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Javits Center – New York – January 17 2012
Laura Kaeppeler, the 23-year-old former Miss Wisconsin winner and 2012 Miss America visit today the NRF (National Retail Federation) Big Show at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in NYC where she stop for photos with fans.
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United Nations, January 13 2012
On her first official visit to Africa, UNEP Goodwill Ambassador and iconic face of fashion, Gisele Bündchen , went to the grassroots level in Kenya to experience the reality of energy poverty and to see how Kenyans are transforming their lives by accessing sustainable energy.
Gisele, who has recently been named the ‘world’s greenest celebrity’, told a press conference at the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi that access to adequate fuels for cooking is also a major challenge, with many families still dependent on wood which produces toxic smoke, impacting the health of women and children.
Gisele Bündchen, UNEP Goodwill Ambassador:
“More than 1.4 million lives are lost each year because of inhalation of smoke from cooking and it is quite shocking and most of them are women and children. This is basically 50 percent more than malaria.”
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The biggest newspaper in Bosnia and Herzegovina “Dnevni avaz” (Daily Voice) from Sarajevo with the highest circulation in the region awarded Hollywood super star Angelina Jolie with their traditional “Person of the Year” (for 2011), for her film “In The Land Of Blood and Honey”, that was written and directed by Ms. Jolie.
The film is an intimate drama about Bosnian war (1992 – 1995), about a Bosnian Muslim woman and Bosnian Serb soldier who happened to run the concentration camp, where Bosnian Muslim women are being raped. The Avaz Award (Person of the Year 2011) was given to Angelina Jolie by Avaz’s UN and US correspondent, veteran Bosnian journalist Erol Avdovic in Washington just hours before her film was screened in US Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.
Source: Webpublicapress
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Time Square – New York – January 01 2012
Thousands of revelers gather in New York’s Times Square to celebrate the ball drop at the annual New Years Eve celebration on December 31, 2011 in New York City.
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Sheraton Hotel – New York – December 28 2011
Rev. Al Sharpton rally with hundreds of New York City office cleaners Wednesday as 32BJ SEIU and the Realty Advisory Board (RAB) move into the Sheraton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan for round-the-clock negotiations.Failure to reach a new contract by the time the ball drops in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, could lead to a strike of more than 22,000 commercial property service workers at more than 1,500 buildings, including landmarks such as Rockefeller Center, the Chrysler Building, the Met Life building and the Empire State Building
Source: 32BJ
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United Nations, December 23 2011
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today paid a visit to the National September 11 Memorial in downtown Manhattan to offer respects to those killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
The Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
The Secretary-General, flanked by a small number of senior officials toured the newly inaugurated Memorial and placed a flower wreath by the Survivor Tree, a pear tree unearthed alive from the rubble, and replanted at the Memorial.
After a moment of silence, Ban visited the two reflecting pools, which sit within the footprints where the Twin Towers once stood, and are framed by a ring of bronze plaques showing the names of the victims.
They are each nearly an acre in size and feature the largest manmade waterfalls in the North America.
The Secretary-General, who had a long-standing invitation to visit the site, said that he was “most humbled to stand by the reflecting pools where so many people were killed by terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001”
He recalled the events of that morning and the “total surprise” he felt “that people were attacking the citizens of the United States.”
He extended his solidarity “to such brave and courageous people who paid the ultimate price because of terrorism” and reaffirmed a “strong determined will” to fight against the scourge.
Architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker created the Memorial design selected from a global design competition that included more than 5,200 entries from 63 nations.
Source: UNifeed
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The Security Council today (7 December) heard a briefing from the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Serge Brammertz, in which he highlighted the arrest of Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić, the Tribunal’s last remaining fugitives.
Brammertz said that the significance of this development was “multi-layered and goes well beyond simple statistics” as it means that “no individual has ultimately escaped the ICTY’s reach” and the final impediment to completing its mandate has been removed.
Mladić, the war-time leader of the Bosnian Serb forces, was arrested in Serbia on 26 May, after evading capture for 16 years. Hadžić, former president of the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK) was arrested on 20 July.
The Chief Prosecutor commended Serbia’s role in the arrest of the final two fugitives and said that it has placed its cooperative relationship with Tribunal “on a new, more positive, footing.”
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United Nations – New York – December 05 2011 – Panel discussion on Tenth anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers and beyond today at the UN Headquarters in NYC.
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Park Avenue – New York – November 30 2011 – Occupy Wall Street (OWS) supporters marched to 320 Park Avenue South and try to disrupt a meeting between (Aerospace & Defense Finance Conference) the Department of Defense and Wall street Bankers.
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Central Park West – New York – November 25 2011 – Santa Claus, during the 85th Annual Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC.
