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SRECICA

Bila jednom jedna Srecica. Ispala je ona iz torbe Velike Srece koja je ila svojim putem prema visokim vrhuncima. Kako Srecica ionako nikad nije htjela odrasti i biti velika, radosno mugnu u drugom smjeru! Srecica je umskim puteljkom pocupkivala poput loptice-skocice i srce joj je igralo od radosti! Nakrivila je svoj becarski eiric, zataknula cvjetic iza uha i poce biglisati poput slavujica.
Srecica nije voljela biti sama i odmah si stade traiti drutvo.
I stvarno, ubrzo zacuje neciji poziv upomoc. Hitro potrca prema mjestu odakle je dopirao vapaj i ugleda vjevericu koja se s mukom pokuavala izvuci iz velike bacve za vodu u koju je nehotice bila upala. Srecica joj prui svoju ruku i vjeverica sretno skoci na prvu granu.
Vjeverica i Srecica se zagrlie i od srece pocee ludovati po borovim grancicama. to sve nisu radile! I igrale se lovice, i izvodile cirkuske akrobacije, i u ali se gadale ceerima! No, u jednom trenutku vjeverica se naglo smiri i rece:
-Srecice, dosta je bilo igre! Stvarno sam danas imala srece to si mi se ti nala na putu i spasila ivot. Ali, ja sad moram u potragu za ljenjacima i nemam vie vremena za dangubu!
To rece i bez pozdrava i rijeci zahvalnosti izgubi se u gustiu bora.
Srecica slegne ramenima i kako po prirodi nije bila tugaljiva i uvredljiva- krene veselo dalje traiti novo drutvo.
I ba joj ususret dolazio lugar! Ide on svojom umom i pjevui. Korak mu lagan, a vedre oci gledaju u razgranate kronje.
-Evo meni pravog drutva-pomisli Srecica. -S ovako sretnim covjekom provest cu citav svoj ivot!
I on se obraduje Srecici, uhvate se za ruke i zajedno zazvidae neku veselu pjesmicu. Obilazili su zeleno carstvo, pozdravljali koute i njihovu lanad, udisali mirise vrganja i lisicarki. Njihovoj radosti nije bilo kraja.
Svecanu tiinu ume odjednom prekinu otri udarci sjekire. Lugar se smrkne i potrci prema mjestu s kojeg je dolazio taj nemili zvuk. Zaboravio on i na Srecicu koja ga je svojim sitnim koracicima slijedila i bezuspjeno pokuavala dostici. Kako se Srecici svidio taj krupni brko, ona je ipak hrlila za njim. No kad je i ona dola blizu mjesta gdje je lealo srueno stablo, imala je to i vidjeti i cuti. Lugar je vikao na umokradicu, pa onda ovaj opet na njega, umalo se i rukama ne pograbie koliko su se ljutili i svadali.
Srecicino sitno srce drhturilo je od straha. Pokua ona svojim tananim glasicem dozvati i smiriti ovu dvojicu, ali oni je ne cue.
Okrene im Srecica svoja leda i vrati se ponovno na puteljak kojim je vec bila ila. Sad je i ona pomalo bila tuna.
- Lako je Velikoj Sreci! Za njom se svi otimaju i svi ele njeno drutvo. Moda se nisam trebala odmetnuti od nje. Tko zna hocu li ikada naci stvorenje koje ce biti zadovoljno da mu tek jedna mala Srecica bude pratilja?
Pebirala je Srecica svoje teke misli i nije ni primijetila kad ju je umski puteljak doveo u neko nepoznato selo. Mracak se vec polako sputao, a Srecica nije imala konacita!
Tako je Srecica pokucala i na moja vrata. Ja sam ba bila nekako usamljena i u tugaljivom raspoloenju pa sam se ozarila od srece kad sam upravo Srecicu vidjela na kucnom pragu. I Srecica je bila radosna to sam je tako rado primila pod svoj krov.
I tako se Srecica i ja zagrlismo i pocnemo smiljati to cemo sve zajedno raditi.

Daniella Performing @

The New York International Independent Film &Video Festival

Hi everyone,
I hope this finds you in peace and love...
I would like to invite you to several performances in next two weeks. I am a part of a NY International Music Festival and you can find more about it on the link below.
The New York International Independent Film &Video Festival is the largest festival of it's kind in the world today. Founded in 1993 by Stuart Alson, this festival is recognized by the film and entertainment industry as one of the leading film and music events on the independent festival circuit.

