You’re invited to volunteer on Earth Day at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ nursery from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, Friday, April 22nd! Volunteers will transplant native plants and collect seeds from native plants for use in the nursery. This event is coordinated by AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (Team Blue Six) and the National Park Service. We encourage participants to wear sturdy shoes, bring water, a hat, and sunscreen. Bring a lunch, if you would like to join others at the picnic tables after the event. Meet in lower picnic area behind Foothills Visitor Center.
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Emergency Department Tuesday released DSU application for mobile phones that is designed to prepare populations to cope with emergency situations through access to information, alerts and education.
“We want to get closer to the population. Today we take another step – launching an application that currently goes two phone systems: the system that uses the iPhone and the system they use phones that run on Android and will, I hope, in the shortest time to succeed to enter and mobile systems using Windows. Is an application that is meant to bring us closer to the population. (…) Any country can receive dispatch information through this application if it is relevant, “said Secretary of State Tuesday in Raed Arafat, in a press conference, according to Agerpres.
The application can be downloaded free from the App Store and Google Play. “DSU” has four components: information, alerting, reporting and learning.
INFORMATION
The information section of the app users will find the latest news from emergency situations, at source. Inspectorates for Emergency Situations Inspectorate General of Aviation, Emergency Services, SMURD and Rescue will provide information of interest to users DSU application.
ALERT
Through the “Alert” application will be grouped in one place all the information about emergency situations occurring in Romania. Thus, weather alerts, the floods, blocked roads etc. will be found in this section.
REPORTING
By the “reporting” people have the opportunity to support emergency services personnel. Thus, anyone who witnesses an emergency, be it flood, landslide, fire or accident, you can send photos and video by the Department for Emergency Situations. Thus, the action of the emergency services can be improved through access to images from the early moments of the spot.
LEARNING
Through the “learning” users have access to dozens of articles about behavior in case of earthquake, flood, fire, first aid and rescue measures that can be taken faster if we face an emergency. As a novelty, the lessons come with tests where verifiable knowledge gained by studying articles.
According to the Secretary of State Raed Arafat, the application SMURD Foundation is funded by extra-budgetary funds amounting to 17,000 euros which includes and maintenance. http://m.ziarulevenimentul.ro/stiri/categnume/asd–217303265.html
On April 22, 1904 Jacob was born physicist Robert Oppenheimer, the “father” of the atomic bomb. Among the important achievements of his Born-Oppenheimer approximation include Oppenheimer and work on the theory of electron-positron. Oppenheimer died on February 18, 1967, at the age of 62 years.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos laboratory during the Second World War, is credited with the invention of the atomic bomb, but it would have been possible without the work of Albert Einstein.
They are five inventors in history have come to regret their creations, according to Discover:
J. Robert Oppenheimer / Albert Einstein – bomb
J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos laboratory during the Second World War, is credited with the invention of the atomic bomb, but it would have been possible without the work of Albert Einstein.
Despite its association with leftist parties, Oppenheimer welcomed the opportunity of playing a role in efoturile war. Later, however, it came to be incercte have feelings about the atomic bomb. “I have no compunction about making the bomb … In relation to the way I used it, I understand why it happened and I appreciate the nobility of the people I worked with made the decision. But I did not feel that was not correct. Japan’s ultimatum was full of pious platitudes … our government should have told the world and Japan with more clarity what the bomb, “he said.
Einstein expressed less equivocal. Years later he said he backs the signing of the letter to President Roosevelt in which he requested to support research into nuclear chain reactions and their use as a weapon. At the time, he believed that the Germans are already doing this. “If I know that the Germans fail to produce an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger,” he admitted the physicist.
Mikhail Kalashnikov – AK47
Kalashnikov rifle semi-automatic developed that bears his name for Russian weapon at the end of the Second World War, after he witnessed the death of many soldiers being wounded in battle in turn. Intended as a weapon simple that can be made cheaply with means of mass production available at that time, Kalashnikov, who died in 2014, lived to see how his gun is among the pistols submachine responsible for most many dead in history.
“I keep going back to a question. If my gun took so many lives as I can … Orthodox believer, to be blamed for these deaths, even if they are my enemies? “He wrote in a letter to a Russian cleric.
Bob Propst – cubical office spaces
While working as a consultant for Herman Miller in the 1960s, Bob Propst introduced him America with offices open, but with cubic spaces for a single employee. Their purpose was to provide employees with more space experience “flexible and fluid” as he explained to the New York Times in 1997.
Companies have seen his invention as a way to save money. Propst came to hate invention, classifying it as a “monolithic insanity.”
Kamran Loghman – with pepper spray
Kamran Loghman worked for the FBI in 1980 and helped transform pepper spray into a weapon. He was, moreover, who wrote the manual to use it for officers of the police department.
Following the incident at the University of California, 2011, when police used spray colored in a bright orange against what New York Times described as “docile protesters” Loghman broke the silence. “I have not seen before so inadequate use of chemical agents,” he said.
John Sylvan – coffee capsules
Sylvan’s invention made possible the emergence of brands like Nespresso and Tassimo. Coffee capsules have enabled millions of people to take “dose” of caffeine easily. “Sometimes I feel bad that I did that. It’s like a cigarette maker, a delivery mechanism of addictive substances, “he said a few years ago.
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From Ana Borca:
Noi trăim atât de mult cu aceste lucruri şi bucurii simple, cu ceaşca de cafea, cu paharul de apă, cu mica floare pe care am luat-o şi ne-am pus-o într-o cană… Câteodată, acest gest de a rupe o floare şi de a ţi-o pune în pahar şi de-a o aşeza lângă tine, este o umplere spirituală a noastră extraordinară, o împlinire. Şi eu vin acum cu toate acestea şi spun: “Oamenilor, nu fiţi smintiţi! Nu mai alergaţi încontinuu! Opriţi-vă din când în când şi uitaţi-vă la ceaşca voastră de cafea”
”Ştefan Câlţia este unul dintre puţinii noştri pictori instalaţi cu autoritate în elita artei româneşti şi europene. Născut la Braşov, pe 15 mai 1942, a fost unul dintre studenţii străluciţi ai lui Corneliu Baba. Cu o poftă a invenţiei şi o aplecare spre lucru nestăvilite, Ştefan Câlţia a expus prin toate marile capitale culturale ale lumii, unde a lăsat ecouri adânci: din Elveţia, Germania, Olanda, Norvegia şi până în S.U.A. Picturile lui se află în numeroase colecţii private europene, precum şi în Muzeul de Artă Contemporană din Oslo, Muzeul HR Giger din Gruyère, Elveţia, Muzeul Naţional de Artă Contemporană din Bucureşti şi Muzeul Brukenthal din Sibiu.
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” Ştefan Câlţia is a contemporary Romanian painter. Born in Braşov, he attended the Arts and Music high school in Timişoara from 1959 to 1963, having Julius Podlipny as a teacher. He then graduated in 1970 from the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest, having Corneliu Baba as a teacher. Since the 1970s, Câlţia has held exhibitions in Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Romania. In 1993 he became professor at the National University of Fine Arts in Bucharest, and in 2004 he became its chancellor. His works have been acquired by many important museums and art galleries around the world, such as the Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo, Norway, and the Museum of Fantastic Arts in Gruyère, Switzerland.
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