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Ivica Kostelic sesti u Kitzbuhelu Iako je bio drugi u prvoj voznji, Ivica Kostelic ipak je zavrsio sesti u slalomu u Kitzbuhelu. Losa pripremljenost staze za posljednje skijase druge voznje kostala je postolja naseg Ivicu te Slovenca Kunca, koji je kao prvi iz prve voznje, na kraju zavrsio tek deseti. Kao da je bilo bolje zaostati u prvom dijelu, pa onda krenuti sa boljeg mjesta u drugu voznju... Pobjednik je Austrijanac Rainer Schönfelder, drugi je njegov sunarodnjak Albrecht sa +0.18 sekundi, treci je Amerikanac Bode Miller sa 0.21 sekunde zaostatka, slijede Talijan Rocca i Austrijanac Pranger, a nas je Ivica kao sesti zaostao +0.81 sekundi. Iako nas je vec navikao na postolja, Kostelic nije razocarao. Zadrzao je vodstvo u poretku slaloma, no Bode Miller je smanjio zaostatak. Sljedeca utrka je nocni slalom u austrijskom Schladmingu, vec u utorak. (td, 20.01.2002.) Janica na pobjednickom postolju Janica Kostelic Hrvatska skijasica Janica Kostelic ostvarila je najbolji ovosezonski slalomski rezultat osvojivsi trece mjesto u nedjeljnoj utrci vozenoj u Berchtesgadenu. Nakon sto je u prvoj voznji zauzela sedmo mjesto, vrlo dobro je vozila i u drugoj, te je na cilj dosla druga sa 30 stotinki zaostatka ispred Svicarke Marlies Öster. Cetiri skijasice nakon nje nisu uspjele postici znacajniji rezultat, a Amerikanka Kristina Kozick, druga u prvoj voznji, uspjela je ostvariti identicno vrijeme kao i Öster, cime su njih dvije podjelile prvo mjesto. Vodeca nakon prve voznje, Svedanka Anja Paerson, iako je imala vrlo veliku prednost iz prve voznje, pocinila je gresku sredinom staze, te je zbog pada morala odustati, cime je nasa Janica ostala na odlicnom trecem mjestu. Janici je trece mjesto u Berchtesgadenu najbolji ovosezonski rezultat u jednoj utrci vozenoj za Svjetski kup. Iz utrke u utrku vozi sve bolje i sigurnije, sto su optimisticne vijesti za nastavak sezone.distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.comNotice: This e-mail and the attachments are confidential information.If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and the attachments is strictly prohibited and violators will be held to the fullest possible extent of any applicable laws governing electronic Privacy. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail, and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments.

Postoji li prepoznatljiv zajednicki interes Vlade Republike Hrvatske i dijaspore Sudeci prema dostupnim informacijama, domovinski i izvandomovinski hrvatski narod jos nije pronasao put zajednistva, niti je trasirao stazu kojom ce ici u bolju buducnost. Zivi se i radi stihijski, od danas do sutra. Takvim ponasanjem mozemo dovesti u pitanje suverenitet drzave Hrvatske i nacionalni indentitet, koji ce u procesu globalizacije biti jos ugrozeniji. Malom narodu, kao sto je hrvatski, ne smije se dogoditi da pripadnik njihove zajednice bude priznat u drugoj drzavi gdje zivi i radi, a da tome u njegovoj maticnoj drzavi mediji ne pridaju nikakvu vaznost.Na zalost, nama se to dogada. Dr. Nenad Ban profesor je na ETH (Eidgenosische technische Hochschule ) u Svicarskoji i ravnatelj Instituta za molekularnu biologiju i biofiziku istog sveucilista u Svicarskoj. Svjetski je priznat strucnjak. Sveuciliste mijenja nekoliko odredaba Statuta , koje su do tada bile nepromjenjive, kako bi omogucilo dr. Nenadu Banu profesorski i znanstveno-istrazivacki rad u Svicarskoj. Slikar Vlado Franjevic Liechtensteiner Svicarska. Bozicno izdanje lista "Lichttensteinskog dnevnika" na prvoj stranici objavljuje njegovu umjetnicku sliku popracenu tekstom. Nas covjek umire u stranoj drzavi koja, u njegovu cast, mjesec dana nakon njegove smrti u svom glavnom gradu imenuje trg njegovim imenom. Dr. Goran Susic mladi znanstvenik iz Rijeke 10. i 11. sijecnja ove godine predstavio je projekt u UN s kojim hrvatska javnost u Hrvatskoj kao i ona u svijetu nije bila upoznata. Projekt Dr. Gorana Susica koji zasluzuje paznju i koji treba podrzati ako ni zbog nicega, onda zbog ulozenog truda mladog hrvatskog entuzijasta i znanstvenika, nije podrzan. Program "Revitalization of traditional forming throught sustainable tourism and marketing" prijavljen je na natjecaju Svjetske banke, a cilj mu je suzbijanje siromastva farmera u ruralnim podrucjima putem raznolike pomoci: edukacijom seminarima, opremom itd. Na plasmanu u finale (u cemu su uspjela samo dva projekta iz Europe) cestitku mu je uputio Ured Svjetske bankeu Zagrebu te USAID-a/Agencija za medjunarodni razvoj iz SAD-a, koji su prethodno financirali jedan projekt dr. Susica na otoku Cresu sa 12o.ooo US dolara USA. Ujedno su pomogli dr. Susicu da od veleposlanika SAD-a u Hrvatskoj dobije placenu kartu do Washingtona. Dr Goran Susic je projekt predstavljao na vlastitom standu u glavnom sjedistu Svjetske banke u Washingtonu DC pred dva nezavisna ekspertna tima. Ta je manifestacija trajala dva puna dana. Jedini Hrvat koji je za to vrijeme posjetio stand dr. Susica i zazelio mu puno uspjeha, bio je Vedran Podolski, student iz Zagreba koji u Washingtonu boravi s Fulbrightovom stipendijom. Nitko od Hrvata koji zive i rade u Washington ni od hrvatskih diplomatskih predstavnika nije