Sasha

Summer has not yet begun according to the calendar, and the “black chronicle” is already filling the website of Radio Bar “Bar Info”. A particularly sore spot is Sutomore. In the first ten days of June, there were several traffic accidents and incidents there. Two pedestrians were killed and five people were injured. Such a tragic balance is the most striking possible warning to drivers and pedestrians that in the coming days of heavy traffic, they must be extremely careful and patient!

The police have also stepped up traffic accident prevention in Bar: on June 12th alone, they sanctioned 43 drivers for speeding.

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As the main tourist season approaches, the Food Safety Authority has also released disturbing information that the most common violations found by inspectors during inspections in butcher shops, bakeries, restaurants and markets are non-compliance with hygiene standards, inadequate food storage and incorrect product declaration. Good conditions for the tourist season include not only road infrastructure, catering facilities, the kindness of hosts and cultural events, but also quality and healthy food.

And the competition among the "maritime" countries is great: Turkey, Greece and Croatia have jumped ahead, I believe Bulgaria and even Albania are ahead of us, not to mention Italy, France and Spain...

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Baranin Dr. Aleksandar Saša Videnović is the first full professor at Harvard Medical School from Montenegro. Possibly at Harvard in general. In addition to being a full professor of neurology, Saša is also the head of the Department of Memory Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital, and leads scientific projects at the US National Institutes of Health.

He is a subspecialist in Parkinson's disease and movement disorders, as well as in sleep medicine. Before Harvard, he was a professor of neurology at Northwestern University in Chicago. He graduated from high school in Bar and the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade.

Dr. Saša Videnović is, above all, a good man. Although he is one of our most respected doctors in America, and therefore in the world, he has remained modest and approachable. He is always cheerful and smiling. And helpful and reliable.

The generations he teaches at Harvard will learn from him how to be the best doctors, but also good people.

He was a careful and devoted son to his mother Branka - Cica, who recently passed away.

Sasha's wife Nancy is a cardiologist, and his son Stefan is a student at Georgetown University in Washington. He will not follow in his parents' footsteps, his interests are international politics and international law.

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There are people who have a beneficial effect on people. Wherever and whenever they appear, they bring joy, instill hope that everything will be fine, and inspire action. Everything comes to life, multiplies, and stirs up, as if at least three other people had arrived with that person.

And there are people who "kill you in the head" as soon as you see them: with their grumpiness, gossiping about everything and everyone, inevitable bragging...

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Sometimes it seems to me that this government took over the worst DPS cadres, and dismissed all those who were even remotely worth it. And left them to continue to languish in some ministries, state-owned enterprises and institutions, boards, commissions...

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Legendary basketball coach of Mornar Petar Blažević has died.

I was in the eighth grade, in the 1972/73 school year, when Pero came from what was then Titograd to the “Meksko” Elementary School as a physical education teacher. We were thrilled that a famous basketball coach, the brother of the even more famous Jakov at the time, would be teaching physical education. We looked at him like that boy in Šejn, in the cult western film. Everything that had not been possible before, was possible with teacher Pero, and we eagerly awaited physical education class. He did not raise his voice and we listened to him without question. He patiently and expertly explained basketball steps to us on the concrete court as if we were the first team players of Buducnost, whom he was coaching at the time. With his casualness and humor “on the other ball”, he won us over quickly and forever tied us to basketball, to which he was so devoted.

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On social media, through which everything is completed today, from elections and purchases to obituaries and other announcements, it is clear from the posts and, especially, the comments who their parents gently put to sleep, with kisses and goodnight stories, and who they left in the dark, with the threat: "If you don't fall asleep right away, a boggart will come to you!"

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Overall, the best children's song in the former Yugoslavia, in my opinion, is "Deset ljutih gusara" (The Ten Angry Pirates), by Ljubivoje Ršumović. Everything about it has stood the test of time for decades and the incorruptible criticism of girls and boys: the lyrics, the message, the melody, the rhythm, the interpretation by the late Milorad Mandić Manda...

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Curiosity, playfulness, insight, generosity, laughter, a little bit of pampering... the year has flown by.