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It was a typical training camp scrimmage for the Suns - until Marquese Chriss and Josh Jackson got a little too physical with one another. There was some holding and grabbing and then they fell to the floor together, Jackson lying on top of Chriss.
Emotions boiled over. Words were exchanged. Practice was stopped.
The players gathered at midcourt but it wasn't coach Earl Watson who spoke to them. It was veteran center Tyson Chandler.
The same scene was repeated a week later when a player complained about a call during practice. Practice was halted. The players gathered in a circle. Chandler, his voice loud enough so everyone watching could hear, talked to his teammates about trust.
At 35, Chandler is the outlier to the Suns' youth movement. Think of it this way: Chandler is starting his 17th season in the NBA; Dragan Bender has been on the planet 19 years.
"Yeah, I'm the old guy," Chandler said.
Chandler's value to the Suns is unmistakable, though. Before the Suns sat him down the final 25 games of last season he averaged 8.4 points and 11.5 rebounds per game. Had Chandler played enough games he would have ranked eighth in the league in rebounding.
But it's his leadership that truly defines his worth. Chandler – as well as forward Jared Dudley – are the voices the young Suns listen to, the voices that teach, encourage and hold them accountable.
Chandler said being a leader has become "extremely natural" for him the past seven or eight years as he got older and the rest of the NBA got younger.
"I feel like I've been a leader but you find your voice later on in your career," he said. "Now I'm in a place where I'm the elder statesman. I feel it's my duty to stand up and say something. And it's more important for the players to police themselves than the coach.
It's not easy for Chandler, winding down his career on a team that won just 24 games last season and likely is at least two years away from making the playoffs. But he understands that his leadership is even more valuable during down times. It's why he "pushes the hell out of these guys" during practice. It's why, he said, he practices even harder now than he did four or five years ago.
It's the example he learned from his grandfather, Cleo Threadgill, whom he credits for being the biggest influence in his life. Threadgill worked on farms in Hanford, California, and Chandler can recall him getting up at 5 every morning, working 12 to 14 hours without complaint.
One of those examples: Don't rely on others what you can do yourself.
Chandler is now passing those lessons on to the Suns.


