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Facts about August 1. The month of August was named after Roman emperor Augustus Caesar. In Latin, augustus meant auspicious or venerable. 2. Before 8BC the Romans called it sextilis as it was the sixth month in their calendar. 3. The Anglo-Saxons, though, called August “weodmonath� (weed month). 4. In the USA August is the month that has the highest birth rate; in the UK it is September. 5. Traditionally the season for eating crayfish in Sweden begins on the second Thursday in August.
İstanbul is a very important place in the world. The city is spread over an area of 7500 km2 150 long and 50 km wide. İstanbul is the biggest and the most crowded city of Europe. Because, it's location is between Asia and Europe. The city population is approximately 16 million. Around 6 million tourists visit İstanbul every year.
There is a picnic area. Especially, Taksim is the most popular place for tourists and Turkish people. Which is one of the most active centers of İstanbul. There are a lot of people of different countries.
Secondly, one of the most beautiful scenery in İstanbul is İstanbul Bosphorus. When you drive over the Bosphorus Bridge, you can see the Maiden's Tower. Eminönü is one of the hictorical place to visit in İstanbul. When you go there, you will see unique mosques. Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia Mosques are indispensable for tourists. Overall, before you go to your home, you should visit ''Grand Bazaar
This tower at the slopes of Galata is visible every where in the city, and is 61 m. tall.The tower is at the hill which over looks both to the Bospherus and the Golden Horn and the sea of Marmara. One day,an scientist named Hazerfen Ahmet Çelebi jumped down the tower and flew to the opposite side of the Bosphorus strait by using the wings which he had invented ( 17th century )
It was built by Architect Sinan, the most famous architect at Ottoman history between 1550-1557 SĂźleymaniye Mosque, according to the construction reports of those days,5.723 workers completed the construction in 2.7 thousand working days.
Greenpeace was born in 1971 when a small group from Canada set off by a small fishing boat for protesting the nuclear experiments of the USA carried out in Canada. Their courage, belief, and the peaceful nature of their protests encouraged many people and united them.
Greenpeace is an environmentalist NGO which has branches in more than 40 countries and an international center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth toHOW WAS TH nurture life in all its diversity" and focuses its cam- PEACE BORN paigning on worldwide issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, and anti-nuclear issues. It uses direct action, lobbying, and research to achieve its goals. The global organization does not accept funding from governments, corporations, or political parties, relying on 2.9 million individual supporters and foundation grants
Greenpeace has a general consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and is a founding member of the NGO Accountability Charter; an international non-governmental organization that intends to foster accountability and transparency of nongovernmental organizations. Greenpeace organizes scientific based campaigns against the nature crimes and by non-violent direct actions they make these crimes current issues via media.
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Major Actions of Greenpeace "Go Beyond Oil" As part of their stance on renewable energy commercialization, Greenpeace have launched the “Go Beyond Oil” campaign. The campaign is focused on slowing, and eventually ending, the world’s consumption of oil; with activist activities taking place against companies that pursue oil drilling as a venture. Much of the activities of the “Go Beyond Oil” campaign have been focused on drilling for oil in the Arctic and areas affected by the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The activities of Greenpeace in the arctic have mainly involved the Edinburgh-based oil and gas exploration company, Cairn Energy; and range from protests at the Cairn Energy’s headquarters to scaling their oil rigs in an attempt to halt the drilling process. The “Go Beyond Oil” campaign also involves applying political pressure on the governments who allow oil exploration in their territories; with the group stating that one of the key aims of the “Go Beyond Oil” campaign is to “work to expose the lengths the oil industry is willing to go to squeeze the last barrels out of the ground and put pressure on industry and governments to move beyond oil.”
Nuclear Power Greenpeace views nuclear power as a relatively minor industry with major problems, such as environmental damage and risks from uranium mining, nuclear weapons proliferation, and unresolved questions concerning nuclear waste. The organization argues that the potential of nuclear power to mitigate global warming is marginal, referring to the IEA energy scenario where an increase in world's nuclear capacity from 2608 TWh in 2007 to 9857 TWh by 2050 would cut global greenhouse gas emissions less than 5% and require 32 nuclear reactor units of 1000MW capacity built per year until 2050.
