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Simply D'Vyne Khrystyn Taylor
a.k.a. Lady D
Khrystyn Taylor is breaking out on the East Coast indy scene and one thing is obvious: there's plenty of arrogance and conceit within this lady. How do we know? Well, she insists on calling herself "Simply D'Vyne" Khrystyn Taylor...that's a pretty big clue! But this rookie grappler also appears to have the skills to get far in the wrestling world. Dedication, an impressive work ethic...not to mention being trained and mentored by the one-and-only AmyLee. We're sure you'll be hearing a lot about this "D'Vyne" wrestler as her career unfolds over the coming years.
Simply D'Vyne Khrystyn Taylor's Stats...
- Height: 5' 4"
- Weight: 145
- Hair: Brown/Black
- Eyes: Brown/Black
- Hometown: South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)
Simply D'Vyne Khrystyn Taylor's Profile...
- How It Started: I've wanted to be a professional wrestler since I was about 8 years old. When it came time to seriously start training, I couldn't really find a school that was a good fit for me. Then I found the ACPW website. Their school was not only a good fit...it was also very close to where I lived! I had my tryout with Corpse, Gemini, Onslaught and the man who would become one of my trainers and partner in crime, The Southern Enforcer. I was training for just a month when I found out about a show that ACPW was holding in Princeton, NJ. I asked if I could come out with TSE. At first, management wasn't sure about how our gimmick would be received, but they allowed me to go ahead with it anyway. That began my career as a valet.
I continued by training to become a wrestler with The Southern Enforcer, Harley Hawkins and Mr. Arrogance...until I got injured and had to take some time away from the business to recover. I returned to the ring about eight months after my injury and began training again at the legendary Doc Diamond Devastation Wrestling Federation University where I continued to be trained by TSE and Mr. Arrogance. Then I met Pryme Tyme AmyLee and she also became an important part of my training. AmyLee took me under her wing and I have been very fortunate to have her as a trainer and mentor. Working shows for Doc Diamond and traveling with Amy Lee has been an amazing experience.
- Gimmick: Simply D'Vyne is the total opposite of what
Lady Dwas. She is the "upgrade" version of my former character. Lady Dwas a fun-loving southern bell who loved everyone and wanted to be loved my everyone. But she soon found "The Indy's Most Hated" Amadeus and became infatuated by his mystique and grace. Simply D'Vyne is a very arrogant and conceited prima donna who will lie, cheat and steal to get what she wants...but she does it with style and grace.
- Wrestling Style: I like to describe it as aggressive grappling mixed with a little technical. You just never know what I might do. I will surprise you!
- Gear: Black or purple tights with a form-fitting shirt.
- Titles Held: None as of yet...but the belts will be coming soon enough. lol!
- Biggest Win: My biggest win was against Pryme Tyme AmyLee at WWWA...thanks to some help from MoNique.
- Worst Loss: My worst loss was to AmyLee in a mixed-tag match pitting Amadeus and myself against Amy and my former partner, The Southern Enforcer.
- Favorite Type of Match: So far in my career, it would be a no-DQ match. It's fun and unpredictable and you never know what will happen.
- Favorite Moves/Holds: Texas Cloverleaf; side strangle; arm drag; clothesline; European uppercut.
- Finisher: "Simply Devastating" (Texas Cloverleaf).
- Biggest Allies: "Indy's Most Hated" Amadeus; Johnny Cisco; "Pryme Tyme" AmyLee.
- Most-Hated Enemies: MoNique; Trixxie Lynn; The Southern Enforcer.
- Toughest Opponent(s): AmyLee for sure!
- Career Highlight: Career highlight would definitely be working for WSU. Since I've been training and learning this business not only physically but also mentally, I've always looked at WSU as the main stage for women's professional wrestling. One day I got a call from AmyLee and she told me that I had an opportunity to perform on a WSU show. I was super-excited! The atmosphere was great, the girls were wonderful and I performed on a show that I used to be a huge fan of. With all the experience and knowledge in that locker room, it was definitely overwhelming! But I soaked it up and got to perform with some of the best female wrestlers in the business. It was truly great to work there and be a part of a great federation that totally supports great female wrestling.
- Favorite Wrestlers: Triple H is my icon, period! For the ladies, Sensational Sherri is my icon. Also: Beth Phoenix; Melina; Mickie James; Mr. Perfect; Paul Orndoff; Billy Graham; The American Dream Dusty Rhodes; Kevin Sullivan; Jacqueline; Cindy Rogers; AmyLee; Alere Little Feather; Jana; Randy Orton; Bob Orton; Randy Savage; Roddy Piper.
- Wrestling Ambition: My wrestling ambition is to be the best at what I do. Whether I am performing in front 3, 30, 300, 3,000 or 30,000 people, I want them to know that I left my heart and soul in that ring. I'm not in this to be famous or anything like that...however, I wouldn't pass up the opportunity! I wanted to be a wrestler because I love this sport
--yes, this is a sport! I wanted to perform and maybe be some little kid's hero...someone that a person can live through...for the fans to say: "Damn, that girl really put herself out there and she's cool!" My ambition is to be a wrestler, nothing else...
Simply D'Vyne Khrystyn Taylor's Personal Notes...
Wow, where should I start? lol!.....Well, the person behind Simply D'Vyne is a sexy tom-boy who is very family oriented, fun-loving, likes to have a good time and show people as much love as possible.....I absolutely hate drama. So if you got a whole bunch of drama, get away from me because you will not like me too much!.....I'm very easy going, hard working and a team player.....I just want to live life and have fun doing it! No ego, just me.
Essential Simply D'Vyne Khrystyn Taylor Links...
- Simply D'Vyne on MySpace: www.MySpace.com/AmericanWoman0707


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When digging around for an adjective to describe Rafael Sabatini's works, I keep coming up with the word "trashy". Even when they are very, very good, they are still just the fairy floss, the costume jewellery, of literature. Sometimes Sabatini's characters are more believable, his dangers more frightening, or his themes more profound; sometimes, he simply delivers a work that irks more than it pleases.
Such is Fortune's Fool. Colonel Holles is...where to start, really? A terrible blow in his youth sent him reeling from a good career in Cromwell's army into a more desperate and dissolute existence as a mercenary in the Low Countries. Having wasted ten years of his life, he drifts back to his homeland when Holland goes to war with England, but his friends advise him not to seek military employment in England—he bears the same name as his father, a regicide, and if that name should come to the attention of Charles II, he might expect no mercy whatsoever.
Holles's roving, hard-drinking, gaming lifestyle has left him with only the money he carries in his pocket, and that he soon loses. Faced with destitution in a London which is yielding by slow inches to the terrifying plague, only a chance encounter with the man whose life he saved fifteen years ago stands between Holles and starvation. Unfortunately for him, the service this man, now the Duke of Buckingham, requires of him is repulsive in the extreme: to aid by force the Duke's hitherto unsuccessful wooing of Sylvia Farquharson, the brilliant new actress...
It may sound interesting, but this book is plagued by shoddy workmanship. Characters which have important roles to play in the first third, or half, of the book vanish never even to be seen again. The plot feels like a succession of smaller plots, not an overarching whole. And the drama sinks often to the lowest depths of maudlin sentimentality.
Both the disjointedness and the sentimentality are actually built into the book's concept, which is right there in the title. The title, by the way, is probably taken from a line in Romeo and Juliet—when Romeo kills Tybalt, and realises that he has just put himself forever beyond the acceptance of his bride's family, he cries, O, I am fortune's fool; this is Colonel Holles's watchword. Fate, Chance, Fortune, whatever you want to call it—the whole book turns on it. Luck giveth, and Luck snatcheth away. Mainly the latter. Because the book is about a man tossed about on the storms of chance, it really cannot have a Providential, tightly-woven, loose-ends-tucked-in narrative. And because Holles is the plaything of impersonal fate, nothing he does is his own fault. Repentance is only possible when one owns and acknowledges his sin; it becomes meaningless when, if only Fate had been kinder, the repentant one would never have found himself in his situation. The only alternative is remorse and maudlin self-pity, which bogs down the whole second half of the book as Colonel Holles struggles to rebound from his now deeply-entrenched dissolution.
