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Episode 206: New Enemies
by Kaiser Don
"Major," Zim called out to him over the power suits comm.system.
"Here" Rico answered with out much tone in his voice. T'Phai's death was not something he was prepared to deal with. He had seen many troopers die in battle, but this was different. They had all made it home. The war was over, this was not supposed to happen. He shook his head. But since when was anything supposed to go the way you wanted it to?
"There's a ship approaching, it's coming in now."
Rico left the old dropship and stepped outside on to the planet's surface. He could see the silhouette of the ship against the sun growing. It was T'Phetti. Zim and Dizzy covered the perimeter about thirty meters out. Rico called them back in. "Everyone off the ship! Our ride's here."
The Roughnecks came out, followed by the T'Phetti carrying the body of T'Phai. The Roughnecks formed two lines like an honor guard as T'Phal and his men carried T'Phai out.
The T'Phetti ship landed and lowered a plank to the surface. A couple of T'Phetti stood in the doorway with Morita's trained on them and the horizon.
T'Phal and his men were the first up the plank with the Rico and the Roughnecks close behind. When Rico reached the open hatch the two T'Phetti guarding the entrance blocked his way leaving their Morita's at him. Right at that moment, T'Phal stepped up to the entrance.
"What's the meaning of this T'Phal?" Rico demanded.
"The humans responsible for my fathers death will not step foot on this ship!"
"Are you out of your mind!" Rico almost shouted but held himself in check. "If not for your father and the Roughnecks, you and your men would be dead. For that matter, if not for you, your father would not BE dead. He was injured coming to YOUR rescue!"
"Human! Remove yourself from the plank or my men open fire."
"Go ahead and try it Skinny!" Max shouted leveling his morita along with every rifle in the squad.
"Stop!" Rico shouted holding his hands up. One towards the T'Phetti and one towards his own men. "This is not what T'Phai would have wanted!" He turned to his men. "Lower your weapons and disembark."
"What? Major are you..." Max asked incredulously.
"Don't finish that question sergeant."
Slowly the roughnecks lowered their rifles and made their way down the plank. "I don't get it. What's going on? We could have taken them easily," Max muttered.
"Exactly what Rico was trying to avoid, Gossard told him, "Open your eyes Sarge. T'Phai was one of us, a Roughneck, Rico was not going to kill his only son to get on that ship."
"And just what are we supposed to do for a ride?" Max spouted angrily.
Zim made eye contact with Max and gave him a look that could kill. "Sir, should I radio for a SICON dust off?" He asked Rico.
"Roger that, contact the Thomas Davis and have them send their best checkered cab."
There were no radio packs like that back in the Bug War. The power suits now contained a communications array all it's own nearly as powerful as the old packs. The radio man in the unit was to have a small attachment on his suit to boost power and signal levels, beyond what even the old packs could do. Zim was wearing a power suit with just such and attachment. "Roughnecks to Thomas Davis. Roughnecks to..."
Higgins saw Dizzy as shee started to turn and stumble a little. No, more like her leg about gave out. He reached for her grabbing her shoulders. "You OK, Diz?" She didn't turn or answer but he heard a sob from her. "Doc! Doc, I think Dizzy's hurt!" Higgins continued to hold her. "It's gonna be OK, Diz."
"Look out Paperboy." Doc brushed Higgins aside but he sensed no rudeness in Doc, he was only doing what he was trained to do - help.
Johnny had heard Higgins and his heart dropped again for the second time that day. He pushed his way though to see Doc already helping her.
"Where are you hurt Diz?" Doc inquired. He was about to plug his diagnostic linkup into her power suit when she brushed him off.
"Let go of me! Back off!" Dizzy pushed Doc away and stepped back. "T'Phai is dead, don't any of you care about that? You're all walking around like it didn't happen. or worse, like it didn't matter! What's wrong with you?"
"We care Diz," Doc tried to console her, "He was one of us..."
"You care?" She shouted. "Read my lips...T'Phai is dead!"
"Dizzy!" Rico shouted. "We care. We all care...but right now there is nothing we can do about it. There will be time to morn later. Right now we have bigger problems, we got Bugs and not just the same old ones either, new ones. We could be facing a new Bug threat, maybe a new Queen developing new forces, I don't know, but we have to focus on that right now. T'Phai would want that because a new Bug threat would threaten both peoples."
"That just like you, Johnny. Cold, unfeeling, and unavailable, unless it's going off somewhere to fight, unless it's a Bug!" Dizzy made a noise almost like laughing and crying at the same time. Tears began to streak her face.
"What? Dizzy look..." Rico softened his voice and tried to talk to her. He was shocked. She just let slip more than she had ever said to him before...before she moved out after Miguel died.
"Oh shut up, Johnny...or should I say Major!" She mock saluted him and walked away stopping several meters out.
"Major, dust off won't get here for approximately 12 standard hours." Zim reported.
Rico didn't answer, he just stood there staring after Dizzy.
"Sir, what are your orders?" Zim asked deliberately pushing him.
Rico turned solemnly. "We track those Bugs and try to find out where they came from.Where there's Bugs, there's a Hive. We find the hive and nuke it when the Thomas Davis gets here."
"Yup, just like the good old days." Higgins smirked.
No one else felt like laughing.
The Roughnecks were spread out combing the ground of the battle looking for any traces of the Bugs. With the exception some very dark green goo which Doc believed to be Arachnid body fluid, there weren't any Bugs. No bodies. Nothing.
"The T'Phetti forces had some caught in their constrictor foam but they're gone now. It looks like something sliced them out of it." Gossard said.
"How is that possible? Rico asked. "That foam is active for nearly forty minutes. It's just passed forty minutes now. For them to get out they would have to be here, now, doing it."
Zim reached out and grabbed a piece of the foam. His fingers dug into it crumbled it into powered dust. "This stuff looks like it's been inert for awhile. Even the color is faded."
"Look at this, Major, Gossard." Doc pointed to a patch on the ground where the dust had been when just in front of the foam and was drying. Doc took a scanning device from a compartment on the side of his thigh. He pressed a button on the device while pointing it at the spot on the ground. The scanner emitted a soft beep, then stopped. "It's biological, Doc concluded, "Readings say it's a very strong base material, similar to the spray we use on constrictor foam but a hundred times more concentrated."
"A specific Bug that neutralizes T'Phetti constrictor foam? That a little precise on the genetic engineering level isn't it?" Rico asked.
"More likely it emits a chemical that just happens the have this effect on constrictor foam. Don't forget you high school chemistry, Major."
Rico knew Gossard was enjoying this too much. "Why don't you remind us all."
"A base, depending on concentration can be as corrosive as acid. Anyone remember the spitters?"
"So it's a new kind of spitter?" Zim asked.
"Dunno. Just speculation right now." Gossard added.
"But look at these marks in the foam." Higgins said. "there are four gaps in the foam and the sides of the gap look like they were cut into. There is bug goo all around, but no bodies. I also noticed T'Phal's hand and arm were covered with the goo. He nailed a bug with that 'spider tooth' of his, I just know it."
"So roughly there should be five bodies around here." Doc said looking around the site.
"They take away their dead...but why?" Dizzy asked.
She sounded almost normal if it weren't for the faint shake in her voice, Rico thought. "To hide their tracks. They don't want anyone to know yet." Rico's mind raced, going over everything.
"Too late for that." Doc took out a plastic specimen bag from his med kit and smeared a fresh sample of Bug goo on the inside with his gloves. "This will help back up our report...when we talk to SICON." He sealed the bag, pocketed the sample and took out another specimen bag to store a sample of the soil which had the base chemical spray on it.
"Alright Roughnecks, we have plenty of time before dust off. I want everyone paired off," Rico ordered."Higgins and Diz, Zim and Doc, Gossard and Max: ten meter intervals. Let's track these bugs back to the hive." The Roughnecks paired as ordered and spread out along the canyon floor following the tracks of the bugs.
Higgens could hear an occasional sob coming from Dizzy. Once in awhile he caught a glimpse of her tear streaked face. This wasn't the tough, "take no guff from anyone" he remembered from the days of the Bug Wars. "You gonna be OK, Diz?"
She glanced over at him and turned away. "Yeah. I'm just worried more of my friends are gonna die before this is over. We're older now, the Bug War was a long time ago, and none of us are at the peak of our game anymore."
"We may be older, but we're not invalids. We're the Roughnecks and we can still hold our own."
