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Riverside County and San Bernardino County to the north form this metro area. Like many such metro areas in the Southwest, it extends far into uninhabited desert areas, in this case east through the Mojave Desert to the Nevada/Arizona border. Larger than nine U.S. states, it is often referred to as the Inland Empire. Cities in the western portion, including Riverside, San Bernardino, Ontario, and a patchwork of other communities, are developed suburbs of the Los Angeles area with a rapidly growing and increasingly self-sufficient economy.
Suburbs along the I-10 corridor, including Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana and Colton tend to be more commercial, while others off the main roads and against the area's many mountain ranges, like Loma Linda, Chino Hills and many parts of Riverside are more residential. Ontario is also the site of one of the LA area's best airports with considerable discount air service. Old mansions, public buildings, and packing sheds serve as evidence of the orange-growing industry that once dominated the area, but these have been long since surrounded by housing developments, industrial parks, and commercial/retail centers. Farther east through a mountain gap lie the resort communities of Palm Springs and Palm Desert.
Today the main economic activities include a host of diversified light manufacturing, international trade and offices of overseas companies. Although rising rapidly, costs of living and housing remain relatively affordable for comparable areas in Los Angeles and Southern California. The area is now facing many of the same issues confronting Los Angeles as a whole- overcrowding, sprawl, poor air quality, and long freeway commutes. Bottom line: this area offers many Southern California advantages while bringing the negatives in somewhat smaller doses.
The area is semiarid to arid with dry valleys surrounded by desert mountain ranges. Most of the valley floor to the west is developed. Moving east, coastal grasses and brush give way to desert foliage, including brush, creosote bush, and cactus. The climate varies by altitude and distance from the Pacific Ocean. Summers are warm in the western portion of the counties to extremely hot and dry eastward. Evenings, consistent with the desert climate and with some marine cooling, are comfortable. Winters are mild and mostly dry, but most annual precipitation, including rainy spells, occurs during this season. There are a few days each winter with below-freezing temperatures, but many winters are frost-free. Snow is rare but can occur.
As of 2014, Riverside's population is 306,128 people. Since 2000, it has had a population growth of 18.80 percent.
The median home cost in Riverside is $263,600. Home appreciation the last year has been 25.60 percent.
Compared to the rest of the country, Riverside's cost of living is 21.60% Higher than the U.S. average.
Riverside public schools spend $10,116 per student. The average school expenditure in the U.S. is $12,435. There are about 23.6 students per teacher in Riverside.
The unemployment rate in Riverside is 8.40 percent(U.S. avg. is 6.30%). Recent job growth is Positive. Riverside jobs have Increased by 1.17 percent.
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Average Commute time is 28 minutes. The National Average is 25 minutes.
Riverside's Real Estate Market (click to see properties) • Newly Listed Homes • Most Expensive Listing • Million Dollar Houses • Homes from $750,001 to $1,000,000 • Homes from $500,001 to $750,000 • Homes from $250,000 to $500,000 • Homes under $250,000 • Median Priced Homes
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Translate This Book!
by Geoff Wisner, January 7, 2010
Perhaps it's unnecessary to draw attention to Translate This Book! at The Quarterly Conversation — after all, The New Yorker has already done so — but I wanted to point out two African volumes in the list: Aynfelale or "Let Us Not Separate," written by Alemseged Tesfai and…
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Around the Web: Marías, Bolaño, Best Translated Book Long-list
by Bud Parr, January 6, 2010
I'll be reporting here a bit more about Javier Marías, but ran across this today (when reading a letter to the editor of TLS by the wonderful writer Gabriel Josipovici) and think it will be of interest to Marías fans: Marías's mentor Sir, – Reviewing Your Face Tomorrow 3 by Javier…
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Podcasts of Kapuściński panel at NBCC
by David Varno, October 16, 2009
The National Book Critics Circle's blog, Critical Mass, is featuring a three-part series of podcasts and videos to cover the complete symposium held last week at NYU: After Kapuściński: The Art of Reportage in the 21st Century. Co-sponsoring the event were the NBCC, Words Without Borders, The Polish…
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- 'The Odd Couple' turns 50
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- Eight-year-old boy creates Monkees video, gets nod from Micky Dolenz
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- Pretzel Fest: twisted fun for everyone
- Armed Forces Day swing dance
- Ephrata Police caution on new smoking rules
- Pretzel Fest will feature 13 tasting stations
Richard 'Cotton' Gensemer, 89, WWII vet, life member of Denver Fire Co., avid hunter
Richard R. "Cotton" Gensemer, 89, Denver, died Monday, May 5, 2014, in Ephrata Manor.
Born in Denver, he was a son of the late Wesley and Anna (Rutt) Gensemer, and was the husband of Fern O. (Miller) Gensemer for 66 years.
A 1941 Denver High School graduate, "Cotton" was a WWII Air Force radio gunner having been honored by Pres. Roosevelt for precision attacks in Italy. He was the last of his bomber squad. He was a meat cutter with Shober & Sons Meats, Denver, and Weaver's Store, Blainsport. Richard was a member of Salem Evangelical & Reformed Church, Reamstown, and life member of Denver Fire Company and Ephrata American Legion. He was a founding member of Fugawie Hunting Camp, Lycoming County and enjoyed hunting, fishing and many sports during his life.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by his daughters: Dixie Stewart, Reading and Angela Schwartz, Brison City, N.C.; a grandson and six granddaughters; and a sister: Hazel Hornberger, Ephrata.