My performances are as follows:
~Thursday, Nov 6, 10:30pm, Madison Square Garden, Seventh Ave (bet 31 & 33rd St) ~
212-465-6741 Tickets $20
~Sunday, Nov 9, 1:30pm, Downtime, 251 W 30th St (bet 7 & 8th St)~
212-695-2747 Tickets $10
~Monday, Nov 10, 4:00pm, Madison Square Garden, Seventh Ave (bet 31 & 33rd St) ~
212-465-6741 Tickets $10
~Tuesday, Nov 11, 4:00pm, Pyramid Club, 101 Avenue A (@6th St.)~
212-228-4888 Tickets $10
And there's one more performance next week which is not part of the festival:
Thursday, Nov 13, 9pm, Greenwich Village Bistro, 13 Carmine St (bet Bleecker & 6th Ave)
There's no cover.
Check out my website http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/DANIELLA/ for more info, and contact me if you would like to find out more about my projects.

Peace,
Daniella

Daniella
http://lella.iuma.com
tel: 917 539 1347

StudiaCroatica - New material on our Web site

BRATOVTINA SVETOG JERONIMA ZA POMOC HRVATSKIM IZBJEGLICAMA, by Andrija Lukinovic, Zagreb, in Papinski Hrvatski Zavod Svetog Jeronima (ed.) Jure Bogdan, Rome, 2001. (in Croatian). Is the first part of the chapter The Fraternity Saint Jerome for the Help of Croatian Refugees. This is an important documental source on Croatian emigration after WW II, many of which went later to Argentina. It is a subject which surfaces every so often in the media, usually with negative overtones. (We are working on a Spanish translation).
http://www.studiacroatica.com/jero/luki1.htm

Croatian surnames in Argentina, starting with letters A and B (700 last names) http://www.studiacroatica.com/ape/ape.htm

Ivo Gulis - Hommag - by José Spoja Cortijo, Perú (in Spanish)
http://www.studiacroatica.com/letras/ivoguris.htm

Virtual Museum

Studia Croatica wishes to receive photographic material (e.g. photos of the immigrant grandparents) and text (in any language) related to the history of Croatian emigration, to be published on our Web site. Whenever possible please send the material in digital form.

Recent material on our Web site

The Croatian Fraternal Union within the Fraternal System of the United States of America and Canada, by Ivan Cizmichttp://www.studiacroatica.com/jcs/34/cfu.htm

Amanecer en Vis, poema de Elsa María Salas Burich
http://www.studiacroatica.com/letras/amanecer.htm

¡Hombre al Agua!, a short story, in Spanish, by Lorenzo Caglevic Bakovic about Croatian emigration to southern Chile, in the last years of the 19th century, based on a real history.
http://www.studiacroatica.com/letras/hombrealagua.htm

Dalmacija - a poem by Gabriela Vucetic (Rosario, Argentina)(in Spanish)
http://www.studiacroatica.com/letras/Dalmacija.htm

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Tourism touted as GDP generator in Croatia

ZAGREB - The Croatian government predicted on Thursday that the tourism industry, hard hit by the 1990s wars on its own and neighbouring territories, would represent about 29% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2010. The government, which adopted a strategy for development of the tourism industry by 2010, hopes that tourism receipts would reach 7.5 billion dollars (6.6 billion euros).

Tourism receipts currently generate 22% of Croatia's GDP.

Croatia is one of the rare countries to have seen an increase in the number of tourists and overnight stays, during the 2003 summer tourism season, one the best since 1990 for the country despite a global economic downturn.

A total of 8.9 million tourists visited Croatia during the first nine months, while overnight stays reached 45 million. For 2004 the government plans the growth of the number of tourists between three and five percent. Most tourists to Croatia are from Germany, Italy, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Austria.

Croatia has seen a gradual recovery in its tourism industry since 1998.

AFP

Source:http://www.bday.co.za/bday/content/direct/1,3523,1477377-6078-0,00.html

European giants Split Croatia

Wed 12 Nov 2003
ULEB Cup - basketball's equivalent of football's UEFA Cup
12:19am (UK)
Overtime Defeat for Bears

ULEB Cup - basketball's equivalent of football's UEFA Cup

The Brighton Bears started their ULEB Cup campaign in battling fashion before finally slipping to a narrow 87-86 overtime defeat against European giants Split Croatia.

The Bears fought back from a 38-30 interval deficit with bursts of 11-2 in the third quarter and 12-3 in the fourth putting them in the box seat at 72-63 with just under three minutes remaining.

Their offence, however, dried up at the crucial stage as the more experienced visitors hit crucial baskets culminating in a Drago Pasalic three-pointer which tied the game at 78-78 with 28 seconds remaining.

Bears’ Randy Duck missed a late three-pointer which would have won the game in regulation and in a tense overtime period it was to be Duck again who missed the chance to seal the win.

