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The book is entitled, “The Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the Rebellion,” by Frazer Kirkland, published by Hartford Publishing Co., Hartford, Connecticut, in 1866. What intrigued me about this book when I first laid eyes on it was the date – 1866. The Civil War (The Rebellion) had ended the year before in 1865, yet here was this sizable tome with three hundred lithographic engravings, a full color front cover page, and 705 pages of anecdotes and incidents of the Civil War from civil matters to military blunders. A reprint of this has come out within the last ten years, but mine is original. This means it must be handled carefully as the leather cover has dried out considerably over the last 149 years.
Reading from this treasure of Civil War minutiae is like eating a bag of potato chips – you can’t eat just one. Anyway, I thought you might be interested in some of the stories recorded within these pages of American history.
The young lady’s name was Miss Brownlow, daughter of Parson Brownlow of Knoxville, Tennessee. The good parson was known and respected in his community for being “bold-hearted and outspoken.” The Brownlow home was at one time the only home in Knoxville where the Stars and Stripes were raised. Much of Knoxville and most of Tennessee had joined the Southern Cause, the Confederacy.
Early one morning around first light, two men who were secessionists (pejoratively called “Secesh” by Northerners) came to the Brownlow home to forcefully take down the American flag. Twenty-three year old Miss Brownlow saw them coming and challenged them as to their intentions. They said, “We have come to take down them Stars and Stripes.” Much to their surprise, Miss Brownlow produced a revolver which she had held at her side, effectively hidden in the folds of her dress, and said, “Go on! I’m good for one of you, and I think for both!” One of the men then said, “By the look in that girl’s eye she’ll shoot. I think we’d better not try it.” The other man said, “We’ll go back and get more men.” “Go and get more men,” said the noble lady, “get more men and come and take it down, if you dare!”
Sure enough, the two Secesh returned with ninety armed men. In all their brag and bluster they demanded that the Stars and Stripes flying atop the Brownlow home be hauled down. The beauty of this story is that the Brownlow home was filled with men who were equally armed and ready to defend Old Glory should the rabble out front dare touch the blessed threads of the American symbol of freedom and liberty. The ninety men of the Secessionists wisely decided this was not their day and left.
A second incident of interest were the words spoken by President Andrew Jackson in 1830, thirty-one years before the Civil War began. For more than a decade a strong movement was taking place in Southern states, pushing back against what was thought to be an overbearing federal government in Washington, D.C. The occasion was the birthday celebration of Thomas Jefferson who had died only four years earlier. As was protocol for such a prestigious dinner party, honored guests were called upon to make a toast after the meal was consumed. The president was called upon first as the senior person present. In a most stately manner, stretching to his full height of six feet, one inch, President Jackson was brief, yet direct: “The Federal Union: It must be preserved!”
Jackson was born somewhere in the area that divides what are today North and South Carolina, of Scots-Irish heritage. Though technically a Southerner (perhaps the first true Southern Gentleman) he was totally opposed to any talk of Southern states seceding from the Union. He threatened military action should any such attempt be made during his presidency (1829-37).
The Southern states continued to fester over the next several decades, eventually erupting into Civil War due to the election of Abraham Lincoln. “I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.” --March 4, 1861 Inaugural Address.
Andrew Jackson, who was a founder of the Democrat party, and Abraham Lincoln, who was the first Republican president, both agreed and worked toward the preservation of the Union of states and the protection of our rights and liberties as enumerated in the Constitution.May there be those today who defend the flag and the Constitution against aggressors, whoever they may be, and from wherever they may come.

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One of my 2020 reading resolutions is to pick up a few classics, and of course, the short ones are a great place to start. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells tells the story of a man who after a shipwreck ends up an island with Dr. Moreau, a man using vivisection to surgically create “humans” out of animals. I’ve read two books (The Invisible Man and The Time Machine) before but it’s been a long time (10 years according to GoodReads!) and I’m glad to have finally picked up another one of his classic science fiction novels. This is a pretty short read (under 200 pages) but I really didn’t like the audiobook I started off with, probably because the language just made it hard to listen to, and much preferred reading a digital copy instead.
The Island of Dr. Moreau is such a classic science fiction tale so it was nice to finally read the original inspiration. The book itself is creepy and weird and disturbing. Even in such a short book, Wells does a fantastic job creating an atmosphere. While I doubt it’s something I’d reread, I am glad I finally got the chance to pick it up and I’m sure I’ll continue to see inspiration from it in books and media going forward. Now, what short classic should I read next?

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Saudi Arabia blocks Viber messaging service
June 7 , 2013
Saudi Arabia has blocked the messaging application Viber.
Speaking to the BBC on Thursday, Talmon Marco, the head of the firm, said he did not why the decision had been taken, adding that the service would be restored soon.
Earlier this year, Saudi authorities warned that Viber and other encrypted messaging services such as Skype and Whatsapp would be blocked unless they provided a way to be monitored.
Marco said he had refused to provide the data required by Saudi officials.
As of now, Skype and Whatsapp are still working in Saudi Arabia.

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What Did You Expect?
When evangelical Christianity became a consumer religion focused on heaven as a commodity, it lost its soul. I suppose it might have been inevitable, since American Christianity never got off on the right foot. From the beginning, when it was equated with the Puritan work ethic, American evangelicalism was focused on religion as a transaction. Work hard, and you will receive your just reward.
From there it wasn’t hard to move toward a world in which Christianity became inextricably attached to our consumer culture, peddling heaven as the ultimate prize, purchased by our work ethic, church attendance, tithes, volunteer hours and the sacrifice of our savior to a demanding God.
Given that reality, should we be surprised when American Christianity fails to fight for the underprivileged? Conservative pundits say, “Why should we fight for a group that just won’t pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, like we did.” Of course what “we did” was often accomplished through opportunities not available to others. Turns out if we were white, male, straight, and from the right side of town, reaching for our bootstraps didn’t require much effort.
When the basic focus of religion is to save yourself from hell, your religion will be self-centered. Years ago I asked one of my employers, “What if we all go to heaven?” My employer’s answer was telling, “Then why would I bother being a Christian? What motivation would I have?” I imagine his reply would be more nuanced nowadays, but it would still have the same self-centered essence.
Evangelicalism failed to understand Christianity is a religion of transformation, not transaction. It failed to see Christianity as a way of life, not a system of beliefs. It did not realize Christianity does not exist for itself. It exists for the common good.
I have a unique position from which to understand the impact of this self-centered form of Christianity. I was a white male, unaware of the privilege granted to me by a religion that does not allow women into leadership. I was able to soar in my career, in part because half of the population had been removed from the equation.
Now I am a female who routinely makes her way through the world without being identified as transgender. Privilege remains, but it is noticeably less than what I experienced previously. And if I returned to evangelicalism, it would be worse. I would be denied my greatest joy – preaching. But I am still privileged. I am white, college-educated and live on the right side of town. Plus, I undeniably brought some of my male privilege with me.
But there is one more layer to my reality. When it comes time to look for work, it is necessary for me to reveal I am transgender. A cursory search of the Internet will turn up that information within 10 seconds, so I really have no choice. And that is when my privilege pretty much disappears. The Puritan work ethic will get me absolutely nothing in today’s polarized society. Not many people want a transgender pastor, church consultant or pastoral counselor.
Of course the problem is not just within evangelicalism. It permeates our culture. A white male, well educated, can work hard and become a success. A woman can work harder and still be hindered by a glass ceiling. A transgender person can work as hard as she wants, but not much is going to happen. A transgender person of color does not stand a chance.
