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You know those questions you don't want to ask ANYbody? Or you talk about all the time but your friends seem useless at? Yeah those questions... Sometimes it's much easier not to .. or to browse the Internet or..., well we have just added some Teen Health & Wellness Links to our TeenZone page precisely for that reason! Plus we have a great book list. Warning= Scroll down on the page to see them! We also have more - lists on particular subjects such as Death & Disease, My Body, GLBTQ, Disabilities & Disorders under our INTENSE Booklists tab. Last year I wrote a blog called My Life Just Turned Upside Down that has some great book suggestions in it as well! To access the page normally click on our Teens page. There are health & wellness and a jobs & career links tabs which both get you to the same place. Or - you can access them through the Information tab under our Booklists on the top left hand side of the Teens page.
Here is a list of what's on the page and how it might be helpful. I encourage you to check out the pages - lots of them have interactive elements like live chat, places to submit your own art and writing and to take quizzes/ games at. Some feature videos, clubs, and courses you can take as well.
Kid's Help Phone
24 hour Confidential counselling, information and referral for youth up to age 18.
By phone or On-line Chat. Legal Advice.
Website has some great mini pages on Bullying, Dating, Finding a place to live etc.
24hr Counselling & Emergency Service.
Chat on-line or on the phone.
Connect Teen also offers a Youth Blog.
Just for You
Youth Health Information (Government of Canada):
A comprehensive information source for teen health.
Calgary Sexual Health Centre
Offers teens information about birth control, safe sex, STD's, relationships and coming out.
Calgary Outlink
The Inside Out Youth Group is a fun, Calgary, casual, peer and social group for GLBTQ youth. The group is a safe and welcoming place for all. Group facilitators are trained volunteer youth peer support and adult support.
Canadian Mental Association - Got a Brain?
Education around mental health and positive ways of managing it. Includes resources about stress, suicide, eating disorders and teen depression.
Submit your story, play on-line games.
The Calgary Between Friends Club
Fun and fellowship for disabled youth!
Support for teenagers with learning disabilities.
Programs, services, on-line library.
Perspectives = On-line magazine.
Street Guide for Calgary Youth
Names and addresses of dozens of organizations to help youth living on the streets and with general
Looking for a job, house or career advice (yes we are aware that teens need this type of advice on occasion) our Jobs and Careers links can help as well as this great booklist!
Freedom to Read week starts today! Check out the Freedom To Read Website for ideas on how you can revel between February 24th & March 2nd.
Join us this Thursday the 28th at 7pm at Shelf Life Books for our Youth Award Celebration to honour our A World Without Choices contest winners. We received many great submissions in words, images and video that answered the following question: "What would your world look like without the freedom to read?" Check out some of the awesomeness submitted on our TeensCreate page!
AND, drum roll please... the winners are:
Ethan G. for his great essay, "Silenced Voices"
Alexa I. for her wonderful FTR essay, and
the amazing video duo Julia C. & Danika V. - check out their video Here!
In addition, the Freedom to Read Committee has awarded the 2013 Freedom of Expression Award, sponsored by FFWD Weekly, to the Calgary Idle No More Movement. Chantal Chagnon is accepting the award as a representative of the movement. Committee member Darlene Montgomery has provided the following statement to support the Award:
The Freedom of Expression Award is presented annually during Freedom to Read Week. The Award is presented to a person or group in the Calgary area who best demonstrates leadership in promoting freedom of expression, an important cornerstone of democracy. The Award is sponsored by FFWD Weekly. This year the Freedom of Expression Award will be presented to the Calgary Idle No More Movement. The Calgary INM Movement has demonstrated a commitment to freedom of expression by taking a public stand to raise awareness of the rich cultural heritage and history of our First Nations people; the social, educational and economic issues affecting their lives; and the obligation of governments to respect the treaty rights of First Nations people. Chantal Chagnon, a local organizer and spokesperson for the Calgary Idle No More Movement will accept the Award on behalf of the Movement at our annual celebration on February 28.
Chantal, the teen winners, family members and supporters will all be on hand for the annual celebration.
Today (February 25th) the Freedom To Read Committee at CPL made their Book Selection presentation to City Council. This year, the selected book is Shine, by Lauren Myracle. Myracle has been touted as "This Generation's Judy Blume". Betsy Fraser, ardent teen-lit enthusiast and CPL Selector, submitted the following nomination:
My suggestion for this year's Freedom to Read week book would be Lauren Myracle's Shine. Lauren has been a fantastic example through the years of an author whose books have been targeted as "unsuitable" for their target audience on the one hand, while being lauded by reviewers and those very teens on the other as speaking to and for them… In the past year, Lauren was catapulted into the media when her book was erroneously mentioned as a short-listed title for the National Book Award. Instead of being bitter, she used the ensuing media storm to garner support and attention for gay rights, 'shining a light', if you will, on the downtrodden, bullied and abused. Ms. Myracle is a wonderful speaker, and while a hate crime is a dark subject, I ask the committee to consider Shine as its title for 2013 Freedom of Expression Award.
The author's long history of challenges, coupled with her courage in tackling a very difficult subject, led the committee to choose this moving novel. While it begins with a hate crime, it is ultimately a story about hope, and about letting your inner light shine through when darkness surrounds you.
Join us! Thursday February 28, 2013 7 p.m. at Shelf Life Books, 100, 1302 - 4th Street S.W.
And Read on! ;0)
by Adrienne, with many thanks to Allison Thomson (Chair, Calgary Freedom to Read Week Committee) and Carrie, our awesome Teen Cybrarian.
What would your world look like without the freedom to read?
I just read (and loved) Ally Condie's Matched, which could be a post all on its own, but one thing in particular struck me about the story. In Cassia's world, the powers that be decided that their culture was just too cluttered, so they chose 100 of everything and got rid of the rest - can you imagine? 100 poems, 100 books, 100 movies, 100 songs - to last you the rest of your life. Everything else is forbidden.
That's one vision of a world without the freedom of expression - what's yours? Tell us in words, images or video and you could win a great CPL prize pack and get published in next year's Freedom to Read Week kit. But hurry - the deadline is February 15th!
You can enter in one of three ways:
All content must be your own work, except for short, cited quotations. Contest is open to Calgary students in grades 7 to 9. Include your name, school, grade and telephone number with your entry.
To enter:Send your project by e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com OR submit a hardcopy to any Calgary Public Library location.
One entry per person.Deadline for submissions is Friday, February 15, 2013
Did you love The Hunger Games? Are you a fan of Harry Potter? Have you ever read a book by John Green, Neil Gaiman, or Lauren Myracle?
Would it surprise you to know that these books and authors, and many more, have been the targets of challenges meant to stop teens just like you from reading them? In fact, many of the 100 most challenged books of the last decade have been books for kids and teens - you can see the whole list here.
Every February Canadians celebrate Freedom to Read Week as a reminder of one of the fundamental freedoms set forth in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression - which includes reading and writing. We're lucky to live in a society that is mostly free from censorship, but even here in Canada we have to keep our eyes open. There are always people who want to "protect" teens by taking away books that offend them - like the ones I just mentioned:
But books are important, especially difficult, painful, possibly offensive books. As YA author Cheryl Rainfield says,
"Books saved me - realistic books that helped me know I wasn't alone and fantasy that helped me escape. Books helped me survive the extreme abuse that was my childhood and teenhood. I know how important it is to know you're not alone in your pain. That's part of why I wrote Scars...I know what it's like to have no one to turn to, nothing to help you hang on, except books. To have a book that might help another teen be kept from them—it seems wrong to me on a deep level."
It seems wrong to us, too. That's why we hold the Freedom to Read Week Contest every year. This year, the question is, "If you didn't have the freedom to choose what you read, what would that look like?"
To enter:Send your project by e-mail email@example.com upload to Teens Create(http://www.calgarypubliclibrary.com/teens/teens-create)
OR submit a hardcopy to any Calgary Public Library location.
So here we continue our dystopian saga, discussing why these current YA novels are so popular... from a Social Studies perspective. Try this analysis on one of your teachers to see what their reaction is!
Divergent by Veronica Roth, calls this into question; what are the most important human character traits to uphold in order to eradicate evil from human nature? Which would you choose: Intelligence, honesty, selflessness, amiability or bravery? Partially inspired by Roth's study of exposure therapy, Divergent questions the very definition of bravery. How do you define bravery? What do you think it means to be brave? Can one character trait exist in isolation or do they always act in multiple possible combinations? What is your utopia? Can utopia be universal? Or is one's person's heaven always another person's hell? What happens in a utopia when people are non-conforming? At what point/what causes a utopian ideology to become dystopian? Real life examples would be communism under Mao or Democracy under Bush.
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has left both Matched and Wither trailing in its wake. All three deal with genetics, i.e. matching and slavery. Lack of choice is prevalent. Think Star Trek laced with a hint of The Giver by Lois Lowry. If you add undertones of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, a book which I first read when I was 16, you begin to get the picture.
It's rare that I read a YA novel that I immediately want to re-read just to absorb all the poetry of the prose; it's that beautiful! Plus there is so much symbolism embedded into the book that you can tell Ally Condie used to be a High School English teacher. YA novels are often all about action and suspense. Matched, moving along at an ever quickening clip, certainly leaves you breathlessly wanting more at the end. Poetry is however, central to the book. It highlights the power of art to have political influence and be a strong force to fight against the apathy prevalent in coercive societies. There's a reason books/music/art get burned/banned. Matched underscores the power of choice; why it's important to have and why it might be beneficial not to. Implicit is that choice, held either in our own hands or societies, carries with it the ability to make both mistakes and successes. We can cause ourselves and others, both joy and sorrow along the way. Ultimately Matched takes a stance that human dignity; requires it. Otherwise we can all become so en-thralled...
The Hunger Games deals with many themes including survival, loyalty, slavery, and class privilege. It is this book that originally inspired this blog. Going out to schools in Calgary to do presentations for the library I came across many Junior High Social and Language Arts teachers who were using The Hunger Games for a novel study. It's a great book with so many leads for humanities discussions. In this way it follows The Giver by Lois Lowry, a book which is often used in schools as well.Both of these books have been banned in various places but that just gives credence to the fact that they deal with serious issues!
What struck me most about the Hunger Games is how closely it mimics a reality TV show, such as Survivor. The book thus deftly comments on our cultures obsession with entertainment; our need for vicarious living and ever more potent adrenaline boosters. And I admit I was drawn in, fully entertained, gripped by all the action suspense, romance and yes... suffering. This is in combination with a strong female character we can wholly sympathize with. Vicarious living at its finest! We are supposedly far above the Romans in our taste for civilized entertainment. But are we? Movies are simulated; reality TV shows "volunteered" for, and the news? Reality relayed at 6 'O clock each evening full of... human suffering.
