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Dr. Ray Islam Displays Excellence in Education and Technology

Dr. Ray Islam serves as an adjunct professor at George Mason University




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Learn and Play Montessori Schools Announces the Opening of a New Preschool in Dublin Ranch, California

Learn and Play Schools is proud to announce a new school opening soon in Dublin Ranch, California. The program offers Montessori + STEM.




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Learn And Play Montessori School® Announces Opening of their Milpitas Preschool, Offering Innovative Early Education Programs

Learn And Play Montessori School® announces the opening of their newest Bay Area campus in Milpitas, California. The state-of-the-art campus offers daycare (childcare), preschool, and kindergarten for ages from 18 months to 9 years.




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Learn And Play® Montessori School Announces Celebratory Post on On-Going Success of Milpitas Daycare, Preschool, and Kindergarten Program

Learn And Play® Montessori School announces a celebratory post on the successful opening of their Milpitas campus.




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Learn And Play® Montessori School Proudly Announces New Content for Sunnyvale Preschools

Learn And Play® Montessori School is proud to announce the opening of its new Sunnyvale Campus. Parents can check out a new blog post about the location and stay tuned for more informative content.




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Learn And Play® Montessori School Announces Review Milestones for Pleasant Hill, CA, Daycare, Preschool, and Kindergarten Program

Learn And Play® Montessori School is proud to announce a milestone in online reviews for its Pleasant Hill, California, campus. The campus is located at 1898 Pleasant Hill Rd., Pleasant Hill, California 94523.




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Learn and Play® Montessori School Announces Updated Daycare Program Content and Expansion to New Campuses

Learn And Play® Montessori School announces new information on their daycare program and its importance for child development, now available at new campuses in Milpitas and Santa Clara as well as at older, established campuses.




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Learn And Play Montessori School® Announces Open Preschool Enrollment Including in Hercules and Sunnyvale, CA

Learn And Play Montessori® School is now accepting preschool enrollments across all campuses, with special emphasis on the new Hercules and established Sunnyvale locations.




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Learn And Play® Montessori School Launches Major Online Advertising Campaign for New San Carlos Campus

Learn And Play® Montessori School announces a major online advertising campaign on Google and Yelp to promote its upcoming San Carlos campus, which will offer daycare, preschool, and kindergarten programs.




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Learn And Play® Montessori School Announces Fall Enrollment for Daycare and Preschool at Newly Opened Sunnyvale Campus

Learn And Play® Montessori School announces fall enrollment opportunities for daycare and preschool programs at the new Sunnyvale campus.




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Learn & Play Montessori Announces Updates to Daycare Information in Fremont, Danville, and Dublin

The program is Montessori-inspired but also works to inculcate STEM-oriented learning, that is learning that helps with science, technology, engineering, and math.




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ESR's Next Level Play Podcast TV Show Goes Live!

The anticipated gaming & pop culture talk show is taking all content mediums by storm!




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Planet Based Foods Has Played an Instrumental Role in Introducing Delicious Hemp-Based Meat Alternatives to an Ever-Widening Audience

Hemp is Increasingly Recognized as a Sustainable Superfood




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Yuri Cordero Displays Expertise in Media and Entertainment

Yuri Cordero serves as the vice president and executive producer of Primer Impacto, Univision Network




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Why Not Play Mobile Games Without Downloads on Funpass.gg?

Mobile gaming has never been easier, thanks to Funpass.gg, gamers can finally say goodbye to long downloads, constant updates, and untimed technical issues and enjoy various mobile games online for free.




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Reading of New Play: La Catrina and Posada: A Grave Dancing (The Dream of José Guadalupe Posada) in San Francisco, November 17 at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts

Mexican Artist and Satirist José Guadalupe Posada Meets His Most Famous Creation the Calavera Catrina in a New One Act Play




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Learn and Play Montessori Welcomes Families Back to Dusterberry Campus in Central Fremont, California

Learn and Play Montessori is thrilled to announce the reopening of its Dusterberry Campus, formerly known as Peralta, in Central Fremont, California.




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Learn And Play® Montessori School Announces 'Early Bird' Fall Enrollments in Sunnyvale, Fremont, and Danville Locations Plus Others

Learn And Play® Montessori School is excited to announce the beginning of fall enrollments across campus locations. "Early Bird" parents are encouraged to explore and enroll their children for top-quality education.




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Learn And Play® Montessori School Announces Tour Opportunities for Hercules Program of Daycare, Preschool, & Kindergarten

Learn And Play® Montessori School invites parents and guardians to tour the newly opened Hercules, California campus, offering a top-quality Montessori plus STEM program for early childhood education.




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Post-BET Awards, Noa's New "My Fault" Motion Picture Gives A Raw Display Of Emotion

Noa's Courageous Approach In New Music Video Themed By A Real Love Story Shortly After Her BET Awards Appearances




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MusicFab Launches Innovative LINE MUSIC Converter for Seamless Music Conversion and Offline Playback

MusicFab, a leading provider of music converter solutions, is proud to announce the release LINE MUSIC Converter. This cutting-edge software empowers music enthusiasts to effortlessly convert their favorite tracks from LINE MUSIC for offline playback




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STARBOYS MUSIC led by Grammy-Award Winning MALLY MALL and Mega-Producer PRESSPLAYY are ready to make a major impact in the music industry!

STARBOYS MUSIC will be around for a lifetime!




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'Well Played' Drops Debut Single 'Bitter' - A Melodic Masterpiece!

Paying homage to the golden age of Pop Punk, Northern California's newest band comes out swinging with their debut single.




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PrintAVizion Unveils New Website: Transforming Traditional Marketing with Innovative Video Brochure, Video Direct Mail, Luxury Video Box and Other Industry Leading Video Player Solutions

Redefining the marketing landscape! Explore our cutting-edge video player solutions and discover how these high tech marketing products will transform the way you deliver your marketing message.




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New Clear Series: Board Game Accessories for an Organized Play Experience, Launching on Kickstarter

BoardM, a company specializing in producing and distributing board games, is launching the New Clear Series on the global crowdfunding platform Kickstarter




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Visit the DFW Elite Toy Museum to Enjoy a Prized Piece of Automotive History on Display

Featuring a stunning wood dashboard and steering wheel, this iconic 1914 Benz Runabout offers a close-up look at the early days of motoring.




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Curator Karla Ferguson's Work Shines in Tim Okamura's Onna-Bugeisha: Warriors of Light on Display Now at Pittsburgh's August Wilson African American Cultural Center

Closing Reception with Ferguson and Okamura Set for February 15, 7:30 – 9:00 pm




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Joseph P. Cassin Displays Excellence in Law Enforcement and Education

Joseph P. Cassin serves as the director of the East Texas Police Academy




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Gyges Labs Launches World's First Invisible Display AI Glasses

DigiWindow is regarded as the world's smallest near-eye display, transforming AI glasses for seamless everyday use.




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FiveM Store: Enhancing GTA V Roleplay with Top-Tier Mods and Custom Scripts

FiveM Store Unveils Massive Expansion of GTA V Roleplay Mods and Resources




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Unleash Your Workout: Picun Launches QW 10 True Wireless Open Ear Headphones with 80H Playtime and Ultimate Comfort for Active Lifestyles!

Engineered for Performance: Enjoy 80 Hours of Playtime, Sweatproof Durability, and Crystal Clear Calls During Your Most Intense Workouts!




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Ready for the Future: The Broker Playbook for a Stand-Out 2025

Above: Front row (left to right): John Featherston, Anthony Lamacchia, Dava Davin; Back row (left to right): Dan Duffy, Al Becker, Wendy Forsythe For innovative brokerage leaders, the twists and turns of 2024 will ultimately lead to one place: A stellar 2025. If you are in the Boston, Massachusetts, area on Friday, don’t miss RISMedia’s…

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Why Managers Play Favorites – and How They Can Change

While most good bosses try to be fair and balanced with their direct reports, it's only human to prefer the company and work styles of some team members over others, and employees are keenly aware of those preferences. They see favorites and non-favorites, ingroups and outgroups -- and when those divisions fester, they can destroy team culture and performance. Ginka Toegel, professor at IMD Business School, explains why even well-intentioned managers succumb to favoritism, how workers on both sides are affected, and what we can do to both avoid and rectify the problem. Toegel is the coauthor of the HBR article "Stop Playing Favorites."




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Stan Playground: Run Stan on the web, play with your program and data at will, and no need to download anything on your computer

Just in time for Halloween, we have a scarily effective implementation of Stan on the web, full of a veritable haunted house of delicious treats. Brian Ward, Jeff Soules, and Jeremy Magland write: Stan Playground is a new open-source, browser-based … Continue reading




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If you wanted to be a top tennis player in the late 1930s, there was a huge benefit to being a member of ____. Or to being named ____.

