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Monthly Archives: June 2018

Exhibit Showcases Delicate Beauty of US Botanical Art

Botanical artist Carol Malone-Brown is seated, bent forward, intently concentrating on a painting she is working on of a green apple with leaves.

She carefully puts a small amount of paint on one leaf using the “dry brush” method — mixing tiny drops of water with watercolors and then using a paintbrush to draw short, fine lines. She will sit at her desk, painting this leaf for many days to get the shades of light and dark just right.

While many people might find this tedious, for Malone-Brown, creating botanical art is “very soothing and meditative.” She draws inspiration from her beautiful garden, filled with a variety of plants at her home in Alexandria, Virginia. This allows her to combine her love of plants with botanical art, painting only what she grows.

Botanical art combines art with science because each piece must have botanically accurate details. 

“The garden is like your laboratory,” Malone-Brown explained. “I mean you can run in and out, and maybe you’re in there drawing and painting, and you’re saying to yourself, ‘How does that leaf connect to the stem exactly?’”

Her images, which are mostly watercolors, show the delicate beauty of plant species.

A garden of botanical art

Malone-Brown’s art is being showcased, along with 45 other pieces, at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington. It’s part of a series of botanical art exhibits worldwide, featuring native plants in 25 countries, including China, South Africa, Indonesia, Russia and Colombia. The idea is not only to highlight botanical art but the great diversity of plants.

Malone-Brown’s painting of a Virginia strawberry plant is on display at the U.S. show, white flowers and red strawberries that look good enough to eat.

“To be authentic,” she said, “I had to make sure that the plant actually flowered and produced fruit at the same time.”

It took her four hours each day for five months to complete the image. She painted it on vellum, a parchment made from calfskin, which gives the image a lovely luminescence.

The Botanic Garden art exhibit also features other flora, like the saguaro cactus of the U.S. Southwest, the bigleaf maple tree from the West Coast, and a variety of flowers, including violets and sunflowers. A sunny orchid, called a yellow lady slipper, was painted by well-known botanical artist Carol Woodin, who also serves as exhibitions director for the American Society of Botanical Artists.

Distinctive styles

Woodin says every artist has a distinctive style. 

“Some tell a story, others capture a moment in time, or study a plant and focus on each stage of its growth,” she said.

Besides watercolor, oil, colored pencil and etching were used to create the pieces on display.

Botanical artist Alice Tangerini used pen and ink. She is the only botanical illustrator for the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s botany department in Washington. For more than four decades, Tangerini has been drawing meticulous botanical images that scientists use for research.

She said photos cannot capture details the same way botanical drawings do.

“Every time I’m making a line it’s a little bit exciting,” she said. “You see a leaf or flower that is different from any other, or a small portion of a seed.”

Like other botanical artists, Malone-Brown said there is pleasure in the process of painting the plants.

“They are our best friends,” she joked. “You truly have to love a plant that you paint because you’re going to spend a lot of time with it!”
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Washington Exhibit Showcases Delicate Beauty of Botanical Art

Botanical art illustrates the delicate beauty of plant species, frequently in watercolor paintings. A series of botanical art exhibits featuring native plants is being showcased in 25 countries around the world. The idea is to highlight botanical art and the diversity of plants worldwide. In the United States, 46 pieces are on display at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington. VOA’s Deborah Block spoke with some of the artists about their exquisite artwork.
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‘Insect Vision’ Hunts Down Asteroids

June 30 marks Asteroid Day, a U.N.-sanctioned campaign to promote awareness around the world of what’s up in the sky. In Milan, scientists are assembling a new telescope that uses “insect vision” to spot risky celestial objects. Faith Lapidus explains.
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Study: HIV Drug Not Linked to Depression

A new study of a popular HIV drug could ease concerns about its link to depression. Researchers in Uganda found that efavirenz, once feared to lead to depression and suicide, did not cause the expected negative side effects in their patients.

Efavirenz is an affordable, once-a-day pill used around the globe to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS. It’s “the treatment of choice” in most of the world, according to Africa Health Research Institute’s Mark Siedner, “especially [in] countries that depend on global aid to treat HIV.”

But some fear that efavirenz may come with a cost.

Some studies in the United States and Europe found the drug increased patients’ risk of depression or suicide, although other studies did not.

The mixed results prompted many doctors in the United States to prescribe more expensive but potentially safer drugs.

Siedner wanted to take another look at the risk of depression, this time in an African population. From 2005 until 2015, he and a team of Ugandan and U.S. doctors tracked 694 patients who took either efavirenz or another antiretroviral medication. They regularly asked the patients whether they experienced depression or suicidal thoughts.

No difference

Their analysis, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, showed there was no difference between the two treatments. Siedner told VOA, “In other words, efavirenz was not associated with a risk of depression. If anything, there seems to be a signal that potentially it was associated with a decreased risk. But it wasn’t a strong enough [signal] for us to say that.”

The authors also reported that of the 17 participants who died in the course of the study, not a single death was a suicide. 

Siedner has two possible explanations for why their findings differed from those in Western countries. “One potential cause is that every single ethnic group in the world, of course, is different, and different in many different ways — different socially, different environmentally, and in this case they may be different genetically.” His team is looking at whether the genes that control metabolism of the drug have a role to play in this story.

A second explanation could be the effectiveness of the drug. Because efavirenz is so potent, it could be keeping people healthier than they expected, so patients are less likely to report negative emotions.

The study is important, said Anthony Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, because it pushes back against “the initial observation of suicidal ideation and suicide and depression” as caused by efavirenz. He told VOA, “I think now what you’re seeing is that with these conflicting reports, it’s likely someone will come in [with] the proposal to do a randomized study and take a look. So the story isn’t ended with this paper.”

As more research on the safety of efavirenz is conducted, new and cheaper drugs that might replace it are on the horizon. One of them, dolutegravir, might also pose a risk, however. A study in Botswana found dolutegravir was linked to neural tube defects in embryos, meaning it might not be safe for pregnant women. As always, further research is needed to confirm whether this is a common problem or specific to the population studied in Botswana.

“I think the whole field right now is in a bit of a holding pattern,” Siedner said when asked about dolutegravir and the future of HIV medication.
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Agony, Ecstasy Loom as Penalty Shootouts Come into Play at World Cup

Football’s cruel mistress — the penalty shootout — arrives at the World Cup on Saturday after a packed fortnight of group games, ready to dispense her characteristic doses of unbridled joy and heartbreak in the knockout stages.

There has been a penalty shootout at every World Cup since 1982 in Spain, and while it is still a matter of contention whether this is the best way to decide a winner, the post-match shootout is now common at all levels of the game.

But the consequences of failure are nowhere more devastating than at a World Cup, where two previous finals and five semi-finals have been decided by the gut-wrenching lottery of penalties.

Inevitably it is the misses that are best remembered, none more so than Italy’s Roberto Baggio blasting over the bar to hand Brazil the World Cup in 1994 or Chris Waddle with a similarly wild and wayward effort for England in the semi-final four years later.

In all, 26 World Cup clashes have needed penalties to produce a winner, although only twice have they gone past the first stage of five kicks each.

Of the 16 teams in the second round in Russia starting Saturday, all but four have had past experience of a World Cup shootout.

Argentina should be the most confident, having been involved in more World Cup shootouts than any other country and winning four out of five.

Brazil have won three of four, including the 1994 final in Los Angeles, and France two of four, losing to Italy in the deciding game in Berlin in 2006.

But for the likes of England, Mexico and Switzerland the prospect of progress in Russia hinging on spot kicks will verge on the terrifying.

England have lost all three of their shootouts, and Mexico two out of two. The Swiss, bucking the national stereotype of calm efficiency, failed to convert any of their kicks in their one previous shootout, going out to Ukraine in the last 16 in Cologne in 2006.

For Colombia, Croatia, Denmark and Russia it will be a new World Cup experience if they are forced into the post-match tie breaker, although the Danes succeeded in the semi-finals on their way to their shock European Championship success in 1992.

Conversion rate

In the entire World Cup finals history, there have been a total of 240 post-match penalties taken, with 170 of them scored.

That is a decent conversion rate given the gut-thumping tension that always goes with the shootouts. The stress of nail-biting fans in the stands has nothing on the pressure felt by the players involved, many of whom often cannot bare to look while their colleagues step up to take their shots.

Penalty shootouts were first introduced at the 1978 World Cup but were not needed until four years later. Before that, an even more unsatisfactory toss of the coin was used to break the deadlock.

One consolation for the teams now faced with the prospect of penalties in Russia is that they will not have to face Germany.

Their 100 percent record in World Cup shootouts remains intact due to their unexpectedly early departure.
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‘This Is Congo’ Explores Everyday Voices Amid Conflict

“To grow up as a child in Congo, according to God’s will, is to grow up in paradise,” Col. Mamadou Ndala says in the opening scenes of “This Is Congo,” a film making its theatrical release Friday in the United States.

Strolling outside the eastern city of Goma where he is stationed, Ndala adds: “Perhaps because of the will of man, growing up in Congo is to grow up in misery because of these endless, unjust wars imposed on the people.”

Congo has been in the headlines as it faces its latest outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, and as a long-delayed presidential election is set for December. Dozens of armed groups continue to wreak deadly havoc on the vast, mineral-rich nation.

“This Is Congo,” directed and filmed by former photojournalist Daniel McCabe, gives an insider’s view on the diverse lives behind the headlines. It follows four people — a military commander, a mineral dealer, a tailor and a high-ranking, anonymous military intelligence officer — to show the humanity in the middle of crisis.

Traveling around the Kivu regions in the east, McCabe sought to explore the root causes of conflict in Congo. He ended up on the front lines of fighting between the army and M23 rebels as they marched into Goma in 2012 and were pushed out the following year. He gained unprecedented access through Ndala, the film’s main subject.

Though filming mostly took place in 2012 and 2013 the scenes of fighting appear timeless, reflecting Congo’s continuous upheaval as some soldiers are recruited by ever-changing rebel groups and later reintegrated back into the army, which is poorly organized and badly paid.

“This is a revolving cycle of conflict,” McCabe told The Associated Press. “The film to me is about the banality of war and the corruption of man. Our hope is that the audience can identify with the characters.”

Another of the four main characters is Mama Romance, who turned to selling gemstones to support her family, eventually sending her children to good schools and breaking the cycle of poverty. The dangerous work, as she crosses borders to sell, shows how entrepreneurial Congolese make money from the rich mineral resources around them. Often the proceeds from exports never trickle down.

“This Congo” also follows Hakiza Nyantaba, a tailor who has been displaced for years by conflict, as he ekes out a life at the kind of camp that is home to many Congolese. As of January 4.5 million people had been displaced, according to the United Nations refugee agency.

“It seems God has forgotten us,” Nyantaba says.

McCabe honors his resilience.

“There are displacement camps where people have been living for 20 years. It’s unfathomable,” the filmmaker said.

Alleged corruption by officials and mining companies in part drives the fighting in Congo, which has trillions of dollars of mineral deposits ranging from diamonds and zinc to copper and tin.

“This is Congo” makes clear that civilians are the victims.

McCabe, who clearly adores the complexities of Congo, said he wants the film’s viewers to “dig up more information on their own . read more books, have more interest in the area.” He urged people to “broaden their gaze.”

The film premiered in September at the Venice Film Festival but will release on Friday in theaters in New York City, Los Angeles and other U.S. cities. It also is being released on the BBC in the UK on iTunes in more than 70 countries.

“This is Congo” also will screen in Goma on July 15 on the closing night of the Congo International Film Festival.
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Bob Mackie Gowns Worn by Carol Burnett, Cher up for Auction

Gowns and ensembles worn by Carol Burnett, Cher and Raquel Welch are going up on the auction block.

The clothing was created by 78-year-old fashion and costume designer Bob Mackie, who has been honored for his work in motion pictures, television and the fashion industry.

Julien’s Auctions says the highlights include two gowns that were worn by Burnett and a pair of Punch and Judy costumes that she and Joel Grey wore on her CBS program.

There’s a hand-painted silk ensemble that Cher wore to the 1974 Academy Awards, along with a gown that Raquel Welch wore.

