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Crypt Girls
by Todd_d172
Copyright© 2017 by Todd_d172
Horror Story: Gangsters and ghouls. Two library Aides in the 1920's are kidnapped, but it is much much worse than they'd ever dreamed.
Caution: This Horror Story contains strong sexual content, including Ma/Fa Fa/Fa .
I was asked about this story in particular, so I went ahead and finished it. This is definitely in the style of the early spicy pulp horror stories, known as the "Shivers." Thanks to Sbrooks and texquill for beta read and editing. Any errors remaining are very much mine, probably added after their able assistance. As with most pulp-style stories there is far more innuendo than graphic sex. If you want to see what Rose and Lily look like, look up "Thelma Todd and Clara Bow."
Crypt Girls 1923. Saint Louis, Missouri Rose drifted up the central stairs of the library, carrying the dusty tomes in her charge. She and Lily were "Crypt Girls," sorting and re-shelving books in the main stacks in the sub-basements. Rose was occasionally charged with helping people in the public research rooms, while Lily usually stayed in the stack down in the "The Crypt." The pay wasn't great, but with both her and Lily bringing in small paychecks as library assistants, they were able to keep up with the rent and have enough to live on, although sometimes a bit sparsely.
They'd graduated St. Tristan's after rooming together for four years there, and they'd gotten a lot closer than they'd ever have expected. Not long after they left the University, Lily had hired on at the library in Saint Louis and then sent Rose a letter asking if she was interested in working at the library as well. Rose was more than a little relieved; her mother was pressuring her to consider marrying a suitable well off man. Perhaps sensing the kind of relationship Lily and she had fallen into, her mother didn't really seem to care which man. Rose had happily moved in with Lily, and they'd easily resumed their relationship, a very easy-going "Boston Marriage." Very occasionally, they would accept a double date invitation to a club or dancing, but neither she nor Lily had any real desire for a serious long-term male companionship. They'd both tried that, and had some fun, but found each other much better company.
Even if they'd been inclined, dating men was problematic, the library did have a morals clause, even if it was nowhere near as strict or seriously enforced as some of the ones she had seen; an occasional date would be acceptable, but any hint of real impropriety, or even a long term relationship, would cost them their jobs.
The public library research room was usually empty during the day, with the exception of the "quiet man," Ken Stanton, who spent Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays researching almost from open to close. Rose figured he must be a professor, or, perhaps, a writer, although his broad shoulders seemed rather more designed for longshoreman duty. The conservatively dressed man was always intensely focused on his wide ranging research, but was invariably courteous and distantly friendly to Rose, who found usually herself searching for a bizarre variety of obscure texts on his behalf. He usually wore a nice linen suit, occasionally removing his jacket while he sorted through the Crypt of books Invariably, he would quietly ask for her permission to doff his jacket – and it wasn't in a perfunctory manner; she got the feeling he was actually concerned that he might offend her. She considered him something of a reliable fixture and, to be honest, a pleasant diversion. He was certainly better than the standard run of Frat boys she always had propositioning her, and he certainly had far better manners.
He'd been coming here since before even Lily started working at the library and knew the holdings well. A ragged scar ran down the left side of his face – Lily irreverently insisted that it was a dueling scar, but Rose harbored a suspicion that it was more serious, since his hands were heavily scarred as well. Perhaps, she mused, they were remnants of an early life hard-lived – or, she figured, he was of an age that he could well have served in the War. On anyone else, those scars might have been menacing, but he was so quiet and unassuming, they just didn't have any impact, at least on her. His rather broad and heavily muscled shoulders, however, did attract her attention, although not in a negative way. Lily teased her about him, telling her that she was dreaming of being carried off over one of his shoulders, and, perhaps she was, just a little bit. Of course Lily didn't seem too put off with the prospect of it herself – pointing out that he did, after all, have two shoulders well-suited for transporting fair maidens.
Today, Mr. Stanton was already in his shirtsleeves and linen vest – it was hotter than usual, even for mid August, and, while the tall ceilings and ceiling fans helped a lot, the heat was everywhere. The man seemed to be focused on the limestone caverns that dotted the central Missouri landscape –Rose had brought up a dozen books ranging from geology books to land grants, as well as recent newspapers from the area.
She shifted the final books onto the table next to him.
He glanced up at her. "Did you have any luck finding them all?"
She smiled. "Every one, although there were two different land grant volumes covering the time period you are looking at, so I brought them both."
His gaze focused on her more directly for a few seconds. "Oh? Well thank you, Rose, that will save some time." Distractedly he added. "I don't think I'll need anything else for a couple of hours, so you can retreat to the Crypt – it's a lot cooler down there. Beautiful flowers shouldn't be left to wilt in the heat." He said it in such an off-hand way that it was more a statement of fact than anything else.
Rose blushed, thanked him, and headed back down to the Crypt, first informing Mrs. Crenshaw of her whereabouts then working her way down to help Lily; as it turned out, Lily was as deep in the Crypt as it was possible to get – the 3rd subbasement, where the walls were carved from the living limestone. Lily was working just outside the restricted stacks– the area closed off to all but a few employees. The restricted stacks were for particularly rare and expensive books, city records, and those books that might be deemed of "morally corrosive nature." If a book in that zone were requested, Mrs. Crenshaw would have to get approval from at least two Library Board members, then, if the request was approved, the patron would have to do his or her research in the zone with a library assistant present at all times.
Lily was sliding books neatly into their places on the shelves from her huge wooden rolling cart, but once she saw Rose was alone she stopped and plopped herself onto a clear spot on the cart, leaning against the shelves.
"Have a seat, Rose," she gestured to another conspicuously open spot on the cart. Lily had a great memory, so she could shelve books many times faster than the next fastest attendant – a fact she occasionally took advantage of by getting way ahead, then sitting and reading for long periods of time. She still managed to get more far work done in the Crypt than anyone else. Mrs. Crenshaw certainly knew about Lily's long breaks, but overlooked it since the work got done. Besides, Lily could be a distraction if she were in the public areas. Lily's tall, lean form and white-blonde hair were just as notable as Rose's curly red locks and shorter, fuller figure, but Lily lacked Rose's ability to avoid confrontations. More than one college frat boy had been given a ringing slap before Lily was eventually sentenced to the Crypt.
Rose pulled her sweater off the cart, put it on and slid up onto the cart next to Lily.
Lily smiled and raised one eyebrow. "So how's our man?"
Rose told her about his comment on flowers and wilting.
Lily giggled. "Think he'd want to come down here and do a little gardening?"
For the next hour they shelved a few books and Lily quietly kept up a stream of endless sharp patter, full of gardening innuendos; she was especially interested in plowing and fertilizing. Both of them were in pretty silly moods when they heard the heavy door at the top of the stairs. Footsteps echoed as someone came down from the second subbasement.
Much to Rose's surprise, Mrs. Crenshaw came around the corner, leading Ken Stanton and carrying her heavy key ring. He had his jacket back on, which Rose felt sure would disappoint Lily, but the lower Crypt was quite cool.
"Rose. Lily. Mr. Stanton requires access to the restricted stack. So, given that we don't have a male assistant available today, I am going to require both of you to stay in the area. There are some books that require re-shelving in the restricted stacks any case."
Rose was puzzled, since any book pulled from the restricted stacks was always immediately re-shelved. After she let them in, however, Rose could see a large stack of volumes next to one of the large chairs in the research area in the center; clearly not everything had been put up. As they signed in, she noted that the previous research entry had been signed by Mrs. Garrison, the wife of the Library Board President. The research entry said, "various." Mrs. Crenshaw handed Rose a card with the authorized material listed, and stepped out in odd haste, leaving Lily and Rose trading puzzled looks.
Rose gestured to the chairs and tables. "Please, Mr. Stanton, take a seat and I'll find these records for you."
He smiled pleasantly and moved to a large green chair with a fairly large table in front of it. "Thank you, Rose, I'm looking at older land surveys and maps, so the large table is probably for the best."
Past him she could see Lily moving toward the large stack of un-shelved books left behind by Mrs. Garrison, pause and arch her eyebrows and mouth, "Rose?" silently. She jerked her attention back to Ken – er, Mr. Stanton – and nodded. "I'll be back."
The surveys and maps were side by side, so it was easy to round them up. When she returned Ken was seated in the chair writing in his notebooks while Lily sorted through the un-shelved books. After she laid the maps and surveys out she realized Lily hadn't moved – she seemed frozen, staring at an open book in her hand. Rose moved to her side and realized Lily's face was beet red.
"Are you okay?" she hissed.
Lily shook her head for second "I, um, I just..." her voice trailed off.
Rose had never seen Lily so out of sorts – she reached up to take the books from her, but it dropped from Lily's apparently nerveless fingers and slid right to Ken's foot. As he reached down and picked it up, Lily's flushed face paled and assumed a look of absolute horror.
Rose spun and stepped over to him, shooting a look back at Lily.
Ken flipped open the cover, glanced at the bookplate and gave a light chuckle, then extended it out to her.
"Generally not, I can assume, what Lily is used to sorting?"
Still confused Rose plucked the book from his hand and flipped it open to see just what was going on. She almost dropped the book herself. Rose was hardly inexperienced, but the stunningly graphic series of illustrations of people – from India to all appearances – engaged in a rather complicated and very acrobatic sexual coupling almost made her drop the book as well.
"Oh. Dear Heavens." She stopped, flushed from head to toe, and looked at Ken, seeing the amusement in his eyes.