His son, Scott L. Gensemer, died April 27.
All arrangements are private at Cotton's request with inurnment in Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville.
Contributions in his memory may be made to Denver Fire Company, 425 Locust Street, Denver, PA 17517.
Good Funeral Home & Cremation Centre, Reamstown, is honored to be providing assistance. Offer online condolences at goodfuneral.com.


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Mayor Floats Idea Of Selling Permits For Parade Spots
If Oktoberfest needs more sources of funding, how about issuing permits for spots along the parade routes?
La Crosse Mayor Matt Harter says it's an idea worth studying...and such a permit might allow the holder to drink openly at the parade site, which is not allowed now. Harter suggests a permit fee of around $5 to $10. He brought up the permit idea during an appearance today on "The Morning Sickness" on 95-7 The Rock.


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It is also known as the Hand of Mary and the Hand of Miriam.
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what if... Thin brick?
I don`t know if this out of the box thinking is a heresy, but looking at the pictures of the Pompeii ruins ovens I can see that all of them are usually formed of thin bricks. Initially I supposed that they had no choice as maybe they had only one type of brick. But looking carefully you can appreciate in the same bild, outside walls formed of thick bricks and thinner ones.
Beeing everybody so worried about the excess of mortar in the joints, why not do as the ancient romans did and use thinner bricks for build the espherical dome.
It has several advantages, a quick sketch in cad shows that in a 100 cm (40") dome, the gaps betwen rings are:
60 mm (2,4") brick cut in half -> external gap= 13,2 mm (0,52")
30 mm (1,2") brick cut in half -> external gap= 6,6 mm (0,26")
25 mm (1") brick cut in half -> external gap= 5,5 mm (0,21") gap.
This affects also the gaps between neigbour pieces in the same ring as the vertical gaps will be reduced to half. Not to mention that the curve is smoother as the steps are reduced.
Together with this it's possible to cut them with inexpensive wet tile cutter (i've found chinesse one for less tha 30 EUR) capable to cut 35 mm depth.
The only lack of this is that more rings have to be placed and a small increase in the final price as for the same coverd surface the thinner brics are proportionally a little bit more expensive.
Why are not more used the thinner bricks for bulid ovens? Am I forgetting anything?
Re: what if... Thin brick?
Normal thickness's of firebrick are 2-1/4" or 1-5/8. They generally cost the same, so basically you would be doubling your expense for firebrick. If that is not an issue, why not? They use the splits to build herringbone fireplaces as a rule.
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With only 8 days left until GTA V is released to the public, the anticipation in the is palpable. So what better way to await the epicness that is about to drop than by finding out that not only does GTA V have the highest budget for a game in history, but it also surpasses all hollywood films, but one…. I'm sorry… WHAT?!
Yeah, that's right. Second only to Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, GTA V's budget is higher than all other hollywood films in history. Higher than Avatar? Yes. Higher than Avatar. Let that sink in for a hot second.


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Crab Week guests staying under the Sunshine on Sale package receive a third night free, when staying two nights at regular rates, as well as free daily breakfast for two. Overnight rates start at $259 per night during the summer season. Sunshine on Sale is available through December 30, 2013, and is based on double occupancy, subject to availability. Taxes and resort fee additional. Reservations must be made in advance. To book this package, please call 800.633.7313 or visit chesapeakebay.hyatt.com.
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Giant Bomb quickie game jam
By Fobwashed 18 Comments
It's done =D
Please head to above link to get download and leave any questions/bugs/comments there if possible =)
In the beginning
In honour of this new beta site and because I spent the last 4 months working on a vision engine followed by 2 straight weeks of working on just how doors function, I think I'll be spending the next two days or so on a quick and dirty single screen game jam related to Giant Bomb. I'll post details once I start tomorrow here. In the meanwhile, if anyone is interested in contributing some music or say some sound effect work, please let me know. I'll be handing all the programming and the majority of the art.
Since this is going to be a super small scale project, I'll prolly go with something simple, quick and easy. Right now it's a tie in my head between a Giant Bomb themed bomberman game and a Megaman boss rush. Maybe using some of the sprites from one of my previous blog posts.
I'm sort of leaning towards the Mega Man right now since I really don't want to deal with any net code as that'd make things difficult to the point that it'd prolly take longer than the 2 ish days I'm willing to devote to this thing. As awesome as a giant bomb bomberman would be. . . it'd be a really sad and boring single player experience =\
So I originally posted this on the beta site, but seeing as how all that's gonna disappear, figured I'd put it up here as well. I was gonna do it tomorrow but I sorta settled on the Megaman thing and wanted to get my hands dirty. I found a megaman spritesheet and just got started.
What I've got done so far is the bulk of MegaMan. He can move, jump, shoot. . . which is just about everything he can do. I was considering adding his slide but figured he wouldn't really need it.
I've also put in basic collision detection so that he knows when he's on the floor and when he's not. While it's not shown here since it's just one big floor and platform, he can also run into walls when I want them to be solid. I'm fairly happy with how simple everything seems to be but since this was originally an NES game, I don't know what I was expecting =P
I also added in some of the traditional megaman sounds we all know and love.
Finally, just for the sake of it looking like something Giant Bomb related and not just a remake of Megaman, I went ahead and threw in Ryddok.
Here's where I'm at as I go to bed -_-;;
Things to do.
I need to build out the HUD which will pretty much just consist of a life bar for Megaman and the Boss enemy. I think that'll be pretty easy to do, I just have to get around to it.
I need to draw and build out Ryddok as an actual boss character rather than have him just hovering and following Megaman around. I'm thinking this is where the bulk of my remaining time will go. I'm prolly going to settle for 1 or 2 ranged attacks, and some attack movement patterns. So, I'm guessing say 3 to 4 frames of animation per attack plus a taking damage sprite. Shouldn't be too difficult.
A title screen. Most likely, I'll just use that megaman pic I worked up of giant bomb so this also shouldn't be a problem.
This entire thing was built up from scratch with the exception of the megaman sprite sheet using XNA and C#. I'm pretty happy with the quick and easy progress and very hopeful to actually finish this thing in the next day or so. Once I finish, I plan on figuring out how to package it and share it with anyone who wants to give it a run -_-;;
Need Help With
I could still use some music if anyone is willing to take a stab at it. If not, I'll prolly just end up picking a favorite from one of the many available Megaman tunes. I'll also take any suggestions anyone has into consideration on what Ryddok's attacks should be. Hell, if you can work some pixel art magic, I'll even use what you put together =)


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The mantra was steady in the courtyard of the National Civil Rights Museum last week as a group of 70 people lay on the cold bricks near the balcony where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
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118 St. Agnes DriveMemphis, TN 38112
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Sale Date: March 14, 2014
Buyer: Georgian Woods Property Owner LLC
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7991 Capilano DriveMemphis, TN 38125Sale Amount: $22.2 million
Sale Date: Oct. 12, 2011
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5106 Tradeport DriveMemphis, TN 38115Permit Amount: $3.2 Million
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Samuel Dagogo-Jack has been appointed to the A.C. Mullins chair in Translational Research, an endowed professorship, at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center. Dagogo-Jack has also been named chief of the Division of Endocrinology for the Department of Medicine in the College of Medicine.
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The Rev. Corey Johnson leads those efforts as the hospital's director of spiritual care, a newly created position.
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Fast forward to 2008: Through steady growth orchestrated by Edmonds and his management team, St. Clair Foods now employs 220 people and manufactures more than 90 food products in its 120,000-square-foot building in Whitehaven's Bellbrook Industrial Park.
York Properties LLC, an entity related to St. Clair Foods, has filed a $2.5 million construction loan through Cadence Bank NA for its property at 3100 Bellbrook Drive in Whitehaven's Bellbrook Industrial Park.
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Makarova vs. Kerber: On the calendar's most uncommon surface will have unfolded all three of their meetings at WTA events, one at each of the British tournaments. Just last week, Kerber overcame her fellow lefty early in her journey to the Eastbourne final, by far her best performance to date on grass. Conquering that same tournament as a qualifier two years ago, Makarova wields weapons arguably more effective on the surface. She strikes the ball lower to the net rather than with the German's spin and finds greater comfort in the forecourt, even serving and volleying on grass at times in a tactic rare among any of the women. A surprise quarterfinalist at the Australian Open, Makarova overcame Zvonareva and stunned Serena in what seemed a possible breakthrough. Too many desultory efforts since January have blunted her momentum, yet she remains a fierce competitor dangerous when she finds her first serve. By contrast, Kerber has evolved into one of the WTA's steadiest figures as she has relentlessly climbed the rankings. Unlike Makarova's Australian Open quarterfinal, the eighth seed's US Open semifinal last fall has not proved an anomaly. But grass sometimes favors the streaky over the steady.
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Djokovic vs. Harrison: Outside a single poor service game early in the first set, the defending champion looked surprisingly polished on grass despite not having played since Roland Garros. Rather than from the match itself, the most entertaining moment came from his playful unearthing of a golf club from his racket bag, an allusion to the resemblance between the All England Club's pristine grass and a golf course. Far more intense than Djokovic's mood on Monday is the personality of his next challenger, an American who has taken Federer to a tiebreak and, at the Australian Open, won a set from Murray. In a tournament where young Americans have met with mixed success, Harrison dispatched the aging Yen-Hsun Lu without undue turmoil. Yielding a five-setter to Ferrer in the second round last year, he would register a symbolic victory simply by winning a set from the Serb. At Wimbledon 2011, the similarly budding Tomic gave Djokovic plenty to ponder, but Harrison has advanced more gradually if perhaps more steadily. His fiery determination distinguishes himself from the Australian and most peers, providing a valuable weapon that often compensates for his unremarkable game.
Falla vs. Mahut: Forestalling the match that many had anticipated, the Colombian clay specialist mastered Isner's towering serve just well enough to escape a fourth-set tiebreak in which he saved a match point. A game short of an upset over Federer in the same round two years ago, Falla must have found this lesser but still significant upset especially satisfying. Despite fitness issues that cost him the second set, he still preserved sufficient focus to escape two fateful break points at 5-5 in the decider and needed no second chances when match point arrived. Better designed for grass than Falla, Mahut has defeated both Nadal and Murray on the surface, the latter at Queens Club this year. The aging Frenchman aims to repeat his third-round appearance at Roland Garros after rallying to defeat another clay specialist, Lorenzi, in five sets. Both already extended in their first matches, Falla and Mahut each will hope for a shorter affair in a match where fitness could play a key role.
Malisse vs. Simon: Near the top 10 again after a strong clay campaign, the second-ranked Frenchman crumbled in his first Queens Club match against Bolelli, hardly a threat on grass. In his six previous appearances at Wimbledon, Simon has reached the second week just once and has a losing record against top-50 opponents. Somewhat below that level lurks the Belgian backhand artist Malisse, who has gained greater attention in recent years for his exploits in doubles than in singles. All the same, he followed a quarterfinal at Queens Club with a semifinal at the Dutch Open, defeating Troicki, Gilles Muller, and Simon's nemesis Bolelli during that fortnight. Injuries and an apparent lack of focus have limited Malisse to a minimal impact at majors and a career-high ranking of #25, whereas Simon arguably has overachieved in view of his modest natural talents. Will the Frenchman reap the rewards of his sturdier work ethic here, or can Malisse build upon his recent surge? One of his compatriots, Olivier Rochus, nearly ambushed the 12th-seeded Almagro before yielding in five sets, and this Belgian could make French toast of the 13th seed unless his mind waffles.


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Battle of Berestechko
|Battle of Berestechko
|Part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising
Battle of Beresteczko 1651, relief at Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris.
| Zaporozhian Cossack
Crimean Khanate
|Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
|Commanders and leaders
|Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Khan İslâm III Giray
Toğay bey †[1]
Ivan Bohun
|King John II Casimir
Jeremi Wiśniowiecki
Mikołaj Potocki
Stefan Czarniecki
Marcin Kalinowski
Stanisław Lanckoroński
|200,000 total[2]
100,000 Cossacks and peasants
50,000 Crimean Tatars
Several thousands Turks, and Vlachs
|80,000 total[3]
17,000 cavalry
16,000 infantry
40,000 Pospolite ruszenie
|Casualties and losses
|30,000 - 40 000 killed[4]
|700 killed[5]
The Battle of Berestechko (Polish: Bitwa pod Beresteczkiem; Ukrainian: Берестецька битва, Битва під Берестечком) was fought between the Ukrainian Cossacks, led by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, aided by their Crimean Tatar allies, and a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth army under King John II Casimir. It was a battle of a Cossack rebellion in Ukraine that took place in the years 1648–1657 after the expiration of a two-year truce.[6] Fought over three days from 28 to 30 June 1651, the battle took place in the province of Volhynia, on the hilly plain south of the Styr River.[7] The Polish camp was on the river opposite Berestechko and faced south, towards the Cossack army about two kilometers away, whose right flank was against the River Pliashivka (Pliashova) and the Tartar army on their left flank.[8] It was probably the largest European land battle of the 17th century.
The number of Polish troops is uncertain. One of the senior Polish commanders, Duke Bogusław Radziwiłł, wrote that the Polish army had 80,000 soldiers,[9] which included "40,000 regulars and 40,000 nobles of the levée en masse, accompanied by roughly the same number of various servants, footmen, and such."[3] Some modern historians, such as Zbigniew Wójcik, Józef Gierowski, and Władysław Czapliński, have reduced this figure to 60,000-63,000 soldiers.[10]
The Cossack army totaled 80,000 men, including 28,000–33,000 Tatars and an uncertain number of Ukrainian peasants[11] or as many as 100,000 men, most of them low-grade foot troops, plus 40,000 to 50,000 allied Crimean Tatar cavalry and a few thousand Turks and Vlachs, for a total of 200,000.[12] Both sides had about 40,000 cavalry. Fighting was close, with the core of excellent Cossack infantry making up for the weakness of their cavalry. Most of the decisive fighting occurred between the infantry and dismounted dragoons of each side.
On 19 June 1651, the Polish army numbered 14,844 Polish cavalry, 2,250 German-style cavalry, 11,900 German-style infantry and dragoons, 2,950 Hungarian-style infantry (haiduks), 1,550 Lithuanian volunteers, and 960 Lipka Tatars.[13] In addition, there was a huge militia force, of limited value, numbering 30,000 noblemen of the levée en masse.
The Polish commanders were hoping to break the Cossack ranks with a charge of the Polish Winged Hussars, a tactic that had proven effective in many previous battles, including at Kircholm, and Kłuszyn (and which would later prove successful at the 1683 Battle of Vienna against the Turks).
The Cossack army was well acquainted with this Polish style of war, having had much experience fighting against the Poles and alongside them. Their preferred tactic was to avoid an open field battle, and to fight from the cover of a huge fortified camp.
First day of battle[edit]
2000 Polish cavalry (one regiment under the command of Aleksander Koniecpolski, supported by Jerzy Lubomirski, six pancerni cavalry companies of Jeremi Wiśniowiecki and Winged Hussars under the command of Stefan Czarniecki) repulsed the Tatars, who suffered heavy losses. During the first day of "skirmishes by the Tatar and Cossack vanguard regiments", the Poles were victorious "since their army sustained that first attack cheerfully and in high spirits".[14]
Second day of battle[edit]
The Poles, encouraged by their success on the first day, deployed all their available cavalry against the "main Tatar horde" and "Cossack vanguard regiments".[14] The Polish infantry and artillery remained in camp and did not support the cavalry. This time, Tatar cavalry gained the upper hand, pushing the Poles back to their camp but were then "barely repelled" by heavy fire from the Polish infantry and artillery.[14] The Poles lost 300 soldiers, including many officers of "caliber", and the "escort troop of Hetman Mikolaj Potocki".[14] During the second day of the battle, the rebels were victorious, although "the Tatars, too, were unpleasantly surprised by the determination and endurance of the Polish army in both battles and, having suffered rather painful losses of their own, they lost heart".[14]
Third day of battle[edit]
The "king insisted, at a night council, on engaging the enemy in a decisive battle the next day, Friday, 30 June".[14] The Polish army appeared out of the "morning mist in full strength" but only the Tatars engaged in skirmishes which was met by the Polish artillery.[14] At 3 p.m. Duke Jeremi Wiśniowiecki led a successful charge of 18 cavalry companies against the right wing of the Cossack-Tatar army and "the zealous cavalry attack was a success: it broke up the rows of Cossack infantry and the wagons moving in corral formation".[15] The Polish infantry centre, under the personal command of King John Casimir, advanced slowly forward and "drove the Tatars from the field".[15] During the fighting, a Polish nobleman called Otwinowski noticed the Tatar Khan's standard, and Polish artillery was directed to fire at it. A Tatar standing next to the Khan fell dead. With the battle already turning against them, the Tatar forces panicked, "abandoning the Khan's camp as it stood", with the Khan taking Khmelnytsky and Vyhovsky hostage.[16] With their cavalry support gone, the Cossack wagon-fort, containing the vast bulk of the Cossack army, now stood isolated on the battlefield, and in effect was under siege by the Polish army.
The siege of the Cossack wagons[edit]
The Polish army and Cossack camp exchanged artillery fire for ten days while both sides built fortifications. The Poles tried to blockade the camp.[17] Leaderless without Khemlnytsky, the Cossacks were commanded by Colonel Filon Dzhalalii, who after a few days was replaced by Ivan Bohun. Other accounts state the commander was Matvii Hladky.[18] When the offered terms for surrender were rejected and the Poles dammed the Pliashivka River so as to flood the Cossack camp, the Poles prepared to attack on July 10, while the Cossacks prepared to escape the encirclement by moving across the river.[19] When Bohun led away two thousand cavalrymen to cross the river, the main body of the Cossack army thought that their officers were fleeing and panicked. The Cossack rank and file soldiers began to flee.[20] The Polish forces attacked the panicked Cossacks and the battle turned into a slaughter with more than 20,000 killed or drowned.[21] "Khmelnytsky's tent was captured intact, with all his belongings", which included two banners, one he received from John II Casimir's 1649 commission and one from Wladyslaw IV in 1646.[22]
Schematic map of the battle[edit]
As the battle ended, King John Casimir made the error of not pressing even harder the pursuit of the fleeing Cossacks, "the first several days following ... defeat of the enemy were so blatantly wasted" but there "was the unwillingness of the nobility's levy en masse to proceed into Ukraine" plus "rainy weather and a lack of food and fodder, coupled with epidemics and diseases that were becoming active in the army, were generally undercutting any energy for war".[23] The "king left the whole army to Potocki" on 17 July [N.S.] and returned "to Warsaw to celebrate his victories over the Cossacks".[23] After making promises of a pecuniary nature, Khmelnytsky was soon released by the Tatar Khan. He was then able to reassemble the Cossack host, which was able to present a substantial army to confront the Poles at the Battle of Bila Tserkva (1651). Poland and "the bulk of the rebels make peace in the Treaty of Bila Tserkva" on 28 September 1651, which "reduces the number of registered Cossacks from 40,000 to 20,000 and deprives them of the right to settle in or control various provinces of Ukraine previously allowed to them under the Treaty of Zboriv".[24] The Ukrainian revolt, far from ending, would continue for several more years under Khmelnytsky.[24]
Samuel Twardowski's narrative poem, The Civil War, describes the setting for the battle along the Styr River:[25]
There is a little town on it,
In the middle of Volhynia, called Berestechko,
Belonging to the Leszczynski family, that was not as famous in the past
As it has now become – both ancient Cannae
And Khotyn are far outshone by it, because as many heads here
Our eyes have seen as at Thermopylae
Or Marathon they counted, although there the whole strength
Of Europe and Asia had come together.
Since our arrival – hilly roads
And steep slopes, until open
Meadows unfold near the Styr's
Low banks. It was pleasant to look from the south
At the pyramid of the Pronskis and the groves that are green
In winter always. And to th east there lies as if a natural
Field for a camp – and there it was indeed placed
Later, but first – this was pondered for a long time.
The Battle of Berestechko is commemorated on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw, with the inscription "BERESTECZKO 28-30 VI 1651".
- ^ Some sources (Mikołaj Jemiołowski diary) state that Toğay bey died near Zamosc
- ^ Hrushevsky, M., 2004, History of Ukraine-Rus, Volume Nine, Book One, The Cossack Age, 1650–1653, Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, ISBN 1895571227, p. 304
- ^ a b Hrushevsky, p. 304
- ^ Romuald Romański, Książę Jeremi Wiśniowiecki. p. 338.
- ^ Grzegorz Rąkowski, Wołyń. p. 211.