In addition, Sabatini's attitude to the Civil War, the Puritans and the Cavaliers, is somewhat puzzling. Early in the book, he says of one character, that "it is impossible that he could have served his country worse than by the restoration of the Stuart dynasty." Sabatini recognises the deep moral decrepitude of Restoration London as exemplified by the licentious Duke of Buckingham, and displays it in its full repugnance. Yet he is by no means friendly to Puritans, nor indeed to any sincerely religious person: "there was in all the world no vice that Holles found more hideous than virtue driven to excess."
Well, that's a damnable lie. Virtue may be twisted. It may be superseded by a corresponding vice. But virtue itself can never cease to be a virtue; it is impossible to have too much of a truly good thing. One cannot, for example, give too much glory to God; that is the very reason of human existence. Nobody—nobody in or over creation—has ever been too virtuous; not Christ Himself.
Though God is mentioned here and there in Fortune's Fool, He is clearly not enthroned. The book is deeply humanist in tone, borrowing more from classical tragedies depicting mankind as victims more sinned against than sinning than from the Truth. One by one, all the dreary milk-and-water tropes of humanism are checked off: sinful man as victim rather than criminal; blind chance pursuing this innocent victim; moderation in everything as the most sublime height of virtue possible; mere human allegiances set above every man's deepest and most awful duty to God.
In addition to this, the book just isn't very well-written. Sabatini does grip you with the tale of his hero's terrible, terrible misadventures, and there is a duel scene that is as good as anything he has written, but the lead-up to this masterpiece of melodrama is slow, and the book meanders afterwards through the maudlin swamps of its hero's self-flagellation, which just gets tiresome towards the end, especially after the heroine has offered her forgiveness for the umpteenth time.
Overall, the book had some nifty plot points I was glad to pick up and file away for future use. The heroine really is nice and sensible, and you've got to love the part where the Duke of Buckingham hires ruffians to assault her just so that he can come splendidly to the rescue and win her heart; and she sees through him like a windowpane, not taken in for a second—it's lovely! Also later on, she is rescued from his Hateful Embraces by one of the most original and grandly sensational occurrences in the history of fiction!
I would almost recommend reading the middle part—chapters fifteen to twenty—just for the fun of it, and then leaving the book alone, as I cannot really recommend reading the whole thing.
Fortune's Fool is not yet in the public domain.

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Christian would later join her sister Mary in widowhood for, on the 25th of July 1890 her own husband, William Morrison, was lost with two colleagues from the unregistered vessel 'Jessie & Margaret'. Fishing was then, and remains now, a perilous occupation: http://direcleit.blogspot.com/2010/06/drowned-at-sea-by-upsetting-of-boat.html
Category Archives: Fishing
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Crofting, Kelp, & Clearances
"Until after the middle of the last century, the land appears to have been occupied exclusively by tacksmen, generally kinsmen or dependents of the proprietor, with sub-tenants, who held of the tacksmen, and by joint-tenants, who held farms in common, each having a stated share. About the time referred to, many of the farms held by tacksmen seem to have been taken directly from the proprietor by joint-tenants. They grazed their stock upon the pasture in common, and cultivated the arable land in alternate ridges, or " rigs," distributed annually, and called " run-rig." By this arrangement, each got a portion of the better and the worse land; but no one had two contiguous ridges, or the same ridge for two successive years, unless by accident. Since the commencement of the present century, the arable land has, in most cases, been divided into separate portions, of which one was assigned to each of the joint-tenants or crofters, the grazing, as formerly, remaining in common."
Ref: Report to the Board of Supervision by Sir John McNeill, GCB, on the Western Highlands & Islands, 1851. page viii. (Further quotes are from this Report)
This system, which is known as 'Ridge & Furrow' in 'South Britain' (or England, as it is more usually named), received its first legal assault in the 1695 General Enclosure Act (Scotland) but, as the above article from 'British Archaeology' informs us, the eradication of this equitable system of agriculture took place at varying speed and over a considerable period of time in different parts of the British Isles.
What is interesting is that Sir John then goes on to explain that when crofting was introduced as the replacement for run-rig, it allowed for the sub-division of crofts, a situation that had been impossible when the arable land was held in common and the cultivation strips were rotated annually amongst the whole populace.
This new possibility to sub-divide what had been intended to be sufficient land to support one crofting family coincided with the kelp-fuelled population explosion. In the boom years of kelp-manufacture this was not an issue, indeed it was necessary for the workforce to expand to keep-up production with the ever-increasing demand, but the new mouths could only be fed because of the wages earned from this somewhat early branch of industrial-scale chemistry. As an aside, Sodium Carbonate (or Soda Ash or Washing Soda) was used in glass-making and the manufacture of Soap and it was a man who made his first fortune from selling soap, Lord Leverhulme, who would become the owner of Lewis & Harris within 70 years of Sir John's report.
Crofting also allowed the architects of the Clearances to sub-divide crofts to 'create space' for those whom they were displacing from elsewhere thereby diminishing the livelihoods of two families for each Cleared family as described by the Sheriff-Substitute, Charles Shaw:
When boom turned to bust, and it was inevitable that it would as the price of kelp had been artificially inflated by the effect of the Napoleonic Wars to an unsustainable £30 a ton in 1815 compared to only £1 a ton before the wars began, then suddenly there were hungry mouths to feed but neither enough land to grow sufficient food nor the wages being earned to purchase it.
As if this wasn't bad enough, the third and final blow came in the form of the Potato Famines of 1846-51, these being exacerbated by the twin factors of people forced to attempt to grow food on land that could only be cultivated as 'feannagan' (a system requiring vast quantities of kelp as fertilizer) and the repeated planting of the crop on the same meagre patches of land.
Of course, there was one other factor at work during this time and that was the development of sheep-farming as a commercial venture, again something that the removal of Run-Rig made possible. Proprietors looking for the best return on their investment had wallowed in wealth during the years of the kelp-bubble but when it burst they were left with a populace living in poverty and no obvious alternate employment. Sheep-runs were the answer for the Farmer class that was connected to the Factors of Harris either by marriage or occupation, or both.
To add insult to injury, when those Cleared away from the fertile soil to make way for sheep were unable to grow sufficient produce to pay their rents, the blame was passed to them for being unable to do so! There was the attempt to re-settle the Borves on the West coast of Harris and John Robson Macdonald gives his side of that story in great detail. What is significant in that account is that he places the blame upon the failure of the 1848 project as due to the fact that the crofters had insufficient capital to be able to develop the land they were renting. He neglects to mention that the re-settlement was undertaken against his wishes (and those of his accomplices farming that area), that it took place during some of the worst years for crop failure all over the isles, and that there is no evidence that any consideration was given to providing a system whereby capital could be made available to the crofters. What Macdonald does do, however, is turn the failed project to his advantage by using it as proof that giving the crofters land is not going to solve the problem of their destitution.
Fishing, which might alleviate the suffering in some ways, was never going to support a population that had perhaps doubled within as little as two generations, especially as those moved to 'fishing crofts' were not always in possession of boats etc and only some of those who lacked them were provided with the means to fish by the relief committee Even if the dreams of Captain Macleod and the desires of John Lanne Buchanan been realised, it would merely have meant that Tarbert would have temporarily shared in some of the wealth that went to Stornoway before the fishing fell into decline. The solution was simple. Move them off the better land, make their miserable existence even less unbearable and then portray yourself as a philanthropist by offering to offload them across the Atlantic at, in part, your own expense.
I doubt it was quite as calculated as that at first, but it seems significant that John Robson Macdonald in his evidence to McNeill clearly states that it was in 1847, the year after the first widespread failure of the potato crop, that the Countess of Dunmore offered to export some of her son's excess population to North America and this was repeated the following year with the suggestion that a dozen families might like to emigrate to 'there be settled on the property of the Honourable Charles Murray, uncle of the proprietor of Harris.'
Nice – the brother-in-law needs labour and you are happy to supply it for him!
Unsurprisingly, neither offer was met with any takers from the non-English speaking, half-starved, close-knit, Cleared and castigated islanders who had by then turned their backs on the Established Church of Scotland and fully-embraced the five-year-old Free Church.
If it is thought that I am being a little uncharitable regarding these gestures and the motivation that lay behind them, I would ask you to take into consideration the attitude of the widowed Countess's late husband to his people, to the testimony given to the Napier Commission in 1883, to the profligate behaviour of Alexander Norman Macleod who had wasted the wealth that the kelp brought to the isle, to the similarly excessive activities of the 7th Earl of Dunmore that led to the 26 year-old having to sell the North Harris Estate in 1867, and to the lack of evidence that the early development of 'Harris Tweed' by the Countess was anything but a nice marketing tale spun much later by the Duchess of Sutherland, and that if any woman should be credited with the early promotion of the industry it should be 'Mrs Thomas', whom I have identified as Frances Bousfield Thomas, the wife of Lieutenant FWL Thomas RN.
It was Fanny Thomas who endowed the hospital at Manish, in the settlement where the Countess eventually, after protracted prevarication, allowed the first Free Church to be built, it was she who had depots in London as well as Leith and it was she who took-in the children of destitute (Free Church) Ministers and other families in order to enable them to benefit from the experience and, most intriguingly of all, it was she whose obituary appeared in a magazine of the 'Quaker' (Society of Friends) movement.
The Countess certainly did provide some early assistance as described in the letter from the Parochial Board of Harris:
"…an immense shoal of herrings…"
John Lanne Buchanan (1768-1828?) & his 'General View'
A brief but informative biography can be read here (please scroll down )and this PDF contains a reference to
the dates that I have included in the title of this entry.
I have not discovered any more biographical information but as I haven't made reference to the third of his publications now seems to be a good time to do so:
Travels in the Western Hebrides (1793)
A Defence of the Scots Highlanders (1794)
General View of the Fishery of Great Britain (1794)
A 'General View' (as I shall refer to it henceforth) is one of those narratives that casts a broad sweep in time and place, making it a worthwhile read whatever aspect of history 'floats your boat', and so I shall concentrate upon some of the many references to Harris that it contains.
At the conclusion of the Preface JBL writes:
"It remains now that the author begs some allowance from the English Reader for the style and expression ; his chief attention being to make himself understood ; therefore he has followed a plain and pie style, without pomp or affectation"
This author will do his best to follow that example, too, although to the modern eye and ear Buchanan's prose is at times rather convoluted!
Apparently (p17) in 1633 King Charles built several storage houses in the Hebrides 'one at HERMITRA, in HARRIS, and another in LOCHMADDY, in North UIST, which lies about a league and a half South of HERMITRA…'
Now 5 miles is 'about a league and a half' and if we consult Bald's 1805 map of Harris we find the island of 'Hermetray', complete with Harbour, lying in the Sound of Harris and on today's OS maps the isle is shown variously as 'Thernatraigh' (1:50 000) and 'Hermetray' (1:25 000). There is, however, no sign of the Harbour nor of Charles' construction but it might be worth a brief archaeological visit lying as it does a little over a mile from the coast of north-eastern North Uist.
Starting on p126 we are given an account of John Knox's findings in which Buchanan is polite but firm in casting Knox as '…but a stranger, and at best but a speculative fisher…' but goes on to put the blame for mis-siting fisheries firmly at the door of Knox's superiors for accepting his suggestions without question.
By p156 we are into the nitty-gritty of Buchanan's annoyance which is focussed upon Tarbert in Harris being overlooked as a place to establish a fishery. East Loch Tarbert, if a channel had been constructed linking it the 600 yards to the West Loch, would have been within an hours sailing from the Atlantic Herring fisheries to the West as well as perfectly sited for the whole of the Minch. It was Knox, influenced by the enthusiasm of 'Mr Macleod', the proprietor of Harris, who had proposed Tarbert for this purpose but later Knox had fallen under the spell of those supporting sites away from the Western Isles and Tarbert fell from his favour It is, I think, worth reminding ourselves that Captain Macleod had died four years prior to the writing of the 'General View' and that both Buchanan and Knox clearly held him in the very highest regard as an industrious and caring landlord. It was undoubtedly a huge loss to Harris when the Captain died 220 years ago.
The extent of the loss to Harris is graphically described from p168 onwards including reference to Buchanan's earlier writings where 'a just parallel is drawn' between the people living in LUSGINTIRE (Losgaintir in Gaelic) and African slaves. The account continues in an ever-more depressing manner and it is almost possible to see Buchanan's compassionate tears flooding the pages with raw anger, albeit phrased with late 18thC politeness.
The influence of kelp-making is remarked upon on p193 for apparently on the East coast of Scotland 'the thick column of disagreeable fog…has greatly diminished the fish on these shores.' This is contrasted with the kelp smoke on the 'Long Island' where the strong winds 'clear off that smell.' Buchanan wasn't to know that the kelp market would soon collapse but that does not diminish the point he makes that at the time the Hebrides had a distinct advantage in terms of the profusion of local fish stocks.
When we reach p203 onwards we find Buchanan castigating the silence of the Hebridean proprietors en masse for having 'so little to say' regarding the decisions taken regarding the siting of fisheries largely caused by Knox' unknowledgeable recommendations. Basically, the proprietors had been keen to see fisheries established, after all, richer tenants make for richer landlords!, but rather strangely they did not challenge the recommendations and merely fell mute.
Buchanan proceeds to point out that, with the exception of the 'narrow and at times dangerous sound of Harris' the sites chosen on the mainland had no access to the Atlantic fish between Barra and the Butt of Lewis, a distance of some 200 miles.
'As for the direct opposition given by the steel bowman at Lusgintire…his private interest would suffer by the village at TARBERT. For the paultry spot of Moor and Moss with the Kelp, not half a mile long and broad, out of the bay of DIRACLETT near the village, he made it appear…that he drew more money yearly from the division cut out of that paltry bay than the proprietor drew from the whole of that extensive lease…'
Buchanan suggests that the 'steel bowman' thus made a fool of the 'sweet tempered gentleman' Captain Macleod 'a circumstance he never could forget while in life'. It might not be going too far to say that, in Buchanan's view, Macleod died of a broken heart having learnt of the avarice and heartlessness of the farmers, those men who would in later years embark on the wholesale Clearance of the fertile West coast of Harris.
'And there is not the least doubt, had he lived, but he would break this tyrant's power, by depriving him of this extensive profitable lease…' Not only would the Clearnces never taken place, but Tarbert would have become the fishing station of Buchanan's vision, complete with horse-drawn carriages to portage boats between the lochs as demand required…
Buchanan concludes by describing in detail his plans for a necklace of fishing stations throughout the isles, making the case for each individually and their interconnectedness as a whole. Instead of which, by the time of his death in 1828, the tyranny of the farmers had become even greater and Tarbert remained a quiet backwater rather than the bustling hub of Buchanan's scheme.
'Jessie' in Stornoway in 1886?
Yesterday I contacted the Ballast Trust regarding a photograph taken by the late Dan McDonald that appears on page 33 of Robert Simper's excellent book, 'Scottish Sail – A Forgotten Era', ISBN 071536703X. They located the image, a glass plate negative, and have added it to their Flickr site as can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ballasttrust/4909702307/
The description in the book tells us that the two vessels in the centre are the Advance and Jessie of Stornoway and that the Jessie, of 30 tons, was built at Fraserburgh in 1850 whilst the Advance was built in 1884. Given this information, the date on the image, which appears to read '1866', would have to be 1886?
My previous research, as seen here , places the Jessie in my family's hands from at least 1876 and the fact that her Crew Agreements cease in 1897, the year that they bought the Crest, leads me to believe that she was theirs for the whole of the period 1876-1897. Corroboration is to be found in this obituary from the Stornoway Gazette of 1922.
I am absolutely delighted to be able to share with you an evocative image (albeit somewhat indistinct!) of one of my ancestors' ships taken at the time that they were sailing her in plying the coastal trade of the West coast of Scotland.
Note: The fishing fleet is a mixture typical of the time, including vessels from both the East coast and the Clyde.
Lobster Fishermen of Harris
In his evidence to the Napier Commission Kenneth Macdonald boasts that:
"There was no such thing as lobster fishing. I happen to be an agent of the first company that started for sending the lobsters to London."
I thought I'd look to see what the census records have to tell us regarding his claim by researching those who gave their occupation as 'Lobster Fisher' from 1841-1901:
1851 – Kenneth Macdonald, 35, Factor's Clerk, Rodil, b. Applecross, Ross-shire
Donald Maclean, 30, ED21, b. Harris
1861 – Kenneth Macdonald, 43, Sheep Farmer, Big Borve, b. Applecross, Ross
John Martin, 30, Little Urgha, b. Harris
John Martin, 21, Little Urgha, b. Harris
Angus Mcdearmid, 29, Little Urgha (Visitor), b. Harris
Malcolm Kerr, 48, West Tarbert, b. Harris
Dougald Macdonald, 43, West Tarbert, b. Harris
Donald Kerr, East Tarbert, b. Harris
Donald Mcleod, 27, East Tarbert, b. Harris
Malcolm Shaw, 40, East Tarbert, b. Harris
Angus Shaw, 36, East Tarbert, b. Harris
Roderick Mclennan, 52, Direcleit, b. Harris
Donald Mckay, 29, Cregstore, b. Harris
Malcolm Morrison, 34, Struth, b. Harris
Alexander Mcleod, 22, Obe, b. Harris
John Mcleod, 22, Obe, b. Harris
1871 – Kenneth Macdonald, 54, Farmer, ED5, b. Applecross, Ross-shire
No Lobster Fishermen recorded (Fishers of Harris has numbers of ALL the Fishermen for that year)
1881 – Kenneth Macdonald, 64, Big Borve, Farmer and Factor, b. Applecross, Ross-shire
Kenneth Mcaskill, 32, ED5, b. Harris
Donald Mcaskill, 27, ED5, b. Harris
Lachlan Macdonald, 29, ED5, b. Harris
Christopher Morrison, 28, ED5, b. Harris
Hector Morrison, 23, ED5, b. Harris
1883 – Napier Commission
1891 – Kenneth Macdonald, 79, Farmer, Hamlets Scaristavore, b. Applecross
John Mcaskill, 23, Kyles Stockinish, b. Harris
Kenneth Mckinnon, 45, Kyles Stockinish, b. Harris
John Morrison, 20, Leac a Li, b. Harris
1901 – Kenneth Macdonald, not found…
Stockinish (10)
Kintulavig (2)
Kenneth Macdonald may well have been single-handedly responsible for creating the Lobster Fishing on Harris, and presumably profiting nicely in his role as an agent, but if we look at the figures then there is plenty to consider.
Firstly, considering the years 1861, 1881 and 1891 we have a total of 22 Lobster Fisherman giving an average of a little over six such persons per year. In 1901 there were nearly four times that number.
Secondly, if we take 1861 then we see that there were 14 Lobster Fishermen which is still only half the number in 1901.
The significance? Well, by 1901 Kenneth Macdonald was gone yet the Lobster Fishing appears to have gained hugely in popularity amongst those risking their lives in its pursuit. For Macdonald to have the cheek in 1883 to talk of that industry as if it was playing a significant part in alleviating the poverty that he himself had inflicted upon the populace in attempting to assuage his endless appetite for land upon which to graze his sheep, when in fact just two years earlier there had been but a handful of Lobster Fishermen in the whole of Harris, leaves a disgusting taste in one's mouth far-removed from that of the fruits of those brave fishermens' labour…
Royal Naval Reserve at Drill – Stornoway 1901
The Royal Naval Reserve was formed in 1859 and an introduction may be read here.
The censuses reveal a scattering of Scottish individuals across place and time but by far the largest congregation is found in Stornoway in 1901 where we find these 37 men who were recorded as members of the 'R N Reserve at Drill':
All the men were Boarding apart from the three Mcdonalds at 22 Point St who were at their sister Ann Campbell's Lodging House.
John Gillies, 28, Fisherman, 2 (North Side), b. Barvas
Alex Mackenzie, 25, Fisherman, 2, b. Stornoway
Don Mcleod, 21, Fisherman, 2, b. Barvas
Don Mackenzie, 18, Fisherman, 7, b. Stornoway
James Mackenzie, 21, Fisherman, 7(South Side), b. Stornoway
Farqhuar Mackinnon, 21, Fisherman, 15, b. Lochs
Roderick Mcleod, 48, Fisherman, 15, b. Lochs
Murdo Mcdonald, 30, Fisherman, 20, b. Stornoway
Roderick Mackenzie, 32, Fisherman, 20, b. Stornoway
John Mackenzie, 20, Fisherman, 20, b. Lochs
Alex Mackinnon, 22, Fisherman, 20, b. Lochs
Ken Macaulay, 20, Fisherman, 40a, b. Lochs
John Campbell, 20, Fisherman,40c, b. Stornoway
Alex Mackenzie, 20, Fisherman, 40c, b. Lochs
Alex Mciver, 20, Fisherman, 40c, b. Lochs
Murdo Mcleod, 23, Fisherman, 40c, b. Lochs
Malcolm Mcleod, 20, Fisherman, 40c, b. Lochs
Philip Smith, 20, Fisherman, 40c, b. Lochs
John Mclean, 35, Fisherman, 44, b. Lochs
Angus Mclean, 30, Fisherman, 44, b. Uig
Murdo Mcleod, Fisherman, 44, b. Uig
Robert Mcleod, 26, Fisherman, 44, b. Lochs
Kenneth Mcleod, 44, Fisherman, 44, b. Lochs
Mudo Mcleod, 21, Fisherman, 44, b. Stornoway
Neil Smith, 33, Fisherman, 44, b. Lochs
Murdo Mckay, 21, Fisherman, 30, b. Uig
Donald Mcelod, 20, Fisherman, 30, b. Uig
John Mcleod, 20, Fisherman, 30, b. Uig
Angus Smith, 26, Fisherman, 30, b. Barvas
Colin Mcleod, 36, Fisherman, 37, b. Lochs
Murdo Mcleod, 34, Fisherman, 37, b. Lochs
Murdo Mcleod, 34, Fisherman, 37, b. Lochs
Malcolm Macleod, 30, Fisherman, 37, b. Lochs
It is perhaps worth noting that 18, or virtually half, of these men were from Lochs, 11 from Stornoway, 5 from Uig and 3 from Barvas.
Drowned at Sea by Upsetting of a Boat…
A feint record, almost unreadable, but it appear to say that this was the fate of William Kerr on the 23rd of March 1861 . The death was registered on the 21st March 1862. William was 24 years old.
Angus of Strond's son, William, was this Fisherman. He drowned.
Angus's son-in-law, William Morrison, was a Fisherman and father.
He went 'missing, presumed dead, from 'Jessie Margaret' off Thurso.
John the Tailor's son, Angus, was a Fisherman and father. He drowned.
John's two grandsons, Roderick and John were Fishermen. They died on land.
Of the five men who went fishing from these two families, all three from the first generation to do so paid with their lives. Two of them leaving behind wives and families.
Salmon Folk of Lewis and Harris
I thought I'd take a look to see what specific mention of occupations connected with Salmon might appear in the censuses:
George Macleod, 35, Salmon Fisher, Grimersta, b. Uig
Murdo Mackay, 35, Salmon T Boiler(?), Sandwick, b. Uig
George Macleod, 45, Ground Officer/Salmon Fisher, Sandwick Beach, b. Assynt, Sutherland
Angus Macdonald, 35, Salmon Fisherman, Dun Carloway, b. Uig
George Macleod, 52, Salmon Fisher, Sandwick Beach, b. Assynt, Sutherland
John Macleod, 25, Salmon Fisher Clerk, Sandwick Beach, b. Uig
John Macleod, 40, Watcher of Game and Salmon, Arnish Point(?), b. Uig
James Young, 35, Salmon Fisher, Sandwick Road, Sandwick Lodge, b. Creich, Sutherland
(Neil Macneil, Salmon Fisher, Salmon House, Drainie, Moray, b. Lochs)
James Young, 44, Salmon Fisher, Sandwick Cottage, b. Creich, Sutherland
1891 – None Listed
James Young, 65, Salmon Fisher, Sandwick Cottage, b. Creich, Sutherland
(John Kerr, 32, Salmon Fisher, The Chanonry Point (Salmon fishing Station)(2), b. Tarbert, Harris)
Whilst some of these records clearly relate to protecting the landowner's Salmon (and Game!) it is not clear if the all other Salmon Fishers were engaged in commercial activity or, perhaps, as guides?
I have included the two 'strays' in Moray mainly because they are from the Isles and engaged in salmon fishing, but also because John Kerr, who was born in Direcleit, is a relative.


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A homeowner wrestled a gun away from an armed home invasion suspect, killing the 15-year-old intruder in the process.
The incident occurred in Lemon Grove, California, around 2 a.m.
According to CBS 8, 15-year-old Derrick Harris Jr. and another suspect allegedly broke into the home. Investigators indicate that both suspects were armed. Forty-four -year-old Francisco Suarez Sr. and his 22-year-old son were home at the time, and Suarez Jr. was shot while struggling with the suspects.
Suarez Senior then grabbed one of the guns and tried to wrestle it away from one of the suspects. The gun "went off" and a bullet struck Harris, killing him. The second suspect then fled the scene.
Lt. Kenn Nelson of the San Diego Sheriff's Office said, "You have a person who committed a very brazen and violent home invasion robbery, and in doing so brought along a 15-year-old child who, eventually, during a struggle was shot and killed."
The suspect who fled is described as "an adult man." He is being sought and may be charged with murder in the death of Harris.
AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at email@example.com.


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Not much to say to this press release except that I'm positive that Sara and Martha were not consulted.
"Ziggy" to be Displayed in U.S. Copyright Office
Washington D.C. (02/07/2007) The United States Copyright Office, a department of the Library of Congress, has announced that a "Ziggy" comic panel will be included in a special graphics display for the newly renovated Copyright Office in Washington, D.C.
The Aug. 3, 1993 "Ziggy" features the "Yellow Kid" holding out his hat while wearing an outfit that says "COPYRIGHT RAN OUT – PLEASE HELP!" Ziggy has his head turned to the Yellow Kid, who is shoeless, and begging, but wearing a smile. This "Ziggy" comic panel will hang side-by-side the original "Yellow Kid" comic strip from 1896. Together, they illustrate the copyright registration system and its importance, says a Copyright Office spokesman. The "Ziggy" panel will be displayed alongside other American icons such as the "Statue of Liberty," the "Oscar," and "Coca-Cola."
"It is an honor to have "Ziggy" chosen for display in the nation's oldest federal cultural institution," says Tom Wilson, Ziggy's creator. The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world and home to more than 130 million items sitting on 530 miles of bookshelves. Included in the collections are over 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 58 million manuscripts. Ziggy is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.
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TI-83 web based tutorial. Very helpful and user friendly, from Prentice Hall.
More Detailed Graphing Calculator guides in PDF format for various TI graphing calculator models (including TI-85/86) - written specifically for math students. From Houghton-Mifflin.
Guidebooks for TI-calculators - did you lose your user's manual? never had one in the first place? Check out the online users' guides from the Texas Instruments web site for:
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• Much kerfuffle this week over whether the working man's pasty has ever passed the lips of posho Gideon. But amid the rumpus, better news for family Osborne: Gideon's wife, author Frances, has a new book out. Here's the blurb: "In one of the capital's most exclusive residences, the walls between two social worlds are starting to crumble." Not a memoir, we conclude.
• But perhaps the Diary speaks too soon. In an effort to smash this edifice between two social worlds, MP-cum-self-publicist John Mann (he who first uncovered Gideon's aversion to meat-filled pastries) has invited the chancellor and his mucker David C to spend a couple of nights in his caravan, a residence facing the same VAT attack as the poor pasty. A generous offer, to be sure. But is there enough room for all three lads? "They may have to top-and-tail," admits Mr Mann.
• Back to the pasties. The argument for taxing them centres on how hot they are at the point of purchase. To settle the dispute, we therefore turn to a suitably impartial observer on reviewcentre.com: "We have three Greggs in Newport town centre so obviously they are well liked BUT every time I go in there to buy a pasty it's COLD. Which is really really annoying." Case closed, then.
• On to the serious stuff. The Diary notes that one is once more permitted to publicly term David Cameron a wanker. This had been a grey area for some time, after police arrested photographer David Hoffman for displaying in his front window a picture of the esteemed leader subtitled with the Virgilian epithet: "Wanker". An interregnum followed, during which the Hoff was obliged to swap the aforementioned sobriquet for the mellower "onanist". But two years on, earthier nomenclature has at last resumed, following an apology from the rozzers. "I hope that this apology," wrote a senior bobby to Hoffman, "will enable you to put these events behind you." And indeed it has. Hoffman has reinstated the original strapline, accompanied by a new preface: "Still a …"
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• So much to do, so little time. As the Lords considered the NHS bill for the final time last week, health minister Earl Howe warned of the dire consequences of any further delay in its passage. There was "a great deal" of other business waiting, Howe said, and any more wavering would jeopardise "all the excellent work that this house has done to make this a better bill". Imagine my lordships' surprise, then, to be told that they may extend their holiday, which began yesterday, for an extra week. Not enough business, apparently.
• The Diary, on the other hand, has too much business, which means that we cannot today serialise the final 73 words of The Adventures of Eoin McKeogh, by Mr Justice Michael Peart. All being well, a cooling of the news cycle should ensure its publication tomorrow. Today, permitted though it now is, we regret that there is not even enough space to call David Cameron a w
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Justin Linscott appears in Wedgewood Life
H&M's own Justin Linscott appeared in a recent issue of Wedgewood Life. The article is reproduced below:
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The time machine in your pocket
Real Stories Original Missed Call , shot entirely on an iPhone X, has been nominated in the Social Media Short category at the AHRC Research in Film Awards 2018, which take place on 8th November at BAFTA in London. Extracts from a related article championing smartphone filmmaking in this week's Broadcast:
The time machine in your pocket
The intimacy and ubiquity of smartphones make them ideal for telling personal stories, argue Victoria Mapplebeck and Adam Gee
Missed Call
Production company Field Day Productions
Commissioner Adam Gee, Little Dot Studios
Length 19 minutes
Producer/director Victoria Mapplebeck
Executive producers Amanda Murphy; Alex Hryniewicz; Andy Taylor
Making the most of the smartphone
Adam Gee
Commissioning editor, Little Dot Studios
I commissioned Missed Call partly because I am a massive advocate of smartphone filmmaking. I also consider Victoria's 2015 film 160 Characters a pioneering work in this territory.
What's so special about what is effectively the prequel is that not only was it made largely on mobile phones, but also the narrative is derived from the contents of one old mobile in particular. It contains a resonant text thread that captures the story of a key love affair in the life of the director-cum-protagonist.
Missed Call similarly revolves around mobile phone content – video, photos, emoticons, animations, texts. The aesthetic of the film is rooted in this content, which gives it an original feel.
Between the old Nokia of the first film and the new generation iPhone of this second, the technology has advanced, the details of the graphics evolved, so the look & feel has moved on.
Because the commission coincided with the noisy launch of the iPhone X, I thought we might as well take advantage of the coincidence and be pioneers with the new tech.
I'd seen Michel Gondry's scripted short Détour, which was shot entirely on iPhone 7. That planted the iPhone seed and I asked Little Dot to buy the then brand-new iPhone X for Victoria to use.
She complemented it with a decent mike (Rode SmartLav+ Lavalier) and a stabiliser (Lanparte 3 Axis Handheld Gimbal) and then got the ball rolling. She started by using it for audio-recording conversations with her son Jim, to make sure he was comfortable, eventually segueing into video recording.
Intimacy and ubiquity
The power of Smartphone filmmaking is intimacy and ubiquity. The kind of intimate conversations Victoria and Jim managed to capture in a natural way were the result of the camera-phone being small and unobtrusive, with no crew attached – part of everyday contemporary life.
And it's in your pocket all your waking hours (and not uncommonly beside the bed even in your non-waking ones, as we see in Missed Call).
Between this distinctive pairing of characteristics, a whole new highly accessible realm of film-making opens up.
Victoria Mapplebeck
Reader in digital arts at Royal Holloway, University of London
How do you reconnect with a father who's been absent for over a decade? What do you write, what do you say? Add to that dilemma a teenage boy and the realisation that this private journey would very quickly become a public one. There were a lot of sleepless nights on Missed Call, the first commissioned short documentary to be shot on an iPhone X.
The doc is a sequel to 160 Characters, my first smartphone short, which I made for Film London. It brought to life a three-year SMS thread between myself and my son's father, charting the story of how we met, dated for just a few months, broke up and subsequently dealt with an unplanned pregnancy.
Missed Call explores my relationship with my now fourteen-year-old son Jim. His father came to see Jim a handful of times when he was a baby before deciding that he didn't want to be involved. Last year, Jim decided he wanted to meet his father and asked if I would make contact with him again.
Executive producer Amanda Murphy helped me navigate the many compliance and ethical issues we faced throughout production. Our aim with Jim's dad was to preserve his anonymity and to protect Jim in an uncertain unfolding narrative. Squaring the circle of being both filmmaker and parent made this one of the most challenging films I've ever made.
For Jim, being filmed by his mum with an iPhone X was no big deal. When he looked into the lens, all he saw was me.
But in my 25 years as a self-shooting director, the camera I film with has gone from needing a bag the size of a small suitcase to one that fits in my back pocket.
Our phones are like time machines
There's a great scene in Mad Men when Don Draper is meeting with the team who invented Kodak's Carousel. As he clicks through his own family album in a darkened boardroom, he begins his pitch:
"In Greek, 'Nostalgia' literally means the pain from an old wound, it's a twinge in your heart… It's a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards, it takes us to a place where we ache to go again…"
Our mobile phones have become our time machines. My vintage Nokia lies at the back of my kitchen drawer, holding that all-important first text message from Jim's dad. My new iPhone X can access that devastating last email from him before he cut all contact a decade ago. It also contains the first text I sent him after 12 years of radio silence – and 13 days later, his reply.
My phone contains good memories too: 26,000 photos; 3,000 videos; and the jokey texts Jim sends me from bedroom to living room, requesting another five minutes on the Xbox.
You may love your phone, you may hate it, probably both, but hold it close. It's your own personal time machine – it connects you with your past, your present and your future. It holds the traces of all your time travel, all the stories that shape you, the good and the bad… forever.
{extracts courtesy of Broadcast – full article is here}
Tampere, Finland
This week I had the pleasure of visiting the first place I've been to in Finland outside of Helsinki. I've worked with the Finnish state broadcaster YLE for some years now, usually in their offices at Pasila towards the north of the capital. On Wednesday I gave a talk on Short Form Video as part of their FutureZone series at their Tampere offices (Mediapolis). Tampere is 160km north of Helsinki, the second or third largest city in Finland (depending on how you are measuring) and the largest inland urban population in the Nordic countries. It is situated between two large lakes.
The event was delightfully hosted by YLE news anchor/journalist Milla Madetoja who presents the regional news nightly. Finland is divided into 9 regions which become larger and more sparsely populated as you head north.
At lunch I was asked by the Head of Current Affairs to explain what was going on in the UK with Brexit. I couldn't.
Oh Geno (Gee Knows)
On arrival at the Curzon Bloomsbury on Tuesday evening to see a drama-doc short 'Oh Geno!' I was greeted with a lovely surprise – the director Sophie Shad welcomed me and explained that the film had come about because of me. I had no idea. But was delighted. Here's how it happened…
I was introduced to Sophie through a fellow trustee at the Phoenix Cinema, East Finchley, the oldest purpose-built cinema in the country (which is about to join the Curzon group – there's a Company Members' meeting going on as I write but I'm 8,000 feet above Finland so unfortunately can't be there).
Sophie had just produced her first scripted short 'Kitty's Fortune' (2016), a story set in Auschwitz, and came to see me at Channel 4 about next moves with her producing partner Dalton Deverell. They were thinking of following up with another holocaust story. During the course of the chat it came to light that Sophie's grandfather is none other than Geno Washington, the soul singer (who I first came across through Dexy's Midnight Runners' eponymous song).
That man took the stage, his towel was swingin' high
(Oh Geno!)
This man was my bombers, my dexys, my high
(Oh Geno!)
How the crowd, they all hailed you, and chanted your name
I gave the opinion that at that particular juncture a holocaust story might be especially challenging to get off the ground and perhaps the Geno connection was a more joyful route for the times and a better use of weapons in their young armoury.
We discussed a short form documentary series in the wake of that meeting but it never quite came together, I left Channel 4 and our ways parted (largely because their focus was on scripted).
A few weeks ago an invitation arrives for the screening and I am surprised and delighted the Geno project came off. What I hadn't realised was that it was on leaving that initial meeting at Horseferry Road that the pair of them determined on making a film about Geno.
Sophie kindly explained my role in the genesis of the film in the Q&A after the screening to 150 delighted audience members. Besides her and Dalton on the panel was the director,Onyinye Egenti, and the great man himself, Geno. Geno bantered with me in the audience, saying I was to blame, with his crazy infectious laugh.
The film is to debut at Aesthetica Short Film Festival in York next month. It is a really well scripted piece focused on the meeting of Geno and his wife-to-be, Frenchy (Sophie's grandmother) in a London club in the mid-60s. He was just out the US Air Force, getting to love Britain. She was a Jewish refugee from France, a single mum and feisty club manageress. Sophie plays her own grandmother – which has a certain resonance – with a beautiful stylishness (the camera loves her). The moment zoomed in on is just right to capture the essence of an extraordinary couple. And the ending is pulled off with aplomb – avoiding the common pitfall of the punchline-type ending of short dramas (it has the punch-line dynamic but it is subtle and judged just right).
At the screening I found myself sitting beside the young actor who portrayed Geno, Edward Nkom. He captures the physical charm of Geno well.
It will be interesting to see if this nugget develops further and into what – scripted, drama-doc, it could go in various directions. I'd love to see it evolve into an iterative project centred on this fascinating couple.
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Summer programs in large urban districts showed benefits for math performance but flat results in reading and social-emotional development, according to preliminary findings from the first longitudinal study of such initiatives.
The RAND Corp. study, known as the National Summer Learning Project, provides data from the first summer of a six-year randomized, controlled trial of programs in Boston; Dallas; Duval County, Fla.; Pittsburgh; and Rochester, N.Y. The study was funded by the Wallace Foundation, which also supports coverage of extended learning, leadership, and arts education in Education Week.
Researchers compared 5,637 students who completed 3rd grade in the spring of 2013 and applied for the summer programs in their respective districts. Of those, 3,194 were randomly assigned to the program, while 2,445 students were not offered a spot.
The study found that low-income students who attended a district-led program showed gains in mathematics skills equal to about 20 percent of a typical student's growth during one year.
Vol. 34, Issue 15, Page 5Published in Print: January 7, 2015, as Summer Learning
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Abstraction is a mechanism to' hide irrelevant details and represent only the essential features so that one can focus on important things at a time; It allows managing complex systems by concentrating on the essential features only. For example, while driving a car, a driver only knows the essential features to drive a car such as how to use clutch, brake, accelerator, gears, steering, etc., and least bothers about the internal details of the car like motor, engine, wiring, etc.
Abstraction can be of two types, namely, data abstraction and control abstraction. Data abstraction means hiding the details about the data and control abstraction means hiding the implementation details. In object-oriented approach, one can abstract both data and functions. However, generally, the classes in OOP are defined in such a way that the data is hidden from the outside world and the functions form the public interface. That is, the functions of the class can be directly accessed by other functions outside the class and the hidden data can be accessed indirectly with the help of these functions.
