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Post by valpomike on Mar 15, 2009 4:53:11 GMT 1
This display must be stopped, if they use human parts.
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Post by gigi on Mar 16, 2009 13:44:49 GMT 1
If this is the same as Gunther von Hagens' BODY WORLDS exhibit, then I saw it in 2006 at a local museum. It was a very interesting exhibit - very educational, and I did not find it offensive in any way.
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Post by tufta on Mar 16, 2009 14:40:16 GMT 1
This display must be stopped, if they use human parts. Mike They do use human parts. And the display should be stopped I agree. |
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Post by gigi on Mar 16, 2009 15:54:16 GMT 1
This display must be stopped, if they use human parts. Mike They do use human parts. And the display should be stopped I agree. Do you mind if I ask you both your reasons for believing such a display should be stopped? |
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Post by tufta on Mar 17, 2009 10:51:48 GMT 1
They do use human parts. And the display should be stopped I agree. Do you mind if I ask you both your reasons for believing such a display should be stopped? Not at all, Gigi  But do you mind if I return the question? What has happened in the world that we should stop treating a human body as a sacred vessel for soul in a 'for the believers' version or as an object requiring respect for the non-believers. What has happened that we should stop thinking that the body after the death should be buried or cremated with respect. What has happened that we should stop thinkinh the only exceptions are medical - transplantations, education of medical students, scientific experiments? |
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Post by gigi on Mar 17, 2009 14:02:02 GMT 1
What has happened in the world that we should stop treating a human body as a sacred vessel for soul in a 'for the believers' version or as an object requiring respect for the non-believers. What has happened that we should stop thinking that the body after the death should be buried or cremated with respect. What has happened that we should stop thinkinh the only exceptions are medical - transplantations, education of medical students, scientific experiments? The exhibit that I saw was, in my opinion, a celebration of the human body. It was very educational (in fact, many local medical professionals and students attended the exhibit en masse), and to me it did not seem to be exploitative. I know that there was some controversy during the tour about whether or not all of the bodies were from donors who had expressed that their bodies be used in such a way, but during the exhibit we asked about that and learned that the donors of the plastinated bodies expressly wished to be a part of Body Worlds. I suspect that we all have somewhat different opinions about this topic, just as we do about such things as abortion, stem cell research, and organ donation. I don't think it is because we value and respect life and our bodies more or less than each other, we just have different perspectives on it. |
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 17, 2009 23:08:16 GMT 1
I suspect that we all have somewhat different opinions about this topic, just as we do about such things as abortion, stem cell research, and organ donation. I don't think it is because we value and respect life and our bodies more or less than each other, we just have different perspectives on it. I also have doubts about the exhibition. Why? There is really no need to use real human bodies if modern industry allows to produce faithful replicas of anything you want. |
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Post by gigi on Mar 17, 2009 23:13:09 GMT 1
There is really no need to use real human bodies if modern industry allows to produce faithful replicas of anything you want. That is one perspective. Here is another: The unique use of authentic specimens shows the details of disease, physiology and anatomy in a way that cannot be shown with models, textbooks or photos. In addition, the exhibition allows visitors to understand that each and every body has its own unique features, even on the inside. The experience in other cities has shown that with the Anatomical Sections and Prenatal Development exhibits that visitors are drawn to real specimens in a way that they are not to plastic models.www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/media/default.asp?releaseid=877 |
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 17, 2009 23:37:30 GMT 1
There is really no need to use real human bodies if modern industry allows to produce faithful replicas of anything you want. That is one perspective. Here is another: The unique use of authentic specimens shows the details of disease, physiology and anatomy in a way that cannot be shown with models, textbooks or photos. In addition, the exhibition allows visitors to understand that each and every body has its own unique features, even on the inside. The experience in other cities has shown that with the Anatomical Sections and Prenatal Development exhibits that visitors are drawn to real specimens in a way that they are not to plastic models.www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/media/default.asp?releaseid=877A clever defence. ;D ;D ;D ;D Yet, I still insist there is no such need. People certainly can do without real human bodies. Just like me in the past - I gave up fishing after taking a decision not to harm the natural environment, though wild fish are tastier than those grown in fish farms. I am sure that others may give up sth too.  |
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Post by Bonobo on Apr 22, 2009 5:54:33 GMT 1
Iran president triggers EU walkout4/20/09
GENEVA (AFP) — European Union delegates walked out of a major United Nations anti-racism conference on Monday after Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a verbal onslaught against "cruel" Israel.
