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Another thing, you can Share Intelligence. This is like Sharing Map, but you see what your allies spies see as well. Thanks for the BTW.


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Ambient air - Standard method for the measurement of the concentration of carbon monoxide by non-dispersive infrared spectroscopy
Current stage: 40.60 Effective date: Jan 5, 2023
This European Standard specifies a continuous measurement method for the determination of the concentration of carbon monoxide present in ambient air based on the non-dispersive infrared spectroscopic measuring principle.
This standard describes the performance characteristics and sets the relevant minimum criteria required to select an appropriate non-dispersive infrared spectroscopic analyser by means of type approval tests. It also includes the evaluation of the suitability of an analyser for use in a specific fixed site so as to meet the data quality requirements as specified in Annex I of Directive 2008/50/EC [1] and requirements during sampling, calibration and quality assurance for use.
The method is applicable to the determination of the mass concentration of carbon monoxide present in ambient air up to 100 mg/m3 carbon monoxide. This concentration range represents the certification range for the type approval test.
NOTE 1 Other ranges may be used depending on the levels present in ambient air.
NOTE 2 When the standard is used for other purposes than for measurements required by Directive 2008/50/EC, the ranges and uncertainty requirements may not apply.
The method covers the determination of ambient air concentrations of carbon monoxide in zones classified as rural areas, urban-background areas and traffic-orientated locations and locations influenced by industrial sources.
The results are expressed in mg/m3 (at 20 °C and 101,3 kPa).
NOTE 3 100 mg/m3 of CO corresponds to 86 μmol/mol of CO.
This standard contains information for different groups of users.
Clauses 5 to 7 and Annexes B, C and D contain general information about the principles of carbon monoxide measurement by non-dispersive infrared spectroscopic analyser and sampling equipment.
Clause 8 and Annex E are specifically directed towards test houses and laboratories that perform type-approval testing of carbon monoxide analysers. These sections contain information about:
− type-approval test conditions, test procedures and test requirements;
− analyser performance requirements;
− evaluation of the type-approval test results;
− evaluation of the uncertainty of the measurement results of the carbon monoxide analyser based on the type approval test results.
Clauses 9 to 11 and Annex F are directed towards monitoring networks performing the practical measurements of carbon monoxide in ambient air. These sections contain information about:
− initial installation of the analyser in the monitoring network and acceptance testing;
− ongoing quality assurance/quality control;
− calculation and reporting of measurement results;
− evaluation of the uncertainty of measurement results under practical monitoring conditions.
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The Shape of Things to Come
The Shape of Things to Come: translation
"The Shape of Things to Come" is a work of science fiction by H. G. Wells, published in 1933, which speculates on future events from 1933 until the year 2106. It is not a novel, but rather a fictional history book or chronicle, similar in style to "Star Maker" and "Last and First Men", both by Olaf Stapledon.
Wells' book also shared with Stapledon's an understanding of the change wrought in the nature of war by the development of air power; both writers included harrowing depictions of cities destroyed in aerial bombardments, which proved an all too accurate prediction of what was to happen in the actual second World War.
Wells creates a framing device by claiming that the book is his edited version of notes written by an eminent diplomat, Dr Philip Raven, who had been having dream visions of a history textbook published in 2106, and wrote down what he could remember of it.
The book is dominated by Wells's belief in a world state as the solution to mankind's problems. Wells successfully predicted the Second World War, although he envisaged it dragging on into the 1960s, being finally ended only by a devastating plague that almost destroys civilization. Wells then envisages a benevolent dictatorship - 'The Dictatorship of the Air' (a term obviously modeled on 'The Dictatorship of the proletariat') - arising from the controllers of the world's surviving transportation systems (the only people with global power). This dictatorship promotes science, enforces Basic English as a global lingua franca, and eradicates all religion, setting the world on the route to a peaceful utopia. When the dictatorship finds it necessary to kill political opponents, the condemned persons are given a chance to emulate the ancient philosophers Socrates and Seneca and take a poison tablet in a congenial environment of their choice.
Eventually, after a century of re-shaping humanity, the dictatorship is overthrown in a completely bloodless coup, the former rulers are sent into a very honourable retirement, and the world state "withers away" as was predicted by Friedrich Engels in his 1877 work Anti-Duhring. The last part of the book is a detailed description of the Utopian world which emerges, in some ways reminiscent of Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward".
While written as a future history, seen in retrospect it can be considered as an alternate history diverging from ours in late 1933 or early 1934, the Point of divergence being FDR's failure to implement the New Deal and revive the US economy (and also Hitler's failure to revive the German economy by re-armament). Instead, the worldwide economic crisis continues for three decades, concurrently with the war. The war is prosecuted by countries already on the verge of collapse and ends, not with any side's victory, but with everybody's total collapse and disintegration (also of countries which were not involved in the fighting). There follows the complete collapse of Capitalism and the emergence of the above-mentioned new order.
Polish Corridor as cause for World War II
H. G. Wells criticized the Polish Corridor as one of the future causes of World War II:
And to keep the waters of the Vistula as pure and sweet for Poland as the existence of Danzig at the estuary allowed, the peace-makers ran the Vistula boundary between Poland and east Prussia, not in the usual fashion midway along the stream, but at a little distance on the east Prussian side (Jacques Kayser, La Paix en Péril, 1931). So that the east German population, the peasant cultivator, the erstwhile fisherman, the shepherd with his flocks to water, was pulled up by a line of frontier posts and a Polish rifle within sight of the stream.
Within a dozen years of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles the Polish Corridor was plainly the most dangerous factor in the European situation. It mocked every projection of disarmament. It pointed the hypnotized and impotent statescraft of Europe straight towards a resumption of war.
ubmarine Launched Ballistic Missiles
Wells's book can be credited with an accurate prediction of the submarine launched ballistic missile, which was to assume a crucial role in the Cold War period. Though the warheads of what he termed "air torpedoes" were envisaged as chemical rather than nuclear, Wells fully grasped - two decades ahead of the military planners - the strategic implications of combining submarines with weapons of mass destruction.
As well as predicting this application of submarines, Wells correctly predicted that these fearsome weapons would not be fully utilised and would be mainly used to create deterrence between the various powers holding them.
The book displays one of the earliest uses of the C.E. ("Common Era") calendar abbreviation after A.D. year dates; Wells preferred the English C.E. in place of the traditional Western Latin A.D. ("Anno Domini").
There have been two film adaptations of the novel.
*"Things to Come", a 1936 film with a screenplay by Wells himself.
* "H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come", a 1979 science fiction film very loosely based on the book.
* An episode of the television series "Lost" is titled "The Shape of Things to Come". One of the main settings in the episode is Iraq, similar to the novel.
The Kipling connection
Wells's "Air and Sea Control", the association of pilots and technicians which controls the world's communications and eventually develops into a world government, seems a clear literary descendant of an institution called the Aerial Board of Control (A.B.C.) in the short stories "With the Night Mail" and "Easy as A.B.C.", by Rudyard Kipling, with which Wells was certainly familiar. The Kipling stories are set in a post-apocalyptic world where airships are commonly used both for freight and passenger service, as well as for preventing civil unrest using powerful sonic weapons:
:"The A.B.C., that semi-elected, semi-nominated body of a few score persons, controls the Planet. Transportation is Civilisation, our motto runs. Theoretically we do what we please, so long as we do not interfere with the traffic and all it implies. Practically, the A.B.C. confirms or annuls all international arrangements, and, to judge from its last report, finds our tolerant, humorous, lazy little Planet only too ready to shift the whole burden of public administration on its shoulders."
The above description, from Kipling's "With the Night Mail", seems very applicable to the world-wide institution depicted by Wells. However, Kipling's stories contain dystopian elements.
* [http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/wells/hg/w45th/ Full text] - Available freely from the University of Adelaide
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In the first link I constrained the model at the top face (although there is a small hole near the top which a shear pin will be placed. Not sure if I should constrain it on that inside face instead?). The second image shows a closer view of the forces I have put onto the model. Since the auger blade is split up into two different directions, I figured I needed to put two forces on the faces of the blade depending which way the fluid was pushing on it. I also added a torque to the bottom face of the model. Would this be a correct setup for the situation? I am also unsure of the forces I should be putting on the faces of the blades. I'm not sure if putting the same force on the entire face is a correct way to do it.
Why did you put a torque on the bottom face of the shaft?
I figured since I knew the torque required, putting it on the bottom face wouldn't be too bad of a model, although I was getting some questionable results. I have been looking at other scenarios, however, and I found that I could put the torque on the actual faces of the blades, which seems to give a more logical answer. I just want to make sure to take into account the stresses put into the shaft as well as the stresses at the connection between the blades and shaft, which is why I need the forces normal to the blades.


