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pawian   
11 Apr 2009
News / Poland. Sold for nothing. [341]

Do you remember my prediction that Poland, who thinks that she is a queen.

Hmm, are you sure it is illusion? The area in Redzikowo where the shield is supposed to be built is being steadily developed. Local authorities claim they are constantly visited by Americans and the project gained speed instead of slowing or stopping down.

tvn24.pl/-1,1595154,0,1,tarcza-wstrzymana-w-slupsku-wiedza--ze-wcale-nie,wiadomosc.html
pawian   
10 Apr 2009
Work / 5000$ Gross Salary. Is it good in Poland? [37]

Is there a standard salary rise in Poland or in Europe generally ? In Turkey We used to suffer from unstable economy and inflation for long period. So % 20 - 30 salary rise was something expected in early 2000's. Now economy in better shape but still there is a annual salary rise around % 5-10 (especially in IT ). Should I expect same in Poland ?

Pay rise depends on the market. If there is a shortage of labour force, employees are attracted to start or stay working by high wages/salaries. Such a situation happened in Poland 2, 3 years ago, even last year, when Polish economy flourished following the access to the EU but simultaneously about 2 million people went to seek better-paid jobs in the West. Polish companies virtually begged workers to come, and pays rose 10% a year.

The inflation factor didn`t matter as inflation has been around 2-3% annually for many years.
pawian   
10 Apr 2009
History / Taras Bulba - the movie [115]

Have anybody seen this movie already? Here it is being advertised as quite epic.

What about another Russian-made film, Admiral (Kolchak). I think it was released last year.

Sasha and Constantine, what do you think? Are you fans of Kolczak because he tried to save holy Russia from nasty bolsheviks? Or do you think low of him because he tried to stop the inevitable progress?

Indifferent?
Trailer
A battle which is massacre in fact
pawian   
10 Apr 2009
Work / 5000$ Gross Salary. Is it good in Poland? [37]

They are owners for sure, pawian.

Just found a site where people brag or complain about their earnings. Well, some are near 5000$ a month (after tax etc) so it is OK. I could be wrong before.

I still don't believe people come into a travel agency and shout out what they earn. In a bank yes, in a bar yes but a travel agency never LOL. Not when you earn that kind of money.

Imagine that you visit this agency once a month to arrange a holiday. After a few visits you feel like at home, don`t you?
pawian   
10 Apr 2009
Work / 5000$ Gross Salary. Is it good in Poland? [37]

My fiancee knows people (regular clients) who come into her travel agency and get 80,000PLN per MONTH. Maybe less during this crisis.

I find this hard to believe, VERY actually but it's her word. The Poles love their air figures.

Quite possible. But I suppose they are owners-employers, not employees.

Why would you tell someone who worked in a travel agency how much you earn ?

Yes, it is possible that rich people, especially nouveaux riches, do such things.
pawian   
10 Apr 2009
Work / 5000$ Gross Salary. Is it good in Poland? [37]

I doubt it. Some people earn much more than 17,000PLN a month. Try quadrupling that amount

Yes, of course.

But I doubt it that an employee who is elligible to receive a monthly salary of 5K$ comes to Polish forum and asks questions of the sort:

I got a job offer from Polish Company.
It is 5000 $ Gross.(Is it good for Poland?)

:):):)
pawian   
10 Apr 2009
Work / 5000$ Gross Salary. Is it good in Poland? [37]

5000PLN or $5000? If it's the latter, that's close to 17,000PLN at today's exchange rate. That's a really sizeable wage.

I suppose it is annual salary.
pawian   
5 Apr 2009
Life / Easter presents for Polish people? [14]

Ok so what do you do if you are invited over a Polish boyfriends parents place for Easter if you want to make an impression on the family?

We show some good manners: We don`t pick our teeth or ears with our fingers, don`t belch, don`t use the tablecloth to clean our hands and mouth, don`t eat too noisily, don`t tell dirty jokes and a few others.
pawian   
22 Mar 2009
Study / English on a Matura exam in Poland - Advice Needed [5]

There are three types of situations and a picture. Students are required to carry out the instructions (in Polish, unfortunately) to the situations, describe the picture and answer two questions to it. Topics are versatile.

You`d better get yourself a book called Repetytorium maturalne. There are many available:
liceum.kujon.net/txt/20/ksi%B1%BFki_do_matury_angielskiego.html
pawian   
22 Mar 2009
Life / Controversy about funshops with recreational drugs in Poland [50]

PS. These drugs are called boosters in Poland - dopalacze.

These shops are probably much less harmful than 24 hour alcohol shops

Prof. Vetulani from the Polish Pharmacology Institute, quite a known guy, thinks they should remain legal. Many substances are addictive but are legal, e.g., alcohol and nicotine.

He thinks that making them illegal won`t remove them from the market but will cause the deterioration of their quality, e.g., sellers will add harmful substances to drugs to increase sales. Legal shops sell tested, good quality stuff.

The professor suggests leaving such drugs as marijuana and boosters on the market, and only run educational programs for people.

