Categories Recent events https://www.facebook.com/severeweatherEU/videos/1861814604041632/ A prefrontal severe supercell hit Celje and its surroundings in central Slovenia with extreme torrential rainfall and large hail late on August 29 reaching 91 mm were reported (Griže pri Žalcu) Large hail accumulations were reported in Velenje while to the south Polzela is reported to have been hit with wallnut-sized hail Flash flooding and numerous landslides were also reported one of them blocking the Celje-Ljubljana railroad Chaser reports indicate a well-developed HP supercell View of the supercell E of Celje. Shelf cloud, wall cloud, inflow tail and mid-level inflow banding well defined. Photo: Jure Atanackov View of the supercell near Žalec, Slovenia, photo by Marko Korošec View of the supercell near Celje, Slovenia, photo by Marko Korošec https://www.facebook.com/severeweatherEU/videos/1861763684046724/ Hail in Velenje. Photo: Slovenske Novice Debris flow aftermath near Trbovlje. Photo: RTV SLO EUMETSAT vis satellite image of the Celje HP supercell at 15:40 UTC. IMAGE: Sat24.com ARSO SIRAD radar scan of the Celje HP supercell at 15:10 UTC. Map: ARSO The Youngest Glacier on Earth is on the US West Coast and keeps growing while the vast majority of ice masses elsewhere are rapidly receding Ligurian and Tyyrhenian seas – September 16-18 RSS Feed Any time.” © Severe Weather Europe 2023 The senior team of Cedevita Olimpija was strengthened by the young and talented Blaž Habot who we were able to follow in the Hopsev jersey from Polzela in the 2020/21 season The list of talented players that we will be able to follow in the coming seasons in Ljubljana’s Cedevita Olimpija is longer for Blaž Habot who will stay in Ljubljana for the next four seasons Habot has no experience with playing at the highest international level but he successfully wore the Hopsi jersey last season who made it all the way to the quarterfinals of the Slovenian national championship Blaž Habot first appears in the official statistics of the Basketball Federation of Slovenia in the 2012/13 season and in the national championship for boys under 13 he wore the Maribor Messer jersey at the time Habot also wore the jerseys of Miklavž and Primo Avto and in senior basketball he got the opportunity to play for the first time in Slovenske Konjice he averaged 11.1 points per game for Konjice in the 3rd SKL in 15 matches we were able to follow Habot in a Hopsi jersey and he played in 26 games and scored 4.8 points and 1.9 rebounds per game Habot and the team from Polzele faced Cedevita Olimpija in the quarterfinals of the national championship and in two matches they scored a total of nine points and collected seven rebounds He spent an average of just over 28 minutes per game on the floor Bishop Javier Echevarría was in Slovenia and Croatia for a brief pastoral visit He met with faithful of the Prelature and friends and encouraged them in their apostolic efforts the Prelate often spoke about Saint’s Josemaria’s great affection for this country which he was well informed about thanks to several Croatian faithful of Opus Dei including Vladimer Vince and Luka Brajnovic when in the middle of the twentieth century the political situation in Croatia didn’t permit the recognition of basic human rights the Founder of Opus Dei had assured people with a lot of faith that in the not too distant future the Christian message would once again be spread in these lands The Prelate had a chance to visit with Cardinal Josip Bozanić of Zagreb and stopped in the Cathedral to pray before the mortal remains of Blessed Aloizije Stepinac well-known for his efforts to defend human and civil rights in Croatia He spent most of his time meeting with faithful of the Prelature in Zagreb and many other people who take part in the formative activities of Opus Dei He spoke a lot about the Year of Mercy and invited people to have recourse to Saint Josemaria to learn how to be merciful: “as he himself said since our Lord had taught him how to love.” He had a chance to speak with a group of families who are starting several primary schools and also with people who are organizing courses of family orientation to assist married couples in Croatia The Prelate also met with a group of priests who are members of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross and some of their friends Bishop Javier Echevarría arrived in Ljubljana on Thursday he had several get-togethers with faithful of the Prelature and cooperators as well as with young people taking part in the activities of Christian formation Opus Dei began its stable apostolic work in Slovenia in 2003 The Prelate encouraged everyone to live their faith integrally and to strive to help so many people who are waiting for someone to speak to them about God: “God wants to make use of you to help many other people come to know Him On Friday afternoon he visited the Archbishop of Ljubljana who thanked him for the apostolic work Opus Dei is carrying out in Slovenia He also had a chance to stop in the Ljubljana Cathedral to pray for a few moments and to pass through the holy door The Prelate stressed the vocation of all the baptized to holiness which for most people means striving for sanctity in the middle of the world On Saturday he visited the Polzela Conference Center an ancient Dominican monastery that was built in the 15th century It is currently undergoing remodeling to make it suitable for the activities of spiritual formation organized by the Prelature of Opus Dei Printed | document generated automatically from https://opusdei.org/en/article/prelates-pastoral-visit-to-slovenia-and-croatia/ (05/02/2025) Federalni odbor za organizacijo prenosa padlih borcev za Slovenijo folder Grobovi zavezniških vojakov in pilotov the President of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor and the USA Ambassador to Slovenia Jamie Lindler Harpootlian commemorated Slovenian-American Friendship Day which this year coincided with the 30th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries The date for the annual Slovenian-American Friendship Day was chosen in remembrance on a tragic event when an American »Flying Fortress« B-17 bomber was shot down over the surrounding area of Polzela on March 19 was on its way to target a factory in the Austrian town of Steyr as it was shot down over Celje and crashed at the foot of the Oljka mountain Eight out of ten members of the crew died and were buried in the cemetery in Andraž nad Polzelo a memorial stone was unveiled at the cemetery in their memory there were a number of air formations operating in the Slovenian airspace Having occupied Sicily and the southern part of Italy Romania and even those located in the German Reich itself especially those undertaken by “Flying Fortress” bombers Slovenian territory became of key importance in rescuing wounded Allied pilots when Allied missions were established here following a visit to the Slovenian partisan headquarters by a delegation headed by Major William Jones Increase in Allied aircraft activity led to an increase in a number of planes that crashed or were shot down If we take a look at this month's archivalia written by the American Graves Registration Service with its seat in Belgrade a total of around 500 planes »disappeared« in the Slovenian territory Matija Žgajnar states that according to incomplete lists a minimum of 1050 American planes were believed to have been shot down over the territory of Yugoslavia with 244 of them crashing down over Slovenian territory 806 pilots were believed to have been rescued mostly with the help from the Partisans and Allied missions When discussing the issue of wounded pilots and their rescue less attention was given to the issue of the actual burials and subsequent reburials of the pilots who had died obtained by the American Graves Registration Service the bodies of over 100 Allied pilots had been exhumed and returned to their hometowns or to their final place of rest in military cemeteries Although the issue of the reburial of the fallen soldiers was tackled already during wartime it wasn’t until after the war that the authorities really engaged in it The authority responsible for the organization of reburials was the Federal Committee for the Organization of the Transfer of the Fallen Soldiers for Slovenia which operated within the Ministry of the Interior The federal committee then had a network of subordinate district In addition to taking care of the reburial of Slovenian soldiers such committees also dealt with the issues of arranging reburying of foreign soldiers who lost their lives in Slovenia and were buried on Slovenian soil Already in its founding circular of November 24 the federal committee notified all Liberation Front district committees and all national liberation committees that British and American authorities would send to Yugoslavia their special commissions to record and locate graves of the fallen Allied soldiers and pilots The committees were instructed to send detailed information about the locations of the graves and were told that “… graves of Allied soldiers and pilots must be fenced and nicely decorated” The federal committee sent the same instruction out again on January 26 either because district committees were too slow in sending in their reports or because there was a certain pressure from the American Graves Registration Service The federal committee again instructed its district committees to send in all the gathered information about the planes that had been shot down and about the killed pilots which was needed to help identify individual persons and planes Preserved among the records of the archival fond SI AS 281 - Federal Committee for the Organization of the Transfer of the Fallen Soldiers for Slovenia - there are tens of letters of inquiry Documents reveal that some of the identification cases were relatively simple while others required more extensive and lengthy examination This month’s archivalia offers a look at the mysterious case of the search for the pilot Martin F 1922 in Memphis in the American state of Texas.  1946 and addressed to the Chief of Police in Maribor 1945 approximately six miles south of Maribor her son announced over wireless communication that he was going to jump out of the plane and after that every trace of him was lost She added: »I was told that this was a very mountainous country and that it was difficult to find a way in such cases asking for your help in finding my son.« She goes on and describes her son as being six feet and three inches tall Head of the Maribor Internal Affairs Department He explained that a plane was indeed believed to have been shot down on that day about ten kilometres south of Maribor parachutists jumped from the plane and one of them was believed to have been her son He landed with his parachute near the village of Vurberk and sought refuge with a local man who was to be his connection with the partisans the crash of the plane was also witnessed by members of the Gestapo and Mihajlović's Chetnics shot him and buried him in a ditch by a road the partisans were later to bury the pilot in a Vurberk cemetery »…with dignity he deserved as an officer of the Allies« of strong constitution and brown or red hair Authorities asked the pilot's mother to send them a photo of her son in a uniform so that the local farmer could identify him Melvin Millbright was another pilot believed to have jumped from the same plane but he was rescued and returned to his homeland Enclosed to the letter were six photos taken at the place of the execution and burial but Žgajnar recounts a slightly different version of the events The questionnaire that was filled out to enter data into death records (Fragebogen zum Sterbebuch) reveals that the name of the American pilot was found in the death records of the Cirkovce parish under the number 18/45 with the explanation that the airman in question was killed fighting German antiaircraft defence on February 14 He was buried in the cemetery in Cirkovice the local gendarmerie station taking care of the burial Žgajnar's story is partly confirmed by a testimony of the Liberation Front field activist Zvonko Sagadin who said that he had observed the action from the Ptujska Gora and had seen the airmen jumping out of the burning American plane He saw that the parachute of one of them got stuck and that he fell to the ground and died Since the plane was a Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter Sagadin believed that it must have held two airmen He added that the other airman took the route used by couriers to escape to White Carniola The ambiguity regarding the identity of the dead pilot still seemed unresolved on December 5 when the American Graves Registration Service sent a letter inquiring about the basis on which the identity of Martin O'Callaghan was established an investigation that was carried out by the US Department of Defence’s Agency for the Investigation of the Missing and Killed American Soldiers also agreed with the version that Martin F As cause of death they stated that the pilot was killed in a fire that followed the plane crash The list of the planes that crashed in the territory of the People's Republic of Slovenia states that the grave of the American soldier in Cirkovice was exhumed in June 1947 and the grave in Vurberk was exhumed in October 1946 explaining that the grave in Vurberk contained the remains of two pilots who died on May 1944 which disproves the thesis that O'Callaghan was buried in Vurberk were first exhumed from the grave in Cirkovice and placed in a mass grave in Belgrade and in 1950 they were transferred to the American Cemetery in Impruneta near Florence his remains were accounted for and he received his own memorial stone in his hometown of Memphis One can only imagine what the poor mother of the dead pilot must have felt in the face of such tragedy and especially when faced with the lack of any clear information about the event Discover the online column Archivalia of the Month Did you find the information you were looking for Do you want to receive a response from the responsible institution Clicking on the link will open your default e-mail program and automatically draft a message that you can send to the institution responsible for the content of this website ask for a reply Sasha Vujacic is a retired Slovenian professional basketball player who has a net worth of $8 million Sasha Vujacic earned his net worth through a career in basketball in the NBA and the Turkish Basketball League Aleksander "Sasha" Vujacic was born on March 8 at the time part of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia was a Serbian basketball coach and his mother Ksenija was playing with the Yugoslav women's club when she got pregnant with Sasha at the age of 19 and had to quit His parents divorced when he was just two years old and he lived with his mother and stepfather a sister named Nina and a brother named Aljosa He always loved basketball but also grew up interested in volleyball Having gotten acquainted with the game of basketball at such a young age Vujacic was able to play for Branik and Polzela from 1998 to 2000 he played for the Snaidero Udine junior team before joining the senior team in 2001 He also played for the Slovenian junior national team and won a silver medal at the 2002 European Junior Championship making his professional debut with Snaidero Udine of Italy he got drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 27th overall pick in the 2004 NBA Draft Sasha set the record for the best three-point field goal percentage for a single season in Lakers history at a .437 clip He earned the nickname "Machine" due to his sharpshooting and in the 2009 and 2010 seasons helped the Lakers win the NBA championship Vujacic was traded to the New Jersey Nets in 2010 and only played with the team for a year before signing a two-year contract with the Anadolu Efes He made the Turkish Basketball League All-Star team in 2012 and 2013 and was named the TBL All-Star MVP in 2012 He returned to the NBA in 2014 on a 10-day contract with the Los Angeles Clippers but the team did not re-sign him once it expired Sasha went on to play for Reyer Venezia Mestre and Istanbul BB before signing a one-year deal with the New York Knicks He re-signed with the Knicks the next season Vujacic then won the Italian Basketball Cup in 2018 with Auxilium Torino Sasha Vujacic signed a three-year contract worth $15 million His one-year deal with the New York Knicks in 2015 earned him $1.36 million and the one-year contract in 2016 was worth $1.41 million Vujacic earned nearly $16 million in salary Sasha was once engaged to professional tennis player Maria Sharapova, but the couple separated in 2012. 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