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| This text appeared in "W" magazine, the November 2001 issue. I must commend your article on Dubrovnik, Croatia in your most recent September issue. I have been fortunate enough to travel to many beautiful, exotic places. The pristine beauty of the Croatian coastline completely out does The Cote D'Azur and most other well known and over saturated tourist mecca's. I have yet to see a place more rich with history, breath taking architecture, and more beautiful people. Croatia is truly a "hidden gem" that is now only being visited by those "in the know." To all W readers: Get there before the rest of the world does...and you will truly feel like you have discovered one of the most priceless destinations in the world. Martina Sola Saratoga, CA. distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.com Notice: 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. |
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| Employment Opportunity in Zagreb Position: Finance Manager Employer: International Rescue Committee Position Type: Full-Time Length of Job: 1 Year Posted: 12-16-2001 # of Positions Available: 1 City: Zagreb Country: Croatia JOB DESCRIPTION: The Finance Manager will have exclusive responsibility for all financialmanagement and sub-grant monitoring of a USAID-funded project to develop NGO capacity in Croatia. For more information, see the Web site: http://cj.careercast.com/cj/europe/20011226.html From Frank Mustac frankmustac@att.net distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.com Notice: 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. |
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| Historic preservation internships in Croatia INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INTERNSHIPS IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION - US/ICOMOS Deadline: February 15, 2002. The U.S. Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS) seeks applications from U.S. graduate students and young professionals for an international internship program in historic preservation and heritage conservation for 12 weeks during the summer of 2002. Applicants must have at least a bachelor’s degree in architecture, landscape architecture, cultural resource management, materials conservation, interpretation, history of architecture, archaeology, industrial archaeology, public history, or cultural tourism. Project topics are defined by the host office. Internships for 2002 are expected to be available in Bulgaria, Croatia, India, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Contact: Grachel Kubaitis US/ICOMOS 401 F St. NW, Rm. 331 Washington, DC 20001-2728. Telephone: (202) 842-0084 Fax: (202) 842-1861 E-mail: gkubaitis@usicomos.org Web site: http://www.icomos.org/usicomos/SIP/uscitizen.html Deadline: 15 February 2002. RSO Reference No.: 01103129 From Frank Mustac frankmustac@att.net distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.com Notice: 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. |
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| Margaret Meade: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Bertrand Russell : " Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. " Ralph W. Emerson : Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. " John Lilly : " In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or become true. " <A HREF="http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/thought/pages/Whakaaro/JoseOrtega.htm"> Jose Ortega y Gasset</A> " Life means to have something definite to do - a mission to fulfill - and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something. " Ralph W. Emerson : " Each person has his or her own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to you. You have faculties silently inviting you there to endless exertion. You are like a ship in a river; you run against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away and you sweep serenely over God's depths into an infinite sea. " Henry D. Thoreau : " I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour ... If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams and endeavours to live the life one imagines he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. " distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.com Notice: 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. |
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| Philosopher Josef Pieper defines the essence of bourgeois living as "taking for granted." It is true that those who live in homes where the water always runs through spigots take water for granted. And when people always have money they take their next meal for granted. Our lives are filled with assumptions about the universe serving us all the time. This is false thinking. Will it take catastrophes to awaken us to the truth that all is gift? An earthquake reminds us that not even the stability of the ground underneath our feet should be taken for granted. Death reminds us that not even breathing itself can be taken for granted. As the forests disappear and the soil and waters become increasingly poisoned, we learn that we cannot take air or water or soil for granted. One way to learn not to take for granted is to voluntarily do without. This is best done in a ritualized context where the community does without together and supports one another through the difficult process of letting go. For example, go without water for three days. Go without food for five days. Go without meat for two weeks. These are ways to learn to cease taking for granted. Every overdeveloped person and culture should undertake these periods of fasting. In doing so we learn the basics of gratitude, for not one of us created the waters or the air or the soil or the foods that we take for granted. Fasting also allows us to identify, at least partially, with those millions of the world's poor who can never take eating a meal or drinking good water for granted. Gratitude changes our lives. It fills us with energy and vitality. When I was twelve years old, I had polio and could not walk for six months. The doctors could not reassure me that I would ever walk again. As it turned out, I did get my legs back. But I learned a lesson in the process that I have never forgotten: don't take for granted. I had taken my legs for granted, legs that work , legs that run and play ball, legs that take me exactly where I want to go. When my legs returnd to me I was filled with gratitude-not gratitude for the "miracle" of my legs being healed, but rather gratitude for having legs at all, legs that work. I was filled with energy and promised myself that I would not waste my legs for as long as I lived. FROM WASTE TO RECYCLING One of the overwhelming sins of the "First World" is that of waste. WE are a civilization whose major product is waste, and we appear to be the only species that wastes more than it recycles. What we give back to the universe is often not blessing-it is poisonous and nonrecyclable goods. The petrochemical industry-that industry that was the very first to support a young politician named Adolf Hitler in German politics sixty yearg ago-has developed plastics and Styrofoam that appear simple and cheap but in fact cannot be disposed of even in five hundred years. Our cities are being inundated by our own refuse. We have no way of dealing with the nuclear waste that has proliferated from military and civilian power plants. This lethal plutonium will "live" for at least another 100,000 years: Joanna Macy suggests that instead of burying this radioactive waste in order to deny it, thus making life intolerable for generations to come, we ought to keep it visible above ground, and build monasteries around it to remind us all of its lethalness and our mortality. These "guardian sites' would become holy places of pilgrimage for persons who regard the planet as a sacred trust. We also waste our youth and their talents and gifts. When hope dies, waste takes over. Whether that waste is expressedin the form of crime or drugs, alcohol or prison, despair or sexual addiction, it is living proof of the depth of waste that haunts our consumer society. How does a consumer society stop wasting? By restoring relationship to the center of our lives and life-styles. If we considered our relation to generat ions to come, for example, we would cease giving out plastic bags in grocery stores. Recently I accompanied a friend (who is an extrovert) to a supermarket late at night. "Plastic bag or paper?" She replied in full voice, "Plastic? Plastic won't disappear for 500 years!" The cashier sheepishly responded, "Our manager tells us to push the plastic because it is cheaper." ............... The greatest waste of all is the waste of our human gifts for ingenuity, good work, healing and joy. If "joy is the human's noblest act," then to waste our gift for creating joy it is to squander the noblest potential of our species. (book Creation Spirituality Matthew Fox) ... All diseases come into our bodies through the foods that we eat the only way to get rid of them is through fasting.... Submitted by Mirna distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.com Notice: 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. |
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| Dear Croatian American Friends, In January 1992, following a heroic war for freedom and democracy, the world recognized the independence of the Republic of Croatia. On JANUARY 19th, 2002, the Croatian American community will hold a HOLY MASS at the Croatian Catholic Church in Los Angeles in honor of this historic event. Following Mass, we will celebrate the 10th ANNIVERSARY OF THE RECOGNITION OF THE CROATIAN STATE with a GALA BANQUET in the Parish Hall. The guns in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are now silent, and Croatia is an independent nation. But when you join us on January 19th, you will hear firsthand from our honored guests GENERAL KRESIMIR COSIC, HDZ VP MAJA FREUNDIC and DR. JOSIP MUSELIMOVIC that the Croatian people's hard fought independence is not secure. They will tell you that the Croatian people's existence as