The morning began with the faithful of the community from St. John’s, as well as those of its sister churches St. Stephen Serbian Orthodox Church (Milwaukie, Oregon) and St. Martin the Merciful Russian Orthodox Church (Corvallis, Oregon) gathering at the gate to welcome the bishop. With bells, singing, and loving joy the bishop was greeted on his return to Eugene.

Preceding the Liturgy, Bishop Maxim tonsured Professor Alexander Polishchuk a reader. Professor Polishchuk is a mathematics professor of the University of Oregon and has faithfully served as St. John’s choir director for six years. He is the husband of Dr. Maria Nemirovskaya, the president of St. John’s Executive Board. They are the parents of three children. The parish rejoiced to witness the solemn tonsuring and prayers of the Bishop for its new reader.

The first plenary session opened on Monday morning, and began with prayer, followed by an address to the assembled hierarchs by the Chairman of the Assembly, Demetrios, Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

Наш земљак професор др Томислав Првуловић, родом из села Језеро на обронцима Озрена, до којег се „три сата пешачи”, деценијама корача стопама чувеног алзашко-немачког лекара, 1952. увршћеног међу славодобитнике Нобелове награде за мисионарски рад.

Чилог 76-годишњака, чврстог стиска и ведрог духа, пре четири године у надгорњавању за најугледније признање претекао је тек изабрани председник САД. У писму које је убрзо српско-америчком научнику стигло из Беле куће, Барак Обама је, поред осталог, написао да му је „мило што је један амерички стручњак био на листи и да то подиже углед земље”.

In case you haven’t heard, there’s a fundraiser in progress and it’s for “the greatest geek who ever lived.”

That’s if you ask Matthew Inman, best known as the creator of The Oatmeal, a popular comics and quizzes Web site. Inman, a long-time Tesla enthusiast (and equally harsh critic of Thomas Edison), launched a fundraiser on the crowdfunding Web site Indiegogo to permanently protect Wardenclyffe, the site of Tesla’s final laboratory in New York, as a historic site.

The fundraiser, called “Operation Let’s Build a [expletive] Tesla Museum,” was launched to raise half of the $1.7 million needed for the nonprofit Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe to buy the land on which Tesla’s old laboratory sits. The Afga Corp. owns the 16 acres and, according to the nonprofit, had another offer from a buyer that planned to demolish what was left of the laboratory and build a commercial retail space.

Пре две године је добио награду за сценарио за филм „Честице са Олимпа - Теслина визија” (IMDb, trailer), а управо ради на прикупљању средстава и истовремено жели да помогне у обнови Теслине лабораторије у Варденклифу, која је стављена на продају и скоро разрушена.

Млади амерички сценариста и режисер Сикорски каже да у школи ништа није научио о Тесли и његовим изумима. „Нисам учио о његовим жртвама и шта је све урадио да би помогао човечанству, а умро је напуштен, без пребијене паре у џепу у хотелској соби. То није праведно. Желим да одам пошту и упознам људе са његовом борбом”, истакао је он у интервјуу „Гласу Америке”.

On Tuesday morning, June 26th, Dr. Veselin Kesich, who was Professor of New Testament emeritus at St. Vladimir's Seminary, reposed in the Lord. Professor Kesich, after suffering from a heart ailment for many years, passed away surrounded by his children, Gregory and Carol, at his apartment in Scarborough, Maine, where he was in hospice care. A funeral service for him will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m., Monday, July 2nd, at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 133 Pleasant Street, Portland, Maine.

His Eminence, Metropolitan Constantine, 76, Ruling Hierarch of the Central Eparchy and Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA, fell asleep in the Lord on the morning of Monday, May 21, 2012 — one day after celebrating the 40th anniversary of his Archpastoral ministry in the Pittsburgh area.

According to a press release issued by the Consistory Office of Public Relations, Metropolitan Constantine was “stricken with a serious illness just a few weeks ago and was released only three days ago from a local Pittsburgh hospital, which enabled him to participate in the celebration of his 40th anniversary of Archpastoral ministry among the faithful of our Holy Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA.