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Stan Bowman leaned back in his chair in the press box high atop American Airlines Center in Dallas and stretched his legs. His top two goalies were out with injuries, a pair of rookies manning the most important position in the game. His $16-million power forward was, too. His two biggest stars are due for monster contract extensions at the end of the season, and his team is leaning heavily on a few relatively unproven young players as it defends its Stanley Cup.
Yet Bowman looked and sounded quite comfortable as he discussed the present and the future of the Hawks. And why not? His Blackhawks lead the league in points. His next generation is acquitting itself well while having to replace proven veterans. And a 12-year, $4.9 billion TV deal in Canada is expected to bump the salary cap as high as $71 million next season, and even higher after that, which gives Bowman — who's been locking up core pieces of his team left and right — ample space to ensure that Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane aren't going anywhere when their current deals expire after next season.
From up here, the future looks every bit as bright as the present.
"I've never thought it was going to be a drama," Bowman said of Toews and Kane, who are signed through next season but are eligible for contract extensions on July 1. "My stance has been very consistent, which is we want those players here, we're going to keep them here. They've been here since we drafted them, and they're going to stay in Chicago, and we'll worry about the specifics of it when the time comes."
Bowman has signed Corey Crawford (six years, $36 million), Bryan Bickell (four years, $16 million), Niklas Hjalmarsson (five years, $20.5 million), and Andrew Shaw (two years, $4 million) to extensions, and already has Marian Hossa, Patrick Sharp, Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook signed to long-term deals. Brandon Saad and Antti Raanta will be needing new contracts for next season, too. Bowman said he's not sweating the cap number, but that the new Canadian TV deal will be a huge boon to the Hawks and to the league as a whole.
"You can't get too high or too low in terms of what the cap number's going to be," Bowman said. "It'll be what it is, and we'll get it done. But that's not really my focus right now. For sure, the TV deal is great news, but it doesn't really change my approach or my outlook on things."
Bowman's focus is on the ice, on the here and now. While he said he'll sign or trade for a goaltender if the fit is right, he's willing to give Raanta and Kent Simpson a chance to hold down the fort while Crawford recovers from a groin injury. That fits with Bowman's M.O., which has been to throw young players into the fire right away. He pointed to Hjalmarsson, Marcus Kruger, Nick Leddy, Saad and Shaw as recent examples. This year, he singled out fourth-line winger Ben Smith as a guy who's making a name for himself.
Still, it's a younger, less experienced team than last year. Last year, veterans such as Jamal Mayers and Daniel Carcillo were scratched each night, while Dave Bolland, Michael Frolik and Viktor Stalberg manned the third and fourth lines. This year, the Hawks aren't scratching healthy forwards, and players such as Smith and Jeremy Morin are playing on a nightly basis.
Joel Quenneville doesn't feel his depth has taken a hit, though.
"We want a four-line team, and with the scheduling and back-to-back games, you want to make sure you're fresh," Quenneville said. "We're pleased, no matter how old the guys are, that they're coming ready to play."
Bowman said the Hawks' system is designed to ensure young players are NHL ready when they get to Chicago. Of course, it helps having a deep veteran team that allows them to keep prospects in the AHL for two or three years to develop. It also allows the Hawks to be extra patient with players such as Brandon Pirri.
On another team, maybe Pirri would still be in the NHL. With six goals and five assists and an easy chemistry with Kane, Pirri certainly proved he's got the offensive skill to play at the highest level. But Pirri went eight games without a point, his defense wasn't up to Quenneville's standards, and his ice time dropped dramatically. So he was sent back to Rockford, which raised some eyebrows among fans.
"I don't look at it as a disappointment, I look at it as the way the system works," said Bowman, one of Pirri's most ardent supporters over the summer. "When you go some games when nothing happens for you offensively, it's understandable that you want to get your confidence back, and that's a hard thing to do in the NHL. It's a little easier in Rockford, when you're still getting the big minutes. Even if you go through a slump down there, your ice time doesn't change. That's the model we have. When you're up here and if it's not going good for you for a few games in a row and you play less, how do you get out of it?
"So I'm very comfortable using Brandon at any point. It's just that currently, we don't need him."
In other words, it's just the way the Hawks do business. And — with Pirri eventually returning more confident and capable, with Raanta becoming a better backup for the experience once Crawford returns, and with enough money to go around for Toews and Kane and a loaded core — business continues to be very good.
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USA Today editor Ken Paulsen reportedly sent a memo to his staff saying that he wants to see more original stories. Were looking for stories that have not been reported before or that can be told in a distinctly different way, he said. He wants people to say, I saw it in USA Today. Paulsen hit the jackpot on October 20 but he didnt realize it.
USA Today published the interview in which Teresa Heinz Kerry dismissed Laura Bush as never holding down a real job. It was near the end of the interview and USA Today editors didnt seem to realize what a blockbuster they had. The next day, when Heinz Kerry apologized for the remark, USA Today once again failed to grasp the significance of the comment, relegating the story to page 6.
All of this was deliberate, of course. Liberal journalists know full well that the comment was dynamite. The comment reflected liberal elitism and feminist disdain for the stay-at-home mom. It was deeply offensive to those of us who know how demanding and stressful it is to take care of children and a home.
