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People start to heal, the moment they feel heard – Cheryl Richardson.
A warm welcome to you. Discover about my counselling practice based in Stratford upon Avon and Leamington Spa. Here, you can find out who I am as a counsellor and how therapy can help you.
Thinking about counselling?
Maybe you have experienced a bereavement or loss and need to find a way through your pain and suffering? Perhaps you are having relationship issues? Are you suffering from anxiety and want to take back control of your life? Have you been involved in a traumatic event which is limiting how you experience life now? Would you like to be more confident and work on your self-esteem? Perhaps an addiction has taken over your life? Sometimes you may feel so low and depressed that you don't recognise yourself. It may be a combination of a range of issues that have built up.
Counselling can help you to explore these and other issues you may experience. Why not get in touch to explain in your own words what you want help with? I would love to hear from you.
Who am I?
My name is Jenny and I'm an experienced, qualified counsellor based in Warwickshire. My practice is set up for counselling in Leamington Spa and Stratford-Upon-Avon.
I am a person who has experienced my own ups and downs in life. I've sat in the client chair and know how difficult and challenging it can be. Equally, I understand how fulfilling counselling can be for anyone wanting to make life changes.
My life changed for the better by seeking help. And I decided to use my broad range of life experiences to help others by training to be a therapist. So, I have found my calling by becoming a counsellor. I am able to genuinely empathise with the difficulties many of us encounter in our day to day living.
Counselling is all about you and me
My approach emphasises the development of our relationship in therapy. This is key to counselling being effective for you. My intention is to be genuine, empathic, and compassionate. I am non-judgemental to help you feel understood and valued as a person. I'm passionate about getting to know you. My aims is to help you reduce your distress and encourage your ongoing mental well-being.
Find your answers
For counselling to make a difference, it usually takes a number of sessions. Furthermore, a regular commitment can help us to work together to make the best use of therapy. During sessions, sharing your fears and worries can be a relief because your feelings are heard and acknowledged. With support, you can find your own answers which will make sense to you long-term.
The right counsellor for you
It is a good idea to meet a potential counsellor for an initial session. So, this can provide an opportunity to see if we can work together. Furthermore, choosing a therapist that you feel comfortable with builds trust. This helps you to feel safe enough to open up about your problems.
Counselling is a safe space
The counselling relationship provides a space to explore your difficult feelings. As your counsellor, I'll listen and provide understanding without judgement. So, you'll develop insight and self-understanding.
My one-to-one counselling experience encompasses a wide variety of client issues. Some of these are below and more information is available by clicking each link.
In counselling, clients often talk about painful feelings. This can feel daunting at first. Sometimes, you may feel worse before you feel better as you start to open up. Throughout our time together in therapy, I will compassionately accompany you. As your supportive therapist, I will help you through this work. Together we'll see improvements.
I welcome diversity including all body sizes, ages, abilities, races, sexualities, genders, religions and political values.
Contact me
Why not get in touch for a chat? Please feel free to call or send an email, it would be great to hear from you.
Jenny's Mobile: 07886082333
Jenny's Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Or you can submit a query on my contact form page.
Locations for counselling sessions are Stratford-upon-Avon or Leamington Spa. A confidential therapy room is available for each session. For more information visit the FAQs page.


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Wikipedia indicates that Murray Mine, once a copper and nickel mine, was the first site, responsible for all other mining operations in the Sudbury area. The metals were discovered here in 1883 by Thomas Flanagan, at that time a blacksmith for the CPR.
The mine is named after two of the four original claim holders, Thomas and William Murray. The mine was closed in 1894.
The property was purchased in 1912 by the British American Nickel Corporation who only worked the mine until 1914. The mine was reopened again in 1916, but closed once again in 1921. The mine would open again for another year between 1923 and 1924.
Inco purchased the mine in 1925 and production from this location was steady until its final closure in 1971.
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The concrete buildings you see pictured here were a pleasant surprise. I began walking an old road, no longer in use, and not having encountered any "No Trespassing" signs, decided to see where it led.
After some time, a few turns, etc., I found myself among the remnants of something large. The buildings still standing weren't that impressive, but the concrete pads around them suggested much larger structures once stood.
In the ever-changing landscape of that particular place I spent a few moments examining and enjoying it as the sun began to settle on the horizon.
As I was leaving, a white Dodge Ram pulled up and a female security officer approached us. After exchanging some information, and informing her that I had not encountered any signs, she drove me back out the way I walked in with a heavy degree of skepticism. By her own admission, however, she wasn't even aware this road existed.
When she dropped me off, and after I assisted her in turning her truck around (she wasn't very tall), I continued on my way no worse for wear.
The second visit involved a ventilation fan for the mine underneath. I can't begin to count the number of times I've driven past this place and never noticed it before. Once you know it's there, it's hard to miss, but somehow I was oblivious.
Early one morning I set out specifically to have a look at it. I was taken by size of the intake fan. It looked more like a jet engine. Inside, the air shaft had been bricked over, but someone had made a hole in the brick. When I looked inside, I was unable to really see anything through the darkness, and even the flash from my camera was unable to reveal much.

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Each Tuesday, I will be featuring a product or two that you are able to try out for FREE!
The products will only be available for free for one day only! Of course, you will be able to purchase them on TpT after that.
Today, I have two awesome products to share with you!
The first is from Maria of Kinder-Craze!
Check out her TpT products {here}
Maria teaches half day kindergarten at a Catholic school in Michigan. She is obsessed with bright colors, polka dots, and organization. Hands-on learning is important to her and is something she strives to achieve in her classroom every day.
Today, Maria is offering one of her amazing interactive sight word readers for free!
The second awesome product comes from Jen, The Teacher's Cauldron.
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Jen is about to start her 11th year teaching and she says she loves it more each year! She has been blogging for 1 1/2 years and creating for a little over a year.
Jen has created a FABULOUS spelling program to use with her students.
It is over 480 pages, and includes a phonics continuum that progresses and builds off previous skills throughout the year. Jen is generous enough to offer the first 9 weeks of the program for free today!!
Here's what is included:
-Student homework lists, where the sight words build upon each other throughout the year
-Teacher homework lists, with the possible extra tested words
-Student homework paper for each list (this is just a suggested homework sheet, you can use what you like!)
-Student Test sheets for each list
-Word Wall cards in configuration for both the spelling and sight words


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Eating Out in Plettenberg BayDine at Sand at The Plettenberg
Where? Look Out Rocks, 40 Church Street, Plettenberg Bay
When? Breakfast from 07h30 to 10h30.
Lunch from 12h00 to 13h00.
Dinner from 18h30 to 22h00.
How? Call +27 (0)44 533-2030
Overnight? Overnight at accommodation in Plettenberg Bay, in Garden Route
Looking for somewhere to indulge a little bit over a meal? Then why not book yourself a meal at Sand at the five star graded The Plettenberg.
The restaurant is open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner and the menu offers sheer decadence. Breakfast options include fresh fruit and Greek style yoghurt, omelettes and fry ups, healthy muesli and cereals as well as a selection of cold meats and cheeses. You can even have waffles and French toast if you feel like something sweeter.
The lunch menu is seasonal and so you can be assured of the best local and seasonal dishes. For dinner why not try the tasting menu or if you prefer to stick to one dish you can choose from the extensive a la carte menu. The wine list will add the perfect accompaniment to any meal.
