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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
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National Indian Programs Training Center
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All workshops (unless otherwise noted)
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There is no cost to attend, but advanced registration is required.
The legal infrastructure for many aspects of commerce is a given in most places. The code provides uniformity among state laws, enabling efficient cross-border business to take place. Because all states have adopted Article 9, lenders and borrowers usually feel confident the law will protect their interests—even if the two parties are located in different states.
On the reservations and other tribal lands collectively known as Indian Country, it's often a different story. As sovereign nations, American Indian tribes are not subject to state law and are free to adopt their own commercial codes. As a result, tribal commercial laws—to the extent they have been adopted at all—vary in depth and breadth. Laws governing secured transactions are absent or weak on many reservations, which can make outside parties reluctant to lend to tribal entities, entrepreneurs and consumers. The uncertain legal environment introduces an element of risk. Many lenders respond to the risk in one of two ways: avoiding it altogether by not offering loans, or offsetting it by shortening loan terms and charging high interest. The situation limits access to affordable credit, which is a fundamental component of any sustainable business venture. That, in turn, hinders economic development in Indian Country.
This workshop will provide information on the benefits of adopting a secured transaction code, and available resources for tribes including a model code and Implementation Guide developed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL). The Implementation Guide features plain-language commentary on each provision of the code. It also discusses UCC filing system options for tribes, incorporates a model filing system regulation and raises important policy issues for tribal legislatures to consider.
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Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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China's 2011 IAAF World Championships Discus gold medallist Li Yanfeng made a discrete return to big time competition at the Chinese National Games earlier this month and showed that she is capable of being a medal contender at major championships again after finishing second to her compatriot Tan Jian.
Apart from a low-key outing at the Heilongjiang Provincial Championships, which were conveniently in her home town of Suihua City and where she won with a relatively modest effort of 60.12m on 4 August, she had not competed since the end of last season due to ong-term back problems from a herniated disc.
She finally underwent surgery in March and, after returning to training in May, Li decided she was not in shape to defend her global crown in Moscow last month but still decided to put in an appearance at China's most prestigious domestic competition.
It was a bitter-sweet result in Shenyang for Li, who reached 63.91m and only lost by 20cm to Tan, who had finished sixth at both of the last two World Championships.
On one hand, it proved that Li's back problems are, if you will excuse the pun, effectively behind her. On the other, she was unable to successfully defend the National Games title she won at the last edition in 2009 and succumbed to only her fourth head-to-head loss to Tan in no less than 43 encounters in a rivalry that stretches back almost a decade.
"Having to settle for the silver medal is not easy for me. Nevertheless, I am proud of myself and if it had not been for the injury, I don't think that the result would have been the same," reflected the 34-year-old Li.
"The injury really affected me a lot. I only started to build up for these Games in May. I want to thank all the doctors that have helped me," she added.
Her coach, Zhang Jinglong, was also a happy man after seeing his athlete perform so well after her problems of the last year.
"I was still surprised and I have to admire the way Li trained (after the surgery) it showed her perseverance; she was consistently throwing around 60 metres in training during August and while I believed that she could throw better in competition, this was a good result. She insisted on doing much more intense training than I thought was possible," said her mentor.
However, as Zhang admitted to local reporters before the Games, the pair came to the conclusion after her outing at the Heilongjiang Provincial Championships that she wasn't fit enough to be a medal contender in Moscow. They decided, as he put it, to avoid the potential embarrassment of perhaps not even making the final.
Rather than travel ill-prepared to Moscow, Li decided to prove a point in Shenyang with one more month's training under her belt.
"Some people had asked me whether this (the Chinese National Games) was going to be the last competition of my career but I always said no.
"I have no plans to retire and this shows that I am back. I will certainly continue competing until the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio," added Li, whose left leg is currently three centimetres shorter than her right owing to her back injury.
Her statement means that, barring injury, she should be one of China's big hopes for a medal when Beijing stages the next IAAF World Championships in 2015.
China will certainly be looking for a better return from its athletes than in Moscow, where they failed to achieve a gold medal for the first time since 2005.
However, even if she has ambitions of getting back on the podium in 2015 and 2016, she may not be competing much, if at all, next year.
She will get married on 6 October to a fencer: "and we definitely will consider having children immediately after getting married. After all, I'm getting old," she jokingly revealed to reporters in Shenyang.
However, like good wine and despite the current prevalence of the younger generation of female discus throwers with no less than 12 of this year's top 20 under the age of 26, including Croatia's Olympic and World champion Sandra Perkovic, discus throwers tend to mature with age.
Li will be 36 by the time of the next World Championships but there have been medallists and even winners of the event in their 40s.
Regardless of whether she does have a baby break next year, Li is certainly not too old to contemplate regaining the World title and, perhaps, adding her name to the list of World champions who have triumphed after becoming mothers.
