Ribar family

November 29,1943 was the day when Yugoslavia definitely became a Republic or seized to remain a Monarchy. The Proclamation ceremony was presided by Dr.Ivan Ribar, a wealthy Croat lawyer who before the war lived in a palatial home in Belgrade, and then replaced it with humble surroundings, which was quite a comedown for a man accustomed to so much of the comforts of life. His luxurious home was destroyed by the Nazis. All his art treasures, books and worldly goods went down in flames... Ribar was a leader of the democratic party that dissolved the Communist party in 1924. This shows how widely divergent were his views against Tito's.
He lost his both sons, Jurica and Ivo Lola in the war.
Ribar name to date symbolizes untainted association of sacrifice and fight against injustice.

Syd Barrett Tribute

OMG

As an alternative to burial, cremation is no longer green enough, say environmentalists, because it releases smoke and mercury, and thus the industry is considering "promession," in which the body is frozen in liquid nitrogen to minus-320 degrees (F) and then shaken until it disintegrates into powder. For green burials, the United States has at least six cemeteries that require biodegradable casings and for bodies to be free of embalming chemicals. The Forever Fernwood cemetery in Mill Valley, Calif., goes even further, banning grave markers, but, said the owner, "We issue the family a Google map with the GPS coordinates" so they can find their loved one.(!!!!!)

Omid Djalili

A British-Iranian London born comedian that "put the 'fat' into 'fatwa'" who has his own prime time BBC1 show . Has featured in movies such as The Mummy, Gladiator, Spy Game, Pirates of the Caribbean III,...co-starred in Whoopi Goldberg's sitcom.

If you know anyone with AIDS - please have them watch this

In 1984 we were told that HIV was the cause of AIDS. In his provocative documentary film, Deconstructing the Myth of AIDS, Gary Null, Ph.D., challenges virtually every statement ever made by the American medical industrial complex on the virus - including those of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institute for Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). While presenting the findings of Nobel Prize-winning scientists and leading virologists, the film exposes the political maneuvering, conspiracies and cover-ups that have provided obstacles to the study of this human catastrophe from the start. While presenting the findings of Nobel Prize-winning scientists and leading virologists, the film exposes the political maneuvering, conspiracies and cover-ups that have provided obstacles to the study of this human catastrophe from the start. For example, there are experts who believe that AIDS is the result of multiple factors, including drug use, stress and nutritional deficiency, but that government agencies made a politically strategic decision to de-emphasize these hypotheses and thus discourage certain researchers and their funding. Meanwhile, AZT, an infamously failed treatment for cancer, and now the primary FDA-approved approach to treating AIDS, is highly toxic and can produce the very symptoms of the illness it is prescribed to treat. “Deconstructing the Myth of AIDS” goes beyond medicine and science to question the very foundation of our reliance on government bureaucracies where it concerns matters of life and death.

Letter to my Mother

Are you still alive my mother?
Alive am I, and greetings I send.
And may the tranquil light of evening
Upon your humble home descend.

They write me you are anxious, mother,
Consumed with longing for your absend son,
Are seen too often in your faded jacket
Waiting by the roadside when your work is done.

And when you sit alone in twilight,
A horrifying vision makes you start:
You see me brawling drunken in a tavern
And someone stick a knife into my heart.

Take comfort, mother: that is only
The foolish fancy of a troubled brain.
Not such a drunkard I, nor such a monster,
To die without embracing you again.

I love you tenderly as ever
My only hope, my only desire
Is to find at last a longed-for harbor
Besides your steady-burning fire.

I'll come when buds are bursting in the garden,
When in the orchard blossoms blow.
But mind you do not awaken me at dawning
As you were wont to wake me long ago.

Do not awaken what is meant to slumber,
Do not evoke the ghosts of blighted dreams.
Too early did I suffer bitter losses,
And learned the worth of human schemes.

And do not try again to make me pious:
What's gone is gone - forever out of sight.
You alone are all my strength and gladness,
You alone - ineffable my light.

