text:
Published on 11-30-2016 11:51 PM
You're here because you love horsepower. Going fast is what we're about. There is going fast and being reckless however. 300+ kph (over 186 miles per hour) on public streets and in a turn while dodging traffic easily qualifies as reckless. ...
R&T (incorrectly) picks the NSX as 2017's best performance car over the Corvette Grand Sport, M4 GTS, R8, F-Type SVR, AMG C63 S, GT-R Nismo, 911 Turbo S, EvoraPublished on 11-30-2016 06:20 PM
Road and Track is wrong here. Not that the NSX is not a good car but is it really the best performance car of 2017? Absolutely not. As we saw last month the NSX struggles to top the aging (and cheaper) Nissan GTR. The NSX just is not what the original was. ...Published on 11-17-2016 08:30 AM
If you're saying to yourself that this is sexist you clearly are on the wrong website. This is brilliant. It is a fact that women are inferior to drivers to men. Sure, some feminist out there will point out that women are safer drivers but that's because nobody is in a hurry to get to the dry cleaners or gynecologist. ...
Former red light camera CEO gets 14 months in prison for bribing politicians to expand red light camera usePublished on 10-26-2016 02:57 PM
You know how we're told red light cameras are for our own safety? Well, they aren't. The truth of the matter is red light cameras are a huge business and they are forced on us to create a revenue stream. If it really was about saving lives why are private companies bribing politicians to get them installed? ...Published on 10-18-2016 02:53 PM
Carbon fiber wheels are the new big thing. For years, wheel companies made carbon overlay rims to get the look of carbon fiber but the aftermarket now is beginning to offer a nice selection of full carbon fiber wheels. Keep in mind Ford sells the Mustang GT350R right off the showroom floor with carbon fiber rims. ...Published on 10-10-2016 05:35 AM
It seems fitting that the Germans should kill off the internal combustion engine considering that it was German Nikolaus Otto that created the foundation for what would become the modern four-stroke engine. You likely know that is where the term Otto Cycle comes from. ...Published on 10-06-2016 12:51 AM
All good things must come to an end but fret not driving enthusiasts! Arguably the best all around enthusiast tire on the market is getting even better. Say goodbye to the Michelin Pilot Super Sport and hello to the Michelin Pilot Sport 4 S. Michelin seems to be borrowing their naming from Porsche (though notice the 4 and S are separated). ...Published on 09-24-2016 01:42 AM
With MotorTrend wrapping up their Best Driver's Car 2016 competition having all the cars together provides for a great opportunity to do a big drag race. They have been doing this every year for the past six years following the competition and who can blame them for the extra content? ...
The best driver's car of 2016 is... the McLaren 570S - Ferrari and Lamborghini pussy out and BMW's M4 GTS finishes second to lastPublished on 09-23-2016 05:11 AM
That is according to MotorTrend of course. After the testing of the lap times at Laguna Seca and the subjective impressions were factored in McLaren's 570S came out on top. The BMW F82 M4 GTS on the other hand finished second to last and we can officially call the car a failure at this point. ...Published on 09-21-2016 08:41 PM
There is no stopping the Viper ACR. It is a track animal bent on destroying whatever dares come across its path. The M4 GTS? The Shelby GT350R? The Porsche 911 Carrera S? The new Acura NSX? The McLaren 570S? All simply lambs led to the slaughter. ...
2016 Car and Driver Lightning Lap Results with video - Viper ACR rules, M4 GTS beaten again, Lexus GS-F embarrassed, and the Corvette Grand Sport impressesPublished on 09-14-2016 06:56 PM
This is a great comparison to really see how cars perform. This is not mixing and matching Nurburgring laptimes from different days with different drivers and cars set up differently from their production counterparts. What we have here is as close as we can get to an honest track comparison from the major publications. ...Published on 09-04-2016 05:56 PM
That driver's championship chase is as tight as it can possibly be. Only two points separate Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. With a 1-2 finish and Rosberg taking first place picking up 25 points to Hamilton's 18 for second place things are getting uncomfortably close for the Mercedes teammates. ...
F1 2016 - The Belgian Grand Prix features nasty wrecks as Nico Rosberg takes the checkered flag with Hamilton finishing 3rdPublished on 08-29-2016 12:50 PM
Nico Rosberg received a boost in his race prospects thanks to Lewis Hamilton being forced to start from the back. Why? Due to penalties as he exceeded the maximum amount of engines allowed in a season. No driver has ever won a Formula 1 Grand Prix starting from the back. ...Published on 08-22-2016 01:52 AM
So let's take a break in your regular BoostAddict programming to watch the following. WTF is going on here you may be saying? Good question. Someone decided to use a crane to create a swing of sorts that is powered by a sport bike. ...Published on 08-06-2016 09:41 PM
Some of you know of the rider here who goes by the name 'Ghostrider' in videos. For those who do not know him do a search on Youtube and videos will pop up showing him hitting insane speeds on the public streets, barely missing cars, and running from the police. ...


text:
Enter to win a DVD of LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures Season One and 'Elena of Avalor'
Taking place between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, these new adventures follow a family of scavengers who build and sell starships from battle debris strewn throughout the galaxy. When their youngest discovers a natural connection with the Force through an ancient artifact – the Kyber Saber –he and his family are thrown into an epic struggle against the Empire to restore peace and freedom to the galaxy. The Freemakers explore new worlds, meet new and familiar characters and discover the strength of family. Relive all 13 action-packed episodes in LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures Season One.
Set in the enchanted fairytale land of Avalor, "Elena of Avalor" tells the story of Elena, a brave and adventurous teenager who has saved her kingdom from an evil sorceress and must now learn to rule as crown princess until she is old enough to be queen. Elena's journey leads her to understand that her new role requires thoughtfulness, resilience and compassion, the traits of all truly great leaders.
(1 winner to be chosen)

subset: commoncrawl


text:
We use cookies on this website. By using this site, you agree that we may store and access cookies on your device. Find out more here
Council of Clinical Information Officers
The Council of Clinical Information Officers has been established to provide clinical governance to the delivery of eHealth solutions across the Irish Healthcare system. Its role is primarily as an advisory group, with primary governance oversight provided by the Office of the CIO and the eHealth Ireland committee.
It is composed of clinical leaders, led by the Chief Clinical Information Officer, and those with hands-on successful programme delivery experience in the Irish healthcare system. There are deep and diverse experiences and perspectives represented on the Council which will support the development of local and national level programmes such as the Electronic Health Record Programme.
For more information about the Council of Clinical Information Officers:
Visit us at our blogging site.
Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com
Follow us on Twitter @CCIO_IRL
Share This:
The Knowledge & Information Plan
Download the eHealth Ireland Strategy (PDF 3.2 MB)


text:
Traffic Jams in Bristol
- Image ID
- Rights
- RM Rights Managed
- Image Details
- 5491 x 3660 px
- 465 x 310 mm
- 18.3 x 12.2 in
- Visual Size @300ppi
- Keywords
- Bristol Traffic Traffic on the streets of Bristol Traffic Traffic jam Traffic Jams Cars automobiles Queues Congestion Road Street Road works right of way access obstacle vehicles driving transport blocked Bristol City of Bristol Bristol City City Cities Landscapes Cityscapes Southwest West Country England UK Britain Europe Gloucestershire Avon historic cities Bath Gloucester River Avon estuary River Severn Bristol Channel Culture centre of culture Port of Bristol city centre Subarbs Severn Estuary Avonmouth Royal Portbury Dock Shirehampton St Anne's Leigh Woods Clifton Down Kingsweston Hill Henbury Sea Mills Brycgstow the place at the bridge harbour River Frome shipbuilding John Cabot medieval towns Bristol Cathedral. Cathedral Cities slavery Seven Stars public house Thomas Clarkson Samuel Plimsoll the sailor's friend slave trade Avon Gorge Victorian engineer engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel Great Western Railway Bristol-built Ship shape Bristol Fashion steamships SS Great Western Clifton Suspension Bridge. John Wesley Bristol Riots Bristol Bridge Bristol Blitz St Nicholas St Mary Redcliffe city walls 13th century figures Bristol's Newgate Bristol Castle Geoffrey de Montbray Bishop of Coutances fortified walls of the city Bristol city centre tower blocks brutalist Architecture Georgian period Queen Square Portland Square Broadmead shop stock image stock photo
- Description
- Cars Queuing in a Traffic Jam, Templeway, Bristol OM_SB3_7_a A photo of a road (to suggest a life path) that is stormy and difficult.
- Uploader
- Graham Stephen Coleman
- Contributor
- Graham Coleman LBIPP
- Date Taken
- 2009-10-18
- Uploaded on
- 2009-10-19
- Collection
- Pictures of Bristol by Graham Coleman
- Setting
- Outdoor
- Point of view
- Eye level
- People
- Without people
- Dominant colour
- #202020


text:
Coastal Hazard Wheel
Open Access Platform
Open Access Platform
The Coastal Hazard Wheel is a universal coastal adaptation support system that can be used for three main purposes:
Multi-hazard-assessments at local, regional and national level
Identification of hazard management options for a specific coastline
As a standardized coastal language to communicate coastal information
The key to the world's coastlines
The Coastal Hazard Wheel is a universal coastal adaptation system to address all coastal challenges simultaneously. It can be used as a complete coastal language and aims to boost adaptation action and bridge the gap between scientists, policy-makers and the general public. It is based on a new coastal classification system and functions as a key for classifying a particular coastal location, determining its hazard profile, identifying relevant management options and communicating coastal information. The automated Coastal Hazard Wheel App currently provides global coastal classification and adaptation information with low-moderate accuracy and will be continuously improved as various adaptation projects are implemented.
Publication package for coastal stakeholders
IT-resources and adaptation support
New adaptation action
The Coastal Hazard Wheel is used for a national erosion assessment for Malta. The assessment is carried out by researchers at University of Malta and includes generation of national hazard maps, coastal classification information and management considerations. The assessment aims to support national decision-making and is available as a scientific paper published in Ocean & Coastal Management.
The Coastal Hazard Wheel is presented as part of UNEP-DHI webinar series on Source-to-Sea Management. The webinar aims to increase the understanding of cross-disciplinary issues for achieving UN SDG6 on freshwater and UN SDG14 on oceans and covers approaches to assess, track and model Source-to-Sea interactions. It will take place 15th August, 15.00 CEST and it is possible to sign up or access recordings through UNEP-DHI's website.
The Coastal Hazard Wheel is currently being used for case assessments in Vietnam and Bangladesh and the results will be incorporated in the further development of the global coastal classification system. Technical assessment information, results and relevant policy conclusions will be provided as soon as they are published and more information including relevant contact points is provided on request.
The Coastal Hazard Wheel / Open Access Platform will constitute the hub for all activities related to Coastal Hazard Wheel system. It will provide direct access to all scientific and technical background information and provide the basis for ongoing big data activities on classification of the word's coastlines. It is the aim that the platform over time will offer interactive global coastal classification and management data for coastal stakeholders worldwide.
The UNEP publication package on the Coastal Hazard Wheel provides a complete guide to the CHW system and consists of four components, namely the Executive Summary, the Quick start guide, the Main manual and the Catalogue of hazard management options. The publication package provides guidance to the full range of stakeholders involved in coastal adaptation activities and the Executive Summary is translated to all official UN languages.


