 |
Michael Jackson will not be allowed to rest in peace at his beloved Neverland Ranch.
The singer’s family, who wanted a funeral at Jackson’s former home north of Santa Barbara, was not able to obtain a residential exemption required for a burial on private property.
“Contrary to previous news reports, the Jackson family is officially stating that there will be no public or private viewing at Neverland,” says a Jackson family statement. “Plans are underway regarding a public memorial for Michael Jackson, and we will announce those plans shortly.”
Colony Capital, the investment company that purchased Neverland in May 2008, tried to get an exemption for burial. “They couldn’t get it in time,” a Colony spokesperson says.
As for reports that Jackson’s body is being held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, William Martin, communications director for the funeral home, won’t confirm or deny if Jackson will be buried there.
• Reporting by CHAMP CLARK, JOHNNY DODD and HITHA PRABHAKAR
- Inicio: 13 de Julio
- Carga Horaria: 40 horas.
- Costo: $ AR 130, pagaderos antes de iniciar el curso.
- Solicitar formulario de Inscripcion y formas de pago a este mail.
- Nivel de Ingles requerido para la realizacion de este curso: Elemental.
Módulos de implementación semanal, de lectura dinámica y rica conceptualización vinculada a los contextos y situaciones de desempeño.
Ejercicios de evaluación en los que se vincula la teoría con la práctica.
Entorno Virtual de Apoyo, compuesto de referencias a sitios Web y bibliografía digitalizada relacionados con los temas desarrollados.
Glosario de conceptos clave.
Una tutoría continua y proactiva realizada por los profesores a cargo.
Envíenos un mail a firststudio o contáctenos online a http://www.first-v.com.ar/chat/login.php y reserve su curso.
Capacitacion en Idioma Ingles
El ministro de Salud, Juan Manzur, se refirió al veloz avance de la enfermedad durante una conferencia de prensa, en la que informó que ayer no se recibieron notificaciones de nuevas muertes y que el total de fallecidos confirmados asciende a 44. De todas maneras, advirtió que se investigan las causas de otros fallecimientos, sospechados de haber sido ocasionados por la gripe por virus A.
A su vez, un día después de asumir el cargo, dijo que “se estiman en 100.000 los pacientes” de la influenza, aunque el último parte oficial hablaba sólo de 1.587 casos confirmados, publicó el diario La Nación.
Mientras que el Gobierno reordena su estrategia frente al virus luego de la renuncia de Graciela Ocaña, provincias y municipios continúan estableciendo sus propios planes contra la epidemia que, en muchos casos, incluyen el cierre de lugares de esparcimiento y la suspensión de actividades culturales y deportivas.
Consultado sobre las decisiones tomadas en muchos distritos, Manzur respetó la autonomía de gobernadores e intendentes, y recordó que se aconseja a la población abstenerse de asistir a lugares de concurrencia masiva, aunque aclaró que “esto no quiere decir que en 48 ó 72 horas no puedan tomarse medidas más drásticas”.
Además de la suspensión de clases desde el próximo lunes, el Gobierno decidió conceder una licencia especial de 15 días a embarazadas y a personas con problemas oncológicos o inmunodeprimidas, según quedó establecido en el Boletín Oficial, donde se explicó que los beneficiarios por la medida deberán presentar un certificado médico en sus respectivos trabajos. La decisión abarca tanto al empleo público como al privado.
También tendrán las faltas laborales justificadas, sin pérdida del presentismo, aquellas personas que deban atender a un familiar directo afectado por la influenza A, hecho que deberá ser acreditado por un profesional de la Medicina.
La Dirección de Administración de Recursos Humanos del Departamento de Medicina Laboral de la empresa de medicina prepaga OSDE Binario difundió una serie de preguntas y respuestas sobre el contagio de la gripe A. Aquí, todos los mitos y las verdades sobre la enfermedad y su propagación.
–¿Cuánto tiempo dura vivo el virus porcino en una manija o superficie lisa?
–Hasta 10 horas.
–¿Qué tan útil es el alcohol para limpiarse las manos?
–Vuelve inactivo al virus y lo mata.
–¿Cuál es el medio de contagio más eficiente de este virus?
–La vía aérea no es la más efectiva para la transmisión del virus; el factor más importante para que éste se fije es la humedad (mucosa de la nariz, la boca y los ojos); el virus no vuela y no alcanza más de un metro de distancia.
–¿Es fácil contagiarse en los aviones?
–No, es un medio poco propicio para contagiarse.
–¿Cómo puedo evitar contagiarme?
