DERGİNİN SON HALİ

APRIL 2017 NUMBER 3 5$
CURIOUS

HANAMI
TRAVEL
CROSSWORD
SOLUTIONS
TECHNOLOGY
REFERENCES
FLYING GURNARD
AZİZ SANCAR
EXPERIMENT
CHESS BOXING
MARS AND JUPITER
STEFAN ZWEİG CHESS
GARRY KASPAROV VS VESEL İN TOPALOV
PARROTS

HANAMİ
"Hanami" is the centuries-old practice of picnicking under a blooming sakura or ume tree. The custom is
said to have started during the Nara Period(710–794) when it was umeblossoms that people admired in
the beginning. But by the Heian Period(794–1185), cherry blossoms came to attract more attention and
hanami was synonymous with sakura.From then on, in both waka and haiku, "flowers"( 花 hana?) meant
"cherry blossoms". The custom was originally limited to the elite of the Imperial Court, but soon spread to
samurai society and, by the Edo period, to the common people as well. Tokugawa Yoshimune planted
areas of cherry blossom trees to encourage this. Under the sakura trees, people had lunch and drank
sake in cheerful feasts
Every year the Japanese Meteorological Agency and the public track thesakura zenseN(cherry blossom
front) as it moves northward up the archipelago with the approach of warmer weather via nightly
forecasts following the weather segment of news programs. The blossoming begins in kinawa n January
and typically reaches Kyoto and Tokyo at the end of March or the beginning of April. It proceeds into
areas at the higher altitudes and northward, arriving in Hokkaidō a few weeks later. Japanese pay close
attention to these forecasts and turn out in large numbers at parks, shrines, and temples with family and
friends to hold flower-viewing parties. Hanami festivals celebrate the beauty of the cherry blossom and
for many are a chance to relax and enjoy the beautiful view. The custom of hanami dates back many
centuries in Japan. The eighth-century chronicle Nihon Shoki ( 日 本 書 紀 ) records hanami festivals being
held as early as the third century AD.
Most Japanese schools and public buildings have cherry blossom trees outside of them. Since the fiscal
and school year both begin in April, in many parts Honshū, the first day of work or school coincides with
the cherry blossom season.
The Japan Cherry Blossom Association developed a list of Japan's Top 100 Cherry Blossom Spots with
at least one location in every prefecture

TRAVEL
Capital = Freetown
Language = English
Establishment = 27 April 1961
President = Ernst Bai Koroma

Sierra leone or with their formal name Sierra leone republic, it is a country
in west Africa.İt has taken the name by their famous lions.İt placed
between northeast and Liberia.And olso near to the Atlantic Ocean. İt has
tropical klimate.As their neighbour liberia was etablished by slaves.After
the imperialism of England ist has taken the freedom in the 1961 but
between since 1990 until 2002 was civil war in the country
İt was pretty rich for the diamods.But despite all the
richness, it has lost while the civil war.Because of
imperalist countries have started this civil war.İn the war
the children were being a solider.They forced to war and
if they dont accept the war they tortued with a lot of
diffrent woys
There are lots of people without foot or ARM

CROSSWORD

FLYİNG GURNARD
The flying gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans), also known as the helmet
gurnard, is a bottom-dwelling fish of tropical to warm temperate
waters on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.[2] On the American side,
it is found as far north as Massachusetts (exceptionally as far as
Canada) and as far south as Argentina, including the Caribbean and
Gulf of Mexico.[3] On the European and African side, it ranges from
the English Channel to Angola, including the Mediterranean.[3]
Similar and related species from the genus Dactyloptena are found in
the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
When excited, the fish spreads its "wings", which are semitransparent,
with a phosphorescent bright blue coloration at their tips.
These are designed to scare away predators, but they don't enablethe
fish to glide in the air as do the fins of flying fish. The fish also has
large eyes. It reaches up to 50 cm (20 in) in length and 1.8 kg (4.0 lb) in
weight.
The fish's main diet consists of small fish, bivalves, and crustaceans.

