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Poziv na sudjelovanje pri UN Komisiji o polozaju zena. Rok prijave 22. prosinca, 2006
   

WORLD FAMOUS RUSSIAN TSAR'S BALLET IS COMING TO OSIJEK, CROATIA
   

The dead-sexy Tesla delivers on its promise. 100% Electric car. No more excuses
   

Can We Go Higher?

www.croatia.org is a web site initiated by Nenad Bach. It is an attempt to answer the question "Can We Go Higher?", raised in the title of his beautiful song. We invite you to visit his fantastic video-clips maintained at video.google.com, revealing the driving force and spirituality of the artist. This video is a Christmas gift for all of us, that everybody should see and listen to.

 

Prof.Dr. Ante Simonić: Borba protiv zagađenja i upravljanje krizom, te održivi razvoj
 

Porast znanja i povećanje tehničke moći Homo sapiensa, mnoštvu ljudi ne donosi očekivani boljitak...


BRYAN ADAMS: "You crazy Croatians! Bravo! Thank you!" AN EXCITING EVENT IN OSIJEK, CROATIA

After performing his well known song "Somebody", Bryan has started his concert in Osijek, Croatia, with simple words: "Hello. I'm Bryan !" .


Ivan Hrvatska Partying to the Top
Outside of Vancouver, Ivan Hrvatska may not be a household name, but his music is starting to get him noticed. So who is Ivan Hrvatska, and why is he attracting a devoted following?   

BEYOND THE CALL theatrical opening, Chicago Nov. 24th San Francisco Dec. 1, 06

Landmark Theaters is premiering BEYOND THE CALL It's playing for a week in each city. The opening weekend success in both cities are very important, because it will determine how wide Landmark will distribute the film around the US in theaters. Please, send this out to as many people as you can, including news letters, blogs, websites, radio,TV, etc. BEYOND THE CALL resonates with a very broad cross-section of the US population,


Fulbright Science and Technology Award Winners Announced - Croatia among winners
   

Ten best places in Croatia
   

Skup Hrvata i njihovih prijatelja zakazan za 9. i 10. prosinca 2006. u Las Vegasu
 

U HRVATSKU SE VRAĆA SEDMERO VRHUNSKIH ZNANSTVENIKA
   

Kiwi u Slavoniji
   

Razgovor: dr. Radoslav Marić
  Dr. Radoslav Marić, autor knjige "Moja polnoćka" (urednik knjige prof. dr. Ivan Biondić, naklada "Kamen" Publishing LLC.), rođen je g. 1938 u Hercegovini, školu je polazio u Širokom Brijegu i Mostaru, medicinski fakultet završio u Zagrebu, a porodništvo i ginekologiju specijalizirao je u Petrovoj bolnici. Zbog političkih pritisaka šezdesetih godina odlazi sa ženom i djecom u Kanadu. Jedan je od utemeljitelja i član Upravnog odbora Udruge američkih Hrvata "Croatian American Association" (CAA).

Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
   

Dr. Franjo Topić gostuje u New Yorku u srijedu 22. studenog 2006

Dr. Frano Topić, predsjednik Hrvatskog kulturnog drustva (HKD) Napredak gostovat ce u New Yorku u srijedu, 22. studenog, 2006 u maloj dvorani Hrvatskog centra na Manhattanu. Sastanak i susret s Dr. Topićem pocinje u 19 sati. Pozivaju se svi clanovi i prijatelji Napretka da prisustvuju ovom sastanku!


Adolph Lomb Medal 2005 Marin Soljacic
 

Adolph Lomb was OSA's treasurer from its founding until his death in 1932. In recognition of his devotion to OSA and the advancement of optics, the Adolph Lomb Medal, established in 1940, is presented to a person who has made a noteworthy contribution to optics at an early age. The candidate cannot be older than the age of 35.


Prof. Dr. Marin Soljačić one of the top innovators under the age of 35

 

 Prof. Marin Soljačić was born in Zagreb, Croatia on  February 7th, 1974. An expert in photonic crystals and nonlinear optics. Co-authored more than 60 scientific articles, a co-inventor on 12 patents (10 more pending), given more than 40 invited talks around the world. In 2005 awared Adolph Lomb Medal of the Optical Society of America. In 2006, chosen by Technology Review to be one of the "TR35": top 35 innovators under the age of 35.


DR. TOMISLAV SUNIĆ - The Political Cesspool travels to Croatia Live Radio Nov 17th, 2006
   

Jelena Vukotić again in The New Yorker

Check a current issue of The New Yorker. Born in Pula, Croatia. Jelena's photographs have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Forbes's Four Seasons Magazine, Prague Business Journal and others. Her work was exhibited at solo and group shows in Czech Republic, Croatia, France, Germany, Slovenia and USA.

