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I note that corn on the cob is now on sale locally here in Chatham and we're also nearing peach season which I believe is in August. I've been watching the Veggie Boys on YouTube and they are based in Northern Pensylvania. You can watch their latest broadcast at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcQ3nThuey8 where they are picking sweet corn and discussing it merits.
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Learn more through his YouTube video at:
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Scottish News from this weeks newspapers
I am partly doing this to build an archive of modern news from and about Scotland and world news stories that can affect Scotland and as all the newsletters are archived and also indexed on search engines it becomes a good resource. I might also add that in a number of newspapers you will find many comments which can be just as interesting as the news story itself and of course you can also add your own comments if you wish which I do myself from time to time.
Here is what caught my eye this week...
Iran's economy needs a new deal with the West
Iran's new progressive president, Masoud Pezeshkian, recognises that his country's economic problems can be resolved only by pursuing better relations with the West and achieving an easing of sanctions. The fact that he was allowed to run, and to win, suggests that those who truly hold power in Iran may agree
Read more at:
https://www.project-syndicate.org/co...fahani-2024-07
Is Donald Trump now unstoppable?
In the wake of the shooting, Trump has begun to sound, believe it or not, graceful and magnanimous
Read more at:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...ger-than-ever/
Elon Musk’s PREDICTIONS Just Left Audience SPEECHLESS!!
An amazing half hour talk.
You can watch this at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4kRzlffBBI
Astonishing Walk to Get There! Join Us on Our Day Trip to Faro Del Caballo, Santoņa.
Hidden gems are rarely this spectacular, mainly because places like this tend to be widely known. Maybe in Spain it is, but we certainly had never heard of it before. Have you? Join us on a day trip to Santoņa as we walk round to the little lighthouse perched on the edge of a stunning cliff. Welcome to el Faro del Caballo...
Watch this at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT-ZE4Cynso
This SpaceX Engineer is Building a Mobile Nuclear Reactor
From launching SpaceX's 1st rockets, to realizing the need for mobile-nuclear reactors, and founding Radiant - here's my interview with Doug Bernauer
Watch this at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6B8n7Jg7Zo
Conrad Black: Donald Trump, the survivor, will make a great president
The former president has fought the lefty media, a corrupt federal government and a politicized judicial system and looks poised to win
Read more at:
https://archive.is/tjQFR#selection-2109.0-2109.137
Multi-million pound investment to transform Callanish Standing Stones attraction
Thousands of tourists visit the Neolithic site on the Isle of Lewis every year.
Read more at:
https://news.stv.tv/highlands-island...-western-isles
Jasper, Alta., faces 'significant loss' of buildings, infrastructure as wildfire advances
A wildfire had threatened the Alberta mountainside townsite for days from the south, but finally reached it Wednesday evening. Parks Canada said 'significant loss has occurred within the townsite,' in a social media post at 10 p.m. MT, but was unable to 'report on the extent of damage to specific locations or neighbourhoods at this time.'
Watch this at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Qpssave3w
Where can free marketeers find inspiration?
By the next election, the Tories need to have reestablished themselves as the party of freedom. But where to look for inspiration? Starting off with the Conservatives in Canada and New Zealand and their focus on housebuilding and tax cuts would be a good start. If they're feeling bolder, they could even look to Argentina.
Read more at:
https://capx.co/britains-free-market...tion-overseas/
Electric Canadian
Algoma
Added a couple of books about the area to our page about this area of Ontario...
Algoma
New Ontario. The New Northwest. The Colonization and Immigration Movement in Algoma. An Appeal to the Press. (pdf)
By Lake and Forest
The Story of Algoma by Frances Awdry, Author of “The Isles of the Sea” and Eda Green with a Preface by the Lord Bishop of St. Albans, New and Revised Edition (1909) (pdf)
You can get to these at:
http://www.electriccanadian.com/hist...goma/index.htm
Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the other Provinces in North America
With a plan of National Colonization by James S. Buckingham (1843) (pdf)
You can read this book at:
http://www.electriccanadian.com/hist...ck_and_the.pdf
Farm and Ranch Review
Western Canada’s Pioneer Agricultural Magazine, Founded in 1905 by Charles W. Peterson
You can read a copy of this magazine at:
http://www.electriccanadian.com/hist...anchReview.htm
Humours of ’37
Grave, Gay and Grim, Rebellion times in the Canadas by Robina and Kathleen MacFarlane Lizars, Authors of “In the Days of the Canada Company: the Story of the settlement of the Huron Tract" (1897) (pdf)
You can read this book at:
http://www.electriccanadian.com/hist...rave00unse.pdf
Thoughts on a Sunday Morning - the 21st of July 2024 - Excessive Sensitivity
By the Rev. Nola Crewe
You can watch this at:
http://www.electricscotland.org/foru...ve-sensitivity
The Kilties
(Under Royal Patronage) Souvenir Album (pdf)
You can read this at:
http://www.electriccanadian.com/life...ra00kilt_0.pdf
The Beaver Magazine
Added Volume 1 No. 3 (1920) (pdf)
You can read this issue at:
http://www.electriccanadian.com/tran...vol1issue3.pdf
Electric Scotland
Sir William MacGregor
Added a link to a book about him that can be borrowed on the Internet Archive as well as some other literature on his time in the Pacific and also Newfoundland in Canada.
