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Gingerbread Cookies

Isn’t it interesting the affect music has on us? I say ‘us’ collectively, because I’m fairly convinced this applies to the entire human population. We still have a difference in genre of course and not everyone will have the same reaction to the same song, but let’s try something. Before you read any further, do me a solid and play the video below to get in the Christmas mood that will instantly make my blog post 7 times more enjoyable to read; yes, I did the math 🙂

*quick side note – this may not work on your iPhone. The music video got a bit greedy and took over the entire screen when I tried to play it on mine. Looking into that! humbug! 😉

Better isn’t it? Smile on your face even? I know not everyone may experience the same joy from Christmas music as I do, but I did hear from a smart elf once ‘the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear’. Have I mentioned I’m a fan of movie quotes? It’s pretty much the only other language I’m somewhat fluent in. I feel like there should be a TV game show around speaking in movie quotes. Any producers reading this post? Yeah. Well, you know, perhaps we should just stick to the yummy stuff around here!

Gingerbread cookies are probably my favorite Christmas cookie of all! My Grandma and I do plenty of baking each year and even dedicate an entire day together for cookies. That’s coming up this Saturday when we’ll be baking cut out sugar cookies, gingersnaps, pinwheels and graham crackers. The graham crackers aren’t baked actually. If you’re looking for an extremely simple yet delicious “cookie” do the following: break apart graham crackers along their dotted lines, spread peanut butter on the inside of each cracker, put them together like a sandwich and dip in melted chocolate. If you leave this post now and say forget it with the time consuming gingerbread cookies I completely understand and won’t hold it against you!

So yes, these cookies are a bit time consuming; however they are totally worth the time. Let me also say this recipe makes nine dozen cookies and I realize not everyone is going to be baking like their in an actual little bakery 🙂 We tend to share a good number of cookie plates throughout the season so we’ve always baked in bulk and stored our cookies in the freezer. If you cut the recipe in half, you’ll cut the time in half too. Win win! My Grandma usually had these baked ahead of time, before our scheduled baking day, but last year I jumped in to help and offered to take over the baking of gingerbread boys and girls. And guess what? I got hired full time so this is the second year of my own tradition now – baking the weekend after Thanksgiving.

These cookies are delicious and just look how cute they are too! Some of mine tend to look a little goofy, but after decorating 100 of these guys and girls I’d say that’s expected. My theory is the goofy gingerbread people are even cuter! And my Mom said ‘they look perfect’ when I texted her a photo so I suppose I actually did a superb job. Thanks, Mom! Moms and Grandmas are the best cheerleaders!

If you have kids, I bet they’ll give you a hand with the icing to make that part a little easier on you! So what’s your favorite Christmas cookie? I’d love to get some new ideas this year and have fun trying something different from our typical list! Or maybe you have another traditional Christmas dessert you make every year. Please share! Unless it’s a secret family recipe. We don’t want any angry Moms, Pops or Grammys’ (what I called my Grandma as a kid haha), especially if they’re Italian!

I hope I timed the length of the post just right with the song! Or maybe you scrolled back up and clicked replay 🙂

Happy Baking, friends!!

Gingerbread Cookies

The cutest addition to your Christmas cookie plate!

This recipe makes 9 dozen cookies!!

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 25 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 45 minutes

  • 1 cup Shortening crisco
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 1 Egg beaten
  • 1 cup Molasses
  • 2 Tbsp Vinegar I used apple cider vinegar
  • 1 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 3 1/2 cups Flour
  • 1 Tbsp ground Ginger
  • 1 tsp ground Cinnamon
  • For the Icing:
  • 1 Ib Powdered Sugar
  • 1/2 stick Butter
  • 1 tsp pure Vanilla Extract
  • 3 Tbsp Milk I used 2%

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

  2. In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the shortening, sugar, egg, molasses, vinegar, baking soda and salt.

  3. Once the ingredients in step 2 are mixed well, add the ginger and cinnamon. Gradually add the flour and mix until well combined.

  4. Flour your rolling surface (silicon mat, cutting board or countertop). Working with manageable sized portions of dough, flour as needed to prevent sticking and begin rolling out with rolling pin, also flipping dough over as needed.

  5. When the dough is 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick, use your cookie cutter to cut out cookies and place them on the parchment paper covered baking sheet.

  6. Bake for five minutes, remove from oven and place on cooling rack.*

  7. Repeat steps 4 – 6 until all dough has been used.

  8. In the bowl of the stand mixer, add powdered sugar, butter, vanilla and milk. Mix well.

  9. Cut the corner of a small Ziploc bag and fill with icing. Decorate cookies and allow to set before storing in an airtight container.**

Recipe Notes

*Another option for cooling the cookies is to use a brown paper bag. Simply cut the bag so you can lay it flat and place the cookies on top. The paper bags are great for absorbing any grease.

**These cookies freeze exceptionally well. If you decide to freeze yours, separate each layer with wax or parchment paper and cover the top layer of cookies as well.

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The larynx is the voice box that allows us to talk, shout, whisper, and sing. The larynx is composed of a skeleton of cartilage that houses the vocal cords are covered by a layer of mucus. The muscles within the larynx adjust the position, shape, and the tension of the vocal cords, allowing us to make different sounds of whispering to sing. Any change in the flow of air (which is generated by the lungs exhaling air) through the vocal cords affect the voice and sound quality.

But when you decide to say something, these cords come together. Now the air from the lungs has to pass through a smaller space.

This makes your vocal cords vibrate. The sound of these vibrations increases the throat and out your mouth as “Chocolate is the best flavor!” (Or whatever your favorite flavor of ice cream happens to be).

When you have laryngitis, the larynx (voice box) and the surrounding area becomes inflamed, irritated and swollen. Inflammation of the vocal cords causes the sound made to be distorted, so that your voice sounds hoarse. You may find that you cannot talk in a whisper, or even lose your voice completely for a few days.

Laryngitis rarely causes serious problems in adults. It is usually caused by a cold virus or other and disappears by itself. But it can cause complications in children – in particular the croup, an inflammation of the throat that narrows the airways and causes a “barking” cough. Chronic hoarseness may also be a sign of something more serious.

