Too much time online strains Irish marriages Posted: 5 months ago by nateebiinature
Some seven percent of couples seen by ACCORD, the Catholic Church's marriage care service, say too much time spent in cyberspace by one partner is their main problem.
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Couples study debunks 'trial marriage' notion of cohabiting Posted: 5 months ago by Bingo
Most unmarried couples who live together aren't trying to test their relationship. They just want to spend more time together.
That study of dating and cohabitation, seemingly contradicts the popular wisdom of cohabitation as a trial marriage. It's among early results from the study, scheduled to continue for years
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Top important time quotations Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
Time has been studied by philosophers and scientists for 2,500 years. Astronomer Carl Sagan had it right when he said that time is “resistant to simple definition.” Lots of us think we know what time is, but it is hard to define. You can not literally see or touch time, but you can see its effects. The evidence that we are moving through time is found in everything – our bodies age, buildings weather and crumble, trees grow. Most of us feel the pressure of time as we are pushed to meet deadlines and make appointments. Our lives are often dictated by what time we need to be somewhere.
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Time travel for beginners Posted: 3 years ago by camro77
(lots of reading)
alternately theres HowStuffWorks on time travel
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Washington State May Require Married Couples To Procreate Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
The Washington Supreme Court stated homosexuals could be prevented from marrying "because Washington has a legitimate interest in preserving marriage for couples who can procreate."
In response, Initiative 957 has been accepted by Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed. This initiative, if passed, would in part, require "married couples to provide proof of procreation within three years of the date of marriage or have their marriage automatically annulled"
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Anti-Gay Ad Auditions Uncovered Posted: 8 months ago by suebe
The National Organization for Marriage has a series of ads set to run on CNN, the Fox News Channel, and MSNBC in the coming days. In the ad, actors make disproven claims about marriage for lesbian and gay couples.
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Irish Rail under fire for free travel pass ban on gay partners Posted: 1 year ago by bernardblack
Irish Rail offers a couples pass. A new policy insisting that the couple must be a man and a woman has caused tremendous anger from the gay community over the discrimination.
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5 Tools to Track How Much Time You Waste While Online Posted: 2 years ago by karenben
Your Firefox hasn’t been re-started in hours. It’s running continuously, you’re surfing around websites, and of course you’ve wasted lots of time. You could have instead spent that time doing something good and productive, rather than just flying around worthless site..
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The History of Daylight Saving Time in the US Posted: 4 weeks ago by bingo
Daylight Saving Time ends in most of the United States a 2AM on Sunday, November 1st (Hawaii and Arizona have been on standard time all summer). It makes you wonder how we ever got our clocks coordinated in the first place. Believe it or not, standard time and time zones were the railroad industry’s idea.
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BBC Horizon - Time Trip (Time Travel Documentary) Posted: 3 years ago by shredtone
According to Professor Paul Davies "Scientists have no doubt whatever that it is possible to build a time machine to visit the future". Since the publication of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity in 1905, few, if any, scientists would dispute that time travel to the future is perfectly possible.
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Time Magazine's "Best and Worst" Covers of all time Posted: 2 years ago by mobase
Sometimes they swing, sometimes they miss. The best, and worst Time covers reveal how we looked at news and ourselves in peacetime, war, depression and boom.
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Same sex marriage law passed in Norway Posted: 1 year ago by suebe
The most controversial aspect of the new law is offering state funded fertility treatment to lesbian couples. Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Great Britain already provides this service. Up to now, Norwegian lesbian couples have gone to Denmark for this procedure.
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Does time have TWO dimensions? Posted: 2 years ago by DrNothing
Time is no longer a simple line from the past to the future, in a four dimensional world consisting of three dimensions of space and one of time. Instead, Roger Highfield envisages the passage of history as curves embedded in a six dimensionals, with four of space and two of time.
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Schwarzenegger promises to fight gay marriage ban in CA Posted: 2 years ago by coldbladed
He opposes legalizing gay marriage but thinks banning it outright is a waste of time. (Article confuses the two and thinks he's waffling)
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China plans online marriage list to tackle bigamy Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Worried your husband-to-be is already married? In China you will soon be able to check on a nationwide registry of marriage details, designed to stamp out bigamy.
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The World's First Time Machine Posted: 3 years ago by Mershaullk
I'm not exactly sure what to make of this, but if the facts are correct, then this could eventually change the world.
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An Irish Jig: One Note At A Time Posted: 2 years ago by ricecakesy
Some guy who had way to much time on his hands created this, and I have to say...
Major Props. Major Props to you John Holland.
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Time Lapse at its Best: Compilation of the best recent time lapse videos Posted: 3 years ago by shredtone
This is a video with several time lapse clips set to a nice background tune.
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RNC chief: Gay marriage will burden small business Posted: 6 months ago by bernardblack
Republicans can reach a broader base by recasting gay marriage as an issue that could dent pocketbooks as small businesses spend more on health care and other benefits, GOP Chairman Michael Steele said Saturday.
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Judge Overturns Iowa Ban on Same-Sex Marriages Posted: 2 years ago by muppet
A Polk County judge on Thursday struck down Iowa’s law banning same-sex marriage and ordered the county recorder to permit gay and lesbian couples to marry.
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First step towards allowing gay marriage in NJ Posted: 3 years ago by hypnotode
The New Jersey Supreme Court gave the legislature six months to either amend the state's marriage statutes to include gay people, or write a new law in which same-sex couples "would enjoy the rights of civil marriage."
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