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  • President of Poland to visit Marseilles Sunday

    Poland News
    16 May 2012 | 1:57 am
    The president of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski, who will be in Illinois later this week to attend the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Summit in Chicago, will tour and attend ceremonies at the National Guard Training Center in Marseilles Sunday, May 20, according to a Gov.

  • CIA Prisons In Poland Case Continues in Krakow

    Krakow Post
    Giuseppe Sedia
    15 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    The investigation into Poland’s involvement in extraordinary rendition and ‘enhanced’ interrogation is being played out in Krakow courtrooms. Set in a green corner of Poland scattered with bubbling springs and placid lakes, the manor house that is home to the 2nd Unit Training Centre of the Agencja Wywiadu (Poland’s intelligence agency) is located in the village of Stare Kiejkuty in the Masurian Lakeland. The 2nd Unit’s headquarters, known as ‘the wood’ among Polish security operatives, is tucked away out of sight, separated from the 1st Unit by a small grove of trees…

  • EU leaders threaten to boycott Euro 2012 games in Ukraine

    WBJ International news
    13 May 2012 | 5:00 pm
    The country was also forced to cancel a Central Europe summit after numerous leaders refused to attend

  • In the spotlight: Same-sex marriage

    WBJ Domestic news
    13 May 2012 | 5:00 pm

  • Another Hilton for Warsaw

    WBJ Top Real Estate News
    13 May 2012 | 5:00 pm
    The developer behind the project says it will be ready by September 2013
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  • President of Poland to visit Marseilles Sunday

    16 May 2012 | 1:57 am
    The president of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski, who will be in Illinois later this week to attend the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Summit in Chicago, will tour and attend ceremonies at the National Guard Training Center in Marseilles Sunday, May 20, according to a Gov.

  • Positive Investment Sentiment for Polish Hotels

    15 May 2012 | 11:52 pm
    The Polish hotel market was one of the best performing in Europe in 2011 with hotels in Warsaw posting an 8.3% appreciation in room yield when compared to 2010, according to Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels' latest Hotel Intelligence report.

  • Polish politics hits new low by Remi Adekoya

    15 May 2012 | 7:38 pm
    I was a Boeing 737 Captain and an Aviation Lawyer involved in several accident investigations worldwide.

  • Zoo break-in leaves 2 female giraffes dead, one male widowed

    15 May 2012 | 3:23 pm
    Two female giraffes at a zoo in central Poland died after vandals broke into the facility, and officials are trying to find a companion for their last remaining giraffe - a male.

  • Lodz Zoo Break-In Leaves 2 Giraffes Dead In Poland

    15 May 2012 | 11:19 am
    Two female giraffes at a zoo in central Poland died after vandals broke into the facility, and officials are trying to find a companion for their last remaining giraffe a male.
 
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  • CIA Prisons In Poland Case Continues in Krakow

    Giuseppe Sedia
    15 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    The investigation into Poland’s involvement in extraordinary rendition and ‘enhanced’ interrogation is being played out in Krakow courtrooms. Set in a green corner of Poland scattered with bubbling springs and placid lakes, the manor house that is home to the 2nd Unit Training Centre of the Agencja Wywiadu (Poland’s intelligence agency) is located in the village of Stare Kiejkuty in the Masurian Lakeland. The 2nd Unit’s headquarters, known as ‘the wood’ among Polish security operatives, is tucked away out of sight, separated from the 1st Unit by a small grove of trees…

  • Hutnik Stadium Looking Good

    Jamie Stokes
    14 May 2012 | 10:24 am
    England’s training ground is looking spruce and professional with three weeks to go before the team is expected in Krakow. Fears that the Hutnik stadium might be below par have proved unfounded as a major refurbishment of the pitch and buildings nears conclusion. In December last year, British tabloid The Sun published a scathing report on the Nowa Huta ground, branding it “a shambolic dump… barely fit for a pub team.” Today, the newly-laid pitch is looking lush and the ground’s buildings have been fixed up and repainted. Before… …After Building debris remains to…