posjetio stand na kojem je dr. izlagao program. Po rijecima dr. Susica zanimljivo je da je bosanski projekt posjetio veleposlanik BiH u SAD-u Igor Davidovic, raniji glasnogovornik premijera Republike Srpske, kojega je zatim do naseg standa dr. Susica dovela gdja Marija Perisic iz Beograda, zaposlena u International Finance Corporation u Washingtonu. Oboje su izrazili zelju da nam pomognu, kao svojim susjedima u Europi. Bosanski veleposlanik je ujedno bio i clan zirija koji je ocjenjivao projekte, a gospodja Perisic je vodila komisiju od projekta do projekta. "Osjecali smo je vrlo jadno, ko sirocad, s obzirom da od nase drzave Hrvatske i njenih sluzbenih predstavnika U Washingtonu ni od dijaspore nitko, bas nitko nije ni blizu dosao, a kamoli pokusao pomoci.Treba naglasiti da je medju finalistima moj program ocijenjen medju 1o% najboljih projekata na svijetu..Gotovo indentican projekt ponudili smo Ministarstvu poljoprivrede RH, koje ga je odbilo, tj ponudilo za njega 75o USA dolara, dok je za realizaciju potrebno 15o.ooo,oo USA dolara." S pravom se postavlja pitanje gdje su predstavnici hrvatke drzave, koji zive i rade u Washingtonu, koje hrvatski narod placa da stite interes drzave Hrvatske i njene gradjane. Gdje je dijaspora? Gdje je organiziran docek i pomoc kod predstavljanja programa iz Hrvatske ? Jesmo li tu prezentaciju iskoristili da se na jos neki nacin predstavimo .Da smo se organizirali i pomogli dr. Goranu Susicu, mozda bi njegov projekt bio prihvacen i Hrvatska bi nepovartno dobila koji dolar vise. Za taj dolar Hrvatska bi bila bogatija i u svijetu prepoznatljivija. Kada ce doci dan kada cemo prestati biti sebi najveci neprijatelji? Hrvatski Klub za Dijasporu www.ic-hrvatskadijaspora.hr Za Klub: Niko Soljak, prof. ing. distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.comNotice: This e-mail and the attachments are confidential information.If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and the attachments is strictly prohibited and violators will be held to the fullest possible extent of any applicable laws governing electronic Privacy. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail, and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments.

Croatia is doing a "dog and pony" show for the upcoming privatization ofINA, HEP and JANAF. Below is the announcement re the conference in DC.The same delegation will be making trips to NYC and LA.John KraljicCROATIA'S ENERGY INDUSTRY:STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR U.S. COMPANIESCo-sponsored by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency and the U.S.Department of Commerce in cooperation with the U.S. Export-Import Bank,the Overseas Private Investment CorporationFebruary 13, 20028:30am-5:00pmFour Seasons Hotel2800 Pennsylvania Ave., NWWashington, D.C. 2007ABOUT THIS CONFERENCE:The Government of Croatia is substantially reforming Croatia's energysector to increase competition and create regulatory oversight in linewith European Union rules. It is also accelerating the privatization ofCroatia's three large-state owned companies. High ranking officials fromthe Croatian Ministry of Economy, which is the lead government agencyfor developing and implementing Croatia's energy policy, will visitWashington, DC, to brief U.S. firms on modernization projects andupcoming privatization plans of Industrija Nafte d.d. (INA), thestate-owned oil company; Hrvatska Elektroprivreda d.d. (HEP), thestate-owned electric company; and Jadranski Naftorod d.d (JANAF), thestate-owned oil pipeline company.Energy sector reforms create attractive opportunities for U.S. energycompanies, suppliers of energy equipment services and industry experts.Plans for refinery upgrades, transmission and distribution networkimprovement and the pipeline reversal projects offer significant areasfor U.S. industry involvement. In fact, TDA has recently undertaken afeasibility study to assess the modernization of INA's two refineries.CONFIRMED CROATIAN OFFICALS INCLUDE:Mr. Goranko Fizulic, Minister of Economy, Republic of CroatiaMr. Tomislav Dragicevic, CEO, Industrija Nafte d.d. (INA)Mr. Ivo Covic, CEO, Hrvatska Elektroprivreda d.d. (HEP)Ms. Vesna Trnokop Tanta, CEO, Jadranski Naftorod d.d. (JANAF)U.S. GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES INCLUDE:U.S. Trade and Development Agency (TDA)U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC)Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im)EVENT HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:First-hand briefings from potential Croatian partners aboutopportunities in its dynamic energy sector;One-on-One meetings with potential Croatian partners, governmentofficials and representatives from U.S. government programs;A keynote luncheon speech by Mr. John Easton, Vice President forInternational Programs, Edison Electric Institute.ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS:This event allows U.S. companies the opportunity to meet one-on-one withthe Croatian officials and companies, and U.S. Governmentrepresentatives. These scheduled meetings allow the company to askspecific questions on upcoming projects, and to introduce the company,its products and its services to those key individuals who willinfluence the final decisions for those projects.Early registrants will receive a delegate and project summary and achance to sign up for these valuable meeting opportunities.TENTATIVE AGENDA:7:30-8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast8:30 am Opening Remarks (Senior Officials TBD)U.S. Trade and Development AgencyU.S. Department of Commerce9:15 am Croatia: Energy Sector - Challenges and Prospects for the FutureMr. Goranko Fizulic, Minster of Economy, Republic of Croatia9:45 am Croatia's Energy Industry - Opportunities for U.S. Companies:Representatives of Croatian Energy CompaniesMr. Tomislav Dragicevic, CEO, Industija Nafte d.d. (INA)Mr. Ivo Covic, CEO, HrvatskaElektroprivreda d.d. (HEP)Mr. Vesna Trnokop Tanta, CEO, Jadranski Naftorod d.d (JNAF)11:00 am Coffee Break11:20 am U.S. Government Programs -- Speakers TBDOverview & ModeratorU.S. Trade and Development Agency SpeakerExport-Import Bank of the United States SpeakerOverseas Private Investment Corporation SpeakerU.S. Department of Commerce Speaker12:30 pm LuncheonKeynote Speaker: Mr. John Easton, Vice President for InternationalPrograms, Edison Electric Institute2:00 pm Individual Company Meetings - with the Croatian governmentofficials and three Croatian firms and U.S. government representatives5:00 pm Conclusion of Conference6:30 pm Reception at Embassy of the Republic of CroatiaCONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEE:Credit Card or Check in Advance: $50.00 per attendeeRegistration fee includes all conference sessions, one-on-one meetingswith Croatian delegates, daily refreshments, continental breakfast andlunch. In addition, all attendees will receive profiles of new businessopportunities as presented at the conference.The following types of payment are accepted:Personal credit cardGovernment credit cardCorporate credit cardGovernment purchase orderPlease arrange to have payment made at least 72 hours prior to theconference date.SPECIAL NOTES:(1) This conference is only open to representatives of U.S. companies.(2) The Four Seasons Hotel ONLY offers valet parking.(3) The Four Seasons Hotel is close to the Foggy Bottom and Rosslyn Metro CentersREGISTRATION OPTIONS:[1] Phone: 703-807-2745 and speak with Ms. Kristen Brooks.[2] Email: kbrooks@marketaccess.org[3] Register online: Use our online booking form to register and pay by credit card electronically.[4] Fax: registration form to 703-807-2728.[5] Mail: registration form to: Market*Access International Attn: Kristen Brooks 4301 Wilson Blvd. #1003 Arlington, VA 22203Registration form requires Acrobat Reader.To register by phone or to request more information: Call Kristen Brooks703-807-2745.POINTS OF CONTACT:For general information about this event, please contact Ms. CaraLombardi, 703/807-2743To register for this event, please contact Ms. Kristen Brooks,703/807-2745For specific information pertaining to Croatia's commercial climate,please contact Ms. Silvia Savich at ceebic@ita.doc.gov or Ms. SuzannePhilion at sphilion@tda.govFor One-on-One meeting information, please contact Mr. Fred Eberhart ateberhart@aol.com or 703/631-2250For technical support with this web site, please contact Mr. ParrishKnight, 703/807-2748HOTEL INFORMATION:Four Seasons Hotel2800 Washington Ave., NWWashington DC 20007Tel: 202/342-0444Fax: 202/342-1673RELATED WEBSITES INCLUDE:U.S. Trade and Development Agency at www.tda.govU.S. Department of Commerce, Central and Eastern Europe BusinessInformation Center (CEEBIC), at www.mac.doc.gov/eebic/ceebic.htmlABOUT TDA:The U.S. Trade and Development Agency assists in the creation of jobsfor American by helping U.S. companies pursue overseas businessopportunities. Through the funding of feasibility studies, orientationvisits, training grants, conferences, and various forms of technicalassistance, TDA enables American businesses to become involved in theplanning stages of infrastructure and industrial projects inmiddle-income and developing countries. By doing this, the agencyprovides American firms with market entry, exposure, and information,helping them establish a position in markets that are otherwisedifficult to penetrate.ABOUT CEEBIC:CEEBIC is a business facilitation program for U.S. firms interested inexpanding into the central and Eastern European markets. Established in1990, CEEBIC is a one-stop shop and the US Government's clearing housefor the most recent economic, commercial and financial information onthe 15 countries of Central and Eastern Europe. CEEBIC offers an arrayof services, business counseling and information products for companies.CEEBIC's Washington-based trade specialists and dedicated overseas staffin 15 countries of the region work together to implement this uniqueprogram for U.S. firms.distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.comNotice: This e-mail and the attachments are confidential information.If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and the attachments is strictly prohibited and violators will be held to the fullest possible extent of any applicable laws governing electronic Privacy. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail, and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments.

