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Eva's Initiatives for Homeless Youth
Our Impact Why We Exist
Most homeless youth have endured extraordinary circumstances such as violence, illness, abuse, sexual assault, exploitation, drugs, etc. Most are determined to overcome these circumstances. Eva's has a strong 20+ year history of supporting homeless and at-risk youth (ages 16-24) in Toronto. Eva's provides immediate, 24-7 support for youth in crisis as well as longer-term programs that help youth to reach their potential to lead productive, self-sufficient and healthy lives.
In 2015, Eva's provided emergency shelter and transitional housing for 827 youth experiencing homelessness. Eva's also provided critical programs to help homeless youth stabilize their livesand build the independence they need in order to leave the streets permanently. In the last yearover 5,000 participants took advantage of our employment training, education support, interviewpreparation, life skills programs, family counseling, and healthcare.
As part of our case management processes, Eva's staff members work with each youth to develop a personalized action plan that is linked to each youth's personal circumstances, goals and objectives. This plan, which empowers each young person to achieve their personal and career goals, considers the whole person – mental, physical and aspirational.
"Eva's stands out because they create a connection with the kids, and they're actually able to demonstrate the impact they have."
Greg Thomson, Research Director, Charity Intelligence Canada
Our Story What We Do
History of Organization
Inspired by the legacy of Eva Smith, Eva's strives to keep her vision alive by providing a supportive,diverse and safe environment for the youth we serve. Eva Smith was a community outreach worker and counsellor who knew and understood people in despair, particularly youth. She was a woman of action,determination and persistence. In 1987, she helped to found the North York Emergency Home for Youth. Her work and advocacy resulted in the construction of our first shelter, Eva's Place, which was named in her honour.
Eva Smith's mission was to use her skills and her knowledge of how the social services system works to help peoplefind solutions to their problems. As our organization continues to grow and provide innovative approaches to meet the ever-changingneeds of homeless youth, Eva's and the work we do stands as a proud tribute to her vision andpioneering work with homeless youth.
About our Facilities
Youth have access to the full spectrum of services offered at all three of Eva's facilities including crisis response, access to mental health and/or addictions supports, access to the Family Reconnect early intervention program for families in crisis, access to recreational activities, mentorships and much more.
As part of our case management processes, Eva's staff members work with each youth to develop a personalized action plan that is linked to each youth's personal circumstances, goals and objectives. This plan, which empowers each young person to achieve their personal and career goals, considers the whole person – mental, physical and aspirational.
Eva's closely tracks the progress of each youth with whom we work through a rigorous and formal case management process that begins with a youth's initial contact with us and continues until goals have been reached – and often beyond, through follow-up assessments. Thus, we have had a true measure of our impact on youth.
Eva's Place
Eva's Place is a 32-bed emergency shelter. It is home to the Family Reconnect Program which offers proactive, long-term solutions to prevent and reduce homelessness by helping youth re-establish and maintain contact with their families.
Eva's Satellite
Eva's Satellite was the first, purpose-built shelter for youth with serious addictions in Canada. It provides emergency shelter for up to 33 youth each night who may have lost their housing or access to other shelters and services due to behavioural problems associated with substance use, and it offers the specialized supports that youth with addiction and mental health issues need.
Eva's Phoenix
Eva's Phoenix houses 50 youth for up to one year in townhouse-style units. What sets Eva's Phoenix apart is its innovative partnership-based employment programs that train and find employment for youth in jobs that offer the potential for a long-term career. This shelter's focus is on assisting youth to learn the skills they need to secure both sustainable housing and meaningful employment. The facility's service delivery model – the only of its kind in Canada – arose from a growing awareness that neither emergency housing nor independent housing gave young people the support and skills they needed in order to become permanently and independently housed.
Since its inception, Eva's Phoenix has won numerous awards and accolades and its programming is urgently needed, highly sought-after, and unique in the City of Toronto. Consequently there is customarily a waiting list for Eva's Phoenix. A formal intake and assessment process ensures that the youth selected are among those best suited to achieve success.
"I love the friendliness of the staff here. They are easy to approach but really hard to let go. I am going to miss this placevery much. But I am excited to move to my new place!" - A resident of Eva's
Our Programs How We Do It
Eva's Programs
Our award-winning Family Reconnect Program offers family and individual counselling to at-risk and homeless youth and their families, to help prevent youth from entering the shelter system. All services are aimed at addressing root causes of family struggles including family breakdown, youth and parent conflict, communication difficulties, sibling relationships, drug and alcohol use as well as life and parenting skills. There is no cost for families, and we work with them for as long as needed.
Our Harm Reduction Program offers group and individual counselling, education on safer drug use strategies, and informative workshops to youth who are living with drug and alcohol addiction. Often youth experiencing addiction are also experiencing mental health challenges. We provide the intensive supports needed for youth to overcome both of these concurrent challenges.
Our Training & Employment Program provides homeless and at-risk youth with skills-based, experiential training that can help them access meaningful employment with a future. Training is in fields which are in-demand by industry, and youth are offered the supports they need to look for a job, receive job offers, be successful on-the-job and ultimately use their earnings to build successful and independent lives in the community.
Our Education Program provides intensive, one-on-one support for youth accessing educational opportunities including high school, General Education Diploma (high school equivalency), college, university or job skills training. Often, youth experiencing homelessness have had their paths to education disrupted, and they face unique barriers to accessing school such as not having a safe place to study. This program meets the unique needs of homeless and at-risk youth.
- According to the Toronto Vital signs Report 2015, "about 10% of youth ages 15-24 in the GTHA, or as many as 83,000 people, were Not in Education, Employment or Training (or NEET, a Statistics Canada category) in 2011." Moreover, the report states that "many groups are over-represented in this category, including racialized and newcomer youth, aboriginal youth, youth living in poverty or in conflict with the law, youth in and leaving care, LGBTQ* youth, and youth with disabilities and special needs." Eva's Training & Employment Program and Education Program specifically address these challenges with these vulnerable populations.