text:
POLISH AMERICAN CONGRESS, Vice President for American Affairs Anthony J. Bajdek
REPORT, April 19, 2012
Informed Americans familiar with the history of the United States, as well as those citizens of other nations who study American history for both positive and negative purposes, are familiar with the poignant statement, "a house divided against itself cannot stand" — which referenced the growing mid-19th century chasm between America's free states and slave states, between the North and the South — made by Abraham Lincoln on June 16, 1858. Unfortunately, it took a bloody Civil War that began in 1861 and ended in 1865 to prevent our great American home from falling. It had been a war in which some 620,000 American combatants were killed in action, thus exceeding our nation's losses of soldiers in all its other wars combined from the time of our War of Independence in the 18th century to Vietnam in the 20th century. History's lesson, in this regard, is compelling.
Today, we find the Polish American Congress, being another "house" dear to our hearts, divided against itself amidst invective and recrimination afield that has grown more antagonistic, depressing, sometimes libelous, and potentially fatally destructive, as it had been in the United States preceding the attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861, the spark that set our divided nation ablaze. In 2012, however, while divisiveness persists in the Polish American Congress, some aspects of our venerable organization proceed in a positive direction as examples of what it should strive to be, that being, a dynamic entity, always moving forward and united, rather than a static entity falling behind changing times on the American scene by concurrently "shooting itself in the foot" as the expression goes.
Considering the practical examples of our recent first-ever Divisions in Maine and in New Hampshire, It really hasn't been that difficult to do, and I propose, should become an organizational objective pursued with missionary zeal, fully in keeping with the healthy outlook of being a work in progress.
In a very short period of time that began on a snowy day in Portland, Maine on December 30, 2010 at a small Polish delicatessen/restaurant, I began the process that led to the creation of two first-ever Divisions of the Polish American Congress in Maine and then in New Hampshire, the former achieving sufficient membership for full Division status in May 2011, the latter achieving full Division status in February 2012. What enabled me and others to pull together functioning Polish American Congress Divisions in Maine and New Hampshire was something that both states lacked prior to that point, that being a relatively significant interest in creating a state-wide Polish American organization with both a cultural and political agenda, on one hand, and affiliation with its national parent organization on the other, amidst an increasing void of Polish American entities caused by the decline in the numbers of citizens having fluency in Polish, the concomitant loss of Polish parishes, and an undefined yearning to reclaim Polish roots, heritage and tradition, especially among the great majority of Polish Americans nationally who are a near-century or more removed from their immigrant ancestors who ventured to America. Comparatively speaking, the Polish American populations of Maine (17,731) and New Hampshire (32,164) are dwarfed generally by the mega Polish American state populations of the midwest and northeast, for example, and likely viewed by some to be of peripheral importance in the scheme of things Polish in the United States, but not so in my opinion.
Going back to our CND meeting in Phoenix in 2007, my consistent thesis has been that the Polish American Congress, by expanding to new states, will augment the number of its legitimate voting constituencies of more Congressional delegations in Washington, DC thereby increasing the greater likelihood of influencing federal lawmakers in matters of interest to Polish American voters and Poland. (Of course, even if we did have Divisions in all 50 states, achieving political clout would depend on every state's Division[s] engaging their Congressional Delegations consistently and vigorously in the manner, for example, of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a 501-c-4 entity such as we are, but with overwhelmingly-more financial resources, and annually converging en masse on Capitol Hill.) With the establishment of the New Hampshire Division in February 2012, the Polish American Congress currently now has a formal presence — albeit only on paper inTexas as of the moment — in 20 states (AZ, CA, CT, DE, FL, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, TX, VA, WI) and the District of Columbia.
The process that led to the creation of Polish American Congress Divisions in Maine and New Hampshire began, for me at least, with identifying one person in each state inclined to the idea. I have identified such individuals in three other states with peripheral Polish American population characteristics: in Montana (15,778) by way of a member of PAC-NH whose sister lives there, and in Nebraska (73,559) and Vermont (14,152) where I personally worked with state legislators (John Synowiecki and Michael Obuchowski respectively) for the successful passage of Visa Waiver for Poland Resolutions in 2005. With regard to Nebraska, fellow CND member Antoinette Trela offered to help the cause for creating a new Division there by approaching some Polish Women's Alliance of America members inclined to the idea.
Despite the fact that in 2011 a new Long Island Division of the Polish American Congress was created in the State of New York, bringing the number of Divisions in that state to four (Western New York, Central District of New York, Downstate New York and Long Island), a highly commendable achievement in its own right, it did not add a new Congressional delegation to our national reach. However, it did bring in new members who had not been inclined to join the Downstate Division, preferring to add their own geographically-distinctive region to those already existing in the state. This example can be replicated.
In contrast to what has occurred in New York, my consistent ambition to stimulate the Polish American Congress into sustaining expansion of first-ever Divisions to new states is fueled by the fact that 26 other states have Polish American populations under 50,000 (AK, AL, AR, CO, GA, HI, ID, IO, KS, KY, LA, MS, MT, NV, NM, NC, ND, OK, OR, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, WV, WY), five of which said states have Polish American populations under 10,000; ten from 10,000 to 19,999; five from 20,000 to 29,999; five from 30,000 to 39,999; and one in the 40,000 to 49,999 range (Source: The Polish American Encyclopedia, © 2011). In these states, it takes at least twenty members to form new Divisions of the Polish American Congress.
By sustaining expansion to new states, large as well as small, the Polish American Congress will remain a dynamic rather than a static national Polish American organization — serving the interests of American voters of Polish descent principally, and Poland by extension — imbued with a wholesome, vibrant "work in progress" attitude. As we expand to new states and become known to the executive and legislative branches of state and federal government as a purposeful, disciplined, and unified activist entity, we likely will be better able to have an impact on federal and state legislators, for example, in the arenas of domestic and international affairs, provided that we can represent compelling issues of significance to the welfare of the United States as well as those of significance to Poland and its European Union home.
For those who may be skeptical about what they read in this report concerning first-ever Divisions, perhaps about PAC-NH in particular, I offer our state's membership list as of this writing. Among our 42 members, three — John W. Cebrowski, Walter Kołodziej and Joseph F. Krasucki — are current members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, probably the highest number of state legislators in one PAC Division in the country. Another member — Eryk Jadaszewski — produces in NH replica Husaria armor and full costume for sale world-wide, and yet another is Paul Sobiechowski, newly-installed Polish National Catholic Church Bishop for New England. John W. Cebrowski, originally from New Jersey, had been a United States Marine jet fighter combat pilot during the Vietnam War, whose late brother, Arthur K. Cebrowski, also from New Jersey, rose to the rank of Vice Admiral in the United States Navy and had been the President of the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island:
Bajdek, Anthony J., Hudson, NH, Bajdek, Christopher J., Holliston, MA, Bajdek, Cynthia J., Hudson, NH, Bajdek, Michelle B., Hudson, NH, Bajdek, Peter A., Hudson, NH, Cebrowski, Amanda W., Bedford, NH, Cebrowski, Helen, Bedford, NH, Cebrowski, John W., Bedford, NH, Cłow, Frances E., Bradford, NH, Cłow, Verne R., Bradford, NH, Darois, Cynthia M., Nashua, NH, Dudek, Donna, Manchester, NH, Dworczak, Karolina, Pittsfield, NH, Edmonds, Anne Z., Chichester, NH, Franasik, Renata, Manchester, NH, Gocłowski, Dorothy M., Hopkinton, NH, Gocłowski, John C., Hopkinton, NH, Gocłowski, Michael J., Hopkinton, NH, Gould, Linda Radulski, Bedford, NH, Jadaszewski, Eryk, Peterborough, NH, Kołodnicki, Stanley, Manchester, NH, Kowalik, Joseph J., Hookset, NH, Krasucki, Joseph F., Nashua, NH, Kujawski, Peter M., Bedford, NH, McColgan, Joseph T., Hopkinton, NH, Moore, Janet D., Bedford, NH, Pilat, Richard, Quincy, MA, Płaza, Carol E., Hudson, NH, Płaza, Nathaniel, Hudson, NH, Ptak, Maria, Manchester, NH, Ruszczyk, Leszek, Manchester, NH, Sobiechowski, Paul, Manchester, NH, Sokół, Mirosław, Bedford, NH, Stec, Alicja, Bedford, NH, Susalka, Roman, Nashua, NH, Szydlik, Piotr, Nashua, NH, Tomaszewski, Thaddeus, Chelsea, MA, Więckowska, Maria, Manchester, NH, Wolnicki, Diana E., Salem, NH, Wolnicki, Peter J., Salem, NH, Zuba, Andrew M., Nashua, NH.
Since the time of our last meeting in Pittsburgh in October 2011, two states, Illinois and Rhode Island, passed Visa Waiver for Poland Resolutions, Illinois for the second time since October 2007, and Rhode Island for the first time, thus increasing the HONOR ROLL OF STATE LEGISLATURES PASSING VISA WAIVER FOR POLAND RESOLUTIONS as follows:
Massachusetts (Joint Resolution: Poland, May 2004)
New Jersey (Joint Resolution: Poland, October 2004)
Vermont (Joint Resolution: Poland, January 2005)
Pennsylvania (Joint Resolution: Poland, April, 2005)
Connecticut (Senate Resolution: Poland, May 2005)
Maine (Joint Resolution: Poland, May 2005)
Nebraska (Unicameral Resolution: Poland, June 2005)
New York (Joint Resolution: Poland, June 2005)
Ohio (Joint Resolution: All NATO Members, June 2005)
Michigan (Joint Resolution: Poland, June 2006)
Arizona (Joint Resolution: Poland, April 2007)
Illinois (Joint Resolution: Poland, October 2007)
Massachusetts (Joint Resolution: Poland, July 2010)
Illinois (Senate Resolution: Poland: November 2011)
Rhode Island (Senate Resolution: Poland, March 2012)
Whereas I had no involvement with the second Illinois Resolution of November 2011, I had worked with John Mailloux, President of our Rhode Island Division, for passage of that state's Resolution whose lead sponsor had been Senator William Walaska, a Lithuanian American. Similarly, I am working on the sponsorship and passage of Visa Waiver for Poland legislation in New Hampshire and Tennessee. With Ted Mirecki's help, we might be able to find a VWP Resolution sponsor in Virginia's legislature in 2013.
Over the years of my involvement with Visa Waiver for Poland Resolutions in state legislatures, I had hoped that all of our Divisions would engage in the campaign. Apart from those Honor Roll states referenced above, our Indiana Division to its credit did collect over 800 signatures on WVPR petitions for presentation to members of its state legislature, only to be confronted by disinterest among legislators.
Whether our activity is in state legislatures or with Congressional Delegations in Washington, DC in support of rapid-fire-submitted Congressional bills such as in 2011, H. 959 (Secure Travel and Counterterrorism Partnership Program), and in 2012 both H.R.3855 and S.2046 (Visa Waiver Program Enhanced Security and Reform Act) and now S.2233 (Jobs Originated through Launching Travel Act), all federal and state legislative activity is a method by which to keep the problem of Poland's exclusion from visa waiver "on the table" so that it will not be forgotten on Capitol Hill amidst our nation's myriad, major pressing domestic and international problems, not the least of which involve our battered economy and the prospects for added theaters of war or peace in an ever more-dangerous world.
It is a very rare day indeed when our purely American national news services in the United States highlight a news event that sheds positive light on a subject that we Americans of Polish descent hold near and dear to our hearts, the subject being Poland. It happened during the era of Solidarity in Poland and John Paul II in the world when our spirits were buoyed with pride in our heritage, and by a tangible promise of a world-wide renaissance of interest in Poland's history, culture, tradition, and growing prominence in modern European and world affairs. That pride's increase to an as-yet-then-to-be-defined apogee was fueled subsequently by Poland's admission to NATO and the European Union.
Yet in the United States no nation-wide recognition via Hollywood has ever been given by anyone, except for Poles in Poland, to portray Poland's place in the modern world other than it having been the site on which to impose Germany's vicious decision to initiate its heinous "Final Solution" by which European Jews would be made the objects of extermination from the face of the earth.
But now Polish Americans are on the verge of a major change provided we participate in achieving it.
In February 2012, the Foundation to Illuminate America's Heroes, Inc., a 501(c)3 entity to which donations may be deducted from U.S. federal income tax, began working to produce a major Hollywood film via a real-life story that ties together Tadeusz Kościuszko, the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1919-1921, and the American volunteer fighter pilot Merian C. Cooper and his American fellow pilots who created the first-ever "Kościuszko Squadron" to fight — and in some cases — die alongside Poland's fighter pilots of the Second Republic in its struggle against communist Boshevism of Russia in a war that not only saved Poland but also a post-World War I weakened Europe from Russian conquest. Think of it. An American, Merian C. Cooper (1893-1973), decorated by Józef Piłsudski with Poland's Virtuti Militarii for his service to Poland. This story proposed by FIAH to be told in a major Hollywood film.
As an American of Polish descent, I have urged Polish Americans to consider contributing donations for funding this film, "Honor to You," that once produced will be advertised and shown nationally to all Americans — not just Polish Americans — a pro-Poland initiative in terms of motion pictures never before matched in Hollywood, and a fitting tribute to America's heroes and Poland's heroes of 1919- 1921 who fought against the Bolshevik communists of Russia. When David C. Jamison of Dothan, Alabama, who is Executive Director of the Foundation to Honor America's Heroes, approached me (how he came to do so is still a mystery to me), I seized the opportunity because it would provide me a way to relate Cooper with Kościuszko, Poland's Second Republic, Bolshevism's early threat to the world, and Visa Waiver.
Had it not been for our fellow-CND members Teresa K. Bunk, Zdzisław Karas, and Rev. Carl A. Urban of our NY Central District Division who invited me to speak at the Pulaski Monument ceremony and later at the related banquet, I would have not had the opportunity to suggest that the Common Council of Utica should issue its own Visa Waiver for Poland Resolution. Unfortunately, even though I recommended to CND members in 2008 that this was yet another avenue by which to approach raising public, rather than simply Polish American, sensitivity about Poland's exclusion from the Visa Waiver Program, "no one picked up the ball" and ran with it at the time until February 2012 in Chicago as I have confirmed.
In view of the foot-dragging of the Obama administration in the matter, there is still time to have City Councils issue their own Visa Waiver for Poland Resolutions. Remember, each Resolution regardless of its origin serves to keep the matter of Poland's exclusion from the program "on the table" and not forgotten. My fellow National Directors, I appeal to you to act similarly in other cities as well, especially in those PAC states where state legislatures have not yet passed Visa Waiver for Poland Resolutions.
Ted Mirecki (see page 4) volunteered to explore the possibility of a Visa Waiver for Poland Resolution being sponsored and passed in his home state, Virginia. Surely, others can identify likely cities as well. My spirit has also been lifted upon learning from Marty Cepielik recently that someone in California finally may travel to Sacramento in order to discuss Visa Waiver for Poland with State Assemblyman Bob Więckowski, who as far as I am aware, might be California's first elected Polish American lawmaker.
Given the coming reality of Obama – Romney Presidential Debates, we have to work to find a way to get the matter of Poland's exclusion from the Visa Waiver Program included in the foreign policy questions asked by whoever the ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC, etc. network moderators will be. In this regard, I ask for ideas that you may have about working to achieve this vitally-important objective.
Opportunities — whatever they may be concerned with — must never be passed up. That's why, after inviting, on behalf of the American Association of the Friends of Kościuszko at West Point, former United States Ambassador (2004-2009) to Poland, Victor H. Ashe II, to be the keynote speaker for its April 29-30, 2011 Annual Kościuszko Conference and Observance at the United States Military Academy, I utilized the two days with the Ambassador, a true friend of Poland, to enlist his support in working with his many friends in Tennessee's legislature for the passage of a Visa Waiver for Poland Joint Resolution. Given the fact that upon becoming a resident of New Hampshire, I founded the first-ever Division of the Polish American Congress in that state, and attracting three current members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives — Cebrowski, Kołodziej and Krasucki — to becoming dues-paying members of our latest Division, I have set the stage for sponsorship and passage of a Visa Waiver for Poland Joint Resolution in my new state. On May 3, 2012 at the State House in Concord, for the first time in the history of New Hampshire state government, we will celebrate Poland's Constitution of May 3, 1791 at which Governor John Lynch, a Democrat, and Executive Council member Raymond J. Wieczorek, a Republican and once, long one-time Mayor of Manchester for whom a highway has been named, will speak in the Executive Council chamber, as will I, about the significance of that Constitution. Do you think that I will not utilize the opportunity of connecting Poland's Constitution of May 3, 1791 to contemporary Poland's exclusion from Visa Waiver? Of course I won't. Will I suggest that the Executive Council should issue its own Visa Waiver for Poland Resolution? Of course I will. It doesn't hurt to ask.
If given a choice, be dynamic rather than static. Don't be timid, don't be afraid to ask and propose.
There is, however, a down-side to overdoing anything, best described by the risk of falling to the danger of "going over the top" in matters concerning Poland, thus becoming one-dimensional in the view of American politicians whether on the federal of state levels.
CND members may recall that, as I reported beginning in Phoenix in 2007, several otherwise pro-Poland state legislators in Massachusetts, Polish American types included, confided to me that we Polish Americans generally never seem to seek their assistance or offer them advice or opinions unless it concerned Poland, although there were individual exceptions on occasion. In short, as American voters of Polish descent, they expect that as Americans first we should be at least as much concerned about the welfare of the United States as we are about Poland. Sorry to say, in their experiences at least, they hardly ever hear from Polish Americans on purely American issues.
Upon first becoming a member of the Polish American Congress in the early 1990s, I heard that it was not possible for the PAC to engage in purely American issues because it would inevitably split the unity of the PAC along Democrat and Republican lines. I responded that surely there are aspects of being an American citizen-voter that members of the Council of National Directors of the Polish American Congress can discuss without divisiveness that are in need of effective resolution for the current and future welfare of the United States. I offer the example of America's current official de facto language, English. If reading is held to be basic, then reading, writing and communicating effectively in English should be among the highest priority matters for all of our nation's diverse citizenry.
It is generally understood worldwide that a sovereign nation is fully responsible for defining its official language. From the time of its founding as a free and independent nation, the language of the United States has been English. As our nation's population expanded beyond its initial English-Scotch-Irish-Dutch-German base, the population of what we term the early American Republic in the first quarter of the 19th century had already gravitated toward the acceptance of English as America's lingua franca. In the ensuing seven decades as immigration brought peoples from the Bay of Biscay through the Ural Mountains and from the eastern Mediterranean through the Atlas Mountains in the west, from Mexico and Québec, and from China and Japan as well, when there were absolutely no provisions for bi-lingual naturalization programs or education, of necessity all immigrants were forced to adapt to English usage.
Today, demographers predict that:
Upon the completion of the 21st century, Hispanic Americans will constitute nearly half of the population of the United States.
Spanish speakers, principally from Latin America rather than from Spain, therefore, might well be poised to outnumber our nation's English speakers by the early 22nd century. That's only 88 years from now for a Polish American infant born in 2012.
Marriages between Americans from differing ethnic, ancestral and racial origins thus will also continue to increase.
What are the implications for the future of Polonia in the United States? For starts, how about learning to say, "Mówimy po hiszpańsku." But is this what Americans of any ethnicity, ancestry or race necessarily want? Where would our great American Republic be without an officially-declared de jure national language which we seem to take for granted?
Today, there is no official de jure language for the United States, although English — spoken by 80% of the population — is the official de facto language. Similarly, Spanish — spoken by 12% of the population — is the second most spoken de facto language in the United States. Given that there is no official de jure language in the United States, adherents of three persuasions concerning the matter have evolved:
Those who hold that English should become the official de jure language of the United States by force of law.
Those who hold that "multilingualism" should become the official de jure language of the United States by force of law, largely supported by anti-assimilation groups.
Those who support "multilingualism" temporarily but hold that Spanish inevitably will become the official de facto language of the United States by 2150, and thus poised by 2200 to become our nation's official de jure language.
In all three persuasions, the parenthetical inclusion (on Capitol Hill) may be included after the word "Those."
Today, many informed Americans are alarmed by the prospects of persuasions 2 and 3. They rightfully ask, "Why should English be abandoned as the lingua franca of the United States?" Today, 19 states (CT, DE, MA, MD, MI, MN, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, TX, VA, WA, WI and WV) have no official language statutes, and among them 13 are represented by Divisions of the Polish American Congress.
I personally believe that English should be declared the official de jure language of the United States. Making "multilingualism" the official de jure language of the United States invites chaos and a heavy economic burden related to compliance in all aspects of our society. Yet there are those on Capitol Hill who relentlessly promote "multilingualism." Accepting the inevitability of Spanish becoming the official de jure language of the United States will not only require statutory compliance but by extension implies that all Americans in the relatively not-too-distant future will begin thinking and acting as ethnic Hispanics. Speaking any language implies a cultural adaptation and modification. In the arena of the aforementioned three possibilities, if and when Spanish becomes the official de jure language of the United States, will our great nation simply become just another integral component of Latin America?
Is this what Americans — Polish Americans included — want? The imagery of foreign embassies in Washington, DC preparing to speak to lawmakers on Capitol Hill and to the President in Spanish rather than English is not a matter of fiction but a matter of a potential future reality. Kolędy in Spanish?
Will the Québecois movement of Eastern Canada be encouraged to resurrect itself, thereby threatening the unity of our northern good neighbor, Canada? Will America's unity over the matter of our official de jure language be threatened more than it is currently on the basis of the Republican – Democrat divide? These are but a few of the considerations.
If your Division is in CT, DE, MA, MD, MI, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, TX, VA or WI, are you concerned enough to let your state legislators and Congressional Delegation know what you think the official de jure language of the United States should be?
The problem of what our nation's official de jure language should be is clearly a matter of fundamental importance for the future welfare of all Americans and our great Republic.
Are we National Directors of the Polish American Congress sufficiently concerned so as to declare our unified position in the matter? I suggest that we think about this carefully, and specifically as it relates to the pros and cons of the position we might take.
Voicing our collective opinion in the matter, for example, will begin to disprove that we are a one-dimensional entity. Taking a position that benefits sustaining the fundamental basis of holding together the myriad ethnic, national and racial components constituting the body politic of our great American Republic will signal that we are much more than one-dimensional, and in so doing, are likely to be better able to enlist support for Poland on Capitol Hill, in the White House, and in the executive and legislative branches of state government provided that we regularly and compellingly lobby all of them.
Another practical example of breaking from the externally perceived one-dimension stereotype of the Polish American Congress is vested in the exemplary work of our Eastern Pennsylvania Division, particularly as it relates to its "Buy American Made Products Campaign" and its "Polish American Social Services" program, both of which are well suited to attract the attention of municipal, state and federal level American governmental agencies. In this regard, PAC-Eastern PA is a substantive model, among others, of having one foot firmly based on the foundation of positive work for the welfare of all Americans while the other foot equally based, rests on the foundation of promoting and articulating issues of particular interest to Polish Americans and Poland.
The fact of the economy of the United States being hobbled by an extremely dangerous unfavorable balance of trade — where we import far more than we export — can also be used to educate the average American citizen that not only the outsourcing of American manufacturing overseas by corporations but also the rightful expectation of American workers for wages worthy of pursuit of the "American dream" are engaged in a symbiotically-conflicted relationship, whose solution is highly complicated.
Consider as answers, Polish Americans, Polonians, Poles, Polish, Americans of Polish descent, Americans of Polish heritage, Americans, and because of marriage, Polish-Irish Americans, Polish-Italian Americans, Polish-Hispanic Americans, Polish-Greek Americans, Polish-French Americans, Polish-Irish-French Americans, Polish-Czech-Irish-Lithuanian Americans, and so on and so forth. Combinations are endless.
Among the first waves of Polish immigrants that began arriving in the United States in measurable recorded numbers as early as the 1830s were 235 Poles, exiled from Austria for participating in the November Uprising of 1830-1831, who landed in Baltimore. In 1839, the wife of one of those exiled Poles gave birth to a son, George Oscar Sokalski, who went on to graduate from the United States Military Academy in West Point, served in the Union Army during the Civil War, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and was deployed to Fort Laramie, Wyoming after the War where he died in 1867. Clearly, the language of Sokalski's parents had been Polish as was his until he aspired as a child to become an officer in the United States Army by way of West Point. The relentless process of Americanization had begun in Sokalski's case.
As a point of reference, consider the matter of generations. In the illustration that follows, I have used 25 years as a generational measure, fully realizing that some view that measure as less, others as more. However, 25 is likely the most appropriate for what is known generally as the "Old Immigration." Consider particularly what happened once the initial measurable generational waves of Polish immigrants morphed into tsunami-like numbers from the 1880s through the "guns of August" that began World War I in 1914:
1830 – 1855 100% Polish-speaking
1855 – 1880
1880 – 1905
1905 – 1930 less than 100% Polish-speaking
1930 – 1955
1980 – 2005 less than 10% Polish-speaking (2000 US Census)
2005 – 2030
2030 – 2055
2055 – 2080 (yet unknown in a nation likely to be 50% Spanish-speaking)
Herein, I offer for your consideration the true story of Walter Zurkowsky, once a student of Business Administration at Northeastern University in Boston and a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico whose grandfather emigrated there with his family from Poland in the progressively-troubled, mid-1930s to escape cold weather by relocating to a warm climate. One day Walter came to my office and asked my secretary if he could speak to me. She informed me via intercom that he wanted to see me. Not knowing him, I routinely pulled up his academic record and found his academic progress quite satisfactory with every indication that he would graduate on schedule the following year. When he knocked on my open door, my stereotype of the typical Pole or Polish American was shattered. At six feet three with jet black, shiny hair and a slight olive complexion, he reminded me of a youthful Antonio Banderas of Madrid and Hollywood motion picture fame. As he related his life story, I asked, "Walter, what do you consider yourself to be?" Unhesitatingly, he answered (and I am certain that this wasn't the first time):
"My nationality is Puerto Rican. My culture is Hispanic. "My ancestry is Polish."
Just like that. A native Polish Puerto Rican whose surname ended with a 'y' rather than an 'I'. Whose mother was an ethnic Puerto Rican whose family supported independence from the United States. He speaks no Polish whatsoever. I had never met a Polish Puerto Rican, especially one who said that he was proud of his Polish ancestry. I struggled to hold back tears from filling my eyes. This true story proves two inescapable points: for one, that there are always two sides to every story, and two, that the ethnic, nationality, and racial admixture at work in the United States and its territories is acting and will continue to act in a way that the Polish word Polonia might become unrecognizable in the 22nd century, unless the Walter Zurkowsky types are made to feel welcome along the lines of the old Polish song,"Jak Długo na Wawelu," one of whose pertinent lines is "Jak długo w sercu naszym choć kropla polskiej krwi." Half of Walter Zurkowsky's blood was and is Polish, though he identifies his nationality as Puerto Rican. Though he is a Roman Catholic who spells his surname with a 'y' rather than an 'I.' Imagine that.
If we accept our own prognostications that Polish Americans number some 10,000,000, then the 2000 U.S. Census figures on the next page indicate that whereas 700,000 of us speak Polish as much as English in our daily lives, the reality is that 9,300,000 Polish Americans do not speak Polish. That being the case, use of the fundamental word Polonia is a word that most Polish Americans, who trace their roots to 19th century and pre-World War I immigrant ancestors, do not understand, unless they are old baseball fans who remember the Dominican-born baseball player, Luis Polonia, who played in Major League Baseball in the United States, and had been a left-fielder who made his début with the Oakland Athletics in 1987, eventually playing for the New York Yankees, California Angels, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, and Detroit Tigers as well, and ending with a lifetime batting average of .293 and 1,417 hits.
Could Luis Polonia's ancestry be traced to a member of the ill-fated, republican-minded Legion of the Danube's Vistula Lancers that was sent to its doom by Napoleon Bonaparte to fight rebellious African slaves in Haiti-Santo Domingo in the early 19th century? After all, Polonia in Spanish means "Poland."
But that's an entirely a different matter as far as we should be concerned.
Yet the implications of the question — "Who are we?" — may well become endless in the not-too-remote future. Consider, for example, the April 30, 2012 issue of TIME magazine which lists its annual "100 Most Influential People in the World," one of whom is Freeman Hrabowski, Ph.D., age 66. For the past two decades he has served as President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, which according to TIME is "one of the nation's leading sources of Africa-Americans who get Ph.D.s in science and engineering." Hrabowski is an African American who bears a Polish surname having its origin in the Polish word, hrabia, meaning count. Indeed, one might conclude that Freeman Hrabowski's Polish surname underwent modification — either in Europe or in the United States — from the Polish word, hrabiowski (whose Polish definition is "należący do hrabiego, odnoszący się do hrabiego: Hrabiowski herb, tytuł. Hrabiowska korona.") Clearly, his particular, now-American surname variant — Hrabowski — derives from the ancient Hrabiowski surname in Poland, thereby making Dr. Freeman Hrabowski an example of our American society's relentless process of racial admixture. Can he be considered to be part of Polonia? Does he consider himself to be part of Polonia? Or perhaps a Polish African-American? Would we as a Council of National Directors consider inviting him to address us?
Career and livelihood
Civic engagement and obligations
Cultural relativism
Economic/financial uncertainty
Embarrassment about being Polish
Family Obligations
Hispanization of American society
Inability to pronounce Polish surname correctly
Loss of ancestral faith
Loss of Polish
No fluency whatsoever in the Polish language
No understanding of Polish history
Prejudice against things Polish
Unawareness of Polish origins
Whereas we could devote many hours discussing any one of the many, but not infinite, factors noted here, let us consider just one. Surnames. To the credit of Polish immigrants who treasured the Polish spelling of their surnames, the unanticipated effect would be that Americans would pronounce them in an American fashion where, for example, Jankowski would be pronounced JAN (as in the English word January) – COW (as in the English word for the bovine that produces milk) – SKI. Others "misspelling" the same name as Yankovsky or Yankoffski more closely pronounce Jankowski in keeping with its Polish origin. That being the case, how do we expect that non-Polish speaking children 100 years or more removed from their immigrant ancestors will ever learn to pronounce Jarzembowski, Ustaszewski, Nagórski, Synowiecki, Majewski, Modzelewski, Krzyżewski, Szczepanek, etc., correctly?
Some may say that the solution to mispronunciation of Polish surnames may be solved simply by informing the media of the error of its way and then proceeding to pronounce the particular word as it should be pronounced in Polish. I have often heard that to be proposed as a solution. That would be fine if the media outlets in the United States were composed of one person. How to do it when tens of thousands or more radio, TV, internet, newspaper, weekly magazine, etc. personalities are involved? Until we Polish Americans can figure it out, we shouldn't cringe when we hear Polish surnames involving as integral aspects BOW, CHOW, COW, DOW, KOW, LOW, MOW, NOW, POW, SOW, TOW, WOW, and ZOW — each pronounced in the style of American English speakers. In an ideal world, all Americans would pronounce our surnames correctly. Short of that, how do we deal with the matter of mispronunciation? Do we ignore it? Do we grin and bear it? Is it a problem worthy of solution? After all, our surnames are basic to our being.
Apart from the anecdotal stories of Luis Polonia and Freeman Hrabowski, given the fact that the typical non-Polish speaking Polish American does not possess a Polish-English dictionary, if a curious Polish American, adult or child, would be motivated to check our culture-defining word "Polonia" in an English language dictionary, what would he or she find? To answer that question, please note the following:
On Thursday, August 11, 2011, I visited the Barnes & Noble Bookstore in South Nashua, New Hampshire to review the latest English language dictionaries on sale. Of the 6 that I reviewed, only 2 included and defined Polonia, but 1 of the 2 was inaccurately defined. Therefore, if curious American schoolchildren of Polish descent, for example, have only a 16.7% chance of learning what the word Polonia means, and their parents don't understand Polish, what does this portend for the future?
As for the six dictionaries on sale, here is a summary of my findings:
1. The Merriam-Webster's Desk Dictionary, 1995 edition, did not include and define the word Polonia. However, it defined the word polonium as being a radioactive metallic element whose name derives from Polonia, the medieval Latin name for Poland.
2. The Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, "New Edition," of 2005 in large paperback format did not include and define the word Polonia, but did include polonium's origin as a word from the medieval Latin word for Poland (Polonia).
3. The Oxford College Dictionary of 2007 included on its book jacket's front page the phrase "today's most accurate and accessible college dictionary" but did not include and define Polonia, except to the extent that it served as the source of the word polonium. However, it included a definition of the Polish word, Polska, as meaning Poland.
4. The Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition of 2009, inaccurately defined Polonia solely as being "the Polish American community in a given place outside of Poland." The word "American" should have been left out of the definition. However, it also identified the medieval Latin word for Poland as the source for the word polonium.
5. The New Oxford American Dictionary, 3rd Edition of 2010, did not include and define Polonia, but yet did identify the source of the word polonium and as well define the Polish word Polska as meaning Poland.
6. The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition of 2011, correctly identified Polonia as "people of Polish descent living outside of Poland." It also included the origin of the word polonium.
A few long-serving members of the CND might recall that in the early 1990s as it related to this very same problem, I recommended as a new CND member that the PAC encourage boycotting those English-language dictionary publishers that failed to include a definition of the Polish word Polonia even though the word might also be familiar to those who are fluent in Italian, Spanish and Latin insofar as it means Poland in those three languages. Even today, in light of the above, a boycott seems appropriate.
The undeniable fact that the vast majority of Americans of Polish descent neither understand nor speak the Polish language is reflected in the fact of the nearly-corresponding progressive reduction in the number of Polish Roman Catholic parishes in the United States from the time when they reached their zenith of 600. Today, that number has been reduced by two-thirds and the downward progression continues relentlessly. The 600-declining-to-200 Polish Roman Catholic parishes in the United States was related to me in person in Pennsylvania by Archbishop Szczepan Wesoły of Rome, who had been John Paul II's special envoy to English-speaking nations around the world for measuring the strength and future prospects of Polish parishes worldwide. In August 2011, both he and I were featured speakers (he very much more so than I) for the Second National Polish Apostolate Youth Leadership Conference that was sponsored by the National Polish Apostolate Committee of the United States Council of Catholic Bishops. The Conference took place August 17-20 at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. I had been invited to speak (why me, I will never understand) specifically on the matter of preserving Polish culture and tradition in the face of the likely-coming eventual disappearance of all Polish Roman Catholic parishes in the United States. According to Archbishop Wesoły, if Americans of European ancestry no longer are fluent in the Polish language, or for that matter in the Italian, French, Lithuanian and German languages, for example, why should the Church labor to identify, train and deploy priests fluent in any of those particular non-English languages who have no reason to use it because their congregants no longer speak or understand it?
Reverend Paul Sobiechowski, the newly-installed Bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church, New England Diocese, whose church is located in Manchester, New Hampshire, who also has become a member of PAC-New Hampshire as related earlier in this report, had been born in Detroit, been a Pastor of parishes both in Chicago and in Davie, Florida. He speaks several languages fluently, one of which is Spanish. In Florida, some of his parishioners were Hispanic as he has related to me. In this day and age, not only out of the commendable Christian sense of universal brotherhood but also from the very practical consideration of the economics necessary for sustaining a parish, a pastor must welcome all congregants who are inclined to join the parish, regardless of their racial, ethnic or national origins.
In effect, all of the foregoing described throughout this report illustrates that times have changed significantly and will continue to change along the same and ever newer, not yet fully-defined lines as well, with regard to what it means to be an American of Polish descent, Polish American or whatever we choose to define ourselves as. Add to that the reduction in immigration from Poland to the United States, which further reduces the number of Polish Americans who use the Polish language in their everyday lives, reveals an unmistakable "writing on the wall" that cannot be ignored.
Witness the facts.
Whereas not long ago Our Lady of Częstochowa Parish in South Boston had been used by the Honorary Consul for New England as the site of many years for voting in Poland's elections, it no longer can meet the requirement of attracting at least 200 Polish citizens to justify holding elections there, this in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts where the 2000 U.S. Census reported 323,310 Polish Americans.
This is not an easy question to answer. Yet, for me at least, defining the answer relates to part 2 of this report, precisely as it concerns choosing to be a dynamic rather than static national Polish American organization. To me the choice is simple because being anything less than dynamic is a waste of my time and money. Moreover, is it better to be dynamic in a dynamic organization than to be dynamic in a static organization? Hopefully, you know by now what my choice in the matter is. Forget being static.
Despite the problem of what has produced divisiveness in the Polish American Congress in recent times, what looms as a fundamentally much greater problem for us in the United States is the matter of the survival and vitality of our "Polishness" (Polskość) because without its survival and vitality, there will be nothing to compel a Pacific-focused, Latin American-focused, and Islamic world-focused United States government from losing sight of our nation's ancestral European homeland — of which Poland was and is an integral part — from which it derived its origins. In short, will American Polonia, defined in modern terms, survive if its broader European homeland is relegated to secondary importance, and doesn't survive, Poland included, along with the cultural traditions that have constituted Western civilization?
The above work — "Koniec Polonii w Ameryce?" (The End of Polonia in America?) — a 1996 publication of Jagiellonian University and co-copyrighted with its author, Professor Emil Orzechowski, conveniently raises the same question asked one way or another throughout this report. The answer to that question remains to be seen, and will depend to a great degree on our ability to adjust to modern changing times — in a process that never ends, de rerum natura — because that is the nature of things to constantly evolve not only now but also into the distant, unknown future. That process, intelligently understood and exploited, will likely sustain our venerable organization, for one, as an energetic, dynamic, focused, purposeful, unified and disciplined entity, provided we work for that objective. That's how we will be of service to our American homeland, the United States of America, and by extension, to Poland, our ancestral homeland, no matter how we define ourselves to be. Of equal importance will be how we relate to the likes of Walter Zurkowsky and Freeman Hrabowski in our ever-changing world.
In the matter of working for the interests and welfare of our American homeland, how do we respond to the likes of a bill in our United States Congress — H. Con Res. 8 — that would make it ultimately make it illegal to declare English as the official de jure language of the United States? In summary, it:
"Declares that the U.S. government should pursue English-plus policies that: (1) encourage all residents of this country to become fully proficient in English by expanding educational opportunities and access to information technologies; (2) conserve and develop the nation's linguistic resources by encouraging all residents of this country to learn or maintain skills in languages other than English; (3) assist Native Americans, Native Alaskans, Native Hawaiians, and other peoples indigenous to the United States in their efforts to prevent the extinction of their languages and cultures; (4) continue to provide services in languages other than English as needed to facilitate access to essential functions of government, promote public health and safety, ensure due process, promote equal educational opportunity, and protect fundamental rights; and (5) recognize the importance of multilingualism to vital American interests and individual rights, and oppose English-only measures and other restrictionist language measures."
Are we Polish Americans to remain silent during this persistent and clever attack on the English language? How can we stand united as a nation if the anti-assimilation proponents succeed in Congressional passage of a law making it illegal to declare English as the official language of the United States statutorily?
Whereas the United States fought a Civil War from 1861 to 1865 that exacted the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans killed in action in order to preserve the Union from the Confederacy's slavery-based secessionists, are Americans today willing to struggle for preserving the Union from destruction by our nation's anti-assimilationist proponents who seek to make English no more important in a legal sense than the other 311 languages spoken in the United States?
The universal implication of the expression, "United we stand, divided we fall," constitutes an appropriate end to this report.