"I wish I could share your enthusiasm, Paperboy, but I just can't"
"Well don't you worry one bit, Diz, I'm here to protect you." Higgins hoped she would laugh.
"Oh my God, we're all going to die!" cried Dizzy
Higgin's could only hope Diz still had room for sarcasm in her heart.
Rico walked apart from the others at a ten meter distance. He was glad to be alone. Between his feeling for T'Phai and the urge to take Dizzy into his arms to comfort her, he felt a tear forming in him just like the one when Dizzy moved out and again...when she called him to sign the divorce papers. How did all this happen? How did we all come to this? Despite his feelings towards SICON, he wished he was back there right now leading mop up on some distant planet.
"Major." It was Zim, on private frequency. "We got eyes on the canyon walls. We aren't alone."
"I know. They've been there for awhile."
"What do you make of it?"
"Dunno. I hear them, and odd as it sounds, I feel them, but I haven't seen them."
"Same here. Something's not right about all this."
"You're preaching to the choir, sarge, but we don't have a choice. There is obviously some sort of hive around here, and we gotta find it, and destroy it."
"Yes sir. But if we are being scouted by a Bug, we should try and take that scout out," Zim advised. "My morita is a P-7."
Rico knew what he was getting at. The P-7 was identical to the standard issue morita with the exception of a slightly longer thicker barrel and a scope. The P-7 doubled as a sniper rifle.
"If you spot 'em sarge, drop 'em."
"Yes sir." Zim maintained his pace with doc but began to scan the canyon ridge on both sides with his rifle. He saw nothing. Occasionally he thought there was something but it was only some disturbed rocks and ruble tumbling over the side. They were there, all right, but it was like they were avoiding him. How could they? Frustrated he lowered his morita and walked on for a bit. He would wait and try again.
Several hundred meters further on, the Bug goo trail veered right as the canyon began to open up and level off over the course of the next several kilometers. At this point the canyon began to branch out where ancient river veins had cut into the rock leading up and out. The wind picked up through these hollows blowing dust and sand. Visibility was not greatly impaired, but the trail was beginning to become more difficult to follow. Rico called his people in to single-file formation at five meter intervals in pairs.
The Bug tracks led into one of the veins going out from the main canyon. The passage was narrow with high walls. Rico stopped before entering the area.
"We're sitting ducks in there Major." Max sounded out.
"I know. Something about this is not right, but I just cant seem to put my finger on it."
"I know what you mean." Doc said. "Once in awhile it's when I try to think about it...it's like trying to walk in molasses."
"Good, I thought it was just me." Gossard added.
"Doc, why would we all feel this?" Higgins asked.
"I haven't the slightest idea. Maybe something electrical or magnetic in the atmosphere here?"
"Then why aren't the human colonists affected?" Rico asked.
"Like I said, I don't know. It was just a guess. Maybe something in the rock in this canyon. I couldn't begin to say with out data," Doc said defensively.
Rico broke up the chatter. "The canyon walls here are less than ten meters on either side. Zim, jump and take the right. Diz, you take the left. I want our best shots up top, Max, you take point, Gossard, bring up the rear."
Amid acknowledgments, Zim and Diz jumped to the top of the Canyon walls, and (without argument) Max took the lead. Despite any attitude issues, Max had come a long way. He was a fighter and a good one, which is why Rico wanted him on point. If they were surprised by the Bugs, Max was a good wall to throw them against. Dizzy could shoot the wings off a flee at 200 meters. Zim was even better. They would be the guardian angels above.
Rico followed directly behind Max as he followed the Bug trail. The only sound aside them was the occasional jump jets of Diz and Zim as the jumped over gaps where the canyon walls forked.
The silence was soon broken by several shots. They were spaced and not rapid. Zim had taken aim and was firing. Soon Diz was firing too. "Roughnecks on your toes." Rico warned them in the canyon. "Zim what do you have?"
"Bug, sir."
"Dead?" Rico asked him.
"No sir." I caught a glimpse of it in the distance and got a few rounds off, but it scampered down a crevice. I'm sure I hit it though but it didn't slow down or move like it was hit. I tried to zoom with the scope but it was gone before I could see it close up. It had a silhouette like none I've ever seen."
"How about you Diz?"
"I saw something but it was to far away to make it out." Rico could still hear the coldness in her voice.
"Keep moving then. You see a Bug, you kill the Bug," Rico told his angels above. They acknowledged and moved forward.
The small sliver of a canyon they followed began to widen and open up. In the past dozen meters or so it was three times wider. The canyon continued to open up, widening until Rico called Diz and Zim back down. The canyon began to drop down becoming deeper. Finally it opened completely into an clearing the size of a few sports stadiums with no way out except the way they came in. Below them was a cavern. A hole straight down with a hive mound coming up the center.
"Would you look at that?" Gossard let slip aloud. "I never saw a hive like that one."
"Everything is different about his mission." Max said.
"Do we recon the hive major?" Zim asked.
"Negative. We're not equipped for that. We've located the hive, we have our sample now we get back to the dust off coordinates and wait for evac."
"Best idea I've heard all day." Higgins said.
"Move out." Rico ordered.
As Max took point and the team started moving there was a loud screech followed by another and another.
Max brought his morita to bear. In front of him was a Bug. A big one. It was whitish in color, it's exo skeleton seemed to flex and roll with it's body movements. It had two very large hind legs like a giant grass hopper and the fore limbs were pincer shaped like a lobster. He started firing dead on almost point blank at the Bug.
Zim and Dizzy saw the Bug and fired almost right in time with Max. The Bug was taking it and still coming on. Finally it dropped. Right then two humans in power suits appeared. They appeared to be unarmed but they started walking forward with their left arms raised. Zim and Dizzy took aim on them then their arms jerked to the side as if they had been grabbed or shoved then they doubled over grabbing their heads shouting in pain.
Gossard fired on the one to the right, several rounds hit it in the head and chest. "They must be Imposter bugs." He shouted. Then his own skull lit on fire from the inside.
Several more of the large whitish bugs surrounded them. Rico continued to fire on them when his own rifle was ripped from his arms by an unseen force and his head began to burn on the inside. He screamed aloud and tried to force himself to draw his sidearm. He couldn't move. The whole team was down writhing on the ground. The whitish bugs advanced. One picked up Diz in its claws and for a moment Rico saw sparks arc across her power suit then the Bug began to spray her with web from a its thorax, spinning her rapidly until she was fully cocooned. "Di...Dizz..." A blackness swallowed him.
Zim was not a stranger to pain. He pushed himself, shoved himself without mercy. He managed to reach his sidearm and pull it. He took out the one in the power suit in front of him. It waved it's arm and his hand jerked to the side. He pushed himself again and brought the gun and and fired without taking time to aim. Bug or human two rounds in its face shield stopped the burning in his skull. Zim quickly looked around and saw they were surrounded and he was the last one standing, before he realized it, he was being hoisted in the air. A pair of whitish claws clasped him tightly. Just as he was about to shoot them his body tensed and danced in their grip. It felt like someone laid into him with a shock stick. The power suit was insulated but this thing was shorting out his systems, shutting the suit down. He couldn't take it anymore. The light began to swirl and go out.
Rico suddenly became aware of the pain in his eyes. His sight cleared and he could see. He Gossard, and Zim were sitting up amid large cocoons and several bugs, and what appeared to be humans. A couple of the humans were cutting the others free from the cocoons. The large white bugs surrounded them. Talk about ugly, Rico thought. That's a face only a mother could love.
"Right you are Major.But they serve their purpose."
Rico looked around trying to see who spoke. He stood up with a moan. "Who are you?" He asked the man standing before him without a powersuit on. It was then he realized his helmet had been removed, as had Zim's, and Gossard's. The humans were removing the others as they released them from the cocoons.
"Why are you taking our helmets off?"
"I assure you the air is quite breathable here. Besides, after the Snatchers shocked you and shorted out your suits they would hardly be suffient in providing life support."
"Who are you?" Rico asked again.
"I am Marcel Rouche. It was my troops that took you down and brought you here."
Rico's mind raced. He had many questions and a lot of anger.
"Oh you're quite right. I am Human, and so are many that you see here, and yes we work with these Bugs...or rather...they work with us." He paused then answered an unspoken question. "No Mr. Brutto, I am not a traitor. To be a traitor one must turn his back on something he believes in and belongs to. No we do not work for the Bugs, they work with us."
"Stop doing that!" Max said angrily.
"So you're a telepath." Zim said.
