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Audiobook Blog Tour of The Splintered Universe Trilogy: Book 2 "Inner Diverse"
January 15, 2019 January 22, 2019 / thealiennextdoor	/ 1 Comment
We continue our Audiobook series blog tour with Book 2 "Inner Diverse" of Nina Munteanu's "The Splintered Universe Trilogy," a science fiction detective adventure, starring the indomitable Galactic Guardian, Rhea Hawke.
"Dawn Harvey breathed incredible life into the lead character, Rhea Hawke–both sarcastic and vulnerable at the same time; a detective with a cynical edge, and sultry voice tinged with wiry sarcasm. The story unfolded through Rhea's narrative like an old film noir as she unraveled mysteries that led to the greatest one: her own."–Amazon Review
Book 1, Outer Diverse: January 8-14
Book 2, Inner Diverse: January 15-21
Book 3, Metaverse: January 21-28
The tour with blog sites includes spotlights, reviews, audio excerpts, guest posts, interviews of author, narrator (and character Rhea Hawke!)
Join the second part of the audiobook tour with "Inner Diverse", Book 2 of the trilogy.
Rhea on Iota Hor -2
In Inner Diverse (Book Two) of this metaphysical space thriller trilogy, detective Rhea Hawke continues her quest for truth and justice in a world that is not what it seems. Rhea's search takes her to the far reaches of the known universe from the Weeping Mountains of Horus to the blistering deserts of Upsilon 3. Amidst the turmoil of an imminent extra-galactic war, Rhea holds the key even as those she trusts betray her. No one is what they seem…
"An action packed adventure! I really enjoyed the narration by Harvey for this second book. She has a large cast of characters to portray and she did them all excellently! I felt like each was easily distinguishable and had their own quirks. The story … had a great amount of action to keep me interested the whole time. I feel like I truly understand more about this crazy and exciting world. I can't wait to see how this all ends up, but I'm now 100% invested in Reah and her companions! "–The Book Addict
TOUR SCHEDULE for INNER DIVERSE
Follow the itinerary for "Inner Diverse", Book 2 of the trilogy (Jan 15-21):
Jan. 15th:
Assorted Nonsense (Narrator Interview)
Lilly's Book World (Review, Spotlight + Audio Excerpt)
Jazzy Book Reviews (Spotlight + Audio Excerpt, Rhea's Proverbs, Giveaway)
Dab of Darkness Book Reviews (Review, Narrator Interview & testimonial, Rhea's Proverbs)
The Book Addict's Reviews (Review, Audio Excerpt, Narrator Interview & testimonial, Rhea's Proverbs)
Book Addict (Review, Spotlight + Audio Excerpt, Narrator Interview, Giveaway)
Jan. 21st:
Chapter Break (Spotlight + Audio Excerpt, Narrator Interview, Guest Post)
Rhea on the hunt
"A master of metaphor, Munteanu turns an adventure story into a wonderland of alien rabbit holes… a fascinating and enthralling read." (Craig Bowlsby, author of Commander's Log)
"A rollicking science fiction plot with all the trappings…Hawke is a maverick in the wild west tradition…a genetic mystery with lethal powers." (Lynda Williams, author of Okal Rel series)
Remaining tour continues with Book 3 ("Metaverse") Jan 22-28. Come join us and share your thoughts.
"Natural Selection": Fascinating Dramas Set in a World Too Close to Our Own
"I write SF about a near future 'Gaian' world too, and at times felt I was reading a prequel to my own novels, but that's not why I rated this collection so highly. I did so for two reasons. First, because the science was so interesting, combining visionary metaphysical speculation with AI corporate tech in scenarios that often seemed chillingly possible. Second, because of the author's focus on the effects of these developments on human beings with complex pasts and desires. Jealousy, lust, loneliness, grief and love are all drivers of these taut and fascinating narratives…"–Amazon Review
Author's Introduction to Natural Selection
Evolution is the language of destiny. What is destiny, after all, but self-actualization and synchronicity? If evolution is the language of destiny, then choice and selection are the words of evolution and "fractal ecology" is its plot.
How do we define today a concept that Darwin originated 200 years ago in a time without bio-engineering, nano-technology, chaos theory, quantum mechanics and the Internet? We live in an exciting era of complicated change, where science based on the limitation of traditional biology is being challenged and stretched by pioneers into areas some scientists might call heretical. Endosymbiosis, synchronicity, autopoiesis & self-organization, morphic resonance, Gaia Hypothesis and planetary intelligence. Some of these might more aptly be described through the language of meta-physics. But should they be so confined? It comes down to language and how we communicate.
Is it possible for an individual to evolve in one's own lifetime? To become more than oneself? And then pass on one's personal experience irrevocably to others—laterally and vertically?
On the vertical argument, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamark developed a theory of biological evolution in the early 19th century considered so ridiculous that it spawned a name: Lamarkism. His notion—that acquired traits could be passed along to offspring—was ridiculed for over two hundred years. Until he was proven right. Evolutionary biologists at Tel Aviv University in Israel showed that all sorts of cellular machinery—an intelligence of sorts—played a vital role in how DNA sequences were inherited. When researchers inserted foreign genes into the DNA of lab animals and plants, something strange happened. The genes worked at first; then they were "silenced". Generation after generation. The host cells had tagged the foreign genes with an "off switch" that made the gene inoperable. And although the new gene was passed onto offspring, so was the off switch. It was Larmarkism in action: the parent's experience had influenced its offspring's inheritance. Evolutionists gave it a new name. They called it soft inheritance.
As for passing on one's experience and acquisitions to others laterally, education in all its facets surely provides a mechanism. This may run the gamut from wise mentors, spiritual leaders, storytellers, courageous heroes to our kindergarten teacher. Who's to say that these too are not irrevocable? This relies, after all, on how we learn, and how we "remember".
Evolution is choice. It is a choice made on many levels, from the intuitive mind to the intelligent cell. The controversial British botanist Rupert Sheldrake proposed that the physical forms we take on are not necessarily contained inside our genes, which he suggested may be more analogous to transistors tuned in to the proper frequencies for translating invisible information into visible form. According to Sheldrake's morphic resonance, any form always looks alike because it 'remembers' its form through repetition and that any new form having similar characteristics will use the pattern of already existing forms as a guide for its appearance. This notion is conveyed through other phenomena, which truly lie in the realm of metaphysics and lateral evolution; concepts like bilocation, psychic telegraphing, telekinesis and manifestation. Critics condemn these as crazy notions. Or is it just limited vision again? Our future cannot be foretold in our present language; that has yet to be written. Shakespeare knew this…
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy—Shakespeare
The nine stories contained herein touch on many of these concepts, spanning a 20-year writing period starting in the 1980s from "Arc of Time", first published by The Armchair Aesthete in 2002, to "Julia's Gift", written in 2007, a year that marks a significant nexus in my personal evolution. That's when I met someone who changed my life and defined my life path, my evolution, and ultimately, I suspect, my destiny.
Each story reflects a perspective on what it means to be human and evolve in a world that is rapidly changing technologically and environmentally. How we relate to our rapidly changing fractal environments—from our cells to our ecosystems, our planet and ultimately our universe—will determine our path and our destiny and those we touch in some way. My friend Heidi Lampietti, publisher of Redjack Books, expressed it eloquently, "For me, one of the most important themes that came through in the collection is the incredible difficulty, complexity, and importance of making conscious choices—and how these choices, large and small, impact our survival, either as individual humans, as a community, a species, or a world."
Each story touches on a focal point, a nexus in someone's personal evolution, where a decision—or an indecision—will define one's entire later path in life. Several stories (e.g., "Butterfly in Peking", "Frames" and "Julia's Gift" all set in the same universe as my "Darwin's Paradox" duology) explore this through war: a paradoxical struggle between those who follow the technological path and those who embrace nature's intelligence. War is itself a paradox. It is both tragedy and opportunity. The very action of being at war seems to galvanize us and polarize us. War heightens contrast, increases pitch, and resonates through us in ways we have no inkling. It brings out the very worst but also the very best in us; for, as some of us sink into despair and self-serving debauchery, others heroically rise in altruistic service and humble sacrifice to help others. War defines us, perhaps like no other phenomenon.
Several stories are quirky adapted excerpts from my two books, "Darwin's Paradox" (2007 by Dragon Moon Press) and its prequel "Angel of Chaos" (2010 by Dragon Moon Press). You will find some of the same characters there, though names have been changed to protect the innocent. You will also find the sprawling semi-underground AI-run city of Icaria (a post-industrial plague Toronto) and a character itself. Several of the characters portray "gifted" and troubled misfits—outcasts, anti-heroes, artists not in sync with the rest of the population. Yet how that person's choices—and how s/he is treated by their community—would influence an entire species or world ("Mark of a Genius", "Neither Here Nor There", "Angel's Promises", and "Natural Selection").
Lastly, I explore how humanity evolves, communicates and relates through forces larger than itself, either produced through its own making via technology (in "Virtually Yours") or through timeless universal intervention (in "Arc of Time"). The last story (in fact the first written) provides a very different interpretation of an old biblical myth about new beginnings and our cyclical destiny of "creative destruction".
I hope you enjoy reading them all. I enjoyed writing them.
"The Arc of Time" was first published in the Summer/Fall 2002 issue of The Armchair Aesthete. It was reprinted in Imagikon (2003) then scheduled for the premiere issue of Ultra! A charity issue dedicated to cystic fibrosis (Aardwolf Publications), Fall/Winter, 2004. Sadly, Lari Davidson, the editor and visionary behind the project passed away suddenly and the issue never came to fruition.
"Virtually Yours" first appeared in Issue 15 (December 2002) of Hadrosaur Tales. It was reprinted in Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine (Issue 3, Spring 2004) then translated into Polish and reprinted in the January 2006 issue of Nowa Fantastika (Poland). It was translated into Hebrew and reprinted in Bli-Panika (Israel) in 2006. "Virtually Yours" was selected for the 2006 "The Best of Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine" anthology (Bundoran Press) and was nominated for the Canadian Aurora Prix and the Speculative Literature Foundation Fountain Award.
"Angel's Promises" was published in Issue #30 (March, 2003) of Dreams & Visions then selected for the anthology "Skysongs II: Spiritual SF" (2005). It was nominated for the SLF Fountain Award.
"A Butterfly in Peking" was first published in Issue #17 (2003) of Chiaroscuro. It was translated into Polish and reprinted in the Summer 2005 issue of Nowa Fantastika (Poland) then translated and reprinted in The Dramaturges of Yann (Greece) in 2006.
"Mark of a Genius" first appeared in Scifidimensions (August 2004 issue) and "Neither Here Nor There" first appeared in Another Realm (September 2005). "Frames", "Julia's Gift" and "Natural Selection" make their first appearance here.
Amazon description of Natural Selection
A man uses cyber-eavedropping to make love. A technocratic government uses gifted people as tools to recast humanity. The ruins of a city serve as battleground between pro-technologists and pro-naturalists. From time-space guardians to cybersex, GMO, and biotech implants, this short story collection by science fiction novelist Nina Munteanu promises a journey of great scope, imagination and vision.
Nina Munteanu is an ecologist, limnologist and internationally published author of award-nominated speculative novels, short stories and non-fiction. She is co-editor of Europa SF and currently teaches writing courses at George Brown College and the University of Toronto. Visit www.ninamunteanu.ca for the latest on her books.
Fingal's Cave by Nina Munteanu
February 3, 2018 May 30, 2019 / thealiennextdoor	/ Leave a comment
After she and fellow colonists crash land on the hostile jungle planet of Mega, rebel-scientist Izumi, widower and hermit, boldly sets out against orders on a hunch that may ultimately save her fellow survivors—but may also risk all. As the other colonists take stock, Izumi—obsessed with discovery and the need to save lives—plunges into the dangerous forest, which harbors answers, not only to their freshwater problem, but ultimately to the nature of the universe itself. Mega was a goldilocks planet—it had saltwater and supported life—but the planet also possessed magnetic-electro-gravitational anomalies and a gravitational field that didn't match its size and mass. The synchronous dance of its global electromagnetic field suggested self-organization to Izumi, who slowly pieced together Mega's secrets: from its "honeycomb" pools to the six-legged uber-predators and jungle infrasounds—somehow all connected to the water. Still haunted by the meaningless death of her family back on Mars, Izumi's intrepid search for life becomes a metaphoric and existential journey of the heart that explores how we connect and communicate—with one another and the universe—a journey intimately connected with water.
Fingal's Cave by Nina Munteanu is the first story in the Megan Survival Anthology by Reality Skimming Press. The story is available as an ebook here. The print anthology is available here.
Nina was interviewed by Ellen Mitchell of Reality Skimming Press on writing Fingal's Cave.
On the connection between ecology and science fiction, Nina says:
The science of ecology studies relationships. It looks at how things relate to one another. Ecology is the study of communities and ecosystems and how these interact—often in a global setting. Science fiction writing explores the interaction of humanity with some larger phenomenon involving science. Robert J. Sawyer calls it the fiction of the large. Large ideas, large circumstance, large impact. Both ecology and science fiction explore consequence in a big way. Ecology—like "setting" and "world"—manifests and integrates in story theme more than some of the hard sciences, which may contribute more to a story's premise or plot. This is because, while most sciences study the nature and behaviour of "phenomena", ecology examines the consequences of the relationship of these phenomena and the impact of their behaviours on each other and the rest of the world. It is in this arena that science fiction becomes great: when it explores relationship and consequence.
On the significance and importance of optimism in science fiction, Nina says:
Optimistic SF is the antithesis of pointless SF. The reason I define it that way is because I believe many would box the term too tightly, equating it to "happy ending" or the equivalent of "and they all lived happily ever after." Others may even include a certain requisite language and tone, and subject matter that must be excluded to make it optimistic.
For me, it is enough that the story resolves and has a point to it; that the reader is able—even if the hero isn't—to see a way out into the light. The story itself need not be "optimistic"; but the reader is fulfilled somehow. I suppose one could elucidate Optimistic SF through the "Hero's Journey Myth", a plot approach that describes the metaphoric journey of a character or set of characters toward some destiny that involves change and learning. Ultimately, for a story to be worthwhile, it must have a point to it. Otherwise, it's just "reality TV".
You can read the entire interview with Nina Munteanu by Ellen Mitchell of Reality Skimming Press here.
Fingal's Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The cave is formed entirely from hexagonally jointed basalt columns in a Paleocene lava flow (similar to the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland). Its entrance is a large archway filled by the sea. The eerie sounds made by the echoes of waves in the cave, give it the atmosphere of a natural cathedral. Known for its natural acoustics, the cave is named after the hero of an epic poem by 18th century Scots poet-historian James Macpherson. Fingal means "white stranger".
"Water" a Speculative Fiction Anthology by Reality Skimming Press
January 11, 2018 March 7, 2018 / thealiennextdoor	/ 2 Comments
In December 2017, "Water", the first of Reality Skimming Press's Optimistic Sci-Fi Series was released in Vancouver, BC. I was invited to be one of the editors for the anthology, given my passion for and experience with water.
This is how Reality Skimming Press introduces the series:
Reality Skimming Press strives to see the light in the dark world we live in, so we bring to you the optimistic science fiction anthology series. Water is the first book in the series, and is edited by author and scientist Nina Munteanu. Six authors thought optimistically about what Earth will be like in terms of water in the near future and provide us with stories on that theme. Step into the light and muse with us about the world of water.
Editing "Water" was a remarkable experience, best described in my Foreword to the anthology:
This anthology started for me in Summer of 2015, when Lynda Williams (publisher of RSP) and I were sitting on the patio of Sharky's Restaurant in Ladner, BC, overlooking the mouth of the Fraser River. As we drank Schofferhoffers over salmon burgers, Lynda lamented that while the speculative / science fiction genre has gained a literary presence, this has been at some expense. Much of the current zeitgeist of this genre in Canada tends toward depressing, "self-interested cynicism and extended analogies to drug addiction as a means of coping with reality," Lynda remarked.
lunch at Sharky's
Where was the optimism and associated hope for a future? I brought up the "hero's journey" and its role in meaningful story. One of the reasons this ancient plot approach, based on the hero journey myth, is so popular is that its proper use ensures meaning in story. This is not to say that tragedy is not a powerful and useful story trope; so long as hope for someone—even if just the reader—is generated. Lynda and I concluded that the science fiction genre could use more optimism. Reality Skimming Press is the result of that need and I am glad of it.
In the years that followed, Reality Skimming Press published several works, including the "Megan Survival" Anthology for which I wrote a short story, "Fingal's Cave". It would be one of several works that I produced on the topic of water.
As a limnologist (freshwater scientist), I am fascinated by water's anomalous and life-giving properties and how this still little understood substance underlies our lives in so many ways. We—like the planet—are over 70% water. Water dominates the chemical composition of all organisms and is considered by many to be the most important substance in the world. The water cycle drives every process on Earth from the movement of cells to climate change. Water is a curious gestalt of magic and paradox, cutting recursive patterns of creative destruction through the landscape. It changes, yet stays the same, shifting its face with the climate. It wanders the earth like a gypsy, stealing from where it is needed and giving whimsically where it isn't wanted; aggressive yet yielding. Life-giving yet dangerous. Water is a force of global change, ultimately testing our compassion and wisdom as participants on a grand journey.
When Reality Skimming invited me to be editor of their first anthology in their hard science optimistic series, and that it would be about water, I was delighted and excited.
Illustration by Digbejoy Gosh for Bruce Meyer's "The River Tax"
The six short stories captured here flow through exotic landscapes, at once eerie and beautiful. Each story uniquely explores water and our relationship with its profound and magical properties: melting glaciers in Canada's north; water's computing properties and weather control; water as fury and the metaphoric deluge of flood; mining space ice from a nearby comet; water as shapeshifter and echoes of "polywater". From climate fiction to literary speculative fiction; from the fantastic to the purest of science fiction and a hint of horror—these stories explore individual choices and the triumph of human imagination in the presence of adversity.
I invite you to wade in and experience the surging spirit of humanity toward hopeful shores.
Nina Munteanu, M. Sc., R.P.Bio.
Author of Water Is…
My desk with copies of "Water" among my current books to read…
The anthology features the art work of Digbejoy Ghosh (both cover and interior for each story) and stories by:
Michelle Goddard
Bruce Meyer
A.A. Jankiewicz
Costi Gurgu
You can buy a copy on Amazon.ca or through the publisher.
Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest–2018
December 12, 2017 December 12, 2017 / thealiennextdoor	/ Leave a comment
Arizona State University's Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative is again hosting a Climate Fiction Short Story Contest. In years past they invited writers from around the world to submit speculative fiction stories that explore climate change to narrate a world in flux. Previous contests received submissions from 67 different countries and 12 finalists were published in a digital anthology "Everything Change".
The 2018 Climate Fiction Short Story Contest invites submissions in all genres, including speculative, realistic, literary, experimental, hybrid forms, and more.
The context will again be judged by science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning author of many foundational works in climate fiction, including New York 2140.
The winning story will receive a $1,000 prize. Nine finalists will receive $50 each. The winner and finalists will be published in an online anthology, which will be free to download, read, and share.
The deadline for submission is February 28, 2018, with the finalists announced in summer 2018. All submissions must be received through their online submissions manager at https://everythingchange.submittable.com.
For more details on submission guidelines and eligibility go to the climate imagination site.
Don't be shy. Write your best and submit.
Publishers Weekly Praises Cli-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change & "The Way of Water"
July 16, 2017 July 17, 2017 / thealiennextdoor	/ Leave a comment
Publishers Weekly writes:
"In his introduction to this all-original set of (at times barely) futuristic tales, Meyer warns readers, "[The] imaginings of today could well become the cold, hard facts of tomorrow." Meyer (Testing the Elements) has gathered an eclectic variety of eco-fictions from some of Canada's top genre writers, each of which, he writes, reminds readers that "the world is speaking to us and that it is our duty, if not a covenant, to listen to what it has to say." In these pages, scientists work desperately against human ignorance, pockets of civilization fight to balance morality and survival, and corporations cruelly control access to basic needs such as water. The most affecting tale, Wendy Bone's "Abdul," is also the least futuristic, an emotional story that touchingly contrasts Western guilt against the life of a captive orangutan. The anthology may be inescapably dark, but it is a necessary read, a clarion call to take action rather than, as a character in Seán Virgo's "My Atlantis" describes it, "waiting unknowingly for the plague, the hive collapse, the entropic thunderbolt." Luckily, it's also vastly entertaining. It appears there's nothing like catastrophe to bring the best out in authors in describing the worst of humankind."
My story The Way of Water is one of 17 stories in Exile's anthology, published in May 2017. It was originally published in English and Italian [La natura dell'acqua] by Mincione Edizioni [print] and Future Fiction [ebook] in Rome in early 2016. The Way of Water is a near-future vision that explores the nuances of corporate and government corruption and deceit together with resource warfare. An ecologist and technologist, Nina Munteanu uses both fiction and non-fiction to examine our humanity in the face of climate change and our changing relationship with technology and Nature … through water.
She imagines its coolness gliding down her throat. Wet with a lingering aftertaste of fish and mud. She imagines its deep voice resonating through her in primal notes; echoes from when the dinosaurs quenched their throats in the Triassic swamps.
Water is a shape shifter.
It changes yet stays the same, shifting its face with the climate. It wanders the earth like a gypsy, stealing from where it is needed and giving whimsically where it isn't wanted.
Dizzy and shivering in the blistering heat, Hilda shuffles forward with the snaking line of people in the dusty square in front of University College where her mother used to teach. The sun beats down, crawling on her skin like an insect. She's been standing for an hour in the queue for the public water tap.
The Way of Water takes place in Toronto, Ontario in Canada, mostly on or near the campus of the University of Toronto.
In The Way of Water, Nina Munteanu pens her love letter to water, exulting it as a liquid that has semi-magical properties. Munteanu recognizes the chimerical quality of water, its unique ability to shift and change, to purify and taint, and the incredible way that it makes up most of our body mass and therefore shapes us as well.
A limnologist (lake ecosystem biologist) by trade, Munteanu recognizes the incredible way that water shapes life and brings attention to the fact that water connects us to each other just as water connects with other water, forming bonds. She evokes in the reader a sense of reverence for water and an awareness that the same water that flows through our bodies have flowed through the bodies of our ancestors, cycling through life since the first life forms coalesced.
In recognizing the preciousness of water, she also recognizes its precarity and the danger that capitalist systems pose when they lay claim to water and seek to own it. "The Way of Water" evokes a sense of awareness about issues of access to water and about the dangers of imbalances in that access."—Derek Newman-Stille, Speculating Canada
"Water covers every aspect of this science fiction story that pits the vulnerable citizen against the evil multinational corporation in a dystopian Canada sometime in our future. Water is presented in its multiplicity of facets: in the science behind its composition, in its history, in it's symbolic nature and different physical states; water is a giver and taker of life, and is the form in which the friendship of protagonists Hilda and Hanna functions. Water is also magic and the ultimate righter of wrongs committed to it and to a humanity it gives life to. Within this framework, Munteanu spins a thought-provoking tale that projects where our headlong pursuit of profit may one day lead us to, and how nature will ultimately, with a little human coaxing, be the only one to correct the balance."—Shane Joseph, Canadian author of Fringe Dwellers
"Nina Munteanu with The Way of Water suggests that this element is also a form of love; a story to read, not only to deal with the possible but, above all, to understand that the time still available for "love" might be less than what you believe."—Simone Casavecchia, SoloLibri.net (read the original Italian review here)
"The Way of Water is a story of the kind you hope is science fiction but you fear is not."—Massimo Luciani, NetMassimo (read the original Italian review here)
Call for Submissions: Water Anthology
Reality Skimming Press is looking for submissions to their first anthology in their hard science optimistic series. This first anthology is a Water Anthology, obviously based on the theme of water. The project coordinator is Ellen Michelle. The water anthology will be edited by scientist and author Nina Munteanu.
Story requirements:
Stories must use real or realistic science based on the theme of water in the near future (50-100 years from 2017). Your story must be considered optimistic—this does not mean that bad things can't happen in your story, but there has to be an optimistic twist and an optimistic ending (a happy ending or hope for a happy ending). For example, your main character can die at the end as long as their death brings hope for others. Any stories that are not deemed optimistic will not be considered.
Stories can be submitted to realityskimmingpress@outlook.com with Water Submission in the subject. Any emails without this subject heading will be ignored by the system.
Submission requirements:
Stories must not exceed 5,000 words
Stories must be accompanied by a short cover letter in the body of the submissions email explaining your past publications or other accreditation including any science education or background you may have. *Note that we do often publish first time authors, so having no previous publications is not detrimental to your submission.
Submit your story as an attachment to the email in Word document format only (.doc or .docx).
Authors must be Canadian, permanent residents of Canada, or otherwise have a Canadian connection. If you are not Canadian by birth please explain your Canadian connection in the cover letter.
Authors may submit only one story to the anthology.
Previously published stories are accepted as long as you have the rights to republish it.
If you have submitted your story for consideration elsewhere, or plan to do so, please state that in your cover letter.
Authors will be paid $30 for their stories if accepted into the anthology.
Submission deadline is midnight July 22nd (extended for some groups).
See Submission guidelines here.


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Steve Torrence is on the provisional pole in North Carolina.
Ron Capps (Funny Car), Erica Enders (Pro Stock) and Eddie Krawiec (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also are provisional No. 1 qualifiers at the fourth of six playoff events during the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship.
Torrence has swept the first three Countdown races and has added one pole position during that stretch. The resident of Kilgore, Texas, earned the provisional top spot during the last pass of the session with a 1,000-foot run in 3.704-seconds at 331.53 mph.
Torrence checked-off a Bucket List item last Sunday when he defeated Terry McMillen to win the 33rd annual AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals for his first Top Fuel victory at Texas Motorplex in Ennis.
Clay Millican, the nearest point challenger to Torrence, is second with his run of 3.718-seconds at 331.53 mph during the evening session. Reigning world champion Brittany Force is third following her 3.724-second pass at 328.14 mph.
Capps will look to secure his first No. 1 Funny Car qualifier of the year Saturday following his 1,000-foot run of 3.726-seconds at 328.54 mph in his Charger R/T.
Tim Wilkerson wheeled his Ford Shelby Mustang into second with his pass of 3.876-seconds at 323.74 mph. Point-leader Robert Hight, the two-time/reigning world champion, is seventh with a run of 3.911-seconds at 330.31 mph in his Chevrolet Camaro SS. Hight, of John Force Racing, defeated J.R. Todd and a Toyota Camry fielded by Kalitta Motorsports in the final at The Plex for his fourth win of the season.
In Pro Stock, Enders took the "Factory Hot Rod" category lead during the second qualifying session with her quarter-mile pass of 6.518-seconds at 211.69 mph in the Chevrolet Camaro SS. Enders is looking to add a second pole to the one she won at Brainerd (Minn.) International Raceway.
Coughlin, the No. 1 qualifier at the past two Countdown events, is second with his run of 6.525-seconds at 212.16 mph in his Camaro. Point-leader Tanner Gray is fourth with his pass of 6.534 at 211.16 in a Camaro.
Krawiec raced into the provisional lead in Pro Stock Motorcycle via a quarter-mile pass of 6.806-seconds at 197.83 mph aboard his Screamin' Eagle Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson Street Rod during Q2. The four-time/reigning world champ has three poles this season and 42 for his career.
H-D teammate Chip Ellis is second after his pass of 6.830-seconds at 195.22 mph, with five-time world champ Andrew Hines sits third aboard his Street Rod. Meanwhile, point-leader LE Tonglet is sixth at 6.867-seconds at 196.33 mph aboard his NitroFish.com Suzuki. Tonglet, the 2010 world champion, defeated 2016 world champion/White Alligator Racing team-owner Jerry Savoie last Sunday in the PSB final in Ennis.
Qualifying will continue Saturday beginning at 12:45 p.m. (EDT). FOX Sports 1's coverage will resume with a one-hour qualifying recap on "NHRA Sunday Nitro" at 1 p.m. (EDT), followed by three hours of live final eliminations at 2 p.m.
Top Fuel _ 1. Steve Torrence, 3.704-seconds, 331.53 mph; 2. Clay Millican, 3.718, 321.73; 3. Brittany Force, 3.724, 328.14; 4. Doug Kalitta, 3.729, 327.19; 5. Tony Schumacher, 3.747, 330.39; 6. Dom Lagana, 3.762, 324.59; 7. Leah Pritchett, 3.763, 320.58; 8. Mike Salinas, 3.769, 327.35; 9. Terry McMillen, 3.769, 325.30; 10. Richie Crampton, 3.774, 318.99; 11. Scott Palmer, 3.788, 326.56; 12. Pat Dakin, 3.859, 312.57; 13. Kyle Wurtzel, 3.901, 291.82; 14. Chris Karamesines, 3.992, 282.66; 15. Antron Brown, 4.022, 239.14; 16. Lex Joon, 4.356, 178.19.
Not Qualified _ 17. Audrey Worm, 9.535, 77.65.
Funny Car _ 1. Ron Capps, Dodge Charger, 3.875, 329.42; 2. Tim Wilkerson, Ford Mustang, 3.876, 323.74; 3. J.R. Todd, Toyota Camry, 3.894, 327.90; 4. Tommy Johnson Jr., Charger, 3.901, 329.26; 5. Matt Hagan, Charger, 3.903, 325.14; 6. Cruz Pedregon, Camry, 3.906, 328.22; 7. Robert Hight, Chevy Camaro, 3.911, 330.31; 8. John Force, Camaro, 3.932, 329.26; 9. Courtney Force, Camaro, 3.945, 308.50; 10. Jack Beckman, Charger, 3.953, 324.98; 11. Shawn Langdon, Camry, 3.980, 324.44; 12. Bob Tasca III, Mustang, 4.004, 313.80; 13. Jim Campbell, Charger, 4.035, 309.42; 14. Dale Creasy Jr., Dodge Stratus, 4.235, 280.72; 15. Dave Richards, Mustang, 4.248, 272.94; 16. Jonnie Lindberg, Mustang, 4.869, 159.99.
Not Qualified _ 17. Bob Gilbertson, 7.007, 87.58.
Pro Stock _ 1. Erica Enders, Chevy Camaro, 6.518, 211.83; 2. Jeg Coughlin Jr., Camaro, 6.525, 212.16; 3. Jason Line, Camaro, 6.525, 211.93; 4. Tanner Gray, Camaro, 6.534, 211.16; 5. Drew Skillman, Camaro, 6.537, 211.06; 6. Greg Anderson, Camaro, 6.542, 211.93; 7. Vincent Nobile, Camaro, 6.545, 211.66; 8. Deric Kramer, Camaro, 6.550, 211.03; 9. Bo Butner, Camaro, 6.556, 211.56; 10. Alex Laughlin, Camaro, 6.557, 211.06; 11. Fernando Cuadra, Camaro, 6.568, 210.73; 12. Alan Prusiensky, Dart, 6.625, 209.33; 13. Wally Stroupe, Camaro, 6.726, 205.41; 14. Shane Tucker, Camaro, 6.733, 204.35.
Pro Stock Motorcycle _1. Eddie Krawiec, Harley-Davidson, 6.806, 197.83; 2. Chip Ellis, Harley-Davidson, 6.830, 195.22; 3. Andrew Hines, Harley-Davidson, 6.842, 196.64; 4. Hector Arana Jr., EBR, 6.849, 199.29; 5. Jerry Savoie, Suzuki, 6.854, 194.86; 6. LE Tonglet, Suzuki, 6.867, 196.33; 7. Angelle Sampey, Buell, 6.869, 194.44; 8. Hector Arana, EBR, 6.876, 197.02; 9. Scotty Pollacheck, Suzuki, 6.879, 195.03; 10. Karen Stoffer, Suzuki, 6.884, 194.30; 11. Matt Smith, EBR, 6.895, 195.99; 12. Ron Tornow, Buell, 6.908, 193.43; 13. Kelly Clontz, Suzuki, 6.925, 192.91; 14. John Hall, Buell, 6.929, 194.16; 15. Mark Paquette, Buell, 6.935, 192.00; 16. Ryan Oehler, Buell, 6.958, 194.38.
Not Qualified _ 17. Joey Gladstone, 6.994, 193.54; 18. Jim Underdahl, 7.008, 190.92; 19. Anthony Vanetti, 7.101, 187.94; 20. Maurice Allen, 7.110, 188.04; 21. Steve Johnson, 8.024, 121.08; 22. Angie Smith, no time, no speed.
Jeremy Ray has hit his stride in the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service. Winner of the series' most recent event at Texas Motorplex in Ennis last Sunday, Ray emerged as provisional pole-sitter after the opening day of qualifying at the NHRA Carolina Nationals presented by WIX Filters. This weekend's Pro Mod racing, presented by MR RACE OIL ®, is the 11th of 12 events this season.
Mike Castellana sits second after his run of 5.708-seconds at 252.61 mph in his 2017 Camaro while point-leader Mike Janis is 10th with a pass of 5.755 at 247.52 in his Camaro.
Pro Modified _1. Jeremy Ray, Chevy Corvette, 5.705, 252.10; 2. Mike Castellana, Chevy Camaro, 5.708, 252.61; 3. Sidnei Frigo, Camaro, 5.713, 259.31; 4. Justin Bond, Pontiac Firebird, 5.718, 258.52; 5. Chad Green, Corvette, 5.728, 250.64; 6. Steve Jackson, Camaro, 5.738, 247.84; 7. Rickie Smith, Camaro, 5.745, 251.34; 8. Danny Rowe, Camaro, 5.750, 253.99; 9. Steven Whiteley, Camaro, 5.753, 254.14; 10. Mike Janis, Camaro, 5.755, 247.52; 11. Khalid alBalooshi, Camaro, 5.759, 251.91; 12. Chip King, Dodge Daytona, 5.764, 248.89; 13. Bob Rahaim, Camaro, 5.798, 248.66; 14. Doug Winters, Chevy Chevelle, 5.809, 246.03; 15. Michael Biehle, Ford Mustang, 5.814, 257.53; 16. Steve Matusek, Camaro, 5.820, 251.44.
Not Qualified _17. Brandon Snider, 5.824, 244.60; 18. Clint Satterfield, 5.859, 250.92; 19. Rick Hord, 5.891, 240.55; 20. Pete Farber, 5.924, 244.56; 21. Todd Tutterow, 8.053, 117.68.


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Many aspects of our personal and professional lives have been radically changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the most outstanding changes are reflected in our monthly billing statements, and these extra expenses are here to stay.
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Most households relied on delivery services during the pandemic to deliver everything they needed directly to their door. Seemingly overnight, delivery companies like Instacart and DoorDash became household names for their ability to safely and quickly deliver everything from fast food to groceries directly to our doors.
While most people feel much more comfortable going out now than in March 2020, these delivery apps are likely to stay on smartphones as a helpful convenience.
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While many budget-conscious Americans are currently reviewing which streaming services to keep or hit unsubscribe from to fight inflation, streaming services themselves continue to grow their subscriber base. In February 2022, CNBC reported Disney+ gained 11.7 million subscribers last quarter, outpacing all streaming services.
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Not all Americans will be returning to the office. Those who plan to keep working remote indefinitely continue to invest in home office furnishings.
Furniture sales boomed in 2021, with an estimated $11.3 billion spent in February 2021 at furniture and home furnishing stores. While demand is on the rise for beds, sofas and outdoor patio furniture, home office furnishings including desks and ergonomic chairs remain hot investments for professionals continuing to work from home.
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Will Americans still spend on these services now that gyms have reopened? The answer is most likely yes. Home fitness services pull the most weight on the days where you don't feel like going into a physical gym and would rather do a workout routine from the comfort of your own home.
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As many Americans return to the office, businesses will continue spending on cleaning crews and professional cleaning services to ensure employees return to a safe, and sanitary, space. The United States professional cleaning services market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6% from 2021 until 2026.
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While telehealth utilization has stabilized since its initial spike, it reflects that many patients now and in the near future may opt for a virtual medical visit with their primary care physician.
Beyond physical health, telehealth also extends to on-demand mental health support, one of the most in-demand employee benefits two years into the pandemic.
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I am sad to let you know that Harry Leest passed away Tuesday, March 5, 2019. He died suddenly, and did not suffer.
A Celebration of Life is scheduled for Saturday, March 23, 2019; from 12 noon to 5:00 pm at the PA Club at 1133 Crafton Avenue, Mentone, CA.
An obituary should be up on the Emmerson Bartlett website shortly.
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Q: Why does this jQuery AJAX PUT work in Chrome but not FF In Chrome this does an HTTP PUT just like it should, but in FireFox 21 it doesn't.  There are no errors in the javascript console or in the backend.
Here is the HTML:

        <form id="createTeamForm">

Building a new team

Team Name:

<input name="teamName" id="teamName" type="text" size="20"/>

Does this team work for a business?

Business Size:

                    <select id="businessSizeSelect" name="businessSizeSelect">
                    <option value="1">Nope, I work alone</option><option value="2">2 to 49</option><option value="3">50 to 99</option><option value="4">100 to 999</option><option value="5">1,000+</option>
                    </select>

Business Location:

                    <select id="businessLocationSelect" name="businessLocationSelect">
                    </select>

Industry:

                    <select id="businessTypeSelect" name="businessTypeSelect">
                    </select>

                    <button id="createTeamButton" class="small button">Create</button>

        </form>
        ×

And here is the jQuery:
$("#createTeamButton").click(function () {
    var teamObject = new Team();
    teamObject.description = $("#teamName").val();
    teamObject.businessSize = $("#businessSizeSelect").val();
    teamObject.businessType = $("#businessTypeSelect").val();
    teamObject.businessLocation = $("#businessLocationSelect").val();

    $.ajax({
        type: "PUT",
        url: "/ajax/rest/team",
        dataType: "json",
        data: JSON.stringify(teamObject),
        success: function () {
            // Reload the team select box
            loadTeamSelectBox();

            // Pop up the site create modal
            $('#createSiteModal').foundation('reveal', 'open');
        },
        error: ajaxErrorHandler
    });
});

I have observed them in Fiddler, and the difference between working (Chrome) and not working (Firefox) is that the HTTP PUT fires in Chrome and does not fire in Firefox.
Now, I know that jQuery.ajax PUT is not guaranteed in all browsers.
I have read

*

*Are the PUT, DELETE, HEAD, etc methods available in most web browsers?

*http://annevankesteren.nl/2007/10/http-method-support
These sites reaffirm that PUT may not work in all browsers, but should work in FF.
Finally, I hit the following with FF21 and PUT works

*

*http://www.mnot.net/javascript/xmlhttprequest/
I could certainly engineer around this, but it seems to me this should work.  I would rather not jerry-rig something, but rather get jQuery's .ajax to work properly.
Other Details:
* jQuery version 2.0.0
* Backend is Spring3
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A: I can't re produce your claim on firefox 21.0 on windows, when I go to google.com and press f12 (firebug) then run the following code:
var s = document.createElement("script");
s.src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js";
document.body.appendChild(s);
//allow some time to load and then run this
 $.ajax({
  type: "PUT",
  url: "/search",
  dataType: "json",
  data: JSON.stringify({hi:"there"}),
  success: function (data) {
    console.log(data);
  },
  error: function(e) {
    console.log(e);
  }
  });

I get response 405 method not allowed but more importantly; when opening up the details of the connection in the console I can see PUT, not post.
When I go to http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#remote and run the code (without having to include JQuery) using url:"/resources/demos/autocomplete/search.php" the xml ends successful and firebug shows PUT request.
I don't know a site where I can test if server side code detects the PUT request (google refuses POST as well so it could be a POST) but from the looks of Firebug reporting it is sending a PUT request.
[UPDATE]
I can confirm that on Firefox 21.0 the code above is 100% sure making a PUT request. Just tested it with a .net app and both Chrome 27.0.1453.94 FF set a PUT request.

A: I think you might be missing something else - this jsFiddle does a PUT request on newest Chrome and Firefox 21 :
http://jsfiddle.net/QKkQg/
     var teamObject = new Object();
    teamObject.description = $("#teamName").val();
    teamObject.businessSize = $("#businessSizeSelect").val();
    teamObject.businessType = $("#businessTypeSelect").val();
    teamObject.businessLocation = $("#businessLocationSelect").val();

    $.ajax({
        type: "PUT",
        url: "/ajax/rest/team",
        dataType: "json",
        data: JSON.stringify(teamObject),
        success: function () {
            // Reload the team select box
            loadTeamSelectBox();

            // Pop up the site create modal
            $('#createSiteModal').foundation('reveal', 'open');
        },
        error: function() { }
    });

A: You are not specifying what type of content you are sending to the server. I had a similar problem where the server didn't even try to read the data from the query as it did not know what the provided format was, so it just ignored it.
When specifying a dataType to a jQuery request, you are merely telling jQuery what is the expected format that the server should reply you with. To tell the server what data format you are sending, you must provide a contentType :
$.ajax({
    type: "PUT",
    url: "/ajax/rest/team",
    dataType: "json",
    contentType: "application/json",
    data: JSON.stringify(teamObject)
}).done(function() {
    // Reload the team select box
    loadTeamSelectBox();

    // Pop up the site create modal
    $('#createSiteModal').foundation('reveal', 'open');

}).fail(ajaxErrorHandler);

Backbone.js has a nice RESTful API that you can use as reference.

A: Here's a disappointing answer.  The button click was submitting the form, even though it was not bound to do that.  I put onsubmit="return false;" in the form and the problem was resolved.


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Alex's worries were not misplaced. As his mom wrote on Facebook, his blood pressure had skyrocketed to 200/170. According to the American Heart Association, a blood pressure reading that high qualifies as a "hypertensive crisis" requiring immediate medical help.
According to the National Institutes of Health, a troponin test measures the proteins in the blood that are released when the heart has been damaged, as would be the case during a heart attack. The higher the troponin levels, the more damage there is.
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It doesn't appear to have any permanent damage to his heart. He will have to stay away from ALL energy drinks and watch his caffeine intake as continued elevation to his troponin enzymes will cause damage to his heart.


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Welcome, all Harry Heads
I'm the son and heir of Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine's founder & editor, Horace L. Gold. My background is in science fiction, fantasy and book production. I grew up in the entertainment industry and my mother was lead dancer for the Billy Rose Revue and best friends with Gypsy Rose Lee.
Galaxy had 1 million circulation at that time, and was #3 in the Big 3 of sci-fi. My Dad, Horace, was the highest-paid comic book writer on the planet during the 1930s, having written the Jor-el Krypton story and invented several characters, including Green Lama and Lt. Hercules, the basis for the tv series, "Greatest American Hero".
I grew up surrounded by celebrities and soon learned to ignore celeb status. Every celeb I ever knew hated being intimately hailed by total strangers demanding a signature on a torn piece of paper for someone else, it was always for someone else, never for themselves. Now, of course, all autographs are destined to end up on eBay.
Like Harry, I was born in 1941, and sure enough, my Dad also left in '44, but in his case, it was because he was drafted. Harry's dad abandoned the family when he was three, and Harry went to live with his uncle..but more about that later.
During my teens, I was tutored in math by Isaac Asimov, taught magic by Orson Welles and Bruce Elliot, piano by Oscar Levant, guitar by Dave van Ronk, drums by Philly Joe Jones, bass by Milt Hinton, vocals by and my Dad's closest friends were the greats of Science Fiction's Golden Age; Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, who was one of my two godfathers -- the other was "uncle" Ron Hubbard, a fantasy writer for Unknown Worlds at the time who had, during the Great Depression, shared an apartment with my Dad Horace and another writer named Damon Knight; along with Ted Sturgeon, Frank Herbert, Bob Sheckley, Bob Silverberg, Fletcher Pratt, L. Sprague deCamp and so many more I can't possibly list them all here, but we'll get more about this later, because Harry was an intense science fiction fan with a special passion for Galaxy SF Magazine, which featured NO space opera stories of any kind.
My early music teachers were Pete Seeger, Grant Rogers, Ronnie Gilbert, Burl Ives, Malvina Reynolds, Elizabeth Cotton, with whom I spent many a weekend at her home, Woody Guthrie before he became too ill to move, Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers, and my personal favorite, Bessie Jones, and many other greats of the folk scene. I went to school (DCS -- Downtown Community School) and summer camps (Camp Kinderland and Camp Woodland) run by Pete Seeger and Bob & Louise deCormier. I have published a book about this famous Norman Studer System school and camp, joining a list of several dozen books on the subject, including the popular bestseller, "Raising Reds". The school was labeled "radical" by the very evil Senator Joe McCarthy, whose ambition resulted in the ruin of thousands of innocent lives through the "American Inquisition" Senate Hearings which became a hysterical communist witch-hunt during the 1950s, resulting in the blacklisting of many hundreds of valuable and contributory people, such as Pete Seeger, who single-handedly cleaned up the Hudson River and made sure that YOU have the freedom to sing anything you want.
Pete arranged visits from many wonderful folk and blues artists of that time; we spent quality class time with the likes of Big Bill Broonzy, Big Mama Thornton, Ramblin' Jack Elliot and so many more, at Downtown Community School. You can see many of our school visitors on youtube vids featuring Pete Seeger. The segments of "Rainbow" were taped in our old schoolroom!
I was introduced to jazz by my girlfriend, Renee Rosenberg; she had five roommates, all of whom had live-in boyfriends at their Chelsea apartment, among whom were Gaby Martin's boyfriend, horn player Donald Byrd, with whom I often shared a toaster at 11:00 o'clock breakfast. Among our friends were JJ Johnson, Plas Johnson (no relation), and it was there that I met Philly Joe Jones, from whom I learned my basic drumming skills, Milt Hinton, who remained among my best friends until his passing, and it was there that Herbie Hancock and I met.
Herbie's girlfriend Annette and my girlfriend Renee swapped us; I ended up with Annette, a wonderful jazz singer, and he ended up with Renee, a wannabe dancer and personal friend of Chita Rivera and Cyd Charisse. In the end, it did her no good to have connections -- she was a passable but unexceptional dancer and I was a lot happier with Annette.
I started to gig on bass, but the huge upright was just too big for anything except a checker cab, but cabs don't typically stop for musicians, who are notably lousy tippers, unless you like getting tipped with a little buzz.
So I switched my bass for a C harp, and that's when I got involved with the blues guys. I led Gary Davis around a while, and have some interesting stories about that, including how I got my Martin D-28, and also had the privilege of working with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee and Dave van Ronk, who came here to Grass Valley just before his passing, to say goodbye. Come to think of it, it might not be a great idea to visit me if you plan to live a whole lot longer...
Everyone wants to know the real story behind the strange deaths in Harry's London flat at Number 9 Curzon Place...remember the Beatles, "Number nine, number nine..." ??? Well, this is the story behind the story, and it's here somewhere on my webpages, along with the real lowdown on the Hollywood scene when Harry and I walked among our fellow raptors, allosauri and triceratopsian terpsichoreans.
In New York I gigged around Greenwich Village with the New Lost City Ramblers, Dave van Ronk, Judy Henske, Peter, Paul and Mary (we called them Peter, Paul and Mounds, and I remained close with Mary Travers until her passing), and many more. My best-known performances were with Peter and Antonia Stampfel and the Holy Modal Rounders and doing double-bill with my bud Hugh Romney, now known as "Wavy Gravy".
There's a lot more to tell, and I will ... it will all unfold on these pages over an unspecified period of time. Some folks are wondering why I waited all this time to do this. I am now retired and have the time needed to devote to this project.
Some emails have come in asking if I need help maintaining the site. The answer is, thanks, no. My late wife Morgan Fox and I won $15 million in the California Lottery and ended up giving it away to my parents to make them low-maintenance. I have enough to keep going, and that's all I'll ever want or need.
So...what else can I tell you? I guess you'll want to know how I could possibly dare to call myself an expert on the subject of Harry Nilsson.
From 1967 to 1972 I worked for RCA, with Joe Reisman, Rick Jarrard, Al & Ritchie Schmidt, Dick Bogert, Grelun "Gre" Landon, Bill Graham, Jr. and Harry Nilsson in the A&R Department on the fourth floor of RCA Hollywood on Sunset & Ivar, and remained in close touch with all of them for about half a century. I have several gold records on my wall, and a framed tie from Ringo Starr, a drawing from George Harrison, a pair of glasses from John Lennon and a stack of drawings and handwritten poems from Harry, and have a collection of newspaper clippings related to his circus performing ancestors, if that helps with my credentials.
I was a Tiger Beat and Monkee Spectacular reporter, and the editor of Mod Teen Magazine, going on assignments with Annie Moses and Anne Moore, the GF of my next door neighbor in the Canyon, Jim Morrison. My girlfriend Jon was BFF with Ellen Naomi Cohen, best known as Cass Elliot.
Among my circle of friends were Frank Gorshin, Frank Herbert, Frank Zappa and Frank Sinatra. My stepdad Paul Donner Spencer was Marketing Director at Capitol Records, and we had every major dj in our house for Friday dinners. My "auntie" was Peggy Lee, my "uncle" was George Shearing, both Capitol label artists, both of whom I stayed in touch with until just after their passing.
I knew Johnny Weismuller well, and Gypsy Boots, Jack LaLanne and Wild Bill Tucker, the "greeter" of Hollywood, my childhood friend Herb Khaury ended up as "Tiny Tim", and I worked at Universal Studios, MGM, Paramount, KNXT-TV, KCRA-TV, KCOP-TV, KCET-TV, CBS Television City, Warner, and a variety of radio stations, then went into publicity and promotion, while doing gigs on Sunset Strip (and Hullaballoo when we couldn't get paying gigs) with my band.
I was an animator, inker/painter and audio tech for Bob at Fidelity Films. He later became partners with Grelun Landon.
I worked on a number of successful tv shows including Get Smart, Man From UNCLE, I Dream of Jeannie and others, along with a variety of stage shows including Lou Shaw's MacBird with my friends Phil Bruns, Jill Andre, Bill Lucking and Bob DoQui, who was the subject of a photographic book of mine back in the day. I did "B" films of all kinds, including two with my longtime bud, Chris Lawford and my wonderful director, Max Oseran, who had once worked for Mike Todd and was suddenly out of a job when Mike's plane crashed. I was lucky to get him for my crew.
If you want to get a better handle on my background and what I've been up to, go to http://www.ejgold.com -- In the meantime, suffice it to say that Harry was my Longtime Friend, and his last visit from Christmas to New Year's in 1993 was a treasure for all of us, and for Harry, it was, to quote him: "The Best Christmas Ever!" -- and that's on the video. On that visit, I promised him that I would try to "cross-pollinate" his work with art, theatre, dance and literature, the best way to ensure its survival, as he had asked and, with the development of this website, I honor that pledge to my Best Bud, Harry the Schmil.
Like Harry, my recording buddy Jimmi Accardi came from Bushwick in Brooklyn. We used to sing doo-wop on the way to school, and get beaten up regularly on the way back. Our school was so tough, the school newspaper had an obituary column.
Harry shared the Bushwick connection with at least one other celebrity; Jackie Gleason, "The Great One". Jackie loved Harry, and Harry loved Jackie, who always called him "Pally", which he did with someone he liked. One interesting note here in the Coincidence Department is that Jackie Gleason used to go to Harry's family's bar, and that's the bar that was reconstructed as the Bar Set on the Gleason Show!
I was there when Derek Tayler bought the carton of "Pandemonium Shadow Show" at Wallich's Music City around the corner from RCA because the cheap-shit executives wouldn't front him a carton, even knowing that Derek was the #1 Publicity Man into whose hands they should get the LPs, but they held tight, as they always did.
Had Derek not persisted and gotten the LP into the hands of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, and had they not listened to that album for 28 hours solid on acid, you'd probably never have heard of some sixties songwriter named Harry Nilsson, except that he was a member of the famous aerial team, "The Flying Nelsons" (sometimes spelled "Nilsson" in the promotional flyers, but more often "Nelson".
When the Beatles got to New York and were asked who their favorite group was, Paul said, "Harry Nilsson". When asked their favorite singer, George replied, "Harry Nilsson" and when asked their favorite songwriter, John said "Harry Nilsson".
That's what started the ball rolling for Harry, and I'll be telling more of the insider story of Harry as we go on...stay tuned for more additions. I'm making them every single day at the moment, and I'll have to keep that pace up to stay ahead of the thousands of miles of video and audio footage I should get up on the site.
Harry and I used to knock around Hollywood together, almost every day, for a variety of reasons; we liked each other's company and had the same circle of friends -- Paul Williams, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Southern, Jim Keltner, Glen Campbell, Trullee Fike and others, and there were other equally compelling reasons we ride-shared, sometimes in my Aston-Martin, sometimes in Harry's sister's VW bug, a rather disparate arrangement.
The ride-sharing started when my ex-wife Linda joined Traveler's Insurance as their Western Regional Director. We were living on Los Feliz at the time, and she needed to drive to Wilshire Boulevard to get to work. Meanwhile, Harry's sister Michelle landed a job as assistant branch manager of the Security Pacific Bank right downstairs from Linda's office in the Traveler's Building on Wilshire.
It started as a simple request; Harry wanted to use Michelle's VW bug for a photo shoot, so he could stick his head out the sun roof. He was to be in clownface, so he wanted that circus look, and the VW reminded both of us of several circus midget performance groups that had been around in the forties and fifties. We knew Jerry Eagle, the former director of "Nathan's Midgets" and two little people were among my closest friends, Billy Barty and Michael Dunne who played the bad guy on our show, "Wild, Wild West" produced by Michael Garrison, about whom more later.
That's how it happened that for a couple of years Harry and I zoomed down Sunset and sometimes up along the 405 freeway to the valley, singing doo-wop and barbershop tags for hours at a time. Actually, truth be told, Harry and I were freaks for barbershop and preferred the songs of the 1900s; one example of this personal preference for "that sort of music" is "Freckles", a doggie song. Strangely, Kenny Rogers did a doggie song at about the same time; he'd gone up to Calico, a silver mining town out in the desert on the other side of the San Gabriel Mountains, if you can call them "mountains".
We ran into the gang there while they were doing the basic research for their "Calico" album, the best Kenny ever did in my opinion; the ghost-town of Calico was just a short distance from where I was living at the time, and I often spent weekends in the souvenir-shop plagued town of Calico when trying to clear writer's block; I had three to four script contracts to fulfill every week, and I'm also an avid ghost-hunter -- I invented the quad ghost meter.
Oh, yeah. I should mention right here at the outset that Harry never wanted to be a rock singer, pop star or celebrity. What he really wanted was to write show tunes for great broadway musicals. He came close with "Viva Zapata", and somewhat hit the target with his film scores for Popeye and Midnight Cowboy, but it wasn't the same as the legit stage, and he felt that right to the end.
I have the songs from Zapata, and will post one of them, "Love is the Answer" at the earliest opportunity, so you'll see what his show tunes would have been like, had he had his way about his career, speaking of which...
This is as good a place as any to mention the event that transformed Harry from just another RCA label backlist guy into a millionaire took place in New York, and somewhere on this site, Harry and I, through the magic of videotape, will tell you all about the real story behind the Pussycats Episode.
I hope you enjoy the videos. Harry and I never grew up, and listening to us chat and play with ideas is like hearing us at ten years old, hanging upstairs behind a locked door, smoking a stolen cigarette; Harry and I never lost that sense of wonder, that insatiable desire to take risk, that playful and good-natured desire to poke at the universe to see what it's really made of, working it all out with each other's help, wondering what it's all about ... could it possibly really be the Hokey-Pokey???
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NBA Preseason 2021: Will Kevin Durant, James Harden and Kyrie Irving Play Against LA Lakers?
by Indu Dasari
After a tumultuous offseason with surprising trades and signings, the NBA returns this Sunday with its first pre-season game between LA Lakers and Brooklyn Nets. Pre-season however, is played just to tune up after a long offseason, and prominent players generally avoid it. Even though Nets vs Lakers is one of the most anticipated matchups for the season, big names like Kevin Durant, LeBron James, and Kyrie Irving will be absent from the first game of the season.
These teams are heavily favoured for the 2021-22 NBA championship with several all-stars on each roaster. While LA Lakers are filled with experienced veterans, Brooklyn Nets have more star power with Kevin Durant, James Harden and Kyrie Irving at their disposal. ESPN gave Brooklyn Nets the best odds to win it all this season, followed by their Sunday night matchup LA Lakers.
The odds were similar last year as well but injuries suffered by both teams led to first and second-round eliminations in the playoffs. The teams that eliminated them in their respective conference went on to the NBA Finals. While Anthony Davis is perpetually injured and a liability of the LA Lakers throughout the season and in the postseason, Kyrie Irving poses a similar threat to the Brooklyn Nets.
Also Read: NBA Preseason 2021: Will LeBron James Play Against Brooklyn Nets Sunday Night?
Kevin Durant, James Harden, and Kyrie Irving officially ruled out
The preseason is set to tip-off on 3rd October at 3:30 PM ET. Brooklyn Nets face LA Lakers but the players to watch out for will be on the sidelines supporting their rookies and role players today. Star players of a team are generally given limited game time in the preseason to avoid injuries and extend the offseason break for injured players.
As a result, LA Lakers and Brooklyn Nets have decided to give Kevin Durant, James Harden, LeBron James, Russell Westbrook and several other players an extended offseason. They are officially ruled out of the Sunday night game and it is unclear whether they will play in the preseason at all.
Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Joe Harris, Patty Mills, Blake Griffin and James Johnson all will NOT play Sunday against the Lakers per Steve Nash.
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Kyrie Irving on the other hand may not be able to play more than half of regular-season games due to his decision not to get vaccinated. It is mandatory in several states for all players to get vaccinated in order to play, and one of those states happens to be NY.
Irving is aware of all the consequences which include missing all home games, losing up to $17.5 million in addition to jeopardizing the championship aspirations of the Brooklyn Nets. He seems adamant about his decision not to get vaccinated and the team's reaction to it is awaited.
Joe Harris, Patty Mills, Blake Griffin, Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard will be absent from the lineup as well.
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"Still, concluding that frequently inhaling a concentrated smoke is quite bad for you would not require an appeal to ignorance.
This contrasts sharply with what we know about e-cigarettes or what we would know about smokeless tobacco if somehow it had recently appeared (and even more difficult scenario to imagine). In the real world, we know that the acute negative effects are trivial and have no affirmative reason to believe there is any substantial risk. Thus, anti-e-cigarette activism leaps immediately to an appeal to ignorance — "we do not know for sure…" — the logic of which is that we should never allow people to do anything that they have not already been doing for decades.
As an aside, it is interesting extend this counterfactual analysis to analyze one of the many thought-free mantras of the tobacco control industry: "if cigarettes were invented today, they would be banned." This actually seems quite unlikely to be true. If a rapid ban did happen in the hypothetical world, it would would not be because of the true risks, but rather would be driven by a Drug War mentality — the inclination to ban any drug people like because people should not be allowed to use drugs. After all, absent the tobacco control industry, who else other than the drug warriors would be calling for a ban?"
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Helping those homeless and sleeping rough
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As anyone who has been out and about in the city at night-time will know, rough sleeping is still a serious problem across London. It has more than doubled in the capital over the last decade, with hundreds of people bedding down for the night outside.
The issue is not restricted to the city centre. Ealing is in the top 10 of London boroughs for rough sleeping, and the council encounters more people who have to resort to living on the streets every week.
Some good news, however, is that the numbers are going down. Thanks to new ways of working from Ealing Council and its partners, its annual count of rough sleepers found 20 last November – down from 33 in the same month in 2018 and 62 in 2017.
There are a number of factors behind the diminishing numbers.
One is the increased support the council has been able to offer rough sleepers through grants it has bid for and won from the government. Extra funding for cold weather staff has helped get people off the streets quickly. It has also enabled Ealing to open a shelter for the entire period from January to March while the weather is at its coldest, which is run by the charity Look Ahead.
Another is the quality of the council's outreach service, which is run by the homelessness charity St Mungo's.
The outreach team makes good links with local charities, such as Hope for Southall Street Homeless and Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter, to help rough sleepers to move away from the streets and lead more settled lives. Staff visit street sleeping hotspots, focusing on helping people as early as possible, before they become entrenched in a rough sleeping lifestyle.
Since October, a rapid response team has been on Ealing's streets every night helping people who have been flagged as a concern by members of the public.
They offer emergency support for everyone they find who is homeless.
Councillor Peter Mason, the council's cabinet member for housing, planning and transformation, said: "We are working hard to ensure everyone who needs a bed for the night in the borough can access one. No one should have to sleep rough. Although our efforts have seen a big drop in rough sleeping in the borough, we will not rest until everyone has a safe and secure roof over their heads, and the support they need to stay off the streets."
PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE
Rough sleepers only make up a tiny proportion of homeless people in the UK. More than 2,500 local families have found themselves homeless, usually because they have been priced out of the local rental market. Like all councils, Ealing has a duty to support anyone who is already homeless and to make sure that children and vulnerable people have somewhere safe to live.
Ealing Council stands ready to step in to support any local people who find themselves in the awful position of having nowhere to live.
So, while the council still works hard to help those in crisis, it now places prevention at the heart of its new strategy for tacking homelessness. This means working with families at the earliest opportunity, often several months away from eviction and homelessness, to stop them from losing their homes. This approach is working – last year, Ealing diverted a larger percentage of at-risk households away from homelessness than any other London borough.
Councillor Mason said: "I know from personal experience what it's like for a family to fall on hard times and need help when they are homeless. Ealing Council stands ready to step in to support any local people who find themselves in the awful position of having nowhere to live. Becoming homeless is a traumatic experience and asking for help can feel incredibly hard. This is why our priority is to prevent homelessness in the first place."
If you are concerned about someone sleeping rough, go to www.streetlink.org.uk as soon as possible to help connect them with their local outreach team.
Want to donate to a local night shelter? We have two in the borough:
Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter – you can donate at www.ecwns.org.uk
Hope for Southall Street Homeless – to support them, go to www.hssh.org.uk
If you are concerned about your own housing situation, contact the council's housing advice service on 020 8825 8888 or housadv@ealing.gov.uk


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Charles Martel Biography
(Military Leader)
Born: 686
Born In: Herstal
Charles Martel, also known as Charles the Hammer, was a military leader who presided over the Frankish Kingdom as its de facto ruler during the Middle Ages. Born to the Duke of Pepin, Charles was considered an illegitimate child and was denied power by his stepmother after his father's death. She got him imprisoned to prevent him from claiming the throne. However, Charles was well loved by the public and was named the mayor of the palace of Austrasia after escaping the prison. Despite public support, he lost the Battle of Cologne and had to retreat. He gathered his troops again for the Battle of Vincy and victoriously earned his rightful position as the administrator. Since gaining power, Charles focused exclusively on establishing Frankish power in Europe and ensuring its superiority over other tribes. His most notable achievement was winning the Battle of Tours, which put a stop to growing Islamic dominance in Europe and preserved Christian power. His tactics in warfare put him a notch above other administrators and continued to be imitated by succeeding rulers for many centuries. After the conquest of Tours, he established himself as the overlord of many kingdoms and controlled the administration until the end of his life. Many historians count him among the most influential figures of the Middle Ages.
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Nick Name: The Hammer
Died At Age: 55
Spouse/Ex-: Rotrude of Trier, Swanhild
father: Pepin of Herstal
mother: Alpaida
children: Auda of France, Bernard, Carloman, Grifo, Hieronymus, Hiltrude, Ian, Pepin the Short, Remigius of Rouen, son of Charles Martel
Born Country: Belgium
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Died on: October 22, 741
place of death: Quierzy
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Charles Martel was born sometime in CE 688 to Pepin of Herstal and Alpaida. He had a brother, Childebrand, who was the Duke of Burgundy. His father was the Duke and Prince of the Franks, a title that Charles received later in his life.
Several reports speculate that Charles was an illegitimate child as he was not born to his father's first wife Plectrude. However, many historians have argued that polygamy was practiced and accepted in the Middle Ages, thus making him legitimate.
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When Charles Martel's father died in 714, his stepmother wanted her son Theudoald to take over the entire reign. In order to achieve this without unrest, she imprisoned Charles in Cologne. This led to an uprising is some parts of the kingdom and later, the Civil War of 715-718.
With Neustrians's support, Charles escaped the prison and was accepted as the Mayor by many nobles. However, the power was reasserted by Plectrude and her army when they defeated Charles in the Battle of Cologne in 716.
Charles decided to prepare himself better for the next battle and started training his troops at Eifel. In April 716, he embarked on a fight with the opposite army near Ambleve and took them by surprise when he attacked them from various corners. His reputation soared after this victory, and he continued this warfare technique for the remainder of his life.
Charles was supported by Bishop Pepo and Willibrord, who was the founder of Abbey of Echternach. With support and adequate preparation, Charles entered the Battle of Vincy in March 717 and emerged victorious. He conquered Cologne, banished Plectrude to a convent, and dethroned Theudoald.
Since winning Cologne, Charles Martel entered several strategic battles and won them all to secure his hold on the kingdom. He also earned the respect of many Bishops and devoted his time to ensuring his kingdom's absolute authority over others. He continued to be the de facto ruler of the kingdom until 732.
Charles's growing worry was the army built by the Emir of Cordoba to take over Aquitaine. In 730, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, the Emir, was raising his defenses and constantly attacked Aquitaine. It constantly diverted Charles's attention from his other responsibilities.
Charles began training an army that he could employ full time during any war, but mostly to withstand the cavalry of the Arab forces. Since troops were only available during certain months of the year, he had to pay them in advance so that they would be available to him at all times.
To raise funds, Charles started taking back the land he had donated to the Bishops, thus earning their discredit. Many speculated that he would be excommunicated for this, but the war took precedence. In the end, he managed to build a strong and disciplined army.
The Arabs in 731 had looted Aquitaine and had begun their expedition to Tours, a town full of wealth and generous treasures. Charles was warned of their movement, and he employed his full army to defeat the opposition forces.
Charles subsequently won against the Arabs and earned the title of 'Martellus', meaning 'the hammer'. In the coming years, when invading forces attacked his kingdom, he stood tall and managed to hold on to his territory by winning all the battles. Today, he is credited for halting the spread of Islamic expansion in Europe.
The reputed historian, Edward Gibbons, saw the Battle of Tours as the most important one that Charles Martel fought. He credits him for saving and preserving Christianity in Europe. Many other historians argue that Charles merely wanted to keep the wealth of Tours to himself and had no altruistic motives whatsoever.
After the Battle of Tours, Charles established the might of Frankish governance across Europe. He successfully warded off the Islamic invasion many times by forging alliances and expanding his army. Eventually, he took over the towns held by the Arabs and started ruling them.
The several wars that he fought from 732 to 737 saw a remarkable difference in campaigns. Charles managed to establish a full cavalry in less than five years, shocking Rahman's army. The Umayyad Caliphates finally bowed down to Charles and accepted defeat after many years of failing.
When King Theuderic IV died in 737, Charles took over his duties but did not appoint any king during the regime. He spent more time concentrating on administration during this period. While the position of the king was empty, nobody came forward to take over the throne.
Charles, despite not being the king, held the strongest power in all of Europe. He controlled the entire kingdom and successfully expanded his territories without sitting on any throne.
Towards the end of his reign, Charles had achieved the necessary peace and harmony required of a good leader. He spent his final years governing a kingdom that faced no uprisings or troubles.
Family & Personal Life
Charles Martel entered two marriages in his lifetime, according to several records. His first wife was Rotrude of Treves, a count's daughter. They had five children together: Hiltrud, Carloman, Landrade/Landres, Auda/Aldana/Alane, and Pepin the Short/Pippin.
His second wife was Swanhild, a Bavarian princess, whom he married in 725. The couple had only one child together: Grifo.
It has also been recorded that Charles had a well-known mistress, Roudhaid. The couple had three children: Bernard, Hieronymus and Remigius.
He died on October 22, 741 in Quierzy-sur-Oise and was buried at Saint Denis Basilica, Paris. He is said to have died peacefully in his sleep. He had already divided his territories among his sons earlier, and no fights happened after his death over territories.
His legacy continues to be cherished even today as many call him the warrior of Christianity who withstood Islamic forces. Charles is also credited for infusing new energy and forming unique tactics in warfare by introducing cavalry, a tactic that has successfully been used for hundreds of years.
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