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The classic ultra-light batter is perfect with prawns for a light snack with drinks or as part of a Japanese feast.
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For the batter, sift the cornflour and flour together into a medium bowl.
Make a well in the centre and add the egg and beer and whisk from the centre outwards, until just combined (it is okay if the batter is a little lumpy). Allow the batter to stand for a few minutes in a cool place.
Heat the oil in a deep heavy-bottomed pan until a breadcrumb sizzles and turns brown when dropped into it. (CAUTION: hot oil can be dangerous. Do not leave unattended.)
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"We all have one 'channel' to cross: be it the English Channel, thirty minutes of daily exercise, or just not quitting school." – Antonio Argüelles.Triple Crown of open water swimming, and being the third person in the world to do so in just one season, and the first person to do it twice. He is now planning to expand his sports activity from open water swimming to mountain climbing; being the Everest his next grand project. He is also a member of the famous Half Century Club
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Antonio was born in México City, on April 15th of 1959. His passion for swimming was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos, where his grandfather had a cold-water pool. However, he discovered he wanted to reach competitive standards in 1968, the year of the Olympics in México City; from that point since, competing in the Olympics became his dream. Argüelles's parents enrolled him in the local YMCA, and he managed to secure a place in Mexico's National Swimming Team, in the 400 and 1500 freestyle category.
Through his coach, he met Bill Lee, the president of Speedo at that time. In 1976, Argüelles moved in with Lee, to California, in pursuit of his dream. Argüelles got enrolled in the prestigious Stanford University. He soon realized that he wasn't made for the exigency of the Olympics, and quit the team. However, he took up running and, later, triathlon.
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Argüelles has worked mostly in the Public sector. He was General Director of Colegio Nacional de Educación Profesional (CONALEP) from 1994 to 2000, and Undersecretary of both Ministry of Trade (Secretaría de Comercio y Fomento Industrial) from 1989 to 1993, and Ministry of Finance (Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público). He's been a guest lecturer at Colegio de México (COLMEX) and Universidad Anahuac.
Antonio Argüelles co-wrote several books dealing with public administration and Technological Education, among which one can find:
- Competencia Laboral y educación basada en normas de competencia
- La educación tecnológica en el mundo
- Hacia la reingeniería educativa: el caso Conalep
Currently, he is CEO of Nueva Escuela Tecnológica (NET, New Technological School), a project that brings low-cost, quality education in several districts of Mexico City.
Triathlon, open water, and other sports activities:
In 1989, Argüelles founded the Mexican Triathlon Federation, of which he is honorary president since 1995. This Federation was conceived as an organ that should be have high quality standards, and that it should respond to its intended audience in a quick and precise manner. As a complement to the Triathlon Federation, he founded MAAD Sports (currently AsDeporte) to encourage the organization of sports events that would allow professional sportsmen to have a source of income. Internationally, Antonio Argüelles was a key piece in the development of Pan-American sport, and in the consideration of triathlon as an Olympic discipline.
He helped promote the first races and cycling events in government institutions, where employees of certain institutions would compete for health, fun, and small prices. He also established de 'Day of going to work without car' (Día de trabajo sin coche'). Because of this, he was awarded the Golden Shoe Award by Runners World magazine, in March 1993. During 2008 and 2009, and motivated by the Triple Crown Project, he committed himself to boost and active lifestyle in the Mexican population; for this, he frequently gives motivational speeches where he uses his experience in sports as a way to promote physical activity.
He has participated in several swimming, racing and triathlon events, among which one can find:
• 8 Marathons
• 3 Half Ironman
• 5 Ironman
Open water swimming:
1. Manhattan Island, 1997 (7:56:16) (1)
2. Catalina Island, Los Angeles 1999 (12: 25:43) (1)
3. Swim Around Key West, 1999 (4:34:05)
4. English Channel, 1999 (18:19:00) (1)
5. Catalina Island, Los Angeles, 2008 (13:10:25) (1)
6. Manhattan Island, 2009 (8:21:11) (2)
7. Catalina Island, California 2009 (10:25:12) (2) (*)
8. English Channel, 2009 (12:54) (2)
(1) Part of the Triple Crown challenge, completed by Argüelles in 1999, being the sixth person in the world to do so.
(2) Part of the Triple Crown challenge, where he became the third person in the world to complete it in one season.
On November 20, 2009, he received the Premio Nacional del Deporte, in the category of Sports' Promotion, Encouragment, and Development.
He will also participate in an 88-mile (141.6 km) charity swim and relay across the Sea of Cortez in Mexico together with Richard Ernst, Susan Moody, Mauricio Prieto, Vito Bialla and Luane Rowe on 1 June 2014.
At Each Stroke: Endless Blue
He, with Nora Toledano, co-wrote the book: "A cada brazada: el azul interminable" ("At Each Stroke: The Endless Blue") in which he retells his experience of crossing the English Channel.