So be not anxious any longer, mother,
Not warse your strength in longing for your son.
And go no longer in your faded jacket
Down to the roadside when your work is done.

Sergey Esenin

Alice In Chains

Layne Staley (1967-2002): "I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this sh*t. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning, and I'm throwing up all the time and sh*tting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body."



Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam recorded a song eulogizing Staley, titled 4/20/02

Good answer

*It was mealtime during a flight on a British Airways plane: 'Would you like dinner?' the flight attendant asked the man seated in the front row.
'What are my choices?' the man asked.
'Yes or no,' she replied.

*A flight attendant was stationed at the departure gate to check tickets. As a man approached, she extended her hand for the ticket and he opened his trench coat and flashed her. Without blinking an eyelid she said,
'Sir, I need to see your ticket not your stub.'

*A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at a supermarket but she couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked a passing assistant, 'Do these turkeys get any bigger?'
The assistant replied,'I'm afraid not, they're dead.'

The policeman got out of his car and the boy racer he stopped for speeding, rolled down his window. 'I've been waiting for you all day,' the cop said.
The kid replied, 'Yes, well I got here as fast as I could.'

A truck driver was driving along on a country road. A sign came up that read 'Low Bridge Ahead.' Before he realised it, the bridge was directly ahead and he got stuck under it.. Cars are backed up for miles. Finally, a police car comes up. The policeman got out of his car and walked to the truck's cab and said to the driver, 'Got stuck, eh?'
The truck driver said, 'No, I was delivering this bridge and ran out of diesel!'

Billy Cobham

How 'bout tasting a snake?

The 33-year-old Christian Bale (Empire of the Sun, American Psycho, The Prestige, Batman Begins) who stars as Dieter Dengler in new movie Rescue Dawn, agreed to the movie after being challenged to eat several live animals by the film's director Werner Herzog. Christian said: "Werner said to me, 'How do you feel about swimming through a snake-infested river?' so I said, 'How do you feel about it Werner?' He said, 'I will do this if you will.' Then he asked, 'How do you feel about eating a live snake?'"It was a curious conversation, with more and more crazy questions. I thought, 'This sounds like an interesting endeavour.'" In one scene, Christian - who lost 55lbs for the role - also had to eat live maggots, after the director insisted he wanted the scene to look real. Herzog said: "There are too many computer effects in movies these days. I wanted audiences to start believing their own eyes again."
Rescue Dawn tells the real-life story of American Navy pilot Lt Dieter Dengler, who was captured by Laotian soldiers during the Vietnam War. Dengler was one of two survivors to have escaped from a Pathet Lao prison camp in Laos. He was rescued by the US military after 23 days on the run in the jungle, in which he watched his close friend being decapitated. The film was shot in remote parts of Thailand's North and South. It was shot backwards, meaning the final scenes of the movie where Bale had to look his thinnest after surviving the ordeal were shot first.

Why we love children

*A kindergarten pupil told his teacher he'd found a cat, but was dead. "How do you know that the cat was dead?" she asked him. "Because I pissed in its ear and it didn't move", answered the child innocently. "You did WHAT?!!" the teacher exclaimed in surprise. "You know", explained the boy, "I leaned over and went 'Pssst! and it didn't move."
*A little girl goes to the barber chair, while her dad gets his hair cut, eating a snack cake. The barber says to her,"Sweetheart, you're gonna get hair on your Twinkie." She says, "Yes, I know and I'm gonna get boobs, too."
*As exasperated mother, whose son was always getting into mischief finally asked him, "How do you expect to get into Heaven?" The boy thought it over and said,"Well, I'll run in and out and in and out and keep slamming the door until St. Peter says, "For Heaven's sake, Dylan, come in or stay out!"
*One summer evening during a violent thunderstorm a mother was tucking her son into bed. She was about to turn off the light when he asked with a tremor in his voice, "Mommy, will you sleep with me tonight?"The mother smiled and gave him a reassuring hug."I can't dear,"she said. "I have to sleep in Daddy's room."A long silence was broken at last by his shaky little voice:"The big sissy."

