Re: Meeting with Polish consulate in San Francisco
Spotkanie bylo bardzo ciekawe. Bylo kilka osob notujacych przebieg. Byli tez ludzie, ktorzy zarejestrowali to na video. Jak tylko bede wiedzial o jakiejs relacji to postaram sie podeslac na liste. Niestety, nie mam notatek poniewaz zaabsorbowany bylem kierowaniem ruchem, bylo strasznie duzo pytan. Konsulowie odpowiadali na pytania od 14 do 18 z polgodzinna przerwa na obiad. Edmund Lewandowski >Wydaje mi sie, ze dobrze by bylo, gdyby ktos kto bedzie uczestniczyl w tym >spotkaniu w San Francisco przeslal w miare szczegolowa relacje z tegoz >spotkania. >Mysle, ze tematyka wazna dla wielu. > >Pozdrawiam, >Miet Gutowski
Polish Americans -- statistics
Dear Poland-L members: All along I knew that the number of Polish Americans is around 10 million people. Some put it even around 12 million. That was based on the 1990 Census. I remember seeing a table giving breakdown by state where sum of the Polish Americans in all states was just below 10 million -- I think it was like 9.9 million. Recently, I am told that this number is more like 6.9 million. It is a big difference, 30% less. Does anybody know which numbers are really correct? Could you please help me to understand where is the difference coming from? I think it is important question for the Polish community to know what the real numbers are. Edmund Lewandowski
Re: Michnik w Hoover Institute na Stanfordzie
In a message dated 1/24/99 2:44:25 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ciekawa jestem czy ktos jeszcze z P-L bral udzial w spotkaniu z > Michnikiem w Hoover Institute i jakie ma wrazenia ? Mnie osobiscie nie podobala sie jego odpowiedz na pytanie o zamowiony artykul o mordach na Ukrainie. Nie wydrukowal bo mu sie nie podobal. To jest bardzo wazna i przemilczana sprawa i nie podoba mi sie, ze pan Michnik swiadomie unika tego tematu. Edmund Lewandowski
Re: ta lista
In a message dated 1/26/99 2:36:01 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Wlasnie wrocilem do domu i ide spac, ale najpierw > chcialem serdecznie podziekowac Mirce, ktora znalazla > mnie a potem obwiozla po San Francisco i okolicach. A czy byl pan na Golej Babie http://members.aol.com/~mseng Edmund Lewandowski
Jak czytac archiwum
Z powodu ogromnej ilosci listow z P-L ustawilem sobie NOMAIL planujac czytanie archiwum. Niestety nie moge sie polaczyc z Czy archiwum jest gdzies jeszcze? Edmund Lewandowski PS. Na razie z koniecznosci wlaczam MAIL, nie trzeba odpowiadac prywatnie.
Oratorium
Czy ktos wie gdzie w USA przebywa teraz chor Oratorium? Chcialbym sie z nimi skontaktowac. Edmund Lewandowski
Prosze o pomoc - PILNE !!!!!!
Prosze o pomoc w odszukaniu informacji o polskim wynalazku wykrywacza min. Najlepiej bylo by po angielsku. Chcialem szukac w archiwach ale adres http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/poland-l.html nie dziala. Informacja potrzebna jest dla polskiego Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych do wykorzystania sprawy z Turnerem na rozpropagowanie pozytywnych informacji o Polsce. Za kilka dni moze juz byc za pozno. Z gory dziekuje Edmund Lewandowski http://members.aol.com/poloniasfo/">Bay Area Poland related page
Polish mine detector
Please write to your local newspaper asking them to print the below message in connection with the Ted Turner's Polish joke. Edmund Lewandowski The below text is from the book "THE POLISH CONTRIBUTION TO THE ULTIMATE ALLIED VICTORY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR" by Tadeusz Modelski: Page 221 "The thirteenth Polish invention: at the end of 1941, the technical unit of the Polish General Staff in London introduced the British Ministry of War production to a new improved model (the old model was invented in Poland in 1937) of the mine detector constructed in Scotland in 1941 the Polish engineer, J. Kosacki. The British authorities accepted it as the best one of its time, praising the Poles, and ordered mass production, under the name of "Mine Detector Polish Mark I". All of the British Army was issued with the detector; 500 mine detectors were used by General B. Montgomery's Eight Army, to clear the terrain before the El Alamein attack." Anybody has any details of the construction?
