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Chapter Four
When mom, dad, and Dustin finally returned home, they explained to me that they had gone to some Thanksgiving bake contest with a few of their friends. Both mom and dad are bake nuts, always practicing their cooking and entering it in contests. They even won a few prizes and trophies for their culinary skills.
Obviously, Dustin would never have gone to anything like that, so he had just gone to see one of his friends. Meanwhile, I was in that subway for who knows how long, with no idea how I had gotten there in the first place. They asked me what had happened to me and why I hadn't answered their phone calls all day, and I bet you can guess what I told them.
"Well, about that…I was being chased around by a grotesque insect creature in an old abandoned subway while you guys were over at that bake contest with the pumpkin pie and sweet potatoes and gingerbread. So how was YOUR day?"
Yeah, like they would have believed that one. I have to be extremely careful of what I say around them, because the more I go on about what really happens, the less they trust me and the more they doubt my sanity. Basically, every ounce of the truth that they hear from me, the closer I get to being medicated and asked to look at ink blots twice a week in some therapist's office, thus giving Dustin an easier time in his never-ending quest to make my life miserable.
So I told them I was going to Lola's house to spend the night, they agreed and just went on talking about how their sweet rolls won first prize at the bake contest.
I just sat there silently while we ate dinner together, looking down at my plate of green beans, mashed potatoes, and chicken casserole, trying not to think about what might happen to me tonight, and whether I would be a victim of the insect version of Dracula while Lola crept around in the dark looking for evidence of mutant monsters to give to the FBI.
"So, Wendy?" asked dad, while I sat there feverishly pondering the latest weirdness. He was sitting at the seat across from me at the dining room table, next to mom, while Dustin sat at the far end of the table, cramming chicken into his mouth like some ravenous and equally mad animal that hadn't eaten in weeks. Dustin has spiky black hair and pear-green eyes, as well as a few freckles here and there and dimples that make him look like a happy, fun-loving, good-natured sixteen year old who has never done anything wrong.
Though nearly two years older than me, he is nothing at all like that, but people just don't realize it because they expect his personality and actions to be just as pleasing as his big smile and shining eyes.
My dad has black hair as well, though he keeps it close-cropped instead of spiky. His eyes are the same color as Dustin too, but they do look a bit different. For instance, dad has a rather big nose, while Dustin's nose is less prominent. They both are blessed with a tall body builds, and a catlike grace and agility to match it. Dad has "bonded" with Dustin, whatever that means. Although I know he loves me, it seems that Dustin is just too great for him to believe or acknowledge that he treats me so badly. If dad knew even half of what Dustin did, he might not even choose to believe it and instead would go on as if nothing had happened.
But then, sitting at the table, seeing that I was obviously worried about something, dad managed to look sympathetic, or at least concerned.
"Wendy?" he said. "You really don't look so well. Are you alright?"
Looking up from my plate, I smiled thinly at him, not really realizing that my creeped-out grin was only helping to sharpen his suspicions that something was up. "Yeah, I'm fine. Just a little tired, that's all."
"You sure?" he persisted.
"Yeah, yeah." I assured him, trying to keep the still audible shakiness out of my tone of voice. "I just have a lot of…homework to do, and it's kind of…you know, hard. Don't worry, though, I'll get it done."
"Are you sure nothing's wrong?" asked mom, pushing a tuft of her hair behind an ear. Like me, mom has blue-gray eyes and rather pale features, as well as dark red hair.
"Yes, really, I'm fine. Why do you guys think that?"
Dustin stared at me deviously from across the table, and his lips turned up in a smile that suggested he was about to start harassing me for some reason or another. I wasn't in the mood for it. In fact, I'm never in the mood for it, but nonetheless, he said, "Because, Wendy Weird, you look guilty, like you're hiding things. You got a dead body hidden in the basement or something?" despite the jocular nature of his question, his words were prodding and accusing. Dad snickered to himself, as if he thought this was greatly amusing, and he probably did.
Narrowing my eyes at him, I replied, "No, but you look a little on the dead side yourself. Sure you didn't just crawl out from a grave a couple of years ago and pose as part of the family?"
"Wendy!" snapped mom, obviously offended by my remark, but seeming to be not at all peeved at Dustin's.
"Hey," Dustin suddenly said, his tone a bit milder than before but no less accusing. "What the heck is that? It looks gnarly, and not in the good way." Grimacing, he pointed at the ugly scar on my right hand.
Trying to think quickly, I set down my fork and flexed my fingers experimentally. The wound didn't look like it had healed at all.
Instead, it seemed to have gotten...worse. It looked redder, deeper, more swollen, and in some places it was flecked with yellow and black. I still felt not even the slightest sting or ache. My heart fluttered with surprise and confusion upon seeing these changes.
"Archie." I blurted, speaking of our British Shorthair. "He must've done it while I was sleeping. it doesn't hurt."
