This is a rather tragic week in cinema history, with the passing of filmmakers Nicolas Roeg and Bernardo Bertolucci, screenwriter and playwright William Goldman, and character actor Ricky Jay. We will miss these visionaries and their singular artistry.
In partnership with U.K. charity Changing Faces, which aims to "remove the stigma around disfigurement," the BFI has announced it will no longer provide funding to films that feature "facially-scarred villains." This initiative is in addition to the institution's new diversity commitment.
A stunning trailer for Jean-Luc Godard's The Image Book, premiering soon in U.K. cinemas on December 2nd, and on MUBI there starting December 3rd.
For Filmkrant, Cristina Álvarez López & Adrian Martin's latest video essay on the use of archival imagery as dreams and hallucinations in Marco Bellocchio's Good Morning, Night.
In the wake of Bernardo Bertolucci's death and the re-consideration of his legacy, K. Austin Collins questions how cinephiles should consciously and ethically grapple with Maria Schneider's sexual assault on the set of Last Tango in Paris, as it is "impossible to separate the joys of [Bertolucci's] work from the flaws." For Time, Stephanie Zacharek writes on the matter: "A movie demands that we juggle multiple ideas at once. We have to be ready for new ones to enter the mix later."
Jezebel's Hazel Cills investigates the rumored sexual relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill (as fictionalized in Yorgos Lanthimos's The Favourite) in an interview with biographer Anne Somerset.
Jourdain Searles examines Peter Farrelly's Green Book and its "sense of self-importance." Searles finds issue with the film's broad simplification of history, and instead wonders what the film might have been like if it had received the "full Farrelly brothers comic treatment."
The latest "Break the Internet" issue of Paper Magazine includes an illuminating profile of Amanda Bynes, now a fashion student eager to return to acting after a string of scandals. Bynes's recollection of her highly lauded early career offers several insights on the physical and mental struggles of child actors in a demanding industry.
A roundtable discussion for Toronto Now features critics Adam Nayman, Lisa Jackson, Radheyan Simonpillai, and Shane Belcourt on the Coen brothers' The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and its "treatment of indigenous people."
For Reverse Shot, Kit Duckworth reviews Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate, eloquently navigating the "celestial terrain" of the film and its formal dedication to "the act of painting."
The DGA Theater has released a number of thoughtful talks by directors of this year's buzzworthy titles, as moderated by friends, mentees, and compatriots. You can listen to the rest of the talks, compiled by podcast The Director's Cut, here.
Scout Tafouya's video essay on the dislocation and seedy space of David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, "his first film since eXistenZ to have the claustrophobic setting and scope of his early classics."
Leonardo Goi reviews Patrick Wang's A Bread Factory, and its broad-ranging questions "from the volatility of public funding for the arts to the David vs. Goliath struggle between independent arts center and giant corporate-backed art institutes."
We're looking forward to Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name sequel!


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title: "Backup de GitLab em Bucket do S3"
description: "Backup de GitLab em Bucket do S3"
author: "Naner Nunes"
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Bucket de S3 tem sido uma boa alternativa para armazenar arquivos que não precisam de alta disponibilidade mas que eventualmente teríamos a necessidade de recuperar como no caso de backups e *disaster recovery*.

Além do mais, duas *features* interessantes podem ser configuradas no S3:

* [Reduced Redundancy][s3-rr] - Diminui custo pois o dado é replicado em menos *storages*
* [Infrequent Access][s3-ia] - Diminui custo pois o dado é marcado como infrequente (backup, etc)

<br />

Em nosso exemplo utilizaremos a ferramenta **s3cmd** (que se assemelha muito com o *rsync*) para realizar a transferência dos arquivos locais para o Bucket S3. Porém, para deixar o ambiente o mais limpo possível, criei uma imagem mínima que possui apenas essa finalidade e pode ser utilizada diretamente do DockerHub com a identificação `s3cmd/s3cmd` ou *buildada* com o seguinte [Dockerfile][s3cmd]:

``` shell
FROM        alpine:latest
LABEL       MAINTAINER="Naner Nunes"

ARG         VERSION=1.6.1

RUN         apk --no-cache add tar curl python py-dateutil
RUN         curl -O https://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/s3tools/s3cmd/${VERSION}/s3cmd-${VERSION}.tar.gz

RUN         tar -zxf s3cmd-${VERSION}.tar.gz --strip 1 -C /usr/local/bin

ENTRYPOINT  ["s3cmd"]
CMD         ["--help"]
```

Para este exemplo escolhemos configurar uma rotina no *crontab* do servidor de GitLab para todos os dias `3h` da manhã, limpar todos os arquivos de backup locais e gerar um novo com os dados atuais

``` bash
00 03 * * * git rm -rf /var/opt/gitlab/backups/*; gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create
```

Por fim, executamos uma instância do `s3cmd` com as chaves da AWS que possuem acesso ao *bucket* onde deverá ser salvo o *backup* e já definindo que este novo arquivo será criado com `--rr` (Reduced Redundancy)
``` bash
docker run --rm --name gitlab-backup
           -v /var/opt/gitlab/backups:/backups
           s3cmd/s3cmd sync --access_key AWS_ACCESS_KEY
                            --secret_key AWS_SECRET_KEY
                            --no-check-md5 --rr
                            /backups/ s3://BUCKET_NAME/FOLDER/
```

Troque os valores `AWS_ACCESS_KEY`, `AWS_SECRET_KEY` e `BUCKET_NAME` pelos do seu ambiente e junte os 3 comandos em apenas 1 para ter seus *backups* do GitLab salvos no S3.

``` bash
# GitLab Backup
00 03 * * * git rm -rf /var/opt/gitlab/backups/*; gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create && docker run --rm --name gitlab-backup -v /var/opt/gitlab/backups:/backups s3cmd/s3cmd sync --access_key AWS_ACCESS_KEY --secret_key AWS_SECRET_KEY --no-check-md5 --rr /backups/ s3://BUCKET_NAME/FOLDER/
```

[s3-rr]: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/reduced-redundancy
[s3-ia]: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes
[s3cmd]: https://github.com/s3cmd/s3cmd

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But what do we do? Well, we help the needy by providing direct aid to those in immediate crisis. We help families through a temporary crisis by meeting short-term financial needs until the family can return to being self-sufficient. We help by assisting families improve job skills and enhance their education so they can provide for the long term success of their families. We also solicit funds from parishioners of Our Lady of the Mountains Church, from other local churches, civic groups and local agencies, foundations and charities. We screen applicants to be sure they qualify for assistance. And we have lay volunteers who are committed to improving the lives of the less fortunate of Pickens County.
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Q: How do I print the point array with integers? //imports and class block trimmed
public static void main(String[] args) {

    Point[] xy = new Point[100];

    for (int i = 0; i < xy.length; i++) {

        Point c = new Point((int) (Math.random() * 100),
                (int) (Math.random() * 100));

        xy[i] = c;
    }

    Arrays.sort(xy);

    for (int j = 0; j < xy.length; j++) {
        System.out.println(xy[j]);
    }

}

I get an output of 100 statements like "Point@d46ca6". I need it to display integers. I have two other classes titled Point and CompareY.  How do I print the array items in xy as integers?

A: Override the toString() method in your Point class:
class Point {
    // your code ...
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "(" + this.x + ", " + this.y + ")";
    }
}

A: You should use the toString() method of the Point class to print the numbers nicely:
System.out.println(xy[j].toString());

If this is your own Point class, you can always (and probably should) write an override to toString() that prints them out nicely. (See nem's post)

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Mary Ann Keenan, M.D.; Claire M. Stiles, M.D.; Ronald L. Kaufman, M.D.
*Consulting Specialist, Head Trauma Service. Rancho Los Amigos Hospital; Clinical Instructor, Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Southern California School of Medicine.
†Chief of Anesthesiology, Rancho Los Amigos Hospital; Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, University of Southern California School of Medicine.
‡Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Southern California School of Medicine; Rheumatology Service, Rancho Los Amigos Hospital.
Mary Ann Keenan, Claire M. Stiles, Ronald L. Kaufman; Acquired Laryngeal Deviation Associated with Cervical Spine Disease in Erosive Polyarticular Arthritis Use of the Fiberoptic Bronchoscope in Rheumatoid Disease. Anesthesiology 1983;58(5):441-449.