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As Yatsenyuk throws in the towel, a grim future for Ukraine
April 12, 2016 Kevin Lees	2 Comments
If it weren't possible to be more pessimistic about the future of Ukraine and its economy, Arseniy Yatsenyuk's sudden resignation on Sunday is reason to be even more glum. (Facebook)
No one believes more in the possibility of a post-crisis and prosperous Ukraine than Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the country's prime minister and, too often, its chief punching bag.
Never beloved, even among the pro-European Ukrainians who live in the country's western regions and who resent Russian interference within their borders, Yatsenyuk's goal since the fall of former president Viktor Yanukovych, an ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin, has been rightsizing an economy that's underperformed even by standards of the region, with growth rates dwarfed by authoritarian Belarus, a Russian ally that's retained Soviet institutions.
Facing few good options, Yatsenyuk simply gave up, hoping that, perhaps, the resignation of Ukraine's last 'true believer' might shake loose enough support for the economic reforms that Ukraine desperately needs to continue its financial lifeline from the International Monetary Fund. Ironically, though Yatsenyuk has personally advocated liberalizing reforms and anti-corruption measures for years, his government is now seen as incapable of delivering reforms and as incorrigibly corrupt.
Yatsenyuk must now know how former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh surely felt after a decade in office (if not quite in power).
It's not even the first time the pressured premier resigned. His resignation in July 2014 paved the way for fresh parliamentary elections in October 2014 that restored a majority for a pro-western, pro-European government that was ultimately headed by Yatsenyuk. Continue reading As Yatsenyuk throws in the towel, a grim future for Ukraine →
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Nine things to watch as Canada's next Trudeau era begins
October 20, 2015 Kevin Lees	Leave a comment
Defying expectations in August that pitted the Liberal Party in third place at the beginning of the election campaign in August, Justin Trudeau has now won a clear majority government and a mandate for change in Canada's 42nd federal election.
So what does that mean for Canada, for US-Canadian relations and for Canada's role in the world in the weeks and months ahead?
Here are nine policy areas to keep an eye on as Trudeau begins the rapid transition to 24 Sussex Drive, appoints a cabinet and tackles a full agenda of issues that could dominate what will likely be a full four-year term with the kind of parliamentary mandate that should make it much more easier than Trudeau ever expected to enact his policy preferences.
Climate change. As the Paris summit on climate change approaches in November, Canada's government will go from being one of the most skeptical participants at the conference to one of the most enthusiastic supporters of action to reduce carbon emissions. Keep an eye on Stéphane Dion, the former Liberal leader from 2006 and 2008 and a former environmental minister, to play a vocal and supportive role. Nevertheless, global climate change policy is mostly set by the G-2 — i.e., the United States and China. So Trudeau's role at the summit, while productive, will be more about style than any actual substance. Joyce Murray, a popular left-wing MP and British Columbia's former environmental minister, who was the runner-up to Trudeau in the 2013 Liberal contest, is also a rising star to watch on environmental matters.
Economic policy. At the start of the campaign, the traditionally more centrist Liberals advanced a tax policy to the left of the New Democratic Party (NDP) by promising a middle-class tax cut to be paid for by slightly higher taxes on those who earn roughly more $200,000 annually. During the campaign, as Canada officially slipped into a shallow recession, Trudeau doubled-down by pledging to engage in deficit spending over the next three years to stabilize Canada's economy, protect jobs and boost infrastructure. It was this move, again outflanking the NDP (whose leader Thomas Mulcair promised to maintain the Conservative Party's devotion to balanced budgets), that may have convinced voters that Trudeau, and not Mulcair, represented the most striking contrast with Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper.
Ralph Goodale, a former finance minister under Paul Martin; Bill Morneau, a 52-year-old newcomer first elected last night from the Toronto's business world and Scott Brison, a former Progressive Conservative MP who defected to the Liberals over a decade ago, could all be leading contenders for finance minister. Continue reading Nine things to watch as Canada's next Trudeau era begins →
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In Depth: Canada's general election
August 13, 2015 Kevin Lees	Leave a comment
With prime minister Stephen Harper's decision to call an election last week, Canada has now launched into a 13-week campaign that ends on October 19, when voters will elect all 338 members of the House of Commons, the lower house of the Canadian parliament.
By American standards, where Republican presidential candidates will gather for their first debate nearly six months before a single vote is cast (for the nomination contest, let alone the general election) a 13-week campaign is mercifully short. In Canada, however, it's twice as long as the most recent campaigns and, indeed, longer than any official election campaign since the late 1800s. But the major party leaders have already engaged in one debate — on August 6.
Plenty of Harper's critics suggest the long campaign is due to the fundraising advantage of his center-right Conservative Party. Harper, who came to power with minority governments after the 2006 and 2008 elections and who finally won a majority government in 2011, is vying for a fourth consecutive term. He'll do so as the global decline in oil prices and slowing Chinese demand take their toll on the Canadian economy, which contracted (narrowly) for each of the last five months.
Energy policy and the future of various pipeline projects (such as Energy East, Kinder Morgan, Northern Gateway and the more well-known Keystone XL) will be top issues in British Columbia and Alberta. Economic growth and a new provincial pension program will be more important in Ontario. Sovereignty and independence will, as usual, play a role in Québec — though not, perhaps, as much as in recent years.
In reality, the battle lines of the current election have been being drawn since April 2013, when the struggling center-left Liberal Party, thrust into third place in the 2011 elections, chose Justin Trudeau — the son of former Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau of the 1970s and 1980s — as its fifth leader in a decade. Trudeau's selection immediately pulled the Liberals back into first place in polls, as Liberals believed his pedigree, energy and sometimes bold positions (Trudeau backs the full legalization of marijuana use, for example) would restore their electoral fortunes.
