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ready to go, we are going to have chaos in that region. We may not get control of all the weapons of mass destruction, technicians,
plans, capabilities. In fact, what may happen is we will remove a - repressive regime and have it replaced with a fundamentalist re
gime which contributes to the strategic problem rather than to helping to solve it.
So, all that having been said, the option to use force must remain on the table. It should be used as the last resort after all diplomatic means have been exhausted, unless there is information that indicates that a further delay would represent an immediate risk to the assembled forces and organizations. And, I want to underscore that the United States should not categorize this action as preemptive. Preemptive and that doctrine has nothing whatsoever to do with this problem. As Richard Perle so eloquently pointed out, this is a problem that is longstanding, it has been a decade in the making and needs to be dealt with and the clock is ticking on this.
Obviously, once initiated, a military operation should aim for the most respected accomplishment of its operational aims and prompt turnover to follow-on organizations and agencies.
And, I think if we proceed as outlined above, we may be able to minimize the disruption to the ongoing campaign against al Qaeda. We could reduce the impact on friendly governments in the region and even contribute to the resolution of other regional issues, perhaps such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Iranian efforts to develop nuclear capabilities, and Saudi funding for terrorism.
But, there are no guarantees. The war is unpredictable. It could be difficult and costly. And, what is at risk in the aftermath is an open-ended American ground commitment in Iraq and an even deeper sense of humiliation in the Arab world, which could intensify our problems in the region and elsewhere.
The yellow light is flashing. We have a problem. We have got to muster the best judgment in this country. We have to muster the will of the American people. And, we've got to be prepared to deal with this problem. But, time is on our side in the near term and we should use it. Thank you.
Mr. HUNTER. Thank you General Clark.
[The prepared statement of General Clark can be found in the Appendix on page 338.]
Mr. HUNTER. General Clark, when we went into Desert Storm, our best estimate and the United Nations' best estimate was that Saddam Hussein was three to five years away from having a nuclear system. That information to some degree was the basis upon which very distinguished Americans like Sam Nunn said what you just said today, which is time is on our side, and they offered a policy that involved sanctions over a long period of time.
When we arrived we found that he was, according to the United Nations and inspectors who testified before this committee, six months away from having a nuclear weapon, meaning that the judgment that time was on our side argument was one that was greatly in error. And, had we taken it, we would have perhaps suffered disastrous consequences.
Now we have had inspectors appear before this committee who said that they were turned away when they were close to things
they thought were important. They were held off in parking lots. They were ushered into a lot of empty rooms. They never met with the weapons community. And, out of the 200 and some-odd inspections that they made, almost none of them were a surprise. The upshot of their testimony was that if Saddam Hussein wants to keep us from seeing his chemical, biological, and nuclear complexand he denies that he has a chemical or biological complex-he will succeed.
We then followed that testimony with the testimony of an Iraqi nuclear engineer who was very much at the forefront of Saddam Hussein's programs, who said essentially, "While you Americans were inspecting in 1993, we were continuing to move aggressively, not far away, with a weapons program right under your noses, basically".
Now, everything that you have told us with respect to the timeis-on-our-side argument is based on the presumption that these inspections can be successful. What can you offer us in terms of how we could have more effective inspections and how we could, against the will of Saddam Hussein, actually walk into a room and have a large piece of evidence of a nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons program in front of us on the table when our inspectors arrive? Please tell us how we can do that what we haven't been able to before.
General CLARK. First of all, I am not making my case on the presumption that inspections won't necessarily be effective. That is not the case. I think an inspection program will provide some impedance and interference with Saddam's efforts. I think it can undercut the legitimacy and authorities of his regime at home. I think it can provide warning of further developments. I think it can establish a trigger. I think it can build legitimacy for the United States. Ultimately, it is going to be inadequate in the main. But as far as the intelligence is concerned and the time available, I don't know how to make sense of the intelligence. And, we have heard six months from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). We have heard the latest British estimate of a couple of years. We heard other people say a year. We heard Iraqi defectors saying it is ready; all he has to do is machine the plutonium if he can get his hands on it.
The honest truth is that the absence of intelligence is not an adequate reason to go forward to war in and of itself. So what we have to do is, we have to build a program that encourages other nations to share our perspective. We can do it relatively quickly. We should not discard inspections. They have done some measure of good; otherwise, Saddam wouldn't object to them so strongly.
Mr. HUNTER. But, General Clark, if we embark on these inspections and we accept inspections as the answer, as the end, and we embark on these inspections--and we must presume that Saddam Hussein is as successful as he has been in the past at hiding the evidence from the inspection teams, evidence that we knew existed-how are we--you mentioned if we do these inspections, we are somehow going to galvanize the community of nations on our side. Now, if we do inspections and we don't find that which we know is there, but Saddam Hussein has allowed us to come into the country and absorb the inspectors successfully, how does that
galvanize a community of nations to rally behind the United States?
General CLARK. I think you have to have an echelon series of inspections. I think you start small and I think you expand the intrusiveness, the scope and scale of the inspections. And, I think you do that until you are either satisfied, and the nation which brings the complaint to the United Nations, i.e. The United States, is satisfied; or you cross- and triple-red-line, which Saddam says no, and then you move to the next stage.
But, I am not presuming that inspections will be successful. What I am asking you to consider is the United States' overall leadership responsibilities in the world and how we move ahead collectively with our allies and friends around the world to deal with this problem. What inspections are useful in doing, they are useful in highlighting the nature of the Iraqi regime, and we may deter him, impede him, undercut him, get warning, establish a trigger, and build our legitimacy from this. And, this is one way of proceeding.
Mr. HUNTER. Would you recommend very aggressive, very intrusive inspections, which would be accompanied by forces which could, in cases where inspectors are denied entry, literally force their way into Iraqi facilities?
General CLARK. I would like to see a program like that established, but it may not be the initial program.
Mr. HUNTER. What if the United Nations does not end up ordering those inspections, but nonetheless—but instead orders inspections which to some degree replicate those that were in the past, those that were not successful in removing this program. What would you recommend at that point?