This post is by Phil. A couple of months ago, this blog had a discussion that was prompted by the fact that 2 of the top 5 female American tennis players are the children of billionaires. One, that could be … Continue reading




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High Court Overturns Denial of Former Pro Soccer Player's Knee Injury Claim

The District of Columbia’s high court overturned the denial of a former professional soccer player’s claim for benefits for a right knee injury allegedly caused by a decades-old injury to her…




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Judge Whiffs in Calculating Pro Baseball Player's Average Weekly Wage

A Florida appellate court ruled that a judge of compensation claims erroneously calculated a minor league baseball player’s average weekly wage. Austin Sodders entered into a seven-year minor league contract with…




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Playful Indulgences with Adobe Pixel Blender for Photoshop


Sometimes I just find I have a need to play. Not the sand lot type, even though that might be fun, but more along the lines of creativity with my artworks. With painting I can just slop the wonderful colors around and see what happens but clean-up is more effort. But with photography it's not always as easy.

I could throw my camera up in the air with a timed shutter and see what happens, but I am afraid of dropping it and then seeing a lot on money becoming dust on the ground with a broken camera.

Digital editing allows me that freedom and the only cost is my time. Definitely less risky.

I came across a video that shows the use of an Adobe Labs plug-in for Photoshop CS 4&5 called Pixel Bender. Being also a painter I was more interested in the oil painting effects as demonstrated with the image I 'bent' below. I may take this further as I will need to get rid of those bright white objects at the top of frame to make this image useful.


The above image was run once in pixel bender to give texture in the parrot, but I found that the remaining detail was all too much the same and still too fine in detail for the background. I masked out the parrot, used the blending too to see if this would help. Not much, so I ran pixel bender again on several iterations on just the background to get the final image above. I didn’t realize until later that the smudging of texture actually added to the larger texture in pixel bender.


One again for above image I ran pixel bender to get the effect for the chairs and table and then playing around with iterations on just the background and with the smudging tool to get a less contrasty detail here.
In trying to use other images to see how they worked it became apparent that for it to work well there should be sufficient detail and contrast in image for it to produce better results. I also noticed that image size from 800 to 4,000 pixels each had different effects. The largest brush size was 15 pixels and with the large images the effects became smaller. 


The 2 photos of the fall scene are identical except for image resolution. The above was 1,000 pixels wide and below was 4,000+ wide


It's easy to see the difference in effects. For the smaller image I even had tor reduce the brush size so as not to over-dominate the bending effect.

From the experiments, or is it playing around, I noticed that when areas were smudged in linear or curved arches it increased the detail effects to make them larger as in the parrot's background and with the same fall scene but with smudging on the trees in image below.


These may not be exactly to your taste but if you are digitally creating painting-type images then by combining different effects for areas within the photograph, a more pleasing painting effect can be created. It is important for any effect type that there be variation in texture detail, size and contrast, like a real painting to create harmony and vision flow within the image.

The most important aspect is to create images that you like and not for others and that you have fun doing this. While I was playing around I completely lost track of time which for me is a sign that my creative juices are really flowing and I'm exploring new avenues.

Please send me some links if you have any digital creations that were just fun and you enjoyed the outcome.

Niels Henriksen




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Socioeconomic status during early pregnancy may play a large role in future heart health

Research Highlights: The socioeconomic status of first-time moms in early pregnancy may affect their cardiovascular health up to seven years later. Socioeconomic status — education level, income level, health insurance status and health literacy — of ...




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Reviving Nostalgia: Hauntingly Playful Toys by Coté Escrivá

Coté Escrivá, a Spanish artist, creates playful character designs inspired by nostalgic childhood themes, with notable collaborations with Thunder Mates on limited-edition resin toys. His standout collection includes dark twists on classic Disney icons like Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, reimagined as spooky characters with eerie eyes, tattered clothes, and exposed skeletons, drawing influences from […]




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Build an Infinite Horizontal Scrolling Logo Display With Pure CSS

Creating an infinite horizontal logo scroll effect with pure CSS is a simple yet powerful way to add dynamic movement to a website. This tutorial will walk you through building an infinite scroll effect with added hover effects that allow the user to pause scrolling and scale each logo slightly when hovered.




