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UNH Professor Discusses History of Financial Crises on C-SPAN3's 'American History TV'
The credit market had ground to a halt. Banks suspended their operations. Economic giants around the world tottered on the edge of financial collapse. Global banks appealed to governments for support.
Sound like 2008 and the years following? That actually is a description of the Panic of 1837, which led to a global depression that ushered in a decade of poverty, dispossession, and exploitation that inspired Karl Marx, among others, to advocate social revolution.
Jessica Lepler, assistant professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, recently discussed the similarities and differences between the most recent global financial crisis and the Panic of 1837 on C-SPAN3's "American History TV." Lepler was interviewed at a meeting with the Organization of American Historians.
"During times of 'gloom and doom,' no one accepts blame for financial sins. Rather, it is in troubled times when financiers admit, as one New York Times reporter noted, 'the inability of these sophisticated institutions to assign accurate values to their holdings.' If complete economic knowledge is ever possible, it is only available retrospectively. If we really want to end our market woes, we need to teach Americans economics and teach economists history," Lepler says.
The program, "Economic Crises in U.S. History," is available online at http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/305656-1.
"History provides us with a way of understanding the world, a way of paying attention to the sources of the past and trying to figure out how people in the past framed their own lives. I think that's really important to think through for ourselves and to see that we actually have power over the way we think through our lives, not just how we live our lives," she says.
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When his world as he knew it was turned upside down, David Heap took a huge risk.
The Weymouth pensioner lost his beloved wife Margaret two years ago.
As a widower in an empty house in Preston, he realised he needed to step out of his comfort zone.
The 71-year-old, a former submariner, volunteered for a six-month voyage to help sail a ship 9,783 miles from Greenock, Scotland to Mombasa, Kenya.
Courageous David called in at six different African countries, encountering corrupt police officers, sailing through waters renowned for piracy and became the ship's captain by the end of the voyage.
David volunteered his time for charity the Vine Trust, which was donating the medical transport ship to Africa to provide medical and dental care for people in Tanzania.
He said: "I was married to my wife Margaret for 40 years. Since she passed away, I've got the time and I just wanted to have something to do.
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"I was looking for a change of environment and I'd never been to Africa before. I was asked to be part of the crew on a Friday and I left home on the Monday to join the ship."
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A major setback hit the voyage before the ship had even left UK waters – she developed a generator problem.
After 21 days languishing in Falmouth, the crew got the ship back on course, sailing down the west coast of Africa.
David was dazzled by the beauty of Walvis Bay in Namibia and wowed by Durban, South Africa.
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David said: "In Angola the police came on board our ship and wanted to take our passports. The police there are very corrupt and they wanted us to give them whisky and cigarettes but we didn't have any on board.
"The police were saying they were going to confiscate our passports but luckily we had a business card from the British Consul on board so the police gave them back."
David and 21-year-old Jack Lawrence from Guernsey were the only crew members who stayed for the duration of the journey.
Others came and went for different legs of the voyage, with two people heading home prematurely because they weren't happy with conditions on the ship.
David said: "It was basic but we had everything we needed. I never got bored because I was always so busy as cook.
"I would supply breakfast cereal, lunch would be something like tinned cold meat – we ate a lot of spam – then I would use my mince book and we'd have things like spaghetti bolognese, lasagne, chilli con carne, curry or roast chicken for dinner.
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He saw the ship safely on to Mombasa, from where it would go on to travel 520 miles by road across Kenya to Tanzania. The ship will provide medical and dental care for people living in isolated communities on Lake Victoria.
Upon returning to his Weymouth home six months later, David was delighted to find his neighbours had placed a poster on his front door welcoming him back with a map showing how far he had sailed.
In June David was invited to a reception with Princess Anne in London, where he was thanked for his efforts.
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"To anyone else in a similar situation who wants to do something like this, there's the MVS, which is always looking for volunteers, and the Tall Ship Pelican in Weymouth Harbour.
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I'm going to do one more week of a variety of mixed up recipes, so you can plan some menus on your own. Giving you a variety, allows me the opportunity to offer you some recipes I haven't used yet.
Baked Pork Chops
6 1-inch pork chops
1 tablespoon flour
1 1 1/2-ounce package onion soup mix
2 1/2 cups boiling water
1/2 pint sour cream
Brown chops. Put in single layer in baking pan. Heat oven to 350°. Measure 1 tablespoon fat and place in skillet. Stir in flour and soup mix to make paste. Add boiling water. Cover chops. Place all in oven and bake for 30 minutes. Remove chops and put on warm plate. Make the gravy. Slowly stir in sour cream into liquid in baking pan. Heat but do not boil. Serve in gravy boat.
Down Under Crescent Beef Pasties
1 pound lean ground beef
1/2 cup chopped onion
2 tablespoons flour
1 tablespoon instant beef bouillon
1 tablespoon fresh parsley
1 teaspoon fresh basil
1/4 teaspoon pepper
3 cups frozen southern style hash brown potatoes
2 cans refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
Heat oven to 375°. Cook beef and onion. Drain. Stir in flour, bouillon, parsley, pepper and basil. Cool 5 minutes. Separate dough into 8 rectangles. Seal center seam. Roll into 6-by-5-inch rectangle. Spoon 1/2 cup meat sauce, down center of rectangle. Fold sides in and seal sides and ends. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375° for 12 to 17 minutes. Serve warm or cold with ketchup, steak sauce or brown gravy.
Potato Soup
4 large potatoes, peeled and cubed
2 cups water
1 teaspoon minced onion
1 garlic clove
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 cup milk
4 ounces American cheese, cubed
2 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon chicken bouillon granules
Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes.
Refried Bean Soup
1 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
1 14 1/2-ounce can refried beans
1 14 1/2-ounce can chicken broth
1 tablespoon minced fresh cilantro
5 6-inch corn tortillas, cut in strips
Sour cream
Shredded Monterey jack cheese
In large saucepan, bring tomatoes, onion and garlic to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Stir in beans, broth and cilantro. Simmer for 15 minutes. Place tortilla strips on baking sheet. Bake at 350° for 12 to 15 minutes or until crisp. Garnish soup with strips. Serve with sour cream and cheese. Makes 2 quarts.
Jo's Scalloped Potatoes
1 sack of hash brown potatoes, thawed
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 cup of sour cream
1 stick of melted butter
2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese
1 small grated onion
Mix well and spread into a 9-by-13-inch pan. Sprinkle with paprika. Cover with 1 stick of melted butter and 2 cups of corn flakes. Bake 1 hour at 350°.
Grated Potato Salad
6 cups grated, peeled cooked potatoes
6 hard boiled eggs, chopped
1 celery rib, chopped
1 cup mayonnaise
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup milk
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons prepared mustard
In large bowl, combine potatoes, eggs and celery. In small bowl, whisk mayonnaise, sugar, milk, vinegar, salt and mustard. Pour over potato mixture. Stir until combined. Cover and chill 4 hours. Serves 8 to 10. I used a little less sugar and add a small amount of chopped onion. I used only 3 eggs.
Deli Coleslaw Made Better
2 pounds prepared store bought coleslaw mix
1/2 onion, diced
2 stalks celery, diced
1/2 green pepper, diced
1/2 cup olive oil
Juice from 1/2 lime
Salt, pepper and garlic powder to taste
1 tablespoon sugar
Vinegar to taste
Mix slaw, onion, celery and pepper into bowl and toss. Mix dressing ingredients in a jar and shake well. Pour dressing over coleslaw mixture. Toss slaw with dressing three times five minutes apart. Chill well and serve. Serves 8 as a side dish.
Three Bean Salad
1 can yellow string beans
1 can green string beans
1 can kidney beans
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup vinegar
1/2 cup sugar
Garlic salt or powder to taste
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
Parsley flakes
Drain beans and cut string beans into bite-sized pieces. Mix remaining ingredients and pour over beans. Stir. Chill before serving. Serves 8 as a side dish.
Cheesy Zucchini Bake
4 1/2 cups sliced zucchini
2 to 3 tablespoons olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
1 large onion, chopped
2 tablespoons, minced garlic
1 10 3/4-ounce can tomato puree
1 6-ounce can tomato paste
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1 teaspoon dried basil
2 2 1/4-ounce cans sliced ripe olives, drained
3 cups (12 ounces) shredded part skim mozzarella cheese
6 eggs, lightly beaten
1 1/2 cups grated Parmesan cheese
In a large skillet, sauté zucchini in oil until tender. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Stir. Transfer to a 9-by-13-inch ungreased baking pan. In the same skillet, sauté onion until crisp tender. Add garlic, sauté 3 minutes longer. Stir in tomato puree, tomato paste, sugar, Italian seasoning and basil. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, simmer, uncovered, for 10 to 15 minutes or until slightly thickened. Stir in olives. Pour over zucchini. Sprinkle with mozzarella. Combine the eggs and Parmesan cheese pour over zucchini. Bake, uncovered, at 375° for 25 to 30 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean. Let the dish stand for 15 minutes before serving. Serves 12 to 16.
Colorful Veggie Bake
2 16-ounce packages frozen California blend vegetables
8 ounces process cheese (Velveeta) cubed
6 tablespoons butter, divided
1/2 cup crushed butter flavored crackers (about 13 crackers)
Prepare the vegetables according to package directions, drain. Place half in an ungreased 11-by-7-inch baking dish. In a small saucepan, combine cheese and 4 tablespoons butter. Cook and stir over low heat until melted. Pour half over vegetables. Repeat layers. Melt the remaining butter. Toss with cracker crumbs. Sprinkle over the top. Bake, uncovered, at 325° for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown. Serves 8 to 10.
Door County Cherry Pie
2 unbaked 9-inch pie crusts
4 cups fresh or frozen sour cherries
1 cup granulated sugar
3 tablespoons instant tapioca
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons butter
Press one of the pie crusts into a 9-inch pie pan. Mix together the cherries, sugar, tapioca and almond extract. Take the second of two pie crusts and cut it into 1-inch strips for the traditional lattice top. Pour filling into bottom pie crust. Drizzle with lemon and dot with butter. Weave the lattice top and crimp the edges. If you want glaze, mix up a sugar and water paste and brush it on lightly. Bake in a 375° oven for 70 minutes or until pie is bubbly and lattice is lightly browned. Serves 8. Even if you don't have any door county cherries any cherries will work.
Easier Fruit Cobbler
1 21-ounce can fruit pie filling
1 1/2 cups Bisquick
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1/4 cup milk
1/4 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Preheat oven to 425°. In a pot, heat the fruit filling to boiling. Pour into a greased 1 1/2-quart casserole. Mix together the Bisquick, 1 tablespoon sugar, milk and sour cream into dough. Drop dollops of dough onto hot fruit filling in casserole. Sprinkle with a mixture of 1 tablespoon sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Bake until biscuits are golden brown, about 20 minutes. Serves 4 to 6.
Hope you enjoy this variety of recipes. Next we'll start working on some Lenten dishes. If you need to reach me, you can email me at email@example.com or drop a line to my attention to the BCR, P.O. Box 340, Princeton, IL 61356.


