Abstract: A gaming machine including a secondary processor coupled to a player tracking system for tracking game play of a patron using a virtual player loyalty card is described. A virtual player loyalty card can be created by associating an existing physical player loyalty card with a newly created mobile loyalty card account. The mobile card can be virtually inserted into an electronic gaming machine when a portable electronic device with an associated mobile application is in the vicinity of an electronic gaming machine. Once the mobile card is virtually inserted into the gaming machine, the patron's game play at the gaming machine can be tracked.

Abstract: An electronic device provides, to a display, data to present a user interface that includes a plurality of user interface objects, and a current focus on a first user interface object. While the display is presenting the user interface, the electronic device receives an input that corresponds to a movement of a contact across on a touch-sensitive surface. The electronic device, in response to receiving the input and in accordance with a determination that a first axis is a dominant axis, moves the current focus along the first axis by a first amount and along the second axis by a second amount. The amount of movement of the current focus along the second axis is reduced to a first non-zero amount by a scaling factor that is based on one or more inputs received prior to receiving the input.

Abstract: A gaming machine including a secondary processor coupled to a player tracking system for tracking game play of a patron using a virtual player loyalty card is described. A virtual player loyalty card can be created by associating an existing physical player loyalty card with a newly created mobile loyalty card account. The mobile card can be virtually inserted into an electronic gaming machine when a portable electronic device with an associated mobile application is in the vicinity of an electronic gaming machine. Once the mobile card is virtually inserted into the gaming machine, the patron's game play at the gaming machine can be tracked.

Abstract: Free-standing stove/fireplace apparatus includes a plurality of heated air chambers disposed about a firebox and flue, with air intake and air outlet passages located at various heights for the convection heating of air in the room in which the apparatus is disposed and with provisions for utilizing outside air for combustion purposes to allow the firebox to be isolated from the room air.

Abstract: Fireplace apparatus insertable into an existing fireplace, and compatible with an existing chimney structure includes a double wall on the sides and at the back of a firebox and two separate air systems are provided, one system for combustion air and a second system for heated air. The combustion air moves vertically through hollow grates on which fuel is disposed for burning, and vertically through the firebox and by heat exchanger tubes and into a chimney.

Abstract: Fireplace apparatus is disclosed in which combustion air is obtained from outside the structure in which the apparatus is installed and the apparatus is sealed from the structure in which it is installed and the heat from the fireplace is collected from around the fireplace and from above the fireplace in the chimney flue for transmission to other parts of the structure in which the fireplace furnace apparatus is installed for heating purposes.