"Well, it looks like its infected or something. Disgusting." My brother made a gagging noise, and then smiled mischievously when I flinched involuntarily at the word infected, probably because I was now suspecting that this was no ordinary wound.
'If that gets any worse," said dad, "we're going to have to get it looked at by a doctor."
"Well, I'm going to get ready to go." I said, dismissing myself from the table and walking into the kitchen to set my plate on the counter.
"Don't forget to pack a toothbrush." dad called out from the dining room.
After preparing a backpack stocked with a few items I might need, including that same flashlight that I discovered in the book bag, the dagger, my cell phone, and a couple of other things, I left, leaving mom and dad to happily continue chatting about their triumph at the bake contest, oblivious to the strange thoughts that now occupied my mind.
I decided not to take Sammy with me, for he was just beginning to really get over whatever spooked him.
It was eight thirty two at night, and I discovered that a thick fog had crept in during the few hours that I had stayed inside, shrouding the neighborhood in eerie wisps that floated lazily, filling the air with icy cold moisture that seeped into my bones and triggered my imagination to wonder if flying things could be hidden in its ghostly blur. The fog clung to treetops, frosted the windows of nearby houses, beaded the hoods of parked cars. A chorus of crickets chirped loudly in the grass as I walked along the sidewalk. A few solitary fireflies hovered around as well, blinking and winking like fairies from unseen areas in the dense fog that conspired to hide almost everything.
Oakville often has foggy nights like this, but very rarely is it this thick and hard to see through. It sometimes seems as though the night has a mind of its very own, with enigmatic purpose and intention. In this case, I doubted highly that it was working in my favor, considering the fact that we might have to make a quick escape if things turned ugly in that subway, and this fog would obscure our vision and make it difficult to flee.
I wondered why Lola was so horrendously bold as to want to go there, especially after hearing the frightening story I told her earlier in the day. She called it being brave, but I was too nice to call it stupid.
Still, we are friends. She is the only one who believes the stuff that happens in my life, so I support her whenever possible, because that's what friends do, and without friends, where would we be?
Though almost every corner was shrouded in fog, I could still see ahead at the end of the subdivision, where I would take a turn and begin to make my way to Oakville Family Park, which was near Arrow Street and the subterranean lair that waited.
Though the natural sounds of crickets, and the even fainter noises of croaking frogs could be heard, the fog muffled and distorted them, making these normally soothing vocalizations sound disquieting further fueling my unwanted inner ranting about what could happen tonight.
The park was less than two miles away, and Lola was waiting, perhaps with night vision goggles and other high tech gadgets to assist us in the hunt for the unexplained.
The truth is out there, apparently in the form of a bloodthirsty winged monstrosity, and in this indisputably odd night, here I was, trudging along to greet it again when I was lucky enough to escape the first time.
Perhaps I truly am crazy.
The Oakville Family Park is a relaxing place to be in by day, but it seems to take on a whole new personality at night. With its new cloak of fog, as well as the odd atmosphere of this night, it seemed almost sinister. To me, a cemetery wouldn't have been creepier.
Surrounded by many tall looming Oaks, decorated with scrawny bushes and hedges that almost completely encircled its perimeter, accompanied by the dense fog; all of these things gave the park a withered and spooky appearance. In the warmer climates of spring and summer these bushes are even more decorative with their assortment of berries and flowers. Now though, the cold weather had caused everything to fade into darker colors, forcing blooms into dormancy, wilting carefully planted flowers into shrunken and brittle petals.
Upon reaching the park, I immediately saw Lola sitting in a nearby bench. She was dressed in a snow-white faux fur coat and Reebok sneakers. She looked like an odd and impatient Eskimo.
"How long have you been out here waiting?" I asked as I got close enough for her to hear me.
Instead of answering, she said, "you're slow. I almost thought you chickened out and decided to leave me to do it alone."
"Now why would I do that?" I replied, grinning sarcastically.
"Because you don't trust me to kick butt if we run into that thing. You think I'm just full of big talk, but I'll show you."
"But you are full of big talk." I pointed out.
"So, what, are you going to use your witty comments to force it into submission like a snake charmer playing his flute to make cobras dance?"
She shrugged. "It's worth a try."
"Lola, really." I protested, coming to sit down beside her on the bench in an effort to reason with her. "We don't have to do this. What are you trying to prove?"
"That this thing exists. Didn't you know that already?
"But you're just taking my word for it."
"I'm the only one who ever has."
After a short silence, she said, "This is going to help you."
Bewildered, I demanded, "what?"
"If we can get proof of this…thing, no one will ever doubt you again. You won't be Wendy Weird anymore. They won't make fun of you. We might become famous for finding a creature like this. It might even change the world."
It touched me that one of Lola's ambitions behind this idea was to help me, but I still didn't want to do it.