American Christianity should be the solution to this problem, but instead it has become one of the major contributors. It begins with the Puritan work ethic, with its white male patriarchal privilege. And in today’s political environment in which rights are being rescinded faster than 45 can tweet, the church’s silence is staggering.
I do wish I could go back and right the wrongs from earlier in my life, when I had the kind of power to bring about change more rapidly than I can bring it about today. But we only know what we know when we know it, and there is little to be gained by denying oneself grace.
I am worried about the evangelical church. I love it so much, but it has moved so far from the message of Jesus that it might not be able to regain its soul. Maybe a new kind of Christian must rise from the ashes, embodying the message of Jesus, that everything begins and ends in love.
And so it goes.

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The range of services provided is another important aspect to consider. Do you know if the catering company you are looking to hire offers specialized food that will please everyone? One guest might be gluten intolerant, or simply not able to eat certain foods. A lot of people eat a plant-based diet or don’t eat certain meats for various reasons. When it comes to specialized food needs, you won’t need to worry about anything.
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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today, delivered an address in the Lok Sabha, on the occasion of the 75thanniversary of the Quit India Movement.
He said that the recollection of movements such as the Quit India Movement, is a source of inspiration, and added that the current generation has a responsibility of passing on the legacy of such movements, to the future generations.
The Prime Minister recalled that even as many senior leaders like Mahatma Gandhi were jailed at the beginning of the Quit India Movement, a new generation of leaders emerged to fill the vacuum and take the movement forward.
The Prime Minister noted that the freedom struggle went through several phases, and recalled various leaders and movements that emerged at various points since 1857. He added that the Quit India Movement that began in 1942, was a decisive movement. Quoting Gandhiji, the Prime Minister said that all sections of people joined in, responding to Mahatma Gandhi’s clarion call of “Do or Die.” He said that from political leaders to the common man, everyone was imbued with this spirit. Five years was all it took to achieve the objective of independence, once the entire country shared this common resolve, the Prime Minister said.
The Prime Minister quoted the writer Ramvriksha Benipuri, and the poet Sohanlal Dwivedi to describe the mood that prevailed at that time.
The Prime Minister said that if in 1942, the clarion call was “Karenge Ya Marenge,” today the call should be “Karenge aur Karke Rahenge.” He said that the next five years should also be about “Sankalp se Siddhi” – a resolve which will lead us to accomplishment.
The Prime Minister concluded with the following resolve to overcome corruption, give the poor their rights, give youth self-employment, end malnutrition, end barriers to women empowerment, and end illiteracy:


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A 14-year-old Lafayette girl who is battling cystic fibrosis got the thrill of a lifetime, being a special guest in attendance at the State of the Union address last night. Bella Reed was a guest of St. Landry Parish Congressman Clay Higgins. He says having Bella in attendance hopefully will bring more awareness to the disease as he introduces legislation supporting ongoing research.
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US: Christopher & Banks Q4 loss narrows
- Q4 loss of US$300,000 from $4.1m
- Sales fall 9.6% to $104.9m
- Same store sales down 1.4%
Women's wear retailer Christopher & Banks has narrowed its loss during the fourth quarter, despite being hit by store closures and adverse weather conditions.
"Despite the negative sales impact from temporary store closings and challenging traffic trends caused by the multiple snow storms and arctic temperatures during the fourth quarter, we met our quarterly financial goals," said president and CEO LuAnn Via.
For the 52 weeks to 1 February, the company swung to a net income of $8.7m against a $16.1m loss in the same period last year, while sales edged up 1.3% to $435.8m from $430.3m in the previous year.
Same-store sales fell 1.4% during the quarter, in which the company operated 43 fewer stores than the year earlier.
"Looking ahead, we remain focused on our key strategies, which include refining our merchandise assortment, maintaining healthy inventory levels, creating compelling marketing programs and capitalising on our e-commerce site to drive incremental traffic and sales," Via added.
"In addition, we will continue to execute on our real estate plans designed to drive higher store sales productivity and four-wall operating profit."
US speciality women's apparel retailer Christopher & Banks has adjusted its guidance for the fourth quarter and said it is comfortable with its position heading into the new fiscal year....
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To the Editor:
. . . It seems that we repeat our ethnic clichés. Now, according to Nathan Glazer [“The Puerto Ricans,” July ’63], it’s the Puerto Rican who is gay and light-spirited though slumbound. . . . This is a flagrant, if comforting hallucination . . . permitting putatively serious observers like Mr. Glazer to ignore ravaging contradictions in the Puerto Rican situation.
It is Mr. Glazer’s error to view the Puerto Rican migration in the light of earlier ones . . . to assume that assimilation is inevitable, . . . that the Puerto Rican will be merged into the bourgeoisie. . . . But it is the special circumstances surrounding this integration that make it so difficult. Because of the ease of migration in the air age, the better than average sample Mr. Glazer speaks of is obviously made up of many who in the past would never have left home. The Puerto Rican can go home again and so he finds it impossible in many if not most cases to make a new home. This fact of transiency has not been ignored by students of the subject but it has been dreadfully underestimated. . . . Many return, and return regularly. But even for those who never leave, return is always a psychological reality. . . . The older immigrant by and large had the choice between the allure of America and the magnet of home, a choice decided for him by the economy and geographic facts. The Puerto Rican is in an everlasting personal and community debate over the justification of his presence here.
Thus we cannot expect the experience of past immigration to be repeated. . . . Despite Mr. Glazer’s indication of greater mixing, the Puerto Rican ghetto is almost hermetically sealed, and it is to the profit of many that this continues. . . . There is about the new ghettos a wholly different atmosphere. They are not jumping-off points. With continued migration and fertility at the current rate . . . the Puerto Rican colony as a settlement of urban migratory workers seems a permanent thing.
As the Negro refuses second-class citizenship, so the Puerto Rican condition seems to be heading toward its institutionalization. The Puerto Rican’s doubt about his identity and place here and the ease of returning keep him a stranger even in what may be his native city.
. . . In fact the police and municipal government in general seem satisfied with the institutionalized slum. In the case of the police, any reasonable efforts at law enforcement are terminated when an area becomes largely Puerto Rican. People in such areas usually do not bother reporting burglaries and other “minor” crimes. The official approval of voting for Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens, whatever its merits, is indicated by the intuitive grasp by these men of the special conditions of the Puerto Rican future in New York.
Again, what has developed is a new American phenomenon, at least on the urban scene, of an open, accepted, second-class status. It is so accepted because its content permits the retention of the Puerto Rican identity. In fact the new ghettos are meant to be extensions of Puerto Rico. . . .
In a world of nationalism the Puerto Rican really cannot have been expected to be untouched. The associative arrangement is clever, too clever. It palliates Governor Marin’s population problem but what does it do for the shock troops of the solution? What does it do to a city when a million physical and psychological transients live in it half against their will?
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Among the set of requirements to the prospective fighter the super-maneuverability, i.e. ability to maintain stability and controllability at virtually any angle of attack (alpha), is far from being unimportant. It was specified in the requirements set forth by the US Air Force to its prospective fighter - ATF (prototype of the present-day F-22A). However, having faced the difficult issue of meeting the requirements in full, the Americans had to sacrifice some of its maneuverability in favor of a reduction in its radar cross-section (RCS).
