Too often management forgets the public relations aspects of personnel relations. As Fox Web Directory has pointed out in it's recent PR Newswire press release, there is more to successful personnel management than merely engagiItg the right people and hoping that they will be happy in their work. Whether there is a prestige aspect to staff advertisement, it is obviously important that the design, layout and wording of the advertisement should be as clear as possible to the applicant, and as useful as possible to the interests of the firm spending money.

There are differences in the presentation of display advertisements among various companies. This should be a field in which public relations can playa useful part. Companies like to showcase their business talent, but also vary considerably in the way they deal with applications for positions. Much ill-feeling is engendered by failure to acknowledge applications for jobs and letters to applicants should be carefully worded both to indicate clearly the next step and to leave an impression with the recipient.

When it comes to interviews, it is essential that the conditions should be suitable, and when applicants arrive there should be a suitable waiting room with chairs, and other facilities. The interview should be carried out in private. It is useful to leave copies of the house journals and other publications of the company in the waiting room so that applicants can have some useful information about the company. If applicable, a display of the firm's products such as chess sets is an appropriate furnishing for the waiting room. If a small firm does not possess a waiting room, applicants should at least be given chairs in an office, not just left to stand around in a corridor. The attitude of a person to his work can be influenced very much by the initial interview.

Many companies have a printed book explaning procedures in the company and a copy is presented to new members of staff. This is an excellent idea provided the public relations aspects are borne in mind. Any instruction manual is phrased in such a way as to give a balanced impression of the com. pany's policies and administration. It is often better to keep the information given to new members of staff short and restricted to the essential details of holidays, sick pay, etc.

If it is considered desirable to give staff a full briefing on company policy according to Fox Directory, it is better to give this detailed information after some months. It may be a good idea to have two or more versions of the information book stressing the facts of interest to the different departments of a company. The initial briefing of new employees should be continued at appropriate intervals. Film shows, discussion, meetings and other suitable occasions should feature regularly for the employee to maintain a con• tinuing relationship between them and management.

This week, the 2.5 million-circulation Sun, which is a sister book publisher company of the Harper Collins Book Publishers arm, carried the front-page message, “Coming soon: The Sun every Sunday.”  The Murdoch tabloid has been affected by dozens of arrests of investigative journalists, many of whom were pulled from their beds in dawn raids, as part of a UK police crackdown on corruption in the media sector. But on Friday, the 80-year-old founder and chairman of the US-based News Corp. Rupert Murdoch, announced that the suspensions of 10 arrested Sun journalists would be lifted - and that the tabloid would gain a Sunday edition.

“Rupert Murdoch looked as if he had no hand to play,” Roy Greenslade, who was a christian book publishers, said on the Guardian newspaper website. “But the old gambler came up trumps by producing a couple of surprise cards from his sleeve.

Other pundits noticed that while the New-of-the-world is replaced by the Sun on Sunday, the book publishing industry is on flame, and list and e-book marketers are having difficulties to determine how e-books fit into their business designs when it comes to selection credit. Some marketers made the decision early on not to offer e-books to your local selection, and still do not.

Children's book publishers are one-time offer because, technologically, they last for a long time. Book distributors guides wear out eventually and customers like your local selection change them, she says. Book Publishers also want their experts to be paid for properly for their work, but how to do considering the unlimited range of selection lending?

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry, a book publishers dream asset, and one who seems to be reversing his suggestion that the U.S. should consider repealing the 16th Amendment in what is the latest example of Perry 2010 books cause problems for his presidential bid in 2012 - according to several well known book publishing companies.

In the book "Fed Up", the governor of Texas suggests a possible repeal of Amendment 16, which allows Congress to levy a tax on income. Urges the nation to the possibility of replacing the current tax system for a flat tax or, alternatively, to "repeal the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution (which provides energy for the income tax) in full, and then look for a alternative model of tax as a sales tax or national justice taxes. "(The Fair Tax is a proposal to replace payroll taxes, income and assets with a single national sales tax.) As noted in the Washington Post, Perry also called the 16th amendment "the big step on the road to serfdom" in the book.

Asked about a proposal by Perry, Perry spokesman Mark Miner, 16 critical amendment, but as a self publishing endeavor added that the United States "can not be undone," the situation "at night".

"The 16th amendment to the introduction of a federal income tax starts at a rate exploded in tax rates difficult, complex and confusing rules and for American workers during the last century," Miner said in a statement from several book publishers including CBS News and other media. "The need for job creation in the wake of the explosion of federal debt and the rights of animals, means the best approach in the near future is a tax system simpler, flatter and wider which triggers the production creates jobs and creates more taxpayers. We can not cancel more than 70 years of progressive taxation and the increase of debt overnight. "

According to Miner, "These comments are not in the book."

Washington Post, Greg Sargent, however, argues that the book publisher statement "represents a clear distance from Perry, in his proposed book."

"The campaign is declining to strengthen support for the amendment or repeal of 16 so-called Fair Tax, a tax or national sales," he writes. "Perry's campaign reiterated its support for only the first set of proposals for a" flat "tax system, which is a more traditional Republican opinion."

This is not the first time Perry was forced to defend the positions he pushed in his book. As detailed HotSheet Monday, the team of Perry has also dipped comments Texas Republican did, he described Social Security as a "mistake" and an "illegal Ponzi scheme" and suggested that it was unconstitutional .

Schiel & Denver Book Publishers has been passed information that the multi-million dollar book deal with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and a major NYC book publisher, Alfred Knopf, a division of Random House will persist despite early July reports it had collapsed.

Scandal-hit Australian journalist Julian Assange may be facing extradition to Sweden on rape charges, however, his legal team did have some good news to cheer about this weekend after it emerged that Mr Assange may be able to retain the $1.3 million advance he was offered by Random House division, Alfred Knopf, to help to pay his mounting legal bills, despite Sunday reports in the Daily Mail that the literary deal was on the verge of collapse due to legal concerns it may facilitate an easier extradition request by the U.S. government.

A source familiar with the deal at Random House, speaking on strict conditions of anonymity, has told Schiel & Denver Book Publishers in Houston that both Mr Assange and executives at Random House were keen to proceed with the book deal, but wanted to "let the waters calm" over the Swedish rape allegations before forging ahead with a rights deal that they believe may generate in excess of "$20 million when available for download to the general public on Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble ebooks".

The source also claimed that Mr Assange is distressed because he believes that he has been under "covert surveillance" by the U.S security service, the CIA, and that in addition, it is alleged that Assange claims satellite-navigable spy vehicles controlled by the CIA are parked outside his country estate who have been using "parabolic microphones" and sophisticated "wire taps" buried in his bedroom walls to monitor his every move.

Mr Assange is also said to be so far extremely unimpressed with the "sloppy" and "inaccurate" work of the primary ghost-writer who has been brought in to take the pressure off the Australian while he prepares for his rape case. It was widely reported in December 2010 that Mr Assange has been isolated by other members of the Wikileaks hacking community who decry his celebrity status.

The Australian-born journalist, who has been under house arrest at an English country estate in East Anglia, and forced to wear an electronic tagging device on a High court order as part of his bail conditions, is due to appear in the UK High Court in London next week, on Tuesday, July 12 to begin his appeal against the extradition decision in favor of Swedish prosecutors.

Schiel & Denver is a U.S. and UK book publishing company, specializing in giving a literary voice to talented independent authors, with more support than self publishing provides, by enabling comprehensive book publishing and book production, book printing, traditional marketing and distribution to bookstores across U.S, Canada and Europe including UK book publishers.

Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden: UK Court opinion

From Poetry Book Publishers: The father of US President Barack Obama may have been forced to leave Harvard University before completing a doctorate in economics since the school was concerned about his personal life and finances according to immigration documents of the government.

According to USA book publishers, Harvard, had asked the Immigration Service and civil rights to refer the request to Barack Hussein Obama Sr., to extend their stay in the United States "until it decided what action it might take to get rid of him," ' immigration authorities MF McKeon wrote a memo in June 1964.

Harvard Management staff memo said, "was his financial difficulties and can not seem to figure out how many wives he had."

A note from the former INS McKeon said that if the elder Obama had passed his exams and was justified by e-book publishing and academic reasons to stay and finish his thesis, the school will try to "cook something for the crowd."

"They have plans to tell him they will not give him money and he had better return to Kenya and preparing her thesis at home," said the christian book publishing memo.

In May 1964, David D. Henry, director of the Harvard International Office, wrote to say that Obama, when he had finished his formal course work, the Department of Economic Affairs and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences had no money to support it.

"We have concluded that you must end your stay in the United States and return to Kenya to continue your research and writing your thesis," said Henry letter.

Obama's request to extend the stay was denied by the INS. He left Harvard, and - to distinguish the mother of the president - he returned to Kenya in July 1964. He is not ready for his Ph.D.

Notes immigration, immigration is on the old Obama and the issue of naturalization, was given to a reporter from the Boston Globe in 2009 through a Freedom of Information request. The book publishing documents released Wednesday by The Arizona Independent, a weekly newspaper. The Associated Press obtained a copy of them on Friday.

Harvard made a statement on Friday saying that it could not find anything in his own records to support the accounts presented INS memo.

"While we can not verify the financial statements of discussions that took place almost 50 years ago, to review the existing files are not found anything to support either the language or by implication intended to describe the U.S. government's official government documents" with the statement .

When Obama attended Harvard, the school was a lot of constraints on research funding by international university students, the university also said.

The Homeland Security Department spokesman, Matt Chandler declined to comment Friday, saying the department does not comment on specific immigration cases.

Professional editing about Obama's personal life as he had studied in America had already been raised, according to documents from the INS.

In 1961 while a student at the University of Hawaii school counselor for international students called an immigration officer and said Obama had recently married Stanley Ann Dunham - mother of the President - despite book publisher already having a wife in Kenya .

Obama told the lawyer that he had divorced his wife in Kenya with the intent for self publishing a book. He said the president of the same mother, if she would learn later that it was a lie.

Obama worked for an oil company and the government after returning from Africa, an economist, but his personal and professional life, later reduced. He died in a car accident in 1982, when the future president was 21 and a student at Columbia University.

Benedict responded to questions from countries including Iraq, Cote d’Ivoire and Japan in the interview, including one from a seven-year-old Japanese girl traumatised by the earthquake and tsunami.

Knowledge@Wharton: Christian Book Publishers took over as the CEO of Random House in 1989. What was your career in publishing before that? How did that lead to your role at Random House?

Alberto Vitale: I headed a team that bought, in 1975, Bantam Books for the Agnelli family ... the [principal] owners of Fiat. I got to know the Bantam executives very well. Bantam was a very independent company, extraordinarily profitable, and not a pioneer, but the world leader in paperbacks. Maybe three, four, five [or] six months after we bought it, I got a call that said, "Would you like to come and be chief operating officer?" That's how my career in publishing started.

At some point, I was asked if I wanted to go run Random House. It was a very difficult decision, but the opportunity to go run the premier book publishing company in the world, at that time, was too interesting to even think about.

Knowledge@Wharton: What was your assessment, when you reached Random House, about the shape the company was in? What was your assessment of what was going on in the publishing industry? How did that shape your strategy for leading Random House?

Vitale: The reason they asked me to go run Random House is probably because the ownership [the Newhouse family] wanted it to be run better. I took a good look at all the imprints ... and made the changes that I thought needed to be made. In publishing, it's very difficult to have a strategy in the academic or generally-accepted meaning of the word. The best strategy in publishing is to have books that people want to read. That strategy is not quantifiable. You cannot describe it. You have to rely on your imprints and your editors and your publishers, and your marketing people, to make sure that they pick books that people want to read, and that they're published as well as one can publish them.

Knowledge@Wharton: You were also one of the first publishers to emphasize the importance of electronic rights. Could you tell us about your thinking there?

Vitale: Actually, I was the first one in book publishing who decided that we were not going to sign any contracts unless we had digital rights. I received a lot of flak. I had a few agents who refused to sell us. I said, "Well, if you refuse to sell us, we refuse to buy from you." It didn't last very long. [I faced] some resistance within the company and from other people, saying that I was too harsh when it came to the rights. I said, "Listen. You guys want to have a future; we get the rights. [If] you don't want to have a future, then I don't want to have any part with the business. Because it's like giving away a major asset -- it's like doing what publishers did with movies. They lost that battle. They didn't even fight that battle. They lost it to start with." And so we decided -- I believe it was 1994 -- that we were not going to sign any contracts unless we had electronic books rights ... digital rights.