XYu - Leo Martin

It ain't easy for the doctors either...

1. A man comes into the ER and yells, "My wife's going to have her baby in the cab!" I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady's dress, and began to take off her underwear. Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs and I was in the wrong one.
Submitted by Dr. Mark MacDonald, San Francisco
2. At the beginning of my shift, I placed a stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall. "Big breaths," I instructed. "Yes, they used to be," replied the patient.
Submitted by Dr. Richard Byrnes, Sea ttle, WA
3. One day I had to be the bearer of bad news when I told a wife that her husband had died of a massive myocardial infarct. Not more than five minutes later, I heard her reporting to the rest of the family that he had died of a "massive internal fart."
Submitted by Dr. Susan Steinberg
4. During a patient's two-week follow-up appointment with his cardiologist, he informed me, his doctor, that he was having trouble with one of his medications. "Which one?" I asked. "The patch, the Nurse told me to put on a new one every six hours and now I'm running out of places to put it!" I had him quickly undress and discovered what I hoped I wouldn't see. Yes, the man had over fifty patches on his body!
Submitted by Dr. Rebecca St. Clair, Norfolk, VA
5. While acquainting myself with a new elderly patient, I asked, "How long have you been bedridden?" After a look of complete confusion, she answered..."Why, not for about twenty years - when my husband was alive."
Submitted by Dr. Steven Swanson, Corvallis, OR
6. I was performing rounds at the hospital one morning and while checking up on a woman, I asked, "So how's your breakfast this morning?" "It's very good, except for the Kentucky Jelly. I can't seem to get used to the taste," the patient replied. I then aske d to see the jelly and the woman produced a foil packet labelled "KY Jelly."
Submitted by Dr. Leonard Kransdorf, Detroit, MI
7. A nurse was on duty in the Emergency Room when a young woman entered wearing purple hair styled in a punk rocker Mohawk and sporting a variety of tattooes and wearing strange clothing. It was quickly determined that the patient had acute appendicitis and so she was scheduled for immediate surgery. When she was completely disrobed on the operating table, the staff noticed that her pubic hair had been dyed green, and above it there was a tattoo that read; "Keep off the grass." Once the surgery was completed, the surgeon wrote a short note on the patient's dressing, which said; "Sorry, I had to mow the lawn."
Submitted by RN no name
8. As a new, young MD doing his residency in OB, I was quite embarrassed when performing female pelvic exams. To cover my embarrassment I had unconsciously formed a habit of whistling softly. The middle-aged lady on whom I was performing this exam suddenly burst out laughing, further embarrassing me. I looked up from my work and sheepishly said, "I'm sorry. Was I tickling you?" She replied, "No doctor, but the song you were whistling was, "I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener".
Dr. wouldn't submit his name

Tito i Lennon

Novootvoreni bar "29. novembra" sa simbolima komunističke Jugoslavije pred ulazom i Titovim portretom u unutrašnjosti, postao je turistička znamenitost u Mariboru. Neki se ispred njega slikaju za uspomenu, a istovremeno su lokalu već više puta razbijani prozori.U tom prostoru na Gosposvetskoj cesti prije se prodavalo pecivo i zvao se Croissant. Novi vlasnik Božo Tukanj kaže da su njegovi gosti dobro primili redekorisani ambijent, a među ostalim mogu naručiti "špricer Tito", koji se sastoji od dvije trećine štajerskog bijelog vina i jedne trećine mineralne vode Radenska. Tukanj odbija proteste boraca za samostalnu Sloveniju navodeci da on nazivom lokala ne pokazuje nedomoljublje, te da se i sam borio za Sloveniju, ali da sve starije generacije "ono što su stekle, stekle u bivšoj Jugoslaviji" i da jugoslavenska ornamentika u Sloveniji nije zabranjena. "Uostalom, 29. novembra nije se rodila samo bivša Jugoslavija nego i John Lennon", rekao je vlasnik lokala. U Mariboru, koji je drugi po veličini slovenski grad, još uvijek postoji i Titov most i Titova cesta. Ali i ultranacionalistički lider Zmago Jelinčič, koji je u Mariboru tokom nedavnih predsjedničkih izbora dobio veći broj glasova od protivkandidata Alojza Peterlea i Danila Tuerka, a za kojega se baš ne može reći da se bori za "bratstvo i jedinstvo", u svom vrtu ima repliku Augustinčićeve Titove biste u maršalskom šinjelu...