The Spanish-language book colorfully describes Toledano and Argüelles' numerous open water swimming challenges around the world and what they experienced. In their colorful prose, they equate their channel swimming experiences to a survival in the sea of life.
This work retells, in the words of Nora and Antonio, the amazing experience of completing one of the most difficult sports challenges, compared to climbing the Everest: swimming the English Channel. There, they had to battle nature, because of the terrible climate, which seems to intentionally oppose the swimmer. But, more than fulfilling their dream, both authors explain their motivation, and how a sports challenge morphed into a metaphor of surviving in the sea of life.
- Introduction - Double crossing of the English Channel (by Nora Toledano) *First part: England to France * Second part: France to England - The magic of the Channel - Fausta Marín: when you have a dream it's difficult to give up - Crossing of English Channel (by Antonio Argüelles) * First Part * Second Part - Afterword. - Epilogue. - Preparation and some anecdotes - Important Data - Glossary - Bibliography
External links
- Antonio Arguelles Website
- Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming members
- At Each Stroke: Endless Blue (A cada brazada: el azul interminable)
- Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming Twice
- Three Coronas for Antonio Arguelles
- Oldies But Goodies In The Open Water
- Catalina Channel Swimming Federation website
- Channel Swimming Association website
- NYC Swim website
- Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming website
- Open Water Swimming website
- The Oldest Men and Women in the Sea
- Outdoor Magazine on My Perfect Adventure
- Antonio Argüelles Adventure Outside
- Double The Trouble, But Twice As Nice
- Getting Lost In The Open Water
- Mount Everest vs. The English Channel _ Which Is More Difficult?
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- Swim4Good Crosses The Strait Of Gibraltar
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- Giving It With All Their Hearts
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Friend of mine that I work with, told me he had a BF new Parasound 2100 Preamp sitting in a box at his house that he was going to hook up as part of his HT as a bypass to his mains, but he never did, saying he is satisfied with his HT pre pro. He had it for over a year and didn't think he could return it. I looked it up, and they go for about $570 new, and 3-400 used in good cond.
I have been waving $300 in cash in front of him for about a week now, and today he bit.
I was going to ebay it, but I printed a copy of the manual from the Parasound site, and started thinking that maybe this thing could solve a couple of issues for me.
1. I had no tone controls
2 no remote volume control
3 no bass management for my sub
4 not feasible to relocate sub to corner.(where IMO they sound the best)
So I cut the tape on the box not knowing if the above would work out, but gave it a shot.
I took my whole rig apart re wiring everything through the 2100:
I relocated the sub and connected to the pre's sub out connection.
Now i realize this pre is not anything super hi end, but I'm stunned by how much more detail this thing is bringing to my rig. And the bass management issue is resolved. I am not using the Phono Pre, just using that set of inputs as line level and using my Musical Surroundings.
It also dampens some of the tube noise actually it is quiet as SS.
Nice product... Nice deal... I don't need the tone controls, but I think I am just going to keep it... WTF


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Analyzing the numbers
I keep looking at the election numbers, trying to make sense of it all, and the more I look and count and add, the more a couple of things become clear:
1. The absentee vote wasn't just about Ed Lee. Clearly, the Lee forces got their troops out and did an absentee drive, but the total absentee votes for mayor (62,446) were about the same as the total votes for district attorney (63,354) and most of the propositions.So the people who voted early voted the entrie ballot.
2. The election-day votes were so dramatically different from the absentees that several factors had to be at work. One of them was the phenomenal campaign for John Avalos, which moblized thousands of people and demonstrated how much of a force progressives can be. Keep in mind -- Avalos, who had no independent expenditure groups and less money than many of the other candidates -- actually came in first on election day. His team worked hard and smart and pulled off a near miracle.
3. The drop-off in support for Lee between the absentees and election day suggests that his popularity was, indeed, declining fast in the past few weeks. The voter fraud scandals had something to do with it, but so did the attacks on Lee by the Herrera and Yee campaigns and by IE groups supporting those two candidates. If Lee hadn't been so far out in front a month ago, he might not have won. As it is, if he holds on, it won't be with the kind of mandate he would like to claim.
When the Department of Elections runs the first pass at ranked-choice voting, we'll get a better idea of how much Lee's support has fallen; RCV won't be such a big deal with the absentees since Lee got so many of those first-place votes. The election-day votes will be more telling; when Adachi, Yee and Chiu are eliminated, where do those seconds go? How many will go to Lee -- and how many will go anywhere but?
1) There's nothing new about progressives doing well "on the day". Matt beat Gavin "on the day". But in this town, we count all the votes. No one vote is any better than any one other vote.
2) Lee support didn't drop off at all. Every opinion poll i saw had Lee at 30%-33% and he came in yesterday at 31%. Your constant claims that his support was dropping proved to be totally wrong.
I'm more shocked that A and B passed, but at least the sales tax prop failed.
