Croatia's Gordon Kozulj Wins silver in world swimming championships

Agence France-Presse
Barcelona, July 26

King of distance Grant Hackett remained on course for a third straight 1500m title at the world swimming championships here on Saturday when he led the way into the finals.

Hackett, winner of the 800m freestyle on Friday, will become just the second person ever to win three consecutive titles in the same event after being pipped as the first by Aussie teammate Ian Thorpe earlier in the competition.

Thorpe won his third straight 400m freestyle title last weekend.

Hackett timed 15:08.79 in the heats for the fastest time ahead of Britain's Graeme Smith, the runner-up last time, who timed 15:12.74.

The 23-year-old Hackett is Olympic, world, Pan Pacific, Commonwealth and seven-time Australian champion and world record holder over the 1500 metres freestyle at both long and short course.

He remains unbeaten in the event since 1997, producing one of the greatest all-time performances during the 2001 world championships in Japan to shatter Kieren Perkin's long-standing record in 14:34.56.

Earlier Britain's Alison Sheppard lead the way into the women's 50m freestyle semi-finals ahead of world record holder and defending champion Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands.

Sheppard timed 25.16 to de Bruijn's 25.26 with American Jenny Thompson third fastest in 25.27.

Britain also led the way in the 50m breaststroke with Zoe Baker timing 31.10, ahead of Australian Brooke Hanson in 31.24 followed by defending champion Luo Xuejuan of China in 31.29.

In the men's 50m backstroke heats, Croatia's Gordon Kozulj, winner of a silver medal in Friday's 200m backstroke, failed to make the semi-final cut.

Thomas Rupprath lead the way in a new championship record of 25.19 ahead of fellow German Steffen Driesen in 25.48 with defending champion Randall Bal of the United States third in 25.53. Kozulj was 31st fastest in 26.48.

The United States women's 4x100m medley relay team are bidding for a sweep of the relay titles after they led the way into the finals in 4:04.06 ahead of Germany in 4:04.58 and China in 4:04.95 with defending champions Australia fourth fastest in 4:05.31.


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Kozulj osvojio srebro

Hrvatska je u petak naveèer u la u probrano dru tvo medu samo 24 zemlje
koje su (zasad) osvojile medalju na Svjetskom prvenstvu u vodenim sportovima
u Barceloni. U tu elitnu skupinu uveo nas je sjajni Gordan Ko ulj svojim
blistavim uspjehom u utrci na 200 metara ledno. Nakon to je dan prije s
hrvatskim rekordom (1:57.94) kao treci u ao u finale, juèer se popeo stubu
vi e. Ponovno je plivao ispred rekorda i s rezultatom 1:57.47 zauzeo drugo
mjesto, odmah iza, èini se, nedosti nog Amerikanca Aarona Peirsola, koji je
s vremenom 1:55.92 osvojio drugo zlato na prvenstvu. Ko uljeva taktika
dijelom se i temeljila na praæenju Peirsola.
- Na 100 metara sam vidio da mi ne bje i puno i to me ohrabrilo. Ovo mi
je san snova. Meni je SP isto kao olimpijske igre, ovdje u Barceloni su
doista svi najbolji plivaèi svijeta ili barem oni koji su u ovom trenutku
spremni. Biti drugi u svijetu, sjajno je i ovo mi je najveæi uspjeh u
karijeri - kazao je Ko ulj.
Bio je blizu medalji i u Fukuoki i Sydneyju, ali neka kola se morala
proæi. Gordan nije odustajao, njegov nalet na svjetsko postolje ovaj put je
bio nezadr iv. Samo je nakon prvih 50 metara bio èetvrti, a nakon toga se
probio na drugo mjesto i tu ostao.

- Sad su se sve moje rtve isplatile. U Sydneyju sam nekako bio mlad i
neiskusan, malo me ponijela atmosfera i èekivanja. Sad sam iskusniji, znao
sam se prije utrke smiriti.
Nakon slu bene konferencije i dodatnog razgovora s hrvatskim novinarima
oti ao je na doping kontrolu. A danas ce, ako bude sreæe, nastupiti i na 50
metara.

