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Technology is not just about Excel spreadsheets anymore.
Advisors' use of technology grew exponentially in 2012, and that growth shows no signs of stopping in 2013. As tech keeps evolving, advisors are eager to use those adaptations so they can make their practices more efficient and open up more time to spend with clients.
The big stories next year will include a plethora of new mobile apps, of course, but advisors can expect to see other, deeper tech developments. These include improved platform integration, greater reliance on outsourcing and increased development of quick planning tools.
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1) More Mobile Apps
This year, Fidelity launched an iPhone and Android mobile trading application for RIAS, Schwab rolled out an advisor app for the iPhone, and TD Ameritrade added fund and equity trading via Veo on iPad.
And that's not all. Financial Social Media President Amy McIlwain identified the top 10 mobile apps for financial advisors in 2012.
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"It is important for advisors and institutions to realize that their clients are going to increasingly expect that the tasks that they can perform on their mobile devices with other businesses such as looking up information, contacting employees and conducting simple analyses will spill over into the advisory space," Segal writes.
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The advisory world may have entered the social media space with caution because of unknown compliance and regulatory risks, says Actifi's Segal, yet "financial institutions and advisors are increasingly using social media including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Chatter and other services."
Expect to see advisors enter the social-media space more in 2013. Why? Because FINRA released social media and smartphone regs last year, and brokerage and other financial services firms have had all of 2012 to figure out what it means for them.
In a sign of things to come, both Morgan Stanley and Raymond James have moved to embrace social media. Morgan Stanley said in July that it would allow its 17,000-plus advisors to use Twitter and LinkedIn with certain restrictions, and Raymond James in late 2011 announced that it implemented a new social media platform from Actiance that complies with FINRA regs.
3) Windows 8 Upgrade
Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, released for general availability on Oct. 26, is designed to do good things like improve cloud-computing performance and work well on tablets such as iPad. What's not so good is the money that advisory firms must spend to buy Windows 8 and the time required for users to get up to speed on the new system.
Dan Skiles, an executive vice president with Shareholders Service Group whose focus includes providing tech services to RIAs, acknowledges in Investment Advisor's November issue that being an early adopter of Windows 8 is not a quick and simple decision.
Yet Skiles makes a convincing argument that 2013 may be a good year to take the plunge and upgrade, if not to Windows 8 then to at least a newer operating system:
What is your firm waiting to do with technology? Are you still running Windows XP? Generally speaking, once an operating system release is considered successful, it is a best practice to upgrade. By waiting, you are not only giving up functionality enhancements, you are also missing important security improvements. Windows Vista was widely thought to be a disappointment, but Windows 7 has been very successful. If you're still using Windows XP, put together a plan to upgrade to at least Windows 7 or be an early adopter of Windows 8.
4) Better Tech Integration
The lean economy and tight margins will be good incentives for advisors to integrate state-of-the-art technology into their operations in 2013.
The latest Scottrade Advisor Services Study, commissioned in 2012, finds technology adaptation and incorporation was topped only by client acquisition, preparing for new regulations and advising in a volatile market as a major challenge for advisors. "The first three, however, are ongoing and reactionary challenges an advisor must do to keep his business afloat, while technology appears for the first time," writes John Sullivan for AdvisorOne.
But the benefits of true integration are extensive, according to an SEI white paper released in late November. After climbing the learning curve that adoption of a new technology requires, advisors stand to increase revenue by up to 30% and afford staff 10% more time to prospect for new clients.
For example, Private Client Resource's Palette Platform is an open architecture integration of systems that allows quick access to aggregated data. The platform provides a complete view of the client relationship on a single screen.
"PCR's innovative Palette Platform was designed, and continues to be enhanced, with the needs of wealth managers foremost in our minds," says PCR President and CEO Robert Fiore in a statement. "When wealth managers are empowered by a combination of the most accurate aggregated data, the best technology and the highest caliber service, they gain a competitive advantage over their peers who still operate using fragmented systems and inefficient processes."