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Life in the Trenches: Week 1 at the Dig
Welcome to the Parco dei Ravennati excavation in Ostia Antica. There is nothing like being on site at an excavation, and nothing better than having hands on reportage of the dig itself. Five participants have volunteered to contribute a blog post about what they are doing at Parco dei Ravennati. From now through July 21, we will feature weekly posts from the point of view of actual dig participants as they get down and dirty in Ostia Antica. Our first post is from Tara Giangrande, an art history and anthropology student from Swarthmore College.
After a week of touring around all seven hills of ancient Rome, the students of this summer's AIRC archaeological field school began work at Parco dei Ravennati in Ostia Antica. While a few of us had prior experience with excavation, it was an entirely new adventure for most of the group. Some of us, myself included, had never studied archaeology before. Many of us did not know what to expect, many were nervous, but all were anxious to get started on our project.
On the first day, our worries were put at ease as we realized that we were not simply being thrown to the wolves, as I have been told from my peers is often common with field schools. Rather than being blindly assigned to trenches and commanded to dig, we were guided by Dr. Michele Raddi and Albert Prieto through the ins and outs of conducting an archaeological excavation. At the start of the week, we tentatively looked at a vast area of unexcavated land. By the end of that week, we smiled blissfully at a formally laid-out excavation plane that we had created ourselves, feeling that maybe (just maybe) we were on our way to becoming real archaeologists.
We certainly would not have been able to accomplish all that we did without the patience and deep investment of our instructors. We learned, in depth, about the benefits of traditional versus modern topographical techniques, putting both into practice with manual triangulation and use of the total station. We were taught the importance of documentation and advised to practice proper protocol in our excavation journals. We were expected to think critically and actively about pressing questions encountered during excavation, and our thoughts were legitimately considered.
These are only a few examples of how we were consistently made to feel that this was truly our dig, and that we would be contributing more than just physical labor to its development. Such an opportunity to be immersed in the concepts and practices of excavation made it a truly wonderful and educational first week at the dig site.


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Category Archives: Website Wisdom
Protect Wordpress Like It's A Child
Not many people think of WordPress as a child, but maybe they should..
When you first install WordPress on your new site, it seems like there's a world of possibilities. At first your WordPress can't do much, but you can dress it up in pretty premade themes and start playing around with it. You probably have the themes you got from the babyshower (zip file) and you want to go out and find a few more than will reflect your personality and style. Just like a new baby, your new WordPress is a reflection of you.
A few months later when your website is built and released to the public, you find that your WordPress is getting bored with it's current toys and you venture out to find some new plugins that will make your website run more smoothly, rank better in Google, or let everyone know how to find you on social media. Since there are multiple plugins that do the same thing you install them all, trying each one out to find the one you like.
About 6 months into your WordPress site you're likely actively working with your WordPress regularly or maybe you're not. No one is a perfect parent, but we try. Regardless of your activity on your WordPress, others are starting to notice it and will soon begin influencing the way it acts.
Around the 1 year mark of your WordPress, it's effectively an angsty teenager. It's beginning to hang out with a tough crowd of hackers and spammers because search engines made it easy to pick out. This is the point where the type of parent you are makes a difference.
The Unattentive Parent
If you have a WordPress that hasn't been maintained in the slightest, this is probably you. At this point Google as crawled your site and found all its insecurities to share with hackers and spammers as soon as they search for it. And there are a lot. If your site as at this point and has not yet been hacked, you can still save it. But do you want to? If you don't care for it, save what you want to keep and uninstall it. If you do want to keep it, read more about The Over Protective Parent below. If it HAS been hacked, save what you need and uninstall it. Saving a hacked WordPress is a lot less work than installing a new one.
The Loving Parent
If you have a WordPress that has been a even a semi-weekly presence in your life, it's safe to say you love your WordPress site. It's likely that you keep it updated each time there's a new version of WordPress, or your plugins, or your themes. You probably know there's more you could do to keep your WordPress safe, but you feel like what you're doing is enough and you keep backups just incase. This site has about a 50/50 chance of getting hacked. If it is hacked, you will need to decide whether to start over, take the time to clean it up properly, or pay someone to do it. Keep in mind a hacker doesn't usually just make himself 1 door.
The Over Protective Parent
Typically this type of person uses their WordPress for business and can't tolerate the possibility of being hacked. It could ruin their reputation or even cause them to lose money. Despite the purpose of your WordPress, it's important to keep it safe and make sure it isn't going to be a bad influence on the other kids. I'm going to put these steps in a bullet list so you can follow them as if it were step-by-step. Each of these steps is necessary for all WordPress installs. I challenge you to check this list against your current WordPress sites.
- Delete the 'Hello World' post!
Google the words Hello World to find a list of poorly maintained WordPress sites… Go on, try it.
- Delete all the themes you won't be using.
Wordpress ships with Twenty Eleven, Twenty Twleve, Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Fourteen, Twenty Fifteen – you don't need them all.
- Decide whether or not you will want your visitors to comment.
If you don't, go in the settings and turn off all comments (spammers instantly stopped!) If you do, set up Akismet or find another comment spam plugin.
- Install a good security plugin like Sucuri Security and harden your WP.
This plugin will harden all the directories that are commonly hacked, as well as offer other suggestions.
- Create a new user account for yourself with Administrator permissions.
Once you have this new account, set the old one to have no permissions. The first user is commonly the one to get attacked with brute force.
- Delete any plugins you're not using.
When you try out plugins for your site you usually end up with some that weren't what you needed. Don't just DeActivate them, delete them completely.
- Upgrade everything, always.
Wordpress can only be as safe as the version you're running. That also goes for its themes and plugins.Check your WordPress for updates often and subscribe to the newsletter to be notified by email when there's an upgrade available.
Hosting your own WordPress site allows you the flexibility to run it however you like and own your own content, but it comes with responsibility.
If you have any suggestions for securing WordPress that are not listed here, please comment!
Ways to Retain Visitors
So now you're getting visitors to your site, the next step is to keep them there and keep them coming back. While the first step was building relationships with people and other bloggers, this step is about what you can offer anyone who arrives at your site.
1. Quality design. Design isn't just about how something looks, it's also about how well it works. Make sure you have no errors on your site and that you don't offer too much information in a small space.
2. Quality content. No matter what kind of site you have, you need quality content. Especially if you're trying to earn money from your website, you want to give people a reason to come to your site and a reason to come back.
3. Offer something. You can keep visitors and even create links to your site by offering something people can take away with them. Whether it's information, graphics, free samples, anything you can offer your visitors will show them you appreciate them.
4. Link quality sites. If you link to other quality sites that captivate and retain visitors, those links will also be added to the value of your own website.
5. Establish yourself as an expert. If your visitors feel that you're the expert on a subject they will return to your website for answers when they have questions. They will bookmark your site. Most importantly, they will take your suggestions, which at times may make you money.
6. Visit your visitors. Especially if you have a blog, visiting those who comment on your site also shows you appreciate them and will bring them back to see what you've posted since their last visit.
7. Respond promptly. If you receive a Facebook message, email, tweet mention, comment, or guestbook post it is important to reply promptly. You don't want your visitors to feel as though they or your website are not important to you. Also, you may not know just how powerful that person can be and what a review of your site on theirs could mean to you.
8. Be honest. Especially in business, honesty is important. And if something negative happens (if you make a client unhappy somehow), being honest and acknowledging your client (even publicly) will most likely clear up the situation and will show others observing that you are responsible and turns a negative to a positive.
9. Create and use a Newsletter. A newsletter allows you to email and invite people in to your site at will. You will want to be responsible with this and not email too much, and also make sure each email provides value.
10. Limit advertising. Advertising is okay, and may even be necessary. But don't use so much advertising that your visitors can't find your content. This will annoy your visitors and you'll have more people moving on to the X.
11. Quality advertising is also important. If your website is about being a mom and you have ads about adult diapers, you're not likely to make a whole lot on that, so there's really no point to even having that ad there. Google's Adsense is good for creating ads that relate to your content. However, you may not choose Adsense if you're company that offers a service because you may find your competitor's ads on your site.
12. Quality writing is extremely important. If you cannot spell or don't know proper grammar (at least as much as your visitors), you could lose them. I've chosen to leave a site and buy from a competitor simply because no one thought to get a copy editor or even ask a friend to read over the content.
13. Be visual. When I arrive at a website with a minimalist design, I usually leave right away. I am a very visual person and if your design (or content, some use a minimalist design around their photos) is boring I won't have any interest in finding out what your site is about. But don't go so overboard with images that your visitors are overwhelmed and your content gets lost.
Error_log and You
Today I was upgrading WordPress and plugins on my personal blog, which I had put off because I was getting an error and didn't have time to research it. The error looked something like this..
Downloading install package from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sample-plugin.zip.
Unpacking the package.
Installing the plugin.
Could not create directory. /home/user/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/sample-plugin/
Plugin Install Failed.
Upon a Google search I found many different solutions, none of which were anything that made sense to me. All over the WordPress forums people were suggesting changing permissions on files (not a good idea, unless they're wrong) and one website even mentioned taking PHP out of safe mode (it isn't in safe mode). I decided I wasn't going to find help on Google and decided to take a look into my files and compare them with another site where the update was working.
I didn't even have to open the 2nd website because when I went to the public_html folder there was an error_log file, staring straight at me. It was definitely a palm-to-forehead kind of moment. I didn't even consider checking to see if I had reached my space quota.
An error_log file created on your account is not a bad thing, it's there to help you troubleshoot. Your server will automatically create this file for you and it contains a text list of the errors your site creates. Not all errors need to be fixed or present a problem for your site, so if you don't see any problems you probably don't need to check the error_log.
However, if you do need to take a look inside, remember text files larger than 10mb can take a long time to bring up and appear to freeze. You might benefit from deleting the file, then move around your site to recreate the error_log and open it at its smaller size. Also, If there is an error on your site and you get a lot of visitors to your site, that file can get very big and take up all remaining space on your account.
The error_log can be created for any error, not just ones created by WordPress. Take a look inside your public_html folder and see if you have one, you might just be able to free up some space!
Ways to Increase Traffic
Whether you're an individual, an organization, or a business your website's purpose is to get other people to come to it. This post is not about keeping your visitors or converting them, but about getting them to your website in the first place. We'll explore those in another post.
- Visit other websites and leave your mark. Comment on a blog, post on a guestbook, fill out a contact form. Try to do this daily.
- Reply back to all comments and emails promptly. If someone visits your blog and takes the time to comment, visit them back and comment as well.
- Exchange links with others. After you've been commenting or emailing or tweeting or facebooking back and forth with someone they're pretty much your friend. Exchange links with them.
- Post your button on plugboards. This may not work for every type of site, but there are many different themed plugboards out there. You may get a visit from someone who has no interest in your site, but they may know someone to pass it on to.
- Invest in a domain and hosting. Of course, you know you can get these both right here with E-Starr. A domain name tells your visitor you are serious about your website. Using a free service like Blogger may cause people to leave your site once arriving.
- Update your meta. Meta tags and keywords are what search engines like Google use to tell people about your page. If you don't have any, you're allowing the search engine to simply pick some words from your site, which may not interest people.
- Pay for blog posts. You can go to PPP sites like Blogsvertise and pay as little as $5/post for someone to blog about your site. You can choose what types of sites and what their page rank is (page rank is how high the site ranks with Google and usually based on quality).
- Offer an affiliate program. Your current clients, customers & visitors will promote your site to make money. This will get more people coming to your site and you pay only on conversion.
- Pay Per Click Campaign. Get set up with a site like Adsense where people will get paid to send visitors to your site and you only pay when a visitor actually clicks the link and arrives on your site.
- Create a Facebook Page. A Facebook Page can increase your visitors immensely. First, you will invite all of your current friends and visitors to join. When they 'Like' your page, it will display on their friend's walls giving them a chance to 'Like' you as well. When you post on your FB Page it gives you more exposure and the opportunity to get your post shared on their timeline. Lastly, FB has an advertising option where you can advertise your FB Page and choose who sees your ad and you can add a 'Like' link to the ad!
- Create a Twitter account. Twitter is built on relationships and the #1 best marketing tool ever is word of mouth. Use your Twitter account to build quality relationships and watch your success grow.
- Create a Pinterest. Pin images you post on your blog and link to your site. Watch how quickly other people like and repin your images.
- Order business cards with your website address and leave them everywhere. You can get business cards super cheap nowadays and they are still a valuable marketing tool. Plus, how cool are you when you hand over a business card?
- Participate in memes like Thursday 13 or Take it on Tuesday and add your link to their databases. Don't like any of your options? Make your own!
The aim of this list is to help you grow traffic for free, or little cost in ways that will pay off over time. This is not a definitive list of everything you can do to make money, but it's a good start for little cost. Harness the power of social media.


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This I Believe
I believe in the goodness of change. A little over three years ago, I was very ornery and always up to no good. I would go out every hot, summer night looking for something to do. Most of the time, my nights involved getting into trouble with my brothers and friends. We would go out looking for anything to do and hopefully crash a party. We would usually show up at the party and most likely drink someone else's alcohol. Lots of times, we would get into fights and cause a great deal of trouble. If nothing was going on, we would go to the baseball fields and watch the games, because we knew that there were always people there. Every time we went to the baseball fields there was a group of girls there, and somehow I always ended up talking to a particular one. She caught my attention and stood out from the rest of the girls that she was with. Her name was Tiffany. She was smart, funny, and, of course, beautiful. She had beautiful, brown eyes and long, silky brown hair. She was everything that I wanted in a woman. The more I got to know her and who she was the more I wanted to be around her. We exchanged numbers, and before I went out with my friends I would call her to see what she had planned for the night. Every night I ended up meeting her. We would hang out and talk for hours. She told me that I wasn't boyfriend material because of all of the trouble I got into. She also told me that she didn't want to be around me if I was going to continue to cause trouble. I told her I was willing to change in order to grow a relationship with her. She obeyed the rules and always stayed out of trouble. I started hanging out with her more, and we quickly began dating. I loved being around her and hated when I wasn't. My friends noticed the change and didn't like that I wasn't around them much anymore. I didn't want to hang out with them because I wanted to stay out of trouble. They told me that we weren't friends anymore because I let a girl come in between us. Tiffany and I are still together. We have been together for a little over three years. Since I've been with Tiffany, I have stayed out of fights and have partied a lot less. She has helped me stay out of trouble, and she has helped make me the person I am today.
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"Will I be able to enjoy a vacation in Italy if I don't speak or understand Italian?"
I have been asked this question several times by people who have enjoyed hearing about my trips to Italy, but were nervous about traveling there themselves because they do not speak Italian. Truth be told, I speak very little Italian myself and have gotten along perfectly fine in most of my travels in Italy. There have only been a few isolated incidents and places where this was not the case, but not to such an extent that it interfered with my enjoyment of my vacation or caused me any real hardship.