Zoran Predin je takodje iz Maribora. On kaze: Maribor je slovenački Niš. Emocionalac. To oko jugonostalgije nije tako čudna stvar. Maribor je pristanište na obali Panonskog mora. Sam sam načetvrt Vojvođanin...

Cosa Nostra Commandments

After arresting a top Godfather Salvatore Lo Piccolo near Palermo, Sicily's police have found what may be the legendary mafiosa "10 Commandments" at the house of a Mob boss, detailing how to get "made" and what level of loyalty is required. Lo Piccolo apparently carried the papers everywhere with him. It has given investigators a unique insight into what makes a perfect mobster.
“I swear to be faithful to Cosa Nostra. If I betray, my flesh should burn,” reads the text, which goes on to set out a moral code for Mafia members:
1. No one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.
2. Never look at the wives of friends.
3. Never be seen with cops.
4. Don't go to pubs and clubs.
5. Always be available for Cosa Nostra, even if your wife's about to give birth.
6. Appointments must be respected.
7. Wives must be treated with respect.
8. When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.
9. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.
10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra are anyone with a close relative in the police, with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.

XYu - Zorica Kondza (Stijene)

Who wants to watch?

It is well known that war films make up for poor reporting.

Brian De Palma's Redacted, arguably the most shocking feature yet about events in Iraq (about to hit theatres) is using a documentary style to tell the true story of the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl by U.S. troops in 2006. Paul Haggis also based In The Valley Of Elah on true events linked to the war, although, unlike De Palma's cast of unknown actors, he employed major stars Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron and Susan Sarandon.
Both film makers have attacked mainstream media for their coverage of the Iraq war and events leading to it. During the Vietnam war there were terrific journalists doing their job, reporting on things that no one wanted to hear.
Many in the U.S. media admit that reporting of the war, and particularly the failure to question the reasons given for it, left much to be desired. Many recent films dealing with wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the repercussions of the September 11 attacks have failed to find an audience, including those who feature top talent. In The Valley Of Elah earned just $9 million at the box office worldwide. Rendition, a film about detaining terrorism suspects and starring Reese Witherspoon, earned $15 million globally, while audiences for Lions For Lambs, with Tom Cruise in an Afghan war-themed plot, have been disappointing, according to reports.

Hallmark pearls

A criminal defense lawyer and adviser to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, Terrye Cheathem has developed a line of greeting cards for a Hallmark-ignored demographic: the recently incarcerated. Among her selections are cards reading Sorry to hear about your arrest, and Honestly, I never knew anyone who was arrested before, and, simply, Not You! A remorseful correspondent could choose: I know that I have not visited you. But I still care about you ... When are you getting out, anyway? Card sales are slow and Cheathem acknowledges that people might prefer to ignore their connections to criminals. (You think?)

Molly Johnson

Less known films worth mentioning this year

No Country for Old Men





Director: Joel Coen
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Woody Harrelson
Plot: The story begins when Llewelyn Moss (BROLIN) finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law - in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell (JONES) - can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers - in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives (BARDEM) - the film simultaneously strips down the American crime drama and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as newspapers' headlines.


Eastern Promises




Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Plot: The film follows the mysterious and ruthless Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen), who is tied to one of London's most notorious organized crime families. His carefully maintained existence is jarred when he crosses paths with Anna (Naomi Watts), an innocent midwife trying to right a wrong, who accidentally uncovers potential evidence against the family. Now Nikolai must put into motion a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution.