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bolstering its purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) team’s deep sector knowledge and expertise
RoundShield Partners has bolstered its purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) team with the appointment of Drazen Visnjevac as a Director within the investment team
underwriting and execution of PBSA investments across Western Europe and the UK
sourcing off-market opportunities and bolstering the team’s deep sector knowledge and expertise
Drazen brings eight years of experience in PBSA transactions across Europe and the UK
having managed €750m of PBSA transactions involving over 6,000 beds across Europe
He spent five years at real estate investment manager Round Hill Capital
rising to Senior Vice President of Investments
he was an Investment Associate at The Social Hub (formerly The Student Hotel)
“We are delighted to welcome Drazen to our team
Given the stark supply-demand imbalances we see across large parts of Europe within the PBSA sector
we expect to continue to deploy significant capital in the space
We are confident that we will be able to leverage Drazen’s experience and track record to continue sourcing and executing on highly attractive opportunities across Western Europe and the UK.”
RoundShield has raised over $4bn of equity across its real estate and asset-backed credit strategies
The firm has deep experience in the student accommodation sector
having invested in over €1.5bn of high-quality PBSA assets with pan-European exposure in the UK, Spain and Germany
Drazen Visnjevac has eight years of experience in purpose-built student accommodation
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ExpandMarko Visnjevac celebrates McHenry’s win over Hononegah in the IHSA Class 4A Guilford semifinal game on Wednesday at Rock Valley College in Rockford
ROCKFORD – McHenry opened the second half with 3-pointers from Caleb Jett and Adam Anwar to take a 12-point lead
only to have Hononegah come back and hit four 3s in less than two minutes to tie the score
The Warriors pulled ahead by 10 points in the fourth and threatened to take control
firing away from behind the arc and finishing with 14 3s
“Our guys just scrapped,” Warriors coach Corky Card said
“It’s a tough way to play with a team trying to win games on 3s
ExpandAutoplayImage 1 of 18McHenry's Marko Visnjevac tries to grab a rebound during the IHSA Class 4A Guilford Boys Basketball Sectional semifinal game against Hononegah on Wednesday
McHenry came up with a huge defensive stop with 9 seconds remaining
Anwar swished two free throws with 8.4 to go
and the Warriors grabbed a 58-53 victory in a Class 4A Guilford Sectional semifinal game Wednesday night at Rock Valley College
The win was the 300th of Card’s coaching career and gave the Warriors (26-8) their school win record
Class 4A Guilford Sectional semfinal: McHenry 28, Hononegah 25, 4;52 third. McHenry’s Adam Anwar knocks down a 3. The net was still onnthe rim from Caleb Jett’s 3 a minute earlier. pic.twitter.com/9xBxvQmDG8
but one more would be a sectional on Friday,” said Warriors guard Marko Visnjevac
a 6-foot senior who passed 1,000 points this season
The 3s from Jett and Anwar were the first buckets of the second half for either team and put McHenry ahead 28-16
Hononegah (13-17) made 42 3s in its three postseason games and heated up right after that to tie it at 28 with 3:55 in the third
Visnjevac answered with a 3 and two free throws
The Warriors never trailed in the second half
I feel like I’ve been preparing for this moment my whole life,” Visnjevac said
“It was more about our defense and limiting offensive rebounds.”
McHenry built its lead back to 50-40 when Visnjevac tossed Hayden Stone a pass for an alley-oop layup with 5:40 remaining in the fourth
The Indians rallied back again and hacked the lead to 53-50 with 1:13 remaining on Lucas Claudy’s 3
“We’ve been shooting the ball with confidence down the stretch here,” Indians coach Tom Schmidt said
against their 1-2-2 ball press we were going to get looks from the outside
it’s a shot we’re comfortable taking and a shot we knew we were going to get.”
then Cole Warren hit another 3 for Hononegah
Visnjevac made one free throw with 32 seconds remaining for a 56-53 lead and the Warriors came up with the big stop when a Hononegah pass went out of bounds
but we also confused them,” Visnjevac said
“We were sending other guys and got pressure on the ball
I’m not sure they knew what was going on and threw it away.”
