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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fun Xercise Bike (FXB) enables children and adults to work out on an exercise bike while having fun playing Nintendo® Wii(TM) games such as Mario Kart. The FXB folds away for easy storage. With one-third of American children overweight, the Fun Xercise Bike (FXB) is now available to provide a healthy alternative to the video game couch potatoes. According to the Trust for America's Health 2007 Annual Report, children are 6 times more likely to...
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the American Heart Association unveils its Go Red Por Tu Corazon heart health awareness initiative at the 10th Annual Latin GRAMMY® Awards to educate Hispanic women about their threat of heart disease and to empower them to make life-saving choices for themselves and their families. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091105/LA05878LOGO) Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of Hispanic women and, according to the American Heart Association,...
A study prepared by a major real estate firm predicts that the new World Trade Center in New York will not be fully occupied until 2037.The New York Daily News reported it had obtained a copy of a confidential report prepared by Cushman & Wakefield for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The bi-state agency built the original World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.The report suggests that the delays that have dogged...
MySpace, the world's premier social network, today announced a distribution agreement to bring Katalyst Media and partner David & Goliath's original Web animation series Blah Girls (http://www.blahgirls.com) to MySpace. MySpace will promote and syndicate the second season of the 'Blah Girls', with new episodes expected to debut on MySpace early next year in addition to all previous episodes from season one. The Blah Girls is a comedic, animated, original content series chronicling popular...
Legendary French singer Charles Aznavour will receive a "Lifetime Achievement Award" at MIDEM on 19 January in recognition of his outstanding career. The 43rd edition of MIDEM, the international music market, takes place in Cannes from 18 to 21 January 2009. Charles Aznavour will be in the spotlight at the end of 2008 with the international release of his new album "Duos" on the EMI label. "Duos" is a collection of some of his greatest songs recorded as duets with some of the biggest...
By Sonia Zhuravlyova Sneaky Sound System are already massive on the dancefloors Down Under, so it's time they were recognised on our shores as Australia's answer to the Scissor Sisters. The band are Miss Connie, Black Angus and MC Double D, whose origins lie in the successful Sydney club night Sneaky Sundays. Happily mixing house with a healthy dose of Eighties electro-pop, the trio, in their own words "have one foot in the clubs and one foot in the pop world". Effortlessly upbeat,...
By John Ferguson A SCOTS adventurer is to have his life story made into a Hollywood film starring movie heart-throb Orlando Bloom. Rory Stewart, 35, trekked 6000 miles from Turkey to Bangladesh, living with villagers. He made the journey after quitting a diplomatic post in Iraq because he had become disenchanted with the Allied invasion. The idea for the film came after Lord Of The Rings star Bloom heard a talk given by Rory about a charity he runs in Afghanistan. Rory, whose parents are...
VISITORS to a church cafe will not have been expecting to stumble across Hollywood star Orlando Bloom giving an acting lesson. But those enjoying tea and scones at the cafe at St George's West Church in Shandwick Place yesterday were treated to a display of the 31-year-old heart-throb's professional prowess as he delivered an acting masterclass to his older sister Samantha, who debuts at this year's Fringe. Ms Bloom, 32, stars in one-woman show, A Cloud in Trousers by a Girl in a Suit. An...
ONE year ago, the writer who adapted the pilot episode of new crime drama George Gently was asked to describe the show. Peter Flannery replied: "Hopefully, my pension." That might have been a hope at the time but a new series of the detective show, which features Martin Shaw in the title role, might turn his aspirations into reality. Shaw stars as an old-fashioned copper in 1960s Northumberland. In the new series, also starring Lee Ingleby as his sidekick John Baccus, he investigates a...