"There's more than one psychic here." Rico said. "After what we saw in the canyon, I'll bet there are a whole mess of them here."
"Right again, Major!" Marcel chuckled. "In fact every Human and Bug you see here possesses some extra sensory ability or another. We all belong to the same Nation. We all are loyal patriots to our Nation. Not traitors, as young Mr. Brutto surmises."
"An what nation would that be?" Rico asked.
"Why one composed of those superior to yourself, to all humans and T'Phetti of the more mundane variety. The lesser 'evolved' you might say."
"A nation of physics?" Dizzy asked.
"So you're the reason behind all the disappearances." Rico accused.
"No, but I am part of the reason."
"This guy likes to play games." Dizzy said.
Marcel looked over at Rico. "Tisk, tisk, Major. Such thoughts."
"Believe me, I meant it." Rico added.
"You don't like what he's thinking then you defiantly don't want to know my thoughts." Max said.
"Without doubt, of course." Marcel brushed Max's comment aside.
"Why don't you cut to the chase." Rico grew tired of this guy's verbal dancing.
"You are prisoners of ...Freeman."
"What?" Doc asked. "Freeman's dead."
"No, I assure you he is very much alive. He faked his death all those years ago to begin his new life. He came to the realization that psychics were the next stage of human evolution, and as such were superior to ordinary humans, therefore, they should not be subject to ordinary humans. But therein lies the problem, ordinary humans control everything and have harnessed physics like cattle to work for them. We are not enough to break free yet. That is why we have collected or brothers and sisters from across the galaxy."
"How do you explain these Arachnid hybrids?" Doc asked.
"Very good, Doctor LaCroixe. You figured that much out. The snatchers you see before you here, are the first results of the genetic combination of Bug and psychic DNA."
"What!" Rico (along with almost every Roughneck) said.
"You're combining Human DNA with Bugs?" Doc could hardly believe he was even asking.
"Not just Human, T'Phetti too." Marcel proudly told them.
"You're insane." Rico said to him.
"Insane is allowing a superior species like psychics to be controlled by ordinary humans." Marcel paced around the Roughnecks. "Freeman is a genius. He believes that with the our evolutionary superiority and the Bugs' ability to procreate rapidly, organize, and created such precise diversity in its species, that these 'Super-Imposter' Bugs should be the perfect specimens to act as a catalyst, to propel the psychics forward into a position of authority. One which not even SICON could defeat or defy. Eventually the psychics will take over as the dominate species in the galaxy.
"How did you get so many psychics to sign on with this insanity?" Rico asked.
"Not everyone did. Many had to be coerced and convinced in one fashion or another. One of our little creations here has helped quite a bit with that." Marcel held out a hand and with a telepathic command a figure from behind him came forward. It was a human female, dressed in a SICON uniform. She removed her uniform jacket turned her back to the roughnecks and began to remove her blouse, letting it drop over her shoulders revealing a bug clinging to her back. "This little darling is the latest in the evolution of the Control Bug you discovered on Tophet."
Dizzy began to cry. Doc place an arm around her. "You freak!" Rico spat at him with seconds from Gossard, Doc, Zim, and Max. Higgins was the only one who didn't speak. He had switched on his recorder for the whole event and was now too frightened to even turn it off.
"So if you don't have any problem telling us any of this..." Higgins started.
"Then they don't plan on any of us leaving to tell about it," Zim finished.
"Oh, take heart. We won't have you eliminated...yet. Or maybe not at all, we may only wipe your minds. The point is, we cannot have you simply 'disappear' yet. SICON would come looking for you, and we cannot have that just now."
Rico lurched forward but was immediately caught in a psychic grasp. He strained but could not move. It was Marcel.
Marcel held his hand out glaring at him. "Major, you are in no position to do anything. Take them away!" he ordered his 'soldiers'.
The Snatchers moved forward with the humans controlled but the control bugs. Max and Doc tried to struggle but the Snatcher Bugs took them in their claws and shocked them unconscious. The others were telepathically compelled forward but the controlled humans following the snatcher bugs. It occured to Rico that this was the tightest spot the Roughnecks had ever been in, which was saying something (or would be, if they were allowed to speak).
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Bomb Map Record of Incidents in the City of Westminster 1940-1945
Westminster City Archives has in its possession probably the most detailed Local Authority bomb map in existence in this country. As part of the development of the West End at War website, the bomb map has now been digitised, making it more available to the public.
Every single bombing incident which occurred in Westminster during the Second World War, including famous incidents such as the bombing of Buckingham Palace and Guards' Chapel, is marked on the Westminster Bomb Map and cross-referenced to Westminster's complete collection of paper-based records kept by individual Air Raid Warden (ARP) posts across the city during the Second World War.
Uniquely, Westminster City Archives not only has detailed reports of each incident located on the map, but photographs of the damage which resulted. No other local archive has such an extensive collection linked to one of the pivotal phases of the war.
Map Record of Incidents in the City of Westminster
Copyright Westminster City Archives
Enlarged area from the Westminster Bomb Map
Key to bomb incidents
Will the large sized digital bomb map be available at all and will there be any reprints for sale to public? Many thanks,
By Martin Morrow
Thank you for your query. Unfortunately we don't have a large size print of the bomb map as it is very large and is on 3 x A2 panels. However Westminster Archives do sell A3 prints for £15.00, however, because of the scale of the map you will lose alot of the detail of individual incidents but it is still an amazing map and well worth it. You can also visit Westminster Archives to view the map properly. Please visit http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/libraries/archives/services/ to find out more information on the digital printing available at Westminster Archives.
Further to the query above, are there any plans to provide more enlarged areas of this map online? My grandmother was killed by a bomb while in her residence on Circus Road, and I would like to try to find out more about this. (I can't go to visit this map in person, as I live in Canada.)
By Carol Reid
Are the blitz archives open to the public? If so, what is their location? Many thanks, TG
By Tony Geraghty
What exactly do the red symbols mean? I lived at 33 Sussex St which is between Sutherland and Cumberland Streets. According to the map this area received three hits. We were forced to move out because of the blast damage caused by the V1 rocket which hit Winchester St on 30 June 1944. Could those three circles represent unexploded bombs? The other circles tie in with my recollection of bombed sites. I hope you can help Regards John Urquhart
By john Urquhart
Thank you for your comment the red circles represent actual exploded bombs. I have now attached a key to the symbols on the bomb map part of the website, which I hope you will find useful.
The bomb map and civil defence records are available for the public to see at the Archives Centre which is open to the public Tuesday to Thursday 10am-7pm, Friday and Saturday 10am-5pm.
The address is 10, St Ann's Street, London SW1P 2DE. Telephone: 0207 641 5180
From my birth in 1940 to 1945 I lived on Dyott Street ,in the St. Giles area slightly east of the upper Charing Cross Road Westminister boundary. Is it possible the source for your bomb map data could provide identical information (with photos and official reports) for the adjoining St. Giles Village? Perhaps you have some on file as my home was so close to Westminister you may have overlapping records. What information on this period is available at St. Anns?
By Pierre Ruette
Further. I discovered a London Metropolitan Archive web site which catalogues Bomb Damage maps like Westminister's. But only viewable at their location not on line . As I live in Florida nowadays it will be some time before I can get to their Clerkenwell address to look for myself. However, I will quiz their information desk with my request. If Carmine has any relevant information to add I 'd appreciate it.
By Pierre Charles Ruette
Do you have a bomb damage map for the Marylebone area?
Westminster City Archives does not hold a bomb map for the Marylebone area. However we do hold incident reports, which we hope to include on the site.
It is important to distinguish between Bomb PLOT Maps - which this is, ie a contemoraneous ARP record, and Bomb DAMAGE Maps which show the extent of damage to buildings, and were compiled after the war. The latter have been published for the whole LCC area by the London Topographical Society.
By Wolstan Dixie
i am trying to locate the address of my grandparents and 2 aunts who were killed in the blitz,i am unable to find any information.all i really know is it was 20-9-1940.close to shoreditch station.any information will be greatly appreciated.
