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Church offers combo ceremony that incorporates wedding with baptism of couple’s children
LONDON — The Church of England is offering couples a two-for-one service — marriage for them and baptisms for their children.
The church is recognizing the changing reality of British families, it said Thursday. Statistics show that 44% of children in Britain are born to unmarried women, and the church’s own research found that one in five couples seeking a church wedding already had children either together or from a previous relationship.
New guidelines sent to the Church of England’s 16,000 parish churches encourage services that combine a wedding with a christening or a service of thanksgiving for the birth of a child.
Some clergy welcomed the latest move, but others argued it undermined Anglican teaching about the sanctity of marriage.
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100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Here are some that caught my attention from Wired Magazine:
- Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
- The number of TV channels being a single digit.
- Rotary dial televisions with no remote control.
- High-speed dubbing.
- The scream of a modem connecting.
- The buzz of a dot-matrix printer
- Screens being just green (or orange) on black.
- Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.
- Finding out information from an encyclopedia.
- Putting film in your camera
- Answering machines.
- Pay phones
- Remembering someone’s phone number.
- Hershey bars in silver wrappers.
- Having to manually unlock a car door.
- Writing a check.
- Looking out the window during a long drive.
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The Manhattan Airport Foundation
The Manhattan Airport Foundation is a land-use constituency committed to the immediate development of a viable and centrally-located international air transportation hub in New York City for the benefit of all New Yorkers.
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Christian Charity Raising Money to Feed Non-Gay Famine Victims
Christian Charity Raising Money To Feed Non-Gay Famine Victims
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Competition for the Amazon Kindle
Financial Times Confirms Apple Tablet for September
The Apple tablet rumors are coming so thick and fast now that the big surprise would be for Apple not to announce one. The austere and reliable Financial Times has just thrown into the game with an article that confirms a September release for the new oversized iPod Touch, a timing that ties in nicely to Apple’s yearly September iPod announcements.
The device will probably have a 10-inch screen and come without a cell connection.
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Where The Wild Things Are – 1983 Disney CG Animation Test
1983 animation test by Disney, directed by John Lasseter (who went on to direct and produce most of the Pixar films, including Toy Story). Back then Disney owned the film rights to the Where The Wild Things Are books… they didn’t use them, though, so they lost them. Check out this amazing test, which combined traditional hand-drawn, 2D animation with then-state-of-the-art 3D computer animation!
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Bag of Randomness
- I find it a bit puzzling when I hear someone who is a fan of the not all the time sports talk radio station 1310 The Ticket complains that Peter King’s MMQB column in Sports Illustrated isn’t always about football.
- I hear the radio team of the Dallas Cowboys will also be the TV team for the pre-season. That sounds cool.
- I learned how to write in cursive in the second grade, and recall thinking the cursive “z” – in particular the capitalized one, just didn’t seem to fit. I was reminded about that experience reading this Time article.
- I wonder if there is anyone that strictly writes in cursive. I think most folks combine it with the printed letter or some other kind of self-invented penmanship.
- Staple City is pretty impressive.
- Grandma’s Desktop
- Start A Lie
- Madonna’s arms continue to freak me out
- Sleepwalkers Video Project
- Movie Monster Comparison Chart
- WifeGeeding wanted me to find the lyrics to the Big Bang Theory theme song. But I prefer seeing the lyrics with the music.
- It must be an interesting feeling living off people’s donations and tithes. I bet my spending habbits would change drastically.
- For the first time, I ate something at Whataburger other than a taquito or a cheesburger. The grilled chicken sandwich was pretty good.
- I’ve been in the doldrums for the last couple of days. I’m trying to find a way out of the funk.
- Someone asked me if I would give an update on my thoughts on the Pre after having it for a while.
- It’s not an iPhone killer, it’s just different. But I really prefer having a real keyboard.
- Batterlife should be much better.
- I wish the camera had a zoom, but I think the quality of the pictures are nice.
- Official applications – there aren’t many, and by now I would have expected more. However, there are a lot of unofficial ones out there when you do a simply Google search.
- Apple updated iTunes so that the Pre could no longer synch with it, then Palm came out with an update that allows synch. It’s an interesting cat and mouse game.
- The cut and paste feature is nice, but a little cumberson.
- I wish it could turn into a light saber. A blue one.
- The quick search feature is awesome.
- Maybe it does this and I just don’t know how, but I wish email would update instantly. If I delete an email, then go online to check it, it’s still there. The tester in me makes me check these things.
- I like how it feels, weighs, and fits in my pocket like smooth river stone.
- If the keyboard is slided out and you are on a call, and you slide it shut, that should end the call, but it doesn’t. That should at least be a feature.
- Overall I love the phone, especially from my old Treo. If I were to pick between it and the iPhone, I would probably pick the iPhone only because of the number of applications, but like I said, I like having a real keyboard. Not to mention, there’s no way I’m every willingly going to give ATT any of my money ever again.
- When I tie my shoes, I still use the bunny ears.
- Grace
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