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Final farewell to iconic Polish artist Edward Dwurnik
05.11.2018 13:51
Family, friends and fans on Monday bade a final farewell to iconic and award-winning Polish painter Edward Dwurnik, who died in Warsaw last month at the age of 75.
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Photo: PAP/Jacek Turczyk

During a funeral mass in Warsaw, Culture Minister Piotr Gliński said Dwurnik was "extremely talented; he brought freshness and originality to contemporary Polish art.”

Dwurnik’s ashes were to be laid to rest in Warsaw’s Powązki Military Cemetery after the funeral mass.

Dwurnik was a key figure in Polish contemporary art and a prolific artist who left behind a legacy of some 5,000 paintings and 10,000 drawings.

He came to prominence in the 1960s after painting a series of urban landscapes.

Seemingly bird's-eye views of some of the most iconic squares and streets in Poland and around the world, they were, in fact, a mix of perspectives and included references to well-researched historical, political and social nuances.

Final farewell to iconic Polish artist Edward Dwurnik



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Polaks did it again.

100 years of women's right to vote in Poland

100 years of women's right to vote in Poland
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On the 28th of November 1918 Polish women achieved the right to vote. Poland was one of the first countries in Europe to secure this essential issue. But it was not only about voting - Polish women during the period of the Second Polish Republic (1918-1939) were gaining more and more independence, proving their extraordinary role in Polish history and culture. Check what civil liberties and possibilieties did women obtain after Poland had regained independence.
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1. Access to university education

In the 1894/1895 academic year, the Jagiellonian University was Poland's first to admit female students. As an exception, Jadwiga Sikorska, Stanisława Dowgiałłówna, and Janina Kosmowska were admitted as unenrolled students at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pharmaceutical School. In the following year, another five female students were admitted, and a further 14 in a year after that.

Final decisions were made in 1897, when the Faculty Board agreed to admit women as regular students.

Photo: Jadwiga Sikorska, Stanisława Dowgiałłówna, and Janina Kosmowska - pioneer students of pharmacy, admitted in 1894.









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A hundred years ago, Polish women were one of the first in Europe to receive suffrage. Interestingly, voting rights were first granted to them by the provisional government of Ignacy Daszyński, appointed on 7 November. Ultimately, the right of women to vote and stand in elections was established by a decree of Provisional Chief of State Józef Piłsudski of 28 November 1918. The new law stated that “any citizen of the State irrespective of sex is a voter in elections to the Sejm” and that “all citizens who have the active electoral right are eligible for election to the Sejm.”

Photo: 1927, woman agitating before Warsaw City Council elections



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3. Access to public offices

The first female members of the Sejm were: Gabriela Balicka, Jadwiga Dziubińska, Irena Kosmowska, Maria Moczydłowska, Zofia Moraczewska, Anna Piasecka, Zofia Sokolnicka, and Franciszka Wilczkowiakowa — eight highly educated representatives of different political camps. Significantly, they often formed informal coalitions that crossed the party divides.

Irena Kosmowska was the first female senior administration official. She was a member of the Sejm in 1919-1930 and also served as a deputy minister of social welfare in the Provisional Government of Ignacy Daszyński.

Photo: Irena Kosmowska was the first female senior administration official. She was a member of the Sejm in 1919-1930 and also served as a deputy minister of social welfare in the Provisional Government of Ignacy Daszyński.









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Wanda Grabińska was the first Polish woman to be appointed judge. After finishing her law studies in 1924, she first became a trainee and, three years later, started a battle for a judicial appointment. In her application she cited the constitution, which gave women equal rights in access to public offices. Her application took 18 months to consider and, on 6 March 1929, she received a judgeship.

Photo: Wanda Grabińska, the first Polish woman who received judgeship

















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In response to the League of Nations' concern over the rising juvenile crime and human trafficking, the State Police contemplated the establishment of a female section as early as in 1923. On 26 February 1925, the Commander in Chief of the State Police issued an ordinance which opened the way for women to serve in the police. At first, there were 30 female officers but the number kept growing. It soon turned out that policewomen were often better than their male colleagues at dealing with juveniles, home violence interventions, and street brawls. In their everyday work, policewomen worked closely together with organisations that helped the victims of human trafficking and pimping, societies for the protection of women, and convents.

Photo: 1937, Jadwiga Willamowska, a Polish policewoman











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The legislation inherited as a legacy of the partitions largely limited women's legal capacity. A major change in this regard came with the act of 1 July 1921, under which the woman was no longer legally obliged to obey her husband and was able to independently decide about her property. The new law emphasised the fact that from then on the woman could appear as a witness before court without her husband's authorisation. If the husband went missing, it was his wife who acquired the right to manage their property, and if the husband did not meet his obligations to provide for his family, she could go to court and seek as much as being given a part of the joint property. The law also lifted the obligation for the spouses to live under one roof.

Photo: 1935, woman and man voting in the parliamentary elections in Kraków



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The inter-war period, particularly from the late 1920s, was when women’s movements flourished. In Warsaw alone, there were 64 organisations! In the majority of cases, even if they were female sections of political parties, such outfits embraced prosocial measures: charity, self-help, and pro-civic activities instead of political agendas. Many of them were trade unions involved in issues related to work conditions and access to the labour market. Separately, women’s paramilitary organisations started to emerge; their goal was home defence preparedness. They provoked a response in the form of female pacifist organisations.

Photo: 1939, gas and sanitary training of the Women's Military Training association





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As many as 100 press titles for women came out in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s. They would appear and disappear from the market, sometimes after just a few issues, but some achieved a sort of success. Typically, they were published as supplements to regular titles and came out at different intervals. Regardless of newspaper’s political leanings, gender equality was the major theme covered by the press, but the phenomena that surrounded it elicited different responses. All titles reported on women succeeding in areas until recently inaccessible to them: sport, arts, science, and the politics.

Photo: Bluszcz - one of the most important women's magazines. January 1934 cover with Zofia Nałkowska
 
Polak forward!

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LOCKY: FORGET ABOUT FORGETTING TO LOCK THE DOOR
Posted by Katarzyna Zachariasz-Podolak | Dec 2, 2018 | Tags: app, Poland, smart home, start-ups

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WARSAW, 1st December 2018 – “Did I lock the door this morning?” Have you ever asked yourself this question? Or maybe you’re always asking other key questions like, “where did I put my key?” or “did I leave my keys in the door?” A device invented by the Polish start-up Locky will let you forget about these questions.

The company has created Locky, a smart home security system. “We make a smart key,” says Dariusz Lipka, CEO and co-founder of Locky.
 
Polak's keep getting more, and more dumb.

MasterCard invests in Polish business incubator



MasterCard invests in Polish business incubator
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MasterCard and The Heart have announced the establishment of "The Heart Ventures", a startup incubator which, along with the largest corporations, will build new technology companies that provide additional banking services.

"Poland is an important market for MasterCard and an increasingly significant innovation centre in Europe. We are happy that this is where we will be able to develop and implement the latest technologies. Together with The Heart and invited partners, we will build new companies and open global markets to them," said Bartosz Ciołkowski in a communique issued by MasterCard.

The company announced that the first five companies be launched next year in, among other areas, fintech, insurtech and retailtech. The Heart Ventures will work closely with Mastercard Labs, using the latest technologies developed in MasterCard research facilities in 10 locations around the world.

Mastercard is a technology company operating in the global area of payment processing which integrates consumers, financial institutions, sellers, governments and enterprises. It operates in over 210 countries and territories around the world," states the communique.

The Heart is a corporate innovation center from Warsaw. Using technologies created by the startups' ecosystem, it co-creates new businesses and products, in union with large companies.
 
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They use VR to repair hearts

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They use VR to repair hearts
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Prof. Wojciech Wojakowski, MD (P) and Prof. Andrzej Ochała, MD (L) during a press conference devoted to the use of virtual reality during heart valve implantation in the Upper Silesian Medical Centre in Katowice. Photo: Fot. PAP/Andrzej Grygiel 27.11.2018
Cardiologists from the Upper Silesian Medical Centre (GCM) in Katowice - Ochojec performed transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) using a virtual reality system.