Can you help please? I was born on 28th Feb 1945, we lived off the Bayswater Road at 1 Leinster gardens. Three weeks later we were bombed out by a V1, you can see what area was affected if you look at Google Maps. We were dug out and I apparently slept through the whole lot! The IWM have no records of the event and I was hoping you might be able to steer me in the right direction site wise to a similar site as your own. Your help would be much appreciated. Clive
By Clive Lloyd
I was four years old when the V1 fell on the block between Cumberland Street and Winchester Street, and Sussex Street and Gloucester Street. I remember the day very well. It was just before lunch, my father was working at Metalbox on Buckingham Palace Road and was due home, when the siren went and we went down to the celler (coal), beneath the pavement. After a short while my mother returned to the kitchen to check the meal cooking on the stove, as she returned there was a huge deflagration and the cellar door exploded throwing her inwards with my small brother, who was in her arms. When the 'calm' returned my brother's ear was bleeding and my mother had a huge bruise on her arm where she had been hit by a doorpost or a brick. We made our way out climbing up the steps and over the rubble to Cumberland Street. A neighbour was dead at the top of the steps, she was deaf and according to my mother had not heard the siren. Little was left of the three storey pillared Victorian house : the external walls, but nothing between them but lats of wood from the ceilings. The road was covered with bricks, the gutter was filled with running water with ten shilling and pound notes floating by, seemingly from the shops on Sussex Street. We made our way to Warwick Way. Someway up Cumberland a neighbour invited us into their house, I remember drawing in the dust with my finger on their table. That evening we slept in a shelter near Hyde Park Corner where I remember being given a toy, from a room that looked to me like Alibaba's cavern, I had never seen so many toys in my young life ! We were evacuated to Wales in the days that followed.
By John Kinsella
I have just found this web site and it has so much information.I lived in Warwick Way just after the war. I was born 1945 . My friends and I would play down The Bomdies as we called them . I was about 5 /6 years old. We played down on the site mentioned above by John Kinsella . These bombed sites were like adventure playgrounds . They have all been rebuilt on except the one in Sussex Street which is an Adventure Playground because of a covenant on the land.John Urquhart I think your house is where the Adventure playground is now.
By VAL SOLLY ( was ATKINSON ]
I have just come across this site. My Grandfather was and ARP during the war - They lived at 97 Tachbrook Street (now Lilington Gardens) and there post was in St Georges Drive - I have a number of his photos of bomb damage in the area which I have scanned if you are interested.
By Stephen Dunn
I would be interested in the scanned images of any bomb sites as noted by Stephen Dunn. I lived in St George's Square and walked to St James the Less in the mid-1950's. I would be particularly interested in the site on the corner of Moreton Street and Tachbrook Street, as I am planning to draw a map of the area now lost below the Garden Estate.
By Anthony Parsons
I was born in Hammersmith Hospital on August 7th, 1944, supposedly during, or shortly before a V-1 crossed over and came down nearby. Cannot tell by the "Bomb Location Map" how far these explosions would have been from the hospital. Can you help me at all?
By Laurence Peter Jacobs
I would like to hear from any body regarding The ARP in the Plimlico area, my grandfather Augustus " GUS " Blundell,was a post warren durring W11 and was awarded the George medal, I still have some of his notes.
I live in Pimlico , and can be contacted at Pimlicoservices@gmail.com
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The College from Washington College of Music gives several set performance possibilities in a large variety of crucial combos. Requirements: Undergraduate level of fine arts in popular music or even equivalent, as well as music expertise as well as abilities that are determined at the admission exam as well as are the basis for choice. Only students who are enlisted in at the very least one faculty-led ensemble at College are actually qualified to contend.
Prague Classical Concerts uses a thorough checklist from symphonic music shows, ballet, black illumination theater and also jazz for the 2018 period. Trainees will additionally uncover exactly how authors develop a brand-new account to pick knowledgeable popular music as Peter Schickele (aka P.D.Q. Bach) made with Beethoven's 5th Harmony.
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After completion of this full-time two-year program, the pupil will be actually awarded a Professional Level. The program additionally preps trainees to apply for post grad placements. The program is offered in English as well as confesses brand-new students two times a year.
A symphony and also a philharmonic coincide point sort of. They coincide with dimension and also they play the exact same type of popular music. Both phrases exist that can help us say to other ensembles apart, specifically in cities that flaunt numerous groups. As an example: NYC Urban area is house to both the Brooklyn Philharmonic as well as the Brooklyn Symphony. They coincide kind of band, however, they possess different labels so you don't confuse all of them. The divide between symphony-philharmonic is merely a concern of identification.
The program is actually according to a partnership between HSM, Gothenburg Harmony, Opera and also the Departments of Opera and also Composition at our Institute, to offer the basic arsenal of the qualified instrumental entertainer. You may like our post about Orchestra music of today.
Remember when your brain burst after your 4th-grade math instructor informed you every square is a rectangular shape, however certainly not every square is actually a square!" Recognizing the distinction between a band, a symphony, as well as a philharmonic is kind of like that. Every symphony is actually a band, but certainly not every orchestra is actually a harmony. Furthermore, every philharmonic is actually a harmony, but not every symphony is a philharmonic.


PASO ROBLES, CALIF. – IQMS, a manufacturing ERP software and MES developer with an ongoing, proactive commitment to its product and relationships, today announced that it will be showcasing new software features at NPE 2015 designed to resolve two modern manufacturing challenges: The desire to grow capacity without increasing resources and the need to adhere to strict industry compliance and regulations.
According to the U.S. Federal Reserve, plastic and rubber manufacturing capacity utilization is up nearly 10 percent since NPE 2012. To keep up with demand, manufacturers are seeking ways to increase capacity without adding floor space, equipment or personnel. Using automation, such as IQMS' native planning, scheduling and process monitoring modules, manufacturers can add capacity using their existing plant and equipment. Additionally, IQMS' real-time automation functions instantaneously collect production data and automatically relay it to the ERP solution for tracking and analysis, allowing manufacturers to adapt production schedules to real output in real time.
2014 was the worst year on record for automotive recalls, more than double the previous year. The medical industry did not fare much better, with the largest single-day recall of medical devices ever recorded occurring in September. Compliance, risk management and quality control are challenges that manufacturers cannot avoid. But with IQMS' end-to-end lot and serial traceability and embedded quality management suite (complete with electronic signatures, audit tools and secure document control), manufacturers can find relief from the changing regulatory environment.
"There is a reason that five out of the six 2014 Plastics News award winners were IQMS customers," said Steve Bieszczat, Chief Marketing Officer at IQMS. "We offer the modern manufacturing-specific tools and features that they need to be successful. Too many manufacturers are struggling with limiting software options, such as Excel spreadsheets, legacy ERP or general purpose, bolted together packages. It is amazing how the right tools, specifically designed for manufacturing, can facilitate business growth."
IQMS means manufacturing ERP. For more information, please visit IQMS at NPE 2015, booth W4489.
For more than 25 years, IQMS has been designing and developing manufacturing ERP software for the repetitive, process and discrete industries. Today, IQMS provides a comprehensive real-time ERP software and MES solution to the automotive , medical , packaging, consumer goods and other manufacturing markets . The extended single-database enterprise software solution, EnterpriseIQ, offers a scalable system designed to grow with the client and complete business functionality, including accounting, quality control, supply chain, shop floor, CRM and eBusiness. With offices across North America, Europe and Asia, IQMS serves manufacturers around the world.


In case you'd like to see my work in one place, without scrolling through this long blog…I've done it! I've put a gallery in this blog, with links along the top, arranged in the time periods I did the works. This replaces my website, which didn't support all browsers for the slideshow.
So, that gives you an idea of what I've been doing, but I'm still working on a picture. Yet, another one for the birds. I've drawn and watched birds for decades, now, and they still make a good subject. My favorite one is this one, which I've posted before, but I like it so much, I'm going to post it again. It's one of my New York City pictures, and it's dedicated to the omnipresent pigeons there.
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Rev. Florence Caplow wil return with more words of wisdom from the spiritual and faith traditions that nourish Unitarian Universalism.
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ALTAMESA -SATURDAY, 4/20/19 @ 3:00 PM
Altamesa is a Cosmic American and Rock & Roll band from Austin, Texas that mixes the production values of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and Big Star with the songwriting sensibilities of Neil Young and The Flying Burrito Brothers. Founded as a solo project in 2015 by singer, guitarist, and songwriter Evan Charles, the band has solidified it's lineup to include as a permanent member Happen-Ins frontman, guitarist, and songwriter Sean Faires. After receiving 4 stars in the Austin Chronicle for the debut solo record The Long Ride Home, Charles and Faires have reshaped the Altamesa sound for their next, unreleased record, Idol Frontier, which will place heavier emphasis on vocal harmonies and guitar interplay while still maintaining the high standard of songwriting that was at the core of the first record's local critical success. With a recent appearance at Willie Nelson's Luck Ranch Reunion on the festival bill alongside Conor Oberst, Margo Price, Big Thief and Paul Cauthen, Altamesa will return to the festival and subsequently roll out six singles throughout 2018, culminating in the fall release of their next record, Idol Frontier.
Evan Charles – Vocals, Guitar
Sean Faires – Vocals, Guitar
Christopher Messina – Bass
Thom Washburn – Drums


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The Conway Planning Commission will meet at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, July 15, 2019. The deadline to submit items for this meeting is Friday, July 5, 2019. All public hearing items are open to public comment. You can contact the Conway Planning Commission via email at planningcommission@cityofconway.org.


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Community Bank CEOs Say CUs' Inexperience with Business Lending is Dangerous; Claim CUs Starting to Steal Loans From Them
POWELL, Wyo.- As more and more credit unions build up their member business lending programs serving a once untapped market, their entry has ruffled the feathers of many community bankers who see the gain as an encroachment on their territory. Indeed, member business loans have increased from $6.7 billion in...
By Michelle A. Samaad | September 28, 2004 at 08:00 PM | The original version of this story was published on Credit Union Times Magazine
POWELL, Wyo.- As more and more credit unions build up their member business lending programs serving a once untapped market, their entry has ruffled the feathers of many community bankers who see the gain as an encroachment on their territory. Indeed, member business loans have increased from $6.7 billion in 2002 to $8.9 billion in 2003, according to NCUA. Still, credit unions are nowhere near the amount of volume that banks generate, which still make 90% of all commercial loans compared to 0.5% for credit unions. But the swiftly-changing landscape has put community banks on guard as they compete head to head with credit unions for business loans. Some have even gotten the wind unexpectedly taken out of their lending sails when they discover current customers secured their business loans at credit unions. That was the case for First National Bank of Trust in Powell, Wy. The $224 million community bank recently lost a big commercial loan to an outside-the-area credit union, said David Reetz, vice president of marketing and economic development. "It was a very good customer of ours," Reetz said. "I had never anticipated the loan would go to a credit union. They're offering more home loans than they ever did and now commercial loans. To be that aggressive, it's taking business away from us." Reetz said unequivocally the credit union was able to offer the customer a "subsidized rate." "They can do this, we can not," he said. "It's not allowing us to compete on an equal plane." Small business lending continues to become a bigger and vital part of a bank's portfolio because the competition, which includes credit unions, have taken away their consumer lending portfolio, Reetz said. "Consumer lending had been one of our staples but some banks just don't do them anymore," he offered. "Credit unions already have good market share in consumer loans but it's apparent they're going after bigger and longer term loans." According to the Independent Community Bankers of America, the average community bank has $150 million in assets putting it on "uneven" footing with larger, billion dollar credit unions, it claims. The ICBA has been adamant in its opposition to a provision in the proposed Credit Union Regulatory Improvements Act (CURIA) that would increase the member business lending limit of 12.25% of total loan portfolio to 20%. That increase, if enacted, would fly in direct opposition to the original intent of credit unions, the ICBA has said. "We're concerned with their rapid entry into commercial lending so long as they remain tax-exempt," said Ron Ence, ICBA vice president of congressional relations. "Credit unions' purpose was to serve those of modest means. It's doubtful that the Congress envisioned they would be offering member business loans." Ence said because commercial lending is a "highly specialized business," credit unions may not be hiring the experienced staff needed to oversee such intricate loans. "It's questionable as whether they have the experience or staff to do this in a safe and sound manner," Ence said. That is a concern that isn't being discussed loudly enough and the implications could be dangerous down the road not just for community banks and credit union competition but for customers and members, said Thad Woodard, president of the North Carolina Bankers Association. The Tar Heel State has been on the radar screen lately due to the growing number of credit unions that are amassing impressive business lending activity much to the chagrin of some local community banks. "I've seen my share of financial ups and downs and have great concern with depth," Woodward explained. "I saw it with the savings and loans. They had all these new authorities but did not have the depth of management to execute them. There could be a potential for a downfall if the right people aren't hired to execute the loans. Two years of experience is just not enough." Woodward said he recently heard of a rural community bank in Virginia that recently lost two commercial loans to credit unions and similar losses are being heard more "in a lot of corners." Still, banks generally don't have a problem with the small credit unions that are fulfilling their original purpose of serving people of modest means, he said. "But when you talk about the 90 credit unions with $1 billion in assets or more – and that billion dollar club continues to grow – offering commercial lending, it's time to make an adjustment," Woodward said, mainly through rescinding their tax-exemption status. That status continues to be a perennial hot button topic along with the "regulatory burdens" that Community Reinvestment Act guidelines community banks say they are required to follow. One president of a West Coast community bank who wished to remain anonymous citing the number of credit union clients he works with said CRA is "easily the most expensive regulation community banks have to comply with." "It's labor intensive, it's burdensome, it's unfair that credit unions don't fall under the same requirements we do," the president said. As a CRA officer, Reetz knows "the law requires that we make a bigger commitment to low and moderate income borrowers, make qualified investments and community developments." "Community development requires strong financial institutions but if you dilute the marketplace with too many players, there may be a saturation point and what's going to happen when a (strong standout) is needed when the bumpy times occur," Reetz asked, alluding to the S&L crisis in the 1980s. Between 1980 and early 1995, 1,273 savings and loan associations, 1,569 commercial and savings banks and 2,330 credit unions failed in the U.S. due in large part to poorly designed deposit insurance, faulty supervision, and restrictions on investments prevented savings and loans, according to The Savings and Loan Crisis: Lessons from a Regulatory Failure. Despite the changing financial marketplace, savings and loans could not hedge interest rate and credit risks. The collapse of this industry was ultimately caused by "a confluence of adverse economic conditions and misguided regulatory decisions," the authors said. Still, some community bankers view competition from credit unions as a good indicator of whether they're offering their customers the best rates but a gray area has emerged in their eyes. "Competition is always healthy. My biggest concern is if you got an identity and you get benefits because of that identity, then you have to respect and adhere to that identity," said Bob Hahn, president of $93 million First National Bank of North County in San Marcos, Calif. Hahn said he's "not bitter or angry" but has actually "sat on the sidelines and really marveled at how successful (credit unions) are." Indeed, California is home to several of the nation's largest credit unions and many of them have revved up their business lending activity lately. "There's plenty of business to go around but (credit unions) can price differently because they're structured differently," Hahn said, who also believes many of their expanded services are the result of a strong lobbying group. "I would say their lobbying group is more successful and bigger than the banking groups," Hahn offered. "They can expand their membership without definition, not have to pay taxes. They're probably one of the best franchises to manage." A "40% head start" would anger any business owner going against similar competitors, said Cameron Coburn, chairman, president and CEO of $180 million Bank of Wilmington in North Carolina. "Don't get me wrong, banks can and do compete very well with credit unions in commercial lending," Coburn assured. "I welcome competition but not when it's under blatantly unfair rules." With the growing resentment from some community banks towards credit unions access to business lending, there are, surprisingly, a number of alliances between the two that are amicable. Last summer, $75 million First Business Bank-Milwaukee's subsidiary, $550 million First Business Financial Services, partnered with $700 million UW Credit Union to provide trust services to its members. "As commercial banks, we are looking at probably larger (business lending) opportunities than credit unions," said Mark Meloy, president/CEO First Business Bank-Milwaukee. "That's the landscape today but we're not nave to think that it won't evolve into something else. If credit unions or thrifts want to serve business loans, this is a free enterprise. Any business will want to take a look at how growth (from competitors) and the marketplace will look over time." [email protected]


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I got involved with Campus Ministry pretty late in the game. I applied for an intern position on their staff for my Senior year, but that's not where it all began. It began with my Kairos.
Kairos is a mysterious phenomenon at Canisius, due mostly to the fact that no know really knows what Kairos is until after you've gone. To be brief, Kairos is a spiritual retreat where students have the opportunity to separate themselves from campus for a weekend. On retreat I realized that in the midst of the tumble of the week and distraction of to- do lists, I had forgotten my passions for fair trade, gender equality, and human rights issues. My interests had been time and time again been put on the back burner in favor of seemingly more pressing tasks. Perfectly enough, Campus Ministry has an intern position dedicated to spreading awareness of social justice issues to the student body. Kairos wasn't something that made me get involved with Campus Ministry, but it did allow me to see all of the opportunity in front of me.