He broke the awkward moment as smoothly as it was possible to do, all things considered.
"That is the Kama Sutra – it is technically a Tantric religious text, although that is not usually the reason copies are brought here from India. The binding looks new, but the plates are probably original to India judging by the paper. Probably cut from a series of scrolls. It's an extremely valuable work."
"I ... I..."
"Libraries have to keep all sorts of material Rose, that's what they are for. You and Lily are hardly accountable for Mrs. Garrison's choice of ... research material."
Lily stared at the pile - there were several more books – she started looking through them, placing each somewhat gingerly on the table again. Despite her overtly brash behavior, she was actually naturally shy – her brassy quips and comments were a shield of sorts.
"I think they're all, kind of ... like that." She held up one with an ornate lacquered wood cover while she glanced at the bindings. "These aren't classed by subject first like the rest – they are classed by country of origin, then subject. And all the subjects are different."
Ken nodded absently. "Since that's a Japanese 'marriage manual' or 'pillow book' you're holding, that makes sense. The Indian book is theology, the Japanese book would be considered an instructional book, an Arab version, if you have one, would be anatomy or physiology and that British 'Pearl Magazine' would be fiction." He seemed to be sinking deeper into poring over a particular map.
Rose decided to help Lily shelve the volumes while he continued research. It turned out to be quite a slow process, which wasn't exactly sped up by Lily's insistence on pointing our particularly interesting illustrations to her. Or, to be honest, her own interest in those illustrations. Lily was terrible; she kept showing Rose the most lewd illustrations, especially ones with two woman and one man in them – making doe eyes, fluttering her lashes at her and asking if she thought they could find a man who could, perhaps, assist them in studying this complex and fascinating subject -all the while looking in the direction of the reading room and winking. When Rose threatened to tie her up to make her behave, all Lily said was, "Great Britain, aisle two, shelf three, the whole shelf." Which turned out to be accurate. Caning and spanking, she helpfully pointed out, were on shelf four. And five.
Ken appeared to be oblivious to their quiet back and forth – for which Rose was grateful.
By the end of the day, the atmosphere was congenial, although not so "overly familiar" to where Mrs. Crenshaw would have any complaints, and they'd learned that the reason for Ken's knowledge was that he'd been an attendant at a library "not unlike this one" when he was younger. Although whatever it was he did now was still unspoken. Unlike most men, he didn't press the forced familiarity of the situation. That seemed to disappoint Lily a little, even if it was a relief to Rose. She liked working at the Library and really didn't want to end up unemployed. When Mrs. Crenshaw popped down quietly, probably with an eye to seeing what they were up to, she found them re-ordering the map section correctly, since Lily had noticed many of the maps were misfiled. After Ken finished his research, commenting that he'd be back the next day with tracing paper, he departed, and Mrs. Crenshaw returned to lock the iron grate, letting them head out for the day through the back entrance, nearest to their apartment block.
Lily and Rose stopped on the walk home for a quick meal at the Blue Star tea room, then headed home.
Once Rose latched the door, she felt Lily's arms around her.
"I've been absolutely starving for you all day!"
Rose turned and kissed her deeply, then, while Lily struggled with her clothing, "Me too. I can't believe you were so bad down there!"
Earlier in the day, Rose had planned on getting some reading done, but that was out the window tonight; perusing explicit books from ten countries had left both her and Lily with some creative new ideas.
Ken Stanton walked into the lushly appointed restaurant, keeping his hands in sight and sliding into the chair that Giovanni "Johnny" Gambini gestured to. Johnny's son Vittorio – or Vic – sat to his left with a thinly disguised look of contempt.
Ken accepted a glass of red wine from a concerned looking waiter.
Vic focused directly on his father. "Pops, look, I told you I can handle this – it's just those Green boys again. A good knocking and they'll back down."
Johnny looked at Ken. "Please forgive my son his lack of manners. One tries, but his Mamma spoiled him way too much."
Ken smiled, the flat, humorless smile of a true predator, although "Vic" didn't recognize it for what it was. Ken could sense the four nervous bodyguards checked their spacing – they didn't have the comfort of Vic's lack of familiarity.
"Sir, I think I understand your son's hesitance at taking in outside assistance. Caution with outsiders is a form of wisdom all its own."
Johnny smiled, recognizing the thin effort at civility, "Still, the police are paying all too close attention to this matter and something about it smells ... rotten. My boys are loyal, experienced, and well meaning, but I'd rather have a professional clean this up." Johnny glared at Vic as he said it, a not too subtle message to shut up.
Ken pretended not to notice. "I'll do this at the offered price, but I need a reliable delivery truck, nothing new. An old grocery truck would be best, I think. I don't know if I can recover the shipment, but I'll hunt down the ones who did it."
Johnny nodded. "Do you need any other equipment?" his slight pause made it clear "equipment" meant weapons.
"No, I have everything else I need." Ken paused. "I'm pretty sure your driver and the other man are dead. I can't think of any reason for them to be held this long without contact, and I think we'd know if they showed up anywhere. I doubt if your shipment is still around, but if I recover it, I'll take the finder's fee."
Johnny nodded. "That's fair. I feel bad about Tony and his brothers. I'll have to make that right with his family. As right as I can. Nothing will make up for the loss of three boys."
Ken simply stood up and shook hands with Johnny solemnly, then walked out.
Vic stared at his father, but before he could say anything, the old man heaved a sigh of relief, suddenly looking far more aged.
"Still breathing. I know he doesn't take those kind of jobs, but ... what if he decided to?" Looking at Vic he went on: "If I have a heart attack or get hit by a truck or whatever, when that man shows up and asks for his pay, you just pay it. Capelli tried to cheat him, that's why the Capelli family moved back to Sicily."
"He can't be that tough."
"Don't be a fool. If he wasn't, he'd be dead by now."
Vic started to respond, but Johnny staved him off with an upheld palm. "Don't argue. This is no game. This man? He doesn't bluff or threaten, he just does what he does."
Vic noted the concern in his father's voice. "Why do they call him Silence?"
"All I've ever heard is rumors. They say during the war he led a team of trench raiders. They'd creep across No Man's Land and kill enemy sentries and soldiers using garrotes, knives, clubs and axes. Prepare for the big assaults. I don't know that it is true, but that's the story."
Rose untangled herself from Lily as gently as possible and slid off the bed, as she did every morning. She always told herself – and Lily – that it was because she wanted to give Lily a few minutes extra sleep. When she was completely honest with herself, she admitted that with only the one washstand, she wanted to be cleaned up before Lily started her frantic preparations.
She just finished washing her face when she noticed in the mirror that Lily was up on one elbow watching her get ready.
"Good Morning, Sunshine."
"Good morning to you. Are you going to just lay in bed all day? Would you like me to bring your cart of books here to work on?"
"Oh, would you? Mrs. Crenshaw would certainly understand, just tell her you kept me up all night with your lascivious and insatiable appetites. You wore my poor, frail self so thin you can see a candle through me."
Rose threw her powder puff at Lily, hitting her shoulder, resulting in a delicate cloud.
"Who kept who up all night?! Deceitful woman."
"Oh you love it and you know it."
"I do. I really do. But still, you had better get your poor frail little self out of bed and get ready. I really don't think Mrs. Crenshaw will accept 'weariness from excessive Sapphic indulgence due to overexposure to morally corrupting material' as a good excuse for lateness."
Lily giggled, rolled over until she was crossways on the bed and rested her chin in her cupped palms, bright blue eyes twinkling. "If she did, I'd use that excuse every day."
Rose rolled her eyes. "Mrs. Crenshaw wouldn't consider the Apocalypse as a good reason for lateness."
Lily swung her legs off the bed and self-consciously smoothed her thin, white, chiffon peignoir.
"Well, if we're lucky, maybe we'll get trapped down in the Crypt with your man again!"
They were in fact "trapped" with Ken down in the Crypt for most of the morning. He'd brought several rolls of tracing paper and spent the morning tracing maps, then annotating them from his notebooks, occasionally asking Rose or Lily to hunt down one of the newspapers or books he'd been looking at. He was dutifully marking notations on the traced maps with a variety of colored pencils, then measuring and making more notations. He had a compass and a ruler as well as his colored pencils.
Lily's curiosity got the better of her.
"So, what are you doing?"
Ken finished scribing a red line.
"I don't really have a name for it – I'm looking at connections between events and geological formations for a customer."
Lily looked at the mesh of lines. "Does it ... pay well?"
Ken smiled – it seemed just a little less humorless than usual. "It can. It depends on the customer."
Rose sensed something off and was afraid Lily had said something offensive, and started to pull her away, but Ken smiled genuinely.
"If Mrs. Crenshaw approves I would to like to go ahead and work through lunch. If you two have no objection, I'll have lunch delivered here for all of us."
Lilly agreed for both of them – sometimes Rose despaired over how much Lily valued food – and when Mrs. Crenshaw came down to check on them, Ken explained that he really didn't want to lose track of what he was doing and proposed his lunch offer – even offering to purchase lunch for Mrs. Crenshaw. She hesitantly agreed, although she declined his offer for her to join them for lunch, as she was afraid it might show favoritism toward Rose and Lily. Ken wrote out a note and gave her two dollars and a note to give to one of the cab drivers who came to the library to pick up patrons for lunch. He hadn't asked what they wanted, but Rose figured two dollars would certainly buy some good sandwiches.
Rose and Lilly cleared off one of the research tables just in time. Mrs. Crenshaw escorted two large men down to the Crypt carrying large baskets – they laid out an absolute repast. Rose watched as Lilly's eyes almost bugged out of her head at the trays of food being laid out. The smells were indescribably delicious. One of the two men gave Mrs. Crenshaw a basket to take with her when she went upstairs.
It was hardly sandwiches. Instead, a huge array of Italian dishes were laid out, some of which Rose had never seen before.
