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Happens every time. The pressure’s on. You’re trying to remember if cutting the blue wire or the red wire will save the world, when inevitably someone stops you to tell you your skin’s dry. Don’t be that guy. Save the world without dry skin. Save it with Old Spice Steel Courage Hydro Wash Body Wash.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by from Another great product by Old Spice I have had positive experiences with Old Spice Body Wash in the past, and this proved to be no different. The Hydro Wash Steel Courage left me feeling clean and smelling great. I have somewhat sensitive skin, and this body wash did not cause any flare ups. I used this body wash each morning in the shower. It lathered well and the bottle was easy to handle in the shower. I felt clean and confident after using this product. [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]
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Rated 5 out of 5 by from Steel Courage: The Rise and Fall of the Dirty Man I was a little skeptical about the Old Spice Steel Courage Hydro Body Wash before I received it in the mail. Upon arrival, my first thought was how cool it looked in the bottle. It has a unique blue and white swirled cream that smells pretty awesome. My wife loved the look and smell as much as I do, along with the funny instructions on the back panel on how to use the body wash. After using this product for a while, I still have just over half the bottle left! I mostly shower every other day (minus those extra sweaty and hardworking days that need an extra shower), and use the perfect amount to clean. It lathers very well, which also helps describe why I have so much left still. Less is more! My skin hasn't dried out at all while using this wash, and on the worst, dirtiest of days have left me feeling super clean without any extra work or excess product. I cannot say enough about how clean I feel after every use and it's ease of eliminating body odor. Both my wife and I love the smell and find it to be one of the best scented washes I have used in a long while. Overall this product is perfect for the hard working man, the smelliest of the smelliest, the sweaty athletes, or just a man in general. You would not regret this product as it gets the job done! [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]
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Musician Joseph Grimmer’s bassoon previously had a piece of ivory attached, but because of the recent ban on ivory made from elephant tusks, the traveling musician changed the ivory to plastic. (Betsy Hansen/For The Washington Post)

It’s a mere quarter of a gram of ivory — about  1/100 of an ounce — embedded at the bottom tip of many violin bows. But because it comes from the tusks of the African elephant, its presence — often on the bow tips of viola, cello and bass players as well — has become a major headache for U.S. orchestras and soloists leaving the country for tours overseas.

Overlapping state, federal and international rules designed to stop the horrific poaching of the world’s largest land animal have resulted in a regulatory web that has enveloped the rarefied world of the symphony orchestra, the tiny clique of artisans who make bows and the thousands of professional string players across the country. (Then there’s the odd bassoonist, whose instrument sometimes has an ivory band around the bell, and a subset of bagpipers who perform on instruments with more than half a dozen ivory parts.)

In a classic Washington case of unintended consequences, the Obama administration’s widely lauded efforts in the past two years to impose a near-total ban on ivory importation has ensnared not only classical musicians, but also builders of pipe organs, guitar players, cane collectors, antiques dealers and even members of the National Rifle Association who collect, trade and sell weapons with ivory rifle stocks or ivory pistol grips.

But it is arguably classical musicians, especially those who travel outside the United States for concerts, auditions and even teaching gigs, who have squawked the loudest, and in a large number of cases have changed out the offending ivory components in their instruments — or simply decided to leave behind that $100,000, ivory-tipped, early-19th-century François Tourte bow.

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No musician wants to be seen as supporting the poaching of African elephants, whose population as recently as 1979 was more than a million but is believed to have collapsed to below half of that. It’s just that few, if any, musicians think their ivory-tipped cello bows are contributing to the poaching crisis. “I’m a big animal freak. I think what [conservationists are] doing is wonderful; shut these poachers down,” said Lewis Lipnick, the National Symphony Orchestra’s contrabassoonist. “But no one is going to kill elephants for bows or bassoon bell rings.”

An 18th century violin bow adorned with an ivory tip, on December, 16, 2015 in Alexandria, VA. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which has the job of enforcing the ivory import ban, acknowledges as much. Guidelines laid out by Fish and Wildlife, which is part of the Department of the Interior, “provide adequate assurances” that taking a musical instrument in and out of the country “would not contribute to either the illegal trade in elephant ivory or the illegal killing of elephants.”

The catch, of course, is following those guidelines, which involves walking a fine line between two federal statutes — the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and the African Elephant Conservation Act of 1989 — and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known as CITES.

“The whole realm of ivory is one of the more complicated areas of wildlife law,” said Craig Hoover, a former officer at the World Wildlife Fund and now chief of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Management Authority and the government’s point person on ivory regulations.

And it’s been made even more complicated by efforts to carve out exceptions so that string musicians can, for example, travel with ivory-tipped bows. “We’ve created some additional complexity explicitly to accommodate certain activities,” Hoover said, in what is certainly a bureaucratic understatement.

First, a musician who wants to go abroad and whose instrument contains ivory needs to obtain a CITES musical-instrument certificate, or “passport.” To do that, the musician must provide proof that the African elephant that yielded the ivory used in the instrument was “removed from the wild” before Feb. 26, 1976, the date African elephants were listed in one of the three CITES appendixes. Depending on the pedigree of the musical instrument, it may be possible to obtain a date of manufacture from the maker. But often, it is not.

“I’ve got five drum sets, and some of my drums have ivory inlays,” said Raymond Hair Jr., the international president of the American Federation of Musicians, which represents about 85,000 musicians in the United States and Canada. “I don’t have the receipts for any of them. No musician keeps that stuff for 30 to 40 years.”

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But even if you can prove that your ivory-tipped viola bow was made well before the 1976 cutoff date, “that’s the least burdensome part of the process,” said Heather Noonan, the chief lobbyist for the League of American Orchestras.