Its not an accident that the Heinz Kerry statement got buried or dismissed. For the liberal media, the exercise of attacking Laura Bush, a former teacher, librarian and full-time mother, as never having a real job, was not a gaffe. A headline over a Los Angeles Times story referred to the comment as creating a small stir, which was true because liberal journalists as a whole, especially feminists, did not regard this slur as that significant or newsworthy.
The Heinz Kerry apology made things worse, but the media, once again, chose to ignore the fallout. The Heinz Kerry apology said that I had forgotten that Mrs. Bush had worked as a schoolteacher and librarian, and there couldnt be a more important job than teaching our children. As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in workforce, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are. I appreciate and honor Mrs. Bushs service to the country as first lady, and am sincerely sorry I had not remembered her important work in the past.
This apology was misleading. She may have forgotten that Laura Bush had worked as a schoolteacher and librarian, but how could she have forgotten that she was a mother of children? Mrs. Bushs daughters havent been hidden away. The answer is that she did not forget. The apology demonstrates that she does not regard being a mother and homemaker as a real job.
So what real job does Heinz Kerry hold? USA Today identified her as a philanthropist. Does giving away her late husbands money constitute a real job? And what kind of job is it?
A recent report from the majority staff of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee identifies the Heinz foundations as being among the environmental groups and their supporting organizations engaged in blatant partisan political activity. Heinz Kerry is either chairperson of the board of trustees or a member of the board of at least three Heinz family-affiliated foundations that contribute millions of dollars to radical environmental causes. Thats her real job.
In releasing the report, Senator James M. Inhofe, chairman, said that Environmental organizations have become experts at deceptive activity, skirting laws up to the edge of illegality, and burying their political activities under the guise of non-profit environmental improvement. These reports demonstrate this interconnected environmental family affair of non-profits and their benefactors.
The reports are available on the website of the Inhofe committee. One would have hoped that the major media would have conducted such an investigation. But that might be embarrassing to Heinz Kerry and throw into question the claim that her job consists only of doing good for othersreal philanthropy.
Ironically, Lesley Stahl of CBSs 60 Minutes on October 10 had aired a story about women leaving the career world to stay at home with their children. Census bureau statistics show a 15-percent increase in the number of stay-at-home moms in less than 10 years, Stahl reported.
Lisa Beattie Frelinghuysen, a lawyer who clerked at the Supreme Court for feminist Ruth Bader Ginsburg, explained, I was afraid that if I was working, there would be no parent there with the children. And I wanted to experience getting to know my children, being there in a consistent way.
It seems that the job of being a wife, mother and homemaker can not only be a real job, it can be rewarding to a woman to have a positive impact on children and families. Thats real philanthropy.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Matt J. Whitworth, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a West Plains, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to operate an illegal gambling business.
Morris Guy Ramseur, 63, of West Plains, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard E. Dorr this morning to three years of probation. The court also ordered Ramseur to pay, within the first six months of his probation, the remaining balance of $23,655 that is still owed against a total $200,000 forfeiture, representing the proceeds Ramseur obtained from his illegal gambling business.
On May 29, 2009, Ramseur pleaded guilty to his role in a conspiracy to operate an illegal gambling business. Ramseur admitted that he was involved in an illegal gambling business from May 1997 to January 2005. That business involved maintaining quarter slide machines, video slot/poker machines, and phone card/pull tab machines in convenience stores, restaurants, bars, laundromats, and other business establishments throughout southern Missouri in Howell, Wright, Texas, Oregon, and Douglas counties and elsewhere.
Ramseur had a business arrangement with the owners of the business establishments in which his gambling devices were located. The business establishment redeemed winning tickets/coupons from the video slot machines and phone card/pull tab machines for cash, merchandise and/or services. The quarter slide machines paid the winning customers directly, in the form of currency. Ramseur reimbursed each business for the amount the business had paid out to the winning customers. Ramseur and the business then split the net proceeds of the gambling devices equally, each retaining one-half of the net proceeds.
Ramseur also allowed patrons to redeem winning tickets by mailing the tickets to him at his business, Games People Play, Ltd., located in West Plains. In return, Ramseur and/or his co-conspirators mailed the winning patron currency in the amount reflected on the winning tickets/coupons.
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The second type of machine Ramseur operated was a video slot/poker machine. These machines typically accepted currency in denominations of $1, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100. Once currency was placed in the machine, a patron obtained a number of credits with which to gamble. The patron could cash out winning credits for cash or coupons which were redeemable for merchandise at the establishment where the machines were located.
Ramseur also operated a third type of gambling device known as a phone card/pull tab machine. These machines were designed to allow patrons to purchase pull tabs using U.S. currency. In exchange, the patron would receive a pull tab which would reward the patron with a number of free telephone minutes (usually a small number of minutes per pull tab), and sometimes a coupon redeemable for cash or merchandise within the business.
All three types of machines are deemed illegal gambling devices by the Missouri Gaming Commission.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robyn L. McKee. It was investigated by the Missouri State Highway Patrol, South Central Drug Task Force and IRS-Criminal Investigation.
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Bharti Airtel, India's largest telecom service provider, on Friday reported a decline in profit for the 11th consecutive quarter as net profit fell by 72% year-on-year to Rs.284 crore during October-December from Rs.1,011 crore a year ago, with higher costs dragging results.
