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What is this all about anyways?
Who? Mr. Bojangels - 27 y.o
What? Blog in Croatian
When? First published Oct.08.2006 until ?
Where? Hollywood, CA, USA
Why? To take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.
How? Via Web 2.0
October 08, 1967: Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara was captured in Bolivia.
October 09, 1940: John Lennon was born.
October 10, 1979: The Pac-Man arcade game is released to the Japanese market by Namco.
October 12, 1810: The first Oktoberfest was held in Munich.
October 14, 1957: "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley was released.
October 16, 1923: The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother Roy.
October 18, 1954: Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
October 22, 1964: Drazen Petrovic was born.
October 31, 1517: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
December 1: World AIDS Day, observed today each year since 1988.
December 6, 1897: London becomes the world's first city to host motorised taxicabs.
December 7, 1941: Attack On Pearl Harbor.
December 8, 1980: John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in New York City.
December 18, 1865: Slavery in the US was abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted.
December 28, 1612: Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune.
December 29, 1984: Band Aid were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' and Madonna was at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Like A Virgin.'
January 7, 1782: The first American commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens.
January 8, 1981: B.S was born.
January 10, 49 BC: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
January 15, 1992: The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from Yugoslavia.
January 17, 1994: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
January 20, 1937: Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
January 27, 1977: Record company EMI sacks the controversial punk rock group the Sex Pistols.
January 31, 1876: The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
February 7, 1964: Beatlemania arrives in the US-The Beatles have arrived in New York at the start of their first tour of the US.
February 18, 1885: Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
March 8, 1948: The US Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
March 10, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
March 21, 1685: Johann Sebastian Bach was born.
March 29, 1871: The Royal Albert Hall is opened.
April 8, 1973: Pablo Picasso has died of a heart attack.
April 20, 1999: 12 students and a teacher die in the Columbine High School massacre.
May 11, 1981: Bob Marley dies of melanoma in Miami, Florida at age 36.
May 21, 879: Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state.
June 18, 1967: Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.
June 29, 1997: Mike Tyson bites off a piece of his opponent Evander Holyfield's ear during a boxing match.
July 07, 1985: Boris Becker becomes the first unseeded player, the youngest male and the first German to win the Wimbledon at age of 17.
July 13, 1923: The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood.
August 17, 1982: The first Compact Discs (CD's) were released to the public in Germany.
September 13, 1503: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
September 23, 1926: John Coltrane was born.
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Pjesma koja mi je trenutno u glavi:
10/8/06 Wolf Like Me - TV on the Radio
10/9/06 I'm Losing You - John Lennon
10/10/06 Waiting Room - No Doubt ft. Prince
10/11/06 Thunder on the Mountain - Bob Dylan
10/12/06 Blind Leading the Blind - Mick Jagger ft. Dave Steward
10/14/06 Level - The Raconteurs
10/16/06 Workingman's Blues #2 - Bob Dylan
10/18/06 Hump De Bump - Red Hot Chili Peppers
10/22/06 All I Want - Joni Mitchell
10/25/06 Monkey 23 - The Kills
10/30/06 All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople
11/03/06 All of You - Miles Davis Quintet
11/15/06 Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin
11/17/06 Sailing to Philadelphia - Mark Knopfler and James Taylor
11/20/06 One More Chance (Paul Oakenfold Urban Mix) - Michael Jackson
11/23/06 Dancing With Mr.D - The Rolling Stones
11/27/06 If It Be Your Will - Leonard Cohen
12/01/06 Don't Give Up (Africa) - Bono and Alicia Keys
12/06/06 Digging in the Dirt (Secret World Live) - Peter Gabriel
12/08/06 I Just Shot John Lennon - Cranberries
12/13/06 8 Ball - Underworld
12/19/06 Final Straw - R.E.M.