The actual air combat experience of third, fourth and fourth-plus generation fighters shows that dogfighting remains virtually unavoidable. In air combat fought by large groups of fighters of generally equal capabilities, neither of the opposing parties had enough time to produce decisive results at medium range. Even if an overwhelming superiority is available, there are no guarantees that advanced medium- and long-range air-to-air guided missiles will be efficient enough. For instance, there have been precedents of the 100-per cent inefficiency of American long- and medium-range weapon systems (AIM-54 Phoenix, AIM-120 AMRAAM and AIM-7M Sparrow) in F-14 and F/A-18 clashes with Iraqi warplanes.
Besides, further sophistication of electronic warfare (EW) capabilities and reduction in aircraft radar cross-section makes the decrease in long- and medium-range missiles' relative efficiency unavoidable.
However, even in combat at long range waged by fignters with similar speeds and comparable weapons, it is the one of the opponents to enjoy superiority who, while engaging consecutive targets in different sectors of fire, will manage to turn his fighter towards a target by the time of launch to maximize the combat capabilities of its weaponry.
In such a situation maximum turn rates are of special importance, as are the speed brackets for launching weapons. The aircraft's aerodynamics and on-board systems should enable the fighter to alter its angle of attack and flight path in a timely manner. Therefore, the stringent requirements to the fifth-generation Russian fighter maneuverability persist.
The S-37 experimental aircraft program took the baton from the upgrade program of the Su-27 that enjoys the top maneuver-ability among the fighters of every nation in the world. In search of ways to further enhance its fighters' maneuverability, the Sukhoi Design Bureau went for a forward-swept wing aircraft that was supposed to boast extremely high agility at subsonic modes while matching the maneuverability of its best rivals in supersonic modes.
Compared to the sweptback wing, the advantage of the forward-swept wing of the same area are as follows:
The forward-swept wing's lift is not subject to the limits
imposed by the wingtip stall, with the ailerons remaining effective up to high
angles of attack, while the aircraft retains its controllability even if the
flow separates from the rest of the wing surface. Substantial portion of the
forward-swept wing's lift is realized on the inner section of the wingspan,
which results in lesser bending force being generated on the wing surface. This
allows an increase in the wing aspect ratio, thus contributing to the inductive
impedance during high lift ratio maneuvering. High wing aspect ratio provides
However, the employment of the froward-swept wing in developing advanced agile aircraft causes a multitude of special problems. Such a wing is subject to twisting and requires new design and technological solutions. Carbon fiberglass composites enabled developers to design aeroelastic structures through enhancing the necessary wing rigidity. The S-37's wing panels are nearly 90 percent composite. In addition, a design solution to this problem has been found for the aircraft, too.
The aircraft's aerodynamic configuration has been thoroughly wind-tunnelled at the TsAGI. To gauge the S-37's stability and controllability, a free-fall dynamic model was used. It ensured an evaluation of the actual behavior of the fighter in critical flight modes, determination of stall and spin characteristics and development of relevant recovery techniques. Controlled by the onboard complex, the flying model reached very high alpha, stuck to the heading and avoided going into spin. It maintained this position three to four times longer than the Su-27.
For the first time in developing such a complex aircraft, the Sukhoi Design Bureau has introduced a unique technique of nondestructive testbed structural testing. The technique enabled the developer to start build-ing the flying prototype at once. A large num-ber of innovative technical solutions were employed, which allowed the same airframe to be used for both static and flight trials. In developing the S-37, innovative techniques have been devised ensuring accurate extrapo-lation of the design's ultimate structural loadings based on the testbed-shown operational loadings and structural stresses, i.e. without damaging the aircraft in the tests. This resulted in a significant reduction in the program costs and terms.
The flight trials proved that the fighter's structural development was done in the right manner and the results produced are in full compliance with the estimates.
The flight trials confirmed the estimated advantages the forward-swept wing aircraft enjoy. With the S-37 going supersonic, the Sukhoi Design Bureau completed the major test phase. The results produced have surpassed the designers' preliminary estimates. The aircraft retains its stability and controllability at very high angles of attack in subsonic modes, with its maneuverability being far superior to that of the Su-27. According to test pilot Igor Votintsev, while travelling at supersonic speed the S-37 shows no specific peculiarities and is controlled just as other supersonic aircraft, with its stability and ease of control remaining as good as in subsonic modes.
The set of technical solutions in developing, building and testing the S-37 prototype reflects Sukhoi's concept of the new-generation fighter gradual development. Some solutions employed in the S-37 program were first embodied in other Sukhoi aircraft. Building the prototype enabled the company to focus its efforts on most critical issues.
The results of developing numerous drastic innovations will be put to good use in designing aircraft of other types - both military and civilian ones. Thus, the Berkut is a means enabling the nation to maintain its access to high technologies in the field of aircraft manufacture as well as helping the national aircraft industry in making a revolutionary breakthrough.
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Weeknight Crispy Chicken
Weeknight Crispy Chicken: This under 30 minute dish is perfect for a weeknight. Crispy chicken cutlets with lemon, a cream sauce, and angel hair pasta.
Weeknight Crispy ChickenJump to Recipe
Sometimes I really struggle with the cooking time for recipes I write. There’s a lot of factors that might affect how much time a recipe takes. Most importantly, if you cook a lot, recipes will be quicker. You’ll know where stuff is in the kitchen, you’ll know how to chop an onion, and you’ll feel more comfortable with the steps. This 30 Minute Crispy Chicken Pasta dish though is a legit fast recipe.
There are other things though that can affect cooking time. In my case, am I taking photos? That’ll add on an hour in some cases. Also, is there a toddler crawling around trying to get into trouble? Tack on some more time.
The first time I made this recipe (for the blog), it was pretty fast even with photos and stuff. Then I made it again a few nights later when I was really crunched for time. I was amazed at how fast it was when I just had to make it with no worry about blogging. I call it a 30 minute recipe but you can do it in 20. No joke!
I added some time to that because I’m pretty efficient in my kitchen these days, but even if you only cook occasionally, this is easily a weeknight crispy chicken meal. The crispy chicken cooks quickly because they are thin cutlets and the sauce comes together in just a few minutes after the chicken is done.
Who says you can’t eat well on a Tuesday?!
- Want a different chicken dinner option? Try this orange glazed chicken!
Weeknight Crispy Chicken
- 2 thin chicken cutlets
- 1 egg whisked
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 tablespoon pepper
- ⅓ cup olive oil
- ½ white onion diced
- 1 cup chicken stock
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 1 lemon zest
- Fresh parsley garnish
- 8 oz. angel hair pasta
- If you’re starting with a full chicken breast, slice it in half horizontally to make two thin chicken cutlets.
- Dredge chicken cutlets in egg, then transfer to flour mixture (flour stirred with salt, paprika, and pepper). Coat chicken well with flour mixture and set aside.
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Once oil is hot and glistening, cook chicken for 4-5 minutes per side until the cutlets are golden brown and chicken is cooked through. Remove chicken from skillet and let drain on a paper towel.
- Drain off most the oil from the skillet, leaving about a tablespoon. Add diced onion to the skillet and cook over medium heat for 1-2 minutes until onion softens. Use the onion to scrape up any bits on the pan.
- Deglaze pan with 1 cup chicken stock. Bring to a simmer and cook for a minute. Then add cream and turn heat down to low. Continue to cook so sauce thickens. Season sauce with salt and pepper.
- Cook angel hair according to package. It should take just a few minutes.
