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| EDO visits Croatia & Slovenia8 March 2002 http://www-uk.cricket.org/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/CURRENT/110076_ECC_08MAR2002.html The EDO travelled to Zagreb on 23/24 February to conduct Croatia's first coaching course. The course was pitched at introductory level and eight people attended over the weekend. The course ran smoothly and all the participants showed some reasonable knowledge and worked hard over the two-day period. The course itself was staged at the University in one of the many adequate sports halls. Croatia have been given their own ground on the same campus. The EDO inspected the area and recommendations were made and support granted in preparation for the start of the season and for the MCC Tour due to take place this summer. The EDO then travelled on to Slovenia to meet with Ljubljana CC's Alasdair Green. On the Monday morning a meeting was held with the local schools' programme manager to discuss exciting plans to introduce cricket into twelve local schools. This would be a tremendous breakthrough. The EDO also inspected the ground and pitch and, once again, support will be provided to improve the various facilities in preparation for the MCC tour. The trip was extremely worthwhile and it was extremely encouraging to see the good work that is taking place in this part of Europe. Distributed by www.CroatianWorld.net. This message is intended for Croatian Associations/Institutions and their Friends in Croatia and in the World. The opinions/articles expressed on this list do not reflect personal opinions of the moderator. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please delete or destroy all copies of this communication and please, let us know! |
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| http://www.tol.cz/look/BRR/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=7&NrArticle=3782 Croatia’s citizens as well as the government bask in Janica Kostelic’s triumph at Winter Olympics. by Lovorka Kozole ZAGREB, Croatia--Croatia has few top international athletes and even fewer Olympic medals. In particular, the country has had almost no success in winter sports. But all that changed dramatically with the feats of one 20-year-old woman from Croatia’s capital of Zagreb. Janica Kostelic--winner of four Olympic medals in the Salt Lake City Games and last year’s overall and slalom World Cup titles--is now taking Croatia and the sporting world by storm. Last year’s triumph had already elevated her to the status of a national sporting hero, but Kostelic always maintained that she had considered winning an Olympic medal the ultimate challenge. It’s possible that she got that particular affinity from her father, Ante, who is a former international handball player and a coach. He turned to skiing later in life and has been coaching Janica and her brother Ivica since their childhood. But even her father probably never expected that Janica would make her Salt Lake experience one for the record books. Kostelic won three gold and one silver medal--golds in the slalom, combined event, and giant slalom and a silver medal in super giant slalom. Her wins are all the more surprising in light of her March 2001 skiing accident. Kostelic was seriously injured when she tore four ligaments in her right knee in a world alpine skiing championships crash. The injuries kept her off the World Cup tour until late December. To compound matters, Kostelic required emergency treatment for back pain just before going to Salt Lake City. The condition forced Kostelic to withdraw from training in Austria to undergo physical therapy. Going off to Salt Lake City, she said: “I’ll be ready for anything. If I don’t win this time, I have another chance in four years in Turin.” But the strong-willed and rather modest woman made headlines in Salt Lake City anyway, becoming the “Croatian Sensation”--as the media often described her--making history as the first alpine skier to win four Olympic medals in a single Winter Olympic Games. "I'm happy, but records are made to be broken. Someone else will break my record soon," Kostelic said. The four medals put Kostelic in very elite company. The only other skiers ever to win three gold medals at a single Olympics are Austria's Toni Sailer, in 1956, and France's Jean-Claude Killy, in 1968. Kostelic’s win in the giant slalom race was particularly impressive. She was not considered a front-runner, ranking only 30th in giant slalom on the World Cup circuit. She had never finished higher than fourth in a World Cup giant slalom race. “She proved that mentally she's the strongest--she's incredible. She can really ski with the pressure on her," Swedish skier Anja Paerson said about Kostelic. Distributed by www.CroatianWorld.net. This message is intended for Croatian Associations/Institutions and their Friends in Croatia and in the World. The opinions/articles expressed on this list do not reflect personal opinions of the moderator. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please delete or destroy all copies of this communication and please, let us know! |
