For the first time in history, the famed Harlem Globetrotters basketball team will feature a Polish player. 22-year old Paweł “Kid” Kidoń of Zubrzyca Dolna, a small village near the Tatra Mountains, has been invited to join the team famous for its unique combination of theatre, comedy, athleticism, and ball-handling skills.
Playing under the moniker “Dazzle,” Kidoń will be joined by fellow newcomer “Lucky” Jiang, the first Chinese player to ever join the team. The two rookies join an exclusive list of just over 20 players born outside the United States to ever play for the Globetrotters over their nearly 100-year history.
Those wanting to see Kidoń’s famed “webster” trick in person will have a chance next spring when the Globetrotters visit Poland during their 2020 “Pushing the Limits” World Tour. At least one exhibition game is already scheduled in Gdańsk for June 1st.
Source: https://www.harlemglobetrotters.com/News/2020-Rookie-Announcement
Polish director Agnieszka Holland and Polish-American journalist Anne Applebaum have been awarded one of Ukraine’s highest state decorations for their efforts to depict the truth about the Great Famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine.
Holland is the director of the award-winning film „Mr. Jones”, the true story of a young Welsh journalist who was the first Westerner to raise awareness of the Great Famine after secretly traveling to Ukraine in 1933.
Applebaum is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of the critically-acclaimed book “Red Famine”, which meticulously details the genocidal intent of the man-made famine and the justification for its inclusion as the second-largest genocide of the 20th century after the Holocaust.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy issued an official decree announcing the award on the official Day of Remembrance for Famine Victims, celebrated annually in Ukraine and around the world on the fourth Saturday of November.
According to various estimates, the Great Famine, or Holodomor, resulted in the deaths of four to eight million people, mostly ethnic Ukrainians. In 2006, Poland joined 15 other countires in officially recognizing the tragedy as a genocide.
Source: PAP
According to statements made by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki yesterday, over 300,000 small businesses in Poland will be eligible for reduced social insurance costs and may be freed from paying CIT if they invest their earnings.
The reductions will apply to firms with monthly sales of PLN 10,000 (EUR 2,300) and net earnings of PLN 6,000 (EUR 1,400). Based on the „Estonian CIT” model, which frees investing companies from paying CIT, the new regulations are aimed at helping small businesses expand and develop.
The new social insurance and CIT payment rules were approved by the Sejm last Thursday.
Source: PAP
With the performance of her song “Superhero,” Polish teen Viki Gabor won the 17th annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest held yesterday in Gliwice-Silesia in southern Poland.
Nineteen countries took part in this year’s Junior Eurovision contest for singers aged 9-15, with the winner being selected by a combination of jury votes and television viewers. Out of a total of 3.77 million votes cast, Viki received 278 points total, followed by Kazakhstan’s Yerzhan Maxim with 227 votes and Melani Garcia of Spain with 212 points.
This is the first time Poland has hosted the event, having won last year’s contest in Minsk, Belarus with a song by Roksana Węgiel. Poland has participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest six times since the competition began in 2003.
Source: PAP
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy with an occasional glimpse of sun and fog rolling in overnight and staying into tomorrow morning. Temperatures will remain on the cold side with a high of only 3 degrees Celsius or 37 degrees Fahrenheit and light winds from the southeast. Tomorrow will see the return of more clouds, with an increasing chance of rain showers as the week progresses.
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