Ulaganje u Kopacki Rit

Postovana,
Na stranicama CroWorldnet-a nasao sam da se Vama (op-ed, Danica Ramljak) mogu javiti s pitanjem. Zanima me da li ima zainteresiranih , u SAD-u za ulaganje u kontinentalni turizam ( Kopacki rit i okolica) i u zastitu prirode i okolisa? Ja se vec godinama bavim razvitkom podrucja Baranje i trazim partnere.

S postovanjem,
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Op-ed

FINALLY, it started.

Nenad Bach

THE REIGN OF SPAIN IS OVER

... discovering the delights of destinations such as Croatia ...

By Damien Fletcher

THE sun is setting on Spain. Britain's favourite holiday resort is losing out to the upstarts of eastern Europe.
Ever since the package holiday was invented 40 years ago millions of us have flocked to the bars and beaches of sunny Espana - but new figures show that the reign of Spain could be coming to an end. Holiday firms are reporting a 20 per cent drop in the number of Brits taking their holidays in Spain and a huge increase in trips to eastern European countries and the US. Tour operators First Choice are axing their holidays on the Costa Brava - once a mainstay of British tour operating - because they feel hotel quality does not match prices.
And Thomas Cook is shifting 20,000 package holidays from Spain to Turkey, while Cosmos is also pulling Ibiza from its 2005 summer brochures.
Instead, holiday-makers are discovering the delights of destinations such as Croatia, with its timeless, elegant cities and beautiful, unspoiled beaches.
But above all, they are re-discovering what once drew them in their millions to Spain - a place in the sun where food and drink are still incredibly cheap. According to travel experts, the strong euro means that it's getting too costly to go on package trips to Spain, so Brits are looking to non-euro countries such as Croatia, Bulgaria and Turkey where they can get more for their money.
A typical family holiday costs Ł1,290 in Spain, compared to Ł800 to Bulgaria.
An average family meal in a Spanish tourist resort will set you back Ł17, whereas in Croatia you would spend a paltry Ł4.70.
Desperate Spanish hoteliers have slashed prices to tempt people back. Jose Prieto, president of the Malaga Hotel Association, says: "Some hotels in this area are cutting prices by up to 20 per cent."
But a Thomas Cook spokesman says: "Turkey, Bulgaria and Croatia are very popular this year.
"We have added Bulgaria, Croatia and Morocco to our directory because everyone wants to go to these places.
"They are finding that their spending money is going a long way. People are also flocking to Florida and the Caribbean because you can get two dollars to the pound there."
Another nail in the Spanish coffin is the internet which has encouraged millions to put together their own packages - which don't include Spain.
An easyJet spokesman says: "We've seen a massive increase in DIY holiday.
"Because so many people have access to the internet, they are surfing and finding the best bargains to piece together their own holiday.
"It works out cheaper and you're not restricted to what the package offers you.
"We've seen significant increases in flights to Hungary, Slovenia and Prague."
And Richard Bowden-Doyle, UK managing director of lastminute.com, said: "There's a trend towards people booking later.

"Two years ago 40 per cent of people booked their holiday six months or more in advance, but that's down to 20 per cent.

"We all have more uncertainty in our lives and there's a trend towards not making _ a commitment - such as to an expensive holiday - too far in advance."

Another sign of the interest in these countries is the commercial property boom they've experienced, with entrepreneurs eager to replicate the success of the bars in Ibiza.

Amar Sodhi, director of property firm Avatar International, says: "Initially we started selling in Turkey, but when we moved into Croatia and Bulgaria we realised there was a lot of interest in these countries.

"The buyers are people who missed out on the Spanish boom, but don't want to miss out on this one."

It also seems that more of us are interested in holidays that involve more than applying sun-tan lotion and turning the pages of a paperback.

Wey're looking for a bit of adventure and consider the rugged coasts of Turkey or Bulgaria or the romance of north Africa to be more challenging than lounging on the crowded beaches of the Costa del Sol.

A spokesman from the Association of British Travel Agents says: "The trendiest destination this year is undoubtedly Eastern Europe and especially the former Yugoslavia.

