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• New Mercenaries 2: World in Flames Screens

  Published: July 27, 2007, 9:08 pm

  Tags: Sony, Electronic Arts, Gamer Life, Microsoft, Game Consoles, Games, Computer, Game Companies, Cooperative Multiplayer, Electronic Arts, Mercenaries 2 World In Flames, Mercenaries Playground Of Destruction, Pandemic Studios, World In Flames, Xbox 360

  to the popular Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction. “While the original Mercenaries’ high-octane, go anywhere, do anything and blow the crap out of everything style was a hit with gamers, the whole experience was screaming to run on next-generation game systems,” explains Pandemic CEO Andrew Goldman. “And while

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• School playground spontaneously combusts

  Published: August 15, 2007, 6:32 am

  Tags: Arlington, Arlington Playground, Arlingtonplayground, Combustion, Decomposed Wood, Decomposedwood, Fire, Playground, Playground Fire, Playgroundfire, Spontaneous, Texas, Wood Chips, Woodchips

  that destroyed a school playground in Arlington, Texas. Surveillance video shows the ground beneath the play equipment suddenly igniting for no apparent reason. Of course, there was a reason - Deputy Fire Marshal Keith Ebel says the excessive rain in the area this summer caused the wood chips to decompose in the hot Texas sun. This

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• CPSC: The ABC's of avoiding injuries

  Published: August 17, 2007, 9:02 am

  Tags: Art Supplies, Artsupplies, Astm, Back To School, Backtoschool, Bike Helme, Bikehelme, Clothing, Cpsc, Helmet, Helmets, Injuries, Injury, Kids, Kids Clothes, Kids Clothing, Kidsclothes, Kidsclothing, Playground, Safety, Saftey, School, School Clothes, School Safety, Schoolclothes

  Activity".Be safe on the playground and on the soccer field. The most common way kids get injured on a playground is when they fall from equipment. To avoid injury, there should be at least a nine inch later of shock absorbing material on which to land. Hopefully, of the non-combustible type. Other hazards include exposed hardware that

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• The anguish of sharing at the playground

  Published: August 19, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Toddlers Sharing Sharing Toys Sharing At Playground Playgroun, Toddlerssharing Sharingtoys Sharingatplayground Playground Toddl

  was old enough to go to the playground. He had just started walking with confidence, a month or two after taking his first steps. The day was cold and blustery and he was bundled into his little red downy jacket, his rosy cheeks peeking from beneath a fleece hat. he was elated and I was elated. It felt like such an accomplishment to reach the

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• Image of the day: The curve of happiness

  Published: August 20, 2007, 7:30 am

  Tags: Cute Baby Pictures, Cutebabypictures, Flickr, Imageoftheday, Playground Fun, Playgroundfun

  Filed under: Image of the DayI have long believed that there is no shape more graceful than the circle. Be it a full circle or just an arc, the lines are beautiful. Toss in the beauty of a baby and you have the perfect composition for a lovely picture. I love the way this little guy is looking somewhere off to our left. What is he looking at? Has

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• Four square makes a comeback

  Published: August 20, 2007, 10:37 am

  Tags: Ball, Four Square, Foursquare, Game, Games, Playground, Sport, Sports

  Filed under: Lifestyle, ParentDish Laughs, Games, Being at work, SportsI don't know if kids still play four square at recess. I know they did lo those many years ago when I was in elementary school. It seems, however, that it is making a comeback, not in the school yard but in corporate offices in Silicon Valley. Long known for it's

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• Radio One More Time: Playground

  Published: August 21, 2007, 3:37 am

  Tags: Radio 1, Playground, David Rider, Tony Blackburn, Junior Choice, Radio One More Time, Keith Chegwin Maggie Philbin

  of Wiggly Park - at least Playground formed a distinct 'family' programme block, being followed by Junior Choice. Indeed, it was eventually subsumed by Junior Choice when, in 1986, Keith and Maggie jumped ship to stand alongside Tony Blackburn. Although there were promises made that Blackburn would continue with the more educational aspects of

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• Need for Speed: ProStreet & EA Playground release dates set

  Published: August 30, 2007, 1:04 am

  Tags: News, Need For Speed Prostreet, Ea Playground, Release Date, Electronic Arts, Racing Game

  later on November 1st. EA Playground which we covered when it was announced, is developed by EA Canada, and is a set of mini-games themed around kids’ schoolyard antics, including paper aeroplane racing, tether ball, and dodge ball. Designed to be a family-friendly title, EA Playground will be coming to the Nintendo Wii and DS in America

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• New EA Playground Screenshots and Release Date

  Published: August 30, 2007, 10:18 pm

  Tags: Nintendo, Electronic Arts, Games, Casual, Ea Playground, Nintendo, Wii, Wii Sports

  Playground, which can be best described as the Wii Sports of playground sports and games, has been dated, and we've got a batch of screens from both the Wii and DS versions of the game. October 23 is when you'll find it on store shelves. It'll be interesting to see how well the game sells it'll be out in time for the holiday rush, and this

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• Celebrity parent spottings

  Published: September 9, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Angelina Jolie, Angelinajolie, Celebrities In The Playground, Celebritiesintheplayground, Pax, Zahara

  Jolie sighting at the local playground. The post has a bit of a breathless edge, and includes a few secret camera phone shots of Angelina with her kids and bodyguard. They moved over to the monkey bars and slides and at that point, she had a rather large crowd of people -- at a slight distance -- snapping pictures with their phones." Can you

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• Would you tell a stranger to butt out?

  Published: September 10, 2007, 10:01 am

  Tags: Bad Behavior, Badbehavior, Marijuana, Playground, Pot Smoking In Front Of Kids, Potsmokinginfrontofkids

  Emotions, ExploringThe playgrounds around here, while beautiful and quiet, are a little boring these days. Nolan and I frequent the two seaside playgrounds near our house at least every other day. I know every little ding on the slides there, every plop of seagull refuse on the ancient teeter-totters. So yesterday, feeling a little

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• He's the New Kid on the Block

  Published: September 10, 2007, 7:00 am

  Tags: Charlisms, Disability Rights, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Ball, Bike Ride, Block Party, Children, Family, Health, Neighborhood, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Playground, Slide

  was in the neighborhood of a playground, and Charlie stopped cycling and went up the play structure and down the tube slide—except he could not go all the way down, as some boys had plugged the bottom with a large plastic ball (the kind that looks like a jawbreaker). Charlie (Jim reported) went back up the slide, down the play structure,

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• Product Recall: BCI Single Post Swingsets

  Published: September 25, 2007, 10:09 am

  Tags: Bci Burke, Bciburke, Children S Recall, Children Srecall, Cpsc, Playground Recall, Playground Swing, Playgroundrecall, Playgroundswing, Product Recall, Productrecall, Single Post Swing, Singlepostswing, Swing Set Recall, Swingsetrecall, Toy Recall, Toyrecall

  you might find at your local playground as well as in your yard. If you do have one, you should stop using it immediately and remove the swings from the top beam. BCI Burke will contact swing owners directly by mail and provide a free repair kit. For more information, contact Burke customer service at (800) 356-2070 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. CT

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• Flooding the Market with Oakland Pride

  Published: October 2, 2007, 1:02 am

  Tags: Art, Community, Oakland, 35th Amp Amp Mac, Clothing, Fabric8, Like Minded People, Oaklandish, Rockridge, Shopping, The Girl Rhino, Tip Top Bike Shop, Ultra, Upper Playground

  to find out that Upper Playground recently opened their first East Bay store, in Berkeley on Telegraph. And to celebrate this opening, they’ve released a new East Bay line. I was even more excited to find that one of their designs featured the bus I ride daily, old school orange and green AC Transit style. Woo! That was tiring. Now

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• EA Playground video shows fun-filled party gameplay for whole family on DS & Wii

  Published: October 19, 2007, 7:37 am

  Tags: Wii, Videos, News, Ea Playground, Wii, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Ds, Game, Videogame, Video, Trailer, Release Date, Preview

  Playground has a release date of October 22nd in the US and November 9th and 8th in Europe & Australia respectively for the Wii & DS. The mini-game collection is a fun-filled title that the whole family can enjoy with a kid-friendly exaggerated art-style and both single and multiplayer modes for one to four players. The mini-games

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