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| http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2002/2-1.html#2.%20Enron's%20Croat% 20Connection ------------- Enron's Busted Croatian Deal Feb. 5, 2002 By Dr. Tomislav Sunic ZAGREB, Feb. 5 - Further to our report about Enron's busted deal with Croatia's late president, Franjo Tudjman (see Item 2 of this TiM Bulletin), here is a piece by Dr. Tomislav (Thomas) Sunic, who contributed this comment to TiM from Zagreb, Croatia. Dr. Sunic holds a PhD in political science. He is a former US professor and author of several books. "The former Croatian government under the late president Franjo Tudjman was eager to cut the deal with the US energy giant Enron. The reason behind it was its eagerness to obtain favor of the Clinton's administration. Accordingly, Enron was supposed to build a huge power plant in tiny Croatia and supply the country with cheap energy. A Croat-American lady and self-proclaimed "lobbyist," Ms. Zdenka Gast, quite vocal in the Croat media during Tudjman's reign, played a role as a mediator between Enron and the Croatian government. Later on, with the arrival to power in January 2000 of the new neo-communist liberal government in Croatia, the deal was unilaterally scrapped. The new Croatian government allegedly viewed it as detrimental to Croatian economy. But this was, apparently just a minor move in a larger effort to distance itself from Tudjman's legacy - both the good and the bad one. Zdenka Gast, disappeared from the public view and one has not heard from her ever since. Today, there is a great deal of media silence in Croatia about the role of Croat politicians in the Enron scandal. One can speculate with good reason that other local movers and shakers in the former and current Croat government were involved, or better, yet may have received hefty kick-backs from the giant? At the time of the signing of the Enron deal, a prominent go-between-man was Mr. Goran Granic, who survived the government purges upon the arrival of the new leftist-liberal government in 2000. Granic even made it to the top as the Vice Prime Minister in the new government. As an old Balkan proverb goes, "one hand washes the other." It is worth noting that Goran Granic is a brother of the former Tudjman minister of foreign affairs, Mate Granic, a largely incompetent stuttering, greasy-palmed politician, displaying an extraordinary penchant for enriching himself, his extended family and his cronies. At the time of the signing of the Enron deal, William Montgomery was the US Ambassador to Croatia. After the unilateral scrapping by the deal in 2000 by the new Croat government, Montgomery did not hide his fumed anger. But since the subsequent surfacing of the Enron wheeling and dealing in the USA, Montgomery, now a US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, remains pretty tacit. For its unilateral breach of contract, the Croat government has had to pay fines to Enron, although nobody in Croatia knows how big was the penalty tab. One thing remains certain, though. Since January of this year, Croat citizens' electricity bills have doubled." Dr. Tomislav Sunic, Zagreb, Croatia Distributed by www.CroatianWorld.net. This message is intended for Croatian Associations/Institutions and their Friends in Croatia and in the World. The opinions/articles expressed on this list do not reflect personal opinions of the moderator. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please delete or destroy all copies of this communication and please, let us know! |
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| Sa stovanjem Dr Djuro Njavro http://www.njavro.org/ U zelji da ostanem sto vise u kontaktu s Vama, mojim sugradanima, nadam se da cete mi se javiti putem e-maila. Slobodno me kontaktirajte svojim upitima, prijedlozima, komentarima i kritikama. Rado cu s Vama razmjenjivati misljenja i ideje. ZASTUPNIK - VAS GLAS U HRVATSKOM SABORU e-mail: duro.njavro@njavro.com Mozete mi pisati i na moju postansku adresu: dr. Đuro Njavro Zastupnik u Hrvatskom saboru Markov trg 2 10000 ZAGREB ili me nazvati na broj telefona: 00385-1-45-69-222 Op-ed Dr. Djuro Njavro is Sabor representative and is on CROWN email list. Always availabel for discussion or suggestion. Although I do not know much of his work, I think this is something important to be able to communicate on this level. So, If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Check his website and let me know. And you Dr. Njavro, you are also welcome to ask us questions. best, Nenad Bach Distributed by www.CroatianWorld.net. This message is intended for Croatian Associations/Institutions and their Friends in Croatia and in the World. The opinions/articles expressed on this list do not reflect personal opinions of the moderator. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please delete or destroy all copies of this communication and please, let us know! |
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| letters@iwpr.netblock Date: February 12, 2002 Dear Editor I was quite appalled by Andrea Feldman's article "Croatia indifferent to Milosevic Trial". It is hardly surprising that the ICTY is not overly reported in Croatia. After all, the ICTY has spectacularly failed to convict a single person for the mass slaughter of over 15, 000 Croats by Serbs during the 1991-5 Serbian invasion and one third occupation of Croatia . The ICTY seems more occupied with promoting the discredited "all sides equally guilty" theory. She also seems concerned that the Croatian media is not uncritically putting out material provided by the Tribunal and international organisations. As a Liberal, Ms Feldman should surely know that the media's job is not to act as an uncritical conduit for any organisation's PR guff, be it from the Tribunal's "outreach" programme or the SENSE agency which claims that its main objective "is to provide to media and public in South East Europe objective, timely and comprehensive information about policies and objectives concerning the region, by main bodies of the international community, such as the European union and its institutions...." . The same international community that once supported Slobodan Milosevic? It seems to me that - in this regard at least - the Croatian media is doing its public a service by taking something of an independent line. Very much similar with what we enjoy in Western Europe, where the public do not expect its media to parrot any International Community line. Ms Feldman should grasp that in a democracy, the media can put out what it likes. As a senior member of a party of the ruling coalition it is most unseemly for her to demand what the media should or should not be reporting. Most illiberal. Indeed, I find it considerably disconcerting that you carry such views. Especially, as given that you are funded by the British government and the European Union, I pay for the IWPR via my taxes. However, I note that the editor in chief of SENSE is one Mirko Klarin. Could this Mirko Klarin be related in any way to the IWPR's senior editor at the ICTY, also called Mirko Klarin? If so, why was this not mentioned when Ms Feldman criticised Croatian television for not carrying SENSE coverage? Yours sincerely, Brian Gallagher Distributed by www.CroatianWorld.net. This message is intended for Croatian Associations Institutions and their Friends in Croatia and in the World. The opinions/articles expressed on this list do not reflect personal opinions of the moderator. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please delete or destroy all copies of this communication and please, let us know! |
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| Dear ... Croatians abroad are furious when reading articles and editorials in well-known newspapers and magazines that not only criticize Croatia, but also spread complete lies that are obvious products of Serbian propaganda. We are appalled that the Croatian government, its ambassadors and representatives are not responding to these lies, and in that way allowing Croatia to receive a bad image abroad. I am sending you a copy of an article:...... I hope and, indeed, expect that you will publicly respond and denounce this slandering of Croatia. Respectfully ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In Croatian: Postovana gospodo: (or individually addressing person) Hrvati u dijaspori su ogorceni kad citaju clanke i komentare u medjunarodno poznatim novinama i casopisima koji ne samo kritiziraju Hrvatsku nego sire potpune lazi o Hrvatskoj, ponajvise jer su jos uvijek pod utiskom srpske propagande. Zgrazamo se da Hrvatska Vlada, njezini veleposlanici i sluzbenici uopce ne reagiraju na tu zlobu pa tako dopuste sirenje lose slike o Hrvatskoj i Hrvatima diljem svijeta. Saljemo Vam ovdje clanak : "...." od ....(date) iz "...." (name of newspaper, magazine etc.) Nadamo se i ocekujemo da cete javno odgovoriti takvom ocrnjivanju Hrvatske. Sa postovanjem, (name) Distributed by www.CroatianWorld.net. This message is intended for Croatian Associations Institutions and their Friends in Croatia and in the World. The opinions/articles expressed on this list do not reflect personal opinions of the moderator. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please delete or destroy all copies of this communication and please, let us know! |
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| Hommage Matku Peicu POZEGA, 9. veljace - Tocno 10. veljace 1923. godine u Pozegi je rodjen Matko Peic, veliki zaljubljenik u Pozegu i Vallis aureau, a ciji je stvaralacki opus od gimnazijskih dana u Pozegi do smrti vezan velikim dijelom za rodni grad. Iza akademika Matka Peica jednoga iz plejade hrvatskih velikana duha, slikara, povjesnicara umjetnosti i likovnog kriticara ostali su nezaobilazni putopisi, eseji, feljtoni i poezija, a njegov hedonizam i kontemplacija ponajbolje su se pronasli u poznatim Peicevim >Skitnjama<. Pozega je desetljecima bila puna Matka Peica, no i on je bio pun Pozege, a sve sto je napisao bila je oda zivotu, ali i covjeku. U opusu Matka Peica sveucilisnog profesora i akademika ostalo je 35 knjiga, vise od 1000 putopisa i eseja, te brojne, jos nedovoljno poznate slike. Za Pozegu, grad njegove mladosti i ljubavi njegova zivota Matko Peic je zapisao: >Za mene Pozega predstavlja najdublji inspirativni cinilac u mom radu i to kao slikara i kao knjizevnika. U Pozegi sam stekao svoju metodu osnovanu na karakteristikama pozeskog pejzaza<. I. F. Distributed by www.CroatianWorld.net. This message is intended for Croatian Associations Institutions and their Friends in Croatia and in the World. The opinions/articles expressed on this list do not reflect personal opinions of the moderator. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please delete or destroy all copies of this communication and please, let us know! |
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| UMRO KARDINAL FRANJO KUHARIC Cardinal Franjo Kuharic Died ZAGREB, 11. ožujka (Hina) - U nadbiskupskom dvoru u Zagrebu rano jutros u 83. godini preminuo je uzoriti kardinal i umirovljeni nadbiskup zagrebacki Franjo Kuharic, javila je Informativna katolicka agencija (IKA) Kardinal Kuharic roden je 15. travnja 1919. u Pribicu. Za svecenika je zareden 1945., a pomocnim biskupom zagrebackim imenovan je 1964. kada je i zareden za biskupa. Nadbiskup zagrebacki postao je 1970. Papa Ivan Pavao II. imenovao ga je kardinalom na konzistoriju 1983., a od 1997. kardinal Kuharic je umirovljen. Pogreb kardinala Franje Kuharica održat ce se u zagrebackoj katedrali u cetvrtak, 14. ožujka, u 11 sati. Distributed by www.CroatianWorld.net. This message is intended for Croatian Associations Institutions and their Friends in Croatia and in the World. The opinions/articles expressed on this list do not reflect personal opinions of the moderator. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please delete or destroy all copies of this communication and please, let us know! |
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| http://www.iaeste.hr WHAT IS IAESTE? The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experiences the biggest international organization for the exchange of students according to the number of trainings exchanged. It’s non-political, independent non-governmental organization which maintains a consultative relationship with different agencies of the UN and also contacts ECA, FAO, OAS, EU as well as many educational non-governmental organizations. WHEN WAS IAESTE FOUNDED? The Association was founded in January 1948 in London by the National organizations of ten European countries which were also the first members. During years, number of members increased not only in Europe but throughout the world. WHERE IS IAESTE PRESENT TODAY? IAESTE organization is present in more than 60 countries round the world where IAESTE organizations are either full members of the international IAESTE (51 countries including IAESTE Croatia) or associate members (5 countries). There are also co-operating institutions. WHAT ARE THE AIMS OF IAESTE? The basic aim is to provide students at institutions of higher education with technical experience abroad relative to their studies (to widen and improve their knowledge), to promote international understanding and goodwill amongst the students of all nations, irrespective of race, color, sex or creed, to operate the exchange program for the benefits of students, academic institutions and other organizations offering traineeship. HOW DOES IAESTE OPERATE? It’s the confederation of National Committees which represent academic, industrial, student