"Is it worth it to risk our lives by going in there? I argued. "I'd rather be Wendy Weird for the rest of my life than to be sucked dry and left in the dark."
"What makes you think this thing was trying to kill you?" she countered.
"I don't know, but it isn't really a good idea to tempt fate like this."
"We aren't tempting anything. All I want to do is go in there, see if it's there, and try to snap a picture of it. That's all." She pointed to a camera that I just noticed was hanging by a nylon strap around her neck.
"Alright," I relented, standing up from the bench. My knees wobbled a bit, but I managed to hold steady. I still couldn't believe we were about to do this. "Let's go."
Nodding, she stood up too, and we both proceeded south down Arrow Street, toward the subway, which wasn't far away.
It was a short but tension-filled walk to our destination, and the fog seemed to be in communion with this watchful night, intentionally against us, floating around our eyes like ectoplasm, making it difficult to see. We could barely see four feet in front of us now, because during my short walk from my house to here, it had thickened like a sauce left to simmer on a stove to enhance its taste and quality.
Despite it, we kept going, our familiarity with the curves and turns of Oakville streets serving us well. The hulking forms of various buildings and townhouses could vaguely be glimpsed, shadowy and unrecognizable.
After a few minutes, we found the gaping mouth of the subway entrance, which was more foreboding than anything I had seen in a long time. Indeed, it looked like the maw of a colossal beast, lined not with sharp teeth but with wispy strands of cobwebs, shimmering with condensation from the fog and from the soft but barely penetrating glow of street lamps gathered near.
"Do we really have to do this?" I asked, staring at the darkness with dread, somehow knowing that what lurked in there could see very well in the gloom, perhaps even better than a cat, while we could rely only on flashlights to navigate.
"Yes." Lola answered firmly, turning to stare at me. Her eyes were filled to the brim with curious determination, something that described her well, but maybe it hid a deeper motive, which defined her fully: the longing for justice and understanding of mysteries, so her friend could be treated right and not mocked by others anymore. Her bravery came naturally to her, and it seemed that a meeting of the eyes was enough to transfer that courage to me. So I said no more, we both switched on our flashlights, and walked into the darkness ahead, which gladly welcomed us.
The cold, musty air was oppressive. It reeked of rodents, dust, and mold. The only sounds were our shallow breaths and the barely audible noise of our shoes on the stony floor as we headed deeper underground. We held our flashlights low, as if this might disturb the creature less.
Lola whispered, "where did you see it?" Her stifled voice, soft as it was, echoed all around the cavernous walls and tunnels, making it sound much louder than she had spoken it.
Even quieter, I whispered back, "Never really saw it. Just the...skin."
"Where?" she inquired.
"This way." I began to lead her toward the escalator, to that room with the blue booths. As we descended the unmoving stairs of the escalator, something squealed nearby, and both of us flinched.
"Rat." I explained, my whisper ragged and faltering with the now rapid beat of my heart, which was already impatient to get going again because of the building tension. "It was just a rat."
Lola looked unconvinced of my assurance as she cautiously probed her flashlight back and forth across the blue booths, and even near the windows, as if expecting something to be clinging to the glass.
"Don't do that." I warned, concerned that her darting flashlight would attract unwanted attention.
"Don't do what?" she asked, halting in mid-step to face me. Her beam focused on the floor.
"Never mind. Let's just find that skin, snap a picture of it or something, and get the heck out of here, fast."
"Where did you see it?"
"Up on the ceiling. Be careful."
She aimed the flashlight upward, and began to explore the ceiling. I didn't want to look, I didn't want to see that thing again, holding on to the rafters, but morbid curiosity claimed me, and I followed the direction of Lola's beam with my own, looking for the exoskeleton. For a few moments we searched for the place that I was certain it had been.
I suddenly detected a horrible smell, the pungent and unmistakable odor of decay. Knowing what it might be, I moved my light to the ground again, and shortly located the rat carcass that had been dropped from above. I gagged from the grisly appearance of this cadaver, and also from the nearly intolerable smell.
Then I played my beam directly above it, on the ceiling at the spot where I had seen the massive insect skin.
The exoskeleton was not there. There was nothing but cobwebs and empty space near and on the rafters.
Somewhere close, a rat shrieked again. We both reflexively flinched, and a realization overcame me.
"The thing took it down." I said, stepping away from the flattened rat on the floor.
"What?" Lola murmured, not understanding what I meant."
"Lola...someone took it down."


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Aluminum Siding and Guilt
Short Story by: Mike Stevens
Status: Finished
Genre: Humor
No Houses
Aluminum Siding and Guilt
By Mike Stevens
A Guiltiest Man Tale
Danny Pretest's eyes shot open; he was suddenly wide awake. Oh no, not again! He knew what he was doing; he was driving himself crazy, worrying about whether he had said something inappropriate to someone. The rational part of his brain told him he was being ridiculous, but the non-rational part was telling him no, shouting at him to call and make sure. The non-rational part won. He just couldn't sleep without checking. Earlier today, he had had a conversation with an aluminum siding salesman who had phoned his apartment. He remembered it going something like this:
"Yes, I'd like to speak to Mr. Pretest, please?"