- ^ Tucker, S.C., editor, A Global Chronology of Conflict, Volume II: 1500–1774, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2010, ISBN 9781851096671, p. 621
- ^ Hrushevsky, pp. 304–305
- ^ Hrushevsky, pp. 304 and 313
- ^ Jan Widacki, Kniaź Jarema p. 255.
- ^ Zbigniew Wójcik, Jan Kazimierz Waza, p. 75; Władysław Czapliński, Glosa do Trylogii, p. 45; Józef Gierowski, Historia Polski, p. 223.
- ^ Tadeusz Wasilewski, Ostatni Waza na polskim tronie. p. 103.
- ^ "Cyprian Pawel Brzostowski's letter of 9 July [N.S.] from the camp" according to Hrushevsky, p. 304
- ^ Tadeusz Wasilewski, Ostatni Waza na polskim tronie. p. 102.
- ^ a b c d e f g Hrushevsky, p. 305
- ^ a b Hrushevsky, p. 306
- ^ Hrushevsky, pp. 306–307
- ^ Hrushevsky, pp. 314 and 316
- ^ Hrushevsky, pp. 314–315
- ^ Hrushevsky, pp. 317–318
- ^ Hrushevsky, p. 318
- ^ Hrushevsky, p. 319
- ^ Hrushevsky, pp. 321–322
- ^ a b Hrushevsky, p. 361
- ^ a b Tucker, p. 622
- ^ Hrushevsky, pp. 303–304


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AMERICAN IDOL Finalist Jessica Sanchez to Release Debut Album Featuring Ne-Yo
Billboard.com reports that American Idol runner up Jessica Sanchez is set to release her debut album this February. "I'm so ready for everyone to hear it!" Sanchez told Billboard. "It's going to be dancey and something that I could definitely see being remixed and in the clubs."
"It's a big mesh of stuff. It's completely Jessica Sanchez," she says of the album, which will feature both ballads and an "R&B/Pop/Urban kind of feel."
The singer also confirmed that recording artist Ne-Yo will be featured on one of the new tracks. "He was writing a song when I was in the studio and it took him about 40 minutes to write it. I'm actually doing that song with him and it's going to be on the album," she explained. "I love him so much and I can't believe that I got that opportunity to work with him. It's crazy!"
Who would she love to collaborate with on future recordings? "I would love to work with Eminem one day," she divulged. "He's amazing."
In addition to her music career, Sanches will appear on several upcoming episodes of the FOX musical drama 'Glee.' "I'm taking acting classes right now to prepare for it. I can't wait to get on the show and see how I do and see how everybody reacts to it." She adds, "I have no idea what my character will be like. It's exciting!"
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1/2 yard of Pink (or any color you choose) - for eyes and nose
1 yard of red felt - for spikes and circle on back
a small square of black fabric for eyes
1/2 yard of red fleece - for a scarf
Sewing machine
chalk for marking the fabric
Foam - to shape the eyes
Step 2: THE NOSE and CHEEKS
This is the pattern you will use for the nose. This will help with the curve of the nose.
1. Cut each triangle, match up edges, and sew them.
2. Cut curves, and pin them back to get there and sew. This will complete the curve you want for the nose.
3 Center the nose fabric with the rim of the hood. use the one of the triangles to help center the nose.
4. Pin about 3 inches on each side from the center point on nose under the hood and sew.
5. Fold the rest of the fabric on top of the hood. use a little bit of stuffing to help start the shape. Pin About 3 inches from the rim of the hood, at a small angle and sew from the inside. (the angle will help not give it such a square look.)
6. Stuff the rest of the nose, and sew it close.
1. Cut 2, 6 inches circles, place them on sides of hood. Pin them and sew. leave about 1 inch open to add a little stuffing in the cheeks.
2. Close it up
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WHAT would you rather believe in, God or the multiverse? It sounds like an instance of cosmic apples and oranges, but increasingly we are being told it's a choice we must make. Take the dialogue earlier this year between Richard Dawkins and physicist Steven Weinberg in Austin, Texas. Discussing the fact that the universe appears fine-tuned for our existence, Weinberg told Dawkins: "If you discovered a really impressive fine-tuning... I think you'd really be left with only two explanations: a benevolent designer or a multiverse."
Weinberg went on to clarify that invoking a benevolent designer does not count as a genuine explanation, but I was intrigued by his either/or scenario. Is that really our only choice? Supernatural creator or parallel worlds?
It is according to an article in this month's Discover magazine. "Short of invoking a benevolent creator, many physicists see only one possible explanation," writes ...
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Warnings: This fanfiction may contain violence, character death, and psychological shenanigans. It most definitely contains body horror. If you're squicked by physical fun, please make friends with the back button.
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Well, ladies and gents, after about a year's absence on the first version (okay, technically second version) of the fic, I've come back with ... a completely shiny and new version. While the old one is still around (and may be updated over yonder), this fic is supposed to be a get-back-to-the-point effort, where I go back and actually write the fic I intended on writing from the get-go. There will be new interpretations of characters and new events, but the basic plot and good ol' Bill will still probably be the same. Still, I hope you enjoy this ride as much as you might have enjoyed the last one. Moreover, this entire fic is being rewritten and cleaned up for digital download. As in, there will eventually be a downloadable ebook that will update concurrently with this fic. Because I'm crazy.