The meeting which had already been boycotted by several Western countries such as the United States and Australia, as well as Israel, was plunged into further controversy as Ahmadinejad took to the stage.
Several demonstrators were ejected as the Iranian president began his speech at the conference in Geneva and soon afterwards delegates from the European Union quit the conference room in protest at some of his comments.
Ahmadinejad, who has previously called for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map, criticised the creation of a "totally racist government in occupied Palestine" in 1948, calling it "the most cruel and racist regime".
"They sent migrants from Europe, the United States ... in order to establish a racist government in the occupied Palestine," he added.
But while the speech from the Iranian leader, who has also described the Nazi Holocaust as a "myth", was shunned by Western powers, other delegates who stayed to hear him speak greeted his words with applause.
His address came after he held talks with UN chief Ban Ki-Moon, who had kicked off the conference by criticising countries who decided to stay away from Geneva.
"Some nations, who by rights should be helping to forge a path to a better future, are not here," Ban said, telling delegates he was "profoundly disappointed. "
"I deeply regret that some have chosen to stand aside," he added before holding his own meeting with Ahmadinejad.
In a statement released through his spokeswoman, Ban said that he would not tolerate any denying of the Holocaust, the slaughter of European Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II.
"He condemns Holocaust denial and those who minimise the importance of the Holocaust," Ban's spokeswoman said.
But despite his comments, the diplomatic fallout spread as Israel recalled its ambassador in protest at the Swiss president's decision to meet Ahmadinejad -- the Iranian's first formal meeting with a Western head of state since taking office in 2005.
Poland became the latest nation to boycott the meeting after the United States, Israel, Canada, Australia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and New Zealand.
Some European countries who did attend the event had warned that they would walk out if Ahmadinejad made "anti-Semitic accusations" during the event.
"If he utters racist or anti-Semitic accusations, we will leave the room immediately, " French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told France Info radio.
Kouchner said later that no compromise was possible in the light of Ahmadinejad' s remarks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu applauded countries that decided "to boycott this festival of hate."
The European Jewish Congress said Ahmadinejad' s presence meant the UN had "put the fox in charge of the hen house"
At least three demonstrators, dressed as clowns and shouting "racist, racist," wwere hustled out of the conference.
The French Union of Jewish Students claimed responsibility for the incident, in a statement that denounced the five-day conference as a "masquerade. "
The walkout was a repeat of the last such conference against racism held in Durban, South Africa, in 2001 when US and Israeli delegates stormed off over comments by delegates equating racism and Zionism.
"We speak of finding a new unity, as the times demand. Yet we remain weak and divided and stuck in old ways," Ban said Monday.
The Geneva meeting is meant to take stock of progress in fighting racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance since Durban.
But the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights underlined recently that the goals set then had not been achieved.
Monday is the 120th anniversary of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's birth and also marks the start of Holocaust commemoration events, including a ceremony in Geneva attended by leading Jewish figures.
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Post by valpomike on Apr 22, 2009 20:18:02 GMT 1
It is great to see, that Poland is with us, and the others, on this.
This man is a nut, and no one wants to hear him tell his tales.
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Post by gigi on Apr 28, 2009 15:04:43 GMT 1
Fear of swine flu spreads, like a virus
Created: 28.04.2009 11:19
A Pole who returned from Mexico and was admitted to a hospital in the western city of Zielona Gora with high fever does not have a swine flu, Ewa Kopacz, the Minister of Health has informed.
But Polish hospitals and health centers are afraid of treating patients with swine flu, and the dramatic reporting in the Polish press has helped spread panic among staff.
A woman who came back from Mexico in April decided to contact a local hospital when she heard about swine flu and discovered she had a fever. She was isolated from the rest of the patients and was placed under observation. After a thorough examination, however, it was established beyond doubt that she does not suffer from swine flu.
The false alarm caused panic in Polish hospitals and health centers, which are not ready yet to treat swine flu patients.
Dziennik and Super Express journalists contacted several hospitals, pretending they just came back from Mexico and did not feel well. The journalists were advised to contact their GP instead of coming to the hospital, where they could infect other patients with swine flu.
Even hospitals specializing in infectious diseases were not willing to admit the journalists straight away and asked them to contact health centres first.
