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Stories from people who were children during World War II and the objects in this exhibit animate the past and inform us of a time when war took over daily life. "Retrospect is a very interesting thing," says Ruthie Kallnder. "At the time I don't recall any of the information we got as being propaganda," but the government tried to influence children to make "necessary" sacrifices. Propagandists made the war a battle between good and evil, democracy and fascism. They also asked children to share in the war effort. In response, many children took on more responsibilities. Ruthie explains that boys and girls felt "if that's what it was going to take" to win they "were willing to do it." The memories of the people in this exhibit and their wartime actions show the power of propaganda's messages and its lasting affect on their lives. Propaganda posters, children's books, and classroom assignments demonstrate how propagandists reached children and involved them in the national war effort.
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The Florida Legislature has passed a $74.5 billion budget, and a whopping $421 million of it will come to schools in Okaloosa, Walton and Santa Rosa counties.
That amount includes the three counties' portions of $480 million set aside for statewide teacher raises.
"In this year's budget, education is a big winner," said Senate President Don Gaetz, a former Okaloosa County schools superintendent.
Okaloosa will receive a little more than $201 million through the Florida Education Funding Program, a 6.82 percent increase of $12.9 million from this year, Gaetz said.
Gaetz, R-Niceville, said the only other time Okaloosa's FEFP funding was above $200 million was in fiscal 2007-08, when the county received $206 million.
Deputy Superintendent of Schools Kaye McKinley said $192 million of the budgeted amount — or $3.7 million more than this year — will go directly to the schools.
"We're not out there throwing money to the wind. We still have to conform to class size, which always takes a big chunk of money," McKinley said. "But we're definitely in better shape than we were last year."
Walton County schools saw a 7.56 percent increase of $3.9 million to $55.3 million, according to Gaetz.
Santa Rosa County is slated to receive a little more than $164 million in FEFP dollars, according to Gaetz. That represents a $9.4 million, or 6.1 percent, increase over this year.
Gaetz said he was personally involved in formulating legislation addressing the distribution of the $480 million for teacher raises based on performance.
"The language gives local school districts substantial flexibility in the pay plan to tie pay raises to performance," he said.
Raises of $2,500 to $3,500 will be merit-based, but teachers will not be graded on students they are not personally responsible for, Gaetz said.
McKinley said Okaloosa will receive about $5 million for teacher raises.
The new system for weighing raises also takes into account "difficulties or challenges in teaching assignments," Gaetz said.
"If a teacher has students with learning disabilities or goes into a low performing school, that can be taken into account," he said.
At Gaetz's request, an additional $361,000 was set aside for students earning industry certifications at CHOICE institutions.
Between $370 and $750 will be awarded to schools for each student who receives a national certification from among the 248 available, he said. The more difficult the certification, the higher the award.
State employees also will receive raises in fiscal 2013-14. The budget provides for employees who earn $40,000 or less to receive raises of $1,400, and those making more than $40,000 to receive $1,000 annual pay increases.
While all budget items are subject to veto by Gov. Rick Scott, the Okaloosa County Health Department is in line to receive $1.2 million for two mobile dental units, one mobile medical unit and renovations to its buildings in Fort Walton Beach and Crestview, Gaetz said.
It provides another $550,000 in annual spending to man and operate the mobile units.
Health Department Director Dr. Karen Chapman said the mobile dental units will allow her agency to add "four additional dental suites" and allow for expanded access to adult and children patients throughout the county.
The mobile medical unit will provide the capability to offer clinic care where needed.
"We're actually near capacity in seeing patients in Fort Walton Beach," she said. "We have demand but we don't have rooms."
Renovations will include replacing ceilings and aging bathrooms, Chapman said.
Another $1 million has been set aside in the budget to create a "crisis stabilization unit" at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center, Gaetz said.
The crisis stabilization unit at the hospital has become an imperative since Bridgeway Center closed its facility.
Patients with mental health issues taken into custody under the Baker Act will be processed at the hospital, Gaetz said.
"We want to make sure there is a secure unit and better stabilization for Baker Act patients," he said.
Hospital administrators are "motivated" to take on the additional workload, Gaetz said. "This provides the funding so they can be better equipped."
Homeless veterans in Okaloosa and Walton counties will benefit from $500,000 set aside for the Okaloosa-Walton Homeless Coalition, Gaetz said.
An additional $100 per child has also been placed in the budget for the Emerald Coast Children's Advocacy Center and Santa Rosa County's Kid's House.
The budget also sets aside $150,000 for Okaloosa County's Veterans Court and $10 million to protect military bases from encroachment.
Encroachment funds will be used for the two-pronged purpose of obtaining land for conservation and to provide buffer zones for bases, Gaetz said.
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Even with all the rule changes of the past few years the NFL is still a league that lives by the law of hit them before they hit you. Bone-crushing hitters take that though to heart. They're the players who thrive on contact and letting opponents know that they're trespassing on dangerous turf. According to one study, bone-crushing hitters are also the leading cause of alligator arms among NFL receivers.There's nothing that fires up a team or makes a stadium erupt with noise like seeing one of these hitters making sure their opponent gets blow'd up real good! There are many who take pride in that accomplishment populating NFL sidelines today but these 10 are the best in the business.
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Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics. Fermi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938 for his work on induced radioactivity and is today regarded as one of the top scientists of the 20th century. He is acknowledged as a unique physicist who was highly accomplished in both theory and experiment. Fermium, a synthetic element created in 1952 is named after him.
