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Video Games And Child Neglect

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Wednesday July 18, 2007

Two babies were left starving and suffering health problems while their parents played Dungeons & Dragons. American couple Michael and Iana Straw, 25 and 23, from Nevada pleaded guilty to child neglect, brought about by their obsession with internet and video games, authorities said. Their children, a boy aged 22 months and girl aged 11 months, were badly malnourished and near to death last month ...

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  • Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.
  • A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.
  • A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.
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Video Games And Child Neglect

Used News → Crime Beat

Wednesday July 18, 2007

Two babies were left starving and suffering health problems while their parents played Dungeons & Dragons. American couple Michael and Iana Straw, 25 and 23, from Nevada pleaded guilty to child neglect, brought about by their obsession with internet and video games, authorities said. Their children, a boy aged 22 months and girl aged 11 months, were badly malnourished and near to death last month ...

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1st Recorded Race Meet
Stars And Stripes Weekly
1st Envelope Machine
1st United States Ski Club
1st Vice President Chosen By The Senate
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
1st Untethered Space Walk
Female Secretary Of Transportation
Beatles Land At New York JFK Airport
Autherine Lucy 1st Black Student
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Video Games And Child Neglect

Used News → Crime Beat

Wednesday July 18, 2007

Two babies were left starving and suffering health problems while their parents played Dungeons & Dragons. American couple Michael and Iana Straw, 25 and 23, from Nevada pleaded guilty to child neglect, brought about by their obsession with internet and video games, authorities said. Their children, a boy aged 22 months and girl aged 11 months, were badly malnourished and near to death last month ...

Read All About It →

Did You Know

  • Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
  • Crayola is a French word that means Oily chalk.
  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

Quips

Our next song is: "Angels We Have Heard Get High."

Filed Under: Church Notices

For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

Filed Under: Church Notices

The Vicar is on vacation. Massages can be given to the Church Secretary.

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Fun Book Titles

  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff
  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann
  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting
  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh
  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry

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Good Question

  • If there are 52 weeks in a year, how many weeks are there in a light year?
  • When a doctor doctors a doctor does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored, or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?
  • Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
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World Firsts

  • "Stars & Stripes Weekly", the United States Armed Forces newspaper is first published.

    Friday February 8, 1918

    • Filed Under: → War

  • France recognizes the United States of America and signs a treaty of aid in Paris; it's the 1st U.S. treaty.

    Friday February 6, 1778

    • Filed Under: → War

  • The 1st appearance of cholera happens in Edinburgh, Scotland.

    Monday February 6, 1832

    • Filed Under: → Medicine

Events

  • Relatives of a 91-year-old Ohio woman who died this week are giving her the last word with a sassy, occasionally profane obituary that starts with the basics, "I was born. I lived. I died.", and instructs people to "Wait the appropriate amount of time" before trying to claim her stuff.

    They wrote it in Jean Oddi's perspective, recapping the people important to her, adventures she had and her favorite activities, including playing cards and teaching her granddaughter "dirty songs".

    Thursday February 23, 2017

    • Filed Under: → Deaths

  • The man known as the 'Crocodile Hunter' died after his chest was punctured by a stingray barb while diving off Australia's northeast coast. The 44 year-old colourful personality was filming a documentary about the Great Barrier Reef when tragedy struck.

    According to friend and colleague, John Stainton, Steve Irwin swam too close to the ray while he was diving off his boat "Croc One" near Batt Reef, northeast of Port Douglas.

    Monday September 4, 2006

    • Filed Under: → Deaths

  • A father and son in Alabama were killed when they crashed into each other in a head-on collision. Jeffrey Morris Brasher and his son Austin Blaine Brasher of Bankston, Alabama, died early Saturday morning.

    Jeffrey Brasher was driving a 2006 Ford pickup and his son was driving a 2004 Chevrolet truck when they collided on a highway head-on, said Alabama State Trooper Jonathon Appling.

    Saturday February 18, 2017

    • Filed Under: → Deaths

Wise Words

  • When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
    - African Proverb
  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - African Proverb
  • When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
    - African Proverb

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World Firsts

  • Jean-Bertrand Aristide is sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected President.

    Thursday February 7, 1991

    • Filed Under: → Politics

  • The Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for their 1st United States tour.

    Friday February 7, 1964

    • Filed Under: → Entertainment

  • The United States swears in its 1st female Secretary of Transportation, namely Elizabeth Dole.

    Monday February 7, 1983

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

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Wise Words

  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - African Proverb
  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb
  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - African Proverb

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Good Question

  • You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes. Why can't they make the whole plane out of the same material?
  • When a doctor doctors a doctor does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored, or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?
  • Why does an inspiring sight like a sunrise always have to take place at such an inconvenient time?

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