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1- 8 1s 1/2 turn 2s on sides (1M RH - 1L LH) to face out, 2s+1s+3s set, [ie triangles on sides, 1s in middle] 1s 1/2 turn 3s on sides (1M LH - 1L RH) end 3s facing out [ie triangles on sides again, 3s in middle] & 2s+3s+1s set

9-16 1s followed by 3s dance up between 2s, cast down 1 place, dance in & 1s cast up to 2nd place 3s end in 3rd place

17-24 1s turn 1st corners RH [swing], pass partner RSh turn 2nd corners RH [swing] & cross passing partner RSh to 2nd place own sides

25-32 2s+1s+3s circle 6H round & back

(Reel, Royal Scots, last dance Acton)

Sweet.

Maybe it's a result of seething at Salmond on the Today program, but I find myself compelled to suggest a cultural realignment:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dances-Northern-England-Together-Bromley/dp/0766174433/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208589098&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/English-Dancing-Master-John-Playford/dp/0903102803/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208589194&sr=1-1

I'm modeling this on my (physical) desktop with counters. (I don't have a software package that will support it, especially the rotations.) If I'm not mistaken, I saw this performed by the Black Watch during their American tour back in the late 1970s. (My stepfather had a Scottish and Pennsylvania Dutch background and invited everyone in the family he could round up for the performance.) I'll be back with questions. Wish I had some way of modeling this on the pc. Bless my hippocampus. I went to see "Doomsday" at the movies last night.

On thin ice, the both of you!

(Salmond's already in the water, going down.)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EVwR8Yq6Vlo

Just for you ITIWBS, disgraceful travesty though it is, (and _not_ the Royal Scots).

Musical Intro: "La Paloma" "The Song of the Dove"

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10255
La Paloma - Project Gutenberg

I just read Salmond's "West Lothian, Scotland" ID# A18774020.

The treatment seems to me to be excessively concrete-thinking and somewhat off focus. I personally favor an 'organic' approach to the issues. (Analogical model: "The Organic Treaty" governing the annexation of the Virgin Islands to the United States against global security needs of the 1st World War.)

The redistricting approach employed in the United States is not appropriate to the political realities of the British Isles, a recurring quandry of British politics which first came to a head over the the Jamaican Insurrection of 1850 which ruined John Eyre and John Stuart Mills. (For all of that, if the electoral system reforms Mills succeeded in forcing over the issues had been in place from the end of The War of the Spanish Succession, this might have just barely prevented The American Revolution.)

On the American Jacobites, following the actions in the British Isles, there was a mass transportation of the Jacobites who'd taken part in the action to the American colonies (a better answer to the problems than mass hangings rivaling the Roman era finale to Spartacus' rebellion.) Many of the Jacobites promptly broke their indentures and fled (which in the circumstances is probably what I would have done) either to other colonies or to the Indian Nations. Most took the latter course and went on to become a dominant and extremely destabilizing force in the Indian wars of the "Age of Jackson" (the 2nd and 3rd decades of the 19th century). Some turned Tory rather than violate their parole. Others fought creditably in the service of the Revolution. The American Jacobites have been an evolving community diverging from their Scottish roots ever since.

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If nought else, these people certainly have learned the value of insider trading and a friendly and biased media.

Musical lyric: "The Jefferson Starship" "...crazy Miranda lives on propaganda, she believes anything she reads..."

...on thin ice... My accustomed milieu ever since I was abducted by the Todd Browning 'marching, witch hunting, head shrinking, American northwest timbering and glee' society back during the blow torch war of 1960... Like something straight out of Robert Louis Stevenson. Most people would never believe me anyway.

...disgraceful travesty... I'm not sure what you mean.

See also: F78319?thread=20&skip=0#pi11

On: A33894002 ...reminds me of a kitten I knew once who came bounding in to my basement apartment one morning with his back up like the classic Halloween or Witches' cat, bouncing along on four stiff jointed legs like four little pogo sticks, one of three cats I've known who could speak a little... words like "yes" and "no" for example are well within the cats capacity for vocalization. I worked with him for a while and he was soon as sinuous and supple as cats are supposed to be...
also of a favorite algebra professor (Scottish by birth, firmly rooted in the Boolean tradition)... after his demonstration on imaginary roots, I never again had trouble with Heisenberg's quantum jumps or Pauli's energy levels diagrams.

Other notes: The Pennsylvania Dutch: Something of a misnomer, immigrants originating especially in the Baltic German provinces brought over to America by means of assisted immigration and transportation during the Hanoverian era of George I through George III. They were an important force in the American Revolution. When the final ballot was cast determining the Official Language of the United States, English won over German by only one vote. If the vote had gone the other way, I suppose they might still be speaking English in the American southeast (south of the Ohio River, east of the Mississippi), but the remainder of the country would probably be speaking a German dialect.

Whooo!

that certainly covered a whole bunch of cultural realignmenting. It does make you re-examine assumptions when you realise how nearly things were completely different - as with the choice between English and German.

The disgraceful travesty thing - it is a disgrace to represent dance with bouncing about little columns. Or with counters, tiddlywinks, or algebra for that matter. Real dance cannot be captured. (says I )

On the other hand, those little columns actually have better timng and pace, and a certain bizazz, that's missing from just about every youtube scottish dance video I've looked at .

There's a hearing in May on Trump/Salmon's efforts to needlessly destroy one of Scotland's SSSIs.

Scratching my head....