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    The most famous snack from the Lublin region

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    The most famous snack from the Lublin region
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    Lublin’s most famous bakery product – round-shaped wheat flatbread, crunchy and topped with onions and poppy seeds called cebularz.

    Jewish bakers in Lublin’s Old Town were the first to bake cebularze, offering them to residents hurrying to work each morning. After the war, Lublin’s Jewish community disappeared, but local bakers returned to baking it and quickly popularized it in the region. 

     

    What is more, this golden, crunchy round-shaped wheat flatbread has its own Regional Museum in Lublin, presenting the history of the product – both the legendary and the real one.

     

    In the European Commission’s Regulation cebularz is described as a round-shaped wheat flatbread made from wheat pastry. On the surface, there is a layer of stuffing consisting of diced onions mixed with poppy seeds, salt, and vegetable oil. 

     

    The stuffing has a golden color and a taste and smell characteristic of roasted onions. Its aroma is that of freshly baked onions, thanks to the layer of stuffing on its surface. 

     

    Stay tuned! We are preparing recipe for cebularz ?

    One of the toughest matches is behind us. Poles win against Russia

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    One of the toughest matches is behind us. Poles win against Russia
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    Today’s match between the Poles and the Russians will surely pass into history. The win guaranteed Poland’s promotion to the semifinals of the European Volleyball Championship.  After a fierce battle, the Poles won 3:0 against the Russians.

    We sincerely congratulate the Poles, because their next semifinal match will be played in Katowice Spodek on Saturday.
     
    Poles played very confidently and evenly. From the very beginning, Poles were not letting go. The first set was won by the Poles by 25:14. The second set was a bit worse because the Polish team had to fight for two points advantage over their rival, which they did. 

    In the last set, both teams fought hard and the result could not be determined. With the 19th point, the Polish team began to gain an advantage and it was a missed play by the Russians that left the Poles unbeaten.
     
    We keep our fingers crossed for our national team and keep cheering.

    Millions of viewers watched the beatification Holy Mass of Primate Wyszyński and Mother Czacka

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    Millions of viewers watched the beatification Holy Mass of Primate Wyszyński and Mother Czacka
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    Over 2 million viewers followed the beatification Holy Mass on September 12 of Primate Stefan Wyszyński and mother Elżbieta Czacka broadcast live on the most important television stations, informed the press office of the Archdiocese of Warsaw.

    The announcement released on Monday indicated that “Sunday beatification ceremonies in Warsaw were broadcast by: Telewizja Polska, TVN24, Polsat News, Telewizja Trwam and Telewizja Republika as well as the international EWTN Global Catholic Network and radio stations, including Polskie Radio, Radio dla Ciebie, Radio Plus, Radio Fara, Radio Maryja, Katolicka Rozgłośnia Radiowa Fiat, Radio Jasna Góra, Radio Wnet, Radio Kraków; the report was also prepared by the Reuters Agency”.

    The office of the “Niepodległa” Program provided large screens, thanks to which the faithful in 16 locations all over Poland could watch the broadcast of the ceremony together, thus connecting with those gathered in the Temple of Divine Providence. The parishes also organized watching TV or Internet broadcasts in churches for the faithful.

    “The social media of the Archdiocese of Warsaw alone recorded: over 62 thousand plays of the beatification mass broadcast on YouTube and over 16 thousand views on Facebook. Both of these figures continue to rise,” we can read in the release.

    Celebrating the Year of Jan Kowalewski as the Historical Event 2020

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    Celebrating the Year of Jan Kowalewski as the Historical Event 2020
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    The celebration of the Year of Jan Kowalewski, the exhibition “Łódź micro-stories. Human micro-stories” and the launch of the educational portal Polish Music Library won in the Plebiscite “Historical Event of the Year” for 2020.

    A gala was held on Tuesday at the Palace on the Isle in Royal Łazienki Park in Warsaw, during which the winners of the 14th edition of the “Historical Event of the Year” Plebiscite were announced. In a competition organized by the Museum of Polish History (MPH), the authors of the most interesting historical projects are selected in the following categories: Event, Exhibition, and Education. This year, the Special Award of the Polish History Museum was also handed for the first time.

    The winning project in the Event category is the Jan Kowalewski Year Celebration organized by the Museum of Independence Traditions in Łódź and the City Hall of Łódź.

