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Senior Fellow Ivan Eland on COP21 Security
Recorded: Saturday, November 28, 2015
Senior Fellow Ivan Eland is interviewed on CCTV America about security measures taken by the French Government during the COP21 Climate Change Summit in Paris. After terrorist attacks, France has reinforced borders, mobilized 120,000 police officers, and banned large marches that had been planned to coincide with the climate summit.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Terrorism and National Crises
Senior Fellow Ivan Eland on the Paris Attacks and the Endless Cycle of Terrorism
Recorded: Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute and author of No War for Oil is interviewed by Thom Hartman for The Big Picture on RT on the terrorist attacks in Paris. He discusses the endless cycle of terrorism in the Middle East and how France can avoid making the same mistakes.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Terrorism and National Crises
Ivan Eland Interviewed on US Governors Call To Deny Asylum to Syrian Refugees
Recorded: Monday, November 16, 2015
In this interview aired by WHDT World News, Ivan Eland calls by Republican governors against accepting Syrian refugees into the United States. Eland calls this nonsense, and he stresses the importance of ending American intervention in Muslim countries, while focusing on security at home.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Immigration, Terrorism and National Crises
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on the Larry Elder radio show on KRLA
Recorded: Friday, October 9, 2015
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of "Gun Control in the Third Reich" appears on the Larry Elder radio show on Oct. 9, 2015. Halbrook talks about the remarks made by presidential candidate Ben Carson about gun control and the holocaust and how dictators take guns first. Carsons remarks were rebuked by mainstream media, but historians such as Halbrook set the record strait on the history of gun control in Europe leading up to World War II and the holocaust.
Experts: Stephen P. HalbrookType: RadioIssues: Gun Control, History (International)
David Theroux: C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism
Recorded: Friday, June 26, 2015
David Theroux, Founder and President of Independent Institute and the C.S. Lewis Society, presents at the 2015 Western Conservative Summit held in Denver, CO.
Experts: David J. TherouxType: Other EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Freedom, History (International), Political Ideology and Philosophy
What Americans Should Learn from the British Election
Recorded: Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland appears on America Tonight with Kate Delaney to talk about government spending out of control. Eland compares the US money supply and spending under George W. Bush and Barack Obama to eating candy and getting a "sugar high" instead of a good balanced diet. British Prime Minister David Cameron has followed the examples of US Presidents Harding, Coolidge, Eisenhower and Clinton and embraced austerity to bring about long term prosperity.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: RadioIssues: Defense and Foreign Policy, Government Power, Politics, Terrorism and National Crises
C.S. Lewis on Natural Law and Liberty
Inaugural Presentation: Center for Western Civilization, Berkeley, California
Recorded: Sunday, April 26, 2015
Drawing on C.S. Lewiss varied writingsfiction for both adults and children, non-fiction essays and scholarly treatises, poetry, and extensive correspondence with people from all walks of lifeIndependent Institute President David Theroux presents Lewiss highly developed, Judeo-Christian philosophical insights into our relationship with power and human aspirations.
From his declining an offer of knighthood to his keen essays such as The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment, C.S. Lewiss timeless thinking provides rich insights into how to apply natural-law principles to our world and the challenges we all face today.
Experts: David J. TherouxType: Other EventIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Collectivism, Constitutional Law, Culture/ Society, Democracy, Education, Free Speech, Freedom, Government Power, Government Secrecy, Government Waste/Pork, History (International), Law Enforcement, Nationalism, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Privacy, Privatization, Property Rights, Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Regulation and Deregulation, Religion, Science, Technology, Welfare
Thomas DiLorenzo on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War Economy
Recorded: Friday, April 17, 2015
Research Fellow Thomas DiLorenzo appeared on the Kate Dalley radio show on KZNU in Utah to discuss the 16th U.S. President and the economy at the time.
Experts: Thomas J. DiLorenzoType: RadioIssues: Economic History and Development (U.S.), History (U.S), Terrorism and National Crises


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New Atelier Ayesha (Vita) and Atelier Shallie (PS3) Launch Dates confirmed
Posted by Ceidz in Atelier Ayesha Plus, Atelier Shallie, Media, PLAYSTATION Store, Previews, PS3, PS3 software, PSN on November 11th, 2014
Koei Tecmo America contacted us to let us know that two Atelier games will be releasing early next year! That's right, we are getting not one but two releases in the Atelier series for Playstation Vita and Playstation 3.
New Persona 4 Arena Ultimax videos and pre-order bonuses details!
Posted by Ceidz in Media, Persona 4 Arena, Persona Series, Previews, PS3 software, PSN on September 18th, 2014
With the imminent release of the sequel to Persona 4 Arena, titled Persona 4 Arena Ultimax on September 30th, Atlus has sent us a couple of new trailers featuring a look at the gameplay and some of the characters that will be available as DLC!
They also told us that the Marie and Adachi DLC will be free for the first week of the release, so you will have to download them quickly if you want to enjoy them without paying extra!
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New Persona 5 Teaser Trailer!
