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Casey Anthony's lawyers will come back to court Tuesday to appeal the Florida mother's conviction of lying to authorities in the case regarding the disappearance and death of her daughter Caylee Marie Anthony.
Anthony was acquitted on all major charges on her daughter's death during the 2011 murder trial, but was found guilty on four counts of lying to law enforcement officers.
The charges include, lying to detectives about having left Caylee with nanny Zeneida Gonzales, lying about working at Universal Studios, and saying Caylee was missing and later on that she was alive.
The Florida mother's defense will argue that all four convictions should be treated as one offense since they were made during one long interrogation period, and that all four statements should have been thrown out of the trial because police failed to read Anthony her Miranda rights at the time of her arrest, Wesh.com reported.
The hearing is set to take place at the Fifth District Court of Appeals in Daytona Beach at 1:30 p.m.


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Challenges communities to help transform public schools with investment of time and resources
WASHINGTON - February 01, 2010 -
In observance of Black History Month, the National Education Association is issuing a challenge to its members and community partners to use this month to develop an action plan for change to ensure the future legacy of our country and our students.
"Despite years of progress, for far too many of our students, the hopes and dreams of past generations are still unfilled. We've got to invest time and resources in transforming our public schools and it starts with local programs and activities," said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. "President Obama said we need to invest in the skills and education of our people. He didn't say that we have to wait for lawmakers to make it happen, we all have the power to begin now to develop programs and provide support that will be the catalyst for change in our public schools."
NEA has a number of resources and tools that are available for individuals and groups that will assist them in not only identifying an issue in their community but in implementing a substantive plan of action. There are critical needs in the areas of (click on each topic to get more information):
Dropout Prevention
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College Affordability
As part of its Black History Month activities and its ongoing mission to create great public schools for ALL students, NEA,Tavis Smiley and the America I AM: The African American Imprint exhibition have joined forces to offer educators an historically relevant, culturally diverse curriculum for use in classrooms across the country. The America I AM lesson plans, activity sheets and other learning materials are available free of charge at http://www.AmericaIAM.org. The educational materials are tailored by grade level, covering grades 5 through 12, and can be used as a standalone history unit, or linked to other curricula including social studies, economics, math, art and literature. More information can be found at:
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text: After enduring unhealthy doses of marketing and a head-spinning month of rebooted first issues, Wired.com's verdict on DC Comics' New 52 is in. The good news? The New 52 dominated sales in September, with its expansive retooling of its characters pushing DC past perennial competitor Marvel Comics for the first time in nearly a decade. The bad news? Thanks to its sprawling series roster, the New 52 reboot campaign barely came in average in the narrative ambition department. Overweight with everything from expository diarrhea and clichéd archetypes to outright misogyny and misguided "upgrades" (Wonder Woman has a dad?), the majority of the New 52 titles squandered a boatload of cultural capital. When the first issues arrived in September, we were ecstatically looking forward to how DC would revise everything from its characters' costumes to their reason for being. By the time the month's deluge ended, we were almost spiritually exhausted by the stunning lack of imagination. Well, not entirely. Five of the comics shown in the gallery above turned out to be as good as we hoped or even better (especially the cerebral psychedelia found in Jeff Lemire's astounding Animal Man). But these winners crowned the peak of an underwhelming heap dominated by middling comics peddling casual ultraviolence, post-millennial sexism and surly superheroes in search of reasons to exist in a world needing champions more than ever. Just like that fake superhero finally arrested in Seattle, the New 52's superstars — save a scant few, led by Grant Morrison's Superman — seem happier being self-indulgent antiheroes than gods of Earth and space. It's a sad commentary on both the state of Marvel and DC's comics duopoly, as well as what we define as heroic in a 21st century running out of empathy. Scroll through our gallery of the best and worst of the New 52, and let us know in the comments section below if you think DC Comics' Editor in Chief Bob Harras and co-publishers Jim Lee and Dan DiDio (whose demented O.M.A.C. barely missed the cut for the best) should've worked smarter for the money. Above: The Good: Action Comics The most gifted writer in comics today, Grant Morrison takes the leash off Superman and, with the kinetic artistry of Rags Morales, transforms him into a light-speed champion of the disenfranchised in this breathless reboot of DC Comics' foundational Action Comics. There's little trace of the teen anguish, identity crises and other tired clichés that sell soap in comics and on screens to consumers with First World problems. Instead, we get a benevolent farm boy blowing past city slickers on the way to ludicrous injustice after injustice, reminding us of the reality outside the page on the way. Look at his freakish face above on the cover of Action Comics No. 2, which was released last week: Superman's so pissed that he's being tortured by Lex Luthor for trying to help people that he's about to eat his own lips.Animal Man From The Nobody to Sweet Tooth, we've been following the searching sci-fi dystopias of Jeff Lemire on Wired.com for a few years now. But the Canadian comics artist and writer has really upped the ante on the morphogenetic phantasmagoria of Animal Man (which is even more amazing considering that Grant Morrison more or less nailed the hero down with a legendary metafictional finale way back in the late '80s). Lemire has taken up the challenge and, with dazzling art by Travel Foreman, turned out a supernatural original landing somewhere between the dream noir of David Lynch and the horror of Guillermo Del Toro. Bravo, indie Canadian comics brainiac. Bravo.Batwoman The most disturbing dimension of DC Comics' reboot campaign is the bizarre increase in culturally regressive female heroes and antiheroes. Either the DC honchos lamely forgot what century we're in, or they purposefully abandoned a valuable opportunity to win more than the scorn of female comics fans. Thankfully, the increasingly cool — and fully clothed — Batwoman has arrived. The openly gay Kate Kane already delivered potent doses of gritty surrealism in writer Greg Rucka and uncannily gifted artist J.H. Williams' previous series, nicely collected in Batwoman: Elegy last year. Williams and co-writer Haden Blackman keep her flame alive in the New 52 iteration, whose second issue arrives Wednesday. Whether she's saving Gotham's kids from a murderous villain or giving DC Comics a slice of much-needed female demographic love, Batwoman is executing her reboot mission with tech-noir precision.Demon Knights Paul Cornell's widescreen sci-fi and fantasy gifts are so self-evident that DC Comics handed him two series, including the outer-limits Stormwatch and this self-aware supernatural romp. Demon Knights thrusts DC Comics and Vertigo's magical heroes and villains, including the Demon Etrigan, Madame Xanadu, Vandal Savage and many more, into a mad, mad, medieval world as full of dark suspense as it is saucy snark. If we're being strict about the numbers, we'd have to put the bizarro mash of Demon Knights, whose second issue (above) arrives Wednesday, a monstrous head above the celestial mayhem of Stormwatch, whose second issue (below) arrived last week. But if we're counting Cornells, then it's a two-way tie for the top five. Batgirl Writer Gail Simone, who previously steered the seriously hilarious suicidal antiheroes of Secret Six for DC Comics, is spearheading the return of Batgirl. There's plenty to like: Simone's extracted Barbara Gordon from Oracle's wheelchair and given her back the legs The Joker destroyed in Alan Moore's influential Batman: The Killing Joke. She's also managed to keep Batgirl's clothes on, a feat that is evidently very hard to pull off in the New 52. Throw in some roommate drama and Batgirl's fearsome nemesis Mirror, and we'll run with it until the next Batgirl fan heckles DC Comics at a comic book convention.The Bad: Red Hood and the Outlaws Talk about a downgrade. Starfire used to be in the Teen Titans and was romantically involved with the original Robin. Now she's just poseable arm candy for Robin third-stringer Jason Todd, known now as the psychopathic Red Hood, and one-time heroin junkie Roy Harper, who goes by the cocksure name Arsenal (instead of Green Arrow's