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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Knicks to host Sandy Hook kids, families Saturday
NEW YORK (AP) ? The New York Knicks will host 150 children, their families and teachers from Sandy Hook Elementary School on Saturday when they play the Sacramento Kings.
Twenty or more children from the Newtown (Conn.) Choir from Sabrinas Encore Products will sing the national anthem before the game, the second time this week the Knicks and children from the devastated community about 90 minutes away will be together.
The Knicks organization on Tuesday visited Newtown, where 20 children and six adults were shot and killed at the school in December.
The team, the Knicks City Dancers and Madison Square Garden's Garden of Dreams Foundation hosted 400 children from Sandy Hook Elementary (now Chalk Hill Elementary) and their families at the Newtown Youth Academy in what was called a "Knicks Family Fun Day" event.
"It was fun," Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony said. "We went out there (and) it was just good to see a lot of people smile all over again. Just to be doing the things that we were doing ? playing the games, playing basketball with them, just making people smile and feel happy about themselves."
There were basketball drills and contests, along with other activities such as a magician, face painters and balloon makers in a carnival-type setting.
"That was great," Knicks forward Amare Stoudemire said. "We were there pretty much just wanting to put smiles and hope back in the families faces. It was an awesome event. Great for us to interact with the families there. That was great for them."
A month after the killings, children from the choir who will perform recorded "Sandy Hook: Somewhere Over the Rainbow." Proceeds from the sale of the song will benefit the Newtown Youth Academy and the United Way of Western Connecticut.
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AP freelance writer Adriano Torres contributed to this story.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/knicks-host-sandy-hook-kids-families-saturday-003607567--spt.html
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Friday, February 1, 2013
Mrs. Hugh Hefner auctioning off wedding dress
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Hugh Hefner, Crystal Harris and dog Charlie.
By Bruna Nessif, E! Online
Mrs. Hugh Hefner's wedding attire can be all yours, but it'll cost you. Playmate Crystal Harris has decided to put her beautiful gown and stunning shoes from her New Year's Eve nuptials to the Playboy head honcho up for auction, and it's all for a great cause.
"I am auctioning my wedding dress with @charitybuzz to raise money for lymphoma in memory of Mary http://bit.ly/U5kS9y," Harris tweeted.
Take a look at Hugh and Crystal's first photo as newlyweds!
Mary is, of course, Hef's longtime secretary and friend (and "Mansion Mom") who passed away recently.
"Crystal is donating this dress in memory of her good friend, Mary O'Connor. Mary was Hugh Hefner's longtime assistant of 40 years, and is credited with helping Crystal reconcile with Hef last year, ultimately leading to their recent wedding. Money raised will benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in Mary's name," according to the statement posted on the auction website.
Check out some other celeb wedding dresses!
Harris' strapless, floor-length mermaid-style, soft pink Romona Keveza gown and Aruna Seth shoes are currently at a bid of $1,000. The auction is set to end on Feb. 11.?
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U.N. rights inquiry says Israel must remove settlers
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights investigators called on Israel on Thursday to halt settlement expansion and withdraw all half a million Jewish settlers from the occupied West Bank, saying that its practices could be subject to prosecution as possible war crimes.
A three-member U.N. panel said private companies should stop working in the settlements if their work adversely affected the human rights of Palestinians, and urged member states to ensure companies respected human rights.
"Israel must cease settlement activities and provide adequate, prompt and effective remedy to the victims of violations of human rights," Christine Chanet, a French judge who led the U.N. inquiry, told a news conference.
The settlements contravened the Fourth Geneva Convention forbidding the transfer of civilian populations into occupied territory and could amount to war crimes that fall under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the United Nations report said.
"To transfer its own population into an occupied territory is prohibited because it is an obstacle to the exercise of the right to self-determination," Chanet said.
All U.N. member states must comply with their duty under international law on the settlements, she said. "We have highlighted states' responsibility because the facts we denounce are known. The problem is nobody is doing anything about it."
In December, the Palestinians accused Israel in a letter to the United Nations of planning to commit what they said were further war crimes by expanding Jewish settlements after the Palestinians won de facto U.N. recognition of statehood, and said Israel must be held accountable.
Israel has not cooperated with the probe set up by the Human Rights Council last March to examine the impact of settlements in the territory, including East Jerusalem. Israel says the forum has an inherent bias against it and defends its settlement policy by citing historical and Biblical links to the West Bank.
Israel's foreign ministry swiftly rejected the report as "counterproductive and unfortunate". Palestinians welcomed the report saying it vindicated their struggle against Israel.
"The only way to resolve all pending issues between Israel and the Palestinians, including the settlements issue, is through direct negotiations without pre-conditions. Counterproductive measures - such as the report before us, will only hamper efforts to find a sustainable solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict," Israel's Yigal Palmor said.
