input: Meagan and her friend Samantha, both students, lived together in Denver. On mornings when Samantha had class, Meagan would watch her 2-year-old daughter, Hannah. Also part of the household was Meagan's pet, Willie, a parrot -- a particularly intelligent and chatty breed. He picked up quite a healthy vocabulary ("Silly Willie"was a favorite saying) and became a great mimic -- of cats, dogs, chickens and humans. One day with Samantha at school, Hannah sat in front of morning cartoons while Meagan cooked Pop-Tarts in the kitchen. When the toaster spat out the food, Meagan placed it at the center of the kitchen table to cool. She glanced at Hannah and, confident the child was fully engaged in the TV, slipped out quickly to use the bathroom. "I was gone maybe 30 seconds,"Meagan recalls."And suddenly, I heard the bird going crazy and shouting."She heard two very distinct words from the parrot's mouth."Mama! Baby! Mama! Baby!"Meagan ran out of the bathroom to find Hannah in the kitchen, holding the partly eaten Pop-Tarts, out of breath, her face and lips a terrifying shade of blue. And Willie was still crying. "Hannah had climbed up on a chair and gotten the Pop-Tarts and she was clearly choking on them,"says Meagan."I seized her and immediately started doing first aid until the piece came flying out."The bird quieted down and Meagan burst into tears, relief washing over her; Hannah was fine, already smiling her big smile. When Meagan told Samantha what happened,"She was so grateful, thanking me for what I did,"Meagan says."But I said, 'Don't thank me! It was Willie who was the hero!'" 1. Who is Meagan's friend?
2. Are they students?
3. Where do they live?
4. Does Samantha have a kid?
5. Who would watch over her?
6. How old is she?
7. Does Meagan have a pet?
8. What is its name?
9. What is it?
10. What kind of breed?
11. What was his favorite saying?
12. What did Meagan cook?
13. Where?
14. Where did she place it?
15. What was the parrot shouting?
16. Where was Hannah?
17. What did Meagan do to the pop-tart
18. What did Meagan burst into?
19. What did Meagan do to hannah?
20. Was Hannah fine? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Samantha
2. yes
3. Denver
4. yes
5. Meaghan
6. Two
7. yes
8. Willie
9. a parrot
10. a chatty one
11. Silly Willie
12. Pop Tarts
13. in the kitchen
14. on the table
15. Mama!Baby!
16. the kitchen
17. removed it from Hannah's airway
18. tears
19. first aid
20. yes

Question: Left unfettered , Anthony Konieczka, 9 years old, would happily play his Game Boy Advance or PlayStation 2 from the minute he gets up to the moment he goes to bed, 14 bleary-eyed hours later.

Anthony's box is stocked with traditional toys--board games, puzzles, art supplies--and as far as he is concerned, they are relics of Christmases past. His sister Michaely, 6 years old, still likes dressing her Barbies. But once she starts playing Game Boy, it's hard to get her away.

Play patterns like this could take up another Christmas for the toy department. Through September, toy sales were down 5% compared with the first nine months of last year, according to the NDP Group. Meanwhile, the video-game industry is heading for another record year. Thanks to hot new games like Halo 2 for the Xbox, the industry is light-years ahead of the toy business when it comes out.

While some new toys emerge every holiday season, toymakers are heading into this one without a monster hit . Indeed, there has not been a Furby-style frenzy in years. Of 10 toy segments only two, arts and crafts and dolls, have generated sales growth over a recent 12-month period. Some of the weakest categories like construction sets and action figures are the ones aimed at boys, who suffer the most from the video games. Analysts expect one of the top stocking stuffers this season to be not a traditional toy but the new generation of Nintendo's Game Boy, the DS, which hit stores last week.

The deeper issue is that shifts in play patterns are forcing toymakers to fight for shelf space in a tightening market. Boys in particular seem to be abandoning traditional toys at earlier ages in favor of consumer electronics, video games, PC software and the Internet. The fact that kids are growing more tech-savvy , a trend called "age compression ", has troubled toy companies for at least a decade. Action figures, for instance, used to be considered healthy for boys up to age 12. Now the items are mainly marketed to boys 4 to 6. A recent study found that nearly half of the US children start on video games at 4 to 5 years old--and 20% at age 3 or younger.

Toy companies, of course, have long seen this trend. Several of the toys expected to sell well this season are, in fact, those that involve video gaming and DVD technologies. Mattel's Fisher-Price introduced a game system called InteracTV this year, featuring DVDs with characters like Dora the explorer. Hasbro came out with a portable color1 video player called VideoNow and has been putting classic games like Battleship and Yahtzee into hand-held electronic format. 1. How old is the boy?
2. And how many hours a day does he play?
3. He gets gifts like board games, puzzles and what?
4. How old is his sister?
5. She plays dressup with what?
6. The sales were down how much percent?
7. Videogames are predicted to be up due to what game in particular?
8. What hasn't there been in years?
9. 2 toy divisions have had growth in purchases over the past year, what are they?
10. Which 2 have been the least selling categories? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. 9 years old
2. 14 bleary-eyed hours later
3. art supplies
4. 6 years old
5. still likes dressing her Barbies.
6. Five
7. Halo 2
8. unknown
9. arts and crafts and dolls
10. construction sets and action figures