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Nice Questions on the Inner Cover. But a lot of things we don't know on this side of the Atlantic. You have to lived in the 1950s in the USA to give correct answers.
14 September 1978. Public Questions Forum: "Who are the Polluters" Speakers: Lord Mayor Frank Arkell and University of Wollongong senior Physics lecturer Dr. K. Ausburn.
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Anyone know of Objective-J syntax highlighting in vi?
"... the source on github now include a vim highlight module ..."
I've found just doing what is suggested here is not enough:
- download the file as Francisco suggests
- unzip, "cd Tools/" dir
- run the shell, "sh install-tools"
- copy the objj.vim file to vim dir, "cp Tools/Editors/objj.vim /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/"
Problem
I found no syntax highlighting worked for ".j" files. So the problem here is no file extension recognition. If you are using gvim as I am there is also no menu item.
Add Objective-J to gvim menu
To add a menu-item in gvim for Syntax->Ne-MO->Objective J:
- "sudo vim /usr/share/vim/vim71/synmenu.vim"
add the following line.
- "an 50.70.465 &Syntax.Me-NO.Objective\ J :cal SetSyn("objj")<CR>" below the objective-C entry.
save and quit
- ":wq!"
then reload a ".j" file in gvim. If you then go:
- Syntax->Ne-MO->Objective J
highlighting for your selected Objective-J file should occur.
Objective-J auto-highlighting?
But what about auto-highlighting when you load the file? There appears to be no file associations. So:
- "sudo vim /usr/share/vim/vim7.1/filetype.vim"
In the file you will find a list of filetype associations. If you want an idea where to add the line, search for "setf ocaml" in filetype.vim. Add the line below above (alphabetical):
- """ Objective J au BufNewFile,BufRead *.j setf objj"
Save the result. You should now be able to load a file with a ".j" extension and syntax highlighting for Objective-J files works.
Result
Now you should get automatic recognition of the Objective-J files by file type ".j" and a way to set this filetype in gvim. This probably should be added by Bram or whoever does the official release of vim but for the moment this hack works for me. (Ubuntu 8.10, Vim 7.1)
before I answered the question
Mucking around with Objective-J and Cappuccino today. There's a good reason for it. Just testing at the moment. Doing so I had to find out how to get Objective-J to work with vim and in the process did a small writeup on stackoverflow for syntax highlighting in objective-j and vim. There are a few other hacks on getting Objective-J and Vim syntax highlight to work.
next day
Have my old account back with new questions ~ stackoverflow.com/users/2092/bootload thanks Jeff.
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Non enfatizziamo troppo il ruolo del disco nella società moderna. Alla fine un disco non è altro che un cerchio di plastica con un buco. I dischi si dividono in: dischi e cd. Il disco, detto anche vinile, è nero, è più grande, ha il buco più piccolo e si sente meglio; ma fruscia. Il disco in questione però è un cd, quindi più piccolo, col buco più grande e non fruscia. Si chiama "L'album biango" ed è stato registrato e prodotto agli inizi del XXI secolo dagli Elio e le Storie Tese, insieme a Max Costa.
Perché l'avete intitolato "L'album biango"? Così. C'è chi dice che ci siamo ispirati all'album bianco dei Beatles, chi ci trova dei riferimenti all'albume dell'uovo cotto (perché quello crudo è trasparente), ma la risposta esatta è: "Così." Una caratteristica dell'album biango è che se provi a scriverlo su un computer moderno diventa "L'album bianco". Tu credi di aver sbagliato, invece è stato il correttore automatico. Allora tu lo riscrivi e scopri che "biango" è sottolineato da una linea rossa tratteggiata come a dire: "OK se proprio insisti scriverò "biango", ma sappi che non mi è andata giù". Non mi è andata giù? Ma che cazzo vuoi, correttore automatico di merda che continui a correggermi parole che non voglio correggere unicamente per cercare di giustificare la tua esistenza, ringrazia Dio che non riesco a disattivarti.
Su questo "L'album bianco" c'è poco altro da dire, se non che è colmo di ospiti straordinari come Area, Eugenio Finardi, Nek, Vittorio Cosma, Fabio Treves e che è costato molta molta tanta fatica agli Elio e le Storie Tese i quali in più di un'occasione, mentre lo stavano registrando elettronicamente, si sono guardati e si sono domandati: "Ma cosa stiamo facendo?"
La storica band comprende Elio (cantante, flautista), Vittorio Cosma (pianola) - che sostituisce nel tour Rocco Tanica -, Cesareo (chitarra alto), Faso (chitarra basso), Christian Meyer (batteria), Jantoman (ulteriori pianole), Paola Folli (cantante) e Mangoni.
Question Mark Butterfly, This rather plain looking butterfly is a lifer for me.
This is the light phase of the Question Mark, so the signature Question Mark in the back wing, from which it gets its name and is so visible in the dark phase is very difficult to see. Question marks are a moderately common woodland butterfly.
They are definitely the most difficult butterflies to photograph that I have ever encountered, Firstly they do not feed on nectar so they do not visit flowers, secondly they live on the edge of woods and will retreat ligh into the trees if disturbed, thirdly they are extremely skittish - and generally will not let a person get closer than ten or twently feet. Lastly they only sit for a few seconds before they flit away. So although I have seen Question Marks on several occasions, I have never even come close to getting a shot until this.- next time I get the spectacular black orange and violet upper wing.
Question Marks are a member of the Comma family of forest butterflies.
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Question Mark. Aus der Serie „Satzzeichen“ 2014
Rotierende Skulptur aus Lianen Findling, fluoriszierendes Klebeband, schwarze Totenkopf Büchse und Schwarz Licht
Skulptur, Objekt, Video, Installation, Fotografie
Markus Wintersberger 2014
I found this Species Polygonia interrogationis - Question Mark - Hodges#4420 Caterpillar on the underside of a Beech leaf while walking the dog this morning. Looks like it may be getting ready to molt...
SLOW DANCE IS A DEBATE FORMAT ( ART FORMAT = www.emergencyrooms.org/formats.html)
here the question at the Maldives Pavilion in Thierry Geoffroy installation was meanwhile slow dancing :
CAN EMERGENCIES BE RANKED ?
together with the BIENNALIST and EMERGENCY ROOM MOBILE
www.emergencyrooms.org/biennalist.html
Biennalist is an Art Format by Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel debating with artistic tools on Biennales and other cultural managed events . Often those events promote them selves with thematics and press releases faking their aim . Biennalist take the thematics of the Biennales very seriously , and test their pertinance . Artists have questioned for decade the canvas , the pigment , the museum ... since 1989 we question the Biennales .Often Biennalist converge with Emergency Room providing a burning content that cannot wait ( today before it is too late )
Countries( nations ) that will participate at the Venice Biennale 55 th ( 2013 Biennale di Venezia ) in Italy ( at Giardini or Arsenale or ? ) , Encyclopedic Palace is curated by Massimiliano Gioni
Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria,
Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech , Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Canada, Chile, China, Congo,
Slovak Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia,
Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore
Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zimbabwe
the Bahamas, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Republic of Kosovo, Kuwait, the Maldives, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria and Paraguay
Eight countries will also participate for the first time in next year's biennale: the Bahamas, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Republic of Kosovo, Kuwait, the Maldives, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria and Paraguay. In 2011, 89 international pavilions, the most ever, were accessible in the Giardini and across the city.
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I noticed that some flowers were really dried up inside, similar to this one. Also, some barely had the stamen and pistol, yet pollinators still went to the flower and stayed there for some time. Is it possible that they could still feed from flowers that do not contain these parts?
Question Mark. Aus der Serie „Satzzeichen“ 2014
Rotierende Skulptur aus Lianen Findling, fluoriszierendes Klebeband, schwarze Totenkopf Büchse und Schwarz Licht
Skulptur, Objekt, Video, Installation, Fotografie
Markus Wintersberger 2014
We asked 70 People, Seven Questions About Race & Ethnicity in American Culture!
This Video is What they Said!
A Final Presentation for Prof. Joyce Maxwell’s Honors Studies HRS103 Course “Race and Ethnicity in American Culture” hrs103.wordpress.com/7Questions
Presented by... Binu JACOB, Jasmine NIEVES, Chris MAURO, & Joseph EULO
The 7 Questions:
1Q-How Do You Define "Race"?
Anonymous Question: I Define Race as a Positive Word
Results:60% Agreed, 28% Disagreed, 12% Had No Opinon
2Q-How Do You Define Ethnicity?
Anonymous Question:I Define Ethnicity as a Positive Word
Results: 60% Agreed, 28% Disagreed, 12% Had No Opinon
3Q-What Is The Difference Between Race and Ethnicity?