In general, you will find that it is very easy to get along in major cities in Italy (such as Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan) even if you don't speak Italian. Tourism and international business are major industries in these cities. Therefore most shop owners, hotel and restaurant staff members, museum and church guides, and transportation operators have basic proficiency in German, French, Spanish - and yes of course, English! Signage is typically provided in multiple languages, and menus available in both English and Italian.
Language issues are much more likely to arise if you are traveling to smaller cities or rural areas of Italy. In such places, speaking Italian may be much more necessary in order to get around easily, order in restaurants, or make purchases in shops. If you would like to visit such areas - even just on a day trip while staying in a larger city - consider traveling with a local Italian guide or large tour group instead of on your own. You can often make such arrangements in advance, or via your hotel upon your arrival in Italy.
I would offer a few points of advice for tourists visiting Italy who do not speak fluent Italian:


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HP laptop, Windows home premium.Trying to make back up discs, and it says it is going to be 49 GIG!!!??? Is that correct? I am used to one or two discs? This is in case I need to reformat at some point.Do I really need 49GIG or am I in the wrong place???Thanks!Jud
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The days are dwindling down to a precious few, and we'll soon be faced with the unpleasant reality of several months without baseball. How best to cope, and remember, through the long gray days ahead? Well, here's a sampling of the past year's baseball books - fuel for the baseball addict's imagination, and sustenance to help us through our forced hibernation.
The Wrong Stuff, by Bill Lee with Dick Lally (Viking, $15.95), is the maverick southpaw's story of his career up to, during, and since the time when he was the major leagues' resident eccentric player. Predictably opinionated and funny, and often obscene, the book abounds with references to Zen, assorted interstellar theories, and other arcana - and also, fortunately, with vivid anecdotes that give a memorable impression of ''the Spaceman's'' defiantly unconventional personality. Best of all, there's a lively account of the great 1975 World Series.
There's nostalgia and much more in Ty Cobb (Oxford, New York, $16.95), Charles C. Alexander's flavorful biography of the Detroit Tiger immortal, whose lifetime record of 4,191 hits will be excelled some time next year by Pete Rose, who is, oddly, like Cobb himself, a brash, abrasive, hell-for-leather player who excites as much dislike as admiration. This is a warts-and-all portrayal that effectively re-creates the way baseball was played early in this century. It unforgettably conveys Cobb's sullenness, jealousy, and violence - and, for all its damning evidence against him, elicits our respect for baseball's ''most fiercely competitive spirit.''
In another excellent biography, Stengel: His Life and Times (Simon & Schuster , New York, $16.95), Robert W. Creamer surveys the long career of the ''Old Perfesser,'' whose immortality was earned, not just by managing the New York Yankees to five consecutive World Series titles (1949-53), but also by his later tenure as field general of the fledgling New York Mets, whose ''perverse popularity'' offered a curiously appropriate parallel to Casey's gradual climb to folk-hero status. Creamer wonderfully re-creates Stengel's career as a player (he was a fine one), and contributes definitive retellings of all the deathless Stengel stories - including Casey's never-to-be-forgotten testimony in 1958 before a US Senate subcommittee on antitrust and monopoly. This is a virtually perfect baseball book, one of the best of its kind since Creamer's biography ''Babe'' (1971).
Baseball (Abrams, New York, $35) is a sumptuous coffeetable production. It matches an eloquent valedictory text on ''the great alterations that baseball has undergone in my lifetime,'' written by the indispensable Roger Angell, with 100-plus wonderful photographic images that are the work of Walter Iooss Jr., a former Sports Illustrated staff photographer. Angell's contribution is, of course, more than competent, but it's Iooss's pictures - action shots and stills catching players in quiet moments, recordings of home-plate collisions, and scenes capturing the shapes and lines and shadows of various stadiums or the faces of variously delighted or affronted fans - that make this book a welcome addition to the baseball library.
Finally, there is the welcome (indeed necessary) reissue of Lawrence S. Ritter's The Glory of Their Times (Morrow, New York, $15.95), a new and enlarged version of the 1966 oral history that is generally considered the best baseball book ever written. Ritter's subject is the early days of the game; his sources are immortals like Sam Crawford, Chief Bender, Goose Goslin, and Lefty O'Doul, and also marginal players like Jimmy Austin, Hans Lobert, and Bob O'Farrell. Through tape-recorded interviews, they offer remembrances of the great players they knew (Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and all the others) and great events they were privy to. In many cases they provide what amount to miniature autobiographies.
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A reader has copied us on his message to reporter Maya Rao et al. at the Star Tribune regarding Ilhan Omar, the winner of the DFL nomination to represent District 60B in the state legislature. My inquiries to the Omar campaign last week may be mistaken; that was the point of my inquiries. They deserve a more substantive response than the one I received from Minneapolis criminal defense attorney Jean Brandl, which should be a story in itself. I have lightly edited our reader's message to Ms. Rao:
Ms Rao … I emailed you several days ago regarding the controversy now surrounding Ms. Omar.
Scott Johnson at Power Line has written about what appear to be serious violations of the law committed by Ms. Omar. Mr. Johnson has verified through the state marriage database Ms. Omar's two marriage licenses. This would seemingly show she violated at minimum Minn. Stat. § 609.355 and Minn. Stat. § 517.03, through her multiple marriages, including one apparently to her own brother. It seems certain the marriage to her brother was for the purpose of committing immigration fraud.
I have attached a copy of the search results from www.moms.mn.gov … you can verify for yourselves by typing Ms. Omar's name in the search.
I also attached cached copies of a thread from Somalispot … which they have now deleted and had Google scrub from their web cache.
Ms. Omar has also seemingly clearly committed perjury, making false representations under oath, in her marriage license application.
Mr. Johnson asked Ms. Omar's campaign for comment on these serious charges. After being told he would receive a reply, he was contacted by Minneapolis criminal defense attorney Jean Brandl on behalf of Omar:
Dear Mr. Johnson:
I have been contacted by the Ilhan Omar campaign. Their response to your email from this morning is as follows:
"There are people who do not want an East African, Muslim woman elected to office and who will follow Donald Trump's playbook to prevent it. Ilhan Omar's campaign sees your superfluous contentions as one more in a series of attempts to discredit her candidacy.
Ilhan Omar's campaign will not be distracted by negative forces and will continue to focus its energy on creating positive engagement with community members to make the district and state more prosperous and equitable for everyone."
If you have any further questions regarding this matter, please direct them to me in writing so we have a record of any further communications.
Jean Brandl
One might more properly characterize that response as an attack, not a legitimate response. And pretty much it would seem an admission of guilt as well – that Ms. Omar has no appropriate answer to these serious and legitimate questions.
I am absolutely no supporter of Ms. Kahn – I am the furthest thing from it. I strongly disagree with just about everything about her. That said – these are very serious charges. If, as it seems, they are true, then Ms. Omar has committed a list of legal violations, including violations of federal immigration law, and is unfit, and should be prevented from, holding office.
These are extremely serious charges – and should be headline news – regardless of of the individual committing them. Surely the Star Tribune is aware of these seemingly accurate allegations. As I noted, I personally emailed last week. And received no response. I know several others have as well.
I have documented and sourced most of the information necessary in this post:
Will the Star Tribune respond to these apparently accurate and documented violations of state and federal law? Is the Star Tribune still actually committed to journalistic ethics, honesty and integrity?