5) Outsourcing on the Go
The speed and complexity of both the markets and technology have conspired to make outsourcing a popular option for advisors on the go. Next year will see a continuation of the outsourcing trend–and in its latest incarnation, outsourcing doesn't involve sending jobs overseas so much as sending specialized work to professionals who can leave advisors more time to focus on clients.
To help advisors sort through the avalanche of services available, Envestnet's Advisor Suite offers a supermarket of choices with online access to investment managers, portfolios, custodians and other services on an open architecture platform. Envestnet has more than $93 billion in assets under management and advisement from 22,500 advisors who seek help with integrated portfolio, practice management and reporting solutions.
In another instance of outsourcing–this one to share research, opinions and other content created by economists, strategists and other experts on key issues–Bank of America-Merrill Lynch announced in late November that it has launched its own channel on Flipboard, a web application that assembles content on tablets and smartphones.
"We know that investors are increasingly using their mobile devices to access ideas about issues of importance to them, and delivering content through Flipboard fits in perfectly with Merrill Lynch's overall strategy of offering high-quality thought leadership," says Joe Corriero, head of digital marketing for Bank of America's Global Wealth & Investment Management unit, in an interview with AdvisorOne.
6) Financial Planning for the Mass Affluent
In 2013, the mass affluent investor with investable assets of $250,000 and more is likely to benefit from technology's efficiencies. While advisors in the past have worked with a limited number of high net worth clients because of the expense involved in serving them, the new year will see explosive growth of planning tools online–thus making financial planning available to more families.
For instance, Advisor Software Inc. launched GoalgamiPro last year as a quick planning tool so advisors can see a complete snapshot of mass-affluent clients' wealth that includes account balances in real time. About 200 advisors currently use GoalgamiPro, but in 2013 ASI expects to see many more use the tool to better help their younger clients achieve financial goals.
ASI President and CEO Neal Ringquist says there's a gap in the market because only a small percentage of advisors–whether at independent broker-dealers, wirehouses or independent RIAs–actually do the sort of comprehensive planning that requires hours of effort and pages and pages of documentation.
"The mass affluent is the segment of the market that desperately needs financial planning," says ASI President and COO Neal Ringquist. "Many advisors want to have a discussion on goals with clients, but it's not practical to use a comprehensive planning application due to the time commitment required to create a comprehensive plan."
GoalgamiPro, which integrates Redtail Technology's client relationship management (CRM) suite, makes it possible for an advisor to check in with clients on an annual basis because "it only takes about eight minutes to create a plan," Ringquist says.
7) Enhanced Analytics for Portfolio Diversification
As asset classes have become more highly correlated, advisors in search of diversification also are seeking specialized online research that offers analysis of complexities such as tail risk.
Zephyr Associates, for example, offers tools to help finance professionals create more efficient portfolios and make strategic asset allocation decisions by running in-depth analysis and optimization models that go beyond traditional methods. Zephyr's software products are used globally by advisors, money managers and fiduciaries to analyze investment managers, mutual funds, financial markets and investment portfolios.
"These days, investors are seeking out diversification by expanding their opportunity sets to include entirely new asset classes," says Marc Odo, director of applied research for Zephyr. "Asset classes once considered exotic, like commodities, private equity, hedge funds, infrastructure projects, timber and precious metals are seen as the only way one can get uncorrelated returns.
Check out AdvisorOne's complete lineup of Outlooks for 2013.
Stay informed on technology issues for advisors by reading Investment Advisor Technology Coach Dan Skiles' columns.
Read Top 10 Tech Trends for Advisors and Their Partners by Actifi's Spenser Segal at AdvisorOne.


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Zito has chance to pull Giants even with Reds
Joaquin Arias hit the ball, put his head down and ran. All he knew was that the Giants' season depended upon how fast he made it to first.
"That's the fastest I've ever run to first," the infielder said.
He won the playoff dash, taking advantage of third baseman Scott Rolen's momentary bobble to beat the throw. Arias' foot hit the bag, and the Giants suddenly had a little hope.
After managing only one hit through the first nine innings, the Giants took advantage of a passed ball and Rolen's error in the 10th inning for a 2-1 victory that cut the Cincinnati Reds' lead in the division series to 2-1.
A team that's struggled just to get hits is suddenly feeling like it has a chance against long odds. The Giants are trying to become the first team to overcome a 2-0 deficit in a best-of-five series by winning three straight on the road.
"I think we have to be really happy that we came away with a win tonight because we didn't swing the bats very well at all," said Buster Posey, who singled as part of the winning rally.
The Giants have struggled the last two games against Bronson Arroyo and Homer Bailey, managing a total of three hits in the starters' 14 innings combined. They're not sure who's up next for the Reds, who haven't won a home playoff game in 17 years and now have a tough decision.
Left-hander Barry Zito will pitch Game 4 on Wednesday for San Francisco, which has won the last 11 times he started. The Reds had to decide whether to try ace Johnny Cueto, forced out of the opener in San Francisco on Saturday with spasms in his back and side.
Manager Dusty Baker said after the game that they hadn't decided whether to go with Cueto, bring back Mat Latos on short rest again, or replace Cueto with Mike Leake, who wasn't on the division series roster.
Switching out Cueto would leave the Reds ace ineligible to pitch in the championship series should the Reds get that far.
"It's very difficult, but it all depends on if your ace can't go or whatever it is," Baker said. "That's part of the conversation - us going without him. We realize what's at stake."
They were hoping to avoid having to make that choice. One grounder forced the issue.
The Giants managed only three hits against Bailey and the bullpen, but got two of them in the 10th - along with a passed ball by Ryan Hanigan - to pull it out. San Francisco won despite striking out 16 times.
Rolen, an eight-time Gold Glove winner, couldn't cleanly field Arias' grounder, which put him in a tough position.
"I've gone through the play many times in my mind between then and now, and I think I would play it the same way," Rolen said. "It hit my glove. I just couldn't get it to stick."
The Reds haven't won a home playoff game since 1995, the last time they reached the NL championship series. They scored a run in the first, then managed only one more hit the rest of the way, wasting another dominating performance by their pitching staff.
The Reds set a season high with 16 strikeouts. Bailey matched his career high by fanning 10 in seven innings, a franchise playoff record. He allowed only one single.
San Francisco's one-hit wonders finally got it going against Jonathan Broxton, who gave up leadoff singles by Posey - the NL batting champion - and Hunter Pence, who pulled his left calf on a wild swing before getting his hit.
With two outs, Hanigan couldn't come up with a pitch, letting the runners advance. Moments later, Cincinnati's chance for a sweep was over when Rolen bobbled the ball.
A Reds team that lost a lot - closer Ryan Madson in spring training, top hitter Joey Votto for six weeks at midseason, Baker for the NL Central clincher, Cueto in the first inning of the first playoff game - ended up with another playoff loss at home.
Baker was back in the home dugout at Great American for the first time in nearly a month, recovered from an irregular heartbeat and a mini-stroke. After a pregame ovation, he settled in his red folding chair with a toothpick on his lips.
The 63-year-old manager watched his pitching staff dominate again, but fail to get that breakthrough win.
The second-largest crowd in Great American history was still getting the hang of playoff rooting. A video board message instructed the 44,501 fans not to wave white rally towels while the Reds were in the field - could be distracting.
Didn't take long to get those towels twirling. Brandon Phillips led off with a single, but was thrown out at third when he tried to advance on a ball that got away from Posey. It was costly - the Reds went on to score on a walk and a pair of singles, including Jay Bruce's RBI hit to right.
NOTES: The game started 3 minutes late because a sign-waving fan ran onto the field. He was tackled by police in center field. ... Giants avoided their third playoff sweep in franchise history. ... The Giants haven't lost three in a row since they dropped five straight from July 25-30. ... Tom Browning, who pitched the Reds' previous no-hitter - a perfect game against the Dodgers in 1988 - threw the ceremonial pitch. ... Bailey fanned six in a row, matching the Reds' postseason record. ... The only larger crowd at GABP was for the 2010 playoff game against Philadelphia.
