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Physicists have discovered the world's first "time crystal"
By Matthew Griffin Earth and Energy 25th October 2018
Time crystals are unique, and new, and it's believed they could open the door to creating incredibly weird and useful new materials.
Physicists at Yale University have discovered something extraordinary, a new material that more and more people are calling "Time Crystals," a form of matter that exists in four dimensions not just three like most materials, where the forth dimension is time. Unlike conventional materials time crystals tick, like a clock, when exposed to an electromagnetic pulse, and the first one was discovered in a most unlikely place – in a crystal in a child's toy.
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The discovery means there are now new puzzles to solve, in terms of how time crystals form in the first place. Ordinary crystals such as salt or quartz are examples of three dimensional, ordered spatial crystals. Their atoms are arranged in a repeating system, something scientists have known for a century.
Time crystals, which were first identified in 2016, are different. Their atoms spin periodically, first in one direction and then in another, as a pulsating force is used to flip them. That's the "ticking." In addition, the ticking in a time crystal is locked at a particular frequency, even when the pulse flips are imperfect.
Scientists say that understanding time crystals may lead to improvements in atomic clocks, gyroscopes, and magnetometers, as well as aid in the development of new quantum technologies, such as quantum computers. Even the US Department of Defense is getting in on the act after they recently announced a program to fund more research into "time crystal systems."
Yale's new findings are described in a pair of studies, one in Physical Review Letters and the other in Physical Review B. The studies represent the second known experiment observing a telltale signature for a so called Discrete Time Crystal (DTC) in a solid.
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"We decided to try searching for the DTC signature ourselves," said Yale physics professor Sean Barrett, principal investigator for the two new studies. "My student Jared Rovny had grown Monoammonium Phosphate (MAP) crystals for a completely different experiment, so we happened to have one in our lab."
MAP crystals are considered so easy to grow that they are sometimes included in crystal growing kits aimed at youngsters. It would be unusual to find a time crystal signature inside a MAP crystal, Barrett explained, because time crystals were thought to form in crystals with more internal "disorder."
The researchers used Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) to look for a DTC signature, and quickly found it.
"Our crystal measurements looked quite striking right off the bat," Barrett said. "Our work suggests that the signature of a DTC could be found, in principle, by looking in a children's crystal growing kit."
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Another unexpected thing happened, as well.
"We realized that just finding the DTC signature didn't necessarily prove that the system had a quantum memory of how it came to be," said Yale graduate student Robert Blum, a co-author on the studies. "This spurred us to try a time crystal 'echo,' which revealed the hidden coherence, or quantum order, within the system," added Rovny, also a Yale graduate student and lead author of the studies.
Barrett noted that his team's results, combined with previous experiments, "present a puzzle" for theorists trying to understand how these weird time crystals form.
"It's too early to tell what the resolution will be for the current theory of discrete time crystals, but people will be working on this question for at least the next few years," Barrett said.
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still on the stove. The caffeine has no kick.
exhale the first sins of morning.
They write peach ice cream on a shopping list.
who will mow, weed, prune. But no daughter is arguing.
No daughter is licking fruity lip gloss from her lips.
enter a room before they do and soften the light.
They climb on exercise bikes and pedal.
After half an hour there is no sweat.
discards one valley for another.
John Davis lives on an island in Puget Sound, Washington. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in North American Review, Passages North and Poetry Northwest. He has a chapbook, The Reservist, (Pudding House Press), and his book, Gigs, is forthcoming from Sol Books.
Visit John Davis's contributors page.


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Denna artikel handlar om läkaren och skriftställaren Emil Kleen. För poeten och journalisten, se Emil Kléen.

Emil Anders Gabriel Kleen, född den 20 april 1847 i Karlsborg, död den 8 december 1923 i Stockholm, var en svensk läkare och skriftställare.

Emil Kleen var son till Johan af Kleen och Anna Beata af Kleen (1813–1894) samt bror till Richard Kleen.

Emil Kleen blev filosofie doktor i Uppsala 1875, medicine doktor i Wien 1883, samt medicine hedersdoktor i Uppsala 1907. Han var praktiserande läkare i Stockholm och Karlsbad. I sin biografi över Emanuel Swedenborg hävdade han att denne led av sinnessjukdom.

Han var gift med den norska målaren Andrea Gram. Paret hade sex barn, inklusive Willy och Else Kleen.

Bibliografi
Handbok i massage, (1888, flera senare upplagor)
Ströftåg och irrfärder hos min vän Yankee Doodle (samt annorstädes), 1902-1903, digitaliserad av Projekt Runeberg
Stora fejder i blod (1912)
Små fejder i bläck (1912)
Swedenborg. En lefnadsteckning, 1917-1920
Svar på tal till swedenborgare och deras anhang. En polemisk broschyr, 1919

Källor

Noter

Svenska läkare under 1800-talet
Svenskspråkiga författare
Hedersdoktorer vid Uppsala universitet
Födda 1847
Avlidna 1923
Män
Personer från Karlsborg
Gravsatta på Norra begravningsplatsen i Stockholm
Svenska läkare under 1900-talet

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7-й Одеський міжнародний кінофестиваль проходив в Одесі з 15 по 23 липня 2016 року. Стрічку «Маргарита» французького режисера Ксав'є Джаннолі було обрано фільмом відкриття, а стрічку «План Меггі» американської режисерки Ребекки Міллер — фільмом закриття. Ведучою церемоній відкриття та закриття стала акторка та телеведуча Марія Єфросініна. Журі Міжнародного конкурсу очолив британський режисер і сценарист Крістофер Гемптон, який отримав на кінофестивалі почесного «Золотого Дюка» за внесок у кіномистецтво.

Володарем Гран-прі «Золотий Дюк», якого визначають за результатами глядацького голосування, став британський фільм «Палає, палає, палає» режисерки Чанії Баттон. Журі Міжнародного конкурсу визнало найкращим фільмом — румунську стрічку «Незаконні» Адріана Сітару, журі Національного конкурсу — стрічку «Гніздо горлиці» Тараса Ткаченка, журі Європейського документального конкурсу — стрічку «У Каліфорнії» Шарля Редона.

Перебіг фестивалю

18 липня 2015 року, по завершенні 6-го Одеського міжнародного кінофестивалю, була оголошена дата проведення 7-го — 15-23 липня 2016 року. З 10 грудня 2015 року по 10 квітня 2016 року тривав прийом заявок на участь у конкурсних програмах кінофестивалю.

23 березня 2016 року кінофестиваль оголосив про запровадження документальної конкурсної програми, до якої можуть відбиратися європейські повнометражні документальні фільми, тривалістю понад 60 хвилин.

Наприкінці березня стало відомо, що церемонії відкриття і закриття знову відбуватимуться в Одеському національному академічному театрі опери та балету, від якого було вирішено відмовитись у 2014 та 2015 роках через політичну кризу в країні та фінансові труднощі. «Для нас це повернення, наче до себе додому. При створенні цього оперного театру Дюк де Рішельє мав на меті об'єднати культурні еліти. Ми так само цього прагнемо, адже головна нагорода кінофестивалю — це статуетка "Золотий Дюк"», — заявила президент кінофестивалю Вікторія Тігіпко. При цьому основною локацією заходу, як і раніше, виступив Одеський академічний театр музичної комедії імені М. Водяного, де проходили покази Міжнародної конкурсної програми та Гала-прем'єр. Окрім Одеського театру опери та балету і Театру музичної комедії, кіномайданчиками фестивалю слугували: фестивальний центр «Родина» (місце проведення творчих зустрічей, майстер-класів, показів Українського національного конкурсу та ретроспектив), Потьомкінські сходи, кінотеатр «Stella Artois» на Ланжеронівському узвозі (місця проведення показів просто неба), кінотеатр «Сінема-Сіті» (місце проведення Кіноринку), арт-Центр імені Віри Холодної (місце проведення Film Industry Office) та коворкінг «Термінал 42» (місце проведення  Digital Media Day).

18 квітня 2016 року було представлено офіційний постер кінофестивалю, на якому зображена «муза» в образі ніжної і тендітної дівчини, яка уособлює свободу, творчість і споглядання. Постер був створений арт-проектом «Braty design studio» братів-близнюків Івана і Василя Костенків, які також робили постер для 6-го Одеського міжнародного кінофестивалю. 10 травня було представлено офіційний відеоролик фестивалю, знятий режисером Ніконом Романченком, учасником Національного короткометражного конкурсу ОМКФ-2015.

8 липня було оголошено про запровадження нової позаконкурсної секції — «Серіали!», у рамках якої протягом фестивалю було показано по два перших епізоди шести серіалів, які відбиралися за принципом: «високий художній рівень, відображення передових тенденцій в сторітеллінзі європейської high-end драми, а також територіально — Західна і Східна Європа».

14 червня 2016 року відбулась прес-конференція Одеського МКФ, на якій оголосили склад Міжнародної, Національної та Документальної конкурсних програм, а також склад журі. Усього в програмі фестивалю брали участь 114 фільмів із 36 країн світу, що на 11 робіт більше, ніж минулого року: 37 короткометражних і 77 повнометражних фільмів, серед яких три експериментальних фільми, 6 серіалів, 17 анімаційних фільмів, 18 документальних картин і 70 художніх. На участь у конкурсних програмах було подано 864 фільмів із 75 країн. Для участі в Міжнародному конкурсі селекційною комісією було відібрано 12 стрічок з 16 країн (включаючи країни копродукції): два фільми стали дебютними роботами для режисерів, сім фільмів зняті режисерами-жінками. Українська кінокартина «Гніздо горлиці» взяла участь одночасно в Національному та Міжнародному конкурсах. Вперше за історію Одеського кінофестивалю до Міжнародного конкурсу потрапив мюзикл — польська стрічка «Доньки дансингу».