This is set to make the task difficult for Gopal Vittal, the new head of India operations and for Manoj Kohli, if and when he is elevated to the position of head of both India and Africa operations.
Revenues, however, rose 9.5% to Rs.20,239 crore during the quarter against Rs.18,477 crore in the same period last fiscal year.
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Bharti is facing stiff competition in the domestic market that continues to impact its margins.
This is the last result during the tenure of Sanjay Kapoor, outgoing CEO, India and South Asia.
"Market conditions have been challenging in recent quarters due to pricing pressures and rising input costs," said Sunil Mittal, chairman and managing director, Bharti Airtel.
"However, the worst seems to be getting over with corrections taking place in customer acquisition practices and the tariffs."
The government may not accept Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (Trai) recommendations to reduce the reserve price for cellular radiowaves (spectrum) by up to 46% in the auction slated for January.


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We are extremely excited about this project by Andrew Suggit called The Golden Sans.
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Power System Integration with SystemVision
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During this webinar you will learn techniques in power-system design that enable engineers from multiple disciplines to communicate, simulate, and optimize designs for first-pass success.
Successful power delivery-system design can be the difference between a fully functioning, on-time project, and a product that gets to market late, with intermittent field failures due to lack of proper system-level integration. With more power subsystems "going digital," the ability to simulate digital and/or software control subsystems with the overall system design is more critical today than ever.
In this presentation, two sample systems will be used to emphasize critical system integration techniques for power system design and analysis.
A DC-DC Buck converter design:
- AC analysis and loop stabilization using state-averaged model
- Switching, line and load transients analysis
- Stress modeling and fault insertion
Half-bridge converter design:
- Transformer modeling (reluctance-based modeling approaches)
- Loop compensation (analog, discrete, C code)
- PWM design (behavioral, uc1825, FPGA)
What You Will Learn
- Techniques in power-system design that enable engineers from multiple disciplines to communicate, simulate, and optimize designs for first-pass success
About the Presenter
Scott Cooper
R. Scott Cooper has been developing simulation models for more than two decades. The author of "The Designers' Guide to Analog & Mixed-Signal Modeling," Scott has worked in the aerospace industry and currently in the EDA industry, developing modeling and simulation techniques that benefit multiple industries.
Who Should View
- System-design engineers
- Engineers and managers involved in power-delivery system design
- Engineers and managers involved in mechatronic system design - particularly in rapid prototyping environments where return on tool investment is critical
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The Thelema Trio, a Belgian contemporary classical ensemble, will appear in concert at Lynchburg College on Tuesday, November 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Sydnor Performance Hall. The College's Ad Astra trio will also perform.Read More
Multicultural Germany
Lynchburg College's third annual German Film Festival will be held November 3-7 with the theme, Multicultural Germany. Four films will illustrate the social and cultural changes brought about by increasing numbers of immigrants to Germany.Read More
Trick or Treat
The Student Activities Board is sponsoring a Monster Bash from 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 28 in Memorial Ballroom, Hall Campus Center, while a Campus Trick-Or-Treat is co-sponsored by the Office of Residence Life and the Residential Student Organization (RSO).
Activities will include a costume contest, mummy racing, face painting, and music. Trick or treating will follow in some of the College residence halls, decorated for Halloween. The Panhellenic Council is also offering vendors from Mary Kay and Pampered Chef for moms.Read More
The Final Frontier
Three films are on tap this week at the Daura Gallery to complement the current exhibition, Beyond: Visions of Planetary Landscapes, a Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition.
October 26 - October 28, 7 p .m.
- The Right Stuff (1986, adventure, rated PG), 10/26
- Roving Mars (2006, documentary, rated G), 10/27
- Forbidden Planet (1956, science fiction, not rated), 10/28
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Do you eat food?
The "Films For Thought" films series will screen Fresh in Hopwood Auditorium at 6 p.m. Tuesday as part of LC's Year of Sustainability. A discussion will follow.
In this documentary, the latest in what might be called the what's-the-matter-with-corn-syrup genre, Ana Sofia Joanes provides a brisk indictment of industrial farming and its devastating toll on our soil, health, and livestock.Read More
Trading Places 2010
Four female Lynchburg College students and a neighboring couple will redecorate a room in each others' houses Oct. 23-24 in the third annual Trading Places: LC Style.
This initiative is a joint effort between the Office of Residence Life and the Residential Student Organization (RSO) to help establish positive relationships between LC students and local residents in surrounding neighborhoods.Read More
Singing for a cause
The Lynchburg College Choral Union and Concert Choir will present a joint concert on October 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Snidow Chapel to benefit the Lynchburg Branch of the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. Admission to the performance will be a donation of cash or non-perishable food items.
Dr. Jong Kim, professor of music and director of choral activities/vocal studies, will conduct the concert, assisted by Katie Pyles, candidate for the master of arts in music. Ms. Pyles teaches choral music at Turner Ashby High School in Rockingham County, Virginia.Read More
One good person
Follow three gods on a mission to find one really good person when Lynchburg College Theatre presents The Good Person of Setzuan October 21-24 in Dillard Theatre. The play is an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's masterpiece as seen through the eyes of Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of Angels in America. Show times will be 7:30 p.m. with a 2 p.m. matinee on October 24.Read More
Fiction reading on tap
Michael Lowenthal, Fall Thornton Writer-in-Residence, will read from his work Wednesday, October 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Hopwood Auditorium.
Lowenthal is the author of three novels: The Same Embrace (Dutton, 1998), Avoidance (Graywolf Press, 2002), and Charity Girl (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), which was a New York Times Book Review "Editors' Choice" selection and a BookSense Top Twenty Pick.Read More
Graduate credit
Lynchburg College is the only college in the United States to offer graduate credit to attendees at the 2011 National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) Conference in February. Attendees can earn from one to three graduate credits in "Special Topics: Educational Issues" at a cost of $375 for three hours of graduate credit and $150 for one credit hour.Read More
Science Gang
Dr. Michael Lisa, professor of physics at The Ohio State University, will explain how subatomic collisions help us understand the universe at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
In his talk, "Size Matters: Space-time geometry in subatomic collisions," Dr. Lisa will describe the field of ultrarelativistic heavy ion physics, which involves smashing nuclei into each other with the goal of understanding the structure of the universe.
This Science Gang discussion will be accessible to the interested layperson, focusing on general concepts and ideas, rather than mathematical details.Read More
X PRIZE winner to speak
Oliver Kuttner, whose Edison2 company won $5 million for its Very Light Car entry in Progressive Insurance's Automotive X PRIZE competition, will speak on "Sustainability and the Automobile" at Senior Symposium at noon Oct. 11.
The Lynchburg-based company's four-seat Very Light Car can get 129 miles to the gallon. Kuttner's talk is one of a series of Senior Symposium talks selected for LC's Year of Sustainability.
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Coach to be honored at Homecoming
The Jack M. Toms '69 Track of Champions will be dedicated Saturday to honor a legendary coach.
The dedication will take place about 4:45 p.m. during halftime of a men's soccer game against Bridgewater College on Shellenberger Field during Homecoming activities.Read More
Witness for Peace 2010
Daira Elsa Quinones Preciado of Colombia is one of five million people who have been displaced in her country because of war and violence. As part of the Witness for Peace program, she will speak at 10 a.m. and again at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 8 in Dillard Theatre.
Daira is one of the founders of FUNDARTECP (The Foundation for Art and Culture of the Pacific). She works with displaced people who have recently arrived in Bogota to find food, shelter, and clothing, and she does workshops on dance, music, identity, and human rights.Read More
Yale professor to speak on Calvin
Dr. Bruce Gordon, Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School, will speak on Scripture and Conscience in the Reformation: John Calvin and Sebastian Castellio on October 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Hopwood Hall Auditorium. The presentation is sponsored by the John M. Turner Lecture in the Humanities.Read More
Music in her soul
Anna Piddubna '11 was sitting in her pajamas working on her senior thesis when her roommate ran in and told her to put on some nice clothes and come to Snidow Chapel.
As Anna slid into a seat expecting to see her friend inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, Jan Sigler leaned over and told her, "You're the Sommerville Scholar."Read More


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AirTalk for June 9, 2014
New documentary explores the life and legacy of Gore Vidal
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Author Gore Vidal appears in conversation with writer Jon Wiener at the 12th Annual L.A. Times Festival of Books in Royce Hall on the U.C.L.A. campus on April 28, 2007 in Los Angeles, California.
No twentieth-century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate, and the culture wars than Gore Vidal.
Vidal's professional life spans more than 50 years of American politics and letters. Featuring candid vérité footage of Vidal in his final years, "The United States of Amnesia" explores his enduring global impact on art, politics, and everything in between.
Nicholas Wrathall, director, "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia." The documentary is screening this week at the Nuart Theatre


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The Introduction of Non-Traditional Display Hardware
Progressions in Banner Stand Design
By Katrina Ceruolo
Classic banner stands display material horizontally or vertically between two bars. These traditional options are commonly seen at trade shows and in point of purchase (POP). However, they now appear in unexpected places. The increase of these sightings is due to modifications in banner stand design.
Innovation in non-traditional displays assists companies with advancements in advertising. �Non-traditional displays grew out of the need for traditional products to do more for the customer. Customers demand portability, durability, ease of use, and choice in size and type of graphic,� shares Wayne Colbath, national sales manager, Southern U.S., Drytac Corporation. Manufacturers continually introduce new designs for non-traditional displays, influencing companies� messages.
Real World Sightings
Non-traditional display options take this type of hardware out of the trade show arena. �Banner stands now finding their way into airports, grocery stores, and shopping malls. Any place a visual communication is needed is an opportunity for display hardware. Displays are great silent salespeople,� states Colbath.
Non-traditional display hardware is seen at weddings, car dealerships, photography studios, and hotel lobbies. Mary Geesman, display product manager, Paradigm Display Solutions, recalls the use of its Fabrilyte display at a job fair as well as the VersaStand model aiding a family with a memorial service.
Real estate agents take advantage of non-traditional displays to generate focus on new homes. With popular brochure holder models information about a potential house or apartment is easily displayed. �A good example is the Expand MediaScreen 2 Outdoor, which is a double-sided display with support feet and a resilient support pole for added stability. It�s designed to resist wind and weather and can be used on almost any surface including sand, grass, asphalt, and even snow,� says Dione Metnick, product line manager, LexJet Corporation. The company distributes Expand products and offers its own line as well.
�I believe we will start seeing these stands in movies, music videos, even rock concerts for accentuating scenes and themes. I also believe they will be used in airplanes and passenger cruise ships like never before,� explains Dave Harris, VP/GM, ImageOne Impact.
Fabric as the New Material of Choice
As seen in many designs, fabric is the new material of choice. �Tension fabric is certainly a hot commodity these days; we have the capability of printing on over 20 types of materials, but fabric is very popular,� says Natalie Whited, group marketing director, Orbus Company.
This shift is visible industry wide. �Many customers looking for a tabletop display or a backdrop for a booth move towards displays like the Fabrilyte line,� states Geesman. Fabric is popular due to its economic upside, long lasting eco-friendly aspects, and ability to make graphics pop with a professional appearance.
Model Innovations
Non-traditional displays are a leading advertising choice, available in a variety of models and prices. These range from floor display, tabletop designs, hanging graphics, stackable graphics, and twists on the classic banner stand model. Innovations are not only made to displays but also to hardware accessories.
Many companies embrace the deviations made to banner stand models. Drytac offers a traditional look with updated features. Its EZex graphic stand allows for quick, no tool necessary assembly, durability, and easy to change out graphics. The Boost banner stand, ideal for POP, offers a cost-effective approach. Each is available to order in groups of six with graphics produced for under $100.
E. L. Hatton Sales is changing the way banners are suspended as well as how print service providers (PSPs) present their customers with more cost effective and easy to install products. �We see a major shift from banner printers doing the finishing, to supplying an unfinished banner and reselling the tabs to the customer so they can do it themselves,� says Richard Hatton, president, E.L. Hatton.
Banner Ups PowerTabs are made of high strength composite film, making them stronger than the classic metal grommet. PowerTabs come in three different varieties including regular size for outdoor banners, mini-size for indoor and lightweight banners, and crystal clear for banners with full-color graphics. With size options and a crystal clear version, PowerTabs blend right in, allowing clearer visibility.
Banner Ups also offers crystal clear EdgeTabs for individual use or to partner with PowerTabs. EdgeTabs add additional support along the edges of a banner but users can also apply them to the corners of banners and pop-up banner stands. With easy install and availability in sheets of four, PSPs provide customers with crystal clear EdgeTabs to finish banners on location.
ImageOne offer retractor stands and to address the growing requests for wider products, it just created a Wide-Line. These retractors come in four-, five-, six-, and eight-foot wide sizes. Allowing for larger widths while accommodating portability necessities is essential for many of the company�s customers. Also building on the trend of less-is-more, ImageOne now offers Clear Grommets.
LexJet considers departures in non-traditional display hardware when introducing new products. The LexJet I-Banner Spring Back Banner Stand is available in a range of sizes from 24 to 36 inches. It is equipped with additional rail connectors increasing height choices to 60 and 80 inches. These rail connectors serve a second purpose of connecting multiple banners together to create a multi-panel banner display. The LexJet I-Banner Spring Back Banner Stand is also available with hanging mounts.
LexJet�s Expand XStand is ideal alternative for POP. With a lightweight and sturdy X frame the stand holds 24-, 26-, and 32-inch graphics. Another popular non-traditional display hardware offering from LexJet is the Expand BrochureHolder. This lightweight stand travels easily and is available in a four- or eight-pocket design that holds up to 8.5x11-inch literature. There is also a two-pocket structure that allocates room for a graphic to accompany brochures.
Orbus offers a new tension fabric category referred to as Origin. The Formulate 12-foot Funnel and Formulate Arch Kit take the shape of a tornado or an arch. The Formulate Fusion kit encompasses the Formulate Arch, tension fabric wall displays, and hanging tension fabric signage.
Paradigm�s Fabrilyte line presents innovative non-traditional displays using heavy-duty fabric. The Fabrilyte Curved Tubular Display is available in a six- or ten-foot size. It is easy to transport and assemble, with the fabric graphic stretching over an aluminum frame. It can be showcased on a table or floor. The Fabrilyte Tubular Displays are also available in ten-foot Wave and Straight models. Paradigm carries an option for a brochure holder with its VersaStand. This includes a graphic of 19.5x49.5 inches and two pockets for materials.
Tex Visions takes into account how new non-traditional display hardware changes the graphics seen in displays. �With the range of non-traditional displays available, this puts no limit on how graphics are created and implemented. Non-traditional displays allow for better fitting with certain graphics,� says Lisa Ilaria, marketing coordinator, Tex Visions.
The company�s Bowflag Premium product line is one of many offerings that accommodates graphics. Flags appear in arrow, scoop, and shield shapes and are available in sizes small to extra-large, making it easy to find the right shape for the desired graphic.
Tex Visions� Q-Frame Tex looks traditional but offers options such as hanging the graphic or mounting it to the wall. The Q line includes a lightbox version that can hang or mount on walls, creating an illuminating advertisement opportunity. The Q-Frame Tex120 Lightbox requires no tools for graphic replacement, making for simple image changeovers.
The most non-traditional and versatile option in Tex Visions� product line is the Display Cube series. These compact foam cubes are light enough to transport and stack and durable enough to sit on, giving users the option to create a display wall or an interesting seating area. The graphic prints onto fabric that slides onto the foam cube just like a pillowcase, making graphic changeovers quick and easy. Available in sizes small to large these cubes stack as high as 4.8 feet creating attention-grabbing displays.
Endless Opportunities
Advancements in design and elemental uses continue to create endless opportunities for non-traditional display hardware. Geesman says manufacturers notice the need for cutting-edge variations. �Non-traditional displays are an evolution of the industry looking for new products to offer customers, which allow them to distinguish themselves from everyone else,� she states. The introduction of new non-traditional display hardware models derive from a need for fresh advertising possibilities.
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Since its independence 64 years ago, Pakistan has been a major recipient of US aid. Several times during that history, the US has suspended assistance because of Pakistan's nuclear program, then reinstated aid when other issues became more important.
In 1970, America suspended aid to Pakistan after learning that Pakistan was attempting to enrich Uranium, potentially for weapons use. But when former USSR entered Afghanistan, the United States reconsidered its position because of the geo-political importance Pakistan to fight the Communist threat, and the US resumed military aid to Pakistan. In 1990, after Russia exited Afghanistan and Pakistan lost importance to the US, America again suspended military aid because the country continued its nuclear program. But again in 2001, the geo-political position of Pakistan gained importance as a result of Afghanistan's involvement in 9/11 attacks on WTC. America continues to view Pakistan as an essential ally in its war on terror, so US aid is again flowing towards Pakistan.
What are the criteria for US aid to any country of the world? The US previously considered 30 different criteria when assessing aid, but the Clinton Administration revamped the criteria in the 1990s. Following is the current criteria for aid:
The number one factor that controls aid to a country is its nuclear program. America does not give aid to countries engaged in nuclear proliferation. This is the reason the US has suspended assistance to Pakistan in the past.
The number two factor is the form of government in a country. America is a democracy, and it gives aid to countries that are also democratic. This has also impacted US aid to Pakistan. The country was ruled by military dictators for nearly half of its independence, but Pakistan now has a government transitioning the country from dictatorship to democracy.
The third factor is the economic system of the country receiving US aid. America prefers market economies and especially the economies dictated by the World Bank and IMF. America is also interested in new markets for its products, so it gives aid to the countries that can potentially become markets for its exports.
The fourth factor is the involvement of the country in terrorism, either factional or state. If a country or a faction of the country is involved in terrorism, America will not provide aid to that country. America recently accused Pakistan of its involvement in terrorist activities in Afghanistan, so it is considering stopping its aid to Pakistan. India has also accused Pakistan of terrorist attacks in the past.
The fifth factor is the population control. Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world and it is facing the problem of overpopulation. This rapidly increasing population is also damaging the environment. America gives aid to those countries that are actively engaged in controlling their population and also taking steps to stop polluting the environment. In Pakistan, all the efforts to control population have failed in the past because of the religious teachings and the wrong interpretation of Islam by Islamic clerics.
The sixth factor is control on the production of narcotics. Pakistan neighbors Afghanistan, the number one producer of opium in the world. This opium is converted into heroin in the factories in Afghanistan and then distributed to the entire world through Pakistan. Pakistani government has an anti narcotics force to control the spread of heroin from Afghanistan to the rest of the world.
Other factors, like human rights, also impact the distribution of US aid to a country. America gives importance to military to military contacts between America and the country seeking American aid. In Pakistan, human rights situation is not very good but military to military contacts between USA and Pakistan are very strong especially after 9/11.
America also considers the condition of the refugees taking asylum in a country. In Pakistan, more than three million Afghan refugees are residing. Pakistan has taken good care of these refugees in past. In a conference held in Bonn, a city of Germany in early December to decide the future of Afghanistan, it was stressed on Pakistan to keep on taking good care of Afghan refugees living on its soil.
US aid to Pakistan waivers depending on a variety of factors. The continued nuclear development in Pakistan as well as issues such as narcotics, population control and democracy also weigh on the decision. Based on current factors, compounded by America's debt situation, it appears highly likely the US will decrease or even end aid to Pakistan in the future.
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Christopher Forbes, Director and Producer of Forbes Films,
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Line Rider is a fun online game where you draw tracks and ride the lines! Line Rider was originally created by Boštjan Cadež, a Slovenian university student, in September of 2006. It almost immediately gathered a cult following and became the seventh quickest gaining keyword in Google. Since that time, the 'toy' has generated over 16 million views. Fans quickly noticed that they could create tracks, set them to music, and share them over YouTube.com. Currently, there are over 11,000 shared videos with many more to come. inXile Entertainment is extremely excited to work with Boštjan in order to reach the full potential that we feel the Line Rider application can live up to. Keep an eye on this site for more information from Line Rider.
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Traveling to a small village in Mexico on a reliable tip, Milla begins to uncover the dire fate of countless children who have disappeared over the years in the labyrinth of a sinister baby-smuggling ring. The key to nailing down the organization may rest with an elusive one-eyed man. To find him, Milla joins forces with James Diaz, a suspicious stranger, known as the Tracker, who conceals his own sinister agenda.
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"Best of the best"
Impossibly sad, profoundly moving, deeply romantic, and stunning in its intensity. This is a book that stays with you and despite the title, you'll likely shed some tears. Milla and Diaz are easily my favorite characters in contemporary fiction and their story is rich and layered and entirely believable. Linda Howard just keeps getting better and better.
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Good character developement, great suspense, good sex scenes... well read, what can I say... I liked it!