Anonymous Question:There is a Difference Between Race and Ethnicity
Results:82% Agreed, 16% Disagreed,2% Had No Opinon
4Q-Why Do You Think The 2009 Presidential Election Was So Important In US History?
Anonymous Question:The Past Election Was Very Important in U.S. History
Results:94% Agreed, 6% Had No Opinon
5Q- How Does The Current President Influence The Way Americans View Each Other?
Anonymous Question: The Current President Positivley Influences the Way Americans View Each Other
Results:88% Agreed, 12% Disagreed
6Q-How Does The Current President Influence The Way America Is Viewed Abroad?
Anonymous Question: The Current President Positively Changes the Way America Is Viewed Abroad
Results: 90% Agreed, 10% Disagreed
7Q- How Has The 2008 Presidential Election Opened up Dialogue On Issues of Race?
Anonymous Question: The 2008 Presidential Election Has Opened Up Dialogue on Issues of Race
Results: 82% Agreed, 4% Disagreed, 14% Had No Opinon
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Question or Declaration
A cat’s stare up at a person is sometimes a question and other times a declaration. I’m not sure which Madeleine is expressing. 2/28/2015 Photo by John Pemble
Question 3
How many pillars with white tips can you find in the water next to the "Zijlpoortsbrug" ...
Who is not allowed to pass this bridge a) bikes b) pedestrians c) cars ...
(2 points)
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The National Palace of Mafra, the Franciscan convent and its church is a truly magnificent monument to visit. Being one of the most important Baroque buildings in Portugal it was financed with the gold from Brazil (a Portuguese colony at the time) and it’s a symbol of the absolutist reign of D. João V. Its construction started 1711 and ended up with a palace with over 1200 rooms, from which the library is the most magnificent example. Housing about 40.000 books from the 18th century is the biggest and richest in the world from its age. Since law to science books many relics can be seen there.
Still, due to the Napoleon invasions this library was not finished as it has no paintings to decorate it. The monks had to run away from the invaders and never completed the work. This Napoleonic invasion also made the Portuguese Royal Family seek refuge in Brazil taking with them the best and most important pieces from the palace. These can only be seen in Brazil nowadays, as the family in its return left them there. But there are still many, many great historical pieces to be seen.
The church included in the building is completely stunning, and it houses the largest and finest collection of Italian statues from the 18th century existing in Portugal. It also has a group of six organs, with themes specifically made to be played on them and thus is impossible to be reproduced anywhere else in the world, and the famous 96 bells which play musical themes once a week. These last two features are unique in the world by their dimension, complexity and richness.
Dan Maffei of Transcore answers questions about The Toll Roads' new all-electronic toll collection electronic equipment at a press conference held today to mark the launch of The Toll Roads' three new ExpressAccount types.
The Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA) today introduced three new ExpressAccount™ payment options, which give customers more choices on how to pay tolls. TCA, which operates The Toll Roads (SRs 73, 133, 241 and 261) will remove all cash toll collection from the 51-mile toll road network in May 2014.
The New ExpressAccounts – New Ways to Pay Tolls Without Stopping
With the new, transponder-free ExpressAccounts, images of a vehicle’s license plate taken on The Toll Roads are linked to an account and the appropriate toll is collected. When customers sign up for an ExpressAccount, they may choose one of three payment options:
•Prepaid – Customers open an account with a prepaid balance and tolls are deducted from the amount whenever they use The Toll Roads.
•Charge – At the end of each day, customers tolls are charged to the credit card on file for each trip on The Toll Roads.
•Invoice – Customers are sent an invoice at the close of the month for tolls incurred that month; no need to use a credit card or link a bank account to your account. This account type includes an invoice fee.
ExpressAccounts can only be used on The Toll Roads (SRs 73, 133, 241 and 261). And the toll is on average 20 percent higher than the toll paid by a FasTrak customer.
FasTrak: Still Lowest Tolls
Customers with FasTrak, which uses transponder technology affixed to a vehicle’s windshield, will continue to pay the lowest tolls and may be used on all toll roads, lanes and bridges throughout California. FasTrak customers won't have to make any changes to their accounts when cash collection ceases on The Toll Roads.
Learn more at TheTollRoads.com.
This is a crop from an image taken with the 70-200 and the extender. Taken at Cabárceno Nature Park. I am not sure of the specie of bird it is, so I would thank if anybody could help me with the question.
