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

Prilikom odluke da se iz domovine otisne put inostranstva, ljudima teško pada činjenica da sem što ostavljaju rodno mesto, ostavljaju i svoju porodicu, prijatelje, ali i tradiciju i običaje. Početkom dvadesetog veka, svi evropski narodi, među kojima su bili i Srbi, donosili su teškog srca odluku da se „otisnu preko bare“ odnosno, da svoju sreću potraže u obećanoj zemlji, Americi.

Upravo zbog toga, prvi Srbi koji su rešili da svoju sreću potraže na američkom tlu, pokušali su da svoju nostalgiju ublaže tako što su dizali pravoslavne crkve u kojima su pored druženja, gledali da održavaju i tradicionalni duh pravoslavlja. Danas, pojedine srpske svetinje broje više od jednog veka, a među njima je i Crkva Sveti Sava u Merilvilu, koja ove godine obeležava čak 105 godina postojanja.

Do ideje podizanja ove crkve došlo je zbog velikog broja Srba koji su naselili području grada Gerija u Indijani gde je crkva i provobitno podignuta, a koji se nalazi tik uz Merilvil (gde će biti premeštena 1991.godine). Pored toga što su dobili mesto gde su mogli da se mole i da prisustvuju tradicionalnim crkvenim službama, okupljanje pri crkvi im je pomoglo da se lakše asimiliraju, te i da se adaptiraju u američko društvo.

Webster University has restructured its top executive posts, the university's board chair announced in an email Thursday to the faculty and staff.

Effective Thursday, Webster's president, Elizabeth Stroble, takes the title of chancellor, and Provost Julian Schuster, senior vice president and COO, takes the president's post, according to the email, which was obtained by the Business Journal.

"These changes in title for Webster’s executive team reflect the growing and challenging demands of leading Webster University as a global system," Robert Reeg, chair of Webster U's board of trustees, said in the message.

The chancellor "will lead strategy development and engage external audiences to build Webster’s funding capacity and reputation," he said, and the president "will lead internal operations for optimal implementation of strategy and effective performance."

1. септембра 2019. године завршена је тродневна прослава - 800 година аутокефалности СПЦ, која је одржана у Сан Габријелу, предграђу Лос Анђелеса, у организацији Западноамеричке Српске Православне Епархије.

Парохијани при цркви Светог Саве у Сан Габријелу, најстарије парохије у Јужној Калифорнији, су пре 2 године добили су благослов од надлежног Епископа др Максима Васиљевића, као и сагласност Епархијског савета да буду домаћини значајне историјске светковине.

По добијању овакве части, много пројеката је било потребно завршити, као што су живописање храма, постављање грандиозног полијелеја и уређење порте.... Све је морало бити спремно за овако велики скуп, који је на једном месту окупио све православне народе у Америци.

Wine migrations from the Balkans to the USA do not come as a surprise. The story about Zinfandel's beginnings on the American continent is well-known. The most important institution in the USA focused on grapevine research is UC Davis. It also founded a vine nursery where all new varieties of grapevine on the American soil are checked for viruses and further propagated and sold to commercial nurseries throughout the United States.

In 2010, the so-called "2010 Protocol" was launched, defining the criteria that grapevine must meet in order to be planted in their new foundation vineyard Russell Ranch.

Serbian-American physicist engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla is nowadays famous for his work on electricity and energy.

He developed the alternating current system, making it possible to transmit electricity over vast distances, and worked on wireless communication and energy transfer. He was a brilliant, but also very eccentric thinker, claiming to get visions and displaying odd behaviour in public like an obsession with personal hygiene and pigeons. Maybe the more enigmatic parts of his personality make him such an interesting subject for conspiracy theories. Tesla is credited to have worked on unknown energy-sources, caused the Tunguska explosion with his "death-ray" prototype, and supposedly worked on an earthquake-generator.

In 1896 Tesla was working on oscillations for wireless energy transfer. The idea was to build a steam-powered oscillator, able to create various changing frequencies. If the frequency matched the resonance frequency of a receiving device, this device should transform the mechanical oscillations back into an electric current.

On the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing of the Apollo 11 mission, the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade is organizing a series of briefings and presentations by Mr. David Vuich. Mr. Vuich is one of the seven Serbs – affectionately known as the “Serbo 7” – who helped develop the Apollo Space Program.

The “Serbo 7” Apollo Spacecraft Launch Team was comprised of Milojko “Mike” Vucelic (Director, Systems Engineering) of Garesnica, Slavonija, Danilo Bojic (Engineer, Stress Analysis) of Lipovo near Kolasin, Paul Duich (Engineer, Data Analysis) of Centerville, Iowa whose family emigrated from Mrkopolje in Lika, Milos Surbatovich (Mechanical Engineer, Docking Systems) of Niksic, Peter Galovich (Engineer, Systems Design Hudson) of Wyoming whose family emigrated from Lika, Slavoljub “Sam” Vuich (Engineer, Electronics Systems RDT&E) of Fenj in Banat, and David Vuich (Program-Project Management) of Midland, Pennsylvania, whose family hailed from Okucani, Slavonija.

Jelena Kovacevic is the first woman to serve as the head of the Tandon School of Engineering. On the weekends, you’ll find her running in Central Park and maybe doing Pilates with her daughter.

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Jelena Kovačević, rođena Beograđanka, prekinula je tradiciju dugu 164 godine i postala prva žena dekan Tehničkog fakulteta Tandon na njujorškom univerzitetu, drugog najstarijeg privatnog fakulteta u oblasti tehničkih nauka.

Kada je u avgustu 2018. godine postala dekan ovog prestižnog njujorškog fakulteta, Jelena Kovačević, rođena Beograđanka, i ćerka čuvenog Živorada Kovačevića akademika, ambasadora Jugoslavije u SAD i bivšeg gradonačelnika Beograda, upisala se u istoriju ovog fakulteta kao prva žena koja je došla na čelo ove institucije osnovane još sredinom 19. veka.

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Miloš Velimirović

Miloš Milorad Velimirović (December 10, 1922 – April 18, 2008) was an American musicologist. Twice a recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, he was considered an international expert in the areas of Byzantine music, the history of Slavonic music, and the history of Italian opera in the 18th century.

Velimirović was born in Belgrade, Serbia, to Milorad and Desanka (Jovanović) Velimirović, a physician and a piano teacher respectively. In his boyhood in Serbia, he learned to play the violin and piano. He was gifted with the ability to learn multiple languages, in addition to a lifelong passion for music. During his adolescent years he studied music history and music theory. Velimirović began a program of studies in music history at the University of Belgrade, also studying violin and piano at the conservatory. In 1941, with the invasion of the Axis powers, the university was closed, and Velimirović's studies there were suspended until after the war.

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Sailors of the Sky

A conversation with Fr. Stamatis Skliris and Fr. Marko Rupnik on contemporary Christian art

In these timely conversations led by Fr. Radovan Bigovic, many issues are introduced that enable the contemporary reader to deepen and expand his or her understanding of the role of art in the life of the Church. Here we find answers to questions on the crisis of contemporary ecclesiastical art in West and East; the impact of Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract painting on contemporary ecclesiastical painting; and a consideration of the main distrinction between iconography and secular painting. The dialogue, while resolving some doubts about the difference between iconography, religious painting, and painting in general, reconciles the requirement to obey inconographic canons with the freedom essential to artistic creativity, demonstrating that obedience to the canons is not a threat to the vitatlity of iconography. Both artists illumine the role of prayer and ascetisicm in the art of iconography. They also mention curcial differences between iconography in the Orthodox Church and in Roman Catholicism. How important thse distinctions are when exploring the relationship between contemporary theology and art! In a time when postmodern "metaphysics' revitalizes every concept, these masters still believe that, to some extent, Post-Modernism adds to the revitatiztion of Christian art, stimulating questions about "artistic inspiration" and the essential asethetic categories of Christian painting. Their exceptionally wide, yet nonetheless deep, expertise assists their not-so-everday connections between theology, ar, and modern issues concerning society: "society" taken in its broader meaning as "civilization." Finally, the entire artistic project of Stamatis and Rupnik has important ecumenical implications that aswer a genuine longing for unity in the Christian word.

The text of this 94-page soft-bound book has been translated from the Serbian by Ivana Jakovljevic, Fr. Gregory Edwards, and Andrijana Krstic. Published by Sebastian Press, Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Contemporary Christian Thought Series, number 7, First Edition, ISBN: 978-0-9719505-8-0