15 липня 2016 року під керівництвом ведучої Марії Єфросініної відбулась урочиста церемонія відкриття кінофестивалю, яка почалась з хвилини мовчання в пам'ять загиблих у результаті теракту в Ніцці. У відкритті серед усіх інших брали участь голова Одеської ОДА Міхеїл Саакашвілі, голова Одеської обласної ради Анатолій Урбанський, мер Одеси Геннадій Труханов та голова Державного агентства з питань кіно Пилип Іллєнко, який зачитав слова Євгена Нищука, міністра культури України, на підтримку незаконно засудженого до 20 років ув'язнення в Росії українського режисера Олега Сенцова. На завершення церемонії співачка Джамала виконала власну версію арії «Summertime» американського композитора Джорджа Гершвіна, на створення якої його надихнула, на думку співачки Алексіс Кохан, українська колискова «Ой ходить сон коло вікон».
Після цього був показаний фільм відкриття — стрічка «Маргарита» французького режисера Ксав'є Джаннолі.

16 липня традиційно у другий день фестивалю відбувся показ фільму на Потьомкінських сходах просто неба. Стрічкою open-air показу став американський німий фільм «Шерлок Холмс» (1916) Артура Бертелета, який тривалий час вважався втраченим, доки 1 жовтня 2014 року Сан-Франциський німий кінофестиваль і Французька сінематека не знайшли в архівах останньої в Парижі сім котушок плівки з копіями оригіналу. Музичне оформлення до кінокартини для оркестру в складі 45 інструментів, спеціально для показу в Одесі написав композитор німого кіно Дональд Сосин спільно з Пітером Брейнером, а наживо його виконав симфонічний оркестр Одеського національного академічного театру опери та балету під диригуванням Ігоря Шаврука. За словами Вікторії Тігіпко, організатори фестивалю домовились з Одеською міською владою щодо призупинення реконструкції сходів на час проведення ОМКФ. Також вона додала, що кожен рік показ фільму на Потьомкінських сходах збирає понад 15 тисяч глядачів. Генеральний продюсер кінофестивалю Юлія Синькевич заявила, що наступного року на Потьомкінські сходи запросять представників Книги рекордів Гіннеса, щоб зафіксувати наймасовіший кіноперегляд просто неба. Крім того, щовечірні покази просто неба відбувались у кінотеатрі «Stella Artois» на Ланжеронівському узвозі.

22 липня, у передостанній день фестивалю, були оголошені перші переможці в категоріях «найкращий український короткометражний фільм» і «найкраща акторська робота». Також були названі призери серед українських фільмів за версією журі Міжнародної федерації кінопреси (ФІПРЕССІ) і вручені нагороди за найкращі проекти Пітчингу і Work in Progress. Крім того, відбулися спеціальні події ОМКФ — Digital Media Day, метою якого було представлення нових технологій і тенденцій, їх впливу і взаємодії в сфері кінематографу, та OIFF Business Club, під час якого антрополог Джанін Ведел і продюсер Уберто Пазоліні поділилися своїм досвідом і ідеями.

23 липня 2016 року відбулась урочиста церемонія закриття кінофестивалю, під час якої вручили головні нагороди. Гран-прі «Золотий Дюк» за результатами глядацького голосування отримав британський фільм «Палає, палає, палає» Чанії Баттон. Друге місце глядачі віддали німецькій стрічці «Вітання з Фукусіми» режисерки Доріс Деррі, третє місце — українському фільму «Гніздо горлиці» режисера Тараса Ткаченка. Журі Міжнародного конкурсу на чолі з Крістофером Гемптоном назвало найкращим фільмом румунську стрічку «Незаконні» Адріана Сітару, найкращим режисером — Ксав'є Серона за фільм «Смерть від смерті» (Франція), найкращими акторами — Розалію Томас і Каорі Момої за «Вітання з Фукусіми» (Німеччина). Журі Європейського документального конкурсу обрало переможцем стрічку «У Каліфорнії» (Франція) Шарля Редона. Після цього був показаний фільм закриття — картина «План Меггі» американської режисерки Ребекки Міллер.

Журі

Міжнародний конкурс
Наступні люди увійшли до складу журі Міжнародного конкурсу:

Національний конкурс
Наступні люди увійшли до складу журі Національного конкурсу (повнометражного і короткометражного):

Європейський документальний конкурс
Наступні люди увійшли до складу журі Європейського документального конкурсу:

Міжнародна федерація кінопреси (ФІПРЕССІ)
Наступні люди увійшли до складу журі Міжнародної федерації кінопреси (ФІПРЕССІ):

  Дар'я Бадьор — кінокритик / журналіст
  Олексій Гусєв — режисер / кіно- і театральний критик
  Гідеон Кутс — кінокритик / журналіст

Конкурсна програма

Міжнародний конкурс
Наступні фільми було відібрано до Міжнародного конкурсу:

Національний повнометражний конкурс
Наступні фільми було відібрано до Національного повнометражного конкурсу:

Національний короткометражний конкурс
Наступні фільми було відібрано до Національного короткометражного конкурсу:

Європейський документальний конкурс
Наступні фільми було відібрано до Європейського документального конкурсу:

Позаконкурсна програма

«Фестиваль фестивалів»
Наступні фільми було відібрано до секції «Фестиваль фестивалів»:

Спеціальні покази
Наступні фільми було відібрано до секції «Спеціальні покази»:

Гала-прем'єри
Наступні фільми було відібрано до секції Гала-прем'єри:

«Серіали!»
Секція телесеріалів, яка була організована в рамках проекту «TVій серіал» телеканалом «Україна» і медіаконсалтінговою компанією Media Resources Management у партнерстві з Film.UA Group.

«Турецький фокус»
Наступні фільми було відібрано до секції «Турецький фокус»:

«Шекспір у кіно»
Ретроспектива фільмів за творами Вільяма Шекспіра, присвячена 400-літтю від дня смерті драматурга. Кураторами програми виступили Британська рада і Британський кіноінститут

«Межі свободи: незалежність по обидві сторони екрану»
Ретроспектива українських фільмів, присвячена 25-річчю незалежності України. Кураторами програми виступили співробітники науково-програмного відділу Національного центру Олександр Довженка — Станіслав Мензелевський, Ганна Онуфрієнко та Олександр Телюк. Програма секції була оголошена 6 червня 2016 року.

Ретроспектива Крістіана Петцольда
Ретроспектива 4-х фільмів німецького режисера Крістіана Петцольда, одного з представників «берлінської школи». Програма секції була оголошена 9 червня 2016 року.

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У рамках секції було продемонстровано кіно під музичним супроводом: фільм «Шерлок Холмс» — під супроводом симфонічного оркестру Одеського національного академічного театру опери та балету, українські анімаційні короткометражні стрічки — під супроводом гурту «LU: V».

*Концерт-імпровізація гурту «LU: V» до українського анімаційного короткого метру

«ОМКФ — дітям: спільно з "Чілдрен Кінофестом"»
Дитяча програма, до якої було відібрано два художніх і один анімаційний фільми. Також у рамках секції була показана ретроспектива британської анімаційної студії Aardman Animations.

Нагороди
Нагороди були розподілені таким чином:

Офіційні нагороди

Гран-прі
 Гран-прі «Золотий Дюк» — «Палає, палає, палає» (реж. Чанія Баттон)

Міжнародний конкурс
 Найкращий фільм — «Незаконні» (реж. Адріан Сітару)
 Найкращий режисер — Ксав'є Серон за «Смерть від смерті»
 Найкраща акторська робота — Розалі Томасс і Каорі Момоі за «Вітання з Фукусіми» (реж. Доріс Деррі)
 Спеціальна згадка — «Засмага» (реж. Аргіріс Пападімітропулос) / «Людожери» (реж. Леа Фенер)

Національний конкурс
 Найкращий український повнометражний фільм — «Гніздо горлиці» (реж. Тарас Ткаченко)
 Найкращий український короткометражний фільм — «У Манчестері йшов дощ» (реж. Антоніо Лукич, Валерія Кальченко) / «Цвях» (реж. Філіп Сотниченко)
 Найкраща акторська робота — Мирослав Слабошпицький за «Моя бабуся Фані Каплан» (реж. Олена Дем'яненко)
 Спеціальний диплом — «Панорама» (реж. Юрій Шилов) / «Дідочок» (реж. Володимир Тихий)

Європейський документальний конкурс
 Найкращий фільм — «У Каліфорнії» (реж. Шарль Редон)
 Спеціальна згадка — «Мій друг Борис Нємцов» (реж. Зося Родкевич)

Почесна нагорода
 «Золотий Дюк» за внесок у кіномистецтво — Крістофер Гемптон

Незалежні нагороди

Міжнародна федерація кінопреси (ФІПРЕССІ)
 Диплом Міжнародна федерація кінопреси (ФІПРЕССІ) за найкращий український повнометражний фільм — «Varta1, Львів, Україна» (реж. Юрій Грицина)
 Диплом Міжнародної федерації кінопреси (ФІПРЕССІ) за найкращий український короткометражний фільм — «Дім» (реж. Ірина Цілик)

Work in Progress
 Найкращий проект Work in Progress — «5 терапія» (реж. Аліса Павловська)
 Найкраща презентація проекту на Work in Progress — «Її серце» (реж. Ахтем Сеїтаблаєв)

Пітчинг
 Найкращий проект Пітчингу — «Домашні ігри» (реж. Аліса Коваленко)
 Найкраща презентація проекту на Пітчингу — «Егрегор» (реж. Любомир Левицький)

Comedy Screenplay Contest
 Найкращий комедійний сценарій — Ольга Войтенко за «Мій друг Ерзо»

Див. також

 46-й Київський міжнародний кінофестиваль «Молодість»

Примітки

Посилання

2016 у кіно
Липень 2016
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Кінофестивалі 2016
2016 в Одесі


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One of two Indian hunger-strikers released from detention - Indica news
One of two Indian hunger-strikers released from detention
News October 1, 2019 indica
indica News Bureau-
One of the two Indian origin immigrants who had been on hunger strike for 74 days until the middle of last month at Otero County Detention Center in New Mexico, won a temporary release on Sept 26, news reports said.
Ajay Kumar, 33, from the northern Indian state of Haryana, had been on hunger strike with Gurjant Singh, 34, from neighboring Punjab, demanding that they be freed from detention pending a decision on their appeals for asylum in the United States.
Both men are seeking political asylum in the United States and had been in detention for over a year, mostly at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Otero, New Mexico, after crossing over from Mexico and turning themselves into the Border Patrol.
Kumar, who had lost a third of his weight and was force-fed on court orders, walked away from the detention center with a tracking device around his ankle, one of the terms of his release.
As he left the center with bowed head and hands folded in the traditional namaste, Ajay Kumar was accompanied by human rights activists who had been galvanized by medical personnel force-feeding him. The painful procedure involves pumping liquid food into the stomach via a tube through the nose.
Both Kumar and Singh said the procedure was not just painful, but also humiliating as it was carried out in the presence of other hunger-striking detainees.
ICE officials agreed to a deal in which Kumar and Singh resumed eating on the promise that they would be released, according to their lawyers. The men began eating again Sept 21 and were kept under medical observation.
Kumar said he felt "very good" though he lost nearly 50 pounds (23 kg) during his hunger strike, dropping from 150 pounds (68 kg) at the start of his strike to 107 pounds (48 kg). He said he had regained about 10 pounds (5 kg) but still feels pain.
Both men began their hunger strike July 8 at the Otero center after rejection of their asylum claims and denial of bond. Both say the judge did not consider the facts of their cases individually.
"This immigration judge said, 'All of these Indian asylum claims are incredulous. I don't believe them'," said attorney Linda Corchado, who represents Kumar, at a press conference. "It is damning. You expect at least some level of weighing the facts."
Kumar said he was involved with an opposition party in Haryana which is ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). That resulted in him being beaten up twice by BJP workers, including an attack that left him bedridden for more than a month, according to a doctor's note he included in his application for asylum.
Kumar also claimed that his sister was the target of an acid attack while his father was murdered while Ajay himself was in detention in the US. His attorney Corchado said it was difficult to bring corroborative evidence to prove the claims while he remained in detention.
A month into their hunger strike, Kumar and Singh were transferred from the Otero facility to El Paso, where there is a medical wing that has become a hub for force-feeding hunger strikers in ICE custody.
US District Court Judge Frank Montalvo had granted permission to force-feed — a practice rejected by global human rights groups and medical ethics guidelines — saying he had no other choice or the men would die.
"In this case, Respondent (Kumar) is facing too great a risk of organ failure, muscle atrophy, and death," Montalvo wrote in a Sept 12 order authorizing force-feeding.
Montalvo's order also said ICE's duty is not just to "keep the Respondent alive" and that the agency should take hunger-strikers to an independent doctor before asking for a court order.
Kumar will live with a human rights advocate in Las Cruces, New Mexico, while he regains his health and pursues his appeal with the US Board of Immigration Appeals. Singh has also challenged the rejection of his appeal for asylum and sought a new hearing with "a fair and impartial judge".
Their sponsor, Margaret Brown Vega, is a volunteer with Advocate Visitors with Immigration Detention, a group that helped Ajay Kumar secure a lawyer and pushed for his release. She said she wished ICE had released Kumar sooner.
"This is a decision that has always been at ICE's discretion," she said. "They could have decided to do this long ago. Why they waited this long I don't know."
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Below is an incomplete (a work in process) list of case file papers filed in Vinton County, Ohio. The original records are online at FamilySearch.org https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-31337-11001-36 and there are a total of 1945 images. Most files deal with the estates of deceased persons, however, there are cases involving lunacy, minors, criminals, and more.


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Q: drawElements use I create a little application in WebGL, I have two objects which move, a cube and a sphere.
I modify objects with shaders, each object have it shader. So I want update objects on the display at determine time, for this I use drawElements function.
For each object I have a buffer which contains indices of faces in vertices buffer :
gl.bindBuffer(gl.ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, this.indexBuffer);
gl.bufferData(gl.ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, new Uint16Array(indices), gl.STREAM_DRAW);
indexCount = indices.length;

indices is an array which contains values of indices of each faces. (3 values per face, we work with triangles).
So, after this, for draw triangles of the object I do :
gl.bindBuffer(gl.ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, indexBuffer);
gl.drawElements(gl.TRIANGLES, indexCount, gl.UNSIGNED_SHORT, 0);

But I have nothing on the screen, and I have this warning :
WebGL: INVALID_OPERATION: drawElements: attribs not setup correctly
What's could be my error ?
Thanks

A: I think you missed codes which link javascript vertex buffer to shader's attributes before drawElements().
e.g:
gl.bindBuffer(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, meshVertexPositionBuffer);
gl.vertexAttribPointer(shaderProgram.vertexPositionAttribute,
                     meshVertexPositionBuffer.itemSize, gl.FLOAT, false, 0, 0);
gl.bindBuffer(gl.ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, meshIndexBuffer);
gl.drawElements(gl.TRIANGLES, meshIndexBuffer.numberOfItems, gl.UNSIGNED_SHORT, 0);

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India love fact
In October, a jewellery advertisement that showed a Hindu-Muslim marriage came under fire for allegedly promoting 'love jihad.' So much so that the brand thought it was best to take down the video and completely wash their hands of it. A few weeks later, to counter the unnecessary hate, three journalists started 'India Love Project' - an Instagram page that features personal stories of Indian couples who got married against all odds.India Love Project officially kicked off on 28 October with a story that's quite close to one of the founders. Niloufer Venkatraman shared the heartwarming story of her Parsi mother and her Hindu father. The page posts one story every day. These are stories of real people who come from different religions, ethnicities, backgrounds etc.So when last month a major Indian jewellery brand was forced to pull an advert that preached "unity in diversity" by showing members of Hindu and Muslim families brought together by an interfaith marriage, an idea to do something that instead celebrated such unions germinated. It was the birth of the India Love Project.
Two weeks after the row over the ad, journalist couple Samar Halarnkar and Priya Ramani and their journalist-writer friend Niloufer Venkatraman launched the India Love Project on Instagram, describing it as "a celebration of interfaith/inter-caste love and togetherness in these divisive, hate-filled times".It is this "narrative of hate" that India Love Project seeks to challenge through its bank of personal stories, often described as "warm and fuzzy" by readers. It was the online bullying that jeweller Tanishq faced over its advertisement, and the immediate withdrawal of the campaign, that sparked them into action. As a tribute, the Instagram display picture for India Love Project – or ILP as its founding members like to call it – is a screengrab from the advert itself.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the crafts community in India resulting in loss of livelihood for many. Vogue India, along with the Natasha and Adar Poonawalla Foundation, will be raising funds to champion their cause, with To India, With Love.
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The Atrium Apartment development in Lane Cove village, is the construction of 48 units consisting of one, two and three bedroom apartments over 5 floors, with 3 levels of basement parking.
All the apartments are built off an atrium located in the building's heart, which is open to the sky but provides shelter for residents. Planted walkways and a water feature complete the atrium. The building surrounds feature landscaped gardens and include optimized water and energy saving initiatives.
The building has been constructed using 'Ritek' which is a priority prefabricated permanent formwork wall system which is then finished off with face brick and feature brickwork.
The site presented some challenges during construction as it backs onto Epping Highway under which the Lane Cove Tunnel runs, requiring care and consideration to be taken during excavation due to the Tunnel's proximity.


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Ugandan Olympic team member denied entry into Japan after testing positive for COVID-19
By Kamyuka Kenneth
Reports from Japan indicate that a member of Uganda's Olympic team who has not yet been identified has tested positive for the coronavirus and was barred entry into Japan and put under quarantine. It is not yet clear if it is an athlete or official.
It is understood that eight other members of the team were let in, and left early on Sunday by chartered bus for host town Osaka, central Japan.
It is the first detected infection among athletes arriving for the Tokyo Games opening in five weeks, according to The Asahi Shimbun. The Ugandan team was the second, after the Australian women's softball team, to arrive for the Olympics, which open on July 23.
The team that arrived on Saturday at Tokyo's Narita airport, were all fully vaccinated with the AstraZeneca jabs and had negative PCR tests before boarding. The Asahi newspaper has reported.
The team members were however required to provide saliva samples for antigen testing as soon as they entered Japan.
One individual had to undergo a PCR test as the result of the antigen test was not definitive. The individual's infection was confirmed after the PCR test, which is more sensitive than an antigen test.
This first batch of the Olympics team was flagged off on Thursday in Kampala by the Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC).
The athletes who include boxers, a weightlifter and a swimmer flew out on Friday for 33 days of training ahead of the Olympics next month.
The event in Kampala was graced by the Minister of State for sports designate, Hamson Obua and Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC) president, Donald Rukare together with the General Secretary of the National Council of Sports (NCS), Bernard Ogwel.
The athletes who are part of the first batch are boxers Shadir Musa, Catherine Nanziri and David Semujju, weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko and Swimmer Atuhaire Ambala.
The athletes are accompanied by David Katende, the NCS Assistant Secretary-General.
Earlier in the week, the Word Rugby body withdrew the Uganda Rugby 7s team from the World Rugby Sevens Repechage competition that runs in Monaco, France from June 18-20.
Uganda's team that was already in Monaco was withdrawn on Thursday following a number of COVID-19 positive results determined during scheduled arrival testing.
Uganda was going to play with Chile, France, Hong Kong and Jamaica in Pool B of the competition in a bid to secure a ticket for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to take place next month in Japan. This comes as damaging news to the team.


Companies at the cutting edge of their industries have realized the immense value of their patent portfolios and are still trying to make the most of that value – but it is not easy. A semiconductor or electronics company can have tens of thousands of patents; finding the patents that are the most valuable is one of its biggest problems. These patents are needed to determine the strategy for patent sale, licensing or litigation, and without them the company is basically stuck and can't move forward. The process is like sorting the grain from the chaff.
Patent landscaping is one way to help companies find their patents that have the highest potential for value. The process can be shown graphically: every dot on the paper is a patent. Where there's a cluster of dots it means the technology area of each patent is very similar, and where there are no relevant patents, there is white space. With such a visual means companies can start strategizing about how their patents can be used.
Traditionally, the standard way of initiating the patent process is using invention disclosures. Someone has an idea, writes out an invention disclosure and hands it to the intellectual property group. The group then decides on whether to patent this idea or use it as a trade secret. Today, however, different processes, such as strengthening of patents, strategic patenting and patent acquisition, are becoming more and more popular ways to improve a patent portfolio.
In the case of strengthening, patent applications are being reviewed more often, typically after they are published – up until just after their notice of allowance. Companies often do this to see whether the patents read on the products of other businesses with which they might negotiate in the future. Keep in mind that the patent application may have been in the patent office for two to three years at this point and the industry will have developed new products during this time. It is worth the effort to see if this invention is now being used by others.
At this point, patent applications are being matched to a product rather than a patent. What that might produce is an indication of use rather than solid evidence of use. This indication of use analysis can be fed back into a patent prosecution group. If they have enough to work with within the patent specification, they can adapt the claim language to better match the product that's already in the market and then file a continuation.
This is not a new process. It was first used more than 10 years ago; however, it may have been too early for its time. Over the past three to four years it has become much more common practice as people are focusing on improving the quality and effectiveness of their patents, in particular for future cross-licensing.
Many companies are also trying to find ways to develop and strengthen their patents in strategic areas that are currently seen as white space in the patent landscape. There are two potential options for this: tasking a design team with thinking about how to broaden the patent portfolio more effectively, or acquiring patents. Patent acquisition gets faster results but it has to be weighed against higher costs.
The other trend is that of patent divesture, abandoning or putting patents up for sale. Given that maintenance fees are very expensive and because of the sheer number of patents owned by large companies, it comes as no surprise that retaining all the patents can be unsustainable in the long term. As an example, a large semiconductor company can easily have 20,000 U.S. patents, in this case the cost of maintenance fees alone is $400M USD over the lifetime of these patents.
Different techniques are used to identify patents for divesture; detectability (or the ability to detect use of the invention) is infrequently used but can be one of the biggest assets in planning a divesture strategy. To put it very simply, a patent is not considered valuable unless it can be used to help protect a company's freedom to operate or if it can be monetized (typically this means licensing or selling the patent). If a company can't prove that someone else is using its patented invention, then is it valuable? In addition to looking at this criterion, which helps to find those patents that are either too expensive to prove use of, or impossible to prove use of because the methodology is just not available, companies should also look at the market size—is this invention in a large enough market sector to be valuable?
The best defense is a good offense. This means being prepared. Clearly, companies need to come to a negotiation with solid claim charts, which show indication or evidence of use. However, one of the biggest trends today is that companies are taking a proactive approach to their defense. This means they are making sure that they have ammunition — claim charts — on the shelf for potential future negotiations. These are usually less expensive claim charts that show indication of use, but that don't necessarily have a fully documented piece of evidence.
For example, it may mean that that only four out of five claim elements are well documented. The fifth element may be much more expensive to document so companies leave it on the shelf until it may be required and then finish the analysis just in advance of the licensing negotiation.
Patent and data mining is a core function for any company seeking to tie technology development to business strategy. It provides a foundation for strategic decisions regarding IP acquisition and technology development. A case in point is the challenge of trying to map patents to a particular company which has a high revenue in digital signal processing. Patent mining will figure out which patents in a portfolio would most likely match that technology area, using a number of filtering techniques.
In another situation, a company in the initial stages of developing their licensing strategy will want to find the right match of their patents to different markets, companies and projects. Patent and data mining can help find which is the best match and what strategy to move forward with. In doing so, companies must think about their own customer space as they typically don't want to sue their own customers. Therefore, a provider of communications network equipment that had a number of patents that were in a space that might read on cloud companies, might have a very good play. This is because the company would be working outside of its customer space.
Companies that successfully sort the grain from the chaff, that find their most valuable patents based on their business and IP strategies, will be able to use them strategically for years to come. Finding these patents alone is not always the best course of action. A collaborative approach with a company like Chipworks allows companies to leverage decades of patent intelligence speed the process and ensure the most comprehensive evaluation and work is completed.


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Johann Christoph Lüders (* 12. Juli 1803 in Bettingerode, Fürstentum Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel; † 26. August 1872 in Görlitz) war ein Industrieller, Kommunalpolitiker und Kulturförderer.

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Johann Christoph Lüders wuchs als Hütejunge in ärmlichen Verhältnissen auf und absolvierte 1817 die Schulbildung mit dem Volksschulabschluss. Er ging danach in die Lehre als Sattler und Lackierer und anschließend auf Wanderschaft (Gesellenjahre). Durch Fleiß brachte er es ab 1826 in Dresden bei der königlichen Kutschenfabrik zum Werkmeister. 1827 war der Umzug nach Görlitz, das damals 12.000 Einwohner hatte. Mit 24 Jahren gründete er 1828 seine Sattler- und Lackiererwerkstatt im Hause am Obermarkt 8. Im gleichen Jahr ehelichte er Louise Uhse, mit der er vier Kinder bekam.

Er stellte Kutschwagen her. Der erste Auftrag von der Stadt Görlitz zum Bau zweier achträdriger Eisenbahngüterwagen erfolgte 1849 an Lüders und Schied, der der Schlossermeister in der Büttnergasse war. Bedingt durch die Ausweitung der Produktion, wurde der Betrieb 1853 auf das Gelände in der Brunnenstraße verlegt. Hierbei vollzog man den Übergang von der handwerklichen zur industriellen Fertigung.

Lüders' Auslandsaufenthalte 1859 und 1869 führten ihn u. a. nach Ägypten und Russland. 1867 nahm er an der Pariser Weltausstellung teil und  erhielt dabei die Bronzemedaille für Design und geschmackvolle Innenausstattung.

1869 wandelte er den gewachsenen Betrieb in eine "Aktiengesellschaft für Fabrikation von Eisenbahnmaterial zu Görlitz" um. Dabei wurden 4.000 Aktien zu je 200 Talern angeboten. Am Schluss wurden 2 Millionen Taler gezeichnet.

Johann Christoph Lüders starb am 26. August 1872 in Görlitz und ist auf dem Städtischen Friedhof beigesetzt. Zu seinem 100. Geburtstag wurde als große Ehrbekundung der Stadt Görlitz ein Denkmal am damaligen Christoph-Lüders-Platz (heutiger Hildegard-Burjan-Platz) eingeweiht.

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Johann Christoph Lüders entwickelte mit seinem Engagement den größten und bekanntesten Industriebetrieb der Stadt – den Waggonbau Görlitz. Aus der Firma entstand durch Zusammenschluss mit anderen Unternehmen 1921 die Waggon- und Maschinenbau-Aktiengesellschaft (WUMAG). Deren Nachfolgebetrieb produziert noch heute in Görlitz und ist Teil des Bombardierkonzerns. Die Stadt Görlitz war bis Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts für ihre Textilfertigung bekannt. Mit dem neuen Industriezweig Waggonbau wurde die Industrie der Stadt wesentlich erweitert und erfuhr neue Schubkraft. Lüders blieb auch während der prosperierenden Entwicklung seiner Firma ein sparsamer Handwerksmeister und solider Kaufmann. Er schloss selbst die Verträge ab und organisierte ihre Erfüllung in der Fabrik. Dabei legte er großen Wert auf die Qualität der Produkte. Bei seinen Arbeitern wurde er wegen seiner Vorbildwirkung und seines handwerklichen Könnens geschätzt. Die Spitzenerzeugnisse des Unternehmens (Eisenbahn-Personenwagen, Speisewagen, Güterwagen, Salonzüge, Schnelltriebwagen, Doppelstockwagen) erregten internationales Aufsehen und prägten die deutsche Eisenbahngeschichte mit. Auch heute noch gilt der Waggonbau als Wirtschaftsbarometer der Stadt und viele Görlitzer empfinden es heute noch als Auszeichnung, beim Waggonbau gearbeitet zu haben.

Lüders Engagement galt nicht nur seiner Fabrik, auch in der Kommune war er zum Wohl der Stadt aktiv. U. a. als Bezirksvorsteher, Stadtverordneter und Repräsentant in Kommissionen der Stadtverwaltung, z. B. bei der Entscheidung zum Einsatz finanzieller Mittel. So bekam die Stadtverwaltung von ihm 30.000 Taler zur Unterstützung bedürftiger Arbeiter.

Beispielgebend war das Wirken in der Kommunalpolitik nach der Einführung der preußischen Städteordnung in der Stadt. Von 1842 bis 1869 wirkte Lüders als Stadtverordneter. Er setzte sich besonders für Bauwesen, Verkehrswesen, Industrie und Gewerbe, Volksbildung und Kultur ein und förderte die Lehrlingsausbildung.

Er förderte mit mehr als der Hälfte der Bausumme das Haus des Gewerbevereins (heute Humboldthaus) 1871 und überwachte im städtischen Auftrag den Bau des Theaters 1851.

Für Lüders waren Wirtschaft, Kommunalpolitik und Kultur untrennbar. Unternehmer und Stadtverwaltung sollten gemeinsam diese drei Seiten gesellschaftlichen Fortschritts in ihrer Einheit gestalten und durchsetzen.

Literatur
 Die Aktiengesellschaft für Fabrikation von Eisenbahn-Material zu Görlitz. Verlag Hoffmann & Reiber, Görlitz 1903
 Heinz Tietze: Görlitz – Herausragende Bürger unserer Heimatstadt aus der Zeit des 15. bis 20. Jahrhunderts. Niederschlesischer Verlag, Görlitz
 Stadt Görlitz: Görlitz-Mosaik. Ausgabe 10/1991
 Wilfried Rettig: Eisenbahnknoten Görlitz. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1994
 Ernst Kretzschmar: Gewerbeverein zu Görlitz 1830. Wurzeln eines neuen Aufbruchs. Bayerische Vereinsbank, München 1995
 Wolfgang Theurich: 150 Jahre Waggonbau in Görlitz. 1849 – 1999. Eisenbahn-Kurier-Verlag, Freiburg 1999
 Amtsblatt der Kreisfreien Stadt Görlitz: Seite 12, Ausgabe 7/2002
 Wolf-Peter Lüders: Unveröffentlichte Reden, Erinnerungen und Gespräche. 2003

Person (Görlitz)
Unternehmer (19. Jahrhundert)
Industrieller
Unternehmer (Schienenfahrzeugbau)
Ingenieur, Erfinder, Konstrukteur
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Gestorben 1872
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Q: Change HighCharts plotLine-value and -label I have implemented a plot line that's showing an average of all values:
"yAxis": {
  plotLines: [{
     color: 'red',
     value: 22,
     width: '1',
     label: {
        text: 'Average: 22'
     }
  }]
},

I want to change the average-value on legendItemClick. Is it possible to change some plotLine-properties programatically?
What I tried so far is this:
plotOptions: {
  series: {
     events: {
        legendItemClick: function (event) {
           var average = 15;
           event.target.chart.userOptions.yAxis.plotLines[0].value = average;
           event.target.chart.userOptions.yAxis.plotLines[0].label.text = 'Average: ' + average;
        }
     },
  }
},

The value and the label-text aren't changing in the chart. Also I tried to redraw the chart but it still isn't changing the plot line. Is there a way to accomplish this?

A: I now have found an acceptable answer to my own question:
var average = 15;
event.target.chart.yAxis[0].removePlotLine('average');
event.target.chart.yAxis[0].addPlotLine({
  id: 'average',
  color: 'red',
  width: 1,
  value: average,
  zIndex: 200,
  label: {
     text: 'Average: ' + average
  }
});

I have to specify an ID for the plotLine, destroy it and create a new one.


Yeah, it's called UP3, or HSFX.
You need the 4.10 patch and 4.10.1. Then Copy the game file inside the common folder of your steam download. Make sure you download the patches into the steam folder and not the ubi folder. Next you'll want to google UP3 and follow the instructions on the Ultr@pack site. In all, I have three installations of the game because .sfs files like to get spiked from the IL 2 folder frequently.
Or you could have just gotten the Mod activator and downloaded the AI and Aces Flyable pack.


What's in a name? Who are the famous people who we sometimes forget. Is it because their name doesn't stick in your mind. Try these on for size.
Former college girl friend of Nick Danger 3rd Eye from Firesign Theater's " Cut 'em off at the Past!". She was also known as Melanie Haber, Audrey Farber, and Susan Underhill, but "everyone knew her as Nancy".
Person made famous by appearing on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in when he sang " Tiptoe Through the Tulips " while playing his yukelele. His marriage to Miss Vickie on National Television was the height of his 15 minutes of fame.
Daughter of Jacob Coxey who was an advocate of the free-silver monetary policy and opponent of the gold standard. In 1894 he called on the unemployed from all over the United States to join him in an " army" marching on Washington to protest how industrialization threatened economic security. Tens of thousands started the march but by the time they reached Washington only about 500 remained. Coxey and his army were arrested for walking on the grass of the Capital Building and the protest fished out.
Born on Zenn-La in the Deneb system who assumed the mantle as the herald of Galactus to prevent his planet from being destroyed. He moves among the galaxies as the Silver Surfer.
Shoeless Joe Jackson was one of the players banned from baseball as a result of the Black Sox Scandal of 1919. Early in his career, Joe had a new pair of spikes and got blisters on his feet when he started wearing them. The next day, the team was short of players and Joe had to play. So he played without shoes and in his socks. A fan shouted " You shoeless son of a gun" when he hit a triple. A sportswriter picked it up and began calling him " Shoeless Joe ". White Sox fans have been trying for years to get him elected to the Hall of Fame as it is generally felt that he was banned erroneously for fixing the Series.
George Gipp died during his senior season at Notre Dame, but his name wasn't made famous until eight years later. Playing Army in 1928 and needing a win to clinch a winning season, Knute Rockne told the team of Gipp's dying wish. " I've got to go, Rock. It's all right; I'm not afraid," Rockne recalled of Gipp's words from his hospital bed. " Sometime, Rock, when the team is up against it, when things are wrong and breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go in there with all they've got and win one for the Gipper."
Martin Van Buren was born in Kinderhook, NY. " Old Kinderhook" was one of his nicknames, and, during the race for presidency in 1836 the slogan read " Vote for Martin Van Buren he's O.K." and thus the phrase okay was born.
Inventor of the syphonic flush (toilet). Now this is not a lot of " crap". And, oh, by the way, he also worked for Queen Victoria and installed enough pipe to produce a " royal flush".
Former heavyweight champion George Foreman who lost his title to Mohammed Ali in the " Rumble in the Jungle" has five sons named George, George Jr., George III, George IV, George V, and George VI by George!
Called a communist when he arranged a massive wheat sale to the Soviet Union during a famine in the 1920s and became the USSR's unofficial American liaison. The Arm & Hammer Baking Soda logo is curiously similar to the hammer and sickle of the Soviet regime.
The first baseman in Abbott & Costello's famous skit about baseball players. Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third, Why is the left fielder, Because is center field, Tomorrow is the pitcher, Today is the catcher, Yes, the big hitter is in right field, and I Don't Give A Damn is the shortstop.
Born Meadow George Lemon, the man in the middle of the famous Globetrotter figure eight weave spent 24 years with the travelling ambassadors of Hoop Time.
Two time winner of Philadelphia's Wing Bowl competition held the Friday before the Super Bowl. This event features some of the largest guys in the area in a chicken wing eating contest. This event started in 1993 in a hotel lobby. Heavy Kevy won in the early days and retired as a two-time champion. In 2001, the event was held in the First Union Center with 20,000 fans cheering on the winning El Wingadore who blew away the field eating 137 wings in the event while being surrounded by voluptuous wingettes. El Wingadore was crowned for the second time and forced Heavy Kevy out of retirement for the 2002 contest. Only in Philadelphia (home of the Mummers Parade on New Years Day) could such an event happen.


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Police responded to the Empire State Building in New York after several people were shot Friday.
Police kill gunman in shooting outside Empire State Building
Read the full story and developments in the investigation on CNN.com. For local coverage, visit WPIX, WCBS and NY1.
Scroll down to catch up on the events as they unfolded.
[Updated at 3:19 p.m. ET] Two patients who were brought to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Friday have been discharged and one has been admitted, the hospital's public affairs office said in a statement.
The three people were brought to New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center Emergency Department as a result of a shooting outside the Empire State building shortly after 9 a.m., the hospital said.
Other victims were brought to Bellevue Hospital after the shooting, which police said left eight wounded and two dead, including the gunman.
Police initially said nine bystanders were wounded in an exchange of gunfire between shooter Jeffrey Johnson and police. That number was later revised to eight.
Pictures from the scene
Police killed Johnson as he pulled a gun on them while trying to flee the scene where he fatally shot a former coworker, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
The gunman apparently had a longstanding dispute with the victim over workplace harassment allegations, police said. Both men had filed prior complaints.
[Updated at 12:16 a.m. ET] New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised police and civilians for their quick response to a shooting outside the Empire State Building on Friday morning, which left two dead and nine injured.
"There is no doubt that the situation would've been even more tragic except for the extraordinary acts of heroism," Bloomberg said in a media conference. "New York City is the safest big city in this country but we are not immune to the national problem of gun violence."
Gunman Jeffrey Johnson, 53, killed one person before he was shot to death outside the busy tourist destination on 34th Street and Fifth Avenue in a chaotic scene just after 9 a.m., Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said. In addition to being home to a popular tourist destination in Midtown Manhattan, the area is also a busy commercial district.
"I saw people running and I didn't know what happened. I thought it was a celebrity spotting," said witness Rebecca Fox, who was on her way to work when the shootings broke out. "It was a very surreal scene."
Fast Facts: The Empire State Building
The victim was Johnson's former coworker at Hazan Imports, where Johnson was a designer of women's accessories until being laid off last year.
As Johnson attempted to flee the scene, a construction worker across the street alerted two police officers, who pursued him up West 33rd Street, Kelly said. As Johnson pulled out a .45 caliber pistol, the officers opened fire, killing Johnson. It was unclear if Johnson managed to shoot a round.
Nine others were wounded or grazed in the exchange of gunfire, Kelly said. They were taken to local hospitals where they are expected to recover.
"Some may have been accidentally shot by police officers," Kelly said.
Photos and messages from Twitter and other digital platforms that appear to be related to the shooting outside the Empire State Building are being collected by CNN.com social media producer Dorrine Mendoza on this Storify page. CNN editors are working to verify this information and will be updating throughout the day.
[Updated at 11:26 a.m. ET] A gunman fatally shot a former coworker in the head outside the Empire State Building Friday morning before he was killed by police officers, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
The suspect, 53-year-old Jeffrey Johnson, was a "disgruntled former employee" of a business near the Empire State Building, Kelly said. As he tried to flee the scene, a construction worker alerted two police officers, who pursued him down 33rd Street, Kelly said.
Johnson pulled a .45 caliber gun on the approaching police officers but it not clear if he actually shot any rounds as police opened fire on him, Kelly said.
Nine people were wounded or grazed in the crossfire, Kelly said.
[Updated at 11:08 a.m. ET] The Empire State Building is fully operational after ten people were shot outside the popular tourist destination this morning, leaving at least two dead.
Building representatives released a statement saying the New York Police Department is concluding its investigation that occurred shortly after 9 a.m.
[Updated at 11:08 a.m. ET] New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to speak soon after a shooting outside the Empire State Building Friday morning left at least two dead, including the suspected gunman.
A witnessed said they saw a shooter with a "large gun"
[Updated at 10:40 a.m. ET] New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to speak at 11 a.m. after a shooting outside the Empire State Building Friday morning left at least two dead, including the suspected gunman.
Watch the news conference live on CNN TV, on CNN.com or on your CNN mobile app.
• There is no apparent link to terrorism, a law enforcement official said.
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• Police shot the suspect, whose body is still lying outside the building covered in a sheet, witnesses said.
• A woman was also killed in the shooting, which occurred as people were lining up to gain entry to the busy tourist destination on 34 Street and Fifth Avenue.
• An elevator worker from inside the Empire State Building ran outside and began chasing the alleged shooter, CNN producer Rose Arce said. At some point police, who were apparently inside the building, were alerted and chased and the alleged shooter.
• Photos and messages from Twitter and other digital platforms that appear to be related to the shooting outside the Empire State Building are being collected by CNN.com social media producer Dorrine Mendoza on this Storify page. CNN editors are working to verify this information and will be updating throughout the day.
[Updated at 10:33 a.m. ET] The body of the alleged shooter is lying outside the entrance to the Empire State Building after a shooting broke out Friday morning, leaving at least two dead, New York City officials said.
A woman was also killed in the shooting, which occurred as people were lining up to gain entry to the busy tourist destination.
An elevator worker from inside the Empire State Building ran outside and began chasing the alleged shooter, CNN producer Rose Arce said. At some point police, who were apparently inside the building, were alerted and chased and the alleged shooter.
Arce talked to several international tourists who were standing around. "They were completely stunned by what happened and were screaming," Arce reports.
[Updated at 10:17 a.m. ET] Ten people were shot outside the Empire State Building, leaving two dead, including the gunman, New York City officials said.
A witness told CNN she saw a man lying in the middle of the street surrounded by police.
"I saw blood on the sidewalk," Rebecca Fox said. "It was a very surreal scene."
[Updated at 10:09 a.m. ET] A suspect started shooting outside the Empire State Building this morning, killing at least one person, New York city officials say.
The suspect had a "large gun," a witness told CNN.
[Updated at 9:55 a.m. ET] - At least 10 people were shot Friday in front of the Empire State Building in New York Friday morning, the New York Office of Emergency Management said.
A suspect in the shooting was shot and killed by police, New York police said.
Authorities converged on the building around 9 a.m. after reports of gunfire.
A witness told CNN's Rose Arce that the gunman ran after and shot a man in the head. An unarmed guard chased the gunman away, the witness told Arce.
Police have closed several several streets around 5th Avenue and 34th Street in Manhattan.
New York resident Max Kaplan, 22, said he heard at least nine gunshots. He said several ambulances have arrived at the scene.
"We're all very shaken up at the office," he said.
The Empire State Building is one of the most famous skyscrapers in the world, and one of New York City's best-known tourist attractions.
Each year, about 4 million people visit the building's two observation decks. At more than 1,453 feet tall, the landmark building reaches more than a quarter-mile into the sky.
Post by: CNN's Emanuella Grinberg, The CNN Wire
Filed under: Crime • Empire State Building • New York
DriftSS
Hopefully the upcoming facts will change...but for now it appears that the shooter shot ONE, while the pursuing police shot the shooter AND NINE innocent victims. If this is the case, all officers involved need to be promptly fired (for lack of proper gun control). Inexcusable if true. And this is who we want to trust for our protection??? Seems similar in outcome to the recent high-speed chase in MD where an untrained officer ran himself off the road and got killed from insufficient pursuit training. Here we appear to have insufficient firearms training and apprehension tactics. God bless the victims.
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I wonder who's saying that the NYPD shot the others? every other news source says the gunman shot everyone else.
dpraidergirl
You mean....the Bush Major Squrew up.....he created this whole mess we are in! Don't blame someone who is trying to get us out of this mess!
I wonder if NYPD will spy on the Gunman's place of worship? Oh wait he is a White so he cannot be targeted as a Terrorist. I feel sorry Media is owned by the Jew's so they just love hating on the Minorities! Coexist. Come to Dborn Michigan people a church and mosque are side by side..beautiful sight..
If you go to police one dot com, you will see a picture of the downed shooter. He is actually black. Try not to wear your ignorance and racism so proudly.
militarymike
That's only because 40% of the population is of Arab decent.
The recession was going full blast when Obama took office. Wall street imploded and the housing market went belly up in 2007-2008. Unemployment was around 9% to 10% when he took office in January 2009. Leave that Kool-Aid alone, turn off Rush and work on your critical thinking skills
canofpencils
LEO cant protect you, they are after the fact in most cases so get a CCW in your state and gear up. Know the laws where you live and protect yourself – against anyone- foreign or domestic
Prime Controller
If you have to buy a gun because of fear, then I just do not know what to say. I have never seen gunplay on the streets... have you? The one time I saw a gun was when I woke up with one in my face... not sure how any gun would have helped me that night.
It's funny that gun control fanatics claim that people who carry guns are scared or paranoid. Then, in the very next breath, they cry that we should ban guns because anyone can open fire on innocent people at any time. So who's paranoid here?
Gotta love the government and media setting us all up for a big event. A shame people have to die for their dumb agenda of control.
So one person is shot by the killer and in pursuit of him police fire shots that not only kill him, but wound nine other people. So if trained officers with guns in a shooting situation accidentally injure nine other people, what do you think would happen if multiple private citizens also had weapons and began to open fire in a puiblic area? And yet that is always presented as the solution to gun violence. Arm everybody so that the killer can be taken out (along with how many other bystanders?)
Most private gun owners go to the range more than police. The minimum requirement for shooting skill for a police officer is laughable.
OK Steve, since you have so little faith in the police (perhaps justifiably so) picture this scenario carrying out then. Multiple private citizens are firing at the killer as police arrive on the scene. How many of those citizens will be shot by the incompotent police because they cannot tell who is who? Either way more guns increases the chance of more accidental shootings.
This obviously never happened. Guns are illegal in New York so this story is made up.
Waitforfacts
As difficult as it is to get guns in NY, there are still many guns in NY because people go to gun friendly states to purchase them or purchase them illegally. We'll have to wait to see where this gun was purchased or if it has it's serial numbers altered. Your uninformed statement meant to support your anti gun control agenda is not (yet) supported by the facts and is irresponsible.
How come the news media sensationalize murder by a former employee against his boss and up the road a couple of miles in Harlem kids get killed every day? The only sensational news here is the police hitting innocent citizens in their overzealous panic.
Loathstheright
The suspect, 53-year-old Jeffrey Johnson....tea party member? Conservative? You betcha.
jonQ
In related news, CNN is already trying to find a way to link him to the TEA Party...And on a side note, the left wing media's ratings fall further.
Ha you wish. State fasts please.
The guy James Holms was a left wing OWS loser. Fact.
Leslie M
Editor. Please?
"Gunman Jeffrey Johnson, 53, killed one person before he was shot to death outside the busy tourist destination just after 9 a.m., Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said. The victim was Johnson's former coworker at a was a "disgruntled former employee" who shot a former"
The gunman got his two victims and the cops shot everyone else. What a bunch of dopes NYC cops are. Jeeze, take their guns away would you.
Ignorant comment. Get some common sense.
Judge11
Impossible! Guns are Illegal in New York City... It is perfectly safe there and nobody would dare break the law...
Jim M
Like in the Colorado shooting, this action appears to be driven in part by the dangerous side effects of antidepressants. It's time to ban these very unsafe drugs, and bring back reality to tens of millions of Americans.
Jim, where did you get that information? It is not in any of the reports Ive seen
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Dr Noller told The Fifth Estate international data showed that more than 50 per cent of global carbon emissions ended up in a building or infrastructure material of some kind.
To grab this bull by the horns, equipping designers with the knowledge to make good carbon decisions is key.
"Design decisions including materials selection can change the footprint of the building," Noller says.
This is where her idea of a NABERS-style rating scheme for embodied carbon in buildings could create real traction.


One of my absolute favorite parts of it being the Holidays is the baking that comes along with it. Ever since I was little, baking the pre-made holiday cookie dough by Pillsbury and Nestle Toll House has been my favorite. Sugar cookies with designs on them, or chocolate chips with different colored chips. For this blog post, to celebrate it being National Cookie Day, that is exactly what I did! This is one of the things I like to do to get in the Christmas spirit, so I decided to share some photos with you and also, I want to hear what your favorite things to bake are! Let me know in the comments below.


Costa Rica's newly opened telecommunication market was on display last week as 40 national and global companies participated in Expo-Telecom at the Hotel Real InterContinental in Escazú, west of San José.
The event, organized by the Octametro company, was as a meet-and-greet experience for telecoms and visiting executives and was designed to broaden industry networks and encourage potential commercial relationships. The three-day event included speeches and seminars conducted by several international telecom experts and representatives, as well as exhibitions and presentations from the local companies.
The hosting of the Expo-Telecom was a well-timed move on the part of Octametro.
Over the past six months, several companies have gained approval to compete in the Costa Rican telecom market, which was opened to competition this year. The approval of the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA) dissolved the long-standing staterun monopoly held by the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE).
"The opening of the telecommunications market has been responsible and organized, which is what we promised to the country of Costa Rica," said President Oscar Arias, who opened the Expo-Telecom with a speech Wednesday morning.
Expo-Telecom also held a virtual job fair that encouraged applicants interested in a career in telecom to send in their resumes online. As of Thursday, the organizers said they had received 14,000 online resumes.


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BY JACK PHILLIPS 6/12/2020
The Minneapolis City Council unanimously on Friday passed a veto-proof resolution to pursue replacing its police department with a "community-led public safety system."
"The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, by Minneapolis police officers is a tragedy that shows that no amount of reforms will prevent lethal violence and abuse by some members of the Police Department against members of our community, especially Black people and people of color," the five city council members wrote in a resolution, reported Reuters.
Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody, leading to nationwide protests and a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement. Former officer Derek Chauvin, who faces second-degree murder charges in the case, was seen in a video with his knee on Floyd's neck.
The resolution said the city council will start a year-long plan to engage "with every willing community member in Minneapolis" to create a new public safety model.
Days later, City Council President Lisa Bender, a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, told news outlets that there are enough votes to dismantle the city's police department, although she didn't elaborate on the specifics. Bender also made comments on CNN that were widely criticized after saying that calling the police during a break-in "comes from a place of privilege."
Police take back the streets at around midnight after firing copious amounts of tear gas to disperse protesters and rioters outside the Minneapolis Police 5th Precinct during the fourth night of protests and violence following the death of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minn., on May 29, 2020. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)
Last week, she vowed to "dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a transformative new model of public safety." Minneapolis City Council member Jeremiah Ellison, son of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, said he supports Bender's calls to action.
"We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. And when we're done, we're not simply gonna glue it back together. We are going to dramatically rethink how we approach public safety and emergency response. It's really past due," Ellison, who had also professed his support for far-left militant group Antifa, wrote on Twitter.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, however, voiced opposition to the move. When he was asked by a group of protesters, Frey said he wouldn't commit to defunding the department before the crowd booed him and told him to go home.
"We need to entirely shift the culture that has for years failed black and brown people," he told NPR. "We need a full structural revamp. But abolishing the police department? No, I think that's a bad idea."
More than a dozen Minneapolis officers published a letter on Thursday that condemned the actions of Chauvin, expressing support for reforms, the Star-Tribune reported. They stopped short of calling for the abolishment of the police department.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey looks over a demonstration calling for the Minneapolis Police Department to be defunded in Minneapolis, Minn., on June 6, 2020. Frey spoke at the head of the march but was asked to leave by the organizers after declining to commit to fully defunding the MPD. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
Following Floyd's death, Minneapolis was overwhelmed by the riots, leading to a number of businesses being vandalized, looted, or destroyed.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who called in the National Guard, noted that the city's response to the unrest was an "abject failure."
One prominent manufacturing company, 7-Sigma Inc., will not return to Minneapolis. The owner told the Star-Tribune that he cannot trust public officials after the response after his plant burned.
"They don't care about my business," said Kris Wyrobek, president and owner of 7-Sigma Inc. "They didn't protect our people. We were all on our own."
"The fire engine was just sitting there," Wyrobek added, "but they wouldn't do anything."
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Dani Shapiro
Inheritance Audio
Devotion: A Memoir
Picturing the Wreck
Family History: A Novel
Contact & Bio
Workshops & Teaching
Dani Shapiro is the author of the instant New York Times best selling memoir, Inheritance, which was published in January 2019 by Knopf. Her other books include the memoirs Hourglass, Still Writing, Devotion, and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Her new novel, Signal Fires, is forthcoming from Knopf in October 2022.
Along with teaching writing workshops around the world, Dani has taught at Columbia and New York University, and is the cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy.
In February of 2019, Dani launched an original podcast, Family Secrets, in collaboration with iHeartMedia. An iTunes Top 10 podcast, the series features stories from guests who—like Dani— have uncovered life-altering and long-hidden secrets from their families' past.
She lives with her family in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
Dani's podcast, "Family Secrets" launched into the top 10 of all podcasts on Apple! The podcast has over 22 million downloads, and its sixth season launched on December 9, 2021. Its seventh season is currently in production.
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us?
In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history–the life she had lived–crumbled beneath her.
Inheritance is a book about secrets–secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman's urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that has been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years, years she had spent writing brilliantly, and compulsively, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in–a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover.
Aspen Winter Words at 8:00 PM
In conversation with Ashley C. Ford, Eleanor Henderson, and Michelle Zauner.
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Entertainment Weekly announces Dani's forthcoming novel – the first in 15 years! – Signal Fires. Knopf will publish in fall 2022.
Dani's second podcast in collaboration with iHeart Media has launched; The Way We Live Now examines the way people from all walks of life are coping during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The paperback edition of Inheritance is an LA Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and San Francisco Chronicle, and National Indie bestseller!
Inheritance has won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award!
Wired Magazine names Inheritance as one of 2019's top Science books!
Inheritance named a best book of 2019 by Vanity Fair!
Inheritance will be adapted for film by Killer Films!
The New Yorker includes Inheritance in their summer reading round up!
The Today Show features Inheritance in their "20 Beach Reads You Won't Want to Put Down" segment.
Inheritance debuted on The New York Times Best Seller List at #11!
Daunt Books in the UK has won an auction to publish Inheritance!
Dani's new podcast, "Family Secrets" launches on February 14th. Subscribe now!
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Dani Shapiro © 2022


Farm drones, autonomous security guards and next-generation tampons were among the products presented at today's Y Combinator startup accelerator Summer 2016 Demo Day 1.
Fantastic restaurants need fantastic ingredients, but the hardest part for chefs should be cooking the food not sourcing it. Haywheel is an online marketplace for artisanal foods that makes it extra simple for top-notch restaurants to score the choicest of lobster or tortellini. The company already has more than 300 restaurants using the service, including a few Michelin-starred establishments. Hay wheel takes a 10 percent commission on the food purchased through the marketplace. The service launched last week and is already planning its move to open the program to the $5 billion specialty food store market.
Most people in Silicon Valley recognize that the technology industry lacks diversity, but many don't push themselves and their co-workers to change the status quo. A plethora of bay area tech companies are employing strategic recruiting to solve the problem but many companies have actually seen diversity stagnate and in some cases even decreased in recent years. DevColor wants to employ a non-profit structure to offer interview preparation and career strategy advice to help companies attract and retain black engineers. The company is working with 114 software engineers and has closed sponsorships with mainstays like Pinterest, Collective Health, and Uber to ultimately reach long-term sustainability by the end of the next two years.
Commercial drones will grow to a $23 billion business by 2020 for agriculture, infrastructure inspections, and delivery. But many drones still fly blind, dependent on pilots. Iris makes a tiny box that can be added to a drone to give it sense and avoid capabilities. It uses computer vision and deep learning tech to create real-time 3D maps around drones and track objects up to 2000 feet away. It's already in the air, with a live paid alpha program. Drone hardware manufacturers won't all be able to make the smartest brains, but Iris could help.
Men's fashion is a $400 billion a year market growing faster than Women's. Men want to own clothes, they just don't love shopping. LookLive's tech can scan a photo of a model or celebrity, tag what clothes they're wearing, and let you buy those looks or something similar but more affordable. LookLive is partnering with content creators like Heart's Complex and Esquire magazines, which will upload photos to its site. LookLive will make them shoppable and take 10-30 percent of the revenue without owning any stock. LookLive's co-founder started fashion e-commerce phenomenon KarmaLoop, and now his new startup is growing 25 percent month over month.
Taking a far more complex page from early iPhone apps that leverage the iphone's flash to detect heart rate, Luminostics wants to use the same flash to diagnose STDs like Chlamydia. To get a diagnosis, all you have to do is add a sample of blood, urine, or saliva to a cartridge and insert it into the smartphone adapter. In 15 minutes, smartphone users can get critical health information. The team decided to start with STDs because of the privacy concerns that put 35 million people at risk every year. The at home device is fast, convenient, and private unlike traditional doctor visits. The tech was developed as part of PHD research and will be entering clinical trials next year. While the company still has a long way to go before hitting their target of a US and Europe launch in 2018, the founders have an ambitious vision that includes vetinary testing and food safety feedback, in addition to additional applications in consumer health.
5900 newborns die each day in Africa, many because they're not born at a health facility. New Incentives is a non-profit that offers conditional cash transfers to mothers who have their kids at a health clinic, which can reduce the risk of infection or spread of HIV. It's 5000-women pilot was shown to save 47 lives. New Incentives is growing 36 percent each week, and has the support of GiveWell, Good Ventures, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Now the non-profit startup is seeking more money for what studies show is one of the top three most cost-effective ways to save a life.
Silicon Valley seems to have descended upon the mattress in recent years as a focus of disruption, but the lowly sofa – another item that's incredibly annoying to acquire and move- has largely been neglected despite the fact that it's a $23 billion industry. Burrow wants to give consumers a dead-simple service for buying a couch that is shipped quickly (within a week) and can be assembled without any tools. The company already has $150 thousand in pre-sales and is operating at 40 percent gross margins for the $850 sofa.
Consumers have more interest in buying VR headsets than they do in plopping $1k on the high-powered gaming PCs that it takes to run them. Only one percent of the PCs out there are powerful enough for VR, Sixa want to change that by putting a specced-out virtual machine onto everyone's system. Latency is a huge concern for cloud-based PC virtualization and it's even more key in VR where the slightest increase in tracking latency can lead to some major user queasiness. Sixa claims that they've gotten the latency down to 10 milliseconds, an impressive metric that's helping drive their $101k in monthly recurring revenue.
Farmers don't know which acres of their farms produce the most crops. Raptor Maps uses drones and tractor-mounted sensors to analyze and A/B test farmland. Raptor Maps can tell farmers which seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides work the best. It can boost farmer profits and even make food a little healthier. Raptor Maps charges $100/acre and already has paid pilots with farms that sell to McDonald's and Costco. Eventually, it could even sell data on which crops are growing to grocery chains and food wholesalers.
Scale lets developers use an API to enter requests for flocks of humans to complete repetitive tasks. Mechanical Turk has quality control issues while business process outsourcing can't be called via API and the firms are too big to work with some startup. Scale lets developers for Houzz get their housing listings screened for duplicates and price mismatches. Teespring uses Scale for moderation and categorization of user generated content. Scale is growing 40 percent week over week with over 50 percent gross margins. Computers can't do every menial task, but now they can request humans that will do the rest.
Vote.org wants to beat big money in politics with even bigger get out the vote data. Groups like Rock the Vote have built massive partnerships with celebrities and corporations to increase turnout at the polls, but the strongest data tools often rest in the hands of the parties themselves. Vote.org wants to unlock hyper-targeted applications of data for get out the vote efforts. The nonprofit plans to reach 1.2 million voters in specific urban areas. This year, $10.2 billion will be spent on competitive races with anywhere between $12 and $315 spent per voter. If Vote.org can come up with enough funding, it will utilize SMS to to effect political engagement.
Xberts want to take on Alibaba by building a network of Chinese hardware manufacturers that can hock their items directly to a worldwide consumer base. There are 120k hardware manufacturers in China and 84 percent of them are exporting product through wholesale channels. Xberts is building a platform that relies on reviews from influencers to help foster the relationship between users and manufacturers. They've built up a network of over 10 thousand influencers and are currently representing 450 manufacturers.
Media companies in Africa aren't moving fast enough to adapt to mobile and the taste of millenials. OMG Digital makes mobile-first content, and has grown to six million monthly users spending 14 minutes per day, and it only launched six months ago. 90 percent of its users are on mobile, and the startup is signing ad deals with Guiness and the African telecoms. By copying Buzzfeed's model for a unique market, OMG Digital could give African millenials something to read that's written specifically for them.
The company does this by building profiles of average everyday usage for applications and APIs. Wallarm then uses this profile as a baseline to measure against, rapidly differentiating malicious hacker threats from normal requests and effectively reducing the number of false positives to zero. Wallarm already has 60 companies signed-on that are representing 100 million web users. Just during its time at YC, the now-profitable company has doubled its monthly recurring revenue to $100 thousand.
Diehard local sports fans are willing to pay for in-depth coverage of their favorite teams that national and ad-supported media outlets can't provide. The Athletic is a new sports media destination that hires top writers from publishers like ESPN, puts their content in a beautiful ad-free platform, and charges fans $7 a month to read it. In Chicago it's already grown to 2000 subscribers with 18 percent weekly growth. It's acquiring customers for $14 each and earning that back in just two months. The Athletic's team already built endurance sports giant Strava, and now want to scale their best-in-city sports news to 200 more markets.
The best rooms in luxury hotels aren't on Expedia or Priceline, and sometimes they're not even on the hotel's website. But if you want to travel in style or in a big group, they can be the best option. Suiteness creates a platform that showcases these unique rooms and lets you book them. Its average booking price is $2194, from which it earns $315 on a customer acquisition cost of $138. That means it earns back the money in the first booking. Suiteness already has 30,000 suites from top hotels like the Wynn, Venetian, and Cosmopolitan on the platform already, and it's aiming to increase booking transparency for all the 300,000 suites in 100 cities. Airbnb became a giant thanks in part to groups who wouldn't fit in a hotel room. Suiteness could offer them a nicer place to stay.


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Julia Fordham Performs at The Catalina Jazz Club
Sheryl Aronson
On October 18th, Julia Fordham and her band performed at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood. The Brit-born musician/songwriter/vocalist has been performing since the 1980's and has been prolific in her output of music.
The room tonight was packed with her loyal fans who expressed their effusive appreciation throughout the entire evening. Donned in a black baroque style dress with a flair, her pixie blonde locks falling delicately across her face, the musician held court with her silvery voice peppered with jazzy/folksy tones.
The song "Falling Forward" had a slow and engaging rhythm that drifted along in the beautiful flow of Fordham's voice A melancholy mood was set with the tune, "Girlfriend" that Julia delivered in a delicate repose. From the Language of Love album, we heard a jazzy and sassy translation of "Call Me" that the band played with snappy accents. We also heard "I'm Not In Love" that featured distinctive solos from the bass player and keyboardist. A delightful interpretation of "Fragile" rang out clean and simple from Julia Fordham's vocals and the guitarist's solo. Presenting one of the crowd's favorite songs, "Porcelain," Fordham led the band in a rocking out jam that streamed enchanting while displaying the musicians expert chops.
We were treated to Julia Fordham's flavorful scatting with Stevie Wonder's hit, "Sir Duke" and then she turned the tides as the band delivered the smooth stylish rhythms of "Happy Ever After." Fordham slinked across the stage with a delightful knee bending dance while singing in a gorgeous melodic voice. The night was topped off when Julia invited her daughter and friends up to the stage to sing, "Love Moves in Mysterious Ways." The dancing anthem, "Stay," was the finale and everyone was up and swaying to the great beat. Julia Fordham and her band provided a thoroughly tasteful and fun-filled performance for the audience, who gave them a standing ovation.
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All photos taken by Mikey Adam Cohen & Jack Cohen
Sheryl Aronson is an award winning entertainment reporter for The Hollywood360 and also has a blog, "Arting Around" in Agenda Magazine. She is a published author of the Memoir, "Passing Myself Down to the Grave," and is in private practice as a Marriage, Family Therapist in Los Angeles and Orange County.
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Ian Baker is an accomplished winemaker who knows how to grow coastal grapes and craft them into excellent wines. His local experience on Vancouver Island and on Salt Spring Island as one of the Founders and the winemaker for Mistaken Identity Vineyard is a big advantage in that Ian is very knowledgeable about growing different varietals in specifically this Wine Islands Region. Ian knows what works in this region and isn't trying to apply experiences from other wine regions of the World, or British Columbia for that matter. Ian has earned multiple Gold and Silver medal awards every year that he has professionally crafted wines from 2008 onwards, including medals from the Canadian Wine Access 2012 and the North West Wine Summit 2012, and even more importantly he has earned high praise from respected wine critics and his peers. Ian has experience in certified organic vineyards and improved the production and quality of the fruit at Mistaken Identity Vineyard and he brings that knowledge and best practices to our vineyards. Always intent on learning more Ian has furthered his education and understanding of making wine from cool climate grapes through participation in workshops and associations that work together on improving Viticulture and Oenology in cool climate regions. Ian has a passion in growing grapes and crafting quality wines. Simply put, Ian has a passion to "grow great wine", which begins in the vineyard applying ways to improve quality and yields.