A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Centar ze evropske studije Univerziteta Harvard i Harvardovo Južnoslovensko društvo organizovali su 11. februara panel koji je predstavio novo lice Nikole Tesle.

Događaj je započeo predavanjem Aleksandra Protića, direktora Tesla memorijalnog projekta i Federalnog savetnika Francuske Federacije za UNESKO o doprinosu svetskom miru Nikole Tesle, kao i o njegovom mestu u međunarodnoj baštini.

U nastavku je održana panel diskusija na kojoj je predstavljena knjiga "Put mira Nikole Tesle" u izdanju UNESKO Centra za mir, "Teslianum" energetskog inovacionog centra i Tesla memorijalnog projekta. Zbornik članaka osvetljava Teslin doprinos svetskom miru, strategijama, filantropiji, održivom razvoju, etičkom preduzetništvu, teme koje su gotovo nimalo poznate u vezi Tesle.

Štampano izdanje knjige se ne prodaje, već poklanja izuzetnim pojedincima koji su se posvetili Tesli.

Digitalna verzija knjige biće svima besplatno dostupna putem interneta. U knjizi, o Tesli pišu nobelovci, akademici, eksperti MENSA-e, UNESKO-a, UNICEF-a, čuveni pisci, profesori i studenti iz različitih zemalja.

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Gordana Vunjak-Novaković, profesor biomedicine na čuvenom Univerzitetu Kolumbija u Njujorku i dvostruki američki akademik, otvorila je panel govoreći o Teslinoj etici u životu i radu, kao i o poukama koje nam je ostavio. Gi Đoken, direktor UNESKO centra za mir, govorio je o tome šta lideri mogu da nauče od Tesle.

Mirjana Prljević, međunarodni ekspert za strateško pozicioniranje, predsednik Energetskog inovacionog centra "Teslianum" i izvršni direktor Fondacije za mir i rešavanje kriza, analizirala je premijerno Teslu kao primer sjajnog stratega i naglasila da su izuzetni ljudi ključ dobrih strategija.

Srđan Pavlović, predsednik frankfurtske interkulturne mreže Nikola Tesla posvetio se Teslinoj kreativnosti. Zorica Civrić, viši kustos Muzeja nauke i tehnike u Beogradu, predstavila je komparativnu analizu Tesle i Šekspira kao analogiju dva genija. Rave Mehta, pisac bestseler stripa o Nikoli Tesli razmatrao je savremeni pristup istoriji nauke i način na koji Tesla može da inspiriše mlađe generacije.

Pored profesora i studenata univerziteta Harvard, događaju u Harvardovom Centru za Evropske studije prisustvovao je i diplomatski kor, naučnici, preduzetnici i umetnici.

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Vlade Divac

A first round pick of the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1989 NBA draft, Vlade Divac went on to become one of the first European players to have an impact on the NBA.

In 1985, Vlade Divac was one of 15 young boys from Slovenia, Bosna, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and Macedonia that won the gold medal in the University Games. This would prove to be a basketball team that is considered among the best ever assembled. They went on to win a gold medal at the European Junior Championships in 1986, a gold medal at the FIB A World Junior Championships in Bormio, Italy in 1987 (defeating Team USA twice in that tournament), and a silver medal representing Yugoslavia at the 1988 Olympics.

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The Church at Prayer

by Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra

Publisher’s note

Many readers of the addresses of Elder Aimilianos, which have been published in the five-volume series, rchimandrite Aimilianos, Spiritual Instructions and Discourses (Ormylia, 1998-2003), have frequently expressed the wish for an abridged and more accessible form of his teaching. In response, we are happy to inaugurate a new series of publications incorporating key texts from the above-mentioned collection. Other considerations have also contributed o this new project, such as the selection of specific texts which address important, contemporary questions; the need for a smaller, more reader-friendly publication format; and the necessity for editing certain passages in need of clarification, without however altering their basic meaning.

Above all, the works collected in this volume reflect the importance which the Elder consistently attached to prayer, spirituality, community life, worship, and liturgy. Thus the experientially based works "On Prayer", and "The Prayer of the Holy Mountain", which deal primarily with the Prayer of the Heart, appear first, followed by the summary addresses on "The Divine Liturgy", and "Our Church Attendance". These are in turn followed by the more socially oriented discourses on "Our Relations with Our Neighbor", and "Marriage: The Great Sacrament". Finally, the present volume closes with the sermons on "Spiritual Reading" and "The Spiritual Life", which in a simple and yet compelling manner set forth the conditions for "ascending to heaven on the wings of the Spirit".

It is our hope that The Church at Prayer will meet the purpose for which it is issued and will serve as a ready aid and support for those who desire God and eternal life in Him.