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The history of Norfolk Island is one with a fair amount of breaks—it was originally colonized by East Polynesians but had long been vacant when it was settled as a penal colony offshore from Australia, then vacant again before it was settled by people from Pitcairn Island, a small area of doubtful viability that had been settled by mutineers from the HMS Bounty and their Tahitian hausfraus. For a little more than a century, Norfolk Island, which is inhabited by a couple thousand citizens, and is a fairly remote place with no ports, no railroads, no harbors, no waterways, no income taxes, and only one airport, although with a population of slightly more than two thousand people, its needs are likely fairly limited. That said, Norfolk Island is currently involved in a serious, although not particularly well-known, mutiny over its government by Australia, and the behavior of its deeply unpopular administrator, Gary Douglas Hardgrave [1].
The fight is a fierce one, and it has already gotten dirty. In defiance of the vast majority of voting citizens, Hardgrave has appealed to Australia to revoke the self-government of Norfolk Island on account of budget questions and a belief that the islanders are incapable of self-government. The irate islanders have responded by claiming that Hardgrave has removed historic legislation and documentation from the island, which Hardgrave (perhaps predictably) denies, that he has shut down the island's only local radio station and denied the islanders free speech, and that he has failed to consult with them or represent their wishes and well-being, and have appealed to the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization to be classified as a non-self-governing territory, and have also complained to the Australian Human Rights Commission. The tension between Australia's desire to revoke freedoms and the intense freedom-loving nature of the Norfolk Islands appears to be headed for an unpleasant conflict, and it is likely to cause immense bad blood from a territory that is seeking alternatives to Australian rule from the possibility of being a self-governing British Overseas Territory or achieving a belated independence [2].
Australia holds that Norfolk Island has no international status independent of Australia, but simultaneously that it is a self-governing area and therefore not an imperial territory under international opprobrium. The contradiction between those positions, in the face of extreme dissatisfaction by the people of Norfolk Island themselves, reminds us that imperialism is unpleasant business [3]. So, how did Norfolk Island get in such a disastrous position? For one, the island itself pays no income tax and its cash-poor inhabitants cannot afford the land tax, while falls in tourism have crippled their economy, which has no other base. Appeals to Australia for help in helping to build up off-shore banking have fallen on deaf ears, and the result is a struggle between an imperial power out to pretend that it is not an imperial power and an insolvent and isolated island burdened by crippling freight costs and an absence of economic development to pay for its needs, as well as a local government staffed by offshore Australians willing to sell out the freedom of the local population for their own well-being.
What is to be done about such a situation? For one, Norfolk Island is so small and so remote that its plight is not likely to reach the attention of many people. For another, its poverty is a familiar problem faced by many areas. Puerto Rico is an imperial possession of the United States with similar poverty and dependence on tourism, and it cannot balance its books in part because its people are exempt from income taxes and do not make enough money to provide for a solvent government. The same is true for wealthy areas like California as well, whose political worldview has led to an inability on the part of the state to balance its budgets given the desire of its people to keep taxes relatively low. We live in a world burdened by indebtedness, and often with a crippling lack of attention to the infrastructure that makes economic success sustainable, whether for individuals, small self-governing regions, or large countries. What we want often requires some investment, and others are all too quick to point to our struggles as a sign that we are incapable of self-government, when what it really means is that there are often no paths between where we are and where we want to be or need to be, nor a sustainable standard of development, nor a flexibility in options on how to deal with our economic situations.
And so the mutiny of Norfolk Island, while itself a rather small matter to the world at large, is an aspect of larger problems that are felt around the world. They are the same problems faced by individuals who borrow money for education and find that their increased education does not lead to increased income, while the debt must still be serviced anyway. They are the same problems faced by nations which make promises to present and future generations and find that those promises simply cannot be met. They are the problems faced by institutions which have set for themselves missions and purposes and made implied or express covenants with people about expectations of future care that cause immense difficulty between meeting present service obligations as well as care for those who have served so long and so well in the past. Facing these problems is not a sign that one is incapable of self-government, but rather that our world as a whole has gotten beyond control, and that we have failed to behave sane on the large scale, so that our failures to properly deal with societies and institutions has led to the place where individual tragedy appears nearly inevitable, unless some deus ex machina should save us all from ourselves, and from those who would wish to use our own misfortune against us.
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As I do not know how long this text will remain on the page before it likely edited or flagged as biased, this is what one particularly irate Wikipedia-editing Norfolk Islander had to say about the unpopularity of Hardgrave on his Wikipedia page on June 8, 2016:
"Since this time, Hardgrave has been heavily criticized by the people of Norfolk Island. The Australian Government abolished of the Norfolk Island's self-elected Government, which was done on the advice of Hardgrave: stating the people were broke, and no longer capable of looking after themselves.
Due to a large amount of criticism on the local radio station, Mr. Hardgrave used his government appointed powers to "Shut down" the only Radio Station on the island. By doing so, he prevented a large amount of the island voicing their opinion and ability to express 'free speech'. Now the vast number of advertisements on the Radio station are promotional advertisements for the Australian Government's services and welfare.
Many of the Historic legislation and documentation which resided on Norfolk Island has since 'disappeared' and the people of the Island suspect it was done by Hardgrave, however he out-rightly denied any involvement in the disappearance of the documentation. "The Australian Government did not remove any items of any type nor did we ask anyone to do this. It was as big a surprise to us. Also we did not take remove or disappear Hansard. In fact we sought advice from the Clerk as to what was needed to ensure the records were always best accessible to the public and whether they were best at the local library or school or whatever."
Hardgrave and his advice to the Australian Government is causing civil unrest on Norfolk Island. The vast majority of the Islands inhabitants are demonstrating against Hardgrave, calling for his immediate removal.
Due to Hardgrave's inability to effectively consult with the people of Norfolk, or represent them in an accurate manner, the people of Norfolk Island have submitted documentation to the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, asking to be classified as a non-self-governing territory.
In 2016, complaints were received by the Australian Human Rights Commission about the decisions and actions of Hardgrave, whilst performing his duties as the Administrator of Norfolk Island."
See also: http://www.9jumpin.com.au/show/60minutes/stories/2016/mutiny-on-norfolk/
[2] See, for example:
Marks, Kathy (28 October 2013). http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11147246 New Zealand Herald.
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Welcome! These pages are dedicated to sharing the development of the analysis of our graduate programs with the campus community. This analysis is the first step of the evaluation called for in Goal 1, Objective 6 in the CSUSB Strategic Plan:
The CSUSB Strategic Plan was developed over the 2014-2015 academic year. It includes five goals:
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Reuters reports, "A little under one-third of U.S. households have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most of the holdouts seeing little use for it in their lives, according to a survey released on Friday."
Approximately the same number of people lack interest in the internet as approve of George Bush's job in office. Perhaps that's why people can vote for Bush with a straight face, lacking concern for his belief in "using the Google" over on "the internets."
Who needs that internet thingy any ways? They don't need the internets any more than they need to be concerned with new fangled ideas like challenging the authority of the monarch, climate change, or DNA.


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Tim, a 45% taxpayer, is a member of a money purchase occupational pension scheme, with his company paying £70,000 per year. His total pension fund is well within the Lifetime Allowance. As his contributions have been in excess of £40,000 a year for some time, the Carry Forward rules do not help him.
The Pension Annual Allowance is £40,000 so this can be paid into his pension without a tax charge. However if the £30,000 excess is paid into his pension, this will incur a tax charge of 45%, or £13,500.
Tim instead chooses to pay the excess 30,000 into Kuber, as this will avoid the Annual Allowance Charge and start to build additional funds for his retirement in a tax efficient manner.
Katie has historically exchanged part of her bonus for additional pension contributions, however she is now caught by the Pension Annual Allowance as her annual contributions exceed £40,000. She therefore decides to invest her bonus into Kuber instead, as this will enable her to save for the future while also providing the initial income tax relief to spend in the short term
Neil is the owner and manager of his business. He has historically made large employer pension contributions but is now limited by the Pension Annual Allowance. He decides to declare a dividend instead and pay this into Kuber. For dividends in the 40% tax band he is liable for an effective 25% tax on the net dividend. However, as the dividend is paid into Kuber, he will benefit from up to 30% income tax relief which more than offsets the tax due. However, please remember that the tax treated as deducted at
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John has always taken his retirement planning seriously and has built a significant pension pot. Unfortunately, he is now going to be restricted by the Pension Lifetime Allowance. As he does not want to pay the 55% Lifetime Allowance tax charge on lump sums when he takes his benefits, he chooses to invest with Kuber instead of making further pension contributions. He also chooses to invest the initial income tax relief to further enhance his returns.
Paul wants to save for the future, but would like to access his investments before age 55. Therefore pensions are not suitable for his needs. Instead, he chooses to invest with Kuber as there are no age restrictions on when he can take the benefits.
David has a well-funded pension and is limited by the amount of pension contributions he can now make following the recent and planned reductions being introduced.
He's saving a significant portion of his salary but also pays substantial income tax. He would like to adopt an investment strategy similar to pensions which will enable him to avoid income tax on some of his salary while making investments that have significant growth potential.
EIS is an excellent solution for David as it will allow him to invest in small growth orientated companies, reduce his tax liability and also benefit from tax free returns.
Steve works for mega bank as a senior tax adviser. Last year he sold a family plot of land and made a significant capital gain. He's an additional rate tax payer and would like to make some tax efficient investments which will allow him to avoid paying capital gains tax which is due to be paid shortly.
Investing in a diversified portfolio of EIS will allow him to defer paying tax on the capital gain as well as benefiting from income tax relief on the investment. Together, the combination of tax incentives means that he's able to get an upfront tax benefit of 58% of his investment, although when he sells the investment he will then be liable to pay the capital gains tax due in respect of the original gain.
The additional benefit of loss relief means that, should one of his investments prove disappointing, the worst case position for him would be a loss of 38.5% on an individual investment. Diversifying his portfolio means that the successes should make up for any disappointments and the loss relief helps this considerably.
Boris is a wealthy businessman who has lived in the UK for the last 10 years although he's originally from Switzerland. He pays significant UK income tax currently at 50% but because he is a non-UK domicile he keeps most of his investments offshore and pays the lump sum Remittance Basis Charge.
A significant portion of Boris's investments are in cash deposits and he would like to use some of these funds to invest in smaller UK companies. By establishing a diversified portfolio of EIS he's able to remit untaxed offshore assets without paying any tax on them providing they are invested within 45 days of being remitted to the UK. Kuber's offshore multi-manager EIS scheme enables him to benefit from Business Investment Relief, income tax relief and tax free returns.
For Boris, the ability to diversify his portfolio was very important because he recognises that investing in small companies can be high risk and they sometimes do fail. The ability to claim loss relief on losses while benefiting from tax free gains on the successes makes a widely diversified portfolio of EIS particularly attractive. The maximum loss on EIS shares, taking in to account income tax relief at 30% and loss relief at 45%, is 38.5%.
Helga has recently sold her events management business and retired. She benefited from entrepreneurs relief on the sale of the business and was happy with a 10% CGT payment on profits. However, she's concerned that her assets were previously exempt from IHT while they were tied up in the business but now are going to fall within her estate for IHT purposes. She paid significant income tax on her earnings before the sale of the business.
Investing in an EIS portfolio through Kuber will mean that Helga can benefit from the attractive income tax relief at 30% of the investment and, providing she buys the underlying shares within 3 years of selling her business, the EIS shares should qualify for "Replacement Property Relief" and be immediately outside her estate for IHT purposes.
In any event, EIS shares should qualify for "Business Property Relief" which means that they fall outside her estate for IHT purposes after 2 years.


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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Jan Morcha (OJM), a regional party founded by late Pyari Mohan Mohapatra, was on Tuesday merged with the Samata Kranti party headed by former union Minister Braja Kishore Tripathy.
A meeting of the OJM State Council held here on Tuesday under the chairmanship of OJM president Jagneswar Babu took a "unanimous" decision to wind up the party and merge it with the Samata Kranti.
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The Road Movie Review
The Road, is a movie that started as a novel in 2006 by an American writer Cormac McCarthy. The novel won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize award for Fiction. The film by the same name The Road was directed by John Hillcoat and written by Joe Penhall. The film stars Viggo Mortensen as the Man \ father and Kodi Smit-McPhee as the Boy \ son, a father and son surviving in a post-apocalyptic 2012 doomsday wasteland. Along the way, they encounter grave struggles and hardships avoiding bands of cannibals along the road. The 2012 doomsday apocalyptic event is showing the beginning of the next ice age and destruction of the northern grain belts outlined in the H2onE2 and H3onE3 books.
Within the movie common themes can be drawn between "The Road" and many other 2012 doomsday type movies, like the Pandorum movie. To truly understand this film and its deep suggestive 2012 doomsday material an understanding of the Greek Gods and Hesiod's Theogony is a must. It is suggested that you read my write up on the Pandorum movie review first and better yet the H3onE3 book posted free online.
The first suggestive material worth mentioning is the earth quakes. The earth quakes are a verbal representation of thunder, noting the presence and work of Zeus. From Theogony Zeus the high god holds the understanding of earth's environment and is empowered for one reason, he controls earth's most powerful energy source, lightning and thunder. Because Zeus could control lightning he has conquered all the lesser gods in heaven. Also in Theogony it is documented that Zeus plans on destroying the current age of this population, "the Iron Age" like he destroyed all the previous ages of humanity. In the Road Cormac McCarthy is both describing, perpetuating and foretelling the destruction of earth's current population; utilizing movie media to continue the biblical prophecy.
The biblical prophecy is important to understanding the movie the Road, it actually has a lineage that started with classical Greek mythology, and was modernized by the later Greeks with the creation of the Old Testament. This gave the classical Greek gods a more modern earthly presence. The Romans, seeing what the dyeing Greek Empire had crafted, created and promoted the works of the New Testament, designed to sacrifice the future king, Oedipus prophecy and riddle hidden in the Old Testament. The War of Religion was not over yet, because the last Greek cultural strong hold had one last card to play. John of Patmos fashioned Revelations as the final capstone of all the previous works and prophecies, which in short dooms mankind at the death of future Prometheus also known as Oedipus. Humanity is required by the prophecy to find and empower this none mythical character or they will become cannibals and on the Road of their own destruction.
When the suggestive thunder appears in the movie it is followed by an interaction with cannibals, future man. Here the movie director John Hillcoat is suggesting that Zeus has forced the environmental disaster and here the thunder / earth quake is confirming his work. One of the thunder scenes, one that includes cannibals occurs when the young mother and child are killed by the large gang of hungry cannibals. This event is soon followed by a church scene where a painting of the Holy Grail at a Last Supper is shown. Here the movie director and writer is hinting that the Greek gods and their 2012 doomsday prophecy has been evolved into Linear Western Religion, both the Old and New Testaments. And, that the last supper and the offering of a body and blood sacrifice is in fact a cannibalistic act. This scene is telling the aware and educated members of the audience that the prophecy of the Greeks is the same prophecies in Christianity and they both end on the same road, The Road.
The second most important element in the movie pertains to the reference of Fire. In the mention of fire, here the movie takes on elements of the classical Greek story of Prometheus, who stool fire for the betterment of mankind. The boy turns out to represent a modern variation of Prometheus when his father epitomizes all of the Greek God Pathogen, in many different scenes. In the movie scene where the Man \ father swims through frigid rough water to search a partially sunken fishing boat offshore, he takes on the powers of Poseidon. The scenes where the two characters take refuge in caves the father takes on the reference of the god Hade; god of hell and the underworld. When the father picks his son up and runs from the cannibals he represents the Greek God Nike and when he is armed with an axe he represents Hephaestus, the Greek god of the Forge. Many scenes reflect back to the Man's wife who is a representation of Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of Love. His wife's death is never shown for one reason alone, because you cannot kill a god, at least not in the realm of myth and science fiction.
The story well outlines the two primary characters from the H3onE3 book; H3one3 Universal Facilitator, Universal Sacrifice and Holy Pi. The two hidden and prophesied characters in all media aka (music, literature, plays and movies) are both shown as Homeric Heroes and sometimes Sacrifices. It could be said that there is no Zeus or UF without a Prometheus a US, as in the understanding that a classical comedy plays against and with the understanding of a tragedy and vice versa. The two primary characters uncovered in the H3onE3 work are divine figures, mixed and blended in all Homeric media as a mechanism of population control. In the Road the Man represents the Universal Facilitator and the boy the Universal Sacrifice.