12/28/06 The Payback - James Brown
12/29/06 Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
01/07/07 Lost Children - Michael Jackson
01/08/07 Original Of The Species - U2
01/10/07 Oh What A Beautiful Morning - Ray Charles ft.Count Basie Orchestra
01/17/07 I Am the Walrus - The Beatles
01/20/07 Float On - Modest Mouse
01/27/07 Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
01/31/07 Women - Wolfmother
02/07/07 Frank Sinatra - Cake
02/18/07 Poncho & Lefty - Townes Van Zandt
03/08/07 Jolene - Randy Smith
03/10/07 Satellite of Love - Lou Reed
03/21/07 Maybe I'm Amazed- Paul McCartney
03/29/07 Nutty - Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane
04/08/07 North American Scum - LCD Soundsystem
04/20/07 Romance in Durango - Bob Dylan
05/11/07 Fidelity - Regina Spektor
05/21/07 Wake Up - Rage Against the Machine
06/06/07 The Perfect Crime #2 - The Decemberists
06/18/07 Icky Thump - The White Stripes
06/29/07 Sposa Son Disprezzata - Cecilia Bartoli
07/07/07 Futures - Zero 7 Ft. Jose Gonzalez
07/13/07 You Can't Fail Me Now - Loudon Wainwright
08/17/07 Down Boy - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
08/24/07 One More Cup of Coffee - Bob Dylan
08/26/07 Queer - Garbage
09/13/07 Ball And Biscuit - The White Stripes
09/23/07 Hey Eugene - Pink Martini
10/23/07 The Underdog - Spoon
10/27/07 Chelsea Dagger - Fratellis
11/02/07 Radio Nowhere - Bruce Springsteen
11/18/07 Teardrop - Jose Gonzales
11/30/07 Nature Springs - The Good, The Bad And The Queen
12/05/07 1234 - Feist
12/18/07 Breaker - Low
01/05/08Cold Turkey - Lenny Kravitz
01/11/08 Apartment Story - The National
01/24/08 Old man - The Walkin´Jennys
02/07/08 Summertime (live at Woodstock) - Janis Joplin
02/17/08 Mansard Roof - Vampire Weekend
03/03/08 New York - Cat Power
03/26/08 Supernatural Superserious - R.E.M.
Zadnji Dobar/Odlican/Savrsen film koji sam gledao:
10/8/06 Transamerica
10/9/06 Casino
10/11/06 Good Night and Good Luck
10/14/06 The Beat That My Heart Skipped
10/16/06 Click
10/25/06 The Squid and the Whale
10/30/06 American Beauty
10/31/06 Winter Passing
11/02/06 The Departed
11/04/06 Borat
11/15/06 Munich
11/20/06 Don't Move
11/22/06 Match Point
11/27/06 Closer
12/02/06 Me and You and Everyone We Know
12/05/06 School of Rock
12/11/06 An Inconvenient Truth
12/18/06 Rain
12/20/06 Grizzly Man
01/10/07 Memory of a Killer
01/13/07 Downfall
01/14/07 Hidden (Cache)
01/15/07 Little Miss Sunshine
01/20/07 Cinderella Man
02/06/07 The Devil Wears Prada
02/16/07 Flags of Our Fathers
03/20/07 Babel
03/25/07 The Sopranos - Season 2
04/19/07 Melinda and Melinda
05/11/07 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
05/21/07 Last King Of Scotland
06/06/07 Deliver Us From Evil
06/11/07 The Sopranos - Season 3
06/18/07 Volver
07/10/07 Raging Bull
07/16/07 Snatch
08/12/07 Zodiac
08/15/07 Cashout
08/24/07 The Day of the Jackal
09/06/07 Black Snake Moan
10/16/07 Taxi Driver
10/22/07 Sidewalks of New York
10/26/07 Notes on a Scandal
11/01/07 Reign Over Me
12/05/07 High Fidelity
12/09/07 The Queen
12/10/07 Atonement
12/12/07 Ratatouille
12/15/07 SuperBad
12/17/07 The Office - Season 1
12/27/07 Finding Nemo
01/12/08 Juno
02/16/08 Kingdom
03/03/08 Svjedoci
03/12/08 The Darjeeling Limited
03/14/08 The Rage in Placid Lake
When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away; Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.
When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down; Creep home, and take your place there, The spent and maimed among: God grant you find one face there, you loved when all was young.
"A lot of time, you just have to go down many roads to get where you are going...The important thing is to keep moving." Bob Dylan, 1971.
The question is not what we are willing to kill for" rekao je Gandhi "but what are we willing to die for."
Mirsad, it was a name for Sarajevo, not for London. Now his name is Miro, but I think he should love his name. Names in my country are like flags, you can live or die because of your name.
"L.A. is a strange place. As long as you think it's strange, then you're all right. I think it's strange, and I am pretty damn strange too." Bono, 1989.
"Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro"
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Evo petak je i sporo je na poslu nevjerovatno pa da vas updateam.
Da, dosli su mi starci i super im je. pravi su turisti iako su vec bili tu po 3-4 puta svaki. Prekljucer su isli u Getty muzej vidjet Goghove Irise i navecer smo svi zajedno isli u novo otvoreni Griffith Observatory kojega su renovirali 5 godina i u koji su ulozili 95 miliuna $.