I'm beginning this wrap up of our celebration of Women's History Month with a reminder for all of you to enter our giveaway of 30 People Who Changed the World: Fascinating Bite-Sized Essays from Award-Winning Writers (Seagrass Press), edited by Jean Reynolds, if you haven't already done so.
Carla announced the giveaway on Monday, when she posted a terrific interview with Jean Reynolds. But Carla was too modest to mention that her essay, "Radium Girls," is included in the book, which is why we chose to offer this giveaway in conjunction with Women's History Month. In the essay, subtitled "The Taste of Death," Carla shares the sad story of how female factory workers contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with radium so that they'd glow in the dark. Maybe in a future post Carla will share what led to her writing this essay. My guess is, it may be connected to her research for her acclaimed nonfiction book Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium.
Esther's Women's History Month post included a great list of resources on the topic. I'd like to add one more: a Nerdy Book Club post by Kate Hannigan listing 31 New Picture Book Biographies to Celebrate Women's History Month as part of the #31Women31Books campaign. Kate is also featuring an interview on her blog with Heather Lang, author of one of the 31 biographies as well as books about other notable women of history. You can read that interview here.
And don't forget about the Playing by Heart "Book Bag and Swag" giveaway I'm hosting for Women's History Month. You'll find all the details on this page of my website, along with a link to where you can download a free PDF excerpt of Playing by Heart. Don't delay. The giveaway ends tomorrow, March 31!
Be sure to check out this week's Poetry Friday Roundup hosted by Heidi Mordhorst at My Juicy Little Universe.
Fascinating Bite-Sized Essays from Award-Winning Writers.
for this book are at the end of this post.
It is my privilege to introduce you to our guest today. Jean E. Reynolds co-founded The Millbrook Press in 1989, where she served as Executive VP and Publisher. She developed Millbrook's trade imprint, Roaring Brook Press, winner of two Caldecott awards.
Before founding Millbrook, she had been Editor-in-Chief of Young People's Publications at Grolier and Editor in Chief of The Book of Knowledge and, prior to that, Senior Vice President / Editorial Director and a member of the Board of Franklin Watts, Inc.
Now retired, more or less, she edits a blog called The Nonfiction Minute consisting of daily postings of 400-word essays by 30 award-winning nonfiction writers for young readers. She has edited two books based on this blog, 30 People Who Changed the World, and 30 Animals That Share Our World.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I've come to know Jean as an editor recently because I'm part of the group of authors that make up iNK Think Tank, who produce The Nonfiction Minute. Also, one of my essays appear in 30 People Who Changed the World.
Congratulations on the book you edited, 30 People Who Changed the World, which was selected as a Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2018 by the NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Committee. Can you tell us how this book came to be?
Vicki Cobb first started iNK Think Tank in 2009 when the Common Core Standards had just been implemented, requiring more reading of nonfiction. A number of her fellow nonfiction writers were pleased that the importance of their genre was being recognized by the education community. But they also knew that most teachers had very little awareness of the trove of excellent nonfiction books related to their required curricula and that those books were actually sitting idly on their school library shelves. Vicki approached a number of her favorite award-wining nonfiction authors and convinced them to join with her in creating a database aligning their books to the new Standards. They created a website, which launched under the domain name of www.inkthinktank.com (now www.inkthinktank.org) in October 2009. All 22 member-authors donated money to make it happen.
These authors used their combined strength to purchase electronic equipment and learn how to do two way virtual classroom visits. But as they got to know each other, they all realized that they wanted to do something more to introduce fine nonfiction writing to the classroom. Thus the idea of The Nonfiction Minute was born. And this is the point where I was brought into the organization. I was a newly-retired editor who had worked with many of the iNK Think Tank authors over the years. I know it's hard to believe that a group of authors voluntarily called in an editor, because as a group we do tend to create a lot of work for a good author – but that's what they did!
The plan was for each member of the iNK group, which had grown to more than 30 at this point, to create multiple 400-word nonfiction essays with the intention of posting one each day for use in the classroom. It was my job to organize the effort, sometimes suggest the topics, edit the articles, illustrate the articles with free materials, solicit and edit an mp3 of the author reading his/her essay, and prepare a description of the author's latest book to be included at the end of the essay. The first year, academic 2015-16, was a gargantuan effort for all of us in that we were all in unfamiliar territory. I had to learn how to work not only as an editor but as a fact checker and copyeditor – the latter being the most difficult. I had had a staff of copyeditors overseeing my work for decades, and it was very difficult to not only edit but copyedit the essays. Fortunately I was working with authors who were the best of the best in the field, but I literally wore out my Chicago Manual of Style.
I was worried that without the power of a major publishing house who was going to pay an author on the completion of the work, there were no carrots to keep the very busy volunteer authors on track. But to my delight, I discovered that their carrot was not money at all, but rather their true belief in what we were giving to children.
How is this book different from other books on the market today?
There may be other anthologies in the children's book market – although the only ones that occur to me now are poetry collections in which different poets are paid by the piece to be included in a single volume. But I don't believe that anything else exists that is based on the premise of good nonfiction writing. I think such a volume would be very difficult to put together because the selection would be so subjective. Also, the expense of paying for 30 essays would be major. Remember that all of our authors are doing this without payment, which makes this book possible.
One of the many unique things about 30 People is that each of the 30 biographical essays is done with a different style and different approach. It was an interesting experience for me as an editor transformed into an author to work with our very excellent copyeditor at Seagrass. Coping with the work of 30 different authors was a real challenge for a copyeditor whose job is to assure uniformity of style -- and it was kind of fun for me as the author-once-children's-book-editor to have to argue on behalf on inconsistency!
30 People Who Changed the World is interesting especially since it is a compilation of articles by different authors. Can you tell us how it works to edit this type of book?
Josalyn Moran, the Seagrass publisher who discovered The Nonfiction Minute online chose the topic. She felt that introductions to new subjects or new details about old subjects would be helpful to upper elementary and middle school students who were involved in the inevitable assignment "Write an x-hundred word biography of a person you admire." Our Nonfiction Minutes fill that bill beautifully. So for me, who was familiar with all of the Minutes, it was a question of picking 30 out of the 60 or so biographical Minutes. I wanted to use not only all different approaches by different authors, but also a wide variety of subjects balanced between the well-known and the virtually unknown. I wanted people from different eras, which we definitely achieved by including Imhotep of 2600 BCE and present-day Malala Yousafzai! Also we wanted a balance between male and female, and of course, racial diversity. By the time these factors were all considered, the choices were pretty obvious.
Because the Minutes had been published previously and were still available for free on line, I wanted to add some additional factors and the logical thing to do was to help kids who were interested in knowing more to get started on their research by adding a Find Out More section to each Minute. So I went back to the authors (who had already done a great deal of in-depth research on their respective biographees) and asked them to give me the title of the best book on their subject, the URL of the best introductory website, and the link to an interesting U-tube, all of which were then included at the end of each Minute.
As the book came together, I was very happy that I had been such a strict taskmaster about the length of the minutes. As you know, I was adamant about the 400 word limit, and that helped the design flow very smoothly because our wonderful designer Marc Cheshire could perform his magic on the total layout even before he had the final text, knowing in advance how much room to allow for each minute. I'm afraid that many of my free illustrations which worked well on a computer screen were not high enough resolution to work in a book. So we had a lot of scrambling to find additional art. It was wonderful to have professional researchers at the publisher working on it rather than me. Like my copyediting knowledge, my picture research is rusty. I've been working with and selecting pictures for years, but always with lots of help from professional researchers. Also, the publisher gave us a generous budget for pictures, whereas my budget for the illustrations for the online Minutes was zero.
One problem was that the author's book promotion could not be placed at the end of each Minute as it was on line. I felt that information about each author was a must. I lobbied hard for eight full book pages for author bios, photos, and book mentions. We even included the author's home town and email addresses. I had to keep making suggestions about what photos we could cut, or even text we could cut to keep that eight-page section in tact – but it remained. I felt that the volunteer authors needed some sort of major recognition in the book, not only for providing the one or two Minutes contained in the book, but for the scores of other Minutes they have produced over the past few years.
So all in all, editing this book and working with a publisher as an author rather than being the publisher myself was a really interesting experience. Because she knew my extensive background, I think the editor, Josalyn, probably included me in a lot more decisions that the average author might have been able to participate in. We consulted on the title and subtitle and cover design and cover copy – actually publishing details that I knew a lot more about than being an author. It was fun.
One final thought on the topic.
Reading this book from an editor's standpoint, can you give our readers some advice on writing captivating nonfiction?
I think captivating is the operative word in that question. I think in order to captivate your reader, your topic has to have captivated you. In that case, you do the best you can to share your enthusiasm.
Many years ago, I read an article that really helped form my love for what is called narrative nonfiction. (Narrative nonfiction means that the author is really telling an interesting story and not presenting a series of facts and figures about the subject.) The article, which probably was in an educational magazine, quoted two articles on the VietNam war. The first was from a well-known American history text book, and I remember it began: "Vietnam is a Southeast Asian country on the South China Sea." In the course of about 300 words it described the location and climate of VietNam, the years the war lasted, a bit about why the US was a combatant country. I think the article lost me on the opening sentence.
The second article was from Time Magazine and it began with two American soldiers lying under some jungle foliage with artillery fire from the North Vietnamese passing just over their heads. They had me!
I went on to read the rest of the dramatic story of what brought these Americans to this point, and the subsequent story, I learned a lot about VietNam.
In a widespread educational test, the text book article was given to a large group of students and the Time article was given to a different group. Both were tested on the information two weeks later. The textbook group remembered very very little, while the Time group could repeat parts of the story and actually remembered facts about VietNam and the course of the war.
Our aim in the Minutes is to have our writers tell an interesting enough story that our readers may mention something about it later on the playground, or talk about it at home over dinner.
Of course there are many other things about writing good nonfiction, but none are more important than captivating your reader.
Do you have some suggestions about how teachers could use this book in the classroom?
I am not a teacher. That's a very hard job, and I don't think that I'd be very good at it. But I do spend a lot of time talking with teachers about how they work with kids and books. As I mentioned earlier, 30 People is a great resource if there are students having trouble finding a topic for a biographical essay. Also, I understand that some teachers are using the individual Minutes for (shudder) test prep.
We have added a new Transfer to Teaching section for each minute published this season which has a custom page with creative ideas for using the Minute in the classroom. Organized by subject area and focused on critical thinking and problem-solving skills, these ideas have been created and organized by certified school librarian Karen Sterling, an iNK Think Tank member. Each Minute is also categorized according to the Library of Congress Subject Authority headings to increase access points for users. So my suggestion would be for a teacher interested in specific ideas for any of the minutes in the book, use the archives on the NonfictionMinute.org website to find any of the Minutes in the book and click on the T2T link.
Are there more books like this one in the future?
Absolutely. 30 Animals Who Share Our World is being released by Seagrass on April 4, 2018. This book has some fascinating science, as well as some delightful stories about animal behavior. This one has a huge variety of minutes ranging from a poetry collection in praise of vultures to the commuting habits of a British cat. You'll learn a lot, but this one is really fun!
We're talking about a future STEM-themed book, but it is not yet under contract.
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As a child, I had lots of female heroes. They lived in the biography section of the library. Amelia Earhart, Clara Barton, Jane Addams. These women were daring and brave, breaking the female norms of their day. They had something else in common.
