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Highlights • To celebrate Junior Exposure’s fourth birthday, a massive 32-page issue has been published. • Exposure designed a consultation leaflet for Haringey Children’s Service, and the poster for February’s ‘Safer Solutions’ Young People’s Conference and is working on a 12-page magazine about young people’s safety on the 468 bus route in Croydon. • Current video projects include ‘Skeleton Breakdown’, a 30 minute drama written, directed and shot by young people, a new promotional video for Exposure and a music video for a local hip-hop band. • B3 Media has chosen Exposure’s short horror-thriller ‘Games That Children Play’ as one of eight films to be funded in 2006 as part of its Blank Slate scheme. • Exposure’s latest film, ‘Snorkelboy’, was selected for the prestigious Halloween Short Film Festival at the Curzon Cinema in Soho.

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If you’ve already given up on your own resolutions, the Babylonians new year actually began in March so,

technically, there’s plenty of time to make new ones: give up cigarettes or smoking dope; take school more seriously; eat five fruit and vegetables every day; do more exercise; treat someone better; treat everyone equally; switch off the TV properly instead of just putting it on standby; change the world one bit at a time; change someone’s mind; change yourself for the better.

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The tradition of making New Year’s resolutions is thought to have been started 4000 years ago by the Babylonians, a bunch of farmers in the area now known as Iraq, who were into hanging gardens and ambitious building projects.

LUNG FU - 08 Transform your lungs: give up smoking. By Pauline Nakiry.

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POSITIVE ENERGY - 12 We can change the world a bit at a time, says Robert Bradley.

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STRUNG OUT - 16 A free house full of drugs was no riot for Amina Khatun.

ROCK-A-BYE BABY - 20 A baby at 16 made a big difference to Daisy Rodrick.

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CHANGE THE RECORD - 24 Boys, it’s time to switch, says Farai Sithole.

• Nick May • Stelios Issaias

THINGS THE BuYuKYI LMAZ REEL Every issue Josh Büyükyilmaz brings you his recommended recent movie releases which he saw too long ago to still be in the cinema but will soon be out on DVD.

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE Cert. 12a DVD release: somewhere around Easter It’s Harry’s fourth year at Hogwarts, and this year it is hosting the prestigious and dangerous Triwizard Tournament. There’s a magic piece of tableware – the enchanted Goblet Of Fire - and the foureyed wizard is chosen to do three terrifying tasks. What’s even scarier is that Harry has to defend himself against the evil Voldermort. Whhoooohhh! THE REEL VERDICT This film is thrilling and will have you on the edge of your seat (even though I hate Harry Potter and none of them can act).

IN HER SHOES Cert. 12a DVD release: March 13 2006 In Her Shoes is about two sisters, Rose and Maggie, who are very different. Rose is a shy city lawyer and Maggie is a gorgeous good time gal hopping from bed to bed and job to job. When Maggie betrays Rose’s trust the sisters fall out. Maggie leaves town to travel to Florida to trace her long-lost grandmother, who they both thought was dead. THE REEL VERDICT There’s no guns or violence or blood, but be open minded and this heart warming film will make you laugh and cry.

DOCTOR WHO: THE LEGEND CONTINUES Justin Richards £20 (HARDBACK) Almost 42 years ago this teatime, for the very first time, weird electronic music was heard as a theme tune. It may have startled people back then but now it’s so familiar, it even became a club hit years ago. Doctor Who had entered our lives. This book celebrates those 42 years. It describes Doctor Who through all ten incarnations and it’s all in there: baddies like the Daleks and the Cybermen, the companions, K9, and of course the TARDIS. This book is not just for the hardcore fan but for everyone who enjoys Doctor Who. Back to the TARDIS. SI

KING KONG Cert. 12a DVD release: might still be in the cinema. In depression-era New York City, movie producer Carl Denham pitches an adventure flick based on a voyage to an unmapped Sumatran island. But dumped by cynical execs he gathers his crew and charters a boat illegally. Along for the wild ride are screenwriter Jack Driscoll and starving starlet Ann Darrow. THE REEL VERDICT King Kong goes on too long and most people have already seen at least one of the earlier versions. But anyone who missed it in 1933 or 1976, don’t bother seeing this remake: it’s rubbish.

F I N G E R TIPS T I P S FINGER DOCTOR WHO - Know more than anyone else about everyone’s favourite timelord with these 10 facts.

Doctor Who has been shown in 60 countries.

