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In Edinburgh this week to catch Alex Salmond's triumphant re-election as Scotland's first minister, I picked up the Catalan phrase "poc a poc", deployed to evoke Barcelona separatists' strategy of "little by little" in their dealings with Madrid.
So when I heard Gerry Adams call for the "next page and the next page" to be turned during a radio discussion about the Queen's historic visit to the Republic, my ears pricked up.
If Gaelic had a word for chutzpah (perhaps it does?), the Sinn Féin president, now an Irish TD (MP), would win the chutzpah prize every time. He was on his best behaviour for the Queen's trip – even he can see it has been a modest success. Not daft, Mr Adams.
So he stressed his own republican credentials (in the broader constitutional sense) but also acknowledged the "affinity to the English crown" of many Irish unionists. The Queen's apology for past colonial wrongs had been sincere, though it could have been done "more directly", he said. It was still a work in progress.
John Bruton, the former Fine Gael taioseach, was also on Radio 4's Today, saying how splendid the visit had been, and long overdue. Adams was a bit equivocal on that point. But, amid the pleasantries, he was also working hard on his "poc a poc" agenda.
Ireland was still a divided island, and the Brits could do more to fully implement the Good Friday Agreement. What, for example, about their involvement (alleged) in the 1984 Dublin/Monaghan bombing, a loyalist attack in which 34 people died? Clearing that up would turn another page.
"We need to go on writing the next page and the next page and the next page," he said. Poc a poc.
Well, that's true. But history is also about rewriting past pages in the light of subsequent experience and current priorities.
It's what Salmond is skilfully trying to do in recasting Scotland's history, and he was being very conciliatory at Holyrood on Wednesday.
What Adams wants to write about the Monaghan bombings is not what plenty of other Irish people, on both sides of the border, would regard as a priority. They'd like more frank answers than they get from folk like Adams about what Sinn Féin/IRA did in the Troubles.
In making such points, I don't seek to be snide, as some posters predictably complain when – here this week – I tease Salmond for playing a double game, moderate and maximalist. Of course he plays a double game – most good politicians have to do that sometimes because they know that many voters are ambiguous within themselves, torn in two directions.
I've also got sympathy for nationalist underdogs of all sorts. How many other English Fleet Street writers have reported from Edinburgh, Cardiff and Dublin this year? But that doesn't mean to say I think the answer lies in the chimerical attractions of sovereign independence, whatever that means nowadays.
Salmond knows that, and so do all Scots who talk about what independence might mean precisely in practice. Would Scotland retain the Queen and sterling? Would it – could it – share its armed forces with residual Britain? Different people offer different ideas.
But those who say national sentiments can better be accommodated within the layered, shared sovereignties of the EU have a serious point. Remote power is always more attractive, which may be why the Orkney and Shetlands voted, alone, against devolution in 1979: London better than Edinburgh. Brussels better than London. Italians feel that about Rome.
But small state Europeans also have some hard questions to answer. It is not as if a shared supra-national currency is solving problems in 2011 – it is hurting Ireland's economy very badly, Portugal and Greece too – or that the pooling of foreign policy and military muscle over Libya is proving anything but difficult. The Americans will be very cross if they have to rescue another foreign policy failure in the feeble EU's backyard, as they did in the former Yugoslavia.
The trouble is that big states are often drawn into the affairs of small states on their borders because the small states make a nuisance of themselves or fail to manage their own affairs properly. That is where the expression " beyond the Pale" comes from. The Pale was Dublin's immediate hinterland, and things beyond it were pretty rough.
That is part of the story of empire everywhere. Yes, greed, ambition, and evangelical enthusiasm to spread civilisation, technologies and religion to assorted foreigners were driving forces, too. But so was the desire to stop cattle rustling, piracy, the kidnapping of women into slavery and other obstructions to peaceful co-existence.
The Romans took us in hand and introduced plumbing, roads and other refinements. Their British network of military roads was barely improved for 1,400 years after they went home.
That's the bit of page-writing Adams hastily turns over. The Romans never seriously tried to colonise Ireland; they briefly tried in Scotland – the film The Last Legion pays tribute to their bloody failure – and were beaten back, much as they were by the German tribes along the Rhine and Danube, the ones who eventually came over assorted walls and took over the show.