text:
Contact Info / Websites
Recent Movie Reviews
Minecraft: TNA Part 11
Rated 5 / 5 stars
cant wait for the next one !!! what are you gonna do with the new patch :p the witch and all the new stuff :)
LoL StickFigure Spotlight
Rated 5 / 5 stars
You should have put Zilean ultimate on the guys just when garen kill him and then he revive and do a final battle agaist the garen stick and for sure this guy too have multiple Heroes power :) But still best stick battle
-The Guardian-
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
Great animation but...
I loved it... The animation is good not fantastic but still really cute and fun to watch but the bad points is the guardian ? a flame ? human getting green??? Green lantern !!Sorry if you did not see the movie but thats almost the same base it would have been totally different if you have choose ice and blue suit but u choosed flame and green suit !!! Oh and the flame choosing the hero because he's strong brave and have no fear... So yeah great animation really cute but nothing more nothing NEW. Maybe im hard in my comment but you have talent so create something never seem before and you can be sure you will get only 10/10 from me.
Recent Game Reviews
Random Heroes
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
For sure your a fan of megaman game to make this
Kinda like megaman for the game play but i think you could have make a better thing with a bit more work on it but still a good game loved it!!! Add some music and personality to each heroes maybe a stronger story board with text??? Like Thief'' OH alien I must save the world and then steal every house around.'' Alien '' Brain....'' Thieve ''Are they alien for real or zombie may i call them Zombilien???'' Rolf Its only a idea but yeah...XD
Monster Arena
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
I played this game way to much hour lol
9/10 because your game is almost perfect maybe just a story and some evolution from the monster ??? Almost as good as pokemon !!! I love the system battle :D


text:
It happens so frequently that it has become an expected, if not accepted, part of life. The call outs in the night for alarms going off at school. The criminals are no respector of socio-economic group either. They are as happy to knock off schools in affluent areas as they are in low decile ones. So often they perform mindless snatch and grabs over a series of nights, taking items that come in too close to the insurance excess to warrant a claim. And we all know of an unlucky teacher who has been caught out by a laptop theft with irreplaceable files on it.
From time to time you get lucky and catch one (not often enough) or get one who is REALLY thick. This post is to use more than 140 characters to let the twitter peeps know the happy outcome from the weekend burglary where we seem to have got the thick one(s).
In 2006 we were very chuffed to win a Tandberg Video Conferencing unit that was worth $10K. It has really only come into its own since we joined the NEN trial with access to KAREN and the benefits of fast broadband. But the kids have been loving it and have written up a few of their experiences on their blogs. We have also enjoyed letting other people come in to school and use it for meetings that they may not otherwise have had access to.
So we were pretty upset over the weekend to discover that the latest burg was the room where the Tandberg was set up. The door was prized open and they came in and took the Unit but we presumed they were disturbed by the alarm before they got the projector off the roof or the speakers off the wall. In going to check what had happened in the dark, the microphone (you can see on the right of the picture below) was found chucked on the ground. And the empty laptop boxes it usually sits on had been ripped open.
All who knew about it and use it at school were pretty glum and I had a little pity party on Twitter. Thanks for the support :)
Fast forward to the light of day, and there was the disgarded Tandberg. The criminals obviously had no idea of the value of the item they had snatched and had chucked it in disgust when they realised the laptop boxes were empty! And best yet, when our techie man plugged it in and turned it on it "gave a cough and fired up as good as new - actually with a slightly clearer picture!"
Not so fortunate for one of our neighbouring schools who on the same night had some teacher laptops successfully lifted - presumably by the same crew.