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Maurice Richard is one of ice hockey's most legendary and greatest players. The Canadiens winger was so good that upon his retirement in 1960, the Hockey Hall Of Fame waived its usual waiting period and immediately inducted him. You might think, then, that a Boston Bruins hockey broadcast on NESN might know how to correctly pronounce the Rocket's name. You would be wrong.
A poll inviting viewers to vote on favorite hockey films is a regular NESN feature during Bruins games, and one of tonight's nominees was a 2005 biopic about the Habs star. If you're not familiar with hockey, we'll clue you in: Maurice Richard was from Montreal, and so his surname isn't pronounced the same as, you know, President Nixon's first name.
Don't tell NESN reporter Jamie Erdahl that, though.
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A concert promoter is going after Prince for $3 million over a concert he pulled out of in Ireland three years ago.
MCD Productions claims an Irish court already levied the compensation amount against the diminutive rocker, but is still waiting to be paid, according to court documents obtained by Radaronline. Prince pulled out of the show just 10 days before it was to take place.
"MCD seeks this Court's recognition of judgment of the High Court of Ireland entered against the Defendant Prince Rogers Nelson on March 26, 2010 in the amount of €2.2 million [euros]," reads the document. "The judgment resulted from an action commenced by MCD following Prince's cancellation of a concert that was scheduled to take place on June 16, 2008 in Ireland."
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i found the whole church experience distasteful growing up.I think I wanted to believe at one point but just could not. Not believeing scared me as a as a kid.
I was in church when I realized it was all bullshit. The preacher ranting about hell helped in that regard. i realized what he was saying was impossible.
I was born into a Christian household. I was a firm believer and fundamentalist until I was 15, but I didn't really make it known that I'd become an atheist and stop going to church until I was 17. I'm now 20 and nearly six years sober. :)
It started out being a a general skepticism in The Bible, which of course is no mystery as to why I turned from it. Then I began to wonder if the believe in god(s) itself held any merit, and I just didn't see any reason to believe in it based on the lack of evidence.
From a personal standpoint, I've tried many other religions, and the only stance that felt completely true to myself was atheism. Having been through and studied all of the major religions, it's really the only position I could ever be in.
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Shh, Don't Tell Anyone: Obama Is Increasing the Cost Of Going to School
By J.J. Jackson
September 26, 2011
I have a secret to tell you. But you cannot tell it to anyone if I tell it to you. Do you understand? Because I am super serious about how secret this secret is.
Ok, good. Now come closer. No, no, closer. No one else can overhear this.
Here is the secret which you cannot tell anyone else. President Obama is raising the cost of your kid going to school.
What? President Obama raising costs on families? That cannot be right can it? I mean, he is all for the "little people" isn't he?
Well, as hard as it is to believe, it is true. In fact in the Penn Hills School District, where I live just outside of Pittsburgh, the cost of a school lunch is going up by $0.50 this year. And all because of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act passed by Congress and signed by President Obama in 2010.
Because of this legislation, lunches served in the Penn Hills schools will go from $1.75 each to $2.25. And while that may not seem like a lot of money, it is part of a bigger problem of which most Americans are blissfully unaware. But first, a little math lesson.
That $0.50 a day is a seemingly paltry $2.50 a week for the parents of a child that use the school lunch program. In a month it comes to $10 more one must pay for lunches. Over the course of a 9 month school year it is $90 in total if a student takes advantage of buying their lunch from the school every day. And that is if you have just one kid in school.
Now like I said, this is part of a larger problem which plagues America; the hidden cost of government. Every time government regulates something and mandates a certain action be taken it adds costs. For a family of four in Penn Hills, this hidden cost of government do-gooderism is stripping $180 from their wallets because the President and Congress decided that the meals our children eat in school needed a little bit more oversight.
Now think about how this microcosm projects onto the larger world of government regulation. If something as simple as government mandating what is in school lunches, because apparently we as parents are too dumb to decide such matters on our own, can increase your bill for just living by almost $200 in a year, what are bigger and more sweeping regulations adding to our cost of life?
How many thousands of regulations are there that the federal government has passed? What if just ten of them added $200 each per year to our household expenses? Those ten regulations equal $2,000 per year more we as citizens must pay just to live. And when government is so good at covering its tracks, would you even know?
Maybe you think that, despite the evidence already presented, that there is no way that there could be ten regulations out of thousands that add these sorts of costs to your daily lives. All right then, take for example gasoline taxes. The federal government adds $0.184 to every gallon. But you may not know that because it is not printed as an individual line item on your receipt. If you fill up once a week, fifteen gallons each time, that is $143.52 per year. If you are a two car household where both parents fill up once a week that become $287.04 a year.
Still think we cannot find just 10 federal regulations that add $200 each per year to you life?