AZİZ SANCAR
Aziz Sancar (born 8 September 1946) is a Turkish-American biochemist and molecular
biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock.[4] In 2015, he was
awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their
mechanistic studies of DNA repair. He has made contributions on photolyase and nucleotide excision
repair in bacteria that have changed his field.
Sancar is currently the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University
of North Carolina School of Medicine and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer
Center.[7] He is the co-founder of the Aziz & Gwen Sancar Foundation, which is a non-profit organization
to promote Turkish culture and to support Turkish students in the United States.[3]
CAREER
Aziz Sancar is honorary member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences[16] and the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences.[17]
After graduating from Istanbul University, Sancar returned to Savur. Although he wanted to go to the
United States, he was recommended to try out being a doctor and he worked as a doctor in the region
for 1.5 years. He then won a scholarship from TÜBİTAK to pursue further education in biochemistry
at Johns Hopkins University, but returned to Savur in 1973 as a doctor after spending 1.5 years there
due to having social difficulties and inability to adapt to the American way of life. He only spoke French
when he arrived in the US but learned English during his education at Johns Hopkins.[8]
Soon after, he wrote to Rupert, who had been involved in the discovery of DNA repair and was at Johns
Hopkins during Sancar's time there but had since moved to the University of Texas at Dallas. He was
accepted and completed his PhD in molecular biology there.[8] His interest had been stimulated by the
recovery of bacteria, which had been exposed to deadly amounts of ultraviolet radiation, upon
theirillumination with blue light. In 1976, as part of his doctoral dissertation, he managed to replicate the
gene for photolyase an enzyme that repairs thymine dimers that result from ultraviolet damage
After completing his PhD, Sancar had three rejected applications for postdoctoral positions and then
took up work at Yale University as a laboratory technician.[18]He worked at Yale for five years. Here, he

started his field-changing work on nucleotide excision repair, another DNA mechanism that works in the
dark. He elucidated the molecular details of this process, identifying uvrABC endonuclease and the
genes that code for it, and furthermore discovering that these enzymes cut twice on the damaged strand
of DNA, removing 12-13 nucleotides that include the damaged part.[18]
Following his mechanistic elucidations of nucleotide exchange repair, he was accepted as a lecturer at
the University of North Carolina, the only university that he got a positive response from out of the 50 he
applied to. He has stated that his accent of English was detrimental to his career as a lecturer.[8] At
Chapel Hill, Sancar discovered the following steps of nucleotide excision repair in bacteria and worked
on the more complex version of this repair mechanism in humans.[18]
His longest-running study has involved photolyase and the mechanisms of photo-reactivation. In his
inaugural article in the PNAS, Sancar captured the photolyase radicals he has chased for nearly 20
years, thus providing direct observation of the photocycle for thymine dimer repair.
Aziz Sancar was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005 as the first Turkish-American
member.[19] He is the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry, at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is married to Gwen Boles Sancar, who graduated the same year and who is
also a Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[20] Together, they founded Carolina Türk Evi, a permanent Turkish Center in close proximity to the
campus of UNC-CH, which provides graduate housing for four Turkish researchers at UNC-CH, short
term guest services for Turkish visiting scholars, and a center for promoting Turkish/American interchan

EXPERIMENT
YOU WILL NEED
A packet of yeast (available in the grocery store)
A small, clean, clear, plastic soda bottle (16 oz. or
smaller)
1 teaspoon of sugar
Some warm water
A small balloon
WHAT TO DO
1. Fill the bottle up with about one inch of warm water. ( When yeast is
cold or dry the micro organisms are resting.)
2. Add all of the yeast packet and gently swirl the bottle a few
seconds. (As the yeast dissolves, it becomes active – it comes to life!
Don’t bother looking
3. Add the sugar and swirl it around some more. Like people, yeast
needs energy (food) to be active, so we will give it sugar. Now the yeast
is “eating!”
4. Blow up the balloon a few times to stretch it out then place the neck
of the balloon over the neck of the bottle.
5. Let the bottle sit in a warm place for about 20 minutes If all goes well
the balloon will begin to inflate!

HOW DOES İS WORK
As the yeast eats the sugar, it releases a gas called carbon
dioxide. The gas fills the bottle and then fills the balloon as
more gas is created. We all know that there are “holes” in
bread, but how are they made? The answer sounds a little
like the plot of a horror movie. Most breads are made using
YEAST.. Believe it or not, yeast is actually living
microorganisms! When bread is made, the yeast becomes
spread out in flour. Each bit of yeast makes tiny gas bubbles
and that puts millions of bubbles (holes) in our bread before it
gets baked. Naturalist’s note – The yeast used in this
experiment are the related species and strains of
Saccharomyces cervisiae. (I’m sure you were wondering
about that.) Anyway, when the bread gets baked in the oven,
the yeast dies and leaves all those bubbles (holes) in the
bread. Yum.