An 18th century violin bow adorned with ivory, on December, 16, 2015 in Alexandria, VA. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)

In fact, the challenge only becomes more complicated. Musicians traveling with a CITES passport have to leave and reenter the country through one of 18 U.S. ports designated for animal material, which includes not just ivory but, for example, also the hawksbill sea turtle — another protected species from which material is harvested for use on the grips of bows. “If you have a tortoiseshell frog, an ivory tip and a whalebone winding, I’d say, ‘Bring something else,’ ” said Christopher Germain, a Philadelphia-based violin-maker, referring to the baleen whalebone thread that is sometimes wound around the bow grip.

Indeed, that’s exactly what happened when Germain spent three days with the National Symphony Orchestra in early December assessing some 70 violins, violas, cellos and basses, and 110 bows. The orchestra is leaving in early February for a European tour.

“We found four or five bows with whalebone or tortoiseshell, and that’s just too difficult to permit,” said orchestra manager Cynthia Steele. “I was told you would have to identify the actual subspecies of whale used, and the tortoiseshell bow would have to have been purchased before 1973.”

Otherwise, Steele said, the NSO will be applying for CITES permits for the 46 bows its members are taking with ivory tips, the 16 bows with white oyster, which, although not a banned substance, must still be declared, and the 21 bows with water-monitor-lizard skin on the grip.

“People are relieved there is a process now, and they can take these 46 bows with them.” Steele said. “A few years ago, a lot of people were worried they’d need to get a new bow.”

Of course, if your violin happens to be older — 200- and 300-year-old violins are not uncommon in major symphony orchestras — and has any Brazilian rosewood, a CITES-listed plant species, you must pass through one of 15 U.S. ports where Department of Agriculture inspectors check for endangered plants. And if your bow has ivory and your violin contains Brazilian rosewood, there are just nine U.S. ports with both Fish and Wildlife and Agriculture Department inspectors.

And that’s not all. If you are not traveling through a designated port between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., you have to pay a $105 overtime fee for an inspector to come in early or stay late. And you have to email the Declaration for Importation or Exportation of Fish or Wildlife form to the Fish and Wildlife port office 48 hours ahead of time.

‘You feel like a criminal’

It was this sort of hassle that led bassoonist Joseph Grimmer, whose July 22 post in his blog lays out in detail every step of the process, to finally have the ivory bell ring on his 1956 bassoon, made by the venerable German company Heckel, removed and replaced with plastic.

“The whole thing feels like, well, you’ve bought this instrument and played it for decades and then you find out there’s contraband on it,” said Grimmer, the principal bassoonist at the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, referring to the ivory ring. “You feel like a criminal. It’s very bizarre.”

But he said it also felt wrong to damage the physical integrity of a nearly 60-year-old instrument. “When I was at Heckel, I asked if they did any ivory removals, and they seemed very offended.”

The complexity of the rules and the vagaries of the inspection process have scared off some musicians from traveling with bows that do not even have elephant ivory but a widely used and perfectly legal substitute: ivory from long-dead woolly mammoths uncovered by hunters or the thawing of the Arctic permafrost.

Although it is possible to tell the two materials apart by examining the angle of the cross-hatching on elephant and mammoth ivory — the so-called Schreger lines — violist Kristen Linfante said she could never be sure that the Fish and Wildlife inspector on duty would make the correct determination, although the onus is on the inspector to prove any suspicion that the substance is from a regulated species rather than from a mammoth. As a result, she noted, when her Baroque ensemble, the Cleveland-based Apollo’s Fire, made its debut this summer at the BBC Proms, its most important show ever, “I had to play on a $100 Baroque bow.”

Right now, there is a lengthy, proposed rule by the Fish and Wildlife Service that, when the final version is released sometime this year, should at least make the current rules permanent. So controversial is the subject that Hoover says more than a million comments were received, most of them robo-comments, but at least a few thousand of which were substantive.

The League of American Orchestras said the best solution would be a “personal effects” exemption for musical instruments sent by cargo, although it’s unclear whether Fish and Wildlife agrees. Meanwhile, says the league’s lobbyist Noonan, “folks just want to know how they can get through this process so their tours aren’t jeopardized.”

The complexity of the ivory rules has even led some foreign orchestras to question whether it’s worth a tour to the United States, says longtime New York bowmaker Yung Chin, who is president of the American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers. Some may have been spooked by the 2014 seizure at Kennedy Airport of seven bows belonging to members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra because they had what Fish and Wildlife officials believed were ivory tips.

Although the bows were returned when the musicians left the United States, “some very famous orchestras have openly said: ‘Is it worth it to come to the U.S., to come to New York?’” says Chin. In 2012, according to the league, foreign guest artists were hired by U.S. orchestras to play in the United States more than 1,200 times.

“I don’t know one person in my trade is in favor of the hunting and killing of elephants, I personally think it’s abominable,” he added. “But people should think about the sustainability of the arts as well.”

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James Carville and Mary Matalin are examples of an apparently better way. A new cable-news luxury allows them to comment, live on CNN, whether the topic is exploding oil rigs or imploding candidacies, without ever leaving the splendor of their New Orleans homestead.

“We’d have to hire a crew in our Gulf Coast bureau every time,” said Sam Feist, CNN’s Washington bureau chief. “These things take a lot of time and advance planning. It’s not something you can do on the spur of the moment.” Now he can, with the flip of a switch.

For professional political talkers, a cable-news contract used to be the ultimate. The residuals were limousine rides, paychecks, e-mails from names not heard from since homeroom. But D.C. greenrooms can feel stifling — a windowless, schmooze-or-be-schmoozed cell.

Sure, the power schlep is still a fun ride for some, but what if you could have the power without the schlep? So far, half a dozen on-air commentators are getting the upgrade of in-home cameras. This is just the beginning.