One of the two men pulled a bottle of wine out of the basket along with three glass, and expertly filled and placed a glass in front of each of them.
"From Mr. Gambini, with his thanks."
Ken looked solemn for a moment and replied. "I appreciate it. And please tell him that the food is up to his usual fine standards."
Rose felt herself freeze, and saw Lily freeze as well, glass couched in one hand, eyes wide.
That, she felt, certainly explained the fine food. Gambini's was the finest restaurant in town. A single meal at Gambini's would cost more than she and Lily earned in a month combined. While that was disconcerting enough, Gambini was also known to be one of the most powerful racketeers and bootleggers in the city. And the familiarity meant that Ken was connected to him.
Lily caught her eye and shrugged, then sipped her wine, closing her eyes for a minute. After the men left, they began their meal and Ken watched bemusedly as Lily tore through dish after dish, declaring each one to be better than the last. Rose could hardly keep up with her, but was surprised at just how much she did eat. Each and every dish really was better than the last.
Despite everything, Ken didn't push his advantage with familiarity, although he responded to Lily's aggressive questioning with wry amusement.
"So, is Johnny Gambini one of your customers?"
"Sometimes. I do occasional research for him. He pays well, and I can always get a seat at his restaurant."
Lily peered at him with narrowed eyes and a slight smile, "What does your ... wife think of your work."
Rose was appalled at her lack of subtlety and kicked her under the table, eliciting a yelp.
Ken chuckled. "I'm afraid my work isn't very conducive to marriage."
"Oh, that's a terrible Pity". Although it was quite clear Lily didn't feel bad about that at all.
Rose felt it was a fair enough warning for any girl.
Despite being kicked, Lily kept up her barrage of questions. Which Ken fielded with good humor, and began politely responding with his own.
Lily responded with a flirtatious glee, far too forward for Rose's comfort. Still though, Ken adeptly turned the subject whenever it bordered on true impropriety and made sure Rose was pulled into the banter herself.
By the end of the meal, as they packed up the dishes into the baskets for the men to pick up later, Rose realized she felt she had known Ken for simply ages.
By the end of the day, when Ken prepared to leave, both she and Lily actually felt saddened by his announcement that he would be gone for several weeks.
Two days later, Rose found herself working with a large, repellent man with thin, unkempt hair, and staring dark eyes in a lupine face, slouched shoulders, long arms, huge hands and large discolored yellow teeth that reminded her vaguely of shovels. Mrs. Crenshaw, obviously repelled by him, introduced him as Mr. Pike. His furtive looks at her made her uncomfortable in a different manner than those of the frat boys and other men. The frat boys – and most men for that matter – were obviously picturing her in a state of dishabille, but in this man's case his desire seemed less like healthy carnal lust, and far more unclean. A vague foetid odor seemed to cling to him.
He'd asked for several books, some with German and Latin names, only a few of which were listed and most of them were in the restricted Crypt. His agitation at discovering he would have to fill out paperwork was clear. Rose patiently explained that she couldn't even get into the deeper Crypt without Mrs. Crenshaw's permission and keys, but he simply became surly and lurched from the library in visible anger leaving his material on the table.
Rose was hardly sorry to see him leave, but still resented his angry departure and furtive, unhealthy looks. She took the books down to Lilly in the Crypt and described the visitor while they sat, perched on Lily's cart.
Lily wrinkled her nose. "Sounds perfectly horrible. I hope I never meet him."
Rose shivered. "Guys look me over all the time, but the way he did it was..." she just trailed off as metal clinked over by the restricted Crypt. Rose stood up off the cart and stepped off in the direction of the sound, followed by Lily.
"Mrs. Crenshsaw?"
No answer but the creak of metal.
As they rounded the corner, the gate to the restricted stacks stood wide open. Lily pushed past Rose, eyes blazing. "I swear if it's those Kappa Sigma mugs down here again..."
She froze as the grotesque form of Mr. Pike limped out of the restricted Crypt, through the open gate, clutching several volumes in his oversize hands. A string of drool hung from the corner of his mouth, which was frozen in a hideous parody of a smile.
He hissed at them, "Oh, what lovely Queens you will make!"
Rose was about to scream, when they were both seized from behind by several sets of strong, clawed hands and rags dripping with a noxious chemical substance shoved into their faces. The last thing Rose saw as she lost consciousness was a set of yellow, shovel-shaped teeth grinning maniacally in triumph.
The old grocery truck sputtered along the dusty road, occasional ruts making efforts to wrench the wheel from Ken's hands. Weeks of dry heat had turned the landscape a dull brown – even the still-green trees were muted and dull. His ragged undershirt and stained work pants were almost the same color as the dull brown fields. A battered Ivy cap perched firmly on his head, twisted slightly to shade his eyes from the relentless stare of the sun.
Over the last three weeks, he'd turned up some interesting facts. The missing truck full of whiskey couldn't have gone far – the follow car had made it to the rendezvous point only five minutes later than expected, found out that the truck hadn't made it and turned right around finding the dead bootlegger only five miles back. There were really no connecting roads, but the ground had been baked hard enough that tracks were unlikely even in the open fields. Gambini was sure of his men's loyalty. And Ken had failed to find anything to indicate he was wrong. There'd been some leads, though – his ragged array of vegetables, bought second hand from Soulard Market, brought a lot of wives out to look them over and exchange gossip. The vegetables were selling better than they should have due to the drought's impact on local gardens and the fact that Ken was selling them below his cost. Stories seemed to center on a creepy hunchbacked man who had shown up a few months earlier – nobody really knew him, and nobody was sure where he was staying, but by the stories he certainly lived somewhere near the point where the truck had gone missing. Ken was sure the missing truck hadn't left the area, and he suspected it was being kept in one of the large caverns he'd found on the geologic surveys in the library.
He pulled the truck into a small wooded draw sheltering a small spring-fed pool off the side of the road and spent several minutes covering with brush. On inspection, it was clearly out of casual view of the road, the small pool had kept the greenery thick enough for a good hiding place, despite the drought. He knew he was going to have to be cautious. Gambini had been right, there was a least one Treasury agent looking into the situation – a known bootlegger, dead with his throat ripped out had drawn attention. The agent hadn't been very subtle, and all the housewives remembered the big blonde man very clearly, Ken had been careful to stay away from the agent's inquiries. The agent had apparently left a couple days ago, but Ken had heard that he had left his suitcase at a rooming house in the area.
Ken pulled a long bundle and an old Army pack from the truck and began to stride quickly, but quietly toward the nearest cave.
Rose wasn't sure how long she'd been here anymore, it seemed like forever; she was cold and damp ... and so gnawingly hungry. She had woken here, stripped and chained to the wall opposite Lily, whose bruised, pale, grime-covered body she could see curled in her corner, staring hollow-eyed, unblinkingly, around their tiny hell. They fed the girls occasionally, a nasty broth with undercooked chunks of gristly meat. It was probably a measure of how hungry they were that the awful meal was starting to taste normal. Recently, though, all they'd brought was a little iron-tasting water, obviously filthy, even in the dim reddish light that filtered in from the other side of the door. Both of the women felt sick, constantly queasy – and neither could sleep. After a couple days, a sibilant, unceasing whispering began that they just couldn't shut out, no matter how hard they tried. They never said it out loud, but they both knew they would be defiled. It hadn't quite happened yet but the awful men treated them horribly, leering and making grotesque gestures.
Once, a few days ago, one of the man-things had suddenly grabbed Lily and began to force her legs apart – in her weakened state all she could do was cry. But the others grabbed him and began to beat him unmercifully. He kept struggling to get to her right up until they caved his skull in. One of the animal-like men leered at her and uttered one of the few things any of them said. "Not ready yet."
At first she and Lily had talked, kept encouraging each other and looked for a way out, but the chains were massive and they didn't have anything to work with. As time dragged on, hope died and she and Lily had spent more and more time silently staring fixedly into each other's eyes. Lily's gaunt stare began to remind her of their grotesque captors, her shoulders hunching, her hands curling, claw-like. Worst of all, her eyes grew darker and darker, seeming to lose the beautiful blue that Rose loved so much.
Rose started at the sound of the metal door opening and cringed further back into her corner of the stone cell. Two of the misshapen men dragged something in. It was a man, a big, blonde man, badly beaten, breathing slow, shallow, labored breaths. His shirt and shoes were missing. The two captors produced a set of manacles and chained him to a large iron staple in the middle of the floor. Then they adjusted Lily and Rose's chains to give them another couple of feet of movement before walking out.
The door slammed shut.
Rose crawled over to the new limit of her chain and tried to rouse the man. Despite the blood, he felt clean, somehow better than their surroundings. Lily was doing the same thing, gently shaking him and whispering, he moved but didn't wake. Rose leaned closer. His smell filled her nostrils. She felt her mouth water.
Rose jerked back with a start, seeing Lily do the same – eyes wide in terror.
They knew now. They knew what the food was, knew why the food had stopped. The things had just brought fresher food this time. The whispering seemed louder, she was sure they were making vile, unspeakable promises, if only the girls would ... Rose heard a high pitched whining and looked at Lily, realizing that both of them were doing it.
Simultaneously they snatched each other's hands in an unbreakable grip.
"NO!" Rose wasn't sure which of them had spoken for a second, then realized it had been her.
Lily locked eyes with her – and Rose could momentarily see them flare to their old bright blue, hard and determined.
"I'd rather die."
They both knew they really would die, and they began to sob, almost silently, leaning into each other. They huddled protectively over the wounded man until they fell into fitful, useless half-sleep.