And to be very clear – my position and comments do not have anything to do with who the candidate is. It has to do with what the candidate has pretty clearly done.
I await your response …


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If you're a first-person shooter fan, Modern Warfare 2 is hands-down the "next big thing" for 2009 and well beyond. After two full years on the market COD4 is still going strong, gamers (like me) are still logging on every night, and leaderboards are still stacking up with kill/death ratios and winstreaks -- even if people do have to deal with the cheaters out there taking up our top slots all the time.
If you're one of those gamers that spends their time pubbing with clans and sinking hour after hour into Call of Duty every night then this is the place for you. IGN's Gold Cross Corner is dedicated to the hardest of hardcore players, and from here on until launch -- and well beyond -- we'll be using the Gold Cross Corner article as a hub for the latest topics and news. Want to know the nuances of how a gun feels in the latest builds? We'll hit that up here. Care to weigh in on controversial decisions or issues within Modern Warfare 2? We'll have polls for you to chime in with. This is a feature dedicated to the hardcore players, and written by the hardcore players.
Our latest topic for the Gold Cross Corner...
Hands-on With Handguns and Micro SMGs
The gunplay has always made the difference between a good first-person shooter, and an amazing one. Even in the Call of Duty franchise we've seen some debates about which game brings the best balance, and what games could have been better balanced across the weapon set. Hardcore COD4 players might find their bread and butter in either the AK or the M4, but you'd be hard pressed to find many guys that go straight for the G36 or M60. Those players are out there, but they're few and far between. On the pistol side of things, most players in my clan run with the wooden handle 45; the iron sights seem to be a bit more forgiving, and it hits just as hard (if not a big harder?) than the standard USP.
Recently handguns have become my bread and butter - or at least the most entertaining to use now that exp doesn't matter. The UpDog clan has started a nightly ritual, in fact, where we go online, jump into hardcore headquarters, and use only pistols unless a team shuts us down during a full game. The insane power of the Deagle has made it a favorite, despite the somewhat touchy iron sight setup.
Being an avid fan of Call of Duty 4, I was hugely anticipating some hands-on time with the weapons of Modern Warfare 2, so now that we're all in the big wait for the upcoming release, I figured I'd use the time to highlight the guns we've played with so far.
Note: This is info we've gathered from playing Modern Warfare 2 and seeing footage thus far, and is subject to change as more is learned about the game.
The Handguns
As your default go-to sidearm for MW2, these standard handguns are your best bet for consistent, classic play. I had a chance to try out every gun available during the beta, and I kept going back to one in particular (we'll get to that later) for no other reason than it was dependable, fast, and packed a punch. Sure, we'll all spend time going through the rocket launchers, jumping around the map with shotguns, and trying out the loud (but sometimes random) blasting of the machine pistols, but I'd bet dollars to say most players will go right back to the handguns once they realize just how much of a bread-and-butter class it is. To quote the great Han Solo, "Nothing beats a good blaster at your side kid."
The H&K (Heckler & Koch) .45 makes its return from the first Modern Warfare and for good reason. While I don't prefer it to the other pistol options in COD4, H&K's 45 is a reliable sidearm that many competitive players use well after their gold cross is completed. The iron sights are manageable (though they block targets with the middle pin), it's a quick pistol, and with a 12 round mag size you can feel comfy in equipping stopping power instead of relying on sleight of hand all the time.
In Modern Warfare 2, the USP again feels great as a stating default pistol, though once again I've got other favorites even already. I snagged a few kills with the H&K during the multiplayer beta event, and it's always nice for a quick ADS pull-up or last stand run, but it really wasn't too earth-shattering overall. If you've used the .45 in COD4, you already know how it'll feel in Modern Warfare 2. Decent, but pretty standard all around. Minimal recoil, minimum penetration, and it'll take a few hits to drop a guy even in hardcore from what I've seen so far.
Still, not a bad gun to have on your hip. When you line someone up for that must-hit shot, you'll be glad you have a gun this dependable.


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December 1996
"All wars are waged against children"
Eglantyne Jebb, Save the Children, England, 1919
Eglantyne Jebb assisted when the League of Nations drafted and adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1924, the first of a series of efforts to establish universal protection for children.
In 1959 the UN Declaration of Rights of the Child was adopted. For ten years through the 1980's, representatives of the world's nations struggled towards an agreement that they could all support which would establish the fact that every child is a person entitled to individual human rights. When in 1989, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child received unanimous approval, it was the culmination of decades of intensive negotiation and the work of many great people who dedicated their lives to the well-being of children.
It was a remarkable document. Nation after nation rallied behind it. It received all-party support in the Ontario Legislature in 1990, and was ratified by the Government of Canada in 1991. We committed ourselves to a document that says: "States Parties shall respect and ensure the rights set forth in the present Convention to each child within their jurisdiction without discrimination of any kind..." and " In all actions concerning children.... the best interests of the child shall be of primary consideration."
But a new war broke out across the country, an economic war, a battle against national and provincial deficits, struggles between multi-national corporations. It developed a climate in which individual rights were threatened by majority interests. "All wars are waged against children."
Seven years ago the House of Commons passed a Resolution "to seek to achieve the goal of eliminating poverty among Canadian children by the year 2000". Report Card 1996: Child Poverty in Canada produced by Campaign 2000 states that on the 7th anniversary of this Resolution, 1,362,000 children in Canada are poor, 428,000 more poor children than in 1989. The national Report Card highlights that since 1989, on almost all counts, our most fragile members of society, Canada's children, are falling further behind:
The most fragile sector of our community needs every protection that we can offer but the protections that were in place have been weakened or dismantled. Canada promised to respect and ensure Convention rights for children; the Province of Ontario established the Office of Child and Family Services Advocacy and Halton supported a Children's Council to speak up for the young people of the Region. The Convention is still not recognized in Canadian law; the Advocacy Office report on the abuse of children in a provincial institution is buried by the Ontario Government and the Children's Council was eliminated by decision of the Ministry of Community and Social Services.
The question that has to be asked is whether we are willing to leave our children vulnerable and exposed to political decisions in which their best interests are not "a primary consideration" and their rights are ignored or denied.
Les Horne
As a community partner of Campaign 2000, Halton Social Planning Council releases: Report Card 1996 which highlights some of the disturbing facts about Child Poverty in Halton:
Through no fault or choice of their own, people, families and children are poor. Income security and poverty are determined by the earning capacity and incomes of the family unit. Children do not choose to be poor...
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It's amazing how people somehow manage to figure out ways to abuse systems that they once so passionately fought to bring in. I recently came across a user story card which had the whole sequence diagram scribbled on it in an extremely small fonts. Interesting work-around, isn't it? For those who have not seen one, a user story card is typically a 3×5 index card used by many organizations to represent a user story. The small size has been selected for a reason. The idea behind having a 3×5 index card is to constraint the user story to short and simple.
But user story card is just a part of the story. Let us try look at the whole story itself. Please allow me to tell you the story of user stories.
A user story describes desired functionality from the business perspective; it is the user's story. A good user story describes the desired functionality, who wants it, and how and why the functionality will be used. I completely agree with Mike Cohn's favourite Template for writing user story which are short and simple,
As a [user role]
I want [functionality]
So that [reason]
A user story is comprised of:
1. Card – the written description of the story, serves as and identification, reminder, and also helps in planning.
2. Conversation – this is the meat of the story; the dialogue that is carried out with the users; recorded notes; mockups; documents exchanged.