The Road references to fire as being in the hart, maybe the hart of humanity and being human and humane, when in contrast the opposing group, the cannibals are suggested as more animal; solely thinking of themselves. The mission of the boy and man turns out to be a mission of humanity, to carry the fire to the coast, symbolized in the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
An interesting character appears in the movie called Eli or Ely played by, I believe an artificially aged Robert Duvall. Eli is a Hebrew name, which means High Priest and last of the Judges. (1 Samuel chapters 1-4) Eli served as the judge and high priest of Israel when The Ark Of The Covenant, contained the Ten Commandments. Although Eli was a good and righteous servant of God, he was unwilling to remove his "two" (UF and US) corrupt sons from the priesthood and this brought about his doom.
When the US and UF meet Eli an interesting geological formation is shown in the background. Clearly this geological rock formation demonstrates three erosional layers showing natures ability to end civilization but also the ages of man already ended by Zeus. Eli calls the US an angel and then later on, even more interesting a god. Here the writer is playing both sides of the coin with an angel reference catering to Christianity and as a god respecting the original, evolved Greek pathogen. It is when Eli refuses to talk about his own child where his real identity is uncovered. Eli turns out to represent of a high god either Coronus or Zeus himself. Eli's refusal to talk about his own child, this is the key to uncovering him as the high god, both Coronus and Zeus in Theogony are noted for eating their children. It is possible here the writer is suggesting that Eli representing Zeus destroys himself when he ends the Iron Age.
The Man the UF carries binoculars near his hart, this is because he has the ability to see the future and at his death the binoculars are taken or even passed on to his son the US. The binoculars are a metaphor to the ROAD humanity is on and being able to seeing the future, the end of the Iron Age. The prophecy will be forced upon humanity as a Revelation. Many references in the movie regurgitate a need to stay off the road, meaning that humanity survives by not continuing down the road, the same road, the road humanity is on.
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Oct 17, 2008 (LBO) – Advances in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) could help companies, especially mid-sized ones, to improve and gain competitive advantage, Sri Lankan experts say.
HP said it hopes to do more such projects to help deploy ICT effectively and efficiently in medium sized organizations.
The University of Colombo School of Computing is a centre of higher learning of computing in Sri Lanka providing both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.
Vanguard Management Services, also the managing company of Etv, carries out around the year senior executive level or C-level events such as the ICT Forum in association with Lanka Business Report (LBR) and Lanka Business Online (LBO) business news outfits.
These forums are targeted to reach executive management professionals of leading corporates.
LBR LBO CEO Forum, CIO Forum, CFO Forum, CMO Forum, HR Forum are examples of other events C-Level Vanguard conducts. In a highly competitive business environment, medium sized businesses are relentlessly challenged by technology complexity and rapid technology obsolescence, say Ruvan Weerasinghe and Shiromi Arunatileka of the University of Colombo School of Comput


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Caroline from Sew Can She has a tutorial and free pattern for making the cutest zipper pen case. She calls it the Zola Pen Case. It unzips and opens up to make a little tray that holds your pencils. Plus the zipper extends past the end and makes a snappy little handle for you to carry it!
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Pro AudioWhen you're out there gigging, you can't know what type of power you're likely to get. In case you have generator power, this is going to be the quantity of time essential to switch to generator power. There are a few who claim to have the ability to regenerate clean power. Dirty power results from various reasons, including non-linear devices (computer power supplies for instance) being on the line, motors, and lightning, to list a few. Yet it remains one of the most critical factors in getting all your system has to offer. Sometimes, not delaying capability to the amplifiers will cause a thump" on the speakers, which may result in damage. Thought to begin with an energetic song to see whether it decreases the energy.
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Jordan Hill, Josh Hearlihy and Richaud Gittens are starting for Seattle University while working on graduate degrees. They are taking full advantage of the graduate-transfer rule that allowed them to play for Seattle U without sitting out a year.
Jim Hayford wanted to make a strong showing in his first year as men's basketball coach at Seattle University, but he would need some help.
And he knew where to find it. He would search the graduate-transfer market.
In Hayford's final two seasons at Eastern Washington, he hit the jackpot with graduate transfers: Austin McBroom was the Big Sky Conference's leading scorer in 2015-16, and Jacob Wiley was the Big Sky MVP last season.
And, of course, Hayford doesn't have to look far to find perhaps the greatest graduate transfer of all: Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, who took Wisconsin to the Rose Bowl in 2012 after leaving North Carolina State.
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And now it's Jordan Hill, Josh Hearlihy and Richaud Gittens who are taking advantage of the rule that allows players who have earned a degree at one school to transfer to another school and be eligible to play immediately, unlike other transfers who must sit out a year.
Hill, Hearlihy and Gittens are starting for Seattle University while working on graduate degrees. Only Iowa State can match Seattle U's three graduate transfers, and only one of those Cyclones is a starter.
For the Redhawks' graduate transfers, it was an opportunity to finally be big cogs, and they are tasked with helping Hayford rebuild Seattle U by delivering a good season to build from.
They are proving up to the challenge, helping Seattle University to a 13-7 start.
"I'd hate to think where I'd be without them, that's for sure," Hayford said.