THINGS ‘N’ STUFF V FOR VENDETTA £24.99 (HARDBACK) Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta is being made into a movie by the Wachowski brothers (Matrix trilogy) starring Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving. Get to grips with anarchy, freedom and funny hats before everyone else with the new hardcover special edition of one of the great graphic novels.

ICUE www.i-cue.co.uk The world’s first mobile phone library has been launched! ICUE can be used on any colour-screen mobile phone and lets you download and keep up to 400 books on your phone. I’m a big fan of books but not even I can imagine trying to read Roots on my mobile. And why am I going to advertise my phone to thieves on the train or bus? I think this is a great tool for people who can’t live without their phones but for the normal people out there, just buy the book! EOG

The Doctor first appeared on Saturday 23 November 1963.

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DASHES • Use a dash to indicate a sharp break in a sentence: Exposure is free to all young people - brilliant! • Or to emphasise a point: It was just some string - a funny illusion. • Or in pairs - like brackets or commas - around parenthetical text (words that could be removed and the sentence would still make sense). She started getting excited - she’s soft like that - but I don’t know what she felt deep down.

TIM BURTON’S THE CORPSE BRIDE: AN INVITATION TO THE WEDDING £24.99 (HARDBACK), £16.99 (PAPERBACK) Discover the full story behind Tim Burton’s weird stop-motion movie, including 200 illustrations, storyboards, Tim Burton’s original character sketches, and interviews with all the creative talents involved. “If Tim wanted to shoot 18 million feet of film of me staring into a light bulb and I couldn’t blink for three months, I’d do it.” Johnny Depp

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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. John Kenneth Galbraith, born 1908, Canadian economist and iconoclast.

The man who designed the Daleks was awarded... a gold Blue Peter badge!

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BY PAULINE NAKIRYA Nicotine is more addictive than heroin, cocaine and alcohol. Exposure’s editor, David, started smoking at the age of 16. He remembers buying his first pack of cigarettes in a pub. “This girl I liked smoked so it meant I could sit next to her all night and borrow her lighter. I only smoked at the weekends until I met another girl and we smoked together during school breaks. Women!” Most people don’t inhale when they first start smoking. “Once you learn how to actually smoke properly the first few cigarettes give you a bit of a head rush,” says David. “Once that goes away all smoking does is make you feel normal.” That’s because all nicotine ever does is stress you out when you don’t have it. Smoking makes people feel calmer and relaxed but 15 minutes after a cigarette, your brain starts freaking out because the nicotine is gone. You may think that you won’t get any smoking related illnesses because you’re young and you’ll quit when you get

Deciding to quit is easy. Actually quitting isn’t. But you’re better off trying than failing to try and there is loads of stuff to make it easier. What’s also difficult is finding something to do that doesn’t remind you of smoking. “It’s been years since I’ve had a cup of tea without a cigarette,” says David. “Now all a cup of tea does is remind me of how much I liked smoking… it’s tough. It’s like a fight between wanting to give up and wanting more of that lovely nicotine. “I’ve been smoking so long I don’t really feel like myself now that I’ve stopped. I can walk up a short hill without getting out of breath but I’m not sure that I’m a better person, or anywhere near as cool. But this could just be my nicotine-starved brain attempting to trick me into starting again by trying to convince me I was once cool. Once you start smoking, you’ll find ways of justifying to yourself why you should carry on - other smokers

“The truth is that in 30 or 40 years time when you’re breathing oxygen through a tube, knowing that you did this to yourself, you’ll feel really, really stupid” older. “But in 30 or 40 years when you’re breathing oxygen through a tube knowing that you did this to yourself, you’ll feel really, really stupid,” says David. Even non-smokers have a 20% 30% higher risk of heart disease and lung cancer if they hang out with smokers. And you’ll stink. After thinking about all that, David woke up and quit one morning. “I had a cigarette first, then I put all my tobacco, rolling papers, filter tips and lighters into a bag and threw them into the dustbins outside. Then I ran to the supermarket to buy nicotine-replacement gum and came back to watch the bin men crush my fags in the compactor truck.”

have told me they know doctors who say that giving up smoking is worse for your health than carrying on. That’s called ‘denial’. It’s what people do to themselves when they can’t face the truth: you are not the Marlboro man, you are a sucker.” Yes, David, who started smoking to impress girls. So save a life and stop smoking.

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Terry Nation, who created the Daleks, was also behind the TV series Survivors and Blake 7.