The exhibition will be displayed aboard the ocean liner Queen Mary 2 on an Aug. 19 trans-Atlantic crossing before the auction takes place in Los Angeles at Julien’s on Nov. 17.

 
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Бджоли гинуть в усіх областях України, крім однієї – Спілка пасічників

Бджоли гинуть в усіх областях України, окрім Закарпатської, повідомив у програмі «Свобода в деталях» (спільний проект Радіо Свобода та Радіо НВ) президент Спілки пасічників України Володимир Стретович.

Всі отруєння пасічники пов’язують із обробкою посівів небезпечними для комах пестицидами.

«Спілка може назвати одну область – Закарпатську, де немає великих масивів посівів і де немає випадків отруєнь. А так – практично у всіх областях є випадки отруєнь бджіл – в одних більше, в інших – менше», – зазначає Володимир Стретович.

Такого масового отруєння бджіл в Україні ще не було, зазначають у спілці. Торік випадки загибелі бджіл мали епізодичний характер, додає президент Спілки пасічників.

«Та кількість сімей, за нашими оцінками, які загинули – це близько 18 тисяч. Якщо взяти середню вартість сім’ї 2,4–2,6 тисячі гривень, то можете уявити, якої шкоди завдано приватним господарствам. Зауважу, що тут не потерпіли промислові пасіки, а потерпіли лише пасічники, які тримають бджіл у своєму господарстві. Економічно це особливо не відобразиться на валі, на виробництві меду. Питання полягає в тому, що знадобиться час, щоб відновити це поголів’я», – пояснює Володимир Стретович.

Також читайте: Масова загибель бджіл на Дніпропетровщині: хто відповість?

У Спілці пасічників України зазначають, що в Україні існують законодавчі норми, які регулюють питання обробки сільськогосподарських посівів, але фермери їх не виконують через відсутність контролю та покарань за порушення.
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У Львові знищили меморіальну дошку Іванові Франку – міськрада

У Львові невідомі знищили меморіальну дошку українському письменникові й політичному діячу Іванові Франку на будинку № 25 на вулиці Соломії Крушельницької, повідомляє міська рада.

Мерія закликає правоохоронні органи оперативно розслідувати справу і покарати винних, а меморіальну дошку обіцяє відновити коштом міста.

«Хулігани повинні бути покарані. Такі речі недопустимі. Усі ми засуджуємо такі акти вандалізму», – сказав в.о. директора департаменту «Адміністрація міського голови» Євген Бойко.

У будинку, на якому висіла дошка, Іван Франко жив протягом 1878−1879 років. Будівля визнана пам’яткою архітектури місцевого значення.
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Кількість переселенців, які отримують пенсії, зросла – Рева

За останній рік кількість переселенців з окупованих територій, які отримують пенсії, збільшилася на 80 тисяч, повідомив в ефірі Радіо Свобода міністр соціальної політики України Андрій Рева.

«Говорити про те, що уряд створює перешкоди і не дає людям отримувати пенсії – це, щонайменше, некоректно», – зауважив міністр.

За його даними, загалом пенсії отримують майже 570 тисяч внутрішньо переміщених осіб. Але не всі з них отримують допомогу для покриття витрат на проживання, а це свідчить, що ці пенсіонери живуть на непідконтрольних Києву територіях, припускає Андрій Рева.

Читайте також: Правозахисники: 200 тисяч переселенців в Україні мають проблеми з виплатами від держави

«Із цих 570 тисяч (а у нас всього зареєстровано 1,5 мільйони переселенців) допомогу як ВПО отримують не більше ніж 200 тисяч домогосподарств. Тому ви можете приблизно зрозуміти співвідношення між тими, хто постійно проживає тут, і тими, хто весь час їздить з непідконтрольної на підконтрольну територію», – пояснив міністр.

Він переконує, що переселенці, які постійно проживають на підконтрольних уряду територіях, загалом не мають проблем із виплатами, на відмінну від тих, хто мігрує.

Щоб не втратити статус ВПО, а з ним і право на отримання пенсії, людина має перебувати на окупованій території не більше ніж 60 днів, тому змушена хоча б раз на два місяці перетинати лінію розмежування.