By the time I was born, they were all long dead.
I didn't realize as a pre-teen in 1960's Mississippi that I lived within fifty miles of a woman who would become one of my adult heroes.
When I did school visits in connection with Yankee Girl, it was a twenty minutes of Civil Rights history. Lynchings, bombings, segregation, and of course, the Ku Klux Klan. After all that, the first question during Q & A was always, "Weren't there any good white Mississippians? Did anyone stand up for the black people?"
The first time I was asked, I hemmed and hawed and said I was sure there were, but I couldn't think of any. I explained how dangerous it was for white people to take a stand. People kept their "different" views to themselves.
By the next school visit, I had thought of someone. Yes, I did know a good and brave white woman (Alabamian by birth, but who lived in Mississippi). Her name was Hazel Brannon Smith, a woman who was a journalist (a female journalist!), publisher, owner and editor of four small newspapers, mostly in Holmes County, Mississippi. In 1964, she also became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
I first heard of her through the four-page weekly, The Northside Reporter, my parents subscribed to. Each week there was an editorial column called "Through Hazel Eyes" written by Hazel Brannon Smith. I had never encountered a female journalist who wasn't a "society writer," relegated to what used to be called "The Women's Section": weddings, engagements, debutant balls, soirees and "ladies' club "meetings. This Hazel lady wrote about important things--like rights for black people, voter's rights, police brutality. She felt the same way about these events that my parents did: horrified. It was as if I had found a new friend. Up until then, I thought we were the only white family in Mississippi who thought these things were wrong. Now, I had Hazel!
I later learned that Hazel Brannon Smith owned The Northside Reporter.. The Reporter's office was fire bombed by the KKK in 1964.
Even at 10 I knew about the Pulitzer (after all, I planned to win one myself some day!) I was so happy when my friend Hazel, won it for "Through Hazel Eyes." First female winner for editorials. Big stuff! Big news!
But as Paul Harvey (a favorite in my neck of the Mississippi woods) used to say "And now the rest of the story."
Because Hazel was becoming all unhinged and dishonoring her "southern heritage," the White Citizens Council in her hometown decided to teach her a lesson. (The Citizens Council was a more upscale version of the KKK. Council members were white collar, professional men of the community---former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott was a member.) The WCC began publishing their own newspaper to compete with Hazel"s. Within two years, Hazel's paper was in financial trouble as her advertisers defected to the Citizen's Council paper. Then, as a final flourish, the WCC engineered the firing of Hazel's husband from his job as county hospital administrator.
Friends in the civil rights community took up a collection to keep Hazel's paper going. She limped along until she was awarded the Pulitzer for "steadfast adherence to her editorial duty in the face of great pressure and opposition."
Winning the Pulitzer only enflamed the Citizens Council more. They organized a boycott of Hazel's few remaining advertisers AND her subscribers. She had no choice. One by one, she sold off her papers. Within twenty years of winning the greatest prize in American journalism, Hazel was no longer a newspaper woman. With time on her hands, she helped out with The Jackson Advocate, the weekly for Jackson's African-American community. It was a volunteer job that involved driving 100 miles, round trip, several times a week.
Hazel Brannon Smith died in 1994, at the age of 80. She had no survivors.
And I am left with a mystery. How did a woman, raised in segregated Alabama ("The Heart of Dixie" is still part of the state's license plates), a sorority girl at the University of Alabama, seemingly the average career woman of her place and time...how did she transform into a Civil Rights crusader? As of this month, there are only two biographies of this amazing woman. Many people who consider themselves scholars of the Movement have never heard of her.
going to let that freedom slip away by default.
I wish she were here and writing today.
As you may remember, I have a cat named Comma. This week, Comma fell seriously ill. He is on the mend, but taking care of him is quite labor-intensive at the moment. As a result, I have not had the chance to write my entry for our current exploration into Women's History. Please accept my apologies.
This is one of my favorite topics, and I love this series. I encourage you to visit our Women's History Month extravaganza.
MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS ~an activist wow!
The link to PF and my rough draft poems are below, along with a Poetry Challenge to you. I really want to read what you've written!
Now it's time to leap into our Women's History Month extravaganza. First is Carmela's Women's History Month Sonnet (the first she's ever written!), then Esther offers an explosion of resources on women's history as well as a top ten books list about powerful, creative women.
What woman in history could I write a poem about? My subject was hiding in plain sight.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas was an environmentalist, author, journalist, feminist, civil rights defender for whom the now-famous Parkland, Florida high school was named.
Born in 1890, Marjory changed the state of Florida. Her book "The Everglades: River of Grass was published in 1947 and sold out of its first printing in a month. The book's first line, 'There are no other Everglades in the world', has been called the 'most famous passage ever written about the Everglades'...It "galvanized people...[and] has been compared to Rachel Carson's 1962 exposé of the harmful effects of DDT, Silent Spring; both books are 'groundbreaking calls to action that made citizens and politicians take notice' [and]'remains the definitive reference on the plight of the Florida Everglades.'"
"Mrs. Douglas was half the size of her fellow speakers [5'2", 100 lbs] and she wore huge dark glasses, which along with the huge floppy hat made her look like Scarlett O'Hara as played by Igor Stravinsky"
"At the age of 79...Douglas founded Friends of the Everglades to protest the construction of a jetport in the Big Cypress portion of the Everglades. She justified her involvement saying, 'It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.'"
What a tireless, funny, cunning, strong-willed woman! Of course there should be a high school named after her!
Here are rough drafts of two poems about her. The first I wrote before I had read very much about her. The second was written after I had read more and was zinging with excitement. But I was also overwhelmed; there was too much wrap my arms around!
I have new respect for those of you who unwrap layers of history to make it concise, exciting, lyrical and accessible. How do you non-fiction writers DO it?!?!
I don't have much distance from either poem...which works best for you?
Can't you boo any louder?
Don't you just know Marjory would be proud of the students who are stepping up and speaking out?
Here's my challenge to you, dear Readers: read the Wikipedia article (and/or other sources) and write your own poem about her...then share it in our comments. I really want to read what you come up with!
PS: Consider joining KidLit Marches for Kids on March 24th. Here's the Publishers Weekly article about this organization.
And thank you for hosting PF on TeacherDance, Linda!
It's Women's History Month! Book It!
There are a gazillion different ways to celebrate the vital role women have played in America's history.
Participating institutions sponsoring events, programs and exhibits include The Library of Congress, the National Archives and Records Administration, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Gallery of Art, the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institute and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Given our readership, however, I say: just book it, especially with an Amelia Bloomer List award-winning children's book!
The annual List is a project of the Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association. Titles include both fiction and nonfiction for early, middle grade and young adult readers.
Here are the Top Ten Amelia Bloom List winners for 2018.
Books are selected each January and must have been published in the U.S. in the previous 18 months.
Amelia Bloomer, in case you didn't know, was a singular feminist pioneer, a nonconformist and modern rebel who lent her name to a daring 19th century garment when she popularized in her newspaper The Lily the baggy gathered pants worn beneath a woman's knee-length skirt - i.e. bloomers! Amelia believed writing was the best way for women to work for reform. The Lily was the first newspaper for women, issued from 1849 until 1853 and published in Seneca Falls, NY. It began as a home distribution journal for members of the Seneca Falls Ladies Temperance Society.
FYI: The Lily has undergone a 2017 revival!
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and www.TheLily.com are all viable connection options.
Shana Corey's picture book biography YOU FORGOT YOUR SKIRT, AMELIA BLOOMER (Scholastic Press) does one swell job telling Amelia's important story to young readers.
Speaking of telling important stories of important women to young readers, meet three Chicago-area children's book authors who did just that.
Suzanne Slade, author of DANGEROUS JANE (Peachtree), Barb Rosenstock, author of DOROTHEA'S EYES (Calkins Creek), and Kate Hannigan, author of A LADY HAS THE FLOOR (Calkins Creek).
This trio of award-winning picture book biographers celebrated Women's History Month this past Wednesday, March 7 at 57th Street Books in Hyde Park. It was SRO and deservedly so.
In honor of Women's History Month and Poetry Friday, today I'm sharing an original sonnet about a little-known woman of history. You'll find my poem at the end of this post.
Today happens to also be the official release date of the movie adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's classic novel, A Wrinkle in Time. Yesterday, for International Women's Day, a number of people Tweeted about their favorite female authors as part of #IWD2018. Well, Madeleine L'Engle is one of my favorite authors period, male or female.
Our Not for Kids Only Book Club reread A Wrinkle in Time for our March book and we'll be going to see the movie this weekend. While I'm disappointed that the early reviews aren't very positive, I'm still looking forward to the outing. I hadn't read the book in years, yet some of the scenes were still quite vivid in my memory. I'd completely forgotten other parts, though, and I'm curious to see how the story has been interpreted for the film.
Instead of tweeting about authors, yesterday I shared an image honoring the two amazing sisters who inspired my YA novel, Playing by Heart.
As I've shared here before, Playing by Heart grew out of my research for a nonfiction biography of Italian linguist and mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi. Even though I have an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, I never heard of Agnesi until I came across her name in an article about little-known women of history. I wrote the biography, in part, because I found her life fascinating, but also because there are so many myths about her, both in print and online. I still hope to find a publisher for that biography. Meanwhile, I have created a website to dispel some of the myths. Yesterday, for International Women's Day, I posted the above image there, along with some credible references for those who'd like to know the truth of Maria Gaetana's story. I also shared that I'm currently offering a special Playing by Heart "Book Bag and Swag" giveaway for Women's History Month. I invite all our TeachingAuthors readers to enter the giveaway. You'll find all the details on this page of my website, along with a link to where you can download a free PDF excerpt of Playing by Heart.
Later this month, Carla will announce a special Women's History Month book giveaway here on our TeachingAuthors blog. Be sure to watch for that!
I mentioned above that I'd be sharing an original sonnet today--the first I ever wrote. I was inspired by a sonnet published as a tribute to Maria Gaetana Agnesi when she was only five years old. That sonnet, written in Italian, praised how "marvelously" she spoke her first foreign language, French. (Maria Gaetana mastered seven languages by the time she was a teen.) Since I couldn't translate the original sonnet without losing its form, I wrote my own, which you can read below. My sonnet, like the one published in 1723, follows the pattern found in "Italian" sonnets. They have a "turn" or change in thought that is signaled by a change in the rhyme pattern. I hope you can spot the "turn" in my poem.
Be sure to check out this month's Poetry Friday roundup hosted by Michelle at Today's Little Ditty.
I provide interactive videoconferences for schools all over the country. My programs are listed and available to request on the web site for the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC). I do a variety of programs; one of my favorites is teaching a class of students how to brainstorm.
First I explain that in my session-and in brainstorming-there are no wrong answers. I assure them that when they brainstorm for their own ideas it is quick, painless and best of all, no one will see their ideas or grade their brainstorming session. It is only for them and will help THEM. And I really mean it.
Brainstorming is a prewriting skill that with minimal effort produces maximum results.
In these sessions I model brainstorming and lead them along with me. The way I teach brainstorming is to tell them to jot down things you know about the topic AND things you don't know—in the form of questions. You don't have to know the answers to the questions. Sometimes it is the questions from a brainstorming session that gives you the angle of your research paper.
The key is to just let thoughts about the topic develop naturally and let one thought go to the next. The first few thoughts on any topics are usually about the basic things that everyone knows. The "good stuff" and by that I mean unique ideas- are never those first few ideas. The best ideas are the fifth or sixth or later ideas that you consider once you think a little longer about the topic.
As my session continues, I get them to participate in on the spot brainstorming. Soon they start giving suggestions. I remind them there are no wrong answers or silly answers-it is all just loose thoughts. No pressure.
Once they get the hang of that, we move on. We brainstorm again and this time I ask them to give me some ideas on possible angles for a research paper. They can do it.
In less than an hour, many of these students seem to really grasp the benefits of brainstorming. The feedback I get from teachers for the session make me think that for some of these students, they have a good grasp on a brainstorming as a useful tool in their prewriting toolbox.