Polish mine detector INFO
Znalezione na innej liscie: From: "The History of Landmines" by Mike Croll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), first published in Great Britain in 1998 by Leo Cooper, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 47 Church Street, Barnsley S270 2AS, ISBN 0 85052 268 0: Page 54: (discussing the 350,000 mines laid on the English beaches to deter an invasion) "The mining of the beaches had several unexpected consequences. As the defence of Britain became more organized it became necessary to move or to re-lay minefields. The laying of the original fields was so poor that entirely new methods of clearance, laying and accurate recording had to be devised. The difficulties of locating buried mines in the shifting sands of the beach prompted the War Office to issue specifications for a mine detector during the winter of 1941/42. The design accepted was submitted by Lieutenant Jozef Stanislaw Kozacki, a Polish signals officer who had escaped to France and then to Britain in 1940. The Polish detector had two coils, one of which was connected to an oscillator which generated an oscillating current of an acoustic frequency. The other coil was connected to an amplifier and a telephone. When the coils came into proximity to a metallic object the balance between the coils was upset and the telephone reported a signal. The equipment weighed just under 30 pounds and could be operated by one man. The Polish detector saw service throughout the war and the Mark 4c version was still used by the British Army until 1995. The experience of mine warfare gained on the Home Front was to prove useful throughout the war. While the Germans dominated mine design and mine laying, the British were the great innovators in clearance techniques, initially as a result of their own shortsightedness." Note: the aol address was penciled on the copy of the boor that I used; I don't know if it is Mike Croll's the author. Best regards to all, Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Petition (fwd)
> The > situation is getting so bad that one person in an editorial of the times > compared the treatment of women there to the treatment of Jews in > pre-Holocaust Poland. I wonder why nobody noticed this twist in the history knowledge of the petition' authors? Edmund
Re: Polish mine detector
In a message dated 2/28/99 1:02:57 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > PS What is the ISBN, title, author, publisher of the book which documents > the Polish designer of the mine detector that was used in WWII? I think the below info will help. I already contacted the author. To suggest to CNN and Mr. Turner making some kind of TV piece about the Polish mine detector is an excellent idea. Please write to: Time Werner Inc 75 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10019 Att. Mr. T. Turner Edmund == Hello Edmund, Thanks for your message. Yes the Polish mine detector is a wonderful piece of engineering - in operational service for 50 years! I am a shy retiring character and do not take to television well. However, I could probably put you in touch with some interesting people who have used the detector for many years. In particular I know of a Ukrainian who came to England in about 1944 who cleared mines from the beaches of England for many years - using the polish detector and retired from civilian service in the British army in 1990. His career in main clearance spanned practically the entire operational service of the Mark 4 (as the Polish detector became known) so he could be an ideal candidate. Meantime - many thanks for your message. Best regards Mike = From: "The History of Landmines" by Mike Croll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), first published in Great Britain in 1998 by Leo Cooper, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 47 Church Street, Barnsley S270 2AS, ISBN 0 85052 268 0: Page 54: (discussing the 350,000 mines laid on the English beaches to deter an invasion) "The mining of the beaches had several unexpected consequences. As the defence of Britain became more organized it became necessary to move or to re-lay minefields. The laying of the original fields was so poor that entirely new methods of clearance, laying and accurate recording had to be devised. The difficulties of locating buried mines in the shifting sands of the beach prompted the War Office to issue specifications for a mine detector during the winter of 1941/42. The design accepted was submitted by Lieutenant Jozef Stanislaw Kozacki, a Polish signals officer who had escaped to France and then to Britain in 1940. The Polish detector had two coils, one of which was connected to an oscillator which generated an oscillating current of an acoustic frequency. The other coil was connected to an amplifier and a telephone. When the coils came into proximity to a metallic object the balance between the coils was upset and the telephone reported a signal. The equipment weighed just under 30 pounds and could be operated by one man. The Polish detector saw service throughout the war and the Mark 4c version was still used by the British Army until 1995. The experience of mine warfare gained on the Home Front was to prove useful throughout the war. While the Germans dominated mine design and mine laying, the British were the great innovators in clearance techniques, initially as a result of their own shortsightedness." Note: the aol address was penciled on the copy of the boor that I used; I don't know if it is Mike Croll's the author. Best regards to all, Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Teda Turnera "polski wykrywacz min" -cd.