 

BBC: Physics promises wireless power - Dr. Marin Soljačić
 

"There are so many autonomous devices such as cell phones and laptops that have emerged in the last few years," said Assistant Professor Marin Soljacic from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the researchers behind the work. "We started thinking, 'it would be really convenient if you didn't have to recharge these things'.


America’s Oldest Croatian Church Could Be Sold To Italians
 

Despite efforts of Pittsburgh Croatians to buy the closed church and convert it into a shrine. St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church, built in 1901 and worshipped in until it was closed in 2004, could soon be bought by the Follieri Group.


Albert Einstein's protest against the murder of Milan Sufflay in Zagreb in 1931

75 years since an appeal of Albert Einstein and Heinrich Mann to the League of Nations against the murder of Croatian scholar Dr Milan Sufflay in Croatian captial Zagreb in 1931 at the age of 52

 

Tesla Motors - Electric Car
 

 With the Tesla Roadster, you get great acceleration and the highest energy efficiency at the same time. All while requiring no special driving skills to enjoy it. This makes the Tesla Roadster six times as efficient as the best sports cars while producing one-tenth of the pollution.  


Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia

In Croatia's rugged interior, a stone's throw from the Bosnian border, hides one of Europe's most exotic hikes: through Plitvice (PLEET-veet-seh) Lakes National Park. There's nothing like this lush valley of 16 terraced lakes, laced together by waterfalls and miles of pleasant plank walks. Years ago, after a dozen or so visits, I thought I really knew Europe. Then I discovered Plitvice, and realized you can never exhaust Europe of its surprises.

 


Ed Bradley, the award-winning television journalist died Thursday Nov 9th 2006
 

Ed Bradley, the award-winning television journalist who broke racial barriers at CBS News and created a distinctive, powerful body of work during his 26 years on "60 Minutes," died Thursday. He was 65. Ed Bradley interviewed Nenad Bach for CBS in 1991, during the Croatian War for Independence.


“SUPER MARIO” PRESKAR STAYS UNDEFEATED with 6 KO in a row
 

Croatian heavyweight boxer, 22-year-old "Super Mario" Preskar, blitzed his way to 11th win keeping his undefeated record last Saturday, November 4, 2006 in Phoenix, Arizona. Preskar, knocked out Gene Valdez with a powerful left right combination in the first minute 


Znanstvena i tehnologijska politika Republike Hrvatske - Science and Technology Policy of the Republic of Croatia
   

Full-time Bioethics Research Position for Pre Post Doctoral Research Assistant
   

Launching of the National Fellowships “For Women in Science”

 It is with particular pleasure that we would like to announce the launching of the National Fellowships "For Women in Science" organized by L'Oreal Adria and the Croatian Commission for UNESCO, Ministry of Culture, with the purpose of awarding young women scientists from the Republic of Croatia.

 

Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever
   

CROWN Croatian World Network Newsletter, November 7th, 2006
   

Prof.Dr. Ante Simonić: Rastrošnost budi nemir

 U današnje doba su evidentne fascinantne mogućnosti proizvodnje, relativno velika platežna moć kupaca u razvijenim zemljama, visoko organizirana dostupnost raznovrsnih proizvoda, učinkovita marketinška aktivnost, svjetonazor koji potiče trošenje...

 

Helen Merrill: 60 Years of Warm Sweet Songs
  One of the most distinctive jazz singers ever, Helen Merrill started singing professionally sixty years ago when her warm voice paired with the Reggie Childs Orchestra in 1946. But that was just the start of a long and vivid story which would lead the talented young daughter of Croatian immigrants to make history in jazz by recording with [trumpeter] Clifford Brown and [arranger/bandleader] Gil Evans in the 1950s.

Croatian lace

The annual exhbition of Croatian lace in the town of Lepoglava near Zagreb, showed amazing skills of our women in knitting, using subtle patterns of breathtaking beauty. The 10th International Lace Festival - Lepoglava 2006 has been very successfuly organized. The oldest testimony of lace making in Croatia is from the 15th century, mentioned in the minutes of the Dubrovnik Senat.

 

Ivana Kunc - Solo Concert at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on December 9th, 2006

 

Come celebrate the music of Croatian composer Božidar Kunc. Ivana Kunc - Soprano, Daniel Ragone - Pianist. Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall Saturday afternoon, December 9, 2006 at 2:00 PM Tickets can be purchased at www.carnegiehall.org CarnegieCharge at (212)247-7800 or The Carnegie Hall Box Office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue


Rainbow over the city of Zagreb, October 20th 2006 @ 7 AM Just before sunrise

An attempt to explain the double rainbow can be found in Isaac Newton's book "The Optics", on p 147. No surprise. But the surprise is that on that page Newton cites a Croatian Jesuit, humanist and scientist Marc Antun Dominis (1560-1624). He spent six years in London, being invited by the English King James I. He lived at the Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury and was appointed to be the Windsor Dean and the King's chancellor.