What about taxes on businesses? Think that businesses pay those? Oh, you foolish soul!
Nope. Whether they be business income taxes or the business's share of your Medicare and Social Security, you pay somewhere around, to be very conservative, 20% extra every time you buy something. If you spend just a miniscule $500 per month, $100 is flying out of your wallet to pay for those regulations and taxes. Per year this is a sum of $1,200.
And you thought politicians like Barack Obama care about you?
Still think that regulations do not cost you dearly? So how much to you really pay every year because of government and its hand? Do you really know? Do you really want to know? And if you found out, could you handle the truth?
J.J. Jackson is a libertarian conservative author from Pittsburgh, PA who has been writing and promoting individual liberty since 1993 and is President of Land of the Free Studios, Inc. He is the Pittsburgh Conservative Examiner for Examiner.com. He is also the owner of The Right Things - Conservative T-shirts & Gifts. His weekly commentary along with exclusives not available anywhere else can be found at Liberty Reborn.


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A Russian court has charged the Arctic 30 (twenty-eight Greenpeace International activists, as well as a freelance videographer and freelance photographer), with piracy, punishable for up to 15 years in prison.
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Tacfarinas (†24 CE): leader of a Berber tribe in the Maghreb that fought against the Romans during the reign of the emperor Tiberius.
The second, third and fourth books of the Annals of the Roman historian Tacitus contain the account of the rebellion of Tacfarinas, a former soldier of the Roman auxiliary troops who had learned how to find a Roman war, deserted, and was able to bring a professional legion, III Augusta, into deep trouble.
He belonged to the Berber tribe of the nomadic Musulamii that lived in the south of the Roman provinces of Numidia and Mauritania Caesariensis, i.e. in modern Algeria, on the Sahara frontier. His rebellion, which started in 17, was not the first of the Musulamii, who had revolted in 5/6 as well.
The war started as one could have expected from a nomadic leader fighting against an agrarian state: with cattle thefts and small raids. Nomads need freedom to move whereas the Romans needed clear borders and did not like cattle on the arable land. This type of conflict is as old as agriculture itself.
Tacfarinas gathered a band of robbers, ready for plunder and rape. Later, however, he organized them like soldiers in regular battalions with standards. From now on, he could no longer be regarded as the chief of some undisciplined rabble, but was commander of the tribe of the Musulamii.note[Tacitus, Annals, 2.52.1.]
After his initial hit-and-run actions had been successful, Tacfarinas received support from other people, like the Moorish leader Mazippa. However, the Roman governor of the nearby province of Africa, a proconsul named Marcus Furius Camillus, and the Third legion Augusta defeated the rebels in 17 in a regular battle. The general was hailed by the emperor Tiberius as a war hero and received a statue with a laurel wreath, but Tacfarinas was still alive and able to continue a guerilla, the type of war the Romans least understood.
In 18, the leader of the Musulamii besieged and annihilated a subunit of III Augusta near the river Pagyda (unidentified). The new governor, Lucius Apronius, blamed the legionaries and restored discipline according to an ancestral custom: decimation, i.e. the killing of every tenth soldier. Having done this, he defeated his enemy near a town named Thala. Although he was the second commander to receive a statue with a laurel wreath, he had in fact been unable to end the war. The rebel army was even able to strike in new directions, threatening the Roman towns along the coast.
The war lasted on and Tacfarinas even sent an embassy to Tiberius to demand land. Although this was probably meant as an overture to end the war, the result was the opposite, because the Roman emperor felt insulted that the former deserter dared to threat Rome as his equal. "Not even Spartacus", declared Tiberius, "dared to send envoys." In 21, the emperor sent VIIII Hispana, until then stationed in modern Croatia, to help III Augusta.
Governor Quintus Junius Blaesus renewed the war, but not without concessions. First he announced an amnesty, and many people left Tacfarinas. Next, Blaesus marched to the interior of Numidia. Two other armies protected his flanks: Publius Cornelius Scipio, the commander of the ninth legion, marched through eastern Tunisia, Blaesus' son protected the northwest.
Between the two was the general himself with some picked troops. By establishing redoubts and fortified lines in commanding positions, he had rendered the whole country embarrassing and perilous to the foe, for, whichever way he turned, a body of Roman soldiers was in his face, or on his flank, or frequently in the rear. Many were thus slain or surprised. Blaesus then further divided his triple army into several detachments under the command of centurions of tried valor. At the end of the summer he did not, as was usual, withdraw his troops and let them rest in winter quarters in the old province; but, forming a chain of forts, as though he were on the threshold of a campaign, he drove Tacfarinas by flying columns well acquainted with the desert, from one set of huts to another, till he captured the chief's brother, and then returned, too soon however for the welfare of our allies, as there yet remained those who might renew hostilities. Tiberius however considered the war as finished, and awarded Blaesus the further distinction of being hailed imperator by the legions.note[[Tacitus, Annals 3.74.1-4; tr. A.J. Church & W.J. Brodribb.]