You can get to this at:
https://electricscotland.com/history...or_william.htm
Albert MacLaren
Pioneer Missionary in New Guinea, A Memoir by Frances M. Synge with Introduction by Sir William MacGregor, G.C.M.G., M.D., etc. Formerly Governor of British New Guinea (1908) (pdf)
You can read this book at:
https://electricscotland.com/indepen...00synggoog.pdf
Colonization Circular
Issued by Her Majesty's Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners (1872) (pdf)
You can read this at:
https://electricscotland.com/history...n-Circular.pdf
Guide to the Orkney Islands
Including their scenery, climate, agriculture, trade, fisheries, history, natural history, etc. with a map, views, notices on inns and ferries, etc. by the Rev. Charles Clouston, Minister of Sandwick (1862) (pdf)
You can read this book at:
https://electricscotland.com/travel/...th_a_Map_V.pdf
The Highland Monthly Magazine
A Magazine forming a Centre of literary Brotherhood for Scoto-Celtic people both at Home and Abroad Edited by Duncan Campbell, Editor of the “Northern Chronicle,” and Alexander MacBain, M.A., FSAScot.
You can get to this at:
https://electricscotland.com/lifesty...andmonthly.htm
An Historical Case Study of the Effect of Educational Reform on an Underdeveloped Area
Scotland in the Eighteenth Century. Final Report by Vern L. Bullough (1969) (pdf)
You can read this report at:
https://electricscotland.com/educati...nal-Reform.pdf
Donald Trump
Added a video history of his life to his page at:
https://electricscotland.com/history...ump_donald.htm
Banks, Iain
Writer, whom I've added to our Famous Scots section at:
https://electricscotland.com/history...banks_iain.htm
James Clerk Maxwell
Replaced the book on him with a better copy at:
https://electricscotland.com/history...well_james.htm
MacLeod, John James Rickard
inventor of insulin
You can read this at:
https://electricscotland.com/history...acleod_jjr.htm
David Livingston
Added a new video about him and also added a couple of reports from the Livingstonia Mission to the foot of our page about him at:
https://electricscotland.com/history...livingston.htm
Story
FATHER ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL
St. Joseph’s Church, Glasgow.
One of the best known Highlanders in Glasgow is Father Campbell, S.J., who was born at Ballachulish, Glencoe, in 1850. Leaving the Highlands when about twenty years of age he joined the Society of Jesus, in Flanders. He remained for two years in the ancient Abbey of Tronchiennes pursuing his classical studies, whence he was transferred to the Society’s House of Studies at Manresa House, Roehampton, near London. After a residence of eighteen months in the last-mentioned house he was sent to Stonyhurst, where he went through the whole course of philosophy, including logic, mathematics, natural theology, and moral philosophy, together with chemistry, etc. After devoting three full years to these studies he was appointed one of the professors at St. Francis College, Liverpool, where he remained for four years. At the end of that period he was sent for his theological studies to St. Bueno’s College, St. Asaphs, North Wales. He was ordained priest by the Right Rev. Edmund Knight, the then Bishop of Shrewsbury. In 1884 he was sent to the Cowcaddens, Glasgow, where he has laboured since. Ever since he came to Glasgow he has devoted his spare time to the furtherance of the interests of the Caledonian Catholic Association despite the fact that for the last sixteen years he has had the full charge of the large district of St. Joseph’s. He conducts fortnightly religious services in Gaelic in St. Bride’s, Cheapside Street, which are largely attended. Father Campbell is well known among all creeds and classes in Glasgow, and much beloved on account of his devotion to the Gaelic-speaking people. He from time to time takes runs to the Highlands and Western Isles on what he styles missionary excursions, and his services are much appreciated in the Hebrides.