Please note that this story is meant to read like a campy sci-fi movie and, in fact, takes more than a few cues from my questionable tastes in all sorts of media. So if you can sort of see a reference here or there, that's most likely intentional. Also, please say something so we can squee over terrible movies.
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June 30, 1908. In the dim hours of that morning, a meteorite exploded over Siberian Russia. Modern scientists estimate that the energy had been equal to that of a thermonuclear bomb. Witnesses described it as a flash of blue light almost as brilliant as the sun. The shockwaves alone were enough to flatten over seven hundred square miles of forest. And the object itself? The size of two school buses end to end. Scientists called this the Tunguska event.
In order to picture what a meteor the size of one school bus could do, the logical action would be to divide everything by half. Take three hundred square miles of forest out of the Tunguska event. Dim the brilliant, blue light of the meteorite until it becomes a star half as bright as the sun. Imagine that the resulting air burst releases the energy equivalent to five hundred nuclear bombs instead of one thousand.
On September 27, 2000, almost one hundred years after the Tunguska event, that was exactly how scientists described the bus-sized meteor heading directly towards Earth.
The meteor in question was dubbed 2000 SE, and it came without warning. That in itself would have been unusual. There was astronomical equipment all over the world, and not one of them spotted an object of that size until it was almost as close as the moon. But that wasn't what grabbed the media's attention. What did was the fact that it was heading directly towards Earth, and with its speed, researchers estimated that it would reach the planet in four days. More specifically, it was heading to a point just outside of Fortree City.
Hoenn's regional government had never staged a full-scale evacuation of an entire city. Despite monsoons and the activity of two weather-altering legendaries, the region was never threatened significantly enough to warrant an evacuation of that magnitude. But it had to be done. Certainly, Fortree had survived far more earthquakes, storms, and general natural disasters than it should have, what with it being a city built entirely in the treetops, but the Japanese parliament wasn't going to assume that it would survive a meteor strike that close to its borders. So over the course of three days—the three days before 2000 SE would pass through the Earth's atmosphere—the entire city of Fortree took what it could and left.
On the fourth night, it turned out that the government was correct in their decision. Fortree was doomed.
It rained fire the night 2000 SE exploded, and the blasts emanating from its shattering masked the cracking of the forest that held the city aloft. Had anyone been in the city, they would never hear the screaming of the wood supports splintering. They would never hear the boom of their homes falling. They would never hear the crashing of glass or the screeching of bending metal. Not while the air resonated with the blast of the meteorite, anyway. Only when the resonance of the explosion died down, and only when the skies fell silent, did the last shrieks of the falling city echo through the night air.
And then, there was silence.
Outside of the city, beyond the red-hot craters that the meteorites carved out for themselves, there were two listeners. The first was an absol who stood guard at the Ancient Tomb with his red eyes to the sky. His pack had already been gone for days. Many of them had been part of the pokémon exodus that started almost a week ago, long before the humans knew 2000 SE existed. Others stayed and tried to warn the humans, and this party departed after Fortree was finally evacuated. All that was left was the single absol, who had, up until the explosion, kept his red eyes to the sky and his teeth bared in a constant, low growl.
It was because he knew something else was going to happen. He could feel the cold, familiar weight of his premonitions in his bones, but for the life of him, he couldn't see what he was meant to warn the humans about. And then, when the star exploded and sent a shockwave of trembling earth and hot wind across the route, the absol braced himself against the tomb's rocky walls and gritted his teeth. The feeling in his bones grew heavier with each passing second until it reached a peak the moment the hot winds died down. His paws scrambled over the loose earth, and he raced down the hillside towards the craters. In his mind, his visions began to resolve, and all he could see was red.
The ground grew hotter as he drew closer to one of the impact craters, but he couldn't stop. His entire body was focused completely on that cold, heavy feeling deep inside him—the feeling of his supernatural senses vibrating with his last vision. Any moment now, he would know. He would know exactly what message he needed to deliver.
Suddenly, the ground almost ended beneath him, giving way to the red edge of a crater. He stopped, staring deep into the pit at the rock that sat at its heart. His muzzle snapped in frantic barks, and he paced along the rim. All the while, he steadied his eyes on the glowing, red surface of the meteorite. Every pit in its face, every imperfection in the stone made the feeling deep inside the absol grow until it filled his entire being. Something wasn't right. Something was about to happen. Something terrible was about to be born.
Then, he saw what he came to see. His paws froze, and his mouth shut.
A crack laced up the side of the meteor. At first, it was only an inch wide by a foot long, but then, it grew until it resembled a gaping smile turned sideways. The longer the absol stared at it, the more he realized that the glow was not coming from the surface of the rock but rather from within it, pulsing with every passing second like a heartbeat. This, the absol knew, was exactly what he was supposed to foresee. His lips puckered, and in that pause, he emitted a short, high-pitched whine.
That was when the meteorite cracked completely open and released the sea of red light. It rushed up the side of the crater before the absol could discern what it was, and within seconds, it washed over him.
Miles away, the absol's pained howling echoed through the air, and the second listener raised her head.
Her name was Phoebe, and she had just completed two weeks of training atop Mt. Pyre. Now, she was descending the mountain for supplies. She had no idea that the absol's howl was a warning.
That night, a war erupted because of her.


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Nearly 100 countries have signed on to the Copenhagen Accord, a nonbinding agreement crafted in the final hours of the U.N. climate change conference in December 2009, meeting the first official deadline of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat.
