Daily Asthma Meds Keep Lungs in Play During Exercise Mar 1, 2008
Dr. Iwona Stelmach of N. Copernicus Hospital in Lodz and colleagues found that of the four treatments they evaluated, the two including the anti-asthma drug montelukast (Singulair) were the most effective, but all were better than placebo. "Control of childhood asthma with exercise-induced bronchoconstriction can be obtained by using regular controller treatment," Stelmach and colleagues write in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. (MEDLINEplus)
I See London ... Feb 28, 2008
"Undergarments were pretty much kept well out of sight in the old days," said Ewa Sieranska, curator at the Central Textile Museum in Lodz, which loaned 140 items to the exhibition called "From Pantaloons to G-Strings.". Among notable items on display in this town 150 miles east of Warsaw is a white garter belt with pink hearts and clasps to attach to silk stockings, a style popular before pantyhose were developed in the 1960s. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
'Unmentionables' In Plain View Feb 28, 2008
"Undergarments were pretty much kept well out of sight in the old days," said Ewa Sieranska, curator at the Central Textile Museum in Lodz, which loaned 140 items to the exhibit called "From Pantaloons to G-Strings.". "At the beginning of the 20th century you couldn't show them at all, and later only a little bit, whereas now they're everywhere," she added. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Weird News)
I see London,I see France ... Feb 27, 2008
"Undergarments were pretty much kept well out of sight in the old days," said Ewa Sieranska, curator at the Central Textile Museum in Lodz, which loaned 140 items to the exhibit called "From Pantaloons to G-Strings.". advertisement. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Dell opens second European plant Jan 24, 2008
The Round Rock-based company (NASDAQ: DELL) says the factory in Lodz, Poland, locates Dell production capabilities closer to a growing customer base in Central and Eastern Europe and will improve delivery times by two days. "As we saw our Central and Eastern European businesses grow, we knew we needed a manufacturing base here to maintain our ambition for the region," founder and CEO Michael Dell says. (Austin Business Journal, TX)
A Nazi past casts a pall on name of a disease Jan 23, 2008
He rose to a relatively high military rank and spent some of the war in a medical office three blocks from the Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland ... Records show that other members of the Lodz health office did such research and that Wegener autopsied a prisoner with oxygen injected in his bloodstream in an embolism study. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Hacked TV Remote Derails Trams Jan 15, 2008
A 14-year-old boy in Poland has de-railed up to four trams using a modified TV remote control, injuring 12 people and triggering chaos in the city of Lodz ... "He studied the trams and the tracks for a long time and then built a device that looked like a TV remote control and used it to manoeuvre the trams and the tracks," a Lodz police spokesperson told a polish Newspaper ... Problems with the signalling system on Lodz's tram network were noticed when a driver attempting to steer his vehicle to... (Smart House)
Hour-by-hour forecast Jan 3, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 01/03/08 07:15:48 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 55% Visability: 10 miles (16 km). (Florida Today)
Andrzej Wajda fictionalizes massacre that killed his father Dec 30, 2007
His father taught him to draw, which inspired him to study fine arts before attending the Lodz film school, which launched a career that won him renown for films like "Ashes and Diamonds," "Canal," "Man of Marble," and "Man of Iron.". To him, Katyn is one of the most tragic war crimes in history and a topic he could not have tackled before communism collapsed in 1989, because Moscow refused to acknowledge it. (Boston Globe)
More of this story Dec 21, 2007
A one-mark note from the Lodz Ghetto shows a background of Stars of David surrounded by barbed wire ... Warsaw, Krakow, Lodz, they all had ration coupons and scrip money, Feller notes ... When the Nazis invaded Poland, the entire family was swept into the Lodz ghetto and eventually perished. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Delusive Orders Dec 13, 2007
In the case of the museum from lodz this context is its tradition of the constructivist avant-garde and its postwar continuations, while in the case of the Moenchengladgach museum minimalism and conceptualism of the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition being an encounter of two museum collections with the works of contemporary artists is not meant to remind us of those artistic phenomena of the past; instead it focuses on the possibilities of their reworking and bringing them up to date. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Read Indepth Article Dec 13, 2007