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This was cativating from the first and kept me attached to my ipod in order to finish listening. The caracters are wonderful and Linda Howard develops them with depth and excitiment. Very good read and hard to let go until the finish. Makes me want to find another Linda Howard to read!
I can find a book to love in any genre -- a beautifully written classic, an interesting mystery or sci-fi, a trashy romance. Bring it!
"Loved how everything wraps up"
STORY (romance/suspense) - The story line of this book is unusual and very good. It is set in the present day, primarily in Mexico and the border town of El Paso, Texas. As the summary suggests, Milla runs a volunteer company which searches for lost children, but the book is really about her obsessive search for her own son and how she struggles with her own life since his kidnapping. Milla and others investigate a baby-smuggling operation in the area, and it is through the investigation that she begins having a romantic relationship. There's a little bit of everything -- violence, action, romance, mystery, betrayal, sadness, happiness -- and the plot isn't so complicated that you can't keep things straight.
Since the summary doesn't give too much away, I won't either, but I will comment how much I loved the ending. Some books end sadly, others abruptly or with cliffhanger endings, and still others with big happy pink bows. This one just ends....right. It is rare for a book to bring me to tears but this one did, until the next second when Audible butted in with that stupid ending blurb and ruined it.
PERFORMANCE - Joyce Bean has a nice voice, and it is age-appropriate for Milla. She is one of very few narrators who is able to do both sexes well, which was a real treat. On the other hand, "Diaz" is a very common Mexican name, and she mispronounces it "Dee Azz" about 300 times.
OVERALL - (Actual overall rating 4.5) I highly recommend this book, but not so much for guys. There's quite a bit of sex and some cursing, but IMHO it's not smutty or overdone.
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"she WOULD find her baby stolen from her arms"
Mila Edge had her baby stolen from her arms~while living in Mexico~ 10 years later she has never given up the hunt for the baby stealers~ she starts a foundations called FINDERS who looks for missing children and help find lost people. Mila has a clue~ she blinded the man in one eye who stole her son~ now the "one eyed man" has been spotted. the Mysterious "Tracker" aka James Diaz~ gives Mila the means to "tracking down the one eyed man"...with more info from him~..she finds the BABY STEALERS leads them to friends close to Mila~ the sexy mysterious Diaz is one of Howards more mysterious heros~ as Mila and Diaz bond emotionally and physically~and become very close~ she finally locates her missing son~ This is an excellent audio~ moves along and at the same time the topic of child stealing is very emotional. DIG out the kleenex because this is a sad touching story. excellent READER~ 5 star all the way from reader, story and over all performance one of Linda Howards VERY best.
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This book was great! It was very hard to put down. Loved it.
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Life, death, struggle, tears and a good wrap up ending
"A woman who keeps to her word"
Shocking, riveting, emotional.
There are so many I can't choose just one.
I thought the reader was excellent. Into the story without going over the top.
Milla is a woman who when she makes a promise she sticks to it. There were a few moments when she could have broke promises but never did. That is a strong woman.
I was incredibly compelled by the characters in this book. I loved how different everyone was and what made them click. I know that this will be one that I will read over again.
"One of the best books that I have ever experienced"
I love the way the characters were intertwined, and that I had all the information that I needed to solve this.
My favorite scene is when Dias says ----I felt as if I was shot and wanted to drop down and kiss your feet.
I would loved to have read the whole book in one sitting, as it was I finished 2 hours after I needed to go to sleep. I had to listen to the last 30 minutes again it was so good
Sassy dialogue, humor, and a great reader are important to me.
"get out the tissues"
the title states the story. I have re listend 3 times and that is a lot for me.
Diaz our hero. Sweet, mean, sexy. "his caution amazed her" rushing river scene
Ms Bean is not my favorite reader. She is great in Sandra Brown's Witness and Tami Hogue, Still waters. This story is so good, it carries Ms Bean on this one.
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this is a must as a classic romance/mystery
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Come on down to Bikini Bottom! Attention SpongeBob fans, the video game inspired by the film is now ready for you to conquer. Someone's stolen King Neptune's crown and all signs point to Mr. Krabs as the culprit, which just can't be right. Play as SpongeBob and Patrick as you travel to the foreboding Shell City and complete a variety of challenges in order to solve this puzzling mystery. You'll come across a variety of familiar SpongeBob characters, including diabolical Plankton and some special cameos. Take advantage of power-ups such as the Cartwheel Attack, Electric-Guided Sonic Wave Guitar, and the Macho Bowl. As you explore Shell City you might even uncover a delicious Krabby Patty or two. Features bonus levels, hidden items, mini-games, and other secrets.
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A nice discussion of the promise – and challenges – of using video game to promote health.
Some great coverage on our hot-off-the-presses study on reducing anxiety with a smartphone app. You can find the scientific paper here. And you can learn a little bit more here.
Posted by Psyche's Circuitry on March 19, 2014
My forthcoming research paper reporting on a mobile app that gamifies an emerging treatment for anxiety and stress – a paper that hopefully will be officially out in the next month or so – is starting to be discussed in the media, including the Huffington Post. Thank you Wray Herbert for such great coverage of the study.
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To follow up on my posts about gamifying mental health, I'm excited to announce that Personal Zen, my science-based (but still fun) stress-reduction game, is ready to share with the world! It's free in the App Store, so please download it and check it out.