RCV/IRV is gimmicky and could result in an incompetent mayor like Jean Quan (not saying Avalos is like her). I think it sucks.
I'd prefer a straight runoff between Lee and Avalos.
Uh, get real, Jean Quan is far and beyond more like Ed Lee than Avalos.
She's more like Baum - clueless and out of her depth.
Her main idea seems to have been to make the buses free and have them run every ten minutes.
...between Lee and Yee - or Lee and Herrera - because the big gun funders would have chosen a more centrist left challenger to Lee.
Lee started the campaign at 30% and ended the campaign at 31%. Doesn't seem like the last few months changed his numbers at all.
Avalos and Baum were the only progressive candidates in this election, and collectively they received about half the ballots that Tom Ammiano won as a write-in in 1999, and barely a third of what Alioto, Ammiano and Gonzalez won in 2003.
Avalos' showing more accurately demonstrates how weak progressives have become over the past several election cycles.
Avalos deserves credit for running a positive campaign and rallying the progressive base. That got him to 20%. He was assisted by terrible campaign tactics from Yee and Herrera, who focused more on attacking Lee than putting forth a believable vision for how they would govern the city.
Progressives always do better on election day - this is a structural factor that has more to do with the large percentage of moderate voters who are permanent absentee voters than any campaign dynamics.
This was in the bag for Lee from the day he announced. Sorry.
I disagree that this is because vote by mailers tend to be more moderate. This was once true, and probably still is but with half the electorate voting by mail now the disparity shouldn't be as great as it once was with the sample size being so large. There must be other factors at play besides a tendency of vote by mailers to be more conservative.
Have to agree with this post almost in its entirely - the reason why Avalos has such a high percentage of votes is that progressives were obviously the most fired up about the election and beating Lee, and yet...
-The the raw numbers (25,000 votes or so out of 160,000 cast and 450,000 registered voters) aren't exactly encouraging.
-80% of voters picked a non-progressive candidate, and even if you throw Yee and Herrera into the mix as "progressives" for shits and giggles, it's still over 60%.
-A better absentee ballot campaign among progressive voters would undoubtedly allow progressive campaigns to focus more on GOTV as Election Day nears, but then you still have to appeal to liberals and moderates to broaden your base and have non-progressives to turn out.
I don't know if the progressive movement is "weaker" per se, but the echo chamber has to stop - if progressives are ever going to win a mayoral race, the candidates have to appeal to the center and center-left voters in this town, period. Avalos simply didn't do that. Maybe he would have in a runoff, but I doubt it (and digress)..
sank him. Even if he ends up with 20%, so what? That's nowhere close to winning.
I'm glad to see Tim saying something about how progressives need to improve their vote by mail organizing (in his other posts, not this one). Its something that progressives hopefully will finally be forced to confront and while talking about "on the day" feels good for those of us who worked hard to get Avalos elected it is really a distraction to think about it that way.
Does anyone have any ideas? For one, the DCCC and the Guardian slate cards don't go out until a few days before election day. I think the biggest hurdle to overcome is that people don't start coming out of the woodwork to walk precincts/phone bank until just a couple weeks until election day. The Avalos office in late Sep. early Oct. was a pretty quiet place relative to a week ago. When everyone starts engaging a week before the election we always get this great feeling of momentum and surging in the polls but it is often not enough for how badly we are outworked in vote by mail. This is understandable, but with the prevalence of vote by mail voters (50% of us now and I'm one) this is not good enough to win elections.
The question is whether or not the 40,000 votes are John's base or whether there were another 40,000 that could have been turned out. Crying about the timiliness of slates is not going to get the additional voters to the polls on election day or get them to absentee ballot.
I have to believe that two things were needed:
1. Identification of those precincts where John had support and phone banks and canvassers to identify the voters, get them registered and either get them to vote absentee or show up at their polling place on election day. The second and third choice votes are fine, but the key is to get the more votes in the first choice.
2. Finding issues that will excite and mobilize those groups that would support progressive issues would make the connection between those issues and John's campaign to become mayor.
Mayor Lee's campaign people determined what was required to win and executed the strategy.
I'd like to answer the above comment to say that in my opinion the votes "on the day" represent the most current information about the candidates and so are in fact "better" votes.
The reason the 'elites' try so hard to get mail in ballots is because not as much information is out there about their candidates as there is by the day of the election, for instance the source of some of the funding or the campaign tactics being used.
But if you derive comfort from believing otherwise, knock yourself out. It doesn't change the result.
There is some truth to this, but the reason elites try so hard to bank votes, is because a banked vote is a banked vote. Everyone should be trying to do this. Any vote not banked ahead of time can change its mind. Its not about progressive/conservative elite/grassroots, its about good organizing.
Another reason I say "on the day" votes are better, higher quality, more reflective of the will of voters, goes back to 2003 when so many mail in ballots had been cast for Gavin Newsom before Matt Gonzalez even declared himself as a candidate for mayor.