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This is the question I keep hearing from my non birding friends and family members. Every time I show them a duck in flight image they ask this question in surprise.
The answer is Yes. They can fly. Most ducks migrate across continents.
The duck in this image is Northern Shoveler. They are winter migrants to India and come from as far as Europe and North America. After spending the winter, they again go back to where they came from.
This to and fro journey is quite tiring and a very important one for their survival. Some weak and old ones don't make it! Some of these ducks has to cross the Himalayas to make it to the more warmer regions in India. Even for birds, crossing himalayas during winter is not an easy job at all.
These birds need more respect and care from the local communities.
Nikon D800E, Nikon AF-S 600mm f4 + Nikon AF-S 14TE II
Thomas Hitchcock Jr, Sands Point Polo, May 7, 1939, 79287
Photo by Bert Morgan
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This is my response to question what turns a space into a place, and is based on the story of a tiny village (80 people) in the Swiss mountains that got over 42,000 friends on Facebook when they offered to post the picture of the people who "liked" them on the village bulletin board. Later People came from as far away as Brazil to visit the village.
If only people everywhere could be as nice as these 2.
Yes, Willie Dick is his real name. (A bit repetitive I agree.)
- (The following's only of interest to close family or relatives on my Mom's Mom's side.)
- I took some time to explore Clunie and to network with local history buffs in my search for the legendary 'Miller of Clunie', a McLaren, who, according to my great uncle Mac, had been my great x 3 or 4 grandfather (Mom's Mom's Dad's Dad's Dad or his Dad). The church (1840) was locked, but the local vicar, a woman I met at her home after I was given her phone number and address, guided me in her car to the home of these two who were very helpful and informative with a wealth of local records and maps that we pored over around their dining room table. I then visited the home of a family who were living in what had been the renovated Free Church dating from the mid 19th cent., and which I thought might have been the church of the Miller and his family. (Nope, the 'Free Church' formed in 1843.) The current owners and their daughter, originally from northern England, were as welcoming and as nice as people you'll ever meet anywhere. The husband/father told me that he'd found a 'horse brass' there with the alleged Miller's surname on it, McLaren (my grandmother, Mom's Mom, was a McLaren). I then drove to Caputh where members of Clunie's Free Church congregation buried their dead in the cemetery there after they'd walked the 4 miles to that town on a road known as 'coffin way', and found several old tombstones with the McLaren name. They didn't have any apparent connection with a Miller, but I wondered if they had some connection to my tree. I didn't find any McLarens in the churchyard at Clunie.
- I might have been prone to confirmation bias that day for Mac had only part of the history right. I've learned since that my great x 3 granddad, George McLaren Sr., wasn't living in Clunie but in or near Logierait, a town at a distance of half an hr.'s drive away (a little closer as the crow flies) when he and his wife begat great great granddad but in the Clunie area and in a town where there had been an old mill in the early to mid-19th cent., and it's certainly possible that the family moved over to Clunie after great great granddad was born. George Sr. had been a farm-hand however, or an 'agricultural labourer', not a less lowly miller, at least not when his son was born. Maybe his residence in a mill-town or on a farm near a town (a hamlet really) with a mill became conflated with his being the miller in the retelling of family history. (Update: The best candidate for great x 3 grandad George Sr.'s Dad was a farmer from Chapelton in 'the Parish of Moulin' [French for mill], which appears to be at the site of an old dam, a great spot for a mill, currently that of the modern hydro-development [1950] where the Clunie Memorial arch stands today, a coincidence as I stopped to tour it en route to the town of Clunie.) George McLaren Sr. and his folks lived in tough times, following the toughest in the mid to late 18th cent. The McLarens had been Jacobites (nominally, or at least a faction were) and fought for the pretty prince at Prestonpans, Falkirk, and at Culloden in 1746, and were made to suffer for it after their defeat, just as members of so many other highland clans would suffer for a generation or 2 or 3. We might refer to the fate of Jacobite Highlanders today as a 'genocide', with so many murdered by the British army following Culloden, shipped and sold into slavery in the West Indies and generally extirpated, @ 20,000 of their livestock rounded up and sold with proceeds to the Hanoverian troops, their women raped, houses burnt, etc., etc. Of course the vast majority of Highlanders in the early to mid-18th cent. were just trying to keep their heads down and mind their own business, but collective punishment's always been a thing. That said, I have to question the impulse for my great x 4 grandparents to name their son the rather Hanoverian name 'George' McLaren 40 to 65 years after Culloden. (The name's Greek in origin, deriving from Georgios, but the Highland Scots' oppressors at that time were ruled by a succession of men named George.) And no clue could've been had as he went on to compound the submission by naming his son George Jr. I get that nothing succeeds like success and nothing bombs like defeat, but Stockholm syndrome is over-rated. Or am I being insensitive? Were the members of Jacobite clans or Highlanders, or Scots in general, so oppressed in the late 18th cent. that they perceived some respite or a benefit to be gained in naming their sons George? I have at least 5 Georges in my family tree, the only ones I know of: 1 great great grandfather (George McLaren Jr.), 3 great x 3 and 1 great x 4. 3 were Scots, 1 was 1/2 Scots and 1 was Scots-Irish. Does that say something? (This is much less likely to be significant if George was a popular name in Scotland before the arrival of the Hanoverians, as clannish Scots would tend to name their children after their forebears. Something else to research.)