"This is Danny Pretest; to what is this pertaining?"
"Hi, Mr. Pretest, my name is Fred Lawler, and I work for Hard-Siding, a new aluminum siding company, and I'm calling you today to tell you about our practically-indestructible aluminum siding. How would you like to be able to just use soap and water to clean your house when it gets dirty, instead of having to repaint?"
"I'm sorry, I live in an apartment building."
"Oh, I'm very sorry to bother you, Mr. Pretest; our records show you as owning your own home."
"Well, I'm sorry you wasted your time."
"Oh, that's quite alright, Mr. Pretest; once again, we're sorry to have troubled you; goodbye."
That's the way he was almost certain the conversation had gone, but what if he was remembering it wrong, and it had actually gone something like this?
"Yes, I'd like to speak to Mr. Pretest, please?"
"I'd like to tell him about our practically-indestructible aluminum siding."
"Oh, no, he's away, whaling in Antarctica."
"Oh, well, to whom am I speaking? Maybe you'd be interested?"
"Oh, yeah, this is his houseboy, Pep; and seeing as how we live in an apartment, Danny has no houseboy named Pep, and seeing as how Mr. Pretest is a whopper-b*****d, you'd be well advised to f**k off and go bother someone else!"
"I'm sorry to have troubled you."
"Oh, a lot of good your being sorry does; now I'm late giving Grandma her medication, and if she doesn't get her medication..."
"Once again, I'm sorr--"
"GRANDMA, PLEASE, PUT THE SCISSORS DOWN; GRANDMA DON'T!; AHHH!" and then he had slammed the phone down.
No, nothing like that happened, or did it? He probably never would have said something like that, but he couldn't go back to sleep until he was sure. He called information to get the number for Hard Siding, and once he had the number, gave it a call. They would be closed at this late hour, but he'd leave a message on their machine. The phone rang several times, and then a recorded message came on.
"You have reached Hard Siding; unfortunately, we're closed. Please leave a message, and we'll return your call during regular business hours." Then there was a beep, and Danny said,
"Yes, this is Danny Pretest calling, and I wanted to make sure I wasn't rude to your salesman, Fred Lawler, because you have a winner there! He was friendly, and almost had me ready to buy a s**t-load of aluminum siding, even though I'd have about as much use for that crap as a blind man would need eyeglasses. I just wanted to make sure I didn't call him a leach-b****d, annoying little velvet-voiced son-of-a-b***h, and hang up on his a**, even though I was thinking it."
Three days had passed, and no one from Hard Siding had called him back, so Danny must not have said anything offensive. Thank goodness; now he could relax!
The End
© Copyright 2017 Mike Stevens. All rights reserved.
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Phew thats alright then!
A houseboy named, Pep! Very nice!
:) well thats one way of dealing with cold callers .. i will have to try that but i dont think i would ring back to appologise :) ... Sorry Ive been absent from reading for a while but a few weeks ago I stress fractured my right leg so Im out of normal routine for most of the summer .. if its not one problem its another :) I will visit when I can and I will post the new storys latest posted .. The Flat Of Ghosts ….and I will post new chapters as soon as I can.
I wonder about you and phones.
It seems to be a recurrent theme in your work.
I, myself, am always polite on the phone.:)
Well,mostly.I enjoyed reading it.
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Ethiopian Soldier – Eisenstadt
In December 1934, a border dispute between Abyssinia and the Italian Somaliland led to a small war. Haile Selassie, the emperor of Abyssinia, sought the help from the League of Nations. The League — dominated by European powers — responded by banning arms sales to both Italy and Abyssinia, a move which harmed the latter greatly.
Instead, the League, an international body founded after the First World War to arbitrate international disputes, reverted back into settling disputes a la Concert of Europe: Britain and France, both worn out by war and depression, secretly agreed to give Abyssinia to Italy.
Emboldened, Italy sent a 400,000-strong army into Abyssinia even as the League re-elected the Italian Marquis Alberto Theodoli, as chairman of the Permanent Mandates Commission, an important League body. That winter, however, the opinion turned as the Italians bombarded villages, used poison gas and attacked Red Cross hospitals.
While it was a conflict fought mostly out of the world's eyes, photography played a significant part. The uneven terms of the conflict were made clear in the photos of Alfred Eisenstadt, working for Berliner Illustriete Zeitung, who saw the poor benighted country before the Italian army arrived. Meanwhile, Mussolini's Italy attempted to use Abyssinia's own poverty as a justification for an invasion. Reprinted were postcards and photos of nude locals, to lend credence to the narrative that Italy was "intervening only to bring law and order to a backwards, warlord-ridden, and slave trading land," as Susan Pedersen notes in The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire, her excellent account of diplomacy in the interwar years.