Beside attending the classes, Enrico Fermi found the time to work on with his extracurricular activities, particularly with the help of his friend Enrico Persico, who remained in Rome to attend the university. Between 1919 and 1923 Fermi studied general relativity, quantum mechanics and atomic physics. His knowledge of quantum mechanics reached such a high level that the head of the Physics Institute, Prof. Luigi Puccianti, asked him to organize seminars about that topic. During this time he learnt tensor calculus, a mathematical instrument invented by Gregorio Ricci and Tullio Levi-Civita, and needed to demonstrate the principles of general relativity. In 1921, his third year at the university, he published his first scientific works on the Italian magazine Nuovo Cimento: the first was entitled: "On the dynamic of a solid system of electrical charges in transient conditions"; the second: "On the electrostatic of a uniform gravitational field of electromagnetic charges and on the weight of electromagnetic charges". At first glance, the first paper seemed to point out a contradiction between the electrodynamic theory and the relativistic one concerning the calculation of the electromagnetic masses. After one year with a work entitled "Correction of severe discrepancy between electrodynamic theory and the relativistic one of electromagnetic charges. Inertia and weight of electricity", Enrico Fermi showed the correctness of his paper. This last publication was so successful that was translated into German and published in the famous German scientific magazine "Physikalische Zeitschrift".
In 1922 he published his first important scientific work in the Italian magazine I Rendiconti dell'Accademia dei Lincei entitled "On the phenomena that happen close to the line of time", where he introduces for the first time the so-called "Fermi's coordinates", and proves that when close to the time line, space behaves as an euclidean one. In 1922 Fermi graduated from Scuola Normale Superiore.
In 1923, while writing the appendix for the Italian edition of the book "Foundation of Einstein's relativity" written by A. Kopff, Enrico Fermi pointed out, for the first time, the fact that hidden inside the famous Einstein equation (), there was a enormous amount of energy (nuclear energy) to be exploited.
Fermi's Ph.D advisor was Luigi Puccianti. In 1924 Fermi spent a semester in Göttingen, and then stayed for a few months in Leiden with Paul Ehrenfest. From January 1925 to the autumn of 1926, he stayed at the University of Florence. In this period he wrote his work on the Fermi-Dirac statistics.
During their time in Rome, Fermi and his group made important contributions to many practical and theoretical aspects of physics. These include the theory of beta decay, and the discovery of slow neutrons, which was to prove pivotal for the working of nuclear reactors. His group systematically bombarded elements with slow neutrons, and during their experiments with uranium, narrowly missed observing nuclear fission. At that time, fission was thought to be improbable if not impossible, mostly on theoretical grounds. While people expected elements with higher atomic number to form from neutron bombardment of lighter elements, nobody expected neutrons to have enough energy to actually split a heavier atom into two light element fragments. However, the chemist Ida Noddack had criticised Fermi's work and had suggested that some of his experiments could have produced lighter elements. At the time, Fermi dismissed this possibility on the basis of calculations.
Fermi was well-known for his simplicity in solving problems. He began his inquiries with the simplest lines of mathematical reasoning, then later produced complete solutions to the problems he deemed worth pursuing. His abilities as a great scientist, combining theoretical and applied nuclear physics, were acknowledged by all. He influenced many physicists who worked with him, such as Hans Bethe, who spent two semesters working with Fermi in the early 1930s. From the time he was a boy, Fermi meticulously recorded his calculations in notebooks, and later used to solve many new problems that he encountered based on these earlier known problems.
When Fermi submitted his famous paper on beta decay to the prestigious journal Nature, the journal's editor turned it down because "it contained speculations which were too remote from reality". Thus Fermi saw the theory published in Italian and in German before it was published in English. Nature eventually did publish Fermi's report on beta decay on January 16, 1939.
Fermi remained in Rome until 1938.
In 1938, Fermi won the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 37 for his "demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons".
After Fermi received the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, he, his wife Laura, and their children emigrated to New York. This was mainly because of the anti-Semitic laws promulgated by the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini which threatened Laura, who was Jewish. Also, the new laws put most of Fermi's research assistants out of work.
Soon after his arrival in New York, Fermi began working at Columbia University.
In December 1938, the German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann sent a manuscript to Naturwissenschaften reporting they had detected the element barium after bombarding uranium with neutrons; simultaneously, they communicated these results to Lise Meitner. Meitner, and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch, correctly interpreted these results as being nuclear fission. Frisch confirmed this experimentally on 13 January 1939. In 1944, Hahn received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission. Some historians have documented the history of the discovery of nuclear fission and believe Meitner should have been awarded the Nobel Prize with Hahn.
Meitner's and Frisch's interpretation of the work of Hahn and Strassmann crossed the Atlantic Ocean with Niels Bohr, who was to lecture at Princeton University. Isidor Isaac Rabi and Willis Lamb, two Columbia University physicists working at Princeton, heard the news and carried it back to Columbia. Rabi said he told Enrico Fermi; Fermi gave credit to Lamb. Bohr soon thereafter went from Princeton to Columbia to see Fermi. Not finding Fermi in his office, Bohr went down to the cyclotron area and found Herbert L. Anderson. Bohr grabbed him by the shoulder and said: "Young man, let me explain to you about something new and exciting in physics." It was clear to a number of scientists at Columbia that they should try to detect the energy released in the nuclear fission of uranium from neutron bombardment. On 25 January 1939, a Columbia University team conducted the first nuclear fission experiment in the United States, which was done in the basement of Pupin Hall; the members of the team were Herbert L. Anderson, Eugene T. Booth, John R. Dunning, Enrico Fermi, G. Norris Glasoe, and Francis G. Slack. The next day, the Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics began in Washington, D.C. under the joint auspices of The George Washington University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington. There, the news on nuclear fission was spread even further, which fostered many more experimental demonstrations.
Fermi then went to the University of Chicago and began studies that led to the construction of the first nuclear pile Chicago Pile-1.