- Update April '25: In contrast, a pair of great x 4 grandparents (John Menzies and Margaret Urquhart) might have named their son Archibald, baptized in the 'Gaelic chapel' in Perth 220-odd yr.s ago, after Archibald Menzies, a famous Jacobite, the son of a chieftain who marched on London with the Bonnie Prince, fought the Duke of Cumberland at Clifton and was executed at Carlisle, and who features as a hero in Sir Walter Scott's 'Waverley' (although that novel, a big hit and "one of the first historical novels in the Western tradition" [THE first?], was a post-natal publication). He was born @ 65 yr.s after Culloden. It's at least a possibility.
- Let this be a lesson to me. Always do the research in the records first if you can before heading into the country to conduct genealogical inquiries. I'll add that the time spent that day was almost worth it as the people I met in and @ Clunie were so engaging and intrigued and eager to help, and which I found remarkable (although I lost the time to visit nearby Dunkeld and the famous cathedral there, or Menzies castle which is fantastic in itself, and as my great great grandmother, Mom's Mom's Mom's Mom, was a Menzies. The castle is home to the Clan Gregor museum, a coincidence as my great great grandmother Christina Menzies married a Greig, said to be a sept surname derived from MacGregor.)
- Update June '24: I didn't find or learn about any trace of a mill in the town of Clunie proper, nor in the Dicks' maps and records, but it seems that a good candidate for my great x 3 grandfather, George McLaren Sr. (but quite young, married in his mid-teens [too young?]), was born and raised in that town; another for his wife was born in Stirlingshire; and one for his mother, whose surname was Elder, was also born and raised in Clunie (if not his father [see the next para. below]), and who wed his father there, likely in the medieval or Reformation-era church which is no longer extant but bits of which were repurposed to build what appears to have been a 'Watch house', incl. a medieval arched portal arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/corpusofscottishchurches/site.php?i... (I'll upload a photo) near the church that replaced it in 1840, just up from the famous lake in the last shot and surrounded by an ancient cemetery (where again I couldn't find any McLarens). youtu.be/sT_ygdTLfpg?si=BNyBLQYVG8mszgPH youtu.be/rPwUx27p_e0?si=Pgh4p5uUBzfea8UJ My great great grandfather might have told his son that his father was from Clunie (if he hadn't been raised there himself) which was then communicated to my great uncle Mac.
- Further update: The best candidate for that great x 3 grand-dad's Dad (Mom's Mom's Dad's Dad's Dad's Dad, IF the young candidate for great x 3 grand-dad is a match) was a farmer from Chapelton in 'the Parish of Moulin' (French for mill), which appears to be at the site of an old dam, a great spot for a mill, currently that of the modern hydro-development (1950) where the Clunie Memorial arch stands today highland-discovery.com/point-of-interest/clunie-memorial-... , a coincidence as I stopped to tour it en route south to the town of Clunie in my search for the 'Miller of Clunie', my great x 3 grandfather according to my Uncle Mac.
