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NEWSLETTER , NO 104 October 2010 November 2010

Renwick wins first Commonwealth gold for Scotland

Swimmer Robbie Renwick comes from behind to win gold in the 200m free-

style event in Delhi

Scotland have picked up their first gold of the Commonwealth Games in dra-

matic fashion. Swimmer Robbie Renwick pipped Australian Kenrick Monk in

the men’s 200m freestyle event in the narrowest of finishes. Speaking from

Delhi, Sports Minister Shona Robison said: "There is a real sense of excite-

ment here in Delhi and I hope all of Scotland will join me in congratulating

Robbie on his success." Renwick surged from behind to take gold, finishing

with a time of 1:47.88. Monk finished just two hundredths of a second behind

the Scot. David Carry, bronze medallist in the 400m freestyle event on Monday, led after 100m but faded and eventual-

ly finished eighth and last. England's Ross Davenport, who was also in the top three after 150m, finished fifth."This is a

fantastic start for the many Glasgow-based athletes who use our world-class facilities and benefit from the support we

give to elite athletes. "Here's hoping this is the start of a gold rush for Team Glasgow and Scotland."

——————————————————————0———————————————————————————— SCOTLAND took silver in the men's 4x200m swimming relay with individual gold medallist Robbie Renwick bringing

them home.

Just a day after his heroic exploits in the 200m event, City of Glasgow swimmer

Renwick cemented a second medal as the Scots finished in a time of 7:14.02 just

behind Australia.

Although the Aussies were ahead from start to finish, David Carry - 400m free-

style bronze medallist - produced a superb second leg for Scotland and from

then on they were clear in second place.

Jak Scott handed over to gold medal hero Renwick and he brought them home.

Australia set a new Games record of 7:10.29 with Scotland second and South

Africa third.

England were fifth in 7:16.57.

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A JOURNEY that began 6,000 miles away and four years ago came to a

triumphant conclusion for Hannah Miley, when she won gold in the 400-

metres medley on Scotland's most successful day of the Commonwealth

Games so far.

Hannah herself had also been ill and on a course of antibiotics, but she

showed no sign of weakness as she swept to victory in four minutes 38.83

seconds, more than half a second ahead of Australia's Samantha Hamill

and Keri-Anne Payne of England who took the bronze.

"The Commonwealth record Stephanie Rice (of Australia] did was a 4.41 and the time I did at Europeans was a 4.33, so

the 400m has improved a lot in four years and I have to make sure I'm keeping up with the times.

Seventh after 50, sixth at 100m - the medley starts with her weakest stroke, the butterfly - she ploughed through the

field on the backstroke leg, and was in the lead by the halfway stage.

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Lachlan's Laws That great Highland philosopher, Lachlan McLachlan, propounded a number of irrefutable laws of life, the uni-verse and everything. His greatest observations were made at the bar of the Auchentiddlum Arms, usually after consuming copious quantities of Buckfast Tonic Wine. Below is a selection of some of his greatest insights, recorded by his great admirer Jimmy Boswell.

"Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about." "A closed mouth gathers no feet." "The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act." "The most common cause of hearing loss amongst men is a wife saying she wants to talk to

him." Lachlan's Theorem of the Bath - "When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone

invariably rings." "The things that come to those who wait will be the things left by those who got there first." "He who laughs last, thinks slowest." "Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't." "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all

day drinking beer." "Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people look bright until you hear them

speak." "The man who thinks he knows it all, is a pain in the neck to those of us who really do." "The reason we Scots fight so often among ourselves is that we're always assured of having

a worthy opponent." "When you go into court, you are putting yourself in the hands of 15 people who weren't

smart enough to get out of jury duty." (Note that there are 15 jurors in Scotland, not 12). "When women see the first strand of grey hair they think they are going to dye..." "The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on a floor covering are di-

rectly correlated to the newness, color and cost of the carpet/rug." "All marriages are happy - it's the living together afterwards that causes all the problems." "Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll

get it wrong." "At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last and during a crit-

ical time in the show." "By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere." "Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you." "Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground." "Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it

again." "The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can

see better than he can think." "In slow moving traffic, if you move to another lane because it is moving faster, it always

slows down and the lane you were in speeds up." "Wisdom comes with age - but sometimes age comes alone." "Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right - and the other person is a

husband..." "Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional." "Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside." "Don't worry about what people think - they don't do it very often." "Someone who thinks logically makes a nice contrast to the real world." "You know when you're getting old when you wake up with that morning-after feeling, and

you didn't do anything the night before." "The only way to keep healthy is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and

do what you'd rather not." (Although Mark Twain may have said it first). "The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow." "A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water." "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the

idea." "Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you

criticise them, you're a mile away - and you have their shoes..." "After a certain age, if you don't wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead." "There is no vaccine against stupidity!" "A man with no sense of humour probably doesn't have any sense at all." "Think about this ... No one ever says "It's only a game" when his team is winning." "Never test the depth of the water with both feet." "Women who think they are the equal of men lack ambition." "Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted." "If at first you don't succeed - skydiving is not for you." cont p 3

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Cont from p 2 "No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes." "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." "A woman always has the last word in any argu-ment. Anything a man says after that is the begin-ning of a new argument." "The best way to get a man to do something is to suggest he's too old for it." "To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and don't expect to under-stand her at all." "Any married man can forget his past mistakes - there's no reason for two people to keep track of the same things."

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NEWS about online sites Just google the under-

lined words to reach the websites

The Legend of King Arthur site claims to have solved the mystery of who King Ar-thur was - using ancient texts to show that he was from Scotland, from south of the River Forth. Scotland on Film from the BBC contains lots of film and radio clips from Scotland of yesteryear which you can download. Items range from great sporting moments, the Empire Exhibition, entertainment (people going "Doon the Watter" in 1912 and the world famous Harry Lauder on radio), Clydeside shipbuilding and from locations around Scotland. There are films from the early part of the 20th centu-ry as well as more recent times (1950s). There is also a forum where Scots (and exiles) can share their reminiscences of Scotland.

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Innovation

With a population which has grown to a (current) level of only around 5 million, Scotland has earned an envi-able reputation as a centre of excellence for financial services. Edinburgh is the fourth largest fincial centre in Europe (after London, Frankfurt and Paris). Much of this reputation has arisen from its history of innovation over the last three hundred years. Her are just some of the "firsts" * 1695 - Bank of Scotland Britain's first joint stock clearing bank, established by Act of Scots Parliament. * 1728 - On 31 May, 1728, the Royal Bank of Scotland invents the overdraft, one of the most versatile and imaginative innovations in modern banking. It allows a William Hogg, merchant in the High Street Edinburgh, to take out of his ac-count up to £1000 (£65,449 in today's value) more than he has in it. * 1750 - British Linen Bank (a Scottish bank, despite its name) began building up branch networks, unknown else-where in the world and the basis for the unusual stability of the Scottish banking system which led Karl Marx to observe that capitalism created banking crises, except in Scotland. * 1777 - A Scottish bank becomes the first in Europe to print multi-coloured banknotes - the head of the king is print-ed in red and a special graphic for the denomination in blue. * 1810 - World's first mutual savings bank formed in Dumfriesshire from which the world wide mutual savings bank movement emerged. * 1826 - Royal Bank pioneers double-sided printing of banknotes. * 1875 - Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland formed - the first professional organisation for bankers in the world. * 1946 - In answer to the request of one of its customers, National Bank of Scotland launches the world's first mobile bank. It uses a Studebaker van left behind by the US forces pay corps. * 1954 - Royal Bank is the first British Bank to move into hire purchase. * 1958 - Bank of Scotland is the first UK bank to set up centralised accounting unit and in 1961 was amongst the first to install a computer. * 1964 - The Royal Bank becomes the first bank in Britain and the second in the world to set up a ladies branch (First one was in New Zealand) * 1967 - Scotland's first cash dispenser was installed at the Royal Bank's Edinburgh West End Office. * 1972 - Royal Bank of Scotland is the first UK bank to offer house purchase loan schemes for customers. * 1972 - Williams & Glyn's, the wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal Bank operating in England and Wales, becomes the first British bank to offer free banking to customers who keep their account in credit. * 1972 - Bank of Scotland first UK bank to be involved in the financing of the first oil development in the North Sea (Forties Field) * 1980 - In the early 1980's the Bank of Scotland developed a particular expertise for funding senior debt for Manage-ment Buy-Outs and in the period from 1990 is the leading provider of senior debt finance in the UK. * 1980 - Royal Bank Cashline becomes the busiest ATM system in the world in terms of how frequently each machine is used and how much money is taken out each time. * 1985 - Royal Bank becomes the first British bank to underwrite insurance as it sets up Direct Line Insurance. Within 10 years it is Britain's largest ever car insurance and diversifies into household insurance and other financial services. * 1985 - Bank of Scotland pioneers home and office banking with HOBS. (Home and Office Banking System) * 1989 - Royal Bank acquires Citizens Financial of Rhode Island, USA in what turns out to be the most effective move by a British bank into North America. Citizens leaps from assets US$2.5 billion to US$15 billion in six years - and still rising. * 1990 - IBOS (Inter-bank On-line System) is developed by Royal Bank of Scotland and Banco Santander to provide a cross-border European banking service that is speedy, economical and transparent. * 1991 - Royal Bank pilots Britain's first photo-card with photographs of customers laser etched with their signatures into the plastic of the card. Within eighteen months, photographs prove effective cutting fraud to 1 percent of normal rate and are extended throughout network and later to credit cards. * 1991 - Royal Bank of Scotland issues a special £1 note to commemorate the European Summit held at the Palace of HolyroodHouse. This is the first commemorative note to be issued in Britain or indeed the European Union. * 1994 - Cashline launched Britain's first mobile cash-dispenser, which made its appearance at the Open golf Champi-onship at Turnberry. * 1995 - Royal Bank underwrites Scotland's largest corporate takeover bid - the successful acquisition of Manweb by Scottish Power. * 1997 - Bank of Scotland provides the banking expertise for the UK's first supermarket bank - Sainsbury's Bank * 1997 - Royal Bank is the first bank or Building Society to offer all cash machine card holders access to their Cashline network - 22,000 ATM's in UK now available to Royal Bank customers.

Summary Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries the Scots exported their banking system and their bankers to all cor-ners of the world. The Scottish banker became a component of the Scottish diaspora every bit as important as the doctor, the engineer and the missionary. As in so many aspects of life, the attention which the Scots paid to the importance of education was manifest in the formation of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland in 1875 - the world's oldest professional body for practising bankers. The professionalism of Scottish bankers was therefore a major factor in the superior performance of the Scottish banks in the recession of the 1990s.

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DIARY DATES 2010

Sunday 17th October Australian Scottish Community

(Qld) Inc. Sausage Sizzle. Toowong Community Meeting

Rooms, Josling St, Toowong. Benson Rd end of Perrin

Park, 12 mid-day Sausage Sizzle. Meeting starts 1 pm. Finishing time must be 3.00 pm. Apologies to the Secre-

tary

Sunday 21 November AGM Australian Scottish Com-

munity (Qld) Inc. Sausage Sizzle. Toowong Community

Meeting Rooms, Josling St, Toowong. (Benson Rd end

of Perrin Park, AGM 11-12.30 mid-day Sausage Sizzle.

Meeting starts 1 pm. Finishing time must be 3.00 pm.