For example benzylpiperazine is illegal in United States, Australia, New Zealand and in parts of Europe.
Many of these compound can have a wide spectra of toxic effects, e.g. causing seizures, renal failure etc. Acute psychosis has been reported for many of them.

Two known TV journalists tested the drug Diablo on themselves, the strongest available. They complained about various nasty physiological disorders, especially on the day after. They vowed never to take them again.
pawian   
22 Mar 2009
Life / Controversy about funshops with recreational drugs in Poland [50]

About 6 months ago first funshops with recreational drugs started appearing in Poland. Krakow headed the list.

A shop with legal drugs has opened in Krakow selling various over-the-counter alleged alternatives to illicit dope. The little store - labeled as a 'funshop' by its owners, a UK-based World Wide Supplements Importer - is hidden in the courtyard of a nondescript tenement house at Starowislna streets. It sells both chemicals and herbal concoctions and its customer base consist mostly of the young patrons of Krakow's numerous night clubs. Legal as it may be, the merchandise can prove both highly addictive and hazardous to health, drug experts warn.

After weeks of public debate, and local councils` energetic interest into funshops (inspections of premises and certificates, checking the stock for poisons and hard drugs, etc etc) the Polish parliament seem to be designing some kind of law.

The Polish senate today continues discussion on amendments to the law on drugs and illegal substances, which is to ban the sale of so-called recreational drugs.

The amendment would outlaw the substance benzylpiperazine, which produces effects similar to amphetamine, as well as 17 other compounds, derived from plants native to South and Central America and Asia.

Over the past six months some sixty shops selling recreational drugs have opened in Poland.

The amendment has been supported by the Senate health care commission, however producers say it will not cause a major obstacle to the distribution here of "energy pills" or "party pills" and the like.

What is the legal situation with funshops in other countries of EU?
pawian   
20 Mar 2009
Life / Adam Mickiewicz poetry in Polish and English translation [4]

Most websites only have one or the other.

So, what`s the problem? Find Polish counterparts to English translations and vice versa.
Being a bit lazy, huh? :):):):)

General
home.roadrunner.com/~polishlit/

19 century
home.roadrunner.com/~polishlit/19.html
pawian   
19 Mar 2009
News / Lwow - Eaglets Cemetary [7]

WW1 finished and Germans started leaving Eastern territories. Poles and Ukrainians began fight for land. Poles made the majority of big cities like Lvov but Polish regular army was far away. So Polish civilian residents took to arms, about a few hundred of them were students and children. They drove Ukrainians away.
pawian   
15 Mar 2009
History / Taras Bulba - the movie [115]

The teaser



It resembles the 1612 film. But there are more " moments." :):):)

Bogdan Stupka plays Taras Bulba. (he played Bogdan Chmielnicki in Polish production With Fire and Sword).

Polish actress Magdalena Mielcarz has a major part too.

Interesting thing: Taras Bulba first appeared on the screen in 1962 by Hollywood with Yul Brynner:

Polish soldiers wear funny helmets, like firefighters or gladiators. :):):):) Cheap propaganda. :):):):):)
pawian   
15 Mar 2009
History / Taras Bulba - the movie [115]

You hope in vain, I am afraid. I don`t think Russians are so unwise as to invest millions into a major film production and not make it a piece of propaganda. If Hollywood does it continually, why Russians shouldn`t ....? :):):):)
pawian   
14 Mar 2009
History / Taras Bulba - the movie [115]

Pawy I promise that it won't be waste of time, if you read some of his stories. The way he writes seemed at first a bit plain (you won't notice it though, unless you read in the original - in Russian), but he's a genious. His position of one of the best prosaist in Russia is well-earned.

I read Rewizor - Inspector General. Funny play. But also a sad satire on Russian power system.

As for Gogol`s national idetification, I think calling him a Ukrainian author would be the same as calling Mickiewicz Belarussian - that is, nonsense. Gogol belongs to Russian literature.

But we can say he was of Ukrainian origin not to hurt our Ukrainian friends. :):):)
pawian   
11 Mar 2009
History / Taras Bulba - the movie [115]

Oh, I see! A Russian author wrote a book/story/play about an Ukrainian hero who fights against Poles.
:):):):):):):):):)

Did Gogol imitate Sienkiewicz or it was the other way round? :):):)
pawian   
11 Mar 2009
History / Taras Bulba - the movie [115]

To be honest, I know the guy`s name but now I can`t associate him with anything without googling.

So, what did he do?
pawian   
11 Mar 2009
Life / Stalin's baroque style in Poland's architecture [16]

I don't have possibility to see your photographs,

Why?

but think one of them is Stalin's skyscraper in Warsaw?

Yes.

But why you can revere baroque, refusing the same Stalin's patterns?

This is baroque which I revere:
pawian   
7 Mar 2009
News / Poland embraces new effort to fight anti-Semitism [138]

I find it ironic that they are saying they must fight anti-Semitism in a country that just put a Jewish Polish Museum.

Unfortunately, yes - this country needs such education. The picture I took a few days ago. Don`t look at the date print - I hadn`t set it properly.