After this victory, Blaesus received a statue with a laurel wreath. The Ninth was recalled in 23: its commander Publius Cornelius Scipio received a monument along the Cardo of Lepcis Magna.
However, Tacfarinas returned and started to build a new army. But now, the Third Augustan legion was able to overcome its enemy. Supported by Mauretanians from the kingdom of king Ptolemy, Publius Cornelius Dolabella defeated the rebel at a fortress in a forest called Auzea (unidentified) in 24. Tacfarinas committed suicide.
The Musulamii revolted again in 45, but were defeated by the Roman general Servius Sulpicius Galba (the future emperor). This was the end of their resistance. In the last quarter of the first century, a unit of Musulamii was added to the Roman army, the cohors Musulamiorum. The Roman emperor Trajan (98-117) forced the nomadic tribe to become sedentary. The territory he gave them was larger than the territory that had belonged to them in the days of Tacfarinas, and it cannot be excluded that as part of the final settlement with the Musulamii, the Romans gave in to his demand of land.


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Miami - A research team, led by John Guy, M.D., professor of ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has pioneered a novel technological treatment for Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON), an inherited genetic defect that causes rapid, permanent, and bilateral loss of vision in people of all ages, but primarily males ages 20-40. Genetic mutations in the mitochondria (part of the cell that produces energy) cause the disorder. Currently, there is no cure for LHON. However, Guy and his team have successfully modified a virus and used it to introduce healthy genes into the mitochondria to correct the genetic defect. Using experimental models, they have proven that it is both safe and effective to replace mutated genes with healthy ones and that doing so prevents deterioration of the retinal cells that form the optic nerve. This research demonstrates that when efficiently introduced into mitochondria, normal DNA can correct a biochemical defect in cellular energy production and restore visual function.
"A wide range of other factors, including aging, cancer, and Parkinson's disease, are also caused by mutations in the mitochondria," said Dr. Guy. "This new approach shows the vast potential for genetic-therapy applications, while helping to address a significant cause of blindness."
The healthy genes were delivered into the mitochondria via an innovative viral delivery system. Specifically, Guy redirected the adeno-associated virus (a small virus that infects humans but is not known to cause disease) to the mitochondria rather than to its typical target, the nucleus, where most genes are housed within the cell. He did so via a mitochondrial-targeting sequence (a peptide chain that directs the transport of a protein). This permitted the replacement of the defective mitochondrial gene with a healthy one, which then restored energy production to the affected ocular cells. Two National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute grants, totaling $6.1 million funded this research, which began in 2007.
"Other research studies have shown that LHON patients who have lost their vision still have some sensitivity to light," said Guy. "This indicated that if you can restore the functioning of those cells through gene therapy, those patients could see again." In conjunction with his research, Guy explored why only about 50 percent of patients with the genetic mutation develop LHON, while others do not.
Known for exploring gene therapy as a potential treatment for diseases of the optic nerve, Guy holds several patents related to mitochondrial gene therapy biotechnology. His next steps will be to investigate incorporating all three genes that cause LHON into a single viral carrier and hopefully receive FDA approval to inject therapeutic genes into patients who have visual loss from mitochondrial disease.
On April 20, 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) - one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials - published an article by Guy about this recent breakthrough. Click here to read the article.
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Tarte Femme Naturale Eye Palette Review, Photos, Swatches
Tarte Femme Naturale Eye Palette ($44.00) is an eyeshadow palette that contains ten different shades of Tarte eyeshadow from their fall collection. (Tarte also released the Femme Fatale Eyeshadow Palette with this one.)
- A pale champagne with slight sheen. This one is a paler version of the color next to it and has more of a frost finish.
- A champagne with the lightest champagne shimmer. It's a soft shade, and it makes for a perfect highlighter within this palette.
- A subdued, semi-matte rose-mauve. I like this shade for two reasons: it's a subtle way to incorporate a pinker color into your palette without worrying so much it may make you look like you're crying; but also because I don't see this particular shade very often. I also dig the finish.
- A sparkling mix of peachy-gold and soft rose. This reminded me of MAC's Say Yeah eyeshadow, but a little dark, which is just fine in my book. Say Yeah was always one of my go-to shades. This one has the most frosty/glittery appearance, but I didn't find it had a lot of fall out issues as glittery shades often do.
- A deep forest green with a little bit of a grayish tinge. This one had amazing pigmentation and texture–very soft, smooth, and gives you plenty of intensity without having to pack it on.
- A semi-matte reddish brown. There's not a whole to say about the shade itself, but it doesn't read too warm to me (maybe even cool, actually). It has really good pigmentation, and it is surprisingly not chalky for a shadow with such a matte finish.
- A light, peachy-brown with a frosty finish. This one is similar to the other neutrals in the palette, as it has that frosty look. It's pigmented and feels soft to the touch.
- A chalky, cool-toned lilac-pink. Personally, this shade is one I'd find difficult to pull off on my skin tone, but I think those with cooler skin tones will appreciate it. It's chalky, but I'd say half of it comes from how cool the shade is along with the matte finish.
- A plummy rose with gold glitter. This color is so stunning! It's this gorgeous shade that I envision being perfect for fall or holiday. I love the way the gold flecks sparkle in the plummy base. This one wasn't as pigmented as the others, but it still was pretty good.
- A rich bronze with gold flecks and a frost finish. This one has a very nice feel to it–very soft–and goes on like butter and has intense pay off.
- A dark, smoky blue-black with a gray cast. This one was the least pigmented out of the ten shadows, and it kind of dragged a bit when I swatched.
This is a solid palette that gives you a ton of product for under $50. Tarte shadows themselves are high in quality and still affordable. They're soft, smooth, and they're usually easy to blend. The only thing I really wasn't jazzed over was the product's packaging. It just feels tacky to me, and I hate that fingerprints get stuck all over the casing. The "rose" attached also presents some storage woes.
Each eyeshadow is 0.06 oz., and the palette itself is refillable. Tarte refillable eyeshadows retail for $10 a pop. The palette itself yields you a cost of $73.33/oz. whereas one refillabe Tarte eyeshadow will run you $166.67/oz. Buying these together means you get twice as much for half the cost! 🙂
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Recommendation: If you'd like some neutrals–but not just neutrals–Tarte's Femme Naturale palette offers a good combination to get you started.
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Hong Kong's snake soup kings
You might think a hot helping of chicken noodle soup, a few shots of strong vodka or an escape flight to a tropical Thai beach might be best to warm you up when winter hits.
But for many Hong Kongers, it's a steaming bowl of shredded snake soup.
Snake meat, once skinned but still raw, is a light pink flesh. Thrown into boiling water, it turns an off-white, pale beige hue -- resembling cooked chicken.
It tastes like chicken too -- though a tad tougher.
Minced dark mushrooms, finely julienned chicken, fragrant chopped ginger and other herbs and spices fill out the recipe, making for a hearty broth.
In traditional Chinese medicine, snake meat is believed to be a "warming" food that heats the body -- a property known as "yang" in Chinese. Lamb is also thought to have this quality, while fish and duck are believed to possess "cooling" properties -- or "yin" in Chinese.
When temperatures fall in Hong Kong, hard-core believers head for the few dozen snake restaurants that hide in the nooks and crannies of the city's densely packed streets to balance the winter's yin with the snake's yang.
The first three restaurants below are some of Hong Kong's most famous snake shops. Though the first two words of each restaurant name look different in English, they all mean the same in Chinese: Snake King. The last word is in the founding family's name.
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Chau Ka Ling, owner of the 48-year-old snake restaurant Shia Wong Hip, says she can't extinguish your fears about eating snakes, but she can extol their health benefits in the hopes you'll come around.
"I can tell you that snakes have no fat and no cholesterol," says Chau. "After you cook it in soup, you won't find a drop of fat on the water surface -- unlike when you boil chicken."
Chau pats the clear complexion of her cheek, adding that snake meat is also good for the skin and for curing bodily ailments.
When she was younger she skinned snakes eight hours a day for nine years then developed a bad back. A bowlful of snake helps her pain go away.
"In fact, I think poisonous snakes are more beneficial," says Zhou. "When I eat their meat my back feels better. Sometimes I'll have two bowls."
Along with snake meat, Chau says that snake bile and snake alcohol mixed with Chinese herbs have healing properties.
She fills a shot glass half-full with a dark green cloudy liquid -- bile mixed with "baijiu," a strong Chinese white grain alcohol.
The concoction has a flavor that might be likened to alcoholic kiwi juice with an acidic after taste.
If you're willing to go all out on a full snake banquet, Shia Wong Hip is the place to go.
Menu offerings include a glistening snake skin casserole, dark golden-brown fried snake meat and, in case you want to try something new, stir-fried crocodile meat.
Tip: Don't put your hand inside any of the brown wooden drawers. The two Chinese characters in red at the opening of each cubicle warn: "Poisonous Snakes."
Don't worry, there are no venomous vipers that live here. The "poison" label is a Hong Kong government requirement to notify customers they're dining in the company of snakes -- and perhaps on their brothers or sisters. And they'll still bite.
170 Ap Liu St., Sham Shui Po MTR, Exit A2. Turn left and the restaurant will be on your left just a few doors down. Look for the dark wooden drawers that house your serpents before they're turned into soup. A bowl costs HK$35 (US$4.50).