3. Confirmation – the acceptance test criteria that the user will utilize to confirm that the story is completed.
A very good guideline for writing good user stories is the INVEST model
Independent – One user story should be independent of another (as much as possible). Dependencies between stories make planning, prioritization, and estimation much more difficult. Often enough, dependencies can be reduced by either combining stories into one or by splitting the stories differently.
Negotiable – A user story is negotiable. The "Card" of the story is just a short description of the story which do not include details. The details are worked out during the "Conversation" phase. A "Card" with too much detail on it actually limits conversation with the customer.
Valuable – Each story has to be of value to the customer (either the user or the purchaser). One very good way of making stories valuable is to get the customer to write them. Once a customer realizes that a user story is not a contract and is negotiable, they will be much more comfortable writing stories.
Estimable – The developers need to be able to estimate (at a ballpark even) a user story to allow prioritization and planning of the story. Problems that can keep developers from estimating a story are: lack of domain knowledge (in which case there is a need for more Negotiation/Conversation); or if the story is too big (in which case the story needs to be broken down into smaller stories).
Small – A good story should be small in effort, typically representing no more, than 2-3 person weeks of effort. A story which is more than that in effort can have more errors associated with scoping and estimation.
Testable – A story needs to be testable for the "Confirmation" to take place. Remember, we do not develop what we cannot test. If you can't test it then you will never know when you are done. An example of non-testable story: "software should be easy to use".
So the moral of the story is this. User Stories being the cornerstones for Agile development, deserve their fair share of time, effort and most importantly prudence to be "invested" in them in order to lay a strong foundation for project.


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Fort Jesus
Fort Jesus is one of the most iconic figures in Mombasa Kenya. I went there the other day and I seem not to have enough of its magnificent stature and history despite have visited Fort Jesus many times. Currently Fort Jesus is a museum and once you are inside a guide takes you through the checked history of this coral reef hewn fort, which has seen many battles stretching for over 400 years.
We cannot write about Fort Jesus in Mombasa without mentioning Vasco Da Gama, the first European to set foot in the East Africa Coast on his search of sea route to India in 1498 and his hostile welcome from the Mombasa Arab ruling class. Besides the Portuguese were sailing using the flag of Order of Christ and regarded themselves as representative of Christendom while the Arabs and Turks were Muslims. This may be the reason the name selected for the Portuguese fort was Fort Jesus.
Fort Jesus was built by the Portuguese under the order of then the King Portugal Philip I of Portugal or King Philip II of Spain. Philip was the king for then Portugal and Spain. The location of the proposed fort was coral ridge at the entrance of the port in Mombasa. Mombasa is an island in the Kenyan Coast and has a natural port that has attracted many military powers since the 11th century.
Designed by an Italian Architect and Engineer; Giovanni Battista Cairati, then Chief Architect for Portuguese properties in East and based in Goa, India, Fort Jesus Mombasa was first ever European-style fort constructed outside of Europe and designed to resist cannon fire. Fort Jesus was designed and built in the shape of a man looking up to the sky and occupies approximately 2 acres.
Fort Jesus became a strategic property for anyone wanting to control East Africa and this lead to wars with the interested parties which included then Indian Ocean powers; Portuguese, Arabs, Turks and lastly British.
Fort Jesus has not retained its original architecture design because each successful occupant changed something. The original plan by Giovanni Battista Cairati, the architect and engineer of Fort Jesus is in a manuscript atlas by Manuel Godinho de Heredia and dates 1610; it is the known document with the original internal layout of the fort. Other internal plans of Fort Jesus are by Rezende in 1636, Don Alvaro, and Jose, Lopes de Sa who changed the fort internal layout when the Portuguese reoccupied Fort Jesus briefly between 1728 and 1729. It was in the Marquis of Cienfuegas plan; the names of the bastions were changed. When the British made Fort Jesus a prison, the internal layouts were changed by removing huts and building cells instead
Below is a short chronology of Fort Jesus which from its building in 1593 and 1875, Fort Jesus was retaken and lost nine times by then the great colonial powers who wanted to control Mombasa and the Indian Ocean trade.
The Portuguese under leadership of Vasco Da Gama sailed in Mombasa on their way to India. This was not taken well by the Arabs in Mombasa, however because of bad blood between the Sultan of Mombasa and Sultan of Malindi, Malindi welcomed the newcomers. The Turkish attacked Mombasa in 1589 and to protect the growing Portuguese trade and influence, Philip I, the King of Portugal ordered the building of a Fort at the entrance of Mombasa old port to guard against the periodic attacks of the Portuguese interests and its soldiers from the Arabs in 1593. This was not the first time a military power had tried to build a fort in Mombasa; the Turkish had built a small fort in 1589.
Mombasa was an extension of the Oman and it was ruled by a Sultan. The Arab did not take it lightly when Fort Jesus was build at the port entrance and in 1631, the Sultan of Mombasa, stabbed a Portuguese Captain inside Fort Jesus and the Arabs for the first time took over Fort Jesus from the Portuguese. A series of attacks of the fort by the Portuguese aimed at retaking the fort back continued and it was in 1632, Sultan of Mombasa quitted Fort Jesus and Portuguese reclaim their ownership. For the next 35 years, the Sultan of Oman fear of attacking Fort Jesus kept the Portuguese in control of the fort. However in 1696, the Arabs lay a siege to Fort Jesus for two and half years. This killed the Portuguese soldiers inside the fort due to starvation and diseases. The siege of Fort Jesus started in the year 1696 and ended in the 1698 with the Oman Arabs succeeding in taking Fort Jesus from the Portuguese. This did not deter the Portuguese and in 1728 a mutiny saw the Oman Arabs lose the fort to the Portuguese once again; however this was short lived as the Oman Arabs retook Fort Jesus a year later in 1729. This was the last straw to the Portuguese quest of occupying Fort Jesus and Mombasa in general as they were pushed to Mozambique never to return.
The Oman Arabs started having internal war and in 1741, the Oman governor of Fort Jesus; Al Mazrui declared independence from the Oman Sultan. A series of war saw the relationship within the Oman Arabs community deteriorate and in 1746, an assassin hired by the Oman Arabs, killed Al Mazrui. The Assassin was not lucky to escape because Mazrui brother killed the assassin and became the new governor of Mombasa.
The coming of the British in the start of the 18th century saw the power shift. Al Mazrui who was the Mombasa governor sort British protection which was granted in the year 1824 but was later withdrawn.
The Sultan of Oman, Sayyid Said had established Zanzibar as his capital and 1828 he attacked Fort Jesus and the Mazruis in Mombasa and took Fort Jesus. Using the old trick of laying a siege, the Mazruis managed to drive the Sayyid Said soldiers out of Fort Jesus in 1829. Sayyid Said organized his army and 4 years later; in 1833, he bombarded Fort Jesus without success, the harassment by Sayyid Said made the Al Mazrui; the last governor of Mombasa surrender to the sultan in 1837.
The British were expanding towards Lake Victoria, the second largest lake in the world because of its strategic importance of being the source of Nile. Like the Portguese and Arabs before them, the new military power liked the natural port of Mombasa and again Fort Jesus was of strategic important. In 1875, Ali Al-Akida led a mutiny against the British and the British with their mighty naval power bombarded the fort flushing the mutineers out of Fort Jesus.
