Apple: Launch of iPhone 5

SAN FRANCISCO—September 12, 2012

"iPhone 5 is the most beautiful consumer device that we’ve ever created" Philip Schiller.

"iPhone 5 comes with iOS 6, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features including: the all new Maps app with Apple-designed cartography and turn-by-turn navigation; Facebook integration; Passbook® organization; and even more Siri® features and languages. With up to twice the CPU and graphics performance, almost everything you do on iPhone 5 is blazing fast for launching apps, loading web pages and downloading email attachments."

iPhone 5 will roll out worldwide to 22 more countries on September 28, including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
Source: http://www.apple.com/

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CreatiVE - Virtual Heritage Edition

The first Romanian Summer School on Virtual Environments - http://creative.cerva.ro/

CreatiVE - Prima Școală de Vară de Medii Virtuale din România - "Virtual Heritage Edition": 30.08 - 10.09, 2012.

Şcoala de vară creatiVE (se desfăşoară în cadrul Universităţii Ovidius Constanţa) "își propune să iniţieze şi specializeze studenţii în reconstituirea virtuală 3D a vestigiilor istorice într-un cadru competitiv şi colaborativ deopotrivă, prin intermediul unei experienţe multi-culturale, ce depăşeşte barierele academice şi prinde rădăcini adânci prin explorarea şi depăşirea limitelor echipelor participante." Activitățile școlii de vară creatiVE se vor concentra pe sesiuni teoretice, conduse de specialişti invitaţi din ţară (Cluj şi Iaşi) şi din străinătate (Franţa şi Olanda), precum si pe sesiuni practice.

Ref.: Proiectul creatiVE:  http://creative.cerva.ro/ , http://www.agora.ro/stire/scoala-de-vara-creative , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropaeum_Traiani

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Software în arheologie

La Universitatea “1 Decembrie 1918” din Alba Iulia (http://www.uab.ro/) în cadrul Şcolii Doctorale, la data de 7 septembrie 2012 se va desfăşura susţinerea publică a două teze de doctorat din domeniul aplicaţiilor geospaţiale pentru arheologiei:

• “Sisteme informaţionale pentru arheologie. Aplicaţiile tehnologiilor geospaţiale în arheologie. Baze de date distribuite” elaborată de doctorandul SÎRGHIE RĂZVAN şi 
• “Aplicaţiile practice ale tehnologiilor spaţiale în arheologie. Modele predictive” elaborată de doctorand SÎRGHIE SABIN.

Ref.:
- http://www.c3.cniv.ro/?q=2012/software-arh
- http://www.agora.ro/stire/software-arheologie

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Mercator projection - first map of the world

Proiecţia Mercator si prima hartă a lumii

Gerardus Mercator (1512 -1594) was a cartographer, philosopher and mathematician. He is best known for his work in cartography where he created the Mercator projection world map.  

2012 marks the 500th anniversary of Mercator's birth.

Ref.:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardus_Mercator
- http://vcn.weblog.ro/
- http://www.mercatornet.com/info/mercator_who/
- http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/

Queen Marie Of Romania - Castle & Botanical Garden in Balchik (Bulgaria)

Marie of Romania (Marie Alexandra Victoria, previously Princess Marie of Edinburgh) ( 1875 – 1938) was Queen consort of Romania from 1914 to 1927, as the wife of Ferdinand of Romania.

- "In 1893 she married the heir to the Romanian throne Ferdinand, a short, big eared man who was all but run over by his domineering uncle King Carol I. Marie brought a much needed breath of fresh air into Romania. Carol's wife, Elizabeth, was a strange character who wrote poetry under the name Carmen Sylva, and who Marie and an on again - off again relationship with. Marie and Ferdinand had 6 children, 3 boys and 3 girls. Marie was not fully allowed to raise the heir to the throne and so he turned out to be rude and unyielding. Her youngest child, Mircea would die at the age of 4, but the rest of her children did live on, the youngest one dying in 1991! The younger children turned out very nice, and later in life they looked back on their mother and her life with pride and wonderment."