Громадські організації неодноразово звертали увагу, що частина жителів окупованих територій Донецької і Луганської областей позбавлені можливості отримувати соціальні виплати. 

Раніше США заявляли, що Україна повинна відновити соціальні виплати на окупованих територіях. 

 
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US Suicide Rate is on the Rise

The suicide rate in the U.S. is rising. A new government report shows nearly 45,000 Americans killed themselves in 2016, more than twice the number of homicides. In fact, the suicide rate, particularly among young people ages 15 to 34, has been rising at an alarming rate for almost three decades, well before the recent high profile suicides of designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. Reporter Daria Dieguts takes a look at a trend that has many health professionals worried.
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First LP Record is Re-Released Amid Vinyl Revival

Seventy years ago this month, a major record company, Columbia Records, introduced the first LP, or long-playing record. The new format revolutionized music sound recording and was quickly adopted as the new standard by the recording industry. To celebrate the milestone anniversary, Sony has pressed a very limited quantity of that original LP — 500 records — to give away to their customers. The anniversary comes at a time when vinyl has been enjoying a revival. VOA’s Julie Taboh has more.
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Sharks Return to New York Aquarium

Sharks are the stars of a splashy new exhibit at the New York Aquarium. The new exhibit is a major step in the beachfront facility’s recovery from the devastating impact of 2012’s Superstorm Sandy. Faith Lapidus reports.
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Atlanta to Bring Human Rights Murals to City for Super Bowl

In the months leading up to the 2019 Super Bowl, some of Atlanta’s bare walls will get a makeover.

The city of Atlanta and the Super Bowl Host Committee have partnered with arts group WonderRoot to launch “Off the Wall.” The project will create up to 30 murals focusing on Atlanta’s past, present and future role in civil and human rights. Brett Daniels, chief operating officer of the host committee, said the murals will transform the city in hopes of sparking a community-wide conversation. 

The artwork will start going up this fall and will remain as a permanent part of Atlanta’s cultural scene after the game. Students from Freedom University, which provides services for immigrant students in the country illegally, will aid in the design and installation of the murals.
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Growing Populations, Aging Societies Portend Global Care Crisis

The International Labor Organization (ILO) says urgent action is needed to avert a global crisis as the number of people, including children and elderly, needing care rises, The warning is part of a new ILO report on care work and care jobs unveiled Thursday in Geneva.

The ILO cautions that the global care crisis will become a reality in coming years without a doubling of investment.  Authors of the report say $5.5 trillion was spent in 2015 on education, health and social work. They say that amount must be increased to $18.4 trillion by 2030 to prevent the care system from falling apart.  

The report finds the majority of care globally is done by unpaid caregivers, mostly women and girls, and that it is a major barrier preventing women from getting paid jobs. It says this reality not only hampers their economic opportunities, but stifles development prospects.

Lead author Laura Addati tells VOA 606 million women, compared to 41 million men, are unable to get paid employment because they have to care for a family member.

“This pool of participants who are lost to the labor force could be activated, … [put in] jobs that could benefit society. A part of these jobs could be career [caregiver] jobs, so as we well pointed out, there could be basically an activation process to sort of replace some of those jobs, so making those who were unpaid, paid care workers,” she said.  

Addati says more people nowadays are part of nuclear families, eroding the concept of extended households, which used to play an important role in caring for family members.  She says that is increasing the demand for more caregivers in smaller households.

The report finds that more than 380 million people globally are care workers. It says two-thirds are women.  In Europe, the Americas and Central Asia, three-quarters of all care workers are women.  The report notes long-term care services are practically non-existent in most African, Latin American and Asian countries.

The ILO says about 269 million jobs could be created if investment in education, health and social work were doubled by 2030, easing the global care crisis.

 
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На конкурсі проектів музею Революції гідності перемогли архітектори з Німеччини

Архітектори з Берліна Ян Кляйхус та Йоханнес Креснер є авторами проекту музею Революції гідності, який переміг на конкурсі, організованому Міністерством культури України.

«Ми з того покоління, яке застало Німеччину і Берлін розділеними на дві частини. І тому ми розуміємо важливість революції. Без неї Німеччина була би нині зовсім іншою. Тому події в Україні ми пропустили через себе», – зауважив один з авторів проекту, що переміг, Ян Кляйхус.