- Drain pasta and divide between two plates. Add a crispy chicken cutlet to each plate. Squirt chicken with some lemon. Top chicken with cream sauce and garnish with lemon zest and parsley.
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30 Minute Crispy Chicken with Pasta
There are a few tricks to keep this recipe quick. For starters, make sure you have thin chicken cutlets. What I like to do is take a full chicken breast and slice it in half horizontally so you end up with two thinner chicken pieces.
I don’t bother pounding them to ensure they are perfectly the same.
Whisk an egg in a small bowl and stir together some flour with the spices in the recipe. Dunk the chicken in the egg and then coat them well in the flour mixture.
There are really only two other chopping things you need to do: Chop an onion and zest a lemon. A lot of lemon zest makes this dish really pop so feel free to zest a whole lemon.
To cook the chicken, heat some oil in a large skillet. You just need enough oil to cover the bottom of the skillet. Cook the chicken cutlets for 4-5 minutes on each side over medium heat until they are browned nicely on both sides and cooked through.
These crispy chicken cutlets should cook pretty quickly. Mine were done in 8 minutes for sure.
When the chicken comes out of the skillet, drain out most of the oil but leave about a tablespoon (you can eyeball it). Then add the diced onion and cook that for a minute or two and add the chicken stock. Use the liquid to scrape up any bits stuck to the pan.
Let that simmer for a minute or two and then add the cream. When you add the cream, turn the heat down to low and simmer the sauce until it starts to thicken. It won’t take long, just keep it on low heat.
While all this is happening, you can cook the pasta. You could use any pasta, but I like angel hair because it cooks quickly and goes well with a light cream sauce like this one.
Divide the pasta between a few plates and top each with a chicken cutlet. I like to hit the chicken with a spritz of lemon juice.
Then spoon some sauce on each and garnish each plate with fresh parsley and lemon zest.
BOOM. This Crispy Chicken Pasta dinner is done!
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I love recipes like this, but I don’t cook enough of them. I tend to make things way more complicated than they need to be. Thanks for the reminder that simple is good too!!
This was really good,I’ll be making it again, but my sauce never really thickened, I cooked it for several minutes. I wonder if adding a but if flour with the onions would work, or would that mess it up?
You sure can add flour, LS57. Just be sure to let it cook for 2-3 minutes to cook out the starchy flavor.
Yea. Matt is right. Typically, there is enough flour/bits in the pan to thicken the sauce, but if you want a surefire thicker sauce, add a teaspoon or two of flour and stir it into the onions before adding the liquid. Let the flour cook for a minute or two and then you’ll have a thicker sauce.
“Bit of”, not “but if” – fat fingers tonight!
Love recipes like this. I never think of using thin cutlets, just normal chicken breasts. Takes about 3 minutes of frying on each side, and then 20 minutes in a 400 degree oven. You could practically deepfry these cutlets for 5 minutes and be done. Great recipe.
I like making a cherry sauce — frozen tart cherries heated up with some sugar, and balsamic vinegar to taste.
Interesting Matt. You serve that cherry sauce with chicken? Sounds awesome!
Living alone leave me lots of time to cook FANCY but I don’t want to cook FANCY!! Instead I want it to TASTE FANCY w a gourmet touch. I like quick and easy with your BRILLANT RESULTS . This recipe for WEEKNIGHT
CRISPY CHICKEN is sure to be my favorite Chicken Recipe now!!! I eat a lot of chicken and fish w rice but now I have a quick chicken w pasta go to recipe rptgat I just might have to make with Tilapia soon.
Way to go Nick…I love your family humor too. Happy Holidays
So glad you liked it Judy!


Google’s parent company, Alphabet, took on the ambitious project to provide free internet access through the use of floating balloons.
The effort is labelled as Project Loon.
The Project Loon balloons are roughly the size of a tennis court, and each balloon is tasked with carrying a small box of equipment. On the surface, any user falling into the balloon’s coverage area will be easily able to connect to the internet. The connectivity has covered an area of 40,000 square kilometers.
The great thing about the project is that when Peru was hit with several massive flooding incidents, the affected individuals were still able to get online with the use of Google’s floating internet balloons.
Over the course of three months, users have sent and received over 160GB worth of data.
Project Loon recently announced that the balloons are now able to ‘think for themselves.’ The Project Loon balloons are smart enough to navigate using weather-streams. Depending on environmental input, the balloons can steer themselves, and raise themselves higher or lower, depending on existing weather patterns.
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The technology also has its fair share of critics. The balloons are quickly being deployed over developing areas of the world. Critics are worried that the sudden influx of users, most of whom will welcome the idea of a free internet, will be subject to privacy violations. Their personal information can be sold by the companies for personal gain and to enable product advertising.
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Alex Kelly is fast becoming one of New York’s most exciting up and coming acts to surface to a heap of brilliant critical acclaim, after flying under the radar for some time. Her debut album, Orange Circle, which was released on June the 1st has been described as “Fun candy coated pop music to lift the spirits….” (Oh Deary Me) and “A promising launch from a vibrant, young and seasoned artist. Orange Circle breathes electro, but Alex Kelly knows her craft, and uses the best of the rest to add fizz to her pop” (Goji Colleective).
If you’re fans of the likes of Gwen Stefani, Azaelia Banks and Kelly Clarkson, then you must make sure that Alex Kelly is a part of your summer soundtrack. Alex Kelly is giving away the title track, ‘Orange Circle’, for absolutely FREE for a limited time only (until July 1st), so you can click the below and slot her right into your mixtape.
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Alex also is putting on a ridiculously immense launch party at the Bowery Electric, New York, June 25th, which is set to start at 8pm, so make sure you get down there for a brilliant night! Full details below.
Alex Kelly’s new album ‘Orange Circle’ is out now, you can purchase here.
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What the Press are Saying:
Gig Junkies – “An instantly addictive slice of streetwise pop… streetwise pop with instant a-peel”
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Oh Deary Me – “Fun candy coated pop music to lift the spirits….”
Female First - ‘Alex Kelly is well and truly back with her new single Orange Circle as she mixes a bit of pop, rock and dance to make this the ultimate summer record.’
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This Coast Magazine – ““Orange Circle”, the first single from Kellyʻs debut album of the same name, showcases the singer-songwriterʻs aptitude for electro-pop that incorporates steady vocals that are typical of its genre.”
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The San Lorenzo Group is a wild and charming area located within "Francisco Perito Moreno" National Park, Santa Cruz Province, Northern Patagonia, absolutely fascinating for people wishing to practice an explorative kind of mountaineering. As its name says, Cerro Dos Picos ("Dos Picos" means "Two Peaks") is a bicuspidate secluded mountain belonging to the San Lorenzo Group, located East to Cerro Hermoso. The two summits are separated by a saddle named Paso Hermoso; on the South side of the peak it lies a conspicuous glacier. Due to its shape, Cerro Dos Picos is indicated like "Twin peak" in the report of the first and second summiters, both South Africans. Zorro Colorado is a direct route realized in 1987 on Cerro Dos Picos iced South Face by Davide Brighenti and Alberto Rampini, two members of "Patagonia '87 Italian Expedition", a team who furthermore climbed Cerro Torre and some other new routes in the Cerro Torre group in the same period.