In the Carville-Matalin house, CNN’s team of techies mounted a smallish camera — called a Cisco link — that gets steered and focused by engineers in D.C. or Atlanta or Hong Kong or whichever CNN nerve center has booked either half of the power couple.

“This is an option that turns out to be cost-effective and also smart for the contributor and the network,” Feist said.

It’s also awesome, and “inexpressibly gratifying,” Matalin said in an e-mail. Then she found some words to express it: “For us personally, the system allows us to be available when CNN needs us without having to miss out on our kid’s many happenings.” On that day, for example, she had her daughter Matty’s induction into the National Honor Society to attend. And on that weekend, she had a school dance to chaperone. The work-family balance, thus, can finally teeter in the family direction.

“It eliminates travel time, set-up time and all the rigmarole that attends any segment, no matter how short,” she wrote. “Bottom line: I love love love Cisco.”

The opposites-attract back story of the Democrat and Republican strategists is seen here and there in their backdrop. His-and-her items include a speckled, white end table (Mary) and an autographed LSU football helmet (James). Bookshelves are stocked and curtains are drawn in their pundit cave. In many ways, it’s like the typical man cave, where a suburban dad could dial in rants to WFAN, except now the sport is politics and the analysis is more polite.

* * *

Some pundits have a camera peering into a Harvard office (CNN’s David Gergen) or Philly radio studio (MSNBC’s Michael Smerconish). That’s too formal, with none of the same pundit-to-public intimacy — or pundit-to-pundit status differentials. When ranking perks, it’s only luxurious if the cameras allow the commentator to maintain proximity to a patch of green. And a bed. And a fridge — and not the green-room mini-fridge that holds all the diet Dr Peppers.

Cisco newcomer Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary, recently welcomed a CNN-paid crew to his house in Westchester County, N.Y. “Considering they invaded my property to build a studio, it was a smallish invasion with smallish equipment,” he said. In their wake, they left a little camera that “hibernates into one position,” some glaring lights, and a white X made of tape on the floor — his mark to stay in frame.

There are no Land-of-Oz pamperers on hand to bring the wizardry to life. “I have to figure out how to put in an earpiece, which is harder than it should be,” Fleischer said. “I have to figure out how to put a mike on my lapel, which is harder than it should be.” If help is required, Fleischer has made do with any available extra hand. “My seven-year-old daughter likes to put on the powder so my head doesn’t shine.” She needs to accomplish this early in the evening, he said, since a spot on “Anderson Cooper 360” is past her bedtime.

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MSNBC just provided a camera to Steve Schmidt, Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign manager, and Schmidt’s daughter is also learning how to apply the powder. Schmidt is finding that he can keep a connection to the Beltway that doesn’t interfere with a connection to the great outdoors — not unlike his on-again antagonist, Sarah Palin.

From the banks of Lake Lucille, Palin can digitally commune with Greta Van Susteren or Sean Hannity or any other Fox News host who books her. When the former Alaska governor was taping her reality show, the TLC cameras recorded the Fox News cameras recording her, thus crossing a new threshold.

A Fox News spokeswoman declined to discuss the financial arrangement, but unlike the instruments that MSNBC and CNN install, the Palin-cams are satellite-linked and high-definition — and thus, have a nyah-nyah factor.

Schmidt is just happy not to be stuck in a Town Car’s back seat all the time. “Where I live, I have to go over a 9,000-foot mountain just to get to a TV studio. It’s not passable when it snows,” Schmidt said from his newly camera-equipped house on the Nevada side of the Lake Tahoe region. “There’s definitely been instances where you can be in from the ski hill and out of snowsuits and into a jacket and tie and on a show within an hour.”

If Palin’s live shots show mountains and a lake, Schmidt’s spare surroundings have only a few framed items in view: a prized letter from a V.I.P., his wife’s commission as a naval officer, the vote sheets that Vice President Dick Cheney used in the two Supreme Court confirmations that Schmidt helped make happen.

If one has to suffer the intrusions of “The Truman Show,” take control of self-image with talking points and an “ego wall.”

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The only commotion near Schmidt in his current habitat comes from kids and pets, which is in keeping with punditry’s pioneer in high-tech telecommuting.

A few decades ago, Cokie Roberts allowed NPR to install a microphone in her husband’s study, just off their bedroom. Many a Monday since then, she has gone on air at 6:15 a.m., often still in her nightgown, broadcasting her view from Bethesda. It’s not very far from NPR’s HQ, but still.

Years ago, her basset hound, Abner, took to baying at exactly the wrong time. She tried barricades and closed doors to keep him a safe distance from the live microphone but then Abner checkmated by barking in the room below. “The dog was determined to be on the radio,” she recalled. (NPR did, in fact, capitalize on the Abner anecdote during a pledge drive.)

Then there was the time that Linda Wertheimer, Roberts’s NPR colleague, overnighted at the Roberts residence for the sole purpose of quieting a ready-to-squeal infant grand-daughter during the live takes. It’s all very intimate, but within limits. “I must say, I would not like a camera,” Roberts said. “It would not be a pretty picture.”

And as with all technology, there’s that status thrill of getting a V.I.P. perk before anyone else. After all, who cares about getting comforts-of-home niceties at the office, when you can have the actual comforts of home? But when there’s a give, there’s always a little take.

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Microsoft Corp. caused some ripples Tuesday at the “D” conference sponsored by The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. The firm announced a Zune with an OLED screen, presumably super-duper HD quality, and, speaking of hi-def, HD Radio built in. The official skinny follows:

Microsoft Corp. … announced the evolution of Zune, the company’s end-to-end music and entertainment service, to a new platform and new markets. Zune will extend its video service to Xbox LIVE internationally this fall. This marks an important development in the Zune strategy and brings the Zune brand to more than 17 million international Xbox LIVE subscribers. In addition, Microsoft confirmed the next generation of the Zune portable media player, Zune HD. Available in the U.S. this fall, Zune HD is the first portable media player that combines a built-in HD Radio receiver, high-definition (HD) video output capabilities, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) touch screen, Wi-Fi and an Internet browser.

“The Zune music player is an integral part of the overall Zune experience, and we’re proud to be growing and extending our offering beyond the device,” said Enrique Rodriguez, corporate vice president of the Microsoft TV, Video and Music Business Group. “Delivering on Microsoft’s connected entertainment vision, this news marks a turning point for Zune as it brings cross-platform experiences and premium video content to living rooms around the world.”

Zune Service Expands to New Platform

Zune will be a premium partner in the Xbox LIVE Video Marketplace, bringing an exciting catalog of TV and film to the platform. Zune will occupy the first slot within the Xbox user interface in the Xbox LIVE Video Marketplace, exposing the Zune brand experience to millions of new consumers for the first time. At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) next week, attendees will see firsthand how Zune integrates into Xbox LIVE to create a game-changing entertainment experience.

Introducing Zune HD

Zune HD is the next iteration of the Zune device family and brings a new level of listening and viewing experiences to the portable media player category.

· Zune HD comes with a built-in HD Radio receiver so users can listen to higher-quality sound than traditional radio on the go. Users also will have access to the additional song and artist data broadcast by HD Radio stations as well as additional channels from their favorite stations multicasting in HD. If you don’t like the song playing on your station’s HD channel, switch to its HD2 or HD3 channels for additional programming.

· The bright OLED touch screen interface allows users to flip through music, movies and other content with ease, and the 16:9 widescreen format display (480x272 resolution) offers a premium viewing experience on the go.

· The HD-compatible output lets Zune HD customers playback supported HD video files from the device through a premium high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) audiovisual docking station (sold separately) direct to an HD TV in 720p.*

· Zune HD will include a full-screen Internet browser optimized for multitouch functionality.

· Zune HD is Wi-Fi enabled, allowing for instant streaming to the device from the more than 5 million-track Zune music store.

Well, you probably know what I’ll say here: “The proof of the pudding,” etc. And that’s true. Microsoft is hot to make its Zune device dethrone Apple Inc.’s iPod, which may see new models soon, according to reports on Apple-following blogs. But Microsoft’s success, in my view, will depend on how well the new Zune HD works, what it costs, and how much content is available. I’m beginning to chant a new tech mantra: content is king, content is king.


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- The Washington Times - Friday, July 27, 2007

Godless truth

“There are … a vast number of films that point to important truths about human existence without necessarily tapping into something that is quintessentially Christian or Catholic.

“This can be true even of films that are bleak and godless — literally. If so many movies today are depressing and desperate, it is because they are an accurate (and hence instructive) mirror of the hell that is life bereft of grace or hope. As Pope John Paul II is reputed to have said, ‘We owe secular artists appreciation for showing us what the world without God looks like.’

“Anyone, for example, who has seen the original 1966 version of ‘Alfie’ (starring Michael Caine), with its realistic portrayal of an abortion, knows exactly what that statement means.”

Michael P. Foley, writing on “Four and a Half Kinds of Catholic Films,” in the July/August edition of Crisis magazine

Suburban victim

“Ten years ago … F. W. Woolworth announced that it was closing the last 400 of its ‘five-and-ten-cent’ stores, laying off 9,200 workers and drawing to a close 117 years as the flagship retailer of downtown America. ‘Woolworth was 100 years ago what Wal-Mart is today,’ the historian Robert Sobel pointed out to the New York Times. It had once seemed to be a store that would last forever.

Frank Woolworth opened his first dry-goods store in 1879, in Utica, N.Y. …

Woolworth, who died a very rich man in 1919, wasn’t the only entrepreneur to build a retail empire as America urbanized and gained wealth. By [the early 20th century], with work hours on the decline and real wages rising, millions of ordinary people were patronizing not only Woolworth but also department stores such as Macy’s and Filene’s, where they could find a wide variety of goods at low prices. …

“Yet even as the downtown chains spread, the groundwork was being laid for their slow but steady death. In the 1950s and 1960s America’s suburban population grew by more than 40 million. … By 2000, shortly after Woolworth boarded up its last stores, an outright majority of Americans were suburbanites. Firms like Woolworth had trouble adapting their cut-rate downtown model to the new suburban shopping centers that sprang up around the country. The company stuck to an updated version of the old five-and-ten even as postwar affluence brought a higher standard of living to many of its customers. So it couldn’t compete with new outlets designed for the shopping centers and malls, like Kmart, Target and Wal-Mart, all three of which came into being in 1962 and offered more household goods at bargain prices.”

Joshua Zeitz, writing on “Why Woolworth Had to Die,” July 17 at AmericanHeritage.com

No guarantee

“Lindsay Lohan was arrested for cocaine possession and driving under the influence [Tuesday] after failing a field sobriety test in Santa Monica. The 21-year-old actress has been in rehab twice this year; two weeks ago, she finished up a lengthy stay at the Promises Malibu Alcohol and Drug Rehab Treatment Facility. The swanky rehab center costs almost $50,000 for 30 days. Can Lindsay get a refund since the rehab didn’t work?

“Nope. Rehab centers don’t issue a money-back guarantee that they will cure you of your alcohol or drug addiction. …

“In fact, up to 80 percent of people who seek treatment for drug or alcohol abuse will eventually relapse, many of them soon after exiting treatment, like Lohan.”

Torie Bosch, writing on “Blown Rehab,” Tuesday at Slate.com

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WAUSAU — The election of governor and other political offices isn't the only vote on the minds of tens of thousands Hmong people living in Wisconsin.

On Saturday, the 50,000 or so Hmong people residing in the state will have a chance to pick the president of the Hmong 18 Council, a nonprofit organization that advocates for and promotes Hmong cultural programs.

Three candidates are running for the office: Blia Yao Lo of Waunakee; Nao Vai Yang of Milwaukee; and Xou Khang of Wisconsin Rapids. The new president will serve a four-year term that will run from Jan. 1, 2015, to Dec. 31, 2019.

The organization also holds sway over issues such as marriages, the treatment of women and the preservation of cultural mores that have been part of Hmong life for generations.

"The Hmong have unique cultural practices such as: weddings, funerals, New Year celebrations, ceremonial rituals, etc., that require community support. That support ensures uniformity and improvement so the Hmong culture can be a part of the mainstream community and not separate from it. Hmong society normally consists of 18 clans, and this organization is mostly represented by the 18 clans of the Hmong here in Wisconsin," according to a council news release about the election. "Each clan is entitled to two representatives, one man and one woman elected by each of the 18 clans."

Mao Khang of Wausau, who works as an advocate of victims of domestic and sexual abuse at The Women's Community, is running as vice president with Blia Yao Lo. She said the president and other leaders of the Hmong 18 Council can "change the lives of Hmong people" because the clan system often becomes part of domestic disputes and how cultural marriages are arranged.

Voting in the election, Khang said, is a way that individual Hmong people can make their voice heard.

"We want to hear what the community wants," Khang said.

The Sheboygan Press contributed.

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Polling places in Hmong centers of population will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday. In Wausau, the vote will be held at the Hmong American Center, 1109 Sixth St. In order to vote, a person must be Hmong (with at least one parent being Hmong), must 18 years old or older, must live in Wisconsin, and must have identification, including a drivers license, registration for school, utility bill, birth certificate, etc.

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How to Plan a Medieval or Renaissance Wedding

Five Parts:Choosing a VenueCreating a Medieval MenuChoosing DecorationsDressing for the WeddingAdditional Wedding ResourcesCommunity Q&A

Weddings in the Middle Ages were a time to dance, feast, and be merry, so it’s no surprise that medieval and Renaissance-themed weddings are still popular today. Planning a medieval or Renaissance wedding does require some extra thought and preparation. If you want to throw a 16th-century wedding that your guests will never forget, you should focus on finding a good venue, crafting a traditional medieval menu, decorating for the time period, and dressing the part.

Part 1
Choosing a Venue

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    Have an outdoor wedding to save money. Planning an outdoor wedding will open up your venue options and save you money, and you can use the natural landscape to create a medieval forest vibe on a budget.
    • Look for local gardens or parks that offer wedding packages. If a family member or friend has a large yard, ask if you can have the wedding there to save even more money.
    • If you’re planning a fall or winter wedding, check the weather before booking an outdoor venue. If there’s a chance of snow or bad weather, have the wedding indoors or plan accordingly.[1]
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    Have a castle wedding to amaze your guests. Look for museums, bed and breakfasts, or historical landmarks that operate out of old castles. Call and ask if they do weddings. Your medieval celebration will be beautiful and authentic with a castle backdrop.
    • If renting out part of a castle is too expensive for you, look for smaller historic buildings that still offer a medieval-like atmosphere.
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    Have the wedding at a cathedral. The sprawling stone interior, stained-glass windows, and high vaulted ceilings will go perfectly with a medieval or Renaissance theme. Most cathedrals already have ornate interiors so you’ll save money on decorations.
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    Choose a Renaissance festival as your venue to save yourself time. Many Renaissance festivals offer themed wedding packages that include traditional medieval food, music, and decor. Call your local Renaissance festival and inquire about their wedding deals if you're interested in an authentic medieval wedding ceremony without the hassle of organizing it yourself.

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Creating a Medieval Menu

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    Have a multiple-course feast. Offer guests an array of meats, vegetables, dried fruits, and desserts so they feel like they’re attending a royal wedding.
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    Serve traditional medieval foods. Opt for old-fashioned meats like venison and duck instead of chicken and fish for your entree. Serve the meat with common medieval vegetables like carrots, cabbage, and onion.[2]
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    Season the food with authentic medieval spices. Use black pepper, saffron, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger to make your dishes taste like they would have in the middle ages. Use honey in place of sugar when you can.[3]
  4. 4
    Serve wine and ale along with other popular Renaissance drinks. Offer tea and cider as non-alcoholic options. Serve guests their drinks in chalices for an extra medieval touch.[4]
    • If you want to offer guests a Renaissance-themed cocktail, make a rose soda using sugar, honey, water, and rose petals and mix in a spirit like vodka.[5]
  5. 5
    Serve multiple desserts. Offer guests a variety of tarts, puddings, and custards with fruits like strawberries and figs. Serve dessert at the same time you serve the rest of your menu for a truly authentic medieval feast.[6]
  6. 6
    Order a medieval-themed wedding cake. Ask the baker to put a dragon or a crown on top, or ask that the entire cake be in the shape of a castle. Cut the cake using a miniature sword instead of a knife.

Part 3
Choosing Decorations

  1. 1
    Use banquet-style tables. Cover them with white or cream colored table cloths or use table runners to create the appearance of a royal feast. Sprinkle flower petals on the tables for an extra romantic touch. Have the wedding party share a table, with the wedded couple seated in the middle. You can also seat the wedded couple at their own, separate table that’s positioned so they can look out at all of their guests like a king and queen would.
  2. 2
    Decorate the venue with candles. Candles will help create the pre-electricity, medieval vibe you’re going for. Use candelabras as part of your centerpieces or opt for smaller tea light candles and scatter them throughout your venue. Make sure the candles aren’t a fire hazard by placing them where guests won’t bump into them or knock them over.
  3. 3
    Go with simple flower arrangements. Use flowers that are earthy romantic colors like white, red, green, and pink. Make fresh floral table runners for your banquet tables. If you’re having a buffet-style feast, use some simple flower bouquets to enhance the presentation of the food tables.
    • Pink carnations symbolized marriage in medieval times. Use pink carnations in your flower arrangements to make your Renaissance wedding more authentic.[7]
  4. 4
    Send out wedding invitations that inform guests about your theme. Print your invitations on a scroll or parchment paper. Use a calligraphy pen with ink to give your invitations a genuine medieval look. Write your invitations using words that would have been used during the Middle Ages.
    • For example, instead of writing “You’re invited to our wedding” on the invitations, write “We request the honor of your presence as we celebrate our forever uniting in marriage.”
    • Make your invitations announcements of a royal engagement. For example, you could write “You and the rest of the kingdom are invited to this once-in-a-lifetime royal wedding celebration.”

Part 4
Dressing for the Wedding

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    Choose a wedding dress. Find a long gown with a fitted bodice that is green or blue, and avoid wearing white. White was the color of mourning in medieval times. [8]
    • Accessorize the bride with a flower crown or a tiara.
    • Look online for a Renaissance-themed wedding dress if you’re having trouble finding one in stores.
  2. 2
    Choose a royal suit for the groom. Find a high-collared jacket that goes to the knees and cinch it at the waist with a belt. Have the groom wear tights or tight-fitting pants with tall leather boots.
    • Accessorize the groom with a crown, cape, or faux fur jacket.
    • Grooms going for a medieval knight look can wear armor and a chain-mail shirt and pants. Attach a sword at the waist to complete the outfit.
  3. 3
    Have the bridesmaids dress in medieval attire. Dress them in long, ruffled dresses with puffed up sleeves. Make sure their dresses are a different color than the brides. Have them wear flower crowns and carry bouquets with matching flowers.
  4. 4
    Dress the groomsmen as a band of knights or swordsmen. Have them wear matching tunics cinched at the waist with rope or a belt. Give them swords and matching leather boots.
  5. 5
    Have your guests dress for the theme too. On the wedding invitations, add a note about dressing up that says something like "Wear your finest medieval fashions." Check in with your guests before the wedding to make sure they understand the theme.
    • If you’re worried about guests not dressing up, have some spare costume items at the wedding just in case. Fill a box with flower crowns, swords, capes, and other medieval-themed props and leave it at the venue entrance so guests can pick something up as they arrive.

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Massive wind turbines stirring up green energy and a bit of controversy

It has been years in the making and now the new giant windmills are going strong. The Dillion Wind Power Project in North Palm Springs is now complete.

45 new wind turbines, each standing more than 200 feet tall, will now provide valley residents with 45 megawatts of clean, green, renewable energy. This is enough power for more than 13,000 valley homes.

“It reduces the emissions that would be the equivalent of taking 11,000 cars off the road,” said Jan Johnson of IBERDROLA RENEWABLES Dillon Wind Power Project.

The project spreads across 15,000 acres and, project officials say, only impacts less than 2% of that area’s habitats.

“I love them. I’m very green, energy is great, we need them,”said Lee Cohen who owns Windmill Market, down the street from the windmills. He says his business depends on windmill traffic, he welcomes the new giant additions.

“We get a lot of employees, everyone driving through, they are happy to come here, and they like the name too,” Cohen added as he sent his loyal customers on their way.

But not everyone agrees with this project, some people feel it is not necessary for the windmills to be built in the North Palm Springs area.

“I think they are kind of annoying, honestly. If they want to build more property they are going to get in the way, especially since the estates are adding more villages,” said Desert Hot Springs resident Lindsey Fenoglio, who lives down the street from the new turbines.

And there were other concerns against Dillon Wind, some residents that face the windmills everyday feel they should get their electricity rates lowered.

“We take windmill development very seriously, we want to have the minimum impact on all forms of life, wildlife as well as our own communities,” Johnson told KPSP.

Windmills, a Coachella Valley landmark, now bigger and greener, yet still spinning up controversy in the west valley.

The windmills will provide power to Southern California Edison.

By Mary Hensley
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30 May 2008

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Leaflet blitz to back wind farm scheme

Thousands of leaflets giving details of plans to build one of Britain’s biggest wind farms in the north of Swansea have been sent to residents.The plans, by energy company npower, would see 19 massive wind turbines on top of Mynydd-y-Gwair, with a construction site covering nearly 1,200 acres.

The largest of the proposed turbines would stand 127 metres to the tip of the blades – double the height of Nelson’s Column.

The leaflets, which are landing on around 22,000 front door mats in the Pontarddulais and Mawr areas, are the latest round in a long-running battle between the power company and campaigners.

Ioan Richard, councillor for the Mawr ward is one of the people campaigning against the plans.

He said: “The plan is just an easy way for the energy companies to make fast money without taking into consideration the long-term effects on the local community.”

Opponents of the scheme, including campaign group Save Our Common Mountain Environment (Socme) say the wind farm would become an eyesore and would ruin the natural beauty of the local area.

And members fear the project will have a destructive impact on the local ecosystem.

Councillor Richard said construction at the site would also cause traffic problems.

The land is owned by the Duke of Beaufort, one of Swansea’s most prominent landowners, through his family trust the Somerset Trust.

Npower says Mynydd-y-Gwair has been identified as one of the best places in South Wales for a wind farm, and would produce enough electricity to supply the average needs of 28,000 homes.

