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Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE:HAS) today announced that Bennett Schneir, most recently Vice President of Creative Affairs for ImageMovers Digital, is joining Hasbro in the newly-created position of Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Motion Pictures.

Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE:HAS) today announced that Bennett Schneir, most recently Vice President of Creative Affairs for ImageMovers Digital, is joining Hasbro in the newly-created position of Senior Vice President and Managing Director, ...

DVD Verdict 163 - Sounds and Sights of Cinema (Robert Zemeckis & Alan Silvestri)This week, Judge Clark Douglas shares music from the films of Robert Zemeckis, as created by composer Alan Silvestri -- Cast Away, Polar Express, Back to the Future, Beowulf, and much more! Clark also reviews the new theatrical releases of David Mamet's Redbelt and The Wachowski Brothers' Speed Race...Read the full pos... continues

Inductees into the Pawtucket Substance Abuse Prevention Task Force’s 2008 Teen Hall of Fame pose for a portrait at the Pawtucket Country Club Thursday night. The inductees are, from left, Wendy Moura, Sofia Silva, Michelle Houle, Chantel Baptista, Zainab Sesay and Gabrielle Gibson.

NEWCOMERSTOWN – More than 115 people celebrated the past, present and future of Newcomerstown at its Chamber of Commerce Banquet Wednesday night.

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The final frontier, the realm of unknown, has been a subject that has a cycle and a periodicity which makes its appearance on a regular basis, its schedule of appearance now having a smaller turn around time.

The snowdrifts are gone, gas prices are through the roof and the kids want to get out.

Is Our Kids Reading?A new study purports to show what school children are reading these days. My kids aren’t old enough to read on their own yet, but I read a lot of books to them every evening and I was happy to see I’ve already got almost the enitre First Grade reading list covered.We read lots of Dr. Seuss inclu...Read the full post from Rhetoric & Rhythm via Blogdigger blog search... continues

Found a Fun New Website for the KidsThanks to my dear sweet mother-in-law, we have discovered a really neat website. It's called Storyline Online where children's books are read aloud by different members of the Screen Actors Guild. Now granted, I am not too into Hollywood and who in the world some of these people are, I have no idea....Read the full post from Training Hearts At HomeTags: miscella... continues

Downtown Improvement District (DID) Director Teresa Sparacino, who was instrumental in renovating the State Theatre, resigned in favor of a position with Delta Development Corp. Tuesday.

The Fox River Trolley Museum, 361 S. LaFox St. (Route 31) in South Elgin, has announced the schedule for this year. For information, call the Museum InfoLine at (847) 697-4676.

Harry Potter: The ExhibitionWarner Bros announced on Friday that they will be bringing a 10,000 square foot Harry Potter exhibit to 10 or more cities throughout the world over a five year span. Harry Potter: The Exhibition will open in a major market in Spring 2009. Read the press release after the jump. BECKER GROUP AND WARNE...Read the full post from /FilmTags: Harry Potter, Fandom, Adaptation, ... continues

In the children's book “The Polar Express,” a boy awakens at night to find a locomotive outside his door waiting to take him to the North Pole.

Al Gore's global warming philosophy has been debunked by many scientists and studies, and now it has met the same fate at the hands of children, in "The Sky's Not Falling" video/essay contest , sponsored by WND Books, formerly World Ahead Media.

Books for kidsWe're library junkies. Once or twice a week, we go and load up on books, movies, and music. I'm cool with perusing music and movies on my own, and books for myself. But when I get to the children's books, I am completely overwhelmed by the choices. Sometimes I'll pick the librarian's brain for autho...Read the full post from PractiGalTags: Children's Books via Blogdigger blog sear... continues

Beowulf (2007), Robert ZemeckisFirstly, nothing in the entire movie is anywhere near as frightening as Tom Hanks was in The Polar Express, the last film Zemeckis directed, also released as An IMAX 3D experience. Not even Ray Winston's Beowulf, who seems unable of passing up any opportunity to take his clothes off. The hugely dist...Read the full post from A Girl & A GunTags: Twenty00s via Blogd... continues

BMAC season opens with 'an explosion of humor and color' -- and a visit from the 'Polar Express' - Brattleboro Reformer (VT)SOURCE: Brattleboro Reformer (VT) BYLINE: Monday afternoon KEYWORDS: Keene State ABSTRACT: "The Big Dirty," Lynn Richardson, who teaches at Keene State College, was struggling with plastic tubing, inflatable floatation devices, life vests and other stuff to...Read the full po... continues

Little literals*the following is a theme I explore in my upcoming book My kids are quite literal. Spring is in the air around here and all the birds are coming out. The other day my 5-year-old son looked out the window and said, “Wow! Look at that robin out there.” So there we were looking at the prett...Read the full post from DadBloggersTags: Jason via Blogdigger blog search for "... continues

Tonight's IM: Jake the Snark says: (4:34:00 PM) continental had a $106 roundtrip special for a weekend in quebec Jake the Snark says: (4:34:14 PM) fly up saturday morning and back on monday afternoon Teresa S. says: (4:34:19 PM) i'm sure i'd be going alone Jake the Snark says: (4:34:26 PM) it's real...Read the full post from Teresa's Two Cents via Blogdigger blog search for "the polar express" ... continues

wearehugh : Notes e-mail may come to the iPhone - i can not express how wrong this is Tags : iphone

Rod Begbie : Dash Express GPS Video and Deets: True Traffic Reporting and Custom Maps for $599 - I *really* like the look of this upcoming GPS -- it gathers the speeds of other users over time and warns you when there's slow traffic ahead, even on roads that SmartTraveller, etc. don't cover. Will have to check them out at CES. Tags : dash.net gps traffic

nelson : Koremutake - A coding for numbers that makes pronouncable strings of syllables. They got the vowels wrong, though. deusx : shorl.com - What is Koremutake? - "a way to express any large number as a sequence of syllables. The general idea is that word-sounding pieces of information are a lot easier to remember than a sequence of digits." Tags : coding phonetic phonetics syllable ... continues

joshua : Summer Express: 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less Tags : food

Khoi Vinh : Polar Bear v. Husky - Be prepared to go “Awwwww.” Tags : Five Star

Khoi Vinh : Ursus Maritimus (Polar Bear) - One of the best Flickr sets I’ve ever seen. Thanks to Virginia. plasticbag : Totally obsessed with this Flickr photoset containing nothing but pictures of Polar bears... - They're so awesome. I'm going to go and favourite them all now. Tags : Four Star amazing awesome bears flickr photography polarbears

factoryjoe : Podobo.com - Podobo is a website designed to allow you to express your random thoughts, linked by tags, to other thoughts by users all over the world! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: twitter, microblogging

deusx : Summer Express: 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less - New York Times Tags : cooking recipes

Rod Begbie : Polar Rose - Firefox plugin which collaboratively identifies faces in photos all over the web. There's no smart matching yet, but that's promised for the future. Creepy, inevitable, and awesome. Tags : firefox photos polarrose recognition

plasticbag : According to the Daily Express, the BBC's iPlayer is a significant threat to the family! - It couldn't get more ridiculous if you dressed it up like a clown and covered it in custard. Tags : bbc dailyexpress iplayer