Posted by Ceidz in Media, Persona 5, Persona Series, Previews, PS3, PS3 software on September 8th, 2014
A new trailer for upcoming RPG Persona 5 has been released by Atlus (JP). This preview shows us a little about the world in which the events will take place and we get to know the main character. Also, the trailer also confirms that this game will be released in 2015 for PS3 and PS4!
[Vita JRPG Preview] Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1
Posted by Ceidz in Hyperdimension Neptunia, Media, PLAYSTATION Store, PlayStation Vita Software, Previews, PSN on August 14th, 2014
This preview of Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 covers the few first hours of the game. Stay tuned for a full Vita review closer to the game release (August 26)!
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 is an enhanced remake of the Playstation 3 game Hyperdimension Neptunia that was released in 2011. The Hyperdimension Neptunia franchise takes place in the world of "Gamindustri" and the four main characters are personifications of the game console giants: Sony, Sega, Microsoft and Nintendo.


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Comprehensive Index to Asian Theatre Journal: Vols. 1-19. (Reviews: By Author/Title)
Mason, David V., Asian Theatre Journal
Adachi, Barbara C. Backstage at Bunraku (Book). Reviewed by Julianne Boyd. 7.1 (1990): 116-117.
-----. The Voices and Hands of Bunraku (Book). Reviewed by Junko S. Berberich. 1.1 (1984): 122-123.
Akihiko, Senda. The Voyage of Contemporary Japanese Theatre (Book). Reviewed by Laurence Kominz. 17.2 (2000): 296-299.
Akira Shigeyama International Projects. Busu (Video). Reviewed by Samuel L. Leiter. 15.2 (1998): 310.
-----. This IsKyogen (Video). Reviewed by Samuel L. Leiter. 15.2 (1998): 310. Albery, Nobuko. The House of Kanze (Book). Reviewed by Robert Bethune. 9.2 (1992): 254.
Arps, Bernard, ed. Performance in Java and Bali: Studies of Narrative, Theatre, Music, and Dance (Book). Reviewed by Robert Petersen. 11.2 (1994): 315-316.
Asai, Susan M. Nomai Dance Drama: A Surviving Spirit of Medieval Japan (Book). Reviewed by Eric C. Rath. 19.1 (2002): 231-233.
Averbuch, Irit. The Gods Come Dancing: A Study of the Japanese Ritual Dance of Yamabushi Kagura (Book). Reviewed by Barbara E. Thornbury. 14.1 (1997): 146-148.
Bandem, I Made, and Fredrik Eugene deBoer. Kaja and Kelod: Balinese Dance in Transition (Book). Reviewed by Judy Mitoma. 2.1 (1985): 83-84.
Banham, Martin, ed. The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre (Book). Reviewed by John Emigh. 8.1 (1991): 92-99.
Barba, Eugenio. Land of A shes and Diamonds: My Apprenticeship in Poland (Book). Reviewed by Michael Huttler. 18.1 (2001): 113-115.
-----. The Paper Canoe (Book). Reviewed by Seth Baumrin. 14.2 (1997): 281-289.
Barba, Eugenio, and Nicola Savarese. Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer (Book). Reviewed by Samuel L. Leiter. 9.2 (1992): 268-270.
Baumer, Bettina, ed. Kaltattvakosa: A Lexicon of Fundamental Concepts of the Indian Arts, Vol. I: Eight Selected Terms, Vol. II: Concepts of Space and Time (Book). Reviewed by Phillip B. Zarrilli. 12.1 (1995): 207-208.
Beng, Tan Sooi. Bangsawan: A Social and Stylistic History of Popular Malay Opera (Book). Reviewed by Kathy Foley. 15.2 (1998): 297.
-----. Bangsawan: A Social and Stylistic History of Popular Malay Opera (Book). Reviewed by Suresh Awasthi. 11.2 (1994): 313-314.
Bernhard, Betty, and KailashPandeya. WomenTheatreActivists of India: Interview, 1997 (Video). Reviewed by Diane Daugherty. 15.2 (1998): 311-313.
Bethe, Monica, and Karen Brazell. Dance in the No Theater (Book). Reviewed by Mark J. Nearman. 4.2 (1987): 237-238.
Bethe, Monica, Richard Emmert, and others. Noh Performance Guides (Book). Reviewed by Frank Hoff. 16.1 (1999): 124-126.
Bharucha, Rustom. The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking Through Theatre in an Age of Globalization (Book). Reviewed by Barbara Sellers-Young. 18.2 (2001): 274-275.
-----, Chandralekha: Woman Dance Resistance (Book). Reviewed by Phillip B. Zarrilli. 14.1 (1997): 141-143.
Bouvier, Helene. La Mature des Emotions: Les Arts du Temps et du Spectacle dans la Societe Madouraise (Indonesie) (Book). Reviewed by Kathy Foley. 15.2 (1998): 299.
Brakel-Papenhuijzen (Papenhuyzen), Clara. The Bedhaya Court Dances of Central Java (Book). Reviewed by Rene T. A. Lysloff. 11.2 (1994): 317-322.
