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After finding "The Tallow and Tinder", Joscelin will try to peep to the window to see inside.
Is anybody there ? What can I see inside ?
Inside the quaint little shop that stands nearly on the cobbled street you see a small room with a counter that fills the far side of the room. Behind the counter stands a small, round man with bushy sideburns, a double chin, and gold framed glasses that perch on the end of his nose as he unpacks a small parcel bringing out little jars one at a time and setting them down in a neat row.
The other walls of the shop are filled floor to ceiling with shelves and cubbies and barrels and baskets and even a stuffed chair or two that sit on either side of a darling little table where the light from the outside shines on it through the shop window. On the table is a china teapot and a pair of teacups and saucers.
Filling all these shelves, cubbies, barrels, baskets and even standing alone are an incredible array and assortment of magical devices, instruments, paraphernalia, tomes, sheaves of paper, unidentifiable things in viscous fluids of every imaginable color that float in jars and bottles sealed with wax, cork, or bone.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Sir Joscelin. I'm looking for my old aunt, have you seen her here recently ?"
The round little man looks up at the sound of the tinkling door chime as you enter the shop. The air is warm and filled with the pungent scent of different herbs used as ingredients in various potions. "Ah. Good morning Sir Joscelyn! It has been such a long time since you were here last. I'm afraid, however, that your aunt is out acquiring ingredients. I'll be happy to help you with whatever you need until she returns however."
"Maybe you can give it something when you'll see her ? I would appreciate it greatly."
Joscelin then gives the small leather bag to the man.
"She is generally lefting some candies for me... or maybe a greeting card ? It was my birthday recently."
The man takes the bag and nods, "Now that you mention it I do seem to remember her saying she'd left you a note. Just a moment and I'll go check."
The shop clerk heads into the backroom for a few minutes and comes back with a neatly folded paper in his hand. "Here it is. Left it by the door. Anything else I can help you with today?"
"For now, not really, but I'll be back later. Thanks !"
Joscelin will head out to the tavern after, making sure he isn't followed by anyone.
You leave the warm coziness of the shop and close the door behind you, turning to face the cold and the falling snow. Heading south along Finch street you soon come to Serin Way on your right and begin the long steep climb to the top.
Huffing and panting a little you find yourself in Upton on Hill Street and look about you for a moment before moving along. In a moment you come to Crestview Way and head southeast until you reach the bend in the road and come to a stop to take in the view there that let's you see all of the West Quarter laid out below you.
With the snow falling thicker you hurry along as your ears and nose start to freeze and you quickly pass Spring Lane on your right, spying the welcome warm glow of light coming from the windows of Two Moon Tavern.
The door to the tavern opens as you approach and you sigh in relief as you enter the cheery warmth, the door closing behind you.
Joscelin takes a quick glance at the tavern's main room. Can I spot Alrone or the rest of the party ?
If so, I'll sit with him/them. If not, I'll sit at a table in a corner and order a glass of brandy (or similar spirits).


IT is well know that even before manticore started improving its compensators that merchies were slow, both in normal space and hyper.
I'm, wondering if now that the wars are over some merchies might start considering speed upgrades. now obviously they aren't going to mount top of the line Mil spec compensators but average speed i've seen listed for a normal merchie is about 200g. though i think the passenger liners Hauptman used, particularly for silesa were more like 400 but they were an abnormality.
Time is money and while a rise of 200 to 300g might only shave a day of the trip to hyper, surely that along with sightly improved hypertech, the non classified parts of the streak drive research maybe, though just stronger rad shielding would probably do. might take a week or 2 off journeys.
over a year/2 that has to improve profits. especially if they start serving the newly free verge worlds.
i undrestand it all comes down to money but especially the compensators should be cheap enough now after 20 years of research.
The economics of the honorverse are strange. And we are missing a lot of critical info. So who knows. The hyperdrive upgrades are what provide massive boosts to the bottom line, acceleration is nearly worthless for a hyper merchant. Whether either is economically viable we can't determine. David has word of god stated that they are not.
Currently, merchants seem to prefer the Delta band. To put a concrete proposal on the table, let's assume that the researchers at Bolthole apply what they've discovered about the Streak Drive to a "standard" merchant-class hyperdrive and come up with something that can get to the Epsilon band (the next band up) with the same TCO (total cost of ownership). The shift from Delta to Epsilon gives a 32% speed improvement (as observed from base) in the limit, meaning we still need to account for the time getting there and getting up to speed.
For relatively short haul work, this means relatively little. For long haul work, this means that either the ship can cut the time in transit significantly, meaning that it can haul more loads, or it can extend its range significantly, meaning that more of the Verge becomes profitable to do business with. It also means that some routes can bypass wormholes with their attendant fees.
Their may be some improvement in speed but not much IMHO. My guess is in moving from the low and middle Delta bands to the upper and lower Gamma bands. For a RW example look at merchants just prior to during and after WWII. Merchant ship owners want three things in regards to their ship speed. They want reliability, economical speed and ease of maintenance.
saber964 wrote: Their may be some improvement in speed but not much IMHO. My guess is in moving from the low and middle Delta bands to the upper and lower Gamma bands. For a RW example look at merchants just prior to during and after WWII. Merchant ship owners want three things in regards to their ship speed. They want reliability, economical speed and ease of maintenance.
The bands go Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon. Going from Delta to Gamma does not gain you a speed increase. Please see the chart at the snippets site.
I don't think anybody is going to see much on the Streak Drive for a while. When Bolthole figures anything out that that they can implement you can bet it is going to be 1st applied to GA military ships and will be a long time before anybody in the civilian markets sees (or even hears) anything.
In general the Reliability/economy of operation and ease of maintenance is the sets of balance points. It is only when you get to high value/low weight and/or critical need that speed starts to displace the other three.
I agree we would need a lot more information on the actual economics of merchant shipping operations. Just think, probably 30 or more classes of hyper-capable merchant shipping built over 200yrs (and some still in service) plus the unknown number of upgrad/design changes to more modern variations of the classes.
That would, however, take up an massive amount of RFC's time and imagination which we would MUCH perfer he spend writing books....big smile.
Brigade XO wrote: I don't think anybody is going to see much on the Streak Drive for a while. When Bolthole figures anything out that that they can implement you can bet it is going to be 1st applied to GA military ships and will be a long time before anybody in the civilian markets sees (or even hears) anything.
Tech is not static. Eventually the streak will no longer be cutting edge for military purposes. As that happens the tech becomes more broadly known, more economical, and more broadly applied. While streaks for freighters might not be an immediate priority, I doubt that faster freighters would be objectionable either. So it's an idea whose time will eventually come, later if not sooner.
As for the spider, I really don't see a commercial application here. It's slow and cumbersome, its only advantage being its stealth... not something that is a priority for a merchie.
n7axw wrote: Tech is not static. Eventually the streak will no longer be cutting edge for military purposes. As that happens the tech becomes more broadly known, more economical, and more broadly applied. While streaks for freighters might not be an immediate priority, I doubt that faster freighters would be objectionable either. So it's an idea whose time will eventually come, later if not sooner.
Military hyperdrives are OLD technology. Like 400 years old. They are still not used by merchants.
JohnRoth wrote: Let's put some numbers on this.
Do pardon my bold to call attention.
Even these routes could drastically impact the bottom line. These shorter routes could be serviced by less ships since round trips would be much faster on non-perishable goods.
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"American Bison" – VR Project at the Sundance Film Festival – New Frontier
The New York Times has a good OpEd on "Where Virtual Reality Takes Us." The article covers three works at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. The New Frontier Program at Sundance will showcase over 30 VR films and projects. The NY Times itself has embraced virtual reality for news and documentaries through their NYT VR project as they – and many others – "take a step into virtual reality."
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Kiya – VR Project at the Sundance Film Festival – New Frontiers Program
The three VR films and artists include the following:
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Kiya – Nonny de la Pena
Waves of Grace – Gabo Arora and Chris Milk
We'll come back to these virtual reality experiences and others once we're at Sundance. But The New York Times article will give you a sense of how these artists are using VR to create new forms of storytelling.
Waves of Grace – VR Project at the Sundance Film Festival – New Frontiers Program
20 Years Ago at the NY Times and VR
Not directly related, but worth noting – The New York Times website turned 20 years old today. As you might imagine, its initial foray on the Web was limited. But after years of ups and downs with their online strategy, they've become a digital powerhouse with a strong presence in the virtual reality space. Here's an image from The Times offices during their first night online – January 22, 1996.
NY Times – On the Night of the Launch of the first NYT Website
And where was virtual reality in 1996? Funny you should ask as that was the year NBC Nightly News (with a very young Brian Williams) broadcast a report on the dangers of VR.
If you haven't seen it, it's definitely worth your time. The VR headsets have miniature screens and the VR environments are as primitive as you'd expect.
As the Sundance New Frontier program shows, we've come a long way. But where we are today is only a way station on our journey to a virtual reality world.
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Q: Run a function inside Express route and still render page in sendFile I have a React app using server-side rendering and I'm trying to hit a route using middleware to check assign redirects.
const app = express();