Jucer su bili u Universal Studios i nisu se bas nesto odusevili. Do sada smo bili u Santa Barbari (sa kojom su odusevljeni), a danas idemo za Vegas. Stari je bio ispred Chinese theatra jedno 5 puta i mislim da mu jos nije dosta :). Isto tako vozili su se busem do Santa Monice i Venica pa su imali prilike druziti se i stopiti sa lokalcima (citaj meksikancima i armencima) pa su imali zanimljivih utisaka 
Oko Bozica strasno su se bacili u shopping i dobro iskoristili Xmas rasprodaje. Zanimljivo je da kada su zadnji puta bili kod mene za moj graduation 2004. umrli su Ray Charles i Reagan, a ovaj puta umrli su James Brown i Ford!!! Slucajnost ili...?
Gibam s posla za sat vremena i navecer smo u Sin City-u. Vani je 21 C !!!!
Mami mi je prvog rodendan pa jos s posla idem ravno da joj kupim jednu stvarcicu koju je promatrala, ali joj je bila pre skupa.
Provedite se dobro i recite mi kako je bilo za Novu. Zadnje dvije Nove, vjerovali ili ne, sam proveo u Osijeku sa dragim mi drustvom, a prije 3 sam bio u Vegasu, dakle vegas, osijek, osijek, vegas...hoce li se nastaviti ciklus? Cujemo se sljedece godine. Popite jednu i u moje ime.
Sretno...Love All. Mr. B 
He left his mark on numerous musical genres including rock, jazz, reggae, disco, dance music, afrobeat, and hip hop music. Ne mogu vjerovati da smo ga spominjali u komentarima nedavnoga posta.
Svi obavezno poslusati njegov Live at the Apollo cd.
Rest In Peace to the one and only Godfather Of Soul.
You will always be a legend. And missed so much!
B.
Sretan Bozic svima.
Javim se cim stignem, nisam stigao ni mail pogledati u tjedan dana. sve je ok, samo trke kolko oces.
Danas sam nazad na poslu, pa moram pohvatati sve konce od cetvrtka.(u petak su nas pustili u 3).
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Afrikaans - Geseknde Kersfees en 'n gelukkige nuwe jaar
Argentine - Feliz Navidad y Feliz Ańo Nuevo
Bohemian - Vesele Vanoce
Brazilian - Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo
Bulgarian - Vesela Koleda i chestita nova godina!
Catalan - Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Chinese - Sing Dan Fae Lok. Gung Hai Fat Choi (Cantonese)
Chinese - Shen Dan Kuai Le Xin Nian Yu Kuai (Mandarin)
Chinese - Shen tan jie kuai le. Hsin Nien Kuaile
Croatian - Cestit Bozic i Sretna Nova Godina
Czech - Stastne a vesele vanoce a stastny novy rok!
Danish - Glaedelig Jul og godt nyter
Dutch - Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuw Jaar
Dutch - Prettige kerstdagen en een gelukkig nieuw jaar
English - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Eskimo - (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Esperanto - Felican Kristnaskon kaj Bonan Novjaron!
Estonian - Rőőmusaid jőulupühi ja head uut aastat!
Faeroese - Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!
Filipinos - Maligayang Pasko
Finnish - Hyvää joulua ja onnellista uutta vuotta!
Flemish - Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French - Joyeux Noel et Bonne Année!
Scots Gaelic - Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath yr!
Galician - Bo Nadal
German - Frohe Weihnachten und ein gl|ckliches Neues Jahr!
Greek - Hronia polla kai eytyhismenos o kainourios hronos
Greek - Hronia polla ke eftihismenos o kenourios hronos
Hausa - Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaian - Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki Hou!
Hungarian - Kellemes karacsonyi uennepeket es boldog ujevet!
Icelandic - Gledhileg jsl og farsflt komandi ar!
Indonesian - Selamat Hari Natal dan Selamat Tahun Baru!
Iraqi - Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish Gaelic - Nollaig faoi shean agus faoi shonas duit agus bliain nua faoi mhaise dhuit!
Italian - Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo!
Japanese - Meri Kurisumasu soshite Akemashite Omedeto!
Latin - Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Latvian - Priecigus Ziemsvetkus un Laimigu Jaungadu!
Lithuanian - Linksmu Kaledu
Maltese - Nixtieklek Milied tajjeb u is-sena t-tabja!
Modern Greek - Kala Christougenna kai evtichismenos o kainourios chronos!
Norwegian - God Jul Og Godt Nytt Aar
Pennsylvania German - En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!