The UNFCCC is the international agreement ratified by 193 countries to control emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) that drive climate change.
The Copenhagen Accord is a 12-paragraph document (PDF, 182 KB) developed by leaders of 25 major greenhouse-gas-emitting nations, including the United States, covering the actions needed by industrialized and developing countries to avoid the worst effects of global climate change.
The accord seeks to limit global temperature rise by pushing developed countries to make deep but unspecified cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and by setting global and national emissions peaks "as soon as possible," with a longer deadline for developing countries.
By January 31, countries that wish to be associated with the accord were to notify the UNFCCC secretariat of their support. To date, Todd Stern, the State Department's special envoy for climate change, said at a February 16 briefing in Washington, "slightly less than 100 countries have indicated they want to be part of the accord" but others may still sign on.
Many of the major developed and developing countries have associated themselves with the accord, including the United States, Australia, Canada, China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia and the European Union and its member states. The nations submitted proposed actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their countries.
The submissions were made in response to Paragraph 4 of the accord, which called on industrialized nations (referred to as Annex I parties) to submit a list of economy-wide emissions targets for 2020 and beyond. Paragraph 5 called on non-Annex I parties to submit proposed actions for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions for the same time period.
In other progress on the accord, a new high-level advisory panel on climate change financing has been created. It will be co-chaired by U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Ethiopia Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
"The advisory group will develop practical proposals to significantly scale up both short-term and long-term financing for mitigation and adaptation strategies in developing countries," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki moon said in a February 12 press conference with Brown and Meles. "In particular, it will look at how to jump-start the mobilization of new and innovative resources to reach $100 billion annually by 2020. Funding would include both public and private sources."
Funds will support adaptation, mitigation, technology development and transfer, and capacity building in developing countries, with priority for the most vulnerable. Panel members will include a balance of representatives from developed and developing countries.
Ban expects the group to present initial findings during the UNFCCC parties' May 31-June 11 negotiating session in Bonn, Germany, and final recommendations before the 16th conference of the UNFCCC parties (COP-16), to be held November 29-December 10 in Mexico City.
"There are probably four or five elements of the accord that need further work," Stern said, "and those things need to be carried forward." These include:
• Climate fund: A Copenhagen Green Climate Fund will be established to support activities in developing countries related to climate change mitigation. The new advisory panel will study potential sources of revenue for the fund.
• Technology mechanism: A mechanism will be established to enhance ways to develop and transfer technology to support country-specific adaptation and mitigation efforts.
• Transparency: The actions of developed and developing countries will be subject to international measurement, reporting and verification in accordance with guidelines adopted by the conference of the parties. The guidelines have yet to be established.
"Whatever the ups and downs of this process at any particular moment, there is only one direction that this process can go, which is in the direction of action to reduce emissions," Stern said. "I very much hope we get there sooner rather than later, and we will be doing everything we possibly can to advance that goal."


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Khartoum — The National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) confiscated print-runs of five Sudanese newspapers on Monday and Tuesday. El Jareeda, Akhir Lahza, and El Sudani daily newspapers were confiscated on Tuesday morning immediately after the copies were printed in Khartoum. The day before, the print-run of El Sudani was also confiscated, together with all the copies of El Hurra and El Ahram. The NISS on Monday also blocked El Jareeda columnist Haidar Kheirallah from writing for an indefinite period. A reason was not given.
The journalists of the human rights group Speak Out, and the Sudanese Organisation for the Defence of Rights and Freedoms, strongly condemned the confiscation of the newspapers on Monday and Tuesday.
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Facebook hashtags being introduced - 'Game of Thrones' Red Wedding and Oscars to blameAdd to Favorites | Game of Thrones
Facebook hashtags have become a part of the social networking site. The use of a hashtag to tag topics has long been a part of social networks like Twitter and Instagram, and now Facebook is getting in on the trend as well.
With the ability to connect a user's Twitter account to their Facebook feed, many hashtagged comments have started appearing on Facebook prior to this change. Now, the company announced in a blog post, those hashtags will be clickable to "help people more easily discover what others are saying about a specific topic and participate in public conversations."
"We'll continue to roll out more features in the coming weeks and months, including trending hashtags and deeper insights, that help people discover more of the world's conversations," Facebook says in the post, directing users to the Help Center to get more information.
Interestingly enough, Facebook credits global conversations relating to the Oscars and even the Red Wedding episode of "Game of Thrones" as what prompted them to create "a simple way to see the larger view of what's happening or what people are talking about." So for those of you (like us) who couldn't resist contributing to the 1.5 million mentions of the Red Wedding on June 2, we have no one to recognize for this new Facebook feature but ourselves.


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Israel's ambassador to Jordan returned to Amman after being withdrawn in advance of an anti-Israel protest.
The ambassador returned Friday, two days after Israel withdrew its embassy staff from the Jordanian capital as a safety precaution.
According to reports, only about 200 protesters turned out on Thursday in Amman for what had been billed as a "million man-march" against Jordan's peace treaty with Israel. Jordanian police prevented the protesters from marching on the embassy.
The decision to remove the staff in Amman came several days after Egyptian demonstrators stormed Israel's embassy in Cairo, necessitating the emergency rescue of its staff by Egyptian commandos.
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