Fermi recalled the beginning of the project in a speech given in 1954 when he retired as President of the American Physical Society:
In August 1939 Leó Szilárd prepared and Albert Einstein signed the famous letter warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the probability that the Nazis were planning to build an atomic bomb. Because of Hitler's September 1 invasion of Poland, it was October before they could arrange for the letter to be personally delivered. Roosevelt was concerned enough that the Uranium Committee was assembled, and awarded Columbia University the first atomic energy funding of US$6,000. However, due to bureaucratic fears of foreigners doing secret research, the money was not actually issued until Szilárd implored Einstein to send a second letter to the president in the spring of 1940. The money was used in studies which led to the first nuclear reactor — Chicago Pile-1, a massive "atomic pile" of graphite bricks and uranium fuel which went critical on December 2, 1942, built in a hard racquets court under Stagg Field, the football stadium at the University of Chicago. Due to a mistranslation, Soviet reports on Enrico Fermi claimed that his work was performed in a converted "pumpkin field" instead of a "squash court", squash being an offshoot of hard racquets. This experiment was a landmark in the quest for energy, and it was typical of Fermi's brilliance. Every step had been carefully planned, every calculation meticulously done by him. When the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction was achieved, a coded phone call was made by one of the physicists, Arthur Compton, to James Conant, chairman of the National Defense Research Committee. The conversation was in impromptu code:
This successful initiation of a chain-reacting pile was important not only for its help in assessing the properties of fission — needed for understanding the internal workings of an atomic bomb — but also because it would serve as a pilot plant for the massive reactors which would be created in Hanford, Washington, which would then be used to produce the plutonium needed for the bombs used at the Trinity site and Nagasaki. Eventually Fermi and Szilárd's reactor work was folded into the Manhattan Project.
Fermi moved to Los Alamos in the later stages of the Manhattan Project to serve as a general consultant. He was sitting in the control room of the Hanford B Reactor when it first went critical in 1944. His broad knowledge of many fields of physics was useful in solving problems that were of an interdisciplinary nature.
He became a naturalized citizen of the United States of America in 1944.
Fermi was present as an observer of the Trinity test on July 16, 1945. Engineer Jack Aeby saw Fermi at work:
As the shock wave hit Base Camp, Aeby saw Enrico Fermi with a handful of torn paper. "He was dribbling it in the air. When the shock wave came it moved the confetti. He thought for a moment."
Fermi had just estimated the yield of the first nuclear explosion. It was in the ball park.
Fermi's strips-of-paper estimate was ten kilotons of TNT; the actual yield was about 19 kilotons
Fermi was widely regarded as the only physicist of the twentieth century who excelled both theoretically and experimentally. The well-known historian of physics, C. P. Snow, says about him, "If Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discovering Rutherford's atomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom. If this sounds like hyperbole, anything about Fermi is likely to sound like hyperbole". Fermi's ability and success stemmed as much from his appraisal of the art of the possible, as from his innate skill and intelligence. He disliked complicated theories, and while he had great mathematical ability, he would never use it when the job could be done much more simply. He was famous for getting quick and accurate answers to problems which would stump other people. An instance of this was seen during the first atomic bomb test in New Mexico on July 16 1945. As the blast wave reached him, Fermi dropped bits of paper. By measuring the distance they were blown, he could compare to a previously computed table and thus estimate the bomb energy yield. He estimated that the blast was greater than 10 kilotons of TNT, the measured result was 18.6. (Rhodes, page 674). Later on, this method of getting approximate and quick answers through back-of-the-envelope calculations became informally known as the 'Fermi method'.
Fermi's most disarming trait was his great modesty, and his ability to do any kind of work, whether creative or routine. It was this quality that made him popular and liked among people of all strata, from other Nobel Laureates to technicians. Henry DeWolf Smyth, who was Chairman of the Princeton Physics department, had once invited Fermi over to do some experiments with the Princeton cyclotron. Walking into the lab one day, Smyth saw the distinguished scientist helping a graduate student move a table, under another student's directions. Another time, a Du Pont executive made a visit to see him at Columbia. Not finding him either in his lab or his office, the executive was surprised to find the Nobel Laureate in the machine shop, cutting sheets of tin with a big pair of shears.
After the war, Fermi served for a short time on the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, a scientific committee chaired by J. Robert Oppenheimer which advised the commission on nuclear matters and policy. After the detonation of the first Soviet fission bomb in August 1949, he, along with Isidor Rabi, wrote a strongly-worded report for the committee which opposed the development of a hydrogen bomb on moral and technical grounds. But Fermi also participated in preliminary work on the hydrogen bomb at Los Alamos as a consultant, and along with Stanislaw Ulam, calculated that the amount of tritium needed for Edward Teller's model of a thermonuclear weapon would be prohibitive, and a fusion reaction could not be assured to propagate even with this large quantity of tritium.
In his later years, Fermi did important work in particle physics, especially related to pions and muons. He was also known to be an inspiring teacher at the University of Chicago, and was known for his attention to detail, simplicity, and careful preparation for a lecture. Later, his lecture notes, especially those for quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, and thermodynamics, were transcribed into books which are still in print.
Also in these later years he mused about a proposition which is now referred to as the "Fermi Paradox". This absurd contradiction or proposition is this: that with the billions and billions of star systems in the universe, one would think that intelligent life would have contacted our civilization by now; yet this has not happened since it takes only about 600 years for a civilization to reach potential for annihilating itself with weapons of mass destruction as it grows in knowledge exponentially.
Fermi died at age 53 of stomach cancer and was interred at Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois. Two of his graduate students who assisted him in working on or near the nuclear pile also died of cancer. Fermi and his team knew that such work carried considerable risk but they considered the outcome so vital that they forged ahead with little regard for their own personal safety.
