. S. Naipaul, that Trinidadian Indian, and, if "Netherland" pays homage to "The Great Gatsby," it is also in some kind of knowing relationship with "A House for Mr. Biswas." These are large interlocutors, but "Netherland" has an ideological intricacy, a deep human wisdom, and prose grand enough to dare the comparison. Less desperately than Biswas, less comically, too, Chuck is searching for a house, a home, and so is Hans, adrift in a New York at once fascinating and a little estranging. O'Neill has Naipaul's gift for creating unforced novelistic connections in a world of forced ideological connections. And he knows perfectly well that when, on the last pages of his novel, he writes about a memory of Manhattan's skyline and the "extraordinary promise in what we saw" he is hovering, like some novelistic Google Earther, over the sentence grids and prose plateaus of the last page of "The Great Gatsby." He knows, as some of us had forgotten, that the last page of that novel contains not just a green breast and a blue lawn but an old island that flowered once "for Dutch sailors' eyes." ♦


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Electrical Connections
By Don Casey
Whether adding new electrical gear or rewiring something already aboard, the requirements for a reliable and safe electrical connection are the same. You need the right wire, the right terminal fittings, and a couple of inexpensive hand tools.
A wire could hardly find a more hostile environment than aboard a boat. On-board wiring is salted and doused, shaken and whipped, crushed and abraded, exposed to sunlight, subjected to heat, and coated with petroleum. Neither lamp cord nor house wiring will long endure these conditions.
Choose your wire carefully. Never use solid wire on a boat. Wave or motor induced oscillations eventually fracture solid wire. Boat wiring must have the flexibility stranding provides. Boatbuilders save a few dollars using Type 2 wire, but a boatowner should use only the most flexible wire, called Type 3.
The wire must be copper, but even copper corrodes in the marine environment, and corrosion is the primary cause of electrical failures on a boat. Plating each strand of the wire with a thin coat of tin — called tinning — dramatically improves corrosion resistance. The additional cost of tinned wire is nominal, the benefits substantial. Under normal circumstances use only tinned wire.
Stranded single-conductor wire is called hook-up or primary wire. Since most after-construction wiring requires two wires, duplex wire is more convenient and provides the added safety of a second layer of insulation. The best choice for most 12-volt wiring projects is duplex safety wire, where the twin conductors are red (positive) and yellow (ground). Making the ground wire yellow rather than black reduces the likelihood of confusing a DC ground wire with an AC hot wire, also black.
Boat Cable
In recent years wire designed for the marine environment has become widely available to boatowners. This wire is known as Boat Cable. Unfortunately the Underwriter's Laboratories standard that defines Boat Cable, UL 1426, is less stringent than commonly thought. Boat Cable can be Type 2, tinning is not a requirement, and the heat rating of the insulation can be quite low. When you select Boat Cable, Type 3 is better, tinning is essential, and you want the highest heat rating — designated on the jacket as BC5W2 (105°C in a dry environment, 75°C wet). Tinned Boat Cable from a reputable supplier is your best choice for all wiring needs.
As with water through hose, electricity flows more easily through larger wire. It is essential to size wire for the maximum current flow you expect it to carry. If the wire feeds a single item, the current requirements will be shown on a label or plate on the appliance, or in the accompanying manual. If the rating is in watts, divide it by 12 (assuming a 12-volt electrical system) to convert the rating to amps. When the wire is part of a circuit that supplies several appliances, the potential current through the wire is the sum of the current requirements of every appliance on the circuit. For example, if a circuit is comprised of six 25-watt cabin lamps, the wire will be carrying about 12 amps ([25 watts ÷ 12 volts] x 6) when all the lights are on.
To size wiring, you need the wire length from the power source to the appliance(s) and back to the power source. Doubling the straight line distance to the battery or electrical panel is not adequate. You must determine the actual length of the wire by measuring along the path it will follow-up, over, and around. It is not unusual for a wire run to be more than twice the straight-line distance.
Some voltage is used up pushing the current through the wire. This loss, called voltage drop, should not exceed 3%. The table shows what size wire is required to deliver adequate voltage to the other end. Use the potential current draw to select the row, the round trip wire length to select the column. The number where these two intersect is the wire size you need. Electrical wire appropriate for marine use will have the gauge designation printed on the insulation. The smaller the gauge number, the larger the wire diameter. Always buy wire at least a foot or two longer than your measurement. You can easily shorten the wire after it is installed, but lengthening it requires a highly undesirable splice. Each wire should be a single continuous run between terminals.
Other than chafe or lying against hot metal, wires rarely experience failures in the middle of a wire run. Almost all wiring problems occur at the connections. Never twist wires together to make a connection, and never wrap a bare wire around a terminal screw. You will minimize wiring problems if you terminate all wire ends with crimp connectors.
Selecting the proper connector requires that you match it to the wire gauge and to the size of the terminal screw. Ring terminals are your best choice unless the terminal screw is captive. In that case, use flanged spade connectors.
Use butt connectors for appliances supplied with wire leads instead of terminals. Step-down butt connectors let you connect heavy supply wires to lighter leads. To simplify servicing, it can be a good idea to make the connection with blade or snap connectors instead of butt connectors. Three-way connectors are useful for tapping into an existing circuit.
Terminals used on a boat must always be copper, never steel or aluminum, and like the wire, they should be tin-plated to resist corrosion.
Nine times out of ten, stripping insulation with a pocket knife results in nicked wire, which opens the door to corrosion. And you simply cannot make a dependable crimp connection with a pair of pliers. Every boatowner should own a wire stripper and a good-quality crimper. The cost is nominal. Strippers sold by auto supply and hardware stores are for SAE wire, which is about 10% smaller than AWG, so these strippers will nick AWG wire. Be sure the wire stripper you buy is intended for AWG wire.
An inexpensive pliers-type crimper is more than adequate for a few connections, provided you make a few practice crimps first. But if you will be making a lot of connections, a ratchet crimper offers the benefit of consistency, even in the hands of an amateur.
Remove only enough insulation for the wire to reach the end of the barrel of the terminal. Grip the terminal in the correct die in the crimper, fully insert the wire into the terminal, and squeeze. If the barrel has a seam, the crimp indent should be opposite.
Better terminals feature a brass sleeve that can be crimped over the insulated wire to add mechanical strength. This type of terminal is usually installed with a double crimp tool. If your crimper doesn't have a double-crimp die, crimp the terminal to the wire first, then reposition the crimper and crimp the sleeve to the insulation.
There is only one accepted field test for a crimp terminal-pull on it. Test every crimp terminal this way. Without using any tool, grip the terminal and the wire and try to separate them. If they come apart, the crimp was bad.
Be sure to run your wire as high in the boat as possible-to keep it dry-and support it at least every 18 inches.
For more information about electrical connections, consult Sailboat Electrics Simplified by Don Casey.