Our Independent Living Program helps youth learn to access housing by teaching them the skills they need to find a home, such as searching for apartments and negotiating with landlords. The program also helps youth gain the skills they need to maintain stable housing when they leave our shelters. These include house cleaning, cooking, laundry, home maintenance, financial literacy, conflict resolution, self-esteem, healthy lifestyles and healthy relationships.
Our Recreation Program promotes physical activity and engagement in sports, health/wellness and arts/culture. The program provides opportunities for youth to build teamwork skills and provides positive role modelling for healthy relationships. Recreation contributes significantly in supporting homeless youth to live healthier lifestyles.
"Over the past 5 weeks I personally have grown to be a more responsible individual. I have learneda lot in terms of my skills and what I have to offer. My time management, interpersonal andcommunication skills have been improved tremendously. The education I have gained will foreverbe useful in my development." - Youth program participant
What You Can Do
It Takes a Community
The majority of funding for all of Eva's programs comes from the private sector – corporations, individuals/private foundations, organizations, with the exception of some government grants when available. There are many ways to get involved: direct donations; holding a fundraiser to benefit Eva's; becoming a work placement partner with our employment training programs; or providing donations of products and/or services to benefit our youth and our organization.
"I believe in Eva's because of their ability to not just provide a space for disenfranchised youth, but to empower them. Eva's provides a respectful environment where youth can develop skills that translate into meaningful employment, which is a gift that leaves a sustainable positive impact on the community." - A donor to Eva's
"My family, through our foundation, is very proud to be a long-term partner with Eva's. Eva's staff put enormous effort and enthusiasm into supporting homeless youth in their unique circumstances with compassion and empathy, and helping them navigate their personal journeys toward better lives through access to education and employment. We are proud to help make that work possible, and to support the campaign to build the new Eva's Phoenix and create great opportunities for future homeless youth that way too." - A donor to Eva's


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Published: Wednesday 10th December 2014 by The News Editor
The head of the City watchdog has been stripped of his bonus of up to £115,000 after a report criticised its bungled handling of the announcement of an insurance industry probe.
Martin Wheatley, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, lost his annual payout together with three other executives following an independent review into the affair, which saw share prices tumble.
The £3.8 million report from Simon Davis of law firm Clifford Chance said the FCA's strategy had been "high risk, poorly supervised and inadequately controlled".
It centred on an interview given to the Daily Telegraph on the regulator's probe into 30 million financial policies sold between the 1970s and the turn of the millennium.
The inquiry disclosed errors in the way the interview was handled and delays in a response when it became clear that it was sending insurance company shares into free-fall.
It revealed that Clive Adamson, the director of supervision quoted in the article, had not even spoken to the reporter who wrote it, who was given permission to use Mr Adamson's name when reporting the quotes of another official.
Mr Adamson has also been stripped of his bonus for 2013/14 of up to 25% of his salary, or around £73,000. The FCA announced this week that he was to leave and he is expected to depart the regulator in January.
Mr Wheatley would have been in line to receive up to 25% of his £460,000 salary.
Communications director Zitah McMillan, who is also leaving, was also stripped of her bonus, as was director of markets David Lawton. Their bonus figures were not given.
Five other members of the FCA's executive committee saw their bonuses reduced by 25% while the regulator said other disciplinary action had been completed.
FCA chairman John Griffith-Jones said of Mr Davis's report: "We apologise for the mistakes that were made and the shortcomings in systems and controls which his report has revealed.
"I am determined the FCA will learn the lessons and will do our utmost to ensure that a situation like this will never happen again."
Chancellor George Osborne said: "A strong organisation learns from its mistakes and improves as a result. I'm confident that the FCA will do the same."
The Davis report said the FCA's decision to give the briefing had been "well intentioned".
It added: "The strategy and the manner in which it was pursued was, however, high risk, poorly supervised and inadequately controlled.
"When it went wrong, the FCA's reaction was seriously inadequate and fell short of the standards expected of those it regulates."
The report found a lack of awareness within the FCA about how sensitive the information being disclosed was.
But some officials in the supervision division had raised concerns ahead of the interview in that it "piles the misery on to life insurance companies" which had already taken a "battering" from changes recently announced in the Budget.
The division was headed by Mr Adamson who, the report said, should have had enough awareness of the concerns to reconsider whether the Telegraph briefing should have been given.
However the report found that while he had authorised the briefing, he was not aware of the interview taking place and expected to be consulted further before it took place.
Meanwhile Ms McMillan said she did not know of or authorise the pre-briefing to the Telegraph.
The telephone interview was given by Nick Poyntz-Wright, director of long-term savings and pensions. The report said his comments should not have been attributed to Mr Adamson.
The interview focused on the possibility of banning exit fees, which the FCA was later forced to downplay. But no concerns over this focus were passed on and "control over the messaging had been lost".
The article appeared on the Telegraph website at 10pm on March 27, the day before the insurance industry was due to be briefed on the FCA's strategy.
Its contents focusing on exit fees were "almost precisely what the FCA had intended to avoid".
A member of the media team sent his boss a WhatsApp message saying "a bit sensational but sounds about right".
Mr Adamson was sent a link to the story and responded by saying "Thanks – looks good", though he had not read the article.
It was not until mid-morning after Mr Wheatley took charge of events that it was decided a clarifying statement should be issued and there were further delays before it was sent out at 2.27pm.
The report said a holding statement could have been issued explaining there had been "widespread misapprehension".
Mr Griffith-Jones said the FCA had received nine claims from the insurance industry potentially seeking damages over the affair.
He added: "The legal advice is that no compensation is due. Given the good faith with which our people were trying to act, that will not be the outcome."
He backed Mr Wheatley, saying the FCA board had total confidence in him and any errors he made were minor, while he brought the situation under control.
The regulator's chairman also paid tribute to Mr Adamson and Ms McMillan despite the failings identified in the report. They will be paid six months' salary on resigning, with Mr Adamson serving part of his notice.
He also said the way the FCA handled the crisis could be an example to the firms it regulates.