She Wong Lam
While Shia Wong Hip might be the more raucous restaurant, She Wong Lam in Hong Kong Island's gentrifying Sheung Wan district, appears as a more basic business.
A few fluorescent bulbs light the interior. Three small tables stand quietly near the back. Red plastic stools offer a temporary seat to slurp your soup before you continue on your way.
But while Shia Wong Hip has been open for nearly five decades, She Wong Lam boasts a history more than twice as long -- 103 years and counting.
Its oldest employee, one Mr. Mak, was hired by his grandfather at the age of 18. Now nicknamed "The General," his full head of white hair and mottled liver spots across his face show off his seniority. He's 84.
"Aiyo," exclaims General Mak in Cantonese, as he frowns. "I've been bitten countless times by snakes -- but never by a poisonous one."
"Don't grab it too tight and it won't bite," he advises.
Like Shia Wong Hip, dark brown drawers stand around this restaurant guarding their serpentine contents.
At the same time, a sepia-colored photograph of the shop's founder, Tai Lam Lou, keeps watch over all.
His grandson and current manager, Lou, who only wants to be known by his surname, reveals his grandfather started the business only with the intent of selling snake products -- not snake soup.
"We only started selling snake soup several years ago at the behest of some of our customers," says Lou. "Now we sell about 100 bowls a day."
A serving size here is the same as at Shia Wong Hip, though the broth is a bit watered down and the snake chunks fewer -- though that might be preferred if this is your first attempt at snake soup.
Lemongrass and crispy wonton skins are served in addition.
Snake-infused alcohol is also available. Whole snakes, their eyes cloudy and unseeing, sit in old Blue Girl beer bottles just to the left of the entrance. You can't miss them.
"Snake bile helps alleviate rheumatism, especially in old people with sore joints," says Lou. "It stops coughing and it gets rid of phlegm."
Tip: To find this restaurant, look for two snakes in their own cages at the front of the restaurant greeting guests as they enter. If Mr. Lou is around, ask him to tell you about his first snake memory. It involves one of his grandfather's workers "snapping off the tail of a snake" and giving it to him as it continued to wriggle in his hands. Lou's chuckle should make you smile as he reminisces back to when he five or six years old.
13 Hillier St., Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Island. Sheung MTR, Exit A2. A bowl of soup costs HK$45 (US$5.75).
Ser Wong Fun
Still, not everyone likes a hot bowl of steaming snake soup.
One peculiar paradox for the popular Ser Wong Fun is that this restaurant's owner, Ng Gwai Fan, counts herself among those who wince at the thought.
"She's afraid of snakes," says Gigi Ng, the owner's daughter and fast-talking media relations manager. "She might put a finger into the soup just to taste it but that's it."
Her mother, standing beside her, appears to understand as she crinkles her nose up and shakes her head and hands in the air.
But Ser Wong Fun, with a history of 125 years, is what keeps her around and what keeps the profits rolling in -- even if she cannot stomach the serpents herself.
Daughter Gigi explains that her mother helped her husband over the years until he passed away, and had to take over the business herself. The restaurant's prime location in Hong Kong's Central district has likely contributed to its popularity.
Ser Wong Fun is located directly underneath the city's famous Central Escalator, the world's longest series of covered escalators. The transport system is used by many of the city's expatriates to commute from their homes in the upper Hong Kong hills to office skyscrapers that line Victoria Harbor below.
Upon entering the restaurant, look to the right and you'll see a massive steel pot that holds the snake soup made that day.
While Shia Wong Hip and She Wong Lam are more casual eateries, this establishment is the most high-end and most expensive of them all.
Tip: For those squeamish about snake, Ser Wong Fun has a wide-ranging menu (sans snake) including Western favorites like sweet and sour pork and stir-fried eggplant, as well as local favorites like honey-glazed char siew roast pork and roast chicken.
46-48 Cochrane St., Central, Hong Kong Island. Central MTR, Exit D1, then a five-minute walk toward the Central Escalator. A bowl of soup costs HK$85 (US$11).
Island Shangri-La
In case you want to spare no expense for snake soup while eating in the lap of luxury at the same time, you can head to the Island Shangri-La's Summer Palace.
There you'll find a Michelin two-star restaurant -- one of just a handful of Cantonese restaurants in Hong Kong with the two-star ranking.
You'll also be paying two-star Michelin prices.
Supreme Court Road, Admiralty, Hong Kong Island. Admiralty MTR. Exit F. Walk through Pacific Place Shopping Center and follow the signs for the hotel. A bowl of soup costs HK$300 (US$38.50) with 24-hour advance notice required.


