Senior Goran Milic (Dubrovnik, Croatia) had four goals

Cal Baptist Falls To No. 3 Southern Cal
Nov. 20, 2004

From California Baptist Athletics

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.calbaptist.edu/athletics) -- The #19 California Baptist University men's water polo team ended the 2004 season with a 15-7 loss to #3 USC at the Lancer Aquatic Center on Saturday afternoon.

The Lancers finish the year with a 19-15 record. USC, which has the MPSF Tournament coming up, is 20-4.

CBU senior utility Goran Milic (Dubrovnik, Croatia) scored four goals today. He ends his Lancer career with 188 goals in his career and 86 this season. Both marks put him in second place in CBU's record books.

The Trojans were led by senior utility Cameron Kaiser, who had five goals, and junior 2-meter Zuraj Zatovic, who scored four times.

CBU kept the game close early, as the Trojans held a 5-3 lead partway through the second quarter. But USC scored the game's next six goals (three by Kaiser) to take an 11-3 lead late in the third quarter.

http://www.collegesports.com/sports/m-wpolo/stories/112004aai.html

Protest raised against Croatian gulag tourism idea

Fri Nov 19,12:41 PM ET Offbeat - AFP
ZAGREB (AFP) - A proposal to turn a former communist gulag island off the Croatian coast into a tourist camp drew protests from an independent group which is investigating crimes committed by the communist Yugoslav regime.

"It is unacceptable that a tragic place of execution like Goli Otok, where Tito's Yugoslav communist regime killed over 30,000 political prisoners, will be used in future as a tourist destination," the Center for Investigation of Communist Crimes said in a statement. A study recently ordered by the government envisaged "hard-labour holidays" on Goli Otok, a rocky and inhospitable island that was virtually abandoned following the dismantlement of a detention camp there as the Yugoslav federation crumbled in the late 1980s. The aim would be for guests to survive long enough to receive a certificate at the end of the 'holiday' proving they had done their time.


Former detainees of Goli Otok have welcomed the idea, some even offering their services as guides, according to the study's author, Josip Modric. But the Center for Investigation of Communist Crimes likened the idea to using a Nazi concentration camp as a tourist theme park. "We urge the Croatian authorities to reject the study which suggests making profit from the killing and torture of innocent people," it said. The island should instead be turned into a memorial center as a warning to future generations of the evils of totalitarianism, it said.

Croatia, a former Yugoslav republic, welcomed more than eight million tourists in the first nine months of 2004, the best result since it gained independence in 1991. Tourism revenues are projected to amount to about 8.5 billion dollars in 2004, seven percent higher than last year.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1517&ncid=732&e=4&u=/afp/20041119/od_afp/croatia_travel_offbeat
 

Adriatic Institute for Public Policy and
World Development and Empowerment-USA
to Release the International Leaders Summit's - 2004 Report

Zagreb, Croatia - November 20, 2004

The Leadership of the Adriatic Institute for Public Policy, Croatia's first independent free market think tank and World Development and Empowerment USA will release the International Leaders Summit - Report next week. The brief report will also include "The International Leaders Summit's - Seven Recommendations for Economic Growth in Croatia" specifically directed to Croatia's leaders as they consider free market - economic reforms.

The ILS report and recommendations will be posted on the following websites:

www.ils-wde.org
www.adriaticinstitute.org

Most importantly, the organizers will also announce the date for next year's International Leaders Summit - Strategic Focus on Economic Growth and relay pertinent information regarding a few of the key speakers confirming their attendance and participation at the economic conference scheduled for 2005.

For further information please contact:
Natasha Srdoc-Samy, MBA
President, Adriatic Institute for Public Policy
Co-Director, International Leaders Summit
www.adriaticinstitute.org

Joel Anand Samy
President, World Development and Empowerment
Co-Director, International Leaders Summit
www.ils-wde.org
 

Croatian Christmas Dinner in London 11 December

Hello Everyone

Christmas approaches and the CSYPN
Committee has prepared a treat.

Our Christmas dinner will be held on 11 December at
Salvador's El Bodegon in fashionable Chelsea. Place
the date in your diary without delay.

As you know, CSYPN demands only the best cuisine for
its members. Salvador's El Bodegon is London's leading
Spanish Brasserie. The restaurant will be open only
for our event.

A superb Spanish set menu will be provided for us.
Those with vegetarian requirements please contact us.

This will, of course, be the Croatian community's
most important event of the year - second only to the
Croatian Film Festival we co-organised. We expect
guests from the Croatian Embassy and Croatian
companies to be in attendance.

Furthermore, if people wish to go on somewhere after
the meal finishes then we are delighted to report
that you won’t have to go far; there is a special
downstairs bar and dance area to go on to, which is
open to the public.

So please book early to avoid disappointment; we have
had to turn people away at recent events recently.

For CSYPN members, the cost will be only £15.
Non-members may attend as invited guests of CSYPN
members, the cost will be the full £25.

Please give us the full names of anyone attending
with you. You should do so by e-mailing us on
salvador@csypn.org.uk by Wednesday 1 December 2004.

We look forward to the pleasure of your company;
but to ensure that, book early.

Love and hugs and kisses

CSYPN Committee

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What: CSYPN's Christmas dinner
When: Saturday, 11 December 2004
Where: Salvadors El Bodegon
9 Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=526477&Y=177911&A=Y&Z=1
Price: £15 - CSYPN members, £25 - CSYPN non-members
RSVP: salvador@csypn.org.uk by Wednesday, 1/12/04
 

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Important to all visitors
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From the State Department Rule for the DV Program:
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Click here to read more about the changes made to this year's American Green Card Lottery Program.

http://www.usafis.org/index.asp?af=htt_nv_hr_frlu_468_60_hr
 

New Territory For Croatians

Ian Marshall, Editor of Table Tennis Illustrated

Pro Tour Austrian Open, Wels
Croatia’s Andreja BAKULA and Sandra PAOVIC are the only
European pairing to reach the semi-finals of the Women’s
Doubles at the Vegeta Austrian Open in Wels; the other three
pairs are all from Asia. Top seeds GUO Yue and NIU Jianfeng,
the title favourites are joined by their Chinese compatriots
CAO Zhen and LI Xiaoxia plus Japan’s Haruna FUKUOKA and An
KONISHI.
NIU Jianfeng, through to the semi-finals of the Women's
Doubles with GUO Yue
The semi-final stage of an ITTF Pro Tour tournament is
unexplored territory for the Croatians Andreja BAKULA and
Sandra PAOVIC. The furthest they have progressed on the ITTF
Pro Tour as a pair, prior to the Vegeta Austrian Open, is the
round of the last sixteen. It is a feat they have achieved on
three occasions: in Zagreb in 2000 at the Croatian Open when
they lost to the Germans Olga NEMES and Jing TIAN-ZÖRNER, in
Magdeburg at the German Open in 2002 when they were beaten by
the Austrians LIU Jia and Judit HERCZIG and earlier in 2004 in
Warsaw at the Polish Open, when Japan’s Yuka SHIOSAKI and
MIKIE TAKAHASHI ended progress.

Both girls enjoyed successful junior careers and gained medals
at European Youth Championships. BAKULA was the runner up in
the Cadet Girls’ Singles in 1996 in Frydek-Mistek being beaten
at the final hurdle by Slovenia’s Martina SAFRAN, whilst three
years later in the same Czech town, she reached the final of
the Junior Girls’ Singles, losing to Austria’s LIU Jia.

However, she does have four European Youth Championship titles
to her credit. In 1996 she won the Cadet Girls’ Doubles with
colleague Bojana POLJAK and the Cadet Mixed Doubles with
Germany’s Dominic HALCOUR, whilst in 1999 she was a member of
the Croatian side that won the Junior Girls’ Team title and
partnered Italy’s WANG Yu to gold in the Junior Girls’
Doubles.

On the ITTF Pro Tour the furthest she has ever been in any
event is the quarter-final stage, a round she reached with
Croatia’s Eldijana AGANOVIC-BENTSEN in Cairo in 2002 at the
Egypt Open, the pair losing to the North Koreans, KIM Hyang Mi
and KIM Hyon Hui.

Meawhile, Sandra PAOVIC won a hat-trick of titles at the
European Youth Championships in Topolcany, Slovakia in 1997.
She was a member of the Croatian team who clinched the Cadet
Girls’ Team title; she won the Cadet Girls’ Singles beating
Italy’s Nicoletta STEFANOVA in the final and partnered Jiri
VRABLIK of the Czech Republic to success in the Cadet Mixed
Doubles overcoming Brice OLLIVIER and Elisabeth GLADIEUX of
France in the final.

Three years later in Bratislava she was the runner up to
Croatia’s Cornelia VAIDA in the Junior Girls’ Singles and with
Nicoletta STEFANOVA won the Junior Girls’ Doubles, whilst in
1999 she was a member of the Croatian team with BAKULA who
became Junior Girls’ Team Champions.

The Vegeta Austrian Open has seen them reach new heights; in
the semis they play the Chinese duo of CAO Zhen and LI
Xiaoxia, the winners of the ITTF Pro Tour Panasonic China Open
in September 2004, whilst in the top half of the draw GUO Yue
and NIU Jianfeng meet Japan’s Haruna FUKUOKA and An KIONISHI.

http://www.ittf.com/stories/Stories_detail.asp?Year=2004&General_Catigory=General&ID=6640

New EC Chief Expresses Hope Croatia Will Join EU by End of 2009
 

19/11/2004
ZAGREB, Croatia – Newly appointed European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Thursday (18 November) that he hopes Croatia would be able to join the EU by the end of 2009. Zagreb expects to be given a date for starting accession talks in early 2005 and join the Union as soon as possible, possibly in 2007 with Bulgaria and Romania. Most observers find that timeframe unlikely.

Also Thursday, a crowd of 10,000 people gathered in Vukovar to commemorate the city's fall to Serb forces in 1991. Church bells rang across the country, while in Vukovar, mourners gathered at the hospital where more than 250 people were executed. (Vjesnik - 19/11/04; HINA, HRT, AFP - 18/11/04

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/newssummary/setimes/newsbriefs/2004/11/19/nb-07

Today in History - Nov. 21

By the Associated Press
Today is Sunday, Nov. 21, the 326th day of 2004. There are 40 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

Forty years ago, on Nov. 21, 1964, New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge, connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island, opened.

On this date:

In 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

In 1877, inventor Thomas A. Edison announced the invention of his phonograph.

In 1934, the Cole Porter musical "Anything Goes," starring Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney, opened in New York.

In 1942, the Alaska highway across Canada was formally opened.

In 1969, the Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, the first such rejection since 1930.

In 1973, President Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18 1/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.

In 1979, a mob attacked the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing two Americans.

In 1980, 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

In 1980, an estimated 83 million TV viewers tuned in to the CBS prime-time soap opera "Dallas" to find out "who shot J.R." (It turned out to be Kristin Shephard, played by Mary Crosby.)

In 1989, the proceedings of Britain's House of Commons were televised live for the first time.

Ten years ago: North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms, a Republican, remarked in a newspaper interview that President Clinton "better have a bodyguard" if he were to visit North Carolina; Helms later called his comment "a mistake." NATO warplanes bombed an air base in Serb-held Croatia that was being used by Serb planes to raid the Bosnian "safe area" of Bihac.

Five years ago: President Clinton, speaking at a conference in Florence, Italy, called on prosperous nations to spread global wealth by helping poor countries with Internet hookups, cell phones, debt relief and small loans. China completed its first unmanned test of a spacecraft meant to carry astronauts. Quentin Crisp, the eccentric writer, performer and raconteur best-known for his autobiography "The Naked Civil Servant," died in Manchester, England, at age 90.

One year ago: More than a dozen rockets fired from donkey carts slammed into Iraq's Oil Ministry and two downtown Baghdad hotels used by foreign journalists and civilian defense contractors. Health officials said a deadly outbreak of hepatitis A at a Chi-Chi's Mexican restaurant in suburban Pittsburgh was probably caused by green onions from Mexico.

Today's Birthdays: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Stan Musial is 84. Country singer Jean Shepard is 71. Actor Laurence Luckinbill is 70. Actress Marlo Thomas is 67. Actor Rick Lenz is 65. Singer Dr. John is 64. Actress Juliet Mills is 63. Comedian-director Harold Ramis is 60. Television producer Marcy Carsey is 60. Actress Goldie Hawn is 59. Rock musician Lonnie Jordan (War) is 56. Singer Livingston Taylor is 54. Actress-singer Lorna Luft is 52. Journalist Tina Brown is 51. Actress Cherry Jones is 48. Rock musician Brian Ritchie (The Violent Femmes) is 44. Gospel singer Steven Curtis Chapman is 42. Actress Nicollette Sheridan is 41. Singer-actress Bjork is 39. Football player Troy Aikman is 38. R&B singer Chauncey Hannibal (BLACKstreet) is 36. Rock musician Alex James (Blur) is 36. Baseball player Ken Griffey Jr. is 35. Rapper Pretty Lou (Lost Boyz) is 33. Country singer Kelsi Osborn (SHeDAISY) is 30. Actress Jena Malone is 20.

Thought for Today: "A concept is stronger than a fact." - Charlotte P. Gilman, American lecturer and author (1860-1935).

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041120/APA/411200946

Two mummies discovered in Croatia

Two mummified bodies dating from the 18th century were discovered in eastern Croatia during restoration works on the crypt of a Roman Catholic cathedral, officials said today.

"Two well preserved mummified bodies have been discovered so far," Matija Zurakovic, a priest from the eastern town of Pozega, said.

National television broadcast images of the bodies in their coffins.

According to Father Zurakovic they were locals who were buried in the crypt of the cathedral around the year 1700. Hundreds of coffins remain inside the crypt and are still to be examined by experts.

-AFP

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1247997.htm

Bears more secure in Croatia then in many other "civilized" countries

A bear cub in a nature reserve in Croatia. French environmentalists reacted with fury after hunters shot dead one of the last remaining bears in the Pyrenees mountains separating France and Spain.(AFP/File /Hrvoje Polan)