  • Lectures, Workshops Reveal Medieval Craft Secrets

    Krakow Post
    12 May 2012 | 9:08 am
    This month sees the start of a programme of lectures, workshops and more, aimed at revealing the secrets of the Medieval master craftsmen who worked in Krakow. The project will be held on Tuesdays and Fridays, and will be a chance for participants to learn some of the skills and techniques, and produce their own works of art. Grind your own dyes to create authentic traditional colours, learn how to decorate furniture panels, practise the art of decorating books and manuscripts by hand, or learn the techniques used for making tapestry and jewellery. There will also be opportunities to learn…

  • Krakow Photomonth: Tips and Ideas

    Krakow Post
    12 May 2012 | 8:41 am
    The Krakow Post’s resident photographer David McGirr shares some insights gained from 12 years of looking at the city through a lens. I long ago stopped considering myself a tourist, but I still photograph the obvious, A-list locations almost weekly. It’s a compulsion – an addiction. The city always looks beautiful through the lens. It’s like living with a supermodel – you might get used to her, sometimes irritated by her, but it is so tempting to whip out the camera for just one more shot. As someone who is equally passionate about Krakow and photography, I can assure you that…

  • ‘Any Idiot Can Find a Brothel in Krakow’

    Norma Costello
    11 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    “I pay for sex. So what? The girls here like me, I treat them better than their own men and we have fun. A lot of guys who visit Krakow are at the same thing. People need to get over themselves.” Uncomfortable words, but how surprised should we be that a tourist hotspot like Krakow is also on the sex tourism trail? Shamelessly candid Mike, a 42-year- old plumber from Liverpool, is a self- proclaimed sex tourist. His eyes light up with expert acumen as he describes his favourite brothel on ul. Długa. “It’s not exactly high end, but I don’t like that kind of thing anyway, I pay 200…
 
 
 
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  • Nature on a rollercoaster

    Decoy
    7 May 2012 | 12:28 pm
    The traditional split of seasons into four blocks of three months has been one that never seems to fit a calendar exactly. When growing up in the countryside in Ireland, the understanding was that the seasons might not have always matched up to ‘conventional’ wisdom. Spring starts in February, usually when the first daffodils appear and cuckoos can be heard for the first time. The season of growth continues on through until about mid-May. Summer then (theoretically at least) appears from about the end of May, through June, July and August. By the end of August, there is a slight…

  • The trashy side of Warsaw

    polandianguest
    29 Apr 2012 | 10:03 am
    This post is brought to you by the delightful – Lon (mochafueled) - who will be available for questions and arguments in the comments section. Who’s Responsibility…. Lovely clear blue skies, a gentle breeze with a pleasant warm temperature I started my walk along the Wistula River this past Sunday. Starting at Poniatowski Bridge at a little after the lunch hour I started a leisurely walk north towards the Old City along the water front. View across the Vistula to the new football stadium I had put out of mind my experience the previous week, World Earth Day, of all the broken…

  • Krakow – smog city

    island1
    27 Apr 2012 | 3:00 am
    Air pollution levels in Krakow reached record levels in March and the city has no plan for tackling the problem. Literally no plan. The local government regards slowly suffocating its citizens to death as no big deal. If you want a breath of relatively clean air in this town it’s now advisable to squat down behind standing traffic and suck the fumes directly from exhaust pipes. Below is a thing I wrote when I was feeling particularly annoyed about this and turned to the infallible weapon of satire. In the cold light of retrospection I feel even more annoyed – a lot of people are going…

  • I Kid You Not!

    Decoy
    22 Apr 2012 | 11:30 am
    The key soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Hamlet has the title ‘hero’ asking “To be or not to be? That is the question.” A modern twist on this query seems to have emerged though, now asking “To breed or not to breed?”  This was highlighted by the cover of a recent publication of Wprost magazine, which indicated that 54% of young Poles indicate that they do not wish to have children. There might be some surprise at this but when considered in more detail, it probably makes sense, and in a way would be seen as a sign of progress. To breed or not to breed…

  • The Toilet Seat Conundrum

    Decoy
    17 Apr 2012 | 12:00 pm
    It’s a question as old as time itself – or at least since the advent of indoor plumbing: Toilet seat up or down? The question seems innocuous itself, but is one that can rip a relationship apart (or develop into an episode of a sit-com, if you happen to have some cameras and canned laughter available). We can all imagine the scene, GIRL: “You left the toilet seat up again!” GUY: “So…?” GIRL: “I had to get up in the middle of the night to go and…” GUY: “… you fell in? Again?!?” GIRL: “Again! Why can’t you…
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  • How to Build A House (Part 1 of 3)