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Having a little trouble with a dis-jointed CSS rollover.The link:http://www.pressdat.com/mtw2/Mercs/Mercenary_Crossbowmen.html
I'm using  for the rollover with a .Everything works just fine as long as none of the links are actually clicked, which is bound to happen. If they are clicked, it breaks. It's like the background image gets stuck in the "rollover" state at background-position: 0 0.
my css:
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padding: 0 1px 1px;
margin-left: 0;
font: bold 12px Verdana, sans-serif;
height: 300px;
float: left;
position: relative;
top: 0px;
left: -5px;
width: 160px;
#navlist li {
list-style: none;
margin: 3px 0 0 10px;
display: block;
position: relative;
top: 0px;
left: 3px;
width: 156px;
text-align: center;
font-style: italic;
#navlist li a {
font: bold 1.2em/1.6em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #fff;
text-decoration: underline;
#navlist li a:link { color: #000; }
#navlist li a:visited { color: #000; }
#navlist li a:hover,
#navlist li a:active,
#navlist li a:focus {
color: #ff0000;
visibility: visible; }
#navlist li a span {
position: absolute;
width: 411px;
height: 250px;
#defaultImage {
position: absolute;
margin: 0 0 0 200px;
width: 411px;
height: 250px;
background-image:url(../Mercs/images/regions/base.jpg) ;
#navlist li a:hover span,
#navlist li a:active span,
#navlist li a:focus span {
background-image:url(../Mercs/images/regions/rollover_16_BIG.png) ;
top: -20px; left: 191px;
display: block;
#navlist li a:hover span#scot { background-position: 0 0; ; }
#navlist li a:hover span#ire { background-position: 0 -250px; }
#navlist li a:hover span#wales { background-position: 0 -500px; }
#navlist li a:hover span#n_germany { background-position: 0 -750px; }
#navlist li a:hover span#s_germany { background-position: 0 -1000px; }
#navlist li a:hover span#n_italy { background-position: 0 -1250px; }
#navlist li a:hover span#e_balkans { background-position: -411px -250px; }
#navlist li a:hover span#e_greece { background-position: -411px -500px; }
#navlist li a:hover span#anatolia { background-position: -411px -750px; }
My HTML for the effected part:

Available in:

Scotland

Ireland

Wales

Northern Germany

Southern Germany

Eastern Balkans

What can I do to prevent this?
You're setting the active and focus states which means that while the link is clicked or has focus then the rollover remians visible.
#navlist li a:active, #navlist li a:focus
Just remove those and leave the hover effect if that's all you want.
Paul, I tried that.I changed
navlist li a:link { color: #000; }
#navlist li a:visited { color: #000; }
#navlist li a:hover,
#navlist li a:active,
#navlist li a:focus {
color: #ff0000;
visibility: visible; }
navlist li a:link { color: #000; }
#navlist li a:visited { color: #000; }
#navlist li a:hover {
color: #ff0000;
visibility: visible; }
and it didn't make a difference.
Wait one...............................
I removed the :active and :focus from the span as well and that seems to have fixed it.
Thanks so much!!!
I'm still seeing the code in your live page so I can't check.
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background-image: url("../Mercs/images/regions/rollover_16_BIG.png");
display: block;
left: 191px;
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Remove that code and I'll check if there is some other issue.
Or is it a specific browser you are having problems with?
Yes sorry, I meant the span in my first post
Just beware that doing so can screw some keyboard navigators from being able to use your links...
Of course if people are clicking on the links then it should be taking you somewhere, in which case does it matter if the state stays on? (shakes head, goes to look at page in question) -- ok, you don't have those anchors actually going anywhere -- once you make them go someplace, that would be a non-issue... of course if they aren't going anyplace, why are you using anchors?
Well, in this case, when the state stayed "on" the rollover image was screwed. It continued to highlight Scotland.As far as using anchors....... are there other ways to do css rollovers? I'm just a novice and every tutorial I pulled up showed using anchors to achieve a rollover.
Yes you have to use anchors if you want to support IE6 as it only understand hover on anchors. You could use any element for more modern browsers.
The set up is a little confusing as you have a list of underlined text which looks as though it should be links but in fact is just text. Usually with a disjointed rollover like that you would have a destination to go to such as the area you highlighted on the map. However, you are just using it for a visual display. I don't think its a big issue but maybe don't underline the text on the side so people don't think its a link.
Ok Paul.That probably would look better.Thanks.