Since, the internal details of the class are hidden from the outside world, thus, data abstraction ensures security of data by preventing it from accidental changes or manipulations by other parts of the program.
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Forgive me if this is slightly incoherent. I have been traveling all day and trapped in a banquet hall listening to corporate bs all day. The first piece of joy in my day has come in the form of Sweet and Sour Chicken, Spicy Gourmet Chicken, Golden Rolls and Chicken Salad (all vegan of course). Yes I'm a pig, no I didn't eat all of this in one sitting. Right now I have made it half way through the sweet and sour chicken and the only thing that i keeping me from devouring it is writing this blog. I had two bites of the Spicy Gourmet Chicken, which isn't exactly spicy but is perfect in every other way. The texture of the "chicken" is amazing. Golden Era is definitely a place to take your omni friends to convince them that vegan food is good food.
The Golden rolls are your standard egg rolls (minus the eggs) but what really makes them soar is the sauce that goes with them. It's akin to the sweet and sour sauce with sesame seeds, it's just decadent. The chicken salad was purchased intentionally to be eaten tomorrow at lunch (because I know I'll be stuck eating from a horrible hotel buffet line).
The bottom line is Golden Era Vegetarian Cuisine is one of the best Chinese restaurants I've ever had. The only place that has come close thus far is Zen Palate in New York (which I will be blogging about soon). The only thing that is wrong with this place is that it's closed on Tuesday's and I still want to try their soups! But for now I'm just going to sit back, rub my belly and rejoice over the magnificent meal that I just had.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Golden Era Vegetarian Cuisine San Francisco, CA
Posted by Alicia (Vegan Guinea Pig)
Labels: Restaurant Reviews, San Francisco Guide
4 comments:
- AnonymousFebruary 3, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Sounds great! I think I should start making my vacations all about great vegan food. :-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 13, 2008 at 4:06 PM
I love Golden Era!!!! Reading your post made me miss San Francisco so much!ReplyDelete
Don't they have a location in Oakland as well? I could swear I went to one in Oakland.ReplyDelete
I love San Francisco. Much better weather than here (Seattle) too.
- AnonymousMarch 31, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Their soups are out-of-control GOOD. Golden Era is killer. I saw someone pissing in the radiator of a car right across the street once! I usually walk pretty fast through this hood- There is a parking garage half a block away, it's a good idea to park there. Eating at this place is worth possibly getting mugged/stabbed.ReplyDelete
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- The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada), 14 Feb 1952, p. 241-249
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- Simonds, Lieutenant General Guy G., Speaker
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- The speaker's recent return from a trip to Korea. What he saw in Canada's Brigade there. The 27th Canadian Brigade in Europe. The creation of two replacement brigades in Canada to provide necessary reinforcements. Making provision for the rotation of our European Force. The role of the Reserve Army. The interdependence of the three Services, using Korea as an example. The essential part that each of the three services plays; the contributions of each to bringing about a situation which has made possible the cease fire talks in Korea. The mighty effort of the Western Powers to try to eventually resolve the East-West problem in terms of the cold war rather than allowing it to deteriorate into a shooting war. The importance of industry and manpower to the defence effort. What would be needed for deterrence. Again, the role of the Reserves. Supporting those representatives of firms who are prepared to give their time to Reserve Force training.
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An Address by LIEUTENANT GENERAL GUY G. SIMONDS, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., C.D.
Chief of the General Staff, Canadian Army
Thursday, February 14th, 1952
CHAIRMAN: The President, Mr. D. H. Gibson.
MR. GIBSON: Our speaker will be introduced by the General Officer Commanding Central Command, Major-General H. D. Graham.
MAJOR-GENERAL GRAHAM: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: I am quite sure that to a great many people in this room an introduction to General Simonds is quite unnecessary, but for the benefit of others who perhaps are not acquainted with his career, I will just give a thumbnail sketch.
The speaker was born in the United Kingdom, but received his education at two well-known Canadian schools, Ashbury College in Ottawa and the Royal Military College in Kingston. Upon graduation from the Royal Military College he was immediately commissioned in the Canadian Army and posted to the Royal Canadian Artillery.
From the very beginning he exhibited intense interest and displayed great talent in his chosen profession. In the 30's he graduated from the British Army Staff College with an outstanding record. In 1939 he was an instructor in tactics at the Royal Military College, and upon mobilization of the army, he was posted to the staff of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division and went overseas with that formation in 1939.
His experience as a commander, staff officer and a teacher during and since the war has been unique. As a Lieutenant-Colonel in England in 1940 he organized and conducted the first Canadian Army Staff Course; he commanded a regiment of field artillery and later was promoted to the rank of Brigadier, and commanded the 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade; Still later he commanded the 1st Canadian Infantry Division in the assault upon Sicily and Italy. Then he took command of the 5th Armoured Division during part of the Italian campaign. Early in 1944 he was promoted to the rank of LieutenantGeneral to command the 2nd Canadian Corps in the invasion of Northwest Europe, and he continued in that command until the end of the war, except (and this is perhaps not known to many Canadian citizens) that for some weeks he was in command of the whole army during the illness of the Army Commander. He served for a short time in North Africa under Field Marshal Montgomery in the 8th Army.
During these years, in addition to holding these many and varied commands, he held staff appointments on the divisional, corps and army levels.
Since the war General Simonds served for a period as Chief Army Instructor at the Imperial Defence College in London and later was head of the Canadian National Defence College at Kingston. About a year ago he was appointed Chief of the General Staff, which is tantamount to Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Army.
General Simonds has been honoured by many foreign governments and by his own Sovereign. He had been admitted a Companion of the Order of the Bath, has been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and a member of the Distinguished Service Order, and he holds the Canadian Forces decoration.
All ranks in the Canadian Army are proud to have him as their Chief and I am sure the Canadian people are fortunate indeed in having at the head of their ground forces at this critical time, a man of such vigour, proven ability and wide experience, a student, a scholar and a great soldier.
Gentlemen, I present to you Lieutenant-General Guy G. Simonds, Chief of the General Staff.
LIEUT-GENERAL SIMONDS: Since I had the pleasure of receiving the invitation to be your guest here today, we have all been shocked by the death of our late Sovereign and Commander-in-Chief, His Majesty, King George VI.
It has been a matter of deep and sincere pride for those of us serving in the Canadian Army that we have been privileged to wear the King's coat and we will continue to give the same sincere and unswerving loyalty to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
I have only recently returned from a trip to Korea, and I would like to begin by saying a few words about what I saw in our Brigade there. I visited every unit of the Brigade and every establishment which we have serving with the Brigade on the lines of communication. Contrary to reports which occasionally you read in the press, I had never seen a formation in which the morale was higher, and I can say to you in absolute sincerity that there is no formation serving in the Korean theatre that is better equipped and has higher morale than our own 25th Brigade. And the thing that annoys them most, and the one thing about which I heard criticisms and protests is the circulation at home of reports that their morale is low, and that they are not conducting themselves in a manner creditable to Canada. The fine record established by the 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade is a great tribute to its officers and men and the leadership of Brigadier Rockingham, and I am satisfied that it is maintaining the best traditions established by the Canadian Army during two world wars.
I would like to say a word too about our 27th Canadian Brigade in Europe. It has not yet attained the high state of operational efficiency equal to that of the 25th Brigade. The units were raised later, and they have not had the same opportunities for all types of field training, but they are a first class formation, and I am satisfied that by the time they have finished their program of exercises in the coming spring, they too will be a Canadian formation as battle worthy as any.
I would like to add one other word in connection with the 27th Brigade. When we raised that formation I was very strongly of the opinion that if we continue the expansion of the Army, without calling upon units of the Reserve Force, it would be a severe blow to their morale. They have always regarded themselves as the basis upon which the expansion of the Canadian Army would take place, and, though I knew we were going to be faced with the difficult problem of selecting the units which were to be represented, I felt strongly that units which had established outstanding records in two World Wars should be represented in any further expansion of the Army. I called on the Defence Associations for their advice. I notice some units have been disappointed that their regimental names were not included in the 27th Brigade, but I think that the other alternative of continuing to expand the Army whilst ignoring the record of the Reserve Force would have had a far more depressing and demoralizing effect.
