Croatian teenager Karolina Sprem played another strong match

Posted on Wed, Aug. 06, 2003
Sprem Advances to Quarters in Finland
Associated Press


ESPOO, Finland - Croatian teenager Karolina Sprem played another strong match Wednesday, beating German veteran Barbara Rittner 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals of the clay-court Nordea Nordic Light Open.

Sprem, seeded eighth, routed her first opponent, Cristina Torrens Valero of Spain, 6-0, 6-0. Sprem next plays Petra Mandula, the fourth-seeded Hungarian who defeated Tatiana Perebiynis of Ukraine 6-2, 6-2.

Russia's Vera Douchevina advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-2, 6-3 upset of third-seeded Czech Denisa Chladkova, a finalist last year. Douchevina, 16, has been the world's top-ranked junior and made the junior final at the French Open.

She's looking to become the second Russian teenager to win the Nordic Light Open. Svetlana Kuznetsova won last year in the inaugural event at Espoo, outside Helsinki.

Also, second-seeded Anna Pistolesi of Israel, Myriam Casanova of Switzerland, Marta Marrero of Spain and Jelena Kostanic of Croatia made the second round.

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/sports/6472076.htm

Oral or/and Audio Visual History 

Usmena Predaja ili Audio Vizuelna Povijest

Future Encyclopedia Buduca Enciklopedija

Radio Station Lijepa Nasa as well as CROWN as well as any substantial information on Internet is a part of the future Encyclopedia. Today's Encyclopedia is an academic project, placed as an authority on the subjects that most of the people have no knowledge. Very important and very valuable and in many cases, like history interpretation, very inaccurate, but spoken as an authority.

CROWN will become a future Audio Visual Encyclopedia, like oral history. Not that that will be necessarily better of more accurate, but more democratic or more versatile, inclusive, then before. Internet is a begging of true democracy. What will it bring? Who knows, but at least we as a people have an opportunity and a privilege as well as obligation to our future generations, to write about ourselves as well as truth about Croatia.

Kako Radio Lijepa Nasa tako i CROWN  te svaka mreza podataka koja ima imalo sadrzaja, postaju dio buduce enciklopedije. Danasnja enciklopedija je akademska, postavljena kao autoritet o stvarima za koje vecina ljudi nema znanje. Vrlo vazan i vrijedan projekt, ali isto tako i vrlo opasan kad je rijec o interpretaciji povijesti na primjer. I to uvijek s pozicije autoriteta. To smo kao narod osjetili i jos uvijek osijecamo.

CROWN ce postati buduca Audio Vizuelna Encikolpedija, kao usmena povijest. Ne da je to nesto samo po sebi bolje ili precizinje, ali vise demokratski ili vise ukljucivo. Internet je pocetak prave demokracije. Sto ce donijeti? Tko zna, ali ako nista mi kao narod imamo priliku, privilegiju i duznost prema nasim buducim pokoljenjima da zabiljezimo sebe i istinu o Hrvatskoj.

Nenad Bach

Glavni Urednik, CROWN
Editor in Chief, CROWN
Letters@CroatianWorld.net

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US Library of Congress recognizes CROATIAN language

From:  nadan.petri@morh.hr
To:      CroWorldNet@aol.com
 

Just wanted to share great news with everybody, especially with all
Croatian physicians at home and in the world.
Thank you guys from CROWN for your support in this delicate matter.
I would say that we did it!
Many thanks and congratulations everybody!

CDR Nadan M. Petri, MD, PhD
Naval Medical Institute of the Croatian Navy
21000 Split, p/o box 196 (HRM)
Republic of Croatia

Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 16:00:56 -0400
From: "James Marcetich" MarcetiJ@mail.nlm.nih.gov
To: nadan.petri@morh.hr


Dear Dr. Petri,

Wanted you to know that we have checked with the US Library of Congress to see if they have updated their language designations...and they have. Croatian and Serbian are now considered to be separate languages.