Міністр культури Євген Нищук наголосив, що саме цей проект втілять на алеї Героїв Небесної Сотні у Києві. Він називає цю споруду «Українським акрополем». Ян Кляйхус, зі свого боку, пояснив, що за задумом будівля стане такою собі вершиною, на яку підіймалися герої Майдану, і, зрештою, на яку підіймається кожна нація і окрема людина.

За проектом, який переміг, будівлю обрамлюватиме стилізований пандус, яким відвідувачі підійматимуться на верх будівлі й бачитимуть панораму міста. У нішах стін музею – будуть ті імпровізовані рукотворні пам’ятники героям Небесної Сотні, які спорудили люди на Майдані Незалежності.

Голова конкурсу проектів меморіального комплексу, заслужений архітектор Німеччини Матіас Зауербрух запевнив, що на етапі відбору проектів журі не знало ні імен, ні країн походження авторів – доки не обрало найкращу роботу.

20 лютого був визначений переможець міжнародного конкурсу проектів меморіалу Героїв Небесної сотні. Ним став проект українських архітекторів: Ірини Волинець зі Львова і Марія Процик із Ротердама.

У лютому 2014 року в результаті стрілянини з боку силовиків по активістах у центрі Києва загинули понад сто людей, їх згодом почали називати Небесною сотнею. На вулиці Інститутській у Києві є меморіальні плити на честь загиблих, а також хрест і портрети вбитих активістів. Меморіалу Героїв Небесної сотні як такого наразі немає.
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Fifth Graders Help Save the Monarch Butterfly

Many elementary schools around the United States have started gardens to give their young students hands-on experience with growing and eating vegetables, learning about nutrition and nature in the process. The Ecology Club at P.B. Smith Elementary School in Warrenton, Virginia, started its garden a couple of years ago. As Faiza Elmasry tells us, the school’s beautiful, green space got a valuable addition last year, a garden filled with plants that attract butterflies. Faith Lapidus narrates.
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Jackson Family Patriarch Dies at 89

Joseph Jackson, the strong, fearsome patriarch of the musical Jackson family, has died, according to a person close to the family.

The person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not allowed to discuss the topic publicly, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he died but had no additional information. He was 89.

The stage dad of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson and their talented siblings took his family from poverty in Gary, Indiana, and launched a musical dynasty.

Five of his boys — Michael, Jermaine, Marlon, Tito and Jackie — made the clan an instant sensation with the arrival of the Jackson 5 in 1969.

Over the following decades, millions would listen to recordings by the Jacksons, and Michael would become one of the most popular entertainers in history before his death in 2009.
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Exhibition Explores Michael Jackson as Artists’ Inspiration

A new art exhibition in London depicts Michael Jackson as a savior, a saint, an entertainer, an icon, a monarch, a mask and a mystery.

The National Portrait Gallery show, opening Thursday, reveals the extent to which contemporary artists have been drawn to the late King of Pop, as an artistic inspiration, a tragic figure and a fascinating enigma.

Gathering work by 48 artists from around the world, the show includes Jackson-inspired paintings, photographs, videos, textiles and ceramics. It ranges from 1980s pop-art portraits by Andy Warhol and Keith Haring to David LaChapelle’s depictions of a Christ-like Jackson and Kehinde Wiley’s vast portrait of the entertainer as a king on horseback.

Curator Nicholas Cullinan said Wednesday that, nine years after Jackson’s death, the show explores “how he could mean so many different things to so many people.”

Jackson had already been a child star when he became an international icon in 1983 with the release of “Thriller,” one of the best-selling albums of all time. His music, moves, style and innovations in staging and video had a huge impact on popular culture. He also struggled with the limelight, and died in 2009 of a prescription drug overdose at age 50.

The exhibition includes works that reflect on what Jackson meant to his fans, his place in African-American culture, the way he manipulated fame — and the way fame manipulated him.

 U.S. artist Todd Gray, who worked for Jackson as a photographer in the 1970s and 80s, recalled him as a sweet-natured youth — “If he stepped on an ant, he would cry” — but also someone keenly aware of his image. He remembered Jackson refusing to change his mismatched socks for a photo shoot, saying: “`People will talk. That’s what I want.'”

