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Monthly Archives: May 2017

У Празі відкрили фотовиставку про оборону промзони Авдіївки

У столиці Чехії відкрилася виставка «PROMKA» – фотопроект про події на промзоні містечка Авдіївки на Донеччині та його захисників. Це підбірка плівкових чорно-білих світлин, що передають атмосферу життєвих умов, в яких українським військовим щодня доводиться протистояти російській агресії. Автор – військовий фотограф і журналіст Олесь Кромпляс, який неодноразово був присутній у найгарячіших точках бойових дій на сході України.

«Головний месседж цієї виставки в тому, щоб показати в яких обставинах люди захищають не тільки Україну – але цілий східний кордон Європи. Тобто це люди, які відстоюють Європу, європейські цінності, всю нашу систему правової держави перед навалом беззаконня, тероризму, «совєтского союзу» та антидемократичних цінностей. Чехи мають про це знати, оскільки живуть під загрозою досить сильного впливу російської пропаганди», – прокоментував виставку автор робіт.

Як повідомляє кореспондент Радіо Свобода, фото-вернісаж пройшов у знаковому місці – на Вантажному залізничному вокзалі Жижков, що є відомою пам’яткою промислової зони Праги. Антураж локації мав нагадати відвідувачам атмосферу та настрій промислової зони Авдіївки. 

Організаторами виставки виступили українське посольство і Національний кіноархів Чехії.

«Автор є безпосереднім свідком того, що відбувається сьогодні в Україні. Він є унікальним джерелом інформації про цю війну. Ми дуже вдячні, що він приїхав до Чехії, щоб розказати та поширити правду», – сказав під час вітального відкриття посол України в Чехії Євген Перебийніс.

Фотопроект «PROMKA», що вже презентувався у багатьох європейських містах, зокрема у Женеві, Цюриху, Мюнхені й Варшаві, найближчим часом планує виставлятися у Португалії, Великій Британії і США.
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Trump Admonishes Comedian Kathy Griffin for Posting Gruesome Mock Image of Him

U.S. President Donald Trump admonished comedian Kathy Griffin Wednesday for appearing in a brief video holding a reproduction of a severed, bloody head that resembled the president.

In an early morning tweet, Trump said the image is disturbing – particularly to his children.

After seeing negative online reaction, Griffin apologized Tuesday night — saying she “moved the line” and then “crossed it.”

Griffin had shared the image in a tweet that has since been deleted at Griffin’s request.

The photo was taken by Tyler Shields, whose own biography notes he has evolved from Hollywood’s “bad boy of photography.”

The criticism came from liberals and conservatives alike, including the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and daughter of 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Chelsea Clinton, who called the image “vile and wrong.”

The CNN news channel, which has featured Griffin as a co-host on its New Year’s Eve coverage, said the picture was “disgusting and offensive.”

The cable news network said in a statement it is “evaluating our New Year’s coverage.”
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Explainer: Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change

What is Cimate Change? This video explains the basic concept of this hot political topic.
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Українців, за попередніми даними, немає серед жертв вибуху в Кабулі – МЗС

У Міністерстві закордонних справ України перевіряють інформацію щодо можливої наявності українців серед жертв вибуху в Кабулі.

«За попередньою інформацією, українців немає серед жертв. Проте ця інформація потребує уточнення і зараз перевіряється», – заявив представник департаменту консульської служби МЗС України Василь Кирилич.

Крім того, у Twitter консульської служби вказано, що поки взагалі немає інформації про наявність іноземців серед жертв і потерпілих від вибуху.

За останніми даними, щонайменше 80 людей загинули і понад 350 були поранені в результаті потужного вибуху в центрі Кабула 31 травня. Серед жертв є багато жінок і дітей. Вибух біля президентського палацу та іноземних прогримів у годину-пік. Силовики повідомили, що вибухнула бомба, закладена в автомобілі.

Атака сталася у час так званого щорічного «весняного наступу» талібів.

«Терористи, навіть в священний місяць Рамадан, місяць добра, благословення і молитви, не припиняють вбивств наших невинних людей», – заявив президент Афганістану Ашраф Гані.