Last summer he visited the Gaelic-speaking catholics of Canada, when his journey was of the nature of a “royal procession.” He was received with open arms everywhere. He laboured abundantly, giving no less than nineteen missions. On leaving he was presented by the Canadian Gaelic-speaking clergy with a chalice, ciborium and cruets, to be used by him when giving missions in the Highlands.
On his return to Scotland a large meeting was held in the City Hall, Glasgow, where he was presented with a purse containing 250 sovereigns. He was also presented by the Caledonian Catholic Association, of which he is chaplain, with a purse of sovereigns. In his reply Father Campbell spoke of the genuine hospitality he enjoyed among his fellow Highlanders—“the sea-divided Gaels”—stating that one diocese he visited contained sixty Gaelic speaking priests and fifty Gaelic-speaking nuns. He also mentioned that the descendants of those who left this country some fifty or sixty years ago were contented and happy. They were their own landlords in most cases, and had no fear of factor or landlord—and had no rent to pay. They were contented and comfortable, having attained to the golden mean between poverty and riches—which might be described as a competent portion of the good things of this life. There was no poverty to be seen, and one might travel for a year and not be asked for charity. It was delightful to hear the descendants of those who left Moidart or Barra speaking the rich Gaelic of these places. He even found the descendants of Irish parents who had no Gaelic, speaking rich idiomatic Scottish Gaelic, as they happened to be born in a Scottish Gaelic settlement.
We are sure many of our readers at home and abroad will wish saoghal fady do 'u t-Sagairt Mhor.
END
Weekend is almost here and hope it's a good one for you.
Alastair
I note that corn on the cob is now on sale locally here in Chatham and we're also nearing peach season which I believe is in August. I've been watching the Veggie Boys on YouTube and they are based in Northern Pensylvania. You can watch their latest broadcast at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcQ3nThuey8 where they are picking sweet corn and discussing it merits.
-------
Peterson Academy
Education, Devoid of Ideology. Affordable to all, taught by the best.
Peterson Academy will revolutionize the way we teach and learn, giving everyone access to the courses and professors once only available to the privileged elite.
The best lecturers.
The highest production quality.
The most exclusive social network.
Join the education revolution. We hope you're as excited to be a part of this as we are to bring it to you.
Early Access to Expert-Taught 8-Hour Courses by Professors from Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and More
Pre-enrollment grants early access to Peterson Academy on August 21st 2024, three weeks before the public launch on September 9th. Your profile will also be given an Early Adopter badge. Pre-enrollment for early access ends on August 20th at 11:59pm pst. The public launch of the platform, and further enrollment continues on September 9th.
Learn more through his YouTube video at:
https://youtu.be/91qG4qQwmiI?si=rlDeiILwf0lo1iam
Visit the site to enroll at: https://petersonacademy.com/enroll
Scottish News from this weeks newspapers
I am partly doing this to build an archive of modern news from and about Scotland and world news stories that can affect Scotland and as all the newsletters are archived and also indexed on search engines it becomes a good resource. I might also add that in a number of newspapers you will find many comments which can be just as interesting as the news story itself and of course you can also add your own comments if you wish which I do myself from time to time.
Here is what caught my eye this week...
Iran's economy needs a new deal with the West
Iran's new progressive president, Masoud Pezeshkian, recognises that his country's economic problems can be resolved only by pursuing better relations with the West and achieving an easing of sanctions. The fact that he was allowed to run, and to win, suggests that those who truly hold power in Iran may agree
Read more at:
https://www.project-syndicate.org/co...fahani-2024-07
Is Donald Trump now unstoppable?
In the wake of the shooting, Trump has begun to sound, believe it or not, graceful and magnanimous
Read more at:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...ger-than-ever/
Elon Musk’s PREDICTIONS Just Left Audience SPEECHLESS!!
An amazing half hour talk.
You can watch this at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4kRzlffBBI
Astonishing Walk to Get There! Join Us on Our Day Trip to Faro Del Caballo, Santoņa.
Hidden gems are rarely this spectacular, mainly because places like this tend to be widely known. Maybe in Spain it is, but we certainly had never heard of it before. Have you? Join us on a day trip to Santoņa as we walk round to the little lighthouse perched on the edge of a stunning cliff. Welcome to el Faro del Caballo...
