The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention and chosen by its members. The Hugo is widely considered the premier award in science fiction. The award is administered by the World Science Fiction Society. It is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. Hugos were first given in 1953, at the 11th World Science Fiction Convention, and have been awarded every year since 1955.
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Mac Mac was first, and correct, with:
Science Fiction
Mark. said:
Science fiction or fantasy.
Randall wrote:
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Alan J answered:
Science Fiction.
mj replied:
It's the ultimate fan tribute
Awarded to Science Fiction writers.
Jon L responded:
Just a guess here: Math.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Science Fiction and Fantasy writing. The other big award in the genre is the Nebula Award.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
The Hugo is widely considered the premier award in science fiction.
Micki responded:
Science fiction.
Kenn B said:
Science Fiction
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, wrote:
Hugo is an award for Science Fiction writing. Attached pic is from my desk as I read the question.
John I from Hawai`i says,
Science Fiction Writing
Dave answered:
Science Fiction. The Hugo is one award that I haven't heard Trump whine about not winning. Maybe after he wins the Nobel Peace Prize for not (yet) nuking North Korea, which Trump claims Hillary totally would have done had Putin not stolen the election for him. And a lifetime Emmy for being starring in most chaotic daily drama series for 2020 (his coronavirus briefings).
Jacqueline responded:
A few of the award winners: JRR Tolkien, Isaac Asimov, Neil Gaiman and JK Rowling. The award is for outstanding science fiction and fantasy stories.
Deborah, the Master Gardener, replied:
I think the Hugo award is for science fiction literature.
Heat's building, the north wind's blowing, and summer is nigh. Another exciting holiday weekend spent at home, how safe and smart. Mask up, people.
Daniel in The City said:
Science fiction writing
Billy in Cypress U$A wrote:
Science fiction or fantasy writing in English
BttbBob answered:
Science Fiction - International in scope, for print and screen... The American Sci-Fi award is the Nebula... The author that started me down the Sci-Fi path in 1966, Poul Anderson, is a 7 time Hugo awardee... His character, Dominic Flandry, Imperial Terran Naval Intelligence, was the 'James Bond' of the 31st Century during the waning days of the decadent Terran Empire and this then 13 y/o kid ate it up... Flandry was somewhat of fop and dandy, with more luck than skill sometimes, but like 007 always seemed to get the job done while always aware that he was merely delaying 'The Long Night' that would result with the Fall of the Empire...
Anderson wasn't awarded for that series, but it sure did entertain me... He richly described the 'xeno-sophants' that Flandry interacted with and came up with some extremely interesting concepts. My favorite was one of 'Mutualism' (see above, The Rebel Worlds), a symbiotic physical connection between 3 different species that created an individual personality with sentience and abilities that far exceeded any of their species individually. The varying combinations of the 3 different species created different composite "people" with different names and skills in a 'plug and play' manner of speaking... Wrap your head around that one...
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Music: "Give Me My Flowers While I'm Living" from the album RUSTY SMITH AND FRIENDS
Artist: Rusty Smith
Artist Location: Athens, Ohio
Info: Released August 1, 2013
Rusty Smith: guitar, fiddle, vocals, piano
Zeke Hutchison: mandolin (lead vocal on 5)
Terry Douds: bass
Todd Sams: banjo 10, 13
Hilarie Burhans: banjo 15
John Borchard: dobro 8, 13
Jorma Kaukonen: guitar 11
Mark Hellenberg: percussion 11
Ali Smith: clarinet 9, 16
Bruce Dalzell: vocals 2
Gay Dalzell: vocals 2
Buck McCumbers: vocals 10, 13
Mimi Hart: vocals 1, 8
Note: the numbers refer to tracks on the 16-track album.
"Great album. Lots of Rusty's friends are long-time Athens, Ohio, well-respected music-makers. Jorma Kaukonen, who lives now in nearby Meigs County, played for Jefferson Airplane." - Bruce
Price: $0.50 for track (50 cents - WHAT A BARGAIN!); $7 (USD) for 16-track album.
• Publicity stunts can solve the problem of how to draw attention to a particular product. Marvel Comics maven Stan Lee once helped create a comic book starring the members of the rock group Kiss. As a publicity stunt, the members of Kiss pricked their fingers and dripped some drops of their blood into the red ink that would be used in the comic book.
• Politicians can be creative problem-solvers. In Australia, a politician got tired of the loudness of some rowdy roughnecks in his neighborhood, so he devised a means of driving them away. He simply played on loudspeakers the kind of music that he knew they would NOT like - for example, Barry Manilow's "Mandy."
Rehearsals
• Sir Thomas Beecham once undertook an Australian tour during which he had the opportunity to rehearse a number of times the Australian orchestra he would conduct. He went through the program once, then excused the musicians. He did the same thing the next day and the following day - at which time he announced that there would be no further rehearsals. Because extra rehearsals had already been paid for - six in all - the orchestra manager asked why Sir Thomas would not use them. Sir Thomas replied, "My dear fellow, this orchestra was lousy at the first rehearsal, lousier at the second, and incredibly lousy the third. I can't let this go on; think what it would be like at the performance!"
• Cellist Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich challenges himself and works hard at his art. Within a few weeks in London, he played 35 cello concertos, most of which he knew but a few of which were unfamiliar to him. One night, he discussed with conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky a concerto that they were to rehearse the following morning. After asking for information about tempi, he confessed that he did not know the concerto. As you would expect, Mr. Rozhdestvensky was concerned about the next morning's rehearsal, but Mr. Rostropovich played the concerto perfectly - to learn it, he had stayed up all night.
Revenge
• Early in his career, Italian baritone Titta Ruffo sang magnificently the role of Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Because of the huge audience response, Mr. Ruffo was scheduled to perform Rigoletto at a later performance, but after observing one dress rehearsal, Nellie Melba, who was supposed to star with Mr. Ruffo, reported that Mr. Ruffo was too young to sing with her. This rejection stung. Eight years later, Ms. Melba wanted Mr. Ruffo to sing with her in Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet. However, Mr. Ruffo declined, sending back this message to Ms. Melba: "Signor Ruffo considers that you are too old to sing with him."
• Musicians can get revenge in unusual ways. The Violent Femmes once asked singer-songwriter Tom Waits to produce a song for them. He declined, so when the Violent Femmes performed Mr. Waits' song "Step Right Up" on a tribute album titled New Coat of Paint: The Songs of Tom Waits, they mutilated it - as Violent Femmes member Brian Ritchie noted on the album liner notes.
Tempi
• Pianist Artur Schnabel disliked the tempo that conductor Otto Klemperer was setting for a Beethoven concerto, so he signaled - behind the maestro's back - the tempo he preferred to the other musicians. Mr. Klemperer noticed, and he pointed to the podium, then told Mr. Schnabel, "Klemperer is here!" Mr. Schnabel replied, "Klemperer is there, and I am here. But where is Beethoven?"
• Johannes Brahms once conducted the finale of one of his concertos much, much faster than he usually conducted it. Violinist Fritz Kreisler protested, but Mr. Brahms replied about playing a fast tempo, "Why not, my dear friend? My pulse is faster than usual today."
I had read a lot about Linick being purged, but I had missed that the Transportation Dept IG was demoted at the same time. I guess Pompeo got Predator to get rid of Linick at the same time Elaine Cho was getting rid of her little problem:
Sounded like the start of firework season - it was a new noise for the shittens and they didn't like it.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'MacGyver', followed by a RERUN'Magnum PU', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with the movie 'The Secret Life Of Pets', followed by an old 'SNL'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN.
ABC starts the night with starts the night with a RERUN'The Last Dance', followed by another RERUN'The Last Dance', then a RERUN'The Rookie'.
The CW offers some local crap.
Faux has a RERUN'Filthy Dancing', followed by a RERUN'Labor Of Love'.
MY recycles an old 'Major Crimes', followed by another old 'Major Crimes'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Knight & Day', followed by the movie 'Con Air'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] THE POLAR BEAR FAMILY AND ME - Summer
[7:00AM] THE POLAR BEAR FAMILY AND ME - Autumn
[8:00AM] WILD SINGAPORE - Islands
[9:00AM] WILD SINGAPORE - Forest Life
[10:00AM] WILD SINGAPORE - Urban Wild
[11:00AM] WILD SINGAPORE - Urban Wild
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: DYNASTIES - Painted Wolf (Extended Version)
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH: DYNASTIES - Emperor Penguins (Extended Version)
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH: DYNASTIES - Lion (Extended Version)
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH: DYNASTIES - Chimpanzee (Extended Version)
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: DYNASTIES - Tiger (Extended Version)
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - The Blue Planet
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - The Deep
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - The Open Ocean
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - Frozen Seas
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - Seasonal Seas
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - Coral Seas
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - Tidal Seas
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - Frozen Seas
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - Seasonal Seas (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', another 'Below Deck', and then way too much 'Chrisley Knows Best'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Grown Ups 2', followed by the movie 'Grown Ups 2', again, then the movie 'Get Hard'.
FX has the movie 'Fast & Furious 6', followed by the movie 'Furious 7'.
History has the movie 'Wyatt Earp', followed by the movie 'The Outlaw Josey Wales'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Angels' Revenge
[8:15A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Deathstalker and the Warriors From Hell
[10:30A] The Watch
[12:45P] Kingpin
[3:30P] Bad News Bears
[6:00P] Vegas Vacation
[8:00P] Caddyshack
[10:15P] National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation -
[12:30A] Vegas Vacation
[2:30A] National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
[4:45A] That '70s Show
[5:15A] That '70s Show
[5:45A] That '70s Show (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:25am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[11:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[12:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[12:30pm] Hogan's Heroes
[1:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[1:30pm] Hogan's Heroes
[2:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[2:30pm] Stripes
[5:00pm] Saving Private Ryan
[9:00pm] The Green Berets
[12:00am] Saving Private Ryan
[4:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:30am] Law & Order
[5:30am] Law & Order (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Prisoner Of Azkaban', followed by the movie 'Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire'.
Here's another notable theatrical release to hit PVOD due to COVID-19: Focus Features' Jon Stewart-directed political comedy Irresistible. Originally scheduled for a May 29 theatrical release, the Steve Carell-Rose Byrne-Chris Cooper movie now will play in homes starting Friday, June 26.
Irresistible will be available for the 48-hour rental price of $19.99 on such platforms as Amazon, Apple, Comcast, DirecTV, Fandango, Google/YouTube, Charter/Spectrum, Verizon, Microsoft, Dish, Sony, Cox, Altice, Vudu, Frontier and Row8.
There's also the possibility, that the movie will still play theatrically starting the weekend of June 26, in those cinemas that are open.
The movie reps Stewart's second feature directorial after 2014's Rosewater, which told the story of Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari who was accused and brutally interrogated by Iranian forces for being a spy. Stewart wrote Irresistible and produced with Lila Yacoub and Plan B Entertainment's Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner. Mackenzie Davis, Topher Grace and Natasha Lyonne also star.
"Out," a short film that features Pixar's first gay main character, was released Friday on Disney+.
The film, which is part of the platform's SparkShorts series, follows the story of Greg, whose excitement about moving in with his boyfriend, Manuel, is undercut by his anxiety over not being out to his parents. When Greg's parents come to visit him at his new apartment, Greg tries to hide the evidence of his relationship, but his fairy god-pets, a magical dog and cat, encourage him to tell his parents the truth.
"Out" was directed by Steven Clay Hunter, known for animating "Finding Nemo" and "WALL-E," among other Pixar films. Max Sachar, known for his work on "Coco" and "Toy Story 3" produced the short.
Walt Disney Studios - the parent of Pixar and a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company - has lagged behind all other major film studios in terms of on-screen LGBTQ representation since 2012, according to LGBTQ media advocacy group GLAAD. The studio, however, has been stepping up its LGBTQ representation recently by including LGBTQ storylines in films including "Avengers: Endgame" and "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker." It also recently made history with "Onward," an animated film that features a lesbian character voiced by Lena Waithe.
Bob Gale is asking fans not to be too hard on Netflix for a censored version of Back to the Future: Part II which was streaming for a short while.
Fans of the series were irate when they discovered a tiny portion of the 1989 sequel was changed, poorly. It has since been replaced with the standard version. The alteration happened when Marty finds the Oh La La magazine within the sports almanac dustcover. The moment was cut short, the cover of the magazine edited out.
Gale, the screenwriter of the beloved trilogy, explained what happened and why it was not Netflix's fault.
"The blame is on Universal who somehow furnished Netflix an edited version of the movie," Gale said. "I learned about it some ten days ago from an eagle-eyed fan, and had the studio rectify the error. The version now running is the uncensored, unedited, original version."
He continued, "Apparently, this was a foreign version which neither director Robert Zemeckis nor I even knew existed, for some country that had a problem with the Oh La La magazine cover. I asked that the studio destroy this version. FYI, Netflix does not edit films - they only run the versions that are supplied to them. So they're blameless. You can direct your ire at Universal, but I think they will be a lot more careful in the future - and with 'the future.'"
A federal judge in San Diego dismissed One America News Network's defamation lawsuit against Rachel Maddow, MSNBC and Comcast, concluding that Maddow was stating her opinion when she said that the right-leaning channel "really, literally is paid Russian propaganda."
"Considering the totality of the circumstances - including the general context of the statements, the specific context of the statements, and the statements' susceptibility of being proven true or false - a reasonable fact finder could only conclude that the statement was one of opinion not fact," U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant wrote in a 17-page ruling.
She also said that the defendants could seek attorneys fees and costs.
The lawsuit, filed last fall in U.S. District Court in San Diego, centered on one of Maddow's segments from July 22 of last year. Maddow opened her show by referencing a Daily Beast story and telling her audience that it reported that OANN "has a full-time on-air reporter who covers U.S. politics, who is also simultaneously on the payroll of the Kremlin."
One America took particular issue when Maddow, in her segment, also said "the most obsequiously pro-Trump right wing news outlet in America really literally is paid Russian propaganda."
A federal judge on Friday criticized the Trump administration's handling of detained immigrant children and families, ordering the government to give the court detailed information about its efforts to quickly release them in the wake of the coronavirus.
U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee on Friday ordered the U.S. government to better explain why it hasn't released some of the approximate 350 parents and children in three family detention centers.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has come under fire for allegedly asking parents in custody if they would allow their children to be released without them.
Parents at all three facilities - one in Pennsylvania and two in Texas - were called into short meetings and asked if there were sponsors available to care for their children, lawyers who represent the families reported that late last week. They were then asked to sign a form.
Gee wrote that she didn't find that ICE officially sought to get those formal waivers, but that officers' conversations with detained parents "caused confusion and unnecessary emotional upheaval and did not appear to serve the agency's legitimate purpose of making continuous individualized inquiries regarding efforts to release minors."
Universal Orlando on Friday announced the entire Florida theme park, which includes Universal Studios Florida, Universal's Islands of Adventure and Universal's Volcano Bay, will offically reopen June 5.
The previous day, John Sprouts, executive vice president and chief administrative officer for Universal parks and resorts, submitted the park's proposal to the Orange County Economic Recovery Task Force, which is headed by Mayor Jerry Demings.
The task force unanimously voted to approve Universal's plan. Universal Orlando, along with Universal Studios Hollywood, has been shuttered since mid-March amid the pandemic.
"Note that any public location where people are present provides an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 and we cannot guarantee that you will not be exposed during your visit," the theme park's website reads.
This is similar to the blunt warning the Walt Disney Co. issued when its Disney Springs shopping and dining complex reopened Wednesday.
In coastal Antarctica, some snow isn't white - it's green. And while small amounts of the green snow have been visible for years, it's starting to spread across the continent because of climate change.
According to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, the vibrant color is caused by microscopic algae blooming across the surface of the snow. Using satellite data and fieldwork observations, a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey have created the first large-scale map of the green algae and predicted the future spread of the bizarre snow.
Green snow appears along the Antarctic coast, growing in "warmer" areas, where the average temperatures reach just above freezing in the summer. Although the individual algae are microscopic, when they grow at scale, the green snow can even be seen from space.
For the study, the team combined on-the-ground research from two summers in the Antarctic Peninsula with images from the European Space Agency's Sentinel 2 satellite taken between 2017 and 2019. In total, the team identified over 1,600 separate algal blooms on the snow surface.
The team found that the distribution of green snow algae is strongly influenced by marine birds and mammals, because their excrement works extremely well as fertilizer. Over 60% of blooms were found near penguin colonies, and others were found near birds' nesting sites.
Dinosaur fossils aren't minerals under state law, a divided Montana Supreme Court said in a ruling Wednesday that has implications in an ongoing legal battle over the ownership of millions of dollars of fossils unearthed on an eastern Montana ranch.
Lige and Mary Ann Murray own the surface rights and one-third of the mineral rights of the ranch near Jordan, while brothers Jerry and Bo Severson each own a third of the mineral rights on the ranch once owned by their father.
The dinosaurs unearthed on the ranch include a T. rex found in 2013, a triceratops skull discovered in 2011 and the 2006 discovery of a pair of dinosaurs that appeared to have been locked in battle when they died. The T. rex was sold for millions of dollars. The so-called "dueling dinosaurs" drew a bid of $5.5 million in a 2014 auction, but failed to reach the $6 million reserve price.
In a legal effort to clarify the ownership of the dueling dinosaurs before trying to sell them, the Murrays sought a court order saying they owned the fossils. A federal judge in Montana ruled dinosaur fossils were part of the surface estate and thus they were owned by the Murrays. The Seversons appealed, and a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned that ruling in a 2-1 decision in February 2018.
The Murrays asked for a rehearing before a larger appeals panel. The 9th Circuit agreed, but first asked the Montana Supreme Court to answer whether, under Montana law, dinosaur fossils are minerals for the purpose of a mineral reservation. In a 4-3 ruling, the justices said dinosaur fossils are part of the surface rights.
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