Volume 102, Issue 1

9 January 2009

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Reconstructed image of a human chromosome from coherent x-ray diffraction data. The lensless imaging method can detect the axial structure of the unstained chromosome.

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Three-Dimensional Visualization of a Human Chromosome Using Coherent X-Ray Diffraction
Yoshinori Nishino, Yukio Takahashi, Naoko Imamoto, Tetsuya Ishikawa, and Kazuhiro Maeshima
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 018101 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with the First Five-Tower Data from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search at the Soudan Underground Laboratory

Z. Ahmed et al. (CDMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 011301 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quantum Translator-Rotator: Inelastic Neutron Scattering of Dihydrogen Molecules Trapped inside Anisotropic Fullerene Cages

A. J. Horsewill, K. S. Panesar, S. Rols, M. R. Johnson, Y. Murata, K. Komatsu, S. Mamone, A. Danquigny, F. Cuda, S. Maltsev, M. C. Grossel, M. Carravetta, and M. H. Levitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 013001 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Ultimate Metastable Solubility of Boron in Diamond: Synthesis of Superhard Diamondlike ${BC}_{5}$

Vladimir L. Solozhenko, Oleksandr O. Kurakevych, Denis Andrault, Yann Le Godec, and Mohamed Mezouar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 015506 (2009) - Published 9 January, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Open and Closed Edges of Graphene Layers

Zheng Liu, Kazu Suenaga, Peter J. F. Harris, and Sumio Iijima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 015501 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

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Fully Ab Initio Finite-Size Corrections for Charged-Defect Supercell Calculations

Christoph Freysoldt, Jörg Neugebauer, and Chris G. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 016402 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Three-Dimensional Visualization of a Human Chromosome Using Coherent X-Ray Diffraction

Yoshinori Nishino, Yukio Takahashi, Naoko Imamoto, Tetsuya Ishikawa, and Kazuhiro Maeshima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 018101 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

Preparation Contextuality Powers Parity-Oblivious Multiplexing

Robert W. Spekkens, D. H. Buzacott, A. J. Keehn, Ben Toner, and G. J. Pryde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 010401 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Prospects for Large Relativity Violations in Matter-Gravity Couplings

V. Alan Kostelecký and Jay D. Tasson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 010402 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Creation and Detection of a Mesoscopic Gas in a Nonlocal Quantum Superposition

Christoph Weiss and Yvan Castin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 010403 (2009) - Published 7 January, 2009

Optimal Quantum Tomography of States, Measurements, and Transformations

A. Bisio, G. Chiribella, G. M. D’Ariano, S. Facchini, and P. Perinotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 010404 (2009) - Published 9 January, 2009

Can Nonprivate Channels Transmit Quantum Information?

Graeme Smith and John A. Smolin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 010501 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Noise-Induced Phase Bistability via Stochastic Rocking

Kestutis Staliunas, Germán J. de Valcárcel, Javier M. Buldú, and Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 010601 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Collective Motion due to Individual Escape and Pursuit Response

Pawel Romanczuk, Iain D. Couzin, and Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 010602 (2009) - Published 8 January, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with the First Five-Tower Data from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search at the Soudan Underground Laboratory

Z. Ahmed et al. (CDMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 011301 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Unified Treatment of Even and Odd Anharmonic Oscillators of Arbitrary Degree

Ulrich D. Jentschura, Andrey Surzhykov, and Jean Zinn-Justin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 011601 (2009) - Published 8 January, 2009

Black Holes and Nonrelativistic Quantum Systems

Pavel Kovtun and Dominik Nickel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 011602 (2009) - Published 9 January, 2009

$J / ψ$ and $ψ (2 S)$ Radiative Transitions to $η_{c}$

R. E. Mitchell et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 011801 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Measurement of the $e^{+} e^{-} \to b \bar{b}$ Cross Section between $\sqrt{s} = 10.54$ and 11.20 GeV

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 012001 (2009) - Published 9 January, 2009

Nuclear Physics

First Measurement of the Neutron $β$ Asymmetry with Ultracold Neutrons

R. W. Pattie, Jr. et al. (UCNA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 012301 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Cross Sections and Beam Asymmetry for $K^{+} Σ^{* -}$ Photoproduction from the Deuteron at $E_{γ} = 1.5 - 2.4 GeV$

K. Hicks et al. (LEPS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 012501 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Development of Large Deformation in ${}^{62}{Cr}$

N. Aoi et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 012502 (2009) - Published 9 January, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Quantum Translator-Rotator: Inelastic Neutron Scattering of Dihydrogen Molecules Trapped inside Anisotropic Fullerene Cages