If those 'banked votes' could have been re-voted you have to wonder.
It would be interesting if there were a way for a voter to change his mail in ballot before election day based upon new information, like for instance a new, better candidate.
Might that have something to do with the fact that hipster christ superstar waited until the last minute to throw his name into the race?
ALL VOTES ARE EQUAL. The idea that election day votes are more representative of the "will of the voters" is pure fantasy.
but his name was on the ballot (including vote by mail) in both the general & runoff
If you want to ban postal ballots, put a prop on the ballot.
Who is the elites and how do they keep pulling the wool over everyone's eyes but you?
Three weeks ago Avalos was the same buffoon trying to force his agenda on the world while not liking it being done to him buffoon he was yesterday on election day.
Sour and bitter losers.
Time to scheme up some new voting scheme since rcv doesn't seem to be working out as expected.
When a liberal doesn't win, IRV is flawed, or there was voter fraud, or the election was "bought", or the public was misled or . . .
Obviously not the 'real' matlock, he knows how to 'talk good' and write coherently.
So true. Ed Lee also waited until the last minute.
Yes, the polls had him around 30 percent and that's where he came in. But the absentees, which were early votes, had him at 42 percent, and the election-day ballots had him much lower. That may just be the expected mix, but it may also be that Lee was more popular a month ago than he was on election day.
ladies in ChinaTown who voted 1-4 weeks ago would ever have voted for a Hispanic from the West-side.
Your dilemma is that the Left can't win without compromising on key issues. So do you want power or do you want to stay pure?
Or voted for Leland Yee. Those elderly ladies didn't know Ed Lee from Adam 3 weeks ago. They probably still don't. Their ballots were filled out by campaign workers with the aid of a stencil.
All of us who are trying to make sense of the numbers are scrambling right now, since the final votes aren't in and we don't have precinct breakdowns or anything. So lighten up on the harshness; I'm posting this stuff as I think of it, and I'm happy to hear other opinions. Quit whining and chip in -- what do YOU think it all means?
Election day votes do matter. It's kind of like a poll. The mail in votes also matter, but they show that Ed Lee had more support starting a month ago, than he did yesterday.
I hope everyone who claimed a month ago that Avalos never had a chance is eating their words right now.
Election Day Votes(not including the absentees)
74,851 100%
Studies have been showing for decades that mail in voters are a different demographic than election day voters.
Stop whining Jesus Christo
results to be made public - or that the process should stretch on for days and days. Ireland uses RCV and allows way more transfer than three and there you know the results of an election usually within 12 hours or less. The Department of Elections is completely incompetent in this regard. Why does it take them so long to tabulate the results of RCV?
And Ed Lee is going to be the mayor for the next four years. Almost 62% of the vote to Avalos' 41% after round 1 of RCV.
Avalos had not much more to offer than thin statements like si se puede and whose city? our city! yet he got 41%. Sad.
As Dave Cruise said, that's just sad. And as Chris Daly sussed it, "Even with RCV, Ed Lee finishes with only 43% of ballots cast. Only 8.5% of San Franciscans marked him 1, 2, or 3! Given the dirty money, voter fraud, and smoke-filled rooms, that's hardly a mandate. Time for progressives to step-up our opposition."
Play all the statistical games you like. You still lost.
Just mentioned that Lee was SF's 1st Asian mayor.
Come progressives, what happened to the racialism obsession?
Relax and enjoy, it's someone you claim that is mayor now.
Typical Redmond comment; he's all for vote suppression when it favors his cause
for a decade. His endorsement is usually a guarantee that his pick will lose, and 2011 is no exception.
I wonder if he ever gets sick of being on the losing side.
It's good to read the articles here, in the bay citizen and in other papers around the bay but there's significant trolling going on, and that really breaks the REAL debate that can occur in the comments, as well as the additional INTERESTING point of views.
Many papers are taking action on trolling all over the place, Europe including. It's very simple. Most of the trolling come from the same people all the time, and most of them from the same IPs. It's time to block those users from polluting the internet comments.
Please help us clear the noise. We badly need it.
Thats a good enough reason for me.
Count me out.
Count me out.
anyone who disagrees with you. IOW, you want to visit a site which is censored and which only accepts opinions that are carefully skewed in your direction.
Sorry this place isn't what you seek. Nor is the internet. You clearly need your own planet.
Agreed, there truly is no need for me to read any opinion that differs from my own. Please block any user who does not tow the SF progressive party line 100%
AHAHAH... Man was my post a troll catcher or something. F*** TROLLS.
When you walk into a bar and someone asks you what you do for a living, do you say "I'm a troll". You guys probably don't get laid as much as your Chinese boss.
Yeah Slick Willie and 'LaFamilia' are back in the driver's seat, instead of being back seat drivers. There was never any real doubt that the fix was firmly in. Congratulations to John Avalos for at least temporarily 'uniting' some of the progressive 'pooh-bahs', and energising a younger, multi cultural crowd. If I understand the 'latest numbers' he is at about 40%?. Pretty damn impressive.