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Three Manitobans have been appointed to the Order of Canada.
Janice Filmon was named for her charitable work, Phil Fontaine for contributions on behalf of First Nations and Elmer Hildebrand for developing community service radio in Western Canada, Sunday's announcement said.
They will be presented with their insignia at one of three ceremonies in 2013 at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
The motto of the order, established in 1967 by Queen Elizabeth II, is "desiderantes meliorem patriam" or "they desire a better country."
The Order of Canada recognizes three levels of service: companion, officer and member.
Fontaine was named an officer of the order in recognition of "a lifetime of achievement and merit of high degree, especially in service to Canada or to humanity at large."
He was born at the Sagkeeng First Nation in 1944 and attended residential schools in Sagkeeng and Winnipeg. He was elected chief of Sagkeeng in 1973.
He was elected Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs in 1991 and national chief of the Assembly of First Nations in 1997. He owns and operates Ishkonigan, a firm that specializes in consultation and mediation services for indigenous communities. He has been honoured with the Order of Manitoba.
The survivor of Canada's residential school system was instrumental in negotiating the $5.1-billion residential-school settlement, which included compensation for survivors, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, an education fund, healing resources and commemoration funding.
Filmon and Hildebrand were both named members of the Order of Canada in recognition of a "lifetime of distinguished service in or to a particular community, group or field of activity."
Filmon is on the board of the University of Manitoba Foundation and is past-president of its Alumni Association. She serves on the boards of the CancerCare Manitoba Foundation and the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice. The Janice C. Filmon Award for Leadership in Cancer Care in Manitoba was created in her honour.
Hildebrand said he was surprised to receive the honour.
"I think it was sort of amazing getting that call out of left field," said the president and chief executive officer of Altona-based Golden West Radio.
"It's a very humbling experience to be awarded this kind of honour and I accept it on behalf of all the people who work for Golden West."
The 75-year-old lives in Winnipeg but has an office in Altona, where he got his start in the business writing radio ads in 1957.
"I was right off the farm."
There were nine employees. Today, Golden West has 500.
"Golden West has 40 stations across the Prairies," Hildebrand said Sunday while on vacation in Barcelona.
Golden West's most recent addition happened a month ago when it purchased a radio station in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., he said.
The broadcast company still hires people right off the farm, he said.
"We think what we are doing for the communities is important." The radio stations tend to hire local people who know their communities and want to stay, he said.
They've had lots of offers to sell, he said.
"We've decided not to be swallowed up and carry on with our community service and we do that across the Prairies. It's our ambition to keep doing that," said Hildebrand.
"If we were sold to a public company a lot that would disappear."
Others being honoured
Governor General David Johnston announced a total of 91 new appointments to the Order of Canada.
Ken Dryden has been named an officer of the order and Paul Henderson a member. Both men were members of the Canadian hockey team during the 1972 Summit Series against Russia, though their citations also note their achievements in other fields.
Joining them from the hockey world was Danièle Sauvageau, who coached Canada's Olympic women's hockey team to gold at the 2002 Games.
Others named Sunday include two longtime CBC journalists, Michael Enright and Andrew Barrie, as well as investigative reporter Stevie Cameron.
Two high-profile Canadian politicians were also inducted.
Sheila Copps, a deputy prime minister under Jean Chrétien, and Brian Tobin, also a Chrétien cabinet minister and former premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, became officers of the order.
Several members of Canada's arts community were recognized as well, including philanthropist Scott Griffin for his establishment of an international poetry prize, choreographer Paul-André Fortier for his contributions to dance and Roald Nasgaard, who is the chief curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Orders of Canada are awarded upon the recommendations of an 11-member advisory council, which includes the chief justice of the Supreme Court and the Clerk of the Privy Council.
Only four have ever been revoked, each time because the individual was later convicted of crimes.
Earlier this year, Conrad Black had sought the ability to plead his case before the council as to why he should keep his.
The former media baron was convicted in the United States of fraud and obstruction of justice while he was head of media giant Hollinger International.
-- with files from The Canadian Press


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49-year-old Melanie Griffith was spotted shopping in Malibu looking like she just turned 112. I'm not normally a fan of surgery, but if your knees look like this then get it. And get a lot of it. Hell, amputate if you need to. You've got a serious problem if people look at you and can't even tell if you're human anymore.