A tough break
After scoring eight points in 29 minutes as a junior in Weber State's NCAA tournament loss to Xavier in 2016, Richaud Gittens was ready to help lead the Wildcats back to the Big Dance for the third time in four years as a senior.
But then the 6-foot-4 guard suffered a bad break. Actually, two of them.
"I broke my foot the first day of school, the first day of senior year," he said. "I was playing a pickup game, and I felt a crack."
Gittens somehow made it back for Weber State's opener and scored 19 points. But six games into the season, "I broke it again, same place, same foot."
Because of the injuries, Gittens was granted a medical redshirt year. Weber State already had its scholarship allotment for this season spoken for, and Gittens decided to move on.
"I could have stayed if I wanted to, but I got a chance to go to two NCAA tournaments and win two Big Sky championships," he said. "I felt like my legacy and what me and my teammates had created was great, and I wanted the guys who were under us who had worked so hard to get to that point — I wanted them to get that experience and to do it on their own. That was a big part of me leaving, and another reason was that I had graduated, and I felt like I needed to be in a new place."
When Gittens, who got his bachelor's degree in professional sales and fundamental selling technique, was looking for a place to play one final season, he chose to play for Hayford. Gittens had played against Hayford's Eastern Washington teams six times, including a 22-point game as a sophomore, the second-highest scoring output of his career.
"I liked the system he used, and a lot of his players had really thrived in his offense, and I felt like I could also thrive in that offense," said Gittens, who is working on a master's degree in nonprofit leadership and organization. "I trusted him, and I wanted to play for him."
Gittens, who had not been to Seattle before taking his official visit with his mother, is averaging a career-high 10.9 points and 5.1 rebounds, and he is a strong defender.
"I've always wanted to be a bigger part of an offense and have a bigger role and showcase what I can do," Gittens said. "I just really thank Coach Hayford and the other coaches for giving me this opportunity."
Gittens wants to play professionally and then coach, but all his focus now is on Seattle U. He said the team is capable of earning an NCAA tournament berth, and he's happy he is part of that pursuit.
"I have no regrets," he said. "I love where I am at."
Finally, a chance
That Josh Hearlihy is starring at Seattle University this season, having recently earned WAC Player of the Week honors, is a testament to his dedication and perseverance.
He thought his college life was set when he signed a letter of intent with Utah in the fall of his senior year of high school. But Hearlihy missed most of his senior season at Harvard-Westlake High School in Los Angeles (where his mother coaches the girls team) with patella tendinosis — "many microtears in the patella tendon where it connects to my kneecap because I grew 9½ inches in three years."
Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak then made the rare and controversial move of asking a player to release himself from the letter of intent.
"The coach was afraid I wasn't going to be healthy enough to play for him right away," said Hearlihy, a 6-8 guard/forward who is averaging 12.9 points, 4.6 rebounds and 2.9 assists for Seattle. "(Krystkowiak) wanted a horse that could run right away. I had already signed a binding contract, but once he said that, I didn't want to go there anymore, to a place that didn't believe in me or want me."
By then, other schools had finished recruiting, and Hearlihy's crazy journey began. He went to a prep school in Massachusetts, where the recruiting process began anew. He signed with Tulane, playing sparingly for two seasons, then transferred to Vermont, where playing time also was scarce.
When Hearlihy was told that he was not welcome on Vermont's team this season ("They said I didn't fit in," he said.), it easily could have been the end of his college career.
But he completed eight classes in summer quarter to earn his psychology degree ("I was doing 12 hours of school work each day"), making him eligible to transfer to Seattle U, having heard from his high-school coach that Hayford was looking for players.
Hearlihy's arrival gave Hayford a versatile player who can drive, shoot, pass and rebound. And it gave Hearlihy a chance to display the talent he never lost faith in.
"It means the world to me," said Hearlihy, who is studying transformational leadership. "I am so blessed and so appreciative of this opportunity of getting to play my last year and start a masters program. Isn't there some cliché, where you tell God your plans, and he laughs? That pretty much fits me. I would not have thought I would be somewhere other than Utah, let alone going from Tulane to Vermont to Seattle. But I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. I've gone through some difficult times that I didn't enjoy, but they made me stronger as a person."
Hearlihy wants to play professionally, but like his graduate-transfer teammates, he wants to focus on a season that is finally going to plan.
"I think we're each dynamic in our own way," Hearlihy said of himself, Gittens and Hill. "We're like puzzle pieces. We are all our own shape, but we fit together. The players on this team aren't just great players, they're great people. A lot of people say that, but after all that I've been through, I really mean it."
He can score, too
Jordan Hill has seen the biggest stages of college basketball. Twice he went to the Final Four with Wisconsin.
When Hill was a redshirt sophomore, Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan quit during midseason, and Hill's minutes drastically increased to about 20 per game under new coach Greg Gard.
Hill was known for his defense and for hitting the occasional three-pointer, and he averaged 3.0 points. But last season, his minutes dropped significantly, to 9.9 a game and his scoring average fell to 1.5 a game.
How frustrating was that?
"Extremely," he said.
So after getting his bachelor's degree in retailing and consumer behavior, Hill made the tough decision "to leave the place you've called home for four years, and the people that I grew really close with."
"I wanted to be in a role where I knew I could go out and try and score 26 a night or something like that, and put my handprints on a program," Hill said.
That he has done at Seattle U, a school Hill knew nothing about before getting a call from Hayford. Playing point guard, the 6-4 Hill is second on the team in scoring (13.8 points per game), first in assists (3.8) and is shooting 42.1 percent from three-point range. He scored a career-high 26 in last week's conference opener against Grand Canyon.