FREE Entrance at US Open

You can watch Croatian tennis players Iva Majoli, Ivan Ljubicic, Ivo Karlovic, Mario Ancic, Jelena Kostanic, Silvija Talaja, Zeljko Karan, Mirjana Lucic, Lovro Zovko and others on Saturday and Sunday, August 23th and 24th, 2003 at the U.S. Open tennis grounds in Flushing, New York.

While 2003 US Open Tennis Championships officially starts on Monday August 25th - September 7th, 2003, all tennis players practice a couple of days earlier and the entrance to the tennis grounds is FREE of charge to the public on Aug. 23rd & 24th.

To purchase tennis tickets for official tournament seewww.usopen.org

Public transportation: take subway #7 from Manhattan, one-way charge $2.00, to Shea Stadium station. Plenty of parking is available around tennis courts.

This year, the United States Tennis Association donated $25,000 to remove the land mines in Croatia. The U.S. government matched their donation.


Katarina Tepesh
tepeshk@aol.com

Ivica Olic to play for Moscow football club CSKA


Pravda.RU:Russia:More in detail

16:30 2003-07-28

Moscow football club CSKA hopes to enhance attack buying Croatian Ivica Olic

The leader of the Russian football prime league, Moscow's club CSKA, has signed a contract, breaking Russian records, with Croatian forward Ivica Olic, Sergei Aksyonov, the club's press secretary, officially confirmed.

"The contract is effective for 4 years, and it is worth 5 mln euro, which CSKA's president Yevgeny Giner mentioned while speaking on the Sport telechannel," Aksyonov said.

The newcomer became the best striker of Croatia last year, scoring 21 goals in the country's championship, the press secretary said.

For the time being Aksyonov has no information whether the CSKA will manage to enlist Olic for the 2nd qualifying round of the prime league, upcoming on Wednesday, against Macedonian Vardar. "Everything will depend on whether proper documents and a transfer list from Croatia are prepared." As for the application papers it takes just a day or two to submit them," the press secretary elaborated.

Ivica Olic is 23 years old. He took part in the World Cup in Japan and Korea in 2002, scoring a goal in two games.


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Mara Kerum is a star at feeding stars

Lights! Camera! Food!
Chef-caterer Mara Kerum is a star at feeding movie crews. In her latest role,
she cooked for the cast and crew of 'Ladder 49.'

By Francine Halvorsen
Special To The Sun
Originally published July 9, 2003

For the last three months, some of the best food in this city was not served in
a restaurant but from the sides of catering trucks.

Grilled swordfish and mango salsa, fillet of beef with bearnaise sauce, pasta
primavera, Caesar salads, Key lime pie, fresh fruit tarts and chocolate
brownies were among the tempting dishes prepared for the stars, cast and crew
of Ladder 49, the action movie starring John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix,
which wrapped up shooting last week.

The chef behind these creations was Mara Kerum, 34, who has been feeding actors
and production crews on location for 15 years.

Kerum, a native of Croatia who attended culinary school at France's Le Cordon
Bleu, oversaw a team of five chefs feeding 200 to 300 people a day, five days a
week.

"I have the perfect job in the food business. I love what I do. I get to make
creative food for people who really appreciate it," said Kerum, who works for
Tony's Catering, a company her uncle, Tony Kerum, started in California 20
years ago.

Her credits include catering movies starring Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis and
Robert De Niro.

Cooking for movie stars isn't all glamour and glitz, however. Extremes of rain
and cold, heat and humidity, surprising delays and changes of location are
constants. But Kerum is never frazzled, always the quiet center in the middle
of the daily whirlwind.

Ten days before the movie about firefighters started filming in mid-March,
Kerum and her crew drove a caravan of trucks across the country from
Chatsworth, Calif., to Baltimore.

One truck was equipped for cooking, another was refrigerated and the third
transported and stored equipment, including the biggest and best portable
grills available. Wood-grilled fish, poultry and meat are the company's
specialties.

After arriving, Kerum lined up her purveyors and was happy to find that she
could get all the supplies she needed in Baltimore.

"It is a pleasure working here because I can accommodate everyone," she
said. "It makes it much easier when you have good resources."