''This country,'' President Lyndon Johnson once said, ''is rich enough to do anything it has the guts to do and the vision to do and the will to do.'' You'd never catch Ronald Reagan or George Bush expressing that kind of confidence in America, despite the patriotism they so fulsomely extol.
L.B.J. not only believed it, he acted on it - so enthusiastically that his ''Great Society'' program is widely considered today to have been grandiose, extravagant and a failure.
That's certainly what the Mssrs. Reagan and Bush, plus all too many contemporary Democrats, would have you believe - mostly in order to avoid domestic spending that might run up the deficit that dominates their politics. But was the Great Society really a costly failure?
Sargent Shriver, who directed the Johnson ''war on poverty,'' concurred. Before an enthusiastic crowd at the L.B.J. Library, he listed a number of Great Society successes ''all still in existence, all helping millions of Americans today'' - Head Start, the Job Corps, community action grants, Foster Grandparents (which Nancy Reagan once proclaimed her favorite program), Upward Bound, community health centers, legal services for the poor, Vista, college work-study programs.
Mr. Califano and Mr. Shriver, as well as other Johnson Administration veterans - Bill Moyers, Jack Valenti, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Douglass Cater, Lee White, Charles Haar - pointed out that Mr. Johnson was the first President to take steps to enhance the environment, and that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (proposed by President Kennedy) and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were the high points of the civil rights movement.
It's too bad George Bush did not sit in on the Austin symposium. He might have learned something about vision and aspiration, confidence and compassion, the capacity of a President to lead, and how constricting ''prudence'' can be if that's all there is.


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There are 2 telltale signs that a diamond is fake, according to a woman who designs and sells 6-figure engagement rings
Katie Warren
Nicole Wegman, founder and CEO of Ring Concierge, says diamond experts "can tell immediately" if a diamond is fake.
Katie Warren/Business Insider
Nicole Wegman is the founder and CEO of Ring Concierge, a company that designs and sells customized engagement rings ranging from $10,000 to well into the six figures.
Wegman told Business Insider there are two main ways to spot a fake diamond.
If the stone has too much rainbow reflection or if it just seems dull, it's probably not a real diamond.
The easiest way to see the difference is to hold it next to a real diamond, Wegman says.
Nobody wants to get duped by a fake — especially when it comes to diamonds.
Nicole Wegman, founder and CEO of Ring Concierge, a company that designs and sells customized engagement rings ranging from $10,000 to well into the six figures, says diamond experts "can tell immediately" if a diamond is fake — and there are two telltale signs that give it away.
"Usually there's too much rainbow reflection coming out of a fake diamond," Wegman told Business Insider. "It should be white flashing back at you. A little bit of rainbow."
Wegman inspects a diamond through a magnifying glass at Ring Concierge's NYC office.
The second tip-off will be the lack of brilliance.
"They usually feel a little dead," Wegman said. "They just don't have the liveliness and the brilliance that you get from a real diamond. I think the easiest way to see the difference is to hold it next to a real diamond. If you have it side by side with a real diamond, you're going to be like, 'There is something just weird about this stone. Something's off.'"
Taylor Lanore, a diamond expert and Ring Concierge's PR director, said you can also sometimes see a "seam" within the stone that will indicate it's not a true diamond.
Of course, Wegman said, you can always bring a questionable stone into a jeweler and they'll be able to tell you "in two seconds" whether it's real or not.
More: Arts & Culture Engagement rings Diamonds Ring Concierge
Nicole Wegman

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Report: Marlins mull replacing manager Mike Redmond after 3-10 start.
As invariably happens when a team with high expectations gets off to a poor start, speculation turns to the manager's job security.
Thirteen games into a disappointing start by the Miami Marlins, that has already happened with manager Mike Redmond. The Miami Herald reported that Redmond's job may be in jeoparty and that team officials are already mulling a replacement, citing unnamed sources.
The Marlins, who were active in upgrading the roster in the offseason and viewed as a playoff contender, are 3-10 after getting swept in a four-game series against the Mets at Citi Field.
According to the report, Wally Backman, the Mets' Triple-A manager, is a possible replacement.
A Marlins official said he was unaware of any discussion of a managerial change.
Although 13 games might seem premature, owner Jeffrey Loria has a history of pulling the trigger quickly.
The frustration of a Marlins team out of kilter and in the process of being swept for the second time in four series was captured in a moment of extreme exasperation Sunday at Citi Field.
The Marlins were 16-22 in 2003 when Loria replaced Jeff Torborg with Jack McKeon. They went on to finish 91-71 and win their second World Series.
Loria, who attended the games in New York, fired Joe Girardi and Ozzie Guillen after one season. In June 2010, with the team struggling he replaced Fredi Gonzalez with Edwin Rodriguez.
A strong showing in the three-game series beginning in Philadelpha against a 4-9 Phillies team could be vital to the future of Redmond, whose contract runs through 2017.
Redmond, who was the back-up catcher on the 2003 team, led the team to a 15-win improvement last season, his second at the helm. That followed a 100-loss season in 2013 with a stripped down roster that carried no hope of success.
The situation is much different this year. Seeking a run at their first postseason appearance since the championship season, the club signed young stars Giancarlo Stanton and Christian Yelich to long-term contracts and acquired established players including Dee Gordon, Michael Morse, Martin Prado, Ichirdo Suzuki, Dan Haren and Mat Latos.
Adding fuel to speculation were comments by Stanton after Friday's loss to the Mets that the team lacked fire. Redmond is known for his laidback style. Backman is a more fiery personality that might appeal to Loria.
New York Newsday reported Monday that the Mets have not received any requests for permission to interview Backman, in his third season with the Las Vegas 51s and the 2014 Manager of the Year in the Pacific Coast League.
Numerous factors have contribute to the Marlins' surprisingly poor start.
Haren has been the only reliabe member of the starting rotation. All-Star Henderson Alvarez, the de facto ace until Jose Fernandez returns, is on the disabled list with shoulder inflammation. Latos and Tom Koehler have each given up seven runs in an inning. In the the four games against the Mets, no starter lasted more than 5 1/3 innings.
Meanwhile, the offense has been most perplexing, with only leadoff hitter Dee Gordon (.389) producing consistently. Catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia is batting .080, and Triple-A call-up J.T. Realmuto has started four of the past five games behind the plate. Yelich struck out seven times in the past two games, and even Stanton has been unreliable in key situations.
The team did show fighting spirit in battling back from 5-0 and 7-1 deficits before losing by a run in the last two games in New York.


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Q: ICU Probe All Currency Symbols Is there a way to probe the ICU library for all UChar's representing currency symbols supported by the library?
My current solution is iterating through all locales and for each locale, doing something like this:
const DecimalFormatSymbols *formatSymbols = formatter->getDecimalFormatSymbols();
UnicodeString currencySymbol = formatSymbols->getSymbol(DecimalFormatSymbols::kCurrencySymbol);

Then saving off each UChar in currencySymbol into a map (so no duplicates).

A: All currency symbols have the category Sc (Symbol, Currency), so you can just enumerate all characters from that category.
#include <cstdio>
#include <icu/unicode/uchar.h>

UBool print_all_currency_symbols(const void* context, UChar32 start, UChar32 limit, UCharCategory type) {
    if (type == U_CURRENCY_SYMBOL) {
        for (UChar32 c = start; c < limit; ++ c)
            printf("%04x\n", c);
    }
    return TRUE;
}

int main() {
    u_enumCharTypes(print_all_currency_symbols, NULL);

        return 0;
}


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FOLKARDAdam Peter
#: 13
Position: P
Bats: R
Throws: R
Totals - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
USA @ AUS P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
AUS @ CAN P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
AUS @ RSA P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
AUS @ VEN P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
NZL @ AUS P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
BAVG
Totals 1 2 3.08 4 1 1 0 25.0 17 12 11 9 49 2 0 5 90 .189 2 1 0 1 1 12 13
USA @ AUS 0 0 0.00 0 1 0 0 3.0 1 0 0 1 7 0 0 0 10 .100 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
AUS @ CAN 0 1 5.25 1 0 0 0 4.0 3 3 3 1 6 0 0 1 15 .200 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
AUS @ RSA 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 10 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
AUS @ VEN 1 0 3.00 1 0 1 0 7.0 5 3 3 4 13 1 0 1 26 .192 1 0 0 0 0 5 3
NZL @ AUS 0 0 7.00 1 0 0 0 4.0 4 4 4 2 8 0 0 2 14 .286 0 1 0 1 1 2 2
Fielding stats
FLDP
Totals - 0 0 0 2 0 1.000 0 0 0 - 0 0
USA @ AUS P 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 - 0 0
AUS @ CAN P 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 - 0 0
AUS @ RSA P 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 - 0 0
AUS @ VEN P 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 - 0 0
NZL @ AUS P 0 0 0 1 0 1.000 0 0 0 - 0 0
USA @ AUS P 0 0 0 1 0 1.000 0 0 0 - 0 0