...

app.use("/", redirectRouter);
app.use("/widgets", widgetRouter);
app.use("/api", apiRouter);

app.use((req: Request, res: Response) => {
  res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, "public", "index.html"));
});

The second two middlewares are for some backend purposes and the last app.use serves up the React app if no other route is found. app.use("/", redirectRouter) is where I'm trying to run a loop that assigns redirects to an array of URLs. I want express to hit the middleware, run, but still serve index.html at the bottom.
Currently app.use("/", redirectRouter) does nothing. I've tried changing "/" to "*" which hits the route but no longer renders the page. I've also tried variations of app.get, app.all, and app.options which also do nothing.
EDIT: Forgot to add that this is inside the redirectRouter
redirectRouter.get("*", async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
  // my function
});

But the problems are the same... "*" hangs up the app and "/" does nothing.

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"Civil rights laws do not self-enforce, " said Marca Bristo, "They only come to life when enlightened citizens…push the envelope."
Events were held across the country Monday to mark the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act. At a ceremony at the White House, disability rights activists made the point that passing the law was only the start. "Civil rights laws do not self-enforce, " said Marca Bristo, "They only come to life when enlightened citizens…push the envelope."
As with racial apartheid, so with the passage of the ADA—first comes change on the books. Then we need change in our heads. As last week's Shirley Sherrod story reminds us, who do we believe is capable of what? Discrimination in our heads is as deadly as any law.
Against all the odds, thousands of people with all manner of special challenges showed they were more than able to do the seemingly impossible. They forced a foot-dragging Congress to pass and a Republican president to sign the most significant civil rights legislation in twenty years. And every time we find a a step replaced by a slope—we have them to thank.


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Florilegia (Lat., florilegium, an anthology) are systematic collections of excerpts (more or less copious) from the works of the Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers of the early period, compiled with a view to serve dogmatic or ethical purposes. These encyclopedic compilations — Patristic anthologies as they may be fitly styled — are a characteristic product of the later Byzantine theological school, and form a very considerable branch of the extensive literature of the Greek Catenæ
Two classes of Christian florilegia may here be distinguished: the dogmatic and the ascetical, or ethical. The dogmatic florilegia are collections of Patristic citations designed to exhibit the continuous and connected teaching of the Fathers on some specific doctrine. The first impulse to compilations of this nature was given by the Christological controversies that convulsed the Eastern Church during the fifth century, when, both at the gatherings of the great church councils and in private circles, the practical need had made itself definitely felt, of having at hand, for ready reference, a convenient summary of what the Fathers and most approved theologians had held and taught concerning certain controversial doctrines. Such a summary, setting forth the views of Nestorius and the mind of the orthodox Fathers, was first laid before the Council of Ephesus, in 431, by St. Cyril of Alexandria . Summaries of dogmatic utterances were used also at the Council of Chalcedon in 451, and at the Fifth General Council in 533. But it was not until the seventh century that the dogmatic florilegia assumed a fully developed and definite form. At the Sixth General Council, in 680, two of these collections played a very prominent rôle, one, constructed by Macarius, the Patriarch of Antioch, in favour of the Monothelites, and the other, a counter collection presented by the legates of Pope Agatho. During the Iconoclastic controversy similar collections were produced. Mention is made of one on the cult of relics and images which the Synod of Jerusalem sent to John, Bishop of Gothia, about 760.
The oldest extant, and at the same time most extensive and valuable, of these dogmatic compilations, is the "Antiquorum Patrum doctrino de Verbi incarnatione" (first completely edited from a manuscript in the Vatican Library by F. Diekamp, "Doctrina Patrum de incarnatione verbi. Ein griechisches Florilegium aus der Wende des 7. und 8. Jahrhunderts", Münster, 1907). It is extraordinarily rich in fragments from writings of the Patristic period which are now lost. Of the 977 citations (mainly of a Christological character ) which it contains, 751 alone are from the works of the Fathers, representing 93 ecclesiastical writers. Diekamp ascribes the work to the period between the years 685 and 726, and, though nothing can be said with certainty concerning the author, a slight probability points to Anastasius of Sinai as its compiler. A florilegium somewhat similar to the "Doctrina" is mentioned by Photius in his Bibliotheca ( Migne, P.G., CLIII, 1089-92), but not a trace of it survives today. Another compilation of this kind, covering the whole province of theology in five books, is ascribed to the monk Doxopatres, identical perhaps with the eleventh-century John Doxopatres; the first two books, treating of Adam and Christ, are all that remain. A number of other dogmatic florilegia are still extant in manuscript form, but they have never been edited, nor even critically examined. The authors of most of them are unknown.
The ascetical florilegia are collections of moral sentences and excerpts drawn partly from the Scriptures and partly from the Fathers, on such topics as virtues and vices, duties and exercises of a religious life, faith, discipline, etc. They are not so numerous as the dogmatic florilegia, and apparently were all compiled before the tenth century. Their material, as a rule, is gathered indiscriminately from various authorities, though in some instances it is furnished by only a single writer, a distinct preference being then shown for the works of the more illustrious Fathers, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, and St. John Chrysostom. An extensive Christian florilegium of the sixth century, entitled tà 'ierá (Sacred Things), is probably the earliest of these anthologies. The work consisted originally of three books, the first of which treated of God, the second of man, and the third of the virtues and vices. In the course of time it underwent contraction into one book, its material was recast and arranged in alphabetical order under títloi, or sections, its name changed to tà 'ierà parállela, "Sacra Parallela" (from the fact that in the third book a virtue and a vice were regularly contrasted or paralleled), and its authorship widely ascribed to St. John Damascene. That the Damascene was really the compiler of the "Sacra Parallela", and that he used as his principal source the "Capita theologica", a florilegium of Maximus Confessor, has been maintained recently with much learning and skill (against Loofs, Wendland, and Cohn) by K. Holl ("Fragmenta Vornicänischer Kirchenväter aus den Sacra Parallela", Leipzig, 1899). Though tà 'ierá is no longer extant in its original form, considerable portions of the first two books have come down to us in manuscript, and parts of the third are preserved in "The Bee" ( Melissa ) of Antonius, a Greek monk of the eleventh century ( Migne, P. G., CXXXVI, 765-1124). Of the "Sacra Parallela" there are several recensions, one of which is given in Migne (P. G., XCV, 1040-1586; XCVI, 9-544). Other extant ascetical florilegia still remain unedited. As in the case of the dogmatic florilegia, most of them are anonymous.
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The character and value of the Christian florilegia cannot be definitely or finally estimated until the various manuscripts that now lie scattered through the libraries of Europe and the East have received a more thorough and critical investigation than has hitherto been accorded to them. Questions as to date, authorship, sources, structure, relative dependence, etc., have as yet been treated only in a general way. As the characteristic production of an age of theological decadence, these collections of ancient Christian fragments have no high literary value; they are, however, of great importance to us, because they frequently embody the only remains of important Patristic writings. The difficulties connected with their uses arise chiefly from the unsatisfactory condition of the text, the uncertainty concerning the names to which the fragments have been ascribed, and the want of sufficient data to determine the dates. Only a small part of the extant material has been printed.
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Q: Height of a view, that's inside of a card view, from the bottom of the screen? (Moving view above the keyboard when it opens) I have a rather complex situation. It has to do with moving a view above the keyboard. I have a chat view, much like the one Apple's Messages app. However, it's inside of a card that does not fill the entire screen. Above and below that card are a navigation bar and a tab bar.
Now, I want to move the editable UITextView (where the user composes their message) above the keyboard when they tap on it. I do have the height of the keyboard (using NotificationCenter Observer), but I need to subtract it from the height of the textview (inside of the card) from the height of the keyboard to calculate how much distance I should offset the textview by. A picture would probably help:

Here is my view stack:
View -> Card view -> ScrollView (that contains messages list tableview and chat tableview) -> TextBox View (that contains the UITextView, Send Button, etc.)
Is this doable? Is there a better way of doing this? I'm stuck and am pretty new at manipulating views in regards to the keyboard.
Here are scraps of code I have so far:

    fileprivate var keyboardHeight = CGFloat()

    @objc fileprivate func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {
        if let keyboardSize = (notification.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.cgRectValue {
            let keyboardHeight = keyboardSize.height
            self.keyboardHeight = keyboardHeight
        }
    }

    fileprivate func moveTextView(textView: UITextView, moveDistance: Int, up: Bool) {
        let moveDuration = 0.3
        let movement = CGFloat(up ? moveDistance : -moveDistance)

        UIView.animate(withDuration: moveDuration) {
            self.snp.updateConstraints({ (make) in
                make.bottom.equalToSuperview().offset(movement)
            })

            self.superview?.layoutIfNeeded()
        }

    }

extension TextBarView: UITextViewDelegate {
    func textViewDidBeginEditing(_ textView: UITextView) {
        moveTextView(textView: textView, moveDistance: -200, up: true)
    }

    func textViewDidEndEditing(_ textView: UITextView) {
        moveTextView(textView: textView, moveDistance: -200, up: false)
    }

    func textViewShouldEndEditing(_ textView: UITextView) -> Bool {
        textView.resignFirstResponder()
        return true
    }
}

I am using SnapKit for autolayout.
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So I guess we can conclude that the Elder Scrolls 5 is currently being worked on, if that's what Pete Hines is implying. However we can't give a definite confirmation on it yet, not until it is confirmed by Bethesda themselves. As soon as we hear a confirmation for the Elder Scrolls 5 or hear more on this "next big game", we'll let you know. Until then, there is hope (for fans, of course).


The Kajima Akasaka Annex was planned as part of a relocation of the head office of the general contractor Kajima Corporation. The design was conceived to be in harmony with the existing KI Building, with an exterior that integrates the lower office portion with the upper six floors of required residential units. The smoked glass used for the exterior is the same type of heat-absorbent glass in the KI Building, with multilayered Low-E (low emissivity) coated glass (current glass technology). The proportions of the delicate frame of exposed reinforced concrete together with the smoked glass make for a striking expression.


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Rebecca Frazier is Assistant Conductor of the String Ensemble and String Orchestra at the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts. She received her Master of Music in music education with an emphasis in orchestral conducting from Wichita State University, where she was a teaching fellow and a member of the WSU Graduate String Quartet. After graduation, she studied conducting with Paul Vermel at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Her Bachelor of Arts in violin performance is from the University of Kansas. Before moving to California, she worked with orchestras in private and public schools in the Midwest. In addition to her work with students at the Colburn School, she is an editor and publications manager at UCLA.


I'm back to work today!
– new beginnings are inspiring, and they don't only happen in January! If I have something important to initiate or re-think, there's always a new season, month, moon cycle, week, day, storm system, etc. coming up that would make a great (and equally arbitrary) starting point.
– I can shape my free time to help me grow. I especially liked Trent's post at the Simple Dollar in which his friend asks, "What will you learn this year?" An hour or two a day can be powerful indeed!
– I was able to spend copious amounts of time with people I love. It was awesome. I need to always make time, whether it's in large blocks or just 5 minutes for an email.
– going to the gym gives me energy – I want to make it a priority to go at least twice a week every week!
– I'm excited to get back into a regular work week! I'm proud of what I do and I get to work with great people every single day.
So here's to a nice long vacation, and here's to starting up again!


One of the greatest offensive tackles of all time, Dan Dierdorf was an All-American at the University of Michigan before joining the St. Louis Cardinals in 1971. Dierdorf and his fellow linemen anchored the Cardiac Cardinals and became one of the best lines in NFL history. They allowed the fewest sacks in the NFC for five straight seasons, and set an NFL record of only eight in 1975. Dierdorf played in six Pro Bowls and was voted the league's best blocker three times. After 13 years with the Big Red, he began a prominent broadcasting career, including more than a decade on Monday Night Football. In 1996, longtime St. Louisan Dan Dierdorf was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his original hometown of Canton, Ohio.


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A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander Dell SUA, nr. 6)
De (autor) Diana Gabaldon
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Eagerly anticipated by her legions of fans, this sixth novel in Diana Gabaldon s bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time.
Since the initial publication of Outlander fifteen years ago, Diana Gabaldon s "New York Times" bestselling saga has won the hearts of readers the world over and sold more than twelve million books. Now, A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire.
The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest.
With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from "The Wilmington Gazette," dated 1776, which reports Jamie s death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future."From the Hardcover edition.""
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Locul publicării: New York, NY, United States
Written in My Own Heart's Blood Diana Gabaldon
The Fiery Cross Diana Gabaldon
Drums of Autumn Diana Gabaldon
Outlander Diana Gabaldon
An Echo in the Bone Diana Gabaldon
Outlander Boxed Set (1-4): Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn Diana Gabaldon
God Hates Us All Hank Moody
Alien Alan Dean Foster
Legends of the Fall Jim Harrison
The Roman: Florentine Series, Book 4 Sylvain Reynard
Scandal in Spring: The Wallflowers, Book 4 Lisa Kleypas
At The Water's Edge Sara Gruen
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Dragonfly in Amber Diana Gabaldon
The Eternal Wonder Pearl S. Buck
The Scottish Prisoner Diana Gabaldon
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In Bed with a Highlander Maya Banks
Firmin Sam Savage
A Summer to Remember Mary Balogh
Saving Grace Julie Garwood
The Wedding Julie Garwood
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall Diana Gabaldon
Virgins Diana Gabaldon
Lord John and the Private Matter Diana Gabaldon
Lewis, S: Missing
Sweet Revenge Nora Roberts
Die Hand des Teufels Diana Gabaldon
La Cruz Ardiente (Outlander V) Diana Gabaldon
Atrapada en el Tiempo Diana Gabaldon
"The sixth instalment of the adventures of Claire and Jamie Fraser, already number one on the bestseller list, is a whopping 980 pages of action-packed escapism. It also has surprisingly melancholy and insightful views on the experience of growing old and dealing with the losses that entails.... One of the things that sets Gabaldon apart from other romance writers is exhaustive research of the times in which her characters live, so evident in her attention to period detail.... plot lines and stand-alone yarns are expertly woven together with the overall theme of impending doom and the question of predetermination." -- "The Toronto Star"
"Fans of Diana Gabaldon's popular Outlander series have another rousing historical-science-fiction-romance novel to savour in A Breath of Snow and Ashes.... For fans, this book is another slam-dunk hit. It's a massive, long-lasting source of entertainment." -- "The Gazette" (Montreal)Praise for Diana Gabaldon:
"Riveting. Gabaldon has a true storyteller's voice."--"The Globe and Mail"
"Triumphant. . . . Her use of historical detail and truly adult love story confirm Gabaldon as a superior writer."--"Publishers Weekly"
"Diana Gabaldon is a born storyteller. . . . The pages practically turn themselves."--"Arizona Republic
""Readers will find every expectation fulfilled.... The large scope of the novel allows Gabaldon to do what she does best, paint in exquisite detail the lives of her characters."--B"ooklist "
"From the Hardcover edition."
Diana Gabaldonis the #1"New York Times"bestselling author of the wildly popular Outlander novels "Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes"(for which she won a Quill Award and the Corine International Book Prize), "An Echo in the Bone, "and"Written in My Own Heart s Blood" as well as the related Lord John Grey books"Lord John and the Private Matter, Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, Lord John and the Hand of Devils, "and"The Scottish Prisoner;"one work of nonfiction, "The Outlandish Companion;"and the Outlander graphic novel"The Exile." She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband."
DUTCH CABIN
No one had known the cabin was there, until Kenny Lindsay had seen the flames, on his way up the creek.
"I wouldna ha' seen at all," he said, for perhaps the sixth time. "Save for the dark comin' on. Had it been daylight, I'd never ha' kent it, never." He wiped a trembling hand over his face, unable to take his eyes off the line of bodies that lay at the edge of the forest. "Was it savages, Mac Dubh? They're no scalped, but maybe—"
"No." Jamie laid the soot-smeared handkerchief gently back over the staring blue face of a small girl. "None of them is wounded. Surely ye saw as much when ye brought them out?"
Lindsay shook his head, eyes closed, and shivered convulsively. It was late afternoon, and a chilly spring day, but the
men were all sweating. "I didna look," he said simply. My own hands were like ice; as numb and unfeeling as the
rubbery flesh of the dead woman I was examining. They had been dead for more than a day; the rigor of death had passed off, leaving them limp and chilled, but the cold weather of the mountain spring had preserved them so far from the grosser indignities of putrefaction. Still, I breathed shallowly; the air was bitter with the scent of burning. Wisps of steam rose now and then from the charred ruin of the tiny cabin. From the corner of my eye, I saw Roger kick at a nearby log, then bend and pick up something from the ground beneath. Kenny had pounded on our door long before daylight, summoning us from warm beds. We had come in haste, even knowing that we were far too late to offer aid. Some of the tenants from the homesteads on Fraser's Ridge had come, too; Kenny's brother Evan stood with Fergus and Ronnie Sinclair in a small knot under the trees, talking together in low-voiced Gaelic.
"D'ye ken what did for them, Sassenach?" Jamie squatted beside me, face troubled. "The ones under the trees, that is."
He nodded at the corpse in front of me. "I ken what killed this puir woman."
The woman's long skirt stirred in the wind, lifting to show long, slender feet shod in leather clogs. A pair of long hands
to match lay still at her sides. She had been tall—though not so tall as Brianna, I thought, and looked automatically for my daughter's bright hair, bobbing among the branches on the far side of the clearing. I had turned the woman's apron up to cover her head and upper body. Her hands were red, rough-knuckled with work, and with callused palms, but from the firmness of her thighs and the slenderness of her body, I thought she was no more than thirty—likely much younger. No one could say whether she had been pretty.
I shook my head at his remark.
"I don't think she died of the burning," I said. "See, her legs and feet aren't touched. She must have fallen into the
hearth. Her hair caught fire, and it spread to the shoulders of her gown. She must have lain near enough to the wall or the chimney hood for the flames to touch; that caught, and then the whole bloody place went up."
Jamie nodded slowly, eyes on the dead woman.
"Aye, that makes sense. But what was it killed them, Sassenach? The others are singed a bit, though none are burned like this. But they must have been dead before the cabin caught alight, for none o' them ran out. Was it a deadly illness, perhaps?"
"I don't think so. Let me look at the others again."
I walked slowly down the row of still bodies with their cloth-covered faces, stooping over each one to peer again beneath the makeshift shrouds. There were any number of illnesses that could be quickly fatal in these days—with no
antibiotics to hand, and no way of administering fluids save by mouth or rectum, a simple case of diarrhea could kill
within twenty-four hours.
I saw such things often enough to recognize them easily; any doctor does, and I had been a doctor for more than twenty years. I saw things now and then in this century that I had never encountered in my own—particularly horrible parasitical diseases, brought with the slave trade from the tropics— but it was no parasite that had done for these poor souls, and no illness that I knew, to leave such traces on its victims. All the bodies—the burned woman, a much older woman, and three children—had been found inside the walls of the flaming house. Kenny had pulled them out, just before the roof fell in, then ridden for help. All dead before the fire started; all dead virtually at the same time, then, for surely the fire had begun to smolder soon after the woman fell dead on her hearth?
The victims had been laid out neatly under the branches of a giant red spruce, while the men began to dig a grave
nearby. Brianna stood by the smallest girl, her head bent. I came to kneel by the little body, and she knelt down across from me.
"What was it?" she asked quietly. "Poison?"
I glanced up at her in surprise.
"I think so. What gave you that idea?"
She nodded at the blue-tinged face below us. She had tried to close the eyes, but they bulged beneath the lids, giving the little girl a look of startled horror. The small, blunt features were twisted in a rictus of agony, and there were traces of vomit in the corners of the mouth.
"Girl Scout handbook," Brianna said. She glanced at the men, but no one was near enough to hear. Her mouth twitched, and she looked away from the body, holding out her open hand. "Never eat any strange mushroom," she quoted.
"There are many poisonous varieties, and distinguishing one from another is a job for an expert. Roger found these, growing in a ring by that log over there."
Moist, fleshy caps, a pale brown with white warty spots, the open gills and slender stems so pale as to look almost
phosphorescent in the spruce shadows. They had a pleasant, earthy look to them that belied their deadliness.
"Panther toadstools," I said, half to myself, and picked one gingerly from her palm. "Agaricus pantherinus—or that's
what they will be called, once somebody gets round to naming them properly. Pantherinus, because they kill so swiftly— like a striking cat."
I could see the gooseflesh ripple on Brianna's forearm, raising the soft, red-gold hairs. She tilted her hand and spilled the rest of the deadly fungus on the ground.
"Who in their right mind would eat toadstools?" she asked, wiping her hand on her skirt with a slight shudder.
"People who didn't know better. People who were hungry, perhaps," I answered softly. I picked up the little girl's hand,
and traced the delicate bones of the forearm. The small belly showed signs of bloat, whether from malnutrition or postmortem changes I couldn't tell—but the collarbones were sharp as scythe blades. All of the bodies were thin, though not to the point of emaciation.
I looked up, into the deep blue shadows of the mountainside above the cabin. It was early in the year for foraging, but there was food in abundance in the forest—for those who could recognize it.
Jamie came and knelt down beside me, a big hand lightly on my back. Cold as it was, a trickle of sweat streaked his
neck, and his thick auburn hair was dark at the temples.
"The grave is ready," he said, speaking low, as though he might alarm the child. "Is that what's killed the bairn?" He
nodded at the scattered fungi. "I think so—and the rest of them, too. Have you had a look around? Does anyone know who they were?"
He shook his head.
"Not English; the clothes are wrong. Germans would have gone to Salem, surely; they're clannish souls, and no inclined to settle on their own. These were maybe Dutchmen." He nodded toward the carved wooden clogs on the old woman's feet, cracked and stained with long use. "No books nor writing left, if there was any to begin with. Nothing that might tell their name. But—"
"They hadn't been here long." A low, cracked voice made me look up. Roger had come; he squatted next to Brianna, nodding toward the smoldering remains of the cabin. A small garden plot had been scratched into the earth nearby, but the few plants showing were no more than sprouts, the tender leaves limp and blackened with late frost. There were no sheds, no sign of livestock, no mule or pig.
"New emigrants," Roger said softly. "Not bond servants; this was a family. They weren't used to outdoor labor, either;
the women's hands have blisters and fresh scars." His own broad hand rubbed unconsciously over a homespun knee; his palms were as smoothly callused as Jamie's now, but he had once been a tender-skinned scholar; he remembered the pain of his seasoning.
"I wonder if they left people behind—in Europe," Brianna murmured. She smoothed blond hair off the little girl's forehead, and laid the kerchief back over her face. I saw her throat move as she swallowed. "They'll never know what happened to them."
"No." Jamie stood abruptly. "They do say that God protects fools—but I think even the Almighty will lose patience
now and then." He turned away, motioning to Lindsay and Sinclair.
"Look for the man," he said to Lindsay. Every head jerked up to look at him.
"Man?" Roger said, and then glanced sharply at the burned remnants of the cabin, realization dawning. "Aye—
who built the cabin for them?"
"The women could have done it," Bree said, lifting her chin.
"You could, aye," he said, mouth twitching slightly as he cast a sidelong look at his wife. Brianna resembled Jamie in
more than coloring; she stood six feet in her stockings and had her father's clean-limbed strength.
"Perhaps they could, but they didn't," Jamie said shortly. He nodded toward the shell of the cabin, where a few bits of
furniture still held their fragile shapes. As I watched, the evening wind came down, scouring the ruin, and the shadow
of a stool collapsed noiselessly into ash, flurries of soot and char moving ghostlike over the ground.
"What do you mean?" I stood and moved beside him, looking into the house. There was virtually nothing left inside, though the chimney stack still stood, and jagged bits of the walls remained, their logs fallen like jackstraws.
"There's no metal," he said, nodding at the blackened hearth, where the remnants of a cauldron lay, cracked in two
from the heat, its contents vaporized. "No pots, save that— and that's too heavy to carry away. Nay tools. Not a knife, not an ax—and ye see whoever built it had that."
I did; the logs were unpeeled, but the notches and ends bore the clear marks of an ax. Frowning, Roger picked up a long pine branch and began to poke through the piles of ash and rubble, looking to be sure. Kenny Lindsay and Sinclair didn't bother; Jamie had told them to look for a man, and they promptly went to do so, disappearing into the forest. Fergus went with them; Evan Lindsay, his brother Murdo, and the McGillivrays began the chore of collecting stones for a cairn.
"If there was a man—did he leave them?" Brianna murmured to me, glancing from her father to the row of bodies. "Did this woman maybe think they wouldn't survive on their own?"
And thus take her own life, and those of her children, to avoid a long-drawn-out death from cold and starvation?
"Leave them and take all their tools? God, I hope not."
I crossed myself at the thought, though even as I did so, I doubted it. "Wouldn't they have walked out, looking for help? Even with children . . . the snow's mostly gone." Only the highest mountain passes were still packed with snow, and while the trails and slopes were wet and muddy with runoff, they'd been passable for a month, at least.
"I've found the man," Roger said, interrupting my thoughts. He spoke very calmly, but paused to clear his throat. "Just— just here."
The daylight was beginning to fade, but I could see that he had gone pale. No wonder; the curled form he had unearthed beneath the charred timbers of a fallen wall was sufficiently gruesome as to give anyone pause. Charred to blackness, hands upraised in the boxer's pose so common to those dead by fire, it was difficult even to be sure that it was a man— though I thought it was, from what I could see.
Speculation about this new body was interrupted by a shout from the forest's edge.
"We've found them, milord!"
Everyone looked up from contemplation of this new corpse, to see Fergus waving from the edge of the wood.
"Them," indeed. Two men, this time. Sprawled on the ground within the shadow of the trees, found not together, but
not far apart, only a short distance from the house. And both, so far as I could tell, probably dead of mushroom poisoning.
"That's no Dutchman," Sinclair said, for probably the fourth time, shaking his head over one body.
"He might be," said Fergus dubiously. He scratched his nose with the tip of the hook he wore in replacement of his
left hand. "From the Indies, non?" One of the unknown bodies was in fact that of a black man. The other was white, and both wore nondescript clothes of worn homespun—shirts and breeches; no jackets, despite the cold weather. And both were barefoot.
"No." Jamie shook his head, rubbing one hand unconsciously on his own breeches, as though to rid himself of the
touch of the dead. "The Dutch keep slaves on Barbuda, aye—but these are better fed than the folk from the cabin." He lifted his chin toward the silent row of women and children. "They didna live here. Besides . . ." I saw his eyes fix on the dead men's feet. The feet were grubby about the ankles and heavily callused, but basically clean. The soles of the black man's feet showed yellowish pink, with no smears of mud or random leaves stuck between the toes. These men hadn't been walking through the muddy forest barefoot, that much was sure.
"So there were perhaps more men? And when these died, their companions took their shoes—and anything else of
value"—Fergus added practically, gesturing from the burned cabin to the stripped bodies—"and fled."
"Aye, maybe." Jamie pursed his lips, his gaze traveling slowly over the earth of the yard—but the ground was churned with footsteps, clumps of grass uprooted and the whole of the yard dusted with ash and bits of charred wood. It looked as though the place had been ravaged by rampaging hippopotami.
"I could wish that Young Ian was here. He's the best of the trackers; he could maybe tell what happened there, at least."
He nodded into the wood, where the men had been found.
"How many there were, maybe, and which way they've gone."
Jamie himself was no mean tracker. But the light was going fast now; even in the clearing where the burned cabin
stood, the dark was rising, pooling under the trees, creeping like oil across the shattered earth.
His eyes went to the horizon, where streamers of cloud were beginning to blaze with gold and pink as the sun set behind them, and he shook his head.
"Bury them. Then we'll go."
One more grim discovery remained. Alone among the dead, the burned man had not died of fire or poison. When
they lifted the charred corpse from the ashes to bear him to his grave, something fell free of the body, landing with a
small, heavy thunk on the ground. Brianna picked it up, and rubbed at it with the corner of her apron.
"I guess they overlooked this," she said a little bleakly, holding it out. It was a knife, or the blade of one. The wooden hilt had burned entirely away, and the blade itself was warped with heat.
Steeling myself against the thick, acrid stench of burned fat and flesh, I bent over the corpse, poking gingerly at the
midsection. Fire destroys a great deal, but preserves the strangest things. The triangular wound was quite clear, seared in the hollow beneath his ribs.
"They stabbed him," I said, and wiped my sweating hands on my own apron.
"They killed him," Bree said, watching my face. "And then his wife—" She glanced at the young woman on the ground,
the concealing apron over her head. "She made a stew with the mushrooms, and they all ate it. The children, too."
The clearing was silent, save for the distant calls of birds on the mountain. I could hear my own heart, beating painfully in my chest. Vengeance? Or simple despair?
"Aye, maybe," Jamie said quietly. He stooped to pick up an end of the sheet of canvas they had placed the dead man on. "We'll call it accident."
The Dutchman and his family were laid in one grave, the two strangers in another. A cold wind had sprung up as the sun went down; the apron fluttered away from the woman's face as they lifted her. Sinclair gave a strangled cry of shock, and nearly dropped her.
She had neither face nor hair anymore; the slender waist narrowed abruptly into charred ruin. The flesh of her head
had burned away completely, leaving an oddly tiny, blackened skull, from which her teeth grinned in disconcerting levity. They lowered her hastily into the shallow grave, her children and mother beside her, and left Brianna and me to
build a small cairn over them, in the ancient Scottish way, to mark the place and provide protection from wild beasts,
while a more rudimentary resting place was dug for the two barefoot men.
The work finally done, everyone gathered, white-faced and silent, around the new-made mounds. I saw Roger stand close beside Brianna, his arm protectively about her waist. A small shudder went through her, which I thought had nothing to do with the cold. Their child, Jemmy, was a year or so younger than the smallest girl.
"Will ye speak a word, Mac Dubh?" Kenny Lindsay glanced inquiringly at Jamie, pulling his knitted bonnet down over his ears against the growing chill. It was nearly nightfall, and no one wanted to linger. We would have to make camp, somewhere well away from the stink of burning, and that would be hard enough, in the dark. But Kenny was right; we couldn't leave without at least some token of ceremony, some farewell for the strangers. Jamie shook his head.
"Nay, let Roger Mac speak. If these were Dutchmen, belike they were Protestant."
Dim as the light was, I saw the sharp glance Brianna shot at her father. It was true that Roger was a Presbyterian; so was Tom Christie, a much older man whose dour face reflected his opinion of the proceedings. The question of religion was no more than a pretext, though, and everyone knew it, including Roger. Roger cleared his throat with a noise like tearing calico. It was always a painful sound; there was anger in it now as well. He didn't protest, though, and he met Jamie's eyes straight on, as he took his place at the head of the grave. I had thought he would simply say the Lord's Prayer, or perhaps one of the gentler psalms. Other words came to him, though.
"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. He hath fenced up my way
that I cannot pass, and He hath set darkness in my paths."
His voice had once been powerful, and beautiful. It was choked now, no more than a rasping shadow of its former
beauty—but there was sufficient power in the passion with which he spoke to make all those who heard him bow their
heads, faces lost in shadow. "He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope hath He removed like a tree." His face was set, but his eyes rested for a bleak moment on the charred stump that had served the Dutch family for a chopping block. "He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed,
and my familiar friends have forgotten me." I saw the three Lindsay brothers exchange glances, and everyone drew a little closer together, against the rising wind.
"Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends," he said, and his voice softened, so that it was difficult to hear him, above the sighing of the trees. "For the hand of God has touched me."
Brianna made a slight movement beside him, and he cleared his throat once more, explosively, stretching his neck so that I caught a glimpse of the rope scar that marred it. "Oh, that my words were now written! Oh, that they were
printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!"
He looked slowly round from face to face, his own expressionless, then took a deep breath to continue, voice cracking
on the words.
"For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body"—Brianna shuddered convulsively, and looked away from the raw mound of dirt—"yet in my flesh shall I see God. Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold."
He stopped, and there was a brief collective sigh, as everyone let out the breath they had been holding. He wasn't quite finished, though. He had reached out, half-unconsciously, for Bree's hand, and held it tightly. He spoke the last words almost to himself, I thought, with little thought for his listeners.
"Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment."
I shivered, and Jamie's hand curled round my own, cold but strong. He looked down at me, and I met his eyes. I knew what he was thinking.
He was thinking, as I was, not of the present, but the future. Of a small item that would appear three years hence, in the pages of the Wilmington Gazette, dated February 13, 1776. It is with grief that the news is received of the deaths by fire of James MacKenzie Fraser and his wife, Claire Fraser, in a conflagration that destroyed their house in the settlement of Fraser's Ridge, on the night of January 21 last. Mr. Fraser, a nephew of the late Hector Cameron of River Run Plantation, was born at Broch Tuarach in Scotland. He was widely known in the Colony and deeply respected; he leaves no surviving children. It had been easy, so far, not to think too much of it. So far in the future, and surely not an unchangeable future—after all, forewarned was forearmed . . . wasn't it? I glanced at the shallow cairn, and a deeper chill passed through me. I stepped closer to Jamie, and put my other hand on his arm. He covered my hand with his, and squeezed tight in reassurance. No, he said to me silently. No, I will not let it happen.
As we left the desolate clearing, though, I could not free my mind of one vivid image. Not the burned cabin, the pitiful
bodies, the pathetic dead garden. The image that haunted me was one I had seen some years before—a gravestone in the ruins of Beauly Priory, high in the Scottish Highlands.
It was the tomb of a noble lady, her name surmounted by the carving of a grinning skull—very like the one beneath the Dutchwoman's apron. Beneath the skull was her motto: Hodie mihi cras tibi—sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today—yours tomorrow. Thus passes the glory of the world.
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Idea of Infinity Stretched Back to Third Century B.C.
By Robin Lloyd
The 'School of Athens' fresco by Raphael, housed in the Vatican, is meant to represent the Greek agora and all the great minds that passed through it. (Image credit: Heather Whipps)
CHICAGO - The first mathematical use of the concept of actual infinity has been pushed back some 2,000 years via a new analysis of a tattered page of parchment on which a medieval monk in Constantinople copied the third century B.C. work of the Greek mathematician Archimedes.
Infinity is one of the most fundamental questions in mathematics and still remains an unsolved riddle. For instance, if you add or subtract a number from infinity, the remaining value is still infinity, some Indian philosophers said. Mathematicians today refer to actual infinity as an uncountable set of numbers such as the number of points existing on a line at the same time, while a potential infinity is an endless sequence that unfolds consecutively over time.
The parchment page comes from the 348-page Archimedes Palimpsest, the oldest copy of some of the Greek genius' writings, which were hidden for centuries because a monk partly scraped them off the animal-skin parchment in the 13th century A.D. to clear the pages to print a prayer book. Also, a forger painted pictures over the prayer book hundreds of years after that.
A scholar named Johan Ludvig Heiberg in 1906 studied the written remnants behind the religious words to discover the Palimpsest, finding evidence of Archimedes' systematic use of the concept of infinity in a portion of the document called the Method of Mechanical Theorems. In the past few years, the Palimpsest was re-examined at a far higher level of detail using multispectral imaging and also a hair-thin X-ray scanning technique at Stanford University's Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource in California. The scanner can image a million pixels in less than one hour.
With one of the X-ray images, Stanford classicist Reviel Netz made out the edge of a torn page, where Heiberg had figured just one line of text was missing. The X-rays produced images of iron from the ink used on the document.
Netz examined the scan and was able to deduce the presence of previously unseen Greek letters, kappa and alpha, which were likely followed by an iota to spell the Greek word for "and." This led Netz to conclude that two lines were missing, rather than one and to arrive at a new reading of the passage, physicist Uwe Bergmann of the Synchrotron facility told a small group of reporters here Sunday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
"Scholars are now talking about some new words which are emerging in the reconstruction of the evidence in introduction to the Method, that Archimedes' concept of infinity was rather different from what was previously thought," Bergmann said.
In fact, the new reading reveals that Archimedes was engaged in math that made conceptual use of actual infinity, as Netz describes on the Web site ArchimedesPalimpsest.org. The calculations involved adding infinite numbers of sums, such as the number of triangles inside a prism, as well as the number of lines inside a rectangle. Archimedes tried to argue that these values are equal to each other, making a statement about actual infinity, not just potential infinity, Nets writes.
The Palimpsest resides at the Walters Museum of Art in Baltimore.
The Archimedes Palimpsest project forced researchers to come up with a new system to scan large objects, Bergmann said. A commercial-grade X-ray scanning machine might take a year to complete a scan that the Stanford Synchrotron now can complete in half a day, he said.
"It is now taking milliseconds rather than seconds to get each pixel — that has been for us the great novelty," he said.
Quiz: The Artifact Wars
Top 10 Ancient Capitals
Was Einstein the Last Great Genius?
Robin Lloyd
Robin Lloyd was a senior editor at Space.com and Live Science from 2007 to 2009. She holds a B.A. degree in sociology from Smith College and a Ph.D. and M.A. degree in sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is currently a freelance science writer based in New York City and a contributing editor at Scientific American, as well as an adjunct professor at New York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.
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No. 1 Seed Pera Still In Hunt For French Open Women's Main Draw Spot
Bernarda Pera is one of three U.S. women who remain in qualifying; three German men advance into main draw.
Roland Garros 2019 (photo: Corinne Dubreuil / FFT)
PARIS, May 23, 2019 (by Michael Dickens)
No. 1 seed Bernarda Pera of the United States moved into the final round of French Open qualifying with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Zhang Kai-Lin of China Thursday morning on Court 6, completed in one hour and 26 minutes. However, a couple of Pera's more highly-publicized American compatriots both went down during the second round at Roland Garros.
Cori "Coco" Gauff, 15, who two days earlier became the youngest female to win a round in a Grand Slam (in either qualifying or main draw) since Martina Hingis at the 1995 Australian Open, was defeated by No. 21 seed Kaja Juvan of Serbia, 6-3, 6-3. The 18-year-old Juvan, who is ranked 132nd, took advantage of four service breaks, won 76 percent (30 of 39) of her first-serve points, and hit 26 winners against the young American, ranked No. 320, who committed 33 unforced errors. Gauff is the reigning French Open junior girls' champion.
Also, No. 11 seed Whitney Osuigwe, ranked No. 122, lost to another American, No. 151 Allie Kiick, 0-6, 6-3, 6-1, in one hour and 20 minutes. Kiick converted all five of her break-point chances and hit 21 winners. She outpointed the 2017 French Open junior girls' champion, 69-66.
The Croatian-born American Pera came to Paris fresh off winning an ITF clay event in Trnava, Slovakia, last week and now has won six consecutive matches on clay. Unfortunately, the points Pera earned last week from her title victory came too late for her to avoid having to play in the qualifying draw at Roland Garros.
"I kind of have to block it out. I knew I would have to play qualies anyway so I was just prepared to play three rounds," said Pera, interviewed after her second-round win by the Roland Garros website. "I mean I love clay, it's my favorite surface and I think I'm playing well at the moment. I'm just trying to keep it that way."
Other seeds who advanced to the third (and last) round of qualifying include: No. 9 Anna Blinkova of Russia, No. 10 Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic, No. 12 Nao Hibino of Japan, No. 19 Varvara Lepchenko of the U.S., and No. 22 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan.
One of the biggest upsets of the day came when No. 5 seed Heather Watson of Great Britain lost to No. 193 Valentini Grammatikopoulou of Greece, 7-5, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (3), which took two hours and 44 minutes to complete on Court 14. The 105th-ranked Watson had two match points on her racquet, serving at 5-3 in the final set, but was unable to convert either of them.
"This match is really important for me," Grammatikopoulou told RolandGarros.com. "It's my first time winning (Grand Slam qualifying) second round and first time from two match points down.
"It's the first time I didn't give up when I had chances and first time when I was 3-0 down (in the third set), I still kept my cool."
Later, No. 3 Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland, twice a Roland Garros main draw semifinalist (2015, 2017), lost to No. 236 Kurumi Nara of Japan, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, in two hours and seven minutes on Court 14.
One step closer to the main draw…#RG19 pic.twitter.com/cw97oW1kv0
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) 23. Mai 2019
On the men's side, eight of 16 spots in the main draw were decided Thursday. Leading the way was No. 12 seed Guillermo Garcia-Lopez from Spain, who beat No. 23 seed Oscar Otte of Germany, ranked, No. 145, 3-6, 6-4, 6-0. The 36-year-old Lopez, ranked 123rd, is playing in his 15th French Open and is five years removed from his best finish, reaching the fourth round in 2014. Also, No. 31 seed Salvatore Caruso of Italy, ranked 148th, came from down a set to beat No. 175 Dustin Brown of Germany, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.
Meanwhile, three German men moved into the main draw. No. 8 seed Yannick Maden, ranked No. 115, beat No. 17 seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain, ranked No. 133, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1; No. 177 Rudolf Molleker advanced over No. 213 Santiago Giraldo of Columbia, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, and No. 184 Yannick Hanfmann upset No. 19 seed Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic, ranked No. 138, 6-2, 6-2.
Another seed who fell the final round of qualifying was No. 6 Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine. He lost to No. 216 Alexey Vatutin of Russia, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3.
Looking ahead to Friday
The final eight men's main draw places will be determined as well as all 12 of the women's spots in the final day of qualifying for the 2019 French Open.
Thursday's results
Men's third round singles
K. Coppejans, Belgium, d. M. Guinard, France, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1
No. 31 S. Caruso, Italy, d. D. Brown, Germany, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
A. Vatutin, Russia, d. No. 6 S. Stakhovsky, Ukraine, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3
No. 8 Y. Maden, Germany, d. No. 17 A. Davidovich Fokina, Spain, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1
Y. Hanfmann, Germany, d. No. 19 L. Rosol, Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-2
No. 12 G. Garcia-Lopez d. No. 23 O. Otte, Germany, 3-6, 6-4, 6-0
R. Molleker, Germany, d. S. Giraldo, Columbia, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
No. 13 S. Travaglia, Italy, d. S. Darcis, Belgium, 7-6 (3), 6-3
Women's second round singles
A. Lottner, Germany, d. E. Jacquemot, France, 7-6 (1), 6-2
V. Grammatikopoulou, Greece, d. No. 5 H. Watson, Great Britain, 7-5, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (3)
K. Nara, Japan, d. No. 3 T. Bacsinszky, Switzerland, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
No. 21 K. Juvan, Serbia, d. C. Gauff, U.S., 6-3, 6-3
A. Kiick, U.S., d. No. 11 W. Osuigwe, U.S., 0-6, 6-3, 6-1
G. Gattini-Monticone, Italy, d. F. Di Lorenzo, U.S., 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3
No. 1 B. Pera, U.S., d. K.L. Zhang, China, 6-4, 6-4
A. Bolsova, Spain, d. S. Xu, China, 6-1, 6-2
K. Swan, Great Britain, d. X. Wang, China, 6-4, 0-6, 7-5
S. Zhuk, Russia, d. K. Von Deichmann, Liechtenstein, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
No. 22 E. Rybakina, Kazakhstan, d. R Marino, Canada, 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-4
No. 9 A. Blinkova, Russia, d. A. Kalinina, Ukraine, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
No. 10 M. Bouzkova, Czech Republic, d. A. Shimizu, Japan, 6-2, 6-3
No. 19 V. Lepchenko, U.S., d. R. Oprandi, Switzerland, 6-1, 6-1
K. Kucova, Slovakia, d. T. Korpatsch, Germany, 6-4, 6-3
G. Garcia Perez, Spain, d. No. 13 O. Danilovic, Serbia, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2
J. Paolini, Italy, d. R. Sramkova, Slovakia, 7-5, 6-0
K. Zavatska, Ukraine, d. E. Gorgodze, Georgia, 6-0, 6-4
G. Minnen, Belgium, d. No. 8 N. Vikhlyantseva, Russia, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
T. Babos, Hungary, d. M. Trevisan, Italy, 6-4, 2-6, 7-5
J. Glushko, Israel, d. R. Anderson, U.S., 6-3, 6-3
L. Samsonova, Russia, d. No. 23 S. Vickery, U.S., 7-5, 6-2
No. 12 N. Hibino, Japan, d. R. Hogenkamp, Netherlands, 6-1, 6-2
C. Perrin, Switzerland, d. No. 15 A. Bogdan, Romania, 7-5, 7-5
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Nearly 12K-SF Food Hall by Todd English Coming to Times Square
By Liam La Guerre	August 18, 2016 3:22 pm
229 West 43rd Street.
Outstanding Hospitality Management Group has signed a 11,970-square-foot lease at the 229 West 43rd Street retail condominium owned by Kushner Companies for a curated food hall by celebrity chef Todd English.
Called American Market by Todd English, the venue will be located on the ground floor of the building between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, according to a Kushner Companies release. (Jared Kushner, the chief executive officer of Kushner Companies, is the publisher of Commercial Observer).
The food hall is set to open in the summer of 2017 at the property, also known as the old New York Times Building. Asking rent in the 15-year deal was not disclosed, but the average ground-floor asking rent in Times Square is about $2,363 per square foot, according to The New York Post, which first reported news of the deal.
"We are confident that this will become an essential Times Square dining destination and we look forward to welcoming guests to the American Market by Todd English in 2017," Milan Patel, the president of Outstanding Hospitality Management, said in prepared remarks.
JRT Realty Group's Greg Smith and Kelly Simek represented Outstanding Hospitality Management in the deal, while SCG Retail's Chase Welles and Alexandra Escobar brokered the deal for Kushner Companies. Smith and Welles did not respond to requests for comment on the deal.
With the signing of the food hall, Kushner Companies has fully leased its 250,000-square-foot retail condo, which it purchased in October 2015 for $295 million. A few weeks ago the landlord signed the first brick-and-mortar location for the popular Los Tacos No. 1, as CO first reported. Gulliver's Gate, a 49,000-square-foot interactive miniature world display, and the 60,000-square-foot entertainment venue National Geographic Times Square: Ocean Giants, will also be in the building.
"In less than a year we've completely transformed an underperforming asset into a top-flight entertainment and dining destination," Morris Harary, a managing director at Kushner Companies, said in a statement. "The American Market by Todd English will perfectly complement the retail condo's entertainment venues."
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