Some things that must hopefully be obvious to 'progressives' are; the importance of absentee/early ballots; reaching across the doctrinaire, idealogical divides and finding common causes; a sustained message between 'selections'; getting folks to vote early or at least get into the booth at the last moment. Some of the obviously non-progressive guests here make valid, thoughtful points, personally I appreciate constructive criticism and rational opposing points of view. Hopefully now the 'selectoral process' is over, the hagfish will sink back to the bottom, and this site can again become a forum for discussion of divergent opinions.
@LL. As someone who for over 50 years has been about as far left as you can be without completing the circle and becoming aTeaParty troll, you make some observations that I have been trying to disseminate for decades, maybe 'they' will wise up and listen to you.
You wrote:
"The drop-off in support for Lee between the absentees and election day suggests that his popularity was, indeed, declining fast in the past few weeks....When the Department of Elections runs the first pass at ranked-choice voting, we'll get a better idea of how much Lee's support has fallen; RCV won't be such a big deal with the absentees since Lee got so many of those first-place votes. The election-day votes will be more telling; when Adachi, Yee and Chiu are eliminated, where do those seconds go?"
Well, here's what we learned...When Adachi's votes were redistributed, Herrera picked up the most, followed by Lee, Chiu and Avalos.
When Yee's votes were redistributed, Lee picked up the most, followed by Chiu, Herrera and Avalos.
When Chiu's votes were redistributed, Lee again picked up the most, followed by Herrera and then Avalos.
In other words - there is no sign of a drop-off in Lee support - in fact, he gained strength through RCV.
And, far from there being an "Anyone But Lee" voting intent, it appears that Avalos is the candidate who consistently failed to pick up significant 2nd and 3rd votes through the RCV process.
So much for the progressive revival.
People either put him first or not at all.
You need broad support to win city-wide. Pandering to just the left is a suicide pact.
Are you armchair quarterbacks looking at the same election results?
Avalos' votes increased by 35% from ranked choice votes (he gained around 16,000).
Lee's votes increased by 30% (gaining around 20,000).
The difference in gain was only 4,000 votes.
The reason Avalos didn't win is that (as usual) progressives didn't get together well before the election and all agree on a strategy to send a strong and clear message to voters to choose the same two or three key candidates in their rankings.
Lee's win wasn't about progressive RCV strategy (which was terrible) or "dropping poll numbers" (he got the same number of votes as the polls predicted) or being less popular on election day than a month ago. And there was no sign of an Avalos surge.
In fact, this election played out almost exactly the way the Bay Citizen poll predicted a couple of weeks ago.
You remember that one, Eric? The one you called "bogus" multiple times here, with "too small a sample size" to reflect the nuances of RCV?
Want to take any of that back?
Of course the Bay Citizen poll was bogus. It reported Avalos -far- below the actual 20% that he got in the first round. The fact that it got the Lee votes pretty much correct is interesting. But the fact that it totally misread Avalos' actual support was telling of how flawed it was.
And as I recall, when many of us were criticizing that poll, one of our main points was that Avalos was doing far better than the poll indicated; especially once it had become a month old and people like you were still absurdly relying on it.
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Americans remain unhappy with how President Obama is handling the economy, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Fifty-two percent disapprove of his handling of the economy and 45 percent approve, virtually the same ratings he has received all year.
The survey also finds that voters are starting to think more highly of the Republican party on several issues. The GOP is now rated higher than the Democrats on handling the economy, 33 percent to 29 percent, and foreign policy, 33 to 26. But the GOP still has a long way to go to catch the Democrats in general terms. Overall, only 28 percent of Americans hold positive views of the Republicans, while 40 percent see the Democrats positively.
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Asked about one of the major issues confronting Congress this fall, 44 percent say Congress should not raise the debt ceiling; 22 percent say the legislators should raise the debt ceiling, and 33 percent don't know enough to have an opinion.
Pessimism is common. Only 27 percent of Americans think the economy will improve in the next year, the lowest since July 2012. Twenty-four percent say the economy will get worse, and 48 percent say it will stay about the same.
Sixty-two percent say the country is on the wrong track, and only 30 percent say it's headed in the right direction, which is roughly the same level of pessimism that has persisted throughout 2013.
The poll found that Obama's job-approval rating is a mediocre 45 percent, with 50 percent disapproval – little changed for the past three months. The numbers are similar to Obama's rating for his handing of the economy.
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Bill McInturff, a Republican pollster who conducted the survey with Democratic pollsters Peter Hart and Fred Yang, told me, "The president has reduced standing as he heads into the showdowns on the budget and other issues" this fall. This could "embolden" his congressional opposition to fight him more aggressively on issues ranging from the debt ceiling to budget priorities, McInturff said.