Schmidt wanted to get the ball in the middle and kick it out for a 3
“We were getting some pretty good looks off that most of the night,” he said
“I was about half of a second away from calling timeout
I was walking down the sideline to call timeout and I see the ball going over the outstretched reach of Claudy’s hands
Class 4A Guilford Sectional semfinal: McHenry 22, Hononegah 16, halftime. McHenry’s Marko Visnjevac with another 3. pic.twitter.com/E3V9iVcQEl
Jett scored 13 points and Stone added 10 for the Warriors. Darian Tholin led Hononegah with 17, Claudy had 14 and Warren added 13.
“Those 3s back and forth was fun,” Stone said. “I have to say it was just us being connected and thriving off each other. Having energy in those tough moments when they’d hit a 3 and come right back and score ourselves. Us staying connected was a big part.”
Card coached at Prairie Ridge for 15 seasons, then for three seasons at Dunlap, before coming back to the area last summer to take over at McHenry.
“The 300 is a huge number for coach, we’re super proud of him,” said Stone, who had five blocked shots. “Some of us knew that this was for the team, but mainly for him. He’s been a great coach coming in here and getting going, building relationships and everything.
“And being the winningest team in McHenry is a great feeling. We celebrated in the locker room, I’m soaked.”
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Class 4A Guilford Sectional semfinal: McHenry 28, Hononegah 25, 4;52 third. McHenry’s Adam Anwar knocks down a 3. The net was still onnthe rim from Caleb Jett’s 3 a minute earlier. pic.twitter.com/9xBxvQmDG8
Class 4A Guilford Sectional semfinal: McHenry 22, Hononegah 16, halftime. McHenry’s Marko Visnjevac with another 3. pic.twitter.com/E3V9iVcQEl
58-53 McHenry ends the Hononegah boys basketball season in the sectional semi-final
This was what most of the season looked like until the playoffs got underway
said on Friday night “Hononegah Indians: regional champs
We got more basketball to play on Wednesday night.”
McHenry opened the 3rd quarter to open a 10 point cushion over the Indians
That’s when this team in this playoff run said
Another three from senior Darian Tholin and senior Cole Warren and it cut the lead to 4. Indians with some good defensive plays and a quick 1st two-point bucket of the game cut the lead to 2. Two straight hoops from McHenry’s Marko Visnjevac (23 points) and it pushed the lead to 6
The remaining 3+ minutes of the game saw Hononegah get within 2 points with 47 seconds left
A quick foul by Hononegah and a 1 out of 2 from the line for Visnjevac made it 56-53
A turnover by the Indians. Ball back to McHenry. Hononegah then force a 5-second call and get the ball back with 20 seconds remaining. They move the ball into the offensive end. A miscommunication on the perimeter with 9 seconds left and McHenry gets the ball back. A quick foul and 2 final free throws ends the Hononegah Playoff run as they drop the 4A sectional semi-final to McHenry 58-53
Senior Darian Tholin lead the Indians with 17 points including five 3-pointers
Landon Claudy had 14 points including four 3-pointers
Cole Warren had 13 points including three 3-pointers
In the game the Indians finished with fourteen 3-pointers and made just three 2-point buckets
Thank you to the IHSA, Andy Gannon, Coach Tom Schmidt, Erik Nordquist, and the entire 2023-2024 Hononegah Indians boys basketball team
Hudgens was arrested for the 11th time in Chicago on May 1
Buckets n Blooms and Dee Dee’s have officially joined forces on Main Street Rockton
Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898
Photograph courtesy of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature
Milman Parry saw the Homeric epics through new eyes
were the work of generations of illiterate poets who composed orally; their poetry took wing in the moment
were reduced to print only centuries later
ruled their word choice as much as the gods
As a 21-year-old graduate student of Greek at the University of California at Berkeley
the son of an Oakland pharmacist and the first of his family to attend college
flirted with an early version of this idea in the summer of 1923
It became a succinct master’s thesis that soon was consigned to the library stacks and forgotten
refined and expanded his idea into an intricately argued doctoral thesis
after a year on the faculty of a small midwestern college
as instructor in Greek and Latin and tutor in the Division of Ancient Languages
He remained at Harvard for the rest of his brief life
which ended in 1935 with the blast of a revolver in a Los Angeles hotel room: At the time it was judged a tragic accident
would see the shooting as his wife’s doing
a moment’s raging vengeance for supposed marital cruelties
But the ideas that consumed Parry transcend the doubts surrounding his death
His doctoral thesis was a nice piece of scholarship
exhaustive and respected; yet while he’d theorized about the work of oral poets
Parry had never actually heard one speak or sing
at the suggestion of a judge at his thesis defense in Paris
and Bosnians still plied its villages and mountain byways with the songs and stories of their own distinct oral literature
Parry recorded hundreds of mostly illiterate singers who
to the rhythms of one-stringed instruments known as gusles
they sang the same songs as other guslars did yet were never quite the same
or to some urgency or impatience in his audience: This time
new language bubbling up in obedience to the poetic rhythms of his tradition
And his idea pushed well beyond the merely fertile or “suggestive”; down the years
generations of Homeric scholars had done plenty of that
when he and his wife lived in a little pension in Sceaux outside Paris
Marian would remember Milman forever upstairs
The epithets were that most familiar marker of the Homeric epics
Each with its distinctive sound rhythms in the original Greek
akin to English’s stressed or unstressed syllables
they could be seized by the singer as he sang to fill a niche in the dactylic hexametric line
To generations of skeptical classicists Parry all but proved that they appeared when and where they did not to advance the story but to sweetly fill the sung line
Parry may not have made the impact he did but for Albert Lord
his assistant on his second trip to Yugoslavia
young Lord was not Parry’s “colleague”; he helped set up the recording equipment
collected the aluminum disks on which they were saved
Lord felt the awful weight of his mentor’s work
and a quarter-century later published his own magnum opus
which enriched and deepened oral poetry beyond all Parry had begun
The years have brought challenge and reinterpretation to Parry’s big idea
But if Homer may yet be called author of the Odyssey
he did not write it as they did; after Parry
there are different ways to “write.”
Robert Kanigel’s biography of Milman Parry is Hearing Homer’s Song
He is working on a book about the Franco-American excavations of the 1930s that yielded the Antioch Mosaics
There was plenty of food and entertainment enjoyed Sunday during the Taste of Serbia Food and Music Festival at St
Basil of Ostrog Serbian Orthodox Church in Mettawa
Sunday was the second day of the annual fest that featured food lovers enjoying pit-roasted lamb and pig
apple and cherry strudel and rolled cheese strudels
bookstore and presentations about Serbian culture and traditional dance
Organizers say it is one of the largest ethnic festivals in Lake County and northern Illinois
By JULIE MOULT FOR MAILONLINE Updated: 07:57 BST
The mother of a baby who died following a botched assisted delivery
was so rough during the delivery she feared her baby's head would be 'pulled off'
said in a statement read to the GMC's 'fitness to practice' hearing that she did not believe her daughter could ever have survived the birth at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey
fled the UK and returned to his Bosnia after he was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the death of Hollie Hope Dinning in May 2002
Moments after the baby was delivered Mrs Freeman said she was thinking: "Why isn't she breathing what has he done?"
Tragic birth: St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey
where Tracey Dinning's baby died 24 hours after a botched assisted delivery by Bosnian Dr Visnjevac
She said: "I believed I was going to be well looked after but instead our beautiful daughter Hollie Hope has been taken from us
Yesterday the GMC heard that Dr Visnjevac inflicted massive brain damage on Hollie
The hearing was told he tugged so forcefully on her head that her Mrs Dinning had to be held down by her husband to prevent her being pulled off the bed
A post-mortem examination in May 2002 revealed the baby's skull had been fractured
He was bailed and interviewed several times but in December that year
he failed to return to Woking police station
It later emerged he had fled to Sarajevo where he is in hiding
When Mrs Dinning unexpectedly became pregnant in May 2001
she took every precaution to ensure she did not miscarry and went on to carry the baby full term
said yesterday that the doctor's pulling was so strong that Mrs Dinning "described it as like watching a calf being delivered"
But because the forceps were not properly positioned "there was a shearing effect" which caused massive injury
the father of the baby Jim Dinning had lost his first wife Caroline Freeman and their baby during childbirth at the same hospital two years previously
Two years earlier his then partner Caroline Freeman and their baby Chloe-Jade died at the hospital
which is run by Ashford and St Peter's NHS Trust
Earlier this year maternity services at the hospital were ranked among the worst in England
The hearing is expected to result in Dr Visnjevac being struck off the medical register in the UK
But because there is no extradition agreement between Bosnia and the UK
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