BC-BOSNIA-WAR CRIMES, 03292002-01-14 10:36 (New York)American rangers sent to arrest Karadzic, Bosnian newspaper reportsSarajevo (dpa) - American specialized ranger troops have recently arrived in Bosnia-Herzegovina to arrest Radovan Karadzic, the wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs and most wanted war crimes suspect, the Bosnian Serb daily Nezavisne novine reported Monday. Karadzic's general, war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, who is believed to be hiding at his home in Belgrade, could soon be detained and handed over to The Hague-based war crime tribunal, the paper said quoting a source close to the NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR) in Bosnia. While Mladic's apprehension depends on tense diplomatic relations between The Hague and the Belgrade regime, the case of the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is more complex,'' said the source. It added that U.S. specialized ranger troops arrived in Bosnia to arrest Karadzic after two months of close monitoring over him. Some two weeks ago some 300 rangers were deployed at three different locations in Bosnia - in the east of the country, near the three-border area between Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro, and in Romania and Zelengora mountains regions,'' said the source. It also said a fourth group of rangers was formed as a reserve unit. The rangers' only task, according to the source, is the arrest of Radovan Karadzic. U.S. authorities have made an important deal with Montenegrin president Milo Djukanovic, under which Montenegro is expected to completely close its borders during a possible operation of Karadzic's arrest, the source said. According to the same source, the American rangers were given logistic support by British peacekeeping troops in Bosnia. The source also said that the rangers are equipped with the best satellite-based guiding equipment to help them in precisely locating Karadzic. No official reactions were given so far to the report. dpa zl baDanny SchechterExecutive Producer, GlobalvisionExecutive Editor, THE MEDIA CHANNELwww.mediachannel.org1600 Broadway #700New York, N.Y. 10019212 246-0202x3006Fax: 212:246-2677distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.comNotice: This e-mail and the attachments are confidential information.If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and the attachments is strictly prohibited and violators will be held to the fullest possible extent of any applicable laws governing electronic Privacy. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail, and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments.

From the NY Times. John KraljicJanuary 17, 2002Michael Bilandic, Daley Successor in Chicago, Dies at 78By DOUGLAS MARTINichael A. Bilandic, who became mayor of Chicago after the death ofRichard J. Daley, his mentor, only to see the Daley political machinesputter to a stop under his leadership, died on Tuesday in Chicago. Hewas 78.The cause was a heart rupture, said Dr. Dan Fintel of NorthwesternMemorial Hospital. Mr. Bilandic was admitted after a heart attack onFriday and was scheduled for triple bypass surgery yesterday, but hedied after the rupture.When Mayor Daley died in his sixth term in 1976, his machine selectedMr. Bilandic as a temporary successor, and the new mayor immediatelypromised not to run in the election six months later to fill theremaining two years of Mr. Daley's term.His deference reflected the careful personality of the corporate lawyerhe had been for 28 years. Mike Royko, a columnist for The ChicagoSun-Times, labeled him Mayor Bland.But Mayor Bilandic quickly found himself in the rough and tumble ofChicago politics. Within months of taking office, he negotiated laboragreements involving gravediggers, butchers and members of the ChicagoLyric Opera orchestra. He brought together warring factions to end a15-year impasse on building a crosstown expressway, releasing $1.5billion in federal money.His romance with Heather Morgan, the director of the Chicago Council onFine Arts, added a dash of warmth to his image. They married shortlyafter he was elected mayor. He is survived by his wife and their son,Michael.He changed his mind about not running, explaining that he was respondingto a groundswell of support. He emphasized his closeness to Mr. Daley,saying the mayor had given him the kind of education "you cannot get atOxford, Cambridge, Harvard or Stanford." He went so far as to imitateMr. Daley's speech patterns, with a distinctive grammar and syntax and aseeming preference for commas over periods in his orations.The result was victory in the Democratic primary in a city where thatwas tantamount to victory in the general election. Several months later,he delightedly quoted the remark of a child at an elementary school inthe Bridgeport neighborhood, where Mr. Bilandic, like the four mayorsbefore him, lived.Someone had asked the child if he knew who the visiting Mayor Bilandicwas."Yes, that's the new Mayor Daley," the boy chirped.But Mr. Bilandic demonstrated that he lacked the iron control of Mr.Daley. First, Jane M. Byrne, his commissioner of consumer sales, accusedhim of being in cahoots with the city's taxi companies to raise theirfares. Though he fired her, their highly visible fight - both passed liedetector tests - differed markedly from the discipline of the Daley CityHall.Second, it snowed, more than seven feet, the most ever recorded in aseason Chicago. The city's snow removal was so terrible that peopleguessed Mayor Daley must have taken the snowplows with him; a formerdeputy mayor was found to have received a $90,000 consultant's contractfor snow removal.A joke circulated. First man to second: "If Mayor Daley was alive, allthis wouldn't have happened."Second to first: "If Mayor Bilandic was alive, it wouldn't have,either."The result was that in March 1979, Ms. Byrne, at first viewed as aquixotic candidate for mayor, beat Mr. Bilandic, ending 48 years ofmachine domination of city politics.Michael Anthony Bilandic, the son of Croatian immigrants, was born onFeb. 