Polish - Vesowe Boze Narodzenie
Polish - Wesolych Swiat i Szczesliwego Nowego Roku
Portuguese - Boas Festas
Portuguese - Feliz Natal e um Prospero Ano Novo
Romanian - Craciun fericit si un an nou fericit
Russian - S nastupaiushchim Novym godom i s Rozhdestvom Khristovym!
Romanche - (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!
Serbian - Hristos se rodi
Slovakian - Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoce
Slovak - Vesele Vianoce i na zdravie v novom roku!
Slovenian - Vesele bozicne praznike in srecno novo leto
Spanish - Feliz Navidad y Próspero Ańo Nuevo
Swedish - God Jul Och Ett Gott Nytt Ar
Thai - Suk san wan Christmas
Thai - Suk san wan pee mai - Happy New Year
Trukeese - (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Turkish - Noeliniz kutlu olsun ve yeni yilinis kutlu olsun!
Turkish - Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian - Srozhdestvom Kristovym
Ukrainan - Z novym rokom i s rizdvom Hrystovym!
Ukrainan - Khrystos Rodevsia
Vietnamese - Chuc mung nam moi va Giang Sinh vui ve
Welsh - Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Da!"
Yoruba - E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!
Jucer sam ostavio Jordan na Lax-u, a danas kupim starce od tamo, 2 puta u 2 dana po 45.min u svakom smjeru do aerodroma i nazad...fun fun. Stari mi je jucer pizdio sto lete Malevom, kaze oni ne odrzavaju avione i da ce se srusit, kao ono sta sam im to kupio. Pisalo je American Airlines Boeing let, i mislim imaju vraga Madari Boeing, kad izgleda da imaju...siguran sam da je OK, lete Malevom do New Yorka, a onda od New Yorka Americanom.
Danas su mi na poslu nest srali da ne zovem dovoljno brokera, pa su me dobro nazivcirali. Doneo sam vise dealova nego neki koji su tu 6 mjeseci. Kao moras napraviti 60 poziva na dan jednom tjedno, a ja pravim oko 40. Mislim se kakve veze ima, dok god im pravim biznis, mogu i pet poziva napraviti. quality over quantity??? Necu se previse zivcirati jel sam tu tek 2 mjeseca da bi imao stress od posla. Nije mi lose, no ne zelim da me detalji zamaraju...
Jucer sam gledao jedan od naj fucked up i teskih filmova ikada (po mome ukusu), zove se Rain i producirao (ali ne i rezirao) ga je Martin Scorsese. Preporucam da si ga pogledate.
Konacno su tradeali Iversona. Procitajte zanimljiv clanak na tu temu ovdje.
Jedva cekam 6 sati da zdimim i idem po starce.
Pozdrav svima, B
Vozim se s kuci sa posla iz Burbanka u Hollywood i mozak na pasi, slusam bozicni jazz. Malo se ufuravam u xmas spirit, nakon Queen Mary Bozicnog partija (koji je bio cheezy, ali ok zahvaljujuci martinijima), Bozicne mjuze na radiu i svih okicenih kucerina u mom hoodu, mozes se malo ufurati pa cak i na 30 stupnjeva. I tako ja pjevusim melodije i mislim Bozic ce skoro, i tek tada me pukne da su mi starci na LAX-u za tjedan dana!!! Ne mogu vjerovati kako brzo vrijeme leti. Kad sam im kupio kartu prije skoro mjesec dana, mislio sam da nikad nece stici koliko je daleko tada bio taj datum. Ako primjetite, nisam ni spomenuo u mojim postovima da dolaze za sigurno, a ne da su tu tako brzo!! Kako bi Bobby D. rekao "Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast."
Veselim se i panicarim u isto vrijeme jel necu moci uzeti niti jedan slobodan daN zato sto sam jos rookie na poslu, pa imam s njima samo vikende. MOram im smisliti program sta da rade dok sljakam, iako poznajuci ih, i po proslim iskustvima kada su bili ovdje, morati cu isplanirati da nadu vremena da se vidimo od njihovog stalnog jurcanja i shoppinga,umjesto da im planiram trip. Za novu smo u Vegasu 100%, sto je uvijek ludi provod (Jordan i ja smo bili tamo dancing in the streets za Novu prije 2 godine). Blizina Vegasa je definitivno jos jedan veliki plus zivota u L.A-u jel je dostupan bez planiranja i letova, sjednes poslje posla u petak, i pijan si i siromasan do ponoci. Obicno idem oko 5-6 puta godisnje iako ne kockam skoro uopce.
Mama i tata se vracaju Lax-JFK-Budapest 7.1. pa mozda i ubacimo Frisco ako stignemo. Veselim se sto dolaze kad je vec ne idem doma ove godine. Uglavnom znam da ce biti gut...
