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"Wedding Cake" Images Display Transitions between Exotic Quantum States
Transitions are exciting. And at temperatures close to absolute zero, studying the transition from one quantum phase to another tantalizes physicists looking for a deeper understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe.
Now a team of scientists at the University of Chicago has created the first direct images of the transition between phases of ultracold cesium gas, as it changes from normal to superfluid to Mott insulator, making it possible to "see" this phenomenon as it happens.
"These are the first direct images of a complete physical system in situ, allowing us to unambiguously observe certain unique features of the Mott insulating state," explained post-doctoral student Nathan Gemelke.
In a paper appearing in the journal Nature, Gemelke and his co-authors describe the most striking visual feature of this phase transition–a many-layered wedding cake structure.
The Mott Insulator Observed
"The Mott insulator phenomenon was first observed in ultracold atomic gases in 2002, by the group of Ted Hänsch, at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany, and has been a subject of intense research ever since," said Cheng Chin, Gemelke's co-author and an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
A Mott insulator is a special phase of matter, usually formed at very low temperatures, in which certain materials that should conduct electricity act as electrical insulators, due to unusual interactions between electrons. The system studied in Chicago is the ultracold atom equivalent of a Mott insulator.
To make the insulator, the Chicago team trapped individual atoms using a cross-section of laser beams to create an "optical lattice," something like marbles trapped in the individual sections of an egg carton.
"In a Mott insulator, there is exactly one atom at every site, or two, or three, but never a mixture of, say, one here, two there, etc.," Chin explained.
Three Co-existing Phases
According to Gemelke, the Mott insulator phase sometimes co-exists with superfluid and normal gas phases. Superfluids are another exotic quantum material phase that forms at temperatures near absolute zero.
"The superfluid and normal phases of the ultracold gas will react to small pressures by changing their volumes, and will react to small forces by flowing freely," explained Gemelke.
"In contrast, the Mott insulator phase has a constant density," he said. "Even when it's trapped, if you squeeze it gently, its volume will not change, which means it is incompressible. And if you apply a small force across it, particles do not flow through it, because it acts as an insulator."
The researchers took advantage of the differences between phases to create visual images of the system by measuring the density of the trapped gas.
"In two dimensions, the normal, superfluid and Mott insulating phases can be identified by spatially resolved in-situ imaging," Gemelke said. These two-dimensional images appear as bullseye targets, with denser material showing up as dark rings. The Mott insulator phase image remains a single color all the way through, because its density does not increase.
"In three dimensional systems, the image integrates the density along the line-of-sight, so the measurements represent the combined properties of several phases," Gemelke said.
The result looks like a colorful, multi-layered wedding cake.
"The different layers of the cake are formed by Mott insulating domains of successively higher particle numbers, and their flatness results from their incompressibility," says Gemelke.
"The edges as we go from one layer of the cake to the next are superfluid regions, where the density varies continuously," he said. "As the temperature is increased, the cake melts like a multi-tiered ice cream cake, and smears out the edges of the layers. By measuring its shape, we can infer the temperature-and unlike an ice cream cake, the result is within fifteen parts-per-billion of absolute zero."
Worth more than 1,000 words
The researchers hope to apply the understanding they gain from studying simple quantum gases like this one to the development of a wide range of more subtle and potentially useful new materials, Chin said.
"We are excited to extend this research into basic studies of quantum phase transitions–that is to say, transitions between phases which can occur at zero temperature," he said. "Very fascinating and general phenomena can be observed near these types of transitions, and to have such a simple and readily studied example on the laboratory bench is a great commodity."
"We are surprised by how true the adage is that a picture is worth a thousand words," added Gemlke. "Each image we take of these systems is a high-resolution snapshot into the life of a quantum gas, including all the bumps and wriggles we hope to describe with theory. Every time we think we have extracted all the information we could hope for from an image, we realize there is more to study."
Image 1:The 'wedding cake' structure shows the density profile of a heterogeneous mixture of Mott insulating, superfluid and normal phases of ultracold cesium atoms trapped in an optical lattice. "The different layers of the cake are formed by Mott insulating domains of successively higher particle numbers, and their flatness is a result of their incompressibility," said Dr. Nathan Gemelke, of the University of Chicago.
"The edges as we go from one layer of the cake to the next are superfluid regions, where the density varies continuously," he said. "As the temperature is increased, the cake melts like a multi-tiered ice cream cake, and smears out the edges of the layers." Credit: Cheng Chin, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago
Image 2: A high-resolution absorption image of a heterogeneous sample of Mott-insulating, superfluid and normal gases of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. Each pixel corresponds to a square 660nm on a side, and the optical resolution is 1.3 micron. Credit: Cheng Chin, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago
Image 3: Researchers from the University of Chicago, from left to right, Nathan Gemelke, Chen-Lung Hung, Xibo Zhang, Cheng Chin. To left is the apparatus. Credit: Cheng Chin, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago
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WALTHAM — Kendrick Perkins always looks like a man who gets no respect. He wears the same scowl on his face whether he's happy or mad. That scowl is what makes opposing fans dislike him and probably doesn't help his cause with the referees either, to whom he is also constantly showing that same sour puss.
Perkins was left off the NBA's All-Defensive Team for the second straight season and Doc Rivers joked that maybe that look turned some voters off.
"Well, I guess it's going to continue to happen," Perkins said. "Because I ain't changing the way I look."
That was a joke in case you needed context and Perkins had a few ready Thursday after he returned to practice with a hyperextended right knee.
His reaction to getting six stitches in his lip courtesy of Shaquille O'Neal?
"Man, I look at it like I'm already ugly," he said. "I can't add nothing else to that, man."
Perkins defense on Shaq has been no laughing matter. After holding Jermaine O'Neal to 9-for-44 shooting in the first round against Miami, Perkins has kept Shaq in check (8-for-22, 20 points in two games). His one-on-one defense in the post is vital because the Celtics feel like they can't afford to offer help on the Cavs post players.
It's that ability play imposing post players without help that has begun to make Perkins' reputation.
"I don't see why he doesn't get enough votes for the All-Defensive Team," Rivers said. "I don't know if there's a better on-man defender in the league than Perk at the 5-spot."
High praise, especially for a player who came into the league with all of the physical tools, but who had to learn from scratch the basics of footwork and positioning. Perkins said that he's learned from his veteran teammates and included a surprising former mentor.
"I take bits and piece from a lot of guys," he said. "I watch how [Kevin Garnett] guards some guys. I take a little bit from him. Little bit from Rasheed. I learned some things from Mark Blount too, believe it or not."
Still, whether he gets respect or not, Perkins is fully confident in his abilities.
"It's disappointing a little bit because you feel like you can defend better than half of those guys that made it," Perkins said. "But at the same time, give credit to them for making it."
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On March 27, 2013, the 6th Circuit, sitting en banc, issued its decision in Metropolitan Hospital v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Case Nos. 11-2465\2466. At issue in the case was whether the HHS Secretary's exclusion of dual-eligible patients with exhausted Medicare benefits from the Medicaid fraction of the disproportionate patient percentage (DPP) was appropriate. While the District Court ruled in favor of the provider, the 6th Circuit reversed and entered judgment for HHS.
Made up of the statutorily defined Medicare and Medicaid fractions, the DPP adjusts Medicare reimbursements for providers serving a disproportionate share of low-income patients. The Medicare fraction includes in the numerator the number of a hospital's patient days for patients entitled to benefits under both Medicare Part A and Supplemental Security Income. The denominator is the total number of patient days attributable to patients entitled to Medicare Part A. The numerator of the Medicaid fraction includes the number of a hospital's patient days for patients eligible for Medicaid, but not entitled to Medicare Part A benefits. The Medicaid fraction's denominator is the total number of the hospital's patient days for all patients.
Central to the case was the interpretation of 42 C.F.R. § 412.106(b), which governs the implementation of the DPP statute at 42 U.S.C. § 1395ww(d)(5)(F)(vi). The regulation currently interprets the statutory language "entitled to benefits under [Medicare] Part A" as requiring the inclusion of patient days for all Medicare beneficiaries, even if a beneficiary has exhausted his or her Medicare coverage. This interpretation requires the exclusion from the Medicaid fraction of patient days for those individuals who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, but who have exhausted their Medicare benefits. As applied to Metropolitan Hospital, the interpretation reduced its DPP, resulting in a negative reimbursement impact of over $2 million.
The district court determined that the interpretation at section 412.106(b) was invalid as contrary to the plain meaning of the DPP statute, reasoning that entitled requires payment for hospital services, rather than mere eligibility. Thus, dual-eligible patients with exhausted Medicare benefits would be included in the numerator of the Medicaid fraction. The district court's determination was based largely on 6th Circuit precedent interpreting the DPP in Jewish Hospital v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 19 F.3d 270 (6th Cir. 1994). However, the 6th Circuit found that it was not bound by Jewish Hospital as the court's statutory interpretation discussion in that case was dicta. Further, the 6th Circuit reasoned that Congressional intent regarding the interpretation of eligible versus entitled was not clear, nor was the purpose of the DPP statute enlightening. As a result, the court held that the Secretary's current interpretation was a permissible construction of the DPP statute and was not the result of arbitrary and capricious rulemaking. Judge McKeague dissented and would have found for Metropolitan Hospital, with the Jewish Hospital court's interpretation controlling as precedent. A similar issue will be argued before the D.C. Circuit in Catholic Health Initiatives v. Sebelius on April 15, 2013.
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Ex-cop opposes parole for partner's killer
San Diego Those shots rang out almost 36 years ago, but Jesse Navarro still feels the hurt.
Navarro, then a San Diego police officer, was not in the line of fire that early morning in November 1978, but his partner — the man he still calls "my buddy" — was.
Officer Archie Buggs, 30, was shot four times after he stopped a car driven by a teenage gang member in the Skyline neighborhood. The officer died on the street, his hand still on his service revolver.
Navarro, now 67, remembers the scene clearly.
"I held him in my arms," he recalled in an interview, pausing a moment to get his emotions under control. "I don't know if he was dead already. Other officers got there and had to pull me away. I went to the side and I cried."
Then he heard a description of the suspects and the vehicle they were riding in.
"I knew exactly who they were," he said.
One was 17-year-old Jesus Salvador Cecena, who went to prison for murder. Decades later, he wants out.
Cecena was tried as an adult and was sentenced in 1979 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The term was modified later giving him a chance at parole.
In April, a two-member panel of the state Board of Parole Hearings determined that Cecena is suitable for parole. The recommendation has yet to reach the Governor's Office for a final decision.
The San Diego police officers' union has mounted a campaign to keep Cecena behind bars. Navarro, who now works in the District Attorney's Office, weighed in as well.
"Jesus Cecena was dangerous," he wrote in a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown. "I arrested him on more than one occasion. In fact, I clearly remember one incident where Officer Buggs and I engaged in a physical struggle with Cecena. Once subdued and arrested, Cecena threatened that one day he would kill one of us.
"On November 4th 1978, Jesus Cecena made good on that threat."
Even though the inmate, now 53, has spent most of his life in prison, Navarro said he believes Cecena remains a serious threat to public safety.
But Cecena contends he has changed since his days as a selfish and impulsive teen. He told parole authorities he talked to a psychologist, participated in conflict resolution and anger management programs, coordinated a run on prison grounds to raise donations for victims — even facilitated a workshop to teach fellow inmates about chivalry.
"That's part of my amends process," he said, according to a transcript from the April 9 hearing. "It's the least I could do for what I've done. I owe Officer Buggs so much. …
"I volunteer in every area that I can that's going to bring awareness and improvement to others," he continued, "especially in new facilities or being around younger inmates who are going to go home so that hopefully they don't create more victims."
Taking into account Cecena's age at the time of the shooting, the parole board panel determined he did not pose an unreasonable risk of danger to society.


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March 5, 2015
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Corning Inc. recently announced results for the first quarter of 2009, as well as its expectations for the second quarter. Sales were $989 million, a 9% decrease sequentially, while earnings per share (EPS) were $0.01. Excluding special items, EPS were $0.10, down 23% sequentially. Display Technologies' combined LCD glass volume, including Corning's wholly owned business and Samsung Corning Precision Glass Co., Ltd. (SCP), increased 4% sequentially. Volume in the company's wholly owned business was down 1% sequentially, while SCP's volume was up about 7%.
Gross margin for the 2009 first quarter was 27%, slightly lower than fourth-quarter 2008 gross margin of 28%. Corporate restructuring charges were $165 million pretax and in line with expectations.
"We were very pleased with our first quarter performance given the high level of economic uncertainty we were facing," said Wendell P. Weeks, chairman and chief executive officer. "The biggest questions we had coming into the first quarter were, first, would the strong LCD TV sales rate continue in this tough environment, and second, when would the display supply chain contraction end? It was satisfying to see the continued strength of LCD TV sales at retail worldwide throughout the first quarter. We were also pleased to see demand for our glass pick up sooner than we anticipated, an indication that the display supply chain contraction was ending. These contributed to stronger-than-expected sales and earnings performance this quarter."
Sales in the Display Technologies segment were $357 million in the 2009 first quarter, down 8% sequentially. Sequential price declines were significant, but in line with the company's expectations. Positive foreign exchange rate movements basically offset the slight volume decline in the wholly owned business.
Telecommunications segment sales were $385 million, down 5% sequentially. Stronger optical fiber, cable and private network demand in China was offset by lower private network, cable, and hardware and equipment sales in North America.
Environmental Technologies segment sales were $110 million, down 14% sequentially, mirroring the difficulties experienced in the global automotive industry and continued weakness in heavy-duty diesel sales in the U.S.
Corning's equity earnings were $195 million, down significantly from last year's fourth quarter equity earnings of $288 million. Equity earnings from Dow Corning Corp. were $5 million, an appreciable decline from the fourth quarter. First quarter equity earnings from Dow Corning include $29 million in restructuring charges. Samsung Corning Precision's equity earnings contribution was $187 million, down 2% vs. the fourth quarter of last year. Volume gains were more than offset by price declines, which were higher than Corning's wholly owned business.
James B. Flaws, vice chairman and chief financial officer, said, "While economic uncertainty remains, we are expecting strong growth in display as our customers continue to ramp their capacity to match end market demand. We anticipate sequential volumes at our wholly owned business to be up more than 50% and up more than 25% at SCP. Therefore, we foresee relighting several of our glass melting tanks sooner than planned.
"With increased volume and manufacturing capacity, we should see considerable improvement in both the display segment's and the company's gross margins in the second quarter." He noted that up through the end of the first quarter, Corning used existing inventory to meet the increase in glass demand. The company expects second quarter glass price declines at both its wholly owned business and SCP to be much more moderate compared to the first quarter.
The company has increased its estimate for the 2009 LCD glass market from 2 billion square feet to a range of 2.1 billion to 2.2 billion square feet. The change was driven by stronger-than-anticipated demand for LCD TVs, offset slightly by weaker-than-expected demand for notebook computers. The company now expects LCD TV units to grow 18% this year vs. its original expectation of 9%.
Corning expects modest sequential growth in its other business segments in the second quarter. Also, Dow Corning has seen improving monthly sales, which could lead to notably better results for its earnings.
Flaws reminded investors that the company is not providing specific sales or earnings guidance for the second quarter. "However, we expect to see significant sequential improvement in the company's sales, gross margin, and earnings before special items. Second quarter results will also benefit from our recently completed fixed cost reduction programs," he said.
He pointed out that Corning acted decisively to resize the company's cost structure in line with $5 billion in sales this year. "As we said previously, if we do not see continued growth into the second half of this year, we will consider taking further corporate-wide restructuring actions to improve profitability."
In concluding his comments, Flaws said, "We are encouraged by the early market interest and growth opportunities for some of our recent product innovations. A good example is Gorilla™ glass, our durable glass for touch screen and electronic applications. Gorilla glass has already been designed into 20 different electronic devices, including both cell phones and notebook computers, from more than seven separate manufacturers. We believe Corning has the right product mix and is well-positioned in core markets to seize the upside when economic growth returns."
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Honey and Clover is serious business. Tackling a lot of issues like the complication of relationships and the difficulty of changing from one lifestyle to another, Honey and Clover provides something that's deep and different. We watch characters of all different stages of life try to deal with what's going on around them, each bringing their own perspective to the show's plot.
The way the show deals with everything -- with such aplomb and down-to-earth nature -- Honey and Clover comes across as something fundamentally different from just about every romance title that's out there. Characters don't have single-settings for their emotions: it's always a mix of fear, hope, humor and a half-dozen other things.
Honey and Clover managed to mimic real life much better than we ever expected to see in anime, and that's why it's taken a spot in our top ten anime of the decade.
The works of Satoshi Kon, in this decade, include Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paranoia Agent and Paprika. His specialty is blending the line between fantasy and reality, for both the viewer and the characters. Coming out of the school of Katsuhiro Otomo, Kon created works that were hauntingly beautiful, emotionally heart-rending and complex without being Evangelion.
In a word, he was an illusionist. In his time working with the folks at Madhouse, Kon has produced four films and a TV series, in which we attempt to unravel a mystery: the life of a recluse actress or tracking down a dream-hacker, for example. Once we've entered Kon's story world, we get swept up in a blur of fantastical images -- delving into the past or into someone's dreamscape -- and are taken for a truly memorable ride.
For me, Millennium Actress is the film that has me break down and cry. The pursual of that one true love -- the one that will never be -- and the end result: "The part I really loved was chasing him." The story was so beautiful, the plot so engaging, and the way he blended fantasy with reality as the aged actress was interviewed is just unbelievable.
Satoshi Kon is a true genius of cinema, and he will provide some of our best anime films over the next couple of decades.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex did what the movie could not, interestingly enough: they presented a clear, coherent story. Unbelievable, right?
We watch as the GITS crew pursues the Laughing Man, a hacker terrorizing the population. All of the 19th century philosophy that was jam-packed into the original Ghost in the Shell movie was smoothed out and brought down to a much more reasonable level while still staying true to the original manga.
Much like Rebuild of Evangelion, you may just consider this a "remake," but there's such a different feel, and the impact that it has separates it completely from its predecessor. For all of you who have watched Ghost in the Shell, you owe it to yourself to watch this. It will change how you view the entire cyberpunk world of GITS.
In this decade, Studio Ghibli's works have included Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo. Because of the near-universal love for Hayao Miyazaki and his works at Ghibli, I actually have a hard time describing the emotions I feel when watching his works.
So, let me put it this way: He is the only director to recieve an Oscar for a commercial anime film. His films are the only ones that actually make it to theatres. If there is anyone to point to as a bridge between the Japanese animation world and the general American culture, Hayao Miyazaki is the man.
His works are timeless, plain and simple.
The greatest show we'll never see.
Macross is a franchise that is spoken about in hushed voices by some of the older members of the staff. They love the franchise, bemoan that it'll never truly see the light of day here in America, and curse Harmony Gold. That whisper turned into a loud roar after Macross Frontier.
Macross Frontier made so many waves because it was a quality introduction for another generation into the world of Macross. Coming 25 years after the original show, Macross Frontier sported a gigantic budget, top-notch voice actors, and a strong story that inspired people to love a franchise that they had never really known anything about.
As such, people have fallen in love with the show. Petitions started anew to kill Harmony Gold. Macross Frontier showed that people really do remember love, once you breathe new life into a legendary franchise.
As much as you might be sick of people doing the dance, cosplaying as the characters, or wearing their Haruhism badges with pride, you can't deny the impact that Haruhi has created. The show blew in suddenly, leaving a wake in its path that is still rippling out today.
Kyoto Animation's incredibly strong budget, paired with Yamakan's vision as director, created something that was mind-boggling as we tried to figure out just what was going on in the show, and we pieced together the story from these out-of-order episodes.
Debates still go on about Haruhi. The books, recently released here in the US, only fuel that discussion. And the marketing engine for it will churn, because they know that we can't get enough of the show's cast, especially the bickering between Kyon and Haruhi. Love it or hate it, this show is here to stay. You may as well start looking into it more deeply, because you know it'll be discussed as though it's this decade's Evangelion.
Gurren Lagann, to me, is a flawless execution of storytelling. In terms of the actual structure of a story, how events should evolve, situation changes, and all the other things taught in screenwriting classes, happen in Gurren Lagann perfectly. That, in my mind, is why the show elicits such a strong response from people.
What entranced me so greatly, and what had me cheering on the Gurren Brigade fight after fight was not getting to see giant robots fight each other, or hear them yell "Giga Drill Break" and blow someone to pieces. No, it was the pure joy and inspiration I got out of seeing these characters take on impossible odds, and through sheer will and determination, find a way to win out.
These are the stories that we see in epic legends. Gurren Lagann captures that energy and emotion, and it proves itself as an escape from our own daily lives: office work, classes, chores. It allows us to slip into this other world, one where a near-infinite number of things are possible. Perhaps we can join in if we show a little bit more determination and guts in our daily lives.
The show taught us how to row row fight the power.
The works of Makoto Shinkai include Voices of A Distant Star, The Place Promised in Our Early Days and 5 Centimeters Per Second. For me, in this decade, there is no director who can match up to the works of Makoto Shinkai. Just by seeing his name, and forcing myself to confront the emotions I've felt while watching his films cause me to burst into tears.
In a sense, "absolute despair" is the word I'd use to describe the feelings I have towards his work. The one that sticks closest with me is Voices of a Distant Star, where you watch a couple separated by light years grow and change, while they still try to hold onto their relationship. It's truly depressing.
But, at the same time, what you feel watching his films are those of you coming alive. Shinkai's pieces have the most brilliant and evocative art in anime today. Bar none. He elicits such emotion through the poor plight of his characters that your heart goes out to them, and refuses to return to you.
Watch his films. They will change you in profound ways. They will make you appreciate love in ways that you never realized before. They will make you a more complete person.
You know, when compiling this list, I didn't expect Azumanga Daioh to top out at #2. It's certainly one of my favorite comedy shows, but I didn't vote it particularly high. Yet everyone on the staff, save for one or two, had it on their list somewhere. And the show steadily grew through the ranks.
The show has a subtle power about it that's infected it's way into just about every otaku out there. Even people who aren't really that into anime have been exposed to Azumanga Daioh and loved it for its quirkiness, its random stories, and everyone has their favorite character.
Sakaki is mine, so back off.
Azumanga Daioh captures our #2 slot because of its universality. The show can appeal to so many groups without sacrificing a bit of its quality or humor, and that's pretty impressive. I'm sure we've all been in some of those situations in high school, or at least wish we had, and so we bought into it wholeheartedly. Azumanga Daioh rightfully holds the title of the most popular 4-koma ever.
Surely you didn't think I was serious, did you?
This is the anime. The one that, for just about every single otaku, proved to be a turning point in their lives. The show opened them up to so many new ideas, showed them the glory that is The Pillows, and forever cast them into the world of the anime lover.
I think what impacted so many people with this OVA was that it was a coming of age story. Gainax's titles usually are a story of this sort, but FLCL provided a different world: one without the same sort of gravitas and threat that was existent in Evangelion or Gurren Lagann. It also came out at a point when anime was on the rise, and people were looking for a show to grab onto as something more than the stock and standard fare.
And so, here it is. The show filled a role, and has become cemented as the show that your friend is going to pass to you as that one you must watch, because it's going to change your life. For many of you, it has. What really makes a show important to each of us is how it changes our way of thinking. Amongst us here at Japanator, FLCL is undoubtedly the show that's affected us as a staff the most, and has affected you guys just as much.
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Jingle Ball at Comcast Arena features 3 chart-topping acts
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Selena Gomez performs during halftime of an NFL football game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Oakland Raiders on Nov. 28.
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Seattle native Ben Haggerty, better known as Macklemore of the group Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
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Big K.R.I.T. will perform as an opening act for the group Macklemore & Ryan Lewis at KeyArena next week. All three shows are sold out.
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Talib Kweli will open for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
There's pop singer Selena Gomez, who had a No. 1 album this July when she released "Stars Dance."
Fall Out Boy also returned to the charts with "Save Rock and Roll," a No. 1 album in April.
And Paramore hit No. 1 in April with its new self-titled album.
Those three groups will be joined by a long list of hit-makers -- Flo Rida, Icona Pop, New Politics, Travie McCoy and Austin Mahone -- as the 106.1 Kiss FM Jingle Ball takes over Comcast Arena in Everett.
The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, and is sure to find the long list of acts focusing on the biggest hits of their careers. They might not be Christmas carols, but they should get the crowd singing.
Tickets are $56.25 to $162.50 at comcastarenaeverett.com or 866-332-8499.
Like those other chart-toppers, the hip-hop duo of Macklemore and Lewis have had an obscenely successful year.
The Seattle pair will headline a three-night sold-out hometown stand at Key Arena -- Three nights! Sold out! At Key Arena! -- as they continue to tour behind their massive debut album, "The Heist."
That record has been a runaway success without, amazingly enough, the support of a major label. It's an almost unprecedented success, resulting in ubiquitous No. 1 hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us," along with Zeitgeist-tapping tracks like the gay marriage anthem "Same Love."
The Key Arena shows are at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, and feature opening acts Talib Kweli and Big KRIT.
Tickets are available at a markup through stubhub.com.
Granted, that's not the only big concert coming to KeyArena. Pearl Jam is headlining a sold-out hometown show of its own at the venue at 6 Friday night.
The grunge rock gods are touring behind their latest album, "Lightning Bolt," which was the group's fifth album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
The group didn't change its recent formula for the disc, which again found Eddie Vedder and company drawing on classic rock and punk influences for a collection that was by turns uplifting, bristly and somber.
Tickets are available at a markup through stubhub.com.
The WaMu Theatre, meanwhile, will host the 94.1 KMPS Ho Ho Ho Down at 8 Friday night.
The country station is bringing Gary Allan and David Nail to the venue for its holiday show.
Allan has been playing country music for decades. He got his start in bar bands in the late 1970s at the absurdly young age of 12. He finally got a record deal in 1996 and has seen his star rise slowly ever since.
He's touring now behind his January album, "Set You Free," which earned him his first No. 1 record on the Billboard 200.
Tickets are $50.90 to $61.10 at ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000.
Yet another sold-out show will feature Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy, who is headed to town a solo set at the Moore Theatre at 8 p.m. Sunday.
With Wilco currently in hibernation, Tweedy is touring the West Coast this December. Though he's never released a proper solo album, Tweedy often stages these little tours, playing stripped down versions of Wilco music.
Tickets are available at a mark-up through stubhub.com.
The Black Crowes are back on the road as well, headlining the Paramount Theatre at 8 p.m. Saturday.
The long-running barroom rockers got their start in 1989, channeling the grimy sounds of the Rolling Stones.
At this point, though, the group is basically in greatest-hits mode. Its last album of fresh material came out in 2009, but that hasn't kept the group from the road, where its live album continues to inspire.
Tickets are $31.75 to $45.75 at stgpresents.org or 877-784-4849.
The Tedeschi Trucks Band spent a lot of time this past year touring with the Black Crowes, but will play a headlining show of its own at McCaw Hall at 8 p.m. Satuday.
Like the Black Crowes, the group hit the ground running, earning a Grammy nod in 2011 for its blues-rock indebted debut, "Revelator."
The band is touring now behind its sophomore album, "Made Up Mind," which hit No. 11 on the Billboard 200 in August.
Tickets are $64.67 to $75.09 at ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000.
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'Sharp, slightly offbeat, mainly very funny' (Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard).
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Launching a blistering attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for being male chauvinists, senior Congress leader and Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has said that women's development would become a distant dream if the BJP came to power at the Centre.
Addressing a women's conference, organised by the party, coinciding with the International women's day here on Saturday, he said the women's reservation bill, seeking to provide 33 per cent quota for women in Legislatures and Parliament, could never be passed in the Parliament if the BJP came to power. The bill would be passed only if a party, which believed in equality between men and women formed the government after the elections, Mr. Chidambaram said pitching in for yet another term for the Congress at the Centre.
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Top 5 Big Data Mistakes
I won't say I've seen it all; I've only scratched the surface in the past 15 years. Below are some of the mistakes I've made or fixed during this time.
MongoDB as your Big Data platform
Ask yourself, why am I picking on MongoDB? The NoSQL database most abused at this point is MongoDB, while Mongo has an aggregation framework that tastes like MapReduce and even a very poorly documented Hadoop connector, its sweet spot is as an operational database, not an analytical system.
RDBMS schema as files
You dumped each table from your RDBMS into a file and stored that on HDFS, you now plan to use Hive on it. You know that Hive is slower than RDBMS; it'll use MapReduce even for a simple select. Next, let's look at row sizes; you have flat files measured in single-digit kilobytes.
Hadoop does best on large sets of relatively flat data. I'm sure you can create an extract that's more de-normalized.
Data Ponds
Instead of creating a single Data Lake, you created a series of data ponds or a data swamp. Conway's law has struck again; your business groups have created their own mini-repositories and data analysis processes. That doesn't sound bad at first, but with different extracts and ways of slicing and dicing the data, you end up with different views of the data, i.e., different answers for some of the same questions.
Schema-on-read doesn't mean, "Don't plan at all," but it means "Don't plan for every question you might ask."
Missing use cases
Vendors, to escape the constraints of departmental funding, are selling the idea of the data lake. The byproduct of this is the business lost sight of real use cases. The data-lake approach can be valid, but you won't get much out of it if you don't have actual use cases in mind.
It isn't hard to come up with use cases, but that is always an afterthought. The business should start thinking of the use cases when their databases can't handle the load.
You like SQL. Query languages and techniques have changed with time. Today, think of Pig as PL/SQL on steroids with maybe a touch of acid.
To do a larger bit of analytics, you may need a bigger tool set like that may include Hive, Pig, MapReduce, R, and more.
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The hype around big data is certainly top of mind with executives at most companies today but what I am really seeing are companies finally making the connection between innovation and data. Data as a corporate asset is now getting the respect it deserves in terms of a business strategy to introduce new innovative products and services and improve business operations. The most advanced companies have C-level executives responsible for delivering top and bottom line results by managing their data assets to their maximum potential. The Chief Data Officer and Chief Analytics Officer own this responsibility and report directly to the CEO. (more…)
Hadoop Toolbox: Part 5 of Hadoop Series
Many organizations will mix and match individual Apache projects and sub-projects using Apache Hadoop's loosely coupled architecture. This Hadoop toolbox provides a powerful set of tools and capabilities, but it does have some important limitations that can require a platform approach to address.
The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) combines storage and processing in each data node. With the HDFS file system, you can add new files or append to existing files, but not replace files without use of a new filename. The append capability works well for adding new time-stamped logs as they come in, but can complicate storage of structured files. (more…)
Hadoop Extends Data Architectures: Part 3 In Hadoop Series
The list and diversity of NoSQL, "NewSQL", cloud, grid, and other data architecture options seem to grow every year.
The Harry Potter books and movies were a particularly popular inspiration for project names. For example, at LinkedIn, to empower features such as "People You May Know" and "Jobs You May Be Interested In", LinkedIn uses Hadoop together with an Azkaban batch workflow scheduler and Voldemort key-value store. We'll see if the Twilight series has a similar impact on project names.
Hadoop Series: Hadoop Means Business
Doug Cutting may have the world's most famous green-stuffed-elephant toy. While named after his son's plaything, Hadoop is maturing and entering the business world, creating significant opportunities as well as challenges. "Hadoop is on a fast track to becoming the world's pre-eminent scientific analytic platform", notes Forrester Research Senior Analyst James G. Kobielus (Forrester Blogs, June 7, 2011).
This is the first of a series of Hadoop articles I'll write for Informatica Perspectives. My focus for this series is to guide an existing or prospective user of Apache Hadoop on best practices and tips so that organizations can become more data centric. After participating in Hadoop user communities, both local and virtual, for the last several years, I'm happy to share from work with Hadoop pioneers and practitioners both innovative use cases and "areas to watch out for" in deploying and integrating Hadoop as part of a broader enterprise data architecture. I also bring a user perspective as a certified Hadoop system administrator. (more…)


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Why Is Obama Still Using Blackwater?
Two years ago on September 16, 2007, on a steamy hot Baghdad day with temperatures reaching 100 degrees, a heavily armed Blackwater convoy entered a congested intersection at Nisour Square in the Mansour district of the Iraqi capital. The once-upscale section of Baghdad was still lined with boutiques, cafes and art galleries dating back to better days. The ominous caravan consisted of four large armored vehicles with machine guns mounted on top.
As the Blackwater convoy was entering the square that day, a young Iraqi medical student named Ahmed Hathem Al-Rubaie was driving his mother, Mahasin, in the family's white sedan. As fate would have it, they found themselves stuck near Nisour Square. The family were devout Muslims and were fasting in observance of the holy month of Ramadan.
Ali Khalaf Salman, an Iraqi traffic cop on duty in Nisour Square that day, remembers vividly when the Blackwater convoy entered the intersection, spurring him and his colleagues to scramble to stop traffic. But as the Mambas entered the square, the convoy suddenly made a surprise U-turn and proceeded to drive the wrong way on a one-way street. As Khalaf watched, the convoy came to an abrupt halt. He says a large white man with a mustache, positioned atop the third vehicle in the Blackwater convoy, began to fire his weapon "randomly."
Khalaf looked in the direction of the shots, on Yarmouk Road, and heard a woman screaming, "My son! My son!" The police officer sprinted toward the voice and found a middle-aged woman inside of a vehicle holding a 20-year-old man covered in blood, who had been shot in the forehead. "I tried to help the young man, but his mother was holding him so tight," Khalaf recalled. Another Iraqi policeman, Sarhan Thiab, also ran to the car. "We tried to help him,'' Thiab said. "I saw the left side of his head was destroyed and his mother was crying out: 'My son, my son. Help me, help me.'''
Officer Khalaf recalled looking toward the Blackwater shooters. "I raised my left arm high in the air to try to signal to the convoy to stop the shooting." He says he thought the men would cease fire, given that he was a clearly identified police officer. The young man's body was still in the driver's seat of the automatic vehicle and, as Khalaf and Thiab stood there, it began to roll forward, perhaps as a result of the dead man's foot remaining on the accelerator. Blackwater guards later said they initially opened fire on the vehicle because it was speeding and would not stop, a claim hotly disputed by scores of witnesses. Aerial photos of the scene later showed that the car had not even entered the traffic circle when it was fired upon by Blackwater, while the New York Times reported, "The car in which the first people were killed did not begin to closely approach the Blackwater convoy until the Iraqi driver had been shot in the head and lost control of his vehicle," meaning Blackwater had already shot the man. "I tried to use hand signals to make the Blackwater people understand that the car was moving on its own and we were trying to stop it. We were trying to get the woman out but had to run for cover," Thiab said.
"Don't shoot, please," Khalaf recalled yelling. But as he stood with his hand raised, Khalaf says a gunman from the fourth Blackwater vehicle opened fire on the mother gripping her son and shot her dead before Khalaf's and Thiabs' eyes. "I saw parts of the woman's head flying in front of me, blow up," Thiab said. "They immediately opened heavy fire at us." Within moments, so many shots had been fired at the car from "big machine guns" that Khalaf says it exploded, engulfing the bodies inside in flames, melting their flesh into one. "Each of their four vehicles opened heavy fire in all directions, they shot and killed everyone in cars facing them and people standing on the street," Thiab recalled. "When it was over we were looking around and about fifteen cars had been destroyed, the bodies of the killed were strewn on the pavements and road." When later asked by US investigators why he never fired at the Blackwater men, Khalaf told them, "I am not authorized to shoot, and my job is to look after the traffic."
The victims were later identified as Ahmed Hathem Al-Rubaie and his mother, Mahasin. That attack on Ahmed and Mahasin's vehicle would be the beginning of a fifteen-minute shooting spree that would leave seventeen Iraqis dead and more than twenty wounded.
One of the Blackwater "shooters" that day, Jeremy Ridgeway, later admitted in sworn testimony, that he had killed Mahasin by firing "multiple rounds" into her vehicle and that "there was no attempt to provide reasonable warning."
After Ahmed and Mahasin's vehicle exploded, sustained gunfire rang out in Nisour Square as people fled for their lives. In addition to the Blackwater shooters in the four Mambas, witnesses say gunfire came from Blackwater's Little Bird helicopters. "The helicopters began shooting on the cars," officer Khalaf said. "The helicopters shot and killed the driver of a Volkswagen and wounded a passenger" who escaped by "rolling out of the car into the street," he said. Witnesses described a horrifying scene of indiscriminate shooting by the Blackwater guards. "It was a horror movie," said officer Khalaf. "It was catastrophic," said Zina Fadhil, a 21-year-old pharmacist who survived the attack. "So many innocent people were killed."
Another Iraqi officer on the scene, Hussam Abdul Rahman, said that people who attempted to flee their vehicles were targeted. "Whoever stepped out of his car was shot at immediately," he said.
"I saw women and children jump out of their cars and start to crawl on the road to escape being shot," said Iraqi lawyer Hassan Jabar Salman, who was shot four times in the back during the incident. "But still the firing kept coming and many of them were killed. I saw a boy of about 10 leaping in fear from a minibus--he was shot in the head. His mother was crying out for him. She jumped out after him, and she was killed."
Salman says he was driving behind the Blackwater convoy when it stopped. Witnesses say some sort of explosion had gone off in the distance, too far away to have been perceived as a threat. He said Blackwater guards ordered him to turn his vehicle around and leave the scene. Shortly after, the shooting began. "Why had they opened fire?" he asked. "I do not know. No one--I repeat no one--had fired at them. The foreigners had asked us to go back, and I was going back in my car, so there was no reason for them to shoot." In all, he says, his car was hit twelve times, including the four bullets that pierced his back.
Ridgeway, the Blackwater operative, admitted that he and the other Blackwater operatives "opened fire with automatic weapons and grenade launchers on unarmed civilians." None of the victims that day "was an insurgent," he said, adding that "many were shot while inside of civilian vehicles that were attempting to flee." Ridgeway said one Iraqi was shot "while standing in the street with his hands up."
Mohammed Abdul Razzaq and his 9-year-old-son, Ali, were in a vehicle immediately behind Ahmed and Mahasin, the first victims that day. "We were six persons in the car--me, my son, my sister and her three sons. The four children were in the back seat." He recalled that the Blackwater forces had "gestured stop, so we all stopped.... It's a secure area so we thought it will be the usual, we would stop for a bit as convoys pass. Shortly after that they opened heavy fire randomly at the cars with no exception." He said his vehicle "was hit by about thirty bullets, everything was damaged, the engine, the windshield the back windshield and the tires.
"When the shooting started, I told everybody to get their heads down. I could hear the children screaming in fear. When the shooting stopped, I raised my head and heard my nephew shouting at me 'Ali is dead, Ali is dead.' "
"My son was sitting behind me," he said. "He was shot in the head and his brains were all over the back of the car." Razzaq remembered, "When I held him, his head was badly wounded, but his heart was still beating. I thought there was a chance and I rushed him to the hospital. The doctor told me that he was clinically dead and the chance of his survival was very slim. One hour later, Ali died." Razzaq, who survived the shooting, later returned to the scene and gathered the pieces of his son's skull and brains with his hands, wrapped them in cloth and took them to be buried in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. "I can still smell the blood, my son's blood, on my fingers," Razzaq said two weeks after his son died.
In all, the melee reportedly lasted about fifteen minutes. In an indication of how out of control the situation quickly became, US officials report that "one or more" Blackwater guards called on their colleagues to stop shooting. The word cease-fire ''was supposedly called out several times,'' a senior official told the New York Times. "They had an on-site difference of opinion." At one point a Blackwater guard allegedly drew his gun on another. "It was a Mexican standoff," said one contractor. According to an Iraqi lawyer who was in the square that day, the Blackwater guard screamed at his colleague, "No! No! No!" The Iraqi lawyer himself was shot in the back as he tried to flee.


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April 29th, 2011 #1
Photoshop Brushes- legalities and etiquette
I have several brushes I have downloaded from various sites (all free) and I realized I used one in a design I was hoping to use on a T-shirt. Obviously the brush design (which is a gear) is not the entire image, but it is part of it and since it was free I didn't pay to use it. Is it kosher to use a free brush for something you intend to sell? Should I try to track down the original owner and make sure? And even if it's legal, is it just bad form? Smells like lamesauce to me...
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April 29th, 2011 #2
Well, some brush givers/sites specify whether you can use their brushes in work you intend to sell and so on...
But to ask about this specific situation, if you're unsure, you could always draw the gear by yourself?
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April 29th, 2011 #3
I could for sure, I have issues with the way photoshop does ellipses and circles. Ellipses are always filled in and the circle shape's borders always thicken with the size of the circle- which irritates me to no end. I usually default to brushes for shapes that requires perfect circles. It's not worth the hassle with each line being it's own layer, having to rasterize and merge every single one and so forth...
But luck! I did find the original owner and they have their terms of use posted on their website. Yay!
April 29th, 2011 #4
Also, do you use the shape tool or marque tool for your circles?
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I used the shape tool.
April 29th, 2011 #6
do it directly in the paths palette though, then the nasty filled layer is not created. with some practice, paths are no hassle at all, but are a quite amazing tool.
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April 29th, 2011 #7
Or for quickie circles, just use the ellipse marquee and use "transform selection" if you need to resize or adjust it, then fill or stroke as desired. (Setting stroke to "inside" will keep it nice and circular.)
By the way, last time I needed gears, I found the fastest and most reusable option was to make them in Illustrator and import them...
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April 29th, 2011 #9
As to your original question though...if it was specified as free there should be no problem. It would have to be made abbundantly clear that you could not use it for commercial purposes if they wanted to protect it. Even then I think it would be difficult to protect something you specifically offer as "free for download".
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April 29th, 2011 #10
The person was bugged constantly about what brushes he used in PS. So one day he submitted a pack that had all the brushes he uses. Some brush artists went up in arms for not being credited. I could understand that artist's point and theirs - but the way the brushes are stored after a while it's an easy way to "detach yourself" from the property due to how .abr files are loaded.
April 29th, 2011 #11
Very true Arshes...personally I wouldn't use someone's brushes that didn't offer them no strings attached and I wouldn't put all my .abr files together and upload them anywhere. I'm kinda stingy but I would just tell people find them yourselves. I don't get this new mindset that I have to make everything easy for someone because they're too lazy to find their own resources.
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April 29th, 2011 #12
To be honest, it's really just a tool. I have brush sets released in the past. I don't care if they credit me or not because everyone is going to use that brush differently. I mean if I borrowed someone's sable haired paint brush or some old brush from a friend that made cool splatter/grunge effects - I really don't see the need considering the overall picture would be my vision.
The problem is when you're using brushes like a very obvious stamp. But since usage of a brush can vary....
While it's nice, some people have to be realistic about what they're releasing and how it will be used.
April 29th, 2011 #13
Sure...those are good points. That's why I wouldn't worry about using them too much - though uploading a bunch that you didn't actually make crosses the line I think.
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The nVidia readme says, in "App E" that the AGP module is controlled through the "NvAgp" option in the XF86Config file:
Option "NvAgp" either 0-3. My XF86Config file doesn't have anything in there about AGP. Is this something that has to be manually put in, and if so exactly where does it go?
in your xf86config file under the device section for your video card, you manually add :
Option "NvAgp" "1"
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I thought it was Option "NvAGP" "1"? (capital G and P)
It doesn't really matter if you type nvagp or NvAGP, it is all the same for xfree86. (atleast it is for dozens of other options..)
Normally NvAGP isn't needed in your config file. It is only needed when you want to override the default behaviour which is to use nvidia's agp driver.
Option "NvAgp" "1"
This was copied directly from nVidia's Readme.
So am I understanding this correctly, that I already am utilizing 4x AGP from the kernel driver, and if I enter these values in the XF86Config file, that I will be utilizing nVidia's AGP drivers instead?
If that is correct, am I better off one way or the other?
I am using SuSE 8.2 w/the latest of everything, as far as I know.
First the drivers try to load the kernel agp driver if that fails it tries to use nvidia's driver. It really doesn't matter which of the two you are using.
Only for some chipsets it matters, agpgart can have support for a new released chipset before nvidia's driver or the way around for nforce chipsets.
Normally both nvagp and agpgart perform quite similar.
I guess it would be safe to leave things just as they are. Because if I have games like RTCW & Quake 3 running fine, then it must be working properly.
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Meaning and name origin
Camia \c(a)-mia\ as a girl's name is of Latin origin, and the meaning of Camia is "helper to the priest". Camia is a variant of Camilla (Latin): feminine of the old Roman family name Camillus, of obscure origin.
Camia has 5 variant forms: Cama, Cami, Cammi, Cammie, Cammy.
Camia is not a popular first name for females and an equally uncommon surname or last name for all people (2000 U.S. Census).
Displayed below is a comparison of the popularity of the girl name Camia and its variant forms. Variation forms ranked in the Top 1000/100 are Camilla and Cammie. (2015 statistics).
Similar Names
Camia is also pronounced similarly to Cameo, Kama, Kamea and Kami. Other suggested similar baby names are Cacia, Cain, Cam, Camila, Canna, Carmia, Casia, Catia, Chania, Cima, Cyma, Damia, Jamia and Samia. These names tend to be more commonly used than Camia.
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