We will be working to correspondingly update the language designations in MEDLINE/PubMed, but it is likely to take some weeks to accomplish. The work will be done as soon as practically possible.

Thank you again for your correspondence.

Sincerely yours,

James Marcetich
Head, Index Section
National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, Maryland 20894

james_marcetich@nlm.nih.gov
301-496-3262
301-402-2433 (FAX)

Op-ed

Dear Nadan,

Thanks to your persistence and a lead, battles like this, we win. Leverage that CROWN produces is something that we should've had long time ago, but better ever then never. The job is not done yet, but as I mentioned in my letter to the US Library of Congress: If they want to be backwards, that is their choice. What we are doing is inevitable and will be changed, regardless of what they say or think today or tomorrow. In a month, two, three, six or even 12, the world will recognize what we are fighting for. Name of the language is our right, not privilege. Longer they resist, longer they are part of the past and not the future that is more just and fair.

Thank you again,

Nenad

Vlado Franjevic sudjelovao na 2. izlozbi svjetske grafike (mini format) u Sofiji

Od 24.6-10.7.2003. mogla se razgledati grafika malog formata u nacionalnom domu kulture, u Lessedra - organizaciji (www.lessedra.com) u Sofiji, Bugarska. Na toj skupnoj izlozbi bili su izlozeni radovi od 155 autora iz 33 zemlje. Vlado Franjevic iz Triesena u Knezevini Lihtenstajn izlozio je svoje tri digitalne grafike na tekstilu – ‚iz ciklusa: tribute to Yogyakarta’. Franjevic je bio na otvaranju same izlozbe te proveo u Bugarskoj gotovo dva tjedna u kojima je izmedju ostalog posjetio vodecu graficku radionicu u Plovdivu, drugi po velicini grad u Bugarskoj, gdje su bile tiskane njegove tri grafike. Procitajte on-line izdanje (engleska verzija) o istoj priredbi:www.worldprintmakers.com/english/lessend.htm
Autor publikacije je dr. Arafat Al-Naim.

Pored Franjevica i mnogih bugarskih graficara otvaranju izlozbe je prisustvovao takodje i japanski graficar Masahiro Fukuda. On je bio proslogodisnji prvonagradnjeni u Sofiji kao sto je ove godine i prvonagradjeni na grafickom trienalu u Splitu, pa ga je poziv na prijem u Veleposlanstvo RH-e u Sofiji posebno veselilo. Na isti je prijem (a koji je uprilicen povodom dana drzavnosti) dosao dakako u drustvu svoje supruge, Franjevica te Georgija Koleva (Lessedra).

www.artnet.li/vlado
www.konture.com/gallery

C.A.M.E.O.
Croatian Arts Media & Entertainment Organization

Dear C.A.M.E.O. Members and Friends,

Looking forward to see you again next Wednesday (August 13th!) in the Casablanca Room,

Spread the Word!!!
Kick Back Cro-Style
Every 2nd Wednesday of the Month

Network With Other Croats,
Croatian-Americans & Friends in
The Art and Entertainment Industry!

The Cat and The Fiddle
Casablanca Room
6530 W. Sunset Blvd.
Between Cahuenga and Highland

Wednesday, August 13th
7:30 PM

And, as always, if you have any questions and/or suggestions,
please send us an email at Cameo1997@aol.com.

 