Ken crouched over the dead body – he'd smashed the man's head in with his old trench mace – if the ape-like figure really was a man. The trench mace was swifter and surer than the knife and lot less noisy than the shotgun slung over his back. He'd left his pack with its load of dynamite near the entrance.
After the finding the room with corpses of men and women hung up and butchered for meat, he'd gone back and killed the two "men" he'd knocked out and tied up; there would be no prisoners and he decided he really didn't want to hear any answers they might have. The men were oddly formed, degenerate things, stoop shouldered, heavily muscled with big staring eyes that never blinked and large yellow spade-like teeth. He'd had a bad feeling when he'd looked at them. The repulsive things were familiar. Figures from the past, things he'd hoped to never see them again.
He'd found the truck, although had been abused to the point of uselessness. He'd also found what seemed to the entrance to hell. The cave system was dimly lit with oil lamps placed sporadically throughout the chambers. The floor had been somewhat leveled and various chambers were used as rooms for different purposes. The abattoir had been the worst, but the floors of other rooms were coated in blood. In one room he found the Gambini's nearly pure alcohol. It was originally intended to be cut with water and colorized to produce ersatz whiskey, but it was spoiled for any purpose now – the barrels had been opened and severed heads floated in them.
Looking around a corner down a tunnel that seemed to lead steeply down, he could see two of the repellent men peering through a grating in a metal door. They were talking in harsh voices.
"They haven't fed. Why haven't they eaten?"
"Something is wrong, they're ... broken ... somehow..."
The other snarled angrily. "We did nothing wrong!"
One of them pulled a set of keys and began to unlock the door.
Glancing once more down the passage, Ken slid toward them silently, trench mace readied.
The cover over the tiny grating slid back, letting more dull red light into the cell. Rose looked at Lily then down at the blonde man. He was still alive, she could sense his heartbeat. The mouth-watering smell wasn't as compelling as it had been at first. She felt stronger, better. The unending sick feeling was gone for the first time she could remember since waking up here. Staring eyes leered at them through the window in the door. For some reason, she sensed that one of them was actually "Mr. Pike", even though she couldn't really see them and they were hard to tell apart anyway.
She felt their disappointment at the blonde man's survival. She looked over and saw a defiant look on Lily's face that she knew echoed her own. The horrible men would continue to be disappointed.
She returned her stare to the door as she heard the key turning and found her voice.
"You might as well kill us. It doesn't matter how much you hurt us, we'll never be like you!"
Mr. Pike started to respond, but was yanked suddenly from the window, with an odd crunching sound – moments later, something slammed hard into the cell door. Curious dragging sounds, with shifting light, then the door opened wide. As suddenly as if a radio was turned off, the horrible whispering scratching at the back of her skull abruptly stopped cold. A dark figure filled the doorway, a too-bright lamp in one hand and a heavy club of some kind gripped in the other.
Ken dragged the dead men from the door – they had been far too focused to hear his approach, and the mace had made short work of them. Grabbing one of the oil lamps, he pulled the door open.
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Avengers: Endgame Less Than $60 Million Away From Avatar's Record
By David Pountain 1 month ago
Avengers: Endgame is currently at the tail end of its seventh weekend in theaters, and while the movie's box office momentum has slowed considerably at this point, the Avengers: Infinity War sequel continues to edge its way closer to matching Avatar's record.
It was a few weeks ago that Endgame passed Titanic to become the second highest grossing movie of all time, and in the period since, the film has managed to get its global total up to almost $2.731 billion. This puts Endgame just $57 million behind Avatar's figure of $2.788 billion. Relatively speaking, that may not sound like much, but as Anthony and Joe Russo's latest flick continues to slip down the weekly rankings, it's clear that Endgame still has a long journey ahead of it.
Back in April, the film got off to a phenomenally strong start, smashing Infinity War's record for biggest opening weekend of all time. In the weeks that followed, however, Endgame couldn't sustain its success nearly as well as James Cameron's 2009 sci-fi, and the abundance of competition that's emerged over the summer certainly hasn't helped matters.
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Meanwhile, domestically, the film boasts a total of $824.4 million, putting Endgame comfortably ahead of Avatar's $749.8 million haul ($760.5 million if you include the 2010 theatrical re-release). Nonetheless, this figure still puts Endgame well short of the top spot in North America, and right now, the $936.7 million total boasted by Star Wars: The Force Awakens is looking pretty untouchable.
Regardless, on a global level, Avengers: Endgame is still very much in this race, and in the coming weeks, it'll be interesting to see how the film copes as new competition emerges. Speaking of which, the MCU's own Spider-Man: Far From Home is expected to do pretty well for itself when the flick hits theaters on July 2nd.
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CreativeExecs Spotlight: Ed Roberts
by Cella Staff | March 04, 2013
Recently, I was introduced to a dynamic individual within our creative community who has been very vocal in introducing youngsters to creative careers: Ed Roberts. Ed's career has been taken him from agency life to in-house creative leader (currently as the Creative Lead at ElectricCities of NC, Inc.). In addition, he is an Editorial Council Member & Contributor with the InHOWse Designer Blog and WWDUC2 Chair for the 2013 AAF-RDU Summer Internship Program.
Having participated in industry awareness and career preparation events myself, I was particularly interested in the program "What We Do U Can 2" (WWDUC2). Ed, with the Diversity Committee with AAF-RDU (American Advertising Federation--Raleigh, Durham, Carey, Chapel Hill), launched this program in Fall 2012. Ed made time in his hectic schedule to speak with me about this program, which is aimed at promoting creative career opportunities for high school students with diverse backgrounds in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina.
Matt Lang: What was the spark for launching WWDUC2?
Ed Roberts: I've been very involved with local chapters of AIGA and AAF and understand the value of the exposure these groups offer, especially as it relates to expanding the reach of an in-house creative team's exposure. An opening came up on the AAF-RD's board for the Diversity Chair, and I was asked to lead the committee. The focus of this committee is to get a more diverse background of people within the creative community. What we saw, as creatives, was that they weren't many people in agency environments with a diverse background, even though large portions of marketing campaigns were targeting diverse communities. With that in mind, we felt a great way to introduce creative careers was through an internship program.
Matt: What is the mission and objective of program?
Ed: The mission is to encourage and affect the lives of talented, diverse high school and freshman college students who are creative and show an interest in advertising. We want to present WWDUC2 as a viable, gratifying option by providing real-life experiences to fuel their interests and inspire them to pursue a career in advertising.
Matt: Launching a new program such as this can be difficult as the education and introduction of the program is very time consuming. What are your initial goals for the program and how are you introducing the program to the community?
Ed: The goal for our first year is to engage 10 students to participate in the 2013 AAF-RDU Summer Internship program, placing one student in each participating host business. The program has been very well received. The most successful outlet for youth participation to this point has been with local youth councils in and around the area. In fact, the youth council relationship took off and the program is now listed on the state's website. We are also participating in high school career fairs and very involved with social media. We produced a promotional video with the committee members and local creatives
Matt: What companies are participating in the internship?
Ed: This was a concern at first, but we called out to the leading advertising agencies in the Raleigh-Durham area and held a "Breakfast of Champions" meeting. The response was more than we could've imagined. From that meeting, 10 companies signed up to be a host company for the internship.
Matt: What is the process for students to apply, and how has the response been thus far?
Ed: [Studients are required to submit a] typed essay of 300 words max on the topic, "How my talents could help an ad agency this summer." A letter of recommendation from a teacher or guidance counselor and an official transcript and parental consent [is also required]. The response has been incredible. We held an event in January at a Youth Council meeting and received 15 applications from one presentation. We hope to reach 100 applications in our first year.
Matt: That's quite a lofty goal, but what next? What is your vision for this program?
Ed: We are already talking to other chapters of AAF and would like to expand statewide and nationally...there is definitely a master plan in place!
During our conversation, Ed mentioned how technology has impacted today's youth and how integrated it is within our lives, I was interested in digging a bit deeper into this topic as it has a direct impact on career opportunities and the ability to produce creative.
Matt: You mentioned the accessibility of technology to today's youth, how do you think this will affect the creative/advertising community in 10-20 years?
Ed: I think this will create a knowledgeable client base. It will strengthen the relationship between the agency and client and hopefully produce better work.
I want to personally thank Ed Roberts for his time and applaud him for his work with AAF-RDU in launching WWDUC2. As someone who has helped organizations find talent, it's no secret that it is becoming increasingly difficult to attract creative youth to the industry. With that said, Ed and his peers' work, and hopefully the expansion of the program, is a great way to introduce a rewarding career path for today's youth.
Since originally writing this article, Ed, along with the diversity committee with AAF-RDU won a silver Addy award for the summer internship's marketing collateral campaign, which included the logo, posters, t-shirt, flash presentation and video. The video alone won a bronze Addy! The judges represented Creative Directors from the Los Angeles, Chicago and Colorado Springs advertising markets, along with the local advertising community, which shows the viability to grow this program on a national level!