13, 1923, in Bridgeport, on Chicago's southwest side. It is calledBack of the Yards because of its proximity to the stockyards that wereonce the economic backbone of the area.Like Mayor Daley, he attended De La Salle High School, graduated from DePaul University Law School and got into politics by hanging around the11th Ward Democratic Headquarters.He served for four years in the Marine Corps in the South Pacific andthen earned his undergraduate degree from Notre Dame University. Hebegan as a $25-a-week law clerk at the Chicago firm of Anixter, Delaney,Bilandic & Piggott, and worked his way to senior partner.He resumed his political activity, canvassing the 11th Ward for Mr.Daley, a neighbor, during his first race for mayor in 1955. For the nextdecade he was an active, if inconspicuous, figure in ward politics.At Mayor Daley's invitation, he ran for City Council in 1969, and thenext year was named to its powerful finance committee. In 1974, afterthe indictment of the committee's chairman on fraud charges, he wasnamed chairman.In 1972, Mr. Bilandic stood in for Mayor Daley at the DemocraticNational Convention in denouncing the seating of anti-Daley delegatesled by the Rev. Jesse Jackson.After his defeat, Mr. Bilandic returned to private practice, thenstarted a new career as judge. He was elected to the First DistrictAppellate Court in 1984 and, six years later, to the Illinois SupremeCourt, the highest in the state. He was chief justice for the last threeyears of his 10-year term.Last September, he was chosen to break the tie on a committee redrawingCongressional and state legislative districts. His name was drawn from areplica of a stovepipe hat owned by Abraham Lincoln. The stateConstitution calls for such a random selection when the eight- memberbody, split evenly between parties, cannot agree.----------------------------------------MICHAEL BILANDIC: 1923-2002A mayor who had hard act to followBy Gary Washburn, Tribune staff reporter. Tribune reporters Joseph Sjostrom,Christi Parsons, Ronald Kotulak and David Mendell contributed to this reportPublished January 17, 2002Purple and black bunting was draped over the entrance to City Hall onWednesday as Chicago mourned Michael A. Bilandic, the quiet and unassumingson of immigrants who rose to become a leader of the City Council, mayor ofChicago and, later, chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.Bilandic, 78, died unexpectedly late Tuesday at Northwestern MemorialHospital on the eve of scheduled coronary bypass surgery. He had beenadmitted to the hospital two days earlier after suffering what doctorsdescribed as a mild heart attack.A former alderman who was the eyes and ears in the City Council for hismentor, the late Mayor Richard J. Daley, Bilandic was picked by councilcolleagues to replace Daley when he died in late 1976. But he will be bestremembered for the way his political career unraveled under the weight ofrecord snowfalls in the winter of 1978-79, which immobilized the city andled to the historic election of Chicago's first female mayor, Jane Byrne.But his admirers, of whom there were many in the halls of government, saythe snow debacle unfairly clouded the reputation of a man who was adedicated and hard-working official.Bilandic was a "very good public servant and very committed," said MayorRichard M. Daley, whose father, the late Mayor Richard J. Daley, had beenBilandic's political sponsor. "He made a strong contribution to the city.""He had a full and rich and diverse career," said Ald. Edward Burke (14th),a longtime friend. "He served in all branches of government--legislative,executive and judicial--and will be remembered as a very capable, hardworking and loyal public official."In a written statement, Bilandic's wife, Heather, described her husband as"a devoted family man, [who] also loved Chicago and its people, was proud ofhis Croatian heritage and grateful for the opportunities which this countryprovided to his family. He felt deeply honored to have been able to serve asa member of the legal profession and to have participated in three branchesof government during a lifetime of service."After his defeat by Byrne, Bilandic returned to private law practice andthen answered what some believe was his true calling when he was elected ajudge, first to the Illinois Appellate Court in 1984 and later to the stateSupreme Court after winning election in 1990.Every mayor since Bilandic has taken a political lesson from his downfall,launching Herculean salting and plowing operations after even the gentlestof snowfalls. Bilandic had to learn the hard way.A total of 35 inches hit the city over a two-week period, and Bilandicshrugged off the snow, insisting that conditions were improving even asburied cars blocked streets, service on the Chicago Transit Authorityfaltered and O'Hare International Airport was tied up in knots.At one point during the crisis, he urged people to move their cars fromstreets to school parking lots, which he announced had been cleared. But themayor apparently had been given faulty information by underlings; unhappymotorists discovered that the lots remained waist-deep in snow.Democratic primary lossIndeed, the city's response to the snow was perhaps the biggest factor inBilandic's stunning defeat in the Democratic primary a few weeks later."He was a gentle and sometimes too nice a guy who got caught in asnowstorm," said Ald. Richard Mell (33rd), who was in the City Council whenBilandic was mayor. "And, unfortunately, that will be part of his legacy.But the real Michael Bilandic was a decent Chicagoan who had the bestinterest of the city at heart. In all the times I was with him, I never sawhim mean-spirited, vindictive, or ever do anything but try to be a good guy.And that's what he was."Born in Bridgeport in 1923, Bilandic learned Chicago politics in the 11thWard neighborhood that had produced a host of Democratic politicians,including Richard J. Daley.He graduated in 1940 from De La Salle High School and received a bachelor'sdegree from St. Mary's College in Winona, Minn., and a law degree fromDePaul University.Bilandic served as a first lieutenant in the Marine Corps in the Pacificduring World War II.He became active in the 11th Ward Democratic organization in 1948 whenthen-ward Committeeman Daley asked him to become involved in