Nevertheless, polls suggest* that two years of sniping from Harper about Trudeau's youth and inexperience have taken their toll. The race today is a three-way tie and, since the late spring, it's the progressive New Democratic Party (NDP) that now claims the highest support, boosted from the NDP's landslide upset in Alberta's May provincial election. (*Éric Grenier, the self-styled Nate Silver of Canadian numbers-crunching, is running the CBC poll tracker in the 2015 election, but his ThreeHundredEight is an indispensable resource).
With the addition of 30 new ridings (raising the number of MPs in Ottawa from 308 to 338) and with the three parties so close in national polls, it's hard to predict whether Canada will wake up on October 20 with another Tory government or a Liberal or NDP government. If no party wins a clear majority, Canada has far more experience with minority governments than with European-style coalition politics, and the Liberals and NDP have long resisted the temptation to unite.
Canadian government feels more British than American, in large part because its break with Great Britain was due more to evolution than revolution. Nevertheless, political campaigns have become more presidential-style in recent years, and the latest iteration of the Conservative Party (merged into existence in 2003) is imbued with a much more social conservative ethos than the older Progressive Conservative Party. The fact that polls are currently led by a left-of-center third party, the New Democratic Party (NDP), also demonstrates that the Canadian electorate, which benefits from a single-payer health care system, is willing to shift more leftward than typical American electorates.
Provincial politics do not often portend changes in federal politics, but the 2015 election is proving to be influenced by political developments in Alberta, Ontario, Québec, Manitoba and elsewhere, and many provincial leaders have not been shy about voicing their opinions about federal developments — most notably Ontario's Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne.
Continue reading In Depth: Canada's general election →
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Will Canada have a recession election?
August 6, 2015 Kevin Lees	Leave a comment
Stephen Harper has a timing problem.
Last week, Canadian officials announced that GDP contracted by 0.2% in May, the fifth consecutive decline in the country's economic growth. If on September 1, statistics show a further decline for June's GDP measurements and confirm the earlier 2015 data, Canada will officially be in recession — the generally accepted technical definition amounts to two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. Stephen Poloz, the governor of the Bank of Canada, recently cut the benchmark interest rate to 0.5% in July, and he may take further steps to loosen monetary policy if economic conditions continue to deteriorate.
For a prime minister seeking a fourth consecutive term in a general election on October 19, that presents a significant difficulty — and the economy will almost certainly loom large during the campaign's first debate tonight.
Even if Canada doesn't technically enter a recession during the election campaign, it will be an unwelcome distraction for a prime minister who in 2011 benefited from the perception that his government's economic leadership saw Canada through the worst of the US-originated global financial crisis.
Now, both Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and New Democratic Party leader Thomas Mulcair will be able to use the economy's flagging performance as a weapon against Harper. In particular, Mulcair's emphasis on creating jobs has boosted the NDP to a (very narrow) first place in polls. In May's provincial elections in Alberta, Rachel Notley and the Alberta New Democrats rode a wave of voter dissatisfaction to end 44 years of consecutive Tory rule. The outgoing premier, Jim Prentice, only recently returned to politics after a prior stint as a Harper loyalist in federal government, became the first political victim of lower oil prices in energy-rich Alberta.
He might not be the last. Continue reading Will Canada have a recession election? →
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'Pragmatic' Merentes winning control over Venezuela economic policy, but to what end?
August 17, 2013 Kevin Lees	1 Comment
When Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro appointed Nelson Merentes as his new finance minister shortly after Maduro's controversial election in April, no one knew whether Merentes would actually be the official in charge of economic policy.
That's because the former finance minister Jorge Giordani, the longtime policymaker in the era of former president Hugo Chávez, remained planning secretary — and in a huge public-sector country like Venezuela, there's little left untouched by central planning. Giordani, more than anyone else, was responsible for the statist economic policies of the Chávez era, including currency and price controls.
But this week, there was no mistaking that Merentes is now ascendant — Edmée Betancourt, who had served as president of Venezuela's central bank (BCV) for just over three months, stepped down in favor of Eudomar Tovar, an economist who was most recently the head of Venezuela's currency exchange (CADIVI). Betancourt, a former commerce minister, was seen as closer to Giordani and the more ideological, statist wing of chavismo, while Tovar and Merentes are associated with a more pragmatic, moderate view of economic policy. Rumors swirled last week that Giordani might soon leave the planning ministry, abandoning a recent push to raise taxes, to take up an ambassadorship soon.
Leave aside for a moment that in an era of central bank independence, neither Giordani nor Merentes would be dominating the BCV's monetary policy in a country with sounder financial institutions. If Merentes and Maduro really want to shake up Venezuela's economy for the better, they should start by reintroducing a line between the ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV, United Socialist Party of Venezuela) and the institutions of the Venezuelan state — starting with the BCV, but also with the national oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA).
Merentes's rise should provide at least some cautious optimism — if Giordani would have doubled-down on statist Chávez-era policies, at least Merentes seems to realize that Venezuela's basketcase economy has some problems. The central bank's reserves are dwindling, Venezuelan GDP growth has slowed to nearly nothing, and inflation has reached its highest level since before Chávez came to power in 1999 on the road to a potential hyperinflationary collapse.