DON’T BLINK I think it’s an action film But it’s the headline on the news. The firemen attempt to battle But they know it’s no use. I hear helpless screams of desperation But the victims cannot be recovered For the fire spreads so recklessly Only bodies will be discovered. On the top floor there’s a baby girl. She grips tightly onto her crying mother Who prays for a miracle to happen But the arsonists know she needn’t bother. I pass a child on the street And she stares at me funny Because my hands are filled with shopping bags While she’s begging for money. My mother cooks too much for dinner So the rest isn’t even touched While there are starving children

Who would give anything just to have that much. I cover my ears as I hear an explosion. In the space of a second The silence in the street turns into commotion. I look at the fire and see burning red. I try to help a man on the ground but he’s already dead. I cover my ears but the screams echo in my head. I wish I was able to help but I freeze on the spot instead. If the world is suffering How can we just stare and stand by? For all we know, Our whole family could be destroyed In the blink of an eye. SANNY WANG

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14 YEARS TO LIFE Walk up the road, turn the corner, straight up and take a right, The local shop slash off license is open, up all night. “A box of matches, silver slims and a box of Marlboro Lights.” “No ID, no sale, miss, now please, get out my sight.” Storm out the shop ‘coz the man is being tight. I know that if I stay in there I’ll end up in a fight. He won’t serve me because of my height. Here comes the policeman all dressed in black and white, Decides he wants to search me just out of spite. “Don’t worry young lady, I don’t bite.” “Yeah, whatever.” 14 years, locked up for life: No more matches, no more Rizla and no more Marlboro Lights. MERCEDES MOWATT

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BY ROBERT BRADLEY “Nearly 40% of all land based wildlife is doomed to extinction within our lifetimes.” Sounds like the kind of paranoid jargon a hippie or an eco-warrior might say to frighten us. And claiming that “by the end of the century 100 million people will die due to flooding” sounds equally over the top. But, according to environmental campaign organisation Friends of the Earth, if we don’t address the problem of climate change soon, these wild predictions could become reality. The burning of fossil fuels produces a damaging gas called carbon dioxide which gets trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere. And it doesn’t go anywhere. We are releasing so much that the land and sea are unable to absorb it all so it will just float around the Earth’s

atmosphere for hundreds of years. The result will be gradual, chaotic and deeply negative: global weather and climate conditions will be altered in unimaginable ways. And it won’t just be the hippies and eco-warriors panicking. Almost all of the global warming caused in the last half century has been due to the actions of human beings. Not something to be proud of. Within our lifetimes every single person on Earth could find themselves affected by climate change and it’s likely to be the poor that suffer the most. But we have an opportunity that many don’t: we can help to bring almost immediate change. There are ways of conserving energy and doing your bit to save the world. If you’re driving somewhere, or need a lift, why not see if you could handle the distance on foot. Or go a step further and buy a bicycle! When you leave a room, double

Although originally designed like a metaphorical chameleon, the TARDIS got stuck as a box.

check you’ve turned all of the lights off before you go. And next time you’ve finished using your TV, DVD or video player, try turning it off at the mains. When we use video players, a whopping 85 per cent of the energy is used when it’s sitting on stand-by. Is there really any sense in that? These are all effective but very simple ways of conserving energy and reducing carbon emissions. And there

that at the age of 15 or 16, you played a small part in a campaign as huge as this one. The results probably won’t be immediate but we have two very clear options. We could help to bring radical and frightening global climate change and sentence many more millions of starving and needy people to death. Or we can help preserve the Earth for future generations by making small

“Within our lifetimes every single person on Earth could find themselves affected by climate change and it’s likely to be the poor that suffer the most” are many, many others. It may not sound like much but if everyone in Britain began following these examples the results could be phenomenal.

adjustments to the way we live, reducing our use of fossil fuels, and eventually becoming super-aware nature-loving people.

This may be one of the largest and most complicated issues humanity has ever faced and everyone is a part of it, including young people. Thirty years from now, we may be the ones in positions of power. Imagine being able to tell people

So how would you like our generation to be remembered?