- "After the death of her husband in 1927, Queen Marie remained in Romania, writing books and her memoirs, The Story of My Life. She died in Peleş Castle on 18 July 1938, and was buried next to her husband in the Monastery of Curtea de Argeş. In accordance with her will, her heart was kept in a cloister at the Balchik Palace (Bulgaria) which she had built. In 1940, when Balchik and the rest of Southern Dobrudja were returned to Bulgaria in accordance with the Treaty of Craiova, Queen Marie's heart was transferred to Bran Castle."  
Ref: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_of_Romania , http://www.geh.org/link/sn/queen-marie.html

(in Romanian)
 In Balcic (azi, apartine de Bulgaria) se afla celebrul Castel (“Cuibul linistit”), resedinta preferata a Reginei Maria a Romaniei, inconjurat de o la fel de celebra gradina botanica unicat in Europa centrala si de est, in special datorita colectiei de cactusi. Pentru mult timp orasul a fost supranumit Orasul Alb, din cauza dealurilor albicioase din jur. De altfel, intregului tarm i s-a spus, din aceleasi motive, Coasta de Argint. In prezent, brosurile din Bulgaria care prezinta orasul il numesc “perla litoralului bulgaresc”.
Sursa: http://www.balcic.net/ FOTO: http://www.balcic.net/foto.html  
Castelul reginei Maria din Balchik & Gradina Botanica (video) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF1vVmrrJXY&feature=related

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Programe de masterat 2012-2013

Domeniile de studii de masterat şi programele de studii universitare de masterat evaluate de ARACIS (Agenţia Română de Asigurare a Calităţii în Învăţământul Superior) organizate în cadrul instituţiilor de învăţământ superior.
- 55 universitati de stat; 30 universitati private.
Sursa: http://www.edu.ro/index.php/articles/17426

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Political Science vs. Political Education

"Indeed, the notion that political science is an academic profession charged in a special way with the education of citizens and public servants is a progressive ideal." James R. Stoner, Louisiana State University - http://www.winst.org/people/fellows/stoner.php

"First, political science as a discipline lives on the fault line between the two cultures in the academy, the sciences and the humanities; although one might allege the same for social science as a whole, political scientists receive funding from and play an active role in both the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. After some evidence of rapprochement between science and the humanities in the 1980s, hardly anyone doubts that the sciences today are in the ascendancy. I have never heard it claimed that progress in political science bears any responsibility for the return of scientific prestige the rapid pace of technological innovation, the mapping of the human genome with its promise of medical advances, the emergence of neuroscience and evolutionary biology, and even the return of free-market economics are more likely candidates but scientific methodology in political science probably benefits by affinity. The perestroika movement in political science is in part a response to this situation, I think, but maybe also a way of saving face." Ref.: Stoner, J. R. (22 February 2008). "Political Science and Political Education", APSA Teaching and Learning Conference (APSA), San José, California. - http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p245585_index.html - http://www.allacademic.com/meta/

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EXAMENE RECENTE ALE NATIUNII ROMANE (Romania)

1. Decembrie 1989 (Revolutia romana) - Examen la ORGANIZARE SOCIALA
Ref.: - Denisa Oana Patrascu, Evolutia domeniului social in Romania, Academia Romana, http://denisapatrascu.wordpress.com/
- Gheorghe Teodorescu, Universitatea din Bucuresti, http://filozofie.3x.ro/ (pdf)

2. Decembrie 2009 (Alegeri prezidentiale) - Examen la DEMOCRATIE
Concluzii: in practica, in Romania este o pseudo-politica, o "mascarada" la vedere: nu se respecta reguli, proceduri, legi, nu se respecta nici bunul-simt. Ref.: http://mvlada.blogspot.ro/2009/

3. 29 Iulie 2012 (suspendarea si demiterea presedintelui) - Examen la POLITICA
Concluzii: in practica, in Romania se iau pseudo-decizii la vedere sau nu: principiile democratice sunt ignorate, nu se respecta votul unei majoritati evidente, iar legea este fraudata. Cine este de vina? Ce sanctiuni trebuie luate?

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Concluzie probabila: Politica este ca vinul sau ca o prajitura - iti place sau nu. Grav este ca unii ii judeca pe altii comparandu-i dupa astfel de placeri.

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