Brandon, James R. No and Kyogen in the Contemporary World (Book). Reviewed by John K. Gillespie. 15.2 (1998): 291-292.
-----, ed. The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre (Book). Reviewed by Samuel L. Leiter. 12.1 (1995): 190-191.
-----, ed. Chushingura: Studies in Kabuki and the Puppet Theater (Book). Reviewed by Samuel L. Leiter. 2.1 (1985): 91-92.
Brazell, Karen, ed. Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays (Plays). Reviewed by Marleigh Grayer Ryan. 17.1 (2000): 123-126.
Brown, John Russell. New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience, and Asia (Book). Reviewed by David W. …


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OTTAWA -- The crisis isn't imagined any more, it's real.
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Those theories that the Ottawa Senators hit rock bottom in a 6-5 loss to Nashville on Thursday have to be amended.
Saturday afternoon the Senators found a lower level in the ditch, losing 5-2 to the New York Rangers in front of 20,003 restless patrons.
Not since the 1995-96 season has Ottawa's NHL team lost six games in a row. (It's never a good sign when a streak harkens back to the early years of the franchise).
Someone asked winger Daniel Alfredsson if this losing streak is getting serious.
"It's always serious," snapped the captain. "It's professional sports. If you don't win, you suck."
Maybe some inspiration will come to them on a Florida golf course today. That's right, the boys are golfing today, and there is no chance head coach John Paddock will alter those plans and send his players to a rink for a long, hard practice. The Senators don't play until Tuesday in Tampa and have a day of relaxation today.
"The itinerary was set three months ago," Paddock said.
Desperate for a quick start, the Senators fell behind by two before the game was seven and a half minutes old.
"You want to go out and do a good job, but you're down 2-0 so quickly," Alfredsson said.
Paddock blamed his goaltender, Martin Gerber on the first goal, a long point shot, and was discouraged that Andrej Meszaros lost a puck battle that lead to the second goal, by Brendan Shanahan.
Meszaros and Wade Redden were split as partners after being on for the first three goals, one of them a power play.
The heat has been arriving on the post-game shows for days, but this was the first time the fans let their heroes have it, up close and personal.
They were booed off the ice after the first period, one of the Senators worst 20 minutes at home this season - outshot by the Rangers 12-6, with precious few signs of life.
Gerber made a routine save, right after the Rangers' third goal, by Jaromir Jagr on a power play, and heard sarcastic cheers. He wouldn't hear them for long. Gerber, later admitting he's "not as confident" as he was, stayed on the bench to open the second period as Ray Emery finished off and stopped 11 of the 12 shots he faced.
Fittingly, the final goal came on a glaring giveaway by Joe Corvo. Blair Betts accepted the gift and fired the puck into an empty net for his first goal of the season, after Emery was pulled for a sixth skater.
Fighter Brian McGrattan received the only warm cheers of the first period, as he tried in vain to get a fight going against New York's Colton Orr. Orr declined and McGrattan received an unsportsmanlike minor penalty for his trouble.
For fans in their misery, at least McGrattan provided comic relief, like the court jester in a Shakespearean play.
In many ways, this loss was routine for the Senators. Gerber didn't make any early saves, dooming the team to another comeback attempt. Defensive zone coverage was again lax, not helped by the loss of defenceman Anton Volchenkov to a broken index finger. They'll have to figure it out without him because Volchenkov is expected to miss a month.
In the critical opening minutes, which set the tone for another defeat, a series of small breakdowns plagued Ottawa, as they have for the last two weeks. Marcel Hossa, supposedly the lesser of the Hossa brothers, won a puck battle behind the Ottawa net and slid the puck back to defenceman Dan Girardi, whose routine point shot leaked through Gerber's arm for a 1-0 Rangers lead.
"We need that save, for sure," Paddock said.
Given the losing streak, to give up the first goal on a soft shot had to deflate the bench. It was the third straight game the Senators haven't scored first.
"I have to do a better job," Gerber said, though he may not get back in there anytime soon.
Saturday's start was supposed to be a vote of confidence after he got shelled by Nashville.
A strong push by Ottawa late in the second period and into the third, pulled the Senators to within two goals, but no closer.
Players are as grumpy as fans.
"We had the best start in history, and now we've lost six straight," said centre Jason Spezza. "It definitely gets under everybody's skin."
Among their other issues, that gap in the standings the Senators were enjoying after a record-tying start to the season has all but disappeared.
After making strange with each other in October, those up-and-coming Rangers have closed to within two points of the Senators in the Eastern Conference standings, with 32 points to the Senators 34.
The Senators went to sleep Saturday night - fitfully, one would hope - knowing they couldn't lose their first-place rank in the conference. But that picture is changing quickly, as the Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers and Carolina Hurricanes are all breathing down the necks of the struggling Senators.
"Mental dullness" Paddock calls his team's affliction.
There's nothing like a round of golf to sharpen up a dull mind.
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States use K-9s to search for smuggled cell phones
GALT, Calif. They've been finding hidden bombs, drugs and corpses for years, using their sense of smell to locate what their human handlers would otherwise have to see in plain sight.
Now dogs are being deployed in prisons to help curb one of the most serious problems confronting corrections officials: smuggled cell phones.
It turns out that cell phones smell. And their distinct odor can lead a well-trained canine to a device hidden under a mattress, stashed into a wall or tucked into a fan or radio.
Inmates use them to arrange drug deals, plot escapes and attacks, coordinate riots and harass victims.
"They have 24 hours a day to figure out how to hide these from us," said Sgt. Wayne Conrad, who leads the K-9 program in California. "I couldn't tell you how long it would take me to go through every nook and cranny in a cell. But when these dogs work, they pick up the odor and go right to it."
For security reasons, Conrad won't say what the scent is, but says dogs can find it whether the phone is on or off, broken into pieces or concealed in another electronic device.
Cell phone sniffing dogs have been dispatched in prisons in a handful of states, including California, Florida, Texas, Virginia and Maryland, as other methods to heel the problem have fallen short or run into regulatory or budgetary constraints.
There are currently 14 dogs working in California's 33 prisons. Five of them are specifically trained as cell phone sleuths. By the end of the summer, the K-9 unit will have 23 dogs trained, about half in finding cell phones, the other half in narcotics.
The program continues to grow despite California's $19 billion budget deficit because it's cheap: the dogs are donated by rescue groups and trained onsite for eight weeks at a facility in Galt, about 20 miles south of Sacramento.
As of May of this year, California prison officials had already confiscated 4,800 cell phones through the K-9 program and other random searches. They seized nearly 7,000 last year, up from just 261 in 2006.
Cell phones are smuggled into prisons through visitors and staff. They're stuffed in cakes, hidden in hollowed out books, thrown over prison walls in garbage bags, transported in laundry delivery, broken apart and brought in bit by bit and disguised as wristwatches or radios.
"They have hidden them inside a body cavity," Conrad said.
A smuggler can fetch up to $1,000 for a phone, and prisoners rent them out to other inmates for $50 a day, said Richard Subia, California's associate director for adult prisons.
California lawmakers recently passed legislation that would make cell phone smuggling a misdemeanor and fine the offender up to $5,000. The bill is currently on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk.
The U.S. House last month passed a bill that would ban the use or possession of cell phones or wireless devices in federal prisons and classify those devices as contraband. The U.S. Senate also has passed a similar bill, sponsored by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who noted that one fired guard admitted making close to $150,000 in a year smuggling cell phones. The legislation would subject anyone trying to provide a cell phone to an inmate to up to a year in prison
Concerned about safety, more than 20 states last year petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to allow them to jam cell phone signals at state prisons. The high tech solution is currently prohibited because any disruption would also affect neighboring communities.
"So that's when it came back to dogs," Subia said. "We found our resources weren't enough to keep up with the discovery of cell phones."


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From the start, when Matthews ambled onstage with an endearing modesty, to the musical-fireworks finale three hours later, Matthews' performance and the group's chemistry were golden.
Each jam was potent, with musicians blending perfectly and then letting each other step forward in the spotlight. While everyone (super drummer Carter Beauford, bassist Stefan Lessard, guitarist Tim Reynolds, saxophonist Jeff Coffin and trumpet player Rashawn Ross) impressed, the give-and-take between Matthews and violinist Boyd Tinsley bristled with the most electricity - so much fun to watch and hear.
Matthews - as always, confident without carrying any rock-star artifice - was in fine from. His distinctive vocals curled their way around each lyric. His guitar-playing and even his piano-playing, on the lovely "Out of My Hands," spoke expressively.
This was DMB's first concert ever at Mohegan Sun, and, boy, was the audience jazzed. Their enthusiasm never waned, and it especially fired up on more familiar songs like "Don't Drink the Water," during which they happily sang along and raised their arms in the air.
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KOTZEBUE -- I've been sitting at our table, pulling stems off tinnik berries, pouring small handfuls out of my palm into jars of rendered bear fat. I have meat to dry and tons of other work to do, but I don't want to do any of it and can't take my hands off these beautiful berries.
Outside, it's gray and windy, rain slopping down, melting the ice that has formed across the lagoon. Inside my head is pretty much all gray, too. I'm grumpy and unsettled, restless as hell, swearing at everything. Beside me this godforsaken iPhone is no substitute for anything. I knew I wasn't done with the tundra when I came downriver; I'd had way too few days being with caribou. I'd waited a month and got lonely for them, hungry for them -- a strange combination, I know, but what can I say? For some of us tundra offspring, these animals are both meals and lifelong companions.
It's never easy to let go of summer and fall, all that sun and water, floating sea ice and salmon fishing, all the trails followed, rivers boated and tundra roamed, followed by the intense colors and smells of autumn, herds of caribou pouring down from the mountains, big brown bears out there roaming -- and me near them. It's always hard for me to put my boots away and let go of a season.
Soon, travel on the ice will be great too, and by late May I won't want to come back downriver again, or say goodbye to snow or my snowgo either. But that season is not quite here yet.