Hill said he always knew he could score. He just needed the chance.
"I have a lot to prove, and more so to myself because y'all were happy that I scored 26 (against Grand Canyon), but I was thinking I could have had 40."
With the Redhawks, he has not been afraid to take the big shot, and has shown an ability to come through in important situations.
"You just got to step into it," he said. " If you fail, you fail, but you can't go into it scared and doubting yourself, because as soon as that happens there's no chance of you achieving whatever it is you set out to do. My confidence isn't false. … I'm so confident because of how hard I work at this. If I didn't work so hard, I think that confidence would be fake, or false."
Hill also gets strength from what he learned at Wisconsin, playing with several players who went on to the NBA.
"l got to see how they navigated situations in a game, and now I have that wealth of knowledge so that when I come out here — I still obviously make mistakes, which everyone does — I can kind of see things a bit ahead," he said.
Hill would like to play professionally, and does not see himself getting into coaching, saying he is too much of a perfectionist. He refuses, though, to let his mind wander.
"It's just a matter of enjoying being in the now, which a lot of people don't do," said Hill, who is working on a master's degree in arts leadership. "You got to stay in the present, and that's what I'm working on. I'm trying to do my best to enjoy every moment I have."
|Richaud Gittens
|All stastics include Saturday's game.
|2017-18 Seattle U
|2016-17 Weber State
|2015-16 Weber State
|2014-15 Weber State
|2013-14 Wisconsin
|Josh Hearlihy
|2017-18 Seattle U
|2016-17 Vermont
|2014-15 Tulane
|2013-14 Tulane
|Sat out 2015-16 season because of transfer rules
|Jordan Hill
|2017-18 Seattle U
|2016-17 Wisconsin
|2015-16 Wisconsin
|2013-14 Wisconsin
|Hill was a redshirt during the 2014-15 season for Wisconsin


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Cardas Ear Speakers Have Arrived
I just returned from a week's vacation and look what was waiting for me in the mail--the long-awaited EM5813 "ear speakers" from Cardas Audio. I listened to a prototype of these nearly three years ago and was amazed by the deep bass, warmth and comfort of these in-the-ear monitors--and I loved them. (You can see my original impressions here.) They've been out for a few weeks now, and everyone assumed I already had a pair. I didn't, but George Cardas remedied that immediately.
Unfortunately, we don't have a stellar headphone amp that's up to the challenge right now, although Colleen and I probably have two or three iPods between us if we dug around. Here are the options: Unison Research is working on a couple of headphone amplifiers, but those won't be ready for a while. I can also plug the 5813s into my laptop and listen to some of the FLAC files I've downloaded from HDTracks, which I've already done. The sound is warm and full and musical despite the absence of a quality DAC. Heck, I just listened to some videos on YouTube that didn't sound half bad.
The final option involves this cute little Italian headphone amp/DAC, the Ernestolo, from Carot One. It's affordable, high-quality and it looks great. We've been speaking with the manufacturers of Carot One for a few months now, and I'm trying to get a unit in for evaluation. Once I do, I'll report more thoroughly on the EM5813s.
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If Noise Is Keeping You Awake at Night. The key is keeping a steady stream of sound so abrupt noises outside are muffled and don't wake you up.
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For some reason, I was not able to read the newspapers this Monday. So I read them today. And that day's Economic Times bugged me. It is some kind of "celebrate India" issue – the Indian century. I am not against celebrations per se, but against mindless ones – I don't know what is there to celebrate after a year that has seen disaster after disaster.
On the front page, there is this piece with a photograph, photoshopped of course, of five domes – that of the Taj Palace Hotel, the US Capitol, the Kremlin (its actually St. Basil's Cathedral, Wikipedia says), St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City and one more which I don't recognize. Its a "global gesture of solidarity", ET says. In its hurry to line up domes, the paper forgot what each building represents – the Taj was built by Jamshedji Tata, an industrialist and philanthropist, out of his own money; the US Capitol represents (represented, I should say) the idea of a republic which believes in the rule of law, not of men; the Kremlin is the place from where tyrant after Russian tyrant has issued orders condemning millions of people to eternal slavery and a painful death; the Vatican is the power center of the Roman Catholic Church's supreme pontiff – the Pope, and I won't repeat my views on religion, particularly monotheistic ones. A geopolitical alignment of domes makes such ideas irrelevant. The irony – the photograph carries a label – "a new idea of india".
On the same page, is an op-ed which I think is the worst I have read in the new year because while on the surface it preaches about ideas, it has an undercurrent of something that I can't put my finger on; I think its some kind of pragmatism but whatever it is, it scares me. Its by Sunil Khilnani (I have borrowed my post title from ET which has borrowed it from Khilnani's book). He writes-
Economics was the new realism — solvent of all problems holding India back. Fundamental dilemmas — of social justice, of differences of belief, of security and freedom — conflicts requiring difficult choices and abilities to persuade, could be governed by the rational calculus of economics.
Our political leaders too believed that economic growth could absolve them of the mess of politics[.]
As markets veered and dipped this past year, we felt, in dramatic and painful fashion, the profoundly non-rational potentialities of human economic behaviour and of markets. And then, in the brutal attacks on our financial capital, we saw how political beliefs, rooted in a lethal exclusivism and hatred, can shoot up complacent routines and throw into question our sense of security. The state remains the most achieved invention to tender some security in the face of the non-rational. Because our individual and collective fates are so tied up with it, it requires our close attention. Recognising that is the beginning of political realism.