If you feel a sore throat, note that his voice is weaker than normal or if the throat is dry may be developing laryngitis. Some people cough frequently and feel a “tingling” sensation in the throat. With both types of laryngitis in mind, as mentioned above, the doctor begins to look for causes.

In some cases a sample is taken from the throat to see if an infection is treated. Observation with a light source a medical expert can show what is causing the problem.

If bacterial infection is the cause, may require the use of prescription antibiotics. This does not have much effect against viral infection however. If you need your voice immediately the doctor may try a treatment with steroids to reduce inflammation of tissues and decreasing the discomfort of sore throat.

Home Remedies to Cure Laryngitis:

1. Sip hot tea with lemon. This traditional remedy is often used by professional singers whose voices are about to give out. Tea contains tannic acid, which can help soothe inflamed tissues in the throat. Adding lemon to tea will help you cut through the mucus, which will also help carry your voice to normal.

2.  Drinking eight to twelve glasses of water a day helps to lubricate the larynx, which is essential to stop the laryngitis. It is best to drink room temperature water. Water too hot or too cold. can irritate the larynx even further.

3. Settling into a hot shower. Breathing warm, moist air helps to relax the throat and airways so you can breathe – and talk – more easily. Using a humidifier at night can also be very useful.

4. Drink more fluids such as water, fruit juice and tea.

5. Forget the salt water. This is a traditional remedy to jump when you have laryngitis. Gargling with warm salt water can dry the throat even more. In addition, the vibrations of gargling can cause the vocal cords to strike together, which can increase irritation.

6. Manage your voice with care. If you have been spending weekends cheering the team on his daughter’s volleyball, your vocal cords may pay the price. When you have laryngitis, is essential to talk quietly for a while, if possible at all. And forget whisper is even harder on his vocal cords to make a normal voice.

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The perfect game in the perfect place at the perfect time for the perfect price.

When I move house there’s a little few weeks of time elapsing before I get off my arse and figure out how to set up an internet connection. This usually doesn’t matter much as I’ll be busy with other stuff, but once I’ve sat on a cardboard box to watch the 2003 Australian Idol final for the 8th time I start to want the internet and open up a browser. Of course, without a connection, chrome gives me a cute pixelated dinosaur and a cactus, telling me that my internet is all dried up like a desert or extinct reptile respectively.

I had seen this image for years before a friend mentioned it being a game. “WHAAAAAT” I whispered incredulously. This was amazing news. All I had to do was press space bar and suddenly my cute little friends came to life. The mechanic is simple. Dinosaur runs through desert toward cactus, press space to jump over cactus, repeat for high score and rejoice. There’s just enough variety and challenge as you play to keep you interested too. The little dino speeds up and some pterodactyls pop up as day turns to night. It’s all quite charming.

And before you know it you’ve probably got you’re sketchy free wifi access back and the internet returns without a hitch. Lovely. Without even having to ask or pay this little game pops up right where and when its meant too. This happens from time to time with computers and it got me thinking about other examples. Snake on old uranium-green-back-lit brick phones is a good example. You had your phone with you and you couldn’t afford a pay as you go text thread with your one friend during an awkward train ride so you looked like you were still texting while actually just playing snake. So sneaky. The little pixels moving around and eating while getting a little harder each time was just enough to keep you going at the right time.

Then there’s minesweeper. Windows was an expensive and fancy acquisition in the late nineties/early naughties so you would fire up your new computer, wait patiently for the OS to boot and then explore how many amazing things your new “ELECTRONIC COMPUTATOR” was capable of. The Windows system still tried to sell itself back then. You had all the inbuilt things like paint, wordpad, explorer and GaMeS!!. Like it still does, except for the games. The games, as far as I could tell, were just there because they’re great, why not include them. They were an essential part of office procrastination capability. Minesweeper and solitaire were clever little things you could leave in a minimised window at any time, come back to and puzzle over. Visually unobtrusive while still prettier than Sudoku. They showed that this machine can support games as well I guess, advertising. But really they were just this fantastic given.

Maybe with the internet and browsers as a given people just relied on flash games more and more until good old minesweeper seemed obsolete. Though something was lost with it’s departure, that sense of complementary service and feeling of buying into an exciting new world with the tech you were using. Cue the rise of the chrome dino.

Laserwash automatic car wash review.

As we live in the future it is important to try as many automated things as possible. to misquote Ken Brockman; “I for one welcome our new robot overlords.” one of these is the automatic car wash. Today’s article is purely an attempt for me to justify having paid to go through a car wash.

It is common knowledge that the model tee mini morris car came in any colour so long as it’s black. But why this was so is less well known. It is because the advent of the tire was replacing the shoe as the main mode of human transport. This got shoe shine unions in a right fit and the little orphans demanded something to shine. Hence cars early colour scheme.

“shine your car black guvna!”

Anyway, skip to the future and we have robots to do that for us. I tried one the other week. it was a laserwash 3000 or something, built by skynet purely for my convenience. I don’t know why I like automatic car washes. There is something about those silly big machines that I find appealing. Probably because they’re somewhat futuristic.

That’s probably why I was dissapointed a little with the laserwash. It gave a pretty good flashing lights robo-wash, however there weren’t actual lasers. Pity.

Pokemon Go is the Tomagotchi of tomorrow TODAY

Software might cause mass excitement, but it hasn’t formed the same kind of temporary childish fads as hardware toys have. That is, until recently. things like Yoyos, Beyblades, Tomagotchis etc. are these little, relatively inexpensive curios which everyone gets excited about and has a lot of fun with, mainly through riding the hype wave. this hasn’t really happened for software though. Curios which match the requirements exist; snake for instance was a great little mobile phone gem, but it didn’t have hype behind it, you just had it on your phone. Games which were hyped were generally larger affairs. They gradually lost appeal with age as expected or if they weren’t received poorly.