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Extreme Reach's enterprise platform will integrate with Mediaocean Spectra platform for TV planners and buyers, automating these formerly labor-intensive manual processes and closing the key informational and operational gaps between media and trafficking teams.
"Partnering with Extreme Reach will enable agencies to execute advertising campaigns with greater effectiveness. This is foundational for targeted, optimized TV advertising," said Bill Wise, CEO of Mediaocean.
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package org.polyglotted.attributerepo.stash;

import static org.polyglotted.attributerepo.stash.StashConstants.PARAM_AT;
import static org.polyglotted.attributerepo.stash.StashConstants.SEGMENT_API;
import static org.polyglotted.attributerepo.stash.StashConstants.SEGMENT_BROWSE;
import static org.polyglotted.attributerepo.stash.StashConstants.SEGMENT_PROJECTS;
import static org.polyglotted.attributerepo.stash.StashConstants.SEGMENT_REPOS;

import org.polyglotted.attributerepo.core.GitClient;
import org.polyglotted.attributerepo.core.Response;
import org.polyglotted.attributerepo.git.common.FileRequest;
import org.polyglotted.attributerepo.model.Artifact;
import org.polyglotted.attributerepo.model.RepoId;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.google.common.base.Joiner;

/**
 * Stash based Browse request that downloads contents of a file
 *
 * @author Shankar Vasudevan
 */
public class StashFileRequest extends FileRequest {

    private static final Joiner NEWJOINER = Joiner.on("\n");
    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(StashFileRequest.class);

    /**
     * Create a new StashFileRequest
     *
     * @param repo
     *            the repository definition
     * @param artifact
     *            the deployed artifact that you would like to get the properties
     */
    public StashFileRequest(RepoId repo, Artifact artifact) {
        super(repo, artifact);
    }

    public String execute(GitClient client) {
        try {
            Response response = client.execute(this);
            StashFile fileContent = response.getResult(StashFile.class);
            return collateLines(fileContent);
        }
        catch (Exception ex) {
            logger.error("error in content request execute", ex);
            throw new RuntimeException(ex);
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected String getRefParam() {
        return PARAM_AT;
    }

    @Override
    protected StringBuilder buildUri() {
        StringBuilder uri = new StringBuilder();
        uri.append(SEGMENT_API);
        uri.append(SEGMENT_PROJECTS);
        uri.append(repo.getUser());
        uri.append(SEGMENT_REPOS);
        uri.append(repo.getRepo());
        uri.append(SEGMENT_BROWSE);
        uri.append(artifact.buildFilePath());
        return uri;
    }

    protected String collateLines(StashFile fileContent) {
        return NEWJOINER.join(fileContent.getLines());
    }
}

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How to Win in the Markets
I can understand why "Mr. Smith" wouldn't share his real name.
He told his story to Forbes last year. It's a model for all the wild tales of bitcoin millionaires.
At the time, Mr. Smith had about $2.6 million worth of bitcoin. And on the ride up, he had cashed out $25 million.
On the other hand, near Seoul, South Korea, resident Kim Hyon-jeong did give her name to the New York Times. Her story was different – and much more unfortunate.
If you're thinking about getting on board an exciting, speculative opportunity like bitcoin, then you need to read this. It could make the difference between a life of incredible wealth... or crushing debt.
Mr. Smith was a software engineer with an interest in the technology behind bitcoin. In 2010, he saw bitcoin's price soar from $0.008 to $0.08 in less than a week. That was enough to attract his attention. He bought $3,000 worth of bitcoin at a price of $0.15.
As you know, the price shot up to more than $19,000 in December 2017. But Mr. Smith didn't make that full return.,, He had been selling all the way up. He cashed out some at $350, more at $800, and so on.
Now he travels the world, first-class.
Unfortunately, on the other side of our story, Ms. Kim took a different approach to her investment in bitcoin...
As a 45-year-old teacher with a child, she put about $90,000 into cryptocurrencies. It wasn't just her savings either. She cashed in an insurance policy and took out a loan for $25,000. As she described it...
I thought cryptocurrencies would be the one and only breakthrough for ordinary hardworking people like us. I thought my family and I could escape hardship and live more comfortably, but it turned out to be the other way around.
The value of her holdings was down 90% as of August 2018.
One of these investors is a success, and one a failure. But it's not just because Mr. Smith got the timing right and Ms. Kim didn't...
When Mr. Smith got in at $0.15, he had already seen bitcoin soar 1,775% in the previous six months or so... and it would drop nearly 50% just a few weeks after he purchased. Bitcoin was a new and untested asset. It would have been crazy to predict that bitcoin would go on to peak more than 25,000,000% higher from Mr. Smith's purchase price.
Ms. Kim invested later, in the fall of 2017, during a time when bitcoin was front-page financial news around the world. You couldn't avoid the wave of newly minted cryptocurrency experts willing to project its price to $1 million and beyond.
Yet with such a wild and unpredictable asset, both speculations could have made money.
The difference here is that Mr. Smith bet a lot smarter. He invested a small amount for a successful professional. The technology got him excited, but he only bankrolled a small bet.
He also locked in gains along the way, taking some money – and risk – off the table as the rest of his investment continued to grow. You can do this in a lot of ways. For instance, you might sell half of an investment once it reaches a 100% gain – that way, you're playing with "house money."
Meanwhile, Ms. Kim made her bet completely wrong. She put 30 times more into her crypto bet than Mr. Smith did... Worse, she wagered money she didn't have by taking on debt.
So here's exactly what to do with your money today...
Bet, but bet small. And don't jump blindly into speculations.
If you're willing to speculate on crypto's, you'll need an expert helping you along the way. And I strongly recommended Eric Wade...
Eric knows all the biggest players in the cryptocurrency industry, and he understands the scientific technicalities in a way that only angel investors, computer programmers, and software engineers know about...
If you tried to do this kind of research on your own, you'd have to travel thousands of miles a year and spend thousands of dollars on tickets to crypto conferences where the best coins and tokens are unveiled.
Instead, every month in his research service called Crypto Capital, Eric does all that work for you. He simply hands you the names of his best crypto recommendations, along with his in-depth analysis each month, based on intense due diligence nobody else is doing at this level.
Click here watch Eric walk his twin brother – and you – through his crypto strategy.