Within a couple of weeks, she and her crew had learned everyone's name and food
preferences. On this set, there were no personal chefs, so while the stars may
have eaten in their trailers, they ate the same food as the rest of the cast
and crew.

"Hands down, she is the best in the business," said Ladder 49 publicist Peter
Silbermann. "The meals are always delicious and if you aren't in the mood for
one thing, there is always something else that's perfect -- an embarrassment of
riches."

Kerum was given a standing ovation by 200 people at the wrap party given at Red
Tapas last week. Her fans included director Jay Russell and Travolta who, she
said, is fond of her beef Wellington.

The caterers usually began work three hours before the actors were on the set.
That meant starting anywhere from 4 a.m. until noon, and often working 16-hour
days serving two meals.

When their day was done, they drove the trucks to the back lot of a large hotel
where a hired crew washed the dishes so everything was ready for the next day.

As daunting as Maryland summers may be, Kerum said her worst catering
experience was with the film Six Days, Seven Nights in Hawaii several years ago.

"We would load the trucks and start going down a single-lane road to the beach
where Harrison Ford and Anne Heche were working," she said. "If we met a truck
coming up, we had to back up and let them get to the top before we could go
down and feed the crew. That was rough. There are places that are physically
hard but I don't take obstacles seriously anymore."

Kerum said she isn't star-struck. "I treat them all the same, Clint Eastwood,
Bruce Willis, Robert De Niro. ... " Her voice dropped; clearly, she didn't want
to be name-dropping.

So what does John Travolta like to eat? She smiled, "John, Mr. Travolta, will
eat a little bit of everything. Beef Wellington, crab cakes with remoulade,
chicken cordon bleu. I have cooked for him before. He is very good-natured. He
doesn't like garlic and neither do I, so I don't use it." Phoenix is a vegan
who liked the steamed vegetables, salads and pasta dishes, she said.

Daily breakfast was early, fresh and eye-opening. She served coffee and tea,
Danish, bagels, muffins, toast, cereal, various spreads, eggs and meat, cheese,
fruit and yogurt. The main meal was always served five hours after breakfast,
whatever the hour.

One day, the steam table was set up with ravioli and pesto, steamed vegetables,
stewed tomatoes, roasted potatoes and rice, shrimp and vegetable kebabs and
roast beef.

Hiro Fan, a Japanese-Vietnamese chef with 12 years of experience, served sushi
and sashimi on iced trays. Yellowtail, tuna, salmon, eel, crab, shrimp, egg and
avocado and all sorts of authentic goodies were served in traditional forms,
rolled in seaweed and rice and served with pickled ginger and wasabi mustard.

Adjacent to this food station was an enormous cold buffet table with a chilled
assortment of Mediterranean pasta salad, Greek salad, fresh tossed green salad,
jellied fruit salad and plates of fresh tomatoes, cheeses and olives.

For dessert there were chocolate-dipped strawberries, coconut flan, pecan pie
and fresh fruit salad -- all made from scratch.

On another day, it was 95 degrees out and very humid. Two wood-burning grills
were being stoked in front of the trucks.

Kerum was making lamb and vegetable kebabs and grilling polenta squares, which
she served with a thick portobello-mushroom sauce. Another chef was grilling
halibut fillets, dressed with a sweet and spicy pepper jelly.

The crowds lined up and took their trays inside the set where they sat eating
at large round tables. Soon they would move on to their next project, some
together, most individually, but at the moment, the camaraderie was palpable.

Now that the filming has ended, Karem and the culinary crew are taking a few
weeks off and then they will drive the truck caravan to Tampa Bay, Fla., where
they will prepare meals for the movie The Punisher, starring Travolta and
Baltimore native Thomas Jane.

Perhaps if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ever adds catering
to its list of award categories, an Oscar should go to Tony's Catering, with a
special recognition to Mara Kerum, star chef.

She surely lent a creative hand when it came to the making of so many major
motion pictures.