The phone rings and a friend asks what I'm doing. I flick to speakerphone. I'm in a bad mood and uncaring of modern English innuendo. "Frigging stuck in town," I growl, "fondling my berries."
In my palm the berries are plump and dry, cold out of the freezer, perfect reddish-orange beads. I love these bitter, starchy little berries that taste unpleasant before they've spent time in oil; I recognize in my hands a smaller version of that same indescribable connection -- the one I feel for caribou. To understand this addiction, maybe you have to know tinniks and some of my history.
Out on this land, they are hard to find. Often I walk five or 10 miles per dozen berries -- if I'm lucky. I've found a few along the Noatak (notice how vague I am about exactly where?) and a handful on the flanks of Knap Creek mountains. I've found two or three of these red berries along Paungaqtaugruk bluff on the Kobuk and five or six in the sand blowouts across from Hunt River. Why I search so relentlessly is beyond explanation or rational accounting; nothing in my life is more inefficient, nothing so much work for so little -- except writing, of course.
These past decades are a kaleidoscope; I remember only flashes from most days. But I remember my first tinnik. I was 4 or 5 years old, and my family was eating lunch with Minnie Gray in Ambler, I think; eating quaq fish and seal oil. In the bottom of the jar of yellow seal oil were the tired ropes of rendered blubber, and brown things like sections of miniature firewood, little roots called "masru" (Eskimo potato). I always liked masru and I remember my mom tilting the jar, peering in and poking one with a knife. Along came a tiny, reddish-brown, dilapidated berry. I popped the oily thing in my mouth. It was small and seedy but distantly sweet -- and so good. I haven't ever forgotten that berry.
At some point I remember eating Eskimo food with Keith and Anore Jones and Keith explaining that tinniks were valuable because they were good and so hard to find. After that it made sense why my family never had them. We ate dried fish and seal oil every day for lunch but we didn't bother with food so hard to come by.
Later, Merrill Morena told me the best place to find tinniks was at the sand dunes. He had been raised around where I grew up and taught by Billy Strong to fish and trap muskrat across south to Ahnewetut Lake and toward the dunes.
I remember when I was a teenager, Minnie and some of the Ambler ladies used to charter by Cessna with Dan Denslow and Dave Rue to land on the dunes and pick those berries in the trees along the edges of the sand.
In my early 20s, one fall after the ice was running huge pans, Stacey and I boated downriver to the mouth of the sand dunes creek with Clarence Wood. I'll never forget that terribly cold ride and him smoking a cigarette, stoically plowing through immense sheets of ice -- ice chunks clattering and sailing away beside us across solid ice -- and wondering if the river would seize up before we made it home.
Clarence was tough as nails, a relentless walker, scary fast. The dunes a few miles in from the Kobuk, through willows and rolling ridges carpeted with an enchanted forest of lichens and spread-out birches, aspens and spruce, was a perfect place to get lost. Stacey was slow. I was in the middle, struggling to keep him in sight, turning back to hurry her along, then racing ahead to locate his moving form, lanky legs disappearing over the next knoll.
Tinniks saved me. Clarence had a plastic bag in one hand. Each time he came to a patch of the plants, he couldn't pass up poking around for those random red berries. He had to kneel down on the frozen ground and pick a few and then we could almost catch up.
He ended up with half a gallon. Stacey and I got less than half that, a few pocketfuls, but it was the right year. I had shot a grizzly bear with gallons of fat on him and we rendered enough for pies all winter and still more to soak those berries in. From then on, I always wanted bear fat and tinniks to dip my daily dried caribou in.
For decades I've searched other areas. That food addiction just keeps growing. A few springs ago, I was flown to Tok to teach a writing camp for school kids. While I waited for a ride to Tanacross, I strolled in the trees. There I spotted amazing berries, melting out of the snow. I filled the pockets of my jacket. Later, at the school, I found the first woman who looked Native and asked her if people there ate those berries. At first she assumed I was some crazy mumbling white guy, and weird, but suddenly she nodded and smiled. "Oh, yeah. We put them in moose fat," she said. Right then I knew I needed friends in that part of Alaska.
This fall, as always, I roamed ridges and hills. After the rain raised the river, I boated up Niaktuvik creek. I remembered Merrill, cutting trees that blocked passage up Ahnewetut creek, and in his honor I took along my chain saw. But no deadfalls stopped me and I didn't need the saw after all.
Many bends up, I anchored and walked west. The conditions looked right but there was no elevation gain, and in the lichen forest and maze of game trails I grew worried about finding my way back to the right curve in the slough, to my boat. I cut little spruce boughs to mark my trail. After a few hours I'd found only 20 berries. I started wondering, would Scott MacManus in Tok mind picking me a few handfuls again this fall?
But still, I had secrets up my sleeve. A friend formerly from Ambler, Linnea Wik, had promised to find me some in Fairbanks. And I'd been invited by Arctic Wild guide and owner Bill Mohrwinkel to the sand dunes, where the BBC planned to film caribou.
