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Law and Disorder: in the racial injustice system, the police commit crimes and then . . . they get away with it. Bump-bump
By Scott V. Sandford
Spy Justice Correspondent
Over 100,000 dead from pandemic with no end in sight. Over 1,500,000 afflicted and 40 million employed. A useless and dysfunctional federal response led by a corrupt drug-addled clown imperiling the nation.
Could things get any worse? Yes!
Live from Minneapolis, it's the latest video in the 400-year effort to subjugate minorities through illegal violence. After days of dithering (if you were caught on tape killing someone, how long would you be lounging around before getting arrested?), the clueless Hennepin County DA finally charged one of the four officers who murdered George Floyd. The other three are still living [Surely at? – Ed.] large, whilst important legal memos are being written on subjects like if you're also sitting on the victim whilst he's being asphyxiated by a brother in blue, did you commit a crime? Hint: yes.
File under: Respect for law and order
The response of the minority community and their few allies has been as expected: they're mad as f*** and they're not going to take it anymore.
But let's focus not on their understandable anger and frustration but on the virulent pandemic of incomprehensible police misconduct that has raged out of control for decades even though both the vaccine and the treatment have been known and readily available.
George Floyd was of course not the first black man murdered by police for an alleged nonviolent offense. Set the Waybac to 2014 and recall the death of Eric Garner, killed by the New York Police Department for the "crime" of selling loose cigarettes.
What happened to the gang of thugs in blue who did him in? Did the law enforcement authorities take effective steps to punish the guilty and thereby reassure all citizens that their rights and lives were protected?
If you're asking this question, you're white!
The NYPD sure learned its lesson from
the murder of Eric Garner
So for all you wypipo out there, here's what happened, according to The New York Times:
Many police departments, including the one in Minneapolis, stopped teaching the knee restraint technique and also sought to limit the use of chokeholds after the highly publicized death of Eric Garner in 2014 at the hands of the New York Police Department.
Mr. Garner famously gasped "I can't breathe" 11 times while lying facedown on the sidewalk, a sentence that Mr. Floyd also said several times. In the case of Mr. Garner, investigators determined that the officer who wrestled him to the ground was using a banned chokehold.
The medical examiner ruled Mr. Garner's death a homicide caused by the compression of his neck from a "chokehold" and the compression of his chest held on the ground in a prone position.
Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who held Mr. Garner in a chokehold, was fired but not charged, inciting protests nationwide.
And this wasn't in some s**thole redneck town in Texas or Alabama, this was in New York City. Wtf happened?
Officer Pantaleo had held on to his job as the Staten Island district attorney and the Justice Department declined to charge him with a crime in the face of calls by the Garner family and their supporters that the city punish him and other officers involved.
Then, a mere five years after his victim breathed his last on a Staten Island sidewalk, the New York Police Department succeeded in firing the perp:
The New York City police officer whose chokehold led to Eric Garner's death in 2014 was fired from the Police Department and stripped of his pension benefits on Monday,ending a bitter battle that had cast a shadow over the nation's largest police force.
Commissioner James P. O'Neill's decision to dismiss the officer, Daniel Pantaleo, came five years after Mr. Garner's dying words — "I can't breathe" — helped to galvanize the Black Lives Matter protests that led to changes in policing practices in New York and around the country.
You mean . . . they lied?
Five years? Not to mention the endless round of hearings and "due process" the thug in blue was granted, even as he denied due process, and oxygen, to Eric Garner. When you f*** up at work, does it take five years to fire you? Spot the difference!
Oh, and the officers of the NYPD, committed as they are to upholding law and order responded how to Pantaleo's losing his job after five years of collecting his pay and benefits after killing a defenseless citizen?
On Monday, union leaders loudly accused the mayor and police commissioner of undercutting their ability to enforce laws in an effort to appease "anti-police extremists" and urged officers to call in their supervisors before making an arrest.
The ridiculous efforts by the NYC Patrolman's Benevolent Association to incite anger, fear, and misconduct among its members should not have been news to anyone awake for the last 50 years or so. This Times story from August 3, 1964 is but one example:
Note that the inability to capture the killing of the 15-year-old boy on cellphone allowed the police to escape punishment, as was the case from about 1619 to 2010.
Which is probably why the same New York Times, in the August 2, 1964 News of the Week in Review offered this hot take on police brutality and its relationship to angry protest:
Which observers? Let's just take a wild guess and go with white ones.
And of course 60 years of politicians, mostly but not exclusively Republicans, pandered to white middle-class bigotry by frustrating any effort to address effectively police violence against minorities and anyone else they don't like.
The role of the New York PBA is hardly an anomaly. The Minneapolis PD, headed by a black chief who reports to a perfectly reasonable mayor, has been repeatedly frustrated in its efforts to control brutal white cops:
[Former Minneapolis Police Chief Jamee] Harteau said that while unions are necessary to push for benefits, the police union in Minneapolis fought her on things such as imposing discipline and terminating officers.
"It really deflates your authority," Harteau said. "And you can't have the responsibility unless you have full authority."
Critics said the issue was one of the city's own making. City and police officials "constantly bemoan what they can't do because their hands are tied by the [police union] contract," said Dave Bicking, vice president of Communities United Against Police Brutality, a Twin Cities police watchdog group. "But every three years when the contract comes up, they rubber-stamp it."
Funny, the Associated Press noticed the same thing:
Some leaders, including former Mayor R.T. Rybak and state Sen. Jeff Hayden, have blamed the city's police union in recent days for fostering a culture that protects brutal officers and resists efforts at reform. The union's president, Lt. Bob Kroll, did not return a call seeking comment.
At best, no one pays attention to the frustration of police efforts to reform their departments by union contracts and politicians sympathetic to the racist appeals of police unions. At worst, that frustration is a feature, not a bug.
Now we'd be the last people to advocate against working people (including the 5-0) organizing to improve pay and working conditions. But we haven't noticed unions in the private sector protecting violent criminals on the line at Ford or Boeing, and we don't understand why police unions should be permitted to behave any differently.
Actually, we understand why police violence, especially directed at minorities, has been allowed to flourish with impunity for centuries, when the corrupt bigot now acting as President advocates police lynching in response to property crimes. We just don't understand why we should put up with police murdering black men suspected of committing petty crimes, throwing young unarmed protesters into the street, or shooting rubber bullets at reporters peacefully reporting any more.
Across America, a bunch of other people don't understand it either. The others are still drinking the Clorox.
UPDATE May 31:
Fatal Distractions: Get the Poors to Work!
Editors' Note: As a public service during these parlous times, the Spy's special coronavirus coverage is, unlike testing, available to all
By Vincent Boom-Batz, M.D., Medical Editor with
Samuel Insull, Spy Finance Editor
With 95,000 dead, over 40 million unemployed, and 1,500,000 cases reported in the United States, what's the most serious problem we face? Well, if you're the Boston Globe, it kinda depends on which story you read. Leading their home page at this hour is the following gem:
If that doesn't just take the cake. Those lazy workers, enjoying huge unemployment benefits (until they run out in July that is) rather that accepting the minimum wage (or in the case of tipped workers like waiters, subminimum wages) for the labor that keeps business owners happy and profitable. The absolute nerve.
Of course, if you choose to pay for The Wall Street Journal (no link; we don't), you can read the latest from former Reagan flack and 40-year Republican apologist Peggy Noonan, who claimed that the poors really want to get back to the slaughterhouses and nursing homes but are prevented from doing so by unnamed "elites." By elites she doesn't mean grifting New York real estate moguls and Wall Street financial finaglers – she means people who, unlike her, think before they write.
To be fair if you actually read carefully the Globe article under the headline you might learn what's really chapping these greedy workers living large on unemployment checks, notwithstanding all the self-serving crap from employers whining that $13 an hour doesn't buy workers the way it used to:
Sous chef Greg Breault would like to go back to Bucatino's in Falmouth, but he's a single father of a 4-year-old and has no child care. He's hoping his 60-something mother, who has diabetes, will be able to take care of his son, but he worries about getting them sick."I'm scared to death," said Breault, 42, who is collecting about the same amount in unemployment that he makes on the job. "I don't want my family to get exposed."
So these workers are worried about not exposing themselves, their children, and their parents to a lethal virus that will have claimed 100,000 Americans by next week? That's a little different from the picture of lazy idlers living large next to their welfare Cadillacs.
Could it be because their prospective employers are putting their own wallets and the whims of their customers ahead of worker safety? It could! We know that wearing masks and distancing are the two key steps to limiting the spread of the virus. Are these employers willing to insist on no shoes, no shirt, no mask, no service? And htf will those customers eat while wearing masks? Will workers be kept six feet apart in restaurant kitchens? Inquiring readers (and workers) would like to know but somehow the Globe didn't think to ask these questions.
In fairness to the Globe, there's a fair amount of cognitive dissonance it generates, because on the same home page you can read another article about a different bunch of folks who apparently aren't cashing those sweet unemployment checks:
According to the Globe story,
In March, as the pandemic began to grind the economy to a halt, the Greater Boston Food Bank saw its highest monthly demand for food in its 40-year history and distributed more than 8.1 million pounds of food to pantries and other partners in Eastern Massachusetts.
But in April, the demand grew even higher: The food bank distributed 9.5 million pounds of food. Such demand is playing out statewide, as the number of families and individuals served in March by the state's food pantries was up 46 percent from a year earlier.
Another sobering statistic: In Massachusetts, the rate of applications for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, has risen 360 percent since the pandemic began. And those numbers apply only to residents who are qualified. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates 8 percent of Massachusetts residents are noncitizens and therefore do not qualify for traditional safety net programs like SNAP.
So according to Cape Cod employers, workers are sitting around lighting their bongs with sawbucks, but in reality, in Boston and lower-income communities like Chelsea and Brockton, the poor and desperate are slowly starving.
The confusion that reigns on the Globe's home page is but a reflection of the national insanity caused by a corrupt and clueless administration desperate to force terrified workers back to their jobs without instituting the tracing and testing regimes and other protective measures that workers in an advanced economy have a right to expect.
How do we know this? We read it in the Globe, yesterday! Here's the Globe's formidable Yvonne Abraham explaining it to even the meanest intelligence:
There's a tale being spun by some [she means Peggy Noonan, btw – Ed.] that those who want us to go slower on reopening are elite work-from-home types who don't understand the plight of the good working folks who desperately need to put food on the table. Leaving aside the absolute failure of a society where the only choices are risk a deadly disease or go without, polls give the lie to this effete-liberal-vs-noble-working-man framing: A large majority of Americans surveyed, including most of those who have been stood down, believe we should keep businesses closed to stop the spread of the virus. Now those same workers are being called back to their jobs, and they're rightly afraid.
Wouldn't you, when protection from a lethal illness depends on the kindness of your employer, rather than rigorous regulation and inspection, backed by 100% testing-and-tracing, as practiced in South Korea? In Massachusetts, the perhaps too-trusting Ms. Abraham is willing to give Gov. Charlie Baker the benefit of the doubt:
There is plenty of good in the reopening plan Governor Charlie Baker laid out Monday (though he is calling for hair salons to reopen too soon, on which more later). It's gradual, has built-in brakes, and lays out requirements for keeping workers and customers safe. Among other things, it requires masks and coverings for most employees, and strict cleaning practices, though labor advocates say there aren't enough protections. Employers will have to attest that they meet the standards before they can reopen. Violators will be given small fines, and if they don't shape up, they'll eventually be shut down.
"There's no real enforcement," said Jodi Sugerman-Brozan, executive director of the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health. "It passes the buck ... without any additional resources to ensure compliance."
And that's Massachusetts. What do you think will be done in Republican states to protect exploited workers in hotbeds of virus contagion like slaughterhouses? Come in, Iowa!
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Safety regulators declined to inspect an Iowa pork plant after receiving a complaint alleging workers were exposed to the coronavirus in crowded conditions — a decision that critics said allowed a burgeoning outbreak to grow unabated.
An April 11 complaint to the Iowa Occupational Safety and Health Administration alleged that employees at the Tyson Foods processing plant in Perry, Iowa, were spreading the virus as they worked "elbow to elbow." The complaint asserted that social distancing wasn't taking place in any of the production areas or the cafeteria.
Workers and regulators had reason to be alarmed. The Tyson plant in Columbus Junction had been idled days earlier due to a coronavirus outbreak that infected hundreds of workers and was rerouting some of its hogs to Perry for slaughter. Other meat plants nationwide were reporting outbreaks and closures.
But Iowa OSHA took nine days to seek a response from Tyson, and eight more to get one, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press under the open records law. The agency determined April 28 that Tyson's voluntary efforts were "satisfactory" and closed the case without inspecting the plant.
In fairness to Tyson, it's got a business to run, and its owner, named, surprisingly enough, John Tyson is down to his last $2,000,000,000. No wonder he can't afford to fritter away his stash on keeping his workers alive and well.
Pre-pandemic Tyson plant. We're sure
it's totally different now!
So maybe the problem is isn't lazy workers cashing unemployment checks. Maybe the problem is really plutocrats and billionaires unwilling to invest in worker protection or to insist on a competent federal response. Once again, Ms. Abraham, tell us who's not bearing the burden of this shambolic reopening plan:
It's not the president, who has shown himself willing to sacrifice American lives on the altar of his reelection campaign. It's not the cynical operators — the conservative powerhouses that brought us the fake-spontaneous Tea Party protests, the freelance Trump cultists and worse — ginning up anti-lockdown demonstrations around the country. It's not Republicans in Congress, who have prioritized corporations over employees at every turn since this crisis began. Nor is it the corporate bigs and Wall Streeters who can safely isolate while they bay about the sputtering economy.
Speaking of billionaire Republicans, the Globe recently breathlessly lauded the kindness of the paper's second-favorite tycoon, Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who is auctioning off a Super Bowl ring and will donate the proceeds to charities that feed the hungry. Right now, the bidding is over $1 million.
Also right now, Washington Republicans are stalling a vitally needed $3,000,000,000,000 relief bill so that state and local governments and other employers, including the Post Office, don't have to make massive cuts that would lead to millions more unemployed and left without the wherewithal to buy, or the machinery to access, stuff like . . . food.
So far the many-ringed Robert Kraft hasn't called up his friend, President Tiny Toadstool, and told him to get this law passed, but a million a day here and a million a day there and pretty soon you've raised the needed funds from charitable plutocrats like the Bobster, if by "pretty soon;" you mean 3 million days, or a mere 8,219 years. So if you're waiting for Republicans to demand effective action to relieve the crushing pain their President has caused, don't hold your breath.
But do wear a mask.
UPDATE, May 26: "Over the past month, the number of infections tied to three of the country's biggest meat processors — Tyson Foods, Smithfield Foods and JBS — has gone from just over 3,000 to more than 11,000, according to the Post analysis." – The Washington Post, May 26, 2020.
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From the Archives, 1978: Insane dictator killing his own people
Page One, November 19, 1978:
INSANE DICTATOR RESPONSIBLE
FOR KILLING HIS OWN PEOPLE
Citizens Pay With their Lives for Listening to 'Fake News'
Madman Rejects Science, Medicine, All Forms of Education
By Benjamin L. Willard
Spy Southeast Asia Bureau
BANGKOK, Thailand – Reliable reports from refugees and foreign observers point to a frightening picture of an entire nation in the grip of an insane narcissist who has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of his own citizens in an effort to remake society with what he calls "real Cambodians."
Cambodians are told they must work or starve
Thousands of refugees are fleeing illness, famine, and death caused by autocratic mad man Pol Pot, whose hatred of and contempt for intellectuals and other so-called "elites" has led him to pursue what is nothing more than a campaign of extermination directed at these unfortunate souls.
One former teacher told The New York Times: "The ignorant have become an honorable and inviolable class. Ignorance is good for the country, they believe." The effort to drive out the educated class has also led to the collapse of the economy, exacerbating the plight of millions of starving and unemployed Cambodians.
The campaign is aided by Pol Pot's banning of all forms of education and independent media. One former district leader told The New York Times: "We grow ignorance. No schools, no books, no newspapers, no radio, no television."