Fads are different. They rely on a bunch of people getting into some little thing in a big way. like how you can go nuts for gravy because its the hip thing all your friends are doing and suddenly you can’t go to school without your gravy sachet. It’s all over in a month or two though. Gravy is no longer cool. This is the pattern with things like tomagotchi’s, magic jumping beans and collectible human teeth, and notably Pokemon Go.

Pokemon Go has heralded a new era of fads. It is the first really hyped piece of software which people could be seen carrying around in the street and using. At least it was fun to think you could tell who was catching a Bulbasaur in the park at 3:30am as opposed to who was just texting their dealer. Tomagotchis were physical units, and so were gameboys. Though they were popular, gameboy ownership and use wasn’t so ubiquitous as to lead people to feel like they could tell what people were playing on the street with their handheld. It probably was pokemon though, come to think of it.

Pokemon Go runs on smartphone platforms. These really are ubiquitous. computers are now integrated into our daily physical lives. We carry them with us and use them while talking to people we don’t want to listen to in real life. Because they don’t need us to sit down or go to them to use them. Smartphones really have become social.

Things like tinder and facebook are popular, hyped and trendy. These however have altered the way we live more permanently than a fad. They have coined terms in society such as “social media” and “dating apps.” Terms devised so that, not quite young enough to be milenials, can convince older employers that they really are out of touch and need more “strategic development if they goal to progress sustainability into the future moving forward,” in order to steal someones job.

Angry birds might have been a fad but it was more or less a gameboy game on a phone. I’d say it just about qualifies apart from the social aspect. Pokemon Go was something people talked about going out of their way to do. It was something that people would jump on the bandwagon of, and it was hyped before and after release by the users. People wanted to hang out with people just to go take a gym or beat up that man over there with the brief case who looks like he might have just taken the gym back but could be telling his kids that he’s on his way to their birthday party but is assuming that really worth the risk?

A piece of software becoming a fad opens up a whole realm of possibilities like… damn, now I have to think of something so that I sound like I’m really insightful. More augmented reality? Nah, you’re right. but I guess the running out of steam is another feature of fads which Pokemon Go displays.

I hope the next one is a yoyo app which convinces you to drop your phone. Wait, no, that’s a bad idea.

Is it a cultural thing?

Since arriving in the UK, my abnormally insensitive mind has begun to pick up on things about the place that most people probably already knew. The most striking of these things is that theft is an important part of British culture, and the more grandiose the better. Prior to coming here I was well aware of the history of the British Empire and how the place I’m from was mercilessly used for British self interest, wrested from the hands of its original inhabitants. I was aware this was also true of many, many countries, all over the world. I was calmly well educated as to how this was based on an immoral culture of theft on the part of the British.

But I thought top hats and tea (apparently also stolen from afar) were far too quaint to belong to a bad culture, so I brushed my education aside. “All this evidence and logic doesn’t really mean anything.” I convinced myself. “Britain is still a medieval fantasy land where everyone will love me and all my dreams will come true.”

But then I watched the news on one of the first nights I spent in the UK. There was a story on a dramatic bank heist. This heist involved happy-go-lucky crims abseiling down elevator shafts and drilling giant holes into secure vaults, evading sleepy security guards and making their getaway with untaxed millions. The crims took the shady contents of secret cabinets, in this bigger-crim swindling escapade. The news crews were all over this. They couldn’t get enough.

I thought that was it. The heist gang would surely be hightailing it through the Italian Alps by now, singing their successes on a bus. However they made a critical mistake; the complication in the media’s action film, if you will. They missed CCTV cameras in the elevators which they used to cart the gold out of the bank in, disguised as bin men. What the media then did with this footage was the point at which I started to suspect that this was all a bit odd. The news gave the crims nicknames.

They didn’t name them to suggest who they were or give identifiers for the purposes of clear exposition. No. Instead the clearly super-excited BBC newsreader gave them names seemingly inspired by the Italian Job. For example there was “The Gent,” so named, and in gleeful tones, because the news crews believed him to have shiny shoes, evidenced by the grainy-as-a-beach CCTV footage. I realised they were jumping at every excuse to masturbate over this, admittedly pretty boss, crime.

Maybe this over-excitement runs deeper though. Maybe its why there’s pennies here; more opportunities to short-change people. Little thefts, British simple pleasures. Maybe it’s why they hate being in the EU; “what is this ‘Sharing’ you speak of?” they might wonder. You only have to look at a brief synopsis of the Falkland Islands conflict to realise that Britain likes to make a big deal over, even re-theft of, stolen goods. However, by “runs deeper” I meant sex, maybe, yeah why not.

Has all that British reserve, sexual oppression and keeping-face to convince everyone that civility breeds superiority made simple crimes like theft as exciting as a threesome on a private jet? I would wager yes, because I’m writing this article and you can’t stop me. There are, I’m sure, many that would argue “yeah, love of crime is just human nature and it’s in all of us and we’re all unique and beautiful all over the world but we’re all actually the same.” But it’s clearly Britain that has a culture which uses human nature to affect its culture in order to disguise its basic human nature so as to trample other cultures in order to satisfy its collective basic human nature. Or, said with greater complexity, “They act all full of themselves, but they just want your stuff.”

Now that I’ve pleased all the anti-empire commie readers I’m going to have a cup of tea.

A hot cup of snobbery

Have you ever thought about your taste in coffee? Probably not much, but consider now what kind of coffee you order and whether you can actually tell the difference between different shops, or indeed between the heavy handed descriptions of the rainforest the beans were loving ripped from? Even if you think you are in fact a Baristafficionadette (add it to your dictionary, judgemental bastard) and accept your caffeine habit confidently in good humour, I think it’s still possible to be surprised by how much a snooty culture can sink into your personality without you realising it.

I happened upon my snootier side after arriving in a new country, thinking that pretty much everything would be culturally the same in this modern world of ours. I was wrong. The whole place seemed to sell this brown stuff with pond scum on top that it was calling cappuccino. Prior to arriving I had heard rumours but I thought they were exaggerated. I thought, “This can’t be true” and laughed it off as the boring and snooty judgements of smarmy Australians who think too highly of themselves. Naturally though, my true colours would be revealed as I sipped my first British mud-bean-brew. I started to morph; my face was overcome by a ratty beard, my top button inexplicably did itself up with no tie to cover it, my pants became skinny and my perfect eyesight wanted framing. After I’d stopped wincing at that “coffee” in England I saw myself for what I truly was, the scum on top of that British cappuccino. I was a snooty arse wannabe hipster.

This was a shocking revelation to me. I had taken such care to avoid becoming such a lowly form of life and yet I had still failed horribly. How could this have happened, did I really have this little control over my life? This of course beggared another question. Am I still changing? As I write this down I’ll have had about my 8th daily cup of delicious tea on a saucer, so the answer is yes. For the weak minded, like myself, the world around you will influence you quickly, bend your mind, make you say “move along, move along.” This will happen without your knowledge whether you work for worthwhile experiences to change yourself by or not. So sitting around and thinking “I’ll never become a coffee snooting hipster!” while chugging back another latte out of a Toby jug on Lonsdale St will certainly not do anything toward that end.

Now I am a tea drinking coffee snob in a land without my now precious distilled rainforest injustice elixir. I shall soon be wearing a top hat and wonky teeth! I imagine that if I were to travel somewhere with decent coffee, like Italy for instance, It would go something like this;

I actually drew this terrible cartoon on the back of an envelope, proving that I have no personality.

The truth of the matter is of course that if you worry much about how the things in and around your life are molding you as a person then you will miss out on actually experiencing your life. Everyone is molded by whatever experiences they have and worrying about it is just another fear standing in the way of your pursuing what you want in life.

Lol, I totally made you think this article had a serious side didn’t I. Well joke’s on you. I just write bad jokes. Why don’t you critique my lack of confidence over a macchiato.


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prosciutto, mozzarella, tomato, and spinach panini

I don’t know about you, but I am so incredibly ready for spring.  Winter in Boston was brutal with 38 inches of snow in January alone.  The snow has finally (mostly) melted and they’re talking about temps in the 50s this weekend.  I’d like to say that I’ll be out enjoying the weather, but I’m not particularly mobile with my post-surgery knee.  I am bound and determined to make it outside for a least a little bit, even if it’s just to the back porch.

prosciutto, mozzarella, spinach, tomato

If you ask me, the only upside to all the snow was working from home and having Joseph make me panini for lunch.  My office doesn’t have a whole lot of lunch options nearby, and besides, I’m generally happier saving my money to go out for a nice dinner  rather than buy a mediocre sandwich because I didn’t bring anything for lunch.

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joseph’s turkey burger du jour

Spicy Turkey Burger and Sweet Potato Fries

I was vegetarian for several years and ate enough veggie burgers to keep Gardenburger and Boca in business.  Then, when I was eating poultry again, I went on a business trip to Atlanta and a coworker ordered a turkey burger.  I was sort of shocked by the idea (turkey??), but since after about 10 years of nothing but veggie burgers, I was intrigued and ordered one as well.  I loved it.  My coworker told me about some good turkey burgers back in DC, but I kind of forgot about it by the time I got home.  It wasn’t until I moved to Boston and starting ordering turkey burgers at Sunset Grill that I became completely hooked.

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But with Joseph working full time on his PhD at Tufts, well, suffice it to say, we don’t eat out a whole lot.  I was looking for healthy recipes and found this turkey burger recipe from the Mayo Clinic.  Totally healthy!  Even though Joseph was still vegetarian, he made me these turkey burgers for our first Super Bowl in Boston and several times since.  Eventually he got tired of making these awesome burgers and having a veggie burger and he starting eating them too.  He’s modified the recipe several times and this is the most current version.  I’m sure that a month or two from now it’ll be different again. Continue reading

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I was excited to see the feature on Serious Eats on the Clover Food Lab truck over by MIT because friends had just told us last week that we needed to check it out.  That was all we needed to convince us to ditch our plans to go to the gym and head on over before they closed at 7:00. It was fantastic. They gave us a “sample” of freshly made watermelon soda while we waited and believe me, a sample that’s 2/3 the regular serving certainly gets me in the mood for a good meal.

chickpea fritter and soy blt

Joseph got the soy BLT and I got the chickpea fritter.  The soy BLT was more about texture, while the chickpea fritter had more substance (and was very pretty to photograph). We also split the rosemary fries which were pretty awesome – the little fried rosemary leaves were tasty on their own, not to mention with the fries. And we got all that for $13.  Not bad.

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Challenged by the prospect of developing a group of largely unrelated development sites constrained by wetlands, wader bird habitats, highly reactive soils, unstable marine clay, mangroves, significant water quality and management issues, together with the inherent problems associated with canal and golf course development adjacent National and Marine Parks, Place Design Group went about developing a blue print for QM Properties to ‘re-master’ Pacific Harbour and plot a new course for the project. Pacific Harbour was awarded the 2007 UDIA National award for Excellence in Residential Subdivision, as well as the 2007 Queensland Master Builders Association award for Best Sports Facility, 6th Best Public Access Course by Golf Australia in 2007 and the Prime Ministers Award for Excellence in 2006.

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Height:  5 feet

Spread:  12 inches

Sunlight:  full sun

Hardiness Zone:  4

A fine columnar juniper with interesting blue-green foliage and a dense, narrow habit of growth; a beautiful specimen for adding that excplamation point to the landscape or to enhance the skyline of your garden, exceptionally hardy

Ornamental Features

Sentinel Juniper has attractive bluish-green foliage which emerges lime green in spring. The needles are highly ornamental and remain bluish-green throughout the winter. It produces blue berries from late spring to late winter. The flowers are not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes

Sentinel Juniper is a dense multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a narrowly upright and columnar growth habit. It lends an extremely fine and delicate texture to the landscape composition which can make it a great accent feature on this basis alone.

This is a relatively low maintenance shrub, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Sentinel Juniper is recommended for the following landscape applications;

  • Accent
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  • General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Sentinel Juniper will grow to be about 5 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 12 inches. It has a low canopy, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.

This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist growing conditions, but will not tolerate any standing water. It is considered to be drought-tolerant, and thus makes an ideal choice for xeriscaping or the moisture-conserving landscape. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selection of a native North American species.