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If nothing else, it is certainly getting plenty of media attention:
It's also effectively painted the entire region white:
The above photo, by the way, shows the Bronx, Manhattan, and New Jersey all at the same time. There aren't a lot of vantage points where you can pull this off, and this is also probably not the image that leaps immediately to most people's minds when they hear any of those place names. In fact, if you take away the bridges (and forget about the various dredgings and reroutings of the Harlem River over the centuries), it's not hard to imagine what the area looked like before the white man came along:
I couldn't care less about the latest recreational trends among the young gentrifiers (it's shuffleboard, by the way), but I confess I do get a great big emotional boner when I catch an inadvertent glimpse of what New York must have been like back in the "olden days." That's one of the reasons I love riding a bike. (The inadvertent glimpses of what New York must have been like back in the "olden days," I mean. Not the boners.)
Consider Broadway, for example. It's been here for a very long time:
Broadway was originally the Wickquasgeck Trail, carved into the brush of Manhattan by its Native American inhabitants.
And here's what it looks like now as you ride south towards the city, the skyscrapers of Manhattan looming in the distance:
If this weren't a shitty cellphone photograph taken by a moron, you'd see the way Broadway follows the ridges and valleys as it makes its way through Yonkers, then the Bronx, then Manhattan, yielding that yellow-brick-road-wending-its-way-to-Oz effect. Sure, it's the "Great White Way" of the popular imagination, but it's also more or less the same road that once led from a small settlement to the deep, dark woods north of Wall Street:
Anyway, it's a lot easier to get plugged into the past when you're on a bike (especially when you ride a pennyfarthing like I do), and once you are you start noticing all sorts of historical residue along the way, like old houses and interesting street names and even occasionally the mysterious "Hudson River Wanking Ghost," who has surprised and beguiled travelers for centuries with his phantasmagorical displays of spectral onanism:
I suppose if you're a science fiction dork you probably experience an aching desire for a glimpse into the actual future. (When you're not experiencing an aching desire for a date--which, if you're a science fiction dork, is equally elusive). As for me, I don't have much curiosity about the future, since I know it's going to suck and we're all screwed. The past, on the other hand, I find quite beguiling, and I'd give anything (well, maybe $30) to go back in time to 1894 and try a ride like this:
If you're not from New York none of the above will mean much to you (partially because you don't know the area, and partially because you're just slow), but if you are maybe you can appreciate it. Then again, bike dorks were probably just as annoying then as they were now. Plus, it's easy to idealize the past when it was probably even shittier than the present, thanks to all the racism and polio. Still, the sight of all those 19th century proto-Freds walking around in their "handsome souvenir medals" was probably pretty hilarious, and almost certainly the equivalent of the doofuses in their Gran Fondo New York jerseys who clog up the bike path on the George Washington Bridge today.
Yes, the more things stay the same, the more they change, or maybe it's the other way around, but either way it's especially true in New York, where we're constantly inventing new names for neighborhoods, such as "Dumbo:"
Anyway, I only mention the article because of this:
In Brooklyn's Dumbo the streets are carved from cobblestones, the hulking industrial edifices ooze prewar charm and approximately one-quarter of the companies leading the Big Apple's design and tech boom, including West Elm and Etsy, lie within, alongside art galleries, artisanal shops and boutiques with precious names like Peas & Pickles and Recycle-a-Bicycle.
Uh, there's really nothing precious or artisanal about Recycle-a-Bicycle. They fix up old bikes. It's all rather prosaic. In fact, it's increasingly an island of relative normality in a sea of extreme douchiness.
Speaking of douches, Danilo Di Luca is telling us what we already know, which is that pretty much every pro cyclist is on drugs:
One thing you probably didn't know though (or at least I didn't) is that he once turned in a urine sample that didn't contain any hormones:
The 38-year-old has twice served suspensions for doping: first as the result of the "Oil for Drugs" investigation, for which he received a three-month ban in 2007. Shortly after returning, Di Luca's urine samples at the 2007 Giro d'Italia turned up suspiciously absent of any hormones, leading to suspicions that he was using a substance to break down any traces of drugs in his urine.
