By Bob Ewegen, Denver Post columnist

I was moved by the accounts by Ann Schrader and Kevin Simpson in the Friday Denver Post about the memorial to the dozen students who lost their lives along with teacher Dave Sanders in the 1999 killings at Columbine High School.

By ALISON BROWN

COMMUNICATING with an old fashioned secret handshake or password at Freemason Lodge No 153 may be no problem. But modern cellphones ... no way. The modern invention is banned from the Rotorua Masonic Lodge which tomorrow celebrates 100 years of Freemasonry in the city.

The Ninth International Conference organised by CANONBURY MASONIC RESEARCH CENTRE, Saturday & Sunday 3-4 November 2007, Canonbury Academy, 6 Canonbury Place, London N1 2NQ

The idea that a perfect society could be planned, created and sustained can be traced back to Plato’s description of Atlantis, but it entered the popular imagination during the religious and cultural upheavals of Renaissance and Reformation when, in the early sixteenth century, Sir Thomas More published Utopia, his speculative vision of an ideal society. Since that time speculative philosophers, enthusiasts, dreamers, visionaries and reformers — of every shade of religious, political and philosophical opinion — have presented countless other visions of the ideal society to the world at large, ranging from Sir Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.