But it remains far from clear that Merentes is willing to embark upon a program of true economic reform or whether Maduro has both the political capital and the political will to enable him to do so. Moves to devalue the bolívar both officially and unofficially earlier this year was a start in bringing the Venezuelan currency's stated value in line with its real market value, but the currency has decline further in value throughout they year: despite an official value of 6.3 bolívares to the dollar, its real value has dropped from around 20 at the time of the April 14 election to more than 30 or 35 today. Maduro took steps to tweak the currency exchange system through the introduction of SICAD auctions earlier this spring — because the vast majority of U.S. currency comes to Venezuela through the government's sale of oil products, the government must develop a mechanism to sell those dollars to importers who need hard currency. But neither Maduro nor Merentes have been in a rush to hold regular dollar auctions (only around $600 million has been auctioned off so far in 2013) or to deliver the actual dollars from the government to the private sector. But the fuss over SICAD and currency exchange is really just a stop-gap measure — if the 'pragmatists' can't even get this right, it leaves little faith in their ability to overcome more fundamental problems with Venezuela's economy.
Maduro and Merentes still hope that they can borrow their way out of Venezuela's current malaise, and the government had the brass to float the possibility two months ago that Merentes would go on a roadshow to New York and London to gauge appetite for Venezuelan bonds. That roadshow plan quickly fell apart when it became clear that there's little appetite for risky Venezuelan debt among global investors — yields on Venezuela's benchmark bond have been in the double digits since Maduro's election. Continue reading 'Pragmatic' Merentes winning control over Venezuela economic policy, but to what end? →
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Talk of Hillary Clinton campaign forces out old, dirty laundry
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WASHINGTON — For Hillary Rodham Clinton, the last few months might be comparable to a spring cleaning: An airing of her political past before she sets the course for her much speculated-about future.
As the former secretary of state and first lady mulls a presidential campaign in 2016, reminders of the tumultuous periods of her career have re-emerged in recent weeks: her husband's affair in the White House with Monica Lewinsky, her ill-fated attempt to overhaul the health care system and the deadly 2012 attack at a diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.
Bill Clinton said presidential campaigns always need to be about the future, but that gets complicated if Hillary Clinton runs again after losing out to Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination in 2008.
Republicans might press the argument that at a time when many Americans are unhappy with the nation's direction, she represents a bygone era marked by political soap operas.
Yet many Democrats say reminders of the 1990s — remember the booming economy? — could help Clinton, and that rehashing her past more than two years before the next presidential election could dispense with a variety of distractions.
If a Republican challenger or a Democratic primary opponent invoked Lewinsky, Whitewater, cattle futures or other retro story lines in 2016, Clinton's team could try to dismiss it all as old news.
"For the majority of people, this is an eye roll," contended Maria Cardona, a former Clinton campaign adviser.
Vanity Fair magazine published a first-person account this past week from Lewinsky in which she said Bill Clinton "took advantage" of her, but that their affair was consensual.
Lewinsky cited recently released papers from a longtime Hillary Clinton friend, Diane Blair, in which the former first lady called the once White House intern a "narcissistic loony toon." Lewinsky wrote that she found Hillary Clinton's "impulse to blame the Woman — not only me, but herself, troubling."
When the magazine posted excerpts of Lewinsky's account on its website, Clinton was speaking at a mental health conference and was asked about the 1993 suicide of White House counsel Vince Foster.
The magazine's story arrived as the National Archives continues to release documents from the Clinton White House that have shed more light on Hillary Clinton's role leading the 1993 health care task force. That's a politically volatile issue as both parties debate the merits of Obama's health law.
Republicans, meanwhile, have created a special House committee to investigate the Benghazi assault, and that could mean a long spotlight on Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
"The ghosts of Clinton past are coming out to haunt her future," said Alice Stewart, an Arkansas-based Republican strategist.
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Even her first political event of the year brings back memories of the Clinton White House years.
She will raise money Thursday for Marjorie Margolies, a Democratic candidate for Congress in Philadelphia's suburbs. Margolies served one House term in the 1990s and lost re-election after casting a decisive vote in favor of Bill Clinton's economic plan. Margolies is the mother-in-law of the Clintons' daughter, Chelsea.
Hillary Clinton is adding to the scrutiny with the publication next month of her memoir, "Hard Choices," about her time at the State Department.
In recent speeches, Clinton has described themes in the book. It starts with her decision to accept an offer to join her rival's Cabinet. It delves into Obama's authorizing the raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, Clinton's role in helping Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng seek refuge in the U.S. and the American effort to normalize diplomatic relations with Myanmar.
"Everybody faces hard choices in our lives," Clinton said last week.
Republicans are trying to define Clinton and her record long before she makes her final decision on 2016. It's a strategy that some in the GOP hope might encourage her not to run.
She remains a fundraising juggernaut for Republicans and potential challengers are already testing themes that could be used against her.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate, has raised the Lewinsky affair in recent months and he told members of the Republican National Committee on Friday that her handling of Benghazi "precluded herself from ever being considered for" the White House.
Also Friday, GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said in New Hampshire that Democrats were likely to nominate someone "who wants to take us to the past."
Yet Clinton's backers view the economic boom of the 1990s as a strong selling point. During a recent speech at Georgetown University, his alma mater, the former president made an extensive case for his economic record, citing the millions of people who emerged from poverty under his watch.
After years of economic struggles, the Clinton era might seem rosy.
"Anytime you remind voters of the '90s that's good for us," said Matt Bennett of the centrist Democratic group Third Way. "Even the bad stuff in the 90's seems quaint in comparison to what has happened since."
KEN THOMAS, Associated Press


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Q&A with Mark Nicks (a.k.a Cool Hand Luke)
Posted by Luke Goddard on Tuesday, October 13, 2009
"I mean, Christianity isn't cool, and it never has been for long. Especially Christian music. There comes a point that you have to decide if you want to look clever or if you want to follow Jesus. Very few people can pull them both off." -Mark Nicks (Cool Hand Luke)
Cool Hand Luke is a Nashville-based band variously classified as alternative rock, progressive pop, indie, and emo and signed to Lujo Records on March 16, 2008. How much of that is relevant to today's version of Cool Hand Luke? Mark Nicks, the visionary and only remaining member, answers that question in this Blue Indian Q & A. On March 22, 2009, Mark Nicks (the front-man of the band) announced that he was working to complete what he plans to be the final album under the "Cool Hand Luke" name. Nicks reported that he has no projected release date for the album. He has mentioned that he is considering titling the last album "Of Man." As a reader and a fan, you'd be interested in knowing that this last Cool Hand Luke record (which actually may not even be released under the CHL moniker) is one of the many projects this Tennessean, indie-God-fearing musical wizard is cooking in his pot of tasteful masterpieces. It was a pleasant experience working with Mark on this Q & A because of his hard-working wife, Brandy Nicks, who seems to take on the role as his PR person, among many other roles I'm sure. She made this process very smooth, as Mark is super busy with his handful of projects he seems to be simultaneously taking on. Of course, I asked him some personal, even difficult questions. As some sort of well-educated and highly-trained lawyer would respond, he does so with sophisticated elegance. If I suddenly decided to start rating Blue Indian interviews on a scale of 1-10 (1 being least), this would be a 15. Mark carefully considers each question posed and simply refuses to give the "safe" answer. His answers come form his heart, and most impressively, he and his responses are convincing.
[The following Blue Indian Q&A; was done by Luke Goddard.]
Blue Indian: Mark, thanks for chatting with The Blue Indian. I told this to Aaron Weiss: you're not big-time unless there's a Wikipedia page about your band. I'm only kidding. Before we get personal in this interview, I do have a few more generalized questions. Originally a punk rock band, things quickly changed, in terms of sound, when you joined the band. Was this a natural thing, or did you basically say, "Guys, this sucks. I think we should go this direction.
Mark (Cool Hand Luke): I wasn't as passionate about playing punk music as the other guys were, but I was the new guy so I kept my opinions to myself. The music actually changed rather naturally, and it didn't take long either. We just realized that people were pushing each other around when we played instead of hearing us. We wanted people to actually listen to our music and what we were saying, and hopefully ask themselves some questions. We started writing music that served the purpose more appropriately. It was a really exciting thing to see it all changing and to feel like we were doing something new.
BI: Cool Hand Luke was kind of known for playing with their backs facing the crowd. Is it true that the label you were own at the time (Floodgate Records) made you turn around?
Mark: No, not at all. The decision was our own. It was due largely to the venues we played. Sometimes there was a drum riser and a lot of drum mics and all that kind of thing. It got to be a real headache for the sound guy because I actually set up with the drums in the front of the stage facing backwards and he would have to move mics and monitors all over the place. Sometimes the soundguys would get really bummed out at us, which is not what we were going for. Several sound engineers who we knew and trusted also told us it just never would sound very good setting up that way. We didn't want playing backwards to be more important than people being able to hear and enjoy the music. In the early days we were playing crusty shows with no real p.a. and all that. As our music progressed and as the types of venues we played got more, um, real, we decided to set up more conventionally. Floodgate was always really cool about supporting who we were even though they didn't necessarily get it all the time.
BI: Will you ever go back to playing drums for The Chariot? Or are those days over?
Mark: Those days are definitely over. I miss playing drums because I don't get to play very often anymore. I would even play heavy music again, for fun. It just wasn't the right fit for me. I went into it thinking it would be something I did when I wasn't working on my own music, but it took a lot of my time and energy. My first tour with them was three months long. That's a big commitment for music I wasn't totally committed to.
[Shifting gears]
BI: Cool Hand Luke went from having around 5-6 members, being signed Floodgate (a very prominent label during it operative years), and just blowing up on the indie rock scene to a colossal break-up resulting in one-remaining member: the versatile Mark Nicks. Can you tell us what happened?
Mark: Well, there were only ever three actual members at a time. The last couple of tours we did before the 2004 break-up consisted
of a fourth guy to augment the core group and cover some of the parts from the recordings that we couldn't pull off with three guys. Basically, we just weren't getting along. To be more specific, I wasn't getting along with the other two guys. I think it was largely my fault because I was the anal visionary bossing everyone around. It's hard to say, though. We were all growing up and changing a lot. Our interests were changing, and everyone's devotion to the band was on different levels. Mine was through the roof. Sometimes the band eclipsed the people in the band, and that's never good. A big part of it, too, is that we had just toured for a really long time with no real break. We didn't have time to just live a normal life, and that really messes with your head. We couldn't just be friends because we were in each other's face all the time. After that break-up, I got some other guys to play with and resurrect Cool Hand Luke, and basically the same thing happened all over again. Different people and different circumstances, but it ended up in a very similar way. I regret a lot of things that I did and said over the course of playing in Cool Hand Luke, but I really think I've left that behind and learned a lot from it.