CHESS BOXING
chess boxing,or chessboxing, is a hybrid fighting sport (or a hybrid board game) that combines two
traditional past times, chess, a cerebral board game and boxing, a physical sport. The competitors fight in
alternating rounds of chess and boxing. Chessboxing was invented by Dutch performance artist Iepe
Rubingh What was initially only thought to be an art performance quickly turned into a fully developed
competitive sport. Chessboxing is particularly popular in Germany, Great Britain, India and Russia
History
Rubingh’s idea to create a new sport fusing the two
disciplines, chess and boxing, originates from the 1992
comic Froid Équateur—written by French comic book
artist Enki Bilal (born Enes Bilalović)—that portrays a
chessboxing world championship. In the comic book version
however, the opponents fight an entire boxing match before
they face each other in a game of chess. Finding this to be

impractical, Rubingh developed the idea further until it turned
into the competitive sport that chessboxing is today with
alternating rounds of chess and boxing and a detailed set of
rules and regulations.[4] An earlier version of combining
chess and boxing was said to have taken place in a boxing
club outside London in the late 1970s. The Robinson
brothers were in the habit of playing a round of chess
against one another after a training session at their boxing
club. However, no direct correlation can be made between
the Robinson brothers’ chess playing and chessboxing.
[5] The same goes for the Kung-Fu movie Mystery of
Chessboxing (1979) as well as the Wu-Tang Clan's song "Da
Mystery of Chessboxing
2005–2008: the first championsTwo years after the first world championship, the
first European Chess Boxing Championship took place in Berlin on October 1, 2005. Present day
chessboxing commentator Andreas Dilschneider was defeated by Tihomir Atanassov Dovramadjiev
when he resigned in the 7th round (chess), crowning the latter the first European Chess Boxing
Champion.[7] In 2006, more than 800 spectators filled the Gloria Theatre in Cologne for the world
championship qualification fight between Zoran Mijatovic and Frank Stoldt. The 37-year-old Frank Stoldt,
former UN-Peacekeeper in Kosovo and Afghanistan, won whenhis opponent resigned in chess in the 7th
round. After qualifying himself to fight for the title in 2006, Frank Stoldt went up against the American
David Depto in November 2007 in Berlin, to fight for the first world championship title in the light
heavyweight division. More than 800 tickets were sold for the event at the Tape Club in Berlin, making it
the biggest chessboxing title fight to that date. Frank Stoldt defeated Depto in the 7th round, and thereby
cemented Berlin’s status as the leading city in the chessboxing world becoming the first German world
champion.[8]

MARS AND JUPITER
JUPITER
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It is
approximately 143,000 kilometers (about 89,000 miles) wide
at its equator. Jupiter is so large that all of the other planets
in the solar system could fit inside it. More than 1,300 Earths
would fit inside Jupiter.
Jupiter is like a star in composition. If Jupiter had been about 80 times more massive, it would have become a star rather than a
planet.
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. Jupiter's average distance from the sun
is astronomical units, or AU. This distance is a little more than five times the
distance from Earth to the sun. When viewed from Earth, Jupiter is usually the
second brightest planet in the night sky, after Venus. The planet is named after
Jupiter, the king of the Roman gods in mythology.

MARS
Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and the next
planet beyond Earth. It is, on average, more than 142
million miles from the sun. Mars is about one-sixth the
size of Earth. Mars is known as the Red Planet. It gets its
red color from the iron oxide (like rust) in its soil.
Mars is named for the ancient Roman god of war. The Greeks called the planet Ares. The Romans
and Greeks associated the planet with war because its color resembles the color of blood.
Mars has two small moons. Their names are
Phobos and Deimos. They are named for the sons
of Ares, the Greek god of war. Phobos means
“fear,” and Deimos means “flight.”
How Will NASA Explore Mars in the Future?
NASA plans to send more robots to Mars. An orbiter named MAVEN started its orbit of Mars
in September 2014. MAVEN studies Mars’ atmosphere. NASA plans to send a lander to Mars
in 2016. And a new Mars rover is planned for launch in 2020. NASA wants robots to, some
day, collect Martian soil and rocks and bring them back to Earth to be studied.
After robots have explored the Red Planet and brought back soil samples,
NASA wants to send astronauts there. To prepare to send humans to Mars,
NASA is researching new kinds of homes where astronauts can live.
Scientists are studying how people living in space can grow plants for food. To
find out how living in space affects humans, NASA studies what happens to
astronauts on the International Space Station

STEFAN ZWEIG CHESS
Chess Story is the story of a chess game.
In 1942, during the months of his exile in Brazil with his second wife, and
during the time that he and she played out master chess games in their
isolation, Stefan Zweig wrote his last book, completing it just days
before he and his wife’s double suicide. The narrator of the book is a
character in the story but not one of the two chess players and, like the
author, he is in exile. The game is played between the world champion
Czentovic and a Dr. B., the game arranged on a steamer to Buenos Aires.
The world champion Czentovic, orphaned young, took to chess and
absolutely nothing else, calculates magnificently, yet requires a board
and chessmen in front of him. Dr. B had been imprisoned and held in
isolation for a year prior to this where he had been playing chess in his
mind as a means to keep from breaking. He pilfers a book from one of
his interrogators after a few months of existing in a state of nothingness.
Hoping to find a book of poetry, it is 150 master chess games. He learns
to play the games in his head until they are all memorized. Then playing
against himself, considering even the guard bringing his food an
interruption, he becomes fuzzy during the interrogations because he
only wants to return to the isolation of his games and the anticipation of
black’s moves when he is white and white’s moves when he is black.
One wonders at first if it was just a dream that he played chess in his
mind in prison and he wonders too, having played only in his mind, will
he be able to sit at a board faced with a real player and be able to play.
The game between the two is climatic, one calculating on the board, one
in his mind, but the dualities don’t end there. The parts of Chess Story

are all aspects of Zweig’s life. When the game ends, life does not end for
these characters, but it does for their author. Czentovic must in some
way represent the oppressor, characterized as unworldly, limited and
lacking imagination, the other characters are parts of Zweig, the game is,
well, chess.
“In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded,
- for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as
attempting to jump over his own shadow.”

GARRY KASPAROV vs
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PARROTS
Parrots, also known as psittacines /ˈsɪtəsaɪnz/,[2][3] are birds of the roughly 393 species in
92 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions. The
order is subdivided into three superfamilies: the Psittacoidea ("true" parrots),
the Cacatuoidea (cockatoos), and the (New Zealand parrots). Parrots have a
generally pantropical distribution with several species inhabiting temperate regions in the Southern
Hemisphere, as well. The greatest diversity of parrots is in South America and Australasia.
Characteristic features of parrots include a strong, curved bill, an upright
stance, strong legs, and clawed zygodactyl feet. Many parrots are vividly
coloured, and some are multi-coloured. Most parrots exhibit little or no sexual
dimorphism in the visual spectrum. They form the most variably sized bird
order in terms of length. The most important components of most parrots' diets
are seeds, nuts, fruit, buds, and other plant material. A few species sometimes
eat animals and carrion, while the lories and lorikeets are specialised for
feeding on floralnectar and soft fruits. Almost all parrots nest in tree
hollows (or nest boxes in captivity), and lay white eggs from which hatch
altricial (helpless) young
Parrots, along with ravens, crows, jays, and magpies, are among the most intelligent
birds, and the ability of some species to imitate human voices enhances their
popularity as pets. Some parrots are intelligent and talk at the level of a four-to-five
year old human. Trapping wild parrots for the pet trade, as well as hunting, habitat
loss, and competition from invasive species, has diminished wild populations, with
parrots being subjected to more exploitation than any other group of birds.
Measures taken to conserve the habitats of some species have also protected many
of the less charismatic species living in the some ecosystems

SOLUTION

TECHNOLOGY
After announcing its very first fleet of driverless cars, Uber has reinforced its commitment to
stay at the forefront of innovative inter-city transport by revealing that it's researching shorthaul
flights using vertical takeoff aircraft.
The company's head of products, Jeff Holden, spoke with Recode at the Nantucket Project
conference, telling the publication that the idea behind the service would be to offer
customers "as many options as possible to move around."
Vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (VTOL) are very much a "do what it says on the tin" kind
of vehicle, using rotors and fixed wings to ascend and descend like a helicopter but fly like
a plane.
A new way to commute
The benefit of VTOL aircraft is that they don't require any kind of runway to take flight,
however, they do still need a good deal of space to operate safely – something which can
be quite hard to come by in busy cities.
Holden's solution to this would be to use rooftop spaces as takeoff and landing pads,
adding that he believes that VTOL aircraft could be used commercially within the next
decade in a system similar to UberPool.
In terms of research into the technology behind these aircraft, most of it's being done by the
military with The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the US working
on something called the VTOL X-Plane
Still, even if the technology is reasonably far along, bearing in mind spatial practicalities, air
space legislation, and safety regulations, it seems reasonably safe to say that seeing hese
vehicles in common commercial use within ten years is an ambitious goal. We're having
enough trouble with drones at the moment.
It'd be a massive improvement on getting the subway, though.

REFERENCES
https://www.wikipedia.org
https://www.nasa.gov/
http://www.techradar.com/news/world-oftech/future-tech/uber-wants-to-startflying-you-to-your-destination-1329389
https://www.thebookdesigner.com/2013/06
/12-tips-for-book-launch-parties/
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl
?tid=55522