It's never too late to join the party (unless it's an actual party and the host has gone to bed).
You'll never know until you go.


This program is designed to describe several alternative "homegrown" recording solutions that can be installed at law schools worried about the excessive costs of proprietary lecture-capture and security surveillance systems.
Through the use of IP-based digital cameras, NKU Chase College of Law is able to maintain an active, automated recording/security system that allows for flexibility in managing the system.
Through the use of IP-based digital cameras, NKU Chase College of Law is able to maintain a request based recording system to record lectures and non-instructional events while providing faculty and students with easy access to recordings.
Seattle University School of Law provides an example of how self-assembled recording platforms can be used to make video recording services available throughout a building - without the installation of expensive, proprietary lecture-capture systems.


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Recorded webinar, PATTCh TWO-DAY ONLINE INTERACTIVE CONFERENCE: Recognizing Trauma & Respecting Those Giving Birth
UPDATE!! Our online/virtual workshop has been approved for 6 (six) CEUs by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counselors, CBEs, doulas, lactation consultants*, RNs**, CPMs
*Can be used as an R-CERP
**RNs will be given a certificate of attendance for 6 contact hours.
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PATTCh provider number is #1975-456.
$59 Financial Assistance Rate: We are pleased to offer this rate on an honor system to make our conference accessible to all. If you are a community-based provider who comes from and works in a marginalized community, this rate is for you. In selecting this rate, you agree to be contacted by PATTCh to provide further information about your community work. Click here to get this rate.
Prevention and Treatment of Traumatic Childbirth (PATTCh) presents:
Recognizing Trauma & Respecting Those Giving Birth
A TWO-DAY ONLINE INTERACTIVE CONFERENCE
Originally broadcast on Thursday & Friday, November 14-15, 2019
Co-Sponsored by Praeclarus Press & the Simkin Center for Allied Birth Vocations at Bastyr University
CEUs & Financial Assistance Available.
Once You Register, You Will Receive a Link to Attend the Online Interactive Conference
Conference Recording Provided to All Registrants.
Day 1 Thursday, November 14, 2019 (US Pacific Time)
9:00-9:10a
9:10-10:10a
"I knew That It Was Wrong": Moral Injury in Perinatal Care Providers
Kathy Kendall Tackett, PhD & Mora Oommen
10:10-10:15a
Hidden Aspects of Trauma: Effects & Solutions for Healing
Phyllis Klaus, LMFT, LMSW
11:20a-12:20p
Sleep On It: The Impact of Perinatal Mood Disorders on Maternal & Infant Sleep
Leslie Butterfield, PhD
12:20-12:55p
Roundtable Discussion with Day 1 Speakers
Moderator: Annie Kennedy, MA
12:55-1:00p
Day 2 Friday, November 15, 2019 (US Pacific Time)
The Truth About Maternal Health in America
Timoria McQueen Saba, Maternal Health Advocate
Confronting Weight Bias To Reduce Birth Trauma
Jen McLellan, CBE, Founder of Plus Size Birth
Can Respectful Maternity Care Save & Improve Lives?
Penny Simkin, PT, CD(DONA) & Christine Morton, PhD
Closing, Evaluation, Certificates & Post-Test
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD, IBCLC, FAPA, is a health psychologist and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and the Owner and Editor-in-Chief of Praeclarus Press, a small press specializing in women's health. Dr. Kendall-Tackett is Editor-in-Chief of two peer-reviewed journals: Clinical Lactation and Psychological Trauma. She is Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Health and Trauma Psychology, Past President of the APA Division of Trauma Psychology, and a member of the APA's Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest. Dr. Kendall-Tackett specializes in women's-health research including breastfeeding, depression, trauma, and health psychology, and has won many awards for her work including the 2017 President's Award for Outstanding Service to the Field of Trauma Psychology from the American Psychological Association's Division 56. Dr. Kendall-Tackett has authored more than 420 articles or chapters, and 35 books.
Mora Oommen is a birth activist and nonprofit consultant. She served as the Executive Director of Blossom Birth Services in Palo Alto, CA from 2008-2017. Blossom is a nonprofit organization founded in 1999 with a mission to provide women and their families with a healthy, informed and confident pregnancy and parenting journey. At Blossom, Mora lead a dedicated team of part-time staff, instructors and volunteers. Mora guided the organization's financial growth, expansion in programs and services, and co-created an atmosphere of warmth and compassion for women during pregnancy, birth and early parenting.
Phyllis Klaus, MEd., LMFT, LMSW, is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist and Clinical social worker. Formerly on the faculty of the Department of Family Practice, Michigan State University, and the Milton H. Erickson Institute in Santa Rosa, California, she currently practices in Palo Alto, California, providing psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and counseling to individuals, couples, families and groups. She has been working with the concerns of families in the perinatal period for over 40 years and has been involved in research and training of perinatal care providers since 1980, working especially with the symptoms of pregnancy, traumatic birth, effects of childhood sexual abuse on child-bearing and postpartum mood disorders.
Leslie Butterfield is a clinical psychologist specializing in perinatal mental health. She's traveled globally to provide training and consultation to medical and mental health organizations in the United States, Turkey, France, and Singapore. She's developed the counseling skills curriculum for Seattle Midwifery School and Bastyr Naturopathic University for 20 years, and is past Chairwoman of Perinatal Support – Washington, a state coordinator for PSI, and President of PATTCh (Prevention and Treatment of Traumatic Childbirth.
Annie Kennedy is an advocate for humane birth care. She is director of the Simkin Center at Bastyr University, serves on the board of Prevention & Treatment of Traumatic Childbirth (PATTCh), and is a student completing the Master of Arts in Maternal-Child Health Systems program at Bastyr University.
Timor McQueen Saba Hello! I'm a maternal health advocate, speaker and writer with a focus on mental and physical trauma due to childbirth and pregnancy-quite a change from my former career as a professional makeup artist! Immediately following the birth of my oldest daughter, Gigi, in April 2010, I suffered a near fatal postpartum hemorrhage. I underwent a life-saving surgery and was later diagnosed with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Thirteen months later, I had a miscarriage in a frozen yogurt shop in front of several people, which triggered the difficult emotions from the hemorrhage I suffered the year prior. Resources and support for mothers who had survived a near miss were scarce. I began sharing my story publicly in 2012 and have connected with thousands of women across the world who have experienced similar birth and pregnancy complications; and the lingering psychological effects.
Jen McLellan is a published author and founder of Plus Size Birth and the Plus Mommy blog. She helps people navigate the world of plus size pregnancy, shares tips for embracing your body, and laughs her way through the adventures of parenthood. Jen has grown a community of over 177,000 via the Plus Mommy Facebook page. Her work has been featured in major publications such as Yahoo Shine, Huffington Post, Everyday Feminism, and International Doula. She authored My Plus Size Pregnancy Guide and co-wrote the Amazon bestseller, The Peachie Moms Guide to Body Love for Moms. Jen is also a childbirth educator, skilled patient advocate, professional speaker, wife, and mother to a charismatic 7-year-old.
Penny Simkin, PT, CD(DONA), is a physical therapist who has specialized in childbirth education since 1968. She estimates she has prepared over 15,00 women, couples, and siblings for childbirth, and is a co-founder of DONA International. Today her practice consists of childbirth education, birth counseling, and writing, combined with a busy schedule of conferences and workshops. Penny and her husband, Peter, have four grown children, eight grandchildren, three grandchildren-in-law, two great-grandbabies, and a pug named Lola. Find out more about Penny at her website: www.pennysimkin.com.
Christine H. Morton, PhD is a medical sociologist with expertise in maternal mortality and morbidity, women's reproductive and maternal health experiences and maternal quality improvement. Since 2008, she has managed CMQCC's state funded project on California Pregnancy-Associated Maternal Review (CA-PAMR), overseeing data collection, committee matters and conducting qualitative analysis on improvement opportunities identified from case reviews.
(Financial assistance rate)recorded webinar, PATTCh TWO-DAY ONLINE INTERACTIVE CONFERENCE: Recognizing Trauma & Respecting Those Giving Birth
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Safe Infant Sleep: Expert Answers to Your Cosleeping Questions by James J. McKenna
Oxytocin The Biological Guide to Motherhood


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MetLife's Wealth Management Services Platform Assets Climb to $6 Billion
By Michael S. Fischer | June 08, 2010 at 08:00 PM
MetLife Broker/Dealer Group's investment advisory product platform, Wealth Management Services (WMS), has amassed $6 billion in assets under management (AUM) across some 30,000 accounts, the firm announced on June 8.