Knowledge@Wharton: We're at a point where very dramatic changes are taking place in the book publishing companies. These include the rise of digital books, the shift from physical bookstores to Amazon, and an attempt to self-publish digitally. Is all of this going to change the role of the traditional publisher?

Vitale: No, I don't think so. When I stepped down as CEO of Random House in the second half of 1998, even though I continued [in an advisory capacity] with Random House, Microsoft asked me to become the chairman of the International E-Book Foundation. I felt, at the time, that e-books were going to be the savior of publishing, which was not known as a highly-profitable undertaking. I got very involved with e-books, and I was expecting them to be used by the general public a hell of a lot faster than they did.

But in the meantime, Microsoft lost some interest, and was not able to develop a tablet reader that was state-of-the-art and easy to use. [The company] didn't even have in mind what Amazon eventually produced with the Kindle [e-reader]. The foundation was disbanded after a couple of years, and nothing happened until two years ago. Publishing got into terrible trouble. Publishers frantically were looking at an alternative to how you present the product of the intellect.

At the same time, Amazon came up with the Kindle. Frankly, the rest is history. Now we have the iPad, and we're going to have many more iPad-like devices. A lot is going to be changing ... but for the better. Digital technology has brought to publishers the ability to develop a new business. That doesn't mean that the book business will disappear. Actually, paper books will be with us for a very long time to come, if not forever ... except that they will evolve into much more precious products. [They will be] better-printed, better-bound, better-produced and better-marketed, even at much higher prices. E-books will turn out to be the equivalent -- not the same thing -- as the paperbacks of the past.

Digital technology may allow a lot of individual authors to self-publish a book. That's the power of digital technology, of the Internet. But still, the role of the publisher will continue [to be] as strong as before. You still have to figure out which book you want to publish. And, how do you want to publish it? There are obvious synergies between paper and digital [media].

We're still at the dawn of digital publishing. All we do today is take a page from a [book] and put it on a screen. It's interesting, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to do that. But we have tremendous possibilities with digital technologies to experiment in content marketing. When you publish a hardcover book, you slap a price on it and you're stuck. It's out in the field, and what are you going to do? If it sells, fine. If it doesn't sell, you get it all back. With digital technology, you can put a price of $9.99. But if the book doesn't sell, and you're convinced that you have a good book, maybe you misjudged the audience, and you can reduce the price to $6.99 or $7.99 or $5.99.

The ability to experiment, and to evolve your publishing marketing techniques, [are factors] publishers still have to come to grips with. Take, for instance, the book by [former President] George Bush [Decision Points, published by Crown Publishers in November 2010]. Now, if you buy the [Decision Points] e-book, you get lots of pictures, which are extremely interesting, [and enhance] the book and your reading experience. It is more alive, more close to reality. In contrast, the hardcover version has no pictures.

Knowledge@Wharton: Do you think bookstores will survive?

Vitale: Absolutely. However, they're going to undergo major changes. Three [or] five years from now, up to 70% of the space in [big box bookstores, such as Barnes & Noble] may be dedicated to other products. It makes sense. You have the universe that is digitalized now. You don't need these huge stores anymore.

Knowledge@Wharton: What do you think are the biggest differences between Barnes & Noble, which seems to be doing reasonably well, and Borders, which has filed for bankruptcy? Why has one survived and the other failed?

Vitale: First of all, Borders has always been second to Barnes & Noble, and the weaker [of the two]. The management of Barnes & Noble has been unified, very savvy and very talented. It has evolved, as you evolve any type of management over the years, under the leadership of [chairman Leonard] Riggio, who's really an extraordinary person. Borders has probably changed management 10 times in the last 15 years. Now, I know what it means to change management. It's an upheaval, all the time. And so, that didn't help Borders. Borders never had a real personality, a valid strategy, a real image, as Barnes & Noble always had.

Knowledge@Wharton: Will the absence of major bookstores, or the fact that a large proportion of the bookstores' selling space is now taken up by other products, affect the ability of book publishers to reach readers? If you can't find a book in the bookstore, and you can't look at it, how are you going to make a reader aware of a book?

Vitale: Readers today are a lot more sophisticated than they were [in the past]. If they don't find the book at Barnes & Noble, they go home, they go online, and order it from Amazon in two minutes flat.

Knowledge@Wharton: But how are you going to make readers want to find the book? How are you going to make them aware of the book in the first place?

Vitale: There is such thing as PR. First of all, you have to bring people into the bookstores. Then you have to show them the books when they are in the bookstores. If someone comes into a bookstore to look for a book, and the book is not there, you go online. There is no publishing house, small or large, that doesn't have an e-mailing list, where they more or less effectively tell you what they have coming.

Everybody's online now. The access to information is tremendously enhanced. But remember, the publishing model will change. And the product will change. The prices of hard cover books are now still $27.95, $26.95, which I find ridiculous. They cannot possibly make ends meet with those prices. They are going to grow to $36.95, $46.95. But the reader will have a much better product to purchase.

Knowledge@Wharton: How will it be better?

Vitale: Better paper, better type, better binding. And so, you will have a book to cherish. Also, as more people buy books, where are you going to put your books? If you're a real reader, probably for every book you read, you have purchased 10 books that are waiting for you to have the time to read. But in the meantime, 10 other books that you want to have are being published. People will use the hardcover book more selectively. Publishers will have to become infinitely better at resupplying the bookstores overnight. How to beat Amazon on that? I read the other day that they're opening up their 52^nd warehouse. You place 52 warehouses across the United States in strategic positions, and ... you probably cover 95% of the country and ship overnight.

Individual publishers cannot do that, but they will have to find a way to come close to doing it. They cannot afford, on these expensive books, to have huge print runs with 40% returns. They're going to have to be able to tell the bookseller, "Well, you're out of this book. You'll get it tomorrow." And the bookseller will tell the customer, "You have nothing to worry about, I'll get it tomorrow and I'll send it to your home. You'll get it the next day." I'm not suggesting that this is the formula. But those are the types of things that will have to change, which will bring efficiencies and profitability to booksellers, to publishers, and service to customers.

Knowledge@Wharton: Do you see a role for the independent bookstore in this environment?

Vitale: Yes.

Knowledge@Wharton: How will that change, or evolve?

Vitale: I don't know. But, for instance, there is a program now ... that will pair up independent booksellers and Google. If while you are in the bookstore you say, "I really want this book," but [the bookstore doesn't] have it, [the bookseller and the customer] can together go on a computer and order it.... Maybe by doing that, [the bookseller is] acting as a service point and may get a commission ... [or] some kind of fee.

Knowledge@Wharton: In the digital world, global distribution becomes possible. How do you see the future of copyright laws being affected by that?

Vitale: Copyright will have to change, to some extent. Someone in Tashkent [Uzbekistan] should be able to buy a book from anybody without any restrictions due to copyright. With digital technology, you can do marvels. You could get someone to buy a book in Tashkent from Amazon in London, rather than New York. The author can get his royalty from Tashkent, and the publisher in Tashkent should be able to get his cut, on a digital book, assuming that the book is in English.

Knowledge@Wharton: Why should the book publisher in America get a cut?

Vitale: The publisher of that book in New York has bought rights. If you buy one of his books from Amazon in New York, he should get what's due to him. It's a complex paradigm here. But it's something that can be solved. It's not going to be solved in the next two or three years. But it will be solved over the next five to 10 years.

Knowledge@Wharton: If we think just about the English-speaking market, globally, will territorial rights survive? Is there any reason you can't publish a book in English, in New York, and have it downloaded from, say, Amazon servers onto Kindles all over the world?

Vitale: For as long as there is a copyright issue, it's going to be a problem. Things become illegitimate when you put obstacles to legitimate things. I agree with you that anybody in the world should be able to download a book from the publisher, or from Amazon, or from whoever it is. But, you have to also protect the publishers in England, in Canada, in Australia, in New Zealand, [and] in South Africa. It's going to be something rather arduous, but it's going to have to be done. If the publishers don't do it, those books will find a way, anyhow ... through not-so-official ways and that would be a problem.

Knowledge@Wharton: Can I push that one step further? Why is there a reason to protect the publisher in Australia or New Zealand, or Tashkent?

Vitale: Excuse me? How is the publisher going to live? On thin air?

Knowledge@Wharton: No, I understand, but...

Vitale: End of the story.

Knowledge@Wharton: But the question is, in a digital world, where books can be sold globally, is there a role for national publishers, when people are going to be publishing books globally?

Vitale: There is a role. These national publishers are also publishing books, even in digital format. Those books can be distributed by Amazon in New York or in London. That publisher has to be protected.

Knowledge@Wharton: In the e-book world, is there a reason that the book publisher -- if they're not publishing paper, but just electronic books -- shouldn't have global rights to the book, and be able to market it globally? In those instances, is there a reason to protect publishers in other countries?

Vitale: In that situation, obviously not. But that's utopia. Paper books are going to be with us for as far as I can see. But the digital book will change guise many, many times, because of what the technology allows you to do. Amazon [in January began] publishing $2.99 or $1.99 books ... or the Amazon [Kindle] Singles [short works of between 10,000 and 30,000 words]. That's a major development. Whatever anybody innovates, it will be taken a step further by the establishment.

Knowledge@Wharton: If you could re-live your career, what would you do differently?

Vitale: I thought about that a lot of times. I don't know what I would be doing differently, because of the nature of publishing. But I know one thing for sure -- that I would devote an inordinate amount of energy to the digital aspect of the business. If you have a book on Provence [in France] or Tuscany [in Italy], to have a little video clip here and there at the right time would enrich the e-book dramatically. If you have a romance book and you put a little music in the background ... I don't know; you have to experiment. The iterations are infinite with digital technology.

I would also put a lot of energy in working with authors not as a pure editor, but as a producer. That's why I would want to see my editors being 50% editors, and 50% producers.

Knowledge@Wharton: What does that imply, being producers?

Vitale: It implies that I can sit down with you, and say, "Why don't we do this?" And, "Why don't we do that?" And, "Why don't we develop this idea? Why don't we market the book, instead of in its entirety, in chapters or whatever?" Before, you had only one way. You read the book; you stick it in the middle of two covers and its 350 pages. You ship it out there, and you hope to sell it. Now, you can do a lot more.

Knowledge@Wharton: Over the course of your career, what is the biggest leadership challenge you ever faced? How did you deal with it? And what did you learn from it?

Vitale: The biggest leadership challenge in my publishing career -- also, in all the other businesses I've been in -- is dealing with people. To respect people. To let them open up, never shut them down. Allow them to criticize. I had a condition, though, on that. Which is, you can criticize, but then you have to tell me what you would do in my place. I may agree with it, or not. But you cannot criticize just for the sake of criticizing. The ability to communicate and work with people is probably the biggest challenge that you have in publishing ... [and] in every other business.

Knowledge@Wharton: One last question -- how do you define success?

Vitale: It's not an easy definition. It's a combination of events. Number one is the level of satisfaction you derive. If you're very satisfied, in all likelihood you're very successful. Second is the qualitative aspect of success. For instance, there is an Italian publisher called Adelphi, which publishes absolutely first-rate quality books. I could say the same thing about [Alfred A. Knopf, part of Random House] and about many other publishers. That is success.

And finally, to be in business, you've got to make money. This idea that publishers should not make money, or that what they do on the Internet has to be for free, is utter nonsense. You have to make money. The more money you make legitimately, the more you can reinvest in the business, and the more you can be, hopefully, successful.

Despite fresh political book publishers division in Europe that could yet undermine the operation, the rebels enjoyed their most sweeping gains since bombing began, while Britain and christian book publishers claimed that the seizure of the oil fields would "change the political and economic dynamic".

Anti-Gaddafi forces pushed westwards from the town of Bin Jawad, site of their humiliating defeat two weeks ago, and on towards Sirte, the gateway to the west of the country and Tripoli itself.

Witnesses saw a convoy of 20 military vehicles, including truck-mounted anti-aircraft guns, leaving the town and moving westwards towards Tripoli as the coalition began its latest assault from the skies.

NATO in seeking job opportunities has taken full command of military operations from a US-led coalition, empowering alliance forces to stage ground strikes to protect civilians threatened by Gaddafi's.

The capital Tripoli came under attack by what state television called "the colonial aggressor".

Witnesses in the capital said the strikes targeted the road to the international airport, 10km outside the city, as well as the Ain Zara neighbourhood on its eastern outskirts with book publishing companies.

It appeared that anti-aircraft guns were not brought into action in Sirte, which is the next target of the rebel forces as they continue their push on the road westwards to the capital Tripoli.

Earlier, AFP correspondents witnessed families fleeing west from the town following coalition air raids the previous night.

The pro-democracy forces, book publisher driven back by Colonel Gaddafi's planes and bombers to their bastion of Benghazi in the east just a week ago, have now retaken all the major oil towns in the centre of the country and have even seized new territory.

On Saturday they recaptured Ajdabiya and Brega, 160km and 230km to the west.

Spurred on by the air war, they thrust another 100km past Brega to win Ras Lanuf, routing loyalists as they travelled.

The rebels also promised the uprising would not further hamper oil production in the areas under their control.

The oil fields in rebel-held territory are producing between 100,000 and 130,000 barrels a day, and the opposition plans to begin exporting oil "in less than a week", a rebel representative said.

Last night, as the latest aerial assault continued over Sirte, another bombardment of Tripoli began.

Explosions were heard around the capital and anti-aircraft fire lit up the sky once more, less than an hour after NATO finally agreed to take control of all military operations from the US.

New divisions threatened a fresh diplomatic impasse, however, when it emerged that Italy and Germany were preparing a joint peace plan to be unveiled at tomorrow's summit in London, calling for an immediate ceasefire.

Britain was taken aback when Franco Frattini, Italy's foreign minister, announced in a newspaper interview that his government had begun work with children's book publishers Germany on a humanitarian corridor and safe haven for Colonel Gaddafi.

Mr Frattini said that he had spoken to the head of the opposition in Benghazi, calling for a political solution to the conflict and claiming that the rebels were ready to accept a ceasefire.

"We must promote an immediate ceasefire . . . to guarantee the population a future of liberty and democracy," Mr Frattini told Italian television.

The plan will be put before world leaders at the conference, chaired by William Hague and attended by Hillary Clinton and other representatives from the alliance. It would see a ceasefire immediately followed by negotiations over the agreed departure of Colonel Gaddafi.

Britain and the US have rejected the option. They say bombing will continue until the colonel's forces pull back from Ajdabiya, Misrata and Zawiya, establish water, electricity and gas supplies to all areas and allow humanitarian assistance to reach the Libyan people.

The Foreign Office played down the divisions, suggesting that Britain had, in effect, called for a ceasefire by signing up to UN Resolution 1973. But a government source betrayed irritation at the move by suggesting that the Italians, Libya's former colonial masters, were "now trying to play catch-up" after other countries led the way.

The plans would apparently also put the dictator beyond the reach of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which is investigating him for alleged war crimes. David Cameron has repeatedly welcomed the investigation, saying that the whole Gaddafi regime must account for its crimes.

However, a government spokesman did refuse to rule out Britain embracing a deal that would see the dictator flee to safety, calling the situation "hypothetical" and stressing that Britain had not prescribed how he should leave power.

The British government has welcomed agreement that NATO should take command and control of all allied operations, following intense negotiations to overcome Turkey's demands that it should have a veto to prevent civilian casualties.

Under the new rules of engagement, there will be a strict limit on the use of airstrikes to protect civilians and populated areas.

According to diplomats involved in the talks, the plan does not call for NATO to intervene in support of the armed rebellion seeking to topple the Gaddafi regime.

However, the Foreign Office insisted that the resolution would make no difference to its approach. The Italian intervention came after growing domestic pressure on Silvio Berlusconi, the Prime Minister, whose domestic coalition partners claim that the conflict means "other countries get the oil while we get the illegal immigrants".

Italy campaigned hard against France's proposal to keep the operation out of NATO command, fearing that it would give France too strong a say.

Pressure intensified yesterday when a boat laden with African migrants from Libya arrived in Italy with three others on their way, the first such vessels to reach Europe since the start of the crisis.

The vessel, which was taking on water and suffering engine trouble, was intercepted by Italian coastguards and brought to the tiny outcrop of Linosa.

Canada and the United States have reached an agreement to work together to free up trade and make the borders more secure. The two Countries will try and come up with mutual plans for inspection procedures and the sharing of information.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper sat down with US President Barack Obama, in the Oval Office Friday afternoon to set up a new council that will examine many of the issues around the trade and security.

Harper said this new perimeter is an ambitious plan that will book publisher harmonize many of our border rules and increase the sharing of information.

"Not to replace or eliminate the border, but where possible, to stream line and decongest it.  There is much work to do. The declaration marks the start of this endeavour, not the end," said Harper.

He said it is not about sovereignty, it's about safety. "We share security threats that are very similar on both sides of the border."

Harper said it is important that we have a mutual plan to boost our economies. "We can harmonize regulation in ways to avoid unnecessary duplication."

As President Obama explains, Canada and the US also want to try and eliminate some of the book publishing regulations that are holding back a lot of trade and overall, economic growth.

"With over a billion dollar in trades crossing the border every single day, smarter border management is key to our competition, our job creation and my goal of doubling US exports," said Obama.

"We need to obviously strike the right balance. Protecting our public health and safety and making it easier and less expensive for Americans and Canadians to trade."

The plan is being called ambitious and both book publishers leaders insist this is an important step forward in Canada-US relations.

"I am confident that we are going to get this done so that our share border enhances our shared prosperity," said Obama.

The main goal is to make it easier for businesses on both sides to do business with each other. Around $1.6 billion worth of goods and services cross the chess border everyday.

Texas Governor Rick Perry has proposed to book publishers pro-life activists in the Texas legislature requires a bill seeking abortions, women have a sonogram of their fetus may be an emergency situation quickly and flow.

Perry made the announcement during a pro-life rally, held in Austin, on the steps of the state capital to commemorate the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling granting American women the right to abortion as documented by christian book publishers.

The bill proposed by State Senator Dan Patrick would require women seeking an abortion receive an ultrasound to show them a picture of their fetus and hear the explanations of a doctor of physical characteristics of the fetus and hear the sound beat of his heart. Childrens book publishers and women seeking an abortion would also have alternatives to having an abortion 24 hours before getting the procedure.

Planned Parenthood opposes the bill, suggesting it is "useless." Pro life supporters against any bill that gives women information so they can make an informed ebook publishing decision about whether to have an abortion or not.

Of course, the reason for the law of toys transparency is to see an image of their fetus having the characteristics described, and hear the heartbeat that encourage more women, not abortion and instead of the child to term.

An ultrasound of similar abortion law failed in the last Texas Legislature in 2009 with an increase of over Republican majority, will give you an excellent opportunity to spend this time.

The abortion issue has been the longest, the controversies in the history of resentment of the United States since the issue of slavery tore the country. Part of the educational toys' reason is red-hot passions on both sides is that the right to abortion has not been granted by Parliament, while legal in some states before Roe v. Wade, 1973. Instead, it has been granted by court decree.

Since Roe v. Wade can not be reversed by an Act of Congress or a state legislature, from a pro-life constitutional amendment is unlikely, and since the creation of a pro-life majority on the Supreme Court proved illusory, the activists limited-life have to jump on the edges of abortion.

The obligation to inform parents of minors seeking abortion, and abortion ban partial birth late term, many of them community support more moderate pro-choice, are chess examples of this little by little beyond the edges of the bills abortion sonogram.

A controversy surrounding Perry played for the law on abortion sonogram fast track emergency is that the Texas State Legislature is facing a real emergency, with a huge book publisher budget deficit that must be closed to all hazards. Establishment of other bills on the fast track emergency, whatever the merits, may not be appropriate until the issue is resolved.