BI: What is Cool Hand Luke today? What does the future look like?
Mark: I've asked that same question a lot. Today, Cool Hand Luke is just my piano and me. I've been playing solo a lot this year. I've been playing mostly Cool Hand Luke songs, but it's way different since they were written for a rock band. Some of the songs didn't even have piano originally. There is some talk about the three original members reuniting to do some shows, but we'll see. We're all grown-ups with grown-up responsibilities and we don't live in the same city anymore. Things get so much more complicated when you're older. I've got to find some nineteen-year-olds to play with. As for the future, I know that I want to keep writing, recording, and playing. I have a few different things cooking right now, and I'm waiting to see which one gets done first. I'm going to record a live ep sort of thing. I'm recording a few songs in Nashville for who-knows-what. And I'm working on a concept record called "Of Man" in Atlanta. That's going to take some time. It's a big, epic undertaking that I feel very passionately about and very intimidated by. I hope to stay busy with music when I'm not working my day job.
BI: Mark, deep down, do you have a yearning for the original Cool Hand Luke to reunite?
Mark: Yes and no. I think in everything I've done since the original line-up broke up, I've been trying to recreate the way it used to feel somehow. It never has worked. I think that place doesn't exist anymore. If Brandon and Jason and I play together, it won't be like a bunch of college kids who are best friends. So much has changed and the thing I was trying to get back to isn't there anymore. I just saw Sunny Day in Atlanta last week. It was amazing seeing that band play those old songs and feeling things I haven't felt since high school. I was seeing old friends from high school and college who are fat moms and dads now. There was something really magical about it, but something really depressing at the same time. We are the old people now. I don't know that anyone would care or remember if Cool Hand Luke reunited. All those kids that used to come to our shows are parents who don't go to shows now. I'm scared it may be a let down. But on the other hand, it could be amazing. It would have to be something that we did just because we really wanted to do it one last time. No expectations. I'm very content with the music I'm writing and the shows I'm getting to play. I miss the old days, but they are the old days. I'll take it if it comes, but I think I'll be okay if doesn't.
BI: You're an artist who claims to be a Christian, so I'm assuming you believe Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven? What does that mean? And if so, does this mean the Buddhists, Muslims, Mormons, and so on are in the wrong? How can you be sure of this?
Mark: I do believe that Jesus is the only way to Heaven because I believe the words of Jesus. He said I am the way the truth and the life (John 14:6). Christianity is offensive because it claims exclusivity. Jesus claims exclusivity. It would be nice to say things about goodwill toward men and just being good people. But the fact of the matter is that none of us are good except by our own standards. We've all lied and hurt people and thought horrible things in our minds. And we do this to the people we love. Our friends, our children, our parents. If we can't even keep from hurting the people we love, how do we think we're going to get to Heaven based on the merit of being "good"? We need a Savior. I know with all that is in me that that is who Jesus is for us if we only believe. I didn't choose the way the gospel works, but I do believe it is the truth. My belief in Christ has nothing to do with the way I feel about people who aren't Christians except that hopefully it gives me even more compassion for them. If you're asking for some formula, some apologetic proof, I have none for you. Just as a Buddhist does not. Just as a Muslim does not. (Technically Mormons are Christians, but that's a whole different discussion.) That is faith, isn't it? Believing beyond proof. I know Jesus is who he said he is because his words ring true and I have experienced him. I have no more peace than when I am living my best to be like him. As I get older, it gets increasingly harder to live like he did because I start to see how far from that I am. It used to be about the things I did: going to church, reading the Bible, not doing drugs, etc. Now it is about my heart and how the condition of my heart affects my actions. Why do I or do I not rip music online? Why do I or do I not give money to a homeless man downtown? The more I know Jesus, the more I want to be like him, and the more I see I am not much like him at all. But can I prove that to you or anyone else? No, I cannot. I will only sound like a fool. I'm at peace with that because to most people, Jesus did, too.
BI: What are your thoughts on David Bazan (formerly lead singer for Pedro the Lion) walking away form his faith? Have you ever considered walking away? Giving up?
Mark: I don't know the man personally, so I really have no place to say. I have seen him play a few times and most recently, I left pretty bummed out. My thoughts on David Bazan are that he started caring a whole lot about what people think of him. Specifically, he started caring a lot about what people who aren't Christians think of him. I mean, Christianity isn't cool, and it never has been for long. Especially Christian music. There comes a point that you have to decide if you want to look clever or if you want to follow Jesus. Very few people can pull them both off. In an epistle called I Corinthians, the apostle Paul breaks down the way the gospel appears to people who don't believe it. It's in the first chapter, starting in verse 18. He starts by saying, "The message of the cross if foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God". From there he goes on to say that God knows the message of the cross is foolishness and it was his idea. It says he delights in the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. In other words, we have to make a decision whether we want to appear wise and scholarly or if we want to believe the truth. When I was in college at a secular school, I took a lot of philosophy classes. I was not respected for my faith in those classes. Not even the classes on Christ