[T]he generation symbolised by Nehru did not imagine they could repair and build India by invoking an ideology, or God, or the natural order of things, or even scientific prescriptions for the good or efficient society. Nor did they believe in economic development as a self-resolving process.
That commitment to politics was embodied in India's democratic order: not because it was assumed that democracy could provide clear answers to already pre-given questions; but precisely because democracy was a perpetually interrogative form — always suspicious of the settled answer. But for a democratic society to make a success of this kind of politics, it requires a perpetual pursuit of social self-knowledge. The only resource that democracies have out of which to judge how best to create their future is their understanding of their history, and their current predicament — they cannot appeal to some extrahistorical ideology or truth (capitalism, socialism, God, providential destiny) to see them forward.
Understanding history is important no doubt. But what if you come across "extrahistorical" ideologies or truths – capitalism, socialism, God, providential destiny – during such understanding? Did yesterday's events (which are today's history) happen just like that? Why did Nehru try to smother India at birth itself? Was it not because of his affair with socialism? Khilnani conveniently lumps all ideas together – it seems that belief in destiny and belief in capitalism are one and the same to him.
Then there is this adjective "non-rational", which he uses when he talks about human economic behaviour and markets. And while he doesn't use it when he refers to the terrorist attack, he means it. That's where – "the state remains the most achieved invention to tender some security in the face of the non-rational" – comes from. The market and terrorists are one and the same – that's what he means at some level.
So while he says we should pay attention to politics so that free trade and individual freedom can be preserved, his "ideas" seem to suggest something else. I might be wrong, but that's the impression the op-ed leaves on me.
There are some good articles in the paper, like the one on E Sreedharan, but at the risk of shooting the messenger, I will say that this one on how Indian industry is demanding protection from "dumping" is another one that can ruin your morning-
KUMAR MANGALAM BIRLA, CHAIRMAN OF THE $28 billion Aditya Birla group, was asked recently to spell out the single most important thing he wanted the government to do. "Levy tariffs and protect the domestic industry," said Mr Birla without batting an eyelid. Surprising it may sound as it comes from the head of a group which depends on overseas businesses for more than 50% of its revenues, but he was just reflecting the general mood of India's business community.
With the largest economies of the world coming under the grip of a recession, the clamour for protectionist measures is bound to become louder. In fact, a number of corporate leaders have already sought higher import duties to protect local players from cheap imports from countries such as Russia, Ukraine and China. With their major markets – the US, Europe and Japan – shrinking due to recession, exporters from these countries are left with no option but to liquidate their inventories at any cost.
"The threat is real," says YM Deosthalee, finance director at Larsen & Toubro, India's largest engineering company. "If the government wants India to grow, then protectionist measures are vital," he said.
Indian companies are seeking protection, fully aware of its likely impact on global trade. "In any case, there has been a sharp fall in global trade ever since the liquidity crisis started," said Mr Deosthalee. "There should be a twopronged strategy to tackle this – raise customs duties and levy lower duties in the local market," he added.
There is already talk about reviving the fabled Bombay Club, which was formed in 1940s to press for protecting the nascent Indian industry.
The fabled Bombay Club? I think notorious is a better adjective. This is what selfishness, as the word is commonly used, refers to – devise innumerable ways to fuck others so that your business does not suffer. And these are the favor-swapping "businessmen" that make up Indian industry – people who will help make this century an Indian one.


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Beautiful handguns..thanks for posting! There are tools..and then there is artwork.
I started to learn pistolcraft after the military in an upscale private gun club on either a club owned FN Medalist International 150 or a Colt Officer Model Match. I also had the opportunity to shoot the personal guns of the other mostly very affluent members. I was still in school and did not have the money to collect firearms for a long time to come. My first revolver was a S&W M14-2, followed by a pre-owned Colt Python for $400 plus tax. Next I had bought a Gehmann Walther GSP and sold it later to switch to a Hammerli International 208 to use in practice and matches.
However, I had shot SIG P210s, Korths, Manurhin MR73s, HK P7s and P9s and the Korths had mostly impressed me and I wanted one for decades! Instead of buying those expensive guns I really wanted, I bought hundreds of used guns over the years for good prices as a quick fix to a serious gun addiction.,
Finally my kids were grown and I had more disposible income and started collecting Korth revolvers made in Ratzeburg and visited the factory in 2008, right before it closed. Here are some of my favourite handguns from my accumulation of high quality shooters:
I like the old Korths that were made when Willi Korth was still alive and this five shot .357 is my favorite centerfire revolver.
My first Korth was a rimfire and it is my favourite rimfire revolver.
My favourite rimfire pistol is a Hammerli 212 Jaegerschaftspistole.
My favorite centerfire pistol is a SIG P210-6
While I enjoy all those guns for their quality and accuracy, I carry a Glock and just bought a pristine Taurus 83 last week end.
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democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable but that to strive for it produces something utterly different the very destruction of freedom itself. As has been aptly said: What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven.' F.A. Hayek
Nice! Wow! Tell us more; there's clearly more to tell. Unless that round thing next to the hammer is a "nothing to see here" button.
"It is wonderful, in the event of a street fight, how few bullets seem to hit the men they are aimed at." Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, Theodore Roosevelt, 1888
Very nice.
Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the snake, The snake didn't have a leg to stand on.
Opportunity may knock ounce, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
That is the cylinder release, from 1969 on it was moved up there and is actually very user friendly. 1969 was also when Korth started using a roller bearing for the double action trigger. The exchangeable bearing came in five different diameters, providing different yet extremely uniform stacking. From 1969 on the grips for Korths were made by an unknown German start-up company called Karl Nill.