party work.But Bilandic's real political career began in 1969.That is when the late Matthew Danaher was in line for appointment as theclerk of Cook County Circuit Court, and Daley needed a replacement for himas 11th Ward alderman. The mayor's choice of Bilandic, whose ethnic rootswere Croatian, was a break from precedent in a ward which, for years, hadbeen represented in the council by Irish-Americans.Bilandic was reluctant to give up a law practice that was bringing him asalary estimated at $75,000 a year, but Daley prevailed. The newcomer ran,swamping the GOP candidate.As an alderman, Bilandic's long, detailed speechmaking and monotone deliverygave him a reputation as a colorless man. But he was considered effectiveand well prepared."Here is a guy who led the fight on the environment right from the start,"said Ald. Bernard Stone (50th), who served in the council with Bilandic. In1971, Bilandic pushed legislation that banned phosphates from detergents.A few years later, Bilandic helped shepherd the Lakefront ProtectionOrdinance through the council and a measure revamping zoning requirementsthat cleared the way for big multiuse developments, Stone said.With Ald. Thomas Keane (31st) on trial in federal court on charges ofconspiracy and mail fraud, Bilandic in 1974 was chosen to replace him bothas chairman of the council's powerful Finance Committee and as Daley'scouncil floor leader.When Daley died on Dec. 20, 1976, council leaders fought each other to fillthe vacuum, but it was Bilandic who received the support of the Daley familyand ultimately gained the mayoral seat.Daley, in his later years respected and beloved by a city that had known noother mayor for a generation, had failed to groom anyone as a successor. Thenew mayor was faced with the unenviable task of filling shoes that no one inChicago could have filled.Started ChicagoFestNevertheless, he sponsored new initiatives. During his 21/2 years in office,Bilandic organized the first ChicagoFest and arranged city-insured,low-interest mortgage loans for middle-income families. A runner and jogger,he also lent his support to the Chicago Marathon.Yet Bilandic's personality didn't capture the imagination or adoration ofthe voters. In an era when politicians were increasingly becomingcelebrities in their own right, Bilandic could stroll through the Loop inthe city he ran and not be stopped or even acknowledged by a singlepasserby.On another front, the mayor's personal life blossomed.When he took office, Bilandic was a bachelor who lived with his elderlymother. It was during his time in office, then in his 50s, that he marriedHeather Morgan, the daughter of a prominent Chicago businessman. Thecouple's only child, Michael Morgan Bilandic, was born during his mayoralty.After taking over at City Hall, Bilandic made numerous changes in the citycommand structure.In what turned out to be a major tactical error, he ousted Byrne as thecity's consumer sales commissioner and forced her to give up her spot asco-chairman of the Cook County Regular Democratic Organization's CentralCommittee.The response was furious.Byrne's attacks on Bilandic and his administration were so strong during the1979 primary that the mayor at times appeared on the brink of tears as hecompared her offensives, combined with media criticism, to the crucifixionof Christ, the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and the plight of blacks duringslavery in America.After losing the primary, Bilandic returned to private law practice.Although he maintained his Bridgeport home, he and his family spent most oftheir time in the Gold Coast apartment he also owned.Five years after his departure from City Hall, and without party backing,Bilandic won election to the Illinois Appellate Court's 1st District, whichcovers Cook County. At the age of 67, he ran for a 10-year term on the stateSupreme Court, this time slated by the Democratic Party, and won again. Hesubsequently was elected by colleagues on the court to a term as chiefjustice.Declined campaign donationsBilandic spent $32,000 of his own money on the Supreme Court electioncampaign and refused to accept campaign contributions. "`This is my lasthurrah," he explained. "I don't want to go there encumbered in any manner."As a jurist who had served in the other branches of government, Bilandic wasespecially attentive to the separation of powers and respectful of executiveand legislative prerogative."He always commented, `Let them do the work they do, and we'll do the workwe do,'" said Judge Allen Hartman, a longtime friend who shared theappellate bench with Bilandic. "He was very proper in that regard."Nevertheless, one of his most important Supreme Court opinions was highlycritical of a common practice in the Illinois General Assembly, wherelawmakers rolled unrelated measures into a single bill to drum up enoughsupport for passage.Writing for the court in Johnson v. Edgar, Bilandic struck down a sweepingnew law because it violated the Illinois Constitution's prohibition of suchbundling. The opinion formed the heart of the court's doctrine on theso-called "single-subject" rule, and it eventually led to the overturning ofseveral other measures passed by the Republican-led legislature in themid-1990s.Bilandic also wrote a revolutionary 1999 opinion in a ruling that healthmaintenance organizations can be held liable for negligence involving apatient's medical care. The decision opened the door for a flood of HMOlawsuits."When it came to things like budgetary matters or municipal law, we alwayslooked to him," said Chief Justice Moses Harrison, who served on the highcourt with Bilandic for eight years. "But you also had to admire his generalknowledge. He just knew so much."The court lowered its flags to half-staff, and Bilandic's portrait wasdraped in black bunting. The City Council, meanwhile, began a meetingWednesday with a moment of silence in the former mayor's honor.In what turned out to be his last public role, Bilandic in September cast avote that is expected to influence Illinois politics for years to come.After Democrats won a drawing to gain control of the LegislativeRedistricting Commission, Bilandic was inserted on the panel by the party tobreak a partisan