Copyright Š 2003, The Baltimore Sun

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We absolutely loved the hospitality of theCroatians

Last year I had posted to the Croatian World Network asking for helpful travel trips and options on places to visit for my husband and I as we planned our first trip to Croatia. The response from the readers was wonderful, and it was such a treat to read all of your letters! Now that we are back from our trip, I wanted to thank everyone who responded. Your assistance was invaluable!! Simply, we had the most wonderful vacation ever and we so appreciate all your recommendations! We thought the Island of Hvar was just beautiful. On Hvar, we stayed at Villa Tamara in Zavala (which has the most beautiful view of the ocean and the most gorgeous beach) and ate at Villa Stella Mara (the best food on the Island!). Jelsa was our favorite place to just “hang out” as we met many scuba divers there from all over Europe. The “Dive Center Jelsa” is an A+ place to go for a scuba diving excursion and we had a fantastic time diving close to Bol. I will never forget how I felt as we were walking through the gates of Dubrovnik for the first time. We spent just hours walking around Dubrovnik, looking at it’s museums, shops and cafés. It seemed like there was always something new to see. We absolutely loved the hospitality of the Croatians – a shop in Dubrovnik even let us pay for a crystal decanter in three different currencies as we were running low on Kuna (this would just be unthinkable in the states!). The highlight of our trip had to be attending the opening night of the first ever Dubrovnik Film Festival “Callas Forever” and the after party celebration (great food and wine). Thank you to again everyone!

Nancy and Patrick De Waard
Los Angeles, California

patandnan@prodigy.net            

Marko Ivancevic Wins W.S. Moore Young Investigator Award

ISMRM 2003 - Toronto, Canada, 10-16 July 2003
 

ISMRM 2003 winds down
Newsflash 16/7/03, by Michael Steckner
The booths are closed, posters are rapidly vanishing,
the crowds are thinning out, suits are disappearing,
brains are overloaded and the conference
is winding down on its final half day.
While a successful conference, I would estimate
that one poster in 10-20 was missing and one
speaker in 10-20 was not present. (Most unfortunately,
very few people attending their posters during
the appointed time.) But on the plus side, lots of
people visited our booth and the message was
“you have the best image quality”.
For anyone who saw the unbelievably bad images
shown from the experimental 32 channel GE system
at Beth Israel during the GE lunchtime symposium,
that image quality statement was especially
easy to understand. (Huge ripples down the side of
the coronal images, subcutaneous bright body fat
on the axial slices with black lines cutting through,
significant signal intensity variations within the bladder
from through the axial slices, and reports of an
aliased kidney where there ain’t supposed to be
kidney. While the equipment was installed just days
before ISMRM, I would not have expected such
artifacts just because there are more channels.)
As well, we at Philips should celebrate the awarding
of the W.S. Moore Young Investigator Award for
best Scientific Paper to Marko Ivancevic at the
Geneva University Hospital for his work on
“Correction of the Inflow Effect on Fast GRE MR
Sequence for Perfusion Imaging” and co-authored
by our own David Foxall.
But on to Wednesday's events. I attended the
emerging body applications presentations, for
which both moderators were absent... Our Dr.
Takehara gave an interesting presentation on his
small/large research demonstrating bowel motility
analysis (similar to his Antwerp Radiology Network
Meeting presentation) followed by Dr. Lauenstein
(Siemens equipment) who filled in for Dr. Debatin
and gave an interesting presentation on his virtual
colonography work.
He discussed the merits and challenges of bright vs
dark lumen colonography techniques and how his
emerging work on the application of truefisp, which
reduces motion artifacts and eliminates the need
for contrast agents, results in a cheaper and better
examinations.