Now in addition to these two formations serving abroad, I have been able to create two replacement brigades in Canada to provide the necessary reinforcements. Faced, as we may be, by a long period of cold war, I think it is essential that right at the beginning we should have made provision for the rotation of officers and men serving overseas. It has made a tremendous difference--the announcement of the rotation for Korea gave a tremendous fillip to the troops there. Having regard to the conditions in Korea, we consider that a man is due to be brought home after a year there, and I hope many will continue their service in the Army after they come home.
The same applies to our European Force. We have made provision also for the rotation of our European Force.
Now with this expansion of the Army Forces in being, I know there is a feeling in some quarters that that has made the role of the Reserve Army less important, and it is my principal purpose in speaking to you today, to emphasize to you most strongly that such is not the case.
We--I speak now of all the Western Allies in the two World Wars--have allowed an aggressor on two occasions to attack us unprepared, and took the risk of being unable to repulse these attacks because of insufficient forces. We have banded together collectively to prevent the same thing occurring again. Whether we shall succeed in discouraging aggression is in the lap of the gods, because the actual decision does not rest with us. It rests with others. The Western Democracies are certainly not going to be aggressors in war, and the decision as to whether or not the risk of provoking a third World War is acceptable rests with the Communist powers. The best we can do is to try to make it clear that the risk is not going to be worthwhile.
Before I say something further on the problem of the balance we have tried to create to produce that desirable situation, I would like--taking the example of the present situation in Korea--to say a few words on the interdependence of the three Services. Unfortunately there are always extremists and enthusiasts who will say that only one Service matters and the others are quite unimportant. In mobile war the three Services are interdependent, and it is not the part of any one to gain a decision without the complete and absolute co-operation of the other two. You could not have that better illustrated than, by the situation which exists in Korea at the present moment. If there is a geographic spot, a theatre, in the world which would offer the possibility of gaining a decision by air power alone, that theatre is the Korean Peninsula. Communications are few. The main communications, rail and road, are close to the Coast. We have complete and undisputed command of the sea, and practically undisputed command of the air. Command of the air in the northern areathe area commonly referred to as "MIG Alley"--is being contested, but over the forward areas and in the south we still have practically undisputed command of the air. When the cease fire discussions led to a diminution of the land operations along the zone of contact, the Air Forces were directed in the main to try to destroy the Communist communications and segregate the forward area from its bases and lines of communication behind. The lessening of close support for operations on the ground meant that a higher proportion of the air effort could be devoted to the above task.
In spite of the effort which started many months ago, the Air Commanders on the spot will be the first to tell you that they have not prevented the Communist land forces from very substantially increasing their capability and potential during this period of cease fire talks.
Now if it were not for the support of air power in Korea, it is my belief we would not have held on to the Korean Peninsula at all, and I would be the first to admit it. But if the land forces were unable to hold the enemy forces along a certain line, the forward air bases, on which air support depends, would be quickly over-run, and if we lost command of the air we would probably have the Army in turn placed in a most critical position.
I would emphasize also to you the essential part which the Navy plays in maintaining the operations of the Air Forces in Korea. A single wing requires a tonnage of between 250 and 300 tons delivered daily to its air fields. Without the sea lines of communication to bring that tonnage, we could no longer sustain air operations in the Korean Peninsula today. You could not have a better example of the absolute interdependence of the three Services.
So each one of the three services, bearing its part as a member of the combined team, has contributed to bringing about a situation which has made the cease fire talks possible. Today we confront the Communists with a situation where they would really have to pay a very heavy price to try and remove us from Korea by force of arms, and I think they would even be willing to pay that price if they thought they could succeed. Whether the cease fire negotiations are going to lead to an armistice and truce remains to be seen. It depends on the intentions of the enemy, whether he is only stalling for time or whether he does want to reach some compromise arrangement. Nothing but time and patience and turning up daily to the truce discussions can eventually reveal what his real intentions are.
In the meantime we cannot afford to accept any reduction in strength which might jeopardize the possibilities of a settlement of the Korean situation by negotiation.
Now coming from the Korean theatre to the world situation at large. The critical issue upon which all else turns is the mighty effort of the Western Powers to try to eventually resolve this problem between East and West in terms of the cold war rather than allowing it to deteriorate into a shooting war. And from this I would like to emphasize to you the vital role which still is that of the Reserve Army. Now the forces which we are creating represent a minimum, and they represent no more than the crust which must be there in order to turn the aggressor from taking the chance that by a sudden coup he may be able to make such gains that we will be in a position of disadvantage from which we could never recover, and which would place him in a position from which he could eventually defeat us.
Although we never had strictly speaking a strategic concept in World War I and II, we certainly did rely on our industrial potential and manpower, and on the conviction that if there was a war, we could start raising forces, and with our big industrial machine behind us, we would have ample time to marshall our forces, and then dominate events and so be victorious. The situation is different today, because previously, in the main, the industrial plant which we depended upon was in a totally secure area with reference to the weapons that then existed. Today there is no part of the industrial plant upon which the Western world must depend, which can be regarded as completely immune from the possibility of attack by destructive weapons. If a blow was struck which, in addition to overcoming most of our forward base areas, yielded into the enemy's hands large resources of manpower, and at the same time our own industrial plant on which we were depending to carry on our war expansion was severely damaged, we might never regain the momentum necessary to carry the war to a successful conclusion.
So we must have sufficient forces in being to turn the aggressor from the risk that his first violent blow would not lead to the complete success which he must achieve.
Assuming that this temptation has been removed, there is still the temptation that if the forces in being are not capable of holding out defensively while major forces are mobilizing behind them, but could be worn down by attrition, in six or eight months they could be destroyed before the power mobilized behind them had provided a further backing to that very thin crust. If we are going to have organized armed forces that are a deterrent to war, although it may seem to be an anomaly, it is a fact our war organization must be convincing to the extent that it is quite apparent that we have the capacity to successfully wage total war. That means a certain minimum of forces in being which can gain the time needed to provide the building behind them and which are not subject to the possibility of being overwhelmed before the whole machine comes into operation.
I put that to you in this way because some are inclined to think that our Reserves are something that are only there if war comes. I would put it to you in the strongest possible sense, that they are just as much a deterrent to war as are the forces in being, and if we provide the forces in being alone and are unable to back them up, the temptation is still there for an aggressor to risk a final show-down.
I know possibly the vast bulk of this audience today are from those who are making a very considerable contribution to our Reserve forces, but still I would emphasize to you that that is a national effort of primary importance in these times and one which we cannot do without. I would appeal particularly to employers to put up with what, after all, is more or less a minor inconvenience, of supporting those representatives of firms who are prepared to give their time to Reserve Force training. Without the support of employers, if an officer or man, because he serves in the Reserve Forces is handicapped in his day-today job and the means by which he wins his bread, then we cannot expect to build up the Reserve Forces in the form in which they have to be, and it depends on the willing co-operation of employers in playing their part in making certain that no man who works for them suffers by virtue of the fact that he is giving service to the Reserve Army.
That is the message, Gentlemen, which I would like to leave with you today. I have been very much preoccupied in the last few months with getting the immediate forces in being and the backing for them organized and in position; and I have not had as much time as I would have liked to go around Commands and see the Reserve Army at work. I have on occasion when I have been travelling in the country made a point of going to visit the Reserve units whenever there has been an opportunity, and I hope in this coming year there may be more opportunities than I have had in the past. But I would not want you to think that the Reserve Army has not my strongest possible support, and that I do not regard it as a part of our Military and Army organization.
THANKS OF THE MEETING were expressed by Mr. H. G. Colebrook, a Past President of The Empire Club of Canada.


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Middle Eastern petrochemical companies are known for their lavish hospitality, but at a cocktail party organized by a major Saudi company in Berlin recently, the atmosphere was quite somber. A conversation with one of the hosts on the impact of shale gas went some way to explaining this.
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