General CLARK. I think we need to give the President the strongest possible leverage to get the right program put in place at the United Nations.
Mr. HUNTER. That is going to require consensus from other members of the United Nations. That is not a unilateral instrument for the United States.
General CLARK. That is correct.
Mr. HUNTER. Let me finish my question. Don't you think that it is not reasonable to expect that the United Nations is going to produce an extremely aggressive backed-by-force inspection regime?
General CLARK. I think that the President's determination has given us strong leverage to get the kind of commitment from the United Nations that we need. But, every country has its own domestic problems and this requires the energy and imagination of our diplomats to work through this. I don't consider this case lost at this point. I think it is very much up in the air. I think the actions of this body are very important to determining the outcome.
But, I will say this: The administration has not proceeded heretofore in a way that would encourage its friends and allies to support it. One of the problems we have is the overhang from a number of decisions taken by the administration, which have undercut its friends and allies around the world and given the impression that the United States doesn't respect the opinions of others. So, we are swimming a little bit upstream on this. But, I think a
strong resolution from this body, set up promptly, with broad support and narrowed focus on the problems of weapons of mass destruction, would give additional leverage. And, I would urge that it be adopted.
Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Skelton.
Mr. SKELTON. Thank, both of you, for your excellent testimony. We do appreciate it.
As I see it, there are four basic elements to this whole issue. Number one is diplomacy, which you have discussed; the United Nations exhausting that all the way, if at all possible. Number two, establishing a real goal, and that goal in my opinion is the disarmament of that country, and I am convinced along with that, the Saddam Hussein regime will fold. Third is how we fight and get it done should that happen. And, fourth is the one that personally troubles me the most, because that is what we have to live with.
General in your prepared statement, you said that force should not be used until the personnel and organizations to be involved in post-conflict Iraq are identified and ready to assume their responsibilities. And, I couldn't agree with you more. You further say this includes requirements for humanitarian assistance, police and judicial capabilities, emergency medical and reconstruction assistance, preparation for a transitional governing body, eventual elections, perhaps even including a new constitution.
Suppose everything works out smoothly, including the military action—and we do have a first rate military, we all agree on that. Tell us more than what you have here of the potential dangers that are out there. The Kurds are sitting up there in the north. Iranians are not going to be idle bystanders. The country is made up of 60 percent Shiite and we know the Ba'ath Party and Saddam Hussein are Sunnis.
What chances are there for anarchy? What do you do with the henchmen that would be on the secondary tier of the regime that have carried out the unspeakable orders of Saddam Hussein and his people, scientists and engineers? Or, is there a possibility of a true, peaceful transition to a responsible state in addition thereto?
What about the other countries like Syria, and I mentioned Iran and their influence on this whole post-conflict Iraq? And, I would also ask the same question of Mr. Perle.
General CLARK. This is a very important question and particularly because we are trying to not only eliminate the weapons of mass destruction, but end up with a situation in which we are net better off than we are today. We have to look at this question very seriously. I think much depends on the circumstances of the military operation itself as to what the impact will be, how long it will take. The broader the coalition, the stronger the preparations in advance, the smoother the operation is likely to be, the more rapid Saddam's army will collapse, and the less humanitarian hardship is likely to be imposed.
That having been said, once we move into the area, what we can expect is a complete breakdown of governmental authority. It is not only Saddam Hussein, but it is the people who, as you suggested, the henchmen and all the people who are complicit in that regime, who have illegally confiscated land, carried out his orders for exe
cutions and torture, and forced name changes and identity changes. Revenge will be exacted. We have already seen this in what happened in 1991 with the Shia rebellion in southern Iraq, when they thought we were coming to help them liberate Iraq. So we have to imagine a complete breakdown of order.
That will be accompanied no doubt by a breakdown in the distribution of services, water, food. It is possible that Saddam Hussein may use biological weapons. If so, it is very possible he will use it against his own people. In an effort to impede our advance, he may try to solve the problem of the Shias in the south through the use of biological weapons.
So, we really don't know what we are going to face. So, in the immediate aftermath, there is going to be the possibility of a chaotic environment that is going to require a substantial American presence as well as a vast humanitarian governmental structure to meet the needs of the 23 million Iraqi people.
Then we are dealing with the longer midterm-or the midterm problems: Will Iraq be able to establish a government that holds it together or will it fragment? There are strong fractionary forces at work in Iraq, and they will continue to be exacerbated by regional tensions in the area. The Shia in the south will be pulled by the Iranians. The Kurds want their own organization. The Kurds will be hemmed in by the Turks. The Iraqis also. The Iranians also are nervous of the Kurds. But nevertheless, the Kurds have a certain mass and momentum that they built up. They will have to work to establish their participation in the government or their own identity.
There is a question of the nature of a successor regime. If it is a strong man, will it be any better? Will we get rid of weapons of mass destruction or will someone emerge in this chaos who says, "Look, I have overthrown Saddam. You Americans can deal with me. I am the guy in charge right now. Here, you can have your weapons of mass destruction; we are not interested".
Then how do we really know we really got all the weapons of mass destruction out of there? Or, he is knowing this is the Middle East—he is dealing with an Iranian neighbor who has weapons of mass destruction. He is dealing with Syria, who has weapons of mass destruction. Does he decide to hang onto a nuclear and chemical last-resort capability as a trump card?
So you have the question of the successor regime. And, then you have the problem of the long-term presence of the American forces in the region. And one of the things we have seen is that when you put American forces into a region, we tend to be a lightning rod. In the case of Kosovo, we are the strongest element there, and the Albanians looked to us for protection. In the case of Iraq, we are going to be infidels in a Muslim land. And one of the things that is going to happen when you break the authority of Saddam Hussein is that you are going to have a resurgence of support for Muslims in the region by the radical elements of both Wahabi and Shia, and they will be in there and they will be preaching antiAmericanism.
And, as we take the necessary actions with our force in the occupation, or, some have termed it, the liberation of Iraq, we are going to put Americans in a position where they are going to have to ex