A. J. Horsewill, K. S. Panesar, S. Rols, M. R. Johnson, Y. Murata, K. Komatsu, S. Mamone, A. Danquigny, F. Cuda, S. Maltsev, M. C. Grossel, M. Carravetta, and M. H. Levitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 013001 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Energy Correlation of the Three Electrons Emitted during the Triple Photoionization of Ar

Y. Hikosaka, P. Lablanquie, F. Penent, T. Kaneyasu, E. Shigemasa, R. Feifel, J. H. D. Eland, and K. Ito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 013002 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Mechanism of Collisional Spin Relaxation in ${}^{3}Σ$ Molecules

Wesley C. Campbell, Timur V. Tscherbul, Hsin-I Lu, Edem Tsikata, Roman V. Krems, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 013003 (2009) - Published 6 January, 2009

Breaking the Dipole Blockade: Nearly Resonant Dipole Interactions in Few-Atom Systems

T. Pohl and P. R. Berman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 013004 (2009) - Published 7 January, 2009

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectra Simulation Directly from Molecular Dynamics Trajectories of a Liquid Crystal with a Doped Paramagnetic Spin Probe

V. S. Oganesyan, E. Kuprusevicius, H. Gopee, A. N. Cammidge, and M. R. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 013005 (2009) - Published 8 January, 2009

Frequency Metrology on Single Trapped Ions in the Weak Binding Limit: The $3 s_{1 / 2} - 3 p_{3 / 2}$ Transition in ${}^{24}{Mg}^{+}$

M. Herrmann, V. Batteiger, S. Knünz, G. Saathoff, Th. Udem, and T. W. Hänsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 013006 (2009) - Published 9 January, 2009

Temporal and Spatial Interference between Four-Wave Mixing and Six-Wave Mixing Channels

Yanpeng Zhang, Utsab Khadka, Blake Anderson, and Min Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 013601 (2009) - Published 7 January, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Coherent Coupling of Multiple Transverse Modes in Quantum Cascade Lasers

Nanfang Yu, Laurent Diehl, Ertugrul Cubukcu, David Bour, Scott Corzine, Gloria Höfler, Aleksander K. Wojcik, Kenneth B. Crozier, Alexey Belyanin, and Federico Capasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 013901 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Realization of an All-Optical Zero to $π$ Cross-Phase Modulation Jump

Ryan M. Camacho, P. Ben Dixon, Ryan T. Glasser, Andrew N. Jordan, and John C. Howell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 013902 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Higher-Order Harmonic Generation from Fullerene by Means of the Plasma Harmonic Method

R. A. Ganeev, L. B. Elouga Bom, J. Abdul-Hadi, M. C. H. Wong, J. P. Brichta, V. R. Bhardwaj, and T. Ozaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 013903 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Split-Ring-Resonator-Coupled Enhanced Transmission through a Single Subwavelength Aperture

Koray Aydin, A. Ozgur Cakmak, Levent Sahin, Z. Li, Filiberto Bilotti, Lucio Vegni, and Ekmel Ozbay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 013904 (2009) - Published 7 January, 2009

Turbulencelike Behavior of Seismic Time Series

P. Manshour, S. Saberi, Muhammad Sahimi, J. Peinke, Amalio F. Pacheco, and M. Reza Rahimi Tabar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 014101 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Nonlinear Resonances in $δ$ -Kicked Bose-Einstein Condensates

T. S. Monteiro, A. Rançon, and J. Ruostekoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 014102 (2009) - Published 8 January, 2009

Chaotic Bouncing of a Droplet on a Soap Film

T. Gilet and John W. M. Bush

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 014501 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Event-Driven Power-Law Relaxation in Weak Turbulence

Ludovico Silvestri, Leone Fronzoni, Paolo Grigolini, and Paolo Allegrini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 014502 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Energy Transfer by Inertial Waves during the Buildup of Turbulence in a Rotating System

Itamar Kolvin, Kobi Cohen, Yuval Vardi, and Eran Sharon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 014503 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Synchrotron Sidebands in a Storage-Ring-Based Seeded Free-Electron Laser

M. Labat, M. Hosaka, M. Shimada, N. Yamamoto, M. Katoh, and M. E. Couprie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 014801 (2009) - Published 8 January, 2009

Kinetic Alfvén Wave Turbulence and Transport through a Reconnection Diffusion Region

C. C. Chaston, J. R. Johnson, M. Wilber, M. Acuna, M. L. Goldstein, and H. Reme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 015001 (2009) - Published 8 January, 2009

Ionization-Induced Small-Scaled Plasma Structures in Tightly Focused Ultrashort Laser Pulses

E. S. Efimenko, A. V. Kim, and M. Quiroga-Teixeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 015002 (2009) - Published 9 January, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Feshbach-Einstein Condensates

V. G. Rousseau and P. J. H. Denteneer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 015301 (2009) - Published 6 January, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Open and Closed Edges of Graphene Layers

Zheng Liu, Kazu Suenaga, Peter J. F. Harris, and Sumio Iijima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 015501 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Lifetime of THz Acoustic Nanocavity Modes

G. Rozas, M. F. Pascual Winter, B. Jusserand, A. Fainstein, B. Perrin, E. Semenova, and A. Lemaître

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 015502 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Friedel Oscillations are Limiting the Strength of Superhard Nanocomposites and Heterostructures

R. F. Zhang, A. S. Argon, and S. Veprek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 015503 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Phase Behavior of Nanoparticles Assembled by DNA Linkers

Huiming Xiong, Daniel van der Lelie, and Oleg Gang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 015504 (2009) - Published 8 January, 2009

Revealing How Interactions Lead to Ordering in Para-Terphenyl

D. J. Goossens and M. J. Gutmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 015505 (2009) - Published 9 January, 2009

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Ultimate Metastable Solubility of Boron in Diamond: Synthesis of Superhard Diamondlike ${BC}_{5}$

Vladimir L. Solozhenko, Oleksandr O. Kurakevych, Denis Andrault, Yann Le Godec, and Mohamed Mezouar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 015506 (2009) - Published 9 January, 2009

First-Order Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition in Compressed Nitrogen

Brian Boates and Stanimir A. Bonev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 015701 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Percolation Model for Slow Dynamics in Glass-Forming Materials

Gregg Lois, Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, and Corey S. O’Hern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 015702 (2009) - Published 6 January, 2009

Anisotropic Cooperative Structural Rearrangements in Sheared Supercooled Liquids

Akira Furukawa, Kang Kim, Shinji Saito, and Hajime Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 016001 (2009) - Published 9 January, 2009

Equilibrating Nanoparticle Monolayers Using Wetting Films

Diego Pontoni, Kyle J. Alvine, Antonio Checco, Oleg Gang, Benjamin M. Ocko, and Peter S. Pershan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 016101 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Modifying the Adsorption Characteristic of Inert Silica Films by Inserting Anchoring Sites

Stefan Ulrich, Niklas Nilius, Hans-Joachim Freund, Umberto Martinez, Livia Giordano, and Gianfranco Pacchioni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 016102 (2009) - Published 8 January, 2009

Kinetic Optimum of Volmer-Weber Growth

Vladimir M. Kaganer, Bernd Jenichen, Roman Shayduk, Wolfgang Braun, and Henning Riechert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 016103 (2009) - Published 9 January, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Challenge of Magnetism in Strongly Correlated Open-Shell $2 p$ Systems

Jürgen Winterlik, Gerhard H. Fecher, Catherine A. Jenkins, Claudia Felser, Claus Mühle, Klaus Doll, Martin Jansen, Leonid M. Sandratskii, and Jürgen Kübler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 016401 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fully Ab Initio Finite-Size Corrections for Charged-Defect Supercell Calculations

Christoph Freysoldt, Jörg Neugebauer, and Chris G. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 016402 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Strong Parity Mixing in the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Superconductivity in Systems with Coexisting Spin and Charge Fluctuations

Hirohito Aizawa, Kazuhiko Kuroki, Takehito Yokoyama, and Yukio Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 016403 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Soft Hubbard Gaps in Disordered Itinerant Models with Short-Range Interaction

Hiroshi Shinaoka and Masatoshi Imada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 016404 (2009) - Published 6 January, 2009

Direct Observation of a Nuclear Spin Excitation in ${Ho}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$

G. Ehlers, E. Mamontov, M. Zamponi, K. C. Kam, and J. S. Gardner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 016405 (2009) - Published 9 January, 2009

Giant Orbital Hall Effect in Transition Metals: Origin of Large Spin and Anomalous Hall Effects

H. Kontani, T. Tanaka, D. S. Hirashima, K. Yamada, and J. Inoue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 016601 (2009) - Published 6 January, 2009

Correlation between Magnetism and Spin-Dependent Transport in CoFeB Alloys

P. V. Paluskar, R. Lavrijsen, M. Sicot, J. T. Kohlhepp, H. J. M. Swagten, and B. Koopmans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 016602 (2009) - Published 7 January, 2009

Spin Shift Register from a One-Dimensional Atomic Chain

G. D. Mahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 016801 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Spin Lifetimes in Quantum Dots from Noise Measurements

J. Wabnig, B. W. Lovett, J. H. Jefferson, and G. A. D. Briggs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 016802 (2009) - Published 6 January, 2009