As Eugene Wigner wrote: "Ten days before Fermi had died he told me, 'I hope it won't take long.' He had reconciled himself perfectly to his fate".
A recent poll by Time magazine listed Fermi among the top twenty scientists of the century.
The Fermilab particle accelerator and physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, is named after him in loving memory from the physics community.
Fermi 1 & Fermi 2 nuclear power plants in Newport, Michigan are also named after him, as are many schools such as Enrico Fermi High School in Enfield, Connecticut.
Fermi Court in Deep River, Ontario is named in his honour.
In 1952, element 100 on the periodic table of elements was isolated from the debris of a nuclear test. In honor of Fermi's contributions to the scientific community, it was named fermium after him.
Since the 1950s, the United States Atomic Energy Commission has named its highest honour, the Fermi Award, after him. Recipients of the award include well-known scientists like Otto Hahn, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Freeman Dyson, John Wheeler and Hans Bethe.
Toward the end of his life, Enrico realized his faith in society at large to make wise choices about nuclear technology was questionable. Enrico Fermi said:
His wife, Laura Fermi (1907–1977), early environmentalist, systems thinker, prolific writer and New York Times bestselling author of "Atoms in the Family: Life with Enrico Fermi, Architect of the Atomic Age said, of our nuclear dilemma:
Rachel Fermi (1964–), photographer and teacher, Laura and Enrico Fermi's 3rd grandchild, continued to question the sanity of nuclear weapons in her book, "Picturing the Bomb. The authors juxtapose photos from the top secret world of the Manhattan Project with family photos from Los Alamos and Hanford.
Olivia Fermi (1957–), formerly Alice Caton, M.A. A.B.S. - Leadership in Human Systems, ConRes Cert, photoartist, writer and business consultant, Laura and Enrico's first grandchild, is currently researching the legacy of her grandparents for a series of books she plans to publish. On September 29, 2001, shortly after the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City, Olivia flew to Rome, Italy to deliver a speech to the International Conference: Enrico Fermi and the Universe of Physics. She had been invited to speak to this gathering of physicists as a representative of the Laura and Enrico Fermi family. Olivia said:
The two male grandchildren of Laura and Enrico are Olivia's brother: Paul Weiner, PhD (1959–), mathematician and professor; and Rachel's brother: Daniel Fermi (1971–). Between Paul and Rachel, there are four great-grandchildren of Laura and Enrico Fermi. These two children, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren are all the direct descendents of Laura and Enrico Fermi.


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Just watched the evening News and saw the New Sony eReader, interesting idea but not to sure if I will get one yet as I like the feel and smell as much as the read of a good new book.......... and the PDA or Note Books have been able to display PDF or reader formats for a while now and the real paper books still survives.
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Anatomy Sketchbook
Eastman Johnson used this sketchbook while enrolled in an anatomy class at the Düsseldorf Royal Academy in Germany. The meticulous, almost scientific precision of his skeleton studies reveals the school's emphasis on draftsmanship and anatomical knowledge as fundamental tools for the artist. Many of the drawings include grids and other geometric guidelines, as well as notations about ideal proportions of the human body. Johnson parlayed his academic training into a successful career as a painter of American genre subjects.
- Artist: Eastman Johnson, American, 1824-1906
- Medium: Graphite on beige, medium weight, slightly textured laid paper
- Dates: 1849
- Dimensions: Sketchbook: 17 1/8 x 11 1/16 x 3/8 in. (43.5 x 28.1 x 1 cm) (show scale)
- Inscriptions: Inscribed on label on front cover of book: "E Johnson / Royal Academy of Düsseldorf / Anatomical class. / 1849"
- Collections:American Art
- Museum Location: This item is not on view
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- Accession Number: 40.61
- Credit Line: Gift of Albert Duveen
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"We've been pretty busy with Fourth of July coming up. Every place is rented out," Leia Mayer said on Monday at Bridge Span 14 (BridgeSpan14.com), which she owns with her husband, Andy Mayer, in
The organic restaurant,
"French Potato Salad uses fresh herbs and a vinaigrette as opposed to any mayonnaise — very good," Mayer added. "I just decided to take a classic Fourth of July menu and take it up to the next level and make it a little more unique."
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"It is amazing, an all-natural beef, antibiotic-free, hormone-free with no additives and preservatives, so I really feel comfortable with using their products," Mayer said. "I just started getting Crust (Artisan) Bakery in
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Bridge Span 14 will be serving a Half Rack of Ribs slathered in the homemade sauce. The Organic Cuban Corn on the Cob is a fresh take on traditional grilled corn.
"Husk and desilk the corn, then grill it up, probably five to 10 minutes on each side till done," Mayer said. "Then roll it in butter and sprinkle it with fresh chopped parsley, cilantro and lime juice, salt and pepper and Parmesan cheese. It's really good, simple and light. Grilled corn is very popular at summer festivals on the West Coast, where vendors sell ears of fresh corn on the cob."
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Shana Wolf, owner of Off the Vine makes a Raw & Organic Peach Dream dessert with "no cooking, dairy, flour or sugar" that is ready in 10 minutes.
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Naturally-sweet watermelon also often accompanies July Fourth holidays and other summer get-togethers. Besides being refreshingly delicious, cold watermelon is an easy way to cool off and stay hydrated in the heat.
Off the Vine Organic Produce (OffTheVine.org) makes Wednesday deliveries of preordered fresh organic fruits and vegetables to Somethin's Cookin,
On Saturday, Executive Chef Konrad Jochum of Schooners and Spinnaker in
For something a little tangier, Somethin's Cookin' owner Hannelore Holland's recipe for Corn Salad with "fresh organic corn cut off the cob" is a light side that will take a starring role on any Fourth of July table.