MetLife Broker/Dealer Group's investment advisory product platform, Wealth Management Services (WMS), has amassed $6 billion in assets under management (AUM) across some 30,000 accounts, the firm announced Tuesday, June 8. This figure represents a $2 billion increase over the past year.
The number of WMS accounts has grown by an average of 60% a year since its introduction six years ago-"a clear sign that investors have begun shifting toward active management of their investments, and professional guidance and advice when making their decisions," John Brett, a MetLife senior vice president, said in a statement.
Launched in 2004, WMS enables advisors to integrate a client's eligible accounts into a single, consolidated portfolio. MetLife has added numerous enhancements over the platform's lifetime. In 2009, the firm rolled out a second generation product platform, which now includes a Flexible Unified Managed Account. WMS is currently available through all broker/dealer channels at MetLife: MetLife Securities, New England Securities, Tower Square Securities, and Walnut Street Securities.
Read a story about MetLife's Retirement Guide for LGBT individuals from the archives of InvestmentAdvisor.com.
Michael S. Fischer ([email protected]) is a New York-based financial writer and editor and a frequent contributor to WealthManagerWeb.com.


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Widely celebrated and hatted chef Tim Foster of Source Dining will be guiding his guests through the creation of a regionally-inspired three course menu complemented with beautiful matched wines. Join us in the Cloverdel kitchen for this unique opportunity of cooking, eating, drinking and sharing.
Tim grew up in South Australia and immersed himself within the regional cooking scene from an early age before gaining his qualifications in Adelaide. Tim's cuisine reflects a modern take on classical dishes, defined by the region around him celebrating local and seasonal produce. He is known for his accomplished techniques and interesting flavour combinations with a sublime talent for artistic plating.
Tim's restaurant Source Dining in Kyneton is warmly regarded by locals and visitors and acclaimed nationally, being awarded a chefs hat annually since 2015. Source Dining was also ranked #45 in the Herald Sun Delicious 100 Best Victorian Restaurants for 2017.
It will be an honour welcoming Tim into the Cloverdel Kitchen and a privalege to learn from such a humble and generous chef. The day will begin in the Kitchen with a relaxing tea/coffee and something sweet before a tour through the property and vegetable gardens, with an opportunity to harvest wherever possible. Upon returning, you will meet Tim who will then commence the Masterclass. The day will culminate in a relaxed lunch with matched wines.
Whilst the class is primarily demonstration-based, there will be opportunities for participation, if you so wish. Guests will leave feeling full, confident and inspired, including take-home notes detailing the class's recipes, tips, tricks and intimate chef know-how.
This event may not be suitable for specific dietary requirements. Please email us for details.
Inclusions: Morning tea, two course lunch with wine, floral snips, gloves and apron, glass vessel, and one large take home arrangement.
Known for her wild and unique style, Miranda White, The Floral Forager will share her secrets and floral techniques to guide you in creating a beautiful centrepiece arrangement that will feature local, sustainably grown, seasonally foraged florals. Join us for an intimate day at Cloverdel including foraging, harvesting, arranging, eating and drinking.
Miranda grew up in Gippsland, surrounded by family and friends whose love of gardening and creating posies from home-grown produce ignited her passion for plants. Years of practise and observation have allowed Miranda to develop her unique style and creative flair with floral arranging.
Miranda has been running her flower business here in the Macedon Ranges for several years. She is a flower grower, a florist and a teacher, and will share her knowledge and skills to guide you to create a delightfully wild and beautiful herbal and wildflower posie, followed by a large vessel arrangement filled with florals foraged locally and here at Cloverdel.
The day is suitable for all floral enthusiasts who would like to learn from Miranda regarding her wonderfully unique style.
Our two-course lunch offering will be prepared by Cloverdel using beautiful seasonal produce from our kitchen gardens, accompanied by a selection of beautiful regional wines.
Inclusions: Property and kitchen garden tour, cooking instruction, a four course lunch with regional wine and take home recipes. Intimate class size of 10.
Authentic and classically-trained chefs and life partners, Kathryn Russack and Hal Riches, team up in the Cloverdel Kitchen to guide you through a carefully designed, generous, 4-course autumn menu complimented by specially chosen, regional wines that balance and enrich the flavours of each dish. Join us for this inspiring autumnal culinary experience.
Kathryn Russack grew up on a farm on the south coast of NSW. Her love of produce and travel inspired her to attend Stratford Chef School in Ontario, Canada. Now, as owner of regional Victorian restaurant Colenso, Kathryn continues her exploration and celebration of food, wine, music, art and good company. Kathryn relies on the 3H's to enlighten all aspects of her life; the head, the hands and the heart.
Hal Riches is a respected and much-travelled chef from Ontario, Canada. Currently the Executive Chef at Baringo Food and Wine, where he presents hand made modern Italian menus, Hal is recognised for his uncluttered food styling and in-depth knowledge of specific regional and cultural culinary practices.
Together, Kathryn and Hal will design the Autumnal Kitchen menu around seasonal produce harvested from Cloverdel's gardens as well as quality, locally-sourced fare as required. This impressive and passionate duo will include numerous culinary techniques, including the art of making good vinaigrette, traditional polenta, braising using secondary cuts of meat and water bath baked custard.
The day begins in the Kitchen with a relaxing tea/coffee and something sweet before meeting our Productive Gardeners, who will lead a tour through the property and vegetable gardens to harvest seasonal ingredients for use in the class. Upon returning, you will meet our guest chefs who will then commence the Masterclass. The day will culminate in a relaxed lunch with matched wines.
This event will be gluten free.
Together with prominent hatted restaurant Source Dining and award-winning Granite Hills Winery, Cloverdel will proudly host an afternoon of fine dining set amidst our autumnal gardens and grounds.
For bookings and enquiries, please visit Source Dining's website at www.sourcedining.com.au or phone them on 03 5422 2039.
Renowned for sourcing and showcasing the region's best local produce, Tim Foster, founder and head chef at Source Dining, will bring his team to Cloverdel to deliver four exquisite courses paired with the outstanding wines of Granite Hills Winery. Join us to share in breathtaking vistas, beautiful food and wine, seamless service and excellent company.
The event will be held on Sunday 30 April 2017 from 12:30 pm until 4:00 pm. Parking is available on-site for all guests. In the event of extreme weather conditions, the event will relocate to Source Dining, 72 Piper Street, Kyneton.
Tickets are $175pp with matched wines and a glass of sparkling on arrival or alternatively $130pp without wines.
Tickets for this special culinary event are limited and sold via Source Dining.
Cloverdel is proud to announce we will be hosting the 2017 Regional Longest Lunch again as part of the prestigious Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. The event is a celebration of our region's rich agricultural history and culinary talent with some of the best regional chefs, producers and wineries collaborating to deliver another outstanding event.
Tickets are on sale in November via the MFWF website.
Inclusions: Morning tea, two course lunch with wine, floral snips, gloves and two wrapped bouquets.
Miranda White, The Floral Forager, will guide you to create two delightfully wild, unique, beautiful arrangements with an emphasis on seasonal and sustainable blooms foraged locally and from Cloverdel's wildflower meadows and cutting gardens. Join us for an intimate day at Cloverdel including foraging, harvesting, arranging, eating and drinking.
Miranda has been running her flower business here in the Macedon Ranges for several years. She is a flower grower, a florist and a teacher, and will share her knowledge and skills to help you create a beautiful, fragrant herbal and wildflower posie, as well as a larger bouquet filled with a variety of feature blooms foraged both locally and here at Cloverdel.
Our two-course lunch offering will be prepared by Woodend's best kept secret Colenso, accompanied by Curly Flat and Crofter's Fold wines.
Locally celebrated and hatted chef Alexander Perry will be guiding his guests through the creation of an Italian-inspired four-course menu complemented with beautiful regional wines. Join us in the Cloverdel kitchen for this unique opportunity of cooking, eating, drinking and sharing.
Alexander Perry grew up in nearby Castlemaine and has been running his restaurant The Good Table for seven years. Alex completed his apprenticeship in Melbourne at numerous hatted restaurants including Movida, Café di Stasio and Ladro, and moved on to Italy where he worked for a year before returning home to start his own restaurant. Alex is a well-known supporter of small regional producers and ethical animal welfare. He sources produce for his restaurant carefully and selectively maintaining his strong principles. The cuisine Alex cooks reflects Italian, Spanish and southern European style as our climate here in the region and seasonal produce is so similar.
