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

Anketa o životu mladih

Kancelarija za saradnju sa dijasporom koja radi pri Službi za poslove gradonačelnika Niša pokrenula je istraživanje u kome bi trebalo da, putem interneta, učestvuje 100 ispitanika iz dijaspore i 100 iz matice, starosti od 18 do 35 godina.

Ovo istraživanje sprovodi se sa ciljem da se prikupe informacije o tome kako život mladih u dijaspori utiče na procenu njihovog zadovoljstva životom i socijalne i emocionalne usamljenosti, kao i kakve su te procene kod mladih u Nišu.

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"Kod nas gotovo i da nema istraživanja u ovoj oblasti, a smatramo da je veoma važno posvetiti pažnju mladima i u dijaspori i u Nišu, njihovim raznovrsnim problemima, a naročito različitim aspektima njihovih života. Poređenje ove dve grupe može da nam ukaže na to da li su mladi u dijaspori, gde imaju veće mogućnosti za lični razvoj, zadovoljniji svojim ličnim životom, emocionalno i socijalno zreliji, ili su usamljeni, jer žive daleko od sredine iz koje su potekli", pojasnila je Tamara Ćirić, šef Kancelarije za saradnju sa dijasporom Grada Niša i pozvala mlade ljude da učestvuju u istraživanju popunjavanjem online upitnika koji se nalazi na sajtu Kancelarije i na brojnim forumima i društvenim mrežama.

Ova kancelarija već je sprovela istraživanje u kome je učestvovalo blizu 1200 posetilaca Sajma knjiga u Nišu, a koje je pokazalo da građani Niša imaju pozitivan stav o pripadnicima dijaspore, kao i o saradnji Republike Srbije sa svojim rasejanjem, ali je pokazalo da su mladi ljudi, u velikom broju slučajeva, neiformisani o ključnim pitanjima o dijaspori.

"Jedan od prevashodnih zadataka Kancelarije za saradnju sa dijasporom u Nišu i dalje će biti informisanje građana Srbije o životu i radu u inostranstvu, kako bi se podigao nivo svesti o ovom pitanju. Rezultati koje ćemo dobiti ovim istraživanjem, ali i brojna istraživanja dijaspore koja smo planirali, biće osnova za buduće analize i konkretne aktivnosti, što bi, na kraju krajeva, dovelo do smanjenja „odliva mozgova", dodala je Ćirićeva.

Anketu možete videti ovde.


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Dan Radakovich

Dan Radakovich (born June 9, 1958) is the athletics director at Clemson University. Previously, he was the Athletics Director at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a position he held from February 22, 2006 to October 29, 2012. He was previously the Senior Associate Director of Athletics at Louisiana State University.

Radakovich has a long background in dealing with program finance, as well as large scale renovation and facility improvement. Over the course of his career, Radakovich has managed over a quarter of a billion dollars for various universities' athletic departments.

Radakovich, a Serbian American, hails from Monaca, Pennsylvania where he attended Center High School, just outside Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. He earned a master's degree in business administration from the University of Miami in 1982.

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The Thunderbolt of Ever-Living Fire

by archimandrite Vasileios of Iveron

The present book consists of Elder Vaileios' talks, discussions and dialogues in various venues mostly in the United States during his visit in 2011, along with excerpts from his writings selected to complement the themes of his talks.  The themes dealt with by Fr. Vasileios so eloquently in this book are extraordinarily wide-ranging; he handles complex and difficult issues in theology, spirituality, liturgics, parish life and monasticism with amazing clarity and insight.  He quotes with equal facility from figures as diverse as Heraclitus, Dostoevsky, St. Isacc the Syrian, St. Maximus the Confessor, Stefan Zweig, Andrei Tarkovsky, Vladimir Lossy, Georges Florovsky and St. Nicholas Cabasilas.  Above all, there is an exhilarating sense of freedom and innocence in his thought.  It is the freedom and innocence of profound faith and spiritual knowledge and childlike simplicity.  HIs wisnow is expressed via the "hyperlogic" of a hesychastic spriti, which makes for surprising connections and illuminating insights.

The appearance of this new book by Archimandrite Vaileios is truly a cuase for celebration.

143 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936773-16-9