Sure, that may sound suspicious, but anybody who's seen Di Luca knows otherwise:
Also, for some reason, people are angry at Di Luca for saying everybody in the Giro was on drugs, which obviously they were, because I mean come on:
I feel genuine hatred towards Di Luca. He's a worthless lying scumbag making false statements that hurt the sport I love.
Wow. This, from somebody who rides for Garmin? Team Garmin-Sharp, presented by "I only doped in cycling's deep, dark past?"
— Andrew Talansky (@andrewtalansky) January 21, 2014
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With all the buzz around the fiscal cliff and the Bush tax cuts that are set to expire in 2013, what tends to get overlooked is a tax that will definitely take effect in the new year: the 3.8% tax on investment income.
Congress passed the 3.8% tax in 2010 to add an estimated $210 billion of funds into President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act and Medicare overhaul, and the new tax is scheduled to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2013.
"We know this is meaningful, and it's going to happen," said Katie Nixon, chief investment officer in Northern Trust's wealth management business, at a media briefing in New York.
(Click to enlarge Nixon's chart, below, "New Medicare Related Taxes: Effective January 1, 2013," for her 3.8% tax explanation.)
As a result, advisors are getting their clients ready now for the inevitable and helping them decide whether to sell any assets before the end of the year. The challenge is getting clients to take action now.
Indeed, the level of resistance to taking action can be seen in Nationwide Financial's recent survey showing that most affluent investors have no plans to meet with their advisors to discuss tax code changes even though the vast majority, 88%, said they are confident in their advisor's ability to help them prepare for those changes.
Best Time to Plan Is Now
"The 3.8% tax doesn't relate to the fiscal cliff. It relates to Obamacare," said Joseph Perry, a New York-based partner-in-charge of tax and services for Marcum LLP, an accounting and advisory firm.
"The key," Perry added, "is for people to reach out now to their accountants and financial advisors to plan for the year-end to legally reduce the amount of taxes they would pay in order to put more money in their pocket. What we find at Marcum is that clients aren't focused on the 3.8% tax. We're recommending them to get their financial advisors involved and sometimes their attorneys."
According to the congressional Health Care Caucus' information site, the new tax will be imposed on unearned net investment income, including capital gains from stock sales, dividend income, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, loans and home sales. People subject to the tax are individual filers who earn adjustable gross income of more than $200,000 and married couples filing jointly with AGI of more than $250,000.
"In its simplest form, if you have a single person who receives $50,000 in interest income, that person will get taxed. The tax includes capital gains, but it doesn't include salary, bonus, pension or IRA," Perry said.
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Rusty Vanneman, chief investment officer of CLS Investments, based in Omaha, Neb., said his firm has fielded "big questions" from worried financial advisors and brokers who work with individual investors.
"People are over-reacting and talking about selling in 2012, thinking if they sell this year they don't have to pay next year. Yes, that's true, but if you sell now and take gains, you don't have money working for you next year," Vanneman noted. "Selling now is overly simplistic, but if you were going to sell something anyway, then you should do it this year instead of next. But you don't have to rush and sell stock if you were planning to hold it a long time."
Vanneman added that many money managers who typically reallocate assets in January will rebalance portfolios in December instead, and he predicted that there might be an over-reaction in the selling of dividend stocks. In fact, he said, dividend stocks have outperformed the market since Obama's re-election, and if there is a selloff, it could present a buying opportunity for savvy investors.
He pointed to a Nov. 7 Fidelity Viewpoint where Joanna Bewick, portfolio manager of Fidelity Strategic Funds, challenges the conventional wisdom suggesting that Obama's win could create headwinds for dividend-paying equities.
"First," Bewick writes, "about half of all assets that hold dividend-paying equities are already in tax-advantaged vehicles, so they're indifferent to tax policy. Second, historical data around dividend-paying stocks' performance when tax policies change is inconclusive: These assets have tended to outperform non-dividend-paying stocks, regardless of changes to dividend tax rates. This tells me that tax policy in a vacuum has only a slight influence over asset prices, compared with the overwhelming factors of the economic cycle and corporate profits."
