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"Millennials, Gen Z & Alpha are programmed - and want to keep up with - rapidly changing technologies," reports Mark Plensky, late Harvard professor and creator of the term 'Digital Natives', who included Scotland in his exhaustively-researched seminal global essay. Award-Winning Former Reuters, Sunday Times & The Scotsman Freelance Journalist Bill Magee has operated his DigiComms Advisory/BizTech Writing/Editing Bureau out of Edinburgh with a global reach for three decades.

Scotland's key whisky sector is already showing signs of new and vibrant sustainability measures vital to ensure the industry thrives in this Digital Era following an easing of Transatlantic economic headwinds. Compare this to a mere business quarter ago when the whisky market was suffering from higher levies and declining rates of alcohol consumption with significant job cuts in the offing.

An Ancient Scottish Custom Wives on Trial January 27, 1911 According to tradition, an annual fair was held at a spot where the Black and White Esk meet, and which, was remarkable for its peculiar marriage associations. At this fair all the unmarried of either sex assembled, and each chose a companion with whom they had to live until the next fair.

Bill Magee Business Leaders bottom lines revealed in Scottish digital audit A rebooted Scottish Digital Audit I compiled for Institute of Directors (Scotland) is crystal clear when it comes to the bottom line. The business leader who establishes a collaborative partnership, one giving equal status to team members and what's chosen from an array of apparently endless hi-tech developments, stands a far better chance of achieving a sound return/on-investment in these uncertain economic times.

Scotland has been urged to take strong notice of a cautionary tale from across the Irish Sea where an influx of data centres, it is claimed, represent a "hidden tax" as its neighbouring country's energy demands absorb over one fifth of Ireland's electricity last year, costing households millions in extra bills. Scotland is endowed with a centuries-old enthusiasm towards practically anything hinting at innovation.

The Ancient Celts From the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness (1) THEIR GENERAL HISTORY. Three or four centuries before Christ, when the history of Western Europe is slowly emerging from obscurity, we find a people, named the Celts, in possession of the vast extent of territory that stretches from the Adriatic and Upper Danube to the Western Ocean, and embraces the British Isles.

From the Lancet, December 20, 1902 Aberdeen is the principal centre for the Scotch beef trade and a great part of the Scotch beef sold at Smithfield to the London butchers comes from Aberdeen. Therefore the manner in which cattle are slaughtered and meat is inspected at Aberdeen is a matter of importance not only to the inhabitants of that town but also to the consumers of Scotch beef who live in London and elsewhere.

Some time ago a Highland friend favoured me with an account of Bliadhna nan Caorach; or “The Year of the Sheep,” which I wished him to give to the Gaelic Society. From native modesty or some other cause he however declined even to allow his name to be mentioned in connection with Bliadhna nan Caorach; hut at the same time suggested that I should use the information. Of this suggestion I gladly availed myself, and at once began to collect further information on the subject.

Proceeding still further northward, to a point a little beyond Loch-head, the traveller will there observe a small rivulet crossing the road on its way to join Loch Davan, tho twin lake to Loch Kinnord. From this point the old Roman road stretches away westward over Culbleen, and little more than a stone-throw along it from the puiblic road was fought the battle of Clulbleen on the early morning of St. Andrew's Day, 30th November, 1335.

In the early years of the last century smuggling was the staple industry in Glenisla, as well as in many other Highland districts. Small holdings and crofts abounded, but it would have been impossible for their occupants to have existed had they not grown a large proportion of barley, and converted it into the potent produce of the sma’-still.