"I think the way the organisation has been open to the report, the relative speed that it has been done, the total clarity, nothing being hidden, and the acceptance of responsibility of the senior people, is quite an interesting template for the industry."
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Sat. Aug. 20 -- Not a helluva lot of big stars at this year's multi-venue Sunset Strip Music Festival, more of a showcase type of thing and a general hard-rock hang, with some hip-hop and pop-reggae. But you get Motley Crue (8:15) and Public Enemy (7:00). A real boon to parking-lot moguls for miles around; bring your hiking boots, because you are NOT gonna park anywhere close. And if you're not going, you better avoid that whole sector, which gets totally choked with traffic. $15-$120; all day and alla the night; check the complete lineup here.
Sat. Aug. 20 -- Drummer Matt Slocum lays out the funky grooves and New Orleans jazz-blues with versatile mates Josh Nelson (piano) and Dan Lutz (bass). Lutz picked up a lot of the Louisiana licks when he was locking in with the fine late drummer Dan Morris in James Carney's trio. A presentation of the Jazz Bakery's Movable Feasts at Boston Court, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena 91106; 8:30pm; $25, students $15; www.jazzbakery.org.
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Sun. Aug. 21 -- Extreme electric guitarist Han-Earl Park and drummer Ted Byrnes improvise a smoking hole in the floor; I bow toward them in a recent review here. At The Battery Books and Music, 1005B Mission St., Pasadena 91030; 7pm; FREE.
Tues. Aug. 23 -- Behold The Alan Ferber Expanded Ensemble, featuring the trombonist plus an extra DOZEN horns (Joey Sellers, Ben Wendel and Matt Otto among them) fronting the foundation of guitarist Anthony Wilson, pianist Josh Nelson, bassist Dave Robaire and drummer Mark Ferber. Extra hues for Ferber's always coloristic California palette. At the Blue Whale on the third floor of Weller Court Plaza, south of East First Street between South Los Angeles Street and South San Pedro Street, Little Tokyo 90012; 9pm-midnight; $10; validated parking underneath off Second Street at the sign of the P in a circle; (213) 620-0908; www.bluewhalemusic.com.
Wed. Aug. 24 -- Quiet, intelligent modern moods prevail with two postjazz groups led by guitarist Joe Santa Maria: first Seneca Scribe (with Larry Koonse, Emilio Terranova and Andrew Lessman), then A Giraffe (with Steve Blum, Emilio Terranova and Mike Lockwood). At the Blue Whale on the third floor of Weller Court Plaza, south of East First Street between South Los Angeles Street and South San Pedro Street, Little Tokyo 90012; 9pm-midnight; $10; validated parking underneath off Second Street at the sign of the P in a circle; (213) 620-0908; www.bluewhalemusic.com.
Wed. Aug. 24 -- Latin jazz goes every which way in a program topped by Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club featuring Omara Portuondo, with support from Arturo Sandoval & the L.A. All-Star Big Band and Ninety Miles (con Stefon Harris, David Sanchez, Christian Scott). Many stars, bound to be a swell vibe, and they're pricing tickets to fill the joint. At the Hollywood Bowl, 2301 Highland Ave., Hollywood 90068; 8pm; $2-$140; (323) 850-2000; www.hollywoodbowl.com.
Wed. Aug. 24 -- Few songwriters draw you in like Eleni Mandell, who brings a photographer's eye to her lyrics and new meaning to soft rock. With Sister Rogers, Sallie Ford. At the Echo, 1822 Sunset Blvd., Echo Park 90023; doors 8pm; $12; (213) 413-8200; www.attheecho.com.
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Thurs. Aug. 25 -- Latin rides again with hand drummer Poncho Sanchez's always powerful outfit. A presentation of the Jazz Bakery's Movable Feasts at the courtyard of Culver City's City Hall, 9770 Culver Blvd., Culver City 90232; 7pm; free.
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Thurs. Aug. 25 -- LATE ADD: Saxist David Binney (see above) sits in with pianist Theo Saunders, bassist Chris Symer and drummer Andy Sanesi. At Charlie O's, 13725 Victory Blvd., Van Nuys 91401; 8pm; no cover; (818) 989-3110 (reservations recommended); www.charlieos.com.
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Linda, who runs the Ferndale Garden Centre in Coal Aston, replaces current commissioner Julie MacDonald.
Linda, 54, of Beauchief, was a Ranger as a teenager and has been a Rainbow leader for about 25 years.
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Jeffagogo reader Tom, recently sent me this technique for creating a Lomo style photo using Photofiltre.
About Lomo Photography.
The Lomo Photographic effect is based on the original Russian made 35mm LOMO LC-A compact camera. This camera was considered a cheap consumer level camera for the masses at the time and the final photographic results were far from perfect. Photos often turned out being overexposed, colour shifted and blurry. Despite this, Lomo photography has captured the imagination of photographic freaks from all over the world and has a cult following. Original LOMO LC-A cameras are highly sought after and command a premium price, when they come up for sale.
Fortunately, the Lomo style is easy to reproduce with Photofiltre. Lomo typically has high contrast, strong colours, and a noticeable vignette.
Photo Credit: slayer23 (Flickr)
Plugins needed.
For this you'll need to download and install two plugins for Photofiltre:
RGB Fantasy
Download the Plugins from the Photofiltre site here
Extract the files to Photofiltre Plugins directory:
C:\Program Files\PhotoFiltre\Plugins
Remember to close and restart Photofiltre to make the plugins active.
The Technique.
Step 1.
Open your picture in Photofiltre.
Goto the Histogram Plugin: Filter>>Plugin>>Histogram
Apply the Equalization and click OK
After Histogram Equalization.
Step 2.
Adjust Gamma, Contrast and Color:
Gamma +6, Contrast +6, Color +1 clicks
These settings are a guide only, use different settings for different pictures.
Remember rule 10of Lomo photography "there are no rules".. so feel free to go crazy with these settings.
Result after gamma, contrast and color adjustment.
Step 3.
Open the RGB Fantasy plugin
Filter>>Plugin>>RGB Fantasy
Settings: RGB+ 30/0/-20
Result after RGB fantasy plugin adjustment.
Step 4.
Add noise +25 ….and then soften
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Result after adding noise and softening.
Step 5.
Adding the vignette.
The easiest way to add a vignette is to use the Photomasque. To do that you'll either need to find a vignette mask or create your own.
Here are two I've created which you can use:
Right mouse click and save these to your Photofiltre masks collection.
Apply the mask by going to Filter>>Photomasque
The end result of a Lomo style photo created using Photofiltre.
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JOHN Sessions has mimicked – and acted with – Hollywood's finest. But only after a long battle with stage fright could he tread the boards as Scottish legend Harry Lauder
Sitting on the sofa in his London home with a pile of novels he's about to record for audio books, John Sessions is in a sombre mood. Not only is the actor and comedian starring in a Harry Lauder one-man show for the St Magnus International Festival in Orkney, which covers the Scottish singer's heartbreak over the death of his son in the First World War, he's also recently lost friends: Richard Briers, Richard Griffiths and Bob Hoskins.
"I feel ancient. Time is running out. You have to do things. I need to do things. I need to travel more," he says.
We'd started off talking about his Scottish roots, on the Clyde coast. Born John Gibb Marshall – he became Sessions because there was another John Marshall in Equity – in Largs in 1953, he left the town with his family when he was three and they moved to Bedfordshire and then St Albans in Hertfordshire.
"My sister, who lives in Canada, came back recently and took my niece up to Largs, but I didn't go. Too many ghosts. I've not been back since Uncle Bill died in 1989. I used to go back a lot and see him in the 1980s, and was very close to him. I used to get the steamer down the Clyde, go to Nardini's…
"No, don't go back. You can't go back," says the 61-year-old. "I went back to my parents' house where I used to live years ago in St Albans for a newspaper interview. I shouldn't have. It's all about the people. It's the people you miss. My grandmother for instance. I had the most wonderful grandmother, from Paisley, who was fascinating. She was 87 when she died, a good age – she could touch her toes when she was 85.
"She used to tell me stories when I was a kid. She saw Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley in Glasgow, saw Gladstone open a bridge over the Clyde, and when Greenock got bombed she took soup and blankets. She was a great lady. She very nearly became rich. Her uncles went out to the Klondyke in 1899 and sent gold back on a ship, but it sank. Then her father died and the family was talked into selling their garden for a song so they could build the railway. I wish I could talk to her now, I would just get out a jotter and write everything down."
Sessions is a great lover of stories and a storyteller, but his career has spanned TV, stage and film. Last year he played a brilliantly exasperated bigot of a boss – who's also a frustrated writer – to James McAvoy's increasingly out-of-control cop in Filth.
"Yes, Filth was a very good film. It was a really exciting job to do. And now I have the Harry Lauder play and three massive novels to record; Jimmy Naughtie's wife Eleanor Updale's books. She's very good, slightly fantasy Victorian London. You have to read the books first or you can't do the story properly," he says.
Why does he think he's so in demand for audio books? Is it the accent, a soft everyday generic Scottish, the type of thing banks go for in their marketing, that he can switch, Meryl Streep-fashion, to whatever he chooses? He can also mimic everyone from Anthony Burgess to Robert De Niro and did the voices of the Norman Tebbit, Peter O'Toole, Sir Laurence Olivier, Jonathan Miller and Pete Townshend puppets when he worked on Spitting Image from 1986 to 1989, alongside Steve Coogan and Harry Enfield. He was also a target of the show, when his puppet began appearing as one of Kenneth Branagh's Brit Pack. His impersonations also peopled Stella Street, the surreal soap comedy about a suburban street inhabited by Michael Caine and Al Pacino which he created and performed in with fellow impressionist Phil Cornwell.
"I don't know why they ask me to do the books. Sometimes I read them in RP [received pronunciation], sometimes in a Scottish accent – the Stevenson novels I did in a Scottish accent. I do a lot of books, it's another part of my job, so I have a bit of a tum these days because of all the reading. I'm trying to do a lot of walking to get rid of it."
Sessions is also a big history buff, hence the Harry Lauder outing, which along with his talent for mimicry and improvisation makes him such a fixture on panels shows like Have I Got News For You and QI, in between film and TV roles.
"I love history. I have a bit of a nerdy Asperger thing," says the affable brainbox, who has in the past described himself as a "bit punchable". "I'm able to think quickly with facts. Most of the things I know I learnt at school. I was very bookish, used to love Keats and Shelley. My brain is rotting now like most people my age."
Sessions' twin sister Maggie, with whom he's still close and chats on the phone every week, was also an avid reader and the pair were in the same class at the local school in St Albans.
"We were at first, then we were separated. She was quite a tomboy and fought all my battles for me. The teachers thought I was turning into a wee jessie, so they split us up. I just accepted it – you have no power as a kid."
After school, Sessions went to Bangor University to study English and started performing one-man comedy shows, Look Back In Bangor and Marshall Arts, then travelled to Ontario in Canada to do a PhD on the English novelist and poet John Cowper Powys.
"I was there for four years, but didn't stay and didn't complete it. I was doing plays and one-man shows at the same time." He later described his dissertation as "200 pages of rubbish".
Does it bother him that he didn't finish it?
"It does a bit. I have still got it here, so I might think about that some time."
Returning from Canada, Sessions attended RADA in the late 1970s, where he studied alongside Kenneth Branagh, forming a lifelong friendship and working relationship that saw him appear in Branagh's film versions of Henry V and In The Bleak Midwinter. Sessions also worked the comedy circuit in the 1980s with his improvised monologues, often sharing a bill with French and Saunders. Film parts followed in The Sender in 1982, The Bounty in 1984 and Castaway in 1986.
