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Monday, December 31, 2012
Kandi Burruss,Todd Tucker Engaged?
Are Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker engaged?Kandi is on vacay and suspiciously has shared several pics with her ring finger covered. And of course it doesn’t help that there has been the rumor that Todd proposed while they were still filming Real Housewives of Atlanta and that it is alllllllll on video – for the finale. those rumors always turn out to be true. Kandi is a great girl so I hope this is true, she deserves to have this happiness and pop out them babies she wants! Kandi is shaping up to be one of the bigger “Housewives” stars, as we will be seeing more of the multi-talented mama in 2013. he just finished up filming “The Kandi Factory” for Bravo and she has a really lucrative adult toy line “Bedrom Kandi.” Her mama gave her the perfect franchise name. Just sayin! Kim will also have her spin-off but that girl doesn;t make sense to me anymore, so I am not sure I can muster up enough guilty pleasure points to watch that shiz. I will be tuining into Kandi’s show though. And RHOA – if they show them broke @ss grandma strippers again, I will be forced [...]
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
'No Russian military involvement in Syria' ? Lavrov: Voice of Russia
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke about this to the media after discussing the Syrian crisis with international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi at a meeting in Moscow Saturday.
He also said that no world power has real appetite to send forces to Syria and anyway, Russia would do everything in its power, including at the UN Security Council, to block outside military intervention in the Syrian conflict.
He pointed out that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remains determined to stay in power and defend his country and its people.
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Source: http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_12_29/No-Russian-military-involvement-in-Syria-Lavrov/
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Stop Doing Stupid Stuff in the Gym - Start the New Year Right ...
By , today at 10:57 am
Whether you have been working out up until the end of 2012 or promising to visit the gym in the first few weeks of 2013, we welcome you back!? But please stop doing stupid things in the gym.? Gym managers, owners and trainers cannot believe how some people just do the dumbest and rudest things in the gym.??? Now there are two categories of stupid things I am going to address: 1.) things that are just rude, and 2) the most foolish workout habits.
It?s Just Rude:
- Don?t blow your nose in your towel and then throw your towel on the ground or a bench.? Do not reuse it, do not wipe down any piece of equipment with it.? Get rid of it and use a Kleenex next time.
- If you know you are a sweater and you have dripped all over a piece of equipment, clean it up.? It isn?t about your germs.? Everyone leaves germs behind, but it is gross and not safe.? Dry the equipment.? And, yes do it on every piece of equipment you use.
- When someone is standing close to the mirror watching their movement while clearly doing an exercise, do not keep walking in front of them.? Go around.? The only exception is if you need to rack your weights immediately, exactly where they are standing.? Otherwise, you could just wait.? Even a set of 12 reps takes about 30 seconds.
- If your gym has a standard 6-foot bench, you do not need to hog the whole thing.? Your crap does not need to be spread across the entire bench.
- When you are naked in the locker room use a towel or one of your own personal items to sit bare-bottomed on the bench.? And please don?t straddle the bench naked.? If this is the only way you know how to put on underwear, I encourage you to practice at home another method.? There are many clever ways to slide your underpants on without your privates ever touching the actual locker room bench.
- Say hello and good-bye to the people working the front desk.? Check in like you are supposed to.? Don?t scam and try to skip by without being noticed.? It?s a total dick move.
- If you knock over your muscle milk or water bottle (it happens), clean it up properly and let the front desk know.? Don?t grab the entire box of tissue and drop sheets on the floor, as if it magically soaks it all up and then throws itself away in the garbage.?? If you do not have a towel you can use to begin the clean up process, ask the front desk for some rags.? Return to the scene of the accident (which is no biggie BTW), and offer to help.? If they cordially, say do not worry about it (which they most likely will), because they will clean it up, say thank you.
- If you just smoked right before you walked into a gym, remember that everyone can smell it.? It really does suck for people exercising that you have dragged this smell and the lingering smoke scent that is on your clothes into the gym.? You need to find a way to cleanse your clothes.
Stupid Things People Do at the Gym:
- Do not begin your workout with bicep curls.? This is a clear sign you have no idea what you are doing.?? The ?gun show? will not come with an endless number of bicep curls.? Start your training with multi-joint movements.? Squats, lunges, leg press, something hard that will serve your whole body.? If you can?t think of anything else, ask for help.
- So you are into large muscle group exercises.? Me too.? Leg press is a great way to start out your core workout.? But do not load a leg press with a dozen plates, do a couple of reps, slam and rack, and then walk away.? Take your own f**king plates off the press.?? Gym employees are not your mama, put your own toys away!
- Hey! Tom Cruise, Don?t wear your sunglasses when working out.? It?s not Venice Beach.
- We all have clumsy moments.? But if you are running on the treadmill and drop something, like your ipod, iphone or water bottle, STOP while FACING FORWARD, GRIP the HANDRAILS, THEN STEP OFF and TURN AROUND. ?Say it again to yourself.
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Although someone will get a good chuckle out it, no one wants to see you get hurt.? And, you certainly do not need more reasons why you can?t ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?workout for awhile.
