Youth Unlimited Issue 10
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Letter from Editor Good morning, evening or afternoon, and welcome to the 10th issue of Youth Unlimited! Happy birthday us! We started out a few years ago with the intention of making a magazine just for Kingston’s young people, and to help make sure it would be interesting, relevant and (hopefully) kinda fun, we thought we’d get young people to write and design it, too. And ten issues later, here we are! |
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Summer is fast approaching and given the current economic meltdown, the chances are your family holiday might be taken a little closer to home this year - but do not dismay! Whilst our little island is no Barbados, we are blessed with some brilliant beaches and killer countryside. |
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This year the government has given Kingston Youth Services a staggering ?162,200 which young people like you can decide how to spend. So, if you are part of a youth group, work with young people, or would like to launch a project in your area, buy new equipment, refurbish premises or organise a residential, then why not apply to the YOF panel for funding? |
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I don’t know about you but I LUUURRVE the noodles because they’re CHEAP, EASY, QUICK and ever so TASTY! I never really think about the before of buying, cooking and, yes, the eating of the noodles - well who does? |
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The credit crunch started from loans on houses (mortgages) being taken out by low paid US citizens. The mortgages were at very low interest rates (sub-prime loans) and were then included in investment packages, to hide the fact that they were risky. Banks in the USA and UK bought a lot of these investment packages seeing them as an opportunity to make a large profit, unaware of the catastrophe that lay ahead. |
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These two crazy cats seem to actually enjoy working their behinds off just so we can get somewhere nice to chill out when the weather turns for the worst. Why? Well, I guess they must just care. It might not always feel like it but there is a place to get your voice heard, Tessa and Darius actually want to listen to you moan, so why don’t you give it a go? Or, even better, why don’t you join them? |
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The mysterious Joker has appeared, and it’s up to Batman, Lieutenant Gordon and Harvey Dent to save Gotham City from the psychopathic mind of this sinister new villain... |
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New music for 2009. There’s currently an abundance of new acts that are set to release debut albums this year, but there are also many older bands to look out for. |
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I get annoyed sometimes when people stare and talk to everyone about me or whoever and then they call me names and keep on staring. |
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Everyone lies from time to time, be it to get your parents off your back, or simply for your own convenience. In fact, lying is part of our natural behaviour, as it is an important way to make ourselves fit in with others; after all, you wouldn’t want the world to know that you still watched Balamory! However, lying often about trivial matters, such as what you had for breakfast, is an altogether different matter. |
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Fashion is one of the fastest growing industries in the world and an established part of cultures across the globe. Our need for personal expression through fashion has risen steadily throughout the decades, although over recent years the amount we are spending on clothes has dropped due to the new influx of ‘ultracheap’ garments from budget chains like Primark and Matalan. |
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We at Youth Unlimited decided to break the ‘charity-shop-clothes-aren’tcool’ trend by buying clothes we liked from our local charity shops and holding our own fashion show! |
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I think a stroke of pure insanity has hit me. I’m yet again writing an article relating to feet! Although this time around, I’m looking at the prettier things that cover those dreaded tootsies to make sure they don’t turn extremely puke worthy (and painful!). |
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First of all, we’re not joking, her name truly is Charlotte Fudge. How good is that? And if it weren’t enough, Miss. Fudge runs her own bespoke biscuit company: Biccies. We figured this was definitely a life we wanted to know more about – come on, it’s got biscuits – so we talked to Charlotte to find out little bit more. |
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To celebrate reaching the tenth issue of Youth Unlimited Magazine, we baked ourselves a cake! PC Security Today PC Security must be your first priority. Your personal computer is a common target for hackers and other nasty users because they want to access your data such as your personal files or your important documents. |
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Anyone who uses Facebook will know how annoying it can be when a request pops up inviting you to join a group that you’ve probably never heard of, probably don’t want to join and, if you do, will probably never look at again. But, just occasionally, something arrives that catches your eye. Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of obscure Facebook groups. |
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The number of young people dying from knife crime is increasing; young people claim that they carry knives for protection. As a young person, I feel like I have to look after myself because a wrong look can get you killed. |
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For students starting in the next few years, the average cost for one year at university is around £10,000, and therefore a student on a three-year course will spend around £30,000 during their time at university, which is more than a little scary. |
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Have you ever had one of those moments in life where you truly make a fool of yourself? You know, you start to turn red and try to hide yourself, wishing the ground would swallow you up whole? Here at Youth Unlimited we set up a little confession box where members of the public could leave their deepest, darkest and most embarrassing secrets... |
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The general view of a person with a mental illness is someone who has to be left alone in a white room with padded walls restrained by a straitjacket. Before you disagree with me on that, a number of people I spoke toregarding the matter gave me similar responses whilst adding that they were also afraid of ‘them’. It is quite worrying to know that there is a stigma about mental health and a cautious response amongst the public to those suffer from mental ill health, as the above stereotypes are not the case. |
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In England we, in a formal situation, greet acquaintances with a handshake. This simple gesture applies to many other countries but each country has their own way of greeting each other. It’s odd to think that what may be a gesture of friendship in one country can be seen too forward in others. |
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Goodness! Frank Turner is a busy man. As far as we can tell, he spends the vast majority of his time running around the country gigging, sometimes in big venues and sometimes in little record stores (like our very own Banquet Records), sleeping on trains or on someone’s floor when necessary – which is pretty often. |
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Kakuro - Kakuro puzzles are like crosswords which use numbers instead of words. The aim is to fill all the blank squares with the numbers 1-9 so that the numbers you enter add up to the corresponding clues. |
