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PMG wishes you and yours a fantastic Thanksgiving! Enjoy some stuffing, some football and just relax.

Amazon.com going into movie producing with new website, first look deal with Warner Bros.

Amazon.com is launching Amazon Studios, a new website that lets users upload scripts and sample movies and then use community tools to evaluate and edit each others’ work. Work judged the best by a panel of experts and company executives will be brought to Warner Bros Read the resthere.

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This is a very new and cool potentially game changing display screen for retailers and maybe trade shows. Samsung has developed a transparent OLED flat panel display that can display content like a regular LCD computer screen, but it also allows you to see through it! Think Minority Report, except that the screen is solid instead of in mid-air, but it is touch capable.

Check out more and see a video of this in a action at http://bit.ly/a7hTGY.

It is that time of the week again, and the new Adobe Security Bulletins have arrived. To summarize any one who is on a Mac or a PC that is running Adobe Flash Player 10.1.102.64 or if you are on a mobile device, e.g. Android and running Adobe Flash Player 10.1.95.1, you need to update the latest version of Flash Player immediately.

Users of the popular Adobe Shockwave, Adobe Flash Media Server and Adobe Reader/Acrobat 9 should also update immediately as well. You may read about the updates in more detail from Adobe here..

You can download the latest version of Flash here and the website will automatically sense what operating system you are on and then send you to a unique web page to download the exact version of Flash that you need.

You can download the latest version of Adobe Reader here. It will automatically sense the version that you need and bring you to a custom download page.

You can download the latest version of Adobe Air here.

And finally you can download the latest version of Adobe Shockwave Player here.

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I just came across this simple, but enormously helpful tutorial. If you’ve ever been stuck with a simple problem in Photoshop and just couldn’t find that  answer on Google. Well check out this tutorial!

This is PMG’s third year to be represented at the Annual Exposition and Meeting of the Association of the U.S. Army( yes it’s a long title but, it is
important to get it right.) For those of you who don’t know about AUSA, this is essentially the biggest DOD related trade show around.
Technically speaking it is a “Professional Development Forum”, but you will find almost any Armed Forces service, any one who supports them either
within the government or contractors all in one huge location. This Exposition is so large that it fills up Halls A, B and C of the Washington Convention
Center.

I (Alan Bezet) am not sure how many meeting rooms are taken up for related training, seminars and speeches in the rest of the Convention Center, but when walking around
it seems like at least a good  80% of the building was taken up this event. This was my third year of working the information booth at the official Army Exhibit, which
really is the central hub of this entire convention. Considering that the U.S. Army is the largest of the Armed Services and the entire exposition is being held by
an Association named after them, they can fairly be considered the prime focus of this event.

The experience of working the floor at a convention with 33,000 registered attendees for 3 full days is exhilarating and exhausting. Save a short break for lunch, this a constant
experience of being on one’s feet and engaging with anyone who comes within 10 feet of your booths perimeter. I was tasked with essentially trying to bring any and all foot
traffic that I could manage to bring into the booth. The trick is to promise people that you will give them a 30-second overview of the booth and follow through on your promise.
That is exactly what I did, and those people that I could get to stop, appreciated my brevity and the excellent content that the U.S. Army provided in their exhibit.

The High Lighted View is the Gallery of Heros

You can view more information on the Army Exhibit directly here. Briefly, there is the Strength of the Nation theater which played two movies, one the Strength of the Nation(which will be put up on YouTube) and profiles Medal of Honor recipients and the other Faces of Strength, which profiles members of the Army Family. You may find an entire tool kit relating to the Faces of Strength Campaign here. The feature highlighted above is the Gallery of Heros and it showcases the names and stories of Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star recipients. Directly behind the the Gallery of Heroes is the Army Social Media Workshop, where attendees could view a 12-minute live presentation on Army Social Media, which utilized a 6 foot by 6 foot touch screen and two presenters. You may download a copy of the presentation here.

After viewing the presentation one could go to the desk very near the workshop or the wall directly behind them and interact with the social media using touch screens. There were also Army.mil representatives on hand to answer specific social media questions. On the back side of the theater was Warriors Corner, which is a large curved wall with screens, seating and a podium. In the Warriors Corner a variety of officers spoke on different topics throughout the 3-day exposition. Highlights included two live interactive video feeds from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Again if you’re curious for more information on the Army Exhibit you may go here or here.

Finally the highlight of the entire event for me, as well as most other attendees is the closing hour of the exhibit floor. On Wednesday(the final day of convention) the floor closes to all but the Exhibitors at 17:00 just like every other day of the convention. The floor re-opens at 18:00 just to Exhibitors and attendees to the Marshall Dinner(an invitation only formal dinner) and you get to see Soldiers and Officers in their Class A uniforms and their spouses who are in ball gowns or tuxedos. For an hour and a half people scurry about the exhibit hall to get the best swag(convention take-aways) that they can. Uniformed Service Men and Women are the most likely to receive the best goodies(as they should be, considering the whole convention is about them).

All and all this is an amazing experience, and anyone with connections to the Army or a DOD contractor that Exhibits at AUSA, should endeavor to get their to see the amazing sights and to support the greatest Army on earth, The U.S. Army.