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Alexey Petrovich Buturlin (January 13, 1802 – January 26, 1863) was a lieutenant general, Governor of Yaroslavl, senator; brother of Dmitry and Mikhail Buturlin. The owner of the large family estate Marinka.

Biography
The son of a retired captain of the Izmailovsky Life Guards Regiment Pyotr Buturlin (1763–1828) and Maria Shakhovskaya (d. April 22, 1803).

Received a good education at home. Having started his service in 1819 as a cadet in the Life Guards Jaeger Regiment, he soon, of his own free will, was transferred to the Chevalier Guard Regiment and in 1822, he was promoted to cornet.

In 1829, with the rank of His Majesty's aide–de–camp, after the conclusion of peace with Turkey, Buturlin was sent to the active army to be handed over from the Sovereign Field Marshal's baton to the Commander–in–Chief Count Diebitsch. Since 1830, he was under the Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich in Poland, where the next year he took part in the suppression of the uprising and, for the storming of Warsaw, was awarded the Order of Saint Vladimir, 4th Degree.

In 1839, Colonel Buturlin was entrusted with overseeing the recruitment process in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate, which was carried out according to the new, first introduced in Russia, lottery system. In 1841, he was entrusted with the destruction of the riots that arose between the peasants of the Livonian Governorate.