one of the constituent nations of BiH is endangered. On January 19th, our guests will speak frankly about recent events in BiH. They will tell you how your assistance can ensure that the independence and the existence of the Catholic Croatian nation in BiH will not be lost. On January 19th, you will hear that there is hope. In large part, the future of Croatia and the fate of Croatian nation in BiH will depend upon the actions of the United States of America. If we stand together, we can insure that that our government in Washington is fair to Croatia and the Croats of BiH. In our advocacy of the Croatian cause, we must not allow the liberation of Croatian territory to be cast as a criminal act. We must do all in our power to help those who defended Croatia in her time of need. We must oppose those in the international community who wish to rewrite history. Together, we must look to the future for a better life for the Croatian people. But that better life for the Croatian people will remain in jeopardy if Croatia's independence is compromised and if Croats no longer exist as one of the constituent nations of BiH. This new year, please join the CAA and our honored guests to defend the course that the Croats of the world set upon over a decade ago: An independent and prosperous Croatia, along with constituent national people's status for the Croats of BiH. Frank Brozovich, DDS President, Croatian American Association 10th ANNIVERSARY OF THE RECOGNITION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA HOLY MASS AND LOS ANGELES-SAN PEDRO CAA GALA BANQUET SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 2002 MASS, 6 PM RECEPTION, 7 PM DINNER, SPEAKERS & ENTERTAINMENT, 8 PM FEATURING GENERAL KRESIMIR COSIC FORMER DEPUTY MINISTER OF DEFENSE, REPUBLIC OF CROATIA MS. MAJA FREUNDLICH VICE PRESIDENT, HRVATSKA DEMOKRATSKA ZAJEDNICA DR. JOSIP MUSELIMOVIC, PRESIDENT, MATICA HRVATSKA, BiH & PRESIDENT, LAW CHAMBER FOR HERCEG-BOSNA ST. ANTHONY'S CROATIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 712 GRAND AVENUE, LOS ANGELES HONORED GUESTS DR. MISO MUNIVRANA CONSUL GENERAL DR. FRANK BROZOVICH PRESIDENT, CROATIAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION MR. MELCHIOR MASINA PRESIDENT, CROATIAN CATHOLIC UNION MR. JUL DRASKOVIC PRESIDENT, CROATIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION MR. JERKO SUMERA PRESIDENT, CROATIAN COORDINATING COUNCIL OF CHICAGO ADULTS $40.00 RESERVATIONS MARGIE LANZA (310) 832-7390 REGINA HERCEG (310) 376-4068 ADRIATIC TRAVEL (310) 548-1446 CROATIAN CLUB SAN PEDRO (310) 547-9484 distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.com Notice: 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. |
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| LIBERTAS FOUNDATION PRESENTS TRADITIONAL CELEBRATION OF THE FEAST OF Sv.VLAHO - St.BLAISE PATRON SAINT OF DUBROVNIK SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 02,2002 ST.ANTHONY CROATIAN PARISH CENTER - LOS ANGELES HOLLY MASS 6 PM, SOCIAL HOUR 6:30 PM, DINNER/DANCE 7:30 PM ENTERTAINMENT: GROUP ADRIATIC & KLAPA MAESTRALI FROM DUBROVNIK DONATION:ADULTS $50, STUDENTS/CHILDREN $25 R.S.V.P BY JAN.26,2002 TO: DUBROVNIK5@AOL.COM TEL:(310) 548-1446 LUCI, FAX:(310) 831-8382 ALL PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT HUMANITARIAN CAUSES IN CROATIA distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.com Notice: 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. |
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| Nenad, you might want to link to this website, too. http://www.dzs.hr/Eng/ouraddress.htm Submitted by Judy Feldworth distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.com Notice: 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. |
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| http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue86/mag-energy-86.html Does anybody from the CROWN knows more about Fuel Cells? Does Croatia have any research on the issue? Please let me know. Nenad Bach January 17, 2001 Trend number nine: Energy Fuel cells will reduce our reliance on oil and allow businesses and homeowners to produce electricity independently. By Lee Bruno From the December 04, 2000 issue Consequences: Fuel cells are likely to find their way into several thousand medium-sized businesses and homes over the course of the next year. This will lead to greater consumer and business awareness about fuel cell potential and an increase in fuel cell production for 2002. Winners: Fuel cell companies like Ballard Power Systems (Nasdaq: BLDP), H Power (Nasdaq: HPOW), Plug Power (Nasdaq: PLUG), Mechanical Technology (Nasdaq: MKTY) (owns 30 percent of Plug Power and Avista), International Fuel Cells (formerly ONSI), and automobile makers committed to fuel cell investments and technology like Ford Motor (NYSE: F) and DaimlerChrysler (NYSE: DCX). Losers: Local power utility companies, oil-burning power plants, and manufacturers of gasoline-driven power generators. See also: Dead ringers Fuel's Paradise Talking Points Think our trends are off base? Video: Watch Herring editors defend