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Last week, I moderated a panel on multinationals in emerging markets for the London Business School's Global Leadership Summit. Four prominent business leaders–Paul Bulcke, CEO Nestlé; Anshu Jain, who runs Deutsche Bank's investment banking business; Vittorio Colao, the CEO of Vodafone; and John Connolly, the global chairman of Deloitte shared their insights on several topics, including which multinationals (other than their own) they most admired for their success in emerging markets.
People often use the term "emerging markets" as a catch all phrase implying that all countries within this category are broadly similar to one another. In reality, of course, the differences between India and China or Brazil and Russia dwarf their similarities. The heterogeneity of emerging markets raises questions for companies seeking to invest in these countries: How should we prioritize investments across emerging markets? How do we differentiate a more attractive market from a less attractive one? What criteria should we use in evaluating and comparing different markets?
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Both of Selma's Jewish parents, Daniel Schwarzwald andLaura Litwak, had been raised in the industrial city of Lvov. As many different nationalities lived in Lvov, Selma's mother and father could speak many languages--Polish, Russian, German and Yiddish. In running his successful lumber business, Daniel also occasionally used English.
1933-39: My parents married in April 1935 and I was born two years later. My father was afraid that there might be a war and wanted to move the family to safety in Britain. But my mother didn't want to abandon her parents. In September 1939, when I was 2 years old, the Germans invaded Poland from the west while the Soviets invaded from the east. Lvov fell under Soviet control.
1940-44: In 1941 the Germans occupied Lvov. On the day of my fifth birthday, my father disappeared. My mother and I moved to a small town called Busko-Zdroj. She told me my name was Zofia Tymejko, that we were Catholic, and warned me: "Never tell anyone we're from Lvov, never talk to strangers." We became practicing Catholics. One day at school, my teacher said Germans and Jews were bad--the Germans because they killed Poles, the Jews because they killed Jesus. I asked Mother; she said she knew some Jews and that they weren't all bad.
After the war ended, Selma and her mother emigrated to England. There, Selma learned that she was Jewish. She eventually became a doctor, and settled in America in 1963.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - State election officials on Friday called in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate allegations that a Virginia-based voter registration gathering firm hired by the Republican Party of Florida may have faked or destroyed voter registration applications.
Chris Cate, spokesman for the Florida Department of State, said the agency has turned over a complaint filed by the RPOF against Strategic Allied Consultants, which had been gathering applications from would-be voters under a $1.3 million contract.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Florida elections officials identified suspicious voter registrations turned in by the company in 10 counties, including Bay, Clay, Duval, Escambia, Lee, Miami-Dade, Okaloosa, Palm Beach, Pasco and Santa Rosa.
The state party cut ties to the company earlier this week when the allegations were exposed, according to RPOF's Executive Director Mark Grissom. On Thursday, the Republican National Committee followed suit, cancelling contracts with the company that was doing work for the RNC in at least four more states.
The complaint was not released Friday and an agency spokesman said it was being reviewed to determine what portions could be released to comply with Florida public records law.
"Some documents regarding this matter are exempt from public records disclosure at this time," Cate said. "The department will review any responsive records within its possession and provide any non-exempt documents."
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At Rybovich change comes, but very slowly and carefully.
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Sciacca — May 2001
When Tommy, John, and Emil Rybovich started building sportfishermen in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 1946, the hulls were carvel-planked mahogany and the frames were mechanically fastened. Carvel hulls demand a high level of skill to make them strong and seaworthy, and at Rybovich the emphasis was always on strength.
"Nobody was concerned with weight back then," says Hilliard, adding that solid construction was and still is the foundation of Rybovich.
However, modern techniques that would enhance the boats' lightweight nature were not far behind. In the 1960s cold-molded construction became the standard building practice at the yard.
From 1970 to 1985, Bill Jackman, a noted third-generation Massachusetts boatbuilder, ran the Rybovich yard and pretty much maintained the status quo, with one exception. In 1975 Robert C. Fisher purchased Rybovich and tried to develop a second line of production boats, the Rybo Runners. When it proved unsuccessful, he sold the yard to Harvey Wilson in 1986 who put Hilliard in charge of design and building. Hilliard felt it was time to modernize the classic Rybovich while retaining certain characteristics like the boat's broken sheerline. "It was quite a task," says Hilliard. But when you have people like Boutet and Becker working on boats they know as well as they know themselves, anything is possible.
"Harvey was kind of the opinion, 'you know what to do, so do it,'" recalls Hilliard. "That's when we took a look at how the [Ryboviches] were constructed." Today the pedigree hull is constructed of triple-plank, diagonally aligned mahogany, and the company has moved from framed-fastened plank to epoxy-impregnated, which not only protects against water intrusion (no more fittings to come loose) but also reduces weight. According to Hilliard, a 60-foot Rybovich comes in around 51,000 pounds, while a production 55-footer tips the scales at 70,000 pounds. The result was better performance. In the 1970s, a 25-knot Rybovich was common. Today, Hilliard says, the average 60-foot Rybovich hits about 43 knots.
Hilliard recalls that everything came under the microscope. "At that point we were using the hull design from the 1970s, and we needed to take a hard look at [everything] below the waterline," he adds. Donald Blount, a respected designer and friend of Hilliard, was brought in to "clean up" the Rybovich running bottom, including running gear, struts, through-hull fittings, strainers, scoops, and transducers, with an eye toward reducing drag. "We turned to single-leg struts that are flush-mounted, and there are no through-hulls in the bottom except the flush-mounted sea chest," Hilliard says. To improve handling, Rybovich also replaced the traditional spade rudders with wedges.
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FORMER chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns has urged Australia to take a punt on unheralded leg-spinners Adam Zampa and Cameron Boyce for the Test tour of India with a view to developing them for the Ashes.
Hohns, one of the architects of Australia's last golden era, wants one of the inexperienced pair plucked from obscurity and taken to India next month as a third spinner to fast-track their development.
The left-field idea has been inspired by the country's dearth of proven slow-bowling options and a desire to see Australia prey on England's historical weakness against wrist spin.
Like many teams around the world, the English were mesmerised by Shane Warne during his 15-year international career, and before that had trouble against less accomplished leggies such as Hohns and Peter Sleep.
Hohns claimed 11 wickets at an average of 27 in Australia's famous Ashes triumph in England in 1989, while Sleep claimed his only Test five-for to bowl his team to victory in Sydney during the 1986-87 series.
''We need to be mindful we need to encourage our spinners,'' Hohns said on Monday. ''In Boyce and Zampa, we have a couple of pretty good young leg-spinners. They're nowhere near their best, but they certainly need encouragement.
''It's been proven in the past England struggles against leg-spinners. There's been leg-spinners who have had some success against England in England. It has to be good leg-spin, it can't be mediocre.''
National coach and selector Mickey Arthur rates the duo as ''the two best leg-spinners in the country'' and said the idea of taking one of them to the subcontinent would be discussed.
''We need to think about that, I've thought about that option,'' he said.
Glenn Maxwell is the next spinner in line after being named in the squad for the third Test against Sri Lanka in Sydney, starting on Thursday, while Michael Beer, who played in the tour of the West Indies in 2012, remains an option.
Victorian left-armer Jon Holland had been earmarked as Nathan Lyon's understudy until he suffered a serious shoulder injury this season.
Boyce and Zampa, in particular, have little first-class experience, but neither did incumbent tweaker Lyon before he was blooded in 2011, towards the end of Andrew Hilditch's era as chairman of selectors.
Zampa, 20, played his first and only Sheffield Shield game for NSW against Queensland in late November after being called up at the last minute, but captured the attention of Hohns with match figures of 5-37.
''I was there and I was most impressed by the way he bowled,'' said Hohns, Queensland's chairman of selectors and state talent manager. ''He had pace, bounce, flight, spin and good variety.''
Zampa, who has captained Sutherland in Sydney grade cricket, has been one of the few shining lights in Sydney Thunder's dismal Big Bash League campaign.
The Wollongong product has been in NSW's squad since 2010 and though highly rated by state selectors, has struggled for opportunities behind Nathan Hauritz, Steve O'Keefe and Steve Smith.
The promising Boyce, 23, from Queensland, has made 22 first-class appearances for the unremarkable return of 39 wickets at 45, but is the youngest bowler to bag a five-for in a shield final.
National selectors indicated Boyce was on their radar last summer when they played him in two Chairman's XI matches against India in Canberra.
''It could well be [too early to select them], but if they're good enough, that's fine,'' Hohns said.
''I think we've still got to look at building our side rather than picking a team to win straight away. You have to build a team for the future and we're heading in the right direction - we're performing pretty well at the moment.''
Although Hohns is enthusiastic about Boyce and Zampa, he is also an admirer of Lyon, whose solid record of 59 wickets at 31 has not been enough to keep the critics at bay.
''Have a look at his Test record. He's getting criticised unfairly because he doesn't bowl guys on the last day,'' Hohns said.
''The expectations are so high … All the talk about pitches spinning on the last day and you put too much pressure on him and he puts that on himself.
''I think he's going OK, performing a role, and he'll get better. We expect too much from our young spinners.''
Hohns also wants to see Smith, whose batting has improved markedly this year though at the expense of his bowling, continue to work on his spin.
''He's batting well, [but] I'm not sure he's worked enough on his bowling. He's the ideal No. 6 [batsman] if he's bowling leg-spinners.''