 

THE BANJA LUKA DIOCESE FROM 1881 TO 2006

THE BANJA LUKA DIOCESE IN WORD AND PICUTRE FROM 1881 TO 2006, on the occasion of 125 years since founding the Diocese, a monumental and important book written by Franjo Maric and Anto Orlovic

 


BB Biti Bolji – Be Better - Novi Blog

Jeste li se ikada zapitali gdje je srce poduzetništva? Odmah vas misli odvedu na interese, novac, nekorektnost, zakone, kalkulacije, rad i znoj...... ili postoji nešto više, dublje....što ne poznajemo dovoljno...a zapravo zaboravljamo ono glavno: da je centar svega čovjek: poduzetnik, talentiran, obrazovan, stručan, motiviran, nabijen pozitivnim emocijama.

 

Treba hitro, energično, jasno, nedvosmisleno i glasno, argumentirano i nesvađalački pokrenuti široku akciju za proglašenje gospodarskog pojasa
Podrazumijevamo neprihvatljivim, bilo kakvo trgovanje nacionalanim teritorijem ili mlitavo (ne)branjenje državnih granica, te rasprodaju vitalnih nacionalnih bogatstava ili njihovo neštićenje. U Europu (i druge asocijacije) se ulazi glavom (i argumentima koji štite interse RH) a ne na koljenima dodvornički.

Prof.Dr. Ante Simonić: Poljoprivreda te genetski modificirana hrana
 

Kako se ne prisjetiti izjave velikana hrvatske agronomije prof. Frangeša iz 1930. da je poljoprivreda "vremenski prvo, a po važnosti najodličnije zanimanje tj. podloga svih drugih zanimanja, podloga kulture i civilizacije."


PRILJEV MOZGOVA - program Nacionalne zaklade za znanost, visoko školstvo i tehnologijski razvoj Republike Hrvatske
U tekstu natjecaja jasno su objasnjeni svi uvjeti natjecaja, sto se financira, koliko i u kojem trajanju te tehnicki detalji vezano uz prijavu. Ukratko, za program Senior nije definirana dob kandidata vec se gleda trajanje nezavisne istrazivacke karijere, koja za hrvatske gradane koji su u inozemstvu mora biti u trajanju od najmanje 5 godina

A Croatian glagolitic book written in 1395 in Prague, Czechia, kept in France

The Reims Evangelistary, or The Coronation Book, a Croatian glagolitic book written in 1395 in Prague, Czechia, kept in Reims in France since the 16th century, with which French kings were sworn in during the coronation in the Reims cathedral, among them Louis XIV 


New marine protected area for Croatia
 

The newly created Lastovo Nature Park, off the south-east coast of Croatia, covers an area of some 200km˛, of which around 60km˛ is land surface consisting of 44 islands.


University of Zagreb Medical School announces enrollment in its 2007/2008 MD Program in English!

In the academic year 2003 University of Zagreb Medical School (UZMS) introduced a new 12-semester/8 semester (6/4-year) Medical Doctor Study program in English. Graduates of the program are granted a diploma conferring the professional title of Doctor of Medicine (MD). This program is entirely instructed in English, and is also designed so as to meet both American (USMLE) and European Union standards with its internationally accredited exams. Read more...


Lord of the DNA ring

Zagreb, Croatia. The study was completed in cooperation between the Croatian research institute Rudjer Boskovic and the Paris-based Necker Institute. Ksenija Zahradka, a leading researcher in the study, told a news conference. "It is an extremely fascinating phenomenon to see how a cell itself can repair its fairly destroyed DNA." Croatian scientist Miroslav Radman supervised the experimental part of the study. October 3rd 2006.


Croatians Show the Way to Immortality

ZAGREB - Croatian scientists have worked out how a radiation-resistant bacterium that can exist in extreme conditions repairs damage to itself, a discovery which could provide clues about diseases such as cancer. "Through evolution, the bacteria have developed a mechanism to precisely reconstruct its DNA. Until now this has been a scientific riddle," Ksenija Zahradka, a leading researcher in the study, told a news conference.

 

Novi Humoristicko-Satiricki Magazin
 

NOVI HUMORISTICKO-SATIRICKI (non-profit) MAGAZIN u potpuno novom i neuobicajenom obliku je od nedavno online. Pravi vatromet humora, karikatura, satire, stripova, gegova i animacija na 292 strane, prezentirano na nacin koji dosad u hrvatskom net-u nije vidjen.  Citaj vise...


Prof.Dr. Ante Simonić: HSS slavi, čuva i potiče rad i stvaralaštvo
  

Dublin Launch for “THE FRAMES: Behind the Glass”
 

Croatian-American photographer Zoran Orlic, will be in Dublin, Ireland this weekend, October 1st to promote the launch of his book "THE FRAMES: Behind the Glass." The launch will feature an exhibit of photographs from the book and an appearance by the Frames. Zoran will also be on hand to sign copies of the book.

 

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