But Hanan Ashrawi, a senior PLO official, told Reuters in Ramallah: "This is incredible. We are extremely heartened by this principled and candid assessment of Israeli violations."
The independent U.N. investigators interviewed more than 50 people who came to Jordan in November to testify about confiscated land, damage to their livelihoods including olive trees, and violence by Jewish settlers, according to the report.
"The mission believes that the motivation behind this violence and the intimidation against the Palestinians as well as their properties is to drive the local populations away from their lands and allow the settlements to expand," it said.
"CREEPING ANNEXATION"
About 250 settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, have been established since 1967 and they hold an estimated 520,000 settlers, according to the U.N. report. The settlements impede Palestinian access to water and farmland.
The settlements were "leading to a creeping annexation that prevents the establishment of a contiguous and viable Palestinian state and undermines the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination," it said.
Chanet said firms working in the territories must uphold human rights. France's Veolia, which built Jerusalem's light rail linking the western side of the city to the eastern side annexed by Israel after the 1967 war, won a case brought against it in a Nanterre court, whose ruling that it had not violated the Geneva Conventions is now on appeal, she said.
After the General Assembly upgraded the Palestinians status at the world body, Israel said it would build 3,000 more settler homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - areas Palestinians wanted for a future state, along with the Gaza Strip.
"I think that maybe it will help in the negotiation just to see that now, and especially when Palestine has been recognized as a state, things might change. Maybe, we hope. And now there is a new government in Israel," Chanet said.
"So things are moving. So we hope that our report will be in the middle of this movement."
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; additional reporting by Ori Lewis in Jerusalem and Noah Browning in Ramallah; Editing by Stephen Powell)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-rights-inquiry-calls-israel-halt-settlements-100800333.html
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Is 'Americans' or 'Carrie Diaries' More '80s-tastic?
TV fans, have you noticed that not one, but two new, 80's-era TV shows have hit the airwaves this month? There's The CW's The Carrie Diaries (Mondays at 8 p.m. ET), which stars AnnaSophia Robb as Sex & the City's young Carrie Bradshaw. And on Wednesday, FX debuted The Americans (Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET),
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University applications 2013: what subjects are people applying for?
The number of total applicants to UK universities has risen by 3.5% according to UCAS figures. Photograph: Panacea Pictures/Alamy/Alamy
The number of applicants to UK universities has risen by 3.5% according to official figures published today.
The latest release from UCAS looks at the number of applicants in the 2013 cycle and includes all applications considered 'on time' for the 15 January deadline. Around 85% of overall applicants had applied by this time in the 2010 to 2012 application cycles.
The slight increase in applicants this year has been welcomed by universities, after applications fell last year prompted by a rise in tuition fees. Rebecca Ratcliffe writes today:
Universities have welcomed a 3.5% increase in the number of students applying to start university this autumn, but warn applications are still not back on trend.
An increase in the number of UK (2.8%) and overseas students (EU 4.9% and non-EU 9.6%) means application rates have recovered slightly on last year, when higher fees prompted a 8.7% fall in applications.
But Pam Tatlow, chief executive of the university thinktank Million+, points out that applications are still down when compared with January 2011 (-4.2%) and January 2010 (-2%).
The release is packed with interesting data and gives us our first indication of the demand for higher education in the UK this year. Here are the key figures:
Overall applications
Total applicant numbers are up - 558,898 in 2013 compared to 540,073 at the same point last year. The number of applicants from England, Scotland and Northern Ireland have increased although Wales saw a decrease of 2.1%.
Applications from EU countries has increased by 4.9% and the number of applicants from outside the EU has risen by 9.6%. At the same point last year applications were down from the UK and European countries. Of the non-European countries, Malaysia recorded the biggest rise in applicants at 22% followed by Australasia with a 12% increase.
Around 83% of overall EU applicants, and around 60% of overall non-EU applicants, had applied by the January deadline in the 2010 to 2012 application cycles.
Age
The number of UK 18-year olds applying to universities has risen very slightly, 0.8% compared to 2011, this represents an increase of just over 2,000 people. However of the total applicants (including applicants of European and non-European domicile) there has been a 1.8% drop in 18-year olds.
The biggest decrease in total applications by age group has been by those aged 30 to 39 years old - there are 842 less than last year. Last year the UCAS figures showed that the number of 19-year old applicants had dropped by over 17,000 since the previous year. The figures published today show that the biggest increase in total applications by age group has been 19-year olds - 10,894 more than in 2012.
The biggest percentage decrease for applications by age group has been for 40 year-olds and over with 7% less applicants from this age group than in 2012. The number of applications by 24-year olds has also decreased, down by 0.3%.