text:
FREE SHIPPING on orders of $85 or more
An excerpt from www.HouseOfNames.com archives copyright © 2000 - 2017
Origins Available: English, Scottish
Norman Conquest of England of 1066. The Danisome family lived in Lancashire. The name is said to be of Angevin origin, and it is likely that it is a local reference to a town now lost to the maps.
Danisome Early Origins
Lancashire where conjecturally they were descended from the great Norman noble, Ive or Ivo Taillebois, who held large portions of the north of Lancashire, and that part of Westmorland which came under the barony of Kendal. The surnames also descended from this noble are Lancaster, Kendal and Irby, Bardsea, Broughton, Kirby and Preston. Ivo arrived in England with William the Conqueror, but there is little known of the family except that they were Angevin.
Danisome Spelling Variations
Danisome Spelling Variations
A multitude of spelling variations characterize Norman surnames. Many variations occurred because Old and Middle English lacked any definite spelling rules. The introduction of Norman French to England also had a pronounced effect, as did the court languages of Latin and French. Therefore, one person was often referred to by several different spellings in a single lifetime. The various spellings include Danison, Danisone, Dansone, Danson and others.
Danisome Early History
Danisome Early History
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Danisome research. Another 195 words (14 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Danisome History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Danisome Early Notables (pre 1700)
Danisome Early Notables (pre 1700)
More information is included under the topic Early Danisome Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
The Great Migration
The Great Migration
Many English families left England, to avoid the chaos of their homeland and migrated to the many British colonies abroad. Although the conditions on the ships were extremely cramped, and some travelers arrived diseased, starving, and destitute, once in the colonies, many of the families prospered and made valuable contributions to the cultures of what would become the United States and Canada. Research into the origins of individual families in North America has revealed records of the immigration of a number of people bearing the name Danisome or a variant listed above: Daniel Danison Sr. and Daniel Danison Jr. who arrived in Maryland in 1694.
Danisome Family Crest Products
Danisome Family Crest Products
See Also
See Also
Other References
The Danisome Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Danisome Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
This page was last modified on 15 August 2012 at 07:52.
Sign Up
FREE SHIPPING on orders of $85 or more


text:
|21 Jul 2012
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit SP1
Uninstall utility doesn't work fully - what else can I use?
The "Uninstall/change a program" utility in the control panel is not listing all my programs (it does list about 90% of them though). What else can I use?
|My System Specs
|21 Jul 2012
If the program creates a Start Menu folder, often there's an Uninstall shortcut there. Not all programs put an uninstall setting in the Registry to show up in the Program Features uninstall list.
Also I've used this freeware and had no problems with it:
MyUninstaller: Alternative uninstaller to the standard Windows Add / Remove module
|My System Specs
|21 Jul 2012
Windows 7 Pro. 64/SP-1
Some programs that are used on demand won't show up there. I use REVO to remove programs. If you decide to use REVO please read the instructions. If you tick the wrong thing it's gone.
|My System Specs
|21 Jul 2012
MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
|My System Specs
|22 Jul 2012
Here's a free utility to make a "snap shot" of the registry before and after a program install. If the program does not specify that is does not use Registry, but otherwise seems it may be portable, you could use this tool to see if it makes any changes. Some small utilities you can just delete the folder, as is the case with many of mine.
regshot | Free System Administration software downloads at SourceForge.net
Regshot can also scan the Windows folder to see if any dlls or whatever, are copied there by the installer.
|My System Specs
|23 Jul 2012
Windows 7 Professional 64bit
I use My Uninstaller which costs money but even it doesn't get everything.
Still quite good.
|My System Specs
|Thread Tools
|Similar help and support threads
Alfa AWUS036NH-I used the install disk but the utility doesn't work
Sorry in advance if this is in the wrong section. I just got an Alfa AWUS036NH USB adapter, I followed the instructions and things load but nothing happens when I plug it in? I don't get the "found new hardware" message and it doesn't show up in my computer. I did notice that one of the steps in...
|Hardware & Devices
Catalyst Clean Uninstall Utility nuked Intel USB drivers
Greetings, I'm working on a desktop where any AMD video card will not respond after the standard 20 minute timeout to cut video; the whole machine freezes. It doesn't happen with nVidia cards (at least with a 550ti), so from what I could tell, making sure that all Catalyst-related files were...
One user account doesn't fully work
Hi, we are 4 users on a computer. When my daughter logs in on her account there are messages 'Communication notifier has stopped working', 'Catalyst control center: Host application has stopped working'. The shortcuts on the taskbar don't open and some applications don't response. I get a messages...
|Network & Sharing
How can I uninstall a program that doesn't appear in Uninstall/change
How can I uninstall a program that doesn't appear in Uninstall/change programs? I can see the program folder in Program files but I guess deleting this folder alone will leave traces on the registy etc. I've tried with CCleaner and Revo uninstaller and the program doesn't appear either. ...
MS office 2010 Beta won't fully uninstall.
I downloaded the Office 2010 beta trial a while ago, anyways close to when the program expired Click2Run failed, or failed to load, I don't remember the exact error message. It wouldn't let me access the program at all, and I got a stupid pop-up every time I turned on my computer saying Click2Run...
|Microsoft Office
Are there any utility for halfly uninstall program finder?
Hello! Can you tell me are their any special utility software for halfway uninstall software, files finding and registry key finding? I currently use "Revo Uninstaller" its some time not do its job very well.Because of i uninstall Winzip v15 and try to install it again but now i can't install it!...
|Our Sites
|Site Links
|About Us
|Find Us
Windows 7 Forums is an independent web site and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Microsoft Corporation. "Windows 7" and related materials are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.
© Designer Media Ltd
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 07:51.


text:
Break-ups are a messy, messy thing. Not only is there the inevitable heartbreak, there's also the big division - taking your CD compilations back from your ex, giving him back his baggy t-shirts, and trying to remain more-nonchalant-than-thou through the whole, horrible ordeal.
Well, apart from the usual stresses, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have got a whole other breed of break-up woes to worry about. The paparazzi, deciding who gets the dogs, accusations from angry fans as to who should take the blame... And not least: Ellie Goulding.
"Whaaaaaat!?" I hear you cry? Who gets Ellie flippin' Goulding? Yeah. That's right. The pop songstress most famous for party bangers Lights and Halycon is apparently causing a rift between the former Twilight thesps. The pair are said to be battling to spend time with her, without having to come face to face with each other.
Apparently, Stewart and Pattinson met back in the Breaking Dawn days, when Ellie's track Bittersweet was used on the movie soundtrack. A source reporting to Now Magazine is saying that:
Ellie's really good mates with both Rob and Kristen and used to spend time with them as a couple... Since their break-up, she still hangs out with both of them, but separately. Things are proving quite difficult at the minute.
The star-studded pair of ex-lovers looked like they were attempting to play the civil card with each other, which explained some of the secret hotel hook-ups. But, things could start getting a lot more awkward as apparently both KStew and RPattz wanted to see Ellie play Coachella 2014. The source continues:
Ellie wants both her friends to be there. It's one of the biggest events of the year for her, especially as she's starting to make a mark on the American market... But she knows her mates can't even be in the same space as each other right now, so she's feeling caught in the middle.
C'mon Robsten - surely there's enough Goulding to go around. What do you think Ellie Goulding should do about this awkward situation? Do you think Rob and Kristen just quit bitchin' around and just kiss and make up? Yeah, me too...


text:
Sorry, we do not have enough data to show an influence graph for this author.
Filter Results:
- Full text PDF available (0)
Publication Type
Journals and Conferences
Learn More
- Tomoyuki Sakaida, Shiho Inomata, Atsunori Shinagawa
- Development, growth & differentiation
- 2004
Kuroda et al. (2001) of our laboratory have previously revealed that exposure of early Xenopus embryos to 150 mm urethane results in complete suppression of formation of the asters and the cleavage furrow, as well as significant reduction of the size of the spindle in the blastomeres, allowing only 1 or 2 cycles of mitosis but not cytokinesis. In the course… (More)
- ‹
- 1
- ›


text:
But not all public water supplies. Unfortunately, I've confirmed that there are only slightly raises LDL how is this cough remedy. If you choose the option to remove Palikan.
The REAL Causes You Did NOT Eat Your Way to go, so I wonder what your personal health history and periodontal status. Because many of the ways …Bingo.
Study natural approaches to make some lifestyle changes. In Type 2 diabetes is not typically found in adults.


text: I Worked At the World Trade Center Me Too Personal Stories, Advice, and Support 2 People Report Group Sort popular recent I am currently watching The On The Run Tour With Queen B and Hov! I remember living down the block from J back in the day when I lived in Fort Green, Brooklyn!!601 Marcy Avenue, BABY, Where I watched the second plane enter in the 2nd Tower from rooftop with my 3 month son!! With tears running down my eyes in disbelief... deleted 26-30 2 Feb 20, 2016 More Stories


text:
Martin2a 0
After trying most of the boot flags I can currently only get my hackintosh to work in safe mode.
This may be sufficient for my purposes except that I do need Safari to be able to access the internet.
Currently in System Preferences, Network there is a green light against Ethernet, it says connected, currently active and has an IP address.
However, if I open Safari it does not connect to the internet.
Appreciate any suggestions.
By the way, without safe mode my installation allows me to enter my name and password but then hangs after that with two wheels spinning - any suggestions on fixing this would also be appreciated.Edited by Martin2a


text:
shariiram iidRg bahu-duHkham adhruvaM
phal'-aanurodhaad atha n' aavagacchasi
dravat phalebhyo dhRti-rashmibhir mano
nigRhyataaM gaur iva shasya-laalasaa
- = - = = - - = - = - =
- = - = = - - = - = - -
- = - = = - - = - = - =
- = - = = - - = - = - =
You do not see the body as it is
-- full of suffering and inconstant --
Because of fondness for its effects:
Let the mind that chases after effects,
like a cow after corn,
Be restrained by the reins of steadfastness.
In today's verse the gist of the striver's words seems to be very good, at least in theory. The striver seems to be expressing the principle of not chasing hastily after effects, of not going directly for results, of non-end-gaining.
But in practice who is the one in this scene who is going directly for a result? Nanda? Or the striver? While apparently on the right track in theory, it is the striver who is wrong in practice. The striver is evidently the one who is striving after a result. The result the striver has in mind is that Nanda should resist the urge to go directly for the sensual fruit that Nanda has in mind. And the striver goes directly for the result he has in his mind, by recommending Nanda to restrain, or suppress, his mind.
The Buddha, in contrast, when in the next canto he presents Nanda with a vision that inflames Nanda's lust out of all proportion, seems to be somehow wrong in theory, though ultimately the Buddha's strategy works in practice.
The direct approach of the striver, who recommends that Nanda suppress his desire, does not work in practice. It is not effective. The indirect approach of the Buddha, who presents a vision of ultimate desirability and encourages Nanda to go for it, ultimately is effective. The Buddha uses skillful means to guide Nanda in the direction of the fourth effect, the realisation of an arhat, one who deserves to be revered because he has succeeded in making the teaching of the noble truths his own.
Evidently, when a preacher of propriety preaches that end-gaining is bad whereas adherence to a means-whereby principle is good, those excellent words somehow lack the real effectiveness of the actions of one who is not worried about good and bad.
The example of Ashvaghosha's striver demonstrates to us that trying to be right, in the end, is sod all use to anybody.
The example of the Buddha demonstrates, contrarily, that the directed actions of a man of wisdom who has given up bothering about right and wrong, can be remarkably effective.
Trying to be right is end-gaining, which buddhas negate. But when buddhas negate end-gaining, it should be clearly understood, that negation is for the purpose of effective gaining of ends.
Thus Canto 18 begins like this:
And so like a young initiate who mastered the Vedas, like a trader who turned a quick profit,/ Or like a royal having conquered a hostile army, Nanda, having accomplished his purpose, approached the Guru. // For it is pleasant, at the time when knowledge has been fully acquired, for teacher to see student, and for student to see teacher,/ Each thinking, "Your toil has rewarded me"...
The British concept of reverence for the plucky loser is nowhere championed in Saundara-nanda. Each reader, rather is, encouraged to be -- with the kind of "can-do" attitude more commonly found among Germans and Americans than among cynical Brits -- a winner. Each one of us is encouraged, by hook or by crook, to work out for ourselves an effective means of kicking Mara's ass.
EH Johnston:
Again, if, because you enjoy the results, you fail to understand that the body is such, afflicted by much suffering and ephemeral, still you should hold back your restless mind from those enjoyments with the tethering-ropes of self-restraint as you would a cow that was eager to crop the corn.
Linda Covill:
You don't accept that this is the way the body is -- unstable and prone to much suffering -- because you like the wages of physical action. Restrain your mind, which chases after results, with the halter of steadfastness, as if it were a corn-loving cow!
shariiram (acc. sg.): n. body
iidRk (acc. sg. n.): mfn. endowed with such qualities , such
bahu-duHkham (acc. sg. n.): with much suffering
a-dhruvam (acc. sg. n.): mfn. not fixed , not permanent ; uncertain , doubtful
dhruva: mfn. fixed , firm , immovable , unchangeable , constant , lasting , permanent , eternal ; settled, certain, sure
phal'-aanurodhaat (abl. sg.): because of fulfillment of [your] wishes in [its] fruit; because of fondness for results
phala: n. fruit; fruit (met.) , consequence , effect , result , retribution (good or bad) , gain or loss , reward or punishment , advantage or disadvantage; enjoyment, benefit
anurodha: m. obliging or fulfilling the wishes (of any one); obligingness , compliance ; consideration , respect
anu- √rudh: to adhere to , be fond of , love ; to coax , soothe , entreat.
atha: ind. and, now, then, moreover, but
na: not
avagacchasi = 2nd pers. sg. ava- √ gam: to hit upon , think of , conceive , learn , know , understand , anticipate , assure one's self , be convinced ;
dravat = nom. sg. n. pres. part. dru: to run , hasten , flee; to run up to, attack
phalebhyaH (dat. pl.): n. results
dhRti-rashmibhiH (inst. pl.): with the reins of constancy
dhRti: f. holding ; firmness , constancy , resolution
rashmi: m. a string , rope , cord , trace , rein , bridle , leash , goad , whip
manaH (nom. sg.): n. mind
nigRhyataam = 3rd pers. passive imperative ni- √ grah: to hold down , lower , depress ; to keep or hold back ; to seize , catch , hold , hold fast , stop , restrain , suppress , curb , tame , punish
gauH (nom. sg.): f. a cow
iva: like
shasya-laalasaa (nom. sg. f.): ardently desirous of corn
shasya: n. corn , grain
laalasa: mfn. (fr. Intens. of √ las) eagerly longing for , ardently desirous of , delighting or absorbed in , devoted or totally given up to (loc. or comp.)
√ las: to shine


text:
Dylan Penn admires dad's friendship with Madonna
Dylan Penn feels inspired to remain on good terms with her ex-boyfriends after witnessing how close her father Sean Penn and Madonna still are.
The Hollywood actor tied the knot with the pop sensation in 1985 and they split four years later. Sean went on to wed actress Robin Wright, who he has daughter Dylan and son Hopper with, while Madonna settled down with Guy Ritchie, although both their relationships have now ended.
It's recently been rumoured that Sean and Madonna are rekindling their romance after being spotted together several times. Neither have addressed the reports, but Dylan, 24, has confirmed the former couple remain on great terms.
"It was great to finally meet her; you grow up hearing stories of your dad and Madonna and their tumultuous relationship and they were so young," Dylan explained to FOX411 of meeting the singer for the first time recently. "It was cool to meet this woman who knew my dad at such a young age, it was great! They are close friends and so cool with each other. It's nice to see that respect still remains and there is still love for each other there. It makes me happy. It makes me think I can have that with my ex-boyfriends when we are older."
Dylan is thought to be single after splitting from The Vampire Diaries actor Steven R. McQueen at the beginning of 2014. But she's been keeping herself busy with work and is currently gearing up for the release of her first feature film, Condemned. Luckily her famous dad was on hand to give advice during production.
"Watching myself on screen period was just the weirdest thing ever, and I can't really describe it," she grinned. "It was bizarre. I don't know if I will ever get used to that.
"My dad, when I started shooting, he said 'the one thing I would tell you is obviously you are playing a character - you are playing someone who is not you, but if you have a line that is so not you or you wouldn't say or you do something that feels false don't do that.'"
© Cover Media
Belfast Telegraph Digital


text:
As usual, Marvel has a lot going on this spring and summer. It begins with the upcoming release of AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, and as we've already written about, there are numerous promotional showings coming along with said release. Most ambitious of all will be the marathon 11-movie, in-theater showing of all of the Avenger-focused movies (which apparently includes GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY). But even after all the hoopla of the new Avengers movie, Marvel has a busy year on its hands. The studio is introducing a new big screen hero with ANT-MAN in July, but perhaps most interestingly of all, Marvel is attempting a reboot of its Fantastic Four superhero team this coming August.
FANTASTIC FOUR is due out on August 7 in the U.S., according to the film's IMDB page. But how exactly did this reboot come to be, after the previous attempt at bringing these particular heroes to the big screen flopped so remarkably?
To begin with, it must be acknowledged that flops, in Marvel's universe, are relative. Yes, 2005's FANTASTIC FOUR was disappointing in comparison to most other major superhero projects and earned mostly horrible reviews. But despite these negatives, its box office pull was still pretty lucrative; the film netted over $330 million worldwide with a $100 million budget. Perhaps $230 million-plus in profits justified the fact that there was even a sequel to this utterly mediocre movie. Hell, even 2007's more or less forgotten FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER generated over $100 million in profits.
In the meantime, despite what many perceive as a failed project, the Fantastic Four characters have remained relevant in modern fiction and culture. Marvel's comics database shows numerous Fantastic Four-based comic volumes having been released since the 2007 film, including various collaborative stories with other Marvel characters. Additionally, the Fantastic Four have gained what seems to be a permanent place in the Internet gaming market, where the most popular heroes regularly populate online casinos. Betfair bingo hosts a Fantastic Four-themed slot machine game, and though the game appears to be directly based on the 2005 movie, it nevertheless utilizes the classic characters. Mr. Fantastic, The Human Torch, The Thing, and The Invisible Woman take the place of ordinary slot tabs, and musical and artistic bits of the comics and movies alike populate the game. These examples?
??the modern comic volumes and the endurance of the characters on popular gaming platforms—indicate an ongoing popularity for the Fantastic Four that provides some of the foundation for the coming reboot.
As for how the new movie actually came to be, however, it probably hasn't been the smoothest process among the Marvel-related films. Namely, it's because it doesn't actually come directly from Marvel Studios. Constantin Film has actually owned the rights to the Fantastic Four characters as they relate to the cinema since 1994. Their distribution deal with 20th Century Fox led to the 2005 and 2007 movies, and the same partnership will be responsible for the 2015 reboot. This isn't necessarily unusual. In fact, Fox also has the rights to the X-Men franchise that has gotten better and better. But in the case of the Fantastic Four, there does appear to be some additional bitterness, as Marvel has reportedly suspended the comic series as a sort of strike against the new movie.
Nevertheless, 20th Century Fox has been moving ahead with the reboot for a surprisingly long time, having started the process back in 2009. The project has already gone through numerous writers, with Simon Kinberg, Jeremy Slater, and Josh Trank ultimately being credited. Trank, who's best known for CHRONICLE, was hired in 2012 to direct (and will reportedly direct the sequel as well). Casting took a little bit longer but exploded suddenly late in 2014 with the blockbuster announcements of a handful of up-and-coming Hollywood stars. Miles Teller, who co-starred in the Oscar-nominated WHIPLASH, leads the way as Mr. Fantastic, but he isn't alone when it comes to young talent. Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, and Jamie Bell round out the Fantastic Four as Invisible Woman, Human Torch, and The Thing, respectively. For most fans, it was the announcement of these four that turned a vague concept of a reboot into a sudden, exciting reality.
And now, we wait. The film's first trailer has already been released, and it displays a far more serious tone, distinctly reminiscent of the last two X-Men movies. Additionally, there are occasional bits of news and information regarding the specifics of the movie, such as Screen Rant's recent reveal that original comic costumes will be used this time around. We'll know more in the coming months as additional plot details and trailers are released, but for now it looks as if Fox and Marvel Entertainment may just have an improbable hit on the way.


text:
Bartender,Assistant Manager of Front Office, Receptionist ( 0 - 1 yrs)
Sawasdee Motel
RS 3,50,000 To 7,00,000 Bombooflat, Car Nicobar, Port Blair, Adilabad, Akkarampalle, Chandur-Nalgonda, Dasnapur, Devarakonda, Eddumailaram, Ekambara, Tirupati
The Human Resource Department of Sawasdee Hotel wishes to announce about the job vacancies currently existing in our Hotel here in Chiang Mai Thailand. Furthermore,We require the services of devoted and hardworking workers, who are ready and ...
Key Skills : bartender,assistant manager of front office,receptionist
Front Office Manager ( 1 - 2 yrs)
Sawasdee Motel
RS 60,000 To 3,50,000 Akkarampalle, Alwal, Amadalavalasa, Amalapuram, Asifabad, Kurnool, Tirupati, Visakhapatnam, Araria, Bhagalpur, Aldona, Panaji, Ambala, Amritsar, Anantapur, East Godavari
Sawasdee motel is looking for a competent and qualified worker that can work with us in above mentioned position. The applicant must be able to respect his duty and be loyal to the organisation.
Key Skills : front office manager,front office executive
Assistant Manager of Front Office, Receptionist, Guest Relation Assistant, ( 0 - 1 yrs)
RS 5,50,000 To 50,00,000 Bombooflat, Car Nicobar, Port Blair, Adilabad, Akkarampalle, Akkayapalle, Chandur-Nalgonda, Dasnapur, Devarakonda, Eddumailaram, Tirupati, Visakhapatnam
We have to announce the new vacancies existing in a hotel in Thailand. Name of the hotel is Phuphu Cherry Hills Resorts, located at Soi 35/2 Raj-U-Thid 200 Pee Road (Patong 2nd Road), Patong, Kathu, Phuket, Required the services of devoted and har...
Key Skills : assistant manager of front office,receptionist,guest relation assistant
Operations Manager ( 1 - 2 yrs)
Sawasdee Motel
RS 60,000 To 2,00,000 Adilabad, Akkarampalle, Alwal, Amadalavalasa, Asifabad, Kurnool, Tirupati, Visakhapatnam, Anand Nagar, Guwahati, Areraj, Arrah, Muzaffarpur, Patna, Ambala
Sawasdee motel is looking for a competent and qualified worker that can work with us in above mentioned position. The applicant must be able to respect his duty and be loyal to the organisation.
Key Skills : operation manager,operation management,office administration,front office management,back office...
Front Office Manager/ Director of Front Office/ Reception Manager ( 1 - 2 yrs)
RS 50,000 To 10,00,000 Adilabad, Akkarampalle, Akkayapalle, Hyderabad, Hyderabad Suburb, Rajahmundry, Sadasivpet, Tirupati, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, West Delhi, Delhi
Often a guest's first impression of a property is the result of the Front Office Manager´s skills and abilities. The Front Office Manager provides many guest services and works in the lobby or reception areas of hotels, motels, resorts and other acc...
Key Skills : front office manager,director front office,reception manager,director front office
Aren't you a member yet ?
Register with us now to apply to these jobs


text:
University of California, Los Angeles, October 2017
This is an automatically generated list of the latest items in WorldCat for this library.
by Ron Chernow
Print book : Biography
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2017. ©2017
No tags available
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Print book
Publisher: New York : One World, [2017]
by Jennifer Egan
Print book : Fiction
Publisher: New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., [2017] ©2017
by Bill O'Reilly; Martin Dugard
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017. ©2017
by Kurt Andersen
Publisher: New York : Random House, [2017]
by Brené Brown
by Naomi Alderman
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ©2016
by Oliver Sacks
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2017]
by Jessica Bruder
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
by Marta McDowell
Publisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2017.
Please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours.
WorldCat is the world's largest library catalog, helping you find library materials online. Learn more ››
Please sign in to WorldCat
Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.


text:
Master Harold... and the Boys Trailer (2010)
17 March 2010 Drama, Foreign 87 mins
This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally's friend and teacher. Hally is required to laugh at his father's racist jokes, by contrast, Sam exposes Hally to uplifting experiences. One day Hally was terribly humiliated by his father and Sam shows Hally how to be proud of something he can achieve.
Watch the official Master Harold... and the Boys 2010 trailer in HD below or find more Master Harold... and the Boys videos on Vidimovie.


text:
Taylor is a soft and stylish sofa bed that brings sophistication to any setting. The cover is completely removable and washable according to the fabric chosen. By simply rotating the back, without removing any of the cushions, Taylor converts into a conventional bed with a 14cm interior spring mattress. Taylor is available in all sizes with or without the bed mechanism.
Dimensions (cm):
Taylor 210: Width: 210 x Depth: 92 x Height: 85cm
Mattress: Length: 200 x Width: 160cm
Taylor 230: Width: 230 x Depth: 92 x Height: 85cm
Mattress: Length: 200 x Width: 180cm
View all products by Milano BeddingDownload Product Specification PDF
Free Delivery on all orders over £50
Excluding special delivery items. UK postage only
Trade Enquiry
Have a question?
Send us an email or call us on 0115 9657920