Eisenstadt's pictures proved more powerful. His picture of the bare feet of an Abyssinian soldier was reprinted around the world but censored in Italy. In fact, the worldwide sales of his photo enabled Jewish Eisenstadt to emigrate from Germany. Although later to be often miscaptioned as the feet of a slain soldier, mud-caked feet wrapped in dirty WWI-era puttees belonged to a soldier participating in a rifle practice.
Public opinion did turn against Italy, but it was too late: the Italian conquest was nearly complete. The League voted for economic sanctions onto Italy in May 1936 but by this time, Italy had already walked out of the League Council. Following Japan and Germany, which withdrew from the League in 1933 rather than to submit to its decisions, Italy left the League in 1937. Fascist Italy was now inexorably allied with Germany and Japan and contours of a global conflict were slowly settling.
(For Japan's withdraw from the League, here; to follow the future career of Haile Selassie, here).
Silician Mafia, Letizia Battaglia
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As the Italian state unraveled in ever-widening gyre of political choas, that other threat to law and order was again resurgent in the south. In Sicily, the Commission — a central organization of mafiosos — was resurrected. Several competing factions were now preparing to fight and claim territories for protection rackets.
At the center of this was Letizia Battaglia, a journalist and photographer for L'Ora newspaper in Palermo. For eighteen years, she documented mafia murders of judges, politicians, police, and members of rival families. She would find herself at the scene of four or five different murders in a single day. Here, she remembers taking the photo above (link)
They murdered Nerina, a young prostitute who had started drug-dealing independently from the mafia cartel, and her two male friends. Allegedly, she had disobeyed the mafia's code of honour. Naturally, the killers were never found.
It was 1982, and I entered this little room in Palermo against the will of the police. They did not want me – a photographer and a woman – at the crime scene. When I realised there was a woman among the victims, I started shaking. More than usual, I mean. I was overcome by nausea and could hardly stand. I only had a few seconds to take a couple of pictures: there were men shouting at me to work fast.
It isn't easy to be a good photographer when you're faced with the corpses of people who were alive and kicking only minutes before. In those situations, I would often get all the technical things wrong. But I did my job, I photographed, trying to keep the image in focus and the exposure correct.
Since Nerina, who is slumped in the armchair, had been the main target, I found myself thinking about her. In that small room, her still body was at everybody's mercy, more objectified than ever. My contact with her lasted only a few moments and was filtered through the lens of a cheap camera. But I saw her alone, lost in an eternity of silence. In that short time, I started to love her. I find women beautiful and courageous, and I love photographing them. They hold so many dreams inside themselves.
It was just one of 600,000 photos she took of mafia crimes; throughout her career, Battaglia received many death threats, but continued on. Her "Archive of Blood", as she called it, grew and grew as the mafia activity spread. Judge Cesare Terranova, a member of the Anti-Mafia Parliamentary Commission, was killed in an ambush in 1979. Battaglia remembers: "This was one of the most important men in Sicilian politics. When he was killed, I said nothing worse could happen. Nothing. It was not true." [Photo below, graphic].
The Italian state, which had unscrupulous connections with the mafia, was slow and reluctant to respond, even when the mafia detonated a half-ton of explosives under the highway in May 1992 to assassinate a judge (who was a close friend of Battaglia). The next year, Giulio Andreotti, who had been prime minister of Italy seven times, was indicted for corruption.He had flatly denied ever meeting or having any dealings with the mafia, but among Battaglia's archives were photographs of Andreotti and other Christian Democrat party leaders with Nino Salvo, a powerful Mafia figures who was believed to have been a principal link between the Mafia and Andreotti.
Battaglia has recently published a book "Anthology" which recounts these haunting years. (Amazon).
Mussolini's Demise
During the last days of the Second World War in Italy, Benito Mussolini attempted to escape the advancing Allied Army by hiding in a German convoy headed toward the Alps. Partisans stopped and searched the convoy at a small village on Lake Como; in the back of a truck, they found a private suspiciously wearing a general's pants under his overcoat. It was, of course, Mussolini.
The partisans took him prisoner and he was later joined by his mistress, Clara Petacci. The council of partisan leaders, lead by the Communists, secretly decided to execute Mussolini and 15 leading Fascists. They were executed on April 29, 1945, and their bodies were brought back to Milan, where the fascist dictator's meteoric rise to power began two decades ago; the bodies were hung from an Esso gas station in the Piazzale Loreto, the scene where Mussolini's own fascists executed fifteen partisans (the so-called Martyrs of Piazzale Loreto) the previous year.