"This is best made the day before. You can use organic corn or frozen corn kernels," said
The bistro's Black Eyed Pea Salad has been so popular that guests order it off the menu and get it to-go, but making it at home also is very easy. The recipe uses cans of black-eyed peas and green beans mixed with a few other ingredients and tossed in a simple dressing.
For an alternative to hot German potato salad,
"It's so easy and everybody loves it,"
While most July Fourth cook-outs call for beef, the Pork Tenderloin Burger has been getting rave reviews in her cooking classes.
"I have only done it in class, but people have been asking for it, so I am going to have to put it on the menu," she said.
The pork tenderloin is cut into pieces and pounded really thin before being seasoned and dipped in flour and beaten eggs.
"You dip it in twice to make crust — so good," added
Pork Tenderloin Burger
1 pork tenderloin, cleaned
6 slices bacon, cooked
6 buns or ciabatta rolls
Robert Rothschild Farms Hot & Spicy Remoulade Sauce
Flour for dusting
Cherchies Lemon Pepper Spicy Blend
Oil for frying
2 eggs, beaten
Cut tenderloin diagonally into 6 pieces. Pound each piece very thin between plastic wrap with a flat pounder. Season with Lemon Pepper Spicy Blend, dip in flour, then in egg, then in flour again. Quick fry in hot oil on both sides until nice and crispy. Spread spicy remoulade on bun. Top with meat, lettuce, tomato and bacon. Drizzle more remoulade over.
Makes 6 servings.
Source: Hannelore Holland, Somethin's Cookin'
Black Eyed Pea Salad
2 cans black eyed peas
1 can cut green beans
4 tablespoons Cherchies pretty peppers
4 green onions, sliced thin
1 tablespoon lemon dill
½ cup canola oil
¼ cup Altmeister Vinegar
1 teaspoon Champagne mustard
3 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon Maggi, little more if needed
Drain peas and beans; rinse. Add pretty peppers, green onions and lemon dill.
For dressing, mix canola oil, Altmeister vinegar,
Source: Hannelore Holland, Somethin's Cookin'
Corn Salad
3 tablespoons Champagne Vinegar
2 teaspoons finishing salt
Freshly ground pepper
¼ cup olive oil
4 fresh corn ears, preferred (2 cups frozen corn kernels may be used, but then add 1 teaspoon sugar)
12 red grape tomatoes, halved
1 bunch green onions, thinly sliced
8 ounces fresh mozzarella, cut into small cubes
Fresh basil leaves
Whisk vinegar, salt and pepper (and sugar, if using frozen corn) in a small bowl. Gradually whisk in the oil. Shear off the corn kernels and toss in the tomatoes, green onions and mozzarella. Pour vinaigrette over the salad and toss to coat. Cover and let sit for 15 minutes or up to 2 hours. Before serving toss the basil over the salad and stir.
Makes 6 servings.
Source: Hannelore Holland, Somethin's Cookin'
Potato Salad
1 bag small red potatoes
6 green onions, sliced thin
½ pound bacon, cooked crisp in oven
Salt and pepper, to taste
Kraft Ranch dressing
Boil red potatoes whole in salted water until soft to touch. Do not overcook. Drain and cool potatoes, then dice. Top with crumbled bacon and green onions, salt and pepper. Add enough ranch dressing to coat well. Taste for salt and pepper and add more if needed.
Source: Hannelore Holland, Somethin's Cookin'
Vanilla Vinaigrette
2 cups salad oil
2 cups sugar
1 cup rice wine vinegar
1 ounce vanilla extract
Mix sugar, vanilla and vinegar. Slowly add oil.
Serve over fruit or salad.
Source: Executive Chef Konrad Jochum, Schooners and Spinnaker
Raw & Organic Peach Dream
5 fresh organic peaches, medium firmness, cut into dime-size pieces with skins on
1 lime
3 cups cashew nuts
¼ cup coconut oil, room temperature
½ teaspoon vanilla powder
2 plus tablespoons honey
½ teaspoon cinnamon
Dash of salt
Place the peaches in a bowl and squeeze the lime over them.
Grind the cashews in a food processor. Go for a light crumble effect. Add in the coconut oil, vanilla, honey and cinnamon. Mix together.
Divide the cashew mixture between bowls. Lay on peaches and drizzle a bit of honey on top. Serve cool and enjoy!
Source: Shana Wolf, Off the Vine
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6 ripe bananas, peeled and frozen in 2-3 inch chunks
2 tablespoons honey
¼ cup cacao powder
½ pound organic strawberries
Place the frozen bananas and honey in a food processor and process until smooth. Add the cacao and process until smooth to make your cacao ice kream. Fold the strawberries into the ice kream.
Enjoy immediately, or transfer to a container and place in freezer to firm up for an hour or two. Keep leftovers in the freezer up to one week.
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- start the Home (retail) or Education software
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- then select the "tools" menu and in there "firmware update"
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- press the "download" button
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- "EV3 Firmware V1.03H.bin" is the Home (retail) version.
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The Hungarian Solution
If the current wave of Republican criticism of Mitt Romney—due to his ideological uncertainty and the general incompetence of his campaign—keeps up, here's a suggestion for a replacement candidate: Viktor Orban.
The longtime leader of Hungary's right-wing Fidesz Party and Hungary's prime minister since 2010, Orban seems more committed to carrying out a Tea Party-esque agenda than Romney does. In his two years in office (he also served as prime minister a decade ago, but with a smaller majority and a less radical platform), Orban has slashed unemployment benefits, restricted collective bargaining, and reduced the nation's retirement benefits. More than that, though, he's gotten into trouble with the European Union (which at least nominally tries to hold member states to agreed-upon democratic norms) for his move to make the nation's judiciary answerable to his office, and his purge of TV programs and newscasters who didn't take the Fidesz line. Independent voices have largely vanished from Hungarian television and radio during his rule. By every account save those carried on Hungarian state media, Orban's policies have polarized the nation as never before. Budapest has been the site of massive democracy demonstrations, and political scientists note that members of the nation's parliament, who used to socialize across party lines, now hate each other too much to break bread or get drunk together.
