Jacek Protasiewicz (born on 5 June 1967 in Brzeg) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the DS & OP with the Platforma Obywatelska, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

Protasiewicz is a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe.

Jacek is slavic version of the name coming originally from Hyacinth, through the archaic form of Jacenty. Also Jacinto (Spanish), Giacinto (Italian), Jácint (Hungarian)

A myth about Hyakinthos

Hyakinthos was the name of a beautiful boy. He was a son of Sparta's King. The God Apollo fell in love with the young prince. Apollo and Hyakinthos spent much time together talking and hiking through forests and mountains. Then, one early summer day they went to discus throwing. With every throw, the discus would fly higher and higher up in the sky. Apollo threw the discus with all his strength and it flew up into the clouds. Hyakinthos started running to the place where he expected the discus would fall.

There are two version what happened next:

First says: the discus turned over and accidentally hit Hyakinthos's head.
Second version: The God Zefir (The God of the winds) was in love with Hyakinthos, he felt jealous and decided to take revenge by sending the winds to change the discus's direction so that it hit the young boy's head.
The blood started running from Hyakinthos's head. It was running as fast as the life leaving his young body. Hyakinthos was dying in Apollo's arms. Apollo was crying and swearing at his immortality since he could not die with his lover. The blood changed Hyakinthos's black hair into red, running to the ground. Apollo bent over to Hyakinthos's ear whispering, "...in my heart you'll never be dead, my beautiful Hyakinthos. Let the memory about you never die!". With these words, on the place that Hyakinthos's blood soaked in, a delicate red flower grew. A mark of Apollo's sorrow is visible on its leaves - even now, and it was given the name Hyacinthus in memory of the beautiful boy.

Po Po (born 1957) is a Burmese installation and performance artist. His work has been exhibited in Japan, South Korea and Berlin.

Po Po was born in 1957 in Pathein, Myanmar. His formal name is Hla Oo. He is self-taught. Since 1987 Po Po has held many solo exhibitions, and his work has been shown at the Yokohama Triennial in Yokohama, Japan, the Gwangju Biennial in Gwangju, South Korea, Fukuoka Triennale in Fukuoka, Japan and in the House of World Cultures, Berlin. A May 2004 report described Po Po as one of the younger Myanmar artists who were creating impressive works in isolation and in conditions of penury. However, Po Po is one of the few "contemporary" Myanma artists who have been able to travel, for example participating in the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum's event in 1999. He was also able to take part in Saigon Open City in Vietnam. In June 2010 he visited Singapore to give a talk at the Osage Art Foundation.

Po Po, and another self-taught artist Aung Myint, are pioneers in the performance art field in Myanmar, with Po Po staging a 30-minute seminal performance in 1997. Po Po is widely regarded as Myanmar's first practitioner of this art form. Many of his works are playful, impulsive, ironic and sociable. Other works are provocative and shocking. His installation work "rice terrace" at the Osage Gallery in Singapore in May/June 2010 involved 1000 Styrofoam boxes, each with about 100 grains of growing rice, with the boxes arranged on mud terraces in the gallery. He describes his computer-installation Scream of the Dead, which features an open mass grave, as a metaphor for life in Myanmar and the world today. His work is thoughtful and full of depth. In his photography he employs elements of cubism, which he considers to be the "highest state of intellectual approach" to painting. A critic has said: "At best, his works reflect the lightness of being, joyfully, bearably so".