Відповідальності за атаку ніхто на себе не взяв.
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New Graphene Water Filter Makes Salt Water Drinkable

The United Nations predicts that by 2025 nearly two billion people will be living in places where there’s not enough water to go around. And since on average water makes up about 60% of the human body, not having it has a host of devastating effects that go way beyond just being thirsty. That’s why some new technology to turn saltwater into drinkable water holds so much promise, VOA’s Kevin Enochs reports.
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Forget Butterfly Nets; Today’s Naturalists Capture Specimens on Phones

Your smartphone can help scientists keep tabs on changes happening in the natural world. More than one hundred thousand citizen scientists around the globe are snapping pictures of all kinds of plants and animals using the iNaturalist app. It is giving researchers an unprecedented amount of information about what lives where, and how that is changing with humanity’s expanding footprint. Steve Baragona has details.
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How ‘Wonder Woman’ Built a World of Women, Onscreen and Off

In a world of only women, there are no phallic structures.

At least that’s how Patty Jenkins imagined the island home of the Amazons and their heroic princess Diana, who grows up to become Wonder Woman.

“Like columns? They didn’t make that much sense to me,” Jenkins said in a recent interview. “They felt like an imposition on landscape, which didn’t feel like something that women are jonesing to do.”

As the director of “Wonder Woman,” Jenkins is creating new worlds for women both onscreen and off. Not only did she help dream up the look of the Amazon island and hire scores of actresses to serve as its resident warriors, she’s the first woman to direct a major superhero movie, and her success could pave the way for others.

 

As a child, she was inspired by Wonder Woman, describing Lynda Carter’s portrayal on TV as “the embodiment of everything that I wanted to be as a woman.”

“When I was playing Wonder Woman, I was able to do incredible things and save the world,” the 45-year-old filmmaker said.

 

That’s the feeling she hopes to evoke with viewers of “Wonder Woman,” in theaters Friday. Gal Gadot plays the title character, who discovers her superpowers and fights for justice alongside humans after following a charming spy (Chris Pine) to London during World War I.

‘An important movie’

The Israeli-born Gadot didn’t grow up with Wonder Woman, but she was always on the lookout for powerful characters to play.

“Usually the women are the damsel in distress or the heartbroken woman or the sidekick, but in real life it’s not the case. In real life, we bring life. We have babies. We have careers. We are so many other things,” said Gadot, a 32-year-old married mother of two.

“Wonder Woman symbolizes the magnificence of a woman and how amazing women are. And I think that it’s an important movie not only for women and girls, but it’s also great for boys and men, Gadot said. “You can’t empower women if you don’t educate the men and you don’t teach the boys, so as much as it’s important for girls to be exposed and see this movie, it’s important for boys to have a strong female figure that they can look up to.”

A first for Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman was created in 1941, yet this is her first solo feature film. Jenkins wanted to bring her to the big screen for more than a decade, but studios doubted the appeal of the lasso-wielding super heroine.

“I don’t understand why somebody who has had zero big blockbuster representation for 75 years still has 15 little girls a minute coming to my door dressed as her every Halloween, like how does that not equal dollar signs?” Jenkins said.

 

Connie Nielsen, who plays Diana’s mother, Amazon queen Hippolyta, also didn’t grow up with Wonder Woman, but had myriad other models of powerful women as a child in Denmark.

“The Denmark I grew up in was a Denmark in which women were, in fact, fully liberated and the whole world had been opened up to us,” she said. “In the magazines in the early ‘80s, it was men who were photographed doing the vacuum cleaning in the ads for vacuum cleaners and women were no longer posing on the Ford Mustang.”

So Nielsen felt entitled to question why, on an island populated by only women, her character would wear high heels. She and Gadot, both statuesque, wear wedges in the film.

“I actually had that conversation several times, and Patty was adamant,” Nielsen said. “She really felt like you stand a different way (in heels), and you do.”

Amazons were best part

The costumes, including the wedges, had to be considered during the physical training, which included horseback riding, archery and swords(wo)manship. For Robin Wright, who was raised on the “Wonder Woman” TV show, training and shooting with the Amazons was the best part.