A spokeswoman for npower said the turbines are so large because smaller ones had been discontinued.

She added: “There are three planned proposals in negotiations for similar size farms to be built around Wales.”

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Destroy Vermont to save Vermont?

Credit:  Burlington Free Press, www.burlingtonfreepress.com 1 March 2011 ~~

Good. Ronald Shems (new Natural Resources head) will help force the changes Gov. Shumlin, and advocates like Bill McKibben, have been pushing for Vermont. We don’t need a reliable, carbon-free source of electricity, we need “green” energy. Of course that will require removing a great deal of actual green, but so be it.

We have kept development off the ridgelines, so now we can bulldoze and blast them clear for turbines. We protected our floodplains, so now we can actually flood them for hydropower. Free-flowing streams are a waste of potential energy, we must dam them and show our resolve. In fact environmentalists have done a fine job of securing a corridor the length of the state along the Long Trail. They must stop whining about beauty and wildness and accept that turbines and power lines must be built in these areas. I’m sure all the poor towns along the way can be persuaded (if the idea of progress is not enough) in the form of our tax dollars paid to power corporations then passed on to them to allow industrial wind.

To paraphrase what the Army man said about the Vietnamese village, we must destroy Vermont in order to save it. So let’s get going.

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Protesters buoyed by wind turbine KO

Credit:  East Lothian Courier, www.eastlothiancourier.com 3 March 2011 ~~

Environmental protesters in East Lothian have hailed the decision by a neighbouring council to reject a bid for two wind turbines near the border of the county as “a robust defence of the Lammermuirs”.

Scottish Borders Council’s Local Review Body considered an appeal by Kinegar Quarry against refusal last September of its application to erect two 130-metre high wind turbines on the Scottish Borders boundary, next to the village of Cockburnspath.

However, members rejected the appeal last week on the grounds that the existing level of wind turbine development in the Eastern Lammermuirs was such that the environment was prejudiced beyond reasonable measure to permit further turbines.

In particular, members felt that any turbines of this nature and size in this general location would definitely impact to the detriment of the Area of Great Landscape Value (AGLV) which is designated between Innerwick and Cockburnspath, and also that it would be a material blow to the Oldhamstocks Conservation Area next door.

A spokesperson for Save The Lammermuirs, a representative body of a large number of East Lothian residents whose aim is to prevent the industrialisation of the Lammermuir Hills, attended the meeting.

He said: “Based on a number of recent wind turbine refusals, Scottish Borders Council is clearly now saying ‘enough is enough’ as far as over-saturation of the Lammermuir Hills is concerned, particularly for the wrong schemes in highly sensitive locations.

“We call upon East Lothian Council also to show this same degree of foresight and integrity in bringing to a halt the serious desecration of the Eastern Lammermuir fringe by wind developers.

“There are dozens of further applications in the pipeline right now at both councils; we are looking to the planners across our two adjacent counties to continue the robust defence of the Lammermuirs in the face of pressure from increasingly greedy commercial developers whose sole aim is huge profitability at the expense of those constituents who actually live here and whose livelihoods revolve around these hills.”

Protest group Sustain a Beautiful East Lothian (SABEL) – set up last year to raise awareness of the increasing number of bids for large individual wind turbines standing at more than 25m in East Lothian – also welcomed the decision.

A SABEL spokesperson said: “We are heartened that not only did councillors express concern regarding the detrimental visual impact to the neighbouring conservation village of Oldhamstocks, but also that the cumulative impact these turbines would have had, in this instance with other large existing wind farm developments in the near vicinity, was a primary consideration.”

There have been four applications to erect individual wind turbines in East Lothian submitted to the local authority in 2011, though three of those have been classed as ‘invalid’ by council planners.

The remaining ‘active’ application is to erect a 30-metre-high wind turbine, with a 100KW capacity, at Cockielaw Farm near Haddington.

SABEL is also concerned about an application for two 55-metre turbines at Fernylea Farm, Cockburnspath, submitted last September.

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Windfarms ‘shock’ as turbine map revealed

Credit:  By Jane Candlish, The Press and Journal, www.pressandjournal.co.uk 24 October 2011 ~~

A new map has revealed the full scale of the windfarms explosion across the north and north-east – and led to calls for a moratorium on any more turbine projects.

The Scottish Natural Heritage-produced document shows there are almost 150 schemes either in place, under construction or planned in the Highlands and islands and Grampian.

Campaigners said the number of developments was “shocking and obscene” and urged the SNP government to rethink its policy on onshore wind.

rotesters clashed with delegates outside the SNP conference in Inverness at the weekend, with around 40 campaigners brandishing placards outside the venue.

Some SNP delegates engaged in heated discussions with protesters over the merits of wind energy. They included Caithness, Sutherland and Ross MSP Rob Gibson, who spent 15 minutes talking to the protesters.

The Nationalist administration hopes that all Scotland’s energy will come from renewable energy by 2020.

Huge swaths of countryside remain untouched because of restrictions on planning, but the map shows more clusters of turbines couldbecreated inAberdeenshire, Caithness and north Sutherland.

The image, which details all the windfarms Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has been consulted about, also shows that several developers want to extend their existing schemes.

Lyndsey Ward, of the Windfarm Action Group, is leading the campaign against the Druim Ba windfarm Kiltarlity near Inverness.

She said last night: “We find the number of windfarms, regardless of their current status in planning, shocking and obscene.

“The contribution wind is making towards our energy needs is extremely minimal.

“What other heavy industry would ever be permitted on this scale, in rural, unpolluted

at landscapes, when it has proven to be so inefficient, unreliable, and expensive?

