Platinum Television Group’s “today’s Family” To Feature Jazz Toys, Ltd.™ Platinum Television Group is pleased to announce the selection of Jazz Toys, Ltd.™ for its innovative, educational television series, Today's Family. The show is currently airing on cable television in select markets.In today's society, with so many toys and games on the market, finding a timeless educational and entertaining game for kids can be a challenge. Today's Family recognizes Jazz Toys Ltd.™ for creating the unique line of learning game/toy products, Noah, The Creature Teacher™, which appeals to all ages.Noah, The Creature Teacher™ is a game inspired by the story of Noah and the Ark that can be enjoyed by children all over the world because it comes in seven different languages. The game/toy contains a 12-inch long ark, 26 pairs of colorful realistic-looking jungle creatures, two wild tokens and four reference cards. It has nine learning objectives: creature recognition, how to follow rules, hand-eye coordination, the concept of pairing, spelling, alphabetizing, sportsmanship, counting and memorization. After randomly selecting creatures from the Ark, children try to match creatures by either requesting a match from other players or randomly pulling another creature from the Ark. The object
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What's your damage?
FX's scheming-lawyer drama "Damages" is back for a
fast-paced, twisted sophomore season that might just be better than the first.
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PBS's Frontline documentary "The Old Man
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Big Think: "It's the creative process that's so tremendous"
Dr. Pardis Sabeti on enjoying the creative process behind science and learning to love the failures and the successes.
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Live! Nude! Puppies! The year in viral video
Except for those snuggly Shiba Inus, Sarah Palin and Tina Fey dominated as Web video went pro.
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The year the small screen fell flat
Lackluster pilots, slumping sophomore shows and the devolution of the serial drama. The golden age of TV suddenly looked tarnished in 2008.
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The 10 best indie movies of 2008
Heartbreaking French family saga "A Christmas Tale" tops the list in a strong year for documentaries and foreign-language films.
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The year celebrity scandal died
Amy Winehouse imploded, Tina Fey triumphed, Heath Ledger overdosed -- and so did the tabloid era. Finally.
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War as a "bad acid trip"
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman talks about his extraordinary animated documentary "Waltz With Bashir," a trip down the nightmarish rabbit hole of memory.
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"Marley & Me"
Aniston and Wilson get a rascally dog. But what could have been a pooch of a tear-jerker is actually a moving look at marriage and loss.
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"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Brad Pitt grows up to be a beautiful baby in David Fincher's ambitious epic of love, loss and anti-aging.
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"Valkyrie"
Tom Cruise leads a cast of actors giving terrible performances in a big-budget Nazi thriller that's just following orders.
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"The Spirit"
Not even a masked superhero can save this stylized but spiritless movie based on a legendary comic book.
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"Revolutionary Road"
In Sam Mendes' latest, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio eloquently suffocate in suburbia -- aided by the best art direction money can buy.
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It's a seafood-couscous Christmas!
Vivid Arab-French immigrant yarn "Secret of the Grain" is a near-masterpiece; fascinating Brecht documentary "Theater of War" describes one.
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The 10 best movies of 2008
"Happy-Go-Lucky" and the ignored romantic comedy "Ghost Town" were among those that reminded us why films are still worth looking at.
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Shades of "Grey Gardens"
An upcoming PBS doc traces the bickering Beale women of Albert and David Maysles' 1975 cult hit from their squalid Hamptons mansion to the bright lights of Broadway.
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Indies thrive in a dying economy
There were no "Juno"-scale hits, several distributors went under and the economy's in the crapper. But contrary to all reason, 2008 was a good year for independent film.
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Big Think: Is there an objective reality?
Professor of economics at MIT Dan Ariely on how expectation affects perception and why you shouldn't go grocery shopping on an empty stomach.
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"Seven Pounds"
In this follow-up to "The Pursuit of Happyness," Will Smith gives the greatest gift of all. If only we could send it back.
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"Yes Man"
Jim Carrey plays it kooky -- again -- in this manic romantic comedy.
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Finale wrap-up: "Dexter"
On Showtime's third season finale of "Dexter," the world's most popular serial killer loses the best man, but keeps the bride.
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Big Think: "That was my only dream, to be a novelist"
Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany discusses his creative process and his other profession: Dentistry.
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"Doubt"
Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a priest who may -- or may not! -- be a pedophile in this deliberately ambiguous drama.
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"The Day the Earth Stood Still"
This supremely lame update of the sci-fi classic, starring Keanu Reeves, is assembled out of bits of every movie where an unknown whatzit threatens our way of life.
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"Gran Torino"
Clint Eastwood keeps it real as a retired Detroit autoworker in this antidote to the season's glossy prestige pictures.
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Revolution in shades of gray
Steven Soderbergh talks about his maddening, messy near-masterpiece "Che," an aloof and ambiguous portrait of the much-loved, much-hated Marxist icon.
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"Your father was a monster"
In the PBS documentary "Inheritance," the daughter
of Nazi murderer Amon Goeth struggles to accept an unbearable legacy.
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"The Reader"
Kate Winslet strips off her clothes and secrets in this wartime drama -- but where is the passion?
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An indie chick, her dog and the 2008 depression
Will Oscar notice Michelle Williams' pitch-perfect performance as the dead-broke slacker gal who loses her dog in the wrenching, intriguing "Wendy and Lucy"?
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