The James Logan Courier

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

That hissing sound you hear? That's your resolution to get in shape slowly seeping out of the room as the new year starts feeling familiar and the excitement of 2012's first week gets pushed out of the way by life as usual. Gym memberships are expensive, finding time to go to the gym is a hassle, making a plan is hard, sticking to it harder. Seeing progress requires saintly patience, and on top of all that, exercise for exercise's sake is often really boring.

Thank goodness for, of all things, video games — and particularly this one. After a year of good-but-not-great fitness games releasing for Microsoft's Kinect, "Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012" gets pretty much everything right en route to knocking every aforementioned excuse off the table.

From wikipedia:
Robert Maynard Hutchins (also Maynard Hutchins) (January 17, 1899 – May 17, 1977), was an educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929), and president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago. He was the husband of novelist Maude Hutchins. Although his father and grandfather were both Presbyterian ministers, Hutchins became one of the most influential members of the school of secular perennialism.

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