According to Greenpeace the slow construction times, construction delays, and hidden costs, all limit the mitigation potential of nuclear power. This makes the IEA scenario technically and financially unrealistic. They also argue that binding massive amounts of investments on nuclear energy would take funding away from more effective solutions. Greenpeace views the construction of Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland as an example of the problems on building new nuclear power. In continuity of the successful campaign to reach the Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, in 2012 and 2013 protests with “Save the Arctic” banners were started. To stop oil- and gas-drilling, industrial fishing and military operations in the Arctic region completely, a “global sanctuary in the high arctic” was demanded from the World leaders at the UN General Assembly: “We want them to pass a UN resolution expressing international concern for the Arctic.” A resolution to protect the very vulnerable wildlife and ecosystem. 30 Arctic Sunrise activists were arrested in the Pechora Sea, 19 September 2013, witnessing oil-drilling and protesting at the Gazprom platform Prirazlomnaya by the Russian Coast Guard
Greenpeace members were originally charged with Piracy, then later downgraded to hooliganism, before being dropped altogether following the passage of an amnesty law by the Russian government. In July 2014, Greenpeace launched a global boycott campaign to persuade Lego to cease producing toys carrying the oil company Shell's logo in response to Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic.[136] Lego's partnership with Shell dates back to the 1960s, although the LEGO company created a fictional oil company called Octan. Octan has appeared in countless sets, computer and console games, can be seen at Legoland parks, and is featured as the corporation headed by the villain President Business in The Lego Movie
Greenpeace Actions in Turkey Greenpeace first appeared in Turkey in 1992. Since then Greenpeace have worked on toxics, toxic waste trade, energy, seas and nuclear disarmament. First Greenpeace campaign succeed in Turkey in 2015. Olive lawsuit was withdrawn after the nationwide calls. Greenpeace Turkey’s partnership with the people of Yırca was, at first, based on a shared goal: stopping coal power plants. Greenpeace and others are also advocating for clean renewable energy development. The organization and Yırca’s leaders also sought to block a law that would have made it easier for companies like Kolin to take olive groves for industrial purposes. Because of this, campaigners working in Yırca chose to focus on shared values, specifically an appreciation for the role of olives and olive farmers in Turkey’s culture, rather than clean energy, climate and pollution. Cognizant that the people of Yırca were not prone to politics and tended to distrust outsiders, campaigners worked quietly behind the scenes for several months to build relationships that could organize the village and amplify local voices.
Greenpeace campaigner Reşit Elçin met with Mustafa Akın, Yırca’s muhtar—the village’s elected leader. At this early stage, Dinç says Greenpeace and its on-theground organizers had to “be more on the listening side, instead of pushing Greenpeace’s agenda” to gain the trust of the local community. “Paradoxically,” says Dinç, “sometimes if you keep your silence you become more heard.” On his listening tour, Elçin fanned out through the community having coffee with local residents concerned about the coal plant. During these coffees, Elçin learned about the local culture and demands of the villagers. “I organized all events with the villagers. I didn’t bring
From May to November of 2014, Greenpeace saw various successes, including a legal stay against the coal project led by Greenpeace lawyer Deniz Bayram. Kolin’s tactics changed by November, however. Local people from Yirca village show evidence of almost 6,000 trees illegally bulldozed to make way for a proposed Kolin Group coal power planet. Greenpeace and its partners watched over the olive grove day and night from a watchtower they erected. Then Kolin’s bulldozers rolled in. Villagers stood in front of the hulking machines to stop them from progressing deeper into the grove. Destroying only thirteen trees, the machines were turned back. This initial victory, however, did not stop Kolin. On November 7th, bulldozers returned with a private security force. The vigil turned into a skirmish amongst the villagers that led to arrests. Six thousand trees were cut down that night. It was in this process that a local member of parliament and national media became apprised of the fight over Yırca’s olive grove. The game changer, according to Dinç, was the interview Akın, Yırca’s muhtar, gave to CNN Turkey. The interview was emotional and raw. Reeling from the destruction of Yırca’s olive grove
Akın spoke with tears welling in his eyes. “Surely those who did this eat olives. They use olive oil on their dinner tables. How can they eat olives now?” “No communication plan we can devise can capture that type of moment and emotion,” remembers Dinç. Mustafa Akin, Yırca’s muhtar, takes part in an emotional interview with CNN Turkey in November, 2014. This unscripted moment turned Yırca’s local movement into a national issue. The scenes of villagers protecting a national symbol, the olive, from bulldozers and private security forced Kolin, a notoriously faceless company, to make public appearances and even attempt to hire a public relations firm—humorously, one of the firms Kolin approached worked on this very Greenpeace campaign. Yırca created a flashpoint. What happened in Yırca was seen as an attack on the olive itself, bolstering the national campaign against the governing party’s proposed law to take olive groves. No longer was this a fight between environmental campaigners and developers, but an issue about shared Turkish values. The proposed law was tabled and never brought to a vote. Because of this win, Kolin cannot build the proposed plant in Yırca.