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Blood Test Can Benefit NFL Concussion Return-to-Play Decisions

If professional athletes are meant to be real-life superheroes, Miami Dolphins star Tua Tagovailoa looked remarkably mortal on September 12. With his team down 31-10 in the third quarter against the Buffalo Bills, the quarterback spotted a gap at the line of scrimmage and decided to scramble for a first down. When he encountered Bills' defender Damar Hamlin, Tagovailoa lowered his head and ran straight into him. Tagovailoa stayed down injured after the play. He had suffered the third concussion of his NFL career, on top of the one he was diagnosed with during his time in the collegiate ranks.




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NHLPA hopes committee helps players 'better understand CTE'

The NHLPA will form an advisory committee to help hockey players better understand chronic traumatic encephalopathy and the damage that concussions can do to the brain. NHLPA president Marty Walsh said Friday night that the CTE committee was unanimously approved at a union board meeting this summer. The former Boston mayor made the announcement after receiving an award at the annual gala for the Concussion Legacy Foundation, which supports patients and families struggling with the symptoms of traumatic brain injuries.




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Playing It Safe? How to Step Outside Your Comfort Zone

It’s incredibly easy to settle into the comfort of the familiar—the same routines, the usual habits, and the paths well-trodden. But somewhere in the back of your mind, isn’t there a small voice urging you to shake things up, to take a risk, to venture into uncharted territory?  Maybe you’ve experienced this feeling while watching someone fully immerse themselves in their craft on stage—whether through music, dance, or a bold stand-up routine. Isn’t it absolutely thrilling? I’ve always been captivated by those moments. There’s something magnetic about witnessing someone throw caution to the wind and dive headfirst into their passion. It’s like watching a rockstar being born right in front of your eyes. This bravery, this unfiltered expression of self, isn’t just reserved for the few. It’s something we all possess. But it demands that we stop playing it so damn safe. Step Outside Your Comfort Zone The truth is, comfort zones are often padded with fear—fear of failure, fear of judgment, fear of the unknown. Yet, every major breakthrough in creativity and personal growth sprouts from stepping beyond these boundaries. Jon Batiste, a maestro of emotion and authenticity, once expressed the dual reality of embracing potential failure with unwavering...

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Why Playing It Safe Is Riskier Than You Think

Playing it safe is an illusion that limits your potential. Break free from fear and live a dynamic, fulfilling life by embracing challenges.

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Why Success Demands You Never Play It Safe

Playing it safe may feel secure, but it can hold you back from true growth. Explore why taking risks is essential for success and creativity.

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How ‘Playing It Safe’ Almost Cost Me Everything (Don’t Settle!)

Playing it safe nearly cost me everything. Don’t settle—learn how to break free from self-betrayal and follow your true path.

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Rewatch the 5.5 Hour Never Play It Safe Book Launch Event

If you’re ready to break free from fear and unlock your creative potential, you’re in the right place. Recently, I hosted an epic 5.5-hour live event that brought together some of the brightest minds in creativity, innovation, and personal growth. If you couldn’t join us live, don’t worry—you can still catch the entire event right here. Inside the 5.5 Hour Experience One of the core themes of the event was how fear often holds us back. We explored the idea that “avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.” In other words, playing it safe might just be the riskiest thing we do. I dove deep into how we can stop letting fear dictate our decisions and shared strategies to help you push past that resistance to achieve your best work. But it didn’t stop there. We were also joined by a series of amazing guests including Gary Vaynerchuck, Austin Kleon, Jasmine Star, Adrian Grenier, IN-Q, Stephan Moccio…and Seth Godin joined us LIVE to kick it all off. Seth, a multiple-time bestselling author and marketing genius, launched us into an incredible conversation about creativity, risk-taking, and finding meaning in our work. As Seth shared, embracing uncertainty...

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Never Play It Safe – Q&A #1

We just wrapped up the first in a three-part live Q&A series, and it was packed with energy, insights, and real-world advice for creatives looking to take the next step in their journey. If you missed it, no worries—catch up below with the full replay, and make sure to join us for the next two sessions! Key Moments from the Q&A Throughout the session, we tackled a range of topics that resonated deeply with the audience. Here are some of the standout discussions: Overcoming Fear: One of the recurring themes was how fear often holds us back from achieving our best work. We discussed strategies to push past those fears and lean into uncertainty, a concept central to Never Play It Safe. Creative Networking and Relationships: A big takeaway was the power of genuine, long-term relationships. Haakon shared how being “more myself” and focusing on building authentic connections has led to unexpected opportunities. Finding Your Niche: Kirk brought up his challenge of working with clients across industries, from software to fitness, and shared his goal of narrowing his focus by the end of the year. This sparked a valuable conversation about pursuing the work that excites you most. The Power...

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