    Ben
    25 Apr 2012 | 6:22 am
    HEALTH WARNING: Warning – attempting to build anything more than a garden shed in Poland may result in severe medical difficulties including but not limited to: stress, shock, mental breakdown, sudden hair loss, suicidal tendencies and in extreme cases the urge to kill your builder and/or council’s building inspector.  Other side effects may include marital problems such as arguments and in severe cases divorce.   All building work is associated with financial discomfort which if untreated may turn in to a haemorrhage and ultimately bankruptcy.  Symptoms may last over an…

  • Smoking Ban Arrives!

    Ben
    16 Nov 2010 | 2:21 am
    As of Monday 15th November 2010 Poland now has a total smoking ban in places such as hospitals, schools, train stations, restaurants and pubs. Pubs and restaurants must now have a special place for smokers which is sealed off from the rest of the premises and specially designated for smoking. However in a typical bizarre Polish fashion – even though the new law has already become effective, the Straż miejska (city guard) has not been given the powers to issue fines to anybody breaching the new rules.  Apparently they won’t be able to do anything until the New Year 2011. …

  • Combatting Power Outages

    Ben
    4 Jun 2010 | 5:13 am
    As many of you will know from my post about buying a generator I have a lot of problems with my electricity supplier Enion where I live.  In fact I have got so sick of constant power failures I have started to keep a log.  These are the entries so far for 2010: 5th Jan 2010 – no power from 0800 until 1500 (planned works) 17th Mar 2010 – no power from 0817 – 0915 (no notice given) 25th Mar 2010 – whole house had a power cut lasting a few seconds.  After that 1 phase was out for about 10-15 minutes (no notice given). 27th Mar 2010 – no power for 20 seconds at…

  • UK TV in Poland – update

    Ben
    23 May 2010 | 7:58 am
    Just a quick follow up post regarding watching UK tv from Poland – rather than set up our own British in Poland dedicated server it works out even cheaper to just use the VPN services from a company called HideIP VPN. Their VPN service is marketed towards those people who want to mask their IP address for privacy reasons (hence the name “Hide IP”) but it serves our purpose of making a computer appear to be based in the UK. I have tested it using both Windows XP and on two installations of Ubuntu and it worked fine on both the BBC iPlayer and ITV Player websites. On…

  • Warning about Ticks

    Ben
    25 Mar 2010 | 6:44 am
    My mother-in-law keeps warning me about “kleszcze” falling out of trees when we’re in the garden and yesterday I saw an ad on the telly about vaccinations from “kleszcze” illnesses so I finally decided to look up what this terribly scary “kleszcz” thing is in the dictionary.  To my disappointment it isn’t some kind of bat like predator with big teeth, it’s just a tick. So then I started to wonder what the paranoia is about ticks as I have never heard about them being a problem in the UK.  Well apparently the problem is due to Tick-borne…
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    W-wa Jeziorki

  • Photography: the Law of Diminishing Returns disappears up its own fundament

    Michael Dembinski
    16 May 2012 | 5:16 am
    At first, many assumed it was an early April Fool's joke. Leica - that most iconic brand name in photography - is bringing out a digital camera that only takes black-and-white photographs. The Leica M Monochrom, announced last week, is the latest in a long series of rangefinder cameras, starting with the M3, which appeared nearly six decades ago. The M8 was the first of the series to go digital (it was not a success); it was replaced by the M9, which, with its full-size sensor was more warmly received. And now, before the M10 hits the streets sometime later this year, the M Monochrom (18…

  • Biblical sky

    Michael Dembinski
    13 May 2012 | 2:25 pm
    As I wrote this time three years ago, this is the time of the Ice Saints. On cue, they came; St Pancras and Servatus, and with them unseasonably cold weather crashing in after a hot start to spring. On Friday, it was 30C, yesterday 12C, today the thermometer was showing 9C. Cold rain lashed down on Warsaw. But by this evening, sunshine began penetrating the leaden skies. Eddie observed from the kitchen rain falling through the lowering rays - ideal conditions, I noted, for a rainbow to appear (as it usually does) to the south-east. And a chance to try the new 10-24mm lens. Now, my old lenses…