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But Perry of Marcum LLP said that next year, his firm's clients could see higher capital gains tax rates to as much as 39.6%. Adding the 3.8% tax would bring that total to 43.4%, more than double what they're paying in taxes now.
"It's definitely going to be more burdensome for people who are counting on dividend income," Perry said. "High earners don't understand the impact. I have one client, a very high net worth individual with a lot of investment interest, who may owe $1.3 million more. So we're looking at tax-sheltered alternative investments such as municipal bonds, life insurance and tax-deferred annuities."
Investors might also want to consider selling stock positions, paying the 2012 capital gains tax, and then repurchasing the stock in 2013, Perry said. "If you have stock that has greatly appreciated, it might make sense to sell the stock now in 2012 before you're subject to the higher rate, and buy it back."
In other words, say an investor bought a stock at $5 and it's now at $50. On Dec. 28 of this year, the $45 profit would be subject to a 15% capital gains tax and no 3.8% surtax. Then on Jan. 2, the investor can buy the stock back at a cost basis of $50. So if the stock goes up to $60 and the investor decides to sell it, he or she is taxed on the difference between the cost basis and the gain, which is only $10.
Kent Kramer, wealth management partner with Schwab Impact award-winning RIA firm Foster Group of Des Moines, Iowa, is telling his clients that the capital gains tax might rise to 20% next year, and with the 3.8% added on top of the 20%, his clients are looking at a rate of 23.8%.
For a married couple with AGI of $250,000 who bought stock at $1,000 and sold it at $2,000, they would pay $238 in capital gains taxes in 2013 rather than $200 in 2012.
"We're in a period where we're telling our client to pay their capital gains now, at 15%, instead of what could go to 23.8% overnight," Kramer said. "If you have a stock you've been thinking about selling, maybe now is a good time to sell it."
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Joseph Skanks had been known by many around Tampa as the guy with the Abraham Lincoln letter. Maybe.
A few years ago, Skanks, a collector of old photos, swung by a modest estate sale near his home to pick up a stack the owners put aside for him.
His wife had been at the same sale earlier, trying to reserve a larger pile for him. But by the time Skanks arrived, it had been sold. The owners, however, had uncovered a few more photos by then. They had been hidden out of view with some books and other materials.
Skanks stopped by on his way home from a 24-hour shift that ended at 8 a.m. Tired, he didn't bother to sift through the items.
"I gathered them all up and pushed them all together," Skanks said. "They asked for $8."
At home, Skanks began shuffling through his photos at the kitchen table as his wife and two daughters made breakfast. As he made his way through, he came upon an item that nearly stopped his heart.
"I was shocked at first," Skanks, 43, said. "I couldn't be that lucky."
It appeared to be a short letter written by Abraham Lincoln on Aug. 2, 1858, to Henry Clay Whitney, a political ally of Lincoln's and a fellow circuit court lawyer.
The short note simply reads:
"Yours of the 31st. is just received. I shall write to B.C. Cook at Ottawa and to Lovejoy himself on the subject you suggest.
"Pardon me for not writing a longer letter. I have a great many letters to write.
"I was at Monticello Thursday evening. Signs all very good. Your friend as ever A. Lincoln."
The letter was written just a few weeks before the first of Lincoln's famous debates with his then-U.S. Senate rival Stephen Douglas. The note shows he's following Whitney's advice to ward off a potential backlash in the fledgling Republican Party. Its more conservative members were considering throwing their support behind Douglas, a Democrat, to keep their distance from their party's "radical" abolitionist faction, to which Owen Lovejoy belonged.
The letter portrays Lincoln as an important leader keeping his party together over issues of race at a time of national crisis.
Skanks' letter is in the history books, but with an ominous, yet hopeful, footnote.
"The facsimile from Whitney ... like other facsimiles in the same source, is so poor as to suggest forgery, but there seems little reason to doubt that the original was once extant," reads an annotation of the letter in the second volume of "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln."
The local news played up Skanks' discovery. So did his fire station buddies, who created what Skanks describes as a "spongy, sticky bust of Lincoln" they secured to his helmet.
But Skanks didn't aggressively pursue authenticating the letter.