Some doctors openly admit they do not know what to do in case of swine flu.
Airports tighten monitoring
Since April 26 passengers who come to Poland from the US, Mexico or Canada have been scanned for the symptoms of swine flu. Customs officers at the Warsaw Chopin’s International Airport were asked to report if they spotted a person that looks ill. They are also allowed to ask a passenger where exactly they stayed and even how they were feeling at present.
“So far only one person has been referred to an airport medical point for checkup but did not show swine flu symptoms,” Jakub Mielniczuk, spokesman of the Warsaw airport to the news.pl this morning.
An information campaign has also been launched at the airport. “All passengers are receiving leaflets on swine flu. Those who leave Poland learn how to prevent the disease, those who arrive are informed about the symptoms of swine flu and advised as to what steps to take if they discover swine flu symptoms,” says Mielniczuk.
He adds that for the time being no additional security measures will be taken, following the decision of the Main Sanitary Inspector. (mg/pg)
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Post by Bonobo on Apr 28, 2009 22:32:25 GMT 1
Fear of swine flu spreads, like a virus Created: 28.04.2009 11:19 I am not afraid. I like pork so swine won`t hurt me. Besides, if I survived the horrible bout of flu in February, nothing will break me now. |
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Post by tufta on Apr 29, 2009 18:44:35 GMT 1
News from Warsaw. Crazy day. I was one of the unlucky autochtones which had business around PKiN today... On one side, the work union demonstration  On the second side, European People's Party meeting  On the third side, police forces conentration. To protects VIPs or the workers?  At least on one side life seemed to flow normally  |
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Post by Bonobo on Apr 29, 2009 20:44:11 GMT 1
News from Warsaw. Crazy day. I was one of the unlucky autochtones which had business around PKiN today... Yes, there was serious riot. The police used gas and water cannons to disperse angry workers. Even foreign delegates went out of the Palace to watch the fight. www.tvn24.pl/-1,1597865,0,1,starcia-w-centrum-stolicy-ranni-stoczniowcy-w-szpitalu,wiadomosc.html    |
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Post by gigi on May 1, 2009 14:38:06 GMT 1
Bonobo, I think it is your civic duty to go forth among the masses and present your seemingly successful personal procreation plan. Your country needs your expertise! ;D
Poland threatened by depopulation
Created: 30.04.2009 12:04
By 2060 the population of Poland will drop by one fifth and there will be one employee for two pensioners, predicts the European Statistical Office.
In the years 1997-2007 the number of Poles decreased by 175,000, according to the Main Statistical Office (GUS). But the pace of changes is now speeding up.
The birth rate in Poland, which was recently higher than in previous years – influenced by the recent economic boom - will start dropping in two years, predicts Eurostat. Polish society will grow older, which may lead to a situation when there are not enough employees and too many pensioners.
In 50 years Polish cities will be depopulated as the number of inhabitants will drop significantly. The process already affected Lodz, centre Poland.
Business magazine Parkiet claims that Poland, in order to prevent depopulation, should provide Polish women with better economic conditions to give birth. It should also take more interest in attracting immigrants. (mg/pg)
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Post by Bonobo on May 1, 2009 17:21:42 GMT 1
Bonobo, I think it is your civic duty to go forth among the masses and present your seemingly successful personal procreation plan. Your country needs your expertise! ;D I stick to a slogan I read in one book long ago: trzeba j....ć, nic się nie bać! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by valpomike on May 1, 2009 18:00:05 GMT 1
On my trips, to Poland, I do my part in helping the growth of Poland, each chance I get. Because the Polish women are H O T!!!
I may be old, but not dead.
My grandfather, passed away around 80, and as per him, still trying to have another son.
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Post by gigi on May 1, 2009 18:28:04 GMT 1
I stick to a slogan I read in one book long ago: trzeba j....ć, nic się nie bać! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D What is necessary and not to be afraid of??? |
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Post by Bonobo on May 1, 2009 19:20:56 GMT 1
I stick to a slogan I read in one book long ago: trzeba j....ć, nic się nie bać! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D What is necessary and not to be afraid of??? It rhymes with bać very well. ;D ;D ;D ;D In English it starts with f... . ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by valpomike on May 2, 2009 1:32:03 GMT 1
Some one had to make some Polish women happy, it looked like the men did not want to, they just wanted to drink, and I don't drink.