On January 12, 1846, he was awarded the Order of Saint George, 4th Degree (No. 7391). On July 1, 1846, Buturlin was promoted to major general, enrolled in the retinue of His Majesty, and was appointed military and civilian Governor of Yaroslavl. He remained in this position for 15 years. On August 26, 1856, Buturlin was promoted to lieutenant general, and in 1861, he was appointed a senator and assigned to the 1st Department of the 5th Department of the Governing Senate, where he remained until his death "from softening of the brain" on January 26, 1863. He was buried in Saint Petersburg, in the Feodorovskaya Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

Awards
Order of Saint Anna, 3rd Class (January 16, 1826)
Order of Saint Vladimir, 4th Class With a Bow (June 25, 1831)
Badge of Distinction for Military Merit, 4th Class (1831)
Order of Saint Anna, 2nd Class (September 1, 1839)
Insignia of Blameless Service for 20 Years (1845)
Order of Saint George, 4th Class for 25 Years of Immaculate Service in the Officer Ranks (January 12, 1846)
Order of Saint Vladimir, 3rd Class (1848)
Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st Class (April 22, 1850)
Order of Saint Anna, 1st Class (1854)
Insignia of Immaculate Service for 30 Years (1855)
Order of Saint Vladimir, 2nd Class With Swords (1858)
Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd Class With a Star (1851, Kingdom of Prussia)

Family
From 1835, he was married to the maid of honor Olga Sukhtelen (December 13, 1816 – April 12, 1891), daughter of General Pavel Sukhtelen (1788–1833) and Countess Varvara Zubova (1799–1880), who abandoned her husband and daughter, and "had other children from other men". About their marriage, Alexander Bulgakov wrote to his daughter:

They had two daughters in marriage:
Alexandra Alekseevna (1836–1907), married to Vasily Popov (1835–1866);
Maria Alekseevna (1849–?), married to Naydenov.

References

Sources
Buturlin, Alexey Petrovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary: in 25 Volumes – Saint Petersburg – Moscow, 1896–1918

1802 births
1863 deaths
Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class
Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class
Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 2nd class
Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 3rd class
Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 1st class
Russian people of the November Uprising
Senators of the Russian Empire

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Rahm adds another top 15 to the list in Illinois
Jon Rahm finished in a valiant fourteenth place in the John Deere Classic, PGA Tour tournament held on TPC Deere Run course in Silvis, Illinois.
The Spanish golfer shot below a 70 in all four rounds (69-66-69-67) and ended up with an accumulated total of 13 under par, just one shot from the top ten and two from fifth place. Once again, the golfer from Barrika battled it out for the top positions throughout the entire week.
With this top 15, the fourth this season so far (Jon started out from the OHL Classic on, around November last year), he has already surpassed the million dollar milestone. On top of that, he did it in record time, as a professional he's only been playing for less than two months and six tournaments total.
Another outstanding performance for Rahm who will compete in the last tournament of the regular PGA Tour season this week, the Wyndham Championship. If he takes home the win he will make it into the FedEX Cup playoffs. If not, vacation time, to enjoy what he's accomplished after one fantastic year and to start preparing for next season with the PGA Tour card in hand.
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CAMPS AUSTRALIA WIDE loves Borumba Deer Park – and keep coming back. As you can see from the photos we tend to visit with other families, we've been there for summer breaks, karaoke nights, as well as boating on nearby Borumba Dam. Here's a perspective from a younger family, and Sunshine Coast local, Emma Thompson. Camping with a 5-year-old and an energetic dog as a single Mum certainly has its challenges but once I had worked out the basics, like how to put a tent up on your own (in case you were wondering the answer was an Instant Up' tent), then there
Michelle Gilmore	13 January, 2022
Swim with crocodiles at Lake Argyle, Western Australia
Hire the BBQ Boat on Lake Argyle, WA – image Adams Family Travels Lake Argyle Caravan and Camping Park is located 70km east of Kununurra in the amazing Kimberley region. They offer a range of villas, cabins, powered and unpowered sites to suit all travellers. You can enjoy a meal in the beer garden and there is also regular live entertainment on the grass area. The infinity pool would have to be one of the most photographed pools in Australia (also one of the coldest). Enjoy spectacular views of Lake Argyle and the surrounding ranges while enjoying a swim. There
Hike and camp at Southern Lost City, Northern Territory
When you look at these amazing photos, can you believe this is a site you can camp at? This budget national park site is 4WD only – suitable for caravans, tents (including roof tops and swags) and camper trailers. You'll find toilets, picnic tables and fire pits. It is not pet friendly and generators are not permitted at night. Karen Putna shared her photos of the park and said, "Southern Lost City (is) between Lorella Springs and Butterfly Falls on the Savannah Way. An amazing 2/3 hour walk to do the circuit." If you want to be remote, or like
Must See: Cobbold Gorge, Queensland
Hidden in the Gulf Savannah of Queensland is a natural wonder you will want to put on your bucket list. CAMPS Ambassadors Dan and Manda cruised the gorge and trekked the walls, capturing these beautiful images. The only access to this unique landmark is via a guided tour. The rugged sandstone cliffs are up to 19 metres high, and includes an area of about 80 square kilometres. The gorge narrows to just 2 metres in places which indicates that it is the youngest known gorge in Queensland today. Be wowed by the geological processes you will see! They stayed at
NEW LISTING: Secret Lake Retreat, New South Wales
Budget priced, pet friendly, modern amenities, big rigs, fishing, swimming – here's a new camp that has the lot! Secret Lake Retreat officially opened for December 2021, and is live in the Camps Australia Wide App. Situated north west of Lawrence, in the Clarence Valley, on the NSW north coast, west of Yamba. There are over 800 acres of bushland to explore and a gorgeous 60 acre private lake! You'll find sandstone outcrops, waterholes, seasonal creeks and no nearby neighbours, a perfect destination for a relaxing retreat. So new, not all sites have been fully levelled. With unallocated sites, just
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4WD to the Homestead Camp, Dirk Hartog Island, Western Australia
The Homestead Campground – Images by Adams Family Travels Here's an update from CAMPS Ambassadors, Dale and Tracey from Adams Family Travels: The Homestead Camp is located approximately 20 km from the barge landing. There are plenty of campsites here, including some suitable for groups. Most people will spend their last night here before they leave the island as it is close to the barge and it can be an early departure time for some. There are toilet and shower facilities as well as a camp kitchen. We enjoyed a coffee from the Inscription Bar & Cafe in the morning
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Amazing beach views: Weipa Camping Ground, Queensland
Have you visited Weipa? Located on Albatross Bay on the western side of Cape York Peninsula – it is right on the Gulf of Carpentaria. Renowned for fishing, wilderness and beaches, this mining town is seriously remote: 800 km drive from Cairns, and 200 km from 'The Tip'. CAMPS AUSTRALIA WIDE ambassadors, Overland Exposure, visited Weipa Camping Ground recently and said, "Amazing site with beach views! Some unpowered sites are large and have water views, others not so ask when booking. Kids' playground, refreshing pool, restaurant to eat at with outdoor dining which was nice. Woolies and shops just outside."
William Bay National Park now open
Greens Pool, Elephant Cove Western Australia The McGowan Government has recently announced the completion of the first two stages of the William Bay National Park renewal project and reopening of the park to the public. Greens Pool and Elephant Rocks are much loved icons in Western Australia – near Albany. You can camp at Parry Beach or caravan parks in Denmark. In 2019, the State Government invested $4.4 million over two years to renew ageing visitor infrastructure in the park and to protect the fragile coastal vegetation. The visitor experience is now better than ever with the completion of newly
Wollumbin National Park, New South Wales closures continue
From our visit in January 2020 – the National Park is currently closed The chains at the top of MT WARNING have been removed in the currently closed Wollumbin National Park (Courier Mail). Having grown up in the NSW Tweed Valley, I remember these chains well – they helped climbers reach the rocky summit – in the final leg of a 4 km hike up to the top of a mountain, where you could view Australia's first sunrise of the day. The formerly known Mount Warning National Park was shut last March "to comply with COVID-19 rules on public gatherings and


The project is sponsored by the Research Promotion Foundation (RPF) of Cyprus. The project is part of the "Nikos Simeonides" 2010 prize for Excellence in Research, awarded to Prof. S. C. Kassinos (the coordinator of the project).
The ASBM is an advanced Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) model of turbulence that holds significant promise for improved turbulence predictions in complex engineering flows. Having originally been formulated at Stanford University, the ASBM has, over the last decade, been further developed at the Computational Sciences Laboratory (UCY-CompSci) of the University of Cyprus. The model allows improved flow predictions for many important benchmark cases, involving two-dimensional mean flow configurations, but has so far not been extensively tested in flows with three-dimensional effects, such as separation and re-attachment. However, a number of important applications, spanning diverse engineering fields, such as body-wing junctions in aerodynamics and airflow and particle deposition in the human respiratory system, involve strong three-dimensional effects. Therefore, an important next step in the continued development of ASBM is the validation, and if necessary further development of the model, for a number of benchmark cases involving internal flow with significant three-dimensional effects. To achieve this goal we compute a number of benchmark cases of increasing complexity leading finally to the computation of the flow in a simplified model of the human respiratory system.
The project aims at the further development and validation of the Algebraic Structure-Based Model (ASBM) for three-dimensional internal turbulent flows, with the long term objective to use the model in simulations of air flow and aerosol deposition in the human respiratory system.
3) To promote the adaptation of the ASBM in a number of engineering fields, such as in biomedical engineering.
1) To optimize the existing implementation of ASBM in a highly scalable, MPI-based, parallel Navier-Stokes solver (CDP2.4), on structured/unstructured grids, for efficiency and stability.
a. Fully-developed turbulent flow in a pipe.
b. Fully-developed turbulent flow in a square-duct.
c. Fully developed flow in a bifurcating pipe (simplified model of trachea and bronchi).
3) To refine the model by addressing potential shortfalls identified during the testing phase.
4) To collaborate with international individual researchers for the thorough validation of the model and for exchange of knowhow on the numerical implementation of the ASBM, thus further promoting the international dimension of the ASBM.
UCY-CompSci is organizing a workshop in Cyprus during which the main scientific and technological outcomes of the project will be presented. The workshop is arranged on 23 of May 2014 at 10:00. It will take place at the conference room at the Nireas building 96 Kyrenias street, Aglantzia.
DNS of a fully developed turbulent pipe flow, at Re_bulk= 5300 and Re_tau=180. Contours of instantaneous streamwise velocity U_x. Non- dimensionalization is carried using the bulk velocity (u_bulk=1), and radius of the pipe (R=1). The upper part of the video is an x-y cross-section (at z/R=0), while the lower part of the video is a z-y cross-section (at x/R=7.5).
UCY-CompSci will organize a seminar in Cyprus during which the main scientific and technological outcomes of the project will be presented. The targeted audience will include experts in Computational Fluid Mechanics from both research institutions and SMEs. The Seminar will be organized during the last two months of the project, but the exact date will be specified at a later time in order to maximize the impact of the event (and to avoid potential conflicts with other events).
DNS of a turbulent bifurcation pipe. For the construction of the geometry we have used the physiologically realistic bifurcation model of T. Heistracher and W. Hofmann (J. Aerosol Sci., Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 497-509, 1995). The mathematical description of the carina region has been modified to achieve a smoother join of the two outlet branches. To achieve physical turbulent inlet profile we use the recycling boundary condition. The video shows contours of the instantaneous velocity magnitude U_mag.
Note that the Reynolds numbers are based on the local pipe diameter and local bulk velocity.
DNS of a turbulent Y-junction pipe. For the construction of the geometry we have used the physiologically realistic bifurcation model of T. Heistracher and W. Hofmann (J. Aerosol Sci., Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 497-509, 1995). The mathematical description of the carina region has been modified to achieve a smoother join of the two inlet branches. To achieve physical turbulent inlet profiles we use the recycling boundary condition (the arrow in the upper branch in pointing in the wrong direction). The video shows contours of the instantaneous velocity magnitude U_mag.
Biomedical flows was one of the focus areas of the TOK-DEV project and an area where UCY-CompSci has developed significant know-how. We have developed the capability to carry out high-fidelity simulations of aerosol deposition in models of the human respiratory system. We have shown that turbulence generated in the upper airways persists at least down to the first few generations of the bronchi and at least for a part of the inhalation cycle. Hence, Large Eddy Simulations (LES) are ideally suited for probing the fundamental aspects of these flows and for gaining a better understanding of the factors (such anatomy, chronic disease etc.) that affect aerosol deposition. On the other hand, for routine patient evaluation of customized treatment strategies LES is still too expensive. We are thus also engaged at developing the capability to carry RANS based simulations using the Algebraic Structure-Based Model (ASBM).
UCY-CompSci is also active in hemodynamics, for example we are using LES to study the flow factors that contribute to the rapture of aneurysms in the carotid. Aneurysm rapture remains notoriously difficult to predict, an indication that we still do not understand all the mechanism that determine the evolution of aneurysms to the point of rapture. Using real carotid geometries and velocity data we have shown that even for nominal Reynolds numbers that would correspond to laminar flow, in the vicinity of the aneurysm the flow becomes unstable and turbulent-like at least for part of the heartbeat cycle. This inherent flow unsteadiness is thought to contribute to a modified distribution of shear stresses on the walls of the aneurysm and could prove to play role in raptures.


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Jaipur Literature Festival at Houston: Day 1
Friday September 13, 2019 6:30 pm
Asia Society Texas Center
1370 Southmore Boulevard
JLF at Houston is produced by Teamwork Arts, in partnership with Inprint, Asia Society Texas Center, and the Consulate General of India
TICKETS: To purchase $50 tickets for the Friday and Saturday portion of the festival click here. To purchase $20 tickets for just the Saturday portion of the festival click here.
Teamwork Arts, producers of the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, brings to Houston an iconic event where ideas and perspectives jostle with intellectual vigor. Enjoy a two-day festival with internationally acclaimed authors and thinkers engaging in a range of provocative panels and debates alongside Houston's best local writers on the thoughts and issues that resonate with our time. The Friday portion of the tw0-day festival includes the following. For details on the Saturday portion of the festival click here.
Inaugural Address: Each Other's Stories
Poetry reading by Daniela Arnold, followed by remarks by William Dalrymple, Sanjoy K. Roy, Rich Levy, and Consul General of India in Houston Anupam Ray
Landscapes of Writing
Keynote Address by Bapsi Sidhwa
JLF Houston is proud to felicitate novelist Bapsi Sidhwa, iconic raconteur of diasporic voices, legendary chronicler of the Indian subcontinent, for her work, voice, and vision.
Houston resident Bapsi Sidhwa is an American-Pakistani writer of Parsi descent. The author of five acclaimed novels, she is also known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta, whose film Earth was based on Sidhwa's acclaimed novel The Ice Candy Man.
Sidhwa will deliver her keynote address where she speaks of her journey with words, across cultures, and continents.
VIP Reception and Musical Performance
About the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival: Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Writers and Festival Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple alongside producers Teamwork Arts invite speakers to take part in the five-day program set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur.
About Asia Society Texas Center: With 13 locations throughout the world, Asia Society is the leading educational organization promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among the peoples, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the West. Asia Society Texas Center executes the global mission with a local focus, enriching and engaging the vast diversity of Houston through innovative, relevant programs in arts and culture, business and policy, education, and community outreach.
Jaipur Literature Festival at Houston: Day 2 »