Wine of the Week   Grgreat Grgich   Nick Passmore At 80 years old, Mike Grgich has lost none of his enthusiasms--whether for charming leggy models 60 years his junior, or for making the superlative, age-worthy chardonnay he is famous for, he still approaches life with an infectious gusto. Now I don't know Mike well enough to comment on the former but I do know he is still making fabulous wine. A vast majority of white wine is meant to be drunk within a year or two of being produced. However, a very small percentage of the best chardonnay can go on improving for at least ten years, and coincidently, I recently got to taste two such wines within a few days of each other. It brought home to me not only just how great some chardonnay can be when it has a few years of bottle age on it, but how the best from California are equal to, or even surpass, fine Burgundy. When To Drink: Now Breathing/ Decanting: 30 minutes Grapes: 100% chardonnay Appellation: Napa Valley Region: California Country: U.S. Price: Approximately $75, if you can find it Availability: Extremely limited, probably auction only Web Site: Grgich Hills The first one I tried was this week's wine, Grgich Hills Chardonnay 1991, and the second, which will be the subject of next week's column, was from Chateau Montelena. These are two of the most storied names in California winemaking and curiously they are linked by history. In 1976, before he started his own winery, Mike Grgich was the winemaker at Montelena when its chardonnay won first prize at the famous Paris blind tasting that put California winemaking on the map. What I found most fascinating about the 1991 Grgich Hills Chardonnay was how it evolved the longer it was open. At first it was all tart green apples and bright citrus fruits--pleasant but nothing special, a one-dimensional wine. But just a few minutes later, it opened up, and hints of oak and vanilla emerged. Time went on, another glass was drunk, and the wine became increasingly interesting and complex. After half an hour it rounded out and softened; the bright fruit, so obvious at the beginning, was augmented by layers of other flavors: wood and spice, vanilla and honey, smoke and damp earth. Also, it now showed a finish that seemed to go on for ever. It really came into its own when the food arrived. This is absolutely not a cocktail wine, not an aperitif wine, but a wine that shows its subtle, nuanced complexity when paired with food. The 1991 is difficult to find and probably only available at auction. But Grgich is still making wonderful wine, so it will be a sound investment, for your palate, to buy a case or two of the current vintage (the 2000 sells for around $40 per bottle) and spend the next ten years anticipating the pleasures to come. Forbes Fact Although it sounds appropriately rustic, the origination of the name Grgich Hills is due more to happy coincidence than geography. The name of the winery is derived from, obviously, Mike Grgich's last name and that of his partner, Austin E. Hills, an heir to the Hills Bros. coffee company, now part of Sara Lee (nyse: SLE)

http://www.forbes.com/2003/08/06/cx_np_0806wow.html
 

Annual Croatian Day and Homecoming Picnic on Sunday, August 24, 2003

ST. JOSEPH CROATIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

For immediate release
Contact: Fr. Joseph Abramovic
314-771-0958

The St. Joseph Croatian Catholic Church will hold its annual Croatian
Day and Homecoming Picnic on Sunday, August 24, 2003,
from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., inside the two air-conditioned halls of
St. Joseph Croatian Church, 2112 South 12th Street. Dance
music (free admission) will begin at 12:00 p.m. and will be provided by
the St. Louis Croatian Junior Tamburitzans, the Croatian
Sons, the St. Louis Button Box Accordion Club, and the Larry Haller
Band. American and traditional Croatian food (roasted lamb,
goulash, chicken, cakes and pastries) will be served.

St. Joseph Croatian Church is the second oldest Croatian Church west of
the Mississippi (Kansas City, the oldest). St. Joseph’s
Church has existed since 1904 but Croatians first came to the St. Louis
area in the 1860s. Just a few of the many prominent
contributions Croatians have made to St. Louis include stonemasonry,
construction and other artistic work done on the old and
present St. Louis court buildings, the old and new St. Louis Cathedrals,
the St. Louis Zoo, the Botanical Gardens, the St. Louis
Gateway Arch grounds, the Adams Mark Hotel, and the statue of the
fireman holding the child near City Hall. There are
approximately 50,000 Croatians and Americans of Croatian descent living
in the bi-state area.

Judy Feldworth
feldwoj2@SLU.EDU
Department of Surgery
Saint Louis University

CROATIAN COMMUNITY OF ASTORIA REMEMBERED HISTORIC DAY

HRVATSKA SVETA MISA U ASTORIJI U ZNAK ZAHVALNOSTI HRVATSKIM BRANITELJIMA U DOMOVINSKOM RATU

U crkvi Most Precious Blood u newyorskoj cetvrti Astoriji u vecernjim satima slavljena je Sveta Misa zahvalnica koju je predvodio dragi gost iz domovine, profesor na Teologiji u Rijeci - Anton Peranic. Uz njega je na oltaru misio velecasni Robert Zubovic koji vodi Hrvatsku Katolicku Misiju u Astoriji.

