Home runMeet the Poles going home for more pay and a sweeter life Mar 15, 2008
By Steven Duke BBC News, Wroclaw, Poland. Major international companies are investing in Wroclaw and its region ... Investment is booming in Wroclaw creating jobs and raising pay. (BBC News -- Europe)
Volvo Buses Plans to Close Plant in Tampere, Finland Mar 5, 2008
Volvo Buses European bus body production system consists of the two plants in Finland, in Wroclaw, Poland, and in S ... The plants in Tampere and Wroclaw both manufacture the Volvo 8700 bus model ... The plant in Poland has spare capacity and by concentrating the production of the Volvo 8700 to Wroclaw, Volvo Buses can obtain more cost-efficient production. (BusinessWire)
Best Luxury Riverboats on the Elbe Feb 23, 2008
The Frederic Chopin also cruises from Potsdam on the Havel and Oder Rivers to Wroclaw (Breslau) in Poland. MS Dresden. (Suite101.com)
Nordics scramble for immigrant labor, but Spain has a surplus Feb 14, 2008
That's enough for Mariusz Kogut to afford to fly twice a month to his hometown of Wroclaw to see his wife and two children. "It's a hundred times better to work here," said Kogut, 32, who moved to Horsens last year with four Polish friends after five years as a butcher in Germany. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Hagen Named Academic All-District Second Team Feb 8, 2008
Women's Basketball - University of Northern Colorado Bears. Hagen Paces Bears on the Floor and in the Classroom. (Uncbears.com)
Daimler Planning Mercedes Assembly Plant in Poland or Romania, FT Reports Jan 31, 2008
Daimler has narrowed its choice to two locations, one near the German border, west of the western Polish city of Wroclaw, and one near Cluj, in northwestern Romania, the FT said, citing an unidentified investment adviser. Mercedes declined to comment on possible locations, saying that eastern European sites would be considered if there were a need for additional capacity, particularly for compact cars, the newspaper said. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
New Publication Examines the Market for NRT Smoking Cessation Aids in Poland Jan 30, 2008
DUBLIN, Ireland--()--Research and Markets () has announced the addition of Euromonitor International's new report: NRT Smoking Cessation Aids in Poland to their offering. Our NRT Smoking Cessation Aids in Poland report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. (BusinessWire)
Longer legs make you sexier: Study Jan 20, 2008
"There are good evolutionary reasons for the preference. Long legs are a sign of health," 'The Guardian' quoted lead researcher Boguslaw Pawlowski of University of Wroclaw in Poland as saying. The researchers came to the conclusion after asking 218 male and female volunteers to rank the attractiveness of seven men and seven women from digitally altered images. (Economic Times)
Survey finds what women really want in Mr Right Jan 18, 2008
Welcome to Herald Sun. January 18, 2008 12:00am. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
Men and Women Love Long Legs Jan 18, 2008
If you have legs and know how to use them, then both men and women are more likely to find you attractive, according to a new study from researchers at Wroclaw University in Poland. Related Stories. (ABC News)
Infotainment Jan 17, 2008
University of Wroclaw investigators in Poland asked 218 men and women to rate the attractiveness. A church made completely from ice in Romania has proved so popular its had to ban candles to stop it from melting. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Why men and women find longer legs more attractive Jan 17, 2008
Psychologists led by Boguslaw Pawlowski at the University of Wroclaw in Poland investigated by asking 218 male and female volunteers to rank the attractiveness of seven men and seven women from digitally altered images. While all of the people were the same height, the length of their legs was altered to make them equal to the Polish average or longer by 5%, 10% or 15. (Guardian Unlimited)
Fly-by-night doctors just the remedy Jan 15, 2008
Trying not to wake his wife or two children, the 40-year-old GP fumbles around for his car keys and drives four hours from his house in Poznan to Wroclaw airport in south-western Poland. There he catches a cheap flight to Glasgow Prestwick, where he arrives 2 hours later ready to hop in a hire car to take him four hours north. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
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)
Skanska Starts Second Phase of Grunwaldzki Center Office Project in Wroclaw Dec 21, 2007
Skanska (STO:SKAB) is now developing and constructing the second phase of Grunwaldzki Center, an office project in the center of Wroclaw in southern Poland. The project will comprise a total of about 27,000 square meters of leasable floor space, of which approximately 16,000 square meters in the second stage. (BusinessWire)
Quietly, the Polish-German border dissolves Dec 20, 2007
Once Hitler's army was defeated, millions of Germans were forced out of major cities now in Polish territory, like Breslau, now known as Wroclaw. Cities along the rivers Neisse and Oder that form most of the border became divided towns like Frankfurt-Slubice or Grlitz-Zgorzelec. (International Herald Tribune)
Record Seven Pac-10 Players Earn AVCA First Team All-America Honors Dec 13, 2007
Asia Kaczor USC RS/OPP Sr. Wroclaw, Poland Bryn Kehoe Stanford S Sr. North Bend, Ohio Christal Morrison Washington OH Sr. Payallup, Wash. Angie Pressey California OH Sr. Heathrow, Fla. (Pac-10.org)
Shelby Burton Earns Second Consecutive AVCA Honorable Mention All-America Recognition Dec 13, 2007
Sr. 6-4 Wroclaw, Poland Bryn Kehoe $ + Stanford University S Sr. 5-11 North Bend, Ohio Christal Morrison * % + University of Washington OH Sr. 6-2 Puyallup, Washington Sarah Pavan * ^ # University of Nebraska RS/Opp. Sr. 6-5 Kitchener, Ontario Angie Pressey $ University of California OH Sr. 5-8 Heathrow, Florida Nellie Spicer * UCLA S Jr. 5-10 Barrington, Illinois. (Gotigersgo.com)
Poland switch Dec 12, 2007
" He has no regrets, he adds, about moving, though like many emigres he misses certain things about the UK. He has managed to get broadband installed - Radio 4 streams from his laptop throughout our interview - and there is a jar of Bovril on the kitchen shelf. He really pines for the rugby, though. "Is there a team in Wroclaw. " he asks the photographer. He misses the variety of food you can buy and eat in Britain too. There do not appear to be any restaurants or shops in Piotrowice Nyskie, let... (Guardian Unlimited)
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)
Poland Emerges as the European R&D Hub Despite Favorable Conditions in Asia Pacific Nov 21, 2007
The biggest R&D centers are located in Warsaw, Cracow, and Wroclaw. Most top MNCs in the industry have sales, marketing, and support centers in Poland. (BusinessWire)
Shrinking dollar makes life tougher abroad Nov 14, 2007
So far, she has visited Dresden in Germany and Krakow and Wroclaw in Poland. On Friday she leaves for five days in Switzerland with other teachers and students from her school. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
If our political parties did not exist, would we ever need to invent them? Oct 25, 2007
Last Sunday young Poles queued up patiently, not just in Warsaw and Wroclaw but in Dublin and London, to vote for a Poland in which they would have a future. The most elementary pleasure of democracy - we, the people, choose our government - is something their parents had not enjoyed until the end of communism in 1989. (Guardian Unlimited)
Polish twins fear the youth verdict Oct 21, 2007
Daniel McLaughlin in WroclawSunday October 21, 2007 ... The arrivals board ticks over at Wroclaw airport in southern Poland, each flight bringing more people home from work in the West and seeming to deliver another dose of trouble for the nation's ruling Kaczynski twins ... But in Wroclaw another Poland is apparent. (Guardian Unlimited)
Vectrix Corporation: Pre-Close Statement and Notification of Results Oct 17, 2007
In April, commercial production of the MAXI Scooter began at Vectrix s production facilities in Wroclaw, Poland ... shipped 1,262 MAXI Scooters from its manufacturing facilities in Wroclaw in Poland ... a stock of 542 MAXI Scooters in Wroclaw, pending shipment. (BusinessWire)
Toshiba Celebrates Opening of New LCD TV Production Plant in Poland Oct 16, 2007
The opening ceremony at the Kobierzyce site, located near Wroclaw, was attended by Mr. Marcin Korolec, the Vice Minister of the Economy, Mr. Ryuichi Tanabe, the Japanese ambassador to Poland, other representatives from the national and local government, and other guests, including Toshiba's business partners. Toshiba was represented by Mr. Toshio Yonezawa, corporate senior executive vice president. (Canada Newswire)
Polish cith of Wroclaw works hard to keep talent home Oct 3, 2007
With over 800,000 Poles - many of them architects, engineers, nurses and doctors - living outside their country, Dutkiewicz, a former applied mathematician who was elected mayor of Wroclaw in 2002, has introduced novel ways to keep the talent at home. So young doctors in Wroclaw can consider themselves lucky ... Wroclaw had been a thriving merchant metropolis of Germans and Jews which, along with this part of today's Poland, had been part of Germany and was almost completely destroyed during... (International Herald Tribune)
Bombardier secures 60-locomotive contract in Europe worth $316 million Sep 25, 2007
Body shells will be produced at Bombardier's Wroclaw site in Poland. This significant new order will enable us to support the development of some core clients to whom we already lease diesel and electric traction and to extend our geographic reach into new territories or operators, Tim Jackson, the International Director of Angel Trains said in a statement. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
Stranger than fiction Sep 18, 2007
On 5 September in a court in the Lower Silesian city of Wroclaw, Bala, 34, was found guilty of co-ordinating the torture, semi-starvation and eventual murder of his ex-wife's former lover ... The bloated, semi-naked body of Janiszewski, a 35-year-old advertising company director, was discovered by anglers on the banks of Wroclaw's River Odra on a washed-out, grey December morning in 2000 ... For me, it's not a book,' he says, sitting in a small side-office at Wroclaw police headquarters, fishing... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Yeosu highlights sustainable development Sep 12, 2007
Of the three candidate cities -- Tangiers, Morocco; Wroclaw, Poland and Yeosu -- only Tangiers is yet to hold the second symposium. Wroclaw's second symposium was held in June while Tangiers' second symposium will be held next month. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Jail for author of a perfect crime Sep 8, 2007
A court in the Polish city of Wroclaw found the philosopher and photographer guilty after an extraordinary trial that tested the boundaries of fact and fiction and, for a while, forced the police and prosecutors to become literary critics. Bala, 33, was jealous of Dariusz Janiszewski who he suspected of being a lover of his former wife. (Times Online)
Murder he wrote was murder he committed Sep 8, 2007
The corpse, found in Wroclaw in 2000, was also badly bruised around the face, the marks of a prolonged and savage beating. Chief Inspector Jack Wroblewski says he received an anonymous call five years after the body was found telling him to read Amok, which was published in 2003. (The Age)
Polish author jailed over killing he used as plot Sep 7, 2007
In a remarkable case that has gripped Poland for months, Krystian Bala, a writer of blood-curdling fiction, was found guilty of orchestrating the murder seven years ago of a Wroclaw businessman, Dariusz Janiszewski, in a crime of passion brought on by the suspicion that the victim was sleeping with his ex-wife ... The killing of Janiszewski was one of the most gruesome cases to come before a Polish court in years, with the "Murder, He Wrote" sub-plot unfolding in the district court in Wroclaw... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Polish Murder Stranger Than Fiction Sep 7, 2007
According to a judge's ruling this week in the western Polish city of Wroclaw, Bala was drawing not on his imagination for that scene, but on his own experience. Related Articles. (Time.com)
Polish Author Convicted in Killing Similar to His Novel... Sep 6, 2007
WROCLAW, Poland A court Wednesday convicted an author of directing the killing of a businessman in a crime that bore eerie similarities to a murder he described in a novel three years later. The court ruled that Krystian Bala planned and directed the grisly killing of Dariusz Janiszewski, but said there was insufficient evidence to convict him of carrying out the murder himself. (Fox News)
Polish Author Convicted of Murder Sep 5, 2007
WROCLAW, Poland A court Wednesday convicted an author of directing the killing of a businessman in a crime that bore eerie similarities to a murder he described in a novel three years later ... Author Krystian Bala, right, listens as a the court convicts him of directing the killing of a local businessman in a crime that bore eerie similarities to a grisly murder he described in a novel in Wroclaw, Poland, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007 ... The court ruled that jealousy drove Bala to lead the torture... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
* Gdansk basks in its former glory Sep 5, 2007
Thanks to them, Gdansk is the most handsome city in Poland next to Wroclaw. One of the few places that escaped destruction is the old Town Hall in the city center. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Flower and Flame to light up Homestake Opera House Aug 31, 2007
She received her master's degree in violin performance in 1997 from the Music Academy in Wroclaw, Poland, and after being a part of different projects in Germany, Poland, France, Switzerland and England, she immigrated to the U.S., where, since 1998, she's held a position with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and the Dakota String Quartet. In 2002 Modzelewska created her own original musical project called Flower and Flame. (Black Hills Pioneer, SD)
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)
Oliver undecided about where he'll play this season Aug 28, 2007
Oliver, a 5-foot-11 point guard, led his ASCO Slask Wroclaw team to a third-place finish during the 2006-07 season, which concluded in May. Oliver, who played in the league s all-star game, led his team in scoring, assists and steals. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Jewish flourish Jul 12, 2007
There are now smaller festivals in Warsaw, Wroclaw and Tarnow. The Krakow festival has helped revitalize the city's old Jewish quarter, Kamizierz, which had deteriorated since the end of the war. (International Herald Tribune)
At summer festivals, rock around the (old) East bloc Jun 27, 2007
Above & Beyond will have to wait until July 7 to feel the love at Creamfields Poland in Wroclaw, where they will perform with the Prodigy, Vitalic and a slew of other dance and electronic acts. But this week, Poland kicks off its festival season on June 29 with Open'er, a three-day party featuring noise-rockers Sonic Youth, neo new-wavers Bloc Party and two sets (one instrumental) from the Beastie Boys, all happening at the Baltic Sea port of Gdynia. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Women like men who look like daddy Jun 14, 2007
Lynda Boothroyd, a psychologist at Durham University in England, and her colleagues at the University of Wroclaw and the Institute of Anthropology in Poland asked a trained anthropologist to perform facial measurements on the photographs of 15 random men as well as the photographs of the fathers of 49 Polish women participating in the study. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Health)
Missouri scientist trades ‘heaven’ for heartache Jun 3, 2007
Dr. Mazurkiewicz, 68, began working on water-jet technology in the 1970s at the Wroclaw University of Technology in his native Poland. He was recruited to continue his work at the University of Missouri-Rolla, where he met Rep. (Scranton Times, PA)
Poland wants its workers back from Western Europe May 17, 2007
He has no plans to return to his hometown near Wroclaw ... But Gruzla, one of at least 400,000 Poles who have emigrated to Britain since 2004, is just the type of worker that Wroclaw is trying to lure back ... Wroclaw, in Lower Silesia, is the fourth-largest city in Poland. (International Herald Tribune -- Money Report)
Polish City's Success Creating Jobs Brings New Challenge: How to Fill Them May 16, 2007
He has no plans to return to his hometown near Wroclaw ... Gruzla, one of at least 400,000 Poles who have emigrated to the U.K. since 2004, is just the type of worker Wroclaw is trying to lure back home ... Wroclaw, Poland's fourth-largest city, is a hub for technology research that has attracted Hewlett-Packard Co. and Google Inc., and benefits from road and rail links built when the area was ruled by Germany and Austria. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
Skanska Starts Three Commercial Projects in Poland and Czech Republic Totaling About SEK 620 M Apr 24, 2007
Skanska has also started its first office project in Wroclaw. The first phase of the Grundwaldzki Center in central Wroclaw comprises about 11,000 square meters ... With a population of some 640,000, Wroclaw is Poland s fourth largest city. (BusinessWire)
10 questions with Dominik Jakubek Apr 21, 2007
After high school, Jakubek lived in Poland for two years and trained with WKS Slask Wroclaw, a second-division team. He then played at Delta College for two years, earning all-state honors. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
* Poles, Ukrainians have their work cut out for Euro 2012 Apr 20, 2007
"We must not forget the enormity of the task of organizing Euro 2012, but that is also excellent news for Poland. There will be new stadiums built in Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw and Poznan. That can only be seen in a positive light," Kaczynski said. "Five years is long enough and I am sure that with the mobilization and determination of the local authorities and the people, we will succeed," he said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Poland and Ukraine Successful Apr 19, 2007
There will be 16 countries taking part in the tournament and the organisers are planning to use stadia in six Polish cities Chorzow, Gdansk, Krakow, Poznan, Warsaw and Wroclaw and in four Ukrainian cities Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lviv and Kiev. The final will probably be played in the Olympic Stadium in Kiev. (Suite101.com)
Ukraine, Poland get the job Apr 19, 2007
The projected Polish venues for the 2012 tournament include Gdansk, Poznan, Warsaw and Wroclaw while the Ukrainian cities of Kiev, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Lviv would stage games. Kiev s Olympic Stadium, used to host soccer at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, is the proposed venue for the final. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Sports)
Poland and Ukraine to co-host Euro 2012 Apr 18, 2007
Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kiev and Lviv in Ukraine, and Gdansk, Krakow, Poznan, Warsaw, Wroclaw and Chorzow in Poland have been lined up as venues for Euro 2012. The opening match is scheduled to be staged at the new 70,000-capacity National Stadium in Warsaw when construction work is completed in 2009 at a cost of 400 million. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Google to Open Poland Operations Center Apr 13, 2007
WARSAW, Poland Apr 12, 2007 (AP) Google plans to open an operations center in the Polish city of Wroclaw later this year, creating 200 new jobs and boosting the city's efforts to become a technology hub, officials said Thursday ... -based Internet search company said it will open the "center of innovation" in Wroclaw in the coming months and begin hiring workers immediately ... Officials in Wroclaw, one of Poland's most economically dynamic cities, welcomed Google's decision. (ABC News -- Wire)
LG.Philips aims to make 11 mln modules by '11 Poland Apr 2, 2007
The plant, located in Kobierzyce near Wroclaw in southwestern Poland, will mainly assemble liquid crystal display (LCD) panels over 32 inches in order to supply makers of flat screen TVs. LG.Philips invested 429 million euro ($572. (Scientific American)
* World Business Quick Take Apr 2, 2007
The plant, located in Kobierzyce, near Wroclaw, will produce screens mainly for large LCD televisions, LG.Philips said in a statement. It is the company's second overseas factory. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
LG.Philips LCD begins full-scale production at Poland factory Apr 1, 2007
The plant, located in Kobierzyce, near Wroclaw in southwestern Poland, will produce screens mainly for 32-inch and larger LCD televisions, LG.Philips said in a statement. It is the company's second overseas factory. (International Herald Tribune)
FEATURE - Young Poles Battle Government Over Swampland Mar 20, 2007
"I came here to tell the government it's wrong to destroy such a beautiful place," said Mateusz Wojcik, a 20-year-old engineering student who travelled 800 miles from Wroclaw in southwest Poland to the Rospuda Valley. "We want to show we can change things.". (Planet Ark, United States)
Cheap European flights cater to both commuting doctors and drunken revelers Feb 23, 2007
ROME: Andrzej Majewski, a Pole who works as a thoracic surgeon in Britain, catches a ride to the airport in Wroclaw on Sundays and hops a Ryanair flight to his hospital in Nottingham, England. Most Fridays he commutes home to southwest Poland. (International Herald Tribune -- Business Asia)
Ryanair's Cheap Europe Flights Spur Surgeon Commutes, Vacation Home Frenzy Feb 22, 2007
Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Andrzej Majewski, a Pole who works as a thoracic surgeon in the U.K., catches a ride to the airport in Wroclaw on Sundays and hops a Ryanair Holdings Plc flight to his hospital in Nottingham, England ... Before Ryanair, Majewski spent 20 years working in Wroclaw at the Lower Silesian Center for Lung Disease ... From there, he'd commute five or six hours to Wroclaw. (Bloomberg)
Experts judge Yeosu for Expo 2012 Feb 8, 2007
Other cities for the exposition are Tangiers, Morocco, and Wroclaw, Poland. Korea's bidding committee said the focus of this round is on raising international awareness of Yeosu. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Korea gearing up for 2012 World Expo bid Feb 6, 2007
Other candidates in the bidding race include Tangiers, Morocco, and Wroclaw, Poland. The World Expo is included among the three major world festivals along with the Olympics and the World Cup. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Dublin-bound flight makes emergency landing in Poland due to suspicious odor in cabin Jan 28, 2007
The flight took off at 7:15 a.m. (0615GMT) from Wroclaw, in western Poland, but the pilots decided to return after passengers and crew detected the smell. The passengers were evacuated after the plane landed. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
News in brief Jan 21, 2007
Prosecutors in the southern city of Wroclaw detained Wit Zelasko, the FA board member responsible for referees and a well-known TV personality, bringing the total number accused in the scandal to about 60. After the board refused to resign, Sports Minister Tomasz Lipiec said he had appointed Andrzej Rusko, chief executive of Polands top flight, as emergency administrator until a new board could be elected. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Sports)
Looking west for work Jan 21, 2007
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Times Staff Writer January 21, 2007 Wroclaw, Poland Copernicus Airport ... Major European manufacturers are planning to build new facilities in Wroclaw ... Meet Pawel Romaszkan, a broad-faced man with a gargantuan mission: bringing the Poles home, preferably back to Wroclaw. (Los Angeles Times)
Cloudy Apple Juice Has Clear Benefits Jan 17, 2007
Researcher Jan Oszmianski and colleagues at the Agricultural University of Wroclaw, Poland say the clarification process involved in creating clear apple juice may remove solids and other compounds rich in polyphenols. SOURCE: Oszmianski, J. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Jan. 15, 2006 online edition. (CBS News)
