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		<title>Dark Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent talk and use of the phrase “Black Friday” &#8212; the day following Thanksgiving, considered to be the busiest and most profitable shopping day of the year – made me wonder if there are other “black days” in popular usage and history.  A little time on Google revealed a number of such days, each [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claytoncountylibrary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=746546&amp;post=912&amp;subd=claytoncountylibrary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One World, Many Stories &#8220;song&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Imagined by Ms. Darla to tune of &#8220;Do Your Ears Hang Low&#8221;) I see one world with many stories Gonna tell a tale or two Won’t you listen to my song? Won’t you try and sing along? There are places I have never been And things I’ve never seen Won’t you come with me? There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claytoncountylibrary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=746546&amp;post=894&amp;subd=claytoncountylibrary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 641 Project: What&#8217;s New in Haunted Haute Cuisine!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, I wrote here about the cookbook Roald Dahl’s Revolting Recipes.  Filled with recipes and illustrations of the foods named in Dahl’s books, some dishes are so odd and gross that they may suitable for a Halloween party table.  Revolting Recipes is not intended to be a Halloween cookbook; however, I recently found [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claytoncountylibrary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=746546&amp;post=872&amp;subd=claytoncountylibrary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the &#8220;Summer Learning Slide,&#8221; Read &amp; Visit the Library!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current research warns that many students undergo a &#8220;summer learning loss&#8221; due to the lack of stimulating activities during the summer, The Case Against Summer Vacation, Time Magazine. Many articles reporting this research indicate  that  students often lack the resources and opportunities for imaginative, stimulating summer learning enrichment activities. Luckily, creative learning activities may be devised at home by families.  In addition, free learning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claytoncountylibrary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=746546&amp;post=837&amp;subd=claytoncountylibrary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to play and explore ideas is important for the Development of Creativity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  For an excellent article about creativity, how it&#8217;s developed, and how the creative mind works, read these two articles in Newsweek, July 19, 2010: The Creativity Crisis  and Forget Brainstorming  &#8220;In early childhood, distinct types of free play are associated with high creativity.  Preschoolers who spend more time in role-playing (acting out characters) have higher measures [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claytoncountylibrary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=746546&amp;post=807&amp;subd=claytoncountylibrary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 641 Project: A Dessert to Cry For</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 17:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sure sign of an accomplished artist (of any medium) is his/her ability to elicit an emotional response from the audience through his work.  The same holds true for the culinary arts.  Remember the scene from the movie Ratatouille when the food critic Anton Ego, tasting Remy’s ratatouille, is transported back to his childhood and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claytoncountylibrary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=746546&amp;post=799&amp;subd=claytoncountylibrary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of the Floppy Disk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all knew it was coming.  According to this article from Yahoo!, Sony will no longer produce the 3.5 inch floppy diskette.  The writer of the article predicted the floppy’s demise seven years ago, which was  about the time when floppy drives were no longer standard on personal computers; for the desktop I purchased in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claytoncountylibrary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=746546&amp;post=796&amp;subd=claytoncountylibrary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ladies of Favor Programs at Forest Park Branch Library</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a look at the interview conducted with Gabrielle Starr, founder of Lades of Favor Mentoring Program, by CNN.  The Ladies of Favor Mentoring Program has teamed up with the Clayton County Library System to plan and host weekly Wednesday meetings and programs at the Forest Park Branch Library in the Teen Zone room. These get-togethers, entitled &#8220;Teen Empowerment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claytoncountylibrary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=746546&amp;post=785&amp;subd=claytoncountylibrary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Junior Reptile Wagon to be at Riverdale Branch Library June 10, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 10 Southeastern Reptile Rescue will bring their Junior Reptile Wagon at the Riverdale Branch Library showcasing  snakes native to Georgia . This display will offer a wide variety of native reptiles to view as well as exotic species of venomous and non-venomous snakes. All animals on display are kept in locked cages that provide up close, safe viewing for guests. Some  reptiles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claytoncountylibrary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=746546&amp;post=765&amp;subd=claytoncountylibrary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Owning Video Games Hurt School Performance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One recent study published in the journal, Psychological Science,  came to the conclusion that &#8220;that video-game ownership may impair academic achievement for some boys in a manner that has real-world significance.”  However, at least one blogger on the Chicago Sun-Times site  feels like that the study was not structured in such a way to eliminate other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=claytoncountylibrary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=746546&amp;post=759&amp;subd=claytoncountylibrary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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