For some interesting thoughts on Dystopian Fiction check out the following INFOGRAPHICS:
The Dystopian Timeline to The Hunger Games
If You Liked "The Hunger Games"…
Here's why one fellow YYC teen thinks dystopian novels are so popular these days. Warning: this may be a downer.
Soooo... anyone up for writing the next UTOPIA? We could certainly use some positive societal visioning. Any budding writers out there? Check out this Cartoon version of Thoreau at Walden. We'd LOVE to hear your voices in TEENSCREATE!
Why are Dystopian Novels so popular? This current trend not just with teens, it is also popular with many adults. These YA novels have even your parents following them! Why? Because they deal with real life issues that we either face in the world every day, or that the WORLD at large deals with every day. The proof is in the pudding eh? So what issues DO the current faves and bests deal with?
Wither The main issue this book deals with is the possible unknown side-effects of genetic engineering and insufficiently tested cures. This applies today to more than just genetics research; we have many diseases with unknown cures and unknown causes... Do we know the full effects of a lifetime of eating Kraft diner, painting our nails with formaldehyde polish, or spraying DDT on our vegetables and consequent genetic defects? No... and on and on and on with 100 million products and experiments we conduct every day. Diseases like ALS are New and just popping up and others like AIDS and many cancers still have no known cures.
Wither also deals with objectifying women and young girls solely for their looks (very western), reproductive capacities (prevalent in various countries today) and reproductive slavery. Slavery is slavery even within the confines of comfy couches and pretty lipsticks... As well as taking a look at what love really Is and Is not.
Birthmarked also takes a hard look at reproductive slavery, as well as being a case study for third world vs. first world paradigms. Set in 2403 in a society where our world and time is labeled "the cool age", it is an imaginative rendering of post apocalyptic survival - global warming style. The book even dares to propose how various current energy solutions such as using geothermic energy could have negative effects on society; or certain members of society, whenever dictatorship reigns. Our current world deals with global warming; 1st world vs. 3rd world; class issues and divisions within society (some more stark and apparent than others and some more covert); alternative energies and dictatorships Every Day. Perhaps the resonance of these books is not in their outlandish imaginings, but rather in their expressions of current realities made more digestible through the form of story. Check out the movie trailer here.
The Graceling series is perhaps one of the most multi-layered dystopian series of the bunch, teetering into the verge of fantasy, but striking home so closely to reality that I often found the books very difficult to read (even though this consequently made them my favourites of the bunch.) Dealing with issues of literacy and class, ability vs. disability, dictatorships, sociopaths, murder, justice, memory and healing, they also insert things such as birth-control and GLBTQ as givens, positive aspects of this much troubled society.
Bitterblue is the story of both a girl and a society recovering from the effects of a regime of terror. How does one uncover truth? How are "war crimes" dealt with fairly when the entire society is both implicitly guilty and traumatized at the same time? Can a thief be loyal, just, trustworthy and lovable? Can one be treasonous, break the law and yet be loyal and just under the law at the same time? How can just 4% of the population (the statistical existence of sociopaths) cause so much damage?
For some interesting thoughts on Dystopian Fiction check out the following INFOGRAPHIC: Is It Dystopia?
Social Studies 101 coming up, in the form of case studies presented in really engaging YA novels!
Stay tuned next Sunday for Part 2 of this blog: Dystopian Popularity Continued...
If you weren't around (or paying attention) when the R-rated Go the eff to Sleep came out last year, you're missing out on a hilarious tradition of revamped classics made for Kids[at-heart]. I mean, this story is NOT for children -- but most people who used to be children (or who currently have their own) seem to find it spot-on.
It riffs on classic tropes in Children's Lit and Bedtime Stories -- soothing images of baby animals and their parents, gently poetic rhymes, and lots of repetition -- to help frustrated parents access a part of childcare that traditionally just isn't spoken about. People say it closely resembles Eric Metaxas' It's time to sleep, My Love, and if you check it out, you can see why.
This one particular example is extremely well-known, from the Samuel L. Jackson audio recording, to the parodies OF the parody (MAD magazine did one a couple of months ago), to the toned-down, family-rated version of the story that the Author wrote because there was such demand for it; Seriously, Just Go to Sleep.
If this is the sort of thing you're into, you'll want to check out these titles too:
So I admit to being just slightly obsessed with Little Red Riding Hood (okay, okay maybe actually completely obsessed...). What piqued my interest? A lot of that has to do with the research I did into the history of the folktales and a fascination with how a story can shift and change over time to reflect changes in the cultures it resides within.
As a result I was really excited to discover that there was a film version of Red Riding Hood, produced last year by Catherine Hardwicke (director of Twilight). When I finally watched it, I admit I was disappointed, mostly with the casting; not of the main characters who are for the most part good, but it's amazing how bad supporting actors can make a film seem fake & ruin a mood!
The film, however, is a visual feast with splendid, gorgeous, stunning images of long red cloaks against white, white snow, beautiful tree lit night scenes and chic neo-medieval costumes that are meticulously researched with details to satisfy the hippy-geeks in all of us. This in turn spurned some research into medieval costuming. Stay tuned for a follow-up blog with some cool books about medieval dress...
Fortunately the more I watched the film (obsessed remember), the more I appreciated the subtle metaphors and historical references it embeds. For instance, was Peter, Peter The Wolf? Also, it's obvious in the final stew scene at grandmother's cottage that Catherine Hardwicke put some research into how the tale was originally a metaphor for the passing on of wisdom from one generation to another (grandmother to granddaughter Eucharist style). I appreciated this, along with the soundtrack, which is fantastic. Check out Bloodstream and Keep The Streets Empty for Me by Fever Ray!