Hart told the Journal that Obama faces a "very bumpy road" this fall because he has been lurching from one crisis to another.
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June 21, 2012 | Central Florida Broadcaster WMFE announced late Thursday its intent to sell its TV license to the University of Central Florida. With a price tag of $3.3 million dollars and a local buyer, WMFE executives are hoping for quick approval from the FCC.
If the deal gets approved by the Federal Communications Commission, it would likely place WUCF TV as the primary PBS affiliate in Central Florida.
WMFE CEO Jose Fajardo says approval from the FCC could take several months, but UCF's position as a current public broadcaster should minimize any regulator concerns, "this is a local institution, and educational institution that already is a licensee holder of a broadcast license, that being WUCF FM, they already have a track record of doing education and local programming, so we think that unlike the other buyers that we've had to consider that this would be as close to a slam dunk as possible."
Previously WMFE had considered selling its TV license to religious broadcaster Daystar.
Fajardo says the proceeds from the sale will go into local radio news expansion and a station endowment.
University of Central Florida Spokeswoman Christine Dellert says WUCF TV will be able to expand its signal after the sale is approved, bringing PBS programs such as NOVA, Nature, and PBS Kids shows to viewers over a larger geographical area.
Currently WUCF TV broadcasts through a partnership with Brevard Community College. WBCC will revert to original status as a secondary public broadcaster in Central Florida after the sale.
Dellert also says UCF hopes to expand hands on opportunities for students interested in TV production.
Next the University's board of trustees meets to vote on the Channel 24 sale Monday morning.
You can read about WMFE's sale announcement HERE.


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North Jersey was forever changed after Hurricane Sandy hit the area, devasting homes in towns like Little Ferry, Moonachie, Hackensack, South Hackensack and Carlstadt. Now the Bergen County chapter of Habitat for Humanity, based out of Oradell, is looking to institute a five-year relief plan to assist homeowners rehabilitate, rebuild and return to their homes.
"Habitat International is committed to disaster relief and is rolling out programs for six target locations, including Bergen County," Jacey Raimondo, executive director of Bergen County Habitat said. "We're looking at long-term reconstruction over the next three to five years."
As part of the long-term relief efford, which could begins sometime in spring 2013, Habitat Bergen is waiting on the delivery of a GM mobile response unit outfitted with Bosch Power Tools. The specialized truck would serve as the mobile office of a volunteer coordinator between flooding reconstruction projects in basements and first floor level homes.
To be eligible for Habitat's help, Raimondo stated that families must meet the same criteria as regular clients of the non-profit.
"Our first priority will be the elderly, the disabled, those with special-needs children, the poor and those on fixed incomes," she said. "They must have insufficient coverage from flood insurance to pay the cost of repairs. And of course, the house must be their primary home."
Habitat is currently looking for residents to submit information through their website to be considered for assistance. At the same time the volunteer organization is working on Sandy relief efforts, Habitat will also be continuing to work on completing its outstanding projects in Oradell and New Milford.
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Hey, it's a dirty job and the county has to pay someone to do it. That doesn't mean, however, that it needs to be boring.
County Recreation and Parks Director Barry Williams made that point Tuesday afternoon with his somewhat dramatic reading that left some Baltimore County Council members looking for more. [Listen to Williams' presentation.]
"This is a fun one," Williams said as he started his discussion of waste removal from septic systems and cesspools at various county parks facilities.
Williams has what some have called a broadcast quality voice, which he used to explain the one-year contract with four one-year renewals with Burns Septic Tank and Line Cleaning Inc. The job is valued at $8,265 annually.
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"You want more?" Williams responded.
"You can't make it sound any sexier?" asked Councilwoman Cathy Bevins.
"This is it, this is all I've got," Williams said amid laughs in the room.
The jocularity only made it tougher for people like Robert Stradling, the director of the county Office of Information Technology, who asked the Council for approval of an agreement to create a joint data center between the county government and schools system.
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Although the official verdict is still undecided, inside sources say the LA police should start preparing Mel Gibson's jail cell. We couldn't think of anyone who was more deserving. Charged with hitting ex-girlfriend and baby momma, Oskana Grigorieva, Mel could face up to four years in prison if convicted of a felony or a year if charged as a misdemanor.
4 Celebrity Babes And Their Bodyguards
Cue Whitney Houston music: half of Hollywood appears to be shacking up with their bodyguards. And who could blame them? Having a big, burly hunk of love by your side providing protection 24/7 could certainly be addictive. That's probably why rumors like these are nothing new—in recent years, everyone from Amy Winehouse to Britney Spears to even Beyonce has made headlines for supposedly puckering up with their protectors. And of course, there's Princess Stephanie of Monaco, who married and divorced former bodyguard Daniel Ducruet after he pulled a T-Pain and fell in love with a stripper.