Apologies to the Secretary

Tuesday 30th November St Andrew’s Day

Sunday 12 December XMAS PARTY Toowong Commu-

nity Meeting Rooms, Josling St, Toowong. (Benson Rd

end of Perrin Park, 9.30AM –3.00 PM

Sunday 16th January 2011 Australian Scottish Com-

munity (Qld) Inc. Sausage Sizzle. Toowong Community

Meeting Rooms, Josling St, Toowong. Benson Rd end

of Perrin Park, 12 mid-day Sausage Sizzle. Meeting

starts 1 pm. Finishing time must be 3.00 pm. Apologies

to the Secretary

Sunday 20th February 2011 Australian Scottish Com-

munity (Qld) Inc. Sausage Sizzle. Toowong Community

Meeting Rooms, Josling St, Toowong. Benson Rd end

of Perrin Park, 12 mid-day Sausage Sizzle. Meeting

starts 1 pm. Finishing time must be 3.00 pm. Apologies

to the Secretary

Sunday 20th March 2011 Australian Scottish Commu-

nity (Qld) Inc. Sausage Sizzle. Toowong Community

Meeting Rooms, Josling St, Toowong. Benson Rd end

of Perrin Park, 12 mid-day Sausage Sizzle. Meeting

starts 1 pm. Finishing time must be 3.00 pm. Apologies

to the Secretary

Sunday 17 April 2011 Australian Scottish Community

(Qld) Inc. Sausage Sizzle. Toowong Community Meeting

Rooms, Josling St, Toowong. Benson Rd end of Perrin

Park, 12 mid-day Sausage Sizzle. Meeting starts 1 pm. Finishing time must be 3.00 pm. Apologies to the Secre-

tary

Redlands Sporting Club Pipe Band invites you to celebrate

the Celtic tradition of Halloween in costume-(optional);

dance; fun & games & treats galore for the children. The

function will be held around the 31st October. (Exact

details to be provided in the future). Bookings are essen-

tial through Joy (3207 0928) or Gail (3286 5092). A li-

censed bar will be open. No B. Y. O is permitted.

Adults $10.00. Children $2.00. Scare you later!

Join the Redlands Sporting Club Pipe Band to celebrate St.

Andrew’s Day in the relaxed atmosphere of a concert.

The evening will include a great flow of traditional Scot-

tish entertainment & of course the serving of Haggis.

Bookings are essential through Joy (3207 0928) or Gail

(3286 5092) for the evening of Saturday, the 27th Novem-

ber, 2010 at the Redlands Sporting Club (Anson Rd., Wel-

lington Point).

Sweep the old year out and the new in at a Scottish Hog-

manay hosted by the Redlands Sporting Club Pipe Band

on Friday, 31st December, 2010 at the Donald Simpson

Centre (Cnr., Bloomfield St., & Russell St., Cleveland).

Bookings are essential through Joy (3207 0928) or Gail

(3286 5092). A licensed bar will be open. No B. Y. O is

permitted. Adults $10.00. Children under 16 free.

Traditional Scottish Recipes - Stovies

The French create the classic "Gratin Dauphinoise" by

slicing potatoes thinly and cooking them slowly, which is

the basis of the Scottish dish stovies. The name probably

comes from the Scottish and north of England word for

stewing. There are many variations on the versatile

recipe for stovies but the basic ingredients are usually

potato and onions and some form of meat with good fat

content. The quantities below are sufficient for four

people. Ingredients: 4 oz cold, diced lamb (two-thirds of a cup)

1½ lb potatoes, peeled and sliced. Some people use

alternate thin and thicker slices - the thin ones then turn

to mush.

1 (or two if you prefer) large onion, very thinly sliced.

1 level tablespoon good quality dripping (from meat or

bacon). If dripping is not available, cooking oil will do

(though not as good a flavour).

Stock or water

Salt and pepper, nutmeg or all-spice for seasoning

Chopped parsley or chives

Method:

Melt the dripping in a large pan (preferably with a tight

fitting lid), add a layer of sliced potatoes, then a layer of

onion and next a layer of meat. Add enough stock or

water to cover (though some prefer their stovies dry, in

which case add only 2-3 tablespoons). Then repeat the

layers once again and season the dish thoroughly - in

addition to salt and plenty pepper, add some nutmeg or

all-spice).

Cover and cook over a low to moderate heat (shaking the

pan occasionally) for about 30 minutes or until the pota-

toes are tender and the liquid is absorbed. Serve with a

sprinkling of chopped parsley or chives (or chervil).