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Home » Music » Cardi B Cuddles Up with 11-Month-Old Daughter Kulture and Takes the Stage a Day After Indictment
Cardi B Cuddles Up with 11-Month-Old Daughter Kulture and Takes the Stage a Day After Indictment
Cardi B is staying positive amid news of her indictment.
One day after news broke that she had been indicted by a Queens grand jury over a strip club brawl she was allegedly involved in last August, the rapper took the stage at the 2019 BET Experience in Los Angeles on Saturday night.
Cardi, 26, rocked a skin-tight, glittering purple bodysuit and fishnets for her performance, completing the look with a blue wig.
Later on Saturday night, the proud mom shared a sweet Instagram Story video of herself cuddling and kissing her 11-month-old daughter Kulture Kiari.
Cardi has yet to comment on the indictment on her social media, but on Friday, hours after the news broke, the rapper shared a sultry photo of herself dressed up in Fenty lingerie for her upcoming film Hustlers.
The rapper is alleged to have ordered an assault on two bartenders, identified as Jade and Baddie G, at Angel's Strip Club over her belief that Jade slept with Cardi's husband, Offset.
A police spokesperson previously told CNN that Cardi was allegedly "throwing chairs, bottles and hookahs in the club at 3 a.m.," leaving both bartenders with injuries. NBC New York reported Cardi was caught on camera tossing an ice bucket at the women.
The "Press" star was initially only charged with two misdemeanor counts of assault and reckless endangerment, but — after rejecting a plea deal in April — will now face 14 charges, two of which are counts of felony attempted assault with intent to cause serious physical injury, a Queens district court spokeswoman confirmed to PEOPLE.
Other charges will include criminal solicitation, conspiracy and harassment for her part in the brawl.
The indictment will not be unsealed until her arraignment in a Queens courtroom, scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, ABC News reports.
Cardi's attorney Jeff Kern did not immediately return PEOPLE's request for comment, though he previously told reporters he was "aware of no evidence that she caused anybody any harm on that night. We expect that the matter is going to be resolved expeditiously."
Joe Tacopina, an attorney for the alleged victims, begged to differ.
"Cardi B ordered and committed violent assaults against my clients, and is being called to justice for her crimes," he told PEOPLE in a statement last fall. "Apparently, she thinks her celebrity status puts her above the law, since she has bragged to multiple people and on social media that she orchestrated these vicious attacks."
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Breaking news! Notable Humanist Salman Rushdie is back on the market after agreeing to divorce his ridiculously gorgeous Top Chef-hosting former-modeling wife Padma Lakshmi. (Side note: not to be confused with NPR correspondent Lakshmi Singh or something.) The split has been rumored for quite some time now, so it's not a total shocker. (I read that she wasn't even at his recent knighting, and spent her time noshing with another celeb chef. Oooh, juicy!) So, any freethinking ladies out there with model looks and a complete lack of fear of suicidal fundamentalist muslims? Now's your chance!
And hey, who's going to snap up Padma? I know he's married already, but I wonder if PZ has seen this photo?
Y'know, there's a joke in here about touching with noodly appendages that is probably better left unsaid.
Also, the movie "Better Off Dead" comes to mind.
If I'm not mistaken Padma's already been rumored to have been with several different people during this not so secret split. Maybe she could put her marriage up as a prize for Top Chef season 4. Man, that would turn up the competition.


We have collected our Scrapbook Tutorials and hope they help you out.
Especially when you are not quite certain how to do something, nothing helps more than a few photos or videos.
Here's a tutorial on using your Stamps to do Rubber Stamp Embossing to provide a very elegant and high class look to your scrapbook layouts and other paper crafting projects.
We also have Scrapbook Tutorials on how to efficiently and quickly cut your Photo Mattes at the Photo Matte Tutorial to save you time and paper. These diagrams show you how to cut both 12 x 12 and 8 1/2 x 11 papers.
Have trouble using and mixing those lovely Patterned Scrapbook Papers? Check out our Tips for using Patterned Paper Tutorial #1 in an elegant way and some additional uses of Patterned Paper at the Patterned Paper Tutorial #2 using another set of Coordinated papers.
Or may you just want a Scrapbooking Tutorial to learn how to Creatively Crop Your Photos to add a special focal point to your layouts.
Once you have cropped your photos, take a look at Decorative Craft Scissors for an inexpensive but creative touch that can recreate the old deckle edge photos.
Or, maybe you want to know about the Sew Easy Tool, Sew Ribbon Tool or the Sew Stamper by We R Memory Keepers. Here's a quick review of all 3 tools that will make it easy to add that sewn look to your cards and scrapbook layouts without your sewing machine. There is also a store to price or purchase one of the Sew Easy items.
Want to use Scrapbooking Chalk to enhance your papers and die cuts to give your crafting a very artistic look? Here are some examples of the chalk sets available and some examples of what you can do with them - quickly and inexpensively.
For an assortment of Scrapbook Technique and ways to use Glimmer Mist and the Glimmer Mist Store to add a wonderful sheen to your layouts and embellishments and Scrapbooking Examples using Glimmer Mist & the Glimmer Glass Garden Gate Album and some additional Tips and Techniques using the Glimmer Mist Frosty Memories Album.
For embellishments on your Scrapbook pages, cards and other paper crafting projects, check out our Scrapbooking tutorials on Spirella Designs Thread Techniques, or Bargello Scrapbook Embellishments.
Don't know what these are? Take a look at these Scrapbook Techniques, I am sure you will love them. They look complicated, but are very easy. And they both use up scraps and leftovers. Use them on cards and you will "WOW" your friends & family.
Take a look also at our page that shows off the beautiful Dicrofiber Scrapbook Embellishments - also stunning but quick and easy to do.
We have a collection of Encaustic Wax Tutorials that you can use for scrapbooking and card making at Encaustic Wax and a store for you to purchase the supplies, tools and papers for this ancient craft.
We have also just added some information on Iris Folding and 2 places to purchase the supplies, patterns and papers.
Are you thinking about a Recipe Scrapbook to collect those Holiday Recipes? Check out our Tips & Suggestions for making the Best Recipe Scrapbooks and even a Digital Recipe Scrapbook Tutorial.
And last, but not least, check out what amazing things can be done with a craft knife and ruler for making Mosaic Scrapbook Pagekits.
In addition to our Scrapbook Tutorials we also provide a selection of Tutorials for Rubber Stamps to educate you on the differences in Rubber Stamps.
We have a Tutorial on Mounting & Using Unmounted Rubber Stamps and another on Rubber Stamp Conditioning to get the best images out of your new stamps.
We have a great Tutorial on using your Inks in a Technique called Direct Ink to Paper and a link to purchase some elegant Color Me Paper to use with this technique.
We also have some Quick Rubber Stamping Tips and a list of Things to Avoid with Stamping.
Also included is a Quick Rubber Stamp Embossing Tutorial and a page with a collection of Michael Strong Videos on using his Cloisonne Stamps with some fabulous stamping and embossing techniques for cards and scrapbooking. Lots of general Scrapbook Tips & Advice.
In addition to our Scrapbook Tutorials we also provide a selection of Christmas Card Making Tutorials with great techniques that can be used for any card giving occasion. Cards are a great way to use up those beautiful scraps we generate.
Then we show some Card Ideas using some stamps from my favorite Stamp line Michael Strong's Cloisonne Stamps with a technique to recycle some catalogs or magazines. Or a Tutorial on Michael Strong's Hand Painted Background Technique.
Next we show some other Card Making Ideas for World Card Making Day - the first Saturday in October.
Lastly we show some Card Making Resources with some suggestions on Magazines and Kit Clubs devoted to Card Making.
Yes, these are Scrapbook Tutorials as well, because they use Scrapbook Supplies.
Some of those great Scrapbooking Supplies that we all have in our stash can also be used to make simple, inexpensive jewelry. Check out our Pendant Jewelry Tutorial to see what you can do with items you probably already have in your stash and to see a Jewelry Pendant Kit.
Adding some Scrapbook Embellishments using Alcohol Ink and carrying that into some Home Decor items is easy to do with the Alcohol Ink Tutorial & Store.
Isn't the focus of 99% of our Scrapbooking efforts the Photographs? We currently have added a page on Taking Great Fireworks Photos at Great Fireworks Photos.
We have added some Floral Photography Tips, and some Winter & Cold Weather Photography Tips, and even found some Air Show Photo Tips.
We also have a page on taking Great Beach Photography Tips.
Also included are Halloween Photography Tips and Layout Ideas at Halloween Photography Tips.
In the future we hope to add additional articles by professional photographers to help you improve your photography skills.
If you are looking for something particular in the way of Scrapbook Tutorials, let us know at the Contact Us Form and we will see what we can find for you.