–No llevarse las manos a la cara, los ojos, la nariz ni la boca. No estar con gente enferma. Lavarse las manos más de 10 veces al día.
–¿Cuál es el período de incubación?
–En promedio, de 5 a 7 días, y los síntomas aparecen casi de inmediato.
–¿Cuándo se debe empezar a tomar medicamentos?
–Dentro de las 72 horas los pronósticos son muy buenos, y la mejoría es del 100%.
–¿Cómo entra el virus al cuerpo?
–Por contacto, al darse la mano o besarse en la mejilla, y por la nariz, la boca y los ojos.
–¿El virus es letal?
–No, lo que ocasiona la muerte es la complicación de la enfermedad causada por el virus, que es la neumonía.
–¿Cuándo se inicia el contagio, antes de los síntomas o hasta que se presenten?
–Desde que se tiene el virus, antes de los síntomas.
–¿Cuál es la probabilidad de recaer con la misma enfermedad?
–Del cero por ciento, porque el paciente queda inmune al virus porcino.
–¿Dónde se encuentra el virus en el ambiente?
–Cuando una persona que lo porta estornuda o tose, el virus puede quedar en las superficies lisas como manijas, dinero, papel, documentos, siempre y cuando haya humedad. Ya que no se va a esterilizar el ambiente, se recomienda extremar la higiene de las manos.
–¿El virus ataca más a las personas asmáticas?
–Sí, son pacientes más susceptibles, pero al tratarse de un germen nuevo todos somos igualmente susceptibles.
–¿Cuál es la población a la que está atacando este virus?
–De 20 a 50 años de edad.
–¿Es útil el barbijo?
–Si usted está infectado, úselo para NO infectar a los demás, aunque es relativamente eficaz.
–¿Puedo hacer ejercicio al aire libre?
–Sí, el virus no anda en el aire ni tiene alas.
–¿Sirve de algo tomar vitamina C?
–No sirve de nada para prevenir el contagio de este virus, pero ayuda a resistir su ataque.
–¿Quién está a salvo de esta enfermedad o quién es menos susceptible?
–A salvo no está nadie, lo que ayuda es la higiene dentro del hogar, las oficinas, de los utensilios, y no acudir a lugares públicos.
–¿El virus se mueve?
–No, el virus no tiene ni patas ni alas, uno lo empuja a ingresar al organismo.
–¿Las mascotas contagian el virus?
–Este virus no, probablemente contagian otro tipo de virus.
–¿Cuál es el riesgo de las mujeres embarazadas con este virus?
–Las mujeres embarazadas tienen el mismo riesgo, pero es por dos; sí pueden tomar los antivirales en caso de contagio pero con estricto control médico.
–¿El feto puede tener lesiones si una mujer embarazada se contagia?
–No hay datos aún, ya que es un virus nuevo.
–¿Sirve de algo tomar antivirales antes de los síntomas?
–No sirve de nada.
–¿Las personas con VIH, diabetes, cáncer u otras patologías pueden tener mayores complicaciones que una persona sana si se contagian del virus?
–Sí.
–¿Una gripe convencional fuerte se puede convertir en influenza?
–No.
–¿Qué mata al virus?
–El sol, más de cinco días en el medio ambiente, el jabón, los antivirales, gel de alcohol.
–¿Qué hacen en los hospitales para evitar contagios a otros enfermos que no tienen el virus?
–Se aísla a los pacientes.
–¿El gel de alcohol es efectivo?
–Sí, muy efectivo.
–¿Si estoy vacunado contra la gripe estacional soy inmune a este virus?
–No sirve de nada, todavía no hay vacuna para este virus.
–¿Este virus está bajo control?
–No, pero se están tomando agresivas medidas de contención.
–¿Qué significa pasar de alerta 4 a alerta 5?
–La fase 4 no hace las cosas diferentes a la fase 5, significa que el virus se ha propagado de persona a persona en más de dos países; y fase 6 es que se ha propagado en más de tres países.
–¿Qué medidas debe tomar la gente que trabaja?
–Lavarse las manos muchas veces al día.
–¿Me puedo contagiar al aire libre?
–Si hay gente infectada y que tosa o estornude sí puede ocurrir, pero la vía aérea es un medio de poco contagio.
–¿Se puede comer carne de cerdo?
–Sí, se puede y no hay riesgo alguno de contagio.
Encuesta
¿Cree que el Gobierno demoró en tomar decisiones enérgicas contra la gripe A?
votos
Con el fin de prevenir la propagación del virus de influenza A, hay 17 provincias que resolvieron suspender el dictado de clases en todos sus niveles. Además, varias de ellas decretaron la emergencia sanitaria para poder tomar medidas más drásticas.