Misa zahvalnica uoci dana koji se dogodio prije osam godina kada je u vojno-redarstvenoj akciji oslobodjen Knin i ostali okupirani dijelovi Hrvatske. Peti kolovoza 1995. godine ostati ce zapisan zlatnim slovima u hrvatskoj povijesti. Kako je u svojoj propovijedi Anton Peranic naglasio, nadnevak je to i drzavni praznik kojim se svi Hrvati trebaju ponositi i biti zahvalni hrvatskim braniteljima koje se momentalno razapinje na kriz, ali no mi koji znademo pravu istinu, nasom molitvom za sve koji su polozili zivote na olatar domovine i za sve koji jos uvijek trpe posljedice okrutne okupacije i rata, makar daleko u velikom gradu New Yorku zahvalni smo i mislimo na njih..

Dan pobjede i domovinske zahvalnosti u hrvatskom kraljevskom gradu Kninu

Povodom praznika, na kninskoj je tvrdavi podignuta velika hrvatska zastava, orkestar Ratne mornarice odrzao je na splitskoj rivi promenadni koncert, a osnovna skola u Lickom Osiku dobila je ime Franje Tudmana. Diljem svijeta sluzene su Svete Mise.

August 5, 1995 Historic Croatian Day to Remember and Cherish - Croatian Community of Astoria just did that.

Josip Remenar - SutrA magazine - New York

Property for Sale, Croatia, Island of Brac, Town of Milna

View from the balcony Pogled s balkona

The house Kuca

(English)

Family, two (2) storey house with a loft where third storey can be built. Single common entrance into the house. House is 9m x 10m with surrounding plot (front and back yard) 320m sq in total. Each floor is 90m sq. 1st floor has 3 bedrooms, kitchen + lounge, bathroom + toilet. 2nd floor has 3 bedrooms, kitchen + lounge, bathroom + two (2) toilets. Loft / attic can be used to built a third (3rd) floor. House is located 100m from the ADRIATIC CLUB INTERNATIONAL-MARINA, CENTER OF THE CITY and has a MAGNIFICANT VIEWS of the Adriatic Club International - Marina and entire Bay of Milna.

PRICE: EUR 160.000


(Croatian)

Obiteljska kuca na prodaji ima prizemlje + kat + potkrovlje. Treci (3) kat moze biti nadogradjen u potkrovlju. Svaki kat ima 90m sq, a okucnica je 320 m sq. Kuca im jedan zajednicki ulaz. Prizemlje ima 3 sobe, kuhinju i dnevni boravak, kupatilo sa W.C. Kat ima 3 sobe, kuhinju i dnevni boravak, kupatilo i x2 W.C. Kuca je udaljena 100m of ADRIATIC CLUB INTERNATIONAL - MARINE i blizu centra Milne. Predivan pogled sa kuce se pruza na ADRIATIC CLUB INTERNATIONAL - MARINU i citavu uvalu Milne.

CIJENA: EUR 160 000.

CONTACT ADDRESSES:
KONTAKT ADRESE: *All persons speak Croatian and English.

CROATIA: (Milna, Island of Brac) Ancica Skrmeta-Vicelic: Tel: +385 (21) 636-123, Mobitel:+385 091 508 1008 (Zagreb) Ivo Skrmeta: Tel: +385 (01) 231 51 50 Mobitel: +385 091 539 7207 E-mail: iskrmeta@yahoo.com

AUSTRALIA: (Perth, Western Australia) Petar (peter) Skrmeta: Tel: (+61 8) 9434-1520 Mobitel: (+61 8) 041 064 1520 E-mail: petars@modnet.com.au

Petar (Peter) Skrmeta