The first day on the dunes, I led the cameraman and the producer, Toby Strong and Felicity Lanchester, and NPS archaeologist Jon Hardes, on a hike along the head of Niaktuvik creek and across the tip of the dunes. I had their heavy tripod on my back. We hoped to spot caribou, or a bear or wolf or any animal. We did pass fresh tracks but the only animal we saw was a dead mouse, found by Jon. I wasn't too impressed with my alleged abilities and started wishing I'd been the one to spot the mouse.
Near the east side, suddenly under my feet was the best patch of tinnik berries I'd seen since that walk with Clarence 25 years ago.
"Look!" I said. "These berries ... These are, uh ... They're really rare and valuable!"
I dropped to my knees. They all stopped and for a few minutes helped me pick a pocketful. Felicity was 24 weeks pregnant and leaned on her elbow. Toby moved around more and managed to lose his iPhone in the process. (I found it for him later.) We didn't pause long -- I knew they had spent thousands of dollars and traveled across the globe to film here -- but still, it was tough to move on.
A few days later, my friend Bill was along when the same thing happened. "Oh, geez, look at this!" he joked in disgust. "Seth's got the BBC picking berries for him!"
Nights after that, while everyone slept in their tents, I sneaked out and picked those berries in the dark by headlamp. It was cold and frosty and I worried that the crew would think I was a bear roaming in the dark. I sort of expected to meet a bear myself, doing the same thing I was. But I couldn't help myself. What can I say? It may be a modern and iPhoney world but those little berries remain valuable to me.
Seth Kantner is the author of "Shopping for Porcupine" and the bestselling novel "Ordinary Wolves." He lives in Northwest Alaska; email him at sethkantner.com [2]. His column runs on the second Sunday of each month in the Daily News' Arts and Life section.
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The Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act ("FATCA") had a very controversial reception by the global financial services community, and saw a robust lobbying effort against its more onerous obligations. It is now, however, a reality and is set to impose itself on South Africa's regulatory framework. It will have a substantial impact on the operations of all affected financial institutions, regardless of where these are situated. South African financial institutions are no different, and it will definitely be necessary for them to assess the impact, and where necessary to take the required steps to comply with the FATCA obligations.
Although FATCA has become common parlance in some circles, it remains shrouded in mystery in others. In order to combat FATCA's many misunderstandings and interpretational challenges, it is necessary that South African financial institutions educate themselves on FATCA and its imperatives as well as the steps that will be taken to incorporate these into South African law.
FATCA is a piece of United States ("U.S") legislation that introduces onerous identification and reporting obligations on foreign financial institutions in an effort to curb tax abuses by US citizens in foreign jurisdictions or those with offshore investments. A failure to comply with FATCA may result in a punitive withholding tax of 30% on U.S source income payable to non-compliant foreign financial institutions. The FATCA obligations are detailed in the FATCA Regulations.
The implementation of FATCA raised a number of concerns, with the foremost amongst these being that in certain jurisdictions local data privacy laws created local legal impediments to complying with FATCA, specifically, financial institutions in certain jurisdictions are prevented by their local data privacy laws from reporting on client confidential information directly to the US, as required by the FATCA Regulations. To their credit the US Department of Treasury recognized these concerns and developed an alternative means to complying with FATCA. They were of the view that an intergovernmental agreement approach would facilitate a more effective implementation of FATCA in a manner intended to address the domestic legal impediments to FATCA compliance. To this end, the U.S made the decision to draft two model intergovernmental agreements (being model 1 and model 2).
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National Treasury and the South African Revenue Service ("SARS") have expressed their intention to sign an intergovernmental agreement with the U.S and are currently in negotiations with the U.S Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") with a view to concluding a proposed South African Intergovernmental Agreement ("SA IGA"). The SA IGA is a treaty entered into between the governments of South Africa and the U.S and after its conclusion the SA IGA will be given force and effect by local South African enabling legislation ("the local FATCA laws"). This means that FATCA will be directly incorporated into South African law. The local FATCA laws will be phased in from June 2014, in order to comply with the timelines set out in the SA IGA.
While the SA IGA is not yet signed and accordingly that South Africa is not yet an IGA jurisdiction, considering the commitment made by SARS and National Treasury to sign the SA IGA, we consider it reasonable at this stage to focus only on the SA IGA obligations rather than also on the FATCA Regulations, on the basis that South Africa will become a IGA jurisdiction in due course.
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- ColombiaRetailFunding via Fundación Mario Santo Domingo (FMSD)
Denis Del S...ColombiaRetailFunding via Fundación Mario Santo Domingo (FMSD)
Ingrid ReinaColombiaRetailFunding via Fundación Mario Santo Domingo (FMSD)
Martha Liliana
Update on Martha LilianaMartha used her Kiva loan to buy toys and clothing to be able to handle the year end season and she earned money which she used to increase her purchasing power and working capital. She planned the loan for the same month last year and will buy toys and clothing in quantity. She knows her market well and her suppliers wait for her to give her good discounts so that she will earn more money to benefit her family. She sends the following message to the Kiva lenders," I'm happy for the help you have given me. My business and my entire family have benefitted. Thank you very much will all of my heart."