- "During the Jacobite rising of 1745 the Clan MacLaren fought in support of the Jacobite cause at the Battle of Prestonpans and at the Battle of Falkirk Muir where they were victorious on both occasions. However they were also present at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 where they were defeated." (Wikipedia) "At Culloden [the MacLarens] fought with the Stewarts of Appin and took part in the fatal Highland charge and terrible hand-to-hand fighting with the men of Barrell’s and Munro’s regiments. One source states that 13 MacLarens were killed and 14 wounded before they were driven back. One of their leaders, Donald MacLaren [of East Invernenty] was captured after the battle but managed to escape by flinging himself into the abyss of the Devil’s Beef Tub near Moffat [yes, the devil does have his own beef tub] as he was being marched past. He lived as a fugitive in Balquhidder, disguising himself as a woman until the amnesty of 1757." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Beef_Tub
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIQkg8IshNs
- Scott wrote about the 'Beef-tub' in his novel Redgauntlet although he refers to it as the 'Marquis’s Beef-stand', and the Jacobite who recounts the tale in the first person is one Laird Peter Maxwell of Summertrees, not a McLaren.:
"Then did I find myself on foot in a misty morning, with my hand, just for fear of going astray, linked into a handcuff, as they call it, with poor Harry Redgauntlet’s fastened into the other; and there we were, trudging along, with about a score more that had thrust their horns ower deep in the bog, just like ourselves, and a sergeant’s guard of redcoats, with twa file of dragoons, to keep all quiet, and give us heart to the road. ... In the meanwhile, I had been trying and trying to make my hand as fine as a lady’s, to see if I could slip it out of my iron wristband. You may think,” he said, laying his broad bony hand on the table, “ I had work enough with such a shoulder-of-mutton fist; but if you observe, the shackle-bones are of the largest, and so they were obliged to keep the handcuff wide; at length I got my hand slipped out, and slipped in again; and poor Harry was sae deep in his ain thoughts, I could not make him sensible what I was doing ... [b]ecause there was an unchancy beast of a dragoon riding close beside us on the other side; and if I had let him into my confidence as well as Harry, it would not have been long before a pistol-ball slapped through my bonnet. Well, I had little for it but to do the best I could for myself; and, by my conscience, it was time, when the gallows was staring me in the face. We were to halt for breakfast at Moffat. Well did I know the moors we were marching over, having hunted and hawked on every acre of ground in very different times. So I waited, you see, till I was on the edge of Errickstane brae - Ye ken the place they call the Marquis’s Beef-stand, because the Annandale loons used to put their stolen cattle in there? ... Ye must have seen it as ye cam this way; it looks as if 4 hills were laying their heads together, to shut out daylight from the dark hollow space between them. A d — d deep, black, blackguard-looking abyss of a hole it is, and goes straight down from the road-side, as perpendicular as it can do, to be a heathery brae. At the bottom, there is a small bit of a brook, that you would think could hardly find its way out from the hills that are so closely jammed round it."
"A bad pass indeed," said Alan.
“You may say that,” continued the Laird. “ Bad as it was, sir, it was my only chance; and though my very flesh creeped when I thought what a rumble I was going to get, yet I kept my heart up all the same. And so, just when we came on the edge of this Beef-stand of the Johnstones, I slipped out my hand from the handcuff, cried to Harry Gauntlet, ‘Follow me!’ - whisked under the belly of the dragoon horse - flung my plaid round me with the speed of lightning - threw myself on my side, for there was no keeping my feet, and down the brae hurled I, over heather and fern, and blackberries, like a barrel down Chalmers’ Close in Auld Reekie. G — , sir, I never could help laughing when I think how the scoundrel redcoats must have been bumbazed; for the mist being, as I said, thick, they had little notion, I take it, that they were on the verge of such a dilemma. I was half way down - for rowing is faster wark than rinning - ere they could get at their arms; and then it was flash, flash, flash - rap, rap, rap - from the edge of the road; but my head was too jumbled to think any thing either of that or the hard knocks I got among the stones. I kept my senses thegither, whilk has been thought wonderful by all that ever saw the place; and I helped myself with my hands as gallantly as I could, and to the bottom I came. There I lay for half a moment; but the thoughts of a gallows is worth all the salts and scent-bottles in the world, for bringing a man to himself. Up I sprung, like a 4-yr.-auld colt. All the hills were spinning round with me, like so many great big humming-tops. But there was nae time to think of that neither; more especially as the mist had risen a little with the firing. I could see the villains, like sae mony craws on the edge of the brae; and I reckon that they saw me; for some of the loons were beginning to crawl down the hill, but liker auld wives in their redcloaks, coming frae a field-preaching, than such a sou pie lad as I was. Accordingly, they soon began to stop and load their pieces. Good-e’en to you, gentlemen, thought I, if that is to be the gate of it. If you have any farther word with me, you maun come as far as Carriefraw-gauns. And so off I set, and never buck went faster ower the braes than I did; and I never stopped till I had put three waters, reasonably deep, as the season was rainy, half-a-dozen mountains, and a few thousand acres of the worst moss and ling in Scotland, betwixt me and my friends the redcoats.” (pp.s 266-268)
