Archive for November, 2011

Wesley Mission today released a 10-point plan to build better mentoring support in our community after its latest research report revealed that three in four young people who have been formally mentored have been able to set realistic goals and realise an expanded and positive view of the future.

More than two thirds of young people believed they would benefit from a mentoring relationship over the next 12 months with work/career planning, education and practical matters like getting a driver’s licence.

Among the other findings in Give kids a chance are:

• Fifty three per cent of all young people have no real clarity about what they want to do in life and no clear plans for the next few years in terms of their career
• A third of young people are hungry for more adult guidance and support than they currently receive

• Between one-half and two thirds of those mentored report positive outcomes with educational attainment, quality of relationships, employment prospects, anti-social behaviour and reduced smoking/drinking/drug use

Click here to read more about the Give Kids a Chance report.

Even though listeners have become used to the thin sound of compressed music played through tiny computer speakers, they complain that it really becomes uncomfortable when they turn up the volume in order to hear more musical details. Loudness wars take place when we try to get attention. We speak louder and louder. Even if we do not understand the language being spoken, we pay more attention to louder voices, they seem more exciting. But with music, the excitement comes from variations in loudness, pitch, rhythm and timbre.