Several place, in Poland, I saw, the Polish men did not give any attention to the women.
It's a dirty job, but some one had to do it, and I would again.
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Post by Bonobo on May 6, 2009 22:46:10 GMT 1
Fear of swine flu spreads, like a virus Created: 28.04.2009 11:19 A Pole who returned from Mexico and was admitted to a hospital in the western city of Zielona Gora with high fever does not have a swine flu, Ewa Kopacz, the Minister of Health has informed.
thenews.plThe countdown started. A 58 yo woman who flew from NYC to Poland was diagnosed to have the swine flu. Now the authorities are trying to track down all 178 co-passengers. www.tvn24.pl/-1,1598991,0,1,kopacz-mamy-juz-adresy-wspolpasazerow-zarazonej,wiadomosc.html |
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Post by Bonobo on May 9, 2009 22:09:24 GMT 1
Miller government knew about CIA prisons in Poland?
thenews.pl
15.04.2009
The government under the premiership of Leszek Miller (2001-4) knew about the alleged CIA detention facility in Poland, the existence of which has been denied by successive governments.
The Rzeczpospolita daily front pages what is presented as an `exclusive': that secret CIA prisons located in Szymany, northeastern Poland, were not only known about by Miller's government but that they actively covered them up.
Miller, when confronted with the allegations by TV journalists before - the accusations are not new - described them as, ""a fairy tale."
Rzeczpospolita writes that the existence of the prison has been verified, not only by its own reporters, but also by public broadcaster TVP Info journalists who are in possession of documents that undermine the stance of Polish authorities, which have claimed that they never cooperated with the CIA to this extent.
TVP Info and Rzeczpospolita also report that they have found a witness who had seen blindfolded and handcuffed prisoners being taken out of a plane which landed at Szymany airport.
Rzeczpospolita claims to have a source inside the Polish military who maintains that there was indeed a CIA base bear the Szymany airbase, and who says that the "Americans have something to thank Poland for."
Reports by Polish journalists that documents exist confirming the prisons in Poland are not new, however, and even the above quote that Americans have something to thank Poland for has featured in earlier stories made by other publications.
In September 2008 Gazeta Wyborcza ran a report stating that Polish prosecutors obtained a top secret memorandum from either late 2005 or early 2006 showing that a CIA prison existed from around 2003 onwards and closed in 2005.
Gazeta Wyborcza then quoted unnamed sources saying that they had seen the document, but who did not explicitly say that the prison served as a holding center for al-Qaeda terrorist suspects.
Gazeta reported that according to the document the secret prison was set up after the US and Poland signed an accord in 2002 to combat terrorism, following the 9/11 attacks in the US.
Flight logs
Today's reports in Rzeczpospolita and TVP Info rehash information already made in the report by the Council of Europe - Secret detentions and illegal transfers of detainees involving Council of Europe member states: second report - and published back in June 2007.Rzeczpospolita and TVP Info say that on 5 December 2002 at 14:56 a Gulfstream aircraft numbered N63MU landed at Szymany airport carrying CIA operatives who had arrived to set up the secret base at the small town of Stare Kiejkuty, 20 km from the airstrip, in buildings which had housed a secret intelligence unit No 2669, unofficially the Intelligence Personnel Training Center.
Later, another Gulfstream aircraft numbered N379P began flying in and out of Szymany from the 8 February 2003 when it touched down on a flight from Rabat, Morocco.
The information on the aircraft was based on flight logs which have been public for sometime and have never been disputed.
The new reports allege, however, that according to Eurocontrol, an institution which directs plane traffic, a gulfstream N379P flew from Tashkent to Glasgow on 31st July. In reality on 30th July the plane, flying from Kabul, landed in Szymany, where it was refueled. Rzeczpospolita claims to have a sale invoice of the fuel used for the flight.
Successive governments have denied any knowledge of the CIA `black sites' in Poland since the accusations were first made by Human Rights Watch late in 2005. The present prime minister, Donald Tusk, earlier announced that he had asked the Public Prosecutor to launch a special investigation to look into the matter.
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Polish school evacuated after wartime shells found
4/16/09
WARSAW (AP) — Police say that some 550 students were evacuated from a school in western Poland after workers found unexploded anti-tank shells believed to date back to World War II.
Police spokeswoman Dorota Dabrowska says workers building a new sports field on the grounds of the high school in Kozuchowo found the shells early Thursday. Experts were defusing the explosives.