In a message dated 3/4/99 2:00:04 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > A przy okazji... Czy ktos pamieta URL do informacji o polskim wykrywaczu > min. Jezeli jest on po angielsku, z duza satysfakcja poinformowalbym Mr. > Corena o tym. Mysle, ze mialby on material na nastepny artykul. > Bedzie niedlugo na http://members.aol.com/poloniasfo/">Bay Area Poland related page Na razie podaje ponizej Edmund Lewandowski =(fwd)= The below text is from the book "THE POLISH CONTRIBUTION TO THE ULTIMATE ALLIED VICTORY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR" by Tadeusz Modelski: Page 221 "The thirteenth Polish invention: at the end of 1941, the technical unit of the Polish General Staff in London introduced the British Ministry of War production to a new improved model (the old model was invented in Poland in 1937) of the mine detector constructed in Scotland in 1941 by the Polish engineer, J. Kosacki. The British authorities accepted it as the best one of its time, praising the Poles, and ordered mass production, under the name of "Mine Detector Polish Mark I". All of the British Army was issued with the detector; 500 mine detectors were used by General B. Montgomery's Eight Army, to clear the terrain before the El Alamein attack." ( i drugi tekst )= Polish Mine Detector This name was given during World War II by the allied forces to a contraption invented by a recently deceased polish engineer Jozef Kosacki. His friend Jan Zakrzewski, who was an officer in the Polish Communication Training Center in St. Andrews in Scotland told this story to the press. He said: „Kosacki, while still in Poland, was researching radio waves, he came up with the idea of a machine which would find hidden in the ground metal items. In St. Andrews he was given a laboratory and a sergeant as an aide. He showed me what he constructed. It looked like a small box with an antenna. His research became an interest of the commanding officers of the British Army. All those, who knew, what he has been working on, were obliged to sign a secrecy agreement. One day, Kosacki was called to London. Experts agreed that production must be started immediately. Kosacki's mine detectors were already used in the North African campaign. His discovery was not patented; he gave it as a gift to the British Army. He was given a thank you letter from the king for this. The English were very happy that they could bring something to the cooperation table with the Americans that they did not have." ( i trzeci tekst )= From: "The History of Landmines" by Mike Croll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), first published in Great Britain in 1998 by Leo Cooper, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 47 Church Street, Barnsley S270 2AS, ISBN 0 85052 268 0: Page 54: (discussing the 350,000 mines laid on the English beaches to deter an invasion) "The mining of the beaches had several unexpected consequences. As the defence of Britain became more organized it became necessary to move or to re-lay minefields. The laying of the original fields was so poor that entirely new methods of clearance, laying and accurate recording had to be devised. The difficulties of locating buried mines in the shifting sands of the beach prompted the War Office to issue specifications for a mine detector during the winter of 1941/42. The design accepted was submitted by Lieutenant Jozef Stanislaw Kozacki, a Polish signals officer who had escaped to France and then to Britain in 1940. The Polish detector had two coils, one of which was connected to an oscillator which generated an oscillating current of an acoustic frequency. The other coil was connected to an amplifier and a telephone. When the coils came into proximity to a metallic object the balance between the coils was upset and the telephone reported a signal. The equipment weighed just under 30 pounds and could be operated by one man. The Polish detector saw service throughout the war and the Mark 4c version was still used by the British Army until 1995. The experience of mine warfare gained on the Home Front was to prove useful throughout the war. While the Germans dominated mine design and mine laying, the British were the great innovators in clearance techniques, initially as a result of their own shortsightedness." ( chyba wystarczy )= Pisalem do autora ostatniego tekstu. Odpisal mi bardzo serdeczny list. Fajny starszy pan, ktory nie chce rozglosu.
Re: wynik
In a message dated 3/5/99 3:27:33 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ponad 280 osob nie wzielo udzialu w glosowaniu, > oto 31 glosow, ktore dostalem. Niestety nie bylo terminu glosowania. Poza tym, takie osoby jak ja, ktore czasami nie zagladaja do komputera kilka dni mogly nie miec szansy. STAY - to moj glos od poczatku jak o tym zaczalem dzisiaj czytac moje zaleglosci. Ale widze ze to i tak nic nie zmienia. Edmund
Re: Prosba do Witolda Owoca
In a message dated 3/6/99 11:54:58 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > P.S. Andrew Kobos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nie moze wysylac listow >na P-L.Ale moze je otrzymywac. > Nie rozumiem wiec dlaczego nie ma go na liscie w punkcie nr 2, osob cenzurowanych? Czy to zwykle przeoczenie, czy specjalne traktowanie z jakiegos nieznanego mi blizej powodu? Chcialbym wyrazic tutaj uznanie dla Witolda Owoca za poswiecanie czasu na opiekowanie sie lista. Do jakiego poziomu mozna dojsc dopuszczajac wszystkich i wszystkie wypowiedzi mozna zobaczyc odwiedzajac scp. Powinna byc demokracja i wolnosc, ale dla tych ktorzy potrafia je uszanowac i ich nie naduzywac. Moga zbladzic, ale powinni umiec przyznac sie do tego -- trzeba zawsze dac im szanse. Ja nawet nie mam czasu zabierac glosu w dyskusjach na P-L ale w miare mozliwosci probuje dostarczac istotnych materialow. Edmund Lewandowski
Antypolskie incydenty w USA
Bardzo prosze o rozpropagowanie ponizszego artykulu. Uwazam, ze Polacy w Polsce zbyt malo wiedza o antypolskich incydentach w USA. http://www.rzeczpospolita.pl/dodatki/listy_981215/listy_a_1.html http://www.rzeczpospolita.pl/Pl-asc/dodatki/listy_981215/listy_a_1.html Prosze odnotowac blad w tytule artykulu. Powinien on brzmiec: "Konwencja o zakazie szerzenia nienawisci" Wesolych Swiat Edmund Lewandowski
Re: Antypolskie incydenty w USA
In a message dated 12/25/98 4:08:28 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Czy gdzies sa zrodla ktore omawaialy by wywiad cytujac > dokladnie wypowiedzi. > > Wiadomosci z drugiej reki nie zawsze sa dobrym zrodlem. W moim liscie do Rzeczpospolitej nie chodzi o sam wywiad. Jest on tylko ta kropla ktora przelala naczynie mojej cierpliwosci i spowodowala napisanie do Polakow w Polsce o ekscesach w USA. Wedlug mnie, w Polsce zwykli ludzie nie bardzo sie orientuja jak sie mowi i pisze o Polsce w USA. A uwazam, ze powinni wiedziec. Edmund Lewandowski
Re: Antypolskie incydenty w USA
In a message dated 12/25/98 8:16:59 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Jak sie chce miec amerykanski typ radia to sie to ma na dobre > i na zle. Nie chodzilo o radio a o przekazanie tresci pomiedzy "klamrami" z radiem. Prosze przeczytac moja poprzednia wypowiedz. Edmund Lewandowski
Re: Oby nam sie!:-)
In a message dated 12/31/98 10:30:53 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > A ten nasz rok 1999 niech bedzie zdrowy, sprawiedliwy, spokojny, > ludny i syty, moze zakochany, nawet i zwariowany, ale tylko > troche. Niech przyniesie wiosne zielonych nadziei, lato dojrzalych > projektow, jesien kolorowych spelnien i zime slodkiego zadumania > nad zyciem, ktore jest cos warte. Dzieki, nawzajem. Edmund Lewandowski
Re: mija rok...
In a message dated 12/31/98 11:57:11 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [ to moja proba ominiecia dywagacji n/t poczatku nowego wieku ;-)] Mysmy z zona wykombinowali, ze 1999 jest rokiem szczegolnym bo jest to przeciez ostatni rok XX wieku i jednoczesnie przedostatni rok 2 tysiaclecia. Jestem w stanie o tym przekonac chyba kazdego logicznie myslacego czlowieka. Zdrowego, spokojnego i szczesliwego Nowego Roku dla wszystkich. Edmund Lewandowski
Re: Znalezione na CNN
In a message dated 12/31/98 1:49:05 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > hmmm takie cos sie wlasnie na cnn.com pojawilo. moze > jednak nie jest as tak zle jak to coponiektorzy zdaja sie > sugerowac... Dzieki za optymistyczne wiadomosci, moze nareszcie zaczyna sie cos zmieniac. > ps. tak na marginesie - odkad w hameryce siedze (a bedzie juz, > zgroza, prawie 8 lat) ani razu nie udalo mi sie uslyszec > Polish joke czy jakiegokolwiek badz przytyku do tego ze > z pl.u jestem... Szczesciarz! A czy slyszales lub widziales rzeczy nieprzychylne Polsce? (Niekoniecznie dotyczace Twojej osoby). Edmund
Re: Znalezione na CNN
In a message dated 1/4/99 2:39:06 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Szczesciarz! > > szczesciarz jak szczesciarz... krece sie w towarzystwie uczelnianym i to na > dodatek bardzo wielonarodowosciowym - sa ludzie z Argentyny, Wenezueli, > Niemiec, Szwajcarii, Francji, Polski (nie tylko ja), Rosji, Izraela, Indii, > Chin, Korei. Przy takej mieszance gloszenie jakichkolwiek uwag > nieprzychylnych > jakiemukolwiek narodowi jest raczej niemozliwe. A mnie na Stanford University zdarzylo sie przezyc pierwszy Polish joke kiedy w zatloczonej windzie czlowiek z Izraela zdawkowo powiedzial: "Polish elevator" i czesc (ta ktora nie wiedziala ze jestem Polakiem) gruchnela gromkim smiechem. Moj szef, Niemiec, wytlumaczyl mi potem co nieco. Tak ze w srodowisku wielonarodowosciowym i uniwersyteckim tez sie to zdarza. Moze ja po prostu mam pecha. Edmund
Stereotyp Polaka (bylo: Znalezione na CNN)
In a message dated 1/5/99 2:56:25 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Mysle, ze ma Pan co najmniej "element" pecha. A pozatem czy pamieta Pan > prawdziwe "Polish elevators". ?? > > Jesli tak, to element pecha zmieni sie w element prawdy. No coz, takie a > nie inne byly w Polszy elevators. > > Serio: niedawno w NYC subway jakis czlowiek czyms zwrocil na siebie moja > uwage. Nie wiem dlaczego, od czasu do czasu rzucalem na niego przelotne > spojrzenie. Po chwili wyjal polska gazete i to chyba z RP, Express jakis > tam. Wtedy juz wiedzialem czym zwrocil moja uwage. Byl potwornie > nieogolony, jak Arafat, i brudny, zdecydowanie nie wloczega, nie homeless. Zdecydowanie inna jest moja koncepcja na spogladanie na Polske i Polakow. Jak widze cos zlego to staram sie naprawic. Jezeli jest to trudne lub niemozliwe do wykonania, patrze jak to wyglada na tle innych narodowosci. W wiekszosci wypadkow nie jest to takie negatywne. Duzo ludzi z Polski ma jakies takie dziwne wyobrazenie, ze Polacy to maja byc idealni. Rozmawialem z Wegrami, Wlochami, Niemcami, Wietnamczykami. Patrza na Polakow bardzo pozytywnie, natomiast na swoich tak jak "amk" na swoich. Sami siebie wciagamy w bloto. Przykre. A wcale nie jest tak zle. Edmund
Polskie moze, a moze morze.
In a message dated 1/5/99 11:51:04 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ze Polska nad mozem lezy... A morze nad Wisla?
Re: Livermore
In a message dated 8/18/99 9:02:07 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Mam pytanie. Czy ktos z Panstwa ma moze jakies kontakty z Lawrence > Livermore National Laboratory? To jest w Kalifornii. Chodzi o > odszukanie jednego faceta, takze gdyby ktos mogl pomoc... Jestem blisko. Znam ludzi ktorzy tam pracuja. W miare moich mozliwosci moge pomoc. Edmund Lewandowski
