May 12, or Fair Trade, Nursing, healers and Environmental Education Day
Zodiac Sign Taurus
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Taurus, May 12. People born on on this day incorrigible mischievous. Their mischief may not manifest itself in serious forms of clashes with the authorities, but everyone knows their cheerful disposition, witty pranks and tricks.
Some of them are extremely serious about life, and yet some kind of inner devil will certainly push them into the heat.
The bottom line is that those born on May 12 simply cannot live the way others do. They have their own style of behavior and professional skills, so they do not intend to obey other people's requirements.
Born 12 may - troublemakers. They adore all kinds of revelations and are simply happy when they manage to refute this or that dubious judgment, criticize an unfair opinion.
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Taurus men born on May 12:
- can be proud of the following characteristics:
- realism,
- patience,
- naturalness.
- Taurus are not idealistic, preferring to analyze and choose a woman who is comfortable for themselves for life.
- They prefer an equal relationship, and once married, they rarely get divorced.
Taurus women born on May 12:
- stand out for their special qualities:
- femininity,
- reliability,
- and also courage.
- Taurus is one of the most beautiful women in the zodiacal constellation, characterized by powerful sexual energy and a desire to be the center of attention.
- Often they become the soul of the company, while not claiming to be unconditional leadership.
Holidays
The World Fair Trade Day is celebrated annually on the second Saturday of May, and May is considered the month of fair trade
This Day, led by the World Fair Trade Organization, allows about 350 teams of manufacturers and fair trade organizations from 70 countries to declare their participation in fair trade.
Among the events that are traditionally organized on this day are exhibitions, seminars, conferences, in which companies from all over the world take part, promoting the principles of fair trade, which must comply with international standards.
In addition, these activities are aimed at creating a negative public attitude to slave labor and attracting people's attention to the environmental conditions of production of goods.
Fair trade is a social movement designed to uphold international standards and public policies for labeled and unmarked goods. The focus is on goods exported from developing to developed countries.
The products of fair trade can be food products such as tea, coffee, cocoa, bananas, as well as handicrafts and clothing. The main thing is that they should be produced without the use of slave and child labor.
For example, the themes in different years were: Fair trade + Ecology (calling on producers to produce environmentally friendly and safe products), Trade for people: fair trade is your world (TRADE FOR PEOPLE - Fair Trade your world).
May 12 is the professional holiday of representatives of one of the most humane professions - International Nursing Day.
For the first time the service of sisters of mercy was organized during the Crimean War by the Englishwoman Florence Nightingale. Then a stable stereotype was formed: a nurse takes the wounded out of the battlefield or stands at the surgery table.
In fact, nurses are specialists who have received primary medical education and who follow the prescriptions of a doctor or paramedic for nursing the sick, they are compulsory medical assistants, because they are the ones who work directly with the patient throughout the entire treatment period. Currently, nurses constitute the largest category of health workers, since in medical practice a large proportion of medical services are provided exclusively by nursing staff.
Although in fact the World Nurses Day holiday is more than a hundred years old, it was officially established only in 1974. The day has been celebrated since the time when the nurses from 141 countries joined in a professional public organization - the International Council of Nurses.
On this day, the church honors the memory of the nine martyrs of Kyzic, who in the 3rd century preached Christianity in the city of Kizik in Asia Minor. According to popular belief, the Nine Martyrs help with diseases and epidemics. Therefore, their day itself is considered the day of healers.
At this time, it was supposed to utter a special spell of nine misfortunes. It sounds like this: “In order misfortunes not to dry blood, not walk through the veins, not induce tumors, not break bones, not turn joints; that a man be clean from the earth, bright from the water. "
There was also such a custom: it was necessary to go out on the road at noon and expose the face to a warm wind. After this health should have been added for a whole year.
Mankind has reached a stage where the anthropogenic impact on the biosphere has become irreversible, the contradictions between the growing needs of society and the diminishing possibilities of nature sharply intensified. Environmental education was put forward by UNESCO and the United Nations Environment Program as one of the main means of harmonizing the interaction between man and nature.
In 1972, the Stockholm Conference on Environmental Protection adopted a recommendation to create an international program on environmental education. In order to survive, it is necessary to rethink the very essence of the relationship between man, society and nature on the basis of new approaches and ideas. The practical implementation of the ideas of sustainable development is associated with a change in the stereotype of the culture of the relationship between man and nature. In recognition of the domestic and world community, environmental education is becoming a central factor in solving the problems of the “Man-Society-Nature” relationship.
Environmental education in the world today is considered a priority for the education and upbringing of students in secondary schools. The UN Conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, which discussed the problems of the environment and the development of education, in its documents and decisions also stressed the great importance of environmental education in the implementation of a strategy for the survival and sustainable development of humanity. The highest and ultimate goal of environmental education (EO) and education is the formation of an eccentric type of ecological consciousness, since only consciousness determines the behavioral reactions of a person, his actions, which are expressed in ecological culture.
On the second Saturday of May, World Migratory Birds Day is celebrated. His motto - “Migrating birds and people - together through time” - seeks to emphasize the inextricable link between people and birds.