Watch this at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT-ZE4Cynso
This SpaceX Engineer is Building a Mobile Nuclear Reactor
From launching SpaceX's 1st rockets, to realizing the need for mobile-nuclear reactors, and founding Radiant - here's my interview with Doug Bernauer
Watch this at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6B8n7Jg7Zo
Conrad Black: Donald Trump, the survivor, will make a great president
The former president has fought the lefty media, a corrupt federal government and a politicized judicial system and looks poised to win
Read more at:
https://archive.is/tjQFR#selection-2109.0-2109.137
Multi-million pound investment to transform Callanish Standing Stones attraction
Thousands of tourists visit the Neolithic site on the Isle of Lewis every year.
Read more at:
https://news.stv.tv/highlands-island...-western-isles
Jasper, Alta., faces 'significant loss' of buildings, infrastructure as wildfire advances
A wildfire had threatened the Alberta mountainside townsite for days from the south, but finally reached it Wednesday evening. Parks Canada said 'significant loss has occurred within the townsite,' in a social media post at 10 p.m. MT, but was unable to 'report on the extent of damage to specific locations or neighbourhoods at this time.'
Watch this at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Qpssave3w
Where can free marketeers find inspiration?
By the next election, the Tories need to have reestablished themselves as the party of freedom. But where to look for inspiration? Starting off with the Conservatives in Canada and New Zealand and their focus on housebuilding and tax cuts would be a good start. If they're feeling bolder, they could even look to Argentina.
Read more at:
https://capx.co/britains-free-market...tion-overseas/
Electric Canadian
Algoma
Added a couple of books about the area to our page about this area of Ontario...
Algoma
New Ontario. The New Northwest. The Colonization and Immigration Movement in Algoma. An Appeal to the Press. (pdf)
By Lake and Forest
The Story of Algoma by Frances Awdry, Author of “The Isles of the Sea” and Eda Green with a Preface by the Lord Bishop of St. Albans, New and Revised Edition (1909) (pdf)
You can get to these at:
http://www.electriccanadian.com/hist...goma/index.htm
Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the other Provinces in North America
With a plan of National Colonization by James S. Buckingham (1843) (pdf)
You can read this book at:
http://www.electriccanadian.com/hist...ck_and_the.pdf
Farm and Ranch Review
Western Canada’s Pioneer Agricultural Magazine, Founded in 1905 by Charles W. Peterson
You can read a copy of this magazine at:
http://www.electriccanadian.com/hist...anchReview.htm
Humours of ’37
Grave, Gay and Grim, Rebellion times in the Canadas by Robina and Kathleen MacFarlane Lizars, Authors of “In the Days of the Canada Company: the Story of the settlement of the Huron Tract" (1897) (pdf)
You can read this book at:
http://www.electriccanadian.com/hist...rave00unse.pdf
Thoughts on a Sunday Morning - the 21st of July 2024 - Excessive Sensitivity
By the Rev. Nola Crewe
You can watch this at:
http://www.electricscotland.org/foru...ve-sensitivity
The Kilties
(Under Royal Patronage) Souvenir Album (pdf)
You can read this at:
http://www.electriccanadian.com/life...ra00kilt_0.pdf
The Beaver Magazine
Added Volume 1 No. 3 (1920) (pdf)
You can read this issue at:
http://www.electriccanadian.com/tran...vol1issue3.pdf
Electric Scotland
Sir William MacGregor
Added a link to a book about him that can be borrowed on the Internet Archive as well as some other literature on his time in the Pacific and also Newfoundland in Canada.
You can get to this at:
https://electricscotland.com/history...or_william.htm
Albert MacLaren
Pioneer Missionary in New Guinea, A Memoir by Frances M. Synge with Introduction by Sir William MacGregor, G.C.M.G., M.D., etc. Formerly Governor of British New Guinea (1908) (pdf)
You can read this book at:
https://electricscotland.com/indepen...00synggoog.pdf
Colonization Circular
Issued by Her Majesty's Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners (1872) (pdf)
You can read this at:
https://electricscotland.com/history...n-Circular.pdf
Guide to the Orkney Islands
Including their scenery, climate, agriculture, trade, fisheries, history, natural history, etc. with a map, views, notices on inns and ferries, etc. by the Rev. Charles Clouston, Minister of Sandwick (1862) (pdf)
You can read this book at:
https://electricscotland.com/travel/...th_a_Map_V.pdf
The Highland Monthly Magazine
A Magazine forming a Centre of literary Brotherhood for Scoto-Celtic people both at Home and Abroad Edited by Duncan Campbell, Editor of the “Northern Chronicle,” and Alexander MacBain, M.A., FSAScot.
