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Video Interview with Jamie Foxx & Kerry Washington
Nothing says Christmas better than seeing people's heads explode, Quentin Tarantino style. His latest film, Django Unchained, gives the touchy issue of slavery a Grindhouse flare.
Luke Goodsell sat down with six members of the cast to talk about their accents, favorite QT characters of all time, Bill Cosby, and Prince (just go with it).
Luke Goodsell sat down with six members of the cast to talk about their accents, favorite QT characters of all time, Bill Cosby, and Prince (just go with it).
Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington talk about using the word "fun" when describing slavery:
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Prevent Contracting Athlete's Foot from Health Club Locker
By NNT Featured Publications- December 21, 2012
www.cedarsole.com
It is very common to contract athlete?s foot infection from public places, such as locker rooms in health clubs, fitness center exercise equipment, communal showers and indoor swimming pools. Once contracted this fungus is very difficult to eliminate, and causes many other negative side effects.
This athlete?s foot fungus, also known as Tinea Pedis, is very contagious and causes embarrassing chronic foot odor. It also causes itching, peeling and cracking of skin, stinging and burning, and discoloration of toe nails. The fungus attaches itself to the inner lining of shoes, which can ruin perfectly good shoes in a short period of time. Many people exercise in public health clubs. This environment is where the fungus flourishes. Experts say that people should not go bear footed in these places.? That alone will not prevent contracting athlete?s foot. A simple, safe and natural athlete?s foot cure is to put Cedarsole inserts in all of your shoes.
The fungus is not only in the locker room. It also lives on the exercise equipment.? Most people don?t realize that this fungus is contracted through contact with fingers as well. Exercise equipment is typically not cleaned after every use with a cleaner which eliminates the fungus producing bacteria. After coming in contact with these bacteria, it can be transferred from the fingers to the feet. It will then thrive on the feet and in shoes as that is typically a moist environment, which the fungus needs to spread and grow. By using Cedarsole inserts to prevent contracting athlete?s foot, the feet and shoes will become dry not allowing the bacteria to live.
These Cedarsole inserts are made of 100% natural Lebanon cedar.? This cedar has a resin which kills the bacteria, so that even shoes which already have bacteria inside will become bacteria and odor free. Over 400,000 satisfied customers are using Cedarsole inserts today, which makes it fast, simple and inexpensive chronic foot odor and natural athlete?s foot cure once and for all with no side effects.? They are extremely thin and comfortable in shoes. These leave-in inserts are designed to be worn in all shoes, and typically last up to 4 months depending on frequency of use.? Imagine being able to use the same pair of socks all day, not having to use any creams, antifungal powders, vinegar or having to wash your feet several times per day, or use whatever other remedy which people have been trying to use for years to eliminate chronic foot odor!? You will feel comfortable and safe knowing you can take off your shoes at anytime without worrying about embarrassing odor.? Buy using Cedarsole inserts you can work out at your favorite health club and take a shower in the locker room without worrying about contracting athlete?s foot.
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Some gun-control advocates target ammo clips
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Ron Moon, co-owner of CJI Guns in Tucker, Ga., holds a pair of 100-bullet-capacity magazines for an AR15 assault style semi-automatic rifle on Wednesday.
By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor
Anticipating staunch resistance from gun-rights groups to any effort to ban assault-style rifles, some pro-gun control lawmakers are instead trying to leverage the national outrage over the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., to enact federal legislation outlawing high-capacity ammunition clips.
House Democrats, emboldened by President Barack Obama's call Wednesday for quick, "concrete? proposals to curb gun violence, are pushing House Republicans to quickly consider?a ban on high-capacity clips.
The move follows the massacre of 20 schoolchildren and six adults on Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary school. The gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza carried three guns, primarily using a Bushmaster?XM-15 ? an AR-15/M4-type rifle --?which police said was fed by 30-round magazines. He also was armed with a Glock 10mm handgun and Sig Sauer 9mm handgun. Although authorities didn't reveal the models of those weapons, both of those handguns allow high-capacity clips -- including 15-round magazines for one model of 10mm handgun that's sold by Glock. ?