- There's info in this link re the names and origins of those McLarens who fought at Culloden.: houseoflabhran.com/blog/2017/08/09/culloden-drumossie-moo... Btw, Alan Breck Stewart of the Stewarts of Appin, in whose Appin regiment many McLarens served and fought in the Highland charge at Culloden, is a principal character in Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel 'Shipwrecked'. Michael Caine plays the swashbuckling Stewart in the 1971 film.: youtu.be/-Y7YqGdFCko?si=y-wmPc18DbNDXN-R
- Another clan in my tree (of a number) that fought for the Bonnie Prince was the McKenzie clan. (It was split; the chief supported the Brits while his relative, George MacKenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie, supported the Jacobites. Most McKenzie men were prevented from taking part at Culloden, but they played a leading role at the Battle of Falkirk in 1746.) A great x 3 grandmother was one Margaret McKenzie (her maiden surname) who married a Menzies (the name of another Jacobite clan at Culloden), and then bore his daughter, my great great grandmother, in Edinburgh in the early 1830s. I know less about this Margaret than any of my grandmother's other great grandparents, not where she was from, who her parents were, where she was married, how she died, although it seems likely she died young. Her husband was baptized in 'the Gaelic chapel' in Perth and was raised in a gaelophone household (it's fair to assume), and with a maiden surname like McKenzie which hails from Ross-shire in the far NW, it's not unlikely she was a gaelophone herself in lowland Scots-speaking territory, a Highlander or the offspring of tenants evicted from the Highlands in the 'Clearances' (like several in my Dad's tree [his great grandmother's, his Mom's Mom's Mom's branch]) who emigrated to the lowlands. That would make sense for in that case, her Highland heritage and her mother tongue (although a different dialect) would've been things she had in common with her husband. Whatever befell her (or her husband) or where-ever she wound up, her daughter was raised in the home of her in-laws from at least the age of 7.
- It might be worth noting that although all 4 of my grandmother's grandparents had died young before her parents were married (those were hard times on the High st. and in Canongate), my grandmother knew that the maiden surname of her great grandmother, her mother's mother's mother, was McKenzie, which Mom had recorded in our 'family bible' (which I haven't seen since before 2018) and which I confirmed at the Scottish Records Office in Edinburgh in 2013. But she didn't know or had forgotten the maiden surnames of her other 3 great grandmothers (all of which I've learned in the last 10 years), which doesn't surprise. Her mother's mother, Christina Menzies, died of a stroke ('Cerebral Apoplexy' per her death record, but at the age of 46, a bit young to die of a stroke, although I was told as a youth that she died of a tape-worm infection. I've learned that neurocystecerosis, "a parasitic infection of the central nervous system caused by the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, can lead to various neurological complications, including strokes." [Medscape]) Christina died when my grandmother's mother was only 11, and her father would die of pneumonia seven yr.s later when my great grandmother was only 18. But my great grandmother (whose M.S. was Greig), was one of 13 siblings who remained close. Evidently their mother Christina had spoken often enough of her own mother, whom she might not have known (again, Christina was raised from at least the age of 7 by her paternal grandparents), that my great grandmother or more likely one of her older siblings remembered that she was a McKenzie, which was communicated to my grandmother. While Margaret McKenzie is the most mysterious of my grandmother's great grandparents, she might've been the one my grandmother knew the most about (which might not be saying much). Again, the inference is that my grandmother's grandmother Christina, who might've been or seems to have been an only child, must have spoken often enough of her own mother Margaret McKenzie, before Christina died so young at 46, that her children remembered the surname, and my point (after all that) is that I think it's less likely or unlikely that Christina would've done so if Margaret had abandoned Christina to the care of her in-laws, or had been unable to care for her, or had been arrested and imprisoned, etc. Rather, the correct listing of her surname in the family bible might be a clue (if you follow me) that Margaret had died young, just as so many of my mother's ancestors had done, quite possibly in childbirth. (I haven't found her death record.) Another possible factor is that my grandmother and her mother and her mother's sisters might have had a natural interest in the maternal line of their tree (Margaret was my grandmother's Mom's Mom's Mom).
