Nike Run Hit Remix
The ING Miami Marathon is coming up in January. Running requires training and maybe even running a few shorter races before hand, like the Nike Run Hit Remix. It's a 5-mile run with music playing along the way and a concert at the end. It takes place Dec. 14 at 8 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.active.com/framed/event_detail.cfm?event_id=1370396.

Garden Club
For a gardener, there is nothing more rewarding than watching that first bloom open up. For a chef, it's probably watching someone take their first bite of a new recipe. What if you could mix both specialties into one amazing experience? Rose Butman with the Fort Lauderdale Garden Club shows us how.

My Baby Boomer Book
Mary-Lou Weisman's "My Baby Boomer Book" is packaged with all the traditional features of a Baby Book, but for Baby Boomers. It comes with a padded cover, large type (in case you can't find your reading glasses) an envelope for a lock of hair (if you have any to spare) a place to record the names of all your primary care givers, laugh-out-loud essays on menopause and prostate trouble ("Am I a Boy or a Girl?") and flatulence ("Am I Smiling or is it Gas?"). You can catch Mary-Lou at the Books and Books in Bal Harbour tonight at 7:30 p.m. She'll be signing copies of her book and answering questions. Buy the book online at www.amazon.com.

Best Stuff
For the third year in a row, digital cameras are expected to be one of the top sellers this holiday season. David Gregg with BestStuff.com told us about some of his best gift picks:

Foray Camera Case -- A cool camera bag like this Foray Leather Camera Case ( under $40 make great gifts, AND if you really want to impress a digi cam owner find out what kind of memory card (i.e digital film) the camera uses typically SD or Compac Flash ( CF) and give them a bigger capacity card.

Ativa CF card -- Most digi cams come with only a 8 or 32 MB card -- holding less than 8 images at full capacity. Office Depot has 2 GIGIBYTE, yes 2GB Compact Flash and SD cards selling for an industry low $40, and $80 respectively under the Ativa name. Less than three years ago these would have cost in the $1000's -- Best of all these cards hold thousands of images and can also be used in PDAs, camcorders, mobile phones, MP3 players, PCs/Notebook computers and any other device that features a slot.

Tom Tom ONE -- Speaking of Mobile tech, Tom Tom's new ONE portable GPS makes a great gift. At only $499, this little digital map is loaded with Millions of points of interest. It fits in your pocket and gets you from point A to point B verbally straight out of the box -- no need for messy programming or complicated instruction books. What's nice about Tom Tom is you can go from moms car to dads car and use the GPS, its anti-glare touch screen is intuitive and it has Bluetooth capabilities for handsfree phone plus traffic and weather integration. $500

Gateway M285 -- Looking for a laptop in the Gateway has a cool Tablet PC under $1000, that allows you to write on the screen and type . Perfect for the college student or the copious note taker in the family, the M285 is stocked full of high end features. They include a super bright 14-inch inch screen , a whopping 80 GB HDD, a recordable DVD drive, and most important one of the hottest buzz words in computers these days a 2GB Intel's Core 2 Duo processor. $999 (free shipping)

Intel Core 2 Duo -- The Core 2 Duo is the chip maker Intel's latest engine designed from the ground up to handle the demands of all the digital devices we connect to our PCS or laptops. If you are looking for a PC or even a MAC today look for the Core 2 Duo sticker.

Epson ESP RX580 -- Finally, from Epson comes a printer the whole family will love . This printer tackles every task in the house from printer, copier and scanner to excellent photo printing . What's nice is unlike other all-in ones, this printer is optimized to deliver a new photo printing standard developed by Epson called ultra high definition photo printing with our without a PC. Best of all, the RX580 races through every project, printing black and color text up to 30 ppm and 4x6 borderless photos in as fast as 13 seconds and better than lab quality in as fast as 32 seconds. You can also print CD and DVD Covers. Cost is $179 after rebate.

MetroZoo
Tomorrow (Friday) night is Feast With the Beasts at Miami Metrozoo. People from all over South Florida gather dressed to the nines to walk among the beasts and feast on some of the finest cuisine in the area. One of the chefs who will be there is Cindy Hutson from Ortanique On the Mile. For more on Ortanique, visit www.cindyhutsoncuisine.com. For more on Feast With the Beasts, visit www.miamimetrozoo.com.

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