In fact does a fairy tale have to seem real? Or does a certain amount of fakeness actually seek to better distill the story and symbolism in your subconscious in a more subtle way than if everything was completely realistic? The fakeness allows it to exist in the realm of metaphor, fantastic space, the dreamworld where things aren't usually completely logical.
After being obsessed with the film I read the book by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright. She wrote this after the movie was created, spending time on the set researching the characters and getting to know them. They book delves deeper into the inner lives of the characters and has additional scenes. This was really fun - I kept expecting the book ending to be different and was somewhat disappointed in the end. You have to go online to read the last chapter. If you don't, the book ending leaves more tantalizing trails left for the imagination to follow...
So what other Red Riding Hood remakes have made the mark? Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater is tantalizingly well written featuring an innovative re-imagining of the whole werewolf adventure. Available in book, e-book and book CD formats at CPL! Stiefvater is also a musician and artist and has created her own songs to go along with each book, as well as stop animation teasers (scroll down) using wallpaper cutouts! The book is followed up with Linger and Forever. On a side note, Stiefvater likes to decorate things such as her printer and guitar with intricate designs in sharpie markers. You can see some of this on her website as well as in the preview for Forever (scroll down). Click Here and scroll down for a neat pop up animation for Linger.
I think it is important to point out that most of the heroines in the RRH revisions in this blog (except in the comedy section) have teenage or young women as protagonist. This changes the moral tone of the stories and makes them (slightly) less creepy! For instance, Little Red Riding Hood illustrated by artist Daniel Egneus is definitely not the watered down version served up for most 5 year old. And the woman in the illustrations is definitely not 5 or 8 or even 11. Scoring high on beauty in line quality and penmanship, they also evoke a sense of horror in their disjointedness - hinting at how truly horrific such a story would be, were it actually real.
Adaptations that are truer to legend with juicy twists are: Scarlet Moon by Debbie Viguie (Ruth follows in her grandmother's footsteps learning her wise lore) & Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce is another werewolf adventure involving 2 sisters. Red Hood's Revenge by Jim C. Hines is one of four books that reinvent RRH, Cinderella, Snowhite and the Little Mermaid into one cohesive world where our famous heroines form sisterhoods rescue children from Rumplestiltskin, marry, attempt assassinations on each other, reconcile, etc. Fun, fun, fun! Cloaked by Alex Flinn has references to RRH as well as fairytales such as The Shoemaker and the Elves, The Frog Prince and others. In Birthmarked, a great dystopian novel Caragh M. O'Brien, servant girls wear red cloaks however, the resemblance stops there. Similarly from the cover, what with the red cloak and wolf!!, you'd think The Light Bearer's Daughter by O.R. Melling was a RRH re-vamp, but no! Scores are in order however, for a great cover...
Woods Wolf Girl by Cornelia Hoogland takes the story of Little Red Riding Hood and turns it inside out in this sensuous Canadian retelling. Published by http://wolsakandwynn.ca/about
All this fuss about a girl and a cloak and a wolf? Well yes, rich in myth and symbolism, fairytales are a metaphoric minefields, hands down. "Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen." - Charles de Lint
"As our storytellers continue to draw upon past knowledge, including looking to the animal world and to tribal storytellers for guidance, we grow in strength. We reshape our ancestors' stories for our children, so that these tales will, like our people, our spirits, endure." - Carolyn Dunn
I find the psychological effects of fairy-tales intriguing. If you are interested in the psychology of fairy-tales Clarissa Pinkola Estes has written Women Who Run with the Wolves, which examines folk and fairy-tales from a Jungian perspective. Reading it might just put a new spin on Margaret Atwood's Bluebeard's Egg, or a whole lot of your childhood as well! Far from being outdated, fairy tales continue to shape our lives. Currently the re-shaping of these stories is booming. As Terri Windling says, "Why are so many of us en-spelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered wicked wolves, found fairy godmothers, and faced trial by fire. We've all set off into unknown woods at one point in life or another. We've all had to learn to tell friend from foe and to be kind to crones by the side of the road. . . ."
On a more humorous note: Artist Wiliam Wegman did a Little RRH book in 1993 which involved photographing dogs posing as all the characters, and in true English hound style... plaid for the book end pages! Cloaked in Red by Vivian Vande Velde are 8 short story RRH re-makes that may never have you looking at fairy-tales quite the same way again! Gail Carson Levine recently wrote Betsy Red Hoodie illustrated by Scott Nash, and there are hilarious graphic versions of little red riding hood in these two YA Graphic Novels. Definitely not for little ones : some very Grimm fairy-tale comics and Fracture Fables by Jim Valentino. When a RRH girl finally karate chops the wolf in self defense rather than being gobbled up by him, we know we are living in a society that is beginning to place more of a priority on empowering our little girls rather than seeing them pay blind obedience instead. And that, in my mind, is a good thing!
If you are interested in researching the history of folk and fairy tale these are some good websites: Endicott Studios, JOMA (Journal of Mythis Arts) , Cabinets des Fees - a journal of fairy tales, Terri Windling. In our E-Library (once you sign-in) there are articles like "The Trails and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood" by Jack Zipes. Look under Book Authors and E-Books, Literature Resource Center or Literature Criticism Online and enter in a heading like "Little Red Riding Hood". You will get links to a variety of great articles! Do some research using our spiffy new catalogue and do a re-vamp as you see suggested in the challenge issued here!
"Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won." TW
Freedom to Read Week (February 26th - March 3rd) starts today and we are doing several things to celebrate including selecting the winners of the Who Chooses What You Read? contest.We would like to invite you to attend the annual event where we honour the Freedom of Expression Award winners, and highlight the teen winners of the Who Chooses What You Read? contest. In addition, there will be a reading from The Hunger Games which was selected as a representative challenged book, and will be presented to City Council during Freedom to Read week at the regular council meeting.Join us Thursday March 1, 20127 p.m @Owls Nest Books815A 49 Avenue SouthwestCalgary, AB T2S 1G8, Canada(403) 287-9557
The Freedom to Read Committee has selected twin brothers Keith and Steven Pridgen as the 2012 recipients of the Freedom of Expression Award. Anne Jayne, the citizen member of the FTR committee writes the following to support the nomination made by Susan Anderson,"The nomination of the Pridgen brothers is worthy. They were quite brave, as young university students, to take on the university over the issue of being disciplined for having a Facebook page where comments critical of a faculty member were published. Their case was recently heard at the Queen's Bench, ruling in favour of the Pridgen's. It is their attention to standing up for their freedom of expression, engaging the university in a formal way and drawing light to the University of Calgary student disciplinary practices."
Keith and Steven Pridgen are delighted with this news. Fortunately, Keith has recently returned to Calgary and will be available to accept it from a representative of FFWD magazine, the award sponsor. The Freedom to Read committee is especially pleased to draw attention to the efforts made by these younger citizens and the use of social media to express personal opinions.
At Central we also have a book display in both our Teen and Children's zones showcasing books that have been banned by various groups at various times for various reasons. Interested in learning more? Click this link for Censorship in Canada, click here for the most recent list of challenged books; and here is a list by Google.We issue a challenge: pick a book to read this week in honor of freedom of expression. Let us know what you're reading in the comments section. We might just add it to our banned books list!
Additionally, the art show up in the TEENZONE (2nd Floor Central) by students of Sir John Franklin High School is called SPEAK and is a great showcase of photographs by fellow teens dealing with issues around freedom of expression. SPEAK runs alongside the city wide EXPOSURE 2012 photography festival.Last but not least, our Freedom to Read Contest winners have been picked! Stay tuned for announcements...
(With thanks to Allison Thomson for some of the content of this blog).
Freedom to Read Week is nearly upon us.
I think it's safe to say that most people here in Canada feel pretty confident that no one is trying to control the information they can access. I mean, we have Libraries, we have the Internet, we have Google, we have bookstores...if anything, we have too much information to deal with.
However! An abundance of information is not equivalent to equal access to information, or access to correct information, and it certainly dosn't stop people from trying to limit our access to information. There is no doubt that Canadians are among the information priviledged, so we should not stand idly by while other nations and people (sometimes in our backyard), cannot read or access the information they need.
This, our need to assert the right of all people to access information freely, is why we celebrate Freedom to Read Week! Everyone: Pick up a banned book and read it! Three cheers for the FREEDOM TO READ! Hip hip hooray!
If you can't imagine a world where the freedom to read is limited, I recommend you read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak or for something a little more fanciful try Matched by Ally Condie. The freedom to read what you want to and when you need to is incredibly important to our society's heath and well-being. If you disagree, consider recent events in Libya where the country was taken off the internet in the middle of a civil war. Or for something closer to home, look at this long list of books and magazines that were challenged here in Canada in 2011.
So, like I said, it is time to celebrate the freedom to read!!!
Announcing our annual Freedom to Read Contest: Who chooses what you read?
Here are the rules:
Express your thoughts on the freedom to read with words, film or graphic arts.
Choose one of the following methods:
Make a poster: draw, paint, or use photography and other graphic arts (8 ½ x 14" or 11 x 17")
Write: a poem, short story, or essay (max. 300 words)
Create a film: (3 min. or less)
All content must be original, except for short, cited quotations.
Criteria:1. Persuade an audience and support your point of view.2. Use techniques of form effectively to engage an audience.
Contest is open to Calgary students in Grades 7 – 9. Include your name, school, grade, and telephone number with your entry. Enter by email: email@example.com AND upload to Teens Create; OR submit your hardcopy to any Calgary Public Library location. One entry per person. Entries must be received no later than midnight Wednesday February 15th 2011.
And of course...there will be prizes!


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5 CFR 430.307 - Appraising performance.
§ 430.307
Appraising performance.
(a) Annual appraisals.
Agencies must appraise each senior executive's performance in writing and assign an annual summary rating at the end of the appraisal period.
At a minimum, a senior executive must be appraised on the performance of the critical elements in the performance plan.
Appraisals of senior executive performance must be based on both individual and organizational performance, taking into account such factors as—
Results achieved in accordance with the goals of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993;
The effectiveness, productivity, and performance quality of the employees for whom the senior executive is responsible; and
Meeting affirmative action, equal employment opportunity, and diversity goals and complying with the merit system principles set forth under section 2301 of title 5, United States Code.
(b) Details and job changes.
When a senior executive is detailed or temporarily reassigned for 120 days or longer, the gaining organization must set performance goals and requirements for the detail or temporary assignment. The gaining organization must appraise the senior executive's performance in writing, and this appraisal must be factored into the initial summary rating.