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Q: Find the image of the set under the exponential function Find the image of $\{z: |\Im(z)| < \frac{\pi}{2}\}$ under the exponentional function.
So, i've set $e^{z} = e^x(\cos y + i\sin y)$ where $\Im(z) = e^x \sin y$
So I have to find the "image" such that $e^x \sin y < \frac{\pi}{2}$
Am I on the right track? I'm a bit confused as to where to go from here...

A: The image of a set under function is defined by
$$f(S) := \{f(x) | x\in S\}$$
Thus you want to find
$$A:=\{e^{\Re z} (\cos \Im z + i \sin \Im z) : |\Im z| < \frac\pi2\}$$
Since $\Re z$ is arbitrary, you'll have "rays" from the origin, but not including the origin.
The valid angles are between $-\frac\pi2$ and $\frac\pi2$ corresponding to the right half-pane. Note the strict inequality excludes the imaginary axis. Thus
$$A = \{z\in\mathbb C : \Re z > 0\}$$

A: Answer. The image of $\{z:\lvert{\mathcal Im}\,z\rvert<\pi/2\}$ is $\{z: {\mathcal Re}\,z>0\}$.
Explanation.
a. If $\lvert{\mathcal Im}\,z\rvert<\pi/2$, then
$$
{\mathcal Re}\exp z={\mathcal Re}\exp (x+iy)=\exp (x)\cos y>0.
$$
b. If ${\mathcal Re}\,z>0$, then $z=\varrho\mathrm{e}^{i\vartheta}$, with $\varrho>0$ and $\vartheta\in(-\pi/2,\pi/2)$, and hence
$$
z=\exp(\log\varrho+i\vartheta).
$$

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Margot Robbie presents the Tonya Harding story – on ice. Clio Barnard once again turns rural life into an enthralling destination.
Yes, here's this week's new releases. Click on for our reviews of I, Tonya, Dark River, Native, Birth of the Dragon, Finding Your Feet, The Ice King, and The Touch.
Chances are that if you've heard of Tonya Harding – the disgraced US figure-skating champ allegedly connected to an attack on her rival, Nancy Kerrigan – you've already formed an opinion of her. And, if you haven't, you won't see this movie. Both notions are worth reconsidering.
Billed, baitingly, as "totally true", Craig Gillespie's tell-all mixes (fake) vox pops with more conventional scenes, letting the main players recount their stories, however pathetic. Worst of the bunch is Tonya's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan), a sad little man with a moustache to match.
As Tonya's mother, Allison Janney is on fearsome form, exhaling vicious put-downs like cigarette smoke. When young Tonya complains about the other girls calling her a redneck, her mum's advice is simple: "Spit in their milk." Margot Robbie, meanwhile, is excellent as Harding, both defiantly unloveable and vulnerable. When she pleads, "I'm a real person," you don't doubt her.
It's only when we get on the ice that the ugliness relents. Thanks to Nicolas Karakatsanis' stunning cinematography, Robbie's grace and some seamless stunt work, the scenes of Harding skating take your breath away for all the right reasons, recalling Black Swan's virtuoso ballet sequences.
Which is not to say the film always lands its leaps. At a visceral level, I, Tonya is indecently entertaining, like a feature-length Happy Gilmore montage soaked in piss and vinegar. But on an intellectual one, it's more than a little troubling. Jordan Belfort received similar treatment in The Wolf of Wall Street, but he was the instigator rather than the victim.
Here, most of the dramatic flashpoints come from women being hit; though the scenes aren't framed in a gleeful fashion – on the contrary, they're deeply uncomfortable – the tonal clash between dark laughs and domestic violence is one the film doesn't properly address. Superbly acted, expertly made and completely unrepentant, maybe it's too much fun to be "totally true". Or should that be the other way round?
THE VERDICT: Like Tonya on the ice, this vicious black comedy is lean, mean and hard to take your eyes off.
The English countryside – where Withnail & I once ventured "by mistake" – is undergoing an unlikely renaissance. Following 2017's The Levelling and God's Own Country, Clio Barnard's drama offers another compelling argument for cinema to head for the hills.
In a plot that echoes The Levelling, prodigal daughter Alice (Ruth Wilson) returns to the family farm after the death of her father (played in flashback by a near-mute Sean Bean). An awkward reunion with estranged brother Joe (Mark Stanley) soon mutates into a seething psychological duel, as the siblings fight over tenancy rights to the land, all the while trying to ignore bleak secrets from their childhood.
Like Barnard's earlier studies of Yorkshire life, The Arbor and The Selfish Giant, this is an unsentimental depiction of a neglected Northern community, scrabbling for subsistence. What's different is how Barnard hitches her social-realist instincts to a story with timeless, Thomas Hardy-esque heft.
The effect is simultaneously sober and startling, and undoubtedly enhanced by Barnard working with a star for the first time. Wilson brings a wiry toughness – she's a dab hand at sheep shearing – but the camera soaks in those expressive features until it's obvious that Alice's resilience masks enormous, unresolved trauma.
THE VERDICT: Rural life is familiar terrain for British cinema, but with Barnard as our guide, it remains an enthralling destination.
Most of Native's action takes place on board a spaceship. But banish thoughts of gadgets and flashing lights; this is the most austere spaceship you've ever seen, seemingly constructed of rough-hewn granite in hexagonal shapes.
Those hexagons are significant: the two passengers, Cane (Rupert Graves) and Eva (Ellie Kendrick), are members of 'the hive', the humanoid race on their native planet. They communicate with home via an advanced form of telepathy. Their mission: to locate a distant planet they've detected signals from, exterminate the inhabitants and prepare it for colonisation by the hive.
You'll probably soon guess which planet it is the pair are headed for. It doesn't really matter, though, because the key dramatic tension in director/co-writer Daniel Fitzsimmon's feature debut stems from the relationship between Cane and Eva (Biblical echoes surely intended). It's a tension that only escalates once Cane's telepathic link with home is severed and his behaviour turns increasingly uncontrolled.
Graves vividly conveys a sense of desolate aloneness heading into desperation and violence, while Kendrick's Eva finds her own determination undermined by his doubts and mood swings. The two play out their shifting dynamic with just the right balance of understatement and intensity, much aided by Baltic Fleet's subtly unsettling score.
THE VERDICT: An eye-catching, ideas-driven debut that turns its limited budget to its advantage, with shrewd lead performances.
In 1964, nine years before making Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee (Philip Ng) fought Shaolin master Wong Jack Man (Yu Xia) in a private match.
In the hands of director George Nolfi, what could have been a fascinating insight into street versus classical martial arts instead becomes a generic fight flick, with a script so heavy-handed it feels like it was bashed out with knuckle-dusters.
Celia Imrie and Imelda Staunton are mismatched sisters in this charming British comedy-drama aimed at the Marigold Hotel market, with Imrie the hippie-ish older sis taking in her snooty sibling, whose hubby is having an affair.
Its love-in-later-life insights are well-worn, but with Staunton on song, Richard Loncraine's film mines genuine feeling.
A documentary tribute to the late British sportsman John Curry, the Olympic gold medallist who transformed figure skating in the mid-'70s, but then died penniless aged just 44 of an Aids-related illness.
Drawing on its subject's letters and amateur footage of his balletic performances, James Erskine's (Le Mans 3D, One Night in Turin) film movingly conveys both Curry's brilliance and his inner torment.
Released as part of the BFI's Ingmar Bergman season, this is a rare chance to see the director's 1971 English-language debut. A surgical dissection of a volatile affair, between free-spirited archaeologist Elliott Gould and married woman Bibi Andersson, it's an unsettling, sometimes ugly experience.
Pity, though, that all the good work is hampered by stilted-sounding dialogue and an off-putting score.


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Conn assumed a defensive posture, turned this way and that, tilting his head at various angles to examine the room from the corners of his eyes. Looked at straight on, the light-bending suit conferred invisibility, but peripheral vision would detect a shimmer of motion. He saw nothing.
His rotation had left him facing away from the door, so it was the swish of its opening that spun him around. A young woman, slight of figure and dark of hair, stood in the doorway, her startlingly green eyes wide as they moved from Conn to the corpse in the chair.
She dropped the bag she had been carrying, spilling vegetables and packages across the threshold, and fled. Conn pursued her and caught her at the door of another room that was opening to her touch. She fought him energetically but naively until he applied pressure to a point on her throat.
He carried her into the room, giving it a quick inspection before he placed her on a rudimentary couch made of sturdy cartons and foam insulation. The space was as tiny and almost as bare as Hallis Tharp's, but brightened by a colored print of a landscape affixed to the wall. Conn glanced at it, drew an impression of trees, rolling hills, a gabled white house, a mottled blue sky. Offworld, he thought. There was a tattered poster on another wall advertising Chabriz's Traveling Show, an itinerant exposition that had broken up on Thrais some time before.
The young woman gave a sharp intake of breath and regained consciousness. In one blink her eyes went from dazed to panicked. She made to rise from the couch but Conn was beside her, one hand pressing her down with a grip intended to remind her of how their former struggle had ended.
He was adept at reading eyes. It was a necessary skill in his profession. He saw fear mingled with outrage, then saw both transpose into sorrow. "Why did you kill Hallis Tharp?" she said.
"I did not."
"I saw what you did to him! Why would you do that?"
"I did not," Conn repeated. "We were to meet today. When he did not come I grew concerned. I came and found him dead."
Her eyes changed again. "You are Conn Labro," she said.
"Yes." He was surprised but did not show it. "Who are you?" he said.
"Jenore Mordene. Let me up."
He saw that she was no longer afraid of him and that she intended neither to fight nor flee. He relinquished his grip. She rose and crossed the room to a small cupboard, opened it and withdrew a large, flat box of polished wood. Conn recognized it immediately.
She said, "He said if anything ever happened to him that you would come and I was to give you this."
Conn took the familiar object but did not open it. He sat on the couch and rested the box on his knees. He was conscious of a powerful sense of loss, as if he had been thrashed in a contest. The emotion confused him, seemed out of place.
Her voice broke into his thoughts. "What is that thing?"
Conn looked up. "His paduay set. We played for two hours each week at Horder's Gaming Emporium."
She looked at him as if he had told her that the old man orchestrated moonbeams. "He played games? How could he afford the stakes? He lived on one meal a day and that no more than soup."
The issue had never occurred to Conn, but he thought about it now. "We did not wager on outcomes. And he bought a lifetime contract for my services when I was still a child and not costly."
"He did not play games with you?" he asked.
She gestured to the window. "In Skrey, people have more pressing business than trying to defeat each other in artificial settings. Real life is contest enough."
"Paduay is not a contest," he said. "The game is about cooperatively opening and closing spaces, theoretically without conclusion. It is unusual in that each player's goal is to prevent the other from being unable to continue."
"And he played this every week?"
"Our current match has been going on continually for almost two years. I can show you the dispositions."
"Spare me," she said.
Conn ignored her. He would open the set. But when he set his fingers to the catches that would unlatch the box he felt a strong urge not to see again the miniature pieces, the grids of straight and curving lines that could intersect each other in a variety of different spatial dimensions, depending on which of several modes the players invoked.
It was an unsettling burst of emotion. His analytical function recognized that it was tied somehow to Hallis Tharp, not just to the old man's death, but to their long association: all the Firstday mornings they had sat on opposite sides of this apparatus of wood and metal, ever since Conn's boyhood. It was not a memory he now wished to explore.
He handed the paduay set back to Jenore Mordene. "Here," he said, "I will have no further use for this."
"But he wanted you to have it."
"It does not matter what he wanted. He no longer exists."
She took the box and held it to her breast. "I don't understand you people," she said. He could see that she was resisting tears. For some reason, her emotion made him uncomfortable. He stood up and said, "Well," then turned to the door.
"What are we going to do about him?" the woman asked, her moist eyes indicating the wall beyond which the old man's corpse sat in the chair.
"What was your relationship to Hallis Tharp?"
"We were friends."
The term had several meanings on Thrais. When applied to the connection between a solitary old man and a young woman, it was usually a euphemism for intimate transactions that the participants preferred not to discuss in bald language.
Conn nodded then saw the expression on her face change again to anger. He had somehow offended her.
"Not like that!" she said. She folded her arms across her chest and gripped her elbows. "What is the matter with you people? Do none of you know what friends are?" She flung her arms wide and said, "Does it always have to be about this?" She touched the first two fingers of one hand to its thumb and rubbed them quickly together.
Conn was not sure what the gesture signified. He was moved to inquire but at that moment his communicator called for his attention. It was Ovam Horder.
"Where are you? Hasbrick Gleffen inquires if you are ready to engage him."
"Has he arrived?"
"Not yet. But he wishes to arrive at the contest venue before you do."
"That is contrary to etiquette," Conn said. "He has challenged me and should enter after I have agreed to receive him."
"He is an offworlder. Perhaps this is how things are done where he hails from."
"It might be intended as a subtle insult."
He heard Horder sigh. "I will levy a surcharge and credit it to your account."
It was a reasonable response. Conn said, "Very well. I am on my way." He put away the communicator.
"Wait," said Jenore Mordene. "What are we to do about…" Something impeded her speech and she gestured toward the hallway.
"Was he a member of a funeral society?"
She shook her head. She seemed to be resisting tears.
"Then the building will summon a recycler. They will take care of things."
"They will want to be paid," she said, and he detected an uncalled-for bitterness in her tone.
"Sell the paduay set, if you wish."
He saw her hands tighten on the box. "No."
"There will be enough value in his… attributes to cover the recycler's cost."
"His attributes?"
It was not a subject usually discussed in blunt terms.
"His materials," Conn said. "What he is made of."
She made a gesture that again he found hard to interpret but he had neither the time nor the inclination to seek a clarification. "I must go," he said and made for the door.
"Wait," she said.
He stopped and turned, puzzled. She indicated the paduay set in her hand. "How can you not want this?"
"I cannot imagine playing paduay again," he said. "My time is too expensive and the demand for the game is scant."
She appeared to be about to say something else, but instead she turned to the window and gazed out at the harshness of Skrey.
The aircar was no longer at the curb. It had elevated itself to a height several stories above the street, out of range of a half dozen bubblers congregated around the building's entrance. The young men looked Conn over as he stepped through the portal, their faces and body language equally obscured by their semitransparent armor of synthetic material which covered their entire forms like suits of overlapping bronze bubbles.
Conn looked back at them impassively. He had fought in the armor and against it many times. Well-bred gamesters enjoyed taking on street toughs, at least in virtual encounters. He knew the bubbler's strengths and weaknesses and had no doubts that he could deal with a group of young amateurs. They rarely fought amongst themselves, or even against other gangs, reserving their violence for those in the neighborhood who did not pay for their "protection."
For their part, the bubblers noted the insignia and rank beads on the collar of Conn's tunic and formed the collective opinion that something much more interesting was probably happening down the street and around the corner. They moved off, though at a deliberately leisurely pace. Conn summoned the aircar and boarded it.
As the vehicle took him back to the center of the city his communicator chirped. It was Horder again. "The offworlder is finicky," Conn's employer said. "He wishes to know how exactly long before you arrive at the arena. Meanwhile he insists that I be here in the third garden to dance attendance upon him."
Conn had to juggle the communication device in order to retain his grasp on the car's stanchion while the vehicle wove through traffic in three dimensions. "He is rude," he said, "even for an offworlder. I have heard no good reports of Old Earth and this man's conduct confirms my view."
"You are right," said Horder. "I will double the surcharge."
"No," said Conn. "Say to him that I am in transit now. I will be in the third garden shortly. We will omit the formalities and I will teach this one a lesson."
"I would prefer you to be of tranquil mind. He may be good. If you are injured, several upcoming engagements would have to be canceled or postponed."
"I am calm," Conn said, reflexively applying the Lho-tso technique. "This man will not leave Thrais as 'one of the few.'" He referred to the scant handful of combatants who had bested or tied Conn in full-flesh combat. It had been a long time since there had been a new addition to the select group. "I am, however, more motivated than usual today."
"I see. Did you find the old man?"
"I found him dead."
"Ah," said Horder, "that will free you up for two hours a week."
"I will contact Gleffen immediately and tell him I am in the third garden and that you are expected soon." He broke the connection.
The aircar swooped and sashayed through traffic that grew denser as they neared the city center. Conn could see the Emporium. The day was warm and moderately humid, as were most days in Bay City — the metropolis sprawled around the littoral of a sheltered bight of the Serpentine Sea close to Thrais's equator. Horder would have ordered the roof dome retracted as soon as the two suns cleared the surrounding towers.
The third garden was an elongated oval floored with short grass and shaded by mature heaven trees. It would be cool and fragrant at this time of the day, perfect for the lightning quick exchanges that characterized a duel by epiniards. Conn decided he would absorb the first few passages passively, to take the measure of this Hasbrick Gleffen. Then, if he found that the man's fighting skills did not excuse his personality, he would teach the offworlder a grim lesson.
He recognized that he was allowing himself to become irritated and reflexively performed the mental exercise that expunged the emotion. When his clarity of mind was restored, he sorted through is thought processes and was mildly surprised to discover that the irritant had come from more than just the Old Earther's arrogance; it also had something to do with what had happened to Hallis Tharp. There was irony in that, Conn knew: strong emotion had often been one of the old man's topics of conversation while they traded moves in the gentle game of paduay. Conn could replay Tharp's voice in his head: He who loses his temper loses the contest, was one of his frequent observations, usually followed by, You must never give in to anger. In Tharp's view, for Conn to accede to any overwhelming passion was an error, but anger was the worst of all.
The aircar dropped lower, slid around the Hi-Flite Tower and angled down toward Horder's Emporium. Its brakes deployed to slow its descent and Conn had to grasp the stanchion tighter as the vehicle juddered and bounced. He saw the canopy of trees above the third garden and, through a gap in the foliage, the foreshortened figure of Ovam Horder pacing in apparent agitation, his hand to his ear as he spoke into his communicator.
The car decelerated further, aiming for a landing stage near the roof's center. As it positioned itself for a vertical descent to the hard surface, Conn caught a flash of intense light from the corner of his eye. In less time than he could have formed words to express it, his mind told him that a line of incandescent air had arrowed down from the sky to strike the third garden.
His head turned instinctively toward the movement but instantly the smeared window of the aircar was rendered opaque by a glaring explosion. Even as it faded, leaving spots of red and black in his vision, he saw the heaven trees in flame and bursting outwards. Then the shockwave of the blast struck the aircar and flung it out and away from the Emporium.
Conn was thrown against the unpadded walls, battered and tossed like a pea in a rattle as the vehicle tumbled through the air for long seconds before its stabilizers could restore equilibrium. When it finally settled, he was sprawled on the hard floor. He checked himself, found no broken bones, but the shoulder of the arm that had been curled around the stanchion had been wrenched almost out of its socket and a cut on his scalp was pouring blood down his face.
Then he looked toward the Emporium. The third garden was surrounded by charred and blasted trees, stripped of their leaves and blossoms, many of them tilted outwards and leaning against each other. And where the grass had been, where Ovam Horder had been, was a roil of flame and black smoke.
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Paul McCartney's Aston Martin DB5, two ex-Elton John Bentleys and Ringo Starr's Mini Cooper are on offer at the Bonhams Bond Street London 2017 sale.
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Bonhams The Bond Street Sale in London in December 2017 will feature several cars with British "music royalty" provenance. The leading celebrity car is a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 4.2-Litre Sports Saloon originally owned by Beetle Paul McCartney (estimate $1,600,000 – $2,000,000). Cheaper, if not for a Mini, is Ringo Starr's 1966 Mini Cooper "S" Sports Saloon Radford Conversion (estimate $120,00 – $160,000). Two large Bentleys formerly owned by Elton John will also be offered in the sale.
Bonhams The Bond Street Sale 2017 in London
Bonhams traditional year-end classic car auction – The Bond Street Sale – will be held in London on 2 December 2017.
Although the British cars formerly owned by British music stars are attracting the most attention, the top results are likely to come from Ferraris. The final lots have not been published yet but the most-expensive cars announced thus far are a 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO Coupé ($2,650,000-$3,300,000) and a 2004 Ferrari Enzo ($2,400,000-$2,900,000).
1964 Aston Martin DB5 4.2-Litre Sports Saloon
A 1964 Aston Martin DB5 4.2-Litre Sports Saloon, chassis DB5/1653/R, first own by Beatle Paul McCartney will be one of the star attractions at the Bonhams Bond Street Sale 2017 in London. This matching numbers car has a full known ownership history that also include British broadcaster Chris Evans as a former owner.
Paul McCartney owned this 1964 Aston Martin DB5 4.2-Litre Sports Saloon for around six years. By the time he sold the car on in 1970, it has covered around 40,000 miles and needed a new clutch.
British broadcaster Chris Evans briefly owned the car and acquired the registration plate 64 MAC that it still uses today. Originally the car was finished in Sierra blue over black but in a recent full restoration it was changed to silver over black as used on the James Bond cars. This four-year restoration project was completed in 2017 and the car has covered only 2,600 miles since then.
The pre-auction estimate for Paul McCartney's 1964 Aston Martin DB5 4.2-Litre Sports Saloon is £1,250,000 to £1,500,000 ($1,600,000 – $2,000,000). The highest price for a DB5 at auction in recent years was $1,650,000 at the RM Auctions Monterey 2014 sale but the condition of the McCartney car may add as much premium as the celebrity provenance. A 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Vantage Saloon in the same sale is expected to fetch only half as much.
Two Ex-Elton John Bentleys as Bonhams Bond Street 2017 Sale
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Sir Elton John famously love big flashy cars and two Bentleys with HJ Milliner coachwork he formerly owned will be on offer in the Bonhams Bond Street Sale in London in 2017. Elton John owned both Bentleys for around 25 years and sold them in 2001 when he parted with a large collection of vehicles.
The 1959 Bentley S1 Continental Sport Saloon (estimate $530,000 – $660,000) is one of 431 S1 Continental built. It has a known ownership history that included amongst others Elton John and Alan Sugar. Sir Elton John described this Bentley as "The most beautiful car, I think, that's ever been designed."
The 1960 Bentley S2 Continental Flying Spurt Sport Saloon (estimate $210,000 – $250,000) is one of 71 right-hand drive cars out of only 125 produced in this style on the S2 chassis. This Bentley featured a record player but Elton John had a modern stereo system (and air conditioning) installed during a restoration.
1966 Mini Cooper "S" Radford Conversion
The cheapest celebrity owned car on offer in the Bond Street Sale 2017 (and a hoot to drive) is the ex-Ringo Starr 1966 Mini Cooper "S" Sports Saloon Radford Conversion (estimate $120,00 – $160,000). This Mini was first registered in the name of The Beatles band manager Brian Epstein but ownership documents soon changed to Ringo Starr's real name: Richard Starkey.
All of the fab four owned Minis but Ringo Starr required modifications to carry a drum kit. As a result, his Mini sports coachwork by Harold Radford and Hooper & Co. The most noticeable change was installing a hatchback, a more luxurious interior and VW Beetle rear lights.
A fresh MoT is expected before the sale but the electrics may still need some work (it is a real Mini after all).
The 2018 classic car auction season is resuming for most major auction houses with the Scottsdale, Arizona sales in January 2018. A Le Mans works entry 1958 Porsche 550A has already been announced for the Bonhams Scottsdale 2018 sale while RM Sotheby's will offer a 1921 Alfa Romeo G1.
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India, in their 2nd ODI against West Indies won by 105 runs with Ajinkya Rahane scoring a century and Kuldeep Yadav taking 3 amazing wickets.
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We were in the last throes of the Spring Semester over at work (a fairly busy time at work), and a couple of colleagues brought over some treats to perk us up (or to celebrate the end of the semester…my memory doesn't serve me perfectly).
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