Unexploded wartime ammunition is often found in Poland, which saw heavy fighting during the conflict.
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Post by Bonobo on May 18, 2009 21:36:00 GMT 1
Polish agent may have been kidnapped by a foreign power
Poland has launched a manhunt for a secret service officer amid fears that he may have been kidnapped by a foreign power.
By Matthew Day in Warsaw
telegraph.co. uk
08 May 2009
Stefan Zielonka, a signals officer with Polish military intelligence, disappeared without trace from his Warsaw flat two weeks ago.
With extensive knowledge of Polish agents working overseas, including their code names and contacts, intelligence officials are concerned that if Zielonka has fallen into the hands of a foreign secret service much of the country's intelligence network could be compromised.
It has also emerged that the head of military intelligence, Radoslaw Kujawa, has been called to appear before a parliamentary intelligence committee to explain why, despite the sensitive nature of Zielonka's position, that no inquiries were made into his disappearance for two weeks.
he newspaper Dziennik quoted a committee member as saying that as Zielonka had been on sick leave officials attributed his failure to turn up for work to continuing sickness, and presumed that he "would just send in another sick note".
Investigators probing the officer's disappearance have refused to rule out the possibility that he may have been the victim of a crime unrelated to his work or that he may have committed suicide.
Newspapers have quoted sources from the secret service saying that Zielonka may have been suffering from depression and had trouble both at home and at the office.
But Poland's defence ministry has remained coy about the subject.
"Please understand me: no comments on this issue," said Bogdan Klich, the defence minister.
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Post by Bonobo on May 22, 2009 21:44:55 GMT 1
MPs suicide remains a mystery
Polish Radio
18.05.2009
Two years after former minister Barbara Blida shot herself dead as agents searched her house, there are still more questions than answers as to why she took her own life.
In the morning of April 25, 2007 a group of Internal Security Agency officers entered Barbara Blida's house with an order to arrest her. During questioning, Blida - a former minister of construction in the left wing Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) government - asked for a break so she could go to the toilet. A few seconds later the officers heard a single shot. Blida had killed herself with a gun hidden in a bathroom cabinet, while her house was full of law enforcement officers.
Barbara Blida was a well known left wing politician. Since the age of twenty she was a Communistic Party member. For many years she worked as an engineer. She entered politics in 1989 and became an MP for the post-communist SLD.
Her career took off and she became Minister for Construction and Spatial Management. In 2005 she left politics and went back to business. Accusations followed that she became involved scam involving making bribes to contacts in the coal industry.
The security services were alerted and an arrest warrant was issued, based on accusations made by a Silesian woman, Barbara Kmiecik.
Kmiecik claimed that Blida was connected to the so-called `coal mafia' – an large scale organized crime group.
Other accusations involve the possibly illegal financing of former president Aleksander Kwasniewski' s electoral campaign.
Smoking gun?
The manner of Blida's death has raised other questions. A female office from the security services was assigned to watch Blida at all times as officers searched her house.. Where was she when Blida reached for her gun? A film recording the questioning and search of her home stops after just 10 seconds and shows only the moment officers entered Blida's house.
Some allege that the evidence against Blida was weak and that her arrest was clearly political.
Critics say that the justice minister under the then Law and Justice administration, the young and ambitious Zbigniew Ziobro, many times used public prosecutors politically. Blida's party colleagues say she committed suicide because she did not want to become another victim of Ziobro's political maneuvering.
In the autumn of 2007, a group of SLD MPs demanded a special investigative parliamentary committee be set up to look into Blida's case. After a year and a half, however, the committee has failed to uncover anything significant and has raised even more concerns. Recently, a public prosecutor announced that "probably a document launching the investigation was forged."
The only person to be accused of any illegality is Grzegorz S., an officer leading the raid on Blida's house. The public prosecutor's office alleged that he made some serious procedural mistakes and that he should have checked if there were any weapons in Blida's house right at the start of the action.
But can he be the only person guilty of crimes connected with her death? All political parties claim that more people should appear before the court. But, of course, they point out completely different people from completely different parties.
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Post by Bonobo on May 31, 2009 19:25:55 GMT 1
Mein Kampf publisher convicted
Agence France-Presse
May 26, 2009
THE Polish publisher of extracts of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf has been convicted of breaching copyright in a case brought by German officials who aim to stop spreading the Nazi leader's ideas.
Poland's PAP news agency reported today that the publisher, identified only as Marek S, received a three-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, from a court in the southwestern city of Wroclaw. He was also fined 2271 euros ($A4,070).
The German state of Bavaria has owned the rights to Mein Kampf since 1945, when Hitler committed suicide as his regime's defeat neared in the closing weeks of World War II.
Bavarian authorities, who say they keep a close guard on the book's copyright in an effort to smother attempts to rehabilitate Nazism, have regularly brought cases against publishers.
They launched their case in Poland in 2005 against Marek S and his publishing house, XXL. They had sought an eight-month suspended sentence.
In 2007, a Wroclaw court had decided to drop the case, ruling that while the publishing house had breached copyright, it had also acted in good faith and withdrawn the book from shelves and destroyed copies in its possession.
The print run of the Polish edition was 20,000.
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Post by Bonobo on Jul 3, 2009 18:38:44 GMT 1
No smoking in pubs?
thenews.pl
19.06.2009
Polish parliamentarians have given up on banning smoking in pubs, altering pending legislation to leave the choice up to owners.
The health subcommission is working on legislation that will ban smoking in public places including: schools, workplaces, cultural and sporting centres, on public transport, in train stations, bus stops and airports. Besides that, it will be illegal to smoke within ten metres of a building.
However, MPs are backing down from the more controversial regulation of banning smoking in bars where there is only one room. Instead, bar owners will be able to decide whether or not their business will be `smoking' or `non-smoking. '
"The goal of the law is to protect against second hand smoke. Owners of restaurants will have to choose from whom they want to earn money: from smokers or non-smokers and clients will have a choice as to where to go," stated Beata Malecka-Libera, member of Civic Platform who prepared the change in legislation.
The bill is set to be voted upon in the Sejm, the lower house of parliament, just after vacation. It would go into force from 1 January 2010.
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Post by valpomike on Jul 3, 2009 21:25:25 GMT 1
I hope they leave the choice to the owners of the place. A smoker does not have to go into a place that let people smoke, if they do want to.
Mike
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 7, 2009 20:14:54 GMT 1
Sunday, September 6, 2009
ISKRA Polish jet crash landing, pilot unharmed - Cleveland Air Show
Pilot Michael Hoyle was all set to perform in the 2009 Cleveland Air Show this weekend, but unfortunately for him, his performance was canceled on Friday, due to the fact that he had to crash land the plane, during a test run.
According to fox8.com, Hoyle, who has been flying for nearly 40 years now, was in the midst of a test run on Friday evening, when he noticed that the landing gear on his ISKRA Polish jet, would not come down.
But a few moments later, Hoyle managed to land the plane in its belly, leaving a trail of smoke behind him. Captain Pollen, who is with the Canadian National Defense, was also doing a test run in his F-18 nearby and saw the whole thing.
Pollen said that Hoyle, who walked away from the crash landing unharmed, couldn’t have handled the situation any better. And it seems that Hoyle’s crash landing was quite a popular topic amongst the other pilots in Saturday’s air show.
Film www.tvn24.pl/-1,1618282,0,1,polski-samolot-ladowal-bez-podwozia,wiadomosc.html
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 25, 2009 22:52:33 GMT 1
Graduate job crisis in Poland
thenews.pl
14.09.2009
The number of graduates without a job has grown dramatically in Poland.
The unemployment rate among graduates has increased by 44 per cent within the last year, which means that over 22,000 new graduates have been left without a job.
"In times of financial crisis, the demand for employees, especially inexperienced ones, falls," says Grzegorz Maliszewski from Millennium Bank, quoted in Puls Biznesu.
Graduates are also having to compete with experienced and highly qualified unemployed, made redundant as employers are forced to cut costs.
The economic crisis is not the only reason why it is so difficult for graduates to find a job in Poland. An educational system out of step with the needs of employers also causes problems.
"Universities produce too many humanities graduates instead of, for example, engineers. I wouldn't be surprised if unemployment among engineers does not exist," says Malgorzata Rusewicz from the Polish Confederation of Private Employers.
Poland's current jobless rate has remained stable over the last quarter at just under 11 percent. But young graduates are becoming more and more over representative on dole queues, a situation made worse by growing numbers of young people returning to Poland from the UK and elsewhere, in an attempt to escape the recession in much of western Europe.
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