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The Movie That Sparked Those Pete Davidson–Kaley Cuoco Rumors Dropped Its Trailer
Based on the trailer, it's basically 50 First Dates meets an episode of Black Mirror or, perhaps more accurately, Palm Springs meets a darker version of my favorite Rachel McAdams time-travel movie, About Time. Check out the trailer for yourself:
As for Cuoco and Davidson, there was definitely a deep bond forged on set…just not a romantic one. "[Pete and I] really became very good friends, and he truly is one of the nicest people in the world," Cuoco told Glamour in April 2022. "I loved seeing him on set, how he was with fans and with the crew. He took pictures with everybody. Some people would walk by and be like, 'Fuck you, Pete Davidson.' And then the next person would drive by and be like, 'Oh, my God, I'm your biggest fan!' And he'd laugh."
Cuoco continued, "I don't even think he knows how famous he is. I know that sounds cheesy. But I don't think he knows. I got to know him very well, and he doesn't thrive on that. He's just Pete. He laughs everything off."
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It's finally the end of another gardening season. I harvested my last kale on December 31, and now it's time to take a break, and start dreaming about next year. In this episode I tie up a few loose ends to finish out the 2017 season for this podcast, I talk a little bit about things to come for the podcast and YouTube channel next year, and of course, I give a few tips on how to start planning for next years garden!
» General Gardening, Podcast » 054 : Winter is here!
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Love your podcast, this was another good one. So neat the way you saved Christmas with your wood stove. We have a wood furnace but that cannot cook food.
Keep up the good work and inspiring ideas and thoughts. Nice to have a maritime garden I g podcast! Thanks.
I really enjoy your youtube channel and this podcast. I look forward to your spring videos and podcasts.
Thanks that's so nice to hear!