So Stone Age and Iron Age Celtic Ireland was left to its own thoroughly decentralised devices until the fearsome Norsemen from Scandinavia came up the beach after 795, much as they had been doing to terrified England. Organised resistance was pretty feeble, as it had initially been in England, and the Norsemen were absorbed.
In 1170, it was the Normans' turn to come up the Wexford beach, much as they did a century earlier in England under the banner of the baronial Earl of Pembroke ("Strongbow") and at the invitation of Dermot Macmurrough, the Irish King of Leinster, to help fight his own battles.
Bad move, Dermot. The old Anglo-Irish aristocrats never left. They assimilated, too – "more Irish than the Irish" was the contemporary complaint – and took as little notice of London as they could. But they never left, and were almost certainly in the banqueting hall for the Queen's visit this week.
Henry II tried, and failed, to quell them. Only when the Tudors – centralising, modernising monarchs who knew what dangers lurked for English kings on England's frontiers(they came in via a Welsh backdoor themselves) – took power was a systematic attempt made to organise central power in Ireland.
Alas, the fatal combination of Presbyterian colonialists being settled in Ulster – the Plantations – and Celtic Ireland's rejection of the Protestant cause guaranteed that England's enemy for the next 400 years would usually be Ireland's friend.
A quirk of history ensured that would-be tyrannical English kings, in cahoots with Catholic Absolutist theories, got into the habit of raising Irish armies. Bad move again.
Spaniards, French, more recently Germans also made persistent attempts to invade or subborn the growing power of England via Ireland. Sir Roger Casement, knighted for humane imperial service, was caught in a gun-running German submarine in 1916. The more Ireland wriggled in its larger neighbour's embrace, the more the grip was tightened.
Whatever Salmond says, the history of Anglo-Scots relations is very different – much more balanced from the start, its landed elites more willing than the Irish to embrace the British project. But we can see everyone's point of view, even Adams's.
He's only the latest in a long line of bearded Celtic chietftains whose tribal impulse is to resist central authority, in London or in Dublin.
In the eternal tug between the freedom of the road and civilisation, with its hot showers and old-age pensions, it is a grand romantic vision that the legacy bombers of the Continuity IRA are still reluctant to give up.
I'm sure the Queen, who must feel a bit constrained in her day job, will understand the tug. She is, after all, a horse woman and very fond of the Highlands.


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Men's Basketball Release: Week 14
Feb. 10, 2010
Complete Release in PDF Format
FACES of the Big Ten
ZACK NOVAK, michigan sophomore guard
RACE FOR SUPREMACY: With just four weeks remaining in the Big Ten regular season, six teams are above .500 in the conference standings, with Michigan State holding a one-game advantage at 9-2. Three teams are knotted at 8-3 for second place in Illinois, Ohio State and Wisconsin. Purdue sits alone in fifth place with a 7-3 mark. Things heat up in the race this week when No. 10/10 Michigan State hosts No. 6/6 Purdue. A Spartan win could push them 2.5 games ahead of the Boilermakers. Tied at 8-3, Illinois travels to Wisconsin, as one team will gain the edge and pull ahead in the race.
TURNING HEADS: Ohio State's Evan Turner is currently among the top two in points, rebounds and assists in the Big Ten. If Turner's numbers stand, he could become the only player in Big Ten history to finish in the top three in each category since assists became an official stat during the 1983-84 season. The Buckeye sophomore is averaging 19.7 points per game (1st), 9.4 rebounds (1st) and 5.7 assists (2nd). Only five players in Big Ten history have finished in the top 10 of those categories since 1983-84, including both Turner and Michigan's Manny Harris last season. No Division I player has achieved those minimums since at least 1996-97. The only player in NBA history to match those numbers in a season was Wilt Chamberlain, who did so in both the 1966-67 and 1967-68 seasons.
1989-90 | Steve Smith, Michigan State
(1st in points - 20.2, T7th in rebounds - 7.0, 4th in assists - 4.8)
1991-92 | Jim Jackson, Ohio State
(1st points - 22.4, 8th rebounds - 6.8, 7th assists - 4.0)
1995-96 | Brian Evans, Indiana
(1st points - 21.2, 3rd rebounds - 7.1, 8th assists - 4.1)
2008-09 | Evan Turner, Ohio State
(1st points - 17.3, 3rd rebounds - 7.1, 8th assists - 4.0)
2008-09 | Manny Harris, Michigan
(2nd points - 16.9, 6th rebounds - 6.8, 5th assists - 4.4)
POLL POSITION: Four Big Ten teams are ranked among the AP top 15 this week to tie the Big East with the most teams in that group. The Big 12 has three teams among the top 15, while the SEC has two and the ACC has one. Purdue is currently ranked sixth, Michigan State 10th, Wisconsin 11th and Ohio State 13th.
INSTANT IMPACT: Northwestern's Drew Crawford is among only four freshman in the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-10 and SEC who is averaging at least 11.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 1.5 assists. The first-year Wildcat is averaging 11.3 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists while logging 27.7 minutes per game. A complete breakdown of top freshmen appears below.
Player, School Points, Rebounds, Assists
Alec Burks, CU 16.8 ppg, 4.8 rpg, 1.7 apg
Schools Illinois Indiana Iowa Maryland Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Nebraska Northwestern Ohio State Penn State Purdue Rutgers Wisconsin
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24'x14' out building
Okay the rough size is as stated some more info is, its stuco mostly just studs on the inside with to interior walls to create a small garden work room, about 5'x6' didn't measure this as these two walls will be demoed. I am looking to put in a wall the full width about 6'-8' from the back side for storage for my wife. The rest of the building will be my work shop. The work shop will be insulated and heated/cooled. What I need help with is should I install a vapor barior? Should I install insulation in the storage area? The storage area has its own door and the work shop has two doors
May I ask, Where are you located?
New mexico
Bump for more info
Not sure about new mexico but here it is done, insulate part for the shop then another part uninsulated for storage.
I think that it is always better to insulate, it makes the space more comfortable even for the area you are not conditioning. Although I do not live in a dry climate, my understanding is that in a dry climate any moisture generated from the inside will easily vent out, therefore no vapor barrier. Also, you are not likely to generate the moisture in the shop/storage shed that you would in the residence.
well took another look, and it looks like i should redo the roof, its a tar with Lava rock, though not much lova rock left. So i am thinking that i will take all that off, and install a metal roof, and some roof vents and proper soffet vents since those were not installed with the soffets that were install. this same treament will eventuly go to the house as well. No atic vents there either.
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Surprisingly, psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses "were just as likely" as their primary care counterparts to display negative biases toward individuals with schizophrenia seeking general medical care, according Dinesh Mittal, MD, staff psychiatrist with the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arkansas.
In a press briefing at the recent American Psychiatric Association (APA) meeting in San Francisco, Mittal described a study in which he and his colleagues sought to determine whether mental health and primary care providers at Veterans Affairs facilities treat patients with and without schizophrenia any differently. The authors did so by analyzing the providers' responses to clinical scenarios.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Anaplan Finds $100M For Finance Planning, Modeling
San Francisco-based Anaplan said today that it has raised $100M in a Series D funding round, for the company's finance planning and modeling software. The funding was led by DFJ Growth, and also included Brookside Capital, Coatue Management, Sands Capital Management, and Workday, along with Granite Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, salesforce.com, and Shasta Ventures. The company said the new round brings its total raised to $150M. Randy Glein of DFJ Growth joins the company's board with the funding. More information »


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Emerald Jet Charter Expands with Helicopter Travel
Luxury Aircraft: Emerald Jet Charter announced that it now is offering helicopter travel along with chartering private business jets. The company is offering the service out of three major heliports in New York City. The goal in offering the helicopter service is to offer more cost-effective options for customers, according to Tracy Nuzzo, president of the NYC-based private aviation firm.
Why book a jet or large helicopter and pay a higher price if you only need room for two people and bags for the weekend or business meeting? This is why we focus on tailoring the type of aircraft to fit our client's needs. It helps them achieve their travel goals, while at the same time also helping the environment through using less fuel and our standard no-cost carbon offset program, said Ms. Nuzzo.
Emerald Jet Charter also charters helicopter travel outside the NYC area. During the summer season, the Hamptons is the most popular destination. Atlantic City, Martha's Vineyard, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, DC, also are cities requested by clients wanting to charter a helicopter.


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5 Shot, 1 Dead At Ft. Lauderdale Block PartyA young man is dead and four others were left hospitalized after gunfire erupted during a block party in a Ft. Lauderdale neighborhood.
Ft. Lauderdale Police Chief Holds Presser To Discuss His Transition To BSO"Thirty-six years with the department, chief for eight," said Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley. "Time to do something new."
Ft. Lauderdale Police Chief Stepping Down, Joining BSOFt. Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley is trading one badge for another after announcing his resignation.
22 Arrested As 'Operation: Bad Karma' Sweeps Through Ft. LauderdaleThis is a story of a community fighting to take back its streets and working with Fort Lauderdale police to make that happen.
Memorial Service For Ft. Lauderdale Police OfficerHundreds of police officers and first responders from across South Florida gathered at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Friday for a memorial service for one of their own.
Woman Arrested Again After Escaping From HandcuffsA woman who escaped police custody following an arrest was apprehended on Sunday.
Investigators Reopen Cold Case After Mother's Murder In Ft. LauderdaleFt. Lauderdale Police have reopened an eight-year-old cold case involving the shooting death of a woman in the hopes that someone from the community may be able to shed light on what happened.
Lauderdale Police Step Up To Help Couple Caring For 14 KidsIt was the surprise of a lifetime Doris Reed, her husband and the 14 grandchildren, and great grandchildren, who live with them.
Ft. Lauderdale Police Officer On Trial For Battery On Homeless ManBruce LaClair admits he was homeless and had a few beers before falling asleep on a bus bench at a Fort Lauderdale bus terminal on February 22, 2015.
Search Called Off For Missing Lauderdale SwimmerThe search has been called off for a missing swimmer off a Ft. Lauderdale beach.
Pedestrian Expected To Survive After Getting Struck In StreetA pedestrian is expected to survive his injuries after being hit by a car, according to Ft. Lauderdale Police.
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|Sesame Street
|Zoe at daycare
|Air date
|April 14, 1994
|Season 25 (1993-1994)
|Zoe is dropped off at Angela's daycare and is feeling sad. Jamal suggests she lift her spirits by saying hello to everyone. Zoe gives everyone a silly hello, when Jamal has to head off to work. Zoe gets sad again, but perks up when Jamal says he'll see her later.
| Vaudeville duo Herman Happy and Stanley Sad sing a song about how they live up to their names.
(EKA: Episode 0789)
| Pageant: Where Milk Comes From
(EKA: Episode 2837)
| Speech Balloon - I: An iron irons the word.
(EKA: Episode 0340)
| An I-beam is molded at a steel factory as heavy industrial-type music underscores the action. The segment ends on a video freeze of the finished beam, which is shaped like the letter "I."
(EKA: Episode 1450)
| "I in the Sky"
(EKA: Episode 0427)
| Tim Robbins and Elmo talk about surprise.
(EKA: Episode 3015)
| A paranoid bird doesn't like to be surprised ... unless it's a surprise party.
Artist: John Korty
(EKA: Episode 2755)
|Zoe plays with some sticks Jamal brought from the park. Even though she's given them all the same name (Shirley), she can tell them apart by how they look.
| Elmo sings "In Your Imagination."
(EKA: Episode 3119)
| 3 song (butterflies, birthday presents, waving pennants etc.)
(EKA: Episode 2208)
| Benny and his boss have been waiting for Lefty for a long time. Benny wonders how they will know when it's Lefty at the door, so he informs him that Lefty will knock three times - their secret knock to enter their hideout. Lefty forgets, so they won't let him in until he finally gets three knocks. When they let him in, the boss informs him that if he forgets the number of knocks again, he's in big trouble. So, to test his memory, the boss and Benny lock themselves out and knock the door to see if Lefty knows which is the correct number. He forgets once again, which gets him very worked up and runs out of the hideout, leaving the other two locked outside.