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BY AMINA KHATUN Like me, you probably thought you’d never smoke, drink or blaze. The thing is, I did blaze and I enjoyed it. My parents were on holiday, so this meant... well, what would you do with a free yard? We were in charge! My brother and sister were looking after me, if looking after meant house parties with all our mates smoking and getting high. We’d just jam all the time. We had a funny saying: ‘We are led by fools who waste our lives. Be your own leader’. Things got better and better because we were flying high all the time. It was like every time we were blazing it felt so amazing and we loved it. We started blazing at school during lunch hours and any time we could. Going into lessons chung actually felt like I was learning more for a change. All we wanted to do is get blitzed out of our skulls. This stuff became routine and we

laughed at it for about two hours just rolling around eating and watching films. My brother stepped on it and we discussed its fate: should we bury it in the garden or cremate it? We started watching the TV blank as the funny little dots were making other pictures. We went upstairs because we wanted to sleep and we realised our dead spider wasn’t a spider, it was just some string - a funny illusion. Things had got stupid and we were obviously taking advantage of our freedom. After getting stoned all we did was eat and then feel fat and lazy. We didn’t really care about the fact that cannabis was an illegal drug but we knew what we were doing was wrong. It was against our religion, bad for our health, and cost a lot of money. Maybe we could cut down. It’s okay if you’re with the right people and have

“Things had got stupid and we were obviously taking advantage of our freedom. After getting stoned all we did was eat and then feel fat and lazy” started rolling bigger zoots and used less tobacco and more cannabis. We loved just jamming at home because it made everything easier and we would just laugh about random things. The best time was when we saw a spider on the stairs and we must have

the right amount so you know what you’re doing. Maybe just once every blue moon, on a special occasion, we could spark up. But excessive use just turns into obsession and addiction. It had become a bad habit and we had to put a stop to it.

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The new laws on cannabis might be confusing but if you’re 17 or under and you get caught with cannabis, you’ll be arrested and taken to a police station for a formal warning. If you’ve been caught before you can get up to two years in jail for possession and up to 14 years for dealing.

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When I told him he was shocked because he didn’t know how my mum was going to react. We were both standing there outside the kitchen where she was washing up. I said ‘mum, we’ve got to tell you something’ but it wouldn’t come out. In the end she kind of said it anyway. She didn’t react badly. She just said ‘why didn’t you tell me?’ I lived with her all through my pregnancy and things started getting very good between us. I think she started getting excited as well - she’s soft like that - but I don’t know what she felt deep down about things like what people thought of her. BY DAISY RODRICK I was fifteen years old when I got pregnant, getting ready for my GCSEs. I didn’t really like school, waking up in the mornings or doing homework. When I got to year 10 I got really bad, bunking and skipping lessons I didn’t like. I wasn’t really hanging with the wrong crowd, they were just my friends and I was probably the worst out of all of them. I think I was 14 when I started going out with my baby’s dad. He was in his twenties. We went through a lot of problems with his age, like our families saying I was too young but it was lovey dovey kind of thing. I even had a ring on my engagement finger until I threw it in the street somewhere.

I was still in school so I had to tell my teachers. They were quite shocked but they were very concerned about me. When I had to take days off to go to appointments they’d call to see if I was alright. They tried to work around things. I didn’t tell anyone else in school except my best friend. But she just couldn’t keep her mouth quiet and one person started telling another. Then I started showing so I was the one girl in school with a big belly. Some days I wouldn’t want to go in because everyone was just looking at my belly and talking about me.

I wasn’t thinking about my future. I was just thinking about the baby. Now I miss school so much - hanging with my friends and going to lessons. It’s just nice to have something to do every day like that. We used condoms but, like Having a baby at 16 slows you down: I everyone, sometimes we could have gone to college straight after didn’t. I took a school and finished already. Some people W pregnancy test in my want to be stuck at home just getting their co heth mum’s house. He 4Y ndo er benefits and having an easy life. They say y P was in the bu ms, ou’ they want to go back to college and then bedroom. s ( co re they have another baby and that’s them se nt ha v r e for another three years. But I know I was th ace ing e born to be something special, some kind of Di ptio sex re ct n a or j designer or a model or a famous singer. I or nd us y, used to be a garage MC on the p2 STIs t thi nk radio, and I performed at Ally 7) a t a ing . Pally with my crew. So I will 4Y ab P be one of those things, cl out in I’ve just got to find a ic it, f , 4 in college with a YP d o crèche. dr ut op ab -in ou se t p ss re io gn n or anc on y, th e

I bought a dog for some protection. It’s a cross between a Rottweiler and a Rhodesian Ridgeback. It’s only a year old but it’s massive and completely mental - it broke into the back room and attacked my nan. My dad says I’ve got to get rid of it but I’d rather get rid of grandma. I just don’t know what to say to him. Madge - Papa don't preach, I'm in trouble deep. Papa don't preach, I've been losing sleep. But I made up my mind: I'm keeping my baby. Oh, I'm gonna keep my baby, mmmmmm...