I’ve lived in large cities my entire life, I’m used to the hustle of a city atmosphere so when I was placed in a small, rural community Kocani in Macedonia for 2 months in abroad, I was more than a little nervous. However, now that I’ve lived here for 2 weeks, I’ve learnt some very useful and interesting things. While I’m in a big city I’m always in a hurry. Wherever I’m going or whoever I’m meeting, I never have the time to just stop or slow down. Furthermore, I’m always distracted by other people rushing around me but in a small town I’ve noticed that time works in a different way. Instead of noisy cars and impatient pedestrians in the morning, I can go for a gentle walk to the bakery, where I say a friendly ‘hello’ to the baker then admire the landscape while I walk back home. I don’t know if it’s the fresh country air or the panoramic views, but the people in this small town community are clearly less stressed than those in the Skopje, 2 hours away. While I was exploring, I stopped to sit on a bench in the town square and the next moment an elderly man sat next to me and he started a conversation about the his new iPhone 7.
This gave me a great opportunity to test my language skills and I know that if I were in a big city, I wouldn’t have had this experience. Life in a small town is a brand new environment for me and although I was nervous to begin with I now enjoy my little town and I’m glad to see another aspect of Macedonian life that I have never experienced before. Maybe one day I could live in a small town permanently as it has peace and quiet and some amazing food, however, the only disadvantage is that the internet access is awful!
The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund is a United Nations program headquartered in New York City that provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. It is one of the members of the United Nations Development Group and its Executive Committee. UNICEF was created by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II. Maurice Pate, American humanitarian and businessman, co-founded the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) with Herbert Hoover in 1947. Pate served as its first executive director from 1947 until his death in 1965. In 1953, UNICEF became a permanent part of the United Nations System and its name was shortened from the original United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund but it has continued to be known by the popular acronym based on this previous title. UNICEF relies on contributions from governments and private donors, UNICEF’s total income for 2008 was $3,372,540,239.
Governments contribute two thirds of the organization's resources; private groups and some 6 million individuals contribute the rest through the National Committees. It is estimated that 91.8% of their revenue is distributed to Program Services UNICEF's programs emphasize developing community-level services to promote the health and well-being of children. UNICEF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 and the Prince of Asturias Award of Concord in 2006.
Most of UNICEF’s work is in the field, with staff in over 190 countries and territories. More than 200 country offices carry out UNICEF’s mission through a program developed with host governments. Seven regional offices provide technical assistance to country offices as needed. UNICEF has supporters from all over the world. The supporters are celebrities and they are called “Goodwill Ambassador “. In Turkey there are several actors, actresses, sportsmen who are goodwill ambassadors. One of them is actor Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ. On 11th December 2015- for supporting the “There is Another You” campaign he met with 70 children some of whom are disabled. The aim of the campaign is to go beyond the prejudice against disability starting with the ones against the disabled children by getting 1 million promises. “There is Another You” campaign is a social inclusion call which will enable equal rights for disabled children along with other children without disability. The campaign is developed in partnership with the Ministry of Family and Social Policies General Directorate of Disabled and Elderly Services and UNICEF Turkey. Campaign is based on knowledge, attitude and application research for disability which was carried out in Tukey.
All the citizens will be equipped with necessary knowledge and they will defend disabled children's rights In his speech Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ says that " I'm here to be one of the one million people who will support the development of a inclusive society in which children with or without disability can live together. As UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador I'd like to underline that children might be different but they have the same rights. Let's invite people around us to take this issue more seriously and support the campaign via birsendahavar.gov.tr web site." In the event. UNICEF Turkey Representative, Phillippe Duamelle : "All the children have the same rights since they were born. Our children must benefit from same opportunities to realize their potentials and contribute to the development of their societies with the skills they have.
Very Unknown 10 Interesting Information 1.If the human eye was a camera, it would be 576 megapixels
2. The heart of blue whales is so big that a person can swim easily in arteries.
3. Since the date Pluto discovered, it has not returned a full tour around the sun even once. So it is no longer considered a planet.
4. If Jupiter was close to our world like moon, it would look like this.
5. The sand particles look like this under the microscope.
6. When a male penguin falls in love with a female penguin, he races to find the perfect pebble, and presents it to female penguin. Isn't it like a marriage proposal? 7. If you pull a pea inside your nose, it may sprout and grow in your lungs. 8. Watermelon loses its granular structure when fried or baked and can be consumed instead of meat.
9. Cheese and bitter chocolate prevent tooth decay
10. A kindergarden in Japan is designed to accommodate rainwater for children to play.
The magazine was created in cooperation with EVS volunteers in Association Pavel Satev- Kocani and eWorld Community Association Pavel Satev- Kocani Karl Marks 64 2300 Kocani
August 2017
Editor Sara Gorgieva