Koji su vasi planovi za praznike?
Take Time To Be Kind,
BoJo
It is early December in Manhattan. Shortly before 11 p.m. He's just turned 40, and recording albums for the first time in five years. He and his wife are returning from the studio. He insisted on going home without eating because he wants to see Sean, their 5-year-old boy, before bed. He steps out of the limousine, and someone calls out to him. People have been calling out to him since he was very young. Suddenly he is stumbling through the Gothic Dakota building's entranceway, and struggling up the steps to the doorman's desk. He is trailing blood. He is gasping, "I'm shot!" The doorman rushes out, sees that the killer has dropped his gun and kicks it away. Then the doorman starts crying. He turns to the killer. "Do you know what you just did?" Of course he does: "I just shot John Lennon." ostatak...
"I Just Shot John Lennon"
It was the fearful night of December 8th.
He was returning home from the studio late.
He had perseptively known that it wouldn't be nice.
Because in 1980, he paid the price.
John Lennon died.
With a Smith & Wesson 38,
John Lennon's life was no longer a debate.
He should have stayed at home,
He should have never cared,
And the man who took his life declared,
He said I just shot John Lennon.
He said I just shot John Lennon.
What a sad and sorry and sickening sight.
Citao sam jucer clanak na vecenjaku online i naslov/tema je
"Zašto Britanci toliko vole Gorana Ivaniševića?".Clanak govori kako i dan danas luduju za njim. Goran igra turnire za matore umirovljene tenisace ovog tjedna tamo i komentira u clanku: “Ponekad pomislim 'Isuse, zašto me i dalje vole ovoliko? Trebao bi biti državni neprijatelj broj 1.' Mnogi zaboravljaju da sam u svojoj pobjedničkoj godini pobjedio Grega Rusedskog nekoliko mečeva prije finala. Tada sam pobijedio njihovog favorita, pravog Engleza, u godini kada se vjerovalo da će osvojiti Wimbledon. Došla je kiša i uništio sam im njihovo ljeto. Trebalo bi me mrziti, nikada me više pustiti u državu. Sjećam se kada sam kasnije gledao TV, mislio sam si da sam uzrokovao nacionalnu katastrofu. Uvijek sam vjerovao da me gledaju kao nekog ludog dečka iz Hrvatske koji razbija rekete, gubi bogatstvo plaćajući kazne, i kao onog koji je izgubio tri predhodna finala. Sada se čini da me vole. Što se mene tiče, lijepo je to ali što Tim Henman misli o svemu?”, izjavio je Ivanišević za engleske medije.
No sto je najzanimljivije i mislio sam ovo moram s vama podijeliti je komentar na clanak sto je jedan frajer ostavio. Kako se to ne moze prepricati stavljam ga u cijelosti. Ja sam umro od smijeha...
kulturnjak 05.12.2006 10:54 Odgovor
Zato sto cjene prave Hrvate !
Goranov ratnicki mentalitet je u svim svrhama ne samo uzoran vec primjer za ponasanje svakog pravog Hrvata ! To i mnogo vise u Hrvata su ti englezi prepoznal i zato nas gotovo obozavaju kao puk ! Rprical sam za englezom koji je dosel ko gost u Cakovec i stekel sam dojam da smo mi Hrvati jedini puk sa bozanstvenim darom ma bilo u kojem pogledu, kao na primjer iprirodna inteligencija, tjelesni izgled, duhovitost i nadarenost ! U najlijepsim bojama mi je opisal koliko nam ti englezi zavide na nasoj prirodnoj lijepoti i zdravom mentalitetu, kako je tvrdil da tak nikud nije sretnel, pa cak ni u Londonu ! Osim toga je istaknul kak je cul od neog frenda kak je uzas u balkansim drzavama! Na to sam mu odgovoril da je tu kod nas u Hrvatskoj, znaci katolickoj srednjoeuropskoj drzavi mnogo bolje i da mi sa tim nizim pukom s istoka niti povijesno, kulturno ni mentalitetski nemamo nikaj, jer mi imamo hrvatsku crkvu,jezik i u ostalom smo tak i tak bolji u svemu ! E tak su ti englezi to shvatil sve i zato nas na poseban nacin vole i simpatiziraju kao i nasa braca nijemci koji su nam inace naj bliskiji narod, jer su oni proizisli od gota, ciji su predci naravno, (a sto drugo ?) bili Hrvati ! Pravi Hrvat znaci biti dobar katolik, lijep, zgodan , duhovit , pametan! ni jedan puk nije toliko vezan uz papu kao hrvatski ! Zato nam i svi i zavide lijepu nasu !