sidekick nickname, Speedy). Starfire must have irritated someone at DC Comics severely to suffer such a devolution. Speaking of broken time machines, Red Hood and the Outlaws is a crappy bastardization of the stunning miniseries 52, wherein Starfire found herself thrown across the bizarre universe with Animal Man and Adam Strange. Those two proved to be much more evolved companions than the bromance sandwich of Harper and Todd, both of whom have had sex with the empty receptacle Starfire before the end of the Red Hood's first issue. To paraphrase my wife, this series' sexual politics are so stunted that someone deserves to get kicked in the balls.Catwoman Speaking of fanboys spanking monkeys, several panels of Catwoman's first New 52 issue fly by before Selina Kyle ever gets her clothes on. Sure, the first thing Batman ever said to the Cat, as she was known back in the day, was, "Quiet or papa spank!" as he removed her disguise. But that was the '40s, meaning that little has changed in Catwoman's character in nearly a century (other than a terrible Halle Berry movie). Great. Here's the thing: Catwoman has always been a fanboy fetish character. Having her go undercover at Russian strip clubs in the first issue, or even turn tricks in the animated adaptation of Frank Miller's Batman: Year One, out Oct. 18, isn't even close to a reboot. It's a reinforcement. In the '40s, Batman threatened to spank her if she got rough. Today, he lies like a corpse as she mounts him on the first issue's final page. Even those looking for sparks once Batman and Catwoman boned in a comic ended up with a whimper instead of a bang.Suicide Squad Gail Simone's immortally weird Secret Six reboot took some of DC Comics' C-list villains and turned them into one of the publisher's greatest productions ever. Simone added a couple new female characters just to balance out the testosterone of Bane, Catman and Deadshot, who's the main attractor in Suicide Squad, which is nothing more than an indulgent exercise in torture pornography. (Well, him and King Shark's snazzy thong.) Despite Shark's flashing moment of subversive brilliance, Suicide Squad's latest iteration creates only desensitized apathy instead of generating sympathy for its tortured antiheroes. Which is not a great thing, if you consider the hypersexualization of the now nearly nude Harley Quinn and even the now-glamorous Amanda Waller, the government's plus-size player who refuses to take shit from anyone, even Batman. Suicide Squad is further proof that DC Comics needs to take its hands out of its pants, post-haste.Justice League International Like its underwhelming A-list counterpart Justice League, whose second issue arrives Oct. 19, the bench-warmers of Justice League International prove that more superheroes doesn't yield better superhero comics. Listening to a bunch of B-listers like Ice, Guy Gardner and Vixen spend an entire issue trying to just get along would have been funny in the hero-deconstruction craze of the '80s and '90s, but it's last century's crutch in the new millennium. Even Batman can't make these supers interesting for more than a few pages. The series gets bonus points for going global with Russia's Rocket Red, China's August General in Iron and other international characters. But it doesn't do much else than mine the supergroup's cultural differences for cheap laughs, when it could have driven a smarter dialogue about 21st-century geopolitics. (To be fair, Justice League International made this list because Justice League also shot blanks. Fingers crossed that both find their groove.)Green Lantern Finally, the character that DC has tried excessively hard to reboot, but with little luck. The Green Lantern live-action movie was a clumsy dud, and animated feature film Green Lantern: Emerald Knights was barely better. You can throw this standalone comics series from DC Entertainment's Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns into the mess for a sloppy trifecta, because Hal Jordan isn't even Green Lantern's central psychonaut anymore. That role now belongs to Sinestro, who has been dominating Green Lantern's mythos ever since Johns got his hands on it years ago. Once again, the one-time villain becomes a complicated antihero, and sucks up Hal Jordan's face time without a real fight. In turn, Jordan has become a ring-less slacker whose obvious demotion probably exists as mere setup for his predictable resurgence. Which is the real problem with Green Lantern: Jordan is always surging back up from the depths of his daddy issues instead of taking readers on a tour of celestial cataclysms more suited to Earth's top space cop. The fact that we're still reading, years later, mostly about Sinestro in a comic called Green Lantern ironically illustrates that the superhero's well feels more empty than ever under current management. Let's hope the bulletproof Bruce Timm can work his magic on Green Lantern's animated series, arriving in November.Images courtesy DC ComicsSee Also:- Rebooted Justice League Offers Peek at DC Comics' 'New World Order'In Supergods, Grant Morrison Probes Superhero MythsExclusive: Paul Cornell's Demon Knights Gets Medieval on DC's New 52


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Obama's immigration problem
When I said recently that President Obama has a habit of not being truthful about his immigration record, an angry Obama supporter demanded specifics.
There are so many examples that it's tough to keep track.
We can add a few more to the list thanks to an interview that Obama recently gave to talk show host Fernando Espuelas of Univision Radio. When Espuelas noted the criticism that the president has received from Latinos for failing to deliver immigration reform, Obama bristled.
"Well look," he said. "I think it is important for everybody to remember that I have been foursquare behind comprehensive immigration reform from the time I was a U.S. senator to my election as president and today. So, the issue has never been my full-throated support for comprehensive immigration reform."
False. Obama tends to forget that, while in the Senate, he supported – at the behest of organized labor – a "poison pill" amendment intended to kill bipartisan attempts at comprehensive immigration reform. And, as president, he failed to make reform a top priority, as he promised Latinos he would.
Obama went on: "The challenge is to get it passed through Congress, which is ultimately who has to pass this law. We have strong support from the majority of Democrats. We have no support from Republicans."
False. Obama may have support from a majority of Democrats in Congress, but it doesn't appear to be "strong" support. For the four years that Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, from January 2007 to January 2011, comprehensive immigration reform was never a priority. Back then, Republicans were driving the agenda.
The president also said: "You've got some of the leading Republican candidates for president saying they would veto the DREAM Act, and members of Congress telling the same line. We couldn't get any Republican votes for the DREAM Act when it came up a couple of years ago."
False. In December 2010, when Congress last took up the legislation that would give undocumented youth legal status if they joined the military or went to college, three Republican senators – Richard Lugar of Indiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Robert Bennett of Utah – voted in favor of cloture to move the bill to a full vote. Lugar, in fact, was a co-sponsor of the bill.
Obama said: "My hope is that after this election, partly because of a strong Latino vote, a message will be sent that we need to, once again, be a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants, that we've got to be respectful of folks who are here, who are doing the right thing, trying to raise their families, often times have kids who were born here in the United States, and they need to be given a chance, a pathway, so that they can have a strong legal status in this country."
False. Obama has nerve talking about being "respectful" to immigrant families given that his administration has divided tens of thousands of them. According to a recent report by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more than 46,000 parents with U.S.-born children were deported in the first half of 2011.
Finally, the president ended with: "And DREAM Act kids to me should be a no-brainer. ... I think for us to give them a path to earn citizenship is the right thing to do. And so, my hope is that after the election, we will have a different assessment on the part of Republicans, and they will understand that not only is it the right thing to do, but it is also in their political interest to get on the right side of this issue."
False. Let's get real. Republicans are never going to conclude it's "in their political interest" to give undocumented students citizenship because it means also giving them the right to vote. And those students would likely exercise this right by voting Republicans out of office for the next 50 years.
Besides, the president never mentions the five Democratic senators who, during the debate over the DREAM Act, voted against cloture and thus helped kill the bill: Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, and Jon Tester and Max Baucus of Montana.
In trying to be both hawkish and humane on immigration, Obama has a problem telling the truth on the subject. And that's no lie.