The British used Fort Jesus as barrack for their soldiers from 1837 to 1895. After colonizing Kenya and Uganda, and the building of Uganda railway commenced, the British did not see the military importance of Fort Jesus and in 1895, Fort Jesus was made a prison and it would remain so for 63 years. On 24th of October 1958, Fort Jesus was put under the custody of Trustees of the Kenya National Parks as a National Park. The change of use of the fort to a National Park led to excavations for archeological reasons with materials discovered displayed today in Fort Jesus Museum. In 1962, a year before the Kenyan Independence from the British, Fort Jesus became Fort Jesus Museum with a grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation. UNESCO, declared Fort Jesus a World Heritage Site In 2011.
If you ever visit Mombasa, Fort Jesus Museum is Mombasa is a must see. Beside the great history narrated by the fort's guide, you will see various artifacts of those years. The torture rooms and prison cells are still visible and once Fort Jesus was used as slave storage before being traded and evidence of those days are at visible to Fort Jesus visitors.
Fort Jesus Museum is opened to public every day from 8.30 in the morning to 6.00 in the evening.
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A fashion icon, friend of the rich and famous and perhaps even the lover of a future king, today Margaret Sheila Mackellar lies buried at Rosslyn Chapel, all but forgotten. Now a new biography charts her remarkable journey from Australia to the gilded circles of British high society, writes Ruth Walker
It's a cold, damp Sunday afternoon in January, low winter sun is struggling to push through the murk and the ground is squelching softly underfoot. It's just chilly enough, here on the high ground overlooking the glen at Roslin, for a little frost, and the big, beefy horse in the field nearby is breathing out thick clouds of hot, horsey breath.
Even on this unprepossessing afternoon, a respectable crowd has gathered at Rosslyn Chapel, most of them intrigued by the legend of the Knights Templar, keen to see for themselves the famous ornate Apprentice Pillar, alleged to contain the Holy Grail. (It doesn't. They checked.)
Generations of the St Clair family have been buried here over the last 500 years, but it takes three circuits of the small grounds before I eventually track down the grave I'm looking for: that of Margaret Sheila Mackellar, Princess Dimitri, one-time wife of the wayward Lord Loughborough, eldest son of the fifth Earl of Rosslyn. A society beauty, fashion goddess, friend of the rich, famous and royal, she was buried here in 1969. The small grey slab is surrounded by a low hedge, almost completely hidden by several layers of wet, fallen leaves from the overhanging silver birch trees. The dates carved into the stone – 1895-1969 – are thick with moss. There are no flowers; no sign that anyone has visited to pay their respects and remember this most colourful of women.
In life Sheila was fêted by the press, wooed by celebrities and loved by some of the world's most eligible men; in death she has been all but forgotten. Those who circled in her orbit, meanwhile – the likes of Rudolph Valentino, Cecil Beaton, Evelyn Waugh, Fred Astaire, Edward and Wallis Simpson, Vincent Astor and Cole Porter – remain colourfully and powerfully evocative figures of the era in which she lived, laughed and loved.
Her family, of course, remember her still. Her son commissioned a pretty stained glass window in the chapel's baptistry following her death. It features the figure of St Francis of Assisi surrounded by animals. In the bottom left hand corner is a small kangaroo.
"I like that Sheila's story is quite circular," says her biographer Robert Wainwright. "It began in Scotland, because her great great grandfather was a Scotsman. He was born to a poor family but had a foster father who was an aristocrat and sponsored him into the army corps. He came out to Australia in 1788 and became a self-made man – he basically took one of the first private plots on Sydney Harbour and created himself from that.
"Sheila came back to Scotland, her ashes were scattered there, and that completed the circle."
Wainwright, also an Australian, was alerted to the mysterious tale of Sheila Chisholm by a longtime colleague who was reading William Shawcross's official biography of the Queen Mother. "In it there's a reference to Sheila and her relationship with the future king of England, Bertie," he explains. "My friend called me and said, 'I've never heard of this woman, I don't know who she is, but would you like to find out if there's anything in it?'"
His research began in newspapers from the early 1900s, scanning the social columns that would keep readers informed of the movements of London and Australia's well-to-do society. There was her birth notice in the Sydney Morning Herald, announcing a daughter had been born to Harry Chisholm, prominent horse trader. Then, in 1914, when she was 18, this, from the Sunday Times: "Mrs Harry Chisholm and her daughter, Miss Sheila, were among the travellers who left for Europe on Wednesday by the SS Mongolia. They have gone for a tour of Europe and expect to be away for some time. Miss Sheila Chisholm is very popular."
"I knew rough dates of when she arrived and significant dates of some events," says Wainwright, "and spent quite a bit of time in the British Library's newspaper archives. I'd find a reference to a party or a lord and that would lead to another reference.
"I then went to books that others had written. And once I knew she was associated with Evelyn Waugh, for example, I went to find some of the books that were written about his letters. I ended up buying close to 50 books, all for a sentence or two. Also, people wrote letters in those days like we write emails and many women – it was particularly women – kept them."
That trip from Sydney to Europe – intended to last a few months – ended up being extended indefinitely, initially by the onset of the First World War, making the long journey back to Australia too dangerous, then by Sheila's marriage to Loughie – Lord Loughborough – whom she met and fell in love with while nursing wounded soldiers in Cairo. She herself summed up the match thus: "He loves me so much and I love him. He is sweet to me and fond of animals; can't we be engaged? I suppose Loughie was spoiled and perhaps not very reliable but he had a great attraction and such a wonderful sense of humour, and he always made me laugh."
In hindsight, she was probably wise to be wary. The morning after their wedding, he set off for the races, where he promptly lost a month's pay, not to mention all the cheques that had been gifted to the couple as wedding presents. It was a pattern the gambling alcoholic was to repeat, to a greater or lesser extent, throughout their marriage. And while they had two sons together and she almost certainly never stopped loving him, their union ended in divorce and Loughie died in 1929, a fragile, damaged man.
Wainwright likens researching Sheila's story to piecing together shards of information and, understandably, to begin with the St Clair family was reluctant to get involved. "I suppose it's an unusual request when suddenly some stranger says, 'I want to write a book about your grandmother,'" he admits.
"Until I got through the first draft, neither the Australian side nor the Rosslyn side was willing to take me on board. Then, once I'd written the first draft, through a friend of mine who happened to know the Earl at school, he agreed to read it. Once he'd done that he said, 'I'm happy for you to come and meet me and have a look.'"
As a result of that introduction, Wainwright had access to around a dozen photograph albums Sheila had kept and, more importantly, a private memoir she'd written but that had never been published. "What that did," he says, "was put her into the book because you can hear her own words."
She was, however, extremely discreet. Her memoirs say very little about Prince Albert, for instance, the man who was to become king following his brother Edward's abdication and with whom she almost certainly had a long-running affair. She also remains silent on the many parties and balls she attended, and the gossip that must have surrounded them. Sheila straddled two worlds: that of the Bright Young Things, whose evenings of excess were fuelled by alcohol and drugs, and whose antics included forming an impromptu conga line through Selfridges. But she was also an accepted member of the establishment, dining with the likes of Winston Churchill – who described the "calm beauty of her serene brow" – and mixing with the aristocracy. Indeed, her second husband, Sir John 'Buffles' Milbanke, was an 11th baronet who wooed her for years. He had to propose five times before she finally capitulated.
"Strangely enough," says Wainwright, "Sheila really struggled with the notion of being beautiful and alluring. And she didn't really go into any detail about the nightclubs and the restaurants they went to in the heady days. Those things were largely gleaned from what I found, rather than what she gave.