My girlfriend thinks I’m having an affair - with another man! Her friends are always telling her how they’ve seen me looking at other men in the gym. I’m just admiring their muscles but my girl takes it the wrong way. I’d never cheat on her with anybody. Why can’t she just trust me? Madge - Well, I know that you're in love with him because I saw you dancing in the gym. You both kicked off your shoes man, I dig those rhythm and blues. I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck with a pink carnation and a pickup truck, but I knew I was out of luck the day the music died.

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I had sex with this boy but now he’s finished with me. He told all his friends about it and they’re calling me all kinds of names. They’re even saying I’m pregnant. I keep taking it out on my mum. I know it’s wrong but it’s the only way I can stop feeling so mad. What should I do? Madge - Do you know what it feels like for a girl? Do you know what it feels like in this world for a girl? - hurt that's not supposed to show and tears that fall when no one knows, when you're trying hard to be your best?

My step-brother keeps coming into my room and looking in my diary. Then he makes jokes about what I’ve written and threatens to tell my mum. I can’t stand him. I just want him to go away. I can’t take it anymore and feel like killing myself. Help me, please. Madge - You try everything you can to escape. The pain of life that you know (life that you know). When all else fails and you long to be something better than you are today, I know a place where you can get away. It's called a dance floor, and here's what it's for... so come on: vogue.

The Daleks are described in the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘a type of robot’.

change BY FARAI SITHOLE Manz! What is up with us? We think that life is about being ‘top boi’ in the endz and banging as many girls as possible while we still ‘got the groove’. But life aint all about that. We are becoming victims... of ourselves. Remember education? It’s not always the best move for some of us but you can’t go anywhere without that little piece of paper. I know you don’t want to hear it because your mum’s always pounding your ear about going to college but it has to be said. In 2004, less than half of boys got five A - C grades at GCSE. But nearly 60 per cent of girls managed it. It seems like too many of us think we’re going to get somewhere with one GCSE

we know from the Bible is ‘go forth and be fruitful’! What are you, a baby-daddy or a true father? Sex is not a little game to embark on, it’s a bit deeper. For all you gangster wannabes, bopping down the road with your trousers down to your knees and a bora in your sock: are you really fulfilling your potential or are you just falling into that trap? Are you becoming the top man, or just a typical teenager? Just because society expects you to be a hooligan, doesn’t mean you have to be one. And for us men who don’t make an effort: think! You aren’t bad but you aren’t good. You don’t work particularly hard but you don’t

“It seems like too many of us think we’re going to get somewhere with one GCSE and a GNVQ in construction (no offence to anyone doing GNVQs). We have to realise we’re going nowhere with that” neglect what needs to be done. and a GNVQ in construction (no offence to anyone doing GNVQs). We have to realise we’re going nowhere with that. Men might be seen as the head of the house but does that mean it’s okay for us to have 20 kids by the time we are 25? Just because you can produce a little sperm and your dick’s grown a bit bigger since you were 12 doesn’t mean you have to start exercising it. It’s like the only text

Where are you going? We’ve all got these big ideas and plans but are we going to get there by sitting on our big old rumps and promising ourselves we’re going to do it tomorrow? We sometimes act like dreamers. We need to stop with the dreaming and start with the doing. In the words of the great MC Dizzy: ‘Fix up. Look sharp!’

The Doctor has the power to regenerate into a different person (like James Bond, sort of).

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BLACK & PROUD Say it to the clouds, Say it out loud, Say it to the world: I’m black and I’m proud. Proud to be free from the chains of slavery. Proud to be out of a pit of misery. The door is now open for all races. We no longer have to worry about the colour of our faces. During times of slavery we may have crawled through the night But the crawling is over - we have seen the light. Martin Luther King helped fight the fight But he no longer has to fight with all his might. We have gained equality. God has given us victory. So say it to the clouds, Say it out loud, Go ahead say it: I’m black and I’m proud. ESTHER OPOKU GYENI

Neither the doctor nor any of his companions appeared in the 1965 episode ‘Mission to the Unknown’.

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The CONEL Sports Academy has been developed to offer quality coaching to students at the College alongside their studies. Students will receive coaching in football (male and female), basketball (male and female) and netball. Tottenham Hotspur have agreed to support the CONEL Sports Academy and students who join will have access to the indoor facilities at White Hart Lane as well as community coaches. CONEL are the reigning SESSA Cup and League champions and some of our players have been scouted by professional teams. Other sports provided by the CONEL Sports Academy include: badminton, boxing, athletics, volleyball, martial arts, table tennis, swimming, health and fitness, women only sport and fitness, squash and water aerobics.