  • Harbingers

    Michael Dembinski
    13 May 2012 | 10:34 am
    Whenever strangers appear in Westerns or in Tolkien, they bring portents of ill to come. Hooded men, astride black steeds, silently measuring up the situation... The worst thing is not knowing - what do they want? Who are they working for? Whatever they bring, it's never change for the better - Will the local residents' lives be blighted by their arrival? Here in Jeziorki, away from the hurly-burly of overcrowded inner-city Warsaw, yet still within the city limits, the local people prize the solitude and the rural vistas. While the nearby airport shields us from unrestricted development, the…

  • A Zone of My Own II: Mysiadło

    Michael Dembinski
    12 May 2012 | 3:11 pm
    It's been a while (five years) since I last wandered into the site of the former state farm PGR Mysiadło. After a failed privatisation ending in the bankruptcy of the new owners, Eco Mysiadło, in 2000, the site, straddling ul. Puławska just south of Warsaw's border, has gone to seed. This used to be a large tomato-growing business, with many greenhouses, with boilers heating the crops via large underground pipes. Some time since my last visit, in 2007, most of the buildings on the site were demolished. Today started rainy and grey, a worthy klimat in which to pay homage to Tarkovsky's…

  • Slow work wastes money

    Michael Dembinski
    11 May 2012 | 12:56 pm
    On 1 May, 2010, a set of temporary traffic lights was placed in lieu of the closed footbridge across ul. Puławska linking ul. Jagielska (for Las Kabacki forest). A week earlier a chunk of it had fallen onto the bus stop below; no one was hurt, fortunately. Since then, for the past two years, traffic on the hyper-congested Puławska is regularly brought to yet another standstill every time a pedestrian wishes to cross.The old bridge was dismantled in August 2010; work on a new bridge started the following April. By the autumn of 2011, I thought the new bridge was ready to be opened - but no.
 
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  • Walk the talk

    scatts
    2 May 2012 | 12:50 pm
    I’ve noticed people generally fall into two groups when it comes to speaking on the telephone; those who walk around and those who don’t. In our house the ladies are both walkers. The instant the mobile is at the ear the legs start working, almost as if the radiation from the phone is triggering receptors in the walking part of the brain. I’m the opposite most of the time although even for me some conversations require movement. Zosia has had her phone for about a year now. At age 8 it was largely unused and not really understood but now age 9 it is becoming a widely used…

  • This is summer, enjoy it while you can!

    scatts
    29 Apr 2012 | 5:43 am
    Warsaw is basking in temperatures of around 30C this weekend. Flicking through the tabs of the weather app I’m struggling to find anywhere with better weather in any part of the world. This is good timing because we are now into what most are calling “the long weekend” which is actually a whole week of people missing from the workplace. Both the 1st and 3rd of May are bank holidays, that’s Tuesday and Thursday so many people are filling in the gaps. I’m only taking the Wednesday off but even with that I get a weekend, one day at work, three days off, one day at…

  • Another Easter

    scatts
    9 Apr 2012 | 6:16 am
    Some snaps of the family Easter this year. Nothing revolutionary. Easter Basket At the church for basket blessing A walk on Freta One of the many "display graves" Heading towards the old town Display grave of the military church View of Freta again
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  • Changing The Public Discourse – The Greek and French Elections

    William Wall
    11 May 2012 | 5:36 am
    William Wall argues that election results in France and Greece puts the left/right discourse  firmly back on the map, after thirty years of right-wing hegemony. What is happening is the radicalisation of public discourse, a possibility that terrifies those who benefit most from the status quo. The Eighth of May was the Fête de la Victoire in France. [...]

  • Counting Crows – Underwater Sunshine (or what we did on our summer vacation)

    Michael OConnor
    9 May 2012 | 9:13 am
    Counting Crows follow up on 2008′s Saturday Nights Sunday Mornings with an album of cover versions Underwater Sunshine (or what we did on our summer vacation) from the likes of Big Star, Gram Parsons, Teenage Fanclub and Fairport Convention. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and poorly conceived covers albums (hello Sinead [...]

  • Terrorism in Dostoevsky and Conrad – a Response from Irish History

    Tom Brace
    2 May 2012 | 3:34 am
    The romantic view of terrorists as misfits and lost souls, presented by Dostoevsky and Conrad in their work, is very much at odds with the practical and structured guerilla warfare that was seen during Ireland's War of Independence

  • Terrorism in Dostoevsky and Conrad

    Mark Harkin
    26 Apr 2012 | 5:54 am
    In the world of fictional drama, terrorists are useful and popular – useful to writers who want to propel their plots, and popular with viewers and readers who find subversives so compelling. They’re intelligent, driven characters, they’re prepared to kill or be killed and they think that moral good can be achieved by immoral acts. [...]

  • I Burn Paris by Bruno Jasieński – A review

    Robert Looby
    24 Apr 2012 | 5:22 am
    In his 1921 “Manifesto on the Immediate Futurisation of Life” Bruno Jasieński called for Poland’s national poets – “the stale mummies of mickiewiczes and słowackis” – to make way from the “plazas, squares and streets” for the new: Futurists like himself. Many years later, as Soren Gauger tells us in the afterword to this excellent [...]
 
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  • Czy wiesz, jak działa matryca w Twoim aparacie?

    Alex Paleczny
    16 May 2012 | 3:15 am
    Większość osób wie, że matrycy nie powinno się dotykać palcami, że należy dbać, aby nie uległa ona zabrudzeniu i że czasem zachodzi konieczność jej wyczyszczenia. Czy jednak wiecie na jakiej zasadzie ona działa? Poniżej krótki film wyjaśniający funkcjonowanie tego niezwykle ważnego elementu.

  • Ile mogą wytrzymać współczesne lustrzanki?

    Alex Paleczny
    15 May 2012 | 3:04 am
    Próba ognia, próba lodu, a może próba… samochodu ciężarowego? Postanowił to sprawdzić jeden z autorów DigitalRev. „Królikiem doświadczalnym” został Canon 7D. Czy udało mu się przetrwać te tortury? Zobaczcie w filmie poniżej.

  • Leica 0 – jeszcze droższy najdroższy aparat na świecie

    Alex Paleczny
    14 May 2012 | 4:23 am
    Prawie równy rok temu pisałem o rekordowej cenie, jaką uzyskała na aukcji WestLicht Photographica Leica 0, a konkretnie egzemplarz o numerze seryjnym 107 z 1923. W tym przypadku 107 oznacza, że był to siódmy wyprodukowany egzemplarz tego aparatu. Cena, która została wtedy osiągnięta, to 1 320 tysięcy Euro, czyli prawie 2 milionów dolarów! Tegoroczna aukcja WestLicht przyniosła kolejny rekord. Rekordzistą jest znowu Leica-0 z 1923 roku. Tym razem był to aparat o numerze seryjnym 116, czyli 16 wyprodukowany egzemplarz.

  • Impreza premierowa Adobe Creative Cloud i Creative Suite 6

    Alex Paleczny
    11 May 2012 | 4:23 am
    Już za kilka dni, 16 maja, odbędzie się w Warszawie polska premiera nowego Adobe Creative Cloud i pakietu Creative Suite 6. Podczas tego spotkania odwiedzą nas między innymi sławni Terry White, Janson Levine i Paul Trani, którzy pokażą w jaki sposób CS6 i Adobe Creative Cloud mogą pomóc w pełni wykorzystać własny potencjał. Zaprezentują nowe narzędzia, nowe mobilne środowisko pracy i zaawansowane metody publikowania – zarówno grafiki i zdjęć, jak i stron internetowych i treści wideo. Spotkanie odbędzie się…

  • LensBling – niby gadget, ale może ułatwić życie podczas sesji

    Alex Paleczny
    10 May 2012 | 3:35 am
    LensBling, to nowy pomysł firmy BlackRapid, znanej głównie nowatorskich z pasków do aparatów. Jest to seria dekielków do obiektywów, z wyraźnymi oznaczeniami ogniskowej. Coś takiego przyda się każdemu, kto podczas sesji próbował na szybko znaleźć właściwy obiektyw w torbie. Oczywiście teoretycznie można dbać o porządek i zawsze mieć każdy obiektyw w tej samej przegrodzie – ale w praktyce bywa różnie. :) Dekielki będą dostępne już wkrótce, w cenie 8,5 dolara za sztukę. Planowane są…
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