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Apparently Matthew Shlian's work is featured in a Book about paper art! Woo go Matthew (he was our TMP teacher last year!

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Gunna try and get back on this news train again.

In Afghanistan Birth Control is just now being introduced to people and rightfully so. They have a birth rate of 6 children per woman. Some people are outraged because in the Islam faith children are considered blessings from you god. Some woman were so thankful and excited when they heard about and will even take it secretly behind their husbands back. The country needs to more informed about birth control because on average a household in afghanistan will make $700 a year and begins to hurt the economy.

In this article though, this particular birth control advocating group, were making an impact by having a informational session with Mullah's. The priests of the Islam religion. They were paid to come to the session but were in fact leaving them with supportive ideas of what it will do for the country. There is a quote that finishes the article:

"This is an Islamic country,” he said. “If the clerics support this, no one will oppose it."

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I just thought this was kind of interesting. Like in the movie terminal, there is a man living in an airport in brazil. He's been identified and noted by the airport workers and by the brazilian government and has permission to stay at the airport for 3 months before he will be deported. He's a 46-year-old ex pilot from germany who came to brazil to meet a brazilian woman local to he had been romantically talking to online. Apparently though after meeting somehow this woman left him with no money and thus he ended up at a small airport right outside of Sau Paulo.

He says that the airport workers are nice to him and he plans on moving to a "pretty" place in brazil. When asked more questions he tried to trade answers for the reporters computer cable and theres when it ended.

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At a High School innn . . . Forte Oglethorpe, Georgia, cheerleaders, during a school football game were brandishing Religious banners in support of the football team and support during sept. 11th. Although the religious practice is common in this small town a parent called in and questioned the actions of these cheerleaders. The mother was a practicing christian but knows in the constitution under our 1st amendment that church and state must be separate. The schools decided to prohibit those banners because they understood the risk of a lawsuit and then the towns people and students began to protest.

I think it's dumb that they're protesting. If you are a student you personally can bring the sign but the school cheerleaders and officials that wear and represent the school may not. They as well are using their constitutional right to speak freely about their religion, why do they have to turn it into an ordeal about not having the right to do something? . . . when they can.

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This radio show host (not Tom from my animation) fell for a stupid fake blog article about Obama writing some (untrue) things about the constitution in a paper he wrote in college. This article said that he said things that slammed the constitution. This article was a from a JOKE website that wrote satires! The host of the show even said that this article had no source and yet he still backed up this idea that obama thinks badly of the constitution or that it is highly unsufficient. Ugh it's kind of a lame news post but it frustrates me that a stupid person is allowed to be in a position where he can spread lots of untrue information to the public.

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This woman that wrote this article is a married woman who has chosen (along with her husband) to not have children. She's written a book about the advantages to not having children, such as: financial stability along with the ability to take financial risks and not having to worry about college funds, having a stronger relationship with spouse because you can spend more time and energy just focusing on them, able to live a more spontaneous life that includes spontaneous trips and vacations.

I like the article because it crosses some boundries and brings up a topic i dont really think about because having kids is so normal and expected of everyone but I there is one statement i dont agree with. She says something in her article about her decision not to have kids that included the fact that it would not enhance her and her husbands relationship at all and that is something i don't think she can speak to. That is the area of this topic that she has no facts on because she just hasn't lived in that situation. She can talk all she wants about the pleasures of her life right (and that life happens to be one without kids).

I think this is a very interesting subject. Talking to my dad about it too said something. He didn't know how much having kids would change his life. I like what he said, "no one gives a crap about other people's babies. Before i had kids i didn't yearn to have kids all the time but as soon as i had them you become obsessed. They're great. It's the best decision i ever made."

NEEEEwsssblast I CANT KEEP FORGETTING!

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I like driving and I often joke about how i will race cars in my spare time when i grow up because i loooove to drive and to drive fast. I just caught this article really quickly while looking for other interesting articles.

Basically this author wanted to test to see how fast you could go in reverse and i was expecting that you would go just as fast cuz i thought the gears to go forward were also used to go backwards but thats WRONG. Theres actually 1 separate gear for reverse and it can only go up to 20 miles an hourr! AH gosh you couldn't even go down scio church rd. without people honking at you!