ianity. Aside from all the negative connotations that Christians are bigots, hypocrites, right-wing Republicans, etc, I wasn't respected for believing in an absolute truth. I was taught about what God "really is" and where the "myths" came from. It really messed with my head. The pinnacle of my questioning Christianity hit on the one day that even atheists were praying, September 11, 2001. I was scared out of my mind. I couldn't even pray because I remember thinking, "What if there is a God, but he's angry at me because I'm praying to the wrong God." I felt like a huge hypocrite. Here I was the guy in the Christian band who talks about Jesus in bars, and I wasn't sure if I believed it. So, how did I get through it? I prayed anyway. I kept asking God if he was real and if Jesus was who he claimed he was. I Corinthians bought me a lot of peace in that time because God is basically saying that it doesn't take him by surprise that the gospel seems stupid to intellectuals. I think that tension will always be there. Otherwise, it's just another fact to take for granted. That's what makes this whole thing so exciting. A new fact doesn't change God. We can change what we believe, but it doesn't change the truth.
BI: Are you the type that would spend time praying for him [David Bazan] to return to his Christian beliefs? Or do you consider his spiritual well-being none of your business?
Mark: I fall somewhere in the middle. I'm the type of person who will think about his issues and read the gossip about them but never even think to pray for him. The truth is, I don't know the man and he seems to change his story a lot, so I can't really make a fair assessment based on that. I don't know his heart, so the best thing for me to do would be to shut up and pray for him. But I think his well-being is my business as much as he is a human being and I should want the best for any human being.
BI: Unlike most Christian artists today, I feel like Cool Hand Luke's music can be enjoyed by Christians, Muslims, Atheists, etc.(You get the point) Is this what you want?
Mark: I'm not sure many people would agree with you on that, but yes, that's what I would want. Because I'm not cryptic about my faith, most of the people who listen to our music are Christians and we end up getting booked at Christian venues more than general market venues. But we've always taken the music seriously and hoped to make good art that would hold up because it was good and not just because we were singing about something that a large part of our audience believes in. Every musician wants to be heard and wants to be respected. If they say otherwise, they aren't being honest. But it's also very important to me that I write about what is true and give people something more than just entertainment, and I believe that is the gospel. I have never intended to alienate anyone who doesn't believe what I do. But if gaining a wider audience comes at the expense of watering down what I write about or changing our music to be more formulaic and poppy, we'll keep the small audience. Because of that, we fall into this weird space where we are too Christian for the general market and too weird for the Christian market. So we just play our songs for whoever cares whether they are Christians or not.
[Leaving the personal stuff]
BI: Fair enough. But, CHL's stuff can be enjoyed by non-Christians because it's good music. I've talked to some Cool Hand Luke fans before writing up this Q & A, and many of them are hoping Cool Hand Luke returns to the format of you on drums doing lead vocals. Your thoughts?
Mark: I think that would be a blast. I hope that can happen. If there is a reunion, you can bet on it. If it's just me flying solo, that could get a bit weird.
BI: [Laughs] Cool Hand Luke has had a major influence on a Knoxville-based band, Standing Small. What's your opinion on those guys? Any advice for them?
Mark: They need to finish their record.
BI: Yes, they do. Let's talk about Cool Hand Luke's new record. Any surprise appearances on the record?
Mark: I won't say too much about it yet. Several different people have already played on it, and several more are planned to. I want it to be something that lots of my friends play on. If it takes me too long to finish it, I may not put it out as Cool Hand Luke.
BI: Are you going to release it on Lujo Records? Any desire to shop it around to major labels?
Mark: No and no.
BI: What are you most excited about with the new record?
Mark: I'm excited to have freedom to do whatever I feel like I'm supposed to do without someone on my shoulder telling me it needs to be shorter or have more choruses or sound more pop. I'm just going to let this breathe and tell the story it's meant to tell. I feel like it's possibly the most important musical endeavor I've taken on.
BI: Will you send it to us before it releases for a Blue Indian review?
Mark: Most definitely.
BI: Anything else you want to tell your fans? Upcoming tours, etc?
Mark: Don't forget about little old me. I've been quiet, but I've been busy. I have some shows coming up this winter, I hope to play a lot of shows next year and put out a ton of new songs.
BI: Mark, thanks man. We're fans here. We wish you continued success.
Mark: Thank you!! And congrats!!!!
Booking/Questions: [email protected]
Friday, October 23 @ 7:00 PM / The Core Venue, Houston, TX
Saturday, October 24 @ 7:00 PM / [email protected], Dallas, TX
Saturday, December 12 @ 7:00 PM / w/ DEREK WEBB & MATTHEW MAYFIELD / Rocketown, Nashville, TN
The following video of Mark Nicks performing "The Mirror" was shot and edited by Thomas Irby. Kirby and Nicks are currently working on a documentary about Cool Hand Luke.
[vimeo id=7035864]