Source: http://www.sport.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2166208

Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II gives his blessing flanked by Archbishop of Zagreb, Cardinal Josip Bozanic of Croatia, during an audience in the Paul VI Hall with Croatian pilgrims, at the Vatican (news - web sites), Saturday, Nov. 8, 2003. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri)

Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II talks with Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan during their meeting at the Vatican (news - web sites), Saturday, Nov. 8, 2003. The pontiff went to Croatia in June 5-9, making it his 100th foreign trip. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano)

ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome

Date: 2003-11-10

Pope Appeals to Croatia to Respect Life and Family

Welcomes Thousands of Pilgrims at the Vatican

VATICAN CITY, NOV. 10, 2003 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II welcomed some 7,000 Croatians at the Vatican and exhorted Croatian society to respect the sacred value of life and the family.

Shortly before the audience in Paul VI Hall on Saturday, the Pope had a brief meeting with Ivica Racan, president of Croatia. With their pilgrimage to Rome, Croatian Catholics thanked the Holy Father for last June's visit to their country.

Racan gave the Holy Father an album of photographs of his trip and a book on the history of Croatia. The country is holding legislative elections Nov. 23.

In the presence of newly created Cardinal Josip Bozanic, archbishop of Zagreb and president of the Croatian episcopate, John Paul II thanked the pilgrims for "the very warm welcome" he had always received in their homeland.

The Pope said that during his 2002 visit, when he beatified Sister Mary of Jesus Crucified Petkovic, he was able to confirm Croatian Catholics in the faith "to which you gave beautiful witness in the midst of numerous adversities and sufferings."

"In this way, I wished to sustain your hope, often put to a harsh test, and to encourage your charity by stimulating you to persevere in your adherence to the Church in the new climate of freedom and democracy re-established 13 years ago," he said.

Appealing to Croatia's capacity "to address adequately the challenges of the present moment," John Paul II expressed his desire that its citizens construct "a society founded on religious and human values which throughout the centuries have inspired the generations that preceded you."

He also exhorted the pilgrims to construct a society that "respects the sacred character of life and God's great plan for the family, and to promote "the spirit of communion and co-responsibility."

"The commitment to man and to his genuine good draws strength also from the Gospel and, therefore, is part of the mission of the Church," the Pope added. "Nothing of what is genuinely human should be foreign to the disciples of Christ."

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Croatians in Alaska

Golden days in Flat
MARY MISCOVICH

Interview by SHARON BUSHELL
(Published: November 9, 2003)

I was born in Yugoslavia, now known as Croatia, in a small town about four miles from the Adriatic Sea. It had a population of about 200 and was truly a one-horse village. If you wanted to call your neighbor, you yelled from your house, "Hey!"

My childhood was good but also sad, as I was a young child when war began in the late '30s. My mother died during childbirth, and there were six of us left. It was particularly difficult for several years when the war was going on. Though the war ended in 1945, it was pretty tough times in Yugoslavia until 1950; that's when things started to get better.

Before the war, people had everything. If you had money, you could go to town and buy whatever you needed. In '39, when the Germans took over Poland, then it became more and more difficult to find things in the stores. If you didn't have a farm or a garden, you went hungry. Lots of people starved, especially children.

My father was a very good provider. He was a farmer, and he also raised bees. The honey was sold to get rice and flour. We always had a cow for milk, and we also had some sheep, so it was fairly easy for us to survive. The people in the city who lost their jobs and had no connections for a place to live were the ones who suffered. There was nothing to buy even if you had lots of money. By then there was war all over Europe, including Yugoslavia.

For those of us who were young, living in villages, I think I would have to say, however, that people kept their spirits up. They found ways to be happy. We didn't have much of anything. I had one pair of shoes for school and one outfit to wear to church on Sunday. I never had a bike or any toys.

But we made our own toys and we had fun. We would get together at friends' homes in the evenings and sing. There was no radio or record player. If you wanted to dance, someone would pull out an accordion. You can't stop young people from having fun. Many times the dinner was not good, but when the music starts, who thinks about eating dinner? You dance and have fun even if you don't have a good pair of shoes.

When the Germans came to our village, they took over our school to use for a first-aid station. For two years we studied in private homes.

It was very scary when the German soldiers would come around to your home to check on you. We didn't speak any German, and they didn't speak any Yugoslav. They were suspicious that we were hiding partisans. Our dad would always tell us that we didn't have to worry because we weren't hiding anyone. They would check our home upstairs and downstairs, talking all the time, and we didn't know what they were saying.

We were lucky. They never bothered us like lots of other places, where they were killing people. I think one reason was because for maybe 175 or 200 miles, our area was all Catholic.

One Sunday we went to church to discover that the German soldiers had taken over part of it for their barracks. It was so shocking how they could just take anything they wanted.