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Posted on August 20, 2017 by eliefares Tagged ISISLebanese armyLebanonmilitarySpainterrorism	Comments1 Comment on In Battle Against ISIS, Lebanon's Army Pays Tribute To Spain's Terrorist Attacks Victims
In Battle Against ISIS, Lebanon's Army Pays Tribute To Spain's Terrorist Attacks Victims
As Lebanon's Army General Joseph Aoun tweeted the commencement of operation "Fajr el Jouroud," which translates to "the dawn of the mountains," Lebanon's Army has started its full blown assault at the remaining entities of ISIS that are still plaguing the mountain regions of Al-Qaa and Aarsal, on Lebanon's Northeastern Border with Syria.
I am confident that our army will be victorious. In only 24 hours, they've captured lands that were controlled by the terrorists and have planted their flag, as well as the Lebanese flag, on many hilltops that had been – up to that point – controlled by the cancerous entities that had tried to spread among Lebanese society without fruition.
This assault at ISIS in order to push them back from where they came and secure our Northeastern Border is a moment of triumph for the country against everything that ISIS is and that it has done.
Today, remember the Lebanese victims of Istanbul's attack on New Year's Eve. Remember the suicide attacks of Borj Al Barajneh that killed over forty people in 2015. Remember the many bombings against the Army in Arsal. Remember the suicide attacks in Qaa that killed 5 people. Remember the Jabal Mohsen attack in Tripoli. Remember every single victim in this country whose entire future was wiped away by these people whose entire cause revolves around making everyone else afraid of living.
In the midst of this assault on ISIS, Lebanon's Army didn't forget that its sacrifices and struggles against the terrorists are not only restricted by the borders of the country it's fighting in. In fighting ISIS, Lebanon's Army is going international in the fight against ISIS, and this is exemplified by the above picture of an army solider planting the Spanish flag on top of a liberated hill along with the Lebanese flag.
As such, this battle against ISIS in Lebanon is a triumph for the world too. It's for the multi-national victims of those terrorist cowards in Spain. It's for the victims of the attacks in Paris, Nice, Brussels, Berlin, Istanbul, and Egypt's Copts. It's a triumph for those people whose only "fault" was being of a certain country, at certain locations, of certain religions, of being people whose entire existence frightened those terrorists and their message.
I hope Lebanon's Army plants more of our flags on more hills as they fully liberate our lands from such pests. I hope Lebanon's people stay united behind the army in such tough and dark times, as we try to move forward as a country towards more secure borders, in synchrony with how important such measures are for the entire world.
Fuck ISIS.
Posted on April 9, 2017 by eliefares Tagged AttackCoptic ChurchEgyptPalm SundayterrorismUnited_On_PalmSunday	Comments4 Comments on When Some Arabs View Christian Victims As Nothing But "Kuffar:" Thoughts With The Victims of The Egyptian Coptic Church Attacks
When Some Arabs View Christian Victims As Nothing But "Kuffar:" Thoughts With The Victims of The Egyptian Coptic Church Attacks
Yes, the majority of victims of wars in the Middle East are Muslims. That is not a matter of debate. But the people who have been dealt the worst hand in the ongoing conflicts in this God-forsaken region are minorities who have been systematically targeted in heinous ways, just because they happen to be different.
The latest is a disgusting attack on the Coptic Church in Egypt, on a day where they were celebrating. Palm Sunday was turned black, with two attacks, targeting two Churches hundreds of kilometers apart. The victim tallies are sky-rocketing and are already North of 30. Injured are north of 100, with numbers rising the more details emerge.
This is not the first time the Coptic Church is targeted, and it won't be the last. The last time such an attack happened was less than 5 months ago, in December where 30 people died. The Copts of Egypt aren't the only minority in these parts of the world to be systematically targeted as well. Between the Kurds, Muslims who don't fit into the mold, and Christians of the some areas in the Levant, the stories keep unfolding, each more horrible than the one before it.
Today's attack on the Churches in Tanta and Alexandria are horrible. Those were people with their children, having spent weeks buying new clothes, picking out the nicest candles, excited to be approaching the end of Lent, and full of humility at entering the week preceding Easter. Some of those people had their last celebration today.
The Copts in Egypt are not in a war-zone. They don't live in a country ravaged by a dictator whose favorite pastime is using chemical weapons on his people. Their only fault is being a minority in a country they were historically integral to, as is the case with all the other minorities in the Middle Easts who have been forcibly turned into strangers in their own homes.
What can I say – or what can anyone say – to the mother who just lost her son? To the father who lost his daughter just as he was gushing over how adorable she looked right there, standing on that Church pew, as he tried to keep her quiet while the priest went on with his sermon? There's nothing to say.
I am fortunate enough, as a Lebanese Christian, not to have to go through any of the hardships in 2017 that other minorities, which I would be considered to be elsewhere, in the region have to go through. I live in a country of minorities that are trying (their best?) to coexist together and have learned (or are learning), through all kinds of difficult ways, that one cannot exist without the other.
But that is not the case for governments of other countries in the Middle East. What can you expect from governments whose solution to the whole mess is to start a Twitter hashtag (in Egypt's case, it's #United_On_PalmSunday), but forget about the policies in which those same governments keep stomping on their own people to prevent them from assuming their natural place in society.
What can you expect from governments who have made sure that religious entities that help perpetuate the notion that anyone who is not Muslim in the Middle East is a disgrace, a kafer, whose blood is halal? It's not the fault of Muslims, many of whom are as victims of their condition as those minorities. All this blood rests on the hands of kings, presidents, sheikhs and sometimes even priests who thrive under the perpetuation of the notion of kuffar, and the notion of victimhood.
What use is your sympathy when people get massacred this way when in all the days leading up to their killing, you've been teaching in books that considered them second class citizens, you've been advocating for laws that see them being slowly robbed of their own country, and you've been making sure that they're to be considered as pests in their own home?
Just look at this sample of responses that news of the attacks in Egypt garnered:
You shouldn't have mercy for the kuffars.
May God take even more of them// … Hopefully we'll get to kill you wherever we find you.
To hell you go.
The victim number is too little.
Burn Christians, burn. Hahahah!
May God increase the numbers of victims
There's more when these came from. The sample is not comprehensive.
As long as some Arab Muslims look at Christians (and other minorities) in their own countries as abominations, as kuffar, then their countries will never amount to anything decent.
As long as some Muslim "scholars" and sheikhs keep perpetuating the hateful notion that Muslims are the only entities worth of life in their countries, as they shut away all attempts at modernity, some people of their religion will use their holy words to kill others they deem as lessers.
If you're crying when I'm targeted but go about an hour later to consider me as less a person than you, then you are not even close to being part of a solution. We are not lessers. We are not second class citizens.
It says a lot about the coward pieces of shit who did this to kill tens of people on Palm Sunday. It shows that such cancerous entities are incompatible with any form of the world that we want.
Such abominations refuse diversity, refuse coexistence, refuse anything that doesn't conform with their code of death. The only thing they deserve is to burn in the deepest pits of hell.
May the souls of the victims Rest In Peace. It's about time we stand with the oppressed and claim them as people whose lives are worth celebrating when they're abundant, not in the moment of their demise.
Posted on January 22, 2017 by eliefares Tagged CostaHamraIntelligenceISFLebanonsecurityterrorism	Comments12 Comments on Lebanon's Security Forces Which Stopped A Terrorist Attack in Hamra Tonight Are Heroes
Lebanon's Security Forces Which Stopped A Terrorist Attack in Hamra Tonight Are Heroes
A 24 year old Lebanese terrorist suicide bomber named Omar el Assi, from Saida, was apprehended moments before he detonated himself in Hamra, one of Beirut's most bustling streets, right outside Costa Cafe, in breaking news out of Beirut right now.
The terrorist had an explosive belt strapped around his chest. It's unclear whether he was targeting Costa or one of the many nearby bars. Hamra is one of the most liberal places in Beirut, and attacking it is a frightening precendent in Lebanon's constant fight against terrorists.
Uncovering the attack was a coordinated effort between Lebanon's intelligence and Internal Security forces. Tonight, they are heroes. Plenty of people are safe because of them, and for that I am forever thankful.
This shows that when our security forces work together towards the one goal of keeping us safe, they can be as triumphant as this. I hope we learn from this lesson moving forward how valuable our unity is.
I hope that terrorist receives the worst of punishment from the state and that the level of vigilance that the security forces have shown over the past few months remains as high going into the new year. In the political turmoil overtaking the region, Lebanon's stability has been the result of such work, and it shows.
Thank you for saving Hamra tonight, and for saving the country on those many occasions that don't make it to the news.
Lebanese people out and about on this Saturday evening, stay safe and enjoy your night away. Don't fall for the culture of fear that those Godless barbaric disgusting creatures want to instill in is. Facing their culture of death, let's always rise above and show them that we are a people who will not be broken that way.
And to that terrorist, and those that support that horrifying ideology, fuck you. Take your culture of death and shove it up the darkest orifice in your body. Nothing about you is welcome here.
Posted on January 5, 2017 by eliefares Tagged criticismIstanbulLebanonmediaMTVReinaSocial mediaterrorism	Comments3 Comments on MTV Has The Audacity To Claim They're The Reason Lebanon Had Compassion For Istanbul's Victims
MTV Has The Audacity To Claim They're The Reason Lebanon Had Compassion For Istanbul's Victims
I take pride in the fact that as individuals on Social Media, we got one of Lebanon's most watched TV stations to worry so much about its reputation that it tried to discredit us at least three times since Monday.
The first round was during Monday's episode of Menna w Jerr, when Dolly Ghanem said:
"Social media is what makes a big deal out of nothing. I'm from the war generation and covered worse things than this. but we've never been under this much scrutiny. Those criticizing the media as chasing scoops and ratings, yes that guy, isn't he waiting and seeing how many have shared his words? Isn't he also running behind scoops and shares?"
I guess Mrs. Ghanem's annoyance that her lot is being scrutinized by social media is enough proof for us that we're on the right track. If this scrutiny is going to force them to do their job better, puts them in their place, forces them to try to attack our reputation to preserve theirs, and fail in doing so, then we're triumphant.
Watch the video here:
The second round of replies came yesterday when they said they chose their right to remain silent against such attacks, but still posted an entire article about the matter (link).
In that article, they compared the campaign they've been victims of as nothing more than an orchestrated effort by those who hate their freedom. They also reminded us of the fact that, once upon a time, they were closed down by Syrian-Lebanese authorities because they were very free. Yes, because that has anything to do with the criticism hurled at them, and all other TV stations today, from almost everyone.
You'd think they have the decency, as a supposedly respected institution, to take a moment of self-reflection and see what went wrong, but no that's not even close to being the case. Instead of listening to the massive outrage at the way they're handling things, they keep digging a hole for themselves.
And they're not even done digging that hole yet.
A few minutes ago, MTV posted their second article since deciding to remain silent about the criticism they've received. In that article, accompanied by a picture of someone in Elias' family member weeping, they decry that:
"Those messing around on social media have relaxed by now and stopped preaching…. If it weren't for us, the media they're criticizing, Lebanese people wouldn't have felt this compassion to the victims of Istanbul's attacks."
Yes, they had the audacity to say they're the reason we felt sorry and horrified that other Lebanese had been brutally killed, in cold blood, at the hand of a terrorist, away from home, on a night that should have been one of the best nights of their lives.
There's despicable, and then there's this whole other level of deplorable. No, MTV. You are not the reason we felt compassion to Elias, Rita and Haykal. We did because we are human, because we, too, have lost people and know the weight of such losses. We did because death touches us all. We did because they're our friends, our family members. We did, in spite of you turning their death into a reality TV show.
It doesn't end there. They try to justify the coverage they did at Elias Wardini's house by saying that the reporter had forgotten she was a journalist at the family's home and felt like she was a family member sharing in their grief, and that the quality of live broadcast goes back to the decisions of the station's administration.
This kind of emotional, sensational rhetoric about a reporter suddenly becoming a family member and forgetting all her professionalism is senseless and the epitome of unprofessionalism. That's like me saying to the family of a patient I just lost: oh, sorry I couldn't do the best job that I could. I suddenly forgot I'm a doctor and decided to become a part of your family instead.
It doesn't end there. They say that: "We were all affected by the tragedy that we wanted the people to mourn with the family, so we could all grieve together. It's okay if the viewer is touched and cries for the death of his fellow citizens."
Well, at least they admit it now. So let's put it bluntly: NO. It's not okay for you to use the family's mourning to get the viewer to cry. NO, it's not okay for you to assume you have to show me their tears for me to need to grieve. NO, it's not okay for you to assume the role of a stage manager in my emotions and in my life ordering me to cry or laugh.
Moreover, your station's administration deciding to show Elias' sister receiving the news of his death, or Rita's father weeping for his child, or even filming live from the plane carrying the victims home, filming them being taken to hospitals and their homes is the core of the problem.
But things are more rotten than this.
A couple of days ago, I was asked by a very respectable journalist who was not aware I had criticized MTV to give a statement for a news report about Razmi el Kadi. So I did. In about 15 seconds I said: "I'm not aware of whether there's any legal basis to arrest Mr. El Kadi or not, but his words are not acceptable. There's a sanctity to death, especially that of your countrymen, to be respected. The location of their death has no bearing on this issue when they're this innocent."
Soon after the report aired, a couple of MTV producers decided to subtweet me, calling me a hypocrite, to which I naturally replied that when you do a bad job, you will be called out on it. Someone, however, was way too offended by the fact I was, in 15 seconds, on MTV's airspace, that they raised the issue with that administration.
Soon enough, the report in question was pulled off YouTube. A few hours later, it was aired on their midnight use re-edited to remove my parts from it. Keep in mind that the issue in question had nothing to do with their coverage, but was of a totally different matter altogether.
I don't care in the least that my part was removed. But it's a whole other level of unprofessional when some individuals who work in TV cannot take criticism and when a TV station refuses to host those who've criticized it. I mean, just delete yourself.
How childish can you get not only to be upset that you hosted someone who criticized you, but to make the effort – double the work – to re-edit the report and silence them from it? But it's okay. I must have expected better ideals from a media that wants to advertise itself, in its own words, as "a victim of it being too free."
MTV, when our Minister of Information Melhem Riachi questions, live on your air, when he questioned the point of you live covering an injured being taken to a hospital, of your coverage from the airplane carrying the victims, of your coverage at the victims' houses, how can you even try to defend yourself?
MTV, it's time for you to re-assess yourself. Take a deep look in whatever mirror you have and admit that you're messing up majorly. Stop digging that hole. It's too embarrassing.
Posted on January 3, 2017 by eliefares Tagged Al ManarArab worldConservativeFreedom of speechhassan hamzehHuffington Post ArabiIstanbulLebanonLiberalRamzi Al-KaditerrorismTurkey	Comments3 Comments on Why Those Who Insult Istanbul's Victims Should Always Be Challenged, Not Ignored
Why Those Who Insult Istanbul's Victims Should Always Be Challenged, Not Ignored
I never thought that we, as a country first and foremost and as a region in the grander scheme of things, would so grossly disagree about our characterization of the victims of the Istanbul attacks. I'm not talking about whether they are martyrs or victims, but about people who are so full of hate that not only do they not mourn but believe others should not mourn too.
Those people have forsaken every ounce of humanity and turned the barbaric deaths of innocents as yet another event to correlate with their religious, sectarian or even political discourse.
Ramzi El Kadi & Huffington Post Arabi:
Earlier yesterday, I posted screengrabs from a Twitter account by someone named Ramzi Al Kadi on my blog's Facebook page. Soon enough, the story was picked up by news outlets and it went viral.
Within minutes, Al Kadi was being called all kinds of names as if he were the only entity in this country and region regurgitating that horrifying word-vomit. Some were attacking the way he looked, digging through his entire online history and bringing it back to haunt him.
El Kadi had said he did not want to mourn the victims. He thought what happened to them was well-deserved given that they were at a night club, which is in his opinion is a disgrace of a place. To him, the victims – Rita, Elias and Haykal – were nothing more than sinners who had it coming for wanting to have fun at a "whore house."
Unfortunately, Al-Kadi isn't a lone example. You only need to head to Huffington Post Arabi's Facebook page to see the exact same rhetoric being spewed by Arabs in the comments section. In an article posted by the page about Lebanese victim Rita El Chami, the comments ranged from those who were sympathetic to her sacrifice, calling her a hero, to those – like Al Kadi – who saw her as nothing more than – again, I quote – "a whore" for partying the end of the year away, wishing that she'd "go to hell."
The debate in Saudi Arabia about the Istanbul attacks isn't about their dead, but about whether they were at a nightclub or a restaurant, because that makes a difference in how their death is perceived. Palestinian victim Leanne Nasser is suffering from the same discourse back home: whether it was appropriate of her to go party the night away. It was her first trip abroad.
To note, Ramzi Al Kadi is saying his Twitter account was hacked. I don't see why given there's no value in hacking an account with 200 followers, but it's a statement to be conveyed. Ramzi has since been arrested in order for his tweets to be investigated, which – regardless of how disgusting what his tweets were – is not something we should accept. Being an asshole is not a crime.
Hassan Hamzeh & Politics:
Al Manar reporter Hassan Hamzeh decided to insult the victims of Istanbul's terrorist attacks from a different perspective. To him, this was pure politics. Being a Hezbollah supporter, he saw the attacks on Istanbul as nothing more than a chance for him to gloat in revenge and spite.
"Istanbul is paying the price it should pay" he tweeted. He then followed it up with: "Istanbul should pay more," before concluding with: "Erdogan, you reap what you sow."
To Hassan Hamzeh, the victims from all backgrounds are nothing more than pawns in his party's political game, their entire lives and families and loved ones be damned as long as he can be satisfied that a city and a country he despises are being broken like this.
Other politically-charged social media users were annoyed at how the victims of Istanbul's attacks were being called martyrs compared to others who "didn't sacrifice their lives at a nightclub," as if the location of where you are brutally killed has some bearing over the worth of your life and death.
While the Lebanese government flexed its muscles with helpless people like Al-Kadi, Hassan Hamzeh – with his political backbone – is still at large, free to roam and tweet more hateful things because he's untouchable.
Why We Should Speak Up:
Regardless of where people die because of such vicious attacks – whether at a club, a brothel, church or Mosque – the sanctity of death should be respected. You have to be at a whole other level of deplorable to disrespect the passing of people whose only fault was being at the wrong place at the wrong time because you don't like where they were or what they were doing.
When I first posted Ramzi Al-Kadi's screenshots, people said that giving people like him such exposure makes them feel important and gives them power, that their negativity had no place in times of mourning. I disagree.
The best way for hate and bigotry to prosper is for them to run unchecked for a lifetime. The more we stay silent, the more we let such horrors fester in the minds and souls of those who are most susceptible, and the more Ramzis and Hassans we will have to deal with later on.
Our bubble as millennials or liberals has gotten us to think that the majority of people share our views and as such most will find the words of Ramzi or Hassan as abhorrent as we do, and that might be the case with many, but today's world is far from being one where we can remain silent to people who insult victims just because they can.
Staying silent to people like all of those who insulted the victims of the Istanbul attacks in LaReina has a lot to do with why we are dealing with entities like Trump, Le Pen, Brexit and a rising trend in right wing extremism all around the world, why we are reeling from the effects of living in a post-truth existence where facts have become matters of opinion for many.
There remains a huge populace that lives among us that believes in what Ramzi Al-Kadi said, without them proclaiming it. We live in a conservative Arab world where it's very easy to forget, as the only people we talk to are those who think like us, that there are those beyond our walls who believe that nightclubs are abominations, that those who frequent them are sinners and that those who die there should not be mourned.
Those people you want us to ignore are voters, influencers, mothers and fathers. We can't repress them into a basket to be tucked away just because we feel like the higher road is the better road. To drive our society forward, those people's ideas – not the way they look as many have criticized Ramzi – should always be challenged. We can't shy away from the ideological debate taking place wherever we roam for fear of the challenge, or of upsetting others and ourselves.
Ramzi Al-Kadi and those who think like him think their ideas and beliefs are as valid, and should be applied on a more grander scale than just tweets or Facebook comments. To better our societies, we can't just dismiss those ideas outright just because they're horrifying. We have to listen, criticize, challenge the core of their thoughts.
The cycle of us versus them will never end if we stay silent and let the cycle perpetuate without breaking it. It's easier to imagine "them" as enemies who hate the way we live no matter what. But "they" are victims of ideas that have been entrenched in their minds for years, and those ideas can be beaten if we take up the mantle of the fight.