deadlock and cast the tie-breaking vote on a redistrictingmap that could set the stage for Democratic control of the legislature forthe next decade.Burke said he talked to Bilandic on Tuesday afternoon to wish him well insurgery."He sounded strong," the alderman said. "He was in good spirits. He said hewas sad he would miss the board of managers meeting of the Chicago BarAssociation on Wednesday, but he hoped to be back on his feet in a couple ofdays." Bilandic died of a rare and "uniformly fatal" condition in which thewall of the heart ruptures, and not of a second heart attack, according toan autopsy report released Wednesday by Bilandic's physicians atNorthwestern Memorial.Dr. Dan Fintel, his cardiologist, said that he has seen only two otherruptures following heart attacks in 17 years of practice.The rupture occurred on the left side and front of Bilandic's heart, thearea that was damaged by a heart attack he suffered sometime in the earlymorning Saturday. That area of the heart was deprived of blood, therebyleading to the death of a small portion of heart muscle.Instead of scar tissue forming around the damaged area, which is typical,the weakened area burst from the pressure of blood inside the heart, causingthe heart to go into acute failure, Fintel said. Such conditions areimpossible to detect in advance, even using modern diagnostic equipment, hesaid.Heather Bilandic had been visiting her husband for most of Tuesday and leftone hour before the rupture occurred at 10 p.m. A heart team rushed in totry to save the former mayor. He was pronounced dead at 10:30 p.m.Bilandic's doctors said that tests performed Monday showed he hadsignificant blockages in his coronary arteries but added that he appeared tobe an ideal candidate for bypass surgery.The funeral will be private. 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http://www.bldrdoc.gov/timefreq/service/its.htmSet Your Computer Clock Via the Internet NIST Internet Time Service (ITS)Software and InstructionsPublic Domain NIST Software Windows 95 and later (32 or 64-bit) Windows 3.1 (16-bit) FTP Site (all files & source code) Instructions Macintosh Computers (PDF file) Windows Computers (PDF file) List of Software PublishersThe NIST Internet Time Service allows users to synchronize computer clocks via the Internet. The time information provided by the service is directly traceable to UTC(NIST). The service responds to time requests from any Internet client in several formats including the DAYTIME, TIME, and NTP protocols.The NIST Internet Time Service uses multiple stratum-1 time servers. Here are the server names, locations, and IP addresses.Time Code FormatsInternet time code protocols are defined by a series of documents called Request for Comments, or RFCs. These documents are available on-line from several sites on the Internet. The protocols supported by the NIST Internet Time Service are:Daytime Protocol (RFC-867)This protocol is widely used by small computers running MS-DOS and similar operating systems. The server listens on port 13, and responds to requests in either tcp/ip or udp/ip formats. The standard does not specify an exact format for the Daytime Protocol, but requires that the time is sent using standard ASCII characters. NIST chose a time code format similar to the one used by its dial-up Automated Computer Time Service (ACTS), as shown below:JJJJJ YR-MO-DA HH:MM:SS TT L H msADV UTC(NIST) OTMwhere:* JJJJJ is the Modified Julian Date (MJD). The MJD is the last five digits of the Julian Date, which is simply a count of the number of days since January 1, 4713 B.C. To get the Julian Date, add 2.4 million to the MJD.* YR-MO-DA is the date. It shows the last two digits of the year, the month, and the current day of month.* HH:MM:SS is the time in hours, minutes, and seconds. The time is always sent as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). An offset needs to be applied to UTC to obtain local time. For example, Mountain Time in the U. S. is 7 hours behind UTC during Standard Time, and 6 hours behind UTC during Daylight Saving Time.* TT is a two digit code (00 to 99) that indicates whether the United States is on Standard Time (ST) or Daylight Saving Time (DST). It also indicates when ST or DST is approaching. This code is set to 00 when ST is in effect, or to 50 when DST is in effect. During the month in which the time change actually occurs, this number will decrement every day until the change occurs. For example, during the month of October, the U.S. changes from DST to ST. On October 1, the number will change from 50 to the actual number of days until the time change. It will decrement by 1 every day until the change occurs at 2 a.m. local time when the value is 1. Likewise, the spring change is at 2 a.m. local time when the value reaches 51.* L is a one-digit code that indicates whether a leap second will be added or subtracted at midnight on the last day of the current month. If the code is 0, no leap second will occur this month. If the code is 1, a positive leap second will be added at the end of the month. This means that the last minute of the month will contain 61 seconds instead of 60. If the code is 2, a second will be deleted on the last day of the month. Leap seconds occur at a rate of about one per year. They are used to correct for irregularity in the earth's rotation. The correction is made just before midnight UTC (not local time).* H is a health digit that indicates the health of the server. If H=0, the server is healthly. If H=1, then the server is operating properly but its time may be in error by up to 5 seconds. This state should change to fully healthy within 10 minutes. If H=2, then the server is operating properly but its time is known to be wrong by more than 5 seconds. If H=4, then a hardware or software failure has occurred and the amount of the time error is unknown.* msADV displays the number of milliseconds that NIST advances the time code to partially compensate for network delays. The advance is currently set to 50.0 milliseconds.* The label UTC(NIST) is contained in every time code. It indicates that you are receiving Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).