Gender
Male students may be outnumbered by females at most UK universities but the the total number of male applicants for the 2013 cycle has jumped by 3.8% compared to last year. Female applicants have increased by 3.2% and still outnumber male applicants with 319,752 female applicants compared to 239,146 male applicants in 2013.
Subject
Due to the increase in applications, many subjects have seen a slight rise in applications. Subjects allied to medicine have recorded the biggest rise in applicants - 17,414 more than in 2012 - followed by biological sciences. Computer sciences have seen the biggest percentage increase with a 12.3% rise in applications, representing an increase of 9,439 more applicants than last year.
It seems social sciences, arts and languages are feeling the biggest decreases; non-European and European language courses both recorded decreases of more than 6%. Applications for sciences combined with social sciences or arts are down by 4.5%.
The table below shows total applications by subject group. There are also tables showing applicants by UK region of domicile and by global region. the downloadable spreadsheet contains additional data on application breakdowns by age group, country of domicile and country of institution. What can you do with this data?
Data summary
|
Subject Group |
2012 |
2013 |
Diff (+/-) |
Diff (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group A Medicine & Dentistry | 94,374 | 96,268 | 1,894 | 2 |
| Group B Subjects allied to Medicine | 329,733 | 347,147 | 17,414 | 5.3 |
| Group C Biological Sciences | 201,653 | 215,545 | 13,892 | 6.9 |
| Group D Vet Sci,Ag & related | 24,747 | 26,654 | 1,907 | 7.7 |
| Group F Physical Sciences | 93,587 | 99,769 | 6,182 | 6.6 |
| Group G Mathematical Sciences | 42,148 | 43,681 | 1,533 | 3.6 |
| Group H Engineering | 117,221 | 127,080 | 9,859 | 8.4 |
| Group I Computer Sciences | 76,855 | 86,294 | 9,439 | 12.3 |
| Group J Technologies | 8,340 | 8,343 | 3 | 0 |
| Group K Architecture,Build & Plan | 35,825 | 35,042 | -783 | -2.2 |
| Group L Social Studies | 190,115 | 194,202 | 4,087 | 2.1 |
| Group M Law | 103,613 | 109,140 | 5,527 | 5.3 |
| Group N Business & Admin studies | 260,879 | 269,137 | 8,258 | 3.2 |
| Group P Mass Comms and Documentation | 47,575 | 50,643 | 3,068 | 6.4 |
| Group Q Linguistics, Classics & related | 62,266 | 62,119 | -147 | -0.2 |
| Group R European Langs, Lit & related | 21,675 | 20,353 | -1,322 | -6.1 |
| Group T Non-European Langs, Lit and related | 6,165 | 5,750 | -415 | -6.7 |
| Group V Hist & Philosophical studies | 73,967 | 75,636 | 1,669 | 2.3 |
| Group W Creative Arts & Design | 227,729 | 233,243 | 5,514 | 2.4 |
| Group X Education | 80,578 | 78,271 | -2,307 | -2.9 |
| Y Combined arts | 55,042 | 53,601 | -1,441 | -2.6 |
| Y Combined sciences | 33,898 | 35,349 | 1,451 | 4.3 |
| Y Combined social sciences | 26,581 | 26,500 | -81 | -0.3 |
| Y Sciences combined with social sciences or arts | 78,671 | 75,098 | -3,573 | -4.5 |
| Y Social sciences combined with arts | 51,007 | 49,688 | -1,319 | -2.6 |
| Z General, other combined & unknown | 24,321 | 26,041 | 1,720 | 7.1 |
| Total | 2,368,565 | 2,450,594 | 82,029 | 3.5 |
|
UK region |
2012 |
2013 |
Diff (+/-) |
Diff (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Midlands | 30,018 | 30,745 | 727 | 2.4 |
| Eastern | 39,191 | 40,683 | 1,492 | 3.8 |
| Greater London | 72,621 | 75,152 | 2,531 | 3.5 |
| North East | 16,887 | 17,469 | 582 | 3.4 |
| North West | 52,873 | 53,890 | 1,017 | 1.9 |
| Northern Ireland | 18,292 | 19,587 | 1295 | 7.1 |
| Scotland | 39,169 | 39,954 | 785 | 2 |
| South East | 61,799 | 63,109 | 1,310 | 2.1 |
| South West | 35,156 | 36,526 | 1,370 | 3.9 |
| Wales | 20,876 | 20,438 | -438 | -2.1 |
| West Midlands | 40,110 | 41,823 | 1,713 | 4.3 |
| Yorks & The Humber | 35,515 | 36,211 | 696 | 2 |
| Total | 462,507 | 475,587 | 13,080 | 2.8 |
|
Global region |
2012 |
2013 |
Diff (+/-) |
Diff (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 3,549 | 3,861 | 312 | 8.8 |
| Americas | 5,259 | 5,691 | 432 | 8.2 |
| Australasia | 532 | 596 | 64 | 12 |
| EU (ex. Ireland) | 30,771 | 32,539 | 1,768 | 5.7 |
| Ireland | 5,434 | 5,452 | 18 | 0.3 |
| Europe (ex.EU) | 3,537 | 4,178 | 641 | 18.1 |
| Far E(ex HK/Mal) | 17,517 | 18,977 | 1,460 | 8.3 |
| Hong Kong | 4,998 | 5,046 | 48 | 1 |
| Malaysia | 2,590 | 3,233 | 643 | 24.8 |
| Middle East | 3,297 | 3,674 | 377 | 11.4 |
| Other Overseas | 82 | 64 | -18 | -22 |
| Total | 77,566 | 83,311 | 5,745 | 7.4 |
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Sixty-five people executed in Syria's Aleppo: activists
BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 65 people were found shot dead with their hands bound in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday in a "new massacre" in the near two-year revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said.