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William Sylvester Allen (August 26, 1857 – December 6, 1926) was an American politician and lawyer.

Born in Hillsboro, Henry County, Iowa, Allen went to the Hillsboro Public Schools. He then graduated from University of Iowa and was admitted to the Iowa bar. Allen practiced law in Birmingham, Van Buren County, Iowa. He served as mayor of Birmingham and on the Birmingham School Board. From 1894 to 1898, Allen served in the Iowa House of Representatives and was a Republican. He then served in the Iowa State Senate from 1909 to 1913. From 1913 to 1919, Allen served as Iowa Secretary of State. He then continued to practice law in Fairfield, Iowa, where he died.

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Physical Properties A characteristic of matter that can be observed and measured without changing the identity or chemical makeup of the substance.
Color We can easily observe the color of a substance by looking at it.
Odor Many substances have a noticeable odor.
Size The size of a substance can be measured without altering the chemical makeup of the substance.
Hardness Hardness is the measure of how difficult or easy it is to scratch a substance.
Luster Luster describes how light is reflected off the surface of an object. (How shiny is the object?)
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Biografia
Figlia di Silvio Berlusconi e della sua prima moglie Carla Elvira Lucia Dall'Oglio, è sorella maggiore di Pier Silvio e sorellastra di Barbara, Eleonora e Luigi Berlusconi. Dopo essersi diplomata al Liceo classico dell'Istituto "Leone Dehon" di Monza, inizia a frequentare prima la Facoltà di Giurisprudenza e poi quella di Scienze politiche, che abbandona entrambe al primo anno, senza laurearsi. Nel 1996 diventa vicepresidente di Fininvest, posizione che mantiene sino all'ottobre 2005, quando assume il ruolo di presidente della holding. Dal 2003, subentrando al defunto Leonardo Mondadori, è alla guida della casa editrice Arnoldo Mondadori.

Il 13 dicembre 2008 ha sposato Maurizio Vanadia, già primo ballerino del Corpo di Ballo del Teatro alla Scala, dal quale aveva avuto due figli: Gabriele, nato il 28 dicembre 2002, e Silvio, nato il 29 settembre 2004 (condividendo quindi sia il nome sia il giorno del compleanno del nonno materno). È membro del CdA di Mediaset SpA e dall'ottobre 2008 all'aprile 2012 è stata nel CdA di Mediobanca. In passato ha fatto parte anche dei Cda di Medusa Film e di Mediolanum.

Nella classifica 2010 delle donne più potenti del mondo di Forbes è stata collocata al 48º posto, unica italiana in classifica (dove era presente dal 2004). Sempre secondo Forbes è nel 2008 al nono posto nella lista delle ereditiere più ricche del mondo, con un'eredità di 9 miliardi e 400 milioni di dollari. Dal 2001 è presente anche nella classifica della rivista statunitense Fortune dedicata alle 50 donne più influenti della comunità economica internazionale. Nel 2013, nel 2016 e nel 2018 il magazine statunitense The Hollywood Reporter inserisce Marina Berlusconi nella lista delle 20 donne più influenti del settore media e tv.

Dal mese di giugno 2013 hanno iniziato a circolare, sulla stampa, voci che la darebbero in procinto di entrare in politica in seguito alle condanne di Silvio Berlusconi, in una sorta di passaggio dinastico che la vedrebbe succedere al padre nel controllo del Popolo della Libertà o di una diversa formazione politica che dovesse sostituire il PdL. Le voci, comunque non inedite, si sono ripetute nell'ottobre 2013 nonostante fossero già state smentite ufficialmente dal suo portavoce il 26 giugno e dalla stessa interessata che, il 13 agosto 2013, attraverso una nota ufficiale, ha ribadito il suo "no" categorico a qualsiasi impegno in campo politico, un'ipotesi da lei definita come "un'intenzione che non ho mai avuto e che non ho". Le stesse voci si sono ripetute nel luglio 2017. E ancora una volta lei ha smentito: "Penso che la leadership in politica non si possa trasmettere per investitura o per successione dinastica".

Procedimenti giudiziari
Insieme al fratello Pier Silvio Berlusconi, è stata iscritta al registro degli indagati nell'ambito del processo sulla compravendita di diritti televisivi con l'accusa di riciclaggio di denaro. Le loro posizioni sono state stralciate e successivamente archiviate, su richiesta della Procura, dal giudice per l'udienza preliminare nel novembre del 2006.

Onorificenze
Nel 2009 la sindaca di Milano Letizia Moratti l'ha insignita della Medaglia d'Oro del Comune di Milano (Ambrogino d'oro), come "esempio dell'eccellenza milanese nel mondo e della capacità di conciliare impegno professionale e vita familiare".

Libro
Nel 2014, lo scrittore Mario Guarino ha pubblicato il volume: Figlia di tanto padre. Ritratto biografico di Marina Elvira Berlusconi, Kaos edizioni.

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Safttapeter er vægtæpper, hvorpå man malede motiver. Ofte var safttapeterne en billig erstatning for de kostbare vævede gobeliner. Deres udbredelse var navnlig stor i 1700-tallet, men man har kendskab til malede vægtæpper tilbage til 1400-tallet.