Then came Whose Line Is It Anyway, hosted by Clive Anderson with Sessions and Stephen Fry as regulars in the late 1980s, on radio and then TV. Next Sessions starred in his own one-man TV show, John Sessions, where he performed surreal improvisations before a live audience at London's Donmar Warehouse. Ever versatile, his TV work has ranged from Judge John Deed and Gormenghast, to Outnumbered, teen drama Skins, and he played James Boswell to Robbie Coltrane's Samuel Johnson in Boswell And Johnson's Tour Of The Western Islands. His film roles range from A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant Of Venice with Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons, to playing two British Prime Ministers, Harold Wilson in Made In Dagenham and Edward Heath in The Iron Lady.
It's Sessions' love of history that makes him such a good fit for the Harry Lauder show, a dramatic performance inspired by Lauder's powerful and touching memoir A Minstrel In France. Born in Portobello, Edinburgh in 1870, Lauder was a music hall singer, raconteur and entertainer, the first British star to sell a million records. When his son John went to fight in France in 1914, he began to entertain the troops with gusto. John was due home for his wedding in the New Year, 1916, but never returned, killed in action at the Somme. Heartbroken, Lauder shunned the stage, but when his legions of fans implored him to return, he became one of the first entertainers to go to the battlefront. With a custom-built piano tied to his jeep, he toured the French battlefields, performing for troops in trenches under enemy fire, on the roadside and in field hospitals, and was inspired to write perhaps his most famous song, Keep Right On To The End Of The Road in memory of John. Later he shared his experiences of the men he met in his memoir, published in 1918, and he was knighted by George V in 1919. When war broke out again in 1939, Lauder once again entertained the troops and Winston Churchill called him "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador".
"He's a great, legendary Scottish figure and I'd do anything for James and Caroline Knox, who run the Boswell Book Festival at Auchinleck House – I've just been up to Ayrshire to premier the show at that, then it's Orkney – and Marilyn Imrie, who adapted and is directing it."
He admits to finding the performance somewhat punishing, but his hectic schedule doesn't have to fit round family life. Sessions is circumspect about his private life and bats away intrusive questions.
Does he have a partner?
"No partner."
"No children."
"Never. Oh goodness…"
And it's back to the play.
"We did Harry Lauder three times yesterday. And it's mainly me, most of the blether is me. I was beat and in bed at 9.30pm. The play is about his son being killed in the First World War. It's a very emotional piece. He worshipped his son, and when the boy died he was bereft and had a breakdown. He had to get his act back together.
"He felt very strongly about the war, thought it evil and that the kaiser had to be defeated. Most people thought that, and when it eventually ended and over a million British and Empire troops had died, they counted the cost. A Land Fit for Heroes didn't really happen. People are treated better today, paraplegics coming back from Afghanistan."
Sessions is enjoying this stage outing, and has another to look forward to in the West End next year. Called The Old Folks, it's about pensioners who rebel and kidnap the health minister. "I like being on stage. I really enjoy it."
Well, you'd expect an actor to say that, but for Sessions it's a little different. After a bout of stage fright while performing in My Night With Reg at the Royal Court in 1995, he didn't perform on stage until last year, when his old friend, novelist William Boyd, persuaded him back with Longing, a play based on two Chekhov short stories. "I just got frightened. Then I got frightened of being frightened. I was thinking, 'What if I'm on stage and suddenly panic and can't remember my lines'. To let that go on was stupid. I should have gone back straight away. I kept tormenting myself with the fear of the words not coming out, or forgetting lines. That had never happened, but it was the fear of it. I had done a lot of big one-man shows that involved a lot of learning lines. I could have sorted it out with a therapist. Then I was offered a play, and once I'd said yes, I was all right. I learnt the lines very assiduously, knew the whole play by the start of rehearsals. It's insecurity. I know some very distinguished actors who are off the stage for years. But you have got to do it and not let it get you."
Sessions is also pragmatic. Suffering stage fright was getting in the way of his career and his broad-minded approach to the work he will do.
"When a job comes along I say yes. I'm not a multi-millionaire and this is my living. It's also my job. I have done some nice things. And I have worked with people like Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Bob Hoskins. Bob… I'd known him for years and did many jobs with him. He was a wonderful guy and I sent a wee message to Bill Paterson the other day – they were very close. It's tragic."
At the mention of De Niro, it's impossible not to ask Sessions what he was like to work with.
"Not very good at making up his mind. Very nice, very shy, not a chatty person, but it was a great experience. I worked with him on The Good Shepherd [which De Niro produced and directed] and Matt Damon, John Turturro, Billy Crudup. It was very intense. His voice drops into De Niro's New York rumble: "Yeah… yeah… very intense, very intense…"
Did Sessions treat De Niro to his impression of him?
"No! I used to do Al Pacino on TV, then I did a film with him [The Merchant Of Venice in 2004], but I didn't do him when I met him, no, no. Al used to like me doing Laurence Olivier a lot, but I wasn't going to do him. He has a selective sense of humour.
"It's very thrilling working with someone famous but also very scary. You also learn lots. I learnt most from Al Pacino, from the way he absolutely involved himself in the part. In The Merchant Of Venice he has huge speeches. One day he was in the middle of one and the second assistant director's mobile went off. The director went crazy but Al just carried on, totally involved in it."
Sessions loves anyone who loves Shakespeare and has appeared in several films and stage versions of his plays, but would like to do more.
"He writes so well and brilliantly, and to have the honour of saying those lines… I'd like to do some Shakespeare on stage before I'm done.
King Lear?
"Too much."
Macbeth? Henry V? What about the Tempest, Prospero would be a good part for him.
"Yes, I did that for A Level, that's a favourite. Yes, perhaps."
But with the mention of Shakespeare, his thoughts return to absent friends.
"Richard Briers did King Lear. Wonderful. Richard was just so funny and grumpy in the most lovable way. He was a wonderful man.
"I suppose they sort of live on in their work…" he trails off.
Then murmurs quietly, "…you cannae speak."
For once the mimic, improviser and actor is at a total loss for words.
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• John Sessions will appear alongside accordionist, actor and singer Brian James in Keep Right On To The End Of The Road, 7.30pm, Saturday, 2.30pm, 22 June, Orkney Theatre, £11-£14, St Magnus International Festival, Orkney, Friday-26 June, www.stmagnusfestival.com


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Picasso had a deep affinity for the expressive experimental potential of the print medium, as well as a deep enthusiasm for it as a popular medium. In Pablo Picasso artwork, both prints and painting, he often revisited an image over and over, reworking it in multiple states and completely reframing it in various compositions. Many of the themes, including the minotaur, the bullfight, and of course women, would continue to fascinate Picasso. Each of his proofs is a unique manifestation of this exploration of the medium and subjects as art objects.
In late April 1937, the world learned the shocking news of the saturation bombing of the civilian target of Guernica, Spain by the Nazi Luftwaffe. Picasso responded with Guernica, his great anti-war painting.
During World War II, Picasso lived in Paris, where he turned his energy to the art of ceramics. From 1947 to 1950, he pursued new methods of lithography. The 1950's saw the beginning of a number of large retrospective exhibits of his works. During this time, he began to paint a series of works conceived as free variations on old master paintings.
In the 1960's, he produced a monumental 50-foot sculpture for the Chicago Civic Center. The 60s also saw Picasso achieve some of his most innovative work alongside the printer Hidalgo Arnera. He experimented with different methods, from physical carving and inking of the plates, to experimenting with the actual chemical make-up of the ink. The relationship between Arnera and Picasso was extremely collaborative. Arnera encouraged Picasso to try a subtractive method of one-plating. He also helped Picasso develop a new level of expression in his prints, using methods as unique as sanding the plate for texture and wetting an ink sheet to achieve new textural effects. During this time, Picasso created about 200 linocuts.
Picasso also worked closely with Fernand Mourlot, a fine art printer who worked with artists like Edouard Manet and Joan Miro. Picasso and Mourlot began working together in 1945, with a portrait of Francoise Gilot as the first of over 300 lithographs he would create at Mourlot's atelier. Picasso collaborated with Aldo Crommelynck frequently as well, creating number series, named for the number of etchings created for that particular series.
In 1970, Picasso donated more than 800 paintings to the Berenguerde Aguilar Palace Museum in Barcelona.
Pablo Picasso died on April 8, 1973 in southern France at the age of 91. At the time of his death, many of his artwork was off the market. In addition, Picasso had a considerable collection of works by his contemporaries. Because Picasso left no will, his estate tax was paid in the form of artwork from his collection, including many original Picasso prints and paintings. These works would go on to form the core of the collection at the Musee Picasso in Paris. In 2003, Picasso's family inaugurated the Museo Picasso Malaga, dedicated to the Pablo Picasso artwork.
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Degas Fantasmant; Faune chuchotant à l'oreille d'une femme
Femme assise dans un Fauteuil
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There are questions, then, there are…questions…
These questions have their own existence being asked by a normal human.
If I am one of them then I would be happy I am not only the stupid person on this earth, I have my mates with me on Google search who are writing crazy things in the search bar.
Google might not be pulling its hairs off while finding the right answers. Let me do this job.
- Is there any chance of a shortage of bacon meat in 2016?
Yeah, I heard it too, no chance at all, because I don't eat bacon. {that is a lie}
- How can I make my Halloween costume with a beer can?
Hell no, but, there is only one use of it, recycling and then recycling.
- Who smells bad? Cat, dog or my urine?
Do you want to let others taste that? How spine-chilling
- Where are my socks? Are they lost or missed?
Let me tell you pal, there are millions of socks lost on this planet every year, but the thing you must know where they were buried and who buried them?
- What is a kind of pig who eats people?
Why do you want people eaten by them? If you are in your carnivorous pig-free town, then be informed that vegan pigs taste different from meat-eating ones. It's that simple.
- Investment opportunities in Nigeria?
You got to be kidding me. Investments? and in Nigeria? Oh, come on, they have their own version of world trade centers for sale. Go get them.
- How much time an ant takes to get drowned in water?
I think 800 times, well dude you better squash it, and it will be the one-time killing.
- 10 stupidest baby names
So far as my name is concerned, it's not on the list. Do care about yours.
- What is a smell of dead rat like?
- How can I gain weight magically?
So long as I know you will find that magic in KFC, BURGER KINGS, MCDONALD, etc., they have their own separate magic deals for magically weight gain
Seriously it couldn't be gained magically, but you can Lose it magically for sure. If you can!


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GRAMMYInTheSchools.com Relaunched
The GRAMMY Foundation has launched a newly revamped www.grammyintheschools.com, a website dedicated to the Foundation's GRAMMY in the Schools program offerings.
With a sleek new design, the site's new features include an About Us section detailing the GRAMMY Foundation's mission and staff; information and applications for GRAMMY in the Schools programs such as GRAMMY Signature Schools, GRAMMY Jazz Ensembles and GRAMMY Camp; a calendar listing upcoming Foundation events and deadlines; photos and news announcements; features and articles; and In The Studio profiles highlighting students who have participated in the Foundation's programs.
Last December, the GRAMMY Foundation announced the expansion of 2011 GRAMMY Camp, with programs to be held in both Los Angeles and New York this summer. More details on GRAMMY Camp, including an overview of the program and deadline information, are available in the GRAMMY Camp section of the site.
For more information on the GRAMMY Foundation's GRAMMY in the Schools programs, visit www.grammyintheschools.com.


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Last week's giveaway was for...
First Wave Winner's Choice: Pick any one backlist book from Rachel Haimowitz, Aleksandr Voinov, L.A. Witt, Brita Addams, or Cat Grant ("Frontlist" books, i.e. Riptide releases and newest non-Riptide release, are excluded, as are the Courtland Chronicles).
~ Emmettmke~
Thanks for playing blog with me everyone. Uber big thanks to Peter Hansen and to Riptide too. You all rock mah socks.
Next week's gonna be way fun. Double fun even. I get to interview Aleks and Silvio then... Rachel, Devon and Nicky. AweS0000ME (<---sings that part)
More coolness, more giveaway and all that Riptide fantabulousness.
That's all for me for now.
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Popular TV personality and author, Toke Makinwa shares an inspiring letter to her 18-year-old self as a way of celebrating the International Women's Day.
Read Also: How Toke Makinwa Said Yes To The OAP Who Proposed To Her On Instagram
In her inspiring Letter, indirectly targeted at young women, Toke advises 18-year old self not to be scared to take chances.
Her words are rich with all the things every young woman wished she was told at age 18.
Inspiring Letter To 18-Year old Self
She wrote:
"Happy International women's day, on this special day I have decided to write to my 18-year-old self so here it goes…
Dear 18-year-old self TM, I bet you feel you are all grown up now but there's still so much growing up ahead of you, stop with all the fuss, all the things you think matter now won't even cross your mind in 5 years, that is a fact.
"In essence, don't stress the little stuff. Enjoy the process, cherish the moment, cherish where you are. You are growing up so fast girl, you want to experience it all at once. In this moment, you are alive, you are indecisive but that's ok, you don't have to figure it all now.
"Breathe. You love 'Love' like the movies, you think life is one big party but no one prepares you for the twists and turns and the unpleasant situations girl, in them you'll find what is called 'Experience'. You are so talented I wish you'll believe in yourself more, I wish you are not so scared to take chances.
"That little voice inside of you telling you you'll be a star ⭐, yes that one telling you will be great, don't ignore it. You have got big dreams, some you don't even know now but it won't happen all at once. You think this phase sucks? Get ready cos life will hit below the belt.
"Boys are a distraction now, there's plenty of them ahead so don't kill yourself over that one boy. You will fall in love and think your heart will never love another; that's a lie too. You'll love the next even more. You have a voice, a big voice that will be heard someday stop making it about other people.
"Beauty is not what the world says it is, I wish you will not change so much of the things you like about yourself, you'll learn the hard way but you will be ok. Don't despise your days of humble beginnings, those failed attempts at 'Becoming' will keep you hungry till you get it right and even when you think you have it all figured out, be prepared for more challenges and failure.
"You really don't fail, you learn and you grow. Find God early, you need him to get thru life. Friends will come and go but true ones become family, your boobs will get bigger I promise you won't have to stuff your bra to give you that cleavage. All will be well."


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This is a list of the Autism Acceptance Month articles on the new Autistic Self Advocacy Network website. These are direct links to the articles. While you are there, check out the rest of the website! It's accessible, easy to navigate, and is updated frequently, so check back often.
It's Time to Take Back April! Autism Acceptance Day and Month. 2017: Two events- April 16-30, going on NOW at https://www.facebook.com/events/791509497664189/, and first half of the month event here: and https://www.facebook.com/events/228087247600054/ ACCEPTANCE, not "tolerance," not "I accept you but not your autism."
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- This Is Asperger's. This Is Autism
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Judge Rotenberg Center- NOT Autism Acceptance
I think it is important to get out the word about the Judge Rotenberg Center's abuse and torture of children and teens who are Autistic or have other disabilities. Since I do want this blog site to focus on Autism Acceptance Day and Month, and autism acceptance in general, I will post the link to my blog, rather than copying the information here. The primary reasons for posting it here are 1) It will show up more in search engines. 2) Autism acceptance cannot exist when people promote, condone, excuse, or turn a blind eye to the effects of non-acceptance, this being an extremely egregious example.
Some Autism Acceptance Month Proclamations
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Sunday, April 8, 2012
1309 people signed up for Autism Acceptance Day
Just a quick update. After the official date of Autism Acceptance Day, April 2, we have had 16 more people sign up! I ahve set up the Facebook event to be ongoing and maybe even perpetual (as long as I mremember to change dates periodically. Please consider joining, after reading some of the blog posts here and the introduction, to make sure it is a good match for you.
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The truth about steroids
Recently, I was chatting with a friend about the widespread use of steroids in the lifting community. Because I am used to being surrounded by people that take steroids, I forget that most people are pretty naive when it comes to the subject.
When most women start out lifting weights, they fear that they are going to bulk up like a man. They are told that unless they take steroids, it will not happen. However, if someone takes steroids, it doesn't mean they will look like a she-hulk, either.
It is not always obvious when a man or a woman is taking steroids. I know many women who are, and you would never tell just by looking at them. I know a few men who are asked if they are on steroids less often now that they are, compared to when they were not. Not every steroid taker runs around with roid rage, ripping off their shirts to reveal their bubbled muscles and extreme vascularity.
The majority of strong men and women I know are either taking or have taken something. I am speaking within the UK here, but I can only imagine it's worse in the US where lifting and strength sports are more popular.
At some competitions I have attended or competed in, it has been more of a shock to find out who is not on steroids, than who is.
My personal experience
The last two guys I've dated seriously were/are on steroids, which may be another reason why I'm basically unfazed by it. One of them is a well-known strength coach. I asked for his advice back in March, as I had just pulled 135kg for the first time ever and I needed to rep it at a competition in June.
I was expecting him to offer me some awesome advice, or point me in the direction of a groundbreaking deadlift program, but he simply (and disappointingly?) told me to take Anavar. I said I didn't want to, but he kept pushing it. He pointed out that Var has minimal negative side effects in women, and it would be the only way for me to get stronger that fast. Well, I showed him! Haha.
I have never taken steroids and I doubt I ever would. Firstly, my hormones are enough of a mess as they are, so I don't need to further complicate them. Secondly, I view competing as a fun hobby. I feel like I'm not serious enough to invest the time and money into taking steroids – especially given that, at the moment, I have no idea when I will compete again.
That said, I do not judge those that do take them. It's a personal decision and I think the stigma surrounding it is unwarranted. While I don't actively encourage it, I do have numerous clients who are on steroids, and I program their training accordingly.
I don't view it as cheating, if you are in a non-tested federation. I compete(d) in strongwoman, which is a largely untested sport, and the GPC, which is an untested powerlifting federation. They are the sports I choose to compete in, so I can't bitch and whine about others having an unfair advantage over me because of what they are taking.
Last year, I came seventh in England's Strongest Woman. I knew that if I wanted to crack the top 3-4, I'd have to take steroids. Boosting my placing a couple of points just wasn't worth it, in my opinion.
If I wanted it to be a completely level playing field, I would compete in a tested federation (which doesn't really exist for strong(wo)man, though).
But, I really don't care that much. If I had competed in June and only got one rep, I would have been happy knowing that I didn't crumble to the temptation to take something. And, trust me, it is there.
Everyone has off days where they feel weak and frustrated. When you combine that with being surrounded by people who take steroids (and two people have offered to inject me literally right then and there), it can be tempting to just give in.
All that said, there are some amazingly strong athletes out there who are natural. So, by the same token, I can't use that as an excuse for why I suck. I know that taking Anavar, or anything else, wouldn't automatically add weight to my lifts.
A world of dishonesty
I understand that most people wouldn't walk around with a flashing sign on their chest advertising the fact that they are on gear, especially in the US where it is illegal, However, I wish more people would be more honest about it.
There is nothing I hate more than when people who are taking something lie about it. I can think of several instances where certain competitors have posted something online in the vein of "this is for all my haterzzz who think I'm on roids", when I know for a fact they are taking steroids.
Rather than own it, they claim that their results are a matter of hard work. Of course, I am not downplaying the effort that must be made to get stronger – regardless of whether or not one is on something. By taking steroids, you will not automatically become super strong overnight; you will still need to work hard to reap the rewards.
I think it is wrong for people, especially those with a large social media following, to lie about how they have progressed. Many people look at others' lifting videos and feel discouraged. They assume that these people are natural and wonder why they are so weak in comparison.
If someone has gained a lot of strength over a relatively short period of time, and they are not a complete newbie, it is likely that they are on something.
I'm not only talking about those that lift for strength, but also bodybuilding competitors and fitness models. Steroids are not only useful for gaining muscle and strength, but also extremely beneficial for dieting to low levels of body fat.
The increased prevalence of steroids is changing the face of bodybuilding. Now, it is common to see women juicing up for local bikini competitions. I've worked with numerous former bikini competitors who were pushed into taking steroids by their previous coaches, and are now dealing with the negative repercussions.
People look at these competitors, who often claim to be "all natty", and feel frustrated that they can't get their bodies to look the same way. When I'm scrolling through the shredded bodies on my Instagram feed, I'm not being a jealous hater by mentioning the fact that they are on steroids. I'm simply reminding myself that it's not realistic for me to aspire towards the same kind of physique.
After my conversation with my friend, I realised that not everyone would pick up on the fact that so many people out there are taking something. I wanted to write this post to bring awareness to the issue. It's easy for me to talk about it, because I'm not taking anything, but I wish more people would be honest.
So, in conclusion:
- More people are on steroids than you think. If someone seems too good to be true, they are probably on something.
- Roids won't make you stronger without hard work.
- Roids won't automatically turn you into the hulk.
- There are strong/ripped people out there who don't take anything, but a lot of them do.
- I'm not dating any more roidheads.


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De Wit blow for StormersThu, 19 Jan 2017 2:13 PM
De Wit, who joined from the Lions, was seen as a solution to the Stormers problems in the openside flank role.
The Stormers confirmed the injury after De Wit broke the news via Twitter. However, there was no word on a how long he will be out for.
De Wit is one of five new recruits at the Cape franchise. The other four are Sarel Marais, hooker Ramone Samuels, loose forward Johan du Toit and utility back Dan Kriel.
Hooker Siyabonga Ntubeni (Achilles)and wing Leolin Zas (leg) are the other two players in the 50-man wider training group that are currently sidelined with significant injuries.
Meanwhile, centre Huw Jones could be leaving the Stormers at the end of Super Rugby.
Last year, it was reported that the Scottish Rugby Union have enquired about bringing Jones to either Edinburgh or the Glasgow Warriors.
There is a rumour doing the rounds that Jones could be joining the Warriors. However, there was no confirmation on Jones' long-term future from the Stormers.
"He [Jones] is contracted to us for the rest of the season, just like Cheslin [Kolbe]," a Stormers spokesperson told rugby365.
Kolbe will be joining French giants Toulouse at the end of this year's Super Rugby tournament.
Stormers wider training group: Juarno Augustus, Nizaam Carr, Jaco Coetzee, Kurt Coleman, Damian de Allende, Juan de Jongh, Jan de Klerk, Pieter-Steph du Toit, Daniel du Plessis, Jean-Luc du Plessis, Robert du Preez, Dewaldt Duvenage, Rynhardt Elstadt, Eben Etzebeth, Martin Ferreira, Huw Jones, Oliver Kebble, Eduan Keyter, Cheslin Kolbe, Siyamthanda Kolisi, Dan Kriel, Dillyn Leyds, Wilco Louw, Frans Malherbe, Godlen Masimla, Sarel Marais, Mbongeni Mbonambi, Khanyo Ngcukana, Sikhumbuzo Notshe, Caylib Oosthuizen, Justin Phillips, Ramone Samuels, JD Schickerling, Seabelo Senatla, Chad Solomon, Brandon Thomson, Kobus van Dyk, JC Janse van Rensberg, Jurie van Vuuren, Frans van Wyk, Chris Van Zyl, Ali Vermaak, Jano Vermaak, EW Viljoen, Cobus Wiese, Damian Willemse, Eduard Zandberg.
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Security firm BitDefender said that LinkedIn users are receiving emails requesting invitations to be added to other users' social networks.
Users may be more inclined to believe the emails because they come through the official channels, and they also slip past spam filters.
The scammers have even set up a fake profile page on LinkedIn. However, once the connection is made, the scammers then groom the users to participate in an advance fee fund scam, more commonly known as the Nigerian 419 fraud.
"This new twist to the old 419 scheme is more dangerous as there is an increased chance for network users to fall for the scam since they use it to build up their businesses or careers and thus tend to grant it some implicit trust," said Bogdan Dumitru, chief technology officer at BitDefender.
Dumitru noted that many sites, such as LinkedIn, are not able to verify the identity of those who join.
BitDefender also said that other social networking sites are likely to be used by fraudsters for similar scams.
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