Comedy central huh?
Danas gibam sa posla u 2pm jel se ide na jucer spomenuti QM.
Pozdrav, B
Jucer mi je bio najuspjesniji dan na poslu od kako sam poceo skoro prije 2 mjeseca.
Doneo sam svoj prvi account, spoj prvi deal, i to za $425000. Pricao sa zenskom par puta i bum, poslala mi deal, platili za appraisal i sve, i sada se svi cude kako sam ga upecao nakon samo kratko vremena ovdje. Sada sam zvijezda, barem na par dana. Nadalje se moram dokazat da to nije bila slucajnost. Inace ljudi ovdje rade do 6 mjeseci dok nesto znacajno ne upecaju, a average loan amount je oko $350k, pa sam ja sa 425 faca.
Sutra imamo Xmas party i vode nas na Queen Mary. Bit ce zanimljivo, nisam nikada bio, bit ce fancy, black tie event. Naravno sve je placeno. Malo se bojim voznje do Long Beacha jel ce biti pregrst small talka i awkward sutnje, no zato postoji alkosh.
Dolar opet stoji lose, prilozen je clanak za vas Europljane/balkance (kako god preferirate), koji se dvoume oko dolaska ove zime.
Pozdrav i dobit cete izvjesce sa broda uskoro!
B.S
For Europeans, America is now a vast shopping mall
By Neil Craven and Jennifer Sudick
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Heather Weir of Dublin said she could not talk for long last Tuesday as she stood at the crossroads of magic, music and video games at the FAO Schwarz store in New York. She was on a bargain tear down Fifth Avenue.
A visit with her sister became a whirlwind shopping spree when the euro rose to a 20-month high against the dollar. Weir spent more than €1,000, or $1,330, on everything from Skechers sneakers to Bobbi Brown cosmetics and Yankee-brand candles in a week. She bought $550 worth of jewelry at Tiffany.
"I wouldn't go mad at home like I did here," said Weir, 26. "You get two times as much as you get for that price at home."
Europeans are flocking to the United States to do their Christmas shopping as the dollar falls on investor expectations that Europe's central banks will raise interest rates while the Federal Reserve cuts U.S. borrowing costs. The pound traded for more than $1.98 on Friday, a rate not seen since 1992.
FAO Schwarz, a toy store known for its luxury products, will open its Fifth Avenue store early for people with international passports on the three Tuesdays before Christmas. The chief executive, Ed Schmults, said he was prompted to make the offer after an English guidebook advised people to skip FAO during the holidays because it was so crowded.
"The pound is very strong so there's a lot of people who feel U.S. shopping is a bargain," Schmults said.
The pound last week touched the highest level since Sept. 10, 1992, when speculators led by the billionaire George Soros drove the currency out of Europe's system of linked exchange rates. It has gained 15 percent this year and traded at $1.9816 last Friday.
The euro rose to a high of $1.3367 Monday and was trading at $1.3327 on Tuesday. The currency shared by 12 countries has risen 12.5 percent against the dollar this year.
Some people who live in Europe and are going to the United States for the holidays are shopping on U.S. Internet sites like Amazon.com before they travel.
"I've already started shopping on Amazon using a euro credit card," said Geni Mermoud, who lives just west of Paris. She's having books, CDs and DVDs delivered to her mother's house in Birmingham, Alabama, where she will fly on Dec. 22.
The trans-Atlantic shopping push is a reversal of 1985, when the pound dropped to $1.0520, prompting U.S. consumers to flock to London to buy Wedgwood English china and shop at Hamleys, which calls itself the biggest toy store in the world.
Harrods, a London fixture and luxury department store, said it was not concerned about the pound's strength. "Are we going to lose out because people are heading to America?" said Peter Willasey, a Harrods spokesman. "Certainly not."
British shoppers like the Birds may only be the first wave. The New York tourist board, NYC & Co., predicts that the number of international visitors to New York will rise to 7.3 million people this year from 4.8 million in 2003.
Virgin Atlantic Airways bookings to New York from London have risen at least 20 percent compared with a year earlier.
"The fact that a currency can swing by a few cents does make a big difference, especially in this case as the pound gets closer to that magic $2 mark," said Paul Charles, a Virgin Atlantic spokesman.
U.S. retail sales growth in the week after Thanksgiving fell to 3.1 percent, the slowest rate in four years, as consumers delayed holiday purchases to wait for discounts, Bloomberg News reported from New York.
A longer shopping period between Thanksgiving and Christmas contributed to consumers' delays, the International Council of Shopping Centers and UBS Securities said Tuesday.