    “The appointment by the Senate of the Republic of Poland the Year of Jan Kowalewski became an impulse for the realization of a series of occasional events in the hometown of the eminent cryptologist: educational films were made, the radio drama Jan K. Riddle, the exhibition , the Room of Riddles was opened. The culmination of the celebrations was the unveiling of a mural dedicated to a man who was famous for breaking Soviet codes,” reported MPH.

    Will there be a national holiday for the heroes of the Wielkopolskie Uprising?

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    Will there be a national holiday for the heroes of the Wielkopolskie Uprising?
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    President Andrzej Duda submitted to the Sejm a bill on establishing the National Day for the Victory of the Wielkopolskie Uprising. The draft amendment aims to make December 27 a public holiday to commemorate the 1918-1919 uprising, announced the Chancellery of the President on Tuesday.

    In the justification of the draft, it was stated that the president’s legislative initiative was a response to a speech by community representatives and local authorities from the Wielkopolska region.

    The project assumes that December 27 will be a public holiday: the National Day of the Victorious Wielkopolskie Uprising – to commemorate the uprising of 1918-1919 and pay tribute to its heroic participants.

    It was stated that “the importance of the Wielkopolskie Uprising for the restoration of our homeland on the political map of Europe was difficult to overestimate.” “It can be said that the Second Polish Republic would not exist in the shape we know, and perhaps it would not have survived, if not for the uprising of the Wielkopolska region,” it was noted.

    The document noted that the Wielkopolskie Uprising “was the most emphatic willingness expression to belong to the reborn Republic of Poland by the community +of the Poznań district+”.

    Hundreds of scams every day

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    Hundreds of scams every day
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    There is no surprise that criminals break into other people’s accounts and steal the funds deposited there. Cyber security experts, as well as bankers, have long been alarmed about the problem. The scale of the practice is nevertheless shocking. Only in the first quarter, the National Bank of Poland recorded 60 thousand unauthorized payment transactions, and this number is expected to grow. Therefore, it is necessary not only to caution electronic banking users but to educate them periodically.

    During the recently concluded Economic Forum in Karpacz, one of the panels was devoted to this topic. At that time, the Financial Ombudsman pointed out that the scale of unauthorized payment transactions is growing exponentially. 

     

    The National Bank of Poland recorded 60,000 such operations in the first quarter alone, i.e., for only three months, which means that there may be as many as a quarter of a million operations annually. Filary Biznesu website pointed out that meant about seven hundred every day

     

    “In the first half of the year, we received about 700 complaints, and by the end of the year, we expect about 1.5 thousand such complaints. Last year there were 1.2 thousand,” stressed the Financial Ombudsman.

     

    However, it is worth knowing that there is a steady increase in security awareness among average e-banking users, also in Poland. The results of the Appdome study, which involved more than 10,000 everyday consumers living in different parts of the world, were recently published.

     

    “The results help dispel some myths about the safety of smartphone and tablet users. In addition, they help to draw a clear picture of consumers’ expectations and awareness of cybersecurity,” explains Mariusz Politowicz, from Marken, a solutions’ distributor of Bitdefender in Poland.

    Why are such authorities as John Paul II and Stefan Wyszynski no longer present in the Church? Przeciszewski replies

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    Why are such authorities as John Paul II and Stefan Wyszynski no longer present in the Church? Przeciszewski replies
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    Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński and Pope John Paul II are legendary figures who have left an incredible mark on the fate of Poland. In the Church today, however, it is difficult to find individuals who could be compared to them in terms of the format. – The Church was repressed, persecuted by the communists, so naturally, everyone gathered around this central figure […] The number of believers that we have in Poland is the result of the last two centuries of history,’ assessed Marcin Przeciszewski in an interview for Niezalezna.pl.

    Marcin Przeciszewski, the head of the Catholic Information Agency, was asked why there are no such strong figures in the Polish church anymore. “Both Cardinal Wyszyński and John Paul II are figured unsurpassed in their spiritual, intellectual and pastoral dimensions,” he assessed.

     

    “They are great personalities that were created by those conditions. As far as the authority of Cardinal Wyszynski is concerned, for example, he owed it to many functions in the Church that he held and thanks to which he could be a real leader of the Church in Poland. At the same time, he was the Primate, the Chairman of the Episcopate, he was also a papal legate because there was no Apostolic Nuncio then, and he had additional special powers granted by the Pope concerning the Western territories and the care for Catholics in the Soviet Union,” – he said.