They rode huge horses -- I had never seen such big horses -- and they were all black. We didn't have any roads, so they used the horses to go from village to village. There are many images from my childhood there are still scary to think of. Big German shepherd dogs -- that's a hard one for me.

All the young people from ages 16 to 20 did volunteer work on the roads and bridges for three months without pay. My sisters and brothers and I all worked on the rebuilding for three months each, although at separate times.

I was a teenager when my Uncle Pete visited us from Los Angeles. By then the war was over, and I began thinking of going to the United States to live with him. And that's what I did. In 1954 I came to America, where I had an aunt and two uncles living in Los Angeles.

In some ways it was difficult to adapt to living in such a huge city. But in the area where we all lived, most of the people were from Croatia. Everybody spoke Croatian, and they had their own church and market. Sometimes you could almost think you were back in the old country.

At first, when I wrote letters home to my family, it was very hard to tell them what it was like over here; I remember being astonished that there were so many cars. At that time in Yugoslavia, you would see maybe a truck here and a car there.

Through Uncle Pete, I met a very interesting and charming Alaskan man, John Miscovich. We dated for a couple of years and married in 1957.

My uncle and aunt had known John's father and mother many years earlier. I knew about John's family because his cousin back in the old country married my cousin. In the meantime my older sister married John's first cousin over there, so already we had family connections. His father had even come from the same little town that I came from.

My uncle and aunt were concerned about me going to Alaska, but I told them, "Even if John takes me up to the mountains where there is nothing, with him I can survive."

We flew up to Fairbanks and then on to Poorman. Maurey Smith, who worked for the Fairbanks newspaper, met us at the airport to take a picture. I think there was a lot of speculation about the four Miscovich brothers, when they were going to get married. They were all getting pretty old. John was the first to marry, then Andy, then George and Art.

My husband was and still is a miner. After we were married, we went to live in Poorman, which is 60 miles south of Ruby. For some reason I thought it was going to be a pretty good-sized little village. But there was no one there except a very nice lady who cooked, myself and eight men working for the Miscovich brothers -- John and George. But I was young and adventurous, and the five months I spent there was a very happy time in my life.

My first year there I raised flowers and picked berries with the cook and saw the biggest moose I've ever seen. I also saw my first black bear. For the Fourth of July, we went to Flat, which really was a town -- compared to Poorman -- to visit John's sister Ann and her family.

I spent two summers in Poorman. Then we moved to Flat in '59 and have been there every summer since. It's our home; all four of our children think of it as their first and most special home.

Our children were born in fairly quick succession. Three of them were born in Seattle at the Swedish Hospital, and the youngest was born in Orange, California. When we came up each spring, people would wonder how in the world we could take those babies up to a place like Flat, Alaska, where there was no doctor. But we had very healthy children, and they thrived in Alaska.

Every year we came up as a family to work in the mine and grow a big garden and enjoy the beauty and serenity of Alaska. Until recently, all our children came up each summer. Now everyone's lives are so busy.

John and I spend our time back and forth between California and Alaska. Each May, we're chomping at the bit to come back up to Alaska. I love late spring and summer up north, the beauty and seclusion.

For the last 46 years, Flat has been a ghost town; only John and I live there. Actually, we live two miles from Flat in our mining camp near the Discovery claim, where John was born in 1918 and raised.

We're busy every day. We take care of the garden and cut quite a bit of wood. I help John; we've been doing it all these years. We do lots of repair work around the camp and painting, and before you know it, autumn has come. We hope we can make Flat our home for many more years because John loves Alaska, especially this area. It's his home. And I feel that now it is my home too.

Sharon Bushell lives and writes in Homer. Her books, "We Alaskans" and "We Alaskans II," feature her stories about Alaska pioneers that have appeared in the Daily News. For more information, visit her Web site atwww.wealaskans.com.

http://www.adn.com/life/story/4359500p-4367571c.html

Milwaukee Bucks' Toni Kukoc, left of Croatia drives to the basket as Utah Jazz's Raja Bell, right trys to defend in the first half Saturday Nov. 15 , 2003 in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Darren Hauck)

Most Inspiring: Goran Ivanisevic d. Patrick Rafter, 2001 Wimbledon Final

The November/December 2003 issue of Tennis Magazine has a lead story concerning the "10 Greatest Matches of the Open Era." While not on the list of the top 10, the following made it in the Magazine as "Most Inspiring." John Kraljic

"Most Inspiring: Goran Ivanisevic d. Patrick Rafter, 2001 Wimbledon Final, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 2-6, 9-7

Cinderella would have had trouble beleiving that Ivanisevic, a perpetual Wimbledon also-ran, could win this title in his last year as a singles player there. When the smoke from his torunement record 212 aces cleared, Goran's fairy tale had come true."