Prilozen je dobar clanak koji sam nasao na netu povodom dana side.
B
Today, December 1st, is World AIDS Day. Now, for the life of me I have never understood a disease, a predominately sexually transmitted preventable disease, getting its own day. We don't have World Syphilis Day, World Chlamydia Day, World Hepatitis Day, or even World Flu Day. And the fact is that more children die of preventable diseases like Measles, Smallpox and Pneumonia each day then die of AIDS.
In the United States a person is 50 times more likely to die of a heart disease than AIDS, according to a November 27 th, 2006 Time Magazine story on fear yet we don't have National Cholesterol Day.
Now, as someone whose partner was HIV positive for our entire relationship, 11.5 years, as someone who went through every emotion, every drug study, every heartbreak, as someone that lost a generation of friends to AIDS and has seen the disease go from a death sentence with only AZT to help to a chronic manageable disease with a life expectancy of at least 24 years from date of infection according to recent studies I have put my time in the trenches with AIDS. I want a cure. I want better treatments. I want pregnant mothers to get drugs that can prevent the disease spreading to their children. I want access to drugs for those that cannot afford the very expensive protease inhibitors and other drugs as they become available. And yes, the AIDS crisis in sub-Sahara Africa is beyond despicable and has gone ignored by the civilized world far too long and yes, thank God for Bill Clinton and all he's done to bring that struggle to the forefront.
But politics, including AIDS, begins at home, and as I sit on World AIDS Day watching every TV station tripping over themselves to find a photo or video of a dying African child, I can't help but wonder, where have they been for almost 30 years as gay men died in America? And why now, almost 30 years after the start of the epidemic, are we, gay men, still fighting about whether or not it is a "gay" disease in the United States?
Recently the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center came under attack for their billboards that read, "HIV Is A Gay Disease. Own It. End It." The outcry from the gay community was immediate. All the work they had done for years to make sure it was not labeled a gay disease was being struck down, and I, for one, couldn't have been happier.
Because in the United States it is a gay disease, and that's just the statistical truth. True, that's changing quickly, but for the most part, it is. And it is a disease that certainly effects gay men more to date in the United States, so it is in the community, and thus, is a gay disease. But no, don't say that. Why? Simple. Gay men have always feared that if the disease is labeled gay that no one will care, that no on will want to spend millions of dollars on research, that no one will want to put an end to it. And, given the coverage of World AIDS Day and how gay people are missing on most networks, they're right. But two wrongs don't make a right.
I have no problem with AIDS being a gay disease in the United States, or at least one seen as a problem in the gay community. Because I believe it is one worth solving and that gay men don't deserve to die more than anybody else. Just as certain anemias only affect Blacks or TB can run rampant in immigrant communities, all needing to be addressed and treated, AIDS in America (which is part of the world) has devastated the gay community an it is time we own it and cure it.
Let's be real, any gay man over 21 that contracts HIV in 2006 deserves it. And that's what no one wants to say or admit. But, quite frankly, unless it's through contaminated blood, rape, or some situation out of their control, there has been enough information in the gay community for decades to where any gay man over 21 knows how to prevent it. It's a hard virus to get and easy to prevent. But there's a prevalent attitude that there's a cure, and there's not. Younger gay males think if they get it it won't be so bad and they're just plain wrong. The pills are horrifying, and can cause heart attacks, liver failure, and a host of other problems while treating the HIV. But how would they know? In the gay community the face of AIDS is healthy, active, geared to go, hell, damned sexy in some cases. Drug companies use very healthy models in their AIDS drug ads in the gay press, there's even competitions for HIV positive men, beauty pageants of sorts, to be crowned Mr. This or Mr. That.
In fact all the ads in the gay press talk about how healthy, happy, how active and handsome you can be if you take this new drug. Of course, it takes two pages for the ads, one for the photo of the healthy active man and the other page for the eight point type of possible horrifying side effects.
It's hard to find any mention in the gay press of the devastation of AIDS. Everybody is living with it, healthy, active, surviving. Except that's not the truth. The truth is the drugs wear out. The truth is that when they do, there's nothing, there's no where to turn. The truth is for gay men in America, when they exhaust what the medical system has to offer it is still a terminal illness. It's an inconvenient truth, but one nonetheless.
Yes, in America, it's a gay disease. And we should own it and cure it. If we had years ago, if our leaders had dumped as much energy in to owning it and curing it instead of running from it, trying to "share" it with the nongay community, who knows where we would be now. If we had closed the bathhouses in the 1980s, if we had treated this disease like a medical one and not a social condition, who knows where we'd be on this World AIDS Day. Perhaps we wouldn't even need one.