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Parking in the Heller Center is uncertain and may be ticketed; you can find more information here. UCCS Lot 580 off of Nevada has free parking.
This trail is situated in between UCCS's open space in Austin Bluffs and Pulpit Rock Park. It begins at the north end of the parking lot for the Heller Center. This trailhead can be reached by hiking the North Campus Heights Trail or by car from N. Campus Heights and N. Nevada. However, parking at the Heller Center is uncertain and you may be ticketed.
The hike begins on a narrow but clearly defined track on the hill to the north of the Heller Center buildings. It runs uphill and reaches a fork 0.10 miles in. At this fork, take the trail to the left another 0.10 miles downhill. Here you'll come to another fork; turn right this time. You'll hike along a narrow track that rises and falls frequently and underlies the western face of the cliffs of the Pulpit formation.
At 0.5 miles, the trail becomes easy to lose as it begins climbing to the top of Pulpit Rock. If you lose the trail, just keep heading up by the path of least resistance. When you reach the top of the ridge, you can take a short extension west on the Pulpit Rock Trail from Lot 580 and head to the top of Pulpit Rock. Getting to the top of the rock requires some scrambling and climbing, but pedestrian access to the top is common.
From the top of the rock, turn back east, following the ridge past the place where you made your ascent; you may again need to scramble and climb some rocks. Going east 0.2 miles from the top of Pulpit Rock, you'll reach a wide, flat, empty area with 360-degree views and multiple trails intersecting. Turn to the right (south), and follow the trail down the ridge. You'll need to avoid roots and rocks while descending the ridge. Be aware as rattlesnakes love to hide under these roots and rocks!
Toward the end of the ridge the trail winds down very steeply back to the hill you started up. If you head to the very southern end of the ridge there is a beautiful rock outcrop and overlook of the canyons. Otherwise, stay to the left, or east, side of the ridge, where you'll find a trail to take you back down to the base of the ridge. Be cautious here; there are many loose rocks, and the trail is a steep grade, up to 20%.
Once you are off of the ridge, you'll be on the same trail on which you started. Go straight to get back to the Heller Center, or turn left to go deeper into the canyons of Austin Bluffs.
This trail is shaded by juniper and pinion pine under the ridge of the Pulpit Rock formation. Deer like to hang out in the canyons to the east, so you might spot some of them. In the summer, the meadows bloom with wildflowers and yucca. In the evenings you might see hawks above the cliffs hunting for their dinner. In the warm parts of year, be on the lookout for rattlesnakes, especially in the high, rocky, sunny parts of the ridge. They like to make their homes on south-facing slopes, where the sun is plentiful, and most of this trail is on a south-facing slope.
A little night hiking on Pulpit.
Looking South from top of Pulpit.