Dr. Lauenstein also showed the results of his
patient surveys to determine what phases of the
colonography process were least tolerated. As
would be expected, it’s the preparation process that
causes the most problems. Once the actually
colonoscopy or colonography examination starts,
patient acceptance is reasonable and at comparable levels.
Hence, the continued search by Dr. Lauenstein and
other presenters at the conference for meal preparation
methods that ease the preparation phase for
the patient. Unfortunately, our Dr. Kuhl was not able
to give her Breast presentation. Too bad they did
not re-schedule her earlier in the week while she
was still at the conference.
The final plenary session, devoted to the tumour
microenvironment, was up to the high standards of
the earlier plenary sessions.
Dr. Dewhirst gave a presentation on tumour pathophysiology
mechanism, concentrating on the role of
hypoxia. Hypoxia makes the tumour more resistant
to treatment, is an indicator of outcome, and can
even play a role in gene modification which in turn
modifies tumour behaviour. Part of the scientific
challenge arises from the fact that hypoxia levels in
a tumour can very rapidly. Now if only we could figure
out ways to image PO2.
Dr. Giles followed by giving a presentation on his
MRI, MRS studies of tumour pathophysiology, concentrating
on the role of glucose metabolism and
thus tying in why PET studies are important and
how glucose studies are enjoying a renaissance as
a result of booming PET/CT sales.
Dr. Giles also spoke briefly about how flourine
imaging can also be used to image oxygenation
levels directly, thus addressing the wish of the first
presentation. He also spoke about the challenges
of perfusion measurements in tumours and how
regional variations within a single tumour can be
significant. He also discussed the role of pH within
the tumour environment and how low pH stimulates
tumour growth and how alkalization of tumours can
cause shrinkage.
The plenary session was completed with a presentation
by Dr. Gallez on EPR studies of tumour oxygenation,
and how it is possible to image oxygen
level through changes in T2, thus also tying into the
wishes of the first speaker.
Compliments to the ISMRM committees for overcoming
the significant obstacles and hosting an
excellent conference.
 

The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) a non-profit professional
association devoted to furthering the development and application of magnetic resonance techniques in
medicine and biology. The Society holds annual scientific meetings and sponsors other major educational
and scientific workshops.

Marko Ivancevic

imarko@freesurf.ch
 

Foundation winners tell of their travels to a Croatia too.
Friday, 25 July 2003

SHERRYN Phelan won the 2003 Bega Valley Rural Youth Travel Foundation last Saturday night at the Bega RSL Club, but while the judges were making their decision, the 2000 winner, Michael Rood, spoke of some of the places he visited and the things he did with his around the world air ticket.

Michael just arrived back in Australia a few days ago.

He left Australia on July 11, 2002, and Vancouver was his first stop then on to Toronto where he had lived a while back so there he helped his friends with a Holstein-Friesian sale.

Michael then went to Prince Edward Island, Halifax and Quebec, before crossing into the United States travelling south to Littleton as a visit to Bega's sister city is a requisite for the Foundation winner.

There he was hospitably entertained.

Michael then flew to London, where he worked for a while, then on to the continent and back to Ireland, where he hitchhiked.

A five week African safari in Kenya was the next part of Michael's around the world.

He bungyjumped at Victoria Falls, then wnet on to Johannesburg and Capetown before coming back to the Valley,

He said the best thing about his trip was the people he met.

Felicity Northcott won the $500 second award at the 2000 conpetition and an following email from her was read by Sharon Spence.

"IT seems both a very long time and also a not so long time since I was standing here in person at the 2000 Travel Foundation Competition.

"I was very honoured to receive the award at that time and it was greatly appreciated in the planning and initial stages of my journey abroad!

"As you are aware I am still on that same journey.

"I left Australia in October 2001 with only the first month planned.

"In that month I visited the USA, spending time with my host family from my Lions Exchange in 1992!

"It was wonderful to see them again after nearly ten years!

"In New York I found myself in the wake of September 11, an experience which was quite emotional and also strange to be part of.

"It is truly an overwhelming city.

"The rest of my time in this part of the world encompassed Boston, and then Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec City and Montreal in Canada.

"Quebec City was a definite favourite.

"I arrived in London at the end of October just as the winter was beginning to take over the city!

"Two Northern Hemisphere winters later I am somehow still here, but most certainly looking forward to some Australian summer heat.

"Teaching in London was a special experience!

"After several weeks supply teaching I took a placement in one school on the outskirts of London.

"It was very challenging, and highly rewarding at times, but after four months I decided to resign and try my hand at a few other things!

"Since then I have been freelancing for theatre companies as a stage manager and front-of-house manager, and also worked for the BBC in a temporary capacity.

"My most interesting position was stage managing a play that toured to schools around London and the UK for two months earlier this year.

"The early mornings weren't very far removed from milking, except it meant dealing with actors sometimes 24 hours a day!