Previous Loan DetailsMarta is 21 years old and lives with her two year old son in Puerto Colombia, located along the sea, where foreign poets and artists live and are inspired. Marta owns a boutique where she sells gifts, cards, piñatas, perfumes, feminine items, and things that people need around the house. Her ... More from Martha Liliana's previous loan »
Additional Information
About Fundación Mario Santo DomingoFundación Mario Santo Domingo (FMSD) is a non-profit organization in northern Colombia dedicated to developing programs for the country's poorest communities. In addition to numerous social services, FMSD runs a microfinance program to strengthen micro-businesses in the areas where it works. The organization also offers several non-financial components as part of this program, including training to help entrepreneurs start their own businesses.
Concurrent and Successive Loans
Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
About Colombia
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
- 21 months (Additional Information)
- Repayment Schedule
- Monthly
- Pre-Disbursed:
- Dec 14, 2012
- Listed
- Dec 18, 2012
- Currency Exchange Loss:
- Possible
- Ended:
- Nov 20, 2014
Photo from previous loan
Kiva allows our Field Partners to re-use the same photo for individual borrowers that have been posted on Kiva's website once before in a 24 month period, and we allow them to re-use group photos for up to 24 months, provided that 80% of the current group's membership is represented.
Taking, collecting, and uploading photos of borrowers is one of the most challenging elements of using Kiva for our Field Partners. In order to make Kiva easier for Field Partners to use, we have allowed them to post successive and concurrent loans without taking a new photo of the borrower if the criteria above are met.


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Muslim and homosexual bakers decline to make cakes. No one cares.
One of the things that Muslim and homosexual rights activists have in common is that while they use the cry of "equal rights" what they are really campaigning for is a position of privilege where they have rights that are available to no one else. In the aftermath of Ben Carson's comments on his view (and mine) that Islam is incompatible with the presidency, Jonathan | Read More »


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In the 150th year since his birth, Nêst Thomas from the Lloyd George Museum in Gwynedd discusses how the life of Wales' most famous politician is remembered in his boyhood village of Llanystumdwy.
David Lloyd George is widely regarded as a great statesman but like many politicians some aspects of his work were well received; others less so. Most notably he guided Britain through the First World War and led a coalition government that introduced social reform including pensions for the elderly.
To honour the life of the 'Welsh Wizard', the Lloyd George Museum was built in Llanystumdwy in Gwynedd where he lived from early childhood between 1864 and 1880.
Lloyd George was born in Manchester in 1863. His family moved to Pembroke and, following his father's early death, his mother and her young family went to live with her brother, Richard Lloyd (Uncle Lloyd) who was a Baptist pastor and shoemaker in Llanystumdwy. It was his uncle's influence which gave Lloyd George his passionate concern for social justice.
Based on the original collection of the Lloyd George Museum Trust, who ran the Museum between 1947 and 1987, it currently houses a range of artefacts including freedom caskets, scrolls, medals, memorabilia, costumes and paintings. Since Gwynedd Council took over the Museum in 1987 they have added two extensions, including a theatre which shows archive film footage and a Victorian schoolroom.
We are very proud to have two incredibly powerful documents that shaped his work in Parliament. Currently housed here is Lloyd George's personal copy of the People's Budget which has been dedicated to his uncle, Richard Lloyd. This was introduced in 1909 "to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness" and taxed the rich to provide for the under privileged.
Visitors can also see Lloyd George's personal draft copy of the Peace Treaty of Versailles. As Britain's Prime Minister during what was then known as the Great War, he was involved in drafting the historic agreement that would change Europe forever. And, despite it being used for peace, Lloyd George was worried that the treaty was too heavy-handed towards the Germans.
A short walk from the museum, visitors can also visit his childhood home, Highgate, which has been recreated in a similar Victorian style to when he lived there. There, they can see his Uncle Lloyd's shoemaker's workshop and Victorian garden.
Lloyd George is one of only two Prime Ministers in Britain to have museums dedicated to them, the other being Winston Churchill; a long-time colleague and associate of Lloyd George.
The Lloyd George Museum continues to be developed as a worthy centre to remember the Welshman who became one of the greatest statesmen of the twentieth century and to promote world-wide awareness of his achievements.
Click here to see lots more enthralling content relating to David Lloyd George on People's Collection Wales.


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Palestine's Bid for U.N. Membership is Dangerous and Wrong
With the Jan. 10 Slate/Intelligence Squared debate approaching, former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. Dore Gold explains why the Palestinian effort destabilizes the region.
Gold: The sad truth is that this is not a territorial conflict, especially as the role of Hamas on the Palestinian side grows. Even the Fatah leadership insists that Israel will have to take in the Palestinian refugees, and even evict Jewish residents from those areas, before they will talk about ending the conflict. The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, wrote in the Guardian on Dec. 10, 2010 that there were 7 million Palestinian refugees, and that disregarding "their aspirations to return to their homeland would certainly make any peace deal signed with Israel untenable."