     

    “It can be said that no successive episcopal leader after Wyszynski had such possibilities of exercising power. They are simply one of many bishops. The function of the chairman of the episcopate is simply coordinating the work of the structure we call the Polish Episcopal Conference, while the function of the primate separated chairman is a purely titular function.  Nowadays it is not so easy to build a similar authority,” – the interlocutor added. 

     

    Marcin Przeciszewski emphasized that the specificity of those times had a great influence on the authority of these figures. 

     

    “The Church was repressed, persecuted by the communist regime, so naturally, everyone gathered around the central figure of Cardinal Wyszyński, the Primate of Poland. Whereas at the moment, in times of freedom, the Church is very pluralistic, although it is of course uniform in the doctrinal sense. There is no need for such unity in every action as there was then,” he said.

     

    The head of KAI (Catholic Information Agency – editor’s note) assessed that currently there is no need to have one such strong figure. 

     

    “The number of believers we have in Poland is the result of two centuries of recent history.  Both in the 19th century, when, as they say, “the Church was the fatherland”, and in the 20th century, when the Church stood up for every citizen. It is only thanks to these two hundred years of the Church’s role that the number of believers is so high. This great grace of faith don’t have to depend on one particular strong authority or lack thereof,” he concluded.

    A mob of Romanian mushroom pickers besieged the Podkarpacie region. Even the foresters are afraid

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    A mob of Romanian mushroom pickers besieged the Podkarpacie region. Even the foresters are afraid
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    After three years, when mushroom pickers from Romania first appeared in the Podkarpacie region, the practice is increasingly flourishing. Although, as EU citizens, they have the right to harvest in publicly accessible forests, representatives of the State Forests alert that mushrooms are being exported in special coolers on a mass scale to western Europe. The prosecutor’s office refuses to institute proceedings, and foresters admit that they are afraid to go out into the field when they might come into contact with a group of several dozen young foreigners.

    “Over the past few years, the mushrooming visits of Romanians have become more civilized,” says the head forester of the Dukla Forestry Commission in the Podkarpacie region, quoted by “Gazeta Wyborcza”. The GW describes that three years ago, collectors drove their cars into the forest and were surprised that in our country, unlike Romania, this is forbidden.

     

    Recently they had already camped at the forest parking lot in Stasiana, and now they were staying at one of the guesthouses. Zbigniew Żywiec, the forest inspector, points out that the problem is the number of mushrooms they collect, which are exported from Poland every day. 

     

    “I know those mushrooms were going to Germany, to France. For industrial harvesting of mushrooms, you need to sign a contract with the State Forests. No such agreement has been signed here” – explains the “GW” interlocutor. 

     

    The Romanians are also worrying the locals – and it’s no longer just about the surrounding forests being cleared of mushrooms. There is also a growing concern about safety issues.

     

    When last year the case was reported to the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Krosno, it refused to initiate proceedings due to the lack of legal grounds. Gatherers, as long as they don’t break the law, can use the forests. 

     

    Foresters admit they have concerns about going out on their rounds, where they might encounter a group of dozens of young men. They have also announced that they will strengthen patrols in the forests, with police officers also supporting them.

    37. Warsaw Film Festival starts on October 8

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    37. Warsaw Film Festival starts on October 8
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    The festival will be held from 8 to 17 October in the traditional formula. The festival cinemas will be located in the heart of Warsaw, in Multikino Złote Tarasy and Kinoteka. The pre-sale of tickets starts on September 30.

    The organizers begin the presentation of films, which will be shown during the 37th edition of the Warsaw Film Festival. They start with non-competition sections: Best Polish Short Films, Polish Classics, and Family Film Weekend.

     

    For more information visit the Warsaw Film Festival website

    The situation on the eastern border of the EU and NATO remains tense. Rau: This is especially worrying for Poland

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    The situation on the eastern border of the EU and NATO remains tense. Rau: This is especially worrying for Poland
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    The situation on the eastern border of the EU and NATO remains tense, which is particularly worrying for Poland and the Baltic states, which is why cooperation between our countries is particularly close and intense, emphasized the head of Polish diplomacy Zbigniew Rau in Riga after meeting his counterparts from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.

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