"We have been told that many Spanish hoteliers are even travelling to eastern Europe to set up hotels there, because that's where the market is going.
"People have been to the standard Costa destinations as children and now they're looking for something a little bit different.
"The British tourist industry has always been very responsive to changes in demand from our customers.
"Because of this, tour operators are now concentrating more on holidays in other European destinations, and specialist holidays like activity or long-haul breaks." But it's not all misery in Majorca... We may be turning our backs on package holidays but we are buying property so we can take breaks when we feel like it - last year 45 per cent of all homes in Spain sold to non-Spaniards went to British buyers.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14399160&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=the-reign-of-spain-is-over-name_page.html

Croatia Takes Silver at the Global Games

GLOBAL GAMES NOTES
Posted on Sun, Jul. 04, 2004
Scouts keep it in family

By John Miller

Star-Telegram Staff Writer

DALLAS - For the first time since 2000, NBA Director of Scouting Marty Blake did not attend the Global Games.

But the tournament got the next best thing with his son, Ryan Blake, there to represent the NBA.
Blake followed his father's footsteps into basketball scouting, and, as the NBA's assistant director of scouting, he spent most of the week scouting the young talent at the Global Games.
"It's a lot of work, but it's been great," Ryan said. "I knew exactly what I was getting into. Being around [Marty Blake] is a learning experience. He's just a wealth of information and you learn by example."
Blake grew up traveling the country with his father, who was one of the pioneers of basketball scouting and has been nicknamed "Super Scout." The younger Blake started scouting games when he was 16 and took it up full time in 1995 after a stint as a professional tennis player.
The father-son duo advises teams on players to watch and not to watch, puts together profiles of players and makes a database with scouting reports.
Twenty-eight of the 30 NBA teams sent representatives to the Global Games.
Hard knock victory
With 9:12 left in the fourth quarter of the fifth-place game against Puerto Rico, former Dunbar player Jeremis Smith fell and hit his head, rendering him unconscious for a brief period of time.
"I didn't know I was on the ground until I saw everybody standing above me and looking at me," Smith said.
Smith was helped off the court and sat behind the Team USA bench as he recovered.
He returned with 5:21 to play in regulation and connected on a key three-point play in the final minute before fouling out in overtime in Team USA's 108-107 victory.

"Mainly, I wanted to help my team," Smith said. "I didn't want to quit on my team. I got the three-point play and made the free throw like I was supposed to and then my team finished it up from there."
Smith and teammate Anthony Morrow, a fellow Georgia Tech signee, were both named to the All-Global Games Team.

Ukraine wins gold
Oleksiy Pecherov led all scorers with 31 points as Ukraine claimed the gold medal with an 84-79 win over Croatia.
Ukraine was down by as many as seven points late in the third quarter, but Pecherov hit two free throws to tie the game at 63 midway through the fourth. After Croatia pulled to within three points with a minute left, Pecherov hit a field goal and two free throws.
Pecherov and Croatia's Marko Banic, who scored 26 points Saturday, were named co-MVPs of the Global Games.

In the bronze-medal game, Leonardo Mainoldi scored 39 points and had eight rebounds to lead Argentina to a 94-88 win over Lithuania, which had three players score 20 or more points.

Staff Writer Mercedes Mayer contributed to this report.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/sports/9078884.htm?1c

Hibs knocked out of Intertoto after loss inCroatia
by Paul Cachia, di-ve sport

Slaven Belupo - Hibernians 3-0
Saturday, June 27 2004

NK Slaven Belupo ended Hibernians' Intertoto Cup hopes in the first round with a fine win in the second leg in Croatia.
A 2-1 win in the first leg last week gave the Maltese side hope but VRUNICA's goal after 15 minutes started the slide.
VISKOVIC doubled the lead after 76 minutes, converting a penalty kick. MIJATOVIC wrapped things up with one minute from time.
Hibernians had hoped to progress into the second round of the Intertoto Cup.

But they were left to rue the fact they failed to make the most of their chances in the first leg as their Croatian hosts stamped their authority in the return at the Koprivnica Stadium.

http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=141091&pid=32

Globalna Bio-r-evolucija u Hrvatskoj

Global Bio-r-evolution in Croatia

for English text scroll down.

Hrvatski prirodoznanstvenici aktivno koordiniraju planetarnu bio(r)evoluciju
u hotelu 'Croatia', Cavtat: http://dubrovnik2004.epfl.ch/

Prosli tjedan je odrzana vec druga konferencija u seriji
''Od fizike kondenziranje materije do zivih sustava'' koja se
redovno odrzava svake dvije godine u hotelu 'Croatia' u Cavtatu.


Vazna karakteristika konferencije jest da pluri-disciplinarno okuplja
oko stotinjak vodecih svjetskih strucnjaka iz fizike, biokemije,
genetickog inzenjeringa pa sve do medicinskih metoda, s ciljem da
vrlo uspjesne metode i modeli fizike sto optimalnije budu koristeni
u BIO-revoluciji 21-og stoljeca. Elitni predavaci iz cijelog svijeta
prisustvuju uspjesnoj konferenciji koju organiziraju i koordiniraju
ponajbolji hrvatski strucnjaci iz svijeta i domovine, uz podrsku Minstarstva
znanosti, obrazovanja te nekoliko domacih, svicarskih i svjetskih institucija
(vidi web stranicu za detalje)


Slikovito govoreci, zamislite da hrvatski strucnjaci vizionarski vode i
koordiniraju razvoj svjetskog nogometa ili npr. poslovodstva. Naravno,
to je, na zalost, nemoguce, no u prirodnim znanostima i u bio-izazovima
to jest slucaj: mi imamo vrhunske prirodnos-znanstvene strucnjake
po svijetu i u domovini i kroz ovu redovnu konferenciju (i strategiju)
oni zajedno sa svjetskim kolegama formuliraju jednu novu viziju
bio-znanstvenih prodora i novih tehnologija ovog stoljeca.


Pozitivni rezultati ce biti vidljivi dugorocno sto i jest cilje svake istinske
znanosti i planetarno relevantne i ekoloski pozitivne tehnologije.


Croatian scientists coordinate global bio(r)evolution in 'Croatia', Cavtat
http://dubrovnik2004.epfl.ch/


Last week the 2nd conference in a series 'From Solid State To BioPhysics'
took place in Cavtat, with some hundred top experts in physics, biochemistry
genetic engineering, medical research and biology. Such a multi-disciplinary
elite gathering is, for once, organized and coordinated by a group
of Croatian experts, from Croatia proper and abroad; namely, in
these subjects Croatian experts can provide some new vision, leadership
and, together with outstanding foreign colleagues, help shape the ways of
the planetary future in a galloping bio-medical revolution of the 21st century.


It is difficult to convey to the general public the importance of such a
coordinated effort of some of the most brilliant minds that regularly
meet, each two years, in hotel 'Croatia' in Cavtat, yet the the positive
results and impacts will be felt through the whole century as the
very best science and most noble eco-friendly bio-technologies will
undoubtedly greatly benefit the whole mankind.

Hence it is a great compliment to Croatians and Croatia and Dubrovnik area
that these remarkable strategic efforts continue regularly - in hotel 'Croatia' Cavtat:
the future meetings are already scheduled and well beyond 2010:

http://dubrovnik2004.epfl.ch/

European Physical Society International Conference,

From Solid State To BioPhysics II :
Role of Inhomogeneities in Solid, Soft and Bio-Matter

June 26 - July 2, 2004
Hotel 'Croatia', Cavtat, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Sponsored by:
Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology
Office of Naval Research (ONR, Washington D.C., USA)
Croatia Airlines

Organization (co-)supported by:
Faculty of Science, Zagreb, Croatia
Institute of Physics, Zagreb, Croatia
Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
University of Dubrovnik, Croatia
École Polytéchnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland


The Scope of the 2nd Conference
Following the success of the 1st conference in the series, the 2nd conference aimed at the understanding of the living matter which, given its enormous complexity may require some of the techniques at least partly elaborated in solid state physics. The goal of the conference is to focus on the structure - function relationships. The interdisciplinary discussion of some of the leading experts in various subfields will take place in a stimulating, yet relaxed setting.

