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07/02/2026

Dressed in black, helmets on and masks in place, Russian rooftopping duo Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus made it to the very top of the Empire State Building this morning. Angela had cat ears on. They unfurled a black banner reading "when the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace," a line commonly attributed to Jimi Hendrix.

No ropes. No harnesses. The climb happened on the 1,454-foot antenna spire, hundreds of feet above the observation deck. Angela, 33, started rhythmic gymnastics at age 7 and comes from a family of circus performers. Ivan, 32, was already going solo up the Eiffel Tower and Moscow skyscrapers before the two joined forces in 2016 on Goldin Finance 117 in Tianjin, a climb that turned their partnership into a romance.

Late morning, Angela posted a video from the narrow platform captioned "Currently at the Empire State Building." Just after 12:30 p.m., they made their way down to a wider metal ledge, where Ivan dropped to a knee and produced a ring while the city looked up. They kissed on the summit. Around 1:00 p.m., photos and videos went up on Instagram and Facebook confirming them as the climbers.

Their names are known to the world because of a Netflix documentary. Directed by Jeff Zimbalist, "Skywalkers: A Love Story" premiered at Sundance in January 2024 and arrived on Netflix that July, opening with a warning that the film contains "extremely dangerous and illegal activities." Its climax is the 2,200-foot spire of Merdeka 118 in Malaysia, a climb that ran over 30 hours and required them to hide from construction crews for a full day. The film cracked the top 10 in more than two dozen countries and left the central question hanging: can two people actually build a life together when a single mistake kills them both?

After the release, New York became home base. Angela took up painting; Ivan got into music. They run an online pet products store and told Netflix's Tudum they were "living a dream" and had started to "believe in magic." When asked about stopping, Angela put her answer simply: "when I'm 75."

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07/02/2026

Jazmine Cashmere, whose real name is Nicole B. Jones, once had a successful career in the adult entertainment industry. Between about 2004 and 2010, she appeared in more than 100 adult films. During those years, she also worked as a lingerie model, an exotic dancer, and an es**rt. Her work earned her recognition, including an Urban X Award.

Even though she found success, Nicole later decided to leave that life behind. She has said that her life changed after finding God. Her faith inspired her to take a completely different path and begin a new chapter.

In 2016, Nicole spoke publicly about her personal transformation at a Mother's Day Luncheon. She shared how her faith helped her move away from her past and gave her a new purpose. By 2019, she had become a born-again Christian and an ordained pastor. She went on to lead a ministry in Chicago, where she focused on helping and encouraging others.

Today, Nicole is married and the mother of three children. She often speaks openly about her past during church services and public events. Instead of hiding her previous life, she uses her experiences to connect with people who are struggling with abuse, low self-esteem, or difficult situations.

Nicole believes that people can change, no matter what their past looks like. She encourages others to have hope and reminds them that it is possible to start over. Her journey from the adult entertainment industry to becoming a pastor has inspired many people, showing that personal transformation is possible and that people can choose a different path in life when they are ready for change.

07/02/2026

06/28/2026

In 2011, Christopher Havens was sentenced to 25 years in a Washington State prison for murder.

In 2020, he published a groundbreaking paper in a peer-reviewed mathematics journal, opening up entirely new fields of research in number theory.

In the years between, all he had was a pencil, a stack of paper, and a quiet determination to become someone the world never expected him to be.

It all started in solitary confinement.

With nothing else to do and nothing left to lose, Havens picked up a mathematics textbook. He had no real background in the subject beyond basic school arithmetic. Yet, something in the logic of numbers—the way they behaved, the way problems demanded definitive answers, and the absolute nature of mathematical truth—pulled at him like nothing ever had before.

He began studying ten hours a day. He mastered algebra, then calculus, and finally advanced to number theory—the ancient, unsolved wilderness at the very edge of mathematics where questions dating back to Euclid still linger without answers.

Havens worked through every single book in the prison library until there were none left. So, he did the only thing he could do: he wrote a letter.

In 2013, Havens sent a message to the Annals of Mathematics at Princeton. He asked for a subscription he couldn't afford and the name of a mathematician who might be willing to correspond with an inmate in a Washington State prison. His request eventually found its way across the Atlantic to Professor Umberto Cerruti at the University of Turin in Italy.

Professor Cerruti had received plenty of letters from amateurs claiming to have made grand mathematical discoveries; most turned out to be wrong. To test Havens, Cerruti sent back a difficult problem—a small trial designed to separate genuinely curious minds from eccentric hobbyists.

Weeks later, an envelope from Washington State arrived in Italy. Inside was a single, four-foot-long piece of paper covered in a dense, handwritten formula. Cerruti fed the equations into his computer.

It wasn't just an interesting attempt or approximately correct. It was completely, rigorously right.

Cerruti wrote back, and a profound collaboration was born. Letters crossed the ocean by post, carrying complex problems and elegant solutions between a university in Turin and a prison cell in Shelton, Washington. Havens had no computer, no internet, and no library beyond what the facility provided. Every single calculation had to be done by hand, with a pencil, inside a six-by-nine-foot room.

He focused his attention on continued fractions—an elegant, ancient mathematical tool dating back to Euclid that is still full of unanswered questions. Working in isolation, guided only by the framework Cerruti provided in his letters, Havens developed a brand-new approach to a famous unsolved problem in the field.

In January 2020, his findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal Research in Number Theory. His paper demonstrated, for the first time, specific regularities in the approximation of a vast class of numbers—a major breakthrough with the potential to open entirely new avenues of research.

He didn't stop there.

Since that first breakthrough, Havens has published several more papers. In 2025, a textbook on continued fractions that he co-authored with researchers in Italy was published by Springer, one of the most prestigious academic publishers in the world. Today, he even holds a part-time research position at UCLA.

Yet, he has never been to Italy, and he has never been to Los Angeles. He isn't allowed to go.

He still resides at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, Washington. With years left on his sentence, he continues to write mathematics by hand and mail his findings across oceans, doing work that most people with every educational advantage in the world will never match.

The professor who expected a crackpot found a colleague instead. The prison cell that was supposed to be an ending became a profound new beginning.

And right now, a man whom the world had completely written off is sitting down with a pencil and a blank piece of paper—finding truths hidden deep within the numbers that no one else has ever seen before.

06/27/2026

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06/27/2026

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