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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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  • All babies are color blind when they are born.
  • During World War II, Uncle Bens was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
  • Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!
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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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Beatles Land At New York JFK Airport
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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

  • Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.
  • During World War II, Uncle Bens was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
  • About twenty-five percent of the population will sneeze when they are exposed to light.

Quips

The Minister unveiled the Church's new donations campaign on Sunday: "I upped my Pledge - Up Yours".

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

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Eight new choir robes are currently needed, due to the addition of several new members and the deterioration of some of the older ones.

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Fun Book Titles

  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry
  • My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
    - by I. M. Nutty
  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann
  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt
  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts

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Good Question

  • Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment but when you transport something by ship it's called cargo?
  • How come wrong numbers are never busy?
  • Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
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World Firsts

  • "Monopoly" the board game goes on sale for the 1st time.

    Wednesday February 6, 1935

    • Filed Under: → Business & Industry

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

    Monday February 6, 1832

    • Filed Under: → Medicine

  • The 1st recorded race meet in England happens at Roodee Fields, Chester.

    Friday February 9, 1540

    • Filed Under: → Sports

Events

  • 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

  • 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

Wise Words

  • Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
    - African Proverb
  • When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
    - African Proverb
  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb

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World Firsts

  • Joe DiMaggio becomes the 1st $100,000 a year baseball player. He plays for the New York Yankees.

    Monday February 7, 1949

    • Filed Under: → Sports

  • The first Guernsey Cattle Club organizes in New York City.

    Wednesday February 7, 1877

    • Filed Under: → Business & Industry

  • The 1st indoor 15' pole vault, completed by Cornelius Warmerdam, achieving 15 feet 3/8 inches.

    Saturday February 7, 1942

    • Filed Under: → Sports

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Wise Words

  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb
  • If you refuse to be made straight when you are wet, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
    - African Proverb
  • Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
    - African Proverb

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Good Question

  • Why does an inspiring sight like a sunrise always have to take place at such an inconvenient time?
  • 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?
  • If buttered toast always lands buttered side down and a cat always lands on its feet, what would happen if you tied a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped them both?

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