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The bill?s list of co-sponsors this week grew from 113 to 135, according to a spokesman for Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., the measure?s author. In 1993, a man armed with a gun and several 15-round magazines shot and killed McCarthy?s husband, Dennis, aboard a Long Island, N.Y., commuter train. Five others also died and 25 were wounded.?
?We've been here before,? McCarty said Wednesday on Capitol Hill. ?All too often, we see these mass killings and yet all our lives go on. Everybody is asking: Is this time different? It is ... This time is different because there is so much anger.?
?We can get the job done,? added House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., one of the bill?s co-sponsors. In an interview Tuesday with NBC?s Andrea Mitchell, Pelosi predicted: ?Right away we could pass ... the ban on the assault magazine.?
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In the other house of Congress, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., is simultaneously pushing for a rapid vote on his almost identical proposal to outlaw the possession, import or sale of any ammunition clip that hold more than 10 rounds, saying: ?These high-capacity magazines, which were used in Newtown, Aurora, Tucson, Virginia Tech and so many other tragedies, were designed for one purpose only ? to shoot and kill quickly.?
From 1994 to 2004, high-capacity ammunition magazines were illegal as part of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, but that provision lapsed when the legislation expired. Congressional Democrats have made several attempts to similar legislation barring possession of rapid-fire assault-style weapons since then, but those efforts have failed.
Legislators also have pushed legislation banning specific types of bullets ? with one notable success:?In 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation that outlawed armor-piercing "cop-killer" bullets.?
But other recent ammunition-cutting proposals have failed to gain traction in Congress. Last summer, a bill filed Lautenberg and McCarthy sought to significantly curb the ability of Americans to buy unlimited amounts of ammunition via the Internet. That bill never made it beyond the Senate Judiciary Committee, a spokeswoman for Lautenberg said this week. ??
So in a country where the right to bear arms is held sacred, firearm foes are refining their pitch to focus on the delivery mechanism. One of their main talking points is asking why such high-capacity clips are necessary.
?I've been a hunter all my life, and there's no reason to have a magazine that holds 30 shells,? said Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif. ?Call it what it is: an assault magazine. And we don't have any reason to assault anyone in our communities, in our neighborhoods. ... Why do you need 30 shells in a magazine?"
?Who needs these? The answer is sports shooters,? responds Mark Walters, co-author of "Lessons from Armed America"?and host of a syndicated radio show ?Armed American Radio." ?For example, if you were target shooting or practicing for an upcoming (shooting competition), it?s nice not to have to change magazines on a regular continual basis."
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the National Rifle Association held a news conference in Washington, D.C, on Friday and blamed the media and video games for cultivating a culture of violence.
What?s more, many ranchers use firearms like AR15s ? manufactured to carry 30-round magazines???to protect their herds from coyotes and clear their land of prairie dogs, added George Hill, an employee at Basin Sports in Vernal, Utah.
The talk of banning ?assault magazines? emanating from Washington appears to be driving sales of the high-capacity clips, according to Walters and Hill.
??I came in at 8 this morning and I have been non-stop on selling AR15s and ammo. Nonstop,? Hill said Wednesday afternoon. ?Those (30-round clips) have been going out, and I?ve been selling those two, three, 10 at a time. Everybody?s worried about the politics behind it and that?s generating a lot of these sales. They?re worried about it being banned.
?I would be real happy to only sell Benelli goose-hunting guns and Browning deer rifles. And that?s normally what we sell this time of year. But the politics has super-heated the tactical market. Normally, I sell somebody 50 rounds, maybe 100 pounds. Instead, I?m selling them 500 or 1,000 rounds.?
While Walters and Hill each oppose the proposed ban on high-capacity clips in principle, they argued as well that such a crackdown won?t slow gun violence in this country.