The photos of Mussolini's gruesome demise was widely reproduced and sold to many Allied soldiers. Meanwhile in Berlin, Hitler heard how Mussolini was executed and vowed he would not let this happen to him. The end was near and Gotterdammerung was about to begin. (See an extremely gruesome picture of Mussolini's defaced (literally) body here).
Mussolini's body was buried in a secret grave, but fascists found the body and removed it a year later. A small trunk containing the remains moved from a local convent to a monastery to a police constabulary until it was finally returned to Mussolini's widow in 1957, and was buried at Predappio, Il Duce's birthplace.
The Elderly Butcher Boy of Fascism
Even today, Italy has one of the least free presses in Western world. Although press-censorships were not created with the Fascist state Benito Mussolini forged, Mussolini's Ministry of Popular Culture — which administrates everything that appeared in newspapers, radio, printed works, theatre, cinema or any form of art — did cast a long shadow. In a move worthy of today's language bastions, it banned usage of non-Italian words; the ministry's lackeys were posted to publishing houses to immediately oversee what is being printed, and there were public bonfires of forbidden books. However, noting Italian efficiency, all actions were more Kafkaesque than Orwellian.
In a hierarchical system where the government appointed directors and editors and distributed printing paper, self-censorship was easily accomplished by individuals currying favor with the regime. Although many international publications, writers and photographers were left untouched by censors before the war, the beginning of the WWII changed the landscape.
Working for Time and Life magazines, Carl Mydans arrived in Rome in May 1940. Tensions were high; Mussolini was thought to be on the brink of declaring war on the Allies (although in reality he delayed another month). At the public events, Mydans was repeatedly prevented from taking pictures by Blackshirts who blocked his cameras. He remembers the events that happened next: "On May 9, Mussolini appeared at the Victor Emmanuel II monument to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the founding of the Italian Empire. A circle of security men barred me from the ceremony. But as Mussolini was departing, he strutted right past me. The security men were compelled to applaud as he went by, and I was able to make one quick frame between their shoulders. The picture appeared across a page of LIFE several weeks later with the caption, "The Elderly Butcher Boy of Fascism". The photo, which appeared in LIFE on June 24th, caused the responsible staffers of TIME and LIFE being immediately expelled from Italy. Rather than sending a new bureau staff, they closed down the Rome Bureau, writing "In the face of wartime censorship there was no chance in Italy for TIME's kind of reporting."


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They sang show tunes until daybreak but I hope Natalie threw in a line or two of her hit Torn, too – and some Les Mis from Russell.
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Definition number/logical form/extended function calculus/Hilbert: also the general number concept can be formulated logically: If a predicate-predicate φ (F) should be a number, then φ must satisfy the following conditions:
1. For two equal predicates F and G, φ must be true for both or none of them.
2. If two predicates F and G are not equal in number, φ can only be true for one of the two predicates F and G.
Logical form:
(F)(G){(φ(F) & φ(G) > Glz (F,G) & [φ(F) & Glz (F,G) > φ(G)]}.
The entire expression represents a property of φ. If we designate it with Z (φ), then we can say:
A number is a predicate-predicate φ that has the property Z (φ).
Problem/> Infinity axiom/Hilbert: a problem occurs when we ask for the conditions under which two predicate-predicates φ and ψ define the same number with the properties Z (φ) and Z (ψ).
Infinity axiom/Equal numbers/Hilbert: the condition for equal numbers or for the fact that two predicate-predicates φ and ψ define the same number is that, that φ(P) and ψ(P) are true for the same predicates P and false for the same predicates. So that the relationship arises:
(P)(φ(P) ↔ ψ(P))
Problem: when the object area is finite, all the numbers are made equal which are higher than the number of objects in the individual area. For example, if a number is e.g. smaller than 10 to the power of 60 and if we take φ and ψ the predicates which define the numbers 10 to the power of 60+1 and 10 high 60 + 1, then both φ and ψ do not apply to any predicate P.
The relation
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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - January 19, 2003, New Braunfels, Texas Page 8A — Herald-Zeitung — Sunday, January 19, 2003 COURT/From 1ACOMMITTEES/From 1A WHAT IT DOES Waldrip's proposal would create the second county court as a mirror image of the first. His legislation adds concurrent or shared jurisdiction with the district courts for: ■ Drug cases from misdemeanor through first-degree felony level, effectively giving the new courts "drug court" jurisdiction; ■ All state jail felony cases — the lowest level of felony offenses, punishable by fine and up to two years in state jail; and ■ Civil forfeiture cases and related proceedings. The proposed legislation also would allow the county to appoint a magistrate to work at the jail if commissioners' court chooses. That magistrate would work at the pleasure of county commissioners and could be released once a new county court is established in 2004. HOWTO COMPARE A number of other counties facing growth impacts even less severe than those here have established second county courts to deal with them. Most are larger than Comal County, although a few are smaller, in terms of population. Stan Reid, director of the County Information Project with the Tbxas Association of Counties, said that population was not the only — or even the most important — thing to consider for comparison purposes. ' "You want counties that have similar pressures to Comal County — that have similar population densities, a similar taxable value and are impacted by nearby met-* ropolitan areas. Two counties that fit that bill, he said, also happen to be neighboring counties — Hays County, population 97,589, and Guadalupe County, population 89,023. Both have opened a second County Court-at-Law. * Two other counties that experience growth pressure similar to Comal County, Reid said, are the panhandle counties of Potter and Randall, which are dealing with the sprawl of Amarillo. Potter County, population 113,546, which includes what was Amarillo's traditional downtown, has two county courts while Randall County, population 104,312 — until very recently only a bedroom community for Amarillo — has one. That will probably change soon, officials in Potter and Randall counties say. POTTER COUNTY Like Chapman in New Braunfels, Pamela Sirmon, judge in Potter County's County Court-at-Law 2, was recently elected to her second term in office. Potter County created its second county court in 1975 to relieve caseload and county jail overcrowding problems. In Potter County, the next issue will be evening the workload. "One of the things we're considering is growing the jurisdiction of the county court-at-law. We do misdemeanors and civil cases through $100,000. The needs area we have is that a $100,000 lawsuit isn't a big one anymore. People are suing each other in small claims court for $5,000 now. I remember when it was $1,000," Sirmon said. "With the changes in criminal law and magistrations, I would like to see county Court-at-Law get felony jurisdiction and relieve some of that, as well." RANDALL COUNTY Sirmon said Randall County, directly south of Amarillo, had been looking at establishing a second county court for several years. "What you have to look at is the counties are growing. You have to accommodate the workload that comes with that. As your population grows, the workload grows," Sirmon said. "Randall County is growing like wildfire." Judy Evans is coordinator in Randall County Court-at-Law. "We've been looking at it. A couple of years ago, we really delved into it, but we had a rollback election, and we had to put a hiatus to it," Evans said. Now, she said, Randall's county judge and county court-at-law judge are looking at it again to alleviate a crowded docket. "We're big enough to have it, but we don't have enough money. We may in a couple years or so," Evans said. HAYS COUNTY There has been a second county court-at-law in Hays County since 1986. It was established by the legislature as a part-time court to alleviate dockets that were becoming more crowded as a result of harsher penalties in new drunken driving laws. Howard S. Warner II is the judge in Hays County Court-at-Law 2. "The caseload had blossomed to where there was a need. In 1984, the legislature revamped the DW'I laws. By 1985, '86, an awful lot of those new cases were coming up for trial. We got way behind in a hurry and we needed an additional judge to assist trying cases," Warner said. Between 50 and 60 percent of Warner's caseload is criminal, he said. Two county courts, he said, will fulfil the needs of Hays County for awhile yet. "Our system has worked out well," Warner said. GUADALUPE COUNTY Frank Follis was a prosecutor who worked for Guadalupe County's wellknown "Maximum Bob" Covington, the former district attorney. Follis ran in 2002 for — and received — the Republican nomination to be his county's first judge in the newly formed county Court-at-Law 2. "It was authorized in the last legislative session," Follis said. He had to hit the ground running after he was sworn in Jan. I, Follis said. He empanelled two juries in his first week. "This is a growing county like Comal County. One county court-at-law has been here forever, and the population is growing considerably," Follis said. Follis's court has the same criminal, juvenile, family, civil and probate powers of many county courts. But the county's criminal misdemeanor cases, he said, will be 80 percent of his workload. "I'll work four days a week on criminal cases and one day on civil and family cases," Follis said. 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So here he is. The sovereign racehorse of America. In the gloom of his stable, his flanks and shoulders have an opulent mahogany gleam. Hearing his trainer's voice, Bernardini pokes his head over the door. His eye is a moonlit lake. There is none of the usual distraction here: nothing scatty or bellicose or intemperate, as you find even in champions of the breed. In the thoroughbred business, this is known as "the look of eagles" - the intangible signature sought every year among thousands of untried yearlings. Then the colt turns his neck, as unmechanically as corn swaying in the breeze, and suddenly he is a mere animal again, munching on a bundle of hay.
According to his trainer, Tom Albertrani, Bernardini is "the sort of horse that only comes along once a decade". And he should know - he could argue that he worked with the last one, and the one before that, too.
As assistant to Saeed bin Suroor, Albertrani was a familiar figure on British racecourses during the transformation of Godolphin from pioneering experiment to racing superpower. The climax of that process was Dubai Millennium. Prior to that, the New Yorker had served under Bill Mott when the mighty Cigar was in his barn.
"It was a bit different with Cigar, because he was an older horse," Albertrani said. "But I see many similarities between this horse and Dubai Millennium. I feel very fortunate, because horses like these are so rare - those special ones where everything somehow comes together: pedigree, looks, conformation, temperament, everything anyone could want in a racehorse."