The experience of one young woman, who was driven out of Phnom Penh with her parents and told if she did not work in a slave labor camp she would be ineligible for any food or other income assistance is typical. She said that camp inmates were forced to labor from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m. and given little to eat. The only medical treatment available was from Khmer Rouge medics, who had no medical training and were chosen solely for their support of the Pol Pot regime. She said the sick were given herbs, roots, and tree bark, some of which contained hydroxychloroquine, which can be toxic.
As a result, she told The New York Times, "the sick person stays in his hut and waits for death."
She also said that access to outside information is strictly controlled by the regime, which terms any criticism as fake news. The only news they get comes in the form of lengthy indoctrination lectures from regime cadres under the control of a shadowy leader known only as the "Fox", whose "friends" subject the camp inmates to lengthy lectures blaming the country's woes on "globalists" and "subversive immigrants."
Whether one lives or dies depends on the strength of the individual's ties to the new regime. Those who express undying loyalty to the new regime are given better food and clothes and easier work assignments. The more educated and those who express skepticism about the supposed "tremendous" accomplishments of Pol Pot and his regime are executed or worked to death.
In interviews with foreign diplomats, Pol Pot has said that "only a minority" of Cambodians have died, and that it is a "small price to pay" for the restructuring of his country. He predicted that "it would all be over when the weather gets warmer."
Pol Pot's reliance on unqualified
loyalists has led to disaster
However, some sympathetic Western observers doubt the stories being recounted by refugees. They point out that no regime could survive long by condemning its own people to sickness and death after destroying a once-rich economy. They also claim that the stories have been fabricated by Vietnam, which opposes the Pol Pot regime, in an effort to discredit the Cambodian Government, an effort they call "Vietnamgate."
The suffering of the Cambodian people has gone almost unnoticed in the United States. Few even appear to know where the country is, although it was invaded by the United States just eight years ago.
Said one sniffling Manhattan clubgoer bounding out of a limo outside of Studio 54 who gave his name only as "the Donald:" "Pol Pot? F*** that, Coke and meth, that's all we need in this country."
[Material from the The New York Times News Service was used in this article. All Times quotes were published Nov. 19, 1978]
From the Archives: Can Hoover Normalize Mass Unemployment?
Page One, May 9, 1932:
Hoover Claims Job Losses Normal
And Next Year Will Be 'Tremendous'
Predicts 'Transition to Greatness'
Warns against Socialist Solutions
By David Bloviator
with William Manchester, Researcher
WASHINGTON, D.C. –With close to one in four Americans jobless and destitute, President Herbert Hoover's re-election campaign team is crafting a message emphasizing that such unemployment levels are "to be expected in the early stages of an economic recovery" and that 1933 will be a "tremendous" year for the U.S. economy if he is re-elected.
He plans to stress that the future of the economy depends on his re-election because "only I can save you." He will also criticize the likely Democratic nominee, New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, as an "out-of-touch coastal elitist" who offers "Socialist tyranny."
Yet privately Hoover's campaign advisers admit that his campaign faces challenges after three years of Depression, and the unrelenting gloomy headlines of factories closing and men thrown out of work.
The Administration claims that the current crisis is in fact laying the basis for a great economic recovery. But in doing so, the administration is effectively bowing to — and asking Americans to accept — a devastating proposition: that a steady, daily accumulation of unemployment and poverty is the grim cost of economic revival. Inside the West Wing, some officials talk about the federal government's economic recovery mission as largely accomplished because they believe the nation's factories are now equipped to meet anticipated demand.
However sources close to the campaign remain concerned about how successful they will be in distracting the electorate from the grim economic toll: 12 million unemployed, 34 million without any income, before taking into account the 11 million farm families enduring an unprecedented collapse in commodity prices.
On Friday, as the unemployment rate reached a historically high 23.6 percent, Hoover urged Americans to think of this period as a "transition to greatness," adding during a meeting with Republican members of Congress: "We're going to do something very fast, and we're going to have a phenomenal year next year."
President Herbert Hoover called reports of
mass homelessness and poverty . . .
But Hoover's outward projections of assurance and hope masked the more sober acknowledgments of some outside advisers and experts who worry the number of unemployed will either stabilize around 12,000,000 or continue to climb over the next month. "The question is, will people become anesthetized to it? Are they willing to accept that?" said one adviser to the White House recovery task force who, like many others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters or offer candid assessments.
Hoover is also offering a version of events that some critics say may not be fully reflective of facts on the ground. At a recent news conference, President Hoover told reporters that "nobody is actually starving. The hoboes are better fed than they ever have been. One hobo in New York got ten meals a day."
He dismissed widespread newspaper reports of famine, want, and homelessness as "fake news." and said that reporters should be "ashamed" of printing those reports.
Hoover's campaign officials stress that if the election is a referendum on the last four years, the President is in trouble. However, they intend to make the election a choice between the President's stable genius leadership and what they see as the "feckless Socialism" of Gov. Roosevelt.
They will attack Gov. Roosevelt for putting traditional American liberties in peril by introducing a minimum wage and limits on hours worked in New York State, which Hoover's experts believe will only make the Depression worse by limiting the freedom of job-creators to hire and fire freely. Hoover believes that the Governor's program of offering "make-work" public-sector jobs will prove to be a political loser.
. . . Fake News
The Hoover re-election team will exploit divisions in the Democratic Party by appealing to former Smith supporters who see Roosevelt as a dangerous radical and depressing turnout among progressives by repeating the left-wing critique of Roosevelt as (according to The Nation) a "Hoover by another name."
Some Hoover campaign advisers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters or offer candid assessments, implied that Gov. Roosevelt had a number of weaknesses that could be exploited by the Hoover campaign.
"We will ask the real American people who don't live in hotbeds of elitism like New York whether they want to give the Presidency to a not very bright cripple who is dominated by sinister globalists like Henry Morgenthau," said one Hoover aide.
Some of Hoover's more extreme business associates, such as New York slumlord Fred Trumpf, have urged the President to appeal to white racists by noting that Roosevelt's social welfare programs would necessarily involve giving government money and jobs to Negroes. But other more mainstream Republican sources urge Hoover not to go down that path, telling him that an increasingly destitute white electorate would never buy such obvious twaddle.
You read it first in the Spy, Never U Bummers edition
But "Never Trumpers" are increasingly involved in the Democratic Party and have gradually shifted their tactics in that direction — effectively becoming a "Never Trump" and "Never Bernie Sanders" coalition. And they appear to be having more success shaping their new party than the one that many of them had been associated with for much of their lives. Here's how that shift has happened. . . .
Many prominent "Never Trumpers," [Proferssor Robert] Saldin said, operate and make a living in liberal institutions. "They think of their jobs as translating conservative ideas to liberals. They had invested in the idea that conservatism was respectable," he said. In particular, Saldin said, these figures had worked hard to suggest that racism was not a major feature of conservatism. [Ha! – Ed.]
His boys are back . . . as Democrats!
"So they were particularly horrified by Trump because he embodied what they had spent their careers saying was not conservatism," he added. . . .
The core argument of "Never Trump" Republicans goes something like this:
Trump is a much worse person and leader than other recent GOP presidents (the Bushes) or presidential nominees (McCain, Romney).
Democrats and Republicans who disagree on issues such as abortion and tax policy should put aside those differences for now and unite in opposing Trump because he is a threat to fundamental American values like the rule of law.
And finally, there is a sizable bloc of Republicans who will join with Democrats to challenge Trump — so long as Democrats don't move too far ideologically to the left.
This argument may not be totally true. And the "Never Trump" narrative is clearly self-serving — of course a group of conservatives who feel like they don't fit in the current Republican Party prefer a more conservative Democratic Party that they can align with. . . .
The "Never Trumpers" argument — that Sanders couldn't win the general election, in part because anti-Trump Republicans (like themselves) wouldn't vote for him– was compelling, particularly for a Democratic Party obsessed with beating Trump. And the "Never Trumpers" were already in the ideal positions to make these arguments and reach Democratic Party elites and primary voters — the web pages of The Atlantic, The New York Times and The Washington Post and on MSNBC. [Former Bush hack Tim] Miller, in an anti-Trump publication called The Bulwark, described how he and other Republicans had failed to mobilize effectively against Trump in the 2016 GOP primary and laid out a step-by-step guide for how Democrats could avoid the same fate. . . .
So "Never Trump" conservatives can probably make some demands of Biden, just like any other constituency in the party, and he might feel some need to court them.
And that seems to be happening. The former vice president hinted recently that he might name some Republicans to his cabinet or transition team. . . .
"I don't know that Biden needs a message for 'Never Trumpers' — most 'Never Trumpers' are going to vote for Biden," Miller said. But, he added, "I do think eventually the campaign should have a message for them."
Mostly, "Never Trumpers" simply want Biden to run a general election campaign similar to his primary run, emphasizing more moderate policies and appealing to more centrist voters.
"I don't want him to make crazy sacrifices to the left that he doesn't need to make," Miller said.
– Perry Bacon in Five Thirty Eight, May 5, 2020.
Perhaps it's not just sheer perversity that animates those who have correctly seen that the obvious truth that the Republican Party was and is nothing more than a collection of white racists, plutocrats and warmongers. Perhaps it's the fear that, unlike those few who have made some effort to recognize their past misdeeds, the much greater number of Republicans who have not (what are your Contra buddies up to these days, Ana?) are peddling a new dog's breakfast of whoppers.
As far as we can tell, Max [Boot] is alone among the Republican Never U Bummers in seeing the line that connects 60 years of racist Republican politics to its current master practitioner, President Tiny Toadstool. The remainder don't, or won't.
That make us fear that what the Billys and Daveys and Steves and Joeys are angling for is a place at the political trough once we are rid of the Tangerine-Faced Grifter, assuming we live that long. We fear that they will return to claim what they see as their rightful place in national politics based on the falsehood that Trumpanismo was an aberration from, rather than the culmination of, Republican policies.
They'll be back, trying out new lies to embroil us in new wars, like David "Axis of Evil" Frum, protect plutocracy and screw the poor, like Joe "I Ended Welfare!" Scarborough, avoid tackling climate change in the name of "deregulation," and deny women access to safe abortions, like Nicolle Wallace, who once accused John Kerry of being insufficiently devoted to "fetal life."
We can't let Republicans insinuate their shabby discredited policies back into the mainstream under the guise of some non-existent "third way." If they want a center-right party, we already have one: the Democrats.
– The Massachusetts Spy, Oct. 18, 2018
Let's get 435 idlers back to work!
By Thomas Corcoran
Congressional Correspondent
with additional reporting from Hacky Carp in Old Sludgebury, Mass.
Despite the ravages of the current coronavirus pandemic, and the utter ineptitude of the U Bum Administration in responding to and protecting us from its relentless depredations, every day millions of Americans go to work to keep us alive.
Every day millions of health care workers from eminent department heads to janitors brave the virus to deliver critical care to the afflicted. Every day police, EMT, and firefighters respond to emergencies that may threaten their own lives (except in Rancho Redneck, California, where the police are otherwise engaged in beating the crap out of black 14-year-olds suspected of . . . possession of cigarettes).
Every day Colin and Naomi and thousands more put on the aprons and stick their cash drawers in their registers at the Star Market down the street so that yours truly can have uninterrupted access to the necessities of life, although they do need to restock the Hostess Twinkies, hint, hint.
Why won't Nancy Pelosi get Congress back to work?
But there's one group of supposedly essential workers who don't feel any need to show up at work to do their jobs. They call themselves the "House of Representatives." They're not in session and there's no reasonable expectation that they will be anytime soon.
Any reason why they, unlike the shelvers at the Star keeping us well-supplied with all nineteen varieties of Doritos, are slacking off? Let's ask them:
Representative Steny H. Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland and the majority leader, told reporters Tuesday morning that after consulting with Congress's attending physician and studying Covid-19 numbers in Washington and nearby suburban counties of Maryland and Virginia, the leaders no longer felt comfortable summoning lawmakers back to the Capitol. He said they hoped to return once they were ready to consider another pandemic relief package in the coming weeks.
By the way, just like the Star Market in Boston, the supermarkets, drug stores and Costcos in the Washington, D.C. area remain open for business, despite the risks that proved too terrifying for members of the House.
Nor, sad to say, is this the usual standoff between reactionary Republicans and timorous Democrats (well, it is but we'll get to that later). Even the progressive stalwarts are campaigning hard to . . . stay home:
The Congressional Progressive Caucus, which counts nearly 100 House Democrats as members, had been preparing to send a letter on Tuesday opposing the decision and urging leaders not to reconvene until remote voting and hearing capabilities were in place.
We'll get to the remote voting stuff shortly, but first let's consider what's at stake here, starting with 65,000 dead, over 1 million infected, and 36 million unemployed, a number not seen since the Great Depression (which may have to be renamed if this keeps up).
Then let's remember that we have an utterly dysfunctional, corrupt, authoritarian Executive headed by a corrupt incompetent drug-addled bigot. That's not good either.
Add to that the imminent specter of millions of more jobless and destitute due to the collapse in funding for state and local governments and institutions like the Postal Service, and you've got a situation that calls for immediate Congressional action. They know that:
Democrats were still drawing up their proposals on Tuesday, and leaders have said it will most likely include a significant increase in funding for state, local and tribal governments, as well as additional resources for the Postal Service, food assistance programs and election funding.
Now none of this can wait, and unless the House is in session either live or remotely none of this can be passed without unanimous consent, which we predict is not readily attainable in a body whose membership includes 187 or so, depending on who was sentenced this week, Republican assholes. Thus all prior emergency funding bills have required House members to traipse back to Washington to vote. So far they have survived the ordeal.
In the meantime, Mitch McConnell, apparently bored by endless rounds of lovemaking with his lovely wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, has called the Senate back into session to ram a few more reactionary judges through before he loses his rock-hard but tiny majority. He's already told Dems he's not going to fork over another dime without another sweaty battle.
If the Democratic House were in session they could call Moscow Mitch's bluff and pass a bill preventing the layoffs of millions of state, local, and postal workers. They could then return home and let Mitch squirm. That would be what Republicans do to Democrats, but it would require real voting.
Now if the Democrats are really so fearful that they cannot return to Washington to do the jobs they were elected and are paid to do, there is an alternative: remote voting. If we trust the Internet tubes with billions of dollars of transactions every day, can't it get 435 votes tallied accurately?
Of course, the Democrats can't get their act together on this one either:
The delay will also give House leaders more time to try to reach a bipartisan agreement on rules changes that would allow remote voting and hearings for the first time in history. Democratic leaders were hoping to build Republican support for their plan to permit lawmakers who could not or did not want to travel to Washington during the pandemic to designate another member to vote by proxy in their stead, and a bipartisan task force working on the issue met again on Tuesday.
Bipartisan agreement? With Louie Gohmert and Gym Jordan? You've got to be f***in' kidding me. In fact, the Democrats could have passed whatever remote voting rules they wanted to the last time they voted but did not want to offend the tender sensibilities of their always polite and cooperative Republican colleagues.
But he [Democratic House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer] also said any decision to adopt a remote voting policy should be bipartisan, and made in consultation with Republican leadership, a position he said he had shared with the Rules Committee. "We don't want that to be perceived as trying to get some partisan gain by providing for that alternative," Mr. Hoyer said, adding that he had been in touch with Mr. McCarthy.
Yeah, that would be awful. Maybe not as awful as reducing millions of laid-off state and local government employees to immiseration, but still pretty bad.
So if the House won't meet in person or authorize meeting and voting by Internet, it is basically not going to get anywhere with the legislation that the nation needs, not after the next meeting of the bipartisan task force or the appearance of a herd of rainbow unicorns, but right now. They actually know this:
Many are wary of continuing with the current, ad hoc arrangement, in which their leaders and White House officials have privately negotiated and written trillion-dollar relief bills with little consultation, and presented them for a vote as take-it-or-leave-it propositions.
But as long as House Democrats refuse to do what the $14 an hour employees at the Star Market are willing to do – their jobs – they are going to be in the same position with respect to Mitch McConnell as Elaine Chao. Except this time he's not faking it.
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A: For a good shuffle you can try associating each line a key which is the line's MD5/CRC/UUID and then group by this key. In the group by function (assuming no collisions), just output the lines.