En algunos distritos agregaron dos semanas a las vacaciones de invierno de julio, mientras que en otras jurisdicciones se suspendieron las clases por una semana, para luego volver a retomar las actividades escolares y después iniciar las vacaciones.
En Capital Federal y provincia de Buenos Aires, las clases se suspenden a partir del próximo lunes, pese al pedido de los gremios docentes de aplicar la medida en forma inmediata. De esta manera, el receso invernal arrancará el próximo lunes y se extenderá hasta el 31 de julio. Con esta medida, buscan cortar la cadena de contagios en los colegios y frenar la expansión de la enfermedad.
Las otras jurisdicciones que también suspendieron las clases son Santiago del Estero, Entre Ríos, Corrientes, Santa Fe, Santa Cruz, Neuquén, Misiones, Córdoba, Catamarca, San Luis, Río Negro, Chaco, Mendoza, La Pampa y Tierra del Fuego.
Con respeto a la emergencia sanitaria, fue declarada en los territorios de Capital, provincia de Buenos Aires, Chaco, Río Negro y Corrientes. Decidieron tomar esa resolución ante la aparición de numerosos casos en pocas semanas y para optimizar la atención.
Algunas ciudades bonaerenses fueron más allá de la medida oficial de la Gobernación. En Mar del Plata, el intendente decidió adelantar la suspensión de clases desde mañana e interrumpir todas las actividades culturales y eventos deportivos. Lo mismo, aunque con pequeñas diferencias, ocurre en Bahía Blanca.
Las provincias suspendieron la actividad educativa tras la decisión de la Unidad Coordinadora contra la Gripe A de facultar a los ministerios de salud y educación provinciales para que amplíen hasta en 15 días las vacaciones escolares. El ministro de Educación, Juan Carlos Tedesco, dijo que para compensar los días perdidos se está evaluando suprimir algunos feriados o prolongar el ciclo lectivo.
Los ministros de Salud porteño y bonarense, Jorge Lemnus y Claudio Zin, coincidieron en señalar que esta medida no servirá de nada si los chicos que tienen síntomas de gripe no se aíslan en sus viviendas en forma voluntaria.
Lemus destacó que el agregado de días a las vacaciones de invierno “es una medida apropiada para tomar en este momento de la epidemia, ya que durante esta semana se suman además del virus de la gripe A, la bronquiolitis y el virus de la gripe estacional”.
Zin destacó, además, que “desaconsejamos a la gente que vaya a lugares donde hay aglomeración de personas pero no establecemos una prohibición en cuanto a esto”.
An interactive timeline of the life and career of Michael Jackson.
Multimedia
A Life in Pop
An interactive timeline of the life and career of Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson’s Career
Michael Jackson was a singing sensation before he was a teenager.
Fans React to Jackson’s Death
Fans gathered around the country to mourn the death of the pop icon Michael Jackson.
The King of Pop’s Collection
Images of Michael Jackson’s possessions and Neverland Ranch.
A Life in Pop
An interactive timeline of the life and career of Michael Jackson.
Updated: June 25, 2009
Michael Joseph Jackson died at age 50 in Los Angeles on June 25, 2009. He spent a lifetime surprising people, in recent years largely because of a surreal personal life, lurid legal scandals, serial plastic surgeries and erratic public behavior that have turned him — on his very best days — into the butt of late-night talk-show jokes and tabloid headlines. But when his career began to take off nearly four decades ago as a member of the pop group the Jackson 5, fans and entertainment industry veterans recognized something else about the pint-size musical dynamo that was unusual: He was in possession of an outsize, mesmerizing talent.
The introduction to his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame entry seemed apt as a global audience followed reports of his hospitalization and then death:
“Michael Jackson is a singer, songwriter, dancer and celebrity icon with a vast catalog of hit records and countless awards to his credit. Beyond that, he has transfixed the world like few entertainers before or since. As a solo performer, he has enjoyed a level of superstardom previously known only to Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Frank Sinatra.”
John Rockwell, the music critic of The Times, cited Mr. Jackson’s musical and cultural influence in a 1982 review of the album “Thriller,” calling it “a wonderful pop record, the latest statement by one of the great singers in popular music today.” But it was more than that, he contended: “It is as hopeful a sign as we have had yet that the destructive barriers that spring up regularly between white and black music — and between whites and blacks — in this culture may be breached once again. Most important of all, it is another signpost on the road to Michael Jackson’s own artistic fulfillment.”