“I think it was a little daunting for the men because it was very unusual. I think there were like 120 Amazons,” said Wright, who plays the warrior Antiope, Diana’s aunt and teacher. “That’s a different energy on the set, and great for us. We just felt like a team of women that had each other’s backs.”

She called Jenkins “the biggest cheerleader of them all.”

With the film’s arrival this week, Jenkins is thinking about what “Wonder Woman” might mean for a new generation of aspiring superheroes — and filmmakers.

“I am a filmmaker who wants to make successful films, of course. I want my film to be celebrated,” she said. “But there’s a whole other person in me who’s sitting and watching what’s happening right now who so hopes, not for me, that this movie defies expectation. Because I want to see the signal that that will send to the world.”

 
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Defeat Was a Motivator for Past Spelling Bee Champs

Three past winners of the Scripps National Spelling Bee say losing was the secret to their success.

Early defeats spurred an inner competitive streak that they used to eventually seize the title, said champions from 1985, 1999 and 2010. The 2017 national spelling bee winner will be crowned on Thursday.

“Those were tough losses but they also made me dig deeper and work harder,” said Balu Natarajan, 45, who flamed out on the national stage in 1983 and 1984. He won the next year at age 13 and is now a sports medicine doctor in Chicago.

Nupur Lala, 32, still remembers the word that tripped her up in 1998: commination, which ironically means the act of threatening divine vengeance. She took the title in 1999 at 14.

“It was one of the really healthy moments in my life. Any hubris that I had was eliminated at that point,” said Lala, headed for a 2018 medical school degree with a focus in neurology after conducting research at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Lesson about challenges

For 2010 winner Anamika Veeramani, losing in front of a worldwide audience on live television in 2009 was a seminal lesson in handling life’s challenges.

“In the spelling bee, you really learn how to deal with failure. And dealing with those things gracefully is really important to living a good life,” said Veeramani, 21.

She graduated last week with a biology degree after just three years at Yale University and is applying to medical school. She envisions treating patients as well as launching a broadcast career covering medical stories.

Defeat has fanned the competitive fires within, all three past winners said in separate interviews.

“The competition is not with other spellers but with yourself,” Lala told Reuters. “I don’t think that besting other people is quite as motivating for me.”

Natarajan, who is chief medical officer at Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care, the nation’s largest privately owned hospice provider, agreed he has been his own fiercest rival.

“Some people love to win. Some people want to keep pushing to be their best. I am the latter,” he said.

Natarajan won the title for correctly spelling milieu, Lala for logorrhea and Veeramani for stromuhr, after their opponents had stumbled.

Others’ errors

And how do the world’s best spellers handle errors in emails, classroom lessons or even romantic love letters? Do they point out corrections or suffer in silence?

“I don’t hesitate,” Natarajan said. “It drives me crazy.”

But Lala and Veeramani hold their tongues.

“I don’t want to be obnoxious. Nobody wants to be that kid,” Veeramani said.

This week, 291 whizzes ages 6 to 15 will descend on a resort in the Washington area to compete in the 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee.

They have made the cut from more than 11 million contenders who faced off in spelling bees in all 50 U.S. states, U.S. territories from Puerto Rico to Guam, and several nations from Jamaica to Japan.

The victor on Thursday takes home a $40,000 cash prize. But second place also has its rewards: a $30,000 prize.

Natarajan, a married father of boys 8 and 11, said his elder child just missed competing in the national bee this year, coming in second in a countywide spelling competition. If losing really is the key to winning, that may be great news.
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Woods Was Asleep at Wheel Prior to Arrest, Florida Police Say

Tiger Woods, once the world’s top golfer, was asleep at the wheel of his car and didn’t know where he was before he was charged with driving under the influence earlier this week, according to a police report released Tuesday.

Police in Jupiter, the oceanside Florida city where Woods lives, said he exhibited “extremely slow and slurred speech” after they awakened him when they found him sitting in his stopped car in the right lane of a roadway with the motor running. Police said he struggled with several roadside tasks they asked him to do.

The police report listed four prescription medications Woods said he was taking as he recovers from his latest back surgery, his fourth since 2014.

Two tests showed Woods’ blood-alcohol content to be zero, supporting his claim that the incident occurred because of an “unexpected reaction to prescription medications,” and not alcohol.

In a statement hours after he was released by police, Woods said he understood the severity of his actions and took full responsibility.

“I didn’t realize the mix of medications had affected me so strongly,” he said.

Woods added that he fully cooperated with police and thanked them for their professionalism.

The greatest player of his generation and one of the best of all time, Woods, 41, has not won a major tournament since 2008. He was the world’s top-ranked golfer for nearly 700 weeks but is now ranked at number 876.

Woods has been plagued in recent years by multiple back surgeries that have forced him to withdraw from recent tournaments. He has won 14 major golf championships and had been pursuing the record of 18 held by retired U.S. golfer Jack Nicklaus.
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Scientists ‘Supercharge’ Powerful Antibiotic

Scientists have tweaked a powerful antibiotic, called vancomycin, so it is once more powerful against life-threatening bacterial infections.  Researchers say the more powerful compound could eliminate the threat of antibiotic resistance for many years to come.

Antibiotic resistance, in which microbes no longer respond to drugs, is quickly becoming a global health emergency.  Of particular concern are so-called “superbugs,” a handful of pathogens that patients acquire in hospitals and other health care settings.  Patients recovering from surgery are particularly vulnerable to the resistant, hospital-borne infections, which put them at high risk of death.  

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, modified vancomycin, invented 60 years ago and considered a last resort treatment against many of these infections.   They made a key change to its molecular structure, interfering with how the bacterium, enterococcus, makes protective cells walls.

In a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, investigators describe how the change made vancomycin 1,000 times more effective against both drug-resistant enterococci and the original forms of the microorganism.

‘Total cures’

The modification is in addition to two previous changes made by the Scripps team that improved the drug’s potency, so less of it is needed to treat an infection.  

Lead researcher Dale Boger, who co-chairs the institution’s Department of Chemistry, said it is difficult for enterococcus to find a way around three independent mechanisms of action.  “Even if they found a solution to one of those,” said Boger, “the organisms would still be killed by the other two.”

The challenge now for researchers is to reduce the number of steps it takes in the lab to boost vancomycin’s effectiveness.  Having redesigned the antibiotic’s molecular structure, Boger called streamlining its production the “easy part.”

Even if researchers are unable to simplify the way the improvements are made, Boger said efforts to supercharge vancomycin are worth it for the antibiotic’s lifesaving powers, calling the drugs “total cures” against bacterial infection.

Given the growing failure of antibiotics to treat common infections, Boger said making the super-charged vancomycin molecule is important, even if it’s labor-intensive.
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Ariana Grande to Perform at Benefit for Manchester Bombing Victims

U.S. pop star Ariana Grande will perform at a benefit concert in Manchester for victims of last week’s deadly bomb attack in the city, her publicist announced Tuesday.

The “One Love Manchester” show, to be held Sunday at the city’s Old Trafford cricket ground, will also feature artists such as Justin Bieber and Katy Perry.

A May 22 suicide bombing in the lobby of Manchester Arena just after a concert by Grande killed 22 people and injured more than 100 others. Many of the victims were young girls, a large part of Grande’s fan base. Others were parents who had gone to meet their children after the concert.

Police have identified the attacker as 22-year-old Salman Abedi, a Manchester native, and are working to piece together his movements in the final weeks before the bombing as well as who else may have been involved.

More than a dozen people have been arrested in connection with the attack.

Abedi’s brother and father also were arrested in Libya last week where they are being held. A spokesman said that the brother, Hashim, was aware of Abedi’s plans to attack.

 
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Overlooked and Insidious: Back-bay Flooding Plagues Millions

Marty Mozzo gets a gorgeous show each night when the sun sets over wetlands near his property on the bay side of a barrier island.

When he and his wife bought the house in 2008, she looked at the marsh, where the only sign of water was a tiny trickle nearly a half mile away.

“Do you think this will flood?” she asked.

“How could it?” he replied. “Look how far away the water is.”

Within weeks of moving in, a storm stranded them for two days with water on all sides. Theirs is one of several neighborhoods in Ocean City, New Jersey, where residents have adopted unofficial flood etiquette: Don’t drive too fast through flooded streets or you’ll create wakes that slam into houses, scatter garbage cans, and damage lawns and gardens.

They are among millions of people worldwide whose lives and land are being dampened by back-bay flooding — inundation of waterfront areas behind barrier islands where wind and tides can create flooding during storms or even on sunny days. It’s a type of flooding that tends to be overshadowed by oceanfront storm damage that grabs headlines — and government spending — with dramatic video of crashing waves and splintered houses.

“This insidious flooding is increasing, and it is an important social issue, but it is not getting enough attention paid to it,” said S. Jeffress Williams, a coastal scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey. “Flooding is happening with increasing frequency in back-bay areas. It happens very rapidly; it’s just not as dramatic.”

Williams, who lives on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, said back-bay flooding is happening just as frequently, if not more so, than oceanfront flooding.

“Over the last 15 or 20 years I have seen, especially when you get a full moon and a high tide, roads, backyards and parks all get flooded, much more so than we ever had before,” he said.

Nearly five years after Superstorm Sandy delivered a wake-up call, the problem of back-bay flooding is coming into sharper focus. Studies are under way, money is starting to flow toward the problem, and the realization that destruction of wetlands for development along such shores is partly to blame is leading to discussion about building codes.

Sandy created a vast swath of destruction along the coasts of New Jersey and New York in 2012. But it also wreaked havoc along the back bays, where miles of lagoons exposed thousands of waterfront homes to flooding damage.

Property owners in Toms River, New Jersey, received more than $568 million in payments from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after Sandy. Neighboring Brick Township received more than $267 million. Both towns have limited oceanfront exposure but extensive back-bay exposure, and they represented the largest damage totals in Ocean County, the region of New Jersey that took the hardest hit from Sandy.

President Donald Trump’s budget proposal, released last week, would cut a combined $452 million from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the Homeland Security department for research grants, flood mapping and analysis. If enacted by Congress, many environmental groups worry, less money will be available to study back-bay flooding.

‘Complicated’ solutions

Jeff Gebert, chief of coastal planning for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia division, acknowledged that before Sandy, back-bay flooding was not as high on the agency’s radar, due in part to the lack of easy engineering solutions.

As of January, the Army Corps map of recent storm protection and navigation projects in New Jersey showed 10 either completed or under way, with six more planned. But none were done in back bays.

The picture is largely the same nationwide, he said, “because the solution to back-bay flooding is much more complicated” than simply pumping sand onto oceanfront beaches.

A 2010 study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that more than 123 million people — or about 39 percent of the U.S. population — lived in coastal zone counties, a number projected to grow by 8 percent by 2020. The greater proportion of those people live on or near the bay sides of barrier islands, scientists say, than on the oceanfront.

Unlike oceanfront flooding, where crashing waves from storm-driven seas pound the beaches, back bays flood gradually and comparatively quietly as water levels rise. The effect is worsened during storms that continue through numerous tide cycles in which water piles up in the back bays without being able to drain out to sea.

Tides and wind can inundate some of these areas even when the sun shines.

“The water sneaks up the backside of barrier islands and the flooding you get is sometimes actually greater than on the ocean sides due to the topography of the islands,” said Guy Nordenson, a structural engineer specializing in climate change adaptation whose firm has worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on flood prevention projects. “That is the case all the way up and down the East Coast to Miami Beach.”

New Jersey has funded some smaller resiliency projects in areas including back bays, but none was designed specifically for flood control. It hopes the study under way will identify a range of possible solutions.

Sandy, Gebert said, “woke people up. It galvanized attention on the vulnerability of back-bay areas.”

The Army Corps and state officials began a three-year study of back-bay flooding in December in New Jersey that seeks cost-effective solutions that can be replicated elsewhere. Similar studies are under way or were recently completed in New York, Virginia, Texas, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland and Washington, D.C.

Many traditional engineering solutions that are used along the oceanfront are of limited benefit against back-bay flooding. Houses are being elevated and roadways repaved to make them higher. But the bulkheads, sea walls and sand dunes used along the ocean can’t be replicated in many back-bay areas because of limited space and resistance from homeowners who prize waterfront views.

“There’s just not as much you can do,” said the Geological Survey’s Williams. “We used to have broad wetlands that could absorb this water, but we’ve built right up to the edge of the water in many places. Now you’re faced with armoring the waterfront or relocating, and relocating is popular with no one.”

New rules as sea levels rise

Any new homes need to be built in these areas with sea level rise in mind, said Princeton geosciences professor Michael Oppenheimer.

“They need to design buildings that are essentially floodable, where it’s OK that the first floor gets flooded every now and again,” he said. “These places do get wet on a regular basis.”

Globally, sea levels have been rising over the past century, NOAA says, and the rate has increased in recent decades. In New Jersey, seas have risen by 1.3 feet (0.4 meters) over the past 100 years, said Benjamin Horton, a Rutgers University professor and leading expert on climate change and sea level rise. That is a faster pace than for the past 2,000 years combined, he said.

Horton and other Rutgers researchers project that by 2050, seas off New Jersey will rise by an additional 1.4 feet (0.4 meters).

Jim and Maryann O’Neill moved from Philadelphia to a section of Stafford Township, New Jersey, in 1994 for a quiet existence near the water. But they’re now much nearer to it than they bargained for.

In January 2016, a coastal storm inundated the O’Neills’ neighborhood; a March 2017 storm submerged the roads and deposited fish on the pavement in front of their house. And that was two years after the town raised the road by their house by 8 inches.

They’ve had to build a boardwalk from their back stairs to the edge of their property because the yard has been underwater or muddy — “like quicksand,” said Jim O’Neill — virtually every day for the past five years.

Maryann, 75, recently learned how to use an app that notifies her when the tides are rising. The O’Neills routinely have to move their car to the highest spot around — the bridge leading to their neighborhood. They have already rusted through three pickup trucks and three cars in the past 13 years.

In Ocean City, officials will spend $40.3 million over the next five years on drainage improvements and road work that includes elevating roadways, new pipes and pumping stations. Such work in his neighborhood has cut down on flooding, Mozzo acknowledged.

“We put $20 million into back-bay dredging for five years,” Mayor Jay Gillian said. “When you talk about $20 million in one seaside resort for just one thing, that speaks volumes about how much these coastal places need.”
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ВООЗ: понад 7 мільйонів людей щороку помирають від хвороб, викликаних курінням тютюну

У Всесвітній організації охорони здоров’я (ВООЗ) заявляють, що сім мільйонів людей вмирають щорічно в світі від хвороб, викликаних курінням тютюну. Про це йдеться у першій доповіді ВООЗ про шкоду тютюнової галузі під час виробництва тютюнових виробів і їхньої реалізації.

У доповіді також зауважують, що вирощування тютюну завдає «величезної шкоди» навколишньому середовищу, оскільки потребує застосування хімічних добрив, енергії і води. 

Екологічний слід тютюну – це не лише вплив сигаретного диму, зазначають у ВООЗ. 

«Вирощування тютюну, виробництво тютюнових виробів і їх доставка роздрібним торговцям – все це має серйозні наслідки для навколишнього середовища, в тому числі й скидання відходів виробництва в навколишнє середовище», – сказав помічник Генерального директора ВООЗ Олег Честнов у зв’язку з Всесвітнім днем боротьби з курінням 31 травня.

Тютюнові плантації вимагають застосування інсектицидів, гербіцидів та інших хімічних засобів для вирощування тютюну і запобігання його від шкідників, а у процесі сушіння спалюються великі обсяги деревини, що сприяє зникненню лісів.

За оцінками організації, понад 11 мільйонів тонн деревини спалюється щорічно для просушки тютюнового листя – це еквівалентно одному дереву на 300 сигарет. 

У Китаї, найбільшому світовому виробнику тютюну, зникнення лісів на 18 відсотків є наслідком розвитку тютюнової промисловості.

За даними ВООЗ, щорічно в світі скурюють понад 6 трильйонів сигарет, при їх курінні випускається від 3 до 5 мільйонів тонн парникового газу, а також тисячі тонн канцерогенних речовин.
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У Львові сьогодні день жалоби за загиблими на Грибовицькому сміттєзвалищі

Днем жалоби оголошено 30-те травня у Львові в річницю загибелі чотирьох людей під шаром сміття на Грибовицькому сміттєзвалищі.

Як передає кореспондент Радіо Свобода, у вівторок у Львові, Жовкві та Рава-Руській (містах, де поховані рятувальники) приспущені прапори із жалобними стрічками. Заплановані поминальні служби, відвідини могил загиблих, а також вечір пам’яті.

28 травня 2016 року сталась пожежа на звалищі побутових відходів у селі Грибовичі на Львівщині. Рятувальники кілька днів гасили вогонь, але 30 травня стався зсув ґрунту і четверо людей – МНСівці Андрій Вненкевич, Юрій Рудий, Богдан Юнка і комунальник Олександр Бутін (його тіло не знайшли) – опинились під завалами сміття.

За фактом події було відкрито кримінальне провадження, матеріали якого налічують понад 300 томів. Втім винні у трагедії досі не названі. Згідно з висновками експертів, причиною пожежі на Грибовицькому сміттєзвалищі стало самозаймання неущільнених твердих побутових відходів. Водночас міський голова Львова Андрій Садовий заявляв, що це зумисний підпал.
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Tiger Woods Arrested on Drunk Driving Charge

Tiger Woods, once the top golfer in the world, has been arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in Florida.

Police say Woods was arrested early Monday morning in the city of Jupiter and was released on his own recognizance several hours later.

The greatest player of his generation and one of the best of all time, Woods, 41, has not won a major tournament since 2008. He was the world’s number-one ranked golfer for nearly 700 weeks but is now ranked at number 876.

Woods had been plagued in recent years by multiple back surgeries which have forced him to withdraw from recent tournaments.

Woods has won 14 major golf championships and had been pursuing the record of 18 held by retired U.S. golfer Jack Nicklaus.
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Tiger Woods: Alcohol Not Involved in DUI Arrest

U.S. golfer Tiger Woods said Monday that an “unexpected reaction to prescription medications,” and not alcohol, was what led to his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence.

Police arrested Woods early Monday morning in the city of Jupiter and released him on his own recognizance several hours later.

In a statement, Woods said he understands the severity of his actions and takes full responsibility.

“I didn’t realize the mix of medications had affected me so strongly,” he said.

Woods added that he fully cooperated with police and thanked them for their professionalism.

The greatest player of his generation and one of the best of all time, Woods, 41, has not won a major tournament since 2008. He was the world’s number-one ranked golfer for nearly 700 weeks but is now ranked at number 876.

Woods had been plagued in recent years by multiple back surgeries which have forced him to withdraw from recent tournaments.

Woods has won 14 major golf championships and had been pursuing the record of 18 held by retired U.S. golfer Jack Nicklaus.
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Мінагрополітики скоротило прогноз урожаю ягід і фруктів на 29%

Міністерство аграрної політики і продовольства скоротило прогноз урожаю ягід і фруктів на 29% – до 1,76 мільйона тонн з 2,47 мільйона тонн. 

Як повідомляє прес-служба відомства, травневі заморозки, які були практично на всій території України, завдали значної шкоди плодово-ягідним культурам й винограду. 

У міністерстві зазначають, що найбільшої шкоди зазнали кісточкові культури – їхній прогнозний урожай зменшено з 476 до 292 тисяч тонн (на 39%), найбільший втрати урожаю очікується у абрикоса, персика і нектарина. 

Мінагрополітики сподівається зібрати 33300 тонн абрикос, 9700 тонн персика та нектарина (проти раніше очікуваних 71 й 18 тисяч тонн відповідно).

Найменшої шкоди завдано врожаю винограду – в межах 13% (очікується 333 тисяч тонн проти попереднього прогнозу у 380 тисяч тонн), додають у відомстві.

На початку травня в Україні були заморозки, 10 травня часом навіть пролітав сніг, але за температури 5-7 градусів тепла одразу танув. 
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В Івано-Франківську вшанували пам’ять загиблих на горі Карачун у 2014 році

У меморіальному сквері Івано-Франківська, де поховані загиблі у травні 2014 року біля гори Карачун представники спецпідрозділу прикарпатської міліції, сьогодні провели поминальну панахиду.

З 12 військових, які були у збитому бойовиками українському гелікоптері Мі-8, шестеро з Івано-Франківщини – Петро Безпалько, Василь Семанюк, Володимир Лисенчук, Петро Остап’юк, Віктор Яков’як і Володимир Шарабуряк. Ще через кілька днів на блокпості біля Слов’янська загинув Михайло Шемегінський.

Вшанувати їхню пам’ять прийшли рідні, колеги, ветерани АТО, представники влади. Панахиду відслужили священики різних конфесій.

За словами т.в.о. начальника головного управління національної поліції в Івано-Франківській області Ігоря Баб’юка, він знав усіх хлопців по службі, і «та хвилина, коли дізналися про їхню загибель, до цього часу стоїть чорною хмарою перед очима, у серці і душі кожного з нас». Того дня вони доставляли продовольство і обладнання на бойові позиції, при поверненні гелікоптер було збито.

На панахиду прийшли і правоохоронці, які сьогодні відправляються на чергову ротацію у зону АТО, у Маріуполь. Їх поблагословили священики.

Як повідомив представник державної служби у справах ветеранів війни та учасників АТО в області Володимир Веркалець, за час бойових дій на сході України загинули 125 прикарпатців.

29 травня 2014 року біля гори Карачун в Донецькій області бойовики збили український гелікоптер Мі-8, загинули всі військові.
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Congo Approves Use of Ebola Vaccination to Fight Outbreak

Democratic Republic of Congo’s Health Ministry has approved the use of a new Ebola vaccine to counter an outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever in its northeast that has killed four people, a spokesman said on Monday.

“The non-objection was given. Now there’s a Medecins Sans Frontieres team that is arriving [in Congo] today to validate the protocol with the technical teams,” Jonathan Simba, a Health Ministry spokesman, said by telephone.

The vaccine, known as rVSV-ZEBOV and developed by Merck, is not yet licensed but was shown to be highly protective against Ebola in clinical trials published last December.

As of Friday, Congo had registered 52 total suspected cases, including two that have been confirmed, the World Health Organization spokesman in Congo, Eugene Kabambi, said by telephone, adding that the situation appears to be under control.

Simba said that the details of the vaccination campaign would be announced after a meeting of the health ministry and its partners set to take place on Monday or Tuesday.

A vaccination campaign would present logistical challenges in Congo’s isolated northeastern forests, including transporting and storing the vaccine in special containers at the required minus 80 degrees Celsius.

 
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Takuma Sato First Japanese Driver to Win Indianapolis 500

Takuma Sato on Sunday became the first Japanese driver to win the Indianapolis 500, in a race that featured a horrific crash involving the driver who started from the pole position.

In the 101st running of the iconic U.S. auto race in the midwestern state of Indiana, Sato passed three-time winner Helio Castroneves of Brazil in the closing laps of the 200-lap drive around the oval track, and held on to win by the slim margin of two-tenths of a second.

“Unbelievable feeling!” a jubilant Sato, 40, declared. Five years ago, the Japanese driver had a great chance to win the prestigious event, but on the final lap collided with eventual champion Dario Franchitti of Scotland.

“He drove unbelievable,” said Michael Andretti, head of the team Sato drives for, Andretti Autosport.

“I couldn’t do what he was doing (on the closing laps),” said Castroneves, who barely avoided two crashes.

The most horrific crash involved pole sitter Scott Dixon of New Zealand, the 2008 Indy 500 winner. With just over a quarter of the 500-mile (805 km) race completed, Briton Jay Howard’s car made contact with the outside wall after turn one and slid down into Dixon’s.

Dixon’s car was sent flying and sliding sideways on the inside safety barrier, flames shooting out as the back end of the car was ripped away. Miraculously, Dixon climbed out of the race car and walked away, as did Howard.

“I’m a little beaten up there. It was a bit of a rough ride,” said Dixon.

Sunday’s race featured 35 lead changes among a race record 15 drivers.

Twenty-two-year-old rookie Ed Jones of Britain placed third, and last year’s winner, Alexander Rossi of the United States, ended up seventh.  The only female driver in the annual event, Pippa Mann of Britain, climbed from 28th at the start and overcame a pit stop penalty to finish 17th in the 33-car field.
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