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Jason Ritter will return to Parenthoodfor at least one episode this season, TVLine reports.
The actor will reprise his role as Mark Cyr, Sarah's (Lauren Graham) ex-boyfriend, in Episode 19, airing April 24. In the episode, Mark will run into someone, though not necessarily Sarah.
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What a difference a year makes. Last September, Parenthood faced a shortened 15-episode season after three years of high critical praise but lukewarm ratings. But thanks in no small part to Kristina's heartbreaking battle with breast cancer, the tearjerker family drama transformed from bubble show to buzz show. Now the NBC series returns for a full 22-episode season on a brand new night, Thursdays at 10/9c.
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If that is the only way you can get her to eat, yes I think that is or could be a problem. My DD will occasionally watch a show on the weekend while she eats her breakfast or lunch, but the majority of her meals are eaten with us at the table w/ no TV. She doesn't get to watch shows on the phone, etc while we are out at all. My DD is very much a creature of habit though so we often find when we are lax about something 1 time, she wants to always do it. So for example we *never* have the TV on for dinner b/c I don't want to have that battle every night. Same with the iPhone at restaurants- I don't even bring it out as an option b/c I don't want to have to argue with her every time about it.
Our Ped is big on no TV while eating, she gave us a big lecture about it and on the issues that unconscious eating creates- she's a bit uptight about kid/food issues, to be honest.
ETA: WRT the milk, I had this issue with my DD before too. I started giving only water with meals when I realized she was just filling up on milk and not eating her food. At daycare, they get alternating milk/water throughout the day. At home, DD gets one cup of milk when she wakes up (which she often doesn't finish) and then rarely does she get more milk later in the day. I give water with meals and occasionally she will ask for milk with her snack when she wakes up from her nap, which I'll give if she asks. If she doesn't ask for milk, I give water. I never take milk out with us, I always take a cup of water, it's just easier. I never thought my DD would not be a milk-a-holic but she is actually fine with water 99% of the time now and she rarely asks for milk. Or if she does (often when she's tired) and I say I'm going to get her water instead, she is fine with it.


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I was at C net, an online reviewer of technology and stuff like that and they had a news item called something like top 100 of 2002
can anyone guess which console won the best console award?
sorry i was too lazy
but not PS2
Top 100 of 2002
you will not believe the winner
XBox wins...
Well, I disagree with that, but then again, I could care less.
I spent no time on this signature.
yeah C net, I've never heard of it so it matters little what they think.
xbox. Oh great. Do they know what an xbox is
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What is their reasons for choosing XBox? It certainly isn't sales, or they would have chosen PS2. And it isn't quality, which would have been GC.
They were bribed by Bill Gates...
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They were bribed by Bill Gates...
that review of the xbox at cnet was funny. they were saying that it had superior graphics ( to the ps2) but the game cube is just as good if not better.
cmon fellas after reading the first sentence 'Microsoft knew what it was doing when it wrapped a PC inside its first game console.' u must have figured out its some sort of early April fools joke
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has said he would grant Snowden asylum "if the circumstances permit."
"We are an open country, respectful of the right of asylum ... and it is clear that if the circumstances permit it, we would gladly receive Snowden and give him asylum here in Nicaragua," Ortega said last week.
The asylum offers could provide Snowden a chance to evade U.S. authorities, though it is unclear how he would get to Venezuela or the other countries.
In a speech Sunday, Cuban President Raul Castro said he supports the Latin American countries' rights to grant asylum.
"We back the sovereign right of Venezuela and all the states in the region to grant asylum to those persecuted for their ideals or fights for democratic rights, according to our tradition," he said.
Snowden's exit from Russia would provide relief to authorities there, who appear weary of the American's presence at the airport.
Alexei Pushkov, head of the lower Russian legislative body, the Duma, recommended Snowden leave the airport, where he has been holed up since June 23.
"Sanctuary for Snowden in Venezuela would be the best solution," Pushkov tweeted Saturday. "He can't live in at Sheremetyevo."
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Bolivia's asylum offer is a "fair protest" to the incident, which involved Portugal, Italy, France and Spain, Morales said. Spain has said it did not restrict its airspace.
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AS sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, Rosehill-based jockey Corey Brown will make the annual pilgrimage south for the climax of Melbourne's horse racing spring carnival.
Since he moved to Sydney's west as a teenage apprentice, Brown has made a name for himself as one of Australia's premier jockeys.
His resume boasts several Group 1 race wins in Sydney including the Sydney Cup, the Epsom Handicap and the George Main Stakes.
The former Sydney Jockey's Premiership winner (2001/2002) has also enjoyed similar success in Melbourne.
In the 2009 Spring Carnival he claimed the Victoria Derby on board Monaco Consul, the Victoria Oaks with Arapaho Miss and the Melbourne Cup with Shocking.
"It's like you're in your own little world from the 200 metres onwards [when you win the Melbourne Cup]," he said.
"If I could bottle the feeling and give everyone a try of it, I couldn't put a price tag on it.
"Just to be in the race and down there on the day is a big achievement.
"It's basically the grand final, it's as high as you can go."
While races last only a matter of minutes, the build-up can takes months, sometimes years.
As far as owners are concerned, it's about getting the right horse at the right price.
For trainers it's about preparation, training and making sure the race is suitable.
And for jockeys it's more of a sales pitch.
"There are a lot of phone calls to secure the horses because you can have half a dozen jockeys or more chasing the one horse," he said.
"It can be as tactical off the race track as it can be on there."
He already has horses lined up but isn't getting carried away.
"You obviously expect a lot going into it but more often than not you come out with your tail between your legs," he said. "I've got a horse from France who is probably my best horse going into the Cup at this stage.
"But racing's a funny game and there is a lot of water to go under the bridge.
"You could be riding on the crest of a wave one minute and the next you're underneath it.
"I've got a really good horse here from Rosehill [trained by Gerald Ryan] called Snitzerland and she's only a three-year-old but she's going for the Coolmore [Stud Stakes] on Derby Day."
Two major races he still has to tick off his list are the Caulfield Cup and the Cox Plate.
"Once you're in the racing game, the race everyone wants to win as a jockey, trainer and owner is the Cox Plate," he said. "It's a weight-for-age race and the test of the toughest.
"It hasn't eluded me, I just haven't had many opportunities in it.
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-- securities regulator Mary Schapiro had a message today for small investors stung by the FaceBook IPO.
In spite of the problems with the social networks public stock watch you should be confident in the markets.
But it's too late they've already -- competency IPO that was supposed to take the market by storm and reignite small investor interest in stocks.
Well it -- just the opposite.
Small investors are complaining.
They -- -- -- from confirming trades or trade cancellations.
Ordered a buy and sell that normally take two seconds took two hours and even longer.
People who bought are angry those that didn't -- shrugging their shoulders and say I told you so.
One investor commented to the Wall Street Journal I was stuck for six hours trying to confirm whether I owned this dog or not.
What was going on behind the scenes according to reports is that NASDAQ system took an extra two milliseconds to calculate the FaceBook shares opening price.
In the meantime the system was trying to process orders and that resulted in NASDAQ having to manually override the system.
An override which took twenty minutes.
One simple glitch in the middle of a massive public stock offering gets magnified.
There is no room for -- Now that's the official explanation but we talk to those in the marketplace and what's going on -- -- a lot of finger pointing.
NASDAQ says they fix the problem that caused the delay in that it won't happening yet.
After the order confirmations that are still pending all NASDAQ will say -- -- after clearing up the unintended consequences of their pricing system.
They clear that backlog about standing orders and cancellations.
At 1:50 PM Friday afternoon now the implication.
What -- delays people -- pat since then must be at the broker dealer in.
Online brokers over their part say the fault was with NASDAQ and market makers.
Scott -- for example says nasdaq's issues cause their customer orders to be delayed.
Which in turn cause some of those investors to try to change or modify their order.
And that put in place a cascade of errors.
Scott trade told the Willis report that the company is staffed up to deal with questions even before problems -- rose.
Across its 505 branch offices its national service manner and even on FaceBook and Twitter.
When it was clear big problems that occurred the company -- trading services team working throughout the weekend to manually processed several thousand transactions.
Can you imagine.
Now some of these brokerages managed to turn -- to their advantage Scott trade opened 431%.
More new accounts Friday in a typical day in the day's trading volumes were up 70% vs the monthly average.
-- spoke to us as well saying quote Fidelity continues to deal with the aftermath of Friday's market issues -- delayed processing borders for FaceBook.
As they did Friday and yesterday Fidelity systems continue to operate normally.
And fortunately our clients continue to feel the effects of these issues in some cases were working aggressively to address them.
-- rate declined to comment to us.
So far at least one investor has already filed a lawsuit against net debt alleging negligence.
If you've been impacted the right thing to do is contact your broker pronto even an online broker register what they -- a dispute.
You don't even need to have details of your trade on hand because the brokerage we'll have -- in their computer system.
Any reimbursement will come from the brokerage but -- -- -- NASDAQ will be on the hook.
Frankly I hate see this kind of trouble for small investors we need a system in place the treats everybody fairly.
Not just the deep pocketed investors looking to cash out of their investments.
The market needs small investors and small investors need an even playing field in the stock market in order to fill their own financial goals.
Fix the problem do it fast.
Look ultimately it's in everybody's interest for the markets to work efficiently.
Openly and fair.
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Did anyone get the prizes yet?
08 Z71 Avalanche Mods to date: K&N CAI,Hellwig Swaybars and End Links, Corsa Sport Exhaust, Superchips Programer,IPCW LOF & 3rd brake light and tails, AMI Gas door,Show Hooks and Door locks, Enkei Wheels, with Pirelli tires, StreetScene Bowties, Grant Steering wheel,Muth signal mirrors,SSBC Big Brake kit,Huskyliner Mug gards,Floor mats and Hood shield, McGard Lug nuts and locks, Bedrug, Cervini's Ram Air hood,35watt HID Fog lights, Sylvania bulbs all around ZXE's Highs and Lows, WhiteNight Back up lights,Sirius and HD Radio, SnugTop sitting on deck now Got a Softopper on now,Tempress Boat Hatches.... New Bilstein shocks are on... New Mods coming soon..... X
09-10-2013, 03:14 PM #12No, not yet. I have not heard anything from them. I did not know if I would get a phone call, email, or if they were just going to ship them. They are coming from Visalia, California so it takes awhile for things to get to me from there. It is usually a 4-6 day travel time for things to get to me from California.
1995 Silverado 4x4
6" BDS Suspension Lift-3" Body Lift-Add A Leaf in rear -Trailmaster SSV Shocks-Duel Steering Stabilizer Kit -AirAid Cold air intake-
4.56 Gears with Detroit Auburn Locker-Pro-Comp Traction Bars with duel shocks-Aluminum Skid Plate Kit-38.5" x 16.5" Mickey Thompson Baja Claws-Constant Dropping fuel gauge
2005 Yukon XL Jet Power Programmer, Bilstein Shocks, Bilstein rear springs, Helwig Anti-sway bars, EGR Window Visors, EGR Hood Shield, Denali Headlights, Headlight harness upgrade, GE NightHawk Bulbs, White Night Rear lighting system http://www.gmtruckclub.com/forum/sho...5-GMC-Yukon-XL
2002 Silverado ext cab 2wd (Sold)
2003 Yukon XL (Totaled)
09-13-2013, 02:03 PM #13Well, today I sadly watched the ups truck pass my house yet again. Oh well, it just gives me time to keep spraying down my old bolts with pb blaster.
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Nothing Yet?? I'll look into it..
09-15-2013, 07:58 AM #15Checked the PO box yesterday and no hat yet, but am sure it's on it's way!
"The best things in life aren't things"
2007 Chevy Silverado Classic 1500
Ext Cab 4wd LT
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09-16-2013, 02:34 PM #16UPS dropped off my hat today. They had left the first notice on Friday. It cost me $18.94 in brokerage fees because UPS rips off Canadians who have things shipped from the states, but at least its a nice hat.
2001 Silverado Reg. Cab Not-So-Base -- SOLD
2003 Avalanche Z71. No Cladding. Check out my Mod thread.
1974 Triumph Spitfire 1500 - Work in Progress
2003 Sierra 3500 Duramax. The Newer, Better Work Truck
09-16-2013, 02:38 PM #17My bars were just dropped off! I peaked inside one of the boxes that were torn. They look awesome! They are well wrapped in a foam. If I can get everything done around the house today I will work on install with pics tonight! Thanks again HellWig and Glen!!
09-16-2013, 03:05 PM #20They look beautiful! Guess its time for me to begin to saving my pennies and dimes and add those to my suspension upgrade list.
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01-06-2010 10:50 AM - edited 01-06-2010 11:05 AM
As this game has a number of trophies that are to do with downloading and rating other poels karts, mods and tracks I thought we could do with this.
Add your PSN if you have uploaded anything so we can help make getting that elusive platinum easier, but also help in finding some truly unique tracks and mods.
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on 01-06-2010 11:04 AM
on 01-06-2010 11:38 AM
on 01-06-2010 11:50 AM
I've added both my PSN and LonERecoN to that thread!
on 09-06-2010 05:04 AM
23-06-2010 08:49 AM - edited 23-06-2010 08:56 AM
Really need some more downloads on my Tracks, kart and Mods.
PSN: DonMatteo13
Message me and i will be happy to download all your stuff while you download mine
really REALLY appreciate it
on 23-06-2010 12:49 PM
I would love for people to download and rate my stuff, but I want people to rate it 5 stars if they like it, not because I will rate them back.
on 23-06-2010 03:31 PM
23-06-2010 04:45 PM - edited 23-06-2010 04:50 PM
DL4DL IS NOT COOL. It completely devalues the creations that some of us put a lot of time and effort into producing.
I want my stuff to be downloaded because people think it's good and not because I might return the favour for a few XP points.
I refuse to download anything unless I think it is any good.
The most annoying people are those that download other peoples creations, upload them as a remix and then want people to dl4dl.
In my opinion, dl4dl is just a way of cheating - What satisfaction you must feel when you get that insignificant digital trophy by cheating !!
If someone asks me in the modspot to dl4dl then I immediately rate all their creations with 1 star.
23-06-2010 05:03 PM - edited 23-06-2010 05:06 PM
Totally agree. Plus, when someone parks next to me in the modspot and says "I DLed and rated 5 stars, please do same", I just feel dirty and used. Rate things that you think are GOOD!
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A federal judge in New Orleans said Wednesday he is leaning in favor of granting preliminary approval to a proposed class-action settlement that would resolve billions of dollars in claims against BP over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The development comes despite objections from a BP contractor on the doomed well project, the Mississippi attorney general and others.
After hearing BP and a team of plaintiffs' attorneys outline the proposed deal, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier said he plans to rule within a week. Barbier would hold a "fairness hearing'' later this year, possibly in November, before deciding whether to give his final approval.
The proposed agreement is intended to resolve more than 100,000 claims by people and businesses who blame economic losses on the nation's worst offshore oil spill.
"This has been a very impressive effort on the part of counsel … in terms of getting to where you all are today,'' Barbier said, noting that litigation over the Exxon Valdez spill took roughly 20 years to resolve. "I did not intend for this case to go on for 20 years, not with me in charge of it.''
London-based BP PLC estimates it would pay about $7.8 billion to resolve these claims, but the settlement wouldn't be capped and likely would be one of the largest class-action settlements ever.
Barbier stressed that his preliminary approval would only mark a "starting point,'' with objections to the deal to be considered in coming months. The proposal was announced March 2 and is spelled out in hundreds of pages of documents filed last week.


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Manager Mike Ford is confident Oxford City can pull off an upset after they were drawn away to Skrill South leaders Eastleigh in the FA Cup third qualifying round on Saturday, October 12, writes MATTHEW BRUCE.
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City beat the Spitfires 3-1 in the same round of the competition two years ago, and Ford believes his side are capable of repeating the feat.
"We've been there in the recent past in the FA Cup and got victory, so we're not going completely into the unknown," he said.
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