The Mel Gibson/Oksana Grigorieva Scandal Timeline
So much has happened between Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva over the past several months that we thought it would help to make a brief timeline of the scandalous events—especially now that a court-imposed gag order has prevented Oksanafrom telling the whole sordid story to Oprah.
Could Mel Gibson Lose Custody Of His Baby?
While Mel Gibson and his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva still share joint custody of their 9-month-old daughter, as their divorce lawyers continue to duke it out in court, sources say that may change very soon. According to E!News, detectives are nearly finished investigating the domestic abuse and child abuse allegations against Gibson, and it's not looking good for the Lethal Weapon star. (Not that it ever really did, once tape after tape of Mel Gibson's abusive rants were released.)
Text May Prove Oksana Blackmailed Mel Gibson
Ok so we're not excusing Mel Gibson's abusive and disturbing tirades, which went public this month when audiotapes of the star threatening his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva were leaked. But it doesn't look like Oksana, who accused Gibson of domestic violence, is exactly innocent either.
Mel Gibson Accused Of Murder/Suicide Plot
For anyone who thought this story couldn't get worse, you were wrong...Apparently, after Mel punched Oksana twice in the head, she fell to the bed and he began choking her with his forearm—while she was holding their baby daughter Lucia. After Oksana got loose from Mel's grasp, he allegedly pulled out a gun and threatened to kill her, the children (Lucia and Oksana's 12-year-old son Sascha, who was in another room) and himself.
Mel Gibson Isn't Dead Or Fleeing The Country
Our apologies to all of the Mel Gibson haters out there, but, despite the rumors, the disgraced actor is neither dead nor moving back to Australia with his ex-wife. According to his rep via Us Magazine, Mel is alive and well and is currently back at work, filming a movie entitled The Beaver, with director Jodie Foster, who is likely regretting the choice of casting. (How nervous do you think she is that the film will be a bomb, simply because people now hate Mel?)
Mel Gibson's Ex-Wife Defends Him
Mel Gibson's estranged wife is defending him against the allegations that he verbally abused and hit his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. "Mel never engaged in any physical abuse of any kind toward me before, during or after our marriage," Robyn told the California judge in charge of Mel and Oksana's custody battle.
Did Mel Gibson Hit His Baby?
And you thought it couldn't get worse. The newest allegations coming from Oksana Grigorieva have it that Mel Gibson hit and bruised their baby during their infamous fight January 6th that sent her to the dentist with missing front teeth. This comes in tandem with the release of a fifth audio tape to RadarOnline.com, in which the Braveheart star COMPLETELY LOSES IT to the point of hyperventilation. "B*tch, c*nt, whore, gold digger," he yells at Oksana before breaking into a crazed, snarling gasping rant.
Mel Gibson Tapes: Gross, Abusive, Not Surprising
More audio clips of Mel Gibson screaming abuse at his eighth child's mother, Oksana Grigorieva, surfaced this week, and we have had it up to here with gross racist screamy Mel. Seriously. He's ruining large swathes of film history for us as well as offering an object lesson in just what Hollywood will put up with (say, racist, misogynistic wife-beaters) as long as the films make money.
Mel Gibson Admits On Tape That He Hit Oksana
Talk about a lethal weapon—Oksana Grigorieva's tape recorder is slowly murdering Mel Gibson's career. And we can't say that he doesn't deserve everything that's coming to him. It seems that Oksana has audio proof to back up her claims (and photographic evidence) that Mel was physically abusive.
Photo Proves Mel Gibson Abused Oksana
Oksana Grigorieva has another weapon in her arsenal against estranged baby daddy Mel Gibson — and it's worth a thousand of his words, profane or otherwise. What is it? Well a photo of course. Before the restraining orders... Before the caught-on-tape "you look like a f***ing pig in heat" comments... There was a rumor last winter that the Mad Max star punched his Russian mistress in the face. Now it seems like this rumor was more than just hearsay. One of Oksana's friends has been talking to RadarOnline.com, saying that there are photos to prove that Gibson gave her two black eyes and a gap-toothed smile.
Say What? Mel Gibson Gets Nasty With Oksana
Well the truth has come out, and Oksana was right: Mel Gibson has been playing dirty... as well as violent, racist, misogynistic, crude, lewd and just plain foul. RadarOnline has received audio recorded by Mel Gibson's estranged baby mama Oksana Grigorieva that proves once and for all that Mr. What-you-looking-at-sugar-tits? Gibson is certifiably insane and possibly dangerous. So what did Mel say? Proceed with caution.
Did Mel Gibson Abuse Oksana Grigorieva?
We just reported earlier today that Mel Gibson filed a restraining order against his estranged girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. However, we're now learning that Mel's complaint came after Oksana filed a restraining order against him, allegedly because he was "extremely violent." The day after a judge prohibited him from having any contact with Oksana, Mel went to court to modify the order so that he could see the couple's daughter Lucia. That's when Mel issued a restraining order of his own, ostensibly to prevent Oksana from dishing any dirt on him.
Mel Gibson Gets Restraining Order Against Babymama
Mel Gibson's breakup with the woman he impregnated and left his wife of almost 30 years for just got nastier. Mel and Oksana Grigorieva split in April, six months after their daughter, Lucia, was born, and now Radar reports that on Wednesday he filed a restraining order against Oksana.
Mel Gibson Attempts To Reconcile With Wife
Now that Mel Gibson's relationship with Oksana Grigorieva has come to an ignominious end, the father of eight is trying to reconcile with his ex-wife, Robyn Gibson, mother of seven of those. And this comes just as a Polish pornographer says she's also slept with Mad Mel.
Splitsville: April's Most Devastating Breakups
Just like celebrity deaths come in waves (hello, summer of 2009!), so do celebrity breakups. And so far April 2010 has been a graveyard for partnered-up famous people. Join us for a review of all these blissful love affairs gone to crap.


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When major renovations were nearly completed for the football stadium at the Riverside Institute of Technology, the Buffalo Board of Education asked the public for suggestions on whose name to put on the stadium.
They got two candidates: Charles Dingboom and Frank J.A. World.
Dingboom was the longtime football coach at Riverside, known as a strict disciplinarian and beloved by countless students and athletes there. Even students who did not play football for him offered strong testimonies.
One of them wrote in an e-mail supporting naming the field after him: "Although I did not play football for Coach Dingboom, I did, however, take his physical education class and knew him occasionally through my four years at Riverside. Anyone who knew him or participated in sports with him were all better for it. He gave us all an example of character, integrity and honesty. Charles Dingboom is an historical icon for Riverside High School."
Now in his eighties, Dingboom is fighting Alzheimer's disease.
The other candidate put forward to have the stadium named after him was Sgt. Frank J.A. World, a Riverside grad who was killed in Afghanistan this spring, leaving behind a wife, young son and baby girl. He was 25 years old.
After graduating from high school, World joined the Marines in 2003. He was deployed to Iraq for a few years, until 2008. This spring, he was sent to Afghanistan.
Two months later, he was killed when his light armored vehicle was hit with an explosive.
His brother, Larry, told a reporter: "My brother was solid in his faith and firm in his beliefs, so there is no doubt that he is our angel up above watching down on us."
Board members recently were saved from having to choose between two worthy nominees for the naming of the field at Riverside. The World family graciously suggested that the board name the Riverside stadium after Dingboom, and the pavilion after World.
At 6 p.m. Friday, both the stadium and the pavilion will be dedicated.


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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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from February 27, 2013 (x) to April 25, 2026
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Ride The Carousel in Prospect Park
at The Carousel (in Prospect Park), Brooklyn
12:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Take a ride on the Park's beautiful 101 year-old carousel.
Category: Games, Kids
Pop-Up Audubon: Water, Water Everywhere!
at The Nethermead (in Prospect Park), Brooklyn
12:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
"Pop-Up Audubon" is a new interactive activity through the Audubon Center that allows you to directly engage with nature through outdoor learning adventures.
Category: Birding, Nature, Games, Kids, Tours
Rockstock and Barrels
at Beach 90th Street (in Rockaway Beach), Queens
12:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Rockaway rocks at the 7th annual Rockstock and Barrels festival.
Category: Festivals, Sports
at King Manor Museum (in Rufus King Park), Queens
12:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Celebrate the end of school and the beginning of summer at historic King Manor Museum.
Category: Education, Games, History, Kids, Tours
Forest Crew
at Laurel Hill Terrace (in Highbridge Park), Manhattan
12:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
This training session will include basic invasive and native plant identification, proper removal techniques and an overview of NYRP's approach to urban reforestation.
Category: Nature, Volunteer
Teen Boot Camp at Gertrude Ederle Recreation Center
at Gertrude Ederle Recreation Center, Manhattan
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
Come visit us. As part of the first week at Gertrude Ederle Recreation Center, the Teen Boot Camp exercise class is being offered for free.
Category: Fitness
Bryant Park Flaubert Frog & Friends
at Le Carrousel (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
Leap on over for ribbeting stories, fun & games. Led by the ever-so-stylish and frogtastic Flaubert himself.
Category: Games, Kids
Lefferts Historic House - Second Floor Tours
at Lefferts Historic House (in Prospect Park), Brooklyn
1:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Explore the unique architecture of Lefferts Historic House on this special tour.
Category: Art, History, Tours
Coney Island USA presents The Mermaid Parade
at West 21st Street & Surf Avenue (in Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk), Brooklyn
1:00 p.m.
Coney Island's 31st Annual Mermaid Parade
Category: Festivals
Seining the River Wild
at Main Street (in Brooklyn Bridge Park), Brooklyn
1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
Learn about the remarkable creatures of the East River as our scientists use a 20-foot seining net to humanely catch and release these unique critters.
Category: Nature, Kids, Fishing
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