Begrebet safttapet
Begrebet "safttapet" dækker sandsynligvis over den anvendte maling, hvis farvetilsætning blandt andet blev udvundet af planteudtræk, dvs. plantesaft. Til safttapeter anvendte man en blanding af akvarel og temperamaleri. Disse farver er letflydende og vandige og kunne med god vilje godt minde om frugtsaft. Heraf stammer navnet.

Teknikken
Udgangspunktet for et safttapet var ligesom for et traditionelt maleri et lærred. Da man som før nævnt ofte tilstræbte at eftergøre de vævede tapeter, benyttede man eksempelvis repsvævet hør, hvor skudtrådene er tykkere end kædetrådene. Hermed fik opnåede man en grovere struktur, der minder om billedvævninger. Modsat et traditionelt malerilærred blev safttapeterne ikke grundede, da man derved ville sløre den vævede stofkarakter. Motiverne maledes med limfarve, hvor bindemidlet har været gummi arabicum eller lignende. Limfarven skulle være transperent, igen for at undgå at udviske stoffets struktur.

Historie
De malede tæpper kendes tilbage fra 1400-årene. Desuden kunne væverierne ty til at slippe lidt lettere fra et besværligt parti ved at male begrænsede udsnit. Men safttapeternes storhedstid falder naturligt sammen med gobelinernes, altså 1600- og 1700-tallet. Boligkulturen krævede nu, at hjemmene havde mange præsentable rum. At ophænge ægte vævede tæpper i alle rum var for mange en al for uoverkommelig investering. Selv på de kongelige slotte, f.eks. Fredensborg Slot, ved man, at gemakkerne blev udsmykket med safttapeter. Derudover fandt man dem både i adelens og borgerskabets huse. Mod slutningen af 1700-tallet gik vægtæpper af mode. Og safttapeterne led en særlig hård skæbne, da de ikke repræsenterede nogen større værdi. Mange af dem blev smidt ud eller anvendt til andre formål. Fra at have været en hverdagsting blev de sjældenheder. Der er kun kendskab til en 5-10 eksamplarer i Danmark i dag, fordelt på henholdsvis Nationalmuseet, Rosenborg, Ledreborg og Rosenholm.

Kilde
Gorm Benzon: "Gamle danske tapeter", Kbh. 1986.

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Q: Can I use a .NET 4.0 library in a .NET 2.0 application? I'm running into some problems using my .NET 4.0 libraries in .NET 2.0 applications.  I guess I was under the impression that being a Windows DLL, my other .NET apps would be able to access it.  Is this not the case?  Any recommendations in terms of supporting applications in both environments?
EDIT: I realize that I'd need to install the .NET 4.0 Framework on the target system, are there other reasons why this won't/shouldn't work?
EDIT: Probably should have been more specific.  We have a current, large/complex, application written in .NET 2.0 (ASP.NET be exact).  We have a new set of integration tools and workflow items we are writting in .NET 4.0.  We wanted to add one of the 4.0 created libraries to the .NET 2.0 project (currently in VS2008) and make use of a few of it's methods.  When we do this we run into problems, often cryptic errors relating to memory.
It would appear that both Earwicker and Brian Rasmussen are correct in the end.  As I'm not too keen on exposing things via COM (not sure if this is technically COM or not but regardless) I think I will stick to the idea that the two are not 'compatible' and look to other means, which I think we have based on our specific needs.  Longer term we will look to move the .NET 2.0 code up to 4.0.

A: It may be possible depending on how you are using it. In .Net 4.0 you have the option of In Process Side by Side Execution (InProc SxS). This allows you to host two different versions of CLR in the same process space. This is explained here.
Whether you can take advantage of this in your situtaion I don't know. I have no direct experience to help you.
Some scenarios in which this can be used.

A: Yes, this is perfectly possible. You just expose the components written in 4.0 as COM objects. The 2.0 hosting application just uses them as COM objects and has no idea whether they are native, 2.0, 4.0 or whatever. COM is the common interface that both runtime versions have to implement identically.
The new in-process SxS support in 4.0 means that when the 4.0-based COM object is loaded, it pulls in the required runtime instead of trying to run on the 2.0, so both runtimes are present in the process managing their own objects. Although you can't directly pass CLR objects between them, you can pass COM interfaces, and the CLR transparently wraps your objects in COM interfaces for you.
I don't know if you can make a single interop assembly for both versions to work from. But clearly you could write an interop assembly in C# in 2.0, export it to a .tlb, and then import it into an assembly in 4.0. That gives you two matching interop assemblies describing identical COM interfaces. (Or just build the same C# source in each version's assembly project).
Bonus Update: Will the resulting application be COM-based (with whatever problems that entails)?
It depends how you look at it. Authors of components will be making them as COM components. So the host application needs to locate and load them as COM components. This means fooling around with the GAC, the registry or SxS manifests, which is a lot less clean than just telling component authors to drop their assembly in a certain directory so you can load it with reflection.
And it has an impact at runtime: when the host has a reference to a component, there will be not one but three objects involved. The host has a reference to a RCW, which has a pointer to a COM interface implemented by a CCW, which in turn holds a reference to the actual component. The CCW in the middle is a reference-counted COM object, and the host's RCW has a finalizer that calls Release on the CCW, and when it is destroyed it deallocates the GCRoot that is keeping alive the actual component.
This means that - with a sufficiently complicated arrangement of callback pointers, etc. - the system may end up with circular reference counting problems, where a disconnected "island" of objects are all holding references to each other and so they never get deallocated.

A: Please note that version 4.0 is more than just additional assemblies. The runtime itself has also been changed in this version (new concurrent GC mode, lots of changes to the thread pool, mscorwks.dll is now called clr.dll, etc.).

A: I've just published a post basically what Daniel suggested.
How to use a .NET 4 based DLL from a .NET 2 based application
Source Code and description at: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Using-a-NET-4-Based-DLL-bb141db3

A: Looks like the in-process side-by-side feature which was added to CLR 4 wouldn't help in this case since the he wants to use a .NET4.0 library in a .NET2.0 application. As far as I understand it, in-process SxS would be helpful if the case was the opposite (consuming a .NET2.0 in a .NEt4.0 application) as the CLR of the 4.0 will work side by side with 2.0 in the same process..

A: Your assembly compiled for .NET 4 will contain references to other .NET 4 framework libraries that are not present in .NET 2.0.
If you want to have your applications compatible with .NET 2.0 you can use Visual Studio 2005 or target your projects to .NET 2.0 if you are using Visual Studio 2008 or 2010. Of course, if you target your projects to .NET 2.0 you will not be able to take advantage of .NET 3.5/4 features.

A: I had a similar problem with my application where I was not able to reference an API, that was using .net 4.0 components.
To resolve this I created a new class library project that was referencing my .net 4.0 project and then called that new assembly from my .net 2.0 project.
I mapped the data coming back from .net 4.0 project to be used by my .net 2.0 project.
That resolved my issue.


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At Hotel Julien Dubuque, we have the distinct pleasure of welcoming incredible visitors through our doors on a continual basis. Every guest brings with them a story that contributes to the collective narrative of this historic hotel.
For Eunice Grabow, returning to Hotel Julien Dubuque was like stepping back in time to her wedding day in 1946. "It all really does come back to you," she noted excitedly as she toured the hotel. Despite extensive renovations and well over half a century's time having passed, Eunice, accompanied by her daughters Diane and Nancy, reminisced about that special June day nearly 71 years earlier as she visited familiar, albeit transformed areas of the hotel. "That's where I threw my bouquet," she explained, pointing to the Grand Staircase.
As we sat down near the front windows in the lobby, Diane and Nancy shared beautiful photographs from their parents' nuptials. The images of the happy, young couple sparked an amusing story about how they met.
Joseph, Eunice's husband and son of Dubuque's Recreation Director, worked as a lifeguard at the city's first municipal pool during his high school years. In an effort to attract his attention, Eunice and a friend climbed on the ropes that divided different sections of the pool, intentionally breaking a rule that they knew the lifeguards must enforce. After being corrected on a few different occasions and pushing the envelope even further by entering an area not open to the public, Eunice and her friend were sent home from the pool and, in perfect accordance with their clever plan, were driven home by Joseph.
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Fake News Fallout: Brian Williams and American Humor
By Jeffrey Melton on February 12, 2015 | 4 Comments
This just in: Brian Williams created the Internet. No, wait. That was Al Gore. It is all so confusing. One thing I am sure of, however, is that Brian Williams's job as the anchor for NBC News is over. I hate for that to have happened, but I also must confess that I NEVER watched him on NBC News. Never. I do not watch any other nightly news program either. What for? I have the Internet, which Brian Williams created.
Brian Williams has been caught for being loose with the facts regarding his direct involvement with any number of stories. "Being loose with the facts" means that he has lied. He lied, though our culture prefers not to say such things when it comes to media figures and politicians. They misremember or somehow lose the details in the fog of war, fog of work, fog of aging, fog of hyper-saturated media consumption. Or, really, fog of ego.
Here is a fact: once a news correspondent, especially the anchor for a network news program, has opened him or herself up to ridicule for lying, it is over. Far more people than cared one way or another beforehand are ready to shout to the top of their lungs that television news must be preserved as a beacon of truth and dignity! The News must be preserved! Off with his head! We cannot tolerate such a challenge to the integrity of the television news media! One needs only to scan the memes created to mock his integrity to see how much damage has been done. Note this screenshot for a simple Google image search for "Brian Williams memes":
Here is where I should elaborate and write about how the integrity of television news media has never been pristine, but I will avoid that for two reasons: I don't want to spend the time, and neither do you. So, let's just settle that point by nodding to the best satire of the so-called integrity of network news and consider it "enough said" on this question: Network, the wonderful film released in 1976, which, I think, was directed by Brian Williams, who was, ironically, shot in the leg during production. That's how I remember it, anyway. Who can be sure?
Here is the real problem regarding Brian Williams: he likes talking about himself. That is his fatal flaw. But he is also a major figure in television news who now provides a valuable symbol for how journalists–post Gonzo, post Watergate, post Cable, post Internet, and, alas, post Cronkite–can only "report" the news if they see themselves as a crucial "part "of the news. "Here I am doing something active and immersive, as I tell you what's happening…" Journalists are tourists forever showing us not the story behind the story but the story behind them, seemingly all forced by competition and bottom-line economics to perform and be seen rather than to provide NEWS. The narrative I instead of the reporting eye. Ah, but that ship sailed long ago. Again, Network tells us all we need to know about that.
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Teaching American Humor: the Great Colbert-Twitter Mediagasm of 2014
By Jeffrey Melton on April 3, 2014 | Leave a comment
Somebody should write something about the controversial tweet from @ColbertReport and how it spawned a backlash on Twitter defined by #CancelColbert. It is big news.
Well, to be fair, almost everybody already has. It even gave the 24-hour cable news outlets a chance to pause in the search for MAL 370. For those who need yet a few more links to stories related to the issues, here they are:
Overview of the issue from the New Yorker
One of the several posts from CNN, formally a news organization
First Post from Cleveland.com – solid with clips and twitter examples
Second Post from Cleveland.com – same useful format
WSJ.com post by Jeff Yang
OK. That is a small smattering that should get anyone started down an endless rabbit hole. Let me know if it ever works its way back to this post.
There are no lessons to be learned from what I am calling the Great Colbert-Twitter Mediagasm of 2014 (catchy?). Well, at least there are no lessons to be learned among those who are deeply invested in perpetuating their own righteous indignation on any and all possible sides to the #CancelColbert or #SaveColbert Twitter dynamo. The vast majority of those who jumped into the fray via Twitter have already moved on to the next outrage. For the passive voice phrase "lessons to be learned" to ever be true, to be consummated with actual learning and awareness, the learner would need to engage fully with the complexities of any issue. Who does that on Twitter?
But there may be things useful in the classroom for those desirous of banging their heads on the complexities of American satire. What happens when satire misfires? (That is not what happened in the Great Colbert-Twitter Mediagasm of 2014.) What happens to satire in a digital age wherein the satirical work can be sliced and diced and repackaged and mashed ad nauseam into different mediums with vastly different audiences? What happens in a social media world when a satirist (and/or his corporate media boss) uses something as potentially inane as Twitter as a constant, tireless promotional tool?
Most importantly, what happens when a sharp piece of satire–pairing offensive language concerning Asian Americans with obvious racist language regarding Native Americans in an effort to repudiate any and all such appropriation–gets lost in a media frenzy?
In reference to the Colbert/Twitter issue, we need to consider how a near-perfect bit of satire was transformed into a social-media outrage phenomenon. Normally, that would be a good thing for satirists; it means that their efforts were noticed, that their social criticism was making an impact. In the age of Twitter, however, the satire can easily be erased and forgotten with only the outrage remaining. I should add that "outrage," in and of itself, is not a problem. A satirist begins by being outraged, but the satirist also begins by being informed. There's the rub. Who on Twitter ever really cares to be informed? #Hashtag, #hashtag. Trend it.
The Great Colbert-Twitter Mediagasm of 2014–now known simply as #GC-TM2014–TREND IT!–is over. In hindsight, the event provides an opportunity to consider the challenges and limits of satire in the social media age. A satirist mocks human behavior with the goal–however remote–of changing that behavior, or at least demanding some thoughtful social engagement with contentious issues. The Colbert Report is arguably the most formidable venue for provocative satire in contemporary American culture that reaches a large audience. The Colbert Report, The Daily Show , and The Onion, in particular, all provide a consistent and relentless examination of the foibles of human behavior and the absurdities that threaten to undermine the remarkable social and political experiment called the United States of America. It is a golden age for American satire. That is not to say that it is a golden age for the power of satire to change the world.
Although I simply want to look closely at the tweet itself, readers should see the two sketches from the Colbert Report that provide the opening and the closing of this social media firestorm (The Great Colber-Twitter Mediagasm of 2014, as I may have said above):
Colbert on Dan Snyder and the Washington Redskins
Colbert Who's Attacking Me Now – the Follow Up
In the original piece, we witness a wonderfully tight satirical attack on the efforts of Dan Snyder, the owner of the Washington Redskins, and his effort to resist any and all efforts to make him and his supporters see the obvious. It is a satirical effort to affect public opinion, first, in its short-term target–the Redskins offensive name–and, second, the overall, longterm target–racism. The satire seeks to destroy both by persistent small cuts.
But, for now, that will have to wait. Twitter takes on a different topic.
For this space, let's simply focus on the tweet that sets things rolling. We start there because the original sketch from the Colbert Show encouraged no firestorm whatsoever. The tweet, written and released by someone in the Comedy Central office, caused the issue in the Twitterverse, which, now, apparently, and to the consternation of long-winded people like me everywhere, is the new normal of democratic media–just what the Founding Fathers and Mothers were hoping for.
Here is the text of the offending tweet:
"I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever."
This is a joke. It is a quote taken from the Colbert Report show that aired on 26 March 2014 and tweeted by the corporate twitter-version of the character "Stephen Colbert," (Colbert's personal twitter account is @StephenAtHome.) A play within a play within a corporate twitter feed, wrapped in bacon. The problem of this joke is obvious; it uses stereotypical mockery of spoken East Asian languages as perceived by Euro-Americans who are ignorant and dismissive of any and all foreign languages on the whole. In that case, the language of the tweet perpetuates the stereotypes.