"I held onto it for a while," he said. "One day I started talking about it and got interested in it again."
He sent a copy to Springfield experts, who couldn't tell for sure. Christy's had a similar reaction. He also had learned two forgeries of the note existed.
"I assumed it was one of the forgeries," Skanks said.
Eventually, a local news station put him in contact with a Florida antiques dealer, who thought it was real, but he wasn't knowledgeable enough about Lincoln letters to be absolutely sure. The dealer helped connect Skanks to the History Detectives, who were looking for new investigations for their upcoming season.
By then, Skanks began to worry.
"Everybody was pretty excited about it, especially when they held it in their hands. They were as hopeful as I was," Skanks said. "But the last thing I wanted was egg on my face. Especially with the guys I work with. They would never let it down."
There were reasons all the experts had trouble inspecting Skanks' letter. The writing was too shaky for Lincoln's handwriting. It also was pasted on cardboard backing, making it more difficult to inspect.
In May, the History Detectives took the letter from Skanks and brought it to John Lupton, associate editor of the Springfield-based Papers of Abraham Lincoln. Lupton, who works in an office inside the Old State Capitol, walked over to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and put the letter under an electron microscope.
Lupton also had doubts. He was one of the earlier experts who had viewed a scan of the letter Skanks had previously sent. It was the handwriting.
"Lincoln's handwriting is very fluid," Lupton said. "Most can't replicate its fluidity perfectly." Lupton also knows some tricks. Many forgers don't know Lincoln crossed his 'T's backwards, from right to left, leaving a heavier streak on the right end of the cross.
With the letter under the microscope, Lupton could make out two distinct ink trails, with a thicker, blacker ink on top. But in a few places, a lighter trail underneath stood out clearly. And its style looked very familiar. Figuratively, the 'T's were crossed the right way.
It was obviously authentic, Lupton concluded.
"It looked exactly like what a Lincoln document should look like," Lupton said.
Lupton hypothesized that Whitney, in preparation for a book he published of his own Lincoln letters, wrote over his originals and pressed them over blank paper to produce copies. That would explain the "poor facsimile" comment in the Collected Works.
Like good television drama, the "History Detectives" waited until the last minute to tell Skanks about Lupton's verification. They flew him to Springfield and stationed him in the Vachel Lindsay home, as a double for Skanks' real house.
"They wanted the emotion at the end of the story," Skanks said. "Believe me, at the end of it, I was still unsure, even though I had talked with all these (experts)."
Skanks said when one of the episode's detectives, appraiser Elyse Luray, sat down with him, he sensed bad news.
"My heart started sinking. She came across as negative at first," Skanks recalled. "I'm picturing all these (television) interviews, my friends back home."
He could hear the egg cracking.
Then, Luray confirmed that Skanks had a real Lincoln letter.
"And all of a sudden, she tells me I do possess the actual one. I had the same chilled feeling that I had in the kitchen. Except double. I don't know what I look like on camera."
Skanks said he intends to sell the letter, which he said has been valued at about $25,000.
"I don't make a lot as a firefighter," he said.
After the "History Detectives" filming, he stayed in Springfield for a day. He had dinner with his son, a coal miner who lives in southern Illinois. He also visited the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum.
In the museum, Skanks sat in front of an animated map that shows the development of the Civil War. Each second of the animation represents a week of the war, with a ticker keeping track of the mounting deaths.
"I was almost in tears," Skanks said. "Literally, that museum had me empty-hearted. When I sat and watched the death ticker, my soul became very sickened. I literally wanted to cry. I pulled the letter out and looked at it. I thought about how much history is here and the things that were occurring at that point in time. What if one thing could have changed and those lives saved?"
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True Detective was basically like a six-month film. It was one director, eight episodes, 450 pages, basically a 450-page script. Six months shooting on film. Very considerate. Much more considerate than Dallas Buyers Club. We shot that with one camera, no lights and a tiny crew in 25 days. I was going for the quality and the experience. I dont know what this means, I dont know what the result will be. What can I get an experience out of, Matthew? Thats the question I was asking myself.