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 * in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
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 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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 * is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express
 * or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
 * the License.
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/*
 * This code was generated by https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-java-client-services/
 * Modify at your own risk.
 */

package com.google.api.services.retail.v2beta.model;

/**
 * The inline source for the input config for ImportUserEvents method.
 *
 *
 This is the Java data model class that specifies how to parse/serialize into the JSON that is
 * transmitted over HTTP when working with the Retail API. For a detailed explanation see:
 * https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/java/google-http-java-client/json
 *

 *
 * @author Google, Inc.
 */
@SuppressWarnings("javadoc")
public final class GoogleCloudRetailV2betaUserEventInlineSource extends com.google.api.client.json.GenericJson {

  /**
   * Required. A list of user events to import. Recommended max of 10k items.
   * The value may be {@code null}.
   */
  @com.google.api.client.util.Key
  private java.util.List<GoogleCloudRetailV2betaUserEvent> userEvents;

  static {
    // hack to force ProGuard to consider GoogleCloudRetailV2betaUserEvent used, since otherwise it would be stripped out
    // see https://github.com/google/google-api-java-client/issues/543
    com.google.api.client.util.Data.nullOf(GoogleCloudRetailV2betaUserEvent.class);
  }

  /**
   * Required. A list of user events to import. Recommended max of 10k items.
   * @return value or {@code null} for none
   */
  public java.util.List<GoogleCloudRetailV2betaUserEvent> getUserEvents() {
    return userEvents;
  }

  /**
   * Required. A list of user events to import. Recommended max of 10k items.
   * @param userEvents userEvents or {@code null} for none
   */
  public GoogleCloudRetailV2betaUserEventInlineSource setUserEvents(java.util.List<GoogleCloudRetailV2betaUserEvent> userEvents) {
    this.userEvents = userEvents;
    return this;
  }

  @Override
  public GoogleCloudRetailV2betaUserEventInlineSource set(String fieldName, Object value) {
    return (GoogleCloudRetailV2betaUserEventInlineSource) super.set(fieldName, value);
  }

  @Override
  public GoogleCloudRetailV2betaUserEventInlineSource clone() {
    return (GoogleCloudRetailV2betaUserEventInlineSource) super.clone();
  }

}

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If you've been following our Instagram Stories you'll know that we've been in a bit of a predicament. In the process of taking up our entryway carpet - we discovered original wood floors (our home was built in 1800) deep underneath the plywood. So we asked ourselves what next? The debate formed over if we should paint the floors or have them sanded and stained. The debate got even more heated when we discovered it would be mid October by the time someone could get to our house for the sanding. The votes were in favor of waiting but I thought a good old fashioned pros and cons for both might be in order.
Painting on wood floors is still a bit of a taboo, and almost rarely done in our favorite home renovation shows but it was actually the preferred way to finish floors years ago. It wasn't uncommon to see different colors throughout a home in the Victorian era, and even old farmhouses painted the floors as a way of protecting the wood. While this trend isn't completely back in style - should it be?
As a society we've told ourselves "refinished wood floors are forever" but that's not entirely true. We went from loving darker wood stains to gray tones to now more natural wood stains. Just like everything else our love of wood floors changes with the introduction of new design trends. However stained wood floors are still a more expensive and superior trend to painted floors so it's worth considering the long term results as well.
Floor refinishing can be a big project while painting a floor is quite fast. The process of floor refinishing is not easy especially with an older home. Painting a floor requires a primer, a few coats, and can be done in even a day.
Painting is a pain to remove.
While painting floors is easier - it's a headache to remove.
Painted floors aren't for everyone, but beautiful hardwood floors pretty much are. Painting can detoriate over time and diminish the homes value as opposed to refinished wood floors that can actually add value.
Not all wood floors can be refinished.
If you live in an older home like ours it's quite possible there won't be enough wood left to refinish. If the floors have been sanded multiple times you may be closer to the actual nails that hold the boards down which makes it difficult to continue sanding. Painting may be a better option in a situation like this.
No one likes chipped paint.
One of the most common complaints about painted floors is that they chip over time, and they aren't great for high traffic areas. Think of a painted deck - it looks rough after a few years right? While painting initially is a lot less work it will require maintenance and routine updates.
Both refinishing and painting allow the wood to have a new life. Either option can create a new look for your home, and help update old spaces.
There are certainly pros and cons to both options. Our floors upstairs are painted, and I love them dearly. But we also have refinished floors in our den and dining room which we receive compliments on almost every time we have a new visitor. Here's my list of questions to ask before deciding to paint the floors.
Is this a high traffic area?
Will this color hold up for longer than a year?
Am I comfortable painting every coupleof years?
Do I mind that some people will hate this?
What do you think of the trend? Love it or hate it?


Planning to visit the Space Needle or MoPop? If you shop with Amazon you must stop by the Amazon Go store located between the Space Needle and Westlake Center in downtown Seattle at 7th & Lenora. If you happen to be near The Center for Wooden Boats in South Lake Union there is a Amazon Go store located at Boren & Thomas. The newest location is near the Seattle Downtown Public Library located at 5th & Marion.
It's Amazon's cashless/cashierless store. To enter the store one must download the Amazon Go app. It's more of a deli style store which includes fresh sandwiches, salad and dinner kits along with snacks, beverages, dairy items and you'll find the prices are competitive to other grocery stores. It's open Monday through Friday 7 am to 9pm. "Just Walk Out" About 20 to 30 minutes after leaving the store you will receive an email telling you how much you spent.


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