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Skomentowane przez Jeffrey Robinson dnia Lipiec 7, 2008 o 18:58

Man faces jail for cutting of duck's head
07.07.2008

A man from Warsaw who cut of a duck's head "for fun" during a drinking binge is facing up to two years' imprisonment.

The 33-year-old was drinking alcohol with friends close to a pond in Wolomin, near Warsaw. All of a sudden, he grabbed a duck, cut of its head and threw the dead bird into the pond.

The police arrested the man after being informed of the incident by a chance witness.

This is another instance of cruelty to animals in Poland that came to light in the last few days. Journalists from Lublin, south-eastern Poland, recently revealed a shocking video they received from an anonymous source made by three teenagers showing how they tortured a puppy.

Earlier this year, tourists in the mountains in the south of the country were convicted for killing a bear cub.

Skomentowane przez Jeffrey Robinson dnia Czerwiec 30, 2008 o 15:36

Ikea's eighth

30th June 2008
Ikea is furnishing Lublin with a new retail park despite unfavorable legislation

Inter IKEA Centre Group has unveiled plans to develop another retail park in Poland. Located in Lublin, the shopping center will feature an IKEA store as well as a supermarket, a DIY store and more than a hundred retail and service outlets on a 76,000-sqm plot. The value of the investment is estimated at EUR120 (zł.400) million and is expected to be completed in about three years.

The Lublin project will be IKEA's eighth in Poland and the shopping center is expected to revitalize the northern part of the city, along Al. Spółdzielczości Pracy. The company has also announced that it will contribute to covering the cost of redeveloping nearby road infrastructure. The retail park is expected to create as many as 2,500 jobs.

The announcement of the Lublin scheme comes approximately two months after the company said that it was seriously considering suspending all of its new investment projects in Poland due to unfavorable and restrictive new regulations considering large space retail.

"The still-unclear situation caused by the new large-space retail regulations make it impossible to get a building permit for any retail project of over 400 sqm" said Karolina Horoszczak, a spokesperson for IKEA.

Nevertheless, the company sees the legal obstacles as temporary and is optimistic about the project.

"We hope, however, that the situation will improve and, with the favorable attitude of the local authorities, we will soon be able to start the project", added Karolina Horoszczak.

Six of IKEA's existing shops in Poland are located in large retail parks under the label Park Handlowy and feature a supermarket, DIY store and other retail facilities. The company has its regional logistics facility, which serves as the central distribution center for all of IKEA's CEE locations, in Piotrków Trybunalski.

Skomentowane przez Jeffrey Robinson dnia Czerwiec 28, 2008 o 21:15

Nine Artists have been invited to take part in the exhibition: Mirosław Bałka, Andrzej Bielawski, Jürgen Blum-Kwiatkowski, Paweł Dutkiewicz, Kurt Fleckenstein, Jerzy Kałucki, Mikołaj Smoczyński, Ewa Zawadzka, Tomasz Zawadzki

(live-PR.com) - BWA Gallery in Lubin is the art center of concretism in Poland. With the exhibition “Minimum-Maximum” the gallery director Andrzej Bielawsk wants to demonstrate that the genre of minimal art by far has has not come to an end but that the art of “achieving a lot with little” still enjoys great popularity among visual arts.


Andrzej Mroczek : What inspired me to make this exhibition was the canon of minimal art, well-known to me - 'less is more'. It was a starting point, a provocation to present, through an exhibition, such way of thinking about art and way of entering the area of it, that one will be able to see how a concept of an artwork turns into an object.
I asked artists, who, as I see it, reducing a form and making it monumental, resent all what is unnecessary ballast for the essence of art. Concentration on what is the most significant value for art, introduces us to the very core of its existence, the spirit of it. This gives an impulse, which moves mind and soul the same time becoming matter for creation the space of art as well as, mentioned earlier, togetherness of mind and soul. And occasion to touch together and getting deeper and deeper into 'universe of art'.
I am offering this exhibition for consideration, also dedicating it to all viewers, who in that togetherness want to participate and enrich it with their feelings.

Skomentowane przez Jeffrey Robinson dnia Czerwiec 25, 2008 o 14:25

Dr James D. Watson in Lublin 25.06.2008

Dr James D. Watson, Nobel Prize laureate for discovering the structure of DNA is on a one week visit in Poland.

He is giving a speech on his work at the Medical University of Lublin, eastern Poland.

Watson was born in 1928 in Chicago. He received the Nobel Prize in 1962. Right now he is working on the subject of genetic causes for mental disorders, especially schizofrenia. Dr Watson's son suffers from that disease.

Dr Watson is in Poland with his wife. He is planning to visit Zamosc and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.