Opposition campaigners blamed the government but it was impossible to confirm who was responsible. Assad's forces and rebels have been battling in Syria's commercial hub since July and both have been accused of carrying out summary executions.
U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi told the U.N. Security Council "unprecedented levels of horror" had been reached in Syria, and that both the government and rebels had committed atrocious crimes, diplomats said.
He appealed to the 15-nation council to overcome its deadlock and take action to help end the civil war in which Syria is "breaking up before everyone's eyes".
More than 60,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the war, the longest and deadliest of the revolts that began throughout the Arab world two years ago.
The U.N. refugee agency said the fighting had forced more than 700,000 people to flee. World powers fear the conflict could envelop Syria's neighbors including Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, further destabilizing an already explosive region.
Opposition activists posted a video of at least 51 muddied male bodies alongside what they said was the Queiq River in Aleppo's rebel-held Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood.
The bodies had what looked like bullet wounds in their heads and some of the victims appeared to be young, possibly teenagers, dressed in jeans, shirts and trainers.
Aleppo-based opposition activists who asked not to be named for security reasons blamed pro-Assad militia fighters.
They said the men had been executed and dumped in the river before floating downstream into the rebel area. State media did not mention the incident.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which says it provides objective information about casualties on both sides of Syria's war from a network of monitors, said the footage was evidence of a new massacre and the death toll could rise as high as 80.
"They were killed only because they are Muslims," said a bearded man in another video said to have been filmed in central Bustan al-Qasr after the bodies were removed from the river. A pickup truck with a pile of corpses was parked behind him.
STALEMATE
It is hard for Reuters to verify such reports from inside Syria because of restrictions on independent media.
Rebels are stuck in a stalemate with government forces in Aleppo - Syria's most populous city which is divided roughly in half between the two sides.
The revolt started as a peaceful protest movement against more than four decades of rule by Assad and his family, but turned into an armed rebellion after a government crackdown.
About 712,000 Syrian refugees have registered in other countries in the region or are awaiting processing as of Tuesday, the U.N. refugee agency said.
"We have seen an unrelenting flow of refugees across all borders. We are running double shifts to register people," Sybella Wilkes, spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told Reuters in Geneva.
The United Nations said it had received aid promises ahead of a donor conference in Kuwait on Wednesday where it is seeking $1.5 billion for refugees and people inside Syria. Washington announced an additional $155 million that its said brought the total U.S. humanitarian aid to the crisis to some $365 million.
Aid group M?decins Sans Fronti?res said the bulk of the current aid was going to government-controlled areas in Syria and called on donors to make sure they were even-handed.
MISSILES
In the eastern city of Deir al-Zor, insurgents including al Qaeda-linked Islamists captured a security agency after days of heavy fighting, according to an activist.
Some of the fighters were shown carrying a black flag with the Islamic declaration of faith and the name of the al-Nusra Front, which has ties to al Qaeda in neighboring Iraq.
The war has become heavily sectarian, with rebels who mostly come from the Sunni Muslim majority fighting an army whose top generals are mostly from Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam. Assad has framed the revolt as a foreign-backed conspiracy and blames the West and Sunni Gulf states.
Fighting also took place in the northern town of Ras al-Ain, on the border with Turkey, between rebels and Kurdish militants, the Observatory said.
In Turkey, a second pair of Patriot missile batteries being sent by NATO countries are now operational, a German security official said.
The United States, Germany and the Netherlands each committed to sending two batteries and up to 400 soldiers to operate them after Ankara asked for help to bolster its air defenses against possible missile attack from Syria.
(Additional reporting by Sylvia Westall in Kuwait, Sabine Siebold in Berlin and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Robin Pomeroy)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sixty-five-people-executed-syrias-aleppo-activists-062658435.html
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