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Omaha: Five shootings within one hour


Omaha suffers rash of shootings in less than 1 hour; 3 dead

By CNN Staff

June 16, 2013 — Updated 0604 GMT (1404 HKT)

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Five shootings occur within an hour in south Omaha, police say
  • Three people are dead and two are critically injured
  • It’s unclear whether all the shootings are related
  • The violence broke out on the first day of the College World Series in Omaha

(CNN) — A spate of shootings in less than an hour left three people dead in Omaha, Nebraska, police said.

The shootings all took place in south Omaha on Saturday, the same day the city kicked off the College World Series — the NCAA championship for baseball.

Officers responded to the first shooting at 2:03 p.m. That incident left one person in critical condition, Omaha police said.

At 2:23 p.m., police responded to another shooting across town that also left one person in critical condition.

Four minutes later, officers arrived at the scene of a third shooting. One person was hospitalized but later died, police said.

A fourth shooting occurred around 2:30 p.m., leaving one person dead. A neighbor followed the suspect and updated police on his location.

When officers caught up with the suspect, a gunbattle ensued. Police fatally shot the suspect, but no officers were injured.

Omaha police said it was unclear whether all the shootings were related.

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Omaha: Five shootings within one hour

Santa Monica gunman leaves carnage

This photo, released by the Santa Monica Police department, shows the gunman entering the Santa Monica College library on June 7. The gunman's shooting spree began in a home near the college, where two were found dead, and ended when police killed him in the college library. Santa Monica police have identified the suspect as John Zawahri. This photo, released by the Santa Monica Police department, shows the gunman entering the Santa Monica College library on June 7. The gunman’s shooting spree began in a home near the college, where two were found dead, and ended when police killed him in the college library. Santa Monica police have identified the suspect as John Zawahri.
<a href='http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-985090'>iReporter Daniel Kraft </a>took this image of what he believes to be the shooter’s body as Kraft was being evacuated from the campus by a SWAT team.” border=”0″ height=”360″ id=”articleGalleryPhoto007″ style=”margin:0 auto;display:none” width=”640″/><cite style=iReporter Daniel Kraft took this image of what he believes to be the shooter’s body as Kraft was being evacuated from the campus by a SWAT team.
During the campus lock down, <a href='http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-985263'>iReporter Aleksandr Kats</a> photographed local law enforcement trying to secure the grounds of Santa Monica College. ” border=”0″ height=”360″ id=”articleGalleryPhoto0020″ style=”margin:0 auto;display:none” width=”640″/><cite style=During the campus lock down, iReporter Aleksandr Kats photographed local law enforcement trying to secure the grounds of Santa Monica College.
<a href='http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-984881'>iReporter Nathaniel Westveer</a> photographed the chaotic scene right outside his office building, which is 100 feet away from the crime scene at Santa Monica College. He says during the shooting, police closed down the intersection as they combed the adjacent office complex with their guns drawn.” border=”0″ height=”360″ id=”articleGalleryPhoto0021″ style=”margin:0 auto;display:none” width=”640″/><cite style=iReporter Nathaniel Westveer photographed the chaotic scene right outside his office building, which is 100 feet away from the crime scene at Santa Monica College. He says during the shooting, police closed down the intersection as they combed the adjacent office complex with their guns drawn.

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Police say John Zawahri fatally shot his father, brother and three others
  • He ended his rampage at Santa Monica College, where police eventually killed him
  • A woman who tried to stop his attempted carjacking was shot several times
  • “Broken is not a strong enough word to describe us,” says a relative of two victims

Santa Monica, California (CNN) — What would compel a man to take his father’s and his brother’s lives, and then go on a shooting spree at his former college, killing three other people in the next 13 minutes?

The Friday afternoon rampage in Santa Monica, California, ended only when police shot dead the suspect, John Zawahri.

Over the weekend, bits and pieces about 23-year-old emerged.

But with his death, a day shy of his 24th birthday, the central question may remain unanswered.

He had suffered mental health issues and was hospitalized a few years ago after allegedly talking about harming someone, a law enforcement source said.

Police had contact with him in 2006 — but because he was in high school, and therefore a juvenile at the time, police couldn’t disclose more.

And as recently as 2010, he attended Santa Monica College — where he met his chaotic end in the school library.

‘I’ll never forget his eyes’

Police say the spate of violence that left this beachfront city reeling on Friday involved as many as six incidents over 13 minutes.

It started at Zawahri’s house on Yorkshire Avenue shortly before noon, and ended a mile away in the college library where students were studying for finals.

Officers were dispatched to the house to respond to reports of shots fired. There, they found the 1,000-square-foot home in flames.

Inside, firefighters would later find two bodies in a back room — that of Zawahri’s father, Samir, and his brother, Chris.

Both had been shot dead.

Outside the house, police came across an injured woman who too had been shot: Deborah Fine.

Fine told CNN she was driving when she saw the gunman pull over another woman and hold a rifle to her head.

“I thought to myself, ‘What are you doing? Why are you pointing this gun at her?’ And so I put on my accelerator, I hit the gas, and I got in between the two of them,” Fine said.

The bold move quickly turned the gunman’s attention to Fine.

“I’ll never forget his eyes. They were just so intense and so cold,” Fine said. “That’s when he raised his rifle.”

The bullets struck Fine three to four times across her body.

With blood pooling around her body, she slumped over and played dead in hopes that the gunman would stop.

When neighbors rushed to the scene, Fine had one plea:

“Please, I don’t want to die. I have twins. Just please open my car door,” she said.

Fine still has pieces of shrapnel inside her body.

The next two victims

Fine had interrupted his carjacking. But with her wounded, the gunman’s rampage was just beginning.

He got into the carjacked vehicle and forced his victim to drive the short distance to Santa Monica College.

During their ride, 911 calls poured in, keeping police on the gunman’s path.

As the car headed toward the campus of the community college, where 30,000 students are registered, he opened fire on a passing bus, slightly wounding three people.

Then, he got out and shot into a red Ford Explorer, carrying 26-year-old Marcela Franco and her father, 68-year-old Carlos Navarro Franco. The pair was on campus to get textbooks for Marcela.

Carlos Franco was a groundskeeper at the college. He died shortly after the shooting.

Marcela Franco wanted to be a clinical psychologist. She was taken off life support Sunday.

“We spent last 48 hours like (in) a cocoon. Nobody else in there. Just us,” said family member Margret Quinonez Perez. “We were loving her, telling her how much we loved her. We’re going to miss her.”

“‘Broken’ is not a strong enough word to describe us,” she added.

‘He executed her’

After shooting into the SUV, the gunman abandoned his hijacked vehicle — leaving the driver unhurt.

Dressed in black and wearing a ballistic vest, he then walked the campus, “shooting as he went along,” said Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks.

Outside the school library, he came saw a woman and “he executed her,” Seabrooks said.

Her death was the fifth of the rampage. Her name was not released.

Gunfight in the library

By all accounts, the gunman was ready to inflict maximum harm. He had about 1,300 rounds of ammunition and multiple firearms.

He went into the school library and fired several times at terrified patrons who were hiding in a safe room.

Police called it “miraculous” that they were not wounded.

Jasmine Franco was in a classroom next to the library — waiting for her English class to start.

“You could hear rumbling, a lot of rumbling, it sounded like an earthquake or something,” she said, referring to the sounds of gunfire mixed with the footfalls of people running.

Inside the library, Priscilla Morales and her friends hid.

“I was so scared and thought literally I was going to die,” she said.

By then, the gunman had returned to the main area of the library, he was met with three police officers.

“Drop it!” Morales said she heard police say.

Then she heard gunshots and a man’s screams.

Officers had shot and killed Zawahri.

Kyung Lah reported from Santa Monica; Holly Yan reported and wrote from Atlanta. Jackie Castillo contributed to this report from Atlanta.

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Duplicity – TV-Tipps am Sonntag

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Auf RTL machen Julia Roberts und Clive Owen „Gemeinsame Geheimsache“, während Shia LaBeouf als Sam Witwicky auf ProSieben erneut gegen die Deceptions ankämpfen muss. Auf VOX sucht Designer Guido Maria Kretschmer hingegen nach der Promi-Shopping-Queen.

20:15 Uhr, RTL: Duplicity – Gemeinsame Geheimsache, Thrillerromanze

Jahrelang haben die ehemalige CIA-Agentin Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts) und der Ex-MI6-Agent Ray Koval (Clive Owen) für die Regierung gearbeitet. Jetzt haben sie genug von Recht und Ordnung und beschließen eine Neuorientierung. Die beiden heuern als Sicherheitsberater bei zwei unterschiedlichen Konzernriesen an. Trickreich wollen sie die Bosse der beiden lukrativen Unternehmen gegeneinander ausspielen, um dann schließlich selber dick abzukassieren. Doch wie so oft sind es meist die privaten Gefühle, die auch den gewieftesten Plan in Gefahr bringen.

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Kleiner Perkins names the 12 college student participants of its inaugural Design Fellows program

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Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers announced today the 12 college students who have been admitted into its Design Fellows program. This is the first batch for this program and each individual has been paired with one of the firm’s portfolio companies where they’ll gain experience and relationships to succeed in the technology industry.

KPCB Fellows is a fairly new initiative by the VC firm that has funded the likes of Flipboard, Klout, Nest, One Kings Lane, Spotify, Twitter, Square, and Zynga. In 2012, the program was dedicated towards engineering students and there were 30 participants in that class.

With the Design Fellows Program, students will receive mentorship, leadership and community while also learning about the interconnectedness of design and technology in building out products and services. KPCB says that supporting this initiative was necessary because many of its partners have spent their careers working on design and technology while also leading teams at established companies like Twitter, Square, Electronic Arts, and Palm.

Here are the 12 design students participating and the KPCB-portfolio company they have been assigned:

  • Kai Kight, Stanford University – Shopkick
  • Viraj Bindra , Stanford University  – Nest
  • Matt Safian, Connecticut College  – Luvocracy
  • Amrit  Mazumder, Rhode Island School of Design – Flipboard
  • Zachary Hamed, Harvard College  – Jawbone
  • Aaron Otani, Illinoise Institute of Technology (IIT)  Institute of Design – Opower
  • Alex Moffit,  Yale  –  Jawbone
  • Heather Tompkins, Academy of Art University  – Klout
  • Willa Tracosas, School of Visual Arts –  Twitter
  • Jocelyn Lui, Rochester Institute of Technology  – Luvocracy
  • Zachary, Yale  –  Square
  • Louis Harboe, University of Chicago Lab School – Square

The KPCB Design Fellows program lasts for three months and each student will be paid a competitive rate, although the specific amount will based on negotiations between them and the company.

In its inaugural year, this program received more than 300 applicants from the 100 design schools, including from Rhode Island School of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, the Academy of Art, Stanford, and Rochester Institute of Technology.

Photo credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

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Mortar attack kills 12 students in Damascus university: state TV

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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Twelve Syrian students were killed on Thursday when rebel mortar bombs landed on the canteen of Damascus University’s College of Architecture, state-run media said.

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Hilton New York setzt sich mit 1.750 kW starker KWK-Anlage von Anaergia Inc für Umweltschutz ein

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Burlington, Ontario (ots/PRNewswire) – Anaergia Inc. (http://www.anaergia.com) gab heute die Inbetriebnahme der KWK-Anlage mit 1.750 kW fr das Hilton New York im Zentrum Manhattans, das ber 1.981 Zimmer verfgt, bekannt. Das grsste Hotel in New York City hat mit der Investition in die energieeffiziente KWK-Anlage von Anaergia eine mutige Entscheidung getroffen, um seine Klimabilanz zu reduzieren, Energie zu sparen und den urbanen Hitzeinsel-Effekt zu reduzieren.

Die sieben Generatoren, die auf dem Dach hoch ber der West 53rd Street angebracht wurden, generieren 1.750 kW an sauberer Energie und 2.700 kW an Wrme fr den Betrieb im Gebude. Dies deckt ber 50 % des Strombedarfs und 35 % des Dampfbedarfs in den fast 2.000 Zimmern. Der Strom und die Dampfwrme, die dank des Systems generiert werden, sollen die Klimabilanz des Hilton New York um mehr als 30 % bzw. um 10.000 Tonnen jhrlich reduzieren. Damit werden die Treibhausgase so stark reduziert, als entferne man Tausende von Autos von den Strassen New Yorks. Ausserdem wird erwartet, dass sich die betrieblichen Aufwendungen fr das Gebude dank des Systems whrend der 20-jhrigen Vertragslaufzeit um fast eine halbe Million Dollar jhrlich reduzieren.

Anaergia hat das umweltfreundliche System zur Energieerzeugung konzipiert und gebaut und ist der Eigentmer und Betreiber. Das dezentrale Energieversorgungssystem von Anaergia erfllt die Bedingungen fr das ITC-Programm des US-Energieministeriums, das elektrische Effizienz und Ressourcenschonung durch Kraft-Wrme-Kopplung (KWK) frdert. Ebenso hat sich das Programm fr das Programm der Behrde fr Energieforschung und -entwicklung in New York (NYSERDA) qualifiziert, das zum Ziel hat, den Energiemarkt, die Wirtschaft und den Umweltschutz im US-Bundesstaat New York zu frdern.

“Das Hilton New York setzt sich dafr ein, Nachhaltigkeitsinitiativen zu entwickeln und hinsichtlich Abfallvermeidung und Energiesparen ein Exempel fr das Gastgewerbe zu statuieren”, erklrte Mark Lauer, Geschftsfhrer des Hilton New York. “Die KWK-Anlage strkt unsere Position als weltweit fhrendes Unternehmen fr kologische Nachhaltigkeit und ermglicht es uns, uns auf unser Kerngeschft, das darin besteht, unseren Gsten ein aussergewhnliches Reiseerlebnis zu bieten, zu konzentrieren.”

“Das grne Dach und das KWK-Projekt des Hilton New York sind ein erstklassiges Beispiel dafr, wie Strombezugsvereinbarungen dazu beitragen knnen, dass durch Energieselbstversorgung und CO2-Reduktionen kostengnstiger Strom vor Ort produziert wird”, sagte Steve Watzeck, CEO von Anaergia Inc. “KWK ist eine bewhrte, effiziente und nicht ausreichend genutzte kurzfristige Energielsung, mit der die Vereinigten Staaten ihre Energieeffizienz steigern, den Umweltweltschutz verbessern, das Wirtschaftswachstum frdern und eine robuste Energieinfrastruktur aufrechterhalten knnen.”

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Anaergia Inc. ist ein weltweit fhrendes Unternehmen, das nachhaltige Lsungen zur Erzeugung erneuerbarer Energien und zur Umwandlung von Abfllen in Energieressourcen bietet. Mittels seiner Tochtergesellschaften ist Anaergia an ber 1.600 funktionierenden Projekten fr erneuerbare Energien weltweit beteiligt. Anaergia betreibt 16 Niederlassungen in Nordamerika, Europa und Asien.

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Presefy Lets You Control Presentations With Your Phone, No Software Required

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Powerpoint presentations. Not once in the history of humanity has someone said “Oh man, I LOVE giving Powerpoint presentations” non-sarcastically. Really, I looked it up. Presefy, a four-man team out of Finland, is making presenting a whole lot less painful by harnessing the power of the Interwebs to do away with some of the classic problems. As anyone who has studied in the fine art of Giving Presentations That Aren’t Horrible can tell you, the first step in giving an engaging talk is getting the hell away from your computer

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Hong Kong’s light pollution ‘worst in the world’

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Hong Kong University study finds Hong Kong is the most light polluted city on Earth
  • Two-year study finds parts of city to be 1,000 times above international standards
  • Author says upward pointing lights and advertising hoarding add to light pollution
  • Even remote parts of Hong Kong are as much as 100 times international norms

(CNN) — If you want a place to see the majestic sweep of the Milky Way — or even any star at night — then put Hong Kong at the bottom of your must-visit list.

The local urban night sky is as much as 1,000 times brighter than international norms making it the most light polluted city in the world, according to a study by the faculty of science at the University of Hong Kong.

Much more than the romantic flicker of neon through a bedroom window, Hong Kong residents now have to contend with shopping precincts that are lit up like football stadiums and golf driving ranges that rise like daybreak on the horizon.

Study leader Jason Pun Chun-shing said the group could find no other place on the planet that was as light polluted as Hong Kong.

“Hong Kong is an extremely densely populated place which is why the city has such a severe problem,” he told CNN. However, he said unregulated lighting on buildings and the Hong Kong government’s obsession with providing public safety had made the city world’s biggest light trap.

“In Hong Kong, the government tends to play things on the safe side,” he said. “Certainly, I’m all for safety — these are extremely important issues — on the other hand, when you go near some public places, city parks for instance, they are lit up like the daytime in the evening.

“I think some of it is simply overdoing it,” Pun said. He said of particular concern was spotlighting that was directed at the sky to create a dramatic effect.

Unlike other major world cities — among them Sydney and London — Hong Kong has no laws controlling urban lighting.

The study found that even rural areas of Hong Kong, including the nearby island of Lantau and the city’s Wetland Park to the north — a world famous staging post for migratory birds — were also being affected by man made lighting. The Wetland Park was on average 100 times brighter than the standard, the study found.

The international standard for night skies is set by the International Astronomical Union and refers to a night sky unaffected by man made lighting.

Ironically, Hong Kong’s most light polluted place was the Hong Kong Space Museum at Tsim Sha Tsui which was more than 1,000 times brighter than international norms due to the large number of billboards and floodlights nearby.

Developed by physicists at the University of Hong Kong, the study – Hong Kong Night Sky Brightness Monitoring Network (NSN) — took more than 5 million night sky brightness measurements over a period of nearly three years. The study team said it now has the largest database on night sky brightness in the world.

Even measurements at Hong Kong’s Astropark observatory, located deep in Sai Kung Country Park, showed problems of light pollution.

Light pollution is swiftly destroying the few remaining star-gazing locations in Hong Kong
Dr Jason Pun Chun-shing

“Even though the Astropark was the darkest station in our study, its night sky is still at least 20 times brighter than the international dark sky standard before 11pm,” Pun said.

“Light pollution is swiftly destroying the few remaining star-gazing locations in Hong Kong.”

While the study started looking at light pollution from an astronomer’s perspective, ecologists also joined the project to gauge the impact of light pollution on wildlife.

“There have been many studies showing definitively that wasteful light has a big ecological impact, in particular for nocturnal animals that depend on the amount of light to regulate their lives. It’s part of the reason why we set up a station near the Wetland Park because it’s such an ecologically important area,” Pun said.

Nevertheless, for Chan Yuk Lung who runs the astronomy club at Queen’s College — a senior secondary school whose rooftop observatory in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay is in one of the brightest areas of the city — the problem of light pollution is overstated.

“The sky is bright, no doubt, but the brightness is caused by the particles in the air not directly by the surrounding light,” Chan said.

“We have very polluted air in Hong Kong and we have a lot of floating particles in the air and these floating particles reflect light back into our eyes — this is why we feel the sky is so bright at night.”

He said modern filters on the telescope can obviate the problems of light refracted by the particles.

“The major problem for us isn’t city lights, it’s clouds,” he said, adding that Hong Kong has more than 200 cloudy nights a year.

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T-Shirt Crowdfunding Site TeePublic Funds 22 Designs In Its First Week

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Apparently, starting one popular T-shirt website wasn’t enough for Josh Abramson. Last week Abramson, who previously co-founded the jokey T-shirt retailer BustedTees, launched TeePublic, which is basically a Kickstarter for T-shirts. Users can pledge to buy designs that they like, and if a shirt gets at least 30 people to fund it, then TeePublic will print it and continue to sell the shirt indefinitely. Shirts cost $20, of which $5 goes to the designer.

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