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In Encountering America, I take a cultural-historical approach to reveal how these ideas stormed the barricades of our culture through the humanistic psychology movement—the work of a handful of maverick psychologists who revolutionized American culture in the 1960s and '70s. Profiling thought leaders including Abraham Maslow, Rollo May, and Timothy Leary, I draw on untapped primary sources to explore how these minds and the changing cultural atmosphere combined to create a widely influential movement. From the group of ideas that became known as New Age to perennial American anxieties about wellness, identity, and purpose, I trace how humanistic psychology continues to define the way we understand ourselves.


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I am using Visual Studio .NET to develop a windows application.
In my program, I have a set of similar controls(group box) which I would like to be set visible or invisible depending on the current state of the program.
The positioning are handled by the form design and I have named the group boxes groupbox1, groupbox2, groupbox3, ...
I would like to address the group boxes by their numerical position and so I wish to have an array of pointer such that I can:
groupbox[findactivegroup()].Visible = true;Code:for(int x=0; x<12; x++) groupbox[x].Visible = false;
So I thought of something like:
But there is syntax errors in the declaration.Code:System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox [] *groupbox = *System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox[12]; groupbox[0] = groupbox1; groupbox[1] = groupbox2; //....
Could someone kindly enlighten me on this problem.
Thank in advanced.


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Okay, I lied. My last blog wasn't the final chapter in the flat fee/AUM fee debate. But in the immortal words of John Belushi in "Blues Brothers": "It's not my fault: a friend came in from out of town, I had a flat tire, the dog ate my homework…" Actually, the great comments I received on that blog were just too good, advancing the discussion even further, with more than a couple of new points that warrant exploration.
First, Carolyn McClanahan wrote: "…if I am a 'financial advisor,' I am assisting the client with multiple aspects of their financial life—goal planning, cash flow planning, tax planning, investment planning, estate planning and all the other financial curveballs life throws. To charge for all those services based only on investments is denigrating the value of the other services. In my fourteen years in this profession, I have truly come to appreciate that the full financial planning process is extremely important to the main goal financial advisors should help their clients achieve: a life with minimal financial insecurities. By charging only based on AUM, advisors reinforce the incorrect message that it is only the investments that are important."
This is a very valid concern. It's also not just a recent one. I can remember financial planners back in the mid-'80s lamenting that the majority of their peers were compensated through the sale of annuities—one wrote that it was the "dirty little secret" of financial planning. Today, it's still quite common for planners to feel that financial planning is "denigrated" by basing compensation on AUM fees.
Yet while I agreed with that sentiment 30 years ago (that financial planning was being used as a sales tool), the same cannot be said about assets under management. In fact, I'm puzzled by the notion that managing client assets is somehow separate from the "planning process," because it seems to me that portfolio growth is the engine that drives the financial plan. Which is exactly why the vast majority of clients—both HNW and not so much—have readily accepted AUM fees as an appropriate form of advisor compensation.
Then, Jim Schwartz, a retired financial planner, one of the founders of NAPFA, the author of the seminal financial planning guide "Enough," and currently the writer of "Healing Financial Anxiety," took "financial planning" to another level in his own inimitable style: "AUM compensation is not only a conflict of interest between planner and client (I win maybe you win; I win you lose) but it is inherently in conflict with the essence of personal financial planning: aligning personal financial resources to achieve life goals, values and payoffs."
"But if the masquerading asset manager in personal financial planning clothing was managing goals instead of relative rate of return then comparison to indexes would be irrelevant. The planner might actually seek to return less than the market though with significantly less risk because the goal has been met or is on target and preservation of capital from risks would be primary. Thus, Dow might be up 15% but all that was necessary for the goal was 8%; why not lower risk to insulate the goal? Why not? Assets under management compensation is reduced."
This, too, strikes me as a curious argument, particularly coming from one of the founders of the planning profession. Again, for most people, "achieving life goals" depends in large part on the protection and growth of their investment portfolio. Giving a financial advisor an incentive to achieve that growth seems reasonable.
What's more, it seems inaccurate to claim that AUM-fee charging advisors don't "lose" when their clients' portfolios lose value. In fact, it's quite the opposite: when asset values drop, advisor compensation literally goes down. That's a loss, in my book. At the same time, if the client doesn't sell when the market is down (and it's usually an advisor's job to see that they don't), they haven't "lost" anything.
The same situation exists for risk. Inexplicably, Mr. Schwartz suggests that asset-managing advisors have a financial incentive to urge their clients into taking undo investment risk. Yet both reality and logic contradict this assertion. Over the years, financial planners have spent countless hours discussing the appropriate stock/bond portfolio mix for clients of various ages and risk profiles. While these advisors have been appropriately concerned that their clients would run out of money, the discussions I've heard/read have all focused on taking the lowest risk practicable.
Which, to address the "high-risk" incentive concern, actually makes perfect economic sense for advisors. Higher portfolio risk, by definition, means higher portfolio volatility. And, as I mentioned, while portfolio volatility costs nothing to clients who ride out the dips, it does decrease AUM fee revenue. So an advisory firm's actual financial incentive would be to lower portfolio risk and smooth out steadily growing revenues.
Which, to my mind, is a nice identity of interest. Rather than "denigrating" financial planning, asset management fees simply reflect the reality that a plan isn't worth much without the funding to make it happen—and that financial incentives to act in the client's best interest are a nice addition to a fiduciary duty.


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Brass evaluating potential offseason directions
ARLINGTON -- Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow, assistant general manager David Stearns and manager Bo Porter have been meeting frequently the past few days to talk about roster composition for next year. Those conversations will ramp up as the team gets deeper into the offseason and free agency gets closer.
The Astros face numerous key decisions this winter regarding the 40-man roster, and will be trying to acquire bullpen help, an outfield bat and a veteran starting pitcher to blend with their youngsters.
"There's a lot of directions we can go," Luhnow said. "We've got a lot of decisions to make and a lot of players this year put themselves in a good spot for next year. We're also talking about where we want to add. We're definitely going to add from the outside. We know the bullpen is a priority, we know that another bat in the lineup is a priority. How does it fit in with the guys we have? That's the big puzzle of the offseason."
Luhnow consults Porter about every roster decision.
"We have to have it that way," Porter said. "At the end of the day, he has a job to do as a general manager and I have a job to do as the manager, but at the same time we have to work as one unit to put a team together we believe is going to give us the best opportunity to win ballgames."


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Wills - What do the words mean?
Will writing involves the use of a lot of legal terminology. Knowing what some of the most common words and terms mean can help guide you through the necessary process of making a Will.
This is somebody who manages the financial affairs of the deceased where there is no Will. Normally the administrator is someone who is the next of kin.
This can be anything you own that is of value. This can include property. Beneficiary/Beneficiaries: Those who have been left money or other benefits in a Will.
A gift made in a Will to an individual or body.
The children of the deceased. This means illegitimate and adopted children but not stepchildren unless the Will includes provision for them.
This is a legal document that alters or adds to an existing Will and therefore needs to be kept with it. Like a Will, it also has to be witnessed.
When you die this is the total value of all your assets less any debts you might have.
This could be a person or an organisation like a bank or solicitor. The deceased has appointed them in their Will to deal with their financial affairs.
Grant of Probate:
This is the authority from the Court for the Executor to manage the financial affairs of the deceased.
Allows the deceased to make important arrangements in a Will for any children by appointing a guardian. They are responsible for managing and looking after the affairs of the deceased's children.
Inheritance Tax
This involves paying tax on the value of an estate that is above a particular threshold.
If the deceased dies without making a will then he or she are said to have died intestate. This means that allocation of the estate is done according to an agreed set of rules.
This is a person or organisation to whom you leave a gift in your Will.
Letters of administration:
These are official documents from the court which confirm the person's appointment as the administrator of the estate.
Life Interest:
This is a gift that allows a person or persons to receive either the income from an asset or the right to stay in a property for the duration of their life.
Personal Chattels
Unlike money or property, these are the personal effects of the deceased.
This is the legal process that needs to be followed after someone dies to ensure that the Will is valid. It gives the executors the power to deal with the estate.
Probate Registry:
This is a part of the Courts service that looks after the Wills and estates of those who have died.
Anything which the deceased owned.
After all the debts, specific bequests and legacies have been paid this is what is left of the estate to be shared out.
This is a list of all of the assets included in a trust or Will.
This is the person who has made the Will.
This is an arrangement that allows trustees to own and manage property on behalf of someone else.
This is a legal document that defines what the deceased wants to happen to their estate after they die.
These are two people who are independent and do not benefit from the Will. Their role is to sign the Will to confirm that they have seen the Testator signing it.


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Free For All
This story appears in the November 1997 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Imagine your customers--in virtually any country--being able to contact your business with one toll-free number.
That's now a reality, thanks to recent advancements made by the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva. Since June, the ITU, which regulates telecommunications issues across the globe, has been issuing toll-free numbers worldwide. It wasn't possible before June because each country relied on its own toll-free plan. But that's all changed--and the ITU has finally established a universal toll-free standard, linking dozens of industrialized nations.
"Today, more than $157 billion is traded annually using toll-free lines, and that's mostly in the United States," says Patricia Sieh of AT&T, one of six U.S. carriers authorized to apply for the numbers. "The prospects for the growth of international trade are tremendous."
AT&T pioneered the concept of toll-free phone service 30 years ago. An impressive 7 million toll-free calls were made that first year--an ever-growing tally that topped 20 billion in 1996. Even those figures are sure to climb, however; businesses vying for a chance to market a single number to their countries of choice are clamoring for these next-generation toll-free numbers. When the ITU accepted its first round of applications, more than 20,000 poured in.
The new numbers are being administered on a first-come, first-served basis. But don't worry about the ITU running out any time soon--an eight-digit format, instead of the traditional seven, ensures millions of additional combinations.
The ITU application fee is about $160; contact AT&T or one of the other authorized carriers (Cable & Wireless, MCI, Sprint, USA Global Link or WorldCom) for more information. Once your application is received, you can expect confirmation of your new number within three weeks. The ITU requires carriers to make the number operational within six months of notification.
Some advice for the global-minded: Numbers that spell out words might not work in other countries if the letters assigned to foreign keypads don't correspond with yours. Also, registering a clever English phrase might be lost on overseas customers who don't speak the language.
Export Advice
Small exporters take note: A new Web site from American Express is worth a closer look--and perhaps even a bookmark.
Rich in information, American Express Small Business Exchange (http://www.americanexpress.com/smallbusiness ) is designed to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses by providing access to business planning information and networking opportunities. Content furnished through a partnership with Boston-based International Strategies Inc., a provider of global information services for small and medium-sized firms, is a highlight not to be overlooked--especially by entrepreneurs scoping out international markets.
Just click "expand internationally" on the home page, and you're immediately linked to valuable market research reports for 78 countries. You have two report topics to choose from for each country. The Export Issues report covers trade regulations, negotiations, banned imports, labeling requirements and patent information. The Business Travel and Protocol report encompasses entry requirements, health considerations, major commercial holidays, common phrases, attitudes toward Americans and more. "[The reports] provide information somebody would need to do business in that country," says Michael Jaffe, the site's manager.
The standard reports are free, and you don't have to be an American Express cardholder to use them. In-depth country reports can be purchased from the International Strategies Web site at http://www.exporthotline.com
Contact Sources
American Express Small Business Exchange, (212) 640-4863
AT&T International Services, (800) 448-8600
International Strategies Inc., http://www.exporthotline.com


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An unresolved crisis, long in the making, in which everyone acknowledges that failure to find a resolution means we're going over a "fiscal cliff," would seem to present a textbook definition of a leadership challenge.
For that reason, AdvisorOne spoke with Professor Ronald Heifetz (left), the author of widely cited texts on leadership and founder of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
With just weeks left in the year before heading over that fiscal cliff, President Obama convened talks on Friday with Republican leaders in Congress with the aim of resolving the chronic shortfalls that have left trillion-dollar budget deficits for each of the last four years.
The Congressional Budget Office, among others, projects the U.S. will fall into recession if tax hikes and austerity spending cuts set to take effect on Jan. 1 impact the economy at the same time.
AdvisorOne has asked Heifetz what it will take for leaders of the two parties to overcome this challenge. A key insight of the Harvard professor's past writings on leadership, which he references in our interview, is the distinction he makes between "technical" leadership and "adaptive" leadership.
When the problem is merely technical, a leader can simply go to his advisors or technical experts to fix the problem. The fiscal cliff, however, is a problem that technical experts at the Office of Management and Budget cannot fix. Rather, it is a political impasse in which we are the problem, and adaptive leadership is needed to help Americans understand why we must make changes and how we might do so. Heifetz comments:
AdvisorOne: What is the nature of the problem?
Heifetz: The fiscal cliff is a bundle of challenges – it's not one challenge – some of which are technical and amenable to problem solving, but some of which are adaptive and require rethinking of strategic priorities, modes of operating, structural design or cultural norms.
What makes an adaptive challenge so tough are the losses that are required to be sustained in order to develop a new capacity. Sifting through what … to preserve and what to discard is a very painful process for people.
The fiscal cliff represents the losses demanded by living up to the fundamental household economic logic that ultimately you have to pay for what you buy. Democratic governments around the world commonly get themsleves into this trouble because it's hard to face citizens with the need to pay for what they want. Politicians get themselves elected based on a promise of services for less than what they cost, or rather to distribute the cost in ways that make it more politically feasible but ultimately not wise from a budgetary point of view.
AdvisorOne: Is the problem solvable?
Heifetz: Bill Clinton (right) proved that one could face a tax increase and at the same time slash the government (through their reinventing government programs). Al Gore cut 250,000 jobs from government, and I think that restored a sense of confidence that the government could get its house under control.
Ross Perot got nearly 20% of the popular vote in 1992 because he said he could fix the deficit. Republicans tend to cut taxes but spend a lot of money on the military. The strategy has been to balloon the deficit, then put pressure on the budget to further slash government spending. The problem right now is there is no easy way to cut government spending.
Half of the fiscal cliff is figuring out how to cut government spending amidst recession — facing the trade off in spending cuts and the losses that tax increases require in populations of people that are resistant to tax increases.
AdvisorOne: How do leaders of both parties make the case for change?
Heifetz: The impasse is not in Washington, the impasse is in the periphery, in the public. [Politicians] have to discover the negotiating space that allows each of them to go back and persuade their home constituencies that the amount of stretching they did [to reach a compromise] was still consummate with the core values they uphold.
With any constituency there's a range of persuadability which defines how much each legislator can negotiate. How far can I stretch my people when I go home and have to inform them of the bad news that I had to compromise? It's the selling of the compromise back home that will determine the negotiating options. What you will see now in the next month is a bona fide effort to mobilize the periphery to affect the option space defined by each other's constituencies.
AdvisorOne: Will the two parties be able to reach a compromise, and whose preferences would such a compromise more likely mirror?
Heifetz: I think the odds are they'll cut a deal because the stakes are too high not to. Right now, the way this negotiation is structured, the president has a stronger hand and the Republicans will have to make a significant adjustment.
The president has the upper hand because the president can allow the tax cuts to expire, and then can introduce in January new legislation to introduce tax cuts for the middle class. It would be pretty hard for Republicans not to allow these tax cuts.
That gives Obama a lot of leverage. He can afford to go over half that cliff. He can reinstate tax cuts for the constituencies that he wants to.
AdvisorOne: How do U.S. leaders, Republicans particularly, sell a deal back home?
Heifetz: I'd say prepare now the ground work so that when they have to go back to the public and explain why they're having to make a U-turn on their agenda, they've begun to shape the narrative so their constituencies won't kill them when they come back for the next election.
Democrats have to find a way to give the Republicans enough coverage as they make a U-turn; Republicans cannot look too treasonous to their own constituency.
AdvisorOne: How does the president show leadership in all of this?
Heifetz: It behooves him to be extremely clear in his narrative that America needs to get its house in order, which is a value that the Republicans have been espousing for a very long time and a value that got Ross Perot 20% of the vote in 1992.
I think that leadership then will require the development of a narrative by the president [to the effect that] it's going to take a decade to get the American house in order. It means a variety of things to bring the budget back to surplus; it means a variety of things to paying off the debt; it means a variety of things to reforming the tax code… The president is in a unique position of being able to show how each component constituency has responsibility for their piece of the puzzle and how each piece will strengthen the foundation of American competitiveness for the next decades.
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March 8, 2011 (St. Petersburg, FL) – Preparations for the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg are well underway as the event announced today the addition of more "horsepower" to its entertainment line-up at a press conference in Andersen RacePark. The 2011 event will feature appearances from the world renowned Budweiser Clydesdales, along with full track drifting demonstrations and the Red Bull Air Show.
The iconic, eight-horse Budweiser Clydesdale hitch will parade through downtown St. Petersburg and make appearances at Grandstand 2 as part of the weekend's festivities. The Clydesdales were formally introduced in 1933 to commemorate the repeal of Prohibition for beer and have been part of celebrations ever since, captivating millions with their strength and majesty.
"The World's Fastest Spring Break Party will live up to its name by offering an entertainment package rivaled only by the high-level racing offered on the track," said Tim Ramsberger, Vice President and General Manager for the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. "Race fans and families will enjoy a memorable weekend with entertainment and activities that are just as diverse as the crowd that comes to the race."
Drifting will make its return to the streets of St. Petersburg as well. The high-powered motorsport demonstration features a technique where the driver intentionally over steers at a high speed, causing the car to lose traction yet still maintaining control of the car. Drifting demos will take place Friday, March 25 from 12:15-12:35 p.m., Saturday, March 26 from 11:20-11:40 a.m. and Sunday, March 27 from 9:20-9:50 a.m.
Also making a return to the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg for 2011 is the Red Bull Air Show, which will take to the sky throughout race weekend. The Red Bull Air Show will feature stunt aircraft, stunt helicopter and a sky diving team.
Fans can expect new things from the IZOD IndyCar Series that will bring them closer to the action with new pre-, during and post-event features. INDYCAR will debut the IZOD IndyCar Fan Village, an area located between turns 4 and 5 where fans will have the opportunity to interact with drivers and teams, test their skills in racing simulators and receive exclusive information digitally. INDYCAR will also debut its new, custom-designed mobile stage and will produce unique driver introductions during which each driver will be introduced individually according to country to increase the fan experience.
Fans can also take a walk through the Bright House Speed Zone for some fast fun. The 24,000 square foot zone will feature interactive simulators, driver autograph sessions, a cafe area provided by Lundy's Catering and games from Bright House. Fans can enjoy the convenience of several beer gardens located throughout the site, as well as a floating bar on the marina at the Acura Yacht Club.
Speed enthusiasts will also enjoy the Honda product display located in front of the Mahaffey Theater. Honda will be bringing down its latest line up of cars and boats for fans to check out.
The Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg will also bring back the iconic and ever-popular Ferris Wheel to the 2011 event and will install six videoboards along with four timing/scoring towers throughout the track to enhance the overall fan experience.
The Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg returns to the streets of downtown St. Petersburg, March 25-27, 2011, marking the start of the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series season and the beginning of a new era of open-wheel racing in North America with the Mazda Road to Indy giving young drivers a clear path all the way from karting to the Indy 500.
About the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
The Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg is run on a 1.8-mile, 14-turn waterfront circuit that includes a combination of adjacent downtown streets circling Pioneer Park, the Progress Energy Center for the Arts, the Salvador Dali Museum and extending onto runways at Albert Whitted Airport that overlook the Bay and picturesque St. Petersburg Harbor and Marina.
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Lesley was my closest friend to become sick in the 1980s, and he fought bravely until his death from AIDS. Today, there are little rituals I have to honor his memory, and I often write about him, the first of many friends lost to the epidemic.
But there's something I will not do. I will not dig up Lesley's body and beat young gay men with his corpse. Lesley didn't perish so I could use him as a scare tactic. He wasn't a cautionary tale. He wasn't a martyr. He was a man with the same passions and faults as anyone else, and I won't use his death as a blunt instrument.
Plenty of us are more than happy to rob graves, however, in an attempt to frighten gay men into acceptable behaviors. This kind of horror-by-proxy happens all the time. Concerned but misguided gay men of a certain age hear whatever the latest HIV infection rates are, and they pull the AIDS Crisis Card.
"If their friends all died like mine did, maybe they would think twice before having sex without a condom," goes a typical remark, drenched in self pity and tenuous logic.
This statement misrepresents our lost friends and oversimplifies the state of HIV today. It projects our grief in the direction of those who bear no responsibility or resemblance to what we experienced. It subtly blames our departed friends for their mistakes, and then tries to equate them with a new generation of gay men who are much too smart to buy into it.
So frozen in time is our victimhood, it hardly allows for the facts of the here and now. Young gay men are more aware of HIV than my generation ever was. They simply relate to it differently, having come of age since the advent of successful treatments. Asking them to fear something they have literally grown to accept is as realistic as asking them to perform "duck and cover" drills in case Russia drops the bomb.
To view these young men and say, in effect, "if only you saw all the death that I saw…" is a wishful fantasy that disturbs me on all sorts of levels, and it says far more about us than it does about them.
I understand these attitudes come from a place of complicated emotions, ranging from grief, primarily, to our own shame or guilt over dodging a bullet — and it may come from a sincere need to share our experience with others. The punishing tone that often accompanies it, though, isn't going to win the respect or investment of younger men. It makes us as relevant as old men on the front lawn waving a rake at youngsters.
I take our community history very seriously. I've written a book about the dawn of AIDS in Hollywood, have read And the Band Played On more than once, cheered on the activists in the documentary How to Survive a Plague, and can't wait for the release of Sean Strub's upcoming AIDS memoir, Body Counts. There is enormous value in preserving our history — and in recognizing that many of us still carry trauma born of that time.
Community advocates have stepped up work to help us process what we went through a generation ago. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a very real phenomenon for longtime survivors, and excellent community forums have been mounted to explore these areas by the Medius Working Group in New York City and the "Let's Kick (ASS) AIDS Survivor Syndrome" project in San Francisco. Hopefully, other cities and LGBT organizations will follow suit.
That important work is quite different, however, from allowing our past to blind us to the present. When we raise our finger and say in a voice filled with foreboding, "People think you only have to take a few pills and that's it," we are denying the actual experience of a lot of people with HIV. For many like me, taking a few pills a day is, in fact, the only impact HIV has on my life. Research suggests I will live a normal lifespan and am more likely to die from cigarettes than HIV. And I'm not going to deny all that in order to advance a fright-show storyline that isn't my experience.