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HISTORY OF ACCOUNTANCY Abstract of the Introductory Lecture Delivered at the Opening of the New York University School of .Commerce, Accounts and Finance By C W. HASKINS, C. p. A., Dean and Professor of Auditing and of the History of Accountancy.* The earliest regular commercial and financial records of whose chronology we have any certain knowledge are found in what are historically called the first group of nations; that is, in the countries south and east of the Mediterranean; especially in the Nile and Tigris-Euphrates valleys. The archive-chambers and counting-houses of Babylon and Assyria have recently given to the spade of the excavator hundreds of thousands of business books and documents, collectively known as contract tablets, of so astoundingly ancient dates that the mind almost refuses to believe the signed and sealed writings. These enduring witnesses to the vast antiquity of commerce, accounts and finance, inscribed in cuneiform or wedge-shaped letters on little slabs and cylinders of baked clay, have been standing for thousands of years upon the shelves of business and government offices and libraries, awaiting the call of the modern archaeologist to come forth and describe to us the methods of business procedure of those distant ages. And these same bricks, bearing their eastern language, are found far west in upper Egypt. The caravans of eastern commerce were mail-carriers; in the west were schools in which the bewildering syllabary of Babylon and the Semitic and Sumerian tongues were taught; and the center of this literary activity, we are told by the Orientalist, was Canaan. The Jews in Canaan, devoted rather to agriculture and the pastoral life than to commerce, have nevertheless left us, in their sacred writings, instructive and beautiful pictures of the spirit of accountancy, especially as controlling the relations of man to his Maker. And it may be said of that nation, that, as the storms of the ages have uprooted their successive homes and driven them into the compact ways of brainy financiers, they still retain, in worthy measure, the sturdy business integrity of the old exile of Chaldea. Egypt, the land of the papyrus, was a country of scribes. Everything was recorded; even to monumental descriptions of the recorders themselves. These men, more or less, according to position or capacity, did all the bookkeeping, all the auditing, all the rendering of accounts. Their book was a papyrus roll; their pen was a reed from the banks of the Nile; their inks were red and black; and their inkstands were little pots fitted into a wooden hand-palette. In the chiseled and painted pictures of the glory of the Pharaohs we find these accountants keeping track of all the items of the vast royal revenue; of the income and outgo of every slave's backload of wheat in the granaries; and if anything is missing anywhere, we are sure to have somewhere a description of the hunt for the shortage and the fixing of responsibility under the guidance of the gods of light. Tyre and Sidon were centers of a world-commerce controlled by the Phoenicians; or, as some think, by the Arabians in the more general ethnological sense. This commerce, which wafted the ships of the sea far out beyond the Pillars of Hercules, and guided that "ship of the desert," the camel, in his northern, eastern and southern voyages, traded everywhere in Tyrian purple, in Oriental pearls and gold, in the spices of Arabia, in African ivory, panthers' and lions' skins, and slaves, in Egyptian linen, in Grecian fine wares and pottery, in Cypriote copper, in Spanish silver, in Elba's iron, in English tin, and in the amber of northern Germany. We know nothing of the accountancy of this great commercial nation; but in this connection a suggested solution of another question is incidentally very interesting. How did the Phoenicians, who are not known to have been a literary people, come to invent the alphabet? Merely for purposes of bookkeeping, has been one of the suggested answers. Trading on the Egyptian coast, it was tantalizing to them, we are told, to behold the educated accounting officers, in a priestly picture and word-sign writing which it would take half a lifetime to learn, keeping a perfectly intelligible account of all the loadings and unloadings of the foreign vessels. And so, setting themselves to inquiring and inventing, they at last evolved, out of the few accidental simplicities contained in the lumbering old Egyptian vehicle of thought, a little alphabet of sound signs that might be so combined into words of their own as to express their debits and credits and keep them from being cheated. And this, it is thought, would account for the Greeks having remembered them as inventors of the alphabet. The classical languages abound in words and phrases belonging to an early accountancy more elaborate, however, than that of the Egyptians. Greek and Roman writers, but especially the later legal minds, have left us, all in all, a fair picture of what they thought accountancy, in its inner spirit, ought to be. Many documents, some of them—as, for example, the recently recovered waxed tablets of Pompeii—of a highly interesting character, have thrown much light on the business methods of the Latins and the earlier Greeks. A few German and French writers have laboriously reconstructed this department of classical life; and one work, at least, minutely describing the governmental accountancy of the Athenians, has been translated into English. Coming to the study of this subject predisposed, as we all are, in favor of many Greek and Roman ideals, we soon learn not to look for too much from Greek and Roman reality; and as we trace the causes of the sapping of life to the final fall of these greatest nations of antiquity, and apply our reflections to our professional calling, we see that defective accountancy may become the handmaid of financial corruption. The light of historical investigation is slowly dispelling the gloom of the middle ages; but as yet, aside from the Exchequer system, we know little of methods of accounting from the downfall of the Western Empire to the Reformation. Mohammed was a business man, and gave his followers, in his moral writings, the benefit of much of his practical knowledge and wisdom; so that in the Koran we find creditable directions for the conduct of commercial life, including, in the second chapter, explicit instructions in regard to the recording of sales and loans. 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A single-serving pop-up site, Let Me Tweet That For You, made the rounds on Friday morning, allowing users to create fake tweets that look like they've been sent from other Twitter users' handles.