Delusive Orders - Museum of Art Lodz - absolutearts ... "Delusive Orders" 2007-12-13 until 2008-02-24 Lodz, , PL Poland ... The starting point for the project called Delusive Orders is the context in which the two institutions that have undertaken it function and perform: namely, Muzeum Sztuki [Museum of Art] in Lodz and Abteiberg Museum in Moenchengladgach. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Complete weather forecast Dec 7, 2007
Jackson, MS 39201 Last Updated: 12/07/07 07:45:24 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 74% Barometer: 30. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Beowulf: An IMAX 3D Experience opens November 16, 2007 Nov 14, 2007
Cinema Sterling Heights - IMAX Theatre at AMC Forum 30 Minnesota Apple Valley - Great Clips IMAX Theatre St. Michael - CineMagic Metropolitan IMAX Theatre Missouri St. Louis - Ronnies 20 Cine IMAX Nevada Las Vegas - Brenden Theatres and IMAX at the Palms Casino Resort New Hampshire Manchester - Cinemagic IMAX Theatre New Jersey Altantic City - IMAX Theatre at Tropicana Casino New York Garden City - Leroy R. and Rose W. Grumman IMAX Dome Theater(x) New York City - AMC Loews IMAX Theatre, Lincoln... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Spotlight shines on cinematographers Nov 1, 2007
Having attended Camerimage, a film festival devoted to the art of cinematography, I was struck by how the audiences who made the trek to Lodz, Poland -- many of them film students -- treated the d.p.s in attendance like rock stars. Even the lenser's name during a film's credit roll would elicit whoops and hollers. (Variety)
Cosmetics magnate sued over Klimt painting Oct 23, 2007
Redlich is believed to have placed her paintings in storage in 1939, two years before she was deported to Lodz, where she died. Her son sought to recover her property in 1947, but discovered it had been looted. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Nobel Pie Piece Oct 18, 2007
Next we should convene an international conference - say in Lodz, Poland - to hammer out a treaty in which each country would sign up for a set number of kilograms per capita to be lost over the next 175 years. Poles, generally, are known for their high regard for the trim torso, and Lodz - which, if we pronounce it "loads" actually makes some sense ... " * Assuming people in the United Kingdom are not any more prone to obesity nor any less capable of controlling their eating habits than the... (Townhall.com)
New York's New Visionary - Daniel Libeskind Oct 13, 2007
He was born in 1946 to Jewish Holocaust survivors from Lodz, Poland. Their extended family had been exterminated during the war. (Newsday -- New York City)
Blurred lines of an American dream Oct 6, 2007
When given the option of remaining in what became the Soviet Socialist Republic at the end of the war, he chose to return to Lodz and search for the family who had stayed behind. There were none to be found. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
After the exterminations, a bowl of blueberries Sep 29, 2007
She was 17 and living in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, sewing dresses for the ladies of the Third Reich and eating potato peels ... Candid snaps of female auxiliary staff eating bowls of fresh blueberries and singing SS men accompanied by an accordion player were taken a month before my mother arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau in late August, 1944, on one of the last transports out of the liquidated Lodz Ghetto. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Poland, Russia Sales May Lift Sagging UniCredit, Marazzi, Italian Stocks Sep 25, 2007
The company is building a third plant in Lodz, central Poland, and expects to have 60 percent of production in low-cost countries by 2008. Its shares have gained 4. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
Threats and opportunities dot landscape for European Jewry Sep 14, 2007
A street scene showing anti-Semitic graffiti in Lodz, Poland, included in a press packet for the play Last Jew in Europe. We are worried about these kinds of boycotts spreading throughout Europe, Serge Cwajgenbaum, the general-secretary of the Paris-based European Jewish Congress (EJC), noted. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
A family legacy of music Love and music brought Brunon Kryger to the U.S. Sep 9, 2007
T he patriarch of the Kryger music legacy, Brunon Kryger, was born in Lodz, Poland in 1899. Brunon's childhood dream was to be an entertainer, but World War I delayed his plans. (Wilkes Barre Citizen's Voice, PA)
A Look Back At a Dark Chapter of History -- Holocaust Survivor Pens a Heart Wrenching, Yet Inspirational True Story in Newly Released Memoir Sep 7, 2007
This book is a real page-turner; one bound to transfix the reader as Natan masterfully whisks the reader from one breathtaking scene into another: from the happy scenes of family life in the city of Lodz and then in a village in western Poland where the author and her family spent a happy vacation though the dark clouds presaging war. Natan also vividly recalls the mobilization and the outbreak of World War II in 1939; the rapid collapse of Poland and then the Nazi occupation, which led to the... (Primezone Releases)