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Ringo Starr is a genius.
It's true. In terms of networking and surrounding yourself with talented thought leaders, Ringo is in a league all by himself. After all, even though I love his drumming and "singing," I admit that John, Paul and George probably would have been alright without him.
That's the value of peer-to-peer networking and why you should attend the OnBase Training & Technology Conference (OTTC): You get great ideas from other people. By simply being around them, you elevate your game. Maybe you'll choose to go in a different direction than you would have ever thought of by yourself, or with your team.
You'll create better music, to use our Ringo metaphor. And since I love Ringo so much, let's really go for it.
We all sound like rock stars when we sing in the shower. That's why it's so important when someone like a significant other gently suggests we close the window. It's so much more pleasant for the neighbors – or end users, in software terms.
Sometimes we get so caught up in our own music and the details that we need external help – a different viewpoint that we'll never have, because it comes from the outside.
"If you work in isolation, you repeat the mistakes others have made," according to Bethan Ruddock, content development officer at Mimas, University of Manchester. Networking is an opportunity to provide and receive mutual support and advice, she says.
Not only that, but it helps you keep up with current trends and developments.
That's an easy one. Just talk to your peers who have implemented a mobile strategy, so employees can instantly access documents and processes – wherever they're located.
If your organization is having issues with accessibility, there are so many networking opportunities at OTTC, you'll easily find someone who is using mobility to keep work moving when people are out of the office.
By networking with a thousand experts in the enterprise content management (ECM) field, at the end of the day, you sleep well. You know you're on the cutting-edge, providing your organization and its employees instant access to real-time information that's secure and auditable. Not only do you help with regulation compliance, you empower excellent service levels.
But even all-stars have coaches. That's why growing your group of advisors is so important. You get great advice from experts. You get by with a little help from your friends.
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/**
 * Module dependencies
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import {Router} from 'express';
import api from './api';
import site from './site';

/**
 * Create router
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const app = Router();
export default app;

/**
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app.use('/api', api);
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Marek Janusz Gugała (ur. 27 kwietnia 1970 w Kozienicach) – profesor doktor habilitowany nauk rolniczych. W latach 2020_2022 dziekan Wydziału Agrobioinżynierii i Nauk o Zwierzętach Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczo-Humanistycznego w Siedlcach. Od 2022 roku Prorektor ds. studiów Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczo-Humanistycznego w Siedlcach.

Życiorys
Jest absolwentem Wydziału Rolniczego Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach (1996) obecnie Uniwersytet Przyrodniczo-Humanistyczny w Siedlcach. W latach 1997-1998 pracował w Wojewódzkim Ośrodku Doradztwa Rolniczego w Siedlcach, następnie odbył studia doktoranckie (1998-2002), uzyskując stopień doktora nauk rolniczych. W 2002 roku rozpoczął pracę w Akademii Podlaskiej w Siedlcach (obecnie Uniwersytet Przyrodniczo-Humanistyczny w Siedlcach). W 2013 roku uzyskał stopień doktora habilitowanego nauk rolniczych. Od 2022 roku jest Prorektorem ds. studiów Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczo-Humanistycznego w Siedlcach.

Uzyskane awanse naukowe
Doktor - 2002 - nauki rolnicze, Akademia Podlaska (obecnie Uniwersytet Przyrodniczo-Humanistyczny w Siedlcach.

Doktor habilitowany - 2013 - nauki rolnicze, Uniwersytet Przyrodniczo-Humanistyczny w Siedlcach.

Profesor - 2019 - nauki rolnicze, Uniwersytet Przyrodniczo-Humanistyczny w Siedlcach.

Działalność naukowa
Działalność naukowa profesora Marka Gugały obejmuje zagadnienia dotyczące doskonalenia agrotechniki ziemniaka jadalnego, doskonalenia agrotechniki roślin bobowatych, posiada również osiągnięcia naukowe dotyczące wpływu czynników agrotechnicznych na plonowanie i skład chemiczny nasion rzepaku ozimego (Brasica napus L.) oraz osiągnięcia z zakresu oceny opłacalności wybranych gatunków roślin uprawianych.

Ponadto prof. dr hab. inż. Marek Gugała jest autorem lub współautorem badań nad innowacyjnością w zakresie optymalizacji uprawy wybranych roślin uprawnych. Ta forma działalności naukowej przejawia się projektowaniem podzespołów, elementów i części do maszyn i narzędzi rolniczych oraz ich wdrażaniem do produkcji. Posiada 25 zatwierdzonych przez Urząd Patentowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej patentów i wzorów użytkowych oraz kolejnych 5 zgłoszonych.

Dorobek naukowy Gugały stanowi ponad 500 publikacji, z czego około 300 pozycji to oryginalne prace twórcze, z których jedną trzecią opublikował w wydawnictwach znajdujących się w bazie Web of Science, a pozostałe w innych punktowanych czasopismach naukowych. Ponadto w swoim dorobku ma liczne opracowania dydaktyczne i popularyzatorskie.

Za dotychczasową działalność naukową, dydaktyczną i organizacyjną profesor Marek Gugała był siedmiokrotnie odznaczony Medalem Brązowym "Za długoletnią Służbę", odznaką honorową "Zasłużony dla rolnictwa" i Medalem KEN.

W 2017 roku, w uznaniu szczególnych osiągnięć naukowych uzyskał nominację i wpis do Złotej Księgi Nauk Przyrodniczych.

Odznaczenia
 Medal brązowy "Za długoletnią służbę"
 Odznaka honorowa "Zasłużony dla Rolnictwa"
 Medal Komisji Edukacji Narodowej
 Medal "Za zasługi dla siedleckiej Uczelni"
 Nominacja i wpisanie do Złotej Księgi Nauk Przyrodniczych 2017.

Przypisy

Urodzeni w 1970
Odznaczeni Medalem Komisji Edukacji Narodowej
Odznaczeni odznaką honorową "Zasłużony dla Rolnictwa"
Wykładowcy Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczo-Humanistycznego w Siedlcach