Because that's where we, the gay and lesbian community, went wrong. We allowed everybody to treat this like a social disease and not a medical one, and we did that ourselves. By our very nature of wanting to classify it as gay or nongay, we bought in to the social implications of the virus instead of the fact that it is simply a virus, a virus that flourishes in the gay male community. Somehow even we thought there was something wrong with a virus that flourished in our community first, somehow we felt that was in some way a scar, a stigma. No, it was simply a medical fact. The AIDS virus liked the unprotected sex and weakened immune systems of gay men that liked to party. So what? Let them die? Ignore them and tell people that it's not just them that are at risk, but your nice, god-fearing 17 year old children?
I'm gay, and I deserve to live. My gay male counterparts deserve to as well. If a disease rears its head, one that likes my community, it needs to be cured and cured right away. I don't need to care about AIDS more because it's killed a generation of people in Africa, I've watched it kill or affect the lives of most of my friends in America, and that's reason enough for me to cure it. On World AIDS Day I don't need to see a young African child, I have a friend with Kaposi's Sarcoma legions on his leg
But U.S. AIDS activists now get a major "I told you so.." Because as in Africa, AIDS in America is now also a Black disease. That's right, while gay men need to own it and cure it, the African American community now gets a franchise on our ownership. Of course, many of those African Americans are gay men. Here's a breakdown according the an AIDS Fact Sheet from the CDC.
• Racial and ethnic minorities have been disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic, and minority Americans now represent the majority of new AIDS cases (71%) and of those estimated to be living with AIDS (64%)
• African Americans and Latinos account for a disproportionate share of new AIDS diagnoses and of new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in the 33 integrated surveillance states.
• Almost half (47%) of all those living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. are African Americans.
• African Americans have the highest AIDS case rates of any racial/ethnic group, followed by Latinos, American Indian/Alaska Natives, whites, and Asian/Pacific Islanders. The AIDS case rate per 100,000 population for African Americans was 9.5 times that of whites in 2003.
• Despite declines in HIV infection rates among men who have sex with men (MSM) since the early years of the epidemic, they continue to be at high risk for infection, accounting for an estimated 57% of AIDS diagnoses among men in 2003. Studies indicate that risk behavior continues among MSM and that they are at significantly greater risk for HIV infection than other groups in the U.S.
So will we care in the United States about AIDS now that it's also a Black disease? Will there be calls from Black Americans to "Own It, Cure It?" Probably not, but it is a shame that people of color on another continent seem to be getting more education and more help on this World AIDS Day than people of color in the United States.
The fact is there are many diseases that need our attention in the U.S. and the world, AIDS being just one of them. Let's not have one day to worry about one disease, let's start making people proactive to live healthier lifestyles every day. Let's make sure everybody has clean water, food of some kind and access to basic medical care. Let's take care of everybody, gay, straight, Black, White, every day, not just December 1 st. As gay people, let's do claim ownership to AIDS in America and join those in the Black community who now have a sublet to find a cure, to find treatments. Let's present the real face of AIDS in the media, not just a Black one, but a gay one, and not just the happy happy joy joy stories, but the truth: people still die from this disease, the drugs are not a cure, and their side effects can be devastating.
Let's at least have the truth about AIDS on World AIDS Day: the truth that it's a medical disease not a social one, that every one that contracts it deserves treatment even if they were responsible for contracting it since most illnesses are diseases of choice. Americans are eating themselves in to heart disease every day, but we still care for them, they're smoking their way to lung cancer, but we still help them. And gay men, enough already. Zero transmission, period end. Zero transmission. You know how, the information is out there. Zero transmission, DO YOU HEAR ME? Lead the way, show the world we learn from decades of suffering, ZERO TRANSMISSION. Because if we can do that, and we can, we can then lead the way and turn this epidemic around. Gay men can lead the way to a cure, lead the way in education if we strive for ZERO TRANSMISSION. Safe sex works, so, to borrow a phrase from Project Runway, "Make it work."
And to Black America, learn from gay American's struggle with the disease. Don't stigmatize those with it, embrace them. And get the word out there to everybody in your community as to how to prevent it. Spend as much time on TV talking about AIDS Rev. Jackson and Rev. Sharpton as you have about Michael Richards.
One day, on December 1st, I'd like to have a party for World AIDS Day to celebrate zero transmission. It can be done and before we strike out in the "world" for that, let's start in the United States. When we can boast that, then we can reach out.
World AIDS Day: Will There Be A Party? Huffington Post by Charles Karel Bouley