Gate-Tunable Dissipation and “Superconductor-Insulator” Transition in Carbon Nanotube Josephson Junctions

Gang Liu, Yong Zhang, and Chun Ning Lau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 016803 (2009) - Published 8 January, 2009

Magnetic Moment Manipulation by a Josephson Current

F. Konschelle and A. Buzdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017001 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Microwave Penetration Depth and Quasiparticle Conductivity of ${PrFeAsO}_{1 - y}$ Single Crystals: Evidence for a Full-Gap Superconductor

K. Hashimoto, T. Shibauchi, T. Kato, K. Ikada, R. Okazaki, H. Shishido, M. Ishikado, H. Kito, A. Iyo, H. Eisaki, S. Shamoto, and Y. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017002 (2009) - Published 6 January, 2009

Recombination-Limited Energy Relaxation in a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Superconductor

A. V. Timofeev, C. Pascual García, N. B. Kopnin, A. M. Savin, M. Meschke, F. Giazotto, and J. P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017003 (2009) - Published 7 January, 2009

Quantum Phase Transition in the Magnetic-Field-Induced Normal State of Optimum-Doped High- $T_{c}$ Cuprate Superconductors at Low Temperatures

F. F. Balakirev, J. B. Betts, A. Migliori, I. Tsukada, Yoichi Ando, and G. S. Boebinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017004 (2009) - Published 7 January, 2009

Orbital Currents in Extended Hubbard Models of High- $T_{c}$ Cuprate Superconductors

Cédric Weber, Andreas Läuchli, Frédéric Mila, and Thierry Giamarchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017005 (2009) - Published 8 January, 2009

Hot Spots and Waves in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8}$ Intrinsic Josephson Junction Stacks: A Study by Low Temperature Scanning Laser Microscopy

H. B. Wang, S. Guénon, J. Yuan, A. Iishi, S. Arisawa, T. Hatano, T. Yamashita, D. Koelle, and R. Kleiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017006 (2009) - Published 9 January, 2009

Origin and Enhancement of Hole-Induced Ferromagnetism in First-Row $d^{0}$ Semiconductors

Haowei Peng, H. J. Xiang, Su-Huai Wei, Shu-Shen Li, Jian-Bai Xia, and Jingbo Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017201 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Evolution of a Large Fermi Surface in the Kondo Lattice

Junya Otsuki, Hiroaki Kusunose, and Yoshio Kuramoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017202 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Extended Supersolid Phase of Frustrated Hard-Core Bosons on a Triangular Lattice

Fa Wang, Frank Pollmann, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017203 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Lieb-Robinson Bounds and the Speed of Light from Topological Order

Alioscia Hamma, Fotini Markopoulou, Isabeau Prémont-Schwarz, and Simone Severini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017204 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Mott Insulators in the Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling Limit: From Heisenberg to a Quantum Compass and Kitaev Models

G. Jackeli and G. Khaliullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017205 (2009) - Published 6 January, 2009

Morphology Effectively Controls Singlet-Triplet Exciton Relaxation and Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors

V. K. Thorsmølle, R. D. Averitt, J. Demsar, D. L. Smith, S. Tretiak, R. L. Martin, X. Chi, B. K. Crone, A. P. Ramirez, and A. J. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017401 (2009) - Published 5 January, 2009

Anomalous Circular Polarization of Photoluminescence Spectra of Individual CdSe Nanocrystals in an Applied Magnetic Field

H. Htoon, S. A. Crooker, M. Furis, S. Jeong, Al. L. Efros, and V. I. Klimov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017402 (2009) - Published 9 January, 2009

Intrinsic Nucleation Mechanism and Disorder Effects in Polarization Switching on Ferroelectric Surfaces

Peter Maksymovych, Stephen Jesse, Mark Huijben, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Anna Morozovska, Samrat Choudhury, Long-Qing Chen, Arthur P. Baddorf, and Sergei V. Kalinin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017601 (2009) - Published 8 January, 2009

Fast Atom Diffraction from Superstructures on a Fe(110) Surface

A. Schüller, M. Busch, S. Wethekam, and H. Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017602 (2009) - Published 8 January, 2009

Electric-Field Control of a Hydrogenic Donor’s Spin in a Semiconductor

A. De, Craig E. Pryor, and Michael E. Flatté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017603 (2009) - Published 9 January, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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ERRATA

Erratum: Atomic-Scale Spin Spiral with a Unique Rotational Sense: Mn Monolayer on W(001) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 027201 (2008)]

P. Ferriani, K. von Bergmann, E. Y. Vedmedenko, S. Heinze, M. Bode, M. Heide, G. Bihlmayer, S. Blügel, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 019901 (2009) - Published 8 January, 2009