Cerro Dos Picos lies in the Argentinian side of San Lorenzo Group, wilder and less frequented than the Chilean one. Anyway, the approach from Argentina is easy, due to the good tracks coming from Gobernador Gregores to the last "estancias" inside the park. From Gobernador Gregores, a small town lying in Santa Cruz province, Rio Chico department, head towards NW and leave the main Ruta 40 at a fork named "Las Horquetas", where it starts a road heading North-West. Take this road, skirting the magnificent Lago Belgrano and leading to Estancia El Rincon (870 m).
From Estancia El Rincon the approach is done by means of a two days approach on horseback. From the farm head towards North, entering the Rio Lacteo Valley and reaching Puesto San Lorenzo m. 980, a secluded outpost where you can spend the first night, inside a little wooden cabin. The name "Rio Lacteo", which means "Milky Stream", is probably due to the colour of the water.
On the second day of the approach trail, about 8 kilometers long, you can enjoy a superb view over the magnificent San Lorenzo East face. At the head of the valley, the track forks. While the left path leads to a lagoon located between San Lorenzo main summit and Cerro Hermoso, the right one reachs a good campsite lying where the forest ends, just in front of Cerro Hermoso and Cerro Dos Picos South sides.
Zorro Colorado (The Red Fox)
Difficulty: D, 80° max on ice, UIAA IV the rock ridge
Length: 800 m
First ascent: Alberto Rampini C.A.A.I. and Davide Brighenti A.G.A.I.(Patagonia '87 Italian Expedition) 21.11.1987
Approach from the campsite - From Base Camp South Face is clearly seen and easily approached scrambling up towards the start of the glacier, which is followed towards the high wall of seracs.
Climbing report - Up directly on the steep seracs' wall with several pitches (some pitches till 80°), gaining the upper easier snow slopes, which are followed towards a rocky saddle along the West Ridge. Once getting to the rocky saddle climb the summit rocky ridge (poor rock, max IV grade UIAA), getting to the summit.
Descent: downclimb the rocky West ridge (one abseil) reaching the rocky saddle; from here continue down along the ridge, more and more easily, reaching a col (Paso Hermoso), situated between Cerro Dos Picos and Cerro Hermoso. Descend towards South along some gently angled snow slopes, leading down to the moraine and the Base Camp.
Rope, helmet, two technical ice-axes, crampons, ice-screws
The argentinian side of San Lorenzo Group is located inside "Francisco Perito Moreno" National Park. There are not particular restrictions in climbing and hiking.
The best time to climb is from November to late February
Tecpetrol Cuadernos Patagonicos - San Lorenzo - in Spanish
"Patagonia Terra Magica per Alpinisti e Viaggiatori" - Gino Buscaini and Silvia Metzeltin

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PBS ‘History Detectives’ Series Comes to University Archives in Westport, CT
A crew from the PBS series “History Detectives” came to Westport today to try to solve a mystery about Charles A. Lindbergh, who gained world fame with his 1927 nonstop flight aboard his single-engine “Spirit of St. Louis” from New York to Paris.
One of the TV show’s hosts, Tukufu Zuberi, interviewed Westport autograph expert and collector John Reznikoff, president of University Archives on Richmondville Avenue for a program which will air in June.
The objects of their attention were autographs of Lindbergh and Igor Sikorsky on a piece of plexi-glass-covered fabric and dated August 1943. “History Detectives” was trying to determine their authenticity.
The autographs belong to Jimmy Patterson of Staunton, Va. He told the program that his father worked at Sikorsky in Stratford during 1943 when Lindbergh was a consultant and that the autographed fabric was given to him as a souvenir.
Patterson’s father reportedly said the fabric came from the “Spirit of St. Louis.” But it was not clear why would helicopter inventor Sikorsky sign this fabric. Since his father died when he was just a teen, the item’s owner didn’t have a chance to ask more about this souvenir.
Zuberi spoke to Reznikoff about whether the signatures are authentic and whether the fabric actually came from the airplane.
Reznikoff, who has operated his business in Westport for the past 12 years, has been an innovator in the field of relics, and even holds a Guinness Book of Records entry for this field.
Currently, University Archives, which Reznikoff started in 1979, owns two of John F. Kennedy’s cars, Ernest Hemingway’s typewriter, Annie Oakley’s gun, and Abraham Lincoln’s desk, among many other of the world’s greatest treasures.
“History Detectives,” now in its ninth season, is devoted to exploring the complexities of historical mysteries, searching out the facts, myths and conundrums that connect local folklore, family legends and interesting objects.
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Doctor Who producer Russell T. Davies said Prince Charles was a "miserable swine" for turning down a cameo on the show, reports ITN.
Davies said the Prince of Wales was approached to appear on the sci-fi TV drama but declined.
Speaking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Davies said: "He turned us down, the miserable swine."
He was asked about the Prince's appearance while talking about his new book Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale.
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CHARLESTON, WV -- Most state business owners seem open to a modest increase in the state's minimum wage as long as it is implemented properly, according to the head of the state Chamber of Commerce.
Democrats in the House of Delegates, led by House Speaker Tim Miley, D-Harrison, said Monday they planned to propose a $1 increase in the state minimum wage as part of their legislative agenda this year.
The increase, which would take place in steps over an 18-month period, was part of a broader agenda designed to strengthen families, communities and the state's economy.
President Barack Obama proposed a federal hike in the minimum wage during his State of the Union address last year, but the idea went nowhere in Congress.
While Obama's proposal called for the hourly wage rate to increase to $9 by 2015, local Democrats' proposal would raise the rate to $8.25 by 2016.
Opposition to the wage increase traditionally comes from those who say it will lead to layoffs or cuts in hours for those who work for small businesses.
Steve Roberts, state Chamber of Commerce president, said that while he's heard some of those concerns from state small businesses, the majority seem open to an increase.
"The input we're getting from all around West Virginia is, for the most part, people seem to feel comfortable with a reasonable increase in the minimum wage," Roberts said.
"There are those who are saying, 'Well, our business is barely, barely making it and any increase in cost is going to have some impact on our ability to continue to employ people for the number of hours that we currently employ them,' " he said.
"But we are not finding any sort of large resistance to some sort of potential increase in the minimum wage."
President George W. Bush signed the last increase in the minimum wage into law in 2007. That change increased the wage rate from $5.15 to the current $7.25 in three steps between July 2007 to July 2009.
Roberts said the state Chamber has historically not opposed reasonable increases to the minimum wage when there has been good reason and broad, bipartisan support.
However, he said one of the factors giving some pause this time around is the continued fragile state of the U.S. economy.
"I think we would not be having this conversation if the economy were strong," Roberts said. "I think to some extent we're having this conversation because the economy has not been growing rapidly enough and so people have been struggling at the lower ends."
He said business owners are interested in strengthening lower-income West Virginians, but he said there was also an interest in making sure it's done in a way that's not detrimental to the broader economy.
"It's a careful balancing act between trying to help people in the bottom end of the wage scale and making sure that we don't get to a level that causes an employers to reduce hours," Roberts said.


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Students learn to interview real patients, ask right questions
Jack has a backache.
He’s nervous, sitting there in the doctor’s exam room, and his eyes quickly dart back and forth. He carefully answers the medical student’s questions, grimacing from the pain as he describes where it hurts, and how badly.
The student continues to probe with questions, hoping to hone in on the problem while trying to keep Jack calm and talkative.