spheres of interest. Each national Committee is responsible for the administration of the exchange in its own country. The representatives participate on the annual General Conference where issues related to the management of the organization are discussed and the exchange of the training offers is conducted. The annual number of the exchanged trainings is higher than 6000. Before the General Conference all the members are obliged to collect the offers from the employers willing to receive foreign students fro a temporary training period. The offers have to be closely connected to the fields of study as a supplement to their university or college education. The offering companies or institutions are expected to pay students a wage sufficient to cover the costs of living during training period. The exchange is done on reciprocal basis and National Secretariats select qualified students according to specifications of the employer stated on the training offers. Details of candidates selected are sent to the employers for approval and then they decide if they accept the student nominated or not. WHEN WAS IAESTE CROATIA FOUNDED? IAESTE is present in Croatia since 1952. During the process of Croatia becoming an independent state, IAESTE Croatia was formed under the sponsorship of the University of Zagreb. Today IAESTE Croatia is a full member of the international IAESTE organization (since 1993). WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TILL NOW? During past four years, training offers were given to 200 students from Croatia who traveled to Austria, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Japan, Malta, Norway, Sweden and other countries. The periods were from 4 weeks to 12 months. Students were able to gain new experience related to their future profession improve foreign languages, meet people and different cultures. WHO IS IAESTE CROATIA? The existence of the IAESTE Croatia is insured by volunteer work of students who are collecting training offers and sponsorships, organizing summer reception for foreign students coming to Croatia and doing administration or any other kind of work. Today IAESTE Croatia is present on all four Croatian Universities (Osijek, Rijeka, Split and Zagreb) through Local Committees. ORGANIZATION OF IAESTE CROATIA With the aim of improving our work, volunteers in the IAESTE Croatia are devided into 4 groups of which each has its own field of work. They co-operate if necessary. Each group in every Local Committee has its own coordinator - one of them is also a coordinator for the whole IAESTE Croatia. The most important work in the IAESTE, for which it exists, is to collect and then to exchange as many training offers as possible. Of course, it all takes lots of time and effort and work which includes hundreds of phone calls, faxes, letters etc. This work is done by the Administration Group. Our work is partly sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Croatian Universities, but it’s still not enough for financing our work so we have to search for sponsors and organize presentations named "Career Day". This important work is done by the Finance Group. The Marketing Group is dealing with publishing IAESTE Newsletter and other publications, as well as contacting media with the aim of presenting the organization and work that has been done. To foreign students who come to Croatia, certain food and accommodation level has to be offered. They are supposed to be waited for at the Station or Airport, taken to work on a first day and entertained which means that meetings and excursions and one day trips are organized so that their stay in Croatia remains memorable. This is the task of the Summer Reception Team. WHAT ARE THE FUTURE PLANS OF IAESTE CROATIA? No matter what has been done till now, the aim of the organization’s work is still going to be higher and more qualifying level of the training offers exchanged, better promotion of IAESTE Croatia and Croatia as a country worldwide, organizing meetings for both students and employers. This is the one way for students, future employers, to realize present problems in Croatia today and determine possibilities which can improve conditions in Croatian Economy by their knowledge and experience. Distributed by www.CroatianWorld.net. This message is intended for Croatian Associations/Institutions and their Friends in Croatia and in the World. The opinions/articles expressed on this list do not reflect personal opinions of the moderator. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please delete or destroy all copies of this communication and please, let us know! |
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