Anyone - but above all Sheikh Mohammed. Over the past couple of years Albertrani has supervised a string of the Sheikh's horses under his own name. Likewise Eoin Harty, who previously trained a string of juveniles for Godolphin in California. Their new roles have restored definition to the Maktoums' expanding American interests, which had threatened to make Godolphin unmanageably bloated.
Inevitably, Albertrani is full of admiration for the Sheikh. "He understands the business so well," he said. "He tells us always to keep our heads high - even in defeat. That's something I've really learned, how you have to put things behind you. I really enjoyed my time in England and Dubai. And of course I miss some things about it. But with my two daughters growing up, travel was getting harder, and my decision was to stay and bring up my family. I'm enjoying life back home and really things couldn't have worked out better."
Certainly the emergence of Bernardini represents an unprecedented boost for the Sheikh's American empire. Though hardly the result of rocket science - his dam was a Grade One winner, and his sire is A.P. Indy, one of the world's most expensive stallions - Bernardini can at least be registered as a Darley-reared champion. Nor should it be forgotten that Sheikh Hamdan won the Belmont Stakes with Jazil, or that Godolphin's lightning bolt, Discreet Cat, is also in Saratoga, on the way back from injury.
Bernardini, 5-2 favourite with Coral for the Breeders' Cup Classic, is being prepared for the Travers Stakes here on 27 August. A nine-length win in the Jim Dandy Stakes, at the start of the meeting, exorcised the miseries that undermined his runaway victory in the Preakness Stakes, where the Kentucky Derby winner broke down. At the time, it did not seem decorous to speculate whether Barbaro could have beaten Bernardini. Either way, the baton was passed into safe hands.
"You can't say what might have happened," Albertrani shrugged. "Barbaro went there undefeated off a huge win in the Derby. We had a lot of confidence going into the race, but we'll never know the answer. We were just very sorry for Barbaro and the people round him.
"I suppose it was only when he won the Jim Dandy in the same fashion that people could focus on how good this horse is, that he could get the recognition he didn't get there. Now everyone has seen how special he is, winning a race like that, as though he was doing a workout. Now everyone can look forward with him."
The fact that Bernardini was spared the Kentucky Derby greatly enhances his prospects of flourishing until Churchill Downs in November. "I remember when he was beaten in his first race, Jerry Bailey came in and said that the light bulb just hadn't turned on yet," Albertrani said.
"After that, we saw a big change in the horse - physically and mentally. The Derby wasn't ever really in the picture. He had a few growing pains, a few fevers, we just lost time with him. He didn't have a tough campaign as a two-year-old, and everyone knows that getting ready for the Derby can be very stressful. He pretty much avoided all that, and maybe that's the reason he's where he is now."Reuse content


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Selby Race Engines – We have now decided to release this for general sale
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1938?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12774415#action_12774415 ] stack commented on HBASE-1938: ------------------------------ Some reputable lads have been looking at in-memory scanning and have turned up some interesting observations: + Getting values out of the block cache is way faster than getting them out of MemStore -- even though the values are prefabricated as KVs in MemStore and have to be instantiated when pulling from the block cache. + Getting values out of the block cache is way faster than getting values out of preloaded custom-MemStore that sits in front of our current MemStore -- with its handling of snapshot. + Getting values out of the block cache is faster than getting values from a plain Set of KVs (!!!) "I've noticed that the MemStoreScanner implementation is very inefficient: it basically does a search for each row since it calls tailSet. IMO this should be changed - memstore snapshots should be handles as a special case and not slow down all scans." Getting rid of the tailsetting -- keeping the tailset for life of scan -- improved MemStore performance by 40%. Other observations: + We copy row out of KV to do compares more than once during processing of a Scan (Add a counter to see for sure). Maybe we can avoid above by using a Comparator that can do the compare in place? + Looking for equality, it might be faster comparing from end to start rather than from start to end since more often, its in the tail the difference is: {code} public static boolean equals(final byte [] left, final byte [] right) { // Could use Arrays.equals? - return left == null && right == null? true: - (left == null || right == null || (left.length != right.length))? false: - compareTo(left, right) == 0; + if( left == null && right == null? true: + (left == null || right == null || (left.length != right.length))? false: true) { + // compre from end to start since we usually compare 'close' bytes + int last = left.length-1; + for (int i=last; i>=0; i--){ + if (left[i] != right[i]) { + return false; + } + } + return true; + } + return false; } {code} > Make in-memory table scanning faster > ------------------------------------ > > Key: HBASE-1938 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1938 > Project: Hadoop HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: stack > Assignee: stack > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 0.21.0 > > > This issue is about profiling hbase to see if I can make hbase scans run faster when all is up in memory. Talking to some users, they are seeing about 1/4 million rows a second. It should be able to go faster than this (Scanning an array of objects, they can do about 4-5x this). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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