| Active, engaging toys offer fun for all ages
Additional cartridges will be available for $17.99 each. CYBER ACTIVITY Toys with online elements continue to be hot properties. The ME2 ($34.99) blends cyber world computer play with physical activity. Children 8 and older attach the cellphone-sized device to their clothes or slip it into their pockets. As the child walks, runs or buzzes about on his or her bike or skateboard, the ME2's sensors record the child's vertical, horizontal and diagonal movements. The more active the child is, the more points he or she gets. Kids use the included USB cable to connect the ME2 to a computer and use collected points to play games on the ME2 Web site while exploring online worlds and interacting with other gamers. ME2 will hit stores in August. INDIANA JONES With the new movie "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" hitting theaters this May, an ark-load of toys will be swinging into toy stores.
A severed car grille? It's super Bowl Ad time
WINK-WINK, nudge-nudge. Many commercials that appeared during Super Bowl XLII took a satiric tack, spoofing movies, television shows, video clips, celebrity misbehavior and more. A typical though entertaining cast of characters — animals, babies, pop stars — all made their appearances, lending a lighthearted spirit to the annual festivities. For the most part, it worked. The tone was a welcome contrast to the angry, off-putting tenor of too many spots in last year's Super Bowl, which were filled with crude and cartoonish violence. Although some sponsors decided to play it straight — with decidedly mixed results — the pervasive atmosphere was one of good-natured humor, of a type that seemed to elevate the night's proceedings. To be sure, not every satiric spot satisfied.
Workouts that cut gym time in half
Maintaining one's health and beauty is a real time consuming process. Sure, we'd all love to cram in 10 hours of cardio, strength training and yoga a week, but to do so is daunting when you're also trying to hold down a full time job.
"With our busy schedules, it's hard to find the time to consistently stick to a workout routine," acknowledges Crunch trainer Felix Deleon. To make our lives a little easier, Deleon has designed a workout that combines exercises, one that he believes, "will cut your workout time in half."
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Hip-Hop Rumors: Is Kimora Preggers? Bottle Hits Pitbull! Timbaland ...
Damn! What is the hell is going on? I heard about 2,500 people packed club PLANETA in San Antonio, TX to see the one and only Pitbull. After the rapper gets about two songs into his concert, a bottle zips out from the crowd and busts Pitbull on the side of the head! The bottle didn't crack, but it did break the skin and Pitbull bled. A nurse taped him up and he kept performing for one song. There would be no full concert due to the bleeding. He was eventually taken away by the paramedics to get eight staples in his head. Pitbull told the crowd that said his fans pay his bills and he wasn't going let one hater spoil it for them. I heard roughly 80% of those I attendance were females. Foul! See the ignorant video below.
REMY MA CLASHES WITH DIRECTOR?
Remy Ma has been relatively low-key.
Hotline activated for needy in region
A new hotline makes finding social services as easy as calling police or firefighters. Beginning today, anyone in the Bay Area who needs help with food, housing, employment or health care can simply dial 211. The three-digit hotline began operating in San Francisco nearly two years ago; and since then six other Bay Area counties - Solano, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa and Santa Clara - have been in various stages of operation. But as of this morning, the service is officially up throughout the seven-county region. Among the newcomers is Contra Costa County, where 211 has operated in test mode until today. Still, operators at the Contra Costa Crisis Center have been fielding hundreds of calls a month. "Near Concord? OK, let's see, hmm," specialist Minerva Blaine told a caller Friday, scrolling through a computer database to find affordable housing units for the homeless mother of a new baby.
STREET HISTORY
Henry was an urban planner in Houston's Department of Planning & Development in the early 1960s when a co-worker suggested an unnamed street in northwest Houston be called Mary Lou. As quickly as that, Henry made Houston history. Henry, who now works for the consulting firm Vernon G. Henry and Associates, doesn't brag about her namesake street. Still, it's nice to be immortalized alongside John Henry Kirby and the Rev. T.C. Jester. Houston may be notorious for tearing down the old to build the new, but our street names give us a little history, as well as a sense of personal whimsy and changing times. So we have Travis, Austin, Lamar, Houston and Deaf Smith, named for Texas legends. MacGregor, Holcombe, Freeman and Fondren, named for local civic leaders.
Utahns' top issue is U.S. economy
The future of the economy is of utmost concern to Utah Republicans and Democrats. A Deseret Morning News poll conducted by Dan Jones & Associates shows that 51 percent of Republicans and 45 percent of Democrats who planned to vote in the primary election last week believe the economy is the No. 1 concern facing a new president of the United States. The war in Iraq was ranked No. 2 in importance to both parties, while national security issues and terrorism ranked third among Republicans polled and health care ranked third among Democrats. None of the 317 Republican voters polled ranked the environment, taxes or global warming as a concern facing the next American president. Only 1 percent of the 288 Democrats polled said they believed global warming, energy/oil issues, the budget deficit, environment and immigration were the most important national issue.
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