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--- Das Pew Internet and American Life Projekt tritt mit einer knapp 50-seitigen Studie Mutmaßungen entgegen, dass Websurfer nur blind ihre eigenen politischen Meinungen bestätigen wollen und Angebote mit Informationen der Gegenpartei ausfiltern: As wired Americans increasingly go online for political news and commentary, we find that the internet is contributing to a wider awareness of political views during this year's campaign season. This is significant because prominent commentators have expressed concern that growing use of the internet would be harmful to democratic deliberation. They worried that citizens would use the internet to seek information that reinforces their political preferences and avoid material that challenges their views. That would hurt citizens' chances of contributing to informed debates. The new survey ... belies those worries. It shows that internet users have greater overall exposure political arguments, including those that challenge their candidate preferences and their positions on some key issues. Im eigentlichen Report heißt es weiter: At a time when political deliberation seems extremely partisan and when people may be tempted to ignore arguments at odds with their views, internet users are not insulating themselves in information echo chambers. Instead, they are exposed to more political arguments than non-users.
Andere interessante Zahlen: As of early July, 42% of internet users had gotten news about the campaign online or through email. That represents more than 53 million people. ... Three-quarters of all Americans (78%) say television is a main source of campaign news. Some 38% of Americans say newspapers are a primary source; 16% say radio; 15% say the internet; and 4% say magazines. (These figures don't add up to 100% because respondents were allowed to give up to two answers.) ... 31% of Americans with high-speed connections at home identify the internet as a main source of campaign news. ... Some 24% of home broadband users are going to alternative online sources. Some 24% have visited the web site of an international news organization, and 16% say they have visited a more partisan alternative news organization's site. Use of these alternative sources is almost always accompanied by use of other more mainstream sources. Auf Webblogs als "alternative Nachrichtequellen" geht der Report leider nicht ein.


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Villa have failed to score in five of their last six Premier League matches and Lambert concedes his side "have to do better in the last third of the pitch."


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7 Things to Do When You've Been Betrayed (and 7 Not to Do)
Spiritual teacher Deepak Chopra explains how to recover from life's deepest blows.
By Deepak Chopra
Photo: iStock/360/Thinkstock
After being betrayed, most of us want two things, usually at the same time. We want to wound the person who hurt us—as deeply and as excruciatingly—as we've been wounded, and we want to rise above the situation and offer that person forgiveness. But neither of these tactics work. Wounding words tend to boomerang and make you feel as terrible as the person you wanted to hurt. Forgiveness, especially if halfhearted, tends to come off as condescension.
There are actions, though, that you can take to can heal yourself. Every hurt has its own story, and so does every healing. But we can say this: You can heal yourself when you've filled the hole left behind by a betrayal, and you can heal the other person when you sincerely drop the need for revenge.
Remember, the only betrayals that inflict damage are the ones where an intimate bond has been torn. Love makes you merge with another person, able to feel their emotions as keenly as you feel your own. If you have experienced such bonding, you know that it is a kind of higher reality—and when that bond is ripped apart, it's as if you've lost half of yourself
So how can you get out of torment and find yourself again?
1. Gain some detachment. Stand back and view yourself as if you were the helper, not the victim.
2. Don't indulge in emotions you cannot afford. Don't act as if you're feeling worse than you really are—or better.
3. Make a plan for emotional recovery. Look at where you hurt, feel wounded or see yourself as victimized, then set out to heal these areas. Don't rely simply on letting time do it for you.
4. Feel the hole inside and grieve over it—but promise yourself that you will fill it.
5. Seek a confidant who has survived the same betrayal and has come out on the other side.
6. Work toward a tomorrow that will be better than yesterday. Don't fixate on the past or what might have been.
7. Counter self-pity by being of service to someone else. Counter regret by seeking out activities that build your self-esteem.
It requires a good deal of objectivity to set about following such a program. Nothing is easier, of course, than doing the opposite, for example:
1. Dwelling obsessively on how you were wronged. Feeling exultant in our self-righteous pain.
2. Turning your pain into an ongoing drama.
3. Acting erratic and scattered, with no plan for getting better.
4. Mourning your loss forever. Not looking honestly at the hole inside yourself because it is too painful or you feel too weak.
5. Talking to the wrong people about your woes. Seeking out those who keep agreeing with you and amplifying our resentment by egging you on.
6. Idealizing the past. Obsessing over the good times that are gone.
7. Letting self-pity and regret dominate your state of mind.
This kind of behavior only makes a betrayal linger.
If you find yourself in the position of being the wronged party, sit down with these two seven-step programs in front of you. With a pen and paper, write down all the ways you are following the healing program and then the ways in which you are sticking with victimization one. Be candid and objective. It is healing in itself to write down how you are really doing, because the key to psychological healing is self-awareness.
The two lists—and choices—may be in stark contrast, but real life is blurry around the edges. One day you are on the right track; the next day you are a train wreck. The key is to keep being kind to yourself. You know you are being kind when you begin to feel kind toward the one who betrayed you. I know that sounds impossible when your pain is acute, but you can't be kind to yourself unless that feeling of ease, acceptance, tolerance and nonjudgment extends beyond your self-interest. Otherwise, kindness is simply a mask for egotism. The idea of "I'm getting better; I hope he rots in hell" is an unresolvable contradiction.
In the end, when you reach that state of being healed, you will see how fortunate you are. As horrible as betrayal is, forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place, and you are one of them.
Deepak Chopra, MD, is the author of What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being, and Lightness of Soul, founder of The Chopra Foundation and co-founder of The Chopra Center.
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81 stories, 1,000 vertical feet, $371 million….
New York City-based developer Greenwich Realty Capital has aims to build Denver-- and the Mountain West's-- tallest building, a 1,000-foot-tall, 81-story skyscraper that would include residential units, hotel rooms and a restaurant and bar at 17th and California streets. The project architects, Crown Architecture and Consulting and Davis Partnership Architects, submitted the above renderings to city planners in mid February 2018 as part of plan concept, the first step in the review process.
New York City-based developer Greenwich Realty Capital has aims to build Denver-- and the Mountain West's-- tallest building, a 1,000-foot-tall, 81-story skyscraper that would include residential units, hotel rooms and a restaurant and bar at 17th and California streets. The project architects, Crown Architecture and Consulting and Davis Partnership Architects, submitted the above renderings to city planners. in February as part of plan concept, the first step in the review process.
The picture of Denver's would-be tallest building is coming into sharper focus after the developer turned in planning documents to the city last week.
Greenwich Realty Capital and its development team are envisioning a 1,000-foot tall, 81-story residential and hotel tower on the 1/4-block space at 650 17th St. now occupied by a parking lot. Previous plans for the project, dubbed Six Fifty 17, called for 90 stories at the same height.
This cross section of Six Fifty 17, a proposed 81-story skyscraper that would be Denver's tallest building. outlines how the floors would be used. This graphic was part of a site concept submitted to the City of Denver on or about Feb. 14, 2018 by Davis Partnership Architects on behalf of developer Greenwich Realty Capital.
A plan concept now on file with the city — representing the earliest step in Denver's project review process — details a 705,045-square-foot building with lobby space and a restaurant/bar occupying the first two floors. Above that would sit 10 stories of parking with room enough for 780 cars, followed by a 12-floor hotel with lobby/banquet hall/meeting space, spa and fitness center and outdoor pool terrace. A little higher, the building will feature 44 floors of residential units before topping out with eight floors of penthouse residences. There are five floors for mechanical operations spread throughout the building.
The concept, which could be subject to changes once city planners review how it conforms with local zoning codes, doesn't say how many residential units or hotel rooms the building would hold or whether the residences would be of the for-sale or for-rent variety, but Greenwich managing partner Michael Ursini previously said the project would contain luxury condos.
Greenwich and company are putting a $371 million price tag on the building. Occupying roughly three-quarters of an acre with an alley running along the eastern side, the narrow, blue-tinged glass tower with jagged crown would feature a floor-area ratio (the ratio of usable floor space in the building to the total lot size) of 20 to 1, the maximum allowed by the city for a residential building in the area.
Ursini hinted last fall this project could just be the beginning of his company's activities in the Mile High City. He said the goal was to break ground this summer, but in its submission to the city, it estimated the start date as June 2019.
The concept has not yet been reviewed by planners, city officials say, as it is lined up behind other plans at this point.
Denver's current tallest building, Republic Plaza at 370 17th St., stands 56 stories and 714 feet tall.


With the stock market acting like a roller coaster and affecting the economy, there is much uncertainty in the air for 2019. Here's some advice of how to save more, spend less and be a smarter investor.
Some financial experts are predicting for 2019 that a recession might be coming. There is more volatility with the stock market and death is a growing as consumers continue to default as well as many other financial issues that are brewing ahead.
As we cannot know for certain but whatever happened in any given year and usually with the stock market because we cannot even predict a winning lottery numbers it's always best to just save money and assume you have no money so that way when an economic crisis does take place you have already secured yourself.
While no one likes to have debt, it's smart to pay the debt as much as you can to eliminate the total. One step to take is to put in order of the credit cards in an Excel spreadsheet in order of highest interest rate and pay them off and bigger increments that way.
Know your debt. Knowing your total debt is a helpful. One step is to have a category be for credit cards only and then also other installment loans. Organize this by interest rates and due dates. If necessary, look into consolidating your debt to you lower your interest rates.
Spending less is the way to go. Challenge yourself to go for three days, then five days and up without spending a single dime. This will help challenge you should you ever be in a financial crisis.
Make sure that you have approximately six months of emergency savings. Having at least 3 to 6 months of income saved can help protect you in the event of a job loss or other emergency.
Check out savings accounts online. As more Internet bank start to become competitive check the rates at BankRate.com for varying interest rates. If necessary, split your savings account now between two different savings banks.
Check your credit score quarterly. With annualcreditreport.com offering free once a year credit reports. You can use the three credit reports from Trans Union, Experian and Equifax.
It's best to take a vantage of them every four months. Such as, in January get your Trans Union report. On May 1 to get your Experian report. On September 1 get your Equifax report. You do not need to do in that order. It's up to you as they are free.
However, most major credit card companies now give your credit score for free at any time and update weekly. As such, Capital One uses CreditWise to provide your score. Further, you want to check your score directly from a FICO.com.
If you're score has gotten better, then check out your car insurance. Have your insurance agent review your policy and see if your new score can lower your insurance rate. Shop around for car insurance. But don't give out all your information. Do you a superficial search. One company I recommend is AAA insurance. They also have universal AAA insurance. You do not need to be a AAA member to have insurance through them. Switching to AAA actually lowered my insurance by more than half.
Mix your banks. You should always have more than one bank. This includes at having at least one bank, one credit union, and at least one online bank. For banks, you should also have at least one local or one regional and one national bank. Never put all your eggs in one basket. Such as, having your utilities be paid from one account and having your cost-of-living bills such as mortgage or rent come from another account. Your credit cards be paid from a different account also.
Verify bank fees and rates. Check the fees at each bank to see what they charge you. Many banks now offer a free checking account. If your bank is charging you, then you can also set up automatic direct deposit yourself to go between both accounts so that way you can avoid being charged over $120 or more per year.
Check your retirement accounts. Even if you don't have much in there, get it going. Make sure it's on the path of where you need it to be. If necessary, put 5% into your savings account and 5% more into your retirement account. Your retirement account will grow quicker and further than a savings account.
Speak to a financial planner about your investment policy's. See if your financial investments are on the right track or if you should rearrange the direction of your financial goals.
Freeze your credit. As the economy get tougher, cyber criminals do more criminal activity. Freeze your credit even if you do not suspect anything. Data breaches will be on the rise whenever there is an economic situation. Get in contact with all three credit agencies to talk to them about freezing your credit. It does not take long.
However, you need to make sure you write down all the information and keep it locked such as in a safe. You will need the same exact information you used to freeze your credit to unfreeze your credit. You will not be able to unfreeze your credit at all unless everything is exactly right as you state when you do freeze it. So take notes. Write everything down. Put it in a safe.
Make a budget. Even if you believe you're OK financially, it's best to cut your budget and live below your means before you do end up struggling. Those that set and goals for financial longevity live below their means. They challenge themselves constantly to go with less and less. These are the people that know themselves and are not afraid to be humble. Because they know that the truth in security is having financial longevity. Make a budget and stick to it.
Remember, no one will make you financially secure except YOU!


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Un homme de têtes  és una pel·lícula muda de la productora francesa Star Film de l'any 1898, dirigida per Georges Méliès. Es troba numerada amb el núm. 167 en els seus catàlegs. La pel·lícula presenta un dels primers usos coneguts de la exposició múltiple d'objectes sobre un fons negre, un efecte especial que Méliès va usar prolíficament en els següents anys.

Sinopsi
El protagonista, interpretat per Méliès, entra en el quadre i es troba entre dues taules, es lleva el cap i la posa en una de les taules, el cap comença a parlar i mira al seu voltant. Méliès repeteix l'acció dues vegades, amb un nou cap que apareix sobre les seves espatlles cada vegada que es treu una, fins que quatre caps idèntics, es veuen alhora. Méliès després toca un banjo i els quatre caps canten alhora. A continuació, colpeja dos dels caps amb el seu banjo pel seu cant odiós, fent-les desaparèixer. Després es lleva el cap i la llança a un costat abans de prendre l'altre cap de la segona taula, que és llançada a l'aire i aterra de nou sobre el seu coll. S'inclina davant els espectadors, els diu adéu i se'n va.

Producció
El mateix Méliès interpreta el mag de la pel·lícula, que aprofita el seu sentit del ritme, la seva tendència als moviments gestuals elegants i el seu talent per al mim. La pel·lícula presenta un dels primers usos coneguts de l'exposició múltiple d'objectes sobre fons negre a la pel·lícula, un efecte especial que Méliès va utilitzar prolíficament. També és la primera vegada que Méliès va filmar caps vius o altres parts del cos separades de la resta del cos, que es convertiria en un dels seus motius preferits. Aquí, el truc es va gestionar mitjançant escamoteigs i quatre exposicions separades.

Alliberament i recepció
La pel·lícula va ser estrenada per la Star Film Company de Méliès i té el número 167 als seus catàlegs. Una impressió il·legal de la pel·lícula, copiada sense autorització de Méliès, va ser estrenada als Estats Units el 1903 per Siegmund Lubin sota el títol Four Heads Are Better Than One. El crític de cinema William B. Parrill, que va revisar pel·lícules mudes a la dècada de 2010, la va anomenar "Sens dubte, una meravella quan va aparèixer, la primera d'una meravellosa línia còmica que va produir no només parts del cos desmuntables, sinó també la replicació de qualsevol nombre de reproduccions màgiques de la pròpia imatge [de Méliès]."

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Pel·lícules de França del 1898
Pel·lícules de França en blanc i negre
Pel·lícules dirigides per Georges Méliès

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(5 cr.) Students in this course examine how corporations succeed and grow by embracing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship within the organization. Students learn current models for corporate entrepreneurship and innovation that align with the strategic objectives of the enterprise. Students also examine the design of repeatable and sustainable processes that leverage existing business practices and support entrepreneurial initiatives.


(Calgary) The national president of Islamic Supreme Council of Canada and the founder of Muslim Against Terrorism, Syed B. Soharwardy today filed two formal complaints with the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission against the publishers of Jewish Free Press and the Western Standards for sighting hate against Muslims.
After filing the complaints, he spoke with the media and said that this is a first step towards putting an end towards the hateful and non-Canadian attitude. We are also considering filing a civil lawsuit against the Jewish Free Press and the Western Standards. ISCC is consulting with lawyers and other Muslim Canadian organizations to have a united and a strong case against the publications of these hateful cartoons in Canada.
Syed Soharwardy appealed to the worldwide Muslims to stop violent protest. These protests have served and helped the anti-Islam forces. The violent protests in Muslim countries have brought embarrassment to Muslims. However, the western world must know that the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Muslim countries remained peaceful. Only few thousands, out of 1.6 billion Muslims, participated in the riots, which is still a regrettable and un-Islamic situation.
Syed Soharwardy said that the people in the west must know that the majority of Muslim countries are ruled by dictators and military rulers. These dictators, supported by the western governments, do exploit people in the name of religion whenever they want in order to safeguard their governments.
Syed Soharwardy thanked the Prime Minister, Steven Harper for supporting Canadian Muslims. He also thanked the mainstream Canadian Media for protecting the freedom of the press with responsibility and accountability. Syed Soharwardy thanked the various companies for deciding not to sell or purchase the hatemongering issue of the Western Standards.
Syed Soharwardy said, "For years, we have been building the bridges among various religious and ethnic communities in Canada but the two publishers tried to destroy those bridges. We will not let them succeed in their destruction." Syed Soharwardy strongly disagreed with the repeated remarks of Ezra Levant that the new Canadians do not know the Canadian values. Islam is not a new religion in North America. Muslims have over a hundred years old heritage in North America. We, Muslims understand the Canadian values better, because the overwhelming majority of the Canadian media and the public including Canadian Jewish Congress support Muslim's opinion, not Mr. Levant's hateful remarks. I think Mr. Levant should learn first before becoming the champion of Canadian values.
Syed Soharwardy invited the two publishers to visit Al Madinah Calgary Islamic Centre in Calgary NE and have a dialogue with the Muslim community on Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 4:00 PM. We hope Mr. Ezra Levant and Mr. Richard Bronstein will accept our invitation.
Syed Soharwardy will be visiting Montreal and Toronto to participate in the peaceful rallies against the publication of hateful cartoons on Sunday. He will be addressing gatherings in Brampton and Montreal on Saturday. For details, please visit http://iscc.ca and click on the "Seminars on Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him). For any questions, please call Syed B. Soharwardy at Toll Free Phone (866)-208-6898.


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Joachim Maria Sighart (* 16. Januar 1824 in Altötting; † 20. Dezember 1867 in München) war ein deutscher römisch-katholischer Theologe, Philosoph und Kunsthistoriker.

Leben
Sighart wurde in Altötting in dem alten gotischen Schloss Neukolberg als jüngstes Kind der damit neunköpfigen Familie der Eheleute Joseph und Anna Sighart geboren. Die Eltern waren ursprünglich gut situiert gewesen, hatten jedoch in den Wirren der Befreiungskriege einen Teil ihres Vermögens verloren. Als der Vater, der ein kleines Gut besaß, zu dem das Schloss gehörte, schon 1825 starb, war Joachims Mutter gezwungen, allein für die Familie zu sorgen. Sie zog 1833 mit ihren Kindern nach München um. Sighart besuchte dort die Lateinschule. Wegen hervorragender Leistungen erhielt er anschließend einen Freiplatz an der Königlichen Studienanstalt in Neuburg an der Donau. Ab 1841 studierte er an der Universität München Theologie, Philosophie und Klassische Philologie. 1845 wurde er zum Doktor der Philosophie promoviert. Während des Studiums sorgte er durch Erteilen von Privatunterricht mit für den Lebensunterhalt der Familie. 1846 wurde er zum Priester geweiht. Er erhielt zunächst eine Hilfsstelle in der Pfarrei Trostberg. 1847 wurde er als Lehrer an das Königlich Bayerische Lyceum in Freising berufen. 1850 erfolgte die Ernennung zum Professor für Philosophie Er lehrte über Logik, Metaphysik, Psychologie und Geschichte der Philosophie; daneben hielt er Vorträge über Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstgeschichte, die sich in den folgenden Jahren zu seinem Lieblingsfach entwickelte. In Freising begründete er 1857 den Diözesan-Kunstverein Freising. Als dessen Leiter unterstützte er 1860 die Gründung des Münchner Vereins für Christliche Kunst. 1862 und 1863 verfasste er auf Veranlassung und mit Unterstützung des Königs Maximilian II. die zweibändige "Geschichte der Bildenden Künste im Königreich Bayern von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart", mit der er sich ein bleibendes Andenken erwarb. Wohl deshalb wurde er 1863 als Mitglied in die Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften gewählt, 1866 wurde er in das Münchner Domkapitel berufen.

Sighart verfasste zahlreiche Schriften. Seine über 380 Seiten umfassende Abhandlung über Albertus Magnus von 1857 erschien zehn Jahre später in London in englischer Übersetzung unter dem Titel: Albert the Great. His Life and Scholastic Labours. From Original Documents. Nachdrucke seiner Werke werden heute von Book-on-Demand-Verlagen angeboten.

Sighart starb 1867 wenige Wochen vor Erreichen seines 44. Lebensjahrs in München an Herzversagen und wurde auf dem Alten Südfriedhof beigesetzt. Im Freisinger Stadtteil Neustift ist eine Straße nach im benannt.

Werke (Auswahl)
 Der Dom zu Freising. Eine kunstgeschichtliche Monographie mit artistischen Beilagen. Landshut 1852 (Digitalisat).
 Vorwort zu dem Buch Theologia naturalis von Raimundus de Sabunde, 1852, S. III–VIII.
 Die Frauenkirche zu München. Ihre Geschichte und Schilderung, zunächst vom kunsthistorischen Standpunkt aus entworfen. Landshut 1853 (Digitalisat).
 Die mittelalterliche Kunst in der Erzdiöcese München Freising dargestellt in ihren Denkmälern. Freising 1855 (Digitalisat).
 Albertus Magnus. Sein Leben und seine Wissenschaft. Nach den Quellen dargestellt. Regensburg 1857 (Digitalisat), ()
 Von München nach Landshut. Ein Eisenbahnbüchlein. Landshut 1869 (Digitalisat).
 Dr. Friedrich Windischmann. Ein Lebensbild. Augsburg 1861 (Digitalisat).
 Geschichte der Bildenden Künste im Königreich Bayern von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. 2 Bände, München 1862 und 1863 (Digitalisat).
 Ein Wachstafelbuch aus dem Kloster Polling. In: Abhandlungen der Historischen Classe der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, III. Cl., Band 9, II. Abth., München 1864, S. 343–356.
 Reliquien aus Rom. Zur Kunstgeschichte und Volkskunde. Augsburg 1865 (Digitalisat).

Literatur
 M. Rampf: Erinnerung an Dr. Joachim Sighart, Domcapitular und geistlichen Rath. München 1869 (Digitalisat).

 Verein für christliche Kunst in München (Hrsg.): Festgabe zur Erinnerung an das 50jähr. Jubiläum. Lentner'sche Hofbuchhandlung, München 1910, S. 26, 31 und 29; Foto auf S. 17.
 Nekrolog. In: Freisinger Tagblatt, Nr. 10, Samstag, 11. Januar 1868, S. 4, und Schluss in Nr. 11, Sonntag, 12. Januar 1868, S. 3.
 Jocham: Dr. Joachim Sighart. Ein Lebensbild. In: Der Katholik. Zeitschrift für katholische Wissenschaft und kirchliches Leben. Neue Folge, Band 19, Mainz 1868, S. 309–337.

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Römisch-katholischer Geistlicher (19. Jahrhundert)
Domherr (München)
Philosoph
Kunsthistoriker
Mitglied der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Autor
Deutscher
Geboren 1824
Gestorben 1867
Mann


It takes a team to create great messaging.
As I prepare to begin the Tagline Focus Project (TFP) program on November 15, many of you have gotten in touch with questions. And you've reminded me how common it is to feel isolated and overwhelmed by the challenge to create messages that connect for our organizations.
That's one of the reasons I'm so looking forward to working with a small group of nonprofit communicators (no more than 12) like you this fall, leading them through this immersion program to learn how to develop messages collaboratively—with me, the other program participants, and their colleagues and external audiences.
That's the only path to effective messaging, and one far more satisfying than trying to go it alone.
This action-oriented program is designed specifically to help you and your colleagues get the job done and do it well. All you need to do is participate actively in the Tagline Focus Project and complete the assignments to develop messages that engage your base and motivate them to act, in just eight weeks.
Understand your audiences' wants and values better, so you know how to connect with them.
Use audience feedback to pinpoint the right messaging focus.
Gain the insights and support of your colleagues.
Shape the ingredients of your analysis, craft the right tagline and roll it out to your audience.
Build the skills to develop all the messages you need for your organization (the tagline is simply the messaging element we focus on in the program).
Plus, get access to all of the templates, checklists, worksheets, models and resources included in the Great Nonprofit Messages Toolkit that you'll get with Tagline Focus Project participation.
We're starting on November 15, so if you're interested in vastly improving your organization's messaging for 2012, I encourage you to go ahead and register today for the Tagline Focus Project.
We already have a rich mix of participants, communicators that work in organizations as varied as a program of one of the largest and most influential national nonprofits there is, an innovative regional network, a student leadership organization and a professional association. But a few seats are still open.
I hope we'll get the chance to work together on this.
P.S. My aim for this program is to deliver substantial value both to your organization and its messaging, and to you as a professional. Completing the program will vastly enhance your skill set as a nonprofit communications professional.
"Even though we have little formal marketing training, our four-person team is tasked with doing the job. But we'd been circling around developing key messages for a full year, with no results, when we heard about the Tagline Focus Project.


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Parking lots are the traditional wasteland of the suburban biosphere. But Google is turning this land into a farm of Solar Trees to generate Power.
Google's Mountain View, California, headquarters is getting a 1.6-megawatt solar system — enough to power about 1,000 homes — that will feed about 30 percent of the complex's power demand.
About a third of the 9,000 solar panels Google's installing will take the form of overhanging parking shades at the million-square-foot campus in Mountain View. The others will be mounted on rooftops.
Which framework you will choose as the best one?
Thanks very much for posting this detail view of the parking lot solar sunshade structures because all I had been able to find was the aerial view of the complex on Google earth and a time lapse of the structures being built.


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Traveling nurses provide burnout prevention at a savings
by Heather Mayer, DOTmed News Reporter | December 28, 2010
This report originally appeared in the December 2010 issue of DOTmed Business News
When hospitals are short-staffed, quality of patient care can be undermined. With the facility struggling to cope with a nursing shortage, being short-staffed is a common status for more and more hospitals. Therefore, it's no surprise agencies that provide temporary nurses to health care facilities are becoming popular, largely to alleviate the burnout occurring among an overextended workforce.
Beginning in the 1970s, the traveling nurse industry peaked in the mid 2000s, to experience only a slight decline today, says Rob Simmons, client development manager with Travel Nurses Solution, an agency based in Birmingham, Ala. The slowdown is largely due to the high rate of unemployment; when the economy is poor, nurses hang onto their jobs and positions don't open up, says Simmons.
On a short-term basis, temporary, traveling nurses are cost-effective for hospitals expanding or looking for permanent personnel. Assignments can last anywhere from four to 26 weeks, although some nurses stay on board for years.
"We have nurses in the company who have worked with a hospital for a couple of years," says Simmons. "They keep extending their assignments."
When a temporary nurse has been on assignment to a hospital for a long period of time, the recruitment and nursing management may become complacent. That complacency can lead to frustration among upper-management at the hospital, says Simmons.
Hospitals contracting traveling nurses pay agencies a flat rate, ranging from about $52 to $80 an hour. The rate includes the nurses' services, housing, travel cost, salary and any other incurred costs.
But Simmons explains it's hard to calculate cost-savings without looking at hospital reimbursements and the type of revenue a hospital may lose by not having a bed filled because it was short-staffed.
It's not necessarily cheaper for a hospital to staff its facility with all contracted traveling nurses. The cost for one traveling nurse on a long-term basis comes out to be $6 to $10 more hourly than a permanent employee, taking into account salary, recruitment and retention, as well as benefits. This varies slightly depending on location and benefits.
"You're looking at a difference of about $6 to $10, which is a good gap with hospitals operating on slim margins," says Simmons. "But $6 to $10 can add up when you have about 20 temporary contracted staff in a hospital on a yearly basis."
And when it's time to cut costs, these types of contracted employees are usually the first to go, says Simmons.
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Growth Characteristics: A rather large, broadleaved shrub or small tree with a spreading, rounded crown. Its height will average about 35 feet, and the diameter averages 9 inches at maturity. Reproduces by wind-carried seeds contained in winged samaras.
Flowers/Inflorescence: Flowers are small, yellowish, and found in clusters appearing in early spring. Bigtooth maple usually only flowers every 2-3 years.
Fruits/Seeds: Fruits are typical double samaras, characteristic of maples. Two seeds are attached together at one end with extended wings projecting from opposite ends.
Leaves: The leaves arise from the twigs in opposing pairs. The general shape of the leaf is nearly round, about 4 inches in diameter with several blunt teeth around the edges. The leaf is characterized by 3, sometimes 5, lobes that fan out from the point of attachment to the leaf stalk.
Stems: Young twigs are slender, bright red to greenish-brown, and smooth. Older twigs are gray. Buds are reddish-colored and grow in clusters. Bark is thin with shallow furrows and grayish flat-topped ridges. The wood is hard, heavy, and light brown.
Bigtooth maple is abundant in canyon bottoms, draws, and moist mountain sites, but can also be found in dryer areas. It is generally found between 4,500 and 7,500 feet elevation in north and central Utah. It is shade tolerant.
Soils: Bigtooth maple can be found on many soil types. It is intolerant of prolonged flooding and saline or alkaline soils. It is most often found on silty loams with a medium to rocky soil texture.
Associated Species: Chokecherry, boxelder, birchleaf mountain mahogany, gambel oak, peavine, Kentucky bluegrass, wheatgrasses.
Bigtooth maple is a good ground cover tree, providing shade in canyon bottoms for livestock and recreation areas. It is a fair source of food for browsing wildlife and domestic livestock. The seeds, buds, and flowers provide food for numerous species of birds and small mammals. Understory plants are generally lacking under stands of this tree.
Because this tree is closely related to the sugar maple of the Northeastern United States, it can and has been used as a source of sugar and syrup. The deciduous leaves of bigtooth maple account for most of the beautiful yellow, orange, and red coloration of our canyons in the early fall, and are used in "Autumn leaf" displays.


Last week camps and lodges throughout the Maasai Mara in Kenya reported that the wildebeest migration had arrived. In honor of the arrival of the migration here is some information on the migration and few tips that will leave you perfectly positioned to see it.
When and Where Does the Migration Happen?
Between December and April the wildebeest are on the short grass plains in the Ndutu area in the southern Serengeti but depending on the local rainfall they might in a much wider area between Ndutu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (just southeast of Serengeti National Park but not inside Ngorongoro Crater itself). During this time, typically in February, wildebeest mothers give birth to more than 500,000 calves in a 2-3 week period. Within 10 minutes of birth wildebeest calves are on their feet.
In April and May, the rains stop and the plains in the south and east of the Serengti dry out. This shift causes the herds start to moving to the north and west where there is more grass and more dependable water. During this period not all the wildebeest and zebra follow the same route some travel further west than others who head northwest. This means that, part of the Migration will head to the Western Corridor and the Grumeti River before proceeding north and large numbers may also go up through the Loliondo area or through the Seronera area and into Lobo.
June to July is a transitional period between the rains and the dry season. As they concentrate on the few remaining green patches of savannah, the huge herds reform and push further north towards the Maasai Mara. Between July and August the wildebeest move into Kenya's Maasai Mara crossing the Mara River in large numbers.
It is these crossings that generate some of the iconic images of the migration but catching a river crossing in action is a challenge. The area where the crossings occur is vast, even traveling by car and even if you find a group of animals at the edge of the water they are cautious (and stupid) and may not cross for an hour or a day because of real or imagine threats. Although rare and elusive, if you are lucky enough to catch a river crossing its guaranteed to be the unforgettable experiences as a herd which has stood at the water's edge suddenly crosses in a panicked mass, struggling to get to the other side of a crocodile filled river.
As with the other stages of the migration the exact timing of the crossing into the Mara is hard to predict and depends on the rains. In a dry year, the first wildebeest could be near the Mara River in early July; in a wet year, by mid-August. If there is plenty of grass and water, the herds may be spread out all the way from Seronera to the Mara River. In addition it is often the case that the whole Migration may not move into Kenya. Many animals remain in the Northern Serengeti or cross and re-cross the Mara and the border between Kenya and Tanzania several times following periodic rain showers. This carries on until October/November when the animals in Kenya begin moving back into the Northern Serengeti. Between November and December many will move south within the Serengeti to the breeding and calving grounds where they spend December through March.
It is important to remember that the whole migration is millions of animals and is never in one place at one time, they cover a huge area. As a traveler you can be in a region where the migration has supposedly passed or has yet to arrive and still see thousands of animals. I have seen thousands of wildebeest in the Southern Part of the Serengeti in January.
World class safari guide Richard Knocker puts it best when he says "the Migration is not a continuously forward motion. They go forward, backwards, and to the sides, they mill around, they split up, they join forces again, they walk in a line, the spread out, or they hang around together. You can never predict with certainty where they will be; the best you can do is suggest likely timing based on past experience, but you can never guarantee the Migration one hundred percent."
Given all this complexity, here are recommendations that will give you a great chance to see the migration. These recommendations reflect where wildebeest tend to be at a given time of year and although they are based on years of experience they are estimates! Nature doesn't stick to our schedule!
There are lots of wonderful safari camps in Tanzania and Kenya for migration viewing, these are just a few great ones in each area the migration moves through throughout the year.
Mid-July through September/October: The list is quite long here but some of my favorite camp for the beginning of the season are Serian Camp, Elephant Pepper Camp, Mara Plains, Rekero, Offbeat Mara and Kicheche. By September and October I would recommend Sala Camp, Cottar's Camp and Naibor.
October and November: Klein's Camp, Migration Camp and all the mobile camps.
Because the migration can vary from year to year mobile camps are a great way to make sure you are perfectly situated. These camps move every 3-4 months, moving north within Tanzania to follow the migration. The locations for all the mobile camps are similar so what really sets them apart is the level of accommodation. Here are 4 mobile camps in Tanzania (in order of luxury): Serian Serengeti North, Serengeti Under Canvas, Olakira Camp and Nomads Serengeti Safari Camp. Serian also has a mobile camp, Nkorombo, in the Maasai Mara in Kenya.
Most properties in Kenya have low season starting in October and this makes it a great time to catch the end of migration as the wildebeest cross the Mara River back into Tanzania and can be great value for money. Many properties drop as much as 20% per person per night between September and October.


White spots on your teeth are indicative of one of a few types of dental problems. Though they are different from cavities to start, they can eventually also lead to issues like tooth decay. The good news is that, unlike cavities and dark spots, white spots can typically be cleaned and fixed before much damage is done. White spots can happen for a few reasons, but regardless of the reason, treatment is usually to remove the lesions or to cover them up if they don't pose a serious threat.
A common cause for white spots on children and young adults' teeth is an issue called fluorosis. Fluorosis is caused by an excessive intake of fluoride, which may sound like a good problem to have for your teeth, but this can actually cause a buildup of calcium on your enamel, which subsequently weakens it and makes your teeth more porous. Over time, this weakness in your enamel can lead to lesions and cavities.
In cases of fluorosis, the best thing to do is visit a dentist to have the spots removed. This is often done via an air abrasion, a resin infiltration system or topical remineralization therapy.
In some cases, white spots are caused by hypoplasia of the enamel. This happens when the enamel on your teeth is softer than normal, or when your teeth are producing a normal amount of enamel that is hypermineralized; this can happen on one tooth or multiple teeth.
Because enamel hypoplasia is a type of tooth defect, it's not something that can be fixed by dental treatment. For this reason, many treatments for the spots themselves are aesthetic. Minor cases of enamel hypoplasia can be treated by bonding or sealing the tooth or teeth, and with more severe cases, the affected teeth can be given crowns to protect them.
Minor cases can also be treated with dedicated oral hygiene, since enamel hypoplasia only makes your teeth more susceptible to decay and damage, not guaranteed to experience it.
White spots can often appear on your teeth after you've had braces, sometimes even if you've kept up with your cleanings and oral care. Brackets can result in a buildup of plaque, which subsequently results in decalcification. Plaque is not always permanent, especially if you catch it early and go to your dentist for a cleaning.
Decalcification from plaque is different than a buildup of calcium, like with fluorosis, but the end result can be the same; bacteria in plaque can weaken and eat away at your enamel, making your teeth more vulnerable to decay.
For more information, contact Dr. Chen & Associates or a similar organization.


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Q: Start of with empty View Model MVC I would like to create a view which is linked to multiple tables. From what I understand I need to create a View Model and link that to the page.
I get a couple of errors using the below
'PaymentViewModel' is a type, which is not valid in the given context.
An expression tree may not contain a dynamic operation (related to first error?)
I am new to MVC - come from ASP....Any help is appreciated
public class PaymentViewModel
{
    public string playername { get; set; }
    public DateTime dob { get; set; }
    public string phone { get; set; }
    public string email { get; set; }
    public string clubname { get; set; }
    public string productname { get; set; }
    public decimal amount { get; set; }
    public int transactionID { get; set; }
    public bool approved { get; set; }
    public string subtype { get; set; }
    public DateTime subdate { get; set; }
}

Controller
I need to start with a blank view as this is the first step to register a player so the information is not in the database.
Below is the code I use to get a populated View.
public ActionResult Payment()
{
    DateTime blank = Convert.ToDateTime("01-01-1900");
    var prod = from p in db.Product
        join c in db.Club on p.clubname equals c.clubname
        where p.clubname == "Club1"
        select new PaymentViewModel
        {
            productname = p.prodname,
            clubname = c.clubname,
            playername = c.add1,
            dob = blank,
            phone = c.phone,
            email = c.email,
            transactionID = 0,
            amount = p.amount,
            approved = Convert.ToBoolean("1"),
            subtype = c.city,
            subdate = blank
        };
    return View(prod);
}

View
@S4C.BAL.PaymentViewModel;
@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
    @Html.AntiForgeryToken()

Player Name

        @Html.ValidationSummary(true, "", new { @class = "text-danger" })

            Full Name

                @Html.EditorFor(model => model.playername, new { htmlAttributes = new { autofocus = "autofocus", @maxlength = "25", @class = "form-control" } })
                @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.playername, "", new { @class = "text-danger" })

                    <input type="submit" value="Create" class="btn btn-default" />

}

@Html.ActionLink("Back to List", "Index")

@section Scripts {@Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryval")}

A: You cannot do approved = Convert.ToBoolean("1") in your select because the whole projection will happen at the database side and it does not know what Convert.ToBoolean() is. You need to do this in your view model:
public class PaymentViewModel {

    // other properties ...
    public string approved { get; set; }
    public bool IsApproved {get {return this.approved == "1" }}
}

Also change the first line in your view to this:
@model S4C.BAL.PaymentViewModel

A: Not sure if I am understanding this correctly so please tell me if I'm wrong here.
Sounds like you know how to get a view filled with data from your database and you want to get an empty view without the data filled.  To get an empty view request with just return a view without the model.
// Must request with /{Controller}/PaymentEmpty
Public ActionResult PaymentEmpty()
{
    return View("Payment", new PaymentViewModel());
}

If you look at the default templates for ASP MVC applications the controller contains actions for Index, Details, Create, Edit and Delete.  Thinking of actions in this manner can help with structuring your requests.  Maybe place Payment into its own controller named PaymentsController and having the actions from the controller follow the default template.


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Location: SunCon in Miami Beach, Florida.
Comments: The most notable fact about Kate Wilhelm's Best Hugo award for her novel Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is not just that she won, but that she beat out old stalwarts like Frank Herbert, Frederik Pohl, and Robert Silverberg while doing so. In the eight years since Anne McCaffrey became the first woman to win a Hugo Award, the boys club of science fiction has made some progress including women. It isn't huge progress, but it is a decent start.
Once again, while the writing awards were on the whole unsurprising, and each award went to deserving winners, the Best Dramatic Presentation Award provided this year with its, for lack of a better word, drama. For the fourth time the award went to "No Winner", which seems like something of a shock after the modest quality of the winners over the previous couple of years. Surely if movies like A Boy and His Dog and Sleeper could garner a victory in this category, either Logan's Run, The Man Who Fell to Earth, or even Carrie was worthy of a Hugo statute. This was also the last year before the sea change in science fiction film making that took place when Star Wars was released, and it would have been nice to have one final "classic" style science fiction film win a Hugo.
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
Man Plus by Frederik Pohl
Mindbridge by Joe Haldeman
Shadrach in the Furnace by Robert Silverberg
(tie) By Any Other Name by Spider Robinson
(tie) Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree, Jr.
Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Richard Cowper
The Samurai and the Willows by Michael Bishop
The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov
The Diary of the Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin
Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance by John Varley
The Phantom of Kansas by John Varley
Tricentennial by Joe Haldeman
A Crowd of Shadows by Charles L. Grant
Custom Fitting by James White
I See You by Damon Knight (reviewed in TV: 2000)
Futureworld
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Terry Carr
Mythologies edited by Don D'Ammassa
The Spanish Inquisition edited by Suzanne Tompkins and Jerry Kaufman
(tie) Richard E. Geis
(tie) Susan Wood
Mike Glicksohn
C.J. Cherryh
Carter Scholz
Labels: Book Reviews, Hugo Finalist Reviews, Hugo Winner Reviews, Movie Reviews, Science Fiction Reviews, Short Fiction Reviews