As is known, from time immemorial man admired migratory birds. A man observed birds at all times of the year, recorded changes in their habitat, tried to find use for birds in their economic activities. Proof of this are the numerous legends, tales, records found in almost all populated corners of the planet.
The International Convention for the Protection of Birds, signed in 1906, became the historical background for the establishment of the Day.
Nowadays, World Day of Migratory Birds is a global environmental campaign, the purpose of which is to increase knowledge of migratory birds, their habitats and ways of movement.
Numerous public events of the Day, among which the most common are bird festivals, educational and educational programs, bird watching under the guidance of specialists, and excursions call for the conservation of habitats for migratory birds around the world.
International Nursing Day
In fact, nurses are specialists who have received primary medical education and who follow the prescriptions of a doctor or paramedic for nursing the sick, they are compulsory medical assistants, because they are the ones who work directly with the patient throughout the entire treatment period. Currently, nurses constitute the largest category of health workers, since in medical practice a large proportion of medical services are provided exclusively by nursing staff.
Although in fact the World Nurses Day holiday is more than a hundred years old, it was officially established only in 1974. The day has been celebrated since the time when the nurses from 141 countries joined in a professional public organization - the International Council of Nurses.
The Day of the Healers
On this day, the church honors the memory of the nine martyrs of Kyzic, who in the 3rd century preached Christianity in the city of Kizik in Asia Minor. According to popular belief, the Nine Martyrs help with diseases and epidemics. Therefore, their day itself is considered the day of healers.
At this time, it was supposed to utter a special spell of nine misfortunes. It sounds like this: “In order misfortunes not to dry blood, not walk through the veins, not induce tumors, not break bones, not turn joints; that a man be clean from the earth, bright from the water. "
There was also such a custom: it was necessary to go out on the road at noon and expose the face to a warm wind. After this health should have been added for a whole year.
Environmental Education Day
In 1972, the Stockholm Conference on Environmental Protection adopted a recommendation to create an international program on environmental education. In order to survive, it is necessary to rethink the very essence of the relationship between man, society and nature on the basis of new approaches and ideas. The practical implementation of the ideas of sustainable development is associated with a change in the stereotype of the culture of the relationship between man and nature. In recognition of the domestic and world community, environmental education is becoming a central factor in solving the problems of the “Man-Society-Nature” relationship.
Environmental education in the world today is considered a priority for the education and upbringing of students in secondary schools. The UN Conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, which discussed the problems of the environment and the development of education, in its documents and decisions also stressed the great importance of environmental education in the implementation of a strategy for the survival and sustainable development of humanity. The highest and ultimate goal of environmental education (EO) and education is the formation of an eccentric type of ecological consciousness, since only consciousness determines the behavioral reactions of a person, his actions, which are expressed in ecological culture.
World Migratory Birds Day
As is known, from time immemorial man admired migratory birds. A man observed birds at all times of the year, recorded changes in their habitat, tried to find use for birds in their economic activities. Proof of this are the numerous legends, tales, records found in almost all populated corners of the planet.
The International Convention for the Protection of Birds, signed in 1906, became the historical background for the establishment of the Day.
Nowadays, World Day of Migratory Birds is a global environmental campaign, the purpose of which is to increase knowledge of migratory birds, their habitats and ways of movement.
Numerous public events of the Day, among which the most common are bird festivals, educational and educational programs, bird watching under the guidance of specialists, and excursions call for the conservation of habitats for migratory birds around the world.
Also on May 12...
996 - the first stone church in Russia was consecrated in Kiev - the Tithe Church.
1888 - Charles Sherril from the Yale University Athletics Team amazes his rivals in the race, taking a low start for the first time, now traditional.
1907 - Catherine Hepburn, American actress, was born. Subsequently, she reduced her age by more than two years, attributing to herself the date of birth of her younger brother, November 8, 1909. She has fifty roles, almost no minor ones among them. She received four Oscars four times and was nominated 12 times. She was justly called “the national treasure of the United States” and “the first lady of cinema”. Known not only for beauty, but also for independence, Hepburn has always been extremely frank in her statements, and cultural historians attribute to her the decisive role in the final emancipation of women in the 20th century.
1941 - the world's first programmable computer was introduced to the scientific community. The model was called the Z3 and was demonstrated by the German engineer Konrad Zuse in Berlin. In the 1930s, Zuse designed aircraft at Henschel Aircraft. In the course of his work, he had to perform huge volumes of routine calculations. Then there were only mechanical calculators with a decimal number system, and Zuse was interested in the problem of automating the calculation process. So a German engineer invented a computer, first of all, in order to facilitate his work.
1950 - Ernest Hemingway in The New Yorker magazine summed up his literary battles: “I started very calmly and beat Turgenev. Exercising hard, I managed to defeat Maupassant. Twice I fought with Stendal, and I think the last time was better than him. But no one will force me to enter the ring with Tolstoy, unless I just go crazy. "
2004 - The position of web priest was introduced in the Anglican Church, whose duties include the care of the new parish, which exists exclusively in the network.
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