Research from my lab supports its efficacy to prevent and reduce stress and anxiety. Yet, as a game, it's a beta version and our goal is to get any and all feedback to make it more fun, user-friendly, and effective. So please try it and let me know what you think (either via this blog or the app, which has a "send feedback" button in the menu).
My larger goal is to develop a suite of mobile games for health based on sound scientific principles. As we increasingly curate our own emotional and mental wellness, I think it's crucial that we have scientifically-supported options to chose among. Because stress reduction is key to wellness, that's where I'm starting with Personal Zen.
Here's how it works (as I wrote in the App Store): When we get anxious or stressed, we pay too much attention to the negatives and have less ability to see the positives in life. These habits of attention reduce our ability to cope effectively with stress and can create a vicious cycle of anxiety. Personal Zen helps to short-circuit these habits and frees you up to develop a more flexible and positive focus. You can reduce your stress and anxiety in as little as one sitting, and the more you play, the more you strengthen well-being and vaccinate yourself against the negative effects of stress.
Essentially, the app works by helping people build new habits of paying attention to the world. But building new habits takes some practice, so we recommend spending time with it every week. I love using it on the NYC subways, and it's truly "snackable" in that using it a few minutes at a time reaps benefits.
If you're interested in any of the scientific background on the app, I'm happy to share both specific take-home messages and data.
Posted by Psyche's Circuitry on August 22, 2013
Games that are not games. There is a serious barrier to the effective gamification of mental health. This barrier is that the games we psychologists and health professionals are coming up with are not fun. In fact, they are totally uncool, border on the condescending, and wouldn't motivate anyone to play for more than 30 seconds. This is the case even though the bar is set quite low because these "games" address things that people really want, like boosting our intelligence and memory, reducing depression and stress, quitting smoking, … fill in the blank. I've been fascinated with this disconnect between Psychology's view and real-world acceptability. This disconnect is plaguing other fields as well, such as in the development of "serious games" for education. In this larger context, I've been working on the development of an app that takes a scientifically proven approach to reducing stress and anxiety, and embeds the "active ingredient" of this intervention into a game that is fun – fun enough, we hope, for someone to want to play for much more than 30 seconds.
Fun versus health goals. In the midst of this ongoing development process, I had the pleasure of speaking with Nick Fortugno, co-founder of the game design company Playmatics. In addition to creating really fun games, like Diner Dash, he has created games to promote positive social change and is one of the visionary and forward-thinking advocates for the idea that serious games can and should be fun. So, he has a deep understanding of the barriers facing the gamification of mental health. As we were talking about these barriers, Nick said something that really got me thinking. He said, when we design games for education or health, we have to remember that "the game doesn't care" about whether we're making progress towards our goal. This elegant idea highlights the fact that a game isn't fun because it meets some criterion we have for success – like boosting our ability to remember, reducing symptoms of anxiety, or losing 5 pounds. A game is fun because it creates an aesthetic experience and facilitates game play that we want to come back to again and again. Therefore, I would argue that a "serious" goal embedded in a truly fun game is reached almost as a by-product of the fun.
The need for backward engineering. I think I am accurate in saying that very few people, myself included, who are trying to create serious games for wellness think like this – i.e., like a game designer – about the process of gamification. From what I can tell, game designers think very deeply about the experience they want the game to promote, and then they work through the pragmatics of the game play that will facilitate this experience. This backward engineering from the point of view of the aesthetic/experiential goal to the pragmatics of the game is the opposite of what psychologists do when they think about gamification. Instead, we have parallel streams of development in which (a) we know that our "game" (read scientific protocol) is truly boring, and (b) we have to somehow decrease the snore factor. We think: "Hm, here is my very rigid experimental protocol/computerized intervention. I must overlay this protocol with some cute little animated guys, perhaps with a fun back-story (wizards? aliens?) and then make sure users get points when they conform to the requirements of the protocol." Sounds thrilling, huh? So fun? Exactly the recipe for the next Dots? Right…. So, we have a lot to learn from game designers, and I believe that crucial to the future of the endeavor of gamifying mental health is partnering with people who know how to create fun and understand the process of game design.
Pocket rituals. What would it be like if we created mental wellness tools, or even interventions for serious mental health problems, that were truly fun and that could become part of our array of habits and strategies for feeling better, reducing symptoms, performing more efficiently, or dealing with stress? These games, if "snackable" would become our pocket rituals, our chill pills. We could take out our device for 5, 10, or 15 minutes and be empowered to bring about a targeted, appreciable positive impact. The barriers to use should be minimal, the experience intrinsically rewarding – that is, it feels good to play – as well as reinforcing because it helps us meet our health goals. I think many psychologists feel that this approach is not easily conducive to a rigorous scientific approach. But if we fail to find a way to do this – good science and giving people tools they want to use – then the whole endeavor is dead in the water.
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Stop the presses, because Anheuser-Busch has released its Clydesdale spot before the Big Game. Actually, it's not THAT big of a deal, because we're pretty sure they did the same thing last year. Actually, we're pretty sure they released the same AD last year.
Last year's crowd-pleasing "Brotherhood" spot featured a Clydesdale breaking ranks during a parade to reunite with his trainer. This year's ad, titled "Puppy Love," features a Clydesdale breaking ranks to reunite with a puppy. Same formula, but with a puppy instead of a trainer. It's better though, because puppies are way cuter.
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