OK, it is easy to see that this tweet/joke contains racially insensitive language, at the very least. However, it is not simply a joke but parody. It is a statement from a character "Stephen Colbert" who is an aggressive and tireless parody of Bill O'Reilly, a bombastic conservative pundit who is clueless of his own racist, simplistic, reductive, self-absorbed commentary day after day after day. As parody, this tweet works. The line works.
Consider the first part of the tweet, the set-up: "I am willing to show #Asian community I care…" This is boilerplate Bill O'Reilly in that it mimics his typical moment of minor (very minor) concession to opposing points of an argument or to show his awareness of nuances on some issues. He does this often, and it is often quite unintentionally funny. Colbert thinks so, too. Here Colbert (both in the original sketch and in the edited Tweet) sets up a self-absorbed moment of magnanimous condescension to anyone who may misunderstand his unquestionable good will and fairness. Note the clever wordplay: "I am willing to show...I care..." not more concisely "I am creating a…" The issue for the pundit is his willingness to perform ("show") his deep compassion ("I care"), like God deciding to give humans a second chance after, say, a flood. Thank you, God. Thank you, Bill.
With that set-up, the hypocrisy and cluelessness of the narrative "I" is revealed by the absurd and racist name of the foundation in the punchline. The "I" is full of himself and empty of understanding. All ego, no awareness. This is parody that targets Colbert's perennial and ever-vulnerable target: Bill O'Reilly. This is boilerplate Stephen Colbert. And funny. Thank you, Stephen.
To better understand the context that Colbert uses, watch, for example, this bit from the show:
Colbert on O-Reilly's Insensitivity to Asian Americans
The Tweet did not destroy the joke; it removed the satirical context but kept the parody in place. Its mockery, then, is simply a brief shot at racial arrogance. The full satire is much stronger and deserves more that Twitter could provide. The @ColbertReport tweet put a joke in the world of Twitter divorced from the persona that originally spoke the words. A person reading the quote who has little familiarity with the Colbert Show and little interest in finding out more before reacting and retweeting draws an easy conclusion: #CancelColbert. The many who are tired of seeing such mockery of Asians, along with so many others, in American popular culture, are right to be concerned. And those who dismiss such concerns without trying to seek an understanding of a long and complicated history that informs the angry reaction against @ColbertReport are simply lazy, and they make me tired.
Colbert performs racial parody and satire daily. Suey Park, who created the @CancelColbert idea, has gained some fame. I am not sure if she has made any progress toward her political and social goals. Perhaps. My hunch, though, is that Stephen Colbert is more likely to alter the mainstream popular culture landscape regarding racism than she will. But, really, I hope they both succeed. But I am not going to follow either one on Twitter.
(c) 2014, Jeffrey Melton
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Sick Jokes After Newtown: Internet Humor as Media Counter-narrative
By Philip Scepanski on January 1, 2013 | 1 Comment
A poignant "too soon" joke
Matthew Daube's recent piece pointed out The Onion's unique role in responding to tragic events like those in Newtown a few weeks ago. As he notes, the satirical newspaper, while performing comic bravery, still tempers its rhetoric with regard to stories of this nature. But while The Onion has built a reputation as a comedic first responder to tragedies of this nature, it is neither alone nor does it come close to showing the limits of "too soon" humor. Internet forums dedicated to sick humor offer limit cases in both speed and offensiveness. In this way, they offer a discourse that rebels against the framing offered by news coverage.
When tragedy strikes, American popular media tend to follow a script of information gathering, round-the-clock coverage, memorializing, and a tentative return to normal. Visual and audio cues like minor-key music and still photographs offer an emotive frame that distinguishes such events as more tragic and unique than the conventionally bad news that springs from war zones and more economically depressed areas. Eventually, dramatic fare – from films like Oliver Stone's JFK (1991) or Gus Van Sant's Elephant (2003) as well as television shows like Third Watch and American Horror Story engage with these events in ways that, while perhaps taking unique angles, more or less reinforce the dominant framing of these events as sacred moments of collective trauma.
Comedic responses to such events tend to be more dynamic and varied. Because of its temporality, wider range of generic registers, and many other reasons, television comedies tend to engage with such events more than does cinema. And television varies widely in this regard. While sick jokes about the Challenger explosion in 1986 certainly existed, my research has yet to uncover any such humor on television. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, David Letterman's famous return episode, while somber, offered moments of cautious, comforting humor. After some more time, South Park offered a mix of patriotic and critical humor, pointing the way towards more politically daring humor as well as those designed more purely to evoke laughing offense.
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Q: AP Calculus Derivative Slope $xy^2-x^3y = 2$
$y' = \frac{3x^2y-y^2}{2xy-x^3}$
find the x-coordinate of each point on the curve where the tangent line is horizontal.
I know that $3x^2y-y^2 = 0 \Rightarrow$ then $y=3x^2.$
If I plug y into the original I get
$x(3x^2)^2-x^3(3x^2)=2 \Rightarrow x(9x^4)-3x^5 = 2 \Rightarrow 9x^5 - 3x^5 = 2 -> x^5 = \frac{1}{3} \Rightarrow x = (\frac{1}{3})^{(\frac{1}{5})}$
Is this all I have to do?