Jack is an avatar: a simulated, virtual patient. He’s actually one of several avatars built by researchers at The Ohio State University’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) for a collaborative project with the Wexner Medical Center’s Doug Danforth, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
The avatars in the Virtual Patient Project give medical students life-like practice in interviewing patients, delving into health histories and narrowing possible diagnoses. The ACCAD research team included Alan Price, associate professor of design, and former MFA graduate student in design Kellen Maicher, who is now an interactive media consultant for Wexner Medical Center.
“Dr. Danforth came to ACCAD to see if we could build an avatar that would create a rich, high-fidelity experience for the medical students,” explained Price. “The virtual patients are designed so students can practice interviewing, asking the right questions and developing effective communications skills.”
The goal was to create an immersive environment for the medical students with a believable virtual patient with whom they could practice their clinical skills.
“The avatar appears life-sized on a large computer screen in a room set up like a doctor’s office in our Clinical Skills Center,” Danforth said. “The student will ask the avatar questions, and will get responses, and emotions, back. They’ll be able to practice and test their skills one on one with a life-like patient. It will allow them to do all of the ‘detective work’ on a new patient and get immediate feedback from that patient.”
Most medical schools, including Ohio State’s, use “standardized patients” to teach these clinical skills. Standardized patients are members of the local community who are trained to act like real patients. That approach has some limitations, including variability in the skills of the standardized patients, as well as being relatively expensive.
This led Danforth to consider using a virtual patient instead. Use of virtual patients isn’t new in medical schools, but most virtual patient programs are computer-based, clinical-reasoning scenarios, leading medical students through a pre-defined list of problems and diagnoses.
This program is different.
“Nobody to my knowledge is using avatars, artificial intelligence and virtual reality that combine communication and emotion,” Danforth said.
Plus, the program is not housed only in the Clinical Skills Center. A web-based version of the program allows medical students to practice communicating with the virtual patients anywhere—from laptops or home computers.
“Learning how to take an accurate and thorough medical history is one of the most essential skills that a medical student needs to learn,” Danforth said. “Developing innovative approaches to help them practice and get feedback on that aspect of their training will eventually help make them better doctors.”
The avatars, representing various ages and genders, complain of such common ailments as backache, headache, abdominal pain, cough and chest pain.
So how do you build a believable Jack? Maicher’s MFA thesis was based on developing “affect” in the virtual character, which he built in a computer animation studio and imported into a gaming engine. Communication is achieved via an extensive database built by Danforth.
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As of page 159, I'm pretty sure I'm done with this book. I was initially interested in the idea of a fantasy book about colonialism based on economic and political domination rather than military might. And the book is neither poorly written nor boring. But it is grim and cold, and while it is hardly the darkest book I've read, nor is the protagonist's life even close to the grimmest I've encountered, it is unrelieved by either an exciting plot or interesting characters. There's no humanity to these people; the book spins us through the typical overwrought "intrigue" scenes familiar to fantasy readers, but close to halfway through the book, not a single character feels like more than his or her political motivations. Even Baru, the protagonist, feels incomplete and cold. We're meant to believe that the memory of her homeland and trio of parents is a driving motivation, but we only ever see a couple of scenes of this and they are not particularly emotional ones. And since there's not much else to her, it's very difficult to empathize.
So while I could keep reading - it's not a terrible book - this one was leaving me feeling a little down after spending time with it and lacked sufficient redeeming qualities for me to want to put up with that.
'Myths & Magic: A Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection' is a box set by various authors.
Kin Selection by L.B. Gilbert is the book I am reviewing. This is the story of Denise Hammond and Yogi Kane.
Denise and her group save Chimps and such for animal testing as such and on one of those missions she see a wolf cub who she can't help but take with her. Since the chimps have places they can ship them to save their lives they have no such place for a wolf cub so she takes him. But Denise soon learns he is also a baby.
Yogi has been asked to find a baby / cub named Oliver from the rival Avery's Pack. Oliver's father past awhile back and now the mother and Oliver a missing. Yogi finds the mother has died and Oliver missing but it doesn't take him long to find the baby with Denise. Yogi kidnaps her and the baby and takes them back with him.
I enjoyed their story!
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Dreams of Gods & Monsters is the last of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy and I am so sad to see it end. This has been a wild ride with a beautiful cast of characters and a thought-provoking story that held me from beginning to end. Despite the length of these books, they were all fairly quick reads because I just couldn't put them down.
This book was full of adventure and intrigue, suspense and twists, and I loved it! The mythology of this series takes humans, demons, and angels and changes your perception of them. What does it mean to be good or evil? How does one person or thing become evil? Are those thought to be evil truly bad, or is it just one's perspective? These are all questions that this book, and the series, makes you ask yourself.
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I truly love this series! The characters are fantastic and the story is thoroughly engrossing. The world of this series is a wonderful blend of the real and the imagined and they fit together seamlessly.
The cast of characters expands in this series and they are all beautifully developed. But Akiva and Karou were completely at odds with one another in this book and that was hard as a shipper of that relationship. But that only made the story that much more of an engrossing read.
I love that this series takes the commonly held ideas of religious mythology and what it means to be good or evil and then turns them around. Karou and her people are chimera, what most would consider to be demons. Akiva is an angel, but many of his kind are far from the peace-loving angels that most of us imagine. The story is told primarily from the point of view of Karou, making you really look at how perspective changes perception.
At it's heart, the story is about two enemies coming together for a common goal, a common mission, a common future. It is imaginative, exciting, and beautifully written!


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A Sullivan High School student recently received an award for his achievements.
Noah Bohn, a Sullivan High School student in the Teaching Careers program at the Four Rivers Career Center, was recognized as the Region 6 Breaking Traditions Award recipient.
The Breaking Traditions Award is sponsored by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in order to recognize outstanding nontraditional career and technical students and the adults who support them.
Teaching Careers instructor Jenny Meers nominated Bohn because of his outstanding work in the program. Bohn is focusing on becoming an elementary teacher. Bohn will receive a $100 prize through the Missouri STEM foundation and will qualify for a number of scholarships at various local community colleges.
Jackie Marling with DESE presented the award to Bohn. Meers was also recognized for making the nomination.


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نینگشیا با نام رسمی منطقه خودمختار هوئی نینگشیا نام استانی خودمختار در حوضه بالایی رود زرد و در شمالغرب چین است و شهر یینچوان مرکز این استان است. استان نینگشیا در گذشته گذرگاه مهم بازرگانی شرق به غرب بوده و به عنوان یک منطقه مهم در مسیر رودخانه زرد در تاریخ دارای فرهنگ و تمدن کهن میباشد. این استان تنها شست و شش هزار کیلومتر مربع مساحت دارد که یکی از کوچکترین استانهای چین است. این استان در ابتدا در سال ۱۹۵۴ میلادی در استان گانسو ادغام شد ولی پس از آن در سال ۱۹۵۸ میلادی به عنوان منطقهای خودمختار تحت رهبری مردمان هوئی شناخته شد. این استان اکنون با استانهای شاآنشی در شرق، گانسو در جنوب و غرب و مغولستان داخلی در شمال هممرز است.
این استان به همراه مناطق اطراف آن در قرن سوم پیش از میلاد قسمتی از دودمان چین بوده است. همچنین در طی سالیان، دودمان هان و دودمان تانگ شهرهایی را در این منطقه بنا کردند. در قرن یازدهم میلادی مردمان تانگوت امپراتوری شیای غربی را در این منطقه بنا کردند که وسعت این امپراتوری تقریباً هماندازه وسعت این استان بود؛ اما چنگیزخان در اوایل قرن سیزدهم با تسخیر این منطقه، آن را تحت فرمانروایی مغولان درآورد. بعدها گروهی از ترکان نیز از غرب به این منطقه کوچیدند. این ناحیه همچنین یکی از قطبهای شورش دانگان در چین بود.
آب و هوا و جغرافیای طبیعی[ویرایش]
اکوسیستم موجود در نینگشیا یکی از یگانه اکوسیستمهایی در دنیاست که مورد بررسی و مطالعه دقیق قرار گرفته است.
زمینلرزه هاییوان (۱۹۲۰ میلادی) موجب رخ دادن یک سری زمینلغزش در نینگشیا شد که به سبب آنها بیش از ۲۰۰٬۰۰۰ تن جان باختند. به سبب این زمینلغزشها همچنین بیش از ۴۰ دریاچه جدید پدیدار شد. دمای هوا در این منطقه به طور میانگین ۱۷ تا ۲۷ درجه سلسیوس در تابستان و -۷ تا -۱۵ درجه سلسیوس در زمستان است. همچنین بیشینه دما و کمینه دمای ثبت شده در زمستان و تابستان به ترتیب ۳۹ و -۳۰ درجه سلسیوس گزارش شده است.
زبان و نژاد[ویرایش]
با این که این استان منطقهای خودمختار تحت رهبری مردمان هوئی است، بیشتر مردمان آن همچون سایر مناطق کشور چین از نژاد هان هستن و نژاد هوئی تنها یک سوم جمعیت را در این استان داراست. همچنین نژادهای منچو، تبتی و مغولی از اقلیتهای نژادی این استان اند.
پیوند به بیرون[ویرایش]
Ningxia (Chinese: 宁夏; Mandarin pronunciation: [nǐŋ.ɕjâ]; alternately romanized as Ninghsia), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is a landlocked autonomous region in Northwestern China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1954 but was separated from Gansu in 1958 and was reconstituted as an autonomous region for the Hui people, one of the 56 officially recognised nationalities of China. Twenty percent of China's Hui population lives in Ningxia.
Ningxia is bounded by Shaanxi to the east, Gansu to the south and west, and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the north and has an area of around 66,400 square kilometres (25,600 sq mi). This sparsely settled, mostly desert region lies partially on the Loess Plateau and in the vast plain of the Yellow River, and features the Great Wall of China along its northeastern boundary. Over the years an expensive and extensive system of canals has been built. Extensive land reclamation and irrigation projects have made increased cultivation possible.
Winemaking continues to boost the economy of what is still one of the country's poorest areas. Before the arrival of viticulture, Ningxia's 6.8 million people, 36 per cent of whom are Muslims from the Hui ethnic group, relied largely on animal grazing, subsistence agriculture and the cultivation of wolfberries used in traditional Chinese medicine. The province housed almost 40,000 hectares of wine grapes and produced 120 million wine bottles in 2017 – a quarter of the entire nation's production.
As a frontier zone between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers, Ningxia was a frequent seat of war and incursions by non-Chinese tribes. To pacify the region, the imperial government established military colonies to reclaim land. In addition, horse pasturages were founded under the Imperial Stud to safeguard the supply of army horses, as early as the Western Han dynasty (206 BCE – 9 CE). Ningxia and its surrounding areas were incorporated into the Qin dynasty as early as the 3rd century BC. Throughout the Han dynasty and the Tang dynasty there were several large cities established in the region. The Liang Province rebellion at the end of the Han Dynasty affected Ningxia.
By the 11th century the Tangut people had established the Western Xia dynasty on the outskirts of the then-Song dynasty. Jews also lived in Ningxia, as evidenced by the fact that in 1489, after a major flood destroyed Torah scrolls in Kaifeng, a replacement was sent to the Kaifeng Jews by the Ningbo and Ningxia Jewish communities.
It then came under Mongol domination after Genghis Khan conquered Yinchuan in the early 13th century. Muslims from Central Asia also began moving into Ningxia from the west. The Muslim Dungan Revolt of the 19th century affected Ningxia.
In 1914, Ningxia was merged with the province of Gansu. However, in 1928 it was detached from Gansu and became a separate province. Between 1914 and 1928, the Ma clique ruled the provinces of Qinghai, Ningxia and Gansu; General Ma Hongkui was the military governor of Ningxia and had absolute authority in the province. The Muslim conflict in Gansu, which lasted from 1927 to 1930, spilled over into Ningxia. In 1934, warlord and National Revolutionary Army general Sun Dianying attempted to conquer the province, but was defeated by an alliance led by the Ma clique.
From 1950 to 1958, a Kuomintang Islamic insurgency resulted in fighting throughout Northwest China, including Ningxia. In 1954, the Chinese government merged Ningxia with Gansu, but in 1958 Ningxia formally became an autonomous region of China. In 1969, Ningxia received a part of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, but this area was returned in 1979.
A number of Chinese artifacts dating from the Tang dynasty and Song dynasty, some of which had been owned by Emperor Zhenzong, were excavated and then came into the hands of Ma Hongkui, who refused to publicize the findings. Among the artifacts were a white marble tablet from the Tang dynasty, gold nails, and bands made out of metal. It was not until after Ma died that his wife went to Taiwan in 1971 from America to bring the artifacts to Chiang Kai-shek, who turned them over to the Taipei National Palace Museum.
Present-day Ningxia is one of the nation's smallest provincial-level units, and borders the provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu, and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. At 3556 meters above sea level, Aobaogeda (敖包疙瘩) in the Helan Mountains is the highest point in Ningxia.
Ningxia is a relatively dry, desert-like region and features a diverse geography of forested mountains and hills, table lands, deserts, flood plains and basins cut through by the Yellow River. The Ningxia ecosystem is one of the least studied regions in the world. Significant irrigation supports the growing of wolfberries, a commonly consumed fruit throughout the region. Ningxia's deserts include the Tengger desert in Shapotou.
The northern section, through which the Yellow River flows, supports the best agricultural land. A railroad, linking Lanzhou with Baotou, crosses the region. A highway has been built across the Yellow River at Yinchuan.
On 16 December 1920, the Haiyuan earthquake, 8.6 magnitude, at , initiated a series of landslides that killed an estimated 200,000 people. Over 600 large loess landslides created more than 40 new lakes.
In 2006, satellite images indicated that a 700 by 200-meter fenced area within Ningxia—5 km (3.1 mi) southwest of Yinchuan, near the remote village of Huangyangtan—is a near-exact 1:500 scale terrain model reproduction of a 450 by 350-kilometer area of Aksai Chin bordering India, complete with mountains, valleys, lakes and hills. Its purpose is as yet unknown.
It was reported that approximately 34 percent (33.85 million mu) of the region's total surface consisted of grassland. This figure is down from approximately 40 percent in the 1990s. The grasslands are spread over the dry desert-steppe area in the northeast (which forms a part of the Inner Mongolian steppe region), and the hilly pastures located on the semi-arid Loess Plateau in the south. It is ascertained that the grasslands of Ningxia have been degraded to various degrees. However, there is scientific debate as to what extent this degradation is taking place as measured in time and space. Historical research has also found limited evidence of expanding grassland degradation and desertification in Ningxia. A major component of land management in Ningxia is a ban on open grazing, which has been in place since 2003. The ecological and socio-economic effects of this Grazing Ban in relation to the grasslands and pastoralists’ livelihood are contested. The ban stipulates that animal husbandry be limited to enclosed pens and no open grazing be permitted in certain time periods set by the Autonomous Region's People's Government.