To American ears, it all sounds so very familiar. And the latest overlap between the Orban's and GOP's playbook is the news that Orban is changing Hungary's election law to eliminate voter registration in the final weeks leading up to elections—a shift, clearly intended to suppress late-breaking anti-Fidesz voters, that has prompted leaders of opposition parties to embark on a hunger strike.
The only thing that might keep Orban off the GOP ticket is his affinity for Vladimir Putin's Russia. But that's just foreign policy, which, as Mitt Romney demonstrates every day, is a concern that real Republicans just don't take seriously any more. So what's the hold-up? Romney has gone about as far as he can go. Time to go to the bullpen and bring in Viktor Orban!
Thu, 2012-09-13 10:03
Fri, 2012-09-14 04:59
Nice article. Only that Orban haven't made the nation's judiciary answerable to his office, most of the Hungarian media is not only independent, but actually very hostile towards his without any restrictions whatsoever, 'massive democracy demonstrations' are much less 'massive' than pro-govt rallies, he's actually introducing voter registration not eliminating that, ' leaders of opposition parties' going on a hunger strike against it is actually former PM Gyurcsány alone, whose party now has the support of ~5% of the electorate, and Orban is the biggest opponent of Mr Putin in the country, very much unlike above mentioned post-communist Gyurcsány or Orban's far-right oppostion, Jobbik.
Mr Meyerson is apparently less informed on foreign issues than Mr Romney.
Fri, 2012-09-14 06:31
And lets not forget all other great democracies of the world where "'massive democracy demonstrations' are much less 'massive' than pro-govt rallies", such as the former Soviet Union, North Korea, Iran, etc. (can't really remember others now). BTW, has there ever been a pro-government rally in the US, or the UK, or France, organized and sponsored by one of the government-linked oligarchs of that country who also happens to own the local equivalent of Fox News as well as a bus manufacturing firm that provides buses to transport people from and to the country for such good causes, and also pays a small gratuity to those taking the trouble to participate? Have the Koch Brothers ever organized and sponsored a pro-government rally under Bush?
The commenter from the Hungarian Embassy must fulfill the requirements of his/her job description (i.e., unconditional loyalty to and protection of an oppressive regime and its crazy ruler) because otherwise he/she would have to pack up and leave good old D.C. to return home for questioning (granted, Orbán is not yet Gadhaffi-level crazy, so he/she would just be out of a lucrative job, but not dead). However, us ordinary Hungarians can very well identify with the everyday brutality of living in an emerging clerico-fascist state.
Fri, 2012-09-14 07:38
Harold Meyerson seems a really brave and smart man...
But why did he writte an articale about a faraway european country without knowledge of the facts? I have always admired those who can have courage to this way. It would be the new american journalists' solution?
It's so embarrassing and disappointing.
Shortly about the facts:
Moderate right side won the hungarian election with 66% in 2010 because of previous (socialist-liberal) goverment led Hungary to huge crisis. During this postcommunist period (2002-2010) they doubled the national debt. Corruption prevalent at this time. The social and ethnic tensions have grown enormously. In 2006 was a big riot in Hungary against left side goverment because the prime minister admitted lying to the campaign to retain power. During this left side's period the official hungarian tv and radio ran without opposite control!!
Hungarians need to change the retirement system because it was a heritage of communism. For example a policeman could go to retire when he is 40 years old! Hungarians had a lof of silly retirement methods as like this.
And I could continue but what for?
Just one thing at the end. Hungary same as other countries needs to criticism, but very harmful to stigmatized a nation, a country. I never could think of hungarian prison conditions in relation to mention Guantanamo, because I have so much respect for me not to judge you from distance...
I suggest more respect and acumen and better journalists.
Fri, 2012-09-14 08:10
Americans can only dream about that happened in free elections in Hungary. It's true, Orban has two-thirds majority, but you should know that he serves his country unlike the previous united communist and liberal parties. Almost everything had been stolen by this parties and our debit grew from 50% to 80% under their time. The big money tap was open for long years to your direction and Orban closed it. This is the main problem for you and for the writer of this article. And... our election system doesn't differ from yours. This is the truth.
Fri, 2012-09-14 08:35
from budapest
Fri, 2012-09-14 11:04
Don't believe the Orban-loving zealots. As a politically independent 40-year-old Hungarian intellectual living in Budapest, I can testify that the article's claims about our PM are all true. In fact, the situation is much worse than that. No government since the end of the Communist rule in 1989 has harmed our country more than Orban, both politically and economically. Job opportunities are non-existent because the government's aggressive anti-Westernism and anti-capitalism have scared off foreign investors; the economy has stalled completely, with corporate cut-backs instead of investments; his Minister of Economy is a ridiculous clown. Orban is politically isolated from the developed world, so he seeks rogue friends like the president of Azerbaijan; he lies and see-saws recklessly, and kills our democratic system even more recklessly. The list goes on and on. Fortunately, his support has waned by about 50% in the past two years.
Fri, 2012-09-14 13:24
It's really sad to see, that people call themselves intellectual, but are misinformed by the manipulative media, like you are Sir.
You claim that the Orban regime has harmed the country economically and politically, based on propaganda slogans "anti-capitalistic politics" and "no job opportunities" due to scarring off investors. Maybe you slept through the last 4-5 years, but the world faced/is facing a financial crisis, which has severely consequences for both privat households and the business world as well. One of the main reason for the crisis nowdays, is the way capitalism advanced in the last decades. Just think about the unregulated financial markets, which lead to the crisis we face nowdays. One of the consequences of that is the growing unemployment rate, but Hungary is still in a better shape then lot of other countries in the EU like Greece or Spain. You are right however, that the government had taken some steps, which effected the business world (foreign MNCs) negatively. These steps (extra taxes for MNCs) are however good decissions, since you can't burden the private households any longer, which would only lead to further decreasing consumption (and private consumption is the main component of GDP for most of the developed countries). In a global crisis like we face nowdays, it's normally that MNC's cut back on investments, especially in crisis-sensitive sectors like the automobile industry. Perhaps you are right in your statement that says, that Orban is isolating himself from the developed world, the developing world which is lead by the financial dictator called the IMF, who currently is asking Greece to cut back on pensions furthermore, and introduce a 6 day working week. The non-country specific steps forced by the IMF would only prolong the private debt crisis, damaging the private consumption even more. A low/decreasing consumption can throw back an economy for decades, just see Japan for example (lost decades).
It's really easy to get corrupted by the lies, you hear from the media. To be honest it has to be said that the right wing media can be decissive as well. It's important to get reliable andf raw information which hasn't been interpreted by neither side. I suggest for you to look at statistical sites, like KSH (hungarian statistical inastituion) or Eurostat, and see the raw facts for yourself. These facts will tell you that currently Hungary is one of the only states which is inside the 3% deficit criteria, and the only state in the EU who managed to damp their state debt in 2012 *(it has to be said that Greece managed to decrease it's Debt to GDP as well in 2012, but that was down to the haircut forced by EU/IMF back in spring).
Fri, 2012-09-14 12:26
Hello! My name is Szilard. I am from Hungary!
Viktor Orban prime minister it does not destroy democracy in Hungary!!!!!!!!! Viktor Orban BUILD democracy! Please watch this video, and see on left window Hungary 2006.10.23 (previous (post-communist) government in the 1956 anti-communist revolution in the 50th anniversary) and in right window the post-communist lies 2011.03.01. !!!!! Viktor Orban it does not destroy democracy!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUILD DEMOCRACY IN HUNGARY!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YZ6qGLXKW8
The liar prime minister name: FERENC GYURCSANY, and his political party is MSZP. MSZP is successor party MSZMP. MSZMP born in 1956 and invited the Russian army 1956 revolution and make this party communist dictatorship in Hungary 1956-1989. VIKTOR ORBAN the current Prime Minister building the democracy, after the communist destruction.
Important to know that the police did not wear an identification number: this is: unauthorized, illegal, unconstitutional this actions!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKjANFAnVdY&feature=relmfu He not heard in the streets against protesters!!!!! Riot police fired people!!!!!!
Fri, 2012-09-14 12:32
from budapest Fri, 2012-09-14 11:04 write this: "Don't believe the Orban-loving zealots."
We are not zealots!
You can see this videos, and see we are not stupid!
MSZP is successor party MSZMP. (This political party is Ferenc Liar Gyurcsan poltitval party) and MSZMP make the communist dictatorship in Hungary 1956-1989.
In 2006 government party is: MSZP, and make terror: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YZ6qGLXKW8 2006.10.23.!!!!!!!!!!!
We are not Orban zealots!
from budapest
Fri, 2012-09-14 12:59
Oh, stop harping about the previous government's real or perceived wrongdoing. This is NOW, and what matters is what the current government is doing. Also, Orban himself is proven to have repeatedly admitted to lying. ("Don't listen to what I say to be re-elected" etc.) Just a few days ago, he very obviously lied when listing unreal conditions by the IMF to a credit agreement with Hungary.
You say that Orban is building democracy. How is the abolition of independent institutions "building democracy"? How is the planned limitation of free voting rights (through compulsory prior registration) "building democracy"? Etc. etc.
Also: our country's credit ratings were recently deteriorated to the junk category, for the first time in decades, and clearly because of the fatally flawed economic policy of our government.
Quit worshipping political parties and face the facts.
Fri, 2012-09-14 17:00
As another Orbán-supporter 40-year-old Hungarian intellectual living in Budapest, I can testify that the article's claims about our PM are all pure BS. (BTW, "politically independent" is a codeword here for a postcommie).
It seems like BS-ing is The American Solution.
from budapest
Sat, 2012-09-15 02:38
The comments here give a good indication of the deep trouble that we Hungarians are in. The country is falling apart around us, people are leaving for the West in masses, Orban is busy re-creating Communism (with the very same results), and these mindless, unthinking, unseeing robots keep on applauding.
Sat, 2012-09-15 13:35
You, postcommies are in deep trouble indeed. Your incompetent and incredibly corrupt kind nearly bankrupted the country in 2008 by endebting Hungary to the eye between 2002 and 2008 and people won't forget that. Your favourites (calling themselves either "the Left" or "left-liberals") were defeated in a huge political landslide in 2010 and they, MSZP or ex-"Socialist" Prime Minister Gyurcsány's splinter group, haven't won a single by-election anywhere since then. Besides, in an unprecedented way since the fall of the Communist dictatorship in 1990, Fidesz-KDNP consistently has been topping all the polls since the elections. I suggest you should get used to the idea that the object of your deep hatred, Orbán will be the Prime Minister for a good while.
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Perhaps this is blasphemy but I would like to see more all-out race cars featured in CHP. While building a good running street/strip drag machine is a significant accomplishment there is a lot of hot rodding and auto engineering involved in building a race car that goes from A to B in other than a straight line. Like most of us I started out running the quarter-mile, both straight and around an oval. Then the military took me to Europe and I discovered road racing and hill climbs-and that all the usual hot rod tricks were not enough to make me competitive. Cars not only had to be fast but had to corner and brake just as well as they accelerated. Engines had to run wide open for long periods without overheating or blowing up. Understeer and oversteer were killers that had to be engineered out of the suspension.