"I also certainly got a good taste of heavy-vehicle driving over here, quite hectic at times.

"Aside from the interesting work I've come across, I've squashed in some side-trips to the continent!

"My favourite was four weeks in Eastern Europe last October-November.

"The beauty of Croatia and Slovenia, the fairytale-like Prague and Czech Republic, the strangeness of Slovakia and the war-torn but forward looking Sarajevo and Bosnia, were all special, and fantastic people and places to have had the privilege to experience.

"Being dressed as a "good little Muslim" by our eccentric hostess in Sarajevo was definitely an amusing highlight and something not quickly forgotten.

"And in keeping with the strength of Rural Youth friendships across the world, I would like to mention that I have spent time with Sandra and Paul Ubly and their family in Cornwall - Sandra was a UK Exchangee we hosted in 1990.

"It has been wonderful to be in contact with them over here after many years of letter writing!

"The past two years have been an incredible time for me, I know I have grown and perhaps changed as a person and I look forward to bringing all that I have learned and experienced home with me to keep building on.

"I've been so lucky to meet so many amazing people and to see and experience so many things.

"Thank you to the Travel Foundation for helping to make that possible, I look forward to seeing you all when I return later in the year!"

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"Terms of engagement"( Toronto Sun, July 27, 2003)
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:25:45 +0200
 
 Toronto Sun
 Dear Editor
 
 I'd like to congratulate Mr. Eric Margolis for his important, albeit disturbing piece, on the use and abuse of words by the American media and the American political establishment (TS, July 27, 2003).
 
 It is a deadly mistake to assume that liberal democracies are exempt of the totalitarian "meta-language, " and that only fascism and communism are prone to semantic acrobatics in order to fool the masses.
 
 Having lived long time in the communist East and in the capitalist West, and being fluent in several languages, I discovered early that the totalitarian vocabulary- (the French call it more aptly la "langue de bois") - is omnipresent even in the so-called liberal democracies - albeit under a different veneer.
 
 One of the reasons liberal democracies can wage their foreign wars with impunity is due to their ability to cover them up with romantic, sentimental, and heart- disarming words such as "human rights" "tolerance" "freedom," "war against terror ," etc..
 
 Clearly, the West does not have to resort to Gulags and prison camps to punish its critical individuals or dissidents. Suffices to install the "dictatorship of well being," with its cortege of free drugs, permissiveness, and kangaroo courts in order to ensure its destructive longevity.
 
 Had Stalin been a bit smarter, he would have planted in his native Georgia huge marihuana fields. Nobody would know today abut planetary communist killing fields. He and his red acolytes would be viewed by the Canadian youth and described in Western history manuals as "cool" guys.
 
 
 Sincerely,
 Tomislav (Tom) Sunic, Ph.D
 email: tomislav.sunic@zg.hinet.hr  

Dr. Tomislav (Tom) Sunic
 Brace Korenika 4, Hrasce, 10020 Novi Zagreb, Croatia,
 http://www.watermark.hu/doctorsunic/ 
 

Mladi Hrvati i dalje uspjesno djeluju po svijetu:

Dr. Marko Ivancevic, mladi hrvatski znanstvenik iz
Radiology Department, Geneva Unviersity Hospital (SWITZERLAND)
je prije nekoliko dana dobio Young Investigators' Award za
prezentaciju svog znanstvenog istrazivanja:
"Correction of the inflow effect on fast GRE MR sequence for perfusion imaging"
na skupu International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
(ISMRM) u Torontu.


Young Croatianscientist delivers success worldwide:

Dr. Marko Ivancevic, young Croatian medical physicist from
Radiology Department, Geneva Unviersity Hospital (SWITZERLAND)
has received the Young Investigators' Award for the presentation of
his research"Correction of the inflow effect on fast GRE MR sequence for perfusion imaging"
at the ISRAM meeting in Toronto.

------------

Dr. Marko Ivancevic
Marko Ivancevic <ivancevic@dim.hcuge.ch>
Radiology Dpt, Geneva Unviersity Hospital
1211 Geneva 14, SWITZERLAND
imarko@freesurf.ch