Mr. Jackson was born in Gary, Ind., on Aug. 29, 1958 and began performing professionally at age 5, joining his three older brothers in a group that their father, Joe, a steelworker, had organized the previous year. In 1968 the group, now five strong and known as the Jackson 5, was signed by Motown Records.
By 1969, Mr. Jackson had already spent years in talent shows and performing in seedy Midwestern clubs under the aegis of his dictatorial and ambitious father and Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown Records. They were the singer’s twin mentors during his early career.
The Jackson 5 was an instant phenomenon. The group’s first four singles – “I Want You Back,” “ABC,” “The Love You Save” and “I’ll Be There” – all reached No. 1 on the pop charts in 1970, a feat no group had accomplished before. And young Michael was unquestionably the center of attention: he handled virtually all the lead vocals, danced with energy and finesse, and displayed a degree of showmanship rare in a performer of any age. The Jackson brothers were soon a fixture on television variety shows and even briefly had their own Saturday morning cartoon series.
Mr. Jackson had his own recollections of those years. “When you’re a show-business child, you really don’t have the maturity to understand a great deal of what is going on around you. People make a lot of decisions concerning your life when you’re out of the room,” he wrote in “Moon Walk,” his 1988 autobiography. “Berry insisted on perfection and attention to detail. I’ll never forget his persistence. This was his genius. Then and later, I observed every moment of the sessions where Berry was present and never forgot what I learned. To this day, I use the same principles.”
In 1971 Mr. Jackson began recording under his own name, while also continuing to perform and record with his brothers. His recording of “Ben,” the title song from a movie about a boy and his homicidal pet rat, was a No. 1 hit in 1972.
The brothers (minus Michael’s older brother Jermaine, who was married to the daughter of Berry Gordy, Motown’s founder and chief executive) left Motown in 1975 and, rechristened the Jacksons, signed to Epic, a unit of CBS Records. The following year Michael made his movie debut as the Scarecrow in the screen version of the hit Broadway musical “The Wiz.” But movie stardom proved not to be his destiny.
Music stardom on an unprecedented level, however, was. Mr. Jackson’s first solo album for Epic, “Off the Wall,” yielded four No..1 singles and sold seven million copies, but it was a mere prologue to what came next. His follow-up, “Thriller,” released in 1982, became the best-selling album of all time and helped usher in the music video age. The video for the album’s title track, directed by John Landis, was an elaborate horror-movie pastiche that was more of a mini-movie than a promotional clip and played a crucial role in making MTV a household name.
Seven of the nine tracks on “Thriller” were released as singles and reached the Top 10. The album spent two years on the Billboard album chart and sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. It also won eight Grammy Awards.
Such accomplishments would have been difficult for anyone to equal, much less surpass. Mr. Jackson’s next album, “Bad,” released in 1987, sold eight million copies and produced five No..1 singles and another state-of-the-art video, this one directed by Martin Scorsese. It was a huge hit by almost anyone else’s standards, but an inevitable letdown after “Thriller.”
It was at this point that Mr. Jackson’s bizarre private life began to overshadow his music. He would go on to release several more albums and, from time to time, to stage elaborate concert tours. And he would never be too far from the public eye. But it would never again be his music that kept him there.
Sales of his recordings through Sony’s music unit generated more than $300 million in royalties for Mr. Jackson since the early 1980s, according to three individuals with direct knowledge of the singer’s business affairs. Revenues from concerts and music publishing — including the creation of a venture with Sony that controls the Beatles catalog — as well as from endorsements, merchandising and music videos added, perhaps, $400 million more to that amount, these people believe. Subtracted were hefty costs like recording and production expenses, taxes and the like.
Those close to Mr. Jackson say that his finances had not deteriorated simply because he was a big spender. Until the early 1990s, they said, he paid relatively close attention to his accounting and kept an eye on the cash that flowed through his business and creative ventures. After that, they say, Mr. Jackson became overly enamored of something that ensnares wealthy people of all stripes: bad advice.
Mr. Jackson’s pre-expense share of the “Thriller” bounty — including the album, singles and a popular video — surpassed $125 million, according to a former adviser who requested anonymity because of the confidential nature of Mr. Jackson’s finances. Those who counseled him in the “Thriller” era credit the pop star with financial acumen and astute business judgment, evidenced by his $47.5 million purchase of the Beatles catalog in 1985 (a move that served to alienate him from Paul McCartney, the Beatles legend who imparted the financial wisdom of buying catalogs to Mr. Jackson during a casual chat, only to see Mr. Jackson then turn around and buy rights to many of Mr. McCartney’s own songs). Acquaintances from that period say that he would occasionally borrow gas money, and he still lived in the Jackson family home in the suburban Encino section of Los Angeles.
It wasn’t until the end of the 1980s that Mr. Jackson began to exhibit more baronial tendencies. In 1988, he made his $17 million purchase of property near Santa Ynez, Calif., that became Neverland.
At the same time, Mr. Jackson was redefining the concept of spectacle in pop music. He hired Martin Scorsese, the film director, to direct a video for “Bad,” a clip that one adviser with direct knowledge of the production budget said cost more than $1 million. The same adviser said that Mr. Jackson netted “way north” of $35 million from a yearlong “Bad” tour that began in 1987, and that heading into the 1990s Mr. Jackson was in sound shape financially.
By the mid-90s, though, Mr. Jackson’s finances were under strain. He retreated from working regularly after the release of “Dangerous” in 1991 and settled a child-molestation lawsuit for about $20 million. More significantly in terms of his finances, he had to sell Sony a 50 percent stake in the Beatles catalog in 1995 for more than $100 million, which one adviser said helped shore up the singer’s wobbling accounts. Mr. Jackson wouldn’t produce another studio album of completely new material until 2001.
In June 2005, he was acquitted today of all charges in connection with accusations that he molested a 13-year-old boy he had befriended as the youth was recovering from cancer in 2003. Mr. Jackson’s complete acquittal ended a nearly four-month trial that featured 140 witnesses who painted clashing portraits of the 46-year-old international pop star as either pedophile or Peter Pan.
Along with the verdict, the jury gave a note for the judge to read out in court. In it, they said they felt “the weight of the world’s eyes upon us all” and that they had “thoroughly and meticulously” studied all the evidence. The note concluded with a plea “we would like the public to allow us to return to our lives as anonymously as we came.”
The case arose from the February 2003 broadcast of “Living with Michael Jackson,” a British documentary in which Mr. Jackson admitted sharing his bed with young boys, calling it a loving act unrelated to sex. The boy who later became the accuser was shown holding hands with the singer and resting his head affectionately on his shoulder. He was described as a 13-year-old cancer patient whom Mr. Jackson had decided to help.
On March 5, 2009, Mr. Jackson announced that he would perform a series of concerts in London in the summer, in what he called a “final curtain call.” Mr. Jackson, 50, revealed the details of the concerts at a news conference in London, where he said he would perform 10 shows at that city’s O2 Arena, beginning July 8. “When I say this is it, I mean this is it,” Mr. Jackson said. “I’ll be performing the songs my fans want to hear.”
The shows would have been Mr. Jackson’s first major performances since 2001 and 2002, when he appeared at a pair of 30th anniversary celebrations and two benefit concerts; a brief appearance by Mr. Jackson at the World Music Awards in 2006 was booed by audience members.
Highlights from the Archives
Latest Updates on Jackson’s Death
In Gary, Indiana, hundreds descended upon the clapboard house where Mr. Jackson spent his earliest years.
June 25, 2009blogsWeb Log
Shuttering Neverland: Michael Jackson’s Effects Go to Auction
Items belonging to Michael Jackson are part of an auction so large that it has been installed in a former department store in Beverly Hills.
April 14, 2009artsNews
What Happened to the Fortune Michael Jackson Made?
The pop star made millions with his outsize talent and marketing genius and he invested wisely, but then he went on a spending spree.
May 14, 2006businessNews
A Daunting Road Ahead To Reclaim Pop Glory
Even before being tried on child molesting charges, Michael Jackson was mired in a declining musical career and a thicket of financial woes. And while a conviction may have barred any chance of a comeback, entertainment executives said Monday that the not-guilty verdict still left the onetime King of Pop facing a daunting road in re-establishing his credibility as a performer.
June 14, 2005usNews
What’s Next For the King Of Pop?
Silence has descended once again over the Michael Jackson camp. A settlement, reportedly in the millions of dollars, will be paid to the boy who accused the superstar of sexual molestation.
February 6, 1994artsReview
Michael Jackson at 25: A Musical Phenomenon
In the world of pop music, there is Michael Jackson and there is everybody else. Earlier this week the singer-dancer-songwriter received 12 Grammy nominations. No one has ever received so many nominations, a reflection of the popularity of a performer who has stirred the kind of worldwide enthusiasm that recalls the Beatlemania of the 1960’s.
January 14, 1984artsNews