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I have evolved into hill climbing (paved roads) as my primary racing arena. I derive tremendous satisfaction from designing, engineering, and building a hill climb race car that competes with other unlimited race cars that are entirely unfettered by any rules to limit their performance. I had to create a SBC that pulls like a diesel at low rpm and screams like an Indy car once the road straightens out. Aerodynamics are becoming second nature as my homemade aero aids allow cornering and braking on the order of 2 g's-and acceleration almost as hard. Traction control in a car that can spin its rear tires at 120 mph comes from carefully nurtured right foot throttle management; there is nothing quite as sweet as carrying the front wheels out of a 110-mph sweeper and keeping them airborne until braking for the next turn. One of my competitors runs a car that lapped Indy at over 220 mph but now produces almost twice the horsepower it had on the big oval. Another was the SCCA National Solo champion seven times and only his preference for hill climbing keeps him from making that an even dozen titles. How about a 400hp Formula car on 13-inch-wide rubber that weighs 700 lbs ready to go?
With a dedicated race car one trades time for thrill level. The sensations occur over a much shorter period than those derived from a combination street/strip car but they are sensations that very few of us ever get to know. Sadly most cannot even achieve a vicarious appreciation for these driving thrills because these all out race cars remain secrets from the mainstream that derive their automotive knowledge from publications such as CHP.
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You're absolutely right. There are a number of racing avenues that many have never even heard of. We're all about the thrill factor and you have to admit that lately, we've been exploring a broader range of motorsports. Truth be told, we wouldn't mind checking out more. As for the 700-pound Formula car with a 400hp powerplant-bring it on, we would love to jump into something like that!
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Thus, by the time the Deputy decided to stop Tony and Ryan for impeding traffic, it had been well-established in Ohio that cyclists who are traveling at a reasonable speed cannot be cited for impeding traffic. Although the Deputy would later refer to Trotwood v. Selz during his testimony, indicating that he had finally been brought up to speed on Ohio law-by a prosecutor, in all likelihood-it was apparent on the day of the arrests that the Deputy was completely unfamiliar with the law as it applies to bicycles, and in fact, he admitted this in his later testimony:
"Before this case I was not very familiar with bicycles and just the controversy between the bicycle situation and the thing and I've researched it and stuff and, you know, from what I can gather, as long as they are traveling the speed limit and they're not impeding traffic, there's not traffic behind them, then they wouldn't be impeding traffic or if the cars can safely pass them, then they wouldn't be impeding traffic, and in the case of up north of Troutwood [sic] it actually goes to the point that the judge is the one to determine who was-whether or not a bicycle was impeding traffic. So I guess it's a-you would normally just write a ticket and the judge would decide if they was impeding traffic. I don't know."
It's important at this point to note that even at the hearing, after he had done his legal research, the Deputy STILL had the law wrong. In Ohio, it doesn't matter if cyclists "are traveling the speed limit," or "if they're not impeding traffic," or "if the cars can safely pass them." Not one of those conditions the Deputy addressed is the law in Ohio-in fact, the entire point of the Trotwood v. Selz case, and subsequent changes to the Ohio code, is that the conditions the Deputy cites have no bearing in any case of a cyclist or cyclists impeding traffic. The only legal metric is whether the rider(s) is/are traveling at a reasonable speed for a cyclist.
Back on the night of Ryan's booking, Tony says that the Deputy informed Ryan's parents that he didn't know what he was going to charge Ryan with, but he had to charge him with something, so he sat down with a copy of the code book and looked for the appropriate statute. For the next 30 minutes, the Deputy searched for something to charge Ryan with, but couldn't find anything.


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NXT: Available for the Holidays?
Nevertheless, I'd be very surprised if the US faces a holiday shortage of NXTs, for three reasons:
1) Lego specialty stores in the US have been promised an adequate supply of NXTs, according to the Lego Store manager in my town.
2) A large number of "big-box" stores sell NXTs (Best Buy, Target, Toys R Us, Walmart), not to mention a slew of online retailers.
3) Stiff competition from the Nintendo Wii may increase the availability of NXTs. (The Wii will be in NXT's price range).
Still, NXT spot shortages DID occur in August of this year. (Some Amazon.com customers had to wait several weeks for their NXTs in August).
Is the NXT available where you shop in the US? How about Europe and elsewhere?
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- Jake Good said...
The Mall of America still has 3 kits left... I bought on this last weekend.
Plus with their "Loyalty Card" holder thingy... you get double points. So essentially, if you buy an NXT, you get a $30 Lego Gift card for free!
The Targets up here in Minneapolis all have 3 or 4 on the shelf...
- Oct 11, 2006, 2:03:00 AM
There is a lot of shops in Bergen, Norway that has them. I just need the money
- Oct 11, 2006, 3:12:00 AM
In the Netherlands we also have Toys 'R Us, but they don't have the NXT yet. I got mine from the Intertoys two weeks ago. However, this is the only shop in which I found the set. The others will probably get them by the end of October.
- Oct 11, 2006, 4:07:00 AM
- Tony Naggs said...
China TV news has picked up on the NXT and the Christmas toys market:
(At least their web news pages have.)
- Oct 11, 2006, 12:58:00 PM
In Frankfurt/Main, Germany, I bought my NXT at Toys 'R Us. They seems to have some of them. Also there ist LEGO direct Shopping, located in Great Britain, but delivering from Germay and selling by Euro. They are very fast and the procedure of buying is superior.
-- Thomas
- Oct 24, 2006, 1:24:00 AM
Spotted one set on the shelf (along with two other large LEGO sets) at COMPUSA--which also sells them online.
eBay contunues to be a good source.
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