Ningxia is rich in mineral resources with proven deposits of 34 kinds of minerals, much of which located in grassland areas. In 2011 it was estimated that the potential value per capita of these resources accounted for 163.5 percent of the nation's average. Ningxia boasts verified coal reserves of over 30 billion tons, with an estimated reserve of more than 202 billion tons, ranking sixth nationwide. Coal deposits are spread over one-third of the total surface of Ningxia, and mined in four major fields in the Helan and Xiangshan mountains, Ningdong and Yuanzhou (or Guyuan). The region's reserves of oil and natural gas can be found in Yanchi and Lingwu County, and are ideal for large-scale development of oil, natural gas and chemical industries. Ningxia leads China in gypsum deposits, with a proven reserve of more than 4.5 billion tons, of which the rarely found, top-grade gypsum accounts for half of the total deposits. The Hejiakouzi deposit in Tongxin County features a reserve of 20 million tons of gypsum with a total thickness of 100 meters. There is a considerable deposit of quartz sandstone, of which 17 million tons have been ascertained. In addition, there are phosphorus, flint, copper, iron, barite, other minerals and Helan stone – a special clay stone.
The region is 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) from the sea and has a continental climate with average summer temperatures rising to 17 to 24 °C (63 to 75 °F) in July and average winter temperatures dropping to between −7 to −15 °C (19 to 5 °F) in January. Seasonal extreme temperatures can reach 39 °C (102 °F) in summer and −30 °C (−22 °F) in winter. The diurnal temperature variation can reach above 17 °C (31 °F), especially in spring. Annual rainfall averages from 190 to 700 millimetres (7.5 to 27.6 in), with more rain falling in the south of the region.
The politics of Ningxia is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in mainland China.
The Chairman of the Autonomous Region is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Ningxia. However, in the Autonomous Region's dual party-government governing system, the Chairman has less power than the Communist Party of China Ningxia Committee Secretary, colloquially termed the "Ningxia CPC Party Chief".
Rural Ningxia was for long an officially designated poverty area, and is still located on the lower rungs of the developmental ladder. It is the province with the third smallest GDP (Tibet being the last) in China, even though its neighbors, Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi, are among the strongest emerging provincial economies in the country. Its nominal GDP in 2011 was just 200.0 billion yuan (US$32.7 billion) and a per capita GDP of 21,470 yuan (US$3,143). It contributes 0.44% of the national economy.
Unlike several other underdeveloped provinces, labor costs in Ningxia are among the highest in China (ranking in the top third percentile), making it unattractive as a manufacturing center. Furthermore, Ningxia has yet to become a hub for consumption due to its low population.
Similar to other areas, Ningxia has seen a gradual decline of its peasant population due to rural–urban migration. In spite of this, the great majority (62.8 percent) was still agricultural at the time of the survey. Animal husbandry is important for the regional economy. In the main pastoral county, Yanchi, it is even the leading industry when specified for the primary sector. The dominant grazing animals are sheep and goat. In the (semi-)pastoral regions, herders engage in a mixed sedentary farming operation of dryland agriculture and extensive animal husbandry, while full nomadic pastoralism is no longer practiced.
Ningxia wines are a promising area of development. The Chinese authorities have given approval to the development of the eastern base of the Helan Mountains as an area suitable for wine production. Several large Chinese wine companies including Changyu and Dynasty Wine have begun development in the western region of the province. Together they now own 20,000 acres of land for wine plantations and Dynasty has ploughed 100 million yuan into Ningxia. In addition, the major oil company China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation has founded a grape plantation near the Helan Mountains. The household appliance company Midea has also begun participating in Ningxia's wine industry. Vineyards have been set up in the region.
Industries and economic zones
Yinchuan Economic and Technological Development Zone was established in 1992. Spanning 32 km2 (12 sq mi), it has an annual economic output Rmb23.7 billion (25.1% up) (US$3.5 billion). Major investors are mainly local enterprises such as Kocel Steel Foundry, FAG Railway Bearing (Ningxia), Ningxia Little Giant Machine Tools, etc. Major industries include machinery and equipment manufacturing, new materials, fine chemicals and the animation industry.
Desheng Industrial Park (in Helan County) is a base for about 400 enterprises. The industrial park has industrial chains from Muslim food and commodities to trade and logistics, new materials and bio-pharmaceuticals that has 80 billion yuan in fixed assets. Desheng is looking to be the most promising industrial park in the city. It achieved a total output value of 4.85 billion in 2008, up 40 percent year-on-year. The local government plans to cut taxes and other fees to reduce the burden on local enterprises. The industrial output value reached 2.68 billion yuan in 2008, an increase of 48 percent from a year earlier.
The major religions in Ningxia are Islam among the Hui Chinese, while many of the Han Chinese practice Chinese folk religions, Taoism, Confucianism and Chinese Buddhism. According to a demographic analysis of the year 2010, Muslims form 34% of the province's population. Christianity is the religion of 1.17% of the province's population according to the Chinese General Social Survey of 2004.
One of Ningxia's main tourist spots is the internationally renowned Xixia Tombs site located 30 km (19 mi) west of Yinchuan. The remnants of nine Western Xia emperors' tombs and two hundred other tombs lie within a 50 km2 (19 sq mi) area. Other famous sites in Ningxia include the Helan Mountains, the mysterious 108 stupas, the twin pagodas of Baisikou and the desert research outpost at Shapatou. A less visited tourist spot in Ningxia is the Mount Sumeru Grottoes (须弥山), which is among the ten most famous grottoes in China.


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10 Things Which Makes Your Day Beautiful
1. Drink a glass of water when you wake up 2. Remember the greater goal of your life 3. Exercise: A healthy body is an important asset. Make sure that you do some form of exercise or yoga in thr morning to feel fresh. 4. Make a list of the top 3-5 things that you want to do today 5. Eat the right food (lots of fruits and vegetables) in smaller chunks 6. Use the time break rule: Work for 30 min and take a 5 min break OR work for 50 min and take a 10 min break 7. Forget your past issues and live the day fresh so as to get one step closer to your goal 8. Thank God for what he has given and work harder to achieve the set vision 9. Meditate and connect with yourself 10. Have a good sleep
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The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on March 10 that its research team led by biotech professor Lim Sung-kap and electrical and electronics engineering professors Yu Seung-hyup and Jo Byung-jin have developed a very thin, flexible, yet thickness-maintaining polymer insulating film based on initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD).
Light, flexible and power-saving devices are essential for the wearable and flexible instruments and gadgets that will constitute the Internet of Things. Electronic devices and materials based on inorganic substances, however, lack flexibility and can be processed only at a high temperature, which results in a poor combination with other materials less resistant to heat.
The research team adopted iCVD to address this problem. This method is characterized by synthesizing polymers in the form of a thin film by using a gaseous reactant instead of a liquid one. They succeeded in improving the uniformity and minimizing impurities by this method, so that the insulation properties are comparable to those of inorganic substance-based materials even at a thickness of less than 10 nm.
Also, the team appled the film to transistors based on next-generation semiconductor products such as organic semiconductors and graphene and oxide semiconductors, to develop a low-voltage and high-mobility transistor. “The iCVD-based thin film has excellent insulation properties, surpassing those of polymer thin films,” the team explained, adding, “This film will be utilized in a wide variety of fields, including flexible electronic device manufacturing.” The details of the research are available on the March 10 online edition of Nature Materials.