A: Yes, you've found the unique solution: $\quad x = \left(\frac 13\right)^{1/5}$.
Note: It also happens to be true that at $y = 0$, then $y' = 0$. But it turns out that $y = 0$ does not satisfy the original equation, and so does not lie on the curve. Hence, we have only the solution that you found.


OSLO, MN (AP) — Spring flooding has turned a northwestern Minnesota community into an island of isolation.
The rising Red River has flooded the two highways leading in and out of Oslo in Marshall County near the North Dakota border.
The city of 330 residents has grown accustomed to the isolation. It's the fifth time in a decade that flooding has enveloped the community.
Minnesota Public Radio News reports about half the people in Oslo left before the roads flooded, including those with jobs out of town and those with school-aged children.
Kitty Stromberg at Kitty's Cafe has stocked up to feed the remaining residents as well as Minnesota National Guard members who have been dispatched to Oslo to assist. And, if the flooding persists, food and supplies arrive by boat.
HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military has demolished the family home of a Palestinian charged with the killing of a 19-year-old Israeli woman.


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Think Sleep Doesn't Matter? Many Seahawks Players Go To Bed Before 10 p.m.
Elite athletes are paying more attention than ever before to their sleep. Why? Because of its significant impact on performance.
To a young athlete, going to bed before 10 p.m. sounds like a punishment.
Those bedtimes are reserved for babies and grandparents. Why would an active, healthy athlete ever have to hit the hay that early?
One word: performance.
The impact of sleep on performance is staggering, and elite athletes have taken notice. The New York Times recently detailed how serious the Seattle Seahawks take their sleep.
Roughly 40 players on the team voluntarily wear Readibands, a wristband equipped with motion sensors that calculate how long and how deeply they sleep. The information is sent directly to the players' smartphones and also shared with the team. Based on that data, the team is able to tweak training, practice and travel schedules. The benefits of the Seahawks' sleep tracking have been so significant that many of the team's players now head to bed before 10 p.m. They're not alone. In 2014, Tom Brady revealed that he regularly goes to bed at 8:30 p.m.
"I do go to bed very early because I'm up very early. I think that the decisions that I make always center around performance enhancement, if that makes sense," Brady told WEEI.
So, how exactly can a good night's sleep enhance your performance?
RELATED: The Many Athletic Benefits of Sleep
A 2011 study in the journal SLEEP found that Stanford basketball players were able to dramatically improve their on-court performance simply by increasing their total amount of sleep time.
Per Standford Medicine:
The researchers asked the players to maintain their normal nighttime schedule (sleeping for six to nine hours) for two to four weeks and then aim to sleep 10 hours each night for the next five to seven weeks. During the study period, players abstained from drinking coffee and alcohol, and they were asked to take daytime naps when travel prohibited them from reaching the 10 hours of nighttime sleep.
At the end of the 10-hours-a-night period, players ran 282-foot sprints (equivalent to running the full length of the court three times) at an average of 15.5 seconds. That was a significant improvement over the average 16.2 seconds they achieved before the sleep extension. But perhaps even more surprising was the dramatic increase in shooting accuracy. More sleep helped the players increase their free-throw percentage by an average of 9 percent and their 3-point percentage by an average of 9.2 percent. Reported fatigue levels also decreased and players reported improved performance in practice and games.
"If you told an athlete you had a treatment that would reduce the chemicals associated with stress, that would naturally increase human growth hormone, that enhances recovery rate, that improves performance, they would all do it," Dallas Mavericks trainer Casey Smith, whose team also employs the Readiband, told ESPN. "Sleep does all of those things."
Getting 9-plus hours of sleep a night might sound impossible, especially for student-athletes who are forced to juggle training, practices, games, school and social life. If you aren't able to get at least 9 hours of sleep overnight, you can help yourself by taking naps throughout the day.
But the sheer quantity of sleep isn't all that counts. Quality matters. Deeper sleep is more restorative and is key to waking up feeling well-rested and refreshed. But what sorts of things can you do to improve your sleep quality?
You can take a number of small, simple steps to ensure you get a better night's sleep. One of them is to simply adhere to a regular bedtime and wake-up time. Another is to avoid blue light—the type of light often emitted by electronics—during the lead-up to sleep. Blue light has been found to suppress melatonin, a hormone that helps control sleep cycles. If you're the type who likes to go on your iPhone before bed, we recommend using "Night Shift" mode. For other tips on how to get a great night's sleep, read our 18 Rules for Better Sleep article.
If you're interested in tracking your sleep, you have a wide variety of options at your disposal. If you own a fitness tracker such as a Fitbit or Jawbone, there's a good chance it's capable of tracking your sleep. Also, a wide variety of smartphone apps can be used to track your sleep, such as Sleep Cycle and Sleep Time+. Taking measures to monitor your sleep quality is a great idea, as it can help you approach sleep with a more competitive mindset.
RELATED: What I Learned From Using Sleep Tracking Technology
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This was a poem inspired to me at a time when I wondered why I was a person with Epileptic Seizures. As much as I wished for full understanding from other people I knew that it was not something I would ever want to wish upon another. As personalities were looked upon it helped me to realize that not all challenges are for all to have. The challenge a person encounters may not be fit for me to have, just as the ones given to me are more fitting for me. Personal challenges have a great effect on one's life but it does not have to be made a major importance or a challenge that others have to experience.
Different experiences offers people new perspectives for them to share. To be able to respectively compare the situations is a way to be able to see how fitting it is for the person. Difference is a source of originality and with time to experience, it creates a Personal Speciality. Challenges create situations that feel hard and it is easy to want to rid the situation but when we allow it to take its course we are met with valuable lessons that are great rewards in our life.


City of Manchester, IA – Family. Community. Opportunity.
The regular meetings of the Manchester City Council are scheduled for the second & fourth Mondays of the month at 5:00pm. Meetings are held at Council Chambers, 204 East Main Street.
City crews will make a spring yard waste pick-up on MONDAY, MAY 6, 2019.
Sign Up begins Wednesday April 17th from 6pm-8pm at City Hall. We will take registrations in the office anytime during regular hours (8:00am – 4:00pm) beginning April 18th. We will also have a sign up on Saturday April 20th from 9-10am.
Sessions are M-TH for 2 weeks, 45 min per day. Time slots are available at 9, 10, 11, and some at noon and 5-6pm. Not all levels are available at all time slots. We will have the exact levels and time slots set as we get closer to April 17. Group lessons generally do not fill up right away and we usually have plenty of openings.
*NOTE- Group lessons will be Monday - Thursday this year. Fridays will be make up days if needed.
Sign up begins Wednesday May 8th from 6pm-8pm at City Hall. We will take registrations in the office anytime during regular hours (8:00am – 4:00pm) beginning May 9th if there are still openings available.
We have two different options available for Private Lessons: M-F for 2 weeks for a ½ hour per day or M-F for 1 week for 1 hour per day.
Private Lessons have a tendency to fill up fast, especially noon and 5-6pm time slots. People generally line up outside early to register for Private Lessons.
Cost is $70 per child.
Please Call City Hall at 927-3636 if you have more questions.
This button will re-direct you to the online registration site for City recreation programs.
Our park consists of 6 drops at roughly 18″ per drop and spans over 800ft. in length, Reconstruction of the river began upstream of Marion Street and extends downstream toward the CN railroad bridge. The Manchester Whitewater Park is open to the public and there is no cost or admission to utilize the park. The primary in-stream users will be whitewater enthusiasts including kayakers, canoeists, rafters, tubers, swimmers and boogie board/surfers.


Monday is World Nutella Day. You know what? Monday, we need to all just hang out in front of our computers and tablets, working on some digiscrap layouts, eating Nutella straight from the jar! Who's with me? I think the designers might! They have some wonderful new stuff coming out this week, and it's all perfect for any memory you need to preserve!
Love your idea for Monday, Nutella Day!! I saw a wonderful recipe video on FB using Nutella inside two rectangular sheets of pastry dough to make a spiral Christmas tree snack. Going to make that for Monday for my grandkids!!