“From almost every hilltop in Scotland one can see a windfarm. On almost any car journey, one can see a windfarm.” They “dominate the landscape” she said.

She added that a major area of contention was guidance given to developers about how far away from houses turbines could be sited.

Nick Orpwood, spokesman for Aberdeenshire-based Concerned About Wind Turbines (CAWT) said he would support a moratorium so guidance for developers could be clarified.

CAWT monitors planning applications involving turbines and has identified around 400 commercial turbines and 450 for domestic and agricultural purposes.

MrOrpwoodsaid:“My concern is at the loss of amenity to people. I think turbines would be better offshore.”

Pat Wells, convener of the Stop Highland Windfarms Campaign, said: “Not only is the precious wild land in Scotland being destroyed, the proliferation of operational and proposed windfarm developments is now such that rural and semi-rural areas are being degraded.

“It will be impossible to go anywhere in Scotland without seeing wind turbines or hearing the disturbing noise from them.”

She said developers were being “aided and abetted by the Scottish Government’s obsession with the generation of electricity from renewables, mainly wind power”.

She added: “In particular we require a moratorium now on all windfarm developments. This includes those approved, in planning and in scoping. The SNP needs to understand more and more people are aware of the windfarm scam and the additional financial burdens imposed on them through renewables subsidies, especially those paid to developers.” Highland councillor Jim Crawford, anoutspoken critic of windfarms, backed the moratorium calls but said: “Unfortunately I don’t think Alex Salmond will listen.”

The Scottish Government said last night that there were limits on where windfarms could be built. A spokesman said: “The Scottish Government will only allow windfarms to be built where the impacts have been found to be acceptable – and unsuitable applications are rejected.

“Scotland has some of the best renewable energy resources in Europe, which is why we have set an ambitious – but achievable – target of the equivalent of all of Scotland’s electricity use coming from renewables by 2020, with as much again generated from other energy technologies.”

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Liberty mulls zoning to build wind farms

Credit:  By Leonard Sparks | Times Herald-Record | 16 May 2012 | www.recordonline.com ~~

LIBERTY – A study identifying three sites in Liberty as potentially suitable for a community-owned wind-energy project is spurring talk of new zoning rules.

Supervisor Charlie Barbuti recommended the town consider guidelines to cover wind energy at Liberty’s May 7

Town Board meeting.

The board met one day after the Sullivan Alliance for Sustainable Development held a public forum to review four sites identified in an ongoing study of suitable places for a wind farm.

“I came away from the (community) meeting thinking it’s something that would be important,” Barbuti said. “We don’t address geothermal; we don’t address solar; we don’t address the new technologies.”

Sullivan Alliance invited residents to the Liberty Senior Center on May 6 to unveil one site on Thunder Hill Road in Grahamsville and three Liberty sites that might be viable for a wind farm.

The areas in Liberty include Walnut Mountain Park, a ridge just north of Old Loomis Road, and another ridge east of Route 17 near Tanzman Road.

The ongoing study is being funded by a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant. Part of the funding is being used to identify shovel-ready sites that might be ideal for a small wind farm. A 5.4-megawatt farm could generate $1.4 million in revenues, according to SASD’s presentation. The study envisions such a system owned by local groups or by municipalities.

“It would be like having a town that sits on the oil well,” Barbuti said. “We’re going to need other revenue streams other than raising our property taxes.”

One of the anticipated hurdles was opposition by property owners. But several owners of property in one of the Liberty areas attended the forum and voiced support for the idea.

Don Nichols is enthusiastic about having a wind farm on his 15-acre parcel, which is located on Tanzman Road in Parksville. He shares that enthusiasm with nearby property owners.

“It would help the community and it would help with electric rates,” he said.

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Move to block Richfield wind farm fails

Credit:  By Joe Mahoney, Staff Writer | The Daily Star | August 20, 2013 | thedailystar.com ~~

RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Advocates for a proposed moratorium that would keep all heavy industry out of the town of Richfield – including wind turbines – were left disappointed Monday night when only two of the four town board members voted in favor of the measure.

Those especially upset were members of Protect Richfield, the group that stands ins opposition to the proposed Monticello Hills wind farm project that has divided the community. The two board members voting in favor of the moratorium were Town Supervisor Fran Enjem and William Seamon. Those opposed to the moratorium were Laurie Bond and Mary Margaret Snyder.

Snyder drew derisive laughs from the mostly anti-wind farm crowd when she praised what she contended was a thorough review completed by the town Planning Board of the six-turbine project, and contended the moratorium would usurp that panel’s authority in land-use matters.

Enjem said the moratorium was needed to “protect the people of Richfield,” and pointed out the measure was simply a temporary remedy that would give the town time to work on a comprehensive plan that has never been completed for the community.

The board has had a vacancy since the death earlier this year of town board member Bonnie Domion. One of the candidates running for that seat, insurance executive Larry Frigault, said he doesn’t trust stated assurances from representatives of the company that has proposed the wind farm, Ridgeline Energy, that there would not be additional turbines constructed in Richfield once six 492-foot-tall structures are erected. Frigault said he suspects the company “will try to fit as many as they can squeeze into the real estate.”

Of the four current board members, only Snyder is not up for election this year. Enjem, who has expressed strong reservations with a proposed community host agreement for the wind farm, is being opposed by Nick Palevsky, a supporter of the turbines.

“I want the host agreement to protect the community, and right now the way it’s written it favors the company,” said Enjem, noting he is neutral on the wind farm itself.

Last week, the Planning Board voted to award a required permit to Ridgeline Energy for the wind farm.

However, that vote was disputed by Enjem, who cited the fact that an alternate member of the planning board was allowed to vote even though he has never been appointed as a regular board member.

Whether the permit was issued legally or not remains in question, the town supervisor said.

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