Michael D. Antonovich, the courageous supervisor...

Mel Gibson Not Happy With Decision on L.A. County's Cross

 Monday, July 5, 2004 3:20 p.m. EDT

The courageous Hollywood star who battled a horde of critics of his "The Passion of the Christ" and won might be ready for another fight over a "cross."
Reportedly upset over the recent decision of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to kowtow to ACLU and delete the tiny cross on the county's official seal, Mel Gibson is reported to be interested in helping to fight to retain the symbol, which represents the historical roots of the county.
Los Angeles was founded as a Christian mission.

Michael D. Antonovich, the courageous supervisor who has battled to keep the cross on the seal, told the Los Angeles Daily News that Gibson had met with Rabbi Daniel Lapin, president of the National Jewish Christian Alliance Toward Tradition.

"The rabbi said he was with Mel Gibson and they were outraged at the action of the Board of Supervisors because the cross represents the historical founding of our county," Antonovich told the News.

Though noting that he could not speak for the director of the smash hit "The Passion of the Christ," Lapin told the News he was supporting a signature-gathering effort seeking to put the matter on the ballot and allow the citizens to decide if the cross should remain on the county's seal.

"This is what the Muslims did when they took over Spain, removed every sign of the cross," Lapin said. "I always say, Israel's safety belt is America's Bible Belt. As long as Americans respect the cross, Jews and other minorities are safe. In post-Christian Europe, anti-Semitism is rife."

During the heated controversy over "The Passion," Rabbi Lapin was an outspoken defender of Gibson.

Gibson's spokesman said that the star, now in Australia, was not available for comment.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/7/5/152548.shtml
 

Prosecutors to blame for their own headache (?)

CHRIS STEPHEN

Op-ed
For someone who didn't suffer in Croatia, it is irrelevant what the charges are. Value on truth and justice need to be placed regardless of "headaches". They are NOTHING to compare with the "headaches" we had to go through.
Nenad Bach


SLOBODAN Milosevic has dedicated his time in court to wrong-footing a legal process he refuses to recognise, but it is the former Yugoslav president’s health that has created the biggest headache for prosecutors.

It is not Mr Milosevic’s fault that, at 62, this whisky-loving, heavy smoker is suffering from a heart condition which has forced the court into continual delays which have already stretched a six-month prosecution session into a two-year circus. And Milosevic is within his rights to demand the right to defend himself.

In fact, prosecutors have only themselves to blame. It is they who chose to charge Milosevic with crimes in three wars, rather than just one, turning what might have been a fairly straightforward case into a vast undertaking.

In 1999, when Milosevic was first indicted, he faced charges related only to crimes in Kosovo, the southern province where nearly a million ethnic Albanians were expelled, and ten thousand killed, by Serb forces. Had prosecutors stuck to these charges, the trial would be over now and a verdict would be in, almost certainly pronouncing him guilty.

Instead, the current Hague tribunal chief prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, decided to charge him with crimes in Croatia and Bosnia as well.

Not only did this decision triple the caseload of the trial, but it added new complications. In Kosovo, Milosevic was the legal commander-in-chief of the security forces, making it comparatively simple to prove him responsible for atrocities by those forces.

But in Bosnia and Croatia, he had no official link to Serb forces in what were separate countries, and proving unofficial links has taken much court time.

Finally, while there has been plenty of gruesome evidence of genocide in Bosnia, there has been none, at least in open court, showing that Milosevic ordered it.

The result of this ambitious charge-sheet has been a whale of a trial, with a 125-page charge sheet, one of the longest in history outside fraud trials, comprising 66 separate counts. Proving guilt in two or three of these would be enough to put Milosevic away for life.

Prosecutors insist that only with all 66 counts examined can they prove Milosevic was at the centre of all the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

Yet their decision has left the judges on the horns of a dilemma. If they simply carry on with the trial, stopping each time Milosevic falls ill, the case may go on indefinitely. If they impose a lawyer, they will risk being accused of denying him his legal right to defend himself. Almost certainly a court-imposed lawyer will get no co-operation from the former president.

The trial was supposed to announce the arrival of the war crimes process on the world stage. Instead, is has provoked questions about whether such mega-trials are practical, questions all the more pertinent with the start of Saddam Hussein’s trial.

• Chris Stephen is author of Judgment Day: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic, published this month by Atlantic Books

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=772912004

The Brief Future of NATO (?)

Wednesday July 07, 2004 (0106 PST)
Willard Payne

Op-ed
You can place your comments at the bottom. There are number of writings around the world about such topics and most of them have major flows in facts. I think that no matter how small the Newspaper/Emagazine is, that the truth should be spoken and published. This category is "Media Watch". When someone calls it "extremely ridiculous" and we call it "scream for freedom" there should be a civilized reaction. Microphone is yours. If you can not submit from this page, please go to the source page.
NB

When NATO agreed to recognize the extremely ridiculous division of Yugoslavia in 1991 it sealed their fate. The following year Iran established relations with Croatia. Since then Iran has stated Croatia is our entry into Central Europe. Iran does not mean a cultural entry but a Jihad invasion assisted by Balkan people. That is the reason Germany sent to Poland Leopard tanks and the US agreed to help Poland upgrade her air force. The upgrading began a little more than a year ago. About two months ago Iran's Defense Minister Adm. Ali Shamkani visited Warsaw no doubt to look over Poland's new equipment.

I had truly believed Europe had gotten tired of map making and that World War II would

be their last war fought in Europe. Their culture in fact so much of their militaristic identity resides in "Grand Design" visions. Grand Illusions which they assume will show the world their prominence and greatness. Sometimes the scheme works. The last time international stability broke down to this extent was 65 years ago. Of course the West believes, at least most of them, that things will never again to that extent but because of so much corruption on the highest level of Western and Russian society and Beijing's eagerness to arm the Islamic world, the powers that be have been investing in the breakdown all the time. I personally never believed I would ever see another European war in my own lifetime but I underestimated certain sinister aspects of European character. The Grand Deception, which you can see through if you know their history and therefore pattern. The diplomatic show, an elaborate subtle ritual designed to impress and at times insult with its procession of prominence, prestige, stature and of course power.

In 1990 CNN showed a meeting of NATO and Warsaw Pact military representatives meeting somewhere in Europe. They were saying they were going to merge their military commands. The military delegates would not say publicly how they were going to achieve this but I could tell the way they were looking they were up to something extremely suspicious. The following year Yugoslavia is divided and the division is recognized, initially the twisted boundary of Croatia which cut off Serbia's access to the sea. It was designed to cause conflict but I assumed this new Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), headquartered in Vienna, and Brussels NATO headquarters, thought they could settle it diplomatically but they underestimated the impact of weapon dealers. Weapon dealers are perhaps the most profitable and busiest business operations in the world especially since the invention of the machine gun late in the 19th century. However not all the weapons were coming from Europe. During one of the winters in the first half of the 1990's when there was a pause in the fighting due to the weather, an article mentioned Serbia having by far the best weapon contacts including receiving weapons from Libya. I first assumed some Libyans simply wanted to cash in on the conflict but I eventually realized the Islamic world also knew the West put itself completely out of position by starting another front. As I believe I mentioned in an earlier article Khomeini's beliefs spreading over North Africa so of course you will have action in the Mediterranean, with the Balkans now fighting the West has simply started another front. Persia and the Arab world can use events just as well as anyone and.......for the whole article go to source

Source: http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=69965

What do you think about the story?

Richard May, judge in Milosevic trial, dies at 65
Posted on Mon, Jul. 05, 2004
By Marlise Simons

NEW YORK TIMES

PARIS - Sir Richard May, a British judge who presided over the first two years of the war crimes trial of the former Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, before falling ill early this year, died Thursday at his home in Oxford, England. He was 65.