- There's a candidate for Margaret's husband, Christina's father Archibald Menzies, in the death records, listed as one year younger than he (it wasn't uncommon for a death record from that period to understate the age of the deceased by a year), who died young in the Royal Infirmary in the early 1840s (by which time his daughter was already living in the home of his parents) of "Fever", likely Borrelia recurrentis aka 'Louse-born Relapsing Fever'. 'LBRF' is "associated with poverty, crowding, and warfare". An epidemic of LBRF was raging on the High street at the time of his death. Here's a sobering account from Isabella Bird re the quality of life for many of my grandmother's ancestors in the slums of 19th cent. Edinburgh. Listen from the 16:07 to the 16:40 min. pt. and from 22:09 to 22:33 re the insects and lice that likely killed the man who might've been my great x 3 grandfather.: youtu.be/nGVIHIT1NkU?si=GqxZMfOaP6zEjlH0
- youtu.be/xPLMnTU9Hs8?si=kLPChCSOv8oChi1T
- Margaret's daughter Christina worked as a "house servant" in her teens while living in an apt. on 'the Pleasance' with her widowed paternal grandmother, then in her late 60s, who had raised her from at least the age of 7 with her own older kids. Only the 2 were living together shortly before the old lady died. Following her grandmother's death, Christina moved into a flat in a close off the High st. which would later be condemned as a slum and demolished.
- Margaret's a bit more interesting to me as she was my Mom's Mom's Mom's Mom's Mom, and as she's as far back as our records take me (although not far at all really) up the matrilineal branch of my tree. Some cultures have a special focus or emphasis on that line; many North American first nations inherit from, and their tribal or clan membership derives from, the female line, and are often matrilocal www.flickr.com/photos/97924400@N00/4288828562/in/photostr... and Jewish heritage is famously matrilineal. Mitochondrial DNA has passed almost exclusively from mother to child from time immemorial. (But we have more insight as to the Y chromosome that passes from father to son what with the surnames that have passed down with it since the Middle Ages. Mine passed through some generations of Danish Vikings named 'Bert Raven' ['Bright Raven'] via Normandy and then England [or Scotland?] and then Ireland [I think], or from Normandy and then France to Ireland in the 'Post-Cromwellian' Huguenot exodus. I've read that while every child inherits an X chromosome from his or her mother, only daughters inherit a 2nd X chromosome from their father, who in turn inherits it from his mother, who could have inherited that particular chromosome from either of her parents, and so on. So while I inherited the Y chromosome from my Dad's Dad, and all 3 of us inherited an X chromosome from our Mom, my sisters inherited an X chromosome from my Dad's Mom, which I didn't.) Of course, if I knew Margaret McKenzie's mother's maiden name, or her maternal grandmother's, etc., that name would take on a certain interest.
- McKenzie clan history: youtu.be/F-Sy-BxF1PU?si=HIi5rOutqDHeCnA-
- youtu.be/FMlxQdWfuRU?si=Bw6h6RNmzgBcjtoI
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Exhibition view "Family Matters. Portraits and experiences of family today", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
(14.03.2014 - 20.07.2014)
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On the bright morning of tuesday, hajverians of different classes gathered for sharing their views on the topic related to our current situation in news i.e “Is it Malalas Pakistan, or Pakistan’s Malala? “
Discussing in detail regarding the topic Mr.Nadeem Bhatti(The Chief Guest) shared his views by saying “Unity against the threat from a bigoted and radicalized mindset, which wants to rob us of our cherished values of peace, pluralism, moderation, tolerance and passion for knowledge. The attack on Malala is not a crime against an individual but a crime against humanity and an attack on our core moral and social values”.
He also added in his conversation with the students of Hajvery University that “Paying tribute to the young Malala she had created a national level movement across the country and rightly turning out to be the torch-bearer for girls who wanted to follow in her footsteps. He also said that all people must have sound knowledge to make good use of their votes in deciding the future of their country”.
Students took great interest by asking different questions from the guest, & their intellectual vision was greatly enhanced at the end of the discussion.
The informative session was well conducted by Madam Rozi Rizvi by inviting Mr.Nadeem Bhatti to the auditorium of Hajvery University for sharing his views, which was hosted by Ahsan Khan Niazi.
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