Hololens glasses allow to transform previously performed tomography into a three-dimensional silhouette of the patient. "We create something like an anatomic avatar of the patient" - explained cardiologist Prof. Wojciech Wojakowski, head of the 3rd Department of Cardiology at the Upper Silesian Medical Centre.

Mapping the results of tomography on the patient`s body allows doctors to see a three-dimensional image of the heart, aorta and femoral and cervical arteries, through which they must lead a catheter to implant aortic valve. They can also display a three-dimensional heart between themselves and the screen of the X-ray machine, to choose the method of valve implantation and reduce the amount of contrast. This is important for a large group of patients suffering from kidney diseases.

This technology has been used for educational purposes for several years. "Until recently it was a nice, three-dimensional anatomy textbook. Now there are possibilities of using it (...) in orthopaedics and vascular surgery" - said the head of the Invasive Cardiology Department, Prof. Andrzej Ochała.

Cardiac surgeon Dr. Damian Hudziak pointed out that the technology could be very useful in the event the patient has to undergo surgery again after previous cardiac surgery. "In this case, the anatomical structures are so unpredictable that using this technology will allow to avoid many complications" - he stressed.

Doctors also point out that the technology allows to transmit the image seen by the operator, for example for the purpose of urgent consultation with an outstanding specialist in a given field.

The Upper Silesian Medical Centre of the Silesian Medical University in Katowice received the Hololens glasses thanks to the cooperation of cardiologists and cardiac surgeons from this hospital with the biomedical engineering specialists from the Politecnico di Milano.

This is another step in the dynamic development of the TAVI (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation) method of structural heart diseases treatment in Poland.

Narrowing of the valve is a heart defect that impedes the outflow of blood from the left ventricle to the aorta, which, in its severe form, leads to heart failure, and untreated - in a few years` perspective - to death. It mainly affects the elderly, after the age of 75. The valve has a tendency to calcify, loses elasticity and hinders the outflow of blood from the heart. Patients may experience low physical performance, shortness of breath or dizziness during exercise.

The basic method of treatment is surgery, but it cannot be performed in some patients due to concomitant diseases that increase the risk of classical surgery. The TAVI method consists in the minimally invasive introduction of a stent with pericardial patches, which replaces the affected valve and saves the lives of patients.
 
Poland the first Soviet bloc country to be classified as a developed country.

Poland becomes first country from former Soviet bloc to be ranked a 'developed market'



Witcher series on Netflix after famed Polish video game the Witcher?

Casting Rumors Surrounding Ciri in THE WITCHER Series Sparks Polish Fans To Fight For Proper Representation
The Polish economy is pretty good, I'm not sure it's the most stable in the area, maybe it's the fastest growing.

I don't see what the big deal is about Ciri, did they even ask Sapkowski? Ciri's not even a Polish name, I don't think. Did you see the original series? It was pretty good.



I really liked his score of the Double Life of Veronique.
 
I never had the pleasure to visit the land of your ancestors, sobieski, but from what I've seen it's a beautiful country full of gorgeous nordic types with a people and a government who stubbornly refuse to adopt the multiracialist mental disease which is more than I can say about America.

Having said that, you'll have to forgive me but Azog's comic strip was funny as hell. :lmao::lmao:
 
I never had the pleasure to visit the land of your ancestors, sobieski, but from what I've seen it's a beautiful country full of gorgeous nordic types with a people and a government who stubbornly refuse to adopt the multiracialist mental disease which is more than I can say about America.

Having said that, you'll have to forgive me but Azog's comic strip was funny as hell. :lmao::lmao:

Eh, Poles have softer features, and higher cheek bones than the Nords, typically.

While the North of Poland is as Blonde as Sweden, the South of Poland is far darker, (My ancestors came from the South-East, Near the borders of Ukraine & Slovakia)

Podkarpackie Voivodeship is the most Right-Wing & Conservative part of Poland as well.
 
Poland the first Soviet bloc country to be classified as a developed country.

Poland becomes first country from former Soviet bloc to be ranked a 'developed market'



Witcher series on Netflix after famed Polish video game the Witcher?

Casting Rumors Surrounding Ciri in THE WITCHER Series Sparks Polish Fans To Fight For Proper Representation
The Polish economy is pretty good, I'm not sure it's the most stable in the area, maybe it's the fastest growing.

I don't see what the big deal is about Ciri, did they even ask Sapkowski? Ciri's not even a Polish name, I don't think. Did you see the original series? It was pretty good.



I really liked his score of the Double Life of Veronique.

Poland's economy is growing strong, because the people are far too smart & productive for their modest incomes.

Even though Poland's income might be somewhat modest, so are costs of living, thus Poland's not so poor, anymore, at least.
 
Originally posted by SobieskiSavedEurope
Eh, Poles have softer features, and higher cheek bones than the Nords, typically.

While the North of Poland is as Blonde as Sweden, the South of Poland is far darker, (My ancestors came from the South-East, Near the borders of Ukraine & Slovakia)

Fantastic information, sobieski... didn't know any of that...

I guess this explains why you can easily pass for a Frenchman or even an Italian : )

Podkarpackie Voivodeship is the most Right-Wing & Conservative part of Poland as well.

Good for the polish people...

There's a special place in hell for multiracialist scoundrels like Tommy Tainant who support the European Union criminal use of economic power to strongarm Poland to accept non-white refugees:

Destroy your racial composition, join the EU and get rich or preserve the polish people and stay poor.

If I were Poland's president I would immediately reply "shove your genocidal money where the sun doesn't shine".

What is really mind-boggling is the fact that this spawn of Adolf Hitler like to present themselves as the great defenders of democracy and racial equality as if they were not the ones supporting the genocide of an entire people all the while pointing their fingers to people like us and calling us Nazis.

They learned their lesson well from Goebbels:

Accuse your enemies of all the things you are.

People accuse you of having megalomaniac thoughts about Poland but the truth is that Poland and other eastern european countries are the real defenders of western civilization against this irrational bout of political schizophrenia called multiracialism that took over western Europe after WWII...

We all agree there should be a reaction to the excesses and monstrosity of Nazi Germany...

No one is denying that tolerance should have been taught to the new generations of Europeans and Americans after the horrors of WWII.

But the destruction of their racial makeup was a disproportionate, over the top, absurd reaction...

So I hope the polish people will continue to say "they shall not pass" to the nazis of the 21th century.
 
Originally posted by SobieskiSavedEurope
Eh, Poles have softer features, and higher cheek bones than the Nords, typically.

While the North of Poland is as Blonde as Sweden, the South of Poland is far darker, (My ancestors came from the South-East, Near the borders of Ukraine & Slovakia)

Fantastic information, sobieski... didn't know any of that...

I guess this explains why you can easily pass for a Frenchman or even an Italian : )

Podkarpackie Voivodeship is the most Right-Wing & Conservative part of Poland as well.

Good for the polish people...

There's a special place in hell for multiracialist scoundrels like Tommy Tainant who support the European Union criminal use of economic power to strongarm Poland to accept non-white refugees:

Destroy your racial composition, join the EU and get rich or preserve the polish people and stay poor.

If I were Poland's president I would immediately reply "shove your genocidal money where the sun doesn't shine".

What is really mind-boggling is the fact that this spawn of Adolf Hitler like to present themselves as the great defenders of democracy and racial equality as if they were not the ones supporting the genocide of an entire people all the while pointing their fingers to people like us and calling us Nazis.

They learned their lesson well from Goebbels:

Accuse your enemies of all the things you are.

People accuse you of having megalomaniac thoughts about Poland but the truth is that Poland and other eastern european countries are the real defenders of western civilization against this irrational bout of political schizophrenia called multiracialism that took over western Europe after WWII...

We all agree there should be a reaction to the excesses and monstrosity of Nazi Germany...

No one is denying that tolerance should have been taught to the new generations of Europeans and Americans after the horrors of WWII.

But the destruction of their racial makeup was a disproportionate, over the top, absurd reaction...

So I hope the polish people will continue to say "they shall not pass" to the nazis of the 21th century.

I might have French coloring, but most French don't have cheekbones as high or big as mine.
 

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