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In "Operation CES Success" you'll get insider advice from PR veterans at Gregory FCA, a top national PR firm. These strategies have helped tech companies leverage their CES presence into millions of dollars in funding, new business, and partnerships, and major news stories in CNN, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and other top media.

Memorandum, at Montréal, of John Alfred Poor, promoter of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Rail Road, in which he describes his daring trip to Montréal, undertaken during a blizzard, to secure the Portland, Me., to Montréal route for the road.

"Professor Poor's Guide to Buying HDTV" gives you all you need to know to make a confident decision when buying an HDTV. It explains the advantages and weaknesses of the different technologies -- including LCD, plasma, DLP, and LCoS -- in an easy-to-read style. It includes checklists to help you compare different models, and tells you exactly what to look for when you go shopping. It tells you the two main reasons that people return their new HDTVs, and how you can avoid making a similar mistake. And it helps you determine how big your new HDTV should be, using one easy calculation. The author, Alfred Poor, has an international reputation as an independent expert in display technology, and also writes "HDTV Almanac" at http: //hdtvprofessor.com/HDTVAlmanac where he provides daily news and commentary on HDTV and related consumer electronics topics.

Handwritten ms. pages (mostly folded, sewn, or otherwise bound together) of outlines of thought, essays, lectures and lecture notes, chiefly written and/or probably delivered by John Poor between 1815 and 1828, primarily in Montréal and Québec, as well as Lancaster, Bath, and Burlington, Vt. General topics of the lectures include anatomy and physiology, natural history, natural theology, natural philosophy, plants, the vegetable kingdoms, Christian principles, religion, the laws of education, animal organs and their economy, influence of the soul on the vital organs, matter, etc. There is also some mention of the establishment of a medical school in Canada.

Letter, 1858 April 20, from John A. Poor, Portland, Maine, to Hon. P.M. Stubbs. Poor describes the charter he has obtained from the Maine legislature to start a newspaper called the State of Maine, and offers Stubbs the chance to purchase shares in the endeavor. Poor states that the newspaper will be devoted to the progress and development of the state and to the principles of the Republican party. Philip Morse Stubbs was a lawyer and postmaster of Strong, Maine, in 1842 and 1850.