The Ratzeburg manufactured revolvers all have an adjustable trigger overtravel stop and a cylinder release button, making cleaning a breeze.
That Sig P210-6 is probably the worst centerfire pistol ever made. And, since I'm such a nice guy I'd gladly help a brother out of a jam and take it off your hands.
Really nice collection of things that go bang.
That is a real collection of fine guns.
And the replacement on a vendor supplied photo. The P210-4 has a loaded cartridge indicator and no lanyard loop.


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(CNN) — The 10 American sailors captured by Iran were freed Wednesday, but the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and U.S. officials appear to be at odds over whether the U.S. apologized for the incident before their release.
Iranian authorities let the sailors go after determining that their vessels' entry into Iranian waters was unintentional and "after they extended an apology," according to a statement from Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, quoted in the country's semi-official FARS News Agency. The statement went on to say, "The Americans have undertaken not to repeat such mistakes."
But the State Department quickly rebutted that report Wednesday morning.
"There is no truth in reporting that Secretary Kerry apologized to the Iranians," Kerry spokesman John Kirby told reporters Wednesday, later tweeting that the claim had "zero" validity. "As the Secretary said in his statement this morning, he expressed gratitude to Iranian authorities for their cooperation in swiftly resolving this matter, and noted that the peaceful and efficient resolution of this issue is a testament to the critical role diplomacy plays in keeping our country safe, secure, and strong."
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who has maintained open lines with Kerry and U.S. officials, made no mention of an apology in a tweet he sent after the sailors were released.
"Happy to see dialog and respect, not threats and impetuousness, swiftly resolved the #sailors episode. Let's learn from this latest example," Zarif wrote.
A Navy statement said the detained sailor have been transferred to shore and are no longer on USS Anzio, which helped carry them back to U.S. custody.
The sailors were captured Tuesday after their two naval boats entered Iranian waters near Farsi Island, in the Persian Gulf.
The wait for the sailors' release Wednesday morning dragged on for hours, with Iranian officials interrogating the sailors about their motives and demanding a U.S. apology.
But an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesman told state-run media the boats strayed into Iranian waters by accident.
"The evidence suggests that they unintentionally entered the Iranian waters because of the failure of their navigational system," IRGC spokesman Ramazan Sharif said.
On Wednesday afternoon, the sailors traveled on their two boats to a rendezvous point in the Persian Gulf, a U.S. official said. They were escorted by Iranian boats, which turned back when they reached the rendezvous point in international waters.
The sailors then boarded the guided missile cruiser USS Anzio, where they underwent medical checks Wednesday.
"There are no indications that the Sailors were harmed during their brief detention," the U.S. Navy said in a statement.
The Navy said it would investigate how the sailors ended up in Iranian territory.
Secretary of State John Kerry expressed "gratitude to Iranian authorities for their cooperation in swiftly resolving this matter," in a statement Wednesday.
"As a former Sailor myself, I know the importance of naval presence around the world and the critical work being done by our Navy in the Gulf region," he said, adding later, "That this issue was resolved peacefully and efficiently is a testament to the critical role diplomacy plays in keeping our country safe, secure, and strong."
Calls for an apology
On Wednesday morning, officials interrogated the sailors to see whether they "entered Iranian waters intentionally on an intelligence mission," the IRGC said, according to state-run Press TV.
Iran's foreign minister called for the United States to apologize for the "encroachment" of American vessels into Iranian territorial waters, an Iranian navy official told state-run media.
IRGC Navy commander Adm. Ali Fadavi said the presence of the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf waters "disturbed the security of the area" and criticized the U.S. Navy maneuvers.
What the ships were doing
The vessels were en route from Kuwait to Bahrain and were sailing near Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf.
A senior defense official told CNN the boats were in the area of Farsi Island for refueling, but it's not clear whether they actually refueled — raising the possibility they ran out of fuel.
Another senior defense official said no distress call came from the boats.
Iran's official IRNA news agency reported that the boats were "rescued" by Iranian navy sailors.
There is nothing to indicate the capture was a hostile act on the part of Iran, a senior Obama administration official said.
Timing with the nuclear deal
The capture of the sailors came days before the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers is expected to go into force. The deal freezes Iran's nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions against Iran.
And that might be why the U.S. sailors were held for only one day, a CNN military analyst said.
"I certainly think they were released quickly because of the ongoing Iran deal," retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling said.
Otherwise, "they probably would have been kept a few more days," Hertling said.
He noted that when British sailors were captured by Iran in 2007, they were held for about two weeks.
"I think there potentially is a new age coming about with Iran," Hertling said. "This is going to improve military-military relationships."
Previous captures
In 2004, three British patrol boats were boarded and seized by Iranian security forces in the Shatt al Arab waterway, which divides Iraq and Iran. The crews of the three boats, including eight British sailors and marines, were blindfolded and paraded on Iranian state TV and held captive for three days.
In 2007, Iran captured 15 British sailors and marines in the Persian Gulf and accused them of trespassing in Iranian territorial waters. Britain maintained that its service members never entered Iranian waters.
Those British service members were paraded before then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and critics said their apologies were extracted under duress. They were released after two weeks.
After the 2007 capture, Adm. Mike Mullen, who was U.S. chief of naval operations at the time, said, "We've got procedures in place which are very much designed to carry out the mission and protect the sailors who are there, and I would not expect any sailors to be able to be seized by the Iranian navy or the Iranian Republican Guard."


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