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President Obama on Monday selected Elisse Walter, an SEC commissioner, to succeed SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro after she departs on Dec. 14, but industry officials speculated that Walter will serve as an acting chairman until Obama selects a permanent chairman.
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If you have any conditions that classify your pregnancy as higher risk (such as being older than 35, carrying multiple fetuses, or having gestational diabetes or high blood pressure, to name a few), your health care provider may advise you to deliver in a hospital where you and your baby can receive medical treatment as necessary. In fact, you might not be eligible to deliver in a birth center because of your risk factors. And if you want interventions such as an epidural or continuous fetal monitoring, a hospital is probably the better choice for you.
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A student at a Sacramento elementary school discovered a bag of meth that was brought to the school by a 6-year-old student.
The Sacramento Sheriff's Department said that they got a call from Ethel Baker Elementary School near Fruitridge Road in Sacramento reporting that a student found white powder on the carpet during reading time on Wednesday.
A test determined that the substance was meth, sheriff's deputies said.
During the investigation, deputies determined that it belonged to a 6-year-old child who told authorities he brought the bag from home.
Then boy's father, identified as Gonzalo Meza, was arrested near the school site when he arrived to pick up his son.
Meza was booked into the Sacramento County Jail on possession and child endangerment charges.


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Coffee drinker, baker, and jogger.
I don't swim in the sea.
Or make potpourri
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I mow the lawn,
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Like you, I do many things.
But its Christ who gives me the wings,
To press on when life's hard,
Knowing He will stand guard.
His love is what makes my heart sing.
Among titles, no more am I "slave":
For Christ overcame that dark grave,
In Him I am free,
To be who He's called me to be.
And that's the short story of me.
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Here are 3 iOS games you should own
One of the more popular gifts for the holidays was an iOS or Android device. They're either smartphones or a tablet, and if you got one, you probably have spent the month getting used to the gadget. Now that the adjustment period is over, let's get down to what you'll mostly being using it for - games. Here are three that are tailored for the mobile platforms:
"Colossatron: Massive World Threat": Halfbrick Studios, the developer known for "Fruit Ninja" and "Jetpack Joyride," puts a twist on the Match 3 genre with its latest release. Players build up a giant robotic serpent called Colossatron, which terrorizes countries. During each level, the monster destroys a nation's three cities and its capital while fending off a military led by Gen. Moustache.
Although "Colossatron" is on autopilot, players can pick up powercores that drift across the wrecked cities. Each core has a different weapon and by matching three, like in "Bejeweled," players can create stronger weapons to attach to the monster. Players can even mix colors to generate new types of weapons to wreak havoc.
The slick broadcast news presentation and the strategy in creating a distinct Colossatron make this a unique and addictive title. (Android, IS, 99 cents)
"Cut the Rope 2: Om Nom's Unexpected Adventure": ZeptoLab has come a long way since the release of its physics-based puzzle hit. For the sequel, the developer adds new characters that assist the diminutive creature in his quest for candy. Helpers such as Roto and Boo position Om Nom. for treats or help guide candy to its awaiting mouth.
Most of the puzzles are easy to figure out, but the more difficult ones require precise timing. They're doable, but it can be frustrating, especially on a smaller touch-screen. Overall, though, "Cut the Rope 2? will satisfy newcomers and veterans alike. (IS, 99 cents)
"Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time": This is another sequel that offers more of the same, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing when it comes to PopCap Games. The developer's follow-ups usually expand on the great ideas of their original titles. With "Plants vs. Zombies 2," the developer introduces new undead foes, fighting produce and powers.
Tailored more for larger touchscreens, this follow-up takes players through different eras as Crazy Dave looks for another chance to eat a taco. They'll encounter zombies in ancient Egypt and the wild West. Each new creature has its own unpredictable powers, but thankfully, players will have updated plants in their arsenal. But the big game changers are the powers and power-ups that add a different dimension to the gameplay. Plant Food temporarily boosts brawling fauna, while power-ups let players pinch zombie heads, swipe them away or paint electricity over them. "Plants vs Zombies 2? is a sequel worthy of the great original. (Android, IS, free)