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1 p.m. Bingo, writing group.
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Archiv der Kategorie: Marianne Elliott
Arthur Miller, English, Marianne Elliott, Miranda Cromwell, Theater/Theatre, Young Vic
Make-Belief Humans
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman, Young Vic Theatre, London (Directors: Marianne Elliott & Miranda Cromwell)
Reality is a fickle thing. In Arthur Miller's classic, travelling salesman Willie Loman increasingly loses his grip on it, getting swept up in memories, fantasies and long lost dreams. In the Young Vic's new production, reality is not much to begin with. Anna Fleischle's set focuses on fragments: door and window frames hang suspended from the ceiling, so do pieces of furniture, they are lowered or brought forward when needed, providing an illusion of reality while emphasising its sketchy nature. The world is skeletal, no more than a hint of a physical presence long dissolved or never existing in the first place. Willie Loman is a man of illusions, of elaborate dreams, a captive of self-deception, a victim of his own make-belief. This is the world he lives in: a vague idea of a half-realised reality in which nothing has substance. So it doesn't really matter whether we're in the present or the past, the "real" or the "imagined". All of this is a fantasy, born of the dream that's called American, of its promise and its lies.
English, Marianne Elliott, National Theatre, Theater/Theatre, Tony Kushner
The Stubborn Absurdity of Hope
Tony Kushner: Angels in America, National Theatre, London (Director: Marianne Elliott)
"A gay fantasia on national themes": the subtitle of Tony Kushner's two-part take on an America at a watershed moment of history – between AIDS epidemic and end of the Cold War – hints at the scope of what is arguably one of the most significant plays of the 1990s. Opening in 1993 and 1994, respectively, the wounds are still visible, the pain still fresh. The death of certainties, the dread of an approaching apocalypse – the threat of a nuclear war was still real in 1985 when the play takes place while the environmental threats such as the vanishing ozone layer started getting mass attention – found expression in Kushner's panorama of lost people questioning their identities, drifting along in the search for meaning, lashing out against the loss of the old world order. Built around a young man battling with AIDS, the loosely and sometimes bizarrely connected personnel are like explorers in a hostile and unknown universe who have to find their way mostly without help while longing for the closeness and warmth and support they all seem to have lost. With the arrival of the supernatural, an Angelic sphere that's lost its God, the view widens to the universal. Humankind has to find their own way, no God will help, the angels being as lost as those they mean to protect.
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English, Marianne Elliott, Mark Rylance, National Theatre, Old Vic, Theater/Theatre, Tori Amos
Once upon a time: Notes from the London stage
William Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing, The Old Vic, London (Director: Mark Rylance) / Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson: The Light Princess, National Theatre/Lyttelton Theatre, London (Director: Marianne Elliott)
Let us start with an apology: Yes, London is one of the, if not the leading theatre capital in Europe, a city full of stages as rich in tradition as they are in variation. There is little not to be found in Britain's capital, so if the following two reviews are little more than underwhelming, this is more to do with this reviewers poor choice in current productions than with the overall quality of London's theatre offerings. But alas, truth must be told and it is a matter of fact that not all is well on the London stage and two productions very different in nature must serve as witnesses: one a rather uninspired new take on one of Shakespeare's more popular comedies, the other a musical that might not be remembered – or running, for that matter – for very long.


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I will discuss both the personal and professional prices that influence communal work practice and discuss an especially challenging experience I had developed with two service users who came for counselling where myself and a professional social staff member was to aid the service consumer. The brands of the service users have been altered to ensure confidentiality.
An important thing to discover regarding beliefs in communal work practice, in line with the Central Council for Education and Training in Friendly Work (CCETSW) is the fact that "values are essential to somewhat than distinct from experienced practice. Therefore there may be no such thing as value free communal work practice. Such is the effect of values in sociable work practice that CCETSW lay out six core values, that the university student must show competence in, before she/he can be awarded the Diploma in Sociable Work. The to begin these ideals is: "to recognize and question their own principles and prejudices, and there implications for practice".
It is challenging to discover your own prices, as often they are simply unconscious ideas or views, which can only be challenged or changed, when brought to the mindful level.
Personal, societal, politics and cultural experiences influence the ideals that an individual develops, so that it is important to be alert to these affects. The ideals people hold have an impact on just how they take action and treat other folks, without an awareness of this people can unconsciously respond in what may be perceived as an oppressive and discriminatory way.
Another of the key value requirements of CCETSW 1995, and one, which illustrates one of the dilemmas faced by Social Workers, is: "Promote people's protection under the law to choice, privacy, confidentiality and security, while recognising and handling the complexities of competing rights and needs". (CCETSW 1995). To demonstrate this difficulty here are some is a explanation of a challenging practice I have experienced, throughout a counselling session I had developed with a women whom I shall call Jane. Jane came for counselling because she is at a violent romance. She defined how her husband both bodily and mentally abused her, and that she had a history of maltreatment from handling men. She possessed returned to London from Pakistan where she and her spouse lived, after he had once again abused her whilst she was in the process of deciding whether in which to stay Wales or go back to her spouse in Pakistan. Her spouse has two children from a earlier relationship, for which he has guardianship, although this is not really a particular concern for Jane, for me personally there could be a discord of competing protection under the law. Jane had a right to privateness and confidentiality, however the children had the right to cover. Confidentiality in situations like this ". . . may be breached, where it is demonstrably in the client's interest or where there is an overriding concern for the protection under the law of other people, when for example the behaviour of the client may endanger others". (Social Care Association 1988).
Had my role in this been that of a kid and Family Friendly Worker the rights of the Children would have been paramount. As I caused Jane I became aware of my own principles that have been urging me to protect her, and wanting to encourage her to stay in London. Only by reflecting on my practice did I become aware, I possibly could have grown to be another controlling male figure and overlooked the opportunity to enable her to seize control for herself.
Jane made her decision to come back to her man in Pakistan, I did so not hear from her again for one months, after which time she made another appointment to see me - this time with her spouse who I shall call Costs.
When they arrived to see me and my colleague I used to be aware that I had seen Jane on her own previously and was careful to guarantee the things she experienced discussed were kept confidential, and that I did not unintentionally disclose these to Monthly bill. Jane had told me her story that I needed developed my own picture of Bill, before even interacting with him. Expenses was a large man, very loud and appeared hostile at first, I was a little concerned about the safe practices of Jane, myself and my colleague, for the reason that first assembly. When writing my records after the treatment, and analysing what went on, one of the questions I had of my practice was: What got Expenses done to make me feel threatened? He did not verbally or actually harm me, or make any threats, after representation, I felt it might have been because he was different. Invoice was from some other culture of Pakistani Pataan descent, he was extra tall and a intensely build, and his way of communicating was to shout as that is how he received attention. EASILY were to work favorably and constructively with Expenses, I had a need to act in an anti oppressive and anti discriminatory way, to ensure that he received the same value that clients have the right to, and that I treated him as a unique individual.
Having recognised my very own personal prejudices, I could identify more evidently the strengths Costs had also to build on them. This experienced quite an impact on future counselling sessions. Bill respected being paid attention to and respected, his words level decreased and he ceased to listen to Jane which provided her the chance to tell him how she believed. As we progressed the counselling relationship became more of a relationship, we viewed the various ways they communicated, Bill started out to 'own' the violence he had previously rejected and Jane grew in self-confidence, and could share her own needs and expectations. We agreed to set duties and goals each week that allowed them to check on their improvement, which further empowered them.
To empower is to permit people to increase control of their lives, never to control others, Monthly bill had a need to recognise that by taking control of his life, he also needed to control his behaviour not to control others. Empowering is also helpful in making clients see their problems in the wider socio-political framework as regarding Jane.
-for example, by supporting a woman who has experienced assault at the side of her partner to become aware of the broader communal problem of domestic violence and it's really links with male ability in contemporary society, so that she will not see her own situation as simply an unfortunate development or, worse still, something she's brought on herself (Mullender, 1996).
Through this experience Jane found the confidence to endure Bill, telling him she would only go back to the matrimony if things changed. Bill found a far more constructive way of conversing, he became more open to taking a look at change, and I learned a lot more about my own personal and professional beliefs and their affect on practice.
There are a few theories that explain the development of our own behaviour and principles. Thompson (1993) developed a "Personal computers model". The P level is our thoughts, thoughts, actions and attitudes although an individual may also be shaped by the culture we reside in. The C level is exhibiting the hobbies and impact of contemporary society as reflected in the values and norms we receive during socialisation. Finally the S level is actually the composition of world we live in. Even though we have individual thoughts and behaviour, the individuals we reveal our lives with condition them plus they in turn are designed by the norms and beliefs handed to them by world.
As I have discussed, worth have a significant influence on Community work practice, the personal values we have affect just how we react from birth through to old age, and our principles can change as we develop, both personally and professionally and they can conflict with each other. The core values establish by CCETSW underpin the task and enables Sociable Employees to work within an anti oppressive and anti discriminatory way and these beliefs have changed as time passes and I recommend, will continue to change when necessary in the future. It is vital that Social Individuals have and understanding and knowledge of these values as they have a significant have an effect on on the vulnerable service users they use.


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