Gray has reworked his old photos by layering other pictures over Jackson’s face, including images from Ghana, where the artist has a home.

“It’s my way to place Michael in the African diaspora,” he said.

The show has the support of Jackson’s family, though not all the works are flattering. American artist Jordan Wolfson shows nothing but Jackson’s darting, blinking eyes, taken from a 1993 TV interview in which the star denied child molestation allegations.

Several works depict Jackson in a mask, most famously Mark Ryden’s cover art for the “Dangerous” album. Isaac Lythgoe has turned that image of Jackson’s masked eyes into a plush headboard.

Other images are heroic. German artist Isa Genzken juxtaposes Jackson and Michelangelo’s David. Wiley — who has also painted Barack Obama’s official portrait — depicts Jackson in armor on horseback, in a painting modeled on Peter Paul Rubens’ portrait of King Philip II of Spain. The portrait was the last one Jackson commissioned, and was completed after his death.

One work, filling a whole room, focuses not on Jackson but on his fans. South African artist Candice Breitz filmed 16 German-speaking Jackson fans of myriad ages and races, singing “Thriller.” It’s an engaging and moving work that shows just how much Jackson means to those who love his music.

Scottish artist Donald Urquhart, who created an illustrated Michael Jackson alphabet for the exhibition, thinks Jackson’s “manipulation of fame” has inspired many artists. But he says Jackson will be most widely remembered for his boundary-crossing music.

“I’ve been to tiny villages in Sumatra where they just play Michael Jackson all day long,” Urquhart said. “They don’t speak English, but there’s something in his music that is beyond language.”

“Michael Jackson: On the Wall” runs in London from Thursday until October 21. It moves to the Grand Palais in Paris from November to Feburary, then travels to the Bonn, Germany and Espoo, Finland.
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В Україні щоденно курить 7,2 мільйона дорослих – МОЗ

В Україні щоденними курцями є 35,9% чоловіків і 7% жінок, загалом щоденно курить 7,2 мільйона дорослих українців. Такі дані навели представники Центру громадського здоров’я Міністерства охорони здоров’я України 27 червня на презентації звіту за перший рік діяльності сервісу з надання допомоги у припиненні куріння.

Як повідомив генеральний директор Центру громадського здоров’я міністерства охорони здоров’я Володимир Курпіта, більшість курців пробують кинути курити, але лише півтора відсотка з них досягають мети. Тож одним із завдань Центру громадського здоров’я є сприяти тим сервісам, які допомагають людям у вирішенні проблеми з тютюновою залежністю, каже Курпіта.

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«Одним з таких напрямків є навчання медиків, які повинні допомагати курцеві ухвалити рішення про відмову від куріння. Спільно з ВООЗ ми зараз проводимо навчання для лікарів первинної медичної допомоги і медсестер», – пояснив Курпіта.

За даними медиків, від хвороб, викликаних вживанням тютюну, в Україні щороку помирають у середньому 85 тисяч громадян. Крім того, курці живуть у середньому на 16 років менше за некурців. А щорічні втрати через витрати на лікування і втрату працездатності від пов’язаних із тютюном захворювань в Україні становлять близько 12,5 мільярда доларів США (3,2% річного ВВП).

Сервіс із допомоги в припиненні куріння складається з «гарячої» телефонної лінії, оператори якої надають фахову підтримку охочим позбутися шкідливої звички, і веб-сайту, який містить корисну інформацію про відмову від куріння. За рік роботи сервісу оператори «гарячої» лінії проконсультували близько 700 людей, послугами веб-сайту скористались понад 13, тисячі курців, повідомила координатор проекту Катерина Римаренко.

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Національний сервіс з надання допомоги у припиненні куріння був розроблений з ініціативи Міністерства охорони здоров’я України, Всесвітньої організації охорони здоров’я та громадських організацій. Сервіс впроваджує громадська організація «Життя» за фінансової підтримки Швейцарської агенції розвитку та співробітництва.

У 2012 році Верховна Рада України ухвалила рішення про заборону куріння у громадських місцях.

 
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