?This is all symbolic legislation that will do nothing. Absolutely nothing. If I could say something different, I would admit that,? Walters said. ?But the facts don?t bear that out. It?s just feel-good legislation being backed into a horrible event.?
They note that gun ownership has increased over the past decade, with the number of instant criminal background checks conducted by retailers required by federal law rising each year. In November alone, more than 2 million such point-of-sale investigations were performed nationally on people seeking to purchase firearms???the most in any single month since federal officials launched the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) in 1998, according to the FBI. By comparison, gun retailers and federal authorities completed 842,932 background checks in November 2003.
?There are millions of rounds of ammunition already in the public?s hands???high-capacity or standard-capacity magazines already in the public's hands,? Walters said. ?If they pass this ban, in the days prior to the date (it goes into effect), stores will sell 10 years? worth of these capacity magazines.
?But beyond that, it?s irrelevant. A seasoned, experienced firearms enthusiast, including myself, can change a magazine out, including a tactical reload, in under a second,? Walters said.
Moreover, such ammunition doesn?t degrade over time, he added.
?It?s a plastic magazine with a spring. Magpul (based in Erie, Colo.) makes the most popular 30-round magazines, PMAGs, which are selling for $13.99,? Walters said. ?I have five of them being reserved at my store because they?re selling like crazy. I know I could keep them in my safe forever. I can open it in 20 years, take it out of the plastic bag, and if I want to use it, I can use it.?
Any federal ammo ban???or mandated purchase limits on certain clips or bullets???would simply create an ?underground market,? Hill said. Today, scores of gun enthusiasts???including many hunters???make their own bullets as a hobby. They?re called ?reloaders.?
?People have been making ammunition themselves since the 1880s. That?s something anybody is capable of doing with a little bit of know-how,? Hill said. "Those kinds of bans are like throwing a steak on the grill for like 10 seconds and calling it cooked. It just looks like it?s cooked but it?s not.
?You can reload. Or, you can order online and get stuff from outside the U.S. It?s too late for any of that,? Hill said. ?And it never works.?
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2012 Was a Banner Year for UC Press Books ? University of ...
As the year comes to a close, allow us to brag a little bit on behalf of our authors, who absolutely knocked it out of the park this year when it came to awards. These 65 brilliant works won or were finalists for some 2012?s most prestigious prizes in publishing and academia. Congratulations to all, and we?ll see you next year!
The Hall of Fame Award, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook
Anne Willan
Best U.S. Chinese Cuisine Book, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
The Hakka Cookbook: Chinese Soul Food from around the World
Linda Lau Anusasananan
Best Non-Fiction Book, Los Angeles Public Library
Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California
Edited by Peter J. Westwick
Leonard Bloomfield Book Award, The Linguistic Society of America
California Indian Languages
Victor Golla
Kov?cs Book and Essay Awards, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno
Miriam Bratu Hansen
Jensen-Miller Prize, Western History Association
Go West, Young Women! The Rise of Early Hollywood
Hilary Hallett
Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award, Western History Association
Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar: Writing on Luise?o Language and Colonial History, c.1840
Lisbeth Haas
Elliot P. Skinner Book Award, Association for Africanist Anthropology
Darkness before Daybreak: African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today
Hans Lucht
ALLA Book Prize, Association for Latina and Latino Anthropology
Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe
Elaine A. Pe?a
The Gregory Bateson Book Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology
Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present
Didier Fassin
ARSC Awards for Excellence, Association for Recorded Sound Collections
Clark: The Autobiography of Clark Terry
Clark Terry
ARSC Awards for Excellence, Association for Recorded Sound Collections
Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice
Tad Hershorn
Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, The Society for Humanistic Anthropology
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande
Angela Garcia
Rachel Carson Prize, Society of Social Studies of Science
Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas
Stefan Helmreich
Arthur J. Viseltear Prize, American Public Health Association
Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America
Leslie J. Reagan
Gradiva Awards, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World
Edited by Karin Lofthus Carrington and Susan Griffin
TWS Wildlife Publication Award, The Wildlife Society
Population Demography of Northern Spotted Owls
Eric D. Forsman et al.
TWS Wildlife Publication Award, The Wildlife Society
Greater Sage-Grouse: Ecology and Conservation of a Landscape Species and Its Habitats
Edited by Steven T. Knick and John W. Connelly
Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, American Historical Association
The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China?s Collective Past
Gail Hershatter
Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology
Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America
Leslie J. Reagan
World Food Prize, World Food Prize Foundation
Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil
Daniel Hillel
Chicago Folklore Prize, The American Folklore Society
Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico
Debra Lattanzi Shutika
ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers
Clark: The Autobiography of Clark Terry
Clark Terry
Award for Excellence in General Historical Research on Recorded Sound, Association for Recorded Sound Collections
Spoken Word: Postwar American Phonograph Cultures
Jacob Smith
Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award, Western History Association
Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar: Writing on Luise?o Language and Colonial History, c.1840
Lisbeth Haas
Stirling Prize for Best Published Work in Psychological Anthropology, Society for Psychological Anthropology
The Paradox of Hope: Journeys through a Clinical Borderland
Cheryl Mattingly
Awards for Excellence, American Academy of Religion
Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law
David M. Freidenreich
Awards for Excellence, American Academy of Religion
Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity
Pamela E. Klassen
Best Publication on the Body and Embodiment, ASA Section on Body and Embodiment
Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm
Rene Almeling
W.K. Hancock Prize, Australian Historical Association
Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798-1831
Ian Coller
One of the Ten Most Influential Books in Native American and Indigenous Studies in the First Decade of the Twenty-first Century, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
Tiya Miles
William E. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France
Miriam Ticktin
Norris and Carol Hundley Award, Pacific Coast Branch American Historical Association
Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West
Nayan Shah
Diana Forsythe Prize, American Anthropological Association
Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm
Rene Almeling
Finalist for the Louis Roederer International Wine Book of the Year, Louis Roederer International Wine Writers? Awards
Dying on the Vine: How Phylloxera Transformed Wine
George Gale
Asia and Asian American Section, American Sociological Association
The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work
Miliann Kang
Book of the Year, Jazz Journalism Association
Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice
Tad Hershorn
Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism, Jazz Journalists Association
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
Amiri Baraka
Oscar Kenshur Book Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic
James H. Johnson
International Migration Section Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award, American Sociological Association
Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City
Natasha K. Warikoo
International Latino Book Awards, Latino Literacy Now
Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
Alfredo Qui?ones-Hinojosa, MD
ASFS Book Award, The Association for the Study of Food and Society
Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism
Julie Guthman
Donald Q. Innis Award for Research Excellence, Rural Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers
Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California
Julie Guthman
California Book Awards, Commonwealth Club of California
Chuckwalla Land: The Riddle of California?s Desert
David Rains Wallace
Communication Policy Research Award, McGannon Center Research Awards
The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry)
Siva Vaidhyanathan
Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among Black Women
Mignon R. Moore
Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism
Julie Guthman
Community Mobilization Award, Center for Disease Control
Instant Recess: Building a Fit Nation 10 Minutes at a Time
Toni Yancey, MD, MPH
Gold Medal in the category of Californiana, 81st California Book Awards presented by the Commonwealth Club of California
Chuckwalla Land: The Riddle of California?s Desert
David Rains Wallace
NCIBA Poetry Book of the Year Award, The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems
Michael McClure
NCIBA Regional Title of the Year Award, The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
The Left Coast: California on the Edge
Philip L. Fradkin and Alex L. Fradkin
Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association
Enduring Violence: Ladina Women?s Lives in Guatemala
Cecilia Menj?var
J.B. Jackson Prize, Foundation for Landscape Studies
Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape
Kirk Savage
Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society
Enduring Violence: Ladina Women?s Lives in Guatemala
Cecilia Menj?var
James M. Blaut Innovative Publication Award, The Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers
Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism
Julie Guthman
Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal, National Academy of Sciences
Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles
Jonathan B. Losos
Finalist in History for the IACP Cookbook Awards, International Association of Culinary Professionals
Dying on the Vine: How Phylloxera Transformed Wine
George Gale
Shortlisted for the Andr? Simon Book Award
The Finest Wines of Rioja and Northwest Spain: A Regional Guide to the Best Producers and Their Wines
Jes?s Barqu?n, Luis Gutierrez, and Victor de la Serna
Shortlisted for the Andr? Simon Book Award
Authentic Wine: Toward Natural and Sustainable Winemaking
Jamie Goode, and Sam Harrop, MW
J.B. Jackson Prize, 2012, Foundation for Landscape Studies
Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape
Kirk Savage
PROSE AWARD, Association of American Publishers, Inc.
Encyclopedia of Biological Invasions
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Thursday, 20 December 2012
University of California Develop Spintronics-Based MRAM
By using electric voltage instead of a flowing electric current, researchers from UCLA have made major improvements to an ultra-fast, high-capacity class of computer memory known as magnetoresistive random access memory, or MRAM. The UCLA team's improved MRAM has great potential to be used in future memory chips for almost all electronic applications.
MeRAM's key advantage over existing technologies is that it combines extraordinary low energy with very high density, high-speed reading and writing times, and non-volatility. Currently, magnetic memory is based on a technology called spin-transfer torque (STT), which uses the magnetic property of electrons ? referred to as spin ? in addition to their charge. STT utilizes an electric current to move electrons to write data into the memory.
Yet while STT is superior in many respects to competing memory technologies, its electric current?based write mechanism still requires a certain amount of power, which means that it generates heat when data is written into it. In addition, its memory capacity is limited by how close to each other bits of data can be physically placed, a process which itself is limited by the currents required to write information. The low bit capacity, in turn, translates into a relatively large cost per bit, limiting STT's range of applications.
With MeRAM, the UCLA team has replaced STT's electric current with voltage to write data into the memory. This eliminates the need to move large numbers of electrons through wires and instead uses voltage ? the difference in electrical potential ? to switch the magnetic bits and write information into the memory. This has resulted in computer memory that generates much less heat, making it 10 to 1000 times more energy-efficient. The memory can be more than five-times as dense, with more bits of information stored in the same physical area, which also brings down the cost per bit.
?The ability to switch nanoscale magnets using voltages is an exciting and fast-growing area of research in magnetism. This work presents new insights into questions such as how to control the switching direction using voltage pulses, how to ensure that devices will work without needing external magnetic fields, and how to integrate them into high-density memory arrays. [?] MeRAM's advantage over competing technologies will not be limited to its lower power dissipation, but equally importantly, it may allow for extremely dense MRAM,? said Pedram Khalili, a research associate in electrical engineering and project manager for the UCLA?DARPA research programs in non-volatile logic.
MeRAM uses nanoscale structures called voltage-controlled magnet-insulator junctions, which have several layers stacked on top of each other, including two composed of magnetic materials. However, while one layer's magnetic direction is fixed, the other can be manipulated via an electric field. The devices are specially designed to be sensitive to electric fields. When the electric field is applied, it results in voltage ? a difference in electric potential between the two magnetic layers. This voltage accumulates or depletes the electrons at the surface of these layers, writing bits of information into the memory. ?
"Ultra-low?power spintronic devices such as this one have potential implications beyond the memory industry. They can enable new instant-on electronic systems, where memory is integrated with logic and computing, thereby completely eliminating standby power and greatly enhancing their functionality," said Kang L. Wang, UCLA's Raytheon professor of electrical engineering.
Tags: MRAM, MeRAM
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