the top ten against George Gilder. Go to our discussion forum to debate energy issues It's been decades since fuel cells first were pegged as a savior technology for the energy industry. But during those years the technology -- which promises to replace nonrenewable energy sources like oil and also help reduce pollution -- seemed to be stuck in slow-lane development. Over the past nine months investors have glimpsed signs that fuel cells might soon have their day, and have begun plowing money into this promising technology, which Goldman Sachs estimates could represent a $95 billion market in ten years. Here's how they work. Fuel cells convert chemical energy into electricity by breaking apart hydrogen bonds in the water molecule and using that energy to generate a flow of electrons. The same process can be used to power everything from cell phones (see "Dead Ringers") and laptops to cars and buses. Some supporters of the technology have gone so far as to predict that fuel cells have the potential to transform the energy industry in the same way the microprocessor transformed the logic industry. Although the fuel cell concept dates back to the 1830s, it has only recently developed practical applications as an environmentally friendly and efficient energy technology (see chart Fuel's Paradise). One big motivation: costs associated with producing fuel cells have fallen dramatically, now approaching the 1 to 2 cents per kilowatt hour that it costs to produce electricity from oil or gas. Fuel cell projects are getting off the ground just as rising fuel and electricity prices are hitting consumers and businesses in the United States and Europe -- a situation that led to President Bill Clinton's September release of strategic oil reserves. Other factors are contributing to the sudden interest in fuel cells. Around the globe, governments have been adopting more stringent air pollution regulations. At the same time, states and nations are in the process of deregulating their power industries. Meanwhile, utilities are facing increased demands for reliable power. CELLER'S MARKET Buses powered by fuel cells were tested in California this year. By 2003, California emission standards will require 10 percent of cars sold in the state to have zero emissions. Other states have emission standards that will force large auto companies to produce these fuel cell-powered vehicles. DaimlerChrysler (NYSE: DCX), Ford Motor (NYSE: F), General Motors (NYSE: GM), Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM), and American Honda Motor are investing in fuel cells, either by developing or licensing fuel cell technology. Mercedes-Benz has announced that in Europe it plans to build 20 to 30 buses powered by fuel cells, which will go on sale in 2002. Several states are now in the process of deregulating their utility markets. Among them, Connecticut, Maine, Texas, Illinois, and California have passed regulations that require a specific percentage of renewable-energy sources. The market for fuel cells breaks into three distinct categories: residential, commercial, and transportation. Among the players in the residential market: H Power (Nasdaq: HPOW), Plug Power (Nasdaq: PLUG), and Avista (NYSE: AVA), all of which are now testing fuel cells in the field. Plug Power, in partnership with General Electric (NYSE: GE), is looking to produce fuel cells capable of delivering 250 to 300 kW, which is sufficient to supply power for a small hospital. The two leading companies developing both transportation and stationary residential and commercial uses are International Fuel Cells (formerly ONSI), which has been producing fuel cells for 20 years for the U.S. space program, and Ballard Power Systems (Nasdaq: BLDP). Fuel cell technology will give consumers the option of producing electricity for their own homes using a variety of small, 1 to 3 kW fuel cell generators being developed by Plug Power, which specializes in fuel cells for powering individual homes. An added benefit: consumers will be able to resell unused kilowatts back to the local utilities managing the power grid. What's both compelling and problematic about fuel cells is that several different types of fuels, primarily hydrogen, methanol, propane, and gasoline, can be used to run a fuel cell, thus opening up choices for consumers. However, there's a downside to this freedom of choice. Without a single, standardized fuel, it's hard to scale up the distribution network that would be capable of profitably delivering fuel to the automobiles and power generators. Not only that, but any new fuel choice will require conversion of existing gas stations and a host of additional conversion costs. In addition, critics of the alternative energy technology point out that it faces a classic supply-and-demand conundrum: will fuel cell manufacturers be able to increase production capabilities quickly enough to meet the expected demand? distributed by CROWN - www.croatianworld.net - CroWorldNet@aol.com Notice: 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. |
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