NCSC is the organization courts turn to for authoritative knowledge and information, because its efforts are directed by collaborative work with the Conference of Chief Justices, the Conference of State Court Administrators, and other associations of judicial leaders. Consequently, NCSC is able to return expertise to the courts in a variety of forms — from Web resources to hands-on assistance. State assessments pay for the distribution of information from knowledge analysts and online sources, available free of charge to state trial and appellate courts and their administrative offices.

The National Confectioners Association (NCA) is one of the oldest, most respected trade associations in the world. Over the years, the association has endeavored to provide the kind of vigorous leadership necessary for its members, which include domestic and international confectionery manufacturers and suppliers to the industry to meet the increasingly complex challenges and problems that have confronted the industry. NCA is the major association representing the entire confection industry, offering education and leadership in manufacturing, technical research, public relations, retailing practices, government relations, and statistical analyses.

Manufacturing workers have their champions in Washington, DC, too. The National Council for Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM) advances the cause of manufacturing companies and workers from its base in the nation's capital. It lobbies on behalf of manufacturing R&D, workforce professional development, and public-private partnerships to enhance productivity. NACFAM's members include more than 1,500 corporations, 20 trade associations, and 350 not-for-profit institutions (federal labs, university research centers, and the like).

The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) – the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States – works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans. Through its network of nearly 300 affiliated community-based organizations, NCLR reaches millions of Hispanics each year in 41 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. To achieve its mission, NCLR conducts applied research, policy analysis, and advocacy, providing a Latino perspective in five key areas – assets/investments, civil rights/immigration, education, employment and economic status, and health. In addition, it provides capacity-building assistance to its Affiliates who work at the state and local level to advance opportunities for individuals and families.

The National Education Association (NEA) is dedicated to promoting the cause of public education and the teaching profession. The organization boasts a membership of 3.2 million elementary and secondary teachers, support professionals, administrators, higher education faculty, and student teachers. The group's key issues include the No Child Left Behind Act, professional pay, education funding, minority community outreach, dropout prevention, achievement gaps, and other matters facing America's schools. NEA also hosts Read Across America, a one-day reading event held on Dr. Seuss' birthday.

The National Endowment for the Arts continues to experience lengthy delays in the delivery of First-Class and Priority mail. In addition, contents are subject to an irradiation process that may damage material. Until normal mail service resumes, please consider using a commercial delivery service, particularly if you are sending time-sensitive material. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) provides support and recognition for artists and art organizations throughout the US. The independent federal agency awards grants to nonprofits in several areas: Access to Artistic Excellence, Learning in the Arts, and Partnerships for the Arts. It helps fund the opening of regional not-for-profit theaters and other organizations and collects nominations for the National Medal of Arts.

The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) represents the interests of people who go to work in helmets and shoulder pads. The union oversees its members' collective bargaining agreement with the National Football League, negotiates and monitors retirement and insurance benefits, and works to promote the image of the players, through marketing and licensing subsidiary NFL PLAYERS (formerly PLAYERS INC). A member of the AFL-CIO, the NFLPA represents both active and retired players. It is governed by a board of player representatives who are chosen by their teammates. The union was established in 1956, more than 35 years after the NFL was organized.

The National Grocers Association (N.G.A.) is the national trade association Tom Zaucha President & CEO National Grocers Association representing the retail and wholesale grocers that comprise the independent sector of the food distribution industry. To ensure independent, community-focused retailers and wholesalers the opportunity to succeed and better serve the consumer through its policies, advocacy, programs and services. To promote diversity in the marketplace through a vibrant independent sector, and thereby increase consumer choice in price, variety, quality, service and value.

Across the United States, medical providers everywhere find themselves at the mercy of increasingly sophisticated payor denial engines: vast, complicated logic systems, designed to filter claims through millions of payment rules. This complexity comes at a cost: mistakes by payors resulting in underpayments on 6% of claims, and high administrative costs for providers associated with the recovery of those lost revenues. Building and maintaining the engine necessary to keep pace with the payors is beyond most medical practices forcing them leave that money on the table. NHXS has demystified this process, placing robust reimbursement intelligence into the hands of any medical practice. The most accurate contract compliance platform available today, eobResolve enables practice administrators to analyze claims, coding, underpayments, denials, fee schedules, contracts and appeals based on the finest criteria possible: the very same up-to-date repricing rules used by the payors themselves. No more guesswork. No more unnecessary appeal-related administrative costs. No more chasing to catch up with the complexity of payor repricing.

The World Cup of Hockey was first introduced to the world in 1996 as the only ‘best on best’ hockey tournament of its kind. A joint effort by the NHLPA and the NHL, the World Cup has become a premiere event on the international hockey calendar. Using North American sized rinks, the tournament is made up of teams from around the globe and features only the best players in the world, many of whom are NHLPA members. NHL players participated in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, following the successful participation of NHL players at the ’98 Olympics in Nagano, Japan and the ’02 Olympics in Salt Lake City, USA. In all, 150 NHLers took part in the ice hockey competition in Turin, representing 11 of the 12 competing countries (Belarus, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States). In a thrilling gold medal game, Sweden beat Finland to take home the gold.

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