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Bassist and Composer Nori Naraoka was born and raised in Sapporo, Japan. Growing up in a musical family, his parents managed a music school. At the age 4, he learned piano, clarinet, trombone and saxophone taught by his father, professional saxophonist/music educator Akinori Naraoka and mother, pianist Chisono Naraoka. At the age 13, he began playing principal acoustic bass/electric bass and began a professional career by playing with Akinori Naraoka Group.

He moved to America to study jazz music in 1998 and received a scholarship from Berklee College of Music, Boston MA. As soon as he finished studying at Berklee, he moved to New Orleans in 2001.

He had a rare opportunity to perform with such greats as Jason Marsalis, Russell Batiste, Delfeayo Marsalis, Wild Magnolias, Ivan Neville, Stanton Moore, Willie Green, Nicholas Pay ton, June Yamagishi, Charmaine Neville and many more.

-1996 The Grand Prize (Teen’s Music Festival. Sponsored by Yamaha corporations. Sapporo, Japan.)
-1996 Powerful Sounds Prize (Teen’s Music Festival. Sponsored by Yamaha corporations. Hokkaido, Japan. )
-1999 Scholarship for “Bass player” (Berklee College Of Music. Boston, MA)
-2001 Best of the Best nominee for “Best Musical” (Musical Show Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill Directed by Tommye Marwick. Gambit Weekly. New Orleans, LA)
Jazz Study with Ellis Marsalis and Terence Blanchard at University of New Orleans (2001
Diploma of Performance in Music, Berklee College of Music (1998-2001, Boston MA)
Studied Music with Akinori Naraoka (1980-1996)

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One of MediaTek’s newest mid-range chipsets runs on an impressively small fabrication with eight cores, all of them capable of 2.0GHz speeds. The Helio P60 should be a pretty good performer in and of itself. But alas, it seems OPPO has been caught spiking the P60’s performance on benchmarking apps.

Even years after other OEMs have quit with benchmark cheating, OPPO has been caught as recently as with the OPPO F3 smartphone for continuing the habit. And Vietnamese publication Genk has now found that the OPPO F7 does the same. It tracked core performance during an AnTuTu benchmark run and found processor thermal limiting turned off for the duration it was in the app. The site then made an empty app with the AnTuTu name and found that the OPPO F7’s chipset reacted the same way, suggesting that it was marking down benchmark app names on a whitelist.

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Here you will find the Poem True Diffidence of poet William Schwenck Gilbert

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My boy, you may take it from me,
That of all the afflictions accurst
With which a man's saddled
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A diffident nature's the worst.
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The blue eyed boy of Punjabi film industry celebrated his birthday in Malaysia. He along with the team of his film Laavan Phere is in the beautiful country for some time now. the film is directed by Sameep Kang. Made under the banner of Sameep Kang productions and Prem Motion Pictures the film is produced by Karamjeet Anmol, Ranjiv Singla and Prem Prakash Gupta. The story is written by Pali Bhupinder while the music is given by Gurcharan Singh and MD Bablu Kumar. Other than Roshan, Rubina Bajwa, Karamjeet Anmol, B.N.Sharma and Gurpreet Ghuggi will be seen in pivitol roles. The film that is slated to release on9th February 2018would be distributed all over by Omjee Group.

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Moth memes are taking over the Internet and we love them

October 01st, 2018
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You’ve got to admit this: The Internet will not be complete without memes.

More than just a form of entertainment, these memes also help you get through when life throws you a curveball—thanks to the meme lords who #blessedt us with Kanye West memes,  Nicolas Cage’s “Cage rage” memes, Grumpy cat, Doge, and so much more.

And now, netizens have found a new addition to the “meme archives” and of course, another reason to log on every day.

Moth memes.

If you think only cute stuff can reside on your screen, then you might have to reconsider that as this winged creature appears to be the “flavor of the month.”

And no, don’t even try to do something about it.

The moth craze started when Reddit user u/No_Reason27 posted a close-up photo of what seems to be a very large moth outside their window.

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If you stare at it long enough, the moth looks like an owl lurking near the window. The picture of the innocent moth made the internet crazy which led internet users to create their own versions of moth memes.

Since moths are attracted to light, most of the memes show the insect’s “unconditional love” for lamps.

Moths be like:

1. A Twitter user recreated the “Distracted Boyfriend” meme…

like a moth im drawn into your flame🎶

— zu (@alltimezu) September 26, 2018

2. Moths have taken over the world…

Moth memes have taken over

— Alexis Davis (@AlexisD_Offical) October 1, 2018

Seriously, Meralco is shookt right now.

3. A moth version of the “don’t play trash” meme.

moth: yo fam pass the aux
friend: u better not play trash

— zander 👌 (@ughzander) September 26, 2018

4. No one wouldn’t wanna miss Drake’s Hotline Bling meme.

I’m only posting moth memes now

— slug (@moon_w0man) September 24, 2018

5. And the Internet predicted the future.

I have seen the future and yes it is moth memes

— Giant Swan Tribute Act "Giant Cow" (@gabrielszatan) September 22, 2018

It has been two months now and people still can’t get over the moth’s picture. Some even went ahead to make their unique set of memes:

this is my favorite moth meme

— audrey le (@audreyxle) September 30, 2018

moth memes are the only thing I care about anymore

— decembRrRrR steph 🥣✨ (@Stephasocks) September 30, 2018

— (@park_jimin_4567) September 30, 2018

— Josh The Weirdo (@Josh_the_weirdo) October 1, 2018

This moth meme.
I love it

— Pizza Shep @Mff (@PizzaShep) September 28, 2018

le moth

— anıl (@scepticboi) September 30, 2018

find me in the moth pit

— Vitalize (@Vitalize_US) September 30, 2018

Too many moth memes

— Fin Van (@Fin_Van_G) September 24, 2018

It’s crazy how such a random thing like this moth could be an “online sensation” in a few days! To the extent that  somebody even made an Instagram account called @moth_memes that is dedicated to provide us nothing but “mothy memes.”

While some may find the memes horrible rather than hilarious, it’s still impressive how these people were able to draw inspiration from an innocent moth.

Kudos, Internet.

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The song’s about toxic relationships, and dealing with someone who’s shitty towards [you], sucks up all your energy, and keeps taking advantage of your time and emotions. But after Mac passed away, I realized this song was about a lot more than that. It’s really about struggling to say goodbye to our personal demons and the chains they put on us. This song is such a window into Mac Miller’s soul and what he was going through.

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Denise Dyer’s metal flowers, butterflies, reptiles and other creatures have added whimsy to homes and gardens throughout North Texas. She makes her work by hand, and is inspired by nature to create her three dimensional pieces.Denise

In the questions below she explains more about her passion for her work. Pick up something for your yard when you meet Denise June 15 at Magnolia Green.

-What’s the best thing about what you do?
I love the fact that I make metal and art collide. I love to make the unexpected so when art lovers walk up to my booth, they instantly smile! That’s the best thing about what I do!

-What’s the best part about selling at Pop-Up Market?
I love the fact that it is a reoccurring event every month, and I love the quality of vendors that are involved.

If you re-purpose items, what’s the most unique thing you’ve ever re-purposed.
I have taken old brass container pots and turned them into sunflowers. Totally outside the box. Just need to find more old containers!

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S LongoriaStephanie Longoria is a mother, graphic designer, artist and the founder of Studio Longoria. She uses her design skills to create latin-inspired plushies and toys, and hopes that one day her characters will be known world-wide.

Learn more about her craft from her responses to the questions below, and then see her June 15 at the Market!

-What inspires you? I’m inspired by my children, sometimes I’ll overhear conversations between them and think, “Wow, that would be cool to draw.”

-What’s the best thing about what you do?
I love being able to bring my characters to life by making them into plushies.

-What’s the best part about selling at Pop-Up Market?S Longoria items
I love the Pop-Up Market because I get to interact with my customers. I love seeing their reactions to my artwork.

-Have you ever had any strange requests for your art?
I love custom requests. I had an actual Luchador (masked wrestler) ask for a custom plushie that looked like him.

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Jessica Salinas of JLeigh Designs creates clever mixed media pieces. She frequentlJLeighDesigns_boothy uses different textures and materials to create her work. Each piece is a handcrafted original. She explains more about her work in her own words.

-What inspires you?
There are so many things that inspire me, that’s why my art is pretty diverse and even eclectic. Often I am inspired by the details, rather than the object as a whole. I will stop and take pictures of random textures that I see and I have even started tweeting (@jleighdesigns) them on a regular basis, almost daily. I have directly incorporated these pictures into a couple of pieces.

-What’s the best thing about what you do?
There are two things that I love the most about what I do. One is encouraging people to open their eyes and look at things from a different point of view or, “stop and smell the roses”. The other is inspiring children to get creative and then maintain their creativity as they get older.

JLeigh Designs_Fabric Garden IIWhat’s the best part about selling at Pop-Up Market?
I love getting to meet so many interesting people. Like at the first Pop-Up Market in April, I had a wonderful conversation with a couple. I learned more about one of the flowers that I happened to depict in one of my paintings. It just added even more to my experience and to my artwork.

– What’s the most unique thing you’ve ever re-purposed.
Probably the most interesting item was a plate that went to an old meat grinder that belonged to my grandmother. Complete with real rust, not painted or chemically induced rust, it fit perfectly into a steam punk inspired piece I created called Time Travel.

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Diane Corral lives in Texas, but is originally from Canada. Her drawings are inspired by everyday activities. A coffee stain on the kitchen counter, or freshly cut grass will have her reaching for sketch pad. She describes the feel of her booth as Paris meets Texas.

Meet Diane when you visit the Market on June 15. She explains more about her work in her responses to the questions below.

-What’s the hardest part about creating your work?
Sometimes I get creatively spent and hit that wall where I’m unable to continue.  I usually read or stand away from my studio for a few days until it beckons me back.  And it always doesDiane C Pic.

-What’s the biggest honor you have received for your work?
When I’m asked to do commissioned portraits or artwork or custom pieces, that’s when I’m truly grateful and reminded that the little things still matter.

-What’s the best part about selling at Pop-Up Market?
The fact that you are with other vendors who love their craft just as much as you do yours.

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Linda Kinnaird Jewelry

WAXAHACHIE MAR 2012 103 (4)Linda and Rocky Kinnaird are in the transformation business. Together they shape, hammer, crimp, and shine discarded silverware to create clever jewelry pieces. “Rocky does the hard part – flattening the silverware, cutting it up, and smoothing the edges. I get to have my fun by adding the costume jewelry, little bits of this and that,” Linda said.

Before you visit Linda and Rocky June 15 at Pop-Up Market, learn more about them and their work by reading their responses to the questions below.

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-What inspires you?

Finding wonderful old costume jewelry like our grandmas wore really inspires me.  Anything rusty or chippy also usually also catches my eye and gets the old creative juices flowing.  Keys, you must have keys!

-What’s the best thing about what you do?

The best thing about what I do is that this gives my husband, Rocky, and I a chance to be a creative team and to do something together.

-What’s the best part about selling at Pop-Up Market?

We love having the opportunity to be a part of this outdoor market. The Magnolia Green location is the perfect setting for a casual day of shopping for unique handmade items, enjoying the outdoors, and food trucks of course!

-Originally, my shop was named The Beaded Heart. I just wanted to make earrings.  When I picked up a hammer and a butane torch to work with metal I figured I’d best change my shop name to Linda Kinnaird Jewelry.  We’re evolving over this summer to yet another phase of creativity. TaterBugg Designs which will allow me to put my sewing machine to work, and will allow us to continue with our mission to create repurposed silverware jewelry and other vintage finds.

Join us June 15

picturesLooking for a painting for that blank space on the wall? A vintage chair or dress? How about a necklace that will have everyone asking, “Where’d you get that?”

Pop-Up Market – the newest outdoor art market in
Fort Worth’s Near Southside features artists of various kinds. Each month you’ll find something different from the month before.

Take this opportunity to support local artists, and learn more about how they create their craft. You’ll see that Pop-Up Market features a variety of handmade goods from beautifully crafted glass center pieces, to jewelry, fiber, metal, mixed media, paint and so much more.

Admission and parking are free, so load up the car and bring the kids. Pack a blanket and chairs so you can spread out on the lawn and enjoy lunch from one of our food trucks.

Mark your calendar – 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturday, June 15 at the lovely Magnolia Green!

Shop Mother’s Day at Pop-Up Market

Bring mom to Pop-Up Market on Saturday, May 11, between 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., and buy her that one of-a-kind gift she deserves! Our artists sell only handmade items and vintage collectibles. Pop-Up Market is large enough to have a variety of unique gifts, but still small enough to be fun for all ages. You’ll find art in all mediums: cerabooth croppedmic, glass, jewelry, metal, paint, etc. Plus, check out some amazing hard to find vintage clothes, purses, sunglasses, and household wares.

Bring a blanket and spread out on the lawn to listen to musicians play acoustic family friendly songs. Be sure to stay for lunch – we’ll have a local food truck parked nearby!

Admission is free, but we’re collecting boxes of cereal for Ronald McDonald House of Fort Worth. Your donation goes to support families with sick children.


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model name / number: Advanta Model # P-1600
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Hill-Rom Advanta Hospital Bed

Model # P-1600

Sleep Surface Length: 83" (211 cm).
Overall Length: 91" (231 cm) without Bumpers.
Retracted Length: 78.5" (199.4 cm).
Maximum Width:
Side Rails Stored: 36" (91 cm).
Side Rails Up: 42.75" (108.6 cm).
Patient Characteristics:
Height: 74" (188 cm) Maximum, 54" (137 cm) Minimum.
Width: 36" (91 cm) Maximum.
Weight: 500 lb Maximum.
ZoneAire Mattress Patient Weight Limit: 300 lb.

Bed is in excellent condition.

Retail price for this unit is $2995.

Sale price is $1900

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Fashion Lifestyle

EMPOWE(RED): Change Agent

2017-11-10 13.24.40

Last week, I returned to my love of monochromatic fashion and single-hue style. This bold and powerful fit reminds me of my purposes here- to be a conversation starter, thought provoker and change agent to combat textile waste while transforming and empowering communities with the tools to look at their clothes and their connection to the environment differently. According to Grow NYC, New York City’ has no landfills or incinerators, yet residents produce 12,000 tons of waste every day and the numbers ares rising.

The U.S. discards between 10-20 million tons of textile annually, (Yes, annually!) With the rapidly growing fashion industry, “my little thing” has always been to shop secondhand first. Thrifting, swapping, recycling, donating, reconstructing and even composting textiles are all ways to say, “NO, I will no longer add to the seemingly overlooked landfill waste issues because I care world I live in.

A small shift in our thoughts can make a life changing difference.

Beanie: Gifted by The Beanie Bar ( love these, owned by my doppelgänger!)

Coat: Thrifted

Turtleneck: Thrifted

Pants: Thrifted

 Saving the Earth one outfit at a time.

Fun Fact: I am intermediately fluent in American Sign Language and apparently during this shoot I subconsciously intended to share this post in more tongues than one. Didn’t realize this until editing photos but the above sign means “more.” More life, love, more consciousness.

Peace & Positive Vibes

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Jerome Sala

To ‘Content’

you are like a word-picture-video flow
whose every element is special, but as part of a feed
(feeding whom?)
        also generic

a textual form of meat product:
like the old Aristotelian notion of ‘substance’
nothing in itself
but the something out of which all is made

like the Buddhist notion of emptiness
a zero
with the psychedelic possibilities
of the 10,000 things
not to mention
the 84,000 forms of illumination
(but whose samsaric version
most often manifests
as a googol’s worth of banalities)

like Marx’s ‘value’
made labor
between a bricklayer
a dog walker
a shoeshine boy
and an atomic scientist
if translated into proportionate measure
of time, effort and general difficulty
or ease
so you
like Marx’s dad
turn quality
into quantity
helping to accomplish
in your case
not the discovery of the ‘Absolute’
but the absolutely
of all

great spew
that talks
from its own errors and ours
from our massive stupidity
and occasional brilliance

you dance with a life of your own
like coffee does
over the world market
doing our living for us
so we can dip into your
energizing stream
when exhausted
or check in with you
for a little daily enervation
when we are too hyped up to function
in the requisite depressed robotic
or positively positive-mental attitude fashion

then go back to work
or forced leisure
making voids
in the void
for angry
or ecstatic
to fill the voids
of their oblong coffin
or birth channel
and ours

with more content!

Jerome Sala’s work has appeared in The Nation, Pleiades, Brooklyn Rail, Ping Pong, Best American Poetry, and others. His latest book is Corporations Are People, Too! from NYQ Books.
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Susan Lewis ( is the editor of Posit ( and the author of ten books and chapbooks, including Zoom, winner of the 2017 Washington Prize, Heisenberg's Salon, This Visit, and State of the Union. Her poetry has appeared in such places as The Awl, Berkeley Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Cimarron, Gargoyle, The Journal, New American Writing, The New Orleans Review, Prelude, Raritan, Seneca Review, So to Speak, Verse, Verse Daily, and VOLT.


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The Poway Simulated Emergency Drill was a big success!!

A simulated emergency drill was held on Saturday, September 17 from 9:30 to 11:30 AM. The simulated emergency was a Magnitude 6.8 earthquake hitting the San Diego area, and the drill involved local first responders, Pomerado Hospital, and local amateur (ham) radio operators. The drill was held to test the emergency communications systems that will be used in the event of a real emergency. Ham radio operators participated from each of the Poway Fire Stations, city properties, emergency shelter locations and several neighborhoods. Communications were established via the Mt. Woodson repeater, and gave participants the opportunity to practice sharing information with first responders (Poway Fire Department, Sheriff and City Management) as would be needed in an actual emergency. The Mayor and City Council members observed the drill, as did Fire Chief Sanchez.

Drills will be held in the future with the aim of improving the communications systems across Poway, and ensuring that ham radio operators maximize their contributions during a real emergency.

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How did I started learning a new technology

Nathanael Demacon on December 02, 2018

There are a lot of technologies, out there and for every needs: programming languages, softwares, operating systems, etc... But what if you wante... [Read Full]

Well, at first I wanted to start learning Ruby but Crystal comes with the same syntax but with some new functionalities like macros, typing, C binding (like NodeJS does), and some other things...

The better thing about Crystal is that it's compilated, which improve the performances drastically. You can see some benchmarks on the internet.

It's exactly the same thing as Ruby but with little differences outside the syntax that makes Crystal a great language!

Can Crystal be used as a drop-in replacement for Ruby?

I think it's made to use the exact same syntax. But I don't know about the libraries

Do you find any major features missing? It’s a pretty new language. I’m curious where things stand for you.

The only missing feature I found is that Crystal isn't on Windows. But they are working on it! And it works with Linux Sub-system so it's not totally missing.

Compared to Ruby, I don't really know if there are some missing major features though.

Once again it's an excellent post ! Good job 😏

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If anyone has had a good experience traveling to Alberta, Canada to ride at a ranch, take a pack trip or ride in a national park, please, please let me know where you went and what you liked about it. I am planning a trip there.

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Study finds that voter ID requirements do not suppress the vote

Washington Free Beacon:
Study: Voter ID Laws Don’t Stop People Voting

No difference across race, gender, or party, analysis finds

"Most importantly," they write, strict ID laws "do not decrease the participation of ethnic minorities relative to whites. The laws' overall effects remain close to zero and non-significant whether the election is a midterm or presidential election, and whether the laws are the more restrictive type that stipulate photo IDs."
They probably do suppress the votes of the dead and those who give vacant lots as their address.

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A BIG idea was floating around in the UNFPA corridors…. all it needed was a screenwriter, experienced director, talented actors & crew to make it work! Let me tell you how this blockbuster was produced, directed and before you could say ‘roll sound’ Pravah had a huge hit on its hands!!!

Pre-Production: UNFPA had the storyboard ready to develop the five-year country plan for National Adolescent Health Strategy and the country strategy (2013-2017). They invited Pravah (the youth-expert screenwriters!) to help them understand the needs of the vulnerable youth of India and develop the story line. This genre, a participative consultation, would provide the ‘masala’ of young people’s needs and concerns, identify gaps in existing national policies, programmes and the provisions in the ICPD and offer creative recommendations to diverse stakeholders to respond to their concerns.

A core team was formed to make this production effective. It comprised of the Director-Meenu, Scriptwriter- Purna, Makeup Artist- Neha S and Executive Assistant Faiza to aid the process. When the green light was flagged there came the bunch of actors – Neha Buch, Ishani, Nirupama, Shraddha and Sulab to bring it alive. The shooting dates were fixed – November 1-3, 2012 and we had less than two months to make this happen.

The Shoot: Thus began the most interesting part – tring tring tring…We started calling people from different organizations to nominate participants. And then more tring tring tring… calling nominated participants to know more about them. The design team was having fun and burning the midnight oil. The participants list was finally ready! Was the design version final? Was the venue booked? Are the kit bags ready? Where’s the stationary! Oh the Skype call failed, would a con call work? All the pre-production work was done and the final day arrived.

The Cast: Youth from many states of India reached Vishwa Yuva Kendra to be part of the National Youth Consultation. What a beautiful sight it was! The stage was packed with officials from UNFPA and Pravah facilitators. The most amazing part was watching the heroes and heroines – the mixed group of youth intensely and productively engaged by the facilitators! On day one they were trying to map their world and identify their needs. With energizers happening and good food to pump their energy, a lot of work happened happily. Each actor gave a byte for the movie -“What do you need to lead a healthy life?”

Soon day two began, the participants tried to match their needs to available facilities. A working group consisting of volunteers from both the participants’ and the facilitators’ groups worked through the night to present a charter of needs to the invited guests from various ministries, UN agencies and NGOs. While this team was working the others decided to have a cultural night showcasing dance forms from the many states and regional songs. It was a great experience for all to bond with each other at an informal level.

What Youth Need

What they Recommend

Life skills : self awareness, leadership, negotiation, communication, ability to learn, decision making, dealing with failure, inspire and influence others, and ability to create true relationships and support systems, conflict resolution skills

Universalization of life skills education for all adolescents in educational institutions (government and private, open schools) and out of school.

Health: Knowledge regarding reproductive health and access to facilities – consensual sex, safe sex, contraception, abortion,family planning, early marriage, pregnancy…

  • Implementation & universal coverage of sanitary napkin distribution.
  • ASHA like worker to work with boys and young men and have regular meetings with young people twice a month.

Education: Quality and accessible/ affordable education for all that is connected to the real world

  • Comprehensive sex education and life skills to be universalized.
  • Quality education and vocational training with placement to ensure employment

Safe Open Spaces: Creation of an inclusive, non-judgemental  space – Platform for open sharing, fun and problem solving

  • Initiate youth clubs across the country as safe and open spaces for fun and learning and capacity building for both boys and girls. Allow young people to take responsibility for changes they want to see. (social development agenda)
  • Support to youth clubs for formation and effective functioning ( a clearer agenda,capacity building, mentorship)

Support Group: Need for an informed, knowledgeable support group – parents, teachers, peer group, counsellors, doctors.

  • Counseling centre for holistic needs including education, health and well being and access to stress and trauma counseling services.
  • Sensitized and knowledgeable and youth friendly service providers
  • Sensitization and training of parents and community.

The Movie Release: Day three saw the key deliberations of the last two days being presented to all. The significant needs that emerged from talking to the youth were in areas of life skills, health, education, support systems and safe open spaces for learning & fun. The participants’ day was not complete without a Delhi Darshan. No one realized when it all started and when it came to an end, surely it was a job done well. The production and direction of this picture story was a challenge well accepted and well executed.

The UNFPA & Pravah banner had delivered a hit!!!

Neha Swain

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