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Writer captured joys, pains of rural America
October 24, 2018 by Letitia Baldwin on News, News-More Headlines
Milbridge author Sue Hubbell died on Oct. 13 at the Bar Harbor home of her son and daughter-in-law Brian and Liddy Hubbell. She was 83.
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MILBRIDGE — Thirty years ago, Sue Hubbell and her German shepherd, Tazzie, climbed into a red Ford F-150 and set out from Washington, D.C., on Route 60 in search of the perfect pie.
The pair's quest, of course, was not just about sampling pies, but exploring our vast country and revealing the landscape and its people through this quintessential slice of American food.
In "The Great American Pie Expedition," a lyrical, at times funny essay that Sue wrote for The New Yorker in 1989, the former Missouri farmer and beekeeper charmed readers with her findings. She took them to the Potato City Motor Inn in Potter County, Pa., where she had dug into sour cream raisin pie and to the former Duffy's in East Orland, where she proclaimed its blueberry pie the best she had had during the entire journey.
Fittingly, Maine was where Sue eventually landed, making Milbridge her home in the late 1990s. By then she had gained a following for her essays, stories and books — especially her much praised 1986 memoir "A Country Year: Living the Questions" about her solitary, hardscrabble farm life in the Missouri Ozarks and "A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them."
Fiercely independent, and loath to burden others or eventually be institutionalized, Sue had been grappling with dementia before moving in last August with her son, state Rep. Brian Hubbell, and daughter-in-law, artist Liddy Hubbell, in Bar Harbor. In character, the 83-year-old writer ate her last grapefruit and declared her intent to stop eating and drinking on Sept. 9.
On Oct. 13, she died content that she had fulfilled her wish, according to her son in an email to The New York Times.
Brian and Liddy cared for Sue during her final days. Their daughter, Nora, had been home from Boulder, Colo., and spent time with her grandmother in August.
Born in Kalamazoo, Mich., Sue came from a long line of cantankerous, strong-willed women whom she wrote about in a 1988 "Hers" column in the New York Times magazine. "Ornery — And Proud of It" was the headline.
In her family, women had been the doers.
"The men died young, or were drifters and dreamers who disappeared or turned to drink or succumbed to melancholia or slow mortal diseases," she wrote. "The women, on the other hand, lived a long life and were full of spit and vinegar until the end."
Sue was married twice. She and her first husband, Paul Hubbell, eloped and took off for Los Angeles from snowy Kalamazoo Michigan in a "Cadillac driveaway."
He was a college professor. She earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at the University of Southern California and a graduate library science degree from Drexel University in Philadelphia.
The Hubbells eventually traded academia for living close to the land and raising bees in the Ozarks. The physical toll of farming and road trips selling honey ended the marriage.
By the time Sue moved to Maine, she had produced a rich body of work over the years in newspapers, magazines and The New Yorker, New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Time, Harper's, Smithsonian and many other publications. Her topics ranged widely from a chicken babysitter and egg hustling to wrenches and blue morpho butterflies.
What made Sue's work memorable was her lyrical prose, laced with razor-sharp wit and meticulous research.
Maine writer Susan Hand Shetterly read "A Country Year: Living the Questions" after she and her husband and two children had moved to a house in the woods of Surry. They had previously lived for a decade outside Prospect Harbor.
"It was a lonely book, I think, but also a joyful one and it was tough," Shetterly said this week. "She turned a twist of fate into a victory for herself as a woman who could do a lot of things well. And one of the things she could do beautifully was write."
Sue remarried to an old college classmate, Frank Sieverts, who died in 2004. In Milbridge, where she had extolled the Milbridge House restaurant's Nantucket cranberry pie, she continued to write, split wood, enjoy her dog's company and tinker with her house. She also led a successful campaign to establish an endowment fund for the local library.
Her New Yorker piece about pies, though, may be how she is remembered across the nation. She and Tazzie's freewheeling quest abruptly ended when they crossed into Oklahoma. Stopped for speeding, she naturally quizzed the state trooper about pie.
"And he thought about it and he said, 'Sorry, ma'am, but you're in cobbler country now," Sue said in a National Public Radio interview. "So I knew the expedition had ended."
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Lashana Lynch Cast as 007 in New James Bond Movie, Much to the Chagrin of Racsts
by Hilton Hater at July 15, 2019 3:10 pm .
It's a really tough time to be a racist in America.
First, Disney dared to cast an African-American as Ariel in its upcoming The Little Mermaid remake.
Then, President Donald Trump said the typically quiet part out loud when Tweeting that a quartet of Congresswomen ought to "leave" America and return to the country from where they are from.
And now these same racists have lost James Bond.
Sort of, that is.
According to The Daily Mail, Lashana Lynch -- a 31-year old actress most recently seen in Captain Marvel -- has been cast as 007 in the upcoming James Bond movie.
No, Lynch will not portray Bond himself.
Daniel Craig has signed on to reprise his role as this legendary British agent in the impending (and currently untitled) film... but Lynch will come in as a new secret agent, taking over Bond's iconic codename.
In what way? How will this work?
An insider tells the aforementioned publication the blockbuster will center on how Bond has retired from the agency, only to be called back for duty to help deal with a new crisis.
"There is a pivotal scene at the start of the film where M says 'Come in 007', and in walks Lashana who is black, beautiful and a woman," writes The Mail, adding:
"It's a popcorn-dropping moment. Bond is still Bond, but he's been replaced as 007 by this stunning woman."
The source goes on to explain that Bond is "sexually attracted to the new female 007 and tries his usual seduction tricks," but he is "baffled when they don't work."
There's also another way in which the movie will be updated to better fit in with the current day and age:
The Mail insider claims that the term "Bond girls" has been removed from use and replaced with "Bond women."
"This is a Bond for the modern era who will appeal to a younger generation while sticking true to what we all expect in a Bond film," the insider adds in this report, continuing as follows:
"There are spectacular chase sequences and fights, and Bond is still Bond but he's having to learn to deal with the world of #MeToo."
As you might expect, a certain segment of the Internet is unhappy with this development.
This is the same segment that's been upset for years over the rumor that Idris Elba may one day replace Craig as Bond himself.
We'll let you figure out what Lynch and Elba have in common.
The upcoming movie will be written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who recently discussed Bond's relevancy in today's world during an interview with Deadline.
"There's been a lot of talk about whether or not [the Bond franchise] is relevant now because of who he is and the way he treats women," she told the outlet in May.
"I think that's bollocks. I think he's absolutely relevant now. It has just got to grow. It has just got to evolve, and the important thing is that the film treats the women properly.
"He doesn't have to. He needs to be true to this character."
The 25th installment in this action franchise will also feature Rami Malek, Billy Magnusse, David Dencik, Dali Benssalah, Ralph Fiennes, Rory Kinnear, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris and Jeffrey Wright.
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Amajić (ćir: Амајић) je naselje u Središnjoj Srbiji, u Mačvanskom okrugu, u sastavu općine Mali Zvornik.

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U naselju Amajić živi 186 stanovnika, od čega 143 punoljetna stanovnika s prosječnom starosti od 37,5 godina (36,6 kod muškaraca i 38,3 kod žena). U naselju ima 57 domaćinstava, a prosječan broj članova po domaćinstvu je 3,23.

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Vanjske poveznice
 Karte, udaljenosti i vremenska prognoza

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The acquired company, database for business limited, provides organisations with secure connectivity and communications, incorporating landlines, cloud services and mobile. The growing business has offices in Northampton and Milton Keynes and a very strong regional presence in the Midlands. The company has earned an enviable reputation for being close to the markets it serves.
The transaction enabled the managing director of Firtitudo Ltd and database for business limited (dbfb) to acquire the remaining 45 per cent of dbfb and the founder to exit. Mid-way through the transaction process, the business was faced with an immediate requirement for growth capital to fund a substantial new order. ThinCats stepped up to deliver, structuring a facility to include bullet repayments and fixing the repayment date to suit the business's monthly cash flows.
The acquired company, database for business limited, provides organisations with secure connectivity and communications, incorporating landlines, cloud services and mobile. The growing business has offices in Northampton and Milton Keynes and a very strong regional presence in the Midlands.
"What I really like about ThinCats is that they don't hide away in an ivory tower. They are not faceless financiers; neither do they hide behind financial ratios and metrics. They visited us to gain a good understanding of our business needs and pressures. Having the ability to meet the team that will be making the decisions on your application is invaluable and very refreshing - you certainly wouldn't get that elsewhere", Simon Pickering continued.


Why Don't RIPv1 and IGRP Support Variable-Length Subnet Mask?
The ability to specify a different subnet mask for the same network number on different subnets is called Variable-Length Subnet Mask (VLSM). RIPv1 and IGRP are classful protocols and are incapable of carrying subnet mask information in their updates. Before RIPv1 or IGRP sends out an update, it performs a check against the subnet mask of the network that is about to be advertised and, in case of VLSM, the subnet gets dropped.
Let's look at an example. In the figure below, Router 1 has three subnets with two different masks (/24 and /30).
Router 1 goes through the following steps before sending an update to Router 2. These steps are explained in more detail in Behavior of RIP and IGRP When Sending or Receiving Updates.
First Router 1 checks to see whether 131.108.5.0/24 is part of the same major net as 131.108.6.0/30, which is the network assigned to the interface that will be sourcing the update.
It is, and now Router 1 checks whether 131.108.5.0 has the same subnet mask as 131.108.6.0/30.
Since it doesn't, Router 1 drops the network, and doesn't advertise the route.
Router 1 now checks whether 131.108.7.0/30 is part of the same major net as 131.108.6.0/30, which is the network assigned to the interface that will be sourcing the update.
It is, and now Router 1 checks whether 131.108.7.0/30 has the same subnet mask as 131.108.6.0/30.
Since it does, Router 1 advertises the network.
Notice that in the output above only one subnet is included in the update. This results in the following entry in Router 2's routing table, displayed using the show ip route command.
To avoid having subnets eliminated from routing updates, either use the same subnet mask over the entire RIPv1 network or use static routes for networks with different subnet masks.


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Линда Фрёлих (; в замужестве Тодд (); родилась 23 июня 1979 года, Пфорцхайм, земля Баден-Вюртемберг, Германия) — немецкая профессиональная баскетболистка, поигравшая в женской национальной баскетбольной ассоциации. Была выбрана на драфте ВНБА 2002 года во втором раунде под общим двадцать шестым номером командой «Нью-Йорк Либерти». Играла на позиции тяжёлого форварда и центровой.

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Линда родилась 23 июня 1979 года в городе Пфорцхайм (земля Баден-Вюртемберг) в семье Георга и Винеты Фрёлих, у неё есть младшие брат, Ричард, бывший игрок немецкой бундеслиги, и три сестры, Эвелин, Синди и Агнес. Выросла она в небольшом городе Ольдендорф (земля Нижняя Саксония), училась в соседнем городе Штаде в гимназии имени Винсента Любека.

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ISIS Is Falling in Iraq and Syria. Now What?
Kathy Pierre
As the founder of the organization, Preemptive Love Coalition, Jeremy Courtney has lived in Iraq for years, providing medical care, food, aid and assistance to the people of both Iraq and Syria.
In the years since the rise of ISIS, his organization has helped countless victims of war and refugees throughout the region.
Recently, reports indicated that the number of ISIS fighters had fallen under 1,000, and many cities have been liberated from the radical group.
We recently spoke with Courtney about the situation in region, what life is like for people in the countries and how we can all help.
There's been a lot of news about ISIS being down to its last few hundred fighters in the news and possibly being on the ropes in Iraq and Syria. But as someone who is on the ground there, what is the situation actually like, beyond the headlines?
I think this is something to be approached with extreme caution. One of the reasons that we had the rise of ISIS in the first place into a global threat is because the Obama administration very purposely and strategically wanted to shift the conversation and not deal with Iraq anymore and not be entangled with the Middle East anymore. And the quickness to get out of that conversation left a vacuum in which ISIS was able to grow again, and I fear we're pursuing a similar strategy all over again, because we're short-sighted and get tired easily and we want some new topics to focus on.
So, we're approaching the current state of ISIS, I'd say with cautious optimism. They have, in fact, lost a lot of the territory that they controlled just a year ago, and we've been able to be on the front lines of a number of those conflicts, helping people who are escaping. But yesterday this old man, white-beard executioner was found on the streets of Mosul where he'd just been kind of laying low and hiding out. These people are walking among us, they're here. They just changed their clothes and walked out. And in some cases we've probably shaken their hands and fed them food and given them medical care alongside all of the innocents.
So the idea that ISIS is defeated, is not untrue, it's just something that we need to say with some real caution and commitment to stay the course. They've lost territory, but that's not the same as defeating the ideology that gives rise to it all.
Are the individuals who became refugees and displaced during the rise of ISIS able to return home or is there anything to return to in most cases?
We're seeing and facilitating a lot of returns right now, but it does depend on your ethnicity, your religion, your land and which part of the country you're trying to return to. So, whether you're a refugee which means you crossed a national border or whether you're an internally displaced person, all that kind of stuff really does end up mattering here. If you're an Arab living in a Kurdish enclave, or vice versa, all of that can make a big difference. So people are returning home.
Parts of West Mosul are completely obliterated, parts of East Aleppo where we are in Syria are completely obliterated. So the prospect of returning there means we have to help people rebuild their homes, we have to turn the electricity back on for entire neighborhoods and towns, and we have to make infrastructural investments to turn water back on for hundreds of people. There's eventually gotta be a hospital or a school or people aren't going to return home.
So a lot of times it feels like the easy days of showing up on the front lines with food and water are behind us. Those were relatively easy things for us to do. They were super dangerous, but they weren't all that complicated. What we have now is the long, hard slog of rebuilding. And the clock is still ticking because people are only gonna put up with living like this for a year or two. And the hundreds of other groups like ISIS will be standing at the ready to make those promises—that the government has done nothing for you, the Christians have done nothing for you, the international community has done nothing, you should have never kicked us out. Or we can give you food, water, education, healthcare, you just need to trust us and kick out the infidels.
So this will all happen again if we do not step in and fill this gap as quickly as possible.
Preemptive Love has done an incredible job over the years of addressing different needs as they arise. How are you guys addressing these needs now that they've become logistically complicated and complex?
Well it helps that we're not a fly-by-night operation and we've got deep roots in the region. So we enter with a depth of relationship with locals, religious leaders, tribal leaders, local organizations. And everything we do is designed in our name, we do it by coalition. So we don't have to be the experts on everything or maybe even anything. We do have to remain faithful. We have to keep showing up, we have to keep pressing in. We talk about being first in and last to leave, which is just our way of challenging ourselves to continue being fast and flexible, but also making long-term commitments to people.
But just because the media moves on or U.S. foreign policy agendas might shift, this is our home, these are our people, and this is our neighborhood and we have to stay committed.
What are some of the misconceptions that you've seen in the West and in the media, what would surprise people with the situation?
Probably the extremity on both sides—for all you've seen in the news for the past three years, there are parts of Iraq and Syria that are totally normal. There's parts of these places that we've come to think of in such dire polarizing terms that I think it really can surprise people. And the other side, I think is the devastation of it all. Even as you try to imagine it, you can't actually imagine how bad it is until you smell the death in the streets or you see the buildings that are completely destroyed. It's at once, better and worse than you can imagine unless you just experience it.
For people who want to help and may not be familiar with your work there, can you tell me a little about what you guys are doing and how their support is directly helping the people in Iraq and Syria?
Preemptive Love Coalition is something we started here in Iraq over 10 years ago. And our work has changed over the years as the war has turned into a relative time of peace which then turned into the massive rise of ISIS and the displacement of millions of people, and then an extremely difficult fight against ISIS.
We've continued on, and we've embedded with the military on the front lines for years, showing up and doing whatever was needed most. And so that has had us providing emergency food, medicine, water, but also jobs and large-scale infrastructure programs. So we're engaged in a lot of stuff across Iraq and Syria—feeding 25,000 people a day at various outposts where people are fleeing the war, and really the goal is to be first in to these conflicts and last to leave.
So we show up when needs are urgent, when bombs are still falling and snipers are still sniping, but we're still here helping people rebuild and stand on their own two feet. So, people who are supporting this work really are not just engaged in the physical work of getting food, but it's a peace-making effort. It's a renewal of all things kind of work here. One step at a time.
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So why do companies choose the colours they do for their logos? Why aren't all logos merely colours we like? Blues and reds, maybe some purple ones here and there. It's because the colour of a logo needs to do so much more than merely appeal to our tastes. A logo colour has to help represent a brand the promise it makes. In this series, I'll examine several colours, and delve into why they're selected for the logos that they are. There's a reason for each and every one of them. This is the Branded Spectrum.


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Celebrating Kukur Tihar, a festival dedicated to dogs, with more than 150 canines (Photos)
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One of the most grandiose Hindu festivals of the year, Tihar, when houses are decked up with electric lights, earthen lamps (pala) and candles, started this week. Today, Nepali Hindus are celebrating Kukur Tihar or "day of the dogs"- a festival dedicated to human's best friend, dogs! According to the Hindu mythology, dogs are considered as the messenger of Yamraj- God of Death. Therefore, dogs are adorned with flowers garlands and offered treats on this day.
Sneha's Care, an animal shelter home established in 2014 to protect street dogs from all kinds of cruelty, marked the festival amid much vigor. The shelter home currently houses more than 150 canines and have rescued and rehabilitated more than 10,000 animals till date, informed Sneha Shrestha, animal rights advocate and founder of Sneha's Care.
"In 2013, my pet dog, Zara was poisoned by my neighbors. I was shattered and depressed for a long time after Zara's death. Humans are capable of such cruel behavior towards animals, hence it motivated me to establish this animal shelter so that I could protect them," she Sneha.
"When I started advocating for animal rights, I realized that we purchase dogs of foreign breeds by paying thousands of rupees while there are hundreds of dogs and other animals who are abandoned in the streets looking for a safe shelter. If we adopt these animals, they will have a house to live in and a human's desire to pet an animal will also be fulfilled. Whether it's a street dog or a foreign breed dog, they are both animals, and with proper love and care, they can be one's best friend," said Sneha.


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To make the filling, heat the oil in a pan and fry the onion, garlic and mushrooms, until softened. Add the pine nuts to the pan, cook for a further 2 minutes then remove from the heat.
Meanwhile, bring a pan of water to the boil and cook the diced butternut squash for 15 minutes until just tender. Drain and toss into the onion mixture along with the crumbled feta, spinach and stock. Pop the lid on the pan and cook for 2 minutes so the spinach wilts.
Divide the mixture equally between 4 individual pie dishes.
Heat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan/Gas 6. Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface to about ½cm thick.
Cut thin strips of pastry wide enough to go all the way around the lips of the pie dishes, brush the rims with the beaten egg and press the pastry strips down well.
Lift lids onto each pie from the rolled-out pastry, press the edges well to seal, pinch the edges and use any trimmings to decorate your pies. Brush with beaten egg to glaze and bake for 35 minutes until pastry is golden.


This name is in version 1.1 of The Plant List, record kew-2814530, and has not been changed.
This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Freylinia (family Scrophulariaceae).
The record derives from WCSP (in review) which reports it as an accepted name with original publication details: Fl. Pl. Africa 54: t. 2117 1995 .
Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:983898-1.


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