* OTM (on-time marker) is an asterisk (*). The time values sent by the time code refer to the arrival time of the OTM. In other words, if the time code says it is 12:45:45, this means it is 12:45:45 when the OTM arrives. Time Protocol (RFC-868)This simple protocol returns a 32-bit unformatted binary number that represents the time in UTC seconds since January 1, 1900. The server listens for Time Protocol requests on port 37, and responds in either tcp/ip or udp/ip formats. Conversion to local time (if necessary) is the responsibility of the client program. The 32-bit binary format can represent times over a span of about 136 years with a resolution of 1 second. There is no provision for increasing the resolution or increasing the range of years.The strength of the time protocol is its simplicity. Since many computers keep time internally as the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 (or another date), converting the received time to the necessary format is often a simple matter of binary arithmetic. However, the format does not allow any additional information to be transmitted, such as advance notification of leap seconds or daylight savings time, or information about the health of the server.Network Time Protocol (RFC-1305)The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is the most complex and sophisticated of the time protocols, and the one that provides the best performance. NTP is typically used by large computers and workstations, since NTP software is often bundled with the operating system. The client software runs continuously as a background task that periodically gets updates from the server. The client software can be configured to query several servers, and to average the results. By querying multiple servers, it can ignore responses from servers that appear to be sending the wrong time.The NIST servers listen for a NTP request on port 123, and respond by sending a udp/ip data packet in the NTP format. The data packet includes a 64-bit timestamp containing the time in UTC seconds since January 1, 1900 with a resolution of 200 picoseconds. Since the client software runs continuously, it can keep the client's clock within a few milliseconds of UTC(NIST).For questions or more information about the NIST Internet Time Service, contact Judah Levine: jlevine@boulder.nist.govdistributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.comNotice: This e-mail and the attachments are confidential information.If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and the attachments is strictly prohibited and violators will be held to the fullest possible extent of any applicable laws governing electronic Privacy. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail, and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments.

Click Here: Crown Home PageI wholeheartedly agree.The HRT did a 2 cassette History of the Croatian People in the early 1990sin English. It wasn't too bad, but needs work.In the post-1995 period, the govt did a film called "Franjo Tudjman:Croatia's George Washington," or something like that. I never saw it but,as the title suggests, it was more an attempt to glorify Croatia's thenpresident than to necessarily glorify Croatia. Had the Croatian govt had aPublic Relations firm then, the firm would have told them that Tudjman wasjust so discredited by western media that they were wasting their time andmoney and that there were better means to promote Croatia in the west.Indeed, if Croatia had had a public relations firm, I beleive that thematerial broadcast on the History Channel never would have made it out! APR firm would, presumably, keep its ears to the ground to see what was inthe works rather than simply react as we are doing.Part of the problem, as I see it, is that people in Croatia itself are notaware of these shows and other negative matters concerning Croatia in thewestern media. For example, I have had a special interest in the portrayalof Croatia's coat of arms as being an Ustashe symbol, though it was evenused in Communist days. I was shocked when I recently learned that many toppeople in Croatia were not aware of this perception and indeed denied to methat this was an impression that the west had (one official telling me thatIsrael, for ex., would never allow an ustashe flag to be flown in itscountry).This motiviated me to put together (something I am working on with Hilda),under the auspices of the NFCA, a booklet with the numerous articles andbooks where this calumny has been mentioned - it is quite staggering theamount of material that I have dug up - which we will distribute, withEnglish and Croatian text, to relevant Croatian government officials as wellas the Croatian media (to give you an idea of the problem, I am aware of 4publications printed in 2001 alone which referred to the Croatian flag/coatof arms as being an Ustashe one: (i) the Los Angeles Times (article reMesic's visit to Israel), (ii) the Economist (article re Goran's Wimbledonwin), (iii) Current History, and (iv) a new book just issued re the warcrimes trials for BH and Rawanda by, I beleive, a Barbara Neuffler - I can'trecall the name of the book or author, but it was reviewed in last Sunday'sNY Times Review of Books).The idea is to try to convince relevant people in Croatia on the need for aPR firm (i.e., see what not having a PR firm has cost the country in termsof its image to the world). I would suggest that if anyone has a copy ofthe A&E Program that it be sent to Croatia. And I specifically suggest notjust sending it to government officials - perhaps members of the Croatianmedia will find the issue compelling or outrageous enough to write about itin their publications. Indeed, maybe the Croatian media should be the firstplace to turn.John Kraljicdistributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.comNotice: This e-mail and the attachments are confidential information.If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and the attachments is strictly prohibited and violators will be held to the fullest possible extent of any applicable laws governing electronic Privacy. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail, and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments.