[unable to retrieve full-text content]With a new record, the band Arcade Fire is trying to top their 2011 release, which won a Grammy for Album of the Year. Critic Will Hermes says that on Reflektor, they turn to dance music to try to reinvigorate their sound.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NprProgramsATC/~3/bdzRwHEjUik/arcade-fire-after-grammy-successes-gets-dancy
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Sunday, October 27, 2013
2 arrested after stabbing at Indiana University
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Two Indiana University students were charged Sunday morning in connection with a stabbing that injured another student at a campus apartment building, school officials said.
University police arrested 18-year-old Zesen Shen and 21-year-old Kaiyu Lao, IU spokesman Mark Land said in a news release. Shen has been charged with intimidation and battery and Lao was charged with intimidation, Land said.
Police said Shen, Lao and a 20-year-old IU student were in the Tulip Tree apartment's parking lot around 3:30 a.m., Land said. Witnesses told campus police the three were there "to resolve a dispute when the suspects began chasing victim and wounded him with a knife," Land said.
University police Lt. Craig Munroe told the Indianapolis Star (http://indy.st/1ckrtoX) the student was stabbed in the back. The 20-year-old was taken to IU Health hospital in Bloomington with an injury that isn't life-threatening, Land said.
The incident prompted university officials earlier Sunday to tell students to seek shelter behind locked doors. The school gave students the all clear around 7 a.m. CDT.
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Pivotal bulks up big data software portfolio
While EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal prepares to launch its business intelligence PaaS (platform-as-a-service), the new company has also been busy building its portfolio of data mining and analysis software.
The company is releasing two programs to help data analysis. One is an in-memory data store for real-time analysis that works with the Hadoop data processing platform, and the other is a data discovery tool for business analysts.
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As part of an update to its Hadoop distribution, Pivotal HD 1.1, Pivotal will include GemFire HD, an in-memory transactional store that VMware acquired in 2010. Offering GemFire as part of its Hadoop package, Pivotal is hoping that organizations use the software as a base for building OLTP (online transaction processing) systems that can use Hadoop for long-term storage. This approach will provide organizations with the ability to analyze both current data, as it is being held in GemFire, and older transactional data that has been offloaded to Hadoop, said Abhishek Kashyap, Pivotal principal product manager. A GemFire instance is held entirely within the working memory of a server, which provides a speedy way to interrogate live operational data with SQL, useful for situational awareness and other forms of real-time analysis. The company also unveiled Pivotal Data Dispatch, a tool to help data workers find and prepare data sets for analysis.
Data Dispatch was originally developed by the New York Stock Exchange, whose data analysts have used the software since 2007 to better understand the effects of regulatory requirements.
The software allows analysts to pick, filter and combine the data sets from different sources they need for analysis. The resulting analyst-generated data sets are stored in a "sandbox" that is available to business intelligence tools, such as those offered by Oracle, IBM and SAP, said Todd Paoletti, Pivotal vice president of product marketing.
Using traditional BI tools, analysts typically would have to request the IT staff to combine data sets and deploy them to a data warehouse. This software eliminates the need to consult with IT to generate each new data set, Paoletti said.
Data Dispatch is one of a growing number of self-service BI tools--also offered by Tableau and MicroStrategy -- that provide an easy to use graphical database that data workers themselves can use.
The system administrator initially defines and tags the data sources that are then made available to the analyst. Source data files can be from database files, flat files, Hadoop files, Microsoft Project files or from other commonly-used formats. The resulting combined data sets can be stored either in Hadoop, or with Pivotal's Greenplum.
Pivotal plans to launch its cloud service Nov. 12.Pivotal HD 1.1 will be available Nov. 1.
Joab Jackson covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Joab on Twitter at @Joab_Jackson. Joab's e-mail address is Joab_Jackson@idg.com
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Sharpton threatens store boycott over profile suit
NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton threatened Saturday to boycott luxury retailer Barneys if the department store doesn't respond adequately to allegations by black shoppers that they were racially profiled there.
"We've gone from stop and frisk to shop and frisk, and we are not going to take it," the black civil rights leader said. "We are not going to live in a town where our money is considered suspect and everyone else's money is respected."
Two black Barneys New York customers, Trayon Christian and Kayla Phillips, said this week they were detained by police after making expensive purchases.
Christian sued Barneys, saying he was accused of fraud after using his debit card to buy a $349 Ferragamo belt in April.
Barneys said Thursday that it had retained a civil rights expert to help review its procedures. The CEO of Barneys, Mark Lee, offered his "sincere regret and deepest apologies."
Kirsten John Foy, an official with Sharpton's National Action Network, said he would meet with Barneys officials on Tuesday to discuss the racial profiling allegations.
"The only theft that took place at Barneys was Barneys' stealing the dignity of these young people," said Foy, who joined Sharpton at his weekly rally at the organization's Harlem headquarters.
Sharpton said black New Yorkers should put shopping at Barneys "on hold" if the retailer's response is inadequate.
Macy's was also hit with a lawsuit alleging racial profiling this week.
A black actor on the HBO drama series "Treme" said Friday he was stopped by police because of his race while shopping at Macy's flagship Manhattan store.
Robert Brown said in his lawsuit that he was detained by police June 8 after employees contacted authorities about possible credit card fraud.
Macy's didn't comment on the litigation but said in a statement it was investigating.
Some Sharpton supporters who attended Saturday's rally said they had been profiled in stores, too.
Shane Lee, 51, said he went to the high-end store Bergdorf Goodman to buy shirts last year and the sales staff would not assist him.
"Instead of helping me, they were staring at me," said Lee, who is black. "I felt so uncomfortable that I just left."
A Bergdorf Goodman official did not return a call seeking comment Saturday.
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Obama aware of Merkel spying since 2010: German report
Berlin (AFP) - US President Barack Obama was personally informed of mobile phone tapping against German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which may have begun as early as 2002, German media reported Sunday.
Bild am Sonntag newspaper quoted US intelligence sources as saying that National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander had briefed Obama on the operation against Merkel in 2010.
"Obama did not halt the operation but rather let it continue," the newspaper quoted a high-ranking NSA official as saying.
Meanwhile newsweekly Der Spiegel reported ahead of its Monday issue that leaked NSA documents showed Merkel's phone had appeared on a list of spying targets since 2002, and was still under surveillance weeks before Obama visited Berlin in June.
The spying row has prompted European leaders to demand a new deal with Washington on intelligence gathering that would maintain an essential alliance while keeping the fight against terrorism on track.
Germany will send its own spy chiefs to the United States next week to demand answers following the allegations that US intelligence has been tapping Merkel's mobile phone, as the row threatened to fray transatlantic ties.
Merkel confronted Obama with the suspicion in a phone call on Wednesday saying that spying on allies would be a "breach of trust" between international partners.
The charges also prompted Berlin to summon the US ambassador -- a highly unusual move between the close allies.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported Saturday that Obama had told Merkel during their call that he had been unaware of any spying against her. It did not cite its sources.
Der Spiegel said he had told her that if he had been informed of the operation he would have stopped it at once.
Other media reports said that Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice had also told German officials the president knew nothing of the spying.
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Alessandra Ambrosio Looks Like an Angel in Class
School is back in session, as Brazilian beauty Alessandra Ambrosio took her lovely daughter Anja for a stroll with her entire class for a field trip in Santa Monica, CA on Friday (October 25).
Still managing to make being "mommy" look absolutely sexy, the 32-year-old Victoria's Secret Angel covered up in the cool weather with a cheetah-print sweater and skinny jeans while her adorable mini-me looked fashion-forward as well while enjoying time with her friends.
In related news, Alessandra is getting into the spirit of the season as she joined E!'s show "Fashion Police" for their Halloween Special.
Joining show regulars Joan Rivers, Giuliana Rancic, Kelly Osbourne and George Kotsiopoulos, Miss Ambrosio will take part in plenty of scares, surprises and costumes for the one night event. Tune into E! tonight at 9|8c to catch all of the action.
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WSOF 6 Live Results
The World Series of Fighting returned to action tonight with WSOF 6 at the BankUnited Center in Miami, Florida. Tonight’s main event will see the promotion crown their first ever champion as welterweights Josh Burkman and Steve Carl battle it out in the NBC Sports Network main event. Tonight’s main card action will kick off a 9PM ET, with the preliminary card beginning at 6PM ET.
Be sure to stay tuned to MMAFrenzy for full coverage of tonight’s WSOF 6 action.
WSOF 6 Results
Main Card (NBC Sports Network 9PM ET)
- Inaugural Welterweight Title: Josh Burkman vs. Steve Carl
- Marlon Moraes def. Carson Beebe via KO (punches) at 0:32 of Round 1
- Jon Fitch def. Marcelo Alfaya via split decision (29-28,28-29,29-28)
- Justin Gaethje def. Dan Lauzon via TKO (punches) at 1:40 of Round 2
Preliminary Card (WSOF.com 6PM ET)
- Francisco France vs. Hans Stringer*
- Pablo Alfonso def. Miguel Torres via submission at 3:05 (guillotine choke) of Round 1
- Luiz Firmino def. Jacob Volkmann via unanimous decision (29-28,29-28,30-27)
- Chad Robichaux def. Andrew Yates via technical submission (north-south choke) at 4:09 of Round 2
- Josh Rettinghouse def. Alexis Vila via unanimous decision (29-28,29-28,29-28)
- Nick Lobosco def. Fabio Mello via KO (head kick and punches) at 2:02 of Round 1
- Alexandre Pimentel def. Jade Porter via submission (triangle) at 3:05 of Round 3
*-bout moved to end of card
Stay tuned to MMAFrenzy for the latest WSOF 6 and the latest World Series of Fighting News.
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