WEATHER: Thunderstorms possible Aug 28, 2007
Weather - 7-day Forecast Summaries. Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 08/28/07 09:30:35 EDT. (Florida Today)
Dean strikes again Aug 23, 2007
wanted to stay, but my wife said no, said Zbigniew Szadkowski, 50, a physics professor from Lodz, Poland. Associated Press writers Julie Watson and Paul Kiernan in Mexico City, Mark Stevenson in Majahual and John Pain in Miami contributed to this report. (Boulder Colorado Daily, CO)
Dean Hits Mexico Second Time Aug 23, 2007
"I wanted to stay, but my wife said no," said Zbigniew Szadkowski, 50, a physics professor from Lodz, Poland. Associated Press writers Julie Watson and Paul Kiernan in Mexico City, Mark Stevenson in Majahual and John Pain in Miami contributed to this report. (Time.com)
Dean batters Mexico's oil industry Aug 22, 2007
Zbigniew Szadkowski, 50, a physics professor from Lodz, Poland, said he wanted to see a hurricane in action but was leaving anyway with wife Anna, 51. "I wanted to stay but my wife said no," he said. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Polish organist pops in to play Winona pipes Aug 9, 2007
After traveling more than 4,600 miles from her home in Lodz to attend an organ festival in Canada, Szoka added Winona to her travel itinerary to visit a friend in the area ... The complexity of the instrument attracted her and eventually earned a master s in music theory and concert organ at the Academy of Music in Lodz, where she teaches today. (Winona Daily News, MN)
OneBeacon Insurance Announces 20 Scholarship Award Winners Jul 17, 2007
Below are the 2007 OneBeacon Scholarship winners: Student Company City School Noelle Balletti OneBeacon Wantagh, NY University of Connecticut Kari Carpenter J.A. Thompson, CT Boston Archambault University Sons Kayleen Egan OneBeacon Blackwood, NJ Drew University Paul Flannery OneBeacon Holbrook, MA College of the Holy Cross Jonathan Fry OneBeacon Huntingdon Penn State, Valley, PA Schreyers Honor College Tasha Gaige OneBeacon Westbrook, ME Medical University of Lodz, Poland David Hark LJM... (PR Newswire)
Dwarf hid in trash cans to escape HolocaustMan will be subject of Hoboken teacher's documentary Jul 15, 2007
Once there, Packer will work in collaboration with the National Film School in Lodz and the University of Lodz, from which she will rent the necessary equipment and hire the actors. Funding for the film is provided by a $25,000 Fulbright Scholar Grant that Packer received for her proposal for the project. (Jersey City Reporter, NJ)
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Eighty-four-year-old Angie Suss Paull, a resident of Rochester, recounted for the students her childhood in Poland during the 1930s, Germany's invasion of her country, her family's confinement to the Lodz ghetto and their eventual deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp ... ust like animals they acted, she said of the German soldiers who occupied Lodz. (Hornell Evening Tribune, NY)
Polish consumers fuel economic expansion Jun 9, 2007
Saturn and Media Markt, both part of the Metro Group of Germany, both plan to open more outlets in Poland, while the Swedish retail giant IKEA intends to build a new store in the central city of Lodz and expand its existing seven sites. Szczurek, the economist at ING, noted that because Poland had only experienced one business cycle since the fall of communism in 1989, "no one really knows what the Polish economy is capable of.". (International Herald Tribune -- Money Report)
'Song of the Lodz Ghetto' May 29, 2007
Brave Old World, "Song of the Lodz Ghetto." 7:30 p.m. tonight ... Brave Old World will present a concert of klezmer music that existed against all odds in the Nazi ghetto of Lodz, Poland ... "What we wound up doing was creating a program that combined our own music and the music of the Lodz ghetto. It's a song cycle of 120 minutes without a break.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
'They are inspiring people around the world with their stance' May 13, 2007
" Dangerous proposal To many European activists such as Robert Biedron, president of the Polish homosexual-rights group Campaign Against Homophobia, such proposals make Poland a pariah. The ban on "homosexual propaganda" is a "dangerous" measure that made him feel "embarrassed" when he heard about it. "Poland is like an island drifting away from the rest of Europe," Biedron said at the time. Tomasz Bilicki Tomasz Bilicki, who battles the spread of pornography as deputy director of the Center of... (WorldNetDaily)
Men's Swimming and Diving Announces 18 Student-Athletes Will Join Stony Brook Next Fall May 11, 2007
Lukasz Ochmanski, Lodz, Poland. Chris Olwell, Floral Park, N.Y.. (Goseawolves.org)
Holocaust survivor now talks of lifeHe doesn't want history to repeat itself May 4, 2007
"German troops invaded Poland in 1939 when Korzec was only 14.He told the students that his father left his family in Lodz, which is located about 80 miles southwest of Warsaw, for Chestahova, and hoped to send for the family when he was settled.They received one letter, then never saw or heard from him again.Korzec was left with his mother, a younger sister and younger brother.When the Germans rounded up the Jews in Poland and placed them in fenced-off areas in Warsaw, Korzek's sister was... (Owings Mills Times, MD)
Six Million Reasons To Remember Apr 13, 2007
I can still remember it like it was yesterday, Braun recalled of the April 1939 day that Nazi occupiers began pulling a male from each household in his family s poor, merchant village outside the central Poland city of Lodz. Unaware of the fate awaiting his eldest son, Zeivel Braun sent the 13-year-old Martin Braun so he could remain behind and provide for his wife, two daughters and youngest boy. (Queens Chronicle, NY)
Teleca Divests auSystems For SEK 822 Million in Cash - in Addition, Teleca Eliminates Continued Losses in Obigo Apr 2, 2007
rnskldsvik) and in Copenhagen, Denmark and the subsidiary in Poland (with offices in Warszawa and Lodz). In total these units employ approx. (BusinessWire)
Reverie from the heart of horror wins biography award Mar 28, 2007
IN 1944, having been incarcerated in the Lodz ghetto in Poland since he was 16, Jacob Rosenberg was sent to the death camps of Europe - first to Auschwitz, where his entire family was murdered, then to the horrific Mauthausen complex in Austria, where he was starved, sadistically beaten and almost worked to death. He survived. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
American Leads a New Generation of Polish Jews Mar 27, 2007
About 2,000 are active members of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland, an umbrella group founded in 1993 that today has chapters in Warsaw, Krakow, Lodz and five other cities. Since then, a Jewish primary school has opened in Warsaw, as have several Jewish kindergartens, youth centers and summer camps across the country. (Yahoo News -- Religion)
Procter & Gamble cuts Irish jobs in move to Poland Mar 8, 2007
The factory at Lodz, Poland, is due to be completed in 2009. This new plant will manufacture all skin care products which are currently made in Europe, the company said in a statement. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
In a Jewish ghetto, a universal tale Mar 2, 2007
Is I.C. Trumpelman, the enigmatic leader (based on the actual, and controversial, head of the Lodz ghetto), a self-serving collaborator or a canny protector. Is it corrupt or noble to sleep with the enemy if it might save a friend. (Boston Globe)
Poles Protest A Jewish Play Feb 25, 2007
The Polish Embassy is up in arms over its upcoming "Last Jew in Europe," Tuvia Tenenbom's tragicomedy about "closet Jews living in a present-day Poland where anti-Semitism is rampant and calls to send Jews to gas chambers go unchallenged." The embassy says the play could turn American Jews against the Poles and claims that some of the anti-Semitic graffiti photographed in Lodz to publicize the production might have been created by theater staffers. Tenenbom, whose play opens March 4, calls the... (New York Post -- Gossip)
How I turned my novel into a play Feb 18, 2007
It is a dilemma into which no human being ought to be thrust, but one in which history (including the history of the Lodz ghetto, on which this play is based) has all too often put its largest and least significant actors. Only imagination -- the exercise, for example, of putting on plays -- can help us avoid such a trap. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Google sues Polish poets over gmail.pl Feb 17, 2007
Krawczyk, a poet and IT fan based in the central Polish city of Lodz, said that at the end of last year her group was surprised to discover that www. gmail. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Holocaust survivor tells story Feb 14, 2007
The 82-year-old Chapel Hill resident -- born in Lodz, Poland -- begged the students to focus on their education and never lose hope. Much of Lederman's own childhood in Poland was normal, she said, with days spent figure skating, playing with her younger sister and attending school. (Herald Sun)
Wife, daughter of 'Crocodile Hunter' discuss life on the wild side Jan 20, 2007
Under the scheme, funeral homes in the central city of Lodz paid the ambulance service employees bribes in exchange for early tip-offs about deaths, so the homes could snap up clients. A court in Lodz ruled that the defendants went a step further and killed patients or intentionally failed to save their lives in 2000 and 2001 to get a total of some 23,000 from the undertakers. (North County Times)
Obituaries - 1/8/2007 Jan 8, 2007
Born Aug. 15, 1915, in Lodz, Poland, he lived in Temecula. He immigrated to Israel from Poland in 1917. (North County Times)