"Those parties were about circuses or barnyards," he adds. "They were inventive. I found it fascinating that the Great War, which was devastating, turned society on its head. People's view was, 'My God! I survived. I'm going to live every moment I can,' and life became a party simply because you were celebrating living.
"Whereas after the Second World War, people like Sheila were so tired and downtrodden that what happened afterwards was a lot slower and greyer and life was weary. The 1920s and 1930s were very much isolated by that barrier of war."
For that briefest period of time, the press couldn't get enough, poring over every detail of Sheila's dress and habits. "One of the smartest women at Cowes this year is the Australian beauty, Lady Sheila Milbanke," one publication gushed. "She goes stockingless most of the day, and, like most of the smart younger set, sports a jaunty white beret in preference to other hats." So it seems hard to believe that, only a couple of generations on, she has almost disappeared from public consciousness.
"I think that's the nature of celebrity," reasons Wainwright. "Even though we think there's great controversy about media coverage now, there always has been. In her heyday, in the 1920s and 1930s, even when she got ill, they'd sometimes write about her: 'Lady Loughborough is ill', or 'Lady Loughborough is well.' And she wasn't the only one. But by the time she'd died in 1969, all the people who'd written about her were either dead or retired themselves so the people who ran newspapers wouldn't have remembered her.
"Sheila was more than simply a celebrity," he argues. "She was a great role model in terms of charity work and contributions to nursing during wartime."
Her main legacy, he says, was in organising the Derby Ball, raising money for the Great Northern Hospital at a time when there was no National Health Service. "This was the grandest, biggest event in London's history and was held mainly at the Albert Hall. Thousands would come. She did it every year for 13 years and raised millions of pounds for the hospital."
All that was to change, however – the parties and the dressing up and the living in the moment – just five days into the Second World War, when her youngest son, Peter, was killed during RAF training. Then, as the war came to a close, she lost Buffles too – even though their marriage was all but over by this time. Both men are buried at Rosslyn – as is Loughie – which meant returning to Scotland would, for her, always be tinged with sadness.
She remained single for some time afterwards, declaring "wedding bells are all bunk," and focused instead on establishing a successful travel agency business (which she eventually sold to Forte in 1967). But in October 1954, at the age of 59, she was married for a third time, to Dimitri Romanov, an exiled Russian prince who had fled the Bolshevik Revolution at the age of 17. Theirs was as much a marriage of companionship as it was of love, says Wainwright.
"There are several things I loved about Sheila," he adds, "but one of them is that, if you look at the photographs in the book, and most of these come from her own albums, they are like selfies. And they're not all about being beautiful. In some of them she's in her pyjamas. In one of my favourites, she's at a fancy dress party in Florida in 1922 and she looks like Robert Smith from The Cure. So she either had a great, quiet self-confidence in who she was, or she just dismissed this notion that you have to be 'dressed' all the time. She wasn't a vain person.
"Also, if you take away the glamour, what you find is the story of an ordinary woman who faces the extraordinary challenges of searching for love, of relationships, of parenthood, of being herself."
There is a melancholy element to the book, a feeling that, despite everything she must have had, Sheila was still searching for something else; something just out of reach. "I think she must have always been conflicted about what side of the world she was on. I can get home in a day," says her biographer, "it took her six weeks. Both parents died on the other side of the world while she wasn't there. So I suspect that what was running through her was this notion of where does she belong and where does she actually want to be? She must have been torn. Even as a child, she was torn between wanting to be a boy to fit in with other people, but also she loved the notion of being feminine, of poetry and those kinds of things."
Her legacy, then, may not be something physical but rather her independence of spirit, and the willingness to be who she was despite the constraints of the times she lived in. "In all the media clippings, she was invariably represented as 'the Australian'," says Wainwright, "and it wasn't in a derisory way; it was as if that fitted her and was part of her identity. She was exotic and she was different and she was rare in English society."
Sheila by Robert Wainwright is published on Thursday by Allen & Unwin, £14.99.


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Bridge Repairs
Todays work party battled through some amazing showers to repair a bridge & stiles, along with new paths and clearing trees.
The Club's water is looking perfect for the opening day on Tuesday, huge thanks to all those who turned out over the winter months to help.
Don't forget to purchase your Environment Agency Rod Fishing Licence www.postoffice.co.uk
New Members Day 2014
Cracking weather for New Members Day and eight enjoyed the tour of the Club's waters, thanks to the helpers and Martin for these great photographs…..
Wolfeton Fishery Work Party
Today we repaired and added new stiles, plus a spring cleaning on the pretty Wolfeton beat and Stinsford beat. Thanks to everyone who came along to help, more hands really do make light work…..
Work Party (Saturday)
We enjoyed even more sun today and a few more Members turned up to help install another batch of stiles. This was a lot more relaxed with plenty of fishing talk and watching rising fish to hatching olives & grannom amongst the stunning ranunculus!!!!
The Chairman Bryan Sennett and the last stile of the day.
Work Party (Friday)
We achieved a lot today and thanks to all who turned out to build the stiles, move the fence and carry the materials. It was hard work, but there were no complaints on such a warm sunny day.
Another work part start tomorrow at 9am Giffords Pool lay-by www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Dorchester
Rod Fishing Licences
Please ensure you use the correct website to purchase this seasons rod licence – ALWAYS use the Post Office main website www.postoffice.co.uk and not others that can charge you up to £20 in admin fees!!!!


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Jos Duncan is a multimedia producer, social entrepreneur, and Chief Storyteller at Love Now Media, a social enterprise with a mission to tell stories through media production and communications initiatives that lean towards justice, wellness, and equity. She has consulted for start-ups, non-profit organizations, and artists to develop brands, coach creative lifestyles, and produce projects from conception through completion.
Jos' professional career began in Information Technology as a software test engineering. Her artistic career included working as a theater artist where she performed as a dancer and storyteller. She pulls from both, the creative and the formulaic, to reach for innovation, build narratives, and make a social impact. Jos is a self-identified "polymath" who believes trades are a thing of the past and therefore people must master their lives.
Jos holds a BBA with a concentration in Information Technology from Temple University's Fox School of Business and an MFA in Media Communication Arts from the City College of New York where she focused on Writing, Producing, and Cinematography. While at CCNY, she was invited to Escuela International Cine Y Television (EICTV) in Cuba as the Producer for USA, with filmmakers from 8 countries for a 6-part global documentary series, Ser Un Ser Humano. The series has screened in countries world-wide and is referenced as a model for using documentary film for the development of cultures and communication. Her other film credits include Disney's Invincible (dir. Ericson Core), Through A Lens Darkly (dir. by Thomas Allen Harris), and dozens of independent documentary and short films.
She has received recognition for her artistic work through awards and fellowships from the American Folklore Society, New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT), Colin Powell Center for Public Policy, PA Council on the Arts, Small But Mighty Arts, the Leeway Foundation and a fellowship with the Knight Foundation to participate in the Sundance Institute's Screenwriting Intensive in Philadelphia and at the festival in Park City, Utah.
Jos' educational work has included teaching curriculum courses at Educational Video Center, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, University of the Arts, and the University of Pennsylvania. She is is currently an Adjunct Professor at Temple University where she teaches in the Klein School of Media Studies. Her current creative projects include developing 2 web series (Revolutionary Love Stories and Believe) and a feature film (Wanaki).