(EKA: Episode 0722)
| Number Three Ball Film (cherry version)
(EKA: Episode 1707)
| A boy imagines his room turning into a jungle.
Artist: Karen Aqua
(EKA: Episode 2856)
| Future careers: footage of a kid acting out a certain job, followed by an adult doing "the real thing."
(EKA: Episode 0796)
| An apple, an orange, and a pear learn they can cooperate by rocking and rolling.
(EKA: Episode 0791)
|Big Bird and the Birdketeers arrive at day care to recruit some new members. He sings how "You Can Be a Birdketeer." He leaves, inviting everyone to the next meeting. He immediately returns - the next meeting's starting now!
| Can you think of words that rhyme with BALL? (voice of Daws Butler).
(EKA: Episode 0796)
| In an Alaskan village, a doctor makes a regular visit to a clinic.
(EKA: Episode 2485)
| Airplanes carve the capital and lowercase A.
(First: Episode 3209)
| Muppet & Kid Moments: Ernie, Bert and Shola observe a letter A. Ernie calls out, "A, Bert!"
(EKA: Episode 1316)
| Speech Balloon: A for Ape
(First: Episode 0006)
| "Cow Dog Song"
(EKA: Episode 0796)
| A man teaches his dog Rover how to read the word SIT.
(EKA: Episode 0304)
| Muppet & Kid Moments: Andrew counts for Grover.
(EKA: Episode 3135)
| Counting 40 pigs
Artist: Keith Haring
(EKA: Episode 3084)
|Big Bird introduces the newest member to the Birdketeers: Zoe, who sings "My Name Is Zoe."
| A boy learns to play his violin by practicing.
(EKA: Episode 1736)
| James talks about how great it is to be Indian-American, because he gets to learn about things from two different places.
(EKA: Episode 3191)
| The moon listens to everyone say "Good night" in different languages.
(EKA: Episode 2243)
| Hoots tells Ernie to "Put Down the Duckie".
Celebrity version #2; this version replaces Paul Reubens, Mookie Wilson and Keith Hernandez of the New York Mets, New York Giants, and Pete Seeger's appearance with Phil Donahue, Robert MacNeil, Barbara Walters and Gladys Knight and the Pips.
(EKA: Episode 3076)
|Buttons ride a rollercoaster "up and down."
|Zoe learns about collages is with some visual examples. They count 6 butterflies in a garden collage, but Angela only recalls there being 5. One flutters away.
| A man (Jim Thurman) is interrupted as he tries to recite the alphabet. (new music added)
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(EKA: Episode 1710)
| Kids in Jamaica play bongo drums.
(EKA: Episode 3160)
| "Cereal Girl"
(EKA: Episode 2687)
| A monster named Doc has trouble getting to sleep at night, until the teeth in his dream remind him to brush his own.
(EKA: Episode 3145)
| "Playground Map Song"
(EKA: Episode 2680)
|A magician performs a trick that makes birds appear, and fish can be glimpsed between them.
|Zoe shows off her collage: "Today on Sesame Street." It includes a yellow feather, butterfly and a stick, as well as today's sponsors.
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putting up a bathroom cabinet
I'm trying to put up a cabinet in my bathroom and I measured the distance painstakingly beween the nail slider hooks, but then I drilled the hole, put in the drywall anchor and the screw, and tried to slide the cabinet on - I'm like an 1/8th of an inch off. What do I do now? I'm afraid that if I pull out the screw and drywall mounts the mounts will break and I won't be able to use it and it's a special screw that fits into the holders on the cabinet.
I need a picture to tell you exactly what to do.
However there are all sorts of anchor available,some that will not mind being installed next to a hole.
A tip to all-----when you need perfect spacing like this--don't use a ruler--
Use your level--hold it up to the cabinet or shelf or whatever and mark the hole locations right on the level-----then put the level on the wall--
and transfer the marks to the wall with a sharp pointed tool like a nail,awl or tiny screwdriver.
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