There are young voices telling new stories, thankfully. Gay writers living with HIV such as Patrick Ingram, Josh Robbins, Tyler Curry, Aaron Laxton, Robert Breining and the irascible Josh Kruger are peering across the generational divide (I have HIV antibodies older than they are) and they seem bemused. Their blogs suggest a post-AIDS life of full engagement and purpose. I consider this progress. If their lives (and writings) don't include burying friends or serious health concerns, wasn't that our goal all along?
Nowhere has our AIDS tragedy mindset done more damage than in the rollout of the unfairly maligned Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), the prevention breakthrough that allows HIV negative people to take anti-HIV medication to avoid infection. It is largely viewed as an alternative to condoms, which has quickly labeled HIV negative men taking PrEP as "barebacking sluts" by people coming unhinged at the very idea of unprotected sex. (Note: I remember when gay sex never involved condoms. It was glorious. I always thought getting back to a place where we had a real choice in the matter was kind of the point.)
There is something about the simplicity of PrEP (one pill a day! no condom negotiation! no guilt or judgment!) that is driving older gay men up the wall, considering their resistance to it and spurious claims of inefficacy, cost, and side effects. Tellingly, younger gay men have voiced fewer objections.
The facts are these: PrEP is at least as effective as condoms when used properly. The drug currently used for PrEP, Truvada, is well tolerated with few side effects. And despite fears and misinformation, it is being covered by insurance providers (do you know of even one claimant that has been denied?). For those without insurance, Gilead, the maker of Truvada, has a generous patient assistance program that allows you to earn a sizeable income and still get the medication.
Perhaps, in the end, we are simply victims of our own success as advocates. We successfully entrenched the immediate, mortal danger of HIV, the shameless inaction of our government, and the profit-driven, opportunistic role of the pharmaceutical industry. Anything that veers from that narrative, especially for those of us who lived it, feels like betrayal. Yet here we sit, in an age that confounds so much of what we once knew to be true.
The 1980′s are history. They are not a prevention strategy. The war as we once knew it to be, the one Lesley and so many others fought so valiantly, is over.
May they rest in peace.
This essay originally appeared on Mark S. King's blog My Fabulous Disease.


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In which we adopt the persona of Women's Voices. Women Vote robocaller and misinformation chief Lamont Williams, if he only had a voice.
Yo voters, this is Lamont, calling because you need to register to vote. Oh really? You already registered? But did you ever receive the packet? Did you send in the detailed form? Because we explicitly stated on every packet that you were required to send in the form. All right, to be sure, you are not required to send in the form to vote, per se, but to be registered. And you need to register! To vote. Women's Voices, Women Vote has even kindly provided me with some dates and deadlines, although they are mostly, to be honest with you sisters, completely arbitrary and false and I suspect only generated to elicit the sort of mass confusion popularized by Karl Rove, but I'm a cynic. Five years after Bush said so, I also don't believe, ladies, that the Mission was actually Accomplished, or that Saddam Hussein orchestrated September 11, or that Guantanamo is really such a decent place to retire. And as far as I know, Barack Obama isn't Muslim and the United States did not invent AIDS, but maybe I am paying too much attention to these two winos named Moe and Megan...
MOE: Oh look at this, Obama's "aura of inevitability" has diminished. Remember when that happened to Hillary? How can we ever democratically elect a president if he/she doesn't have that "aura of inevitability"? It's unamerican!
MEGAN: You have to have an aura of inevitability, it's sort of like an aura of infallibility and of course the President is infallible!
MOE: This is uplifting. Troops don't want to seek counseling for their psychological/psychiatric issues for fear it will hurt their careers. And with good reason: up until now you've had to given extensive interviews if you report that you've sought mental health help when applying for security clearance.
One in four of the troops surveyed said he or she knew "nothing at all about effective mental health treatments for issues that may arise from their service in a war zone," Robinowitz said.
MOE: Michelle Obama still rules:
The interviewer later prefaced a question by saying she wanted to "turn the page" from the Wright controversy.
"No, you don't," Mrs. Obama replied.
MEGAN: Ok, yeah, that sort of kicks ass.
MEGAN: Anyway, so, the mental health in the military thing, it's sort of like Dodai wrote only with greater consequences. Also, it's my experience that your can get a clearance as long as you're honest about stuff, it just takes longer.
MOE: Sometimes Dick Cheney really sorta steps out of character, you know?
MEGAN: Sometimes, it just seems like he's fucking with us.
MEGAN: Sort of like Bush with that whole Mission Accomplished" thing
MOE: Yeah you wouldn't think that what with orchestrating the sophisticated propaganda effort to recruit, brief and dispatch retired military commanders to defend the war on teevee and such that...he'd have the time to advocate against trying to save the whales? He is truly a multitasker.
MOE: Did you read that story, by the way? It came out on a weekend so I think we never got to it but it's worth checking out (all ninety pages of it, probably!) The fascinating thing was how the appearance of these supposedly "objective" pundits was used within the administration to give officials a sense that the tide of public sentiment was turning.
"The impressions that you're getting from the media and from the various pronouncements being made by people who have not been here in my opinion are totally false," Donald W. Shepperd, a retired Air Force general, reported live on CNN by phone from Guantánamo that same afternoon.
The next morning, Montgomery Meigs, a retired Army general and NBC analyst, appeared on "Today." "There's been over $100 million of new construction," he reported. "The place is very professionally run."
Within days, transcripts of the analysts' appearances were circulated to senior White House and Pentagon officials, cited as evidence of progress in the battle for hearts and minds at home.
MEGAN: What does he hate about whales? Or if it just that they are yummy?
MOE: Sometimes they get in the way of fast ships transporting oil or nukes or whatever I guess.
MEGAN: Or sweet, sweet babies for him to drink the blood of?
MEGAN: Anyway, yeah, I did the story although it sorta didn't surprise me. I kinda figure everyone on TV has an agenda, I guess it's more the coordination part that seemed too much like walking and chewing gum for this administration.
MOE: My ex-boyfriend led a "Mission Accomplished!" wheat paste postering campaign throughout Philadelphia about...three years ago I guess. Now I'm getting nostalgic! Over 3,000 troops have probably died since then. And, oh yeah, at least half a million Iraqis.
MEGAN: Well, really, obviously their lives are not as important as our ability to keep driving SUVs and ignoring the human costs of the war, so, you know, shhhhhh.
MOE: Moving on to matters slightly more obscure but, sadly, no less significant when it comes to our choice of Custodian Of the Unaccomplished and to that end Iraqi lives, this Women's Voices Women's Vote voter fraud conspiracy-type thing is sooo fascinating.
MEGAN: No, totally. It's like, completely shady and bad, very Rovian. I should go find their tax returns.
MOE: It's like oh I get it. Women get more representation if we dispatch a man named "Lamont" to call "single women" aka "black folks" and give them all the wrong dates, times and deadlines for registration to vote. I'm kinda slightly more annoyed about my primary nonvoting experience now.
* Michigan officials ended up "fielding tons of calls from confused voters" after Women's Voices did a February mailing to "380,000 unmarried women" — including numerous deceased voters and even more that were already registered. Sarah Johnson of Women's Voices "seemed confused by the confusion," the Lansing State Journal reported.
"Confused by the confusion." No better tone to master in this business, I guess!
MEGAN: Ha, also, Page Gardner has a ton of donations to groups like EMILY's List (supporting Clinton) and, slightly strangely, Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz (committed Clinton superdelegate) and state Democratic committees but not one Presidential candidate this cycle.
MOE: And this is why I love Barack Obama: What's he spent, close to half a billion dollars on television commercials? And yet he tells people at rallies they should turn the TV off.
MEGAN: She gave to Kerry in 2004, though, and to Clinton's Senate re-election campaign.
MEGAN: Podesta's on the board.
MOE: Obama is probably just trying to keep people like Page and the Pentagon from polluting people's brains. What do people like Page get from a Clinton administration? Jobs? Or the "aura" of access?
MEGAN: I think it's the aura of access. I mean, people really, really, really, really get off on the idea that they can call the White House and someone will return their phone calls, and on those grip-and-grin pictures.
MEGAN: Like, I went to a dinner thing when I was still a lobbyist last year, very high-end, extremely rich people there. And they all queued up and waited for an hour to get a grip/grin with Mitt Romney.
MOE: ew.
MOE: Did you catch any Hillary on O'Reilly? Bc I missed it.
MEGAN: I can't watch O'Reilly. I keep seeing clips of her saying Wright's comments were offensive.
MEGAN: O'Reilly... it's like, I don't even get the smallest sense that he knows how unintentionally ironic he is. The only reason I can watch Shephard Smith in the afternoon is half the time I think he's winking when he says outrageous stuff. That, and I'm a total hag.
Propaganda via Jesse Goldstein of Space 1026.


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NEA Sets Priorities for IDEA Reauthorization
Measure awaits action by full Senate
As reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) works its way through Congress, NEA is working with U.S. Representatives, Senators, their staffs, and other advocacy groups to improve this landmark federal legislation.
Certain provisions of the increasingly problematic Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) have complicated the IDEA reauthorization process. ESEA, also known as the "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) Act, imposes a variety of federal requirements that overlap or otherwise affect IDEA rules and regulations.
The House of Representatives has completed its version of the reauthorization bill (H.R. 1350). The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee has reported out the Senate version, S. 1248, but it now awaits scheduling for debate and action on the Senate floor. NEA and others are urging action before Congress adjourns for the year, probably in late November.
NEA is encouraging all of its members and others concerned with this issue to urge their U.S. senators to support moving S. 1248 to the floor for action.
The House bill contains some real improvements, but it has serious shortcomings, as well. A number of those shortcomings are improved upon in the Senate version. Among the more important improvements is a modified definition of a "highly qualified" special education teacher that takes into account some of NEA's proposals.
NEA has long supported IDEA. It is a civil rights law by nature that has opened access to more than six million children who otherwise might not receive the support programs and services they need to be successful. It continues to hold great promise for millions more.
In addition to being a civil rights issue, IDEA is an education policy issue because it regulates the delivery of special education services. Given that IDEA has just begun to show its impact, NEA is suggesting few statutory changes during the current reauthorization process. We view reauthorization mainly as an opportunity to improve implementation.


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Manufacturing activity declined moderately this month, according to firms responding to the January Business Outlook Survey. Following reported increases in business activity in late 2012, most indicators fell back from the readings posted last month. The survey's broad indicators of future activity, however, showed some improvement this month.
The survey's broadest measure of manufacturing conditions, the diffusion index of current activity, decreased from a revised reading of 4.6 in December to -5.8 this month (see Chart).* The demand for manufactured goods showed slight declines this month: The new orders index declined from a revised reading of 4.9 in December to -4.3 in January. The shipments index remained slightly positive but suggests no overall growth — the percentage of firms reporting increased shipments was mostly offset by the percentage reporting decreased shipments (26 percent). The indexes for both delivery times and unfilled orders recorded slightly negative readings this month.
Labor market conditions at reporting firms deteriorated this month. The employment index, at -5.2, fell from -0.2 in December. The percentage of firms reporting decreases in employment (16 percent) exceeded the percentage reporting increases (11 percent). Firms also indicated a decrease in the average workweek compared with last month.
The indexes for prices received for respondents' own manufactured goods and prices paid for purchased inputs suggest reduced price pressures this month. The prices received index decreased 14 points, from 12.4 to -1.1. The percentage of firms reporting lower prices for their own manufactured goods (9 percent) was slightly greater than those reporting higher prices (8 percent). The prices paid index fell 9 points; 20 percent of firms reported higher costs, compared with 27 percent last month.
The survey's future indicators suggest that firms expect recent declines to be temporary. The future general activity index increased from a revised reading of 23.7 to 29.2, its second consecutive monthly increase (see Chart). The percentage expecting increases in activity over the next six months (43 percent) exceeded the percentage expecting decreases (14 percent). The indexes for future new orders and shipments also improved, increasing 4 points and 11 points respectively. The future employment index, however, fell modestly from 11.2 to 10.7. Only 22 percent of firms expect employment to increase over the next six months.
In this month's special questions, firms were asked about the factors that are influencing their hiring plans over the next 12 months (see Special Questions). The most frequently cited factors among firms that plan to restrain hiring were the need to keep operating costs low and low expectations for sales growth. Uncertainty about the cost of health-care insurance and about regulations also ranked high. Thirty-seven percent of the firms indicated that federal fiscal policy developments have decreased hiring plans.
The January Business Outlook Survey suggests that activity in the region's manufacturing sector decreased moderately this month. Firms reported decreases in overall activity, new orders, and employment this month. Firms also reported a moderation in price pressures compared with the previous month. The survey's future activity indexes suggest that firms expect growth over the first six months of 2013.
* The survey's annual historical revisions, which incorporate new seasonal adjustment factors, were released on January 10, 2013.
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Our top 25 sales from 2013 display a broad cross-section of the rare book world where age, scarcity and significance combine to create some highly priced items. Der Naturforscher, which sold for $60,321, became AbeBooks third most expensive sale ever in the websites history. Only a first edition of The Hobbit and a 1644 copy of Areopagitica by John Milton have sold for more.
Elsewhere on the list, there are four bibles, Shakespeares works in French, photography of Tibet, poetry from Emily Dickinson, handwritten spell-books and classics from Charles Dickens, J.K. Rowling, William Golding, Frank Herbert, and Margery Williams.
The spell-books, or grimoires to give them the correct Wiccan name, are particularly interesting as they are cursed. We have not heard from the buyer since the purchase and that could be good or bad. The opening page of the first one is inscribed with the warning:
To those not of the craft the reading of this book is forbidden! Proceed no further or justice will exact a swift and terrible retribution and you will surely suffer at the hand of the craft.
The same warning is then inscribed again in Theban, an ancient alphabet. The author, a witch, has signed the page using Theban. According to Wiccan traditions, a grimoire should be burned after the witchs death. This ritual makes these spell-books very scarce.
The books include information on gems, planets, rites, potions, and exorcisms. They also cover alchemy, chemistry, cures, ceremonial perfumes and balms, as well as recipes for nerve tonics, liqueurs and even hairspray.
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1. Der Naturforscher (The Natural Scientist) by J.E.I Walch - $60,321
Bound in 13 volumes, this historic book of natural science features 143 folded engravings of which 85 are hand-colored. This work deals with entomology, palaeozoology, mineralogy and geology, zoology and botany.
2. Poems. First, Second and Third Series by Emily Dickinson - $30,000
A set of first editions of her first three works; published in 1890, 1891 and 1896 respectively.
3. Kupfel-Bibel (Copper Bible) by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer - $28,500
Published in 1731, the German translation of the Physica Sacra, concurrently published in Latin, is Scheuchzers famous scientific commentary on the Bible, with 762 plates on cosmography, paleontology, zoology, botany and anatomy.
4. Tibet and Lhasa by John Claude White - $28,000
Published in 1908 by Johnston and Hoffmann, this is the first single volume edition and contains Whites amazing photographs of the region taken during the 1904 British expedition to Tibet.
5. The Gentlemans Magazine edited by Edward Cave - $26,083
Collection of issues, beginning with the first volume in 1731 through until 1814, 116 volumes in total.
7. Lord of the Flies by William Golding - $19,877
A 1954 first edition with its dust jacket. Written under the text of the half-title for Angharad Ryder from William Golding with best wishes. Loosely inserted is a hand-written envelope from Golding with a hand-written postcard inside, Dear Miss Ryder, Yes Lord of the Flies is the alleged translation of Beelzebub. I will sign your Nobel Speech if you send it. Yours sincerely William Golding. Also included are two hand-written letters from Golding to Ryder.
8. The Natural History of British Fishes, including Scientific and General Descriptions of the Most Interesting Species by Edward Donovan - $18,758
Published in 1803, this first edition contains an extensive selection of colored plates.
9= The Personal History of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - $17,500
First edition as issued in the publisher's original 20 parts bound into 19.
9= Some Disordered Interior Geometries by Francesca Woodman - $17,500
Rare copy of the only book published in Woodman's lifetime. The book is in the form an Italian geometry notebook, with 16 black and white reproductions, handwritten text and whiteout pasted over arcane mathematical formulae. Following the artist's tragic death in 1981, just after publication, 450 of the 500 copies were returned to the family and distributed as a tribute at Woodman's funeral.
11. Oeuvres de Shakespeare Traduit de LAnglois, Dedie au Roi by William Shakespeare - $16,816
Published in 1776, this 20-volume set was one of the few French translations of the Bards work in the 18th century.
12. Zanzibar: City, Island and Coast by Richard Burton - $16,500
Published in 1872 by Tinsley Brothers, this two-volume set includes 11 engraved plates and a folding map. Burton details the country and its natural history, and his various journeys between 1857 and 1859 in the lake regions of east Africa, including the discoveries of Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika.
13. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams - $15,950
Published in 1922, first US edition of one of the first modern picture books for children.
15. Institutiones by Emperor of the East, Justinian I Accursius $15,050
Written on vellum and produced in Paris around 1250. A beautiful handwritten manuscript with decorations in the margins and initials in red and blue. Rebound with 16th century leather with one remaining clasp
16= In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck - $15,000
A 1936 signed first edition with its dust jacket. One of the great social justice novels of the 20th century, detailing a fruit pickers strike. Inscribed by the author to his sister Elizabeth and her husband Gene, with his sisters bookplate.
16=Dune by Frank Herbert - $15,000
Signed first edition published in 1965 by Chilton. This copy was complete with the first issue dust jacket and the $5.95 price on the front flap.
18. Midnights Children by Salman Rushdie - $14,005
Published in 1980, this is a fine uncorrected UK proof in the rare and fragile original proof dust wrapper.
19. Original Personal Handwritten Manuscript Grimoire by Persephone Adrastea Eirene - $13,865
Two spiral-bound books of spells handwritten in the 1960s by a high priestess of Wicca called Persephone Adrastea Eirene, an American witch of Swedish and English ancestry who led her own coven.
20. The New Testament (2 volumes) by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam - $13,808
Published in 1548, this is the first English translation of Erasmus account of the New Testament, Enpriented at London: in Fletestrete at the signe of the sunne by Edwarde Whitchurche the last daie of Januarie. In 1547, King Edward VI had ordered that a copy of this book be placed in every church within a year. It contains the bookplate of Jacob Post from Islington. Erasmus (1466-1536) was a priest, scholar and theologian.
21. A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies Of the Most Notorious Highway-Men, Foot-Pads, Shop-Lifts, and Cheats by Captain Alexander Smith - $13,353
Published in 1719, this fifth edition was published in two volumes and contains the most secret and barbarous murders, unparalleled robberies, notorious thefts and unheard of cheats, setting them in a true light and exposing them to public view for the common benefit of mankind. The accounts and confessions are drawn from imprisoned villains who awaited their fate at the gallows.
22. Méchanique Analitique by Joseph Louis Lagrange - $13,112
Published in 1788, this text is the result of more than two decades of work by one of Frances greatest mathematicians.
23. Alcoholics Anonymous by Bill Wilson - $13,000
A 1939 first edition of the Big Book that helped launch AAs 12-step program of recovery in near fine condition.
24= Holy Bible 1572 - $12,500
Imprinted in Powles Churcheyarde by Richard Lugge, this is the second folio (a.k.a. Leda) edition of the Bishops Bible: the Old Testament is a close reprint of the 1568 text as revised under the supervision of Matthew Parker, but with fresh revisions to the New Testament as directed by Giles Lawrence.
24= Thoughts and Adventures by Winston S. Churchill - $12,500
Signed association copy. Churchill signed the half-title page for Herbert Morrison, who served as Home Secretary in Churchill's war cabinet, and later served as Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Commons in the post-World War II era. The book is a first printing of the first Odhams edition, previously issued in 1932. Complete with its dust jacket.
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More than 500 books priced $3,000 and higher were sold during the year via AbeBooks. That list includes two Robert Frost books (worth a combined $16,000), two signed copies of The Cuckoos Calling by Robert Galbraith aka JK Rowling, (worth a combined $6,976), three Agatha Christie novels (worth a combined $13,450), four books by Isaac Asimov (worth a combined $10,817), five books by James Joyce (worth a combined $22,855) and five Great Gatsbys (worth a combined $27,300). Below are 10 more sales that caught our eye during the year.
1. Guest Book for the Castello Bar at the Castle Schloss Mondsee near Salzburg, Austria - $11,900
Castle Schloss Mondsee, now an upmarket hotel, began life as a Benedictine abbey and was founded in 748. This guest book is full of famous signatures, including Burt Lancaster, Greta Garbo, Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
2. The Handmade Papers of Japan by Thomas and Harriet R. Tindale - $9,500
Printed in Paris, this is pioneering book on astronomy and geography from 1551.
3. The Lindisfarne Gospel - facsimile edition - $9,026
The Lindisfarne Gospel is an illuminated manuscript produced around 700 AD on the island of Lindisfarne. The original, considered one of the finest works of post Roman Britain art, is on display in the British Library. This facsimile was produced in limited numbers (980 copies) in 2002 and contains two volumes of commentary.
4. A Signed Photograph of Ernest Hemingway - $8,250
Sitting on a sailboat gunwale, Hemingway looks healthy and tanned. The photo is inscribed Norma - glad you finally came to Key West - ever, Ernest and dated 1937.
5. Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley - by Phillis Wheatley - $8,250
First edition from a pioneer of African-American literature who defied slavery and became a published poet.
6. Long Walk to Freedom - by Nelson Mandela - $8,152
Illustrated edition of Mandelas autobiography, published 1996, limited to 425 copies which were signed by Mandela.
7. The Moment, for Miriam - by Kenneth Patchen - $7,500
Patchen was an American poet (1911-1972) and novelist. This rare poetry book was published in 1955 and limited to 42 hand-bound copies produced at Henry Geigers printshop. The Moment gathers together two of Patchen's 1955 works of illustrated poems, Glory Never Guesses and A Surprise for the Bagpipe Player. Miriam was Patchens wife.
8. An Autograph Letter Signed by Franz Liszt - $5,993
Handwritten two-page letter written by the composer to A. René at Feodosiya. He thanks him for a musical manuscript, and tells him he will spend the winter in Budapest. Signed F. Liszt.
9. The Shop Signs of Peking - by H.K. Fung & the Chinese Painting Association - $5,500
Rare 1931 book filled with paintings of shop signs. Fung wrote the preface in English.
10. Ballet - by Alexey Brodovitch - $5,500
First edition published in 1945. Between 1935 and 1937, Brodovitch photographed several of the leading Russian ballet companies while they performed in New York.