The format of the day will be predominantly demonstration with Alex inviting guests to participate if they wish to. Complementary transfers to and from the Woodend Train Station on request.
As part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival for 2016 Cloverdel hosted the Regional Longest Lunch representing the Macedon Ranges. The day involved a beautiful six course offering with local and talented participants including Du Fermier, La Bonta, The Good Table and Colenso. Each dish was thoughtfully complemented by the regions' prestigious wines including special vintages from Silent Way, Fontanella, Bindi, Curly Flat and Granite Hills wineries as well as Castlemaine and Holgates breweries.


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US - Beginning this month, the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is now requiring labelling on popular raw meat and poultry products.
The new rule means that consumers will have easy access to nutritional information for packages of ground or chopped meat and poultry. In all, 40 of the most popular whole, raw cuts of meat and poultry will have the labelling.
"Providing nutrition information on meat and poultry products in the store gives shoppers a clearer sense of the options available, allowing them to purchase items that are most appropriate for their families' needs" said Under Secretary for Food Safety Dr Elisabeth Hagen. "These new labels mark a significant step in the agency's efforts to help consumers make more informed food purchase decisions"
According to the USDA news release on the new regulations, "The new nutrition facts panels will list the number of calories and the grams of total fat and saturated fat that a product contains. For example, consumers will be able to compare the calories and fat content for ground turkey versus ground beef, or for pork chops versus chicken breasts, right in the store. Additionally, a ground or chopped product that includes on its label a lean percentage statement, such as "85% lean" and is not considered "low in fat" also will list its fat percentage, making it easier for consumers to understand the amounts of lean and fat content in a particular product. Consumers will no longer have to guess which products fit their diets."
"Since 1993, the FSIS has required nutrition labeling for products that are not raw or that contain multiple ingredients," reported Joe Frasca, Senior Vice President, Marketing at EMSL Analytical, Inc. "As one of the leading food labelling laboratories in the nation, EMSL applauds the government's decision to make more nutritional information available to consumers through the new FSIS rule. EMSL can help manufacturers and retailers of these popular meat and poultry items comply with the new regulations," he continued.
Poultry Trends in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia
In Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia, meat production has increased significantly over the past few years.


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From paw kneading to slow blinking, cats exhibit a variety of curious social behaviors that can seem pretty mysterious to humans. One such behavior that is particularly common is headbutting, or "bunting." You might notice your cat headbutting your legs when you get home from work, or headbutting another one of their feline friends before curling up for a nap. You might even spot them rubbing their face against their favorite piece of furniture.
So what's this headbutting behavior all about? Is it just an attention-seeking mechanism?
Although your cat may occasional bump up against you to get your attention, that's not the only reason they like to headbutt. This behavior is also a bonding experience for cats, as it allows them to deposit their scent on their favorite people, animals and objects. By rubbing the scent glands in their face against familiar people and things in their environment, cats are able to establish a "group scent" that makes them feel more at home.
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While headbutting is a welcome sign of feline affection, head pressing warrants a trip to the vet as soon as possible.
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Let's face it. People in America tend to be busy. Most everyone has a career they're trying to build. They have a family that they're trying to keep up with, both immediate and extended. But sometimes it's good to plan a getaway with old friends people you love but don't get to see that often anymore. Maybe it's the group you hung out with in college, or the group you and your husband were part of when you were getting to know each other. Whatever group on you're thinking about, it's time to get together. Today let's look at some tips to help you plan a trip like this.
First, who all do you want to come? Is it just going to be a couple of close friends? Do you want to include their spouses? Should you include children too.?
You will want to get a feel for who all may be interested in doing something like this. One of the best ways to do this is to send out an evite and see who all responds.
The next thing that you will want to do is to create a Facebook group where everyone can discuss where they want to go and what they want to do.
And if you would allow me, I would love you book your trip. I can help you figure out where the best place might be. I can help you coordinate flight schedules.
We are going to get back to this tomorrow. Please let me know your thoughts or if I can help you book a trip.
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ARGYLE manager Derek Adams' persistence and former Pilgrims' boss Neil Warnock's fondness for his former club both played a part in Matty Kennedy's move to Home Park.
The 22-year-old on-loan winger, who has come to Home Park from Neil's current side, Championship Cardiff City, made his debut in Argyle's 1-0 Sky Bet League Two win at Cambridge United.
Matty, who was substituted after an hour, said afterwards that Derek has been keeping an eye on his progress through his time at Kilmarnock and Everton, as well as in Wales.
"The gaffer here has put a lot of interest into me over the last wee while, and before I went to Cardiff," he said. "That's what made me want to come.
"Hopefully, when I get myself fitter, I can produce more and more like I did in the first half through the whole game for him.
"Obviously the gaffer at Cardiff knows him well and he's a big fan of Plymouth so that helped, but the gaffer here is probably the main part, because he was so interested, and obviously Plymouth's a big club which shouldn't be where it is."


The Austrian Library Day, held every two years, is the central training event of the VÖB.
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Iconic, English synth pop duo Erasure's Pop 2 collects 20 tracks culled from the group's post-1994 output, including "Rescue," "Fingers and Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)," "Freedom" and "Here I Go Impossible Again". Fans who bought 2009's Total Pop!: The First 40 Hits will recognize this as disc two of that set, a collection that features all of the band's pre-1994 hits on disc one.


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Powerful quantum computers capable of solving difficult computing problems (and perhaps undermining today's encryption algorithms) are still far from being realized, but Google, IBM, Honeywell Quantum and Cambridge Quantum are making progress and many other efforts.
Microsoft is in the quantum race of supercomputers along with Ionq, Nvidia and many others: over 240 companies in fact have attracted 8.512 billion dollars in investment, according to Constellation Research.
And there's a lot to do: Accenture is also working with Ionq to bring quantum computing to multiple companies.
IBM launched the 127 qubit Eagle quantum processor this month. He beat Google's 72-qubit quantum computer, driven by his Quantum AI campus in California and his Sycamore processor.
Quantum computing, which defies classical computer logic 0 and 1, could solve some problems that classical computers simply can't handle.
But we're still at the beginning.
The creation of these computers will radically change cryptography leading to the creation of quantum cryptography.
•	The importance of these changes for national security was underlined by MI6 director Richard Moore: "Our opponents are pouring money and ambition into mastering artificial intelligence, Quantum computing because they know that mastering these technologies will give them supremacy".
It's clear as day that quantum computers undermine today's encryption algorithms, including the famous public and private key RSA. The fact that 240 companies have had big investments does not exclude that some get to demolish all the existing cryptography, to take possession of the data and from the point of view of cryptocurrencies possess immense wealth in bitcoin and in other cryptocurrencies. The fact that the Chinese government is in the race leads to further concerns.
They're talking about a fictional quantum cryptography based on artificial intelligence, but right now it's just another attempt to take large state and private investments.
Artificial intelligence-based quantum cryptography does not exist, its theoretical basis does not exist and will certainly come much later than quantum computers.
We have our own CRIPTEOS 3001 encryption system that is able to withstand the most powerful quantum computers, having two keys of 128 kilobytes.
The version with three keys of 40 megabytes that we made for our digital coin can be easily extended to the cryptographic product, where you would have 256 raised to the 41,000 attempts needed to force it with brute force attacks. Just do the mathematical operation and subtract from the exponent the number of attempts that the fastest quantum computer can do in a year.
Result: the number of years it takes for the quantum computer to hack into our system. An enormity.
CRIPTEOS 3001 is present and functioning as the new digital currency. The software made in java has been optimized with special software patented by us that lead to exclude any possibility of errors and bugs. The encoding and decoding speed is exceptional.
We have worked 12 thousand hours to achieve these results. Now vendors have to choose. Either create an alliance against cyber-crime and recognize the validity of our patented software or follow in their own way assuming the responsibility to win the Enemy. There is no third way.
Regarding the opinion that we only have big keys does not take into account that we have analyzed the whole history of encryption and implemented a system that solves the problem of frequency analysis, a problem that violated the classical systems of encryption.
Sometimes simple things are forgotten, such as the crank dynamo that powered the cars of the beginning of the twentieth century, but then proved to be very useful to power mobile phones in Africa in areas where there is no electricity.
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