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MIAMI - Health advocates and Democrats are rallying the Legislature to expand Medicaid coverage to roughly 1 million.
House and Senate committees have voted against a straight Medicaid expansion. Sen. Joe Negron suggested a voucher system modeled after the Florida Healthy Kids Corporation. Parents pay premiums and co-pays based on their income. The state may help subsidize those fees.
On Friday, Rep. Perry Thurston and Rep. Mia Jones urged lawmakers to extend coverage to those making up to 138 percent of the poverty line at a news conference in Tallahassee.
Florida CHAIN and Health Care for Florida Now delivered 15,000 petitions Thursday supporting Medicaid expansion. Hospital executives held a rally Tuesday.
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It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz. When Steve Guttenberg was 16, he went to see an agent about starting an acting career. The agent told him: You are the last guy I would pick to be a movie star. But despite that, Steve Guttenberg still decided to become an actor. And he's written about his journey in a new book. It's called - what else - "The Guttenberg Bible." And it starts like this: The summer before Guttenberg was supposed to head off to college, he moved from Long Island to L.A. to try his luck at acting.
STEVE GUTTENBERG: And within a few days, I started staking out Paramount Studios and 20th and Universal. And in those days, there was no computer, there were no cell phones, and there was just a guard with a telephone. So I started walking by the time punch machine, and I punched a blank card like everybody else was punching their cards, and I started sneaking onto the lot. And I found myself an office, and I went to the prep department, and I said: I need tables, chairs, a desk for "Happy Days."
And he asked me a couple of questions. I said: Look, Garry Marshall needs them right now. If you want to call Garry Marshall's office, great. And he said: You know what? I don't want to call Garry Marshall's office. I just want to give you this furniture. So I brought it up to my office, and I had my phone, and I started making my own phone calls.
RAZ: That's unbelievable. And nobody suspected this?
GUTTENBERG: No. It was actually an empty building. I had the office for two years. And my real angel was a very, very important casting director named Hoyt Bowers. I would call his assistant, his secretary, and say that "Mork & Mindy" needs something. And she would run out, and the office would be empty, and I'd walk into Mr. Bowers' office, and I'd say: Hi. I'm the Gucci of young actors. But I'm stuck on a shelf in a drugstore, and I can't get anywhere.
And I did that three or four, five, six times, and finally, he said: Look, if you promise me you'll never come back - I actually was on top of his desk tap dancing - he said: If you never come back, I will give you five minutes. He ended up giving me about a half an hour. He called a wonderful casting director named Fran Bascom over at MTM. He sent me over there, and I got my first television movie, which was called "Something for Joey."
But I had a bunch of people in Hollywood that had a big heart. And they understood what it was like to be a beginner and gave me a little bit of a leg up. And God bless Hoyt Bowers for not throwing me out that seventh time.
RAZ: The first film I remember seeing you in was "The Boys from Brazil." You had a pretty significant role. You die early on in the film, but you're this kid in Paraguay who discovers Nazi war criminals. In that film, you worked alongside Lawrence Olivier and Gregory Peck. And here you are, this kid, barely, you know, barely out of high school. What was that like?
GUTTENBERG: And also, there was James Mason.
RAZ: James Mason, indeed. Yeah.
GUTTENBERG: It was fantastic. It was my first trip overseas. It was my first trip on a big-time airplane, first time I had stayed in a hotel. It was just incredible. And I remember in a dinner I had with Olivier, Greg Peck, Mason and Frank Schaffner, the director, who did one of my favorite movies - it was "Planet of the Apes" - they were all talking about the script, and I had one thing to say. And I said: Excuse me, Mr. Schaffner, but there's this one part here where Larry - Olivier, everybody called him Larry - I said: Well, Larry has this sort of monologue, and I don't think the point, really, will come across.
And the table got quiet. And Mason smiled, and Peck smiled, and Olivier was just so self-effacing, he didn't say anything. And Schaffner looked at me and said: Young man, the greatest living actor in the world is saying those words. The point will come across. And I just shut my yap for the entire dinner.
GUTTENBERG: And, you know, I always find the more successful the actor, the nicer they are, the sweeter they are. And these three guys, these monsters were just fantastic to me.
RAZ: Your first, sort of, huge breakout role, of course, was in "Diner," the 1982 film by Barry Levinson. That movie, of course, set in Baltimore in the late '50s, it launches the careers - it launches your career, Mickey Rourke, Paul Reiser, Kevin Bacon, many other actors. What do you remember about working on that film?
GUTTENBERG: Well, I remember our first meeting in a hotel room in a Holiday Inn where all the cast was waiting for the last guy to come in, who was Mickey. And Mickey came in with a white silk scarf. And we all looked at each other and said: What the heck is this guy doing? And Mickey and I became good friends. And actually, one time, Mickey and I wanted to do a scene together. We came to Barry, asked him - because we were the only guys who didn't have a scene together. And Barry went away for about 10 minutes and wrote the technically-I'm-a-virgin scene.
And about 20 minutes later, we went and shot it. I had a great time. Everybody was so hungry and competitive and generous at the same time. And Ellen Barkin and Kevin Bacon and...
RAZ: Ellen Barkin, of course, yeah.
GUTTENBERG: ...Paul Reiser, Tim Daley and Danny Stern, Mickey. I got so lucky to be in that film, just so lucky.
RAZ: You became quite well-known for a recurring role as Cadet Carey Mahoney in "Police Academy." That franchise became a huge hit, the sixth - I did not realize this until I read the book - the sixth biggest grossing film in the U.S. that year, 1984, $146 million, even went to the Cannes Film Festival. That movie must have changed your life and your career.
GUTTENBERG: The film was this huge success. And I remember sitting with my manager watching the screening. He turned to me and said: This is the biggest piece of junk I've ever seen. And we're putting you in television series tomorrow. And then "Police Academy" came out. And I remember the producer called me that next morning and said: I'm a millionaire. I'm a millionaire.
GUTTENBERG: And I didn't know what a box office was. I didn't know what grosses were, but I sure did learn pretty quickly that that's a very, very important part of Hollywood is making money. And I was very lucky to be in that movie and others that have made money and bought a lot of beach houses for a lot of producers.
RAZ: Your career, obviously, as you made clear in this book, has had its high periods and its low periods. But your name has always seemed to stay in the spotlight.
GUTTENBERG: Yes. I've been very, very fortunate that, first of all, all the movies that I've made always play on television or on cable. So the public gets to see me often. And that's very, very important for an actor to keep a bit of visibility because the chances of becoming a film actor are one in a zillion. And I've been very, very fortunate.
RAZ: That's Steve Guttenberg. He's best known for his roles in "Diner," "Three Men and a Baby," and the "Police Academy" series. His new memoir is called "The Guttenberg Bible." Steve Guttenberg, it was great having you on. Thank you.
GUTTENBERG: Oh, thank you. This has been a great pleasure, and one of my dreams come true, really, to be on NPR.
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Sarah Jessisca Parker Not Contented Being An Actress?
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Looks like our "Sex and the City" star, Jessica Parker is not just contented with acting and producing films at all! Parker just recently revealed that she will be working hand in hand with Halston Heritage possibly as a creative director.
Since Halston Heritage just recently introduced their secondary collection featuring Halston's pieces at contemporary price points, Sarah Jessica Parker seems to be just the perfect fit to do the job!
Interesting huh? Let's keep an eye to how Sarah Jessica Parker can succeed in this industry. Well, we know she can. She will definitely will!


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Are You On Facebook?
Are you on Facebook? Did you know many of your favorite organizations and projects are there?
- VAWNet
- Prevention Connection
- Men Can Stop Rape
- Countless state and local coalitions (just do a search for "sexual assault coalition" and you'll bring up a boatload)
I mention Facebook, because one of the issues we frequently hear from struggling programs is a sense of isolation and frustration with lack of networking opportunities. Particularly because so many travel budgets have been slashed or outright eliminated. As a dedicated social media fan, I'm here to tell you that some of the interaction you crave can be found right here on the web. And Facebook is a good place to start*.
*A caveat for SANEs regarding using social media sites like Facebook: these sites are searchable and less under your control than you might think. Information that you post to your site will remain out there in the digital ether, even if you delete it; and unless you institute some strict privacy controls, others can put up content about you (including photos). Make sure you limit any content about yourself to things you wouldn't be embarrased to be confronted with in court. For those of you who will be attending SANE-SART in May, Roger Canaff and I will spend a portion of our "Surviving Cross Examination" talk addressing this very issue.
What other orgs have you run across on Facebook? Let us know in the comments section if there are some you particularly like.


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Would it be fair to assume that for a Log-In page, that I can either leave out the Meta tags or leave the contents blank like this...
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
Presumably this logic would apply to any "internal" page (e.g. Log-In, Create Account, Member Profile, Preferences Page, etc.).
so what's your point?
I never said people should not try to have their pages indexed by search engines.
Common sense says you should have your pages indexed as high as possible
Search engines can and do index files on https.
On Google's addUrl page they say
We add and update new sites to our index each time we crawl the web, and we invite you to submit your URL here. We do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear.
I guess it's a bit ambiguous because Google don't actually say you must submit a page for indexing or it will never be found by them.
Anyway, it's not a big deal. To play it safe, it's best to just submit the home page for indexing.
I could be totally wrong, so don't take what I said as Gospel, but I'm pretty sure it's accurate.
ok, thanks for clearing that up.
I know Google and the web are 2 different things and that when you do a google search you are searching its database and not the www.
I was just under the impression that google bots will eventually find your website even if it doesn't have any inbound links anywhere on the www or even if you don't submit it to google for indexing.
I thought that submitting a website to google for indexing only speeded up the process - submitting a website meant that a google bot would visit and evaluate a site within about a week as opposed to taking months to find a website that has not been submitted and has no inbound links.
Looks like my impression was wrong. In any case I usually submit a brand new web site to Google for evaluation and hopefully indexing.
No, I don't think it would. You really need inbound links if you want search engines to find the site. You can also officially alert Google to the presence of your site by filling out a form, which speeds up the process of Google spidering it.
The web is one thing and Google is another. When you do a Google search, you are not searching the web, you are actually searching Google's database. That database is a record of every site Google has managed to find out there on the web and make a copy of. But it has to be able to find a site to make a copy of it, and it does that via links.
If you don't get "indexed" by Googe and no one backlinks to your site, you basically don't exist on the WWW, ever!
And I know from experience that it can take months before you get indexed and people CAN find you, including spambots!!
Some points...
1.) Google will respect your robots.txt file.
2.) Obviously spambots will do anything to get at your good stuff
3.) A Log-In page would be HTTPS and no respectable Search Engine will index that, and I believe spambots may not be able even if they want...
Google's spiders index pages by following links from page to page across the web. If there are no links to the page, Google won't find it, nor will any other bots, including spam bots.
ok thanks for that.
I knew search engines follow links to look for pages to potentially index but I thought they somehow also traveled from domain name to domain name looking for potential website home pages (and subsequent sub pages if any) to index.
I am thinking of the scenario where a brand new website is launched with no links to it anywhere else on the www. Even without any other links to it on the www and without submitting the website (via a sitemap.xml) to Google for indexing, I thought that a Google bot would eventually still find the website. Whether any pages on the website are then subsequently indexed by Google is another issue.
Anyway, I'm digressing now
Google's spiders index pages by following links from page to page across the web. If there are no links to the page, Google won't find it, nor will any other bots, including spam bots. Putting a reference in a robots file will alert spam bots to the presence of the page, which you don't want at all.
Of course, if you have a link on your site to a signup page etc., then yes, the page will be listed in search engines. So I'm really talking about a hidden login page for clients to log in to their CMS, for example.
Even with a login page that is listed in Google, it won't rank well and is unlikely to be found often in Google.
You can put them in your robots.txt file as "Disallow"...
I thought that search engines like Google will find all web pages eventually, assuming they remain on the www long enough, and it's only a question of whether Google actually indexes them or not based on the page content.
Yeah, no point in trying to help the search engines index a page that you won't want people to find by searching. I never have any links pointing to the login page anyway, so Google et at. will never see it. You can thus do away with all the usual niceties (meta description and keywords are just for them). It might be worth putting in a meta page title at least (<title>), as the page will look nicer that way when someone is logging in.