This is an impossible condition for Israel to ever meet, since it would fundamentally change the demographic makeup of Israel itself. Because this is the intent of the Palestinian leadership, this is why it refuses to recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, even though the Israelis are ready to accept a Palestinian state as the nation-state of the Palestinian people. The Palestinian leadership unfortunately still hopes to preserve the option of using the Israeli Arab population and a flood of Palestinian refugees in order to convert Israel from a Jewish state into another Arab state.
Slate: Your debate opponent, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, says Hamas has renounced violence as a form of resistance and accepted a two-state solution. Would Israel ever collaborate with a Palestinian government that included Hamas?
Gold: There's a serious problem with Hamas. Hamas has a national charter from 1988 which calls for the complete destruction of Israel. It even calls for attacking Jews anywhere in the world. If Hamas wanted to make itself into a diplomatic partner, it would have to erase that charter. It would have to accept Israel's right to exist. It would have to renounce violence and accept all previous agreements. But there is no indication that it will do this. In 2006, when Hamas won the Palestinian elections, Mahmoud al-Zahar, the man who became the Hamas foreign minister in Gaza, was specifically asked if he was willing to change the Hamas charter. He said, "Not a single word." So it seems that Hamas is ideologically rigid and locked into most of its old positions, even though it had every incentive in 2006 to change.
Slate: So last week's reconciliation was an empty gesture?
Gold: I think Hamas is trying to find language that makes it easier for Abu Mazen [President Mahmoud Abbas] to work with them. But Abbas is riding a tiger here. The Hamas leadership would like to ignite an intifada in the West Bank, which while declaratively aimed at Israel, will be intended to create chaos that will bring down Fatah control of the Palestinian Authority and replace it with Hamas control. This will bolster the extremist Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas' parent movement, in a number of neighboring Arab countries, like Syria and Jordan. Abbas is making a big mistake.
Slate: What actions might Israel take if the Palestinians achieved a status upgrade at the United Nations?
Gold: Well, we've already seen many actions the United States has taken in response to [the state of Palestine's admission to] UNESCO. But Israel will leave itself a number of options to adopt, in the event that the Palestinians continue down the road of unilateralism.
Slate: What might some of those options be?
Gold: I wouldn't want to try and specify.
Slate: Your debate opponents say that Prime Minister Netanyahu's commitment to expanding the West Bank settlements shows that he is disingenuous about wanting a two-state solution.
Gold: I've always believed that the settlements are a side issue. What you have is a territorial dispute: The Palestinians have towns and villages that they're building and Israel has its towns and villages where it's building. The borders will not be decided by the rate of construction, but by an agreement that the parties reach.
Slate: The settlements aren't a strategy to change the demography of the disputed areas?
Gold: Once Israel showed, in 2005, that it was prepared to pull out 9,000 settlers from the Gaza Strip, it's hard to argue that the settlements are the main factor determining the future borders of Israel.
Slate: But if they're so insignificant, and they're the one thing keeping the Palestinians from direct negotiations, is there a point where Israel just throws up its hands and agrees to a settlement freeze?
Gold: In 1993 when the original Oslo Accord was reached between Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister of Israel, and Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the PLO, there was no settlement freeze in the agreement. And the two sides negotiated. When Ehud Barak went to Camp David and negotiated with Arafat under the Clinton administration, there was no settlement freeze. And finally when Ehud Olmert negotiated with Abu Mazen back in 2007, there was no settlement freeze.
The settlements are a red herring. The amount of territory they sit on is miniscule—only 1.9 percent of the West Bank. If you're talking about 1.9 percent, and then somebody adds a few houses, you're not undercutting the negotiations; you're just addressing the needs of the people. Meanwhile, the Palestinians want to build a whole new city, called Rawabi, near Ramallah. Why not? They have needs; let them do it! Is that called a settlement?


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His appointment came as an inquiry ordered by David Cameron into the "commercialisation and sexualisation" of childhood called on the industry to bring in new curbs to protect under 16s.
The inquiry said such safeguards could be achieved through self-regulation and Cameron said he preferred "social responsibility" to "state control". But the Education Minister Sarah Teather insisted that legislation had not been ruled out. The Prime Minister will review progress in October.
Lund, who quit as head of the COI in April to co-found Now, will head the AA panel, which will draw up proposals to implement this week's report by Reg Bailey, chief executive of the Mothers Union.
Bailey welcomed the panel but said advertisers, marketers and regulators "could be more sensitive to the concerns parents have about advertising".
His proposals included a reduction in the number of outdoor ads with "sexualized imagery" near schools and a ban on using children as "brand ambassadors" and in "peer-to-peer marketing".
Lund said the industry should move quickly to turn the Bailey proposals into action to retain public trust.
He added: "It would be wrong if legislation were ruled out. That would take off the pressure for action. Legislation should only be necessary if the industry were out of line with society and government and self-regulation is somehow failing."
The panel will include advertisers, representatives fro, social media, mobile, internet, youth marketing agencies and an academic.
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Mark Lund will chair a panel being set up by the Advertising Association to beef up controls over marketing aimed at children in an attempt to head off the threat of legislation.