He suffered from a brain tumor, friends of the family said.

Sir Richard, a low-key barrister who received a knighthood a week before his death, joined the United Nations tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in 1997 and served on the bench in numerous cases. But he became best known as the judge in command of the complex Milosevic war crimes trial, the first of its kind for a modern head of state.

High on the bench, in his crimson robe, peering over his glasses, he often had to engage in a test of wills with a defiant Milosevic.

Sometimes prickly but mostly unperturbed, Sir Richard steered the proceedings that in the Milosevic case covered charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide relating to the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo of the 1990s. He regularly coaxed Milosevic, who has acted as his own lawyer, by prodding and prompting him on what questions to ask a witness.

Two years into the trial, as a turning point approached and the prosecution was about to rest its case, Sir Richard's grave illness forced him to step down.

"The Milosevic trial is a defining moment in international law and Richard May made it into a professional trial, not just a performance," said Antoine Garapon, a former French judge who directs the Institute for Advanced Judicial Studies in Paris. "And he did the near-impossible, he managed to engage the obstinate Milosevic and pull him in."

At a tribunal where the 16 judges come from many nations, different legal traditions and even from careers as diplomats and academics, Sir Richard stood out as an experienced and practical judge. Theodor Meron, the tribunal president, said that Sir Richard had made major contributions in developing rules of procedure and evidence in the new field of international human rights law that "significantly improved the work of the tribunal and will be of great value to all international criminal courts."

Richard George May, who was born in London in 1939 and graduated from Cambridge University, gained his experience first as a criminal prosecutor, then as a junior circuit judge in Oxford. He briefly entered politics, serving on the Westminster City Council, where he became an advocate for homeless children and low-income housing. In 1979, he ran and lost as a Labor Party candidate for Parliament against Margaret Thatcher. She, of course, went on to become prime minister and he went back to the law.

In The Hague, Sir Richard was widely liked and admired by his colleagues, who called him a fair, self-effacing, kind, accessible and a witty man who was a master of understatements. His wit was rarely visible in court, where he was careful of preserving decorum.

Although he was eager to preside over the Milosevic case as a member of the three-judge panel, Sir Richard did not cherish the limelight that came with it. He would politely greet an approaching reporter, but never engage in conversation, let alone in interviews.

Geoffrey Nice, the lead prosecutor in the Milosevic case , who said he had spent more than 500 days in court with Sir Richard in several trials, said he found the judge to be "a very generous and a very modest man, who never tried to grandstand or show off his great knowledge." Rather he said, Sir Richard used his knowledge to assist witnesses or defense counsel to move the proceedings along.

He avoided confrontations with aggressive lawyers, but would not tolerate rudeness. He told one brazen Serb lawyer that "courtesy is common to all continents." But he usually chose to overlook the stridency of Milosevic, ignoring for example the fact that he refused to stand up when addressing the court and insisted on calling him "Mr. May"

Sir Richard opposed strong pressure from the prosecution to impose a defense lawyer on Milosevic, which would have simplified and speeded up proceedings. He insisted that Milosevic's right to self-defense had to prevail. But he reined him in at times by cutting off his microphone, or, after one bout of scoffing at the court, by interrupting him with the words: "your views about the tribunal are completely irrelevant."

Over time, the two men seemed to reach a kind of truce, as Milosevic mellowed and Sir Richard kept urging him to avoid irrelevancies and be a better advocate of his case. But he also let Milsosevic air his grievances against NATO for the bombing of Yugoslavia at points when it was not relevant.

In the past year, it was Milosevic who missed many court days because of high blood pressure and heart disease. What was not known was that Sir Richard himself, who never missed a day in court, was already ill but seemed determined to hold out until a break in the trial as the prosecution ended its case. His last day in court, Jan. 28, he seemed distracted and tired, but kept prodding Milosevic as usual: "Just move on, let's not waste time," he said several times. Then as prosecutors and the accused squabbled, he said: "That all today. We have no further time." He picked up his binders and walked out for the last time.

Sir Richard is survived by his wife Radmila May and their three children.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/9083340.htm?1c