You can get to this at:
https://electricscotland.com/lifesty...andmonthly.htm
An Historical Case Study of the Effect of Educational Reform on an Underdeveloped Area
Scotland in the Eighteenth Century. Final Report by Vern L. Bullough (1969) (pdf)
You can read this report at:
https://electricscotland.com/educati...nal-Reform.pdf
Donald Trump
Added a video history of his life to his page at:
https://electricscotland.com/history...ump_donald.htm
Banks, Iain
Writer, whom I've added to our Famous Scots section at:
https://electricscotland.com/history...banks_iain.htm
James Clerk Maxwell
Replaced the book on him with a better copy at:
https://electricscotland.com/history...well_james.htm
MacLeod, John James Rickard
inventor of insulin
You can read this at:
https://electricscotland.com/history...acleod_jjr.htm
David Livingston
Added a new video about him and also added a couple of reports from the Livingstonia Mission to the foot of our page about him at:
https://electricscotland.com/history...livingston.htm
Story
FATHER ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL
St. Joseph’s Church, Glasgow.
One of the best known Highlanders in Glasgow is Father Campbell, S.J., who was born at Ballachulish, Glencoe, in 1850. Leaving the Highlands when about twenty years of age he joined the Society of Jesus, in Flanders. He remained for two years in the ancient Abbey of Tronchiennes pursuing his classical studies, whence he was transferred to the Society’s House of Studies at Manresa House, Roehampton, near London. After a residence of eighteen months in the last-mentioned house he was sent to Stonyhurst, where he went through the whole course of philosophy, including logic, mathematics, natural theology, and moral philosophy, together with chemistry, etc. After devoting three full years to these studies he was appointed one of the professors at St. Francis College, Liverpool, where he remained for four years. At the end of that period he was sent for his theological studies to St. Bueno’s College, St. Asaphs, North Wales. He was ordained priest by the Right Rev. Edmund Knight, the then Bishop of Shrewsbury. In 1884 he was sent to the Cowcaddens, Glasgow, where he has laboured since. Ever since he came to Glasgow he has devoted his spare time to the furtherance of the interests of the Caledonian Catholic Association despite the fact that for the last sixteen years he has had the full charge of the large district of St. Joseph’s. He conducts fortnightly religious services in Gaelic in St. Bride’s, Cheapside Street, which are largely attended. Father Campbell is well known among all creeds and classes in Glasgow, and much beloved on account of his devotion to the Gaelic-speaking people. He from time to time takes runs to the Highlands and Western Isles on what he styles missionary excursions, and his services are much appreciated in the Hebrides.
Last summer he visited the Gaelic-speaking catholics of Canada, when his journey was of the nature of a “royal procession.” He was received with open arms everywhere. He laboured abundantly, giving no less than nineteen missions. On leaving he was presented by the Canadian Gaelic-speaking clergy with a chalice, ciborium and cruets, to be used by him when giving missions in the Highlands.
On his return to Scotland a large meeting was held in the City Hall, Glasgow, where he was presented with a purse containing 250 sovereigns. He was also presented by the Caledonian Catholic Association, of which he is chaplain, with a purse of sovereigns. In his reply Father Campbell spoke of the genuine hospitality he enjoyed among his fellow Highlanders—“the sea-divided Gaels”—stating that one diocese he visited contained sixty Gaelic speaking priests and fifty Gaelic-speaking nuns. He also mentioned that the descendants of those who left this country some fifty or sixty years ago were contented and happy. They were their own landlords in most cases, and had no fear of factor or landlord—and had no rent to pay. They were contented and comfortable, having attained to the golden mean between poverty and riches—which might be described as a competent portion of the good things of this life. There was no poverty to be seen, and one might travel for a year and not be asked for charity. It was delightful to hear the descendants of those who left Moidart or Barra speaking the rich Gaelic of these places. He even found the descendants of Irish parents who had no Gaelic, speaking rich idiomatic Scottish Gaelic, as they happened to be born in a Scottish Gaelic settlement.
We are sure many of our readers at home and abroad will wish saoghal fady do 'u t-Sagairt Mhor.
END
Weekend is almost here and hope it's a good one for you.
Alastair