Pretty straightforward: Visit the site's front door and type in the handle of the person's account you want to create the fake tweet under. The site looks the person up, pulls their profile avatar and adds it to the fake tweet. Then you enter whatever message you want, and the fake tweet extension is created. From there, you're able to tweet out a link that directs others to the fake tweet in question. (See my example above.)
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The Senate approved the parameters for the impeachment trial in the early morning hours Wednesday after Democrats were roundly rejected in their efforts to subpoena witnesses and documents before opening arguments are finished.
Increasingly restless senators sat silently over the 13-hour session as House impeachment managers and White House lawyers debated 11 amendments to the resolution introduced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell setting the rules for the trial, all of which failed, and all but one in party-line votes. McConnell's resolution was adopted in another party-line vote of 53-47.
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Random Heroic: The Culling of Stratholme
The first random dungeon that I tried, with my Hunter of course, right after posting my To PUG or not to PUG article was The Culling of Stratholme. I chose the heroic option since I figured my gear was good enough not to make a fool of myself. When I queued up for the random dungeon I was surprised how quickly I got the confirmation screen. That happened so fast, in fact, that I was busy doing something else and couldn't confirm it so I missed the first boat but got aboard the next one in the next couple of minutes.
I'm tellin' ya, this new LFG tool is to running a dungeon as a fast food is to a restaurant... or something.
My first random dungeon (and my second dungeon in WotLK) was The Culling of Stratholme. It was quite a welcome for me because I really enjoyed it. I have soloed Stratholme many times before, in fact it is one of my favorite Classic WoW dungeons. I also ran it plenty of time in the old days with my guild. But I'd never seen it how the city looked before the events of Warcraft 3. For me, this was a fantastic glimpse into the past. Stratholme looked entirely familiar but also new at the same time.
My first random PUG was very good. Those guys knew what they were doing and I believe they were all over-geared for this heroic. I did very well as ranged DPS and none of us died. The whole run lasted about 30 minutes. As I always do in these situations, I never told anyone that it was my first run and there was no need to. I followed the veterans and all was good.
After killing the last boss, Mal'Ganis, I even got the chance to roll a Need on the Reins of the Bronze Drake that he drops because no one else wanted it. So I found myself with a new mount that I now adore because it looks much cooler than my old Gryphon.
In all, it was a very pleasant experience and a casual introduction to pugging. I'm really glad I took the plunge and started using the LFG tool. Here are few achievements I won during this heroic:
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The Culling of Stratholme
Heroic: The Culling of Stratholme
7 comments:
- Joshistory said...
Oh, Culling of Stratholme is really fun! And doing the timed bit is always amusing. Just a note, though! The drake actually drops from the Infinite Corrupter if you get to him and kill him in time (which nearly everyone does these days). Congrats on your sexy new bronze drake and I wish many more good PuGs for you!
- December 13, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Congratulations on running the instance, as well as on the drake :D
- December 13, 2009 at 2:46 AM
Welcome to a new world. I wish Blizz had implemented thi AWESOME lfg tool years ago.
- December 13, 2009 at 8:18 AM
- Darth Solo said...
Thanks fellas, just like Anon said, I only wish they'd implemented this earlier.
- December 13, 2009 at 9:35 AM
- Unknown said...
My second day of using the new tool I ran COS for the first time also and nabbed myself a drake as well. Sooo pumped for the new lfg tool....
- December 14, 2009 at 4:40 PM
- Darth Solo said...
@Nick what's cool about COS is that most people in your group probably already have the drake so there's a high chance you can get yourself one. Even if not, you can still choose COS specifically and run it a couple of times until you get the drake.
- December 14, 2009 at 7:38 PM
- Unknown said...
Yep, and these days everyone is so geared that you're pretty much guaranteed to see that boss and get a chance at the drake.
- December 15, 2009 at 4:23 PM


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At this time last year, White Sox CF Jared Mitchell found himself completely over his head. Coming back from a serious ankle injury that had sidelined him for the entire 2010 season, he was promoted to high Class A Winston-Salem where he was most known for striking out (183 whiffs in 477 at-bats). A year later, Mitchell, 23, has somehow managed to catch up to an even more advanced league. His walks are up, his strikeouts are down and Mitchell is now hitting the ball with authority—.478/.586/.739 this week and now .347/.473/.573 for the season
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