- I understand that most gyms are limited in space.? It is great when there is a designated AB and flexibility area, which is separated from the functional/dynamic training space.? But in many gyms this space is shared.?? If you are about to do plyometrics, kettlebell swings or sand bags throws, do not do it next to someone laying on the floor stretching or doing crunches.? First, they don?t need your crotch lowering down over their head, and second, they were there first.? You shouldn?t be swinging or slamming anything close to a person lying on the ground.?? Negotiate the space by either asking if they could move over or keep yourself busy doing something else and hold off a few minutes.? You could always hang out in a plank.
- If your workout sounds resemble porn sounds effects, tape your mouth shut.? I can tolerate a few grunts here and there, but seriously, no one needs to hear that.? This is another thing you can practice at home before doing it at the gym.
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India rape charges fail to quell protests
A young woman who died after being gang-raped and beaten on a bus in India's capital was cremated Sunday amid an outpouring of anger and grief by millions across the country demanding greater protection for women from sexual violence.
The cremation took place during a private ceremony in New Delhi soon after the woman's body arrived in the capital on a special Air India flight from Singapore, where she died at a hospital Saturday after being sent for medical treatment.
The tragedy has forced India to confront the reality that sexually assaulted women are often blamed for the crime, forcing them to keep quiet and discouraging them from going to authorities for fear of exposing their families to ridicule. Police often refuse to accept complaints from rape victims, and the rare prosecutions that reach courts can drag on for years.
Security was tight, with no access to the public or media at the crematorium.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, head of the ruling Congress party, were at the airport to receive the body and meet family members of the victim who were on the flight.
Hours after the victim died early Saturday, Indian police charged six men who had been arrested in connection with the attack with murder, adding to accusations that they beat and gang-raped the woman on a New Delhi bus on Dec. 16.
New Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said the six suspects face the death penalty if convicted, in a case that has triggered protests across India and raised questions about lax attitudes by police toward sexual crimes.
After 10 days at a hospital in New Delhi, the victim, who has not been identified, was taken Thursday to Singapore's Mount Elizabeth hospital, which specializes in multi-organ transplants, but her condition worsened, with her vital signs deteriorating.
Following her death, thousands of Indians lit candles, held prayer meetings and marched through various cities and towns, including New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata, on Saturday night to express their grief and demand stronger protection for women and the death penalty for rape, which is now punishable by a maximum of life imprisonment.
But even as thousands mourned the rape victim's death and in a sign of how pervasive such crimes are, police in West Bengal state were investigating another suspected gang-rape and death.
In the latest case, the family of a woman said she and her husband were attacked by six men as they returned home after working at a brick factory.
They dragged the woman into a nearby farm after pouring acid into her husband's mouth, the family said.
The woman was found dead with multiple injuries, said police officer Bhaskar Mukherjee, adding he was waiting for an autopsy report.
No charges have been laid. Another police officer, Sugata Sen, said four men had been detained for questioning.
The alleged attack is similar to the Dec. 16 case, where the woman and a male friend, who also has not been identified, were on a bus after watching a film when they were attacked by six men who raped her. The men beat the couple and inserted an iron rod into the woman's body, resulting in severe organ damage. Both were then stripped and thrown off the bus, according to police.
Protesters push against police barrier
Dozens of protesters tried to break through a police cordon Sunday and march to the parliament building in the Indian capital, but were pushed back. The protesters, belonging to the student wing of main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, shouted anti-government slogans as they marched.
Hundreds of policemen have sealed off the high-security area, where the seat of India's government is located, in anticipation of more protests. The area is home to parliament, the president's palace, the prime minister's office and several ministries.
Gandhi assured the protesters in a statement that the rape victim's death "deepens our determination to battle the pervasive, the shameful social attitudes and mindset that allow men to rape and molest women and girls with such an impunity."
Attitudes by Indians toward rape are so entrenched that even politicians and opinion makers have often suggested that women should not go out at night or wear clothes that might be seen as provocative.
Meanwhile, a United Nations statement said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "offers his sincerest condolences" to the victim's family and "utterly condemns this brutal crime."
"Violence against women must never be accepted, never excused, never tolerated," the statement said. "Every girl and woman has the right to be respected, valued and protected."
Ban urged the Indian government to take steps to deter such crimes and bring perpetrators to justice, and to "strengthen critical services for rape victims," it said.
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/12/30/india-gang-rape-protest.html
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Man pushed to death on NYC subway tracks
By Shimon Prokupecz and Gus Rosendale, NBCNewYork.com
A man was pushed from a subway platform in Queens Thursday and killed by an oncoming train, a law enforcement official told NBC 4 New York.
Witnesses told police that a woman, described as heavyset and in her 20s, shoved the man onto the 7-train tracks at 40th Street and Queens Blvd. before fleeing, the law enforcement official said. Police are searching for the woman.
Police say they believe they have video of the suspect that they're currently retrieving from a pizzeria near the train station. The video was expected to be released overnight.
The suspect, dressed in a gray, white and blue jacket, had been mumbling to herself and pacing the platform, according to police. Witnesses said that the victim and suspect did not exchange any words and that it appeared that the man did notice the suspect at all before being pushed from behind to his death.
"I heard it. One of my customers was on train and heard it going over body," said Jiovanni Briones, who works near the scene.
It is the second time this month that a person has been shoved onto subway train tracks and killed.
Naeem Davis, a 30-year-old deli worker, was recently arrested and charged with second-degree murder for allegedly pushing a man off a Midtown subway platform to his death.
Ki-Suk Han, 58, was stuck by a southbound Q train after being pushed off the platform at the 49th Street station Dec. 3.
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Animal rights group settles lawsuit with Ringling
WASHINGTON (AP) ? An animal rights group will pay Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus $9.3 million to settle its part of a lawsuit stemming from claims the circus abused its elephants.
The circus company's owners announced the settlement with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on Friday. The animal rights group was one of several that in 2000 sued the circus' owner, Feld Entertainment Inc., claiming elephants were abused. Courts later found that the animal rights activists had paid a former Ringling employee to bring the lawsuit and that the man didn't have the right to sue the circus.
The Vienna, Va.-based Feld Entertainment then sued the animal rights groups, accusing them of conspiracy to harm its business other illegal acts. Friday's settlement covers only the ASPCA.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/animal-rights-group-settles-lawsuit-ringling-160335520.html
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VP reads message from ailing Chavez to military
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ? In a message read by his No. 2, President Hugo Chavez saluted Venezuela's military and acknowledged he was facing "complicated and difficult" times as he recovers from cancer surgery in Cuba.
The message read by Vice President Nicolas Maduro during a military event in eastern Venezuela offered no details on Chavez's condition and it was unclear when the president composed it. Chavez, 58, has not been seen or heard from since undergoing his fourth cancer-related surgery in Havana on Dec. 11.
"I have had to battle again for my health," the president said in the message. He expressed "complete faith in the commitment and loyalty that the revolutionary armed forces are showing me in this very complicated and difficult moment."
There have been no new updates on Chavez's condition since Maduro announced Monday night that he had received a phone call from the president who was up and walking.
Maduro and other government officials have tried to drill optimism into their supporters at raucous events nearly every day since. But uncertainty about Venezuela's political future has grown with no guarantee that Chavez will be back in time for his scheduled Jan. 10 inauguration for a new six-year term.
A group of opposition candidates demanded Friday that Maduro provide an official medical report on Chavez's health. Lawmaker Dinorah Figuera said the country needs "a medical report from those who are responsible for the diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of the president."
"The Venezuelan people deserve official and institutional information," Figuera told Venezuelan media.
Before leaving for Cuba, Chavez acknowledged the precariousness of his situation and designated Maduro his successor, telling supporters they should vote for the vice president if new elections are necessary.
But a legal fight is brewing over what should happen if Chavez, who was re-elected in October, cannot return in time for the inauguration before the National Assembly.
National Assembly Diosdado Cabello insisted Monday that the Venezuelan Constitution allows the president to take the oath before the Supreme Court at any time if he cannot do it before the legislature on Jan. 10.
Opposition leaders argue the constitution requires that new elections be held within 30 days if Chavez cannot take office Jan. 10. They have criticized the confusion over the inauguration as the latest example of the Chavez government's disdain for democratic rule of law and have demanded clarity on whether the president is fit to govern.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/vp-reads-message-ailing-chavez-military-194124530.html
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Friday, December 28, 2012
'Les Mis?rables': Why musical-haters will like it
'Les Mis?rables' has appealed to a lot of critics and has already racked up awards nominations, but it can also win over those who wouldn't be caught dead at a musical.
'Les Miserables' stars Hugh Jackman (l.) and Anne Hathaway (r.).
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EnlargeFor months, musical fans have been praising the casting decisions (Hugh Jackman! Anne Hathaway! Oh, fine, Russell Crowe), devouring trailers, and nodding with approval over the awards praise showered upon the film version of ?Les Mis?rables? by the Screen Actors Guild and the Hollywood Foreign Press.
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So there?s no fear that the big-screen adaptation of ?Les Mis? will appeal to them, those super-fans who can tell you that Colm Wilkinson was the original Jean Valjean in London and can recite every separate part of ensemble number ?One Day More.? They?ll be turning out to the theater in droves to see their beloved story of a French revolution and the people who are affected by it and will hum along to the songs under their breath as they soak in the vocal performances.
But you know who else should give the movie a chance? People who hate musicals.
There is a (fairly large) group of people to whom simply the word ?musical? is enough to conjure up shuddering. Singing, like people do on ?Glee?? And over-emoting and wearing over-the-top costumes? Count them out. They?ll be watching TV (not ?Glee?).
But I know of several people who view going to see a musical as on par with a tooth extraction who, through accident or being forced to go, saw the stage version of ?Les Mis.? I, the eager fan, asked them how they liked it, and got positive responses from all of them. ?It was? good? was the main reaction, almost all with a surprised tone.
And the reason that ?Les Mis?rables? can win over musical-allergic theatergoers is that it?s not glitzy. It?s not glamorous. There are no kick lines, no spangly outfits, no drawn-out dance numbers. It is the story of various people struggling to survive in nineteenth century France that happens to have some musical numbers attached.
The story is powerful enough that the book by Victor Hugo was a classic long before the musical came along ? some may complain that revolutionary student Marius and protagonist Jean Valjean?s adoptive daughter Cosette aren?t especially deep characters, and they?re right. But everyone remembers Jean Valjean himself, the escaped convict, and his moral struggles and the ruthless Inspector Javert who pursues him, certain that no criminal can be a good man and vice versa.
And the music?s just gorgeous ? if you simply like music that sounds beautiful, it will win you over, whether or not you?re a musical fan. (It will also get stuck in your head, especially the anthemic ?Do You Hear the People Sing?,? so beware.)?
Anyone who?s read the novel will know this beforehand, but it?s pretty darn good at subverting the happy ending most people associate with musicals, also. Let?s just say the show has a pretty high body count.
It?s a serious story about people struggling with almost insurmountable problems ? things like getting food and finding a job and when it?s right to stand up to your government. One character, Fantine, is forced to become a prostitute because she has no other options. Not exactly musical fun time, is it?
So yes, they sing. But give it a chance beyond that. There are no sequins ? I promise.
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'Warm Bodies': Watch The First Four Minutes
Despite utter zombie exhaustion, "Warm Bodies" has a premise we could potentially get behind. Sure, there's a lot of room for some cheeseball moments when you have a zombie falling in love and slowly becoming human again, but at least it's something different. If you remain unconvinced that anything original can be done with zombies [...]
Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/12/28/warm-bodies-first-four-minutes/
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Students' online and offline social networks can predict course grades
Dec. 27, 2012 ? Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's (BGU) Social Networks Security Research Group in its Department of Information Systems Engineering has developed a novel method to predict how well or badly a student will perform in an academic course.
The information can be used to determine which students need the most help, as well as which ones excel and might be guided to further study or careers in that subject area. The paper, "Predicting Student Exam Scores by Analyzing Social Network Data," was presented earlier this month at the Advanced Media Technology Conference in Macau, Hong Kong.
According to co-author and Ph.D. student Michael Fire, "While most papers about social network analysis deal solely with information gathered online, this study draws some of the information from the real world -- social interactions which were conducted off the grid."
The researchers analyzed data from a BGU course that included assignments submitted online and Web site logs (containing 10,759 entries) to construct social networks of explicit and implicit cooperation among the students. The implicit connections are used to model all the social interactions that happened "offline" among the students: e-mails with questions, conversations in the lab while preparing the assignments and even course forums.
"These connections were very important, as we sought to model the social interactions within the student body," Fire explains.
In addition to analyzing the online submissions of the students who had to work in pairs or in groups, they also tracked login time and computer usage. For instance, if two students submitted their assignments from the same computer, it was a likely indication that the two had worked together to complete the assignment. If two students submitted assignments from different computers, but one right after the other on more than one occasion, the authors gave a value to that data, as well.
"One explanation for what we discovered is that your friends influence your grade in the course, so, if you pick your friends well, then you will get a higher grade," Fire says. "Alternatively, social networks in courses offer conditions whereby good students will pair with other good students, and similarly weaker ones will pair with weaker students."
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6 Simple Fitness Guidelines to Toning Up Your Body! | Gain Quick ...
Creating and sticking to a fitness routine can be difficult and many people get discouraged at the slow progress.? There are a few things you can do to get your body to the state you want without working yourself to the ground.? By following?these?six (6) simple?fitness guidelines?you can?start seeing results.
1. Cardio is the key to fat loss- this is the first and most important thing to remember.? If you are lifting weights and doing other muscle oriented exercises that is fantastic;?but if you are looking to shed fat quickly then?cardio is your best friend.??Varying?your?walking?speed is a great way to create muscle confusion and get your heart rate pumping.? Jogging, jumping rope and cycling are excellent?activities if you are looking to increase your heart ra
te and shed those pounds.
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2. The machine makes all the difference so check out something like nordictrack.com : ellipticals is a great way to get a feel for how much it may cost to get an effective machine of your own.? The machine that you use makes all the difference when it comes to losing weight or gaining muscle.? You may use a traditional treadmill for thirty minutes a day and only lose a pound a week but if you try an elliptical you can burn three times as much calories in the same amount of time.
3. Dedication pays off-?adhering to a strict diet or exercise plan does pay off in the end.? Though it may seem challenging especially when the?progress is?slow, sticking to a plan no matter what is the?best way to be sure that you are giving your body a chance to change and adapt to what you are doing.
4. Variation is a good thing- switching up your routine every two or three weeks is a great way to make sure that you do not get bored?or complacent.? As your body grows and changes it can adapt to the exercise that you are doing which will make the exercise?far less effective.
5. Get a buddy- this does not mean that you have to have someone to go to the gym with you every time but having a stable support system is a great way to get in shape.? Having someone to talk to about your troubles and difficulties is a great way to get a new perspective and get over your issues.
6. Ask for help ? if you are having trouble creating or sticking to a plan you can always ask a professional.? Giving advice and helping people reach their?fitness goal is what health professionals are trained to do.? Taking advice does not make you any less or more dedicated but can help you reach your goals much faster than?if you sought no?help at all.
Final Thoughts
Following these guidelines?can help you get the body that you want in a shorter time period.? If you have questions about losing weight or getting in shape it never hurts to ask and finding the answers?might be easier than you think.? Losing weight and getting in shape is hard but it doesn?t have to be impossible.
About the Author:
Joyce G. is a professional health blogger and writer.? She currently partners with nordictrack.com : ellipticals in raising awareness about the importance of health and fitness. NordicTrack has come to symbolize the means for serious athletes and fitness-buffs alike to ?get ready for adventure,? whatever that may be.
Source: http://www.gainbuildmuscle.com/2012/12/26/6-simple-fitness-guidelines-to-toning-up-your-body/
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Leave a comment - Phoenix Bankruptcy Attorney Blog | Arizona ...
The financial meltdown of 2008 brought about money struggles for people in a wide variety of situations. People with homes large and small lost them. Costs such as medical bills became overburdening for Americans young and old.
In particular, some older Americans made investments that turned out not to be as safe they were supposed to be. The result is that people who saved for retirement throughout their whole careers are now faced with an uncertain financial future. This situation is in large part the subject of a new novel by a Phoenix-area author who says he and his wife were the victims of a Ponzi scheme.
R.P. McCabe's book "Betrayed" is a fictional account of a retiring couple's financial fallout. While the characters in the novel are fictionalized, the story resembles McCabe's. He and his wife were set to retire in 2008, and they thought they were doing okay with a career's worth of good investments. Unfortunately, that wasn't exactly the case.
McCabe and his wife invested $1 million with two real estate companies in Phoenix. About 700 other investors did the same thing, putting in amounts ranging from $200,000 to millions. One retired investor reportedly lost $16 million.
According to McCabe, when 2008 came to a close, all of the money was gone. In total, the 700 investors lost over $100 million. Civil litigation ensued, but no criminal charges have yet been filed. Those whose investments disappeared claim they were the victims of a Ponzi scheme.
Sadly, McCabe said his personal financial crisis led to the destruction of his marriage. He and his wife had been together for 34 years. The stress of his struggle led to serious psychological problems, and to cope, he decided to interview 200 of the 700 jilted investors. That research serves as the basis of his novel "Betrayed."
Phoenix residents who are having financial difficulties need to know they are not alone. Money problems are a reality for Americans from every walk of life, but there are debt relief options for every situation.
Source: Daily Finance, "Life After a Ponzi Scheme: Victim Turns Million-Dollar Loss into Literature," Michele Lerner, Dec. 4, 2012
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
The 5 best fiction books of the year
Looking for a great book to get you through the holidays? Read on
1. Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel?(Holt, $28)
In Hilary Mantel's hands, Thomas Cromwell has become "one of literature's most compelling characters," said?Radhika?Jones?in?Time. Henry VIII's chief adviser was both "loyal and scheming, generous and cruel" ? traits Mantel brought to the fore in 2009's?Wolf Hall,?the first installment of her Cromwell trilogy. In the second, she "deepens her portrait of the master puppeteer." Mantel's "exhilarating prose, unrivaled in contemporary fiction," puts us whisper-close to Cromwell as he maneuvers Anne Boleyn toward the executioner's block while inescapably sowing the seeds of his own eventual demise. Mantel obviously understands that "what gives fiction its vitality is not the accurate detail but the animate one," said?James Wood?in?The New Yorker. "Quite a few readers would be prepared to yawn" at an encounter between Cromwell and theologian Thomas?Cranmer, but Mantel makes such scenes "alive, silvery," and "rapid with insight."
A caveat:?This book feels too much like a bridge to the next installment, a "highly entertaining throat-clearing," said?William?Georgiades?at?Slate.
2.?Billy Lynn's Long Halftime?Walk
by Ben Fountain?(Ecco, $15)
The Iraq War era has found its?Catch-22, said?Jeff?Turrentine?in?The Washington Post.?Ben Fountain's "masterful gut-punch of a debut novel" unfolds on a recent Thanksgiving Day as the surviving members of a combat unit, fresh from battlefield heroics celebrated endlessly by Fox News, are feted during the megawatt halftime show of the holiday's Dallas Cowboys game. With "hardly a false note," Fountain records the spectacle through the 19-year-old eyes of Billy Lynn, who's just hours away from redeployment and trying to hold his emotions in check as he soldiers his way into the belly of the beast of American excess. Fountain's novel "left me breathless," said?Jonathan?Evison?at?NPR. This brilliant satire is also remarkably visceral. "From the sodium glare of the stadium lights to the acid sting of bitterness in the throat," you "feel the story with your whole body."?
A caveat:?Billy Lynn?is "95 percent the most entertaining novel I've read in ages," said?Adam Langer?in the?San Francisco Chronicle. But the ending feels forced.?
3.?NW?
by Zadie Smith?(Penguin, $27)
When in doubt, return to your roots, said?K. Thomas Kahn?at?TheMillions.com. Zadie Smith's fourth novel circles back to Willesden, the northwest London neighborhood of her youth and the setting of her stunning 2000 debut,?White Teeth. But?NW?is a "more poetic and abstract novel," with stream-of-consciousness sections that owe a debt to Virginia Woolf's?Mrs.?Dalloway. Leah and Natalie, the dual protagonists, grew up together in a neighborhood housing project, and both have made it out. But each friend is struggling, amid the claims that race, class, and gender make on her, to find and embrace a comfortable identity. This is a "deeply ambitious" novel, said?David L. Ulin?in the?Los Angeles Times.?But it's also "exuberant, lush with language," and "intensely readable, intensely human": It signals the maturation of a writer already wise beyond her years.?
A caveat:?"The people in this book are more stereotypes than individuals, more ham-handed cartoons than emotionally detailed human beings," said?Michiko Kakutani?in?The New York Times.?
4.?Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn?(Crown, $25)
"A great crime novel is an unstable thing, entertainment and literature suspended in some undetermined solution," said?Laura Miller?at?Salon. Gillian Flynn's "ingenious, pitch-black" third novel mixes the ingredients to perfection. Nick and Amy lead charmed lives in New York City until a turn of the economy demotes them to a McMansion in the Missouri town where Nick grew up. Then Amy disappears, leaving a trace of blood, and all signs point to Nick. From then on, readers ache to solve "two mysteries ? what happened to Amy, and what happened to Nick-and-Amy?" Neither puzzle is easily solved, said?Janet Maslin?in?The New York Times. "Both Nick and Amy are extremely adept liars, and they lied to each other a lot." They lie to you, too ? Nick in the present tense and Amy in diary entries. All along, Flynn displays "ice-pick sharp" control, with "characters so well-imagined they're hard to part with ? even if, as in Amy's case, they are already departed."?
A caveat:?Flynn's characters are "slightly cartoonish, and more than once, their over-the-top scheming strains credulity," said?Amy Gutman?in the?Chicago Tribune.?
5.?Building Stories
by Chris Ware?(Pantheon, $50)
This remarkable work of fiction is less a book than a "keepsake box full of things you don't want to forget," said?Melissa Maerz?in?Entertainment Weekly. Each board-game-size box contains 14 odd-shaped bits of "beautifully illustrated" literature, from a flip book to a poster to an ersatz children's reader. The whole package is the work of graphic novelist Chris Ware, and there's no right way in. Picking things up at random, you find your way into an affecting story about the lonely lives of four inhabitants of one Chicago brownstone. My initial irritation at having to piece Ware's story together "gave way to enchantment," said?Steve Almond?in?The New Republic. A "poet of solitude," Ware has used the comic-book format as a tool of psychological investigation ? conveying the scope of his characters' "private torments" and "unfulfilled lives" in a few well-wrought panels.?Building Stories?might be too bleak for some readers, but it's "brutal in the way all great art is." In fact, it's "one of the most important pieces of art I have ever experienced."
A caveat:?You can't read?Building Stories?on a Kindle, said?Douglas Wolk?in?The New York Times.?
How the books were?chosen
Our rankings were created by weighting the end-of-year recommendations published in?The Atlantic, CSMonitor.com,?Minneapolis?Star Tribune, Newsday, The New York Times, NPR.org, O?magazine, Publishers Weekly, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Time,?and?The Washington Post.
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A Yankee?s Thoughts on Dallas' Winter Weather: Texas Isn?t Cold
FIRST PERSON | DALLAS -- "Dallas feels like Rochester!"
That was the friendly greeting I received on the way into work this morning. I was wearing my college hoodie from the University of Rochester, so the reference to Rochester, N.Y., was understandable. However, let me correct Dallas residents' perception of their cities winters. Dallas is not like Rochester.
I come from Syracuse and, in Upstate New York, snow isn't measured in inches. We use feet. In Upstate New York, it's not cold until the snow squeaks beneath your feet -- at around 15 degrees. In Upstate New York, we don't complain about scraping off our cars. We keep ice scrapers in our trunks year-round. In New York, our snow plows are twice as wide as the road. The biggest difference, though, is that in Upstate New York, whether Syracuse, Rochester or Buffalo, we don't see the sun. From about November to March, the sky stays grey.
So, Dallasites, please don't tell me Dallas is like Rochester. Texas is not like New York. It is not cold. If I thought it was cold, then you wouldn't see me in shorts. The snow in Dallas was beautiful -- until it melted when the sun rose. Scraping your car is not the most novel activity in the world; millions of people north of the Mason-Dixon Line do it every winter day. Dallas does not have snow plows. Dallas-Fort Worth has pickup trucks with sand in their beds. Finally, please do not tell me Texas is like New York because I can see the sun down here.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/yankee-thoughts-dallas-winter-weather-texas-isn-t-181000656.html
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I Am A Neanderthal, And You Probably Are, Too
Editor?s note: James Altucher?is an investor, programmer, author, and several-times entrepreneur. Ugh, I can't write anything today. It's the end of the year. Tomorrow is Christmas. You'd think I would have something to say. Merry Christmas. Oh wait, you can't even say that anymore. I'm Jewish! I have to say something like Happy Holidays. I don't even know what Hannukah is.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/2lsXUGrRF1Y/
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Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Making Process Planning Cool Again - Sarah Green - Our Editors ...
Processes are, if not under attack, then falling out of fashion among a certain type of business cognoscenti. Planning is out. "Planning to learn" is in. Little bets, experimentation, just start, iteration, rapid prototyping, lean ? these are the cool kids. Process is the dork in the corner wearing mom-jeans and an unironic Christmas sweater.
But while it may not be cool to talk about process, I suspect I don't have to convince HBR readers of its merits ? how else to explain a post on a project management process racking up hundreds of comments? Still, the world is in need of more processes ? and more process evangelists.
Steve St. Angelo is the Chief Quality Officer for Toyota North America. I caught up with him recently, and with Zack Rosenberg, co-founder and CEO of the St. Bernard Project, a non-profit building homes in post-Katrina New Orleans (yes, seven years later, they are still rebuilding down there). Rosenberg's organization has been using Toyota's process chops to produce more houses, more efficiently. St. Angelo is as straightforward and steady as your best factory foreman; Rosenberg is a spinning top of enthusiasm. Together, they're putting roofs over people's heads.
Here's how it works. Through the Toyota Production System Support Center (TSSC), a nonprofit within the auto company, Toyota shares its TPS methods with all kinds of organizations ? including donating their expertise to other nonprofits. "So what?" you might say, "TPS is old news." And Toyota has had recall and quality issues recently. And many of the companies that implemented the TPS principles have found them difficult ? at best ? to implement. So what makes this different?
First, TSSC is choosey. They don't start working with an organization if the executive team is skittish ? at all ? about adopting TPS methods wholeheartedly. Like any good process junkies, they know a half-adopted process is as bad, if not worse, than none at all. Second, they invest for the long term. It's not just about changing the process ? it's about changing the culture. Too many processes are implemented superficially, which is why they don't work. "This is not a silver bullet," as St. Angelo cautioned me. To make it work, you need to be "obsessed." And it's not without challenges ? Rosenberg talked about how when they first started implementing TPS, with its focus on surfacing problems quickly, the organizational culture became negative. The focus on "continuous improvement" left employees feeling like whatever they were accomplishing was never good enough. As soon as one problem was solved, one inefficiency identified, it was on to the next. So Rosenberg adapted ? he started talking more about "constructive dissatisfaction," and celebrating small wins.
Another TSSC principle: The companies and nonprofits working with TSSC aren't allowed to lay anyone off. Anyone. The theory: if workers realize their jobs are safe, they're much more likely to adopt more efficient processes. Too often in business-speak, "We need to get more efficient" translates to "We need to fire some of you." No wonder people cleave to inefficiency ? they want to defend their jobs. Take that fear away, and it's much easier to get stuff done.
They start with the biggest roadblocks, first. "We go in and ask them, 'What's your largest problem?'" he said, "And we start there." That's how TSSC helped the St. Bernard Project reduce the time it took to build a house by 50%. It's how they helped the Food Bank for New York City reduce the wait at one soup kitchen from 85 minutes to 18 minutes. And it's how they decreased ER waiting times ? and hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs ? at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.
That's what I love about a good process: It builds homes. It feeds the hungry. It heals the sick.
But what does Toyota get out of this, aside from that feel-good factor, and some (ahem) fawning media coverage? St. Angelo says they use it as talent development for more junior employees. By teaching TPS to others, they learn it better themselves. They see where the pain points are; they learn how to manage people, build trust, get buy-in, iron out the wrinkles, adapt. And, for a generation who wants more meaningful work, it's not a bad retention strategy.
Finally, as my conversation with St. Angelo was winding down, I just had to ask the question I've been secretly burning to ask this entire time: How the heck do you deal with airport security lines? As one process junkie to another ? don't they just make you unbelievably frustrated?
St. Angelo stops, looks at me. Pauses. Thinks. Then immediately starts brainstorming how he might rejigger the screening system, revamp the queuing process, and manage the flow of grey plastic bins that receive our shoes, watches, computers, and baggies full of 3-oz liquids. This guy is good.
But a good process ? that's even better.
Source: http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/hbreditors/2012/12/making_process_planning_cool_a.html
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U.S. Navy SEAL commander dies in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior member of the U.S. Navy's elite SEAL unit has died in Afghanistan, the Defense Department said on Sunday, and media reports said the death was a possible suicide.
Commander Job Price, 42, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, died on Saturday of a non-combat related injury in central Afghanistan's Uruzgan Province, the Pentagon said in a statement.
"This incident is currently under investigation," it said.
Price was assigned to a Naval Special Warfare unit in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the statement said.
NBC News and CNN quoted unnamed military officials as saying that the death was being looked at as a possible suicide.
Lieutenant David Lloyd, a spokesman for Naval Special Warfare Group Two, which comprises the four SEAL teams on the U.S. East Coast, declined to comment on the cause of death, saying it was under investigation.
Price was married and had a daughter. He had been a naval officer since May 1993, Lloyd said.
Captain Robert Smith, the Group Two commander, said in a statement: "The Naval Special Warfare family is deeply saddened by the loss of our teammate. We extend our condolences, thoughts and prayers to the family, friends, and NSW community during this time of grieving.
"As we mourn the loss and honour the memory of our fallen teammate, those he served with will continue to carry out the mission."
SEAL is an acronym for sea, air, land.
(Reporting by Ian Simpson; editing by Christopher Wilson)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-seal-dead-afghanistan-reported-suicide-011143310.html
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Katy Perry Takes John Mayer Home For Christmas!
Katy Perry Takes John Mayer Home For Christmas!
Katy Perry and John Mayer may have only been dating for several months, but the new couple seem to be getting serious quickly. Perry and Mayer are spending Christmas together with Katy’s family in Santa Barbara. Katy and John gave back to the community by stopping in at a local hospital for the Dream Foundation ...
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'Extinct' whale found: Odd-looking pygmy whale traced back 2 million years
Extinct whale found? Well, sort of. Scientists have traced the lineage of the pygmy right whale back to an ancient family of whales called cetotheres, who were thought to be extinct.
The pygmy whale, a cetacean that looks radically different from all living whales, is actually the last living member of a group thought to have gone extinct 2 million years ago Credit:
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The findings, published Tuesday, Dec. 18, in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, may help to explain why the enigmatic marine mammals look so different from any other living whale.
"The living pygmy right whale is, if you like, a remnant, almost like a living fossil," said Felix Marx, a paleontologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand. "It's the last survivor of quite an ancient lineage that until now no one thought was around."
Living fossil
The relatively diminutive pygmy right whale, which grows to just 21 feet (6.5 meters) long, lives out in the open ocean. The elusive marine mammals inhabit the Southern Hemisphere and have only been spotted at sea a few dozen times. As a result, scientists know almost nothing about the species' habits or social structure.
The strange creature's arched, frownlike snout makes it look oddly different from other living whales. DNA analysis suggested pygmy right whales diverged from modern baleen whales such as the blue whale and the humpback whale between 17 million and 25 million years ago. However, the pygmy whales' snouts suggested they were more closely related to the family of whales that includes the bowhead whale. Yet there were no studies of fossils showing how the pygmy whale had evolved, Marx said. [In Photos: Tracking Humpback Whales]
To understand how the pygmy whale fit into the lineage of whales, Marx and his colleagues carefully analyzed the skull bones and other fossil fragments from pygmy right whales and several other ancient cetaceans.
The pygmy whale's skull most closely resembled that of an ancient family of whales called cetotheres that were thought to have gone extinct around 2 million years ago, the researchers found. Cetotheres emerged about 15 million years ago and once occupied oceans across the globe.
The findings help explain how pygmy whales evolved and may also help shed light on how these ancient "lost" whales lived. The new information is also a first step in reconstructing the ancient lineage all the way back to the point when all members of this group first diverged, he said.
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Monday, December 24, 2012
Boston condos and real estate report for week ending December 23 ...
The following is Boston Proper condo and real estate sales data for the month ending December 23 2012, (December 16 2012), (December 25 2011), (December 18 2011), (December 25 2010), (December 26 2009), and (December 25 2008) where available. All condominium closings recorded by our local MLS during the past month.
Number of units currently on the market: 228 (254) 467 (499) (580) (837) (N/A)
Average days on market: 141 (132) 159 (157) (177) (155) (N/A)
Median list price: $995,000 ($947,000) $775,000 ($749,900) ($695,000) ($639,000) (N/A)
Average list price: $1,573,809 ($1,519,866) $1,184,088 ($1,172,922) ($1,142,041) ($1,067,755) (N/A)
Number of units sold (past 30 days): 156 (133) 120 (119) (141) (133) (83)
Average days on market: 75 (60) 118 (120) (107) (127) (86)
Median close price: $715,000 ($749,000) $560,000 ($590,000) ($635,000) ($544,000) ($545,000)
Average close price: $987,834 ($964,303) $852,203 ($881,044) ($952,533) ($743,102) ($787,486)
Original list to close price: 95% (95%) 93% (94%) (95%) (92%) (94%)
Sales velocity: $154,102,167 ($128,252,267) $102,264,346 (104,844,246) ($134,307,171) ($98,832,520) ($65,361,360)
Thoughts: Happy Christmas!
This report includes sales and inventory information for condominiums located in the following downtown Boston neighborhoods: South End, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, West End, North End, Waterfront, Seaport District, Chinatown, Leather District, Midtown, and Fenway.
Data collected from third-party sources by the Multiple Listing Service Property Information Network, Inc.
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Sunday, December 23, 2012
See The 20 Most-Liked Facebook Photos From - Business Insider
At first, you'll be mystified by the 20 most-liked Facebook photos posted by advertisers during 2012.
The giants of Facebook advertising -- Walmart, Amazon, Target, Samsung, etc. -- are completely absent. In their place are some tiny businesses and niche companies you've never heard of. Sure, a couple of major brands like Bed Bath & Beyond are ranked. But mostly it's small players who dominate photo likes on Facebook.
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There are lessons to be learned, too. First, keep it simple. Almost all the most-viral branded pictures were posted under the most basic concepts imagineable.
Second, go off-message. The most popular pics often have little to do with the companies that posted them.
And third, it may be the case that the pursuit of likes just isn't that valuable. (Unless your brand is so small it really needs the publicity). Sure, you can get a LOT of likes for posting a pic of some cute babies. But does that lead to sales?
The data was compiled for us by Likester, which operates a marketing platform called Likester AdCenter. The list does not consider entertainment brands, celebrities, or other social media companies, like YouTube.
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-liked-facebook-photos-from-advertisers-in-2012-2012-12
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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
Edited by Daniel Simberloff and Marcel Rejm?nek
Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association of Asian Studies
The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab
Farina Mir
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Honor Books, Stonewall Book Awards 2012, American Library Association
Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories
Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer
Best First Book Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz
Todd Decker
Best Book 2009 ? 2011, The Society for Economic Anthropology
Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung: Food, Fatness, and Well-being over the Life-span
Nancy Howell
Source: http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15401/2012-was-a-banner-year-for-uc-press-books/
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