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[Apologies for the belated posting of this third in the series of columns Ms McLaughlin which appeared in the 14jul21 issue of The Union. The previous two can be found here and here. gjr]
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Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has argued that critical race theory is "another right-wing conspiracy theory" that was "totally made up." MSNBC's Chuck Todd said that critical race theory is being "manufactured" by the right. Yet, over the July 4 weekend, the nation's largest teachers union, the National Education Association, announced plans to teach critical race theory in all 50 states and more than 14,000 school districts. The National Education Association believes it is real, and they would be right.
One of the narratives being incorporated into critical race theory curriculum is the 1619 Project originally published in 2019 by The New York Times as stories, poems, and essays about racism and slavery. Twenty Africans, believed to be the first enslaved Africans in British North America, arrived in the colony of Virginia in 1619. The 1619 Project suggests that this was the moment of America's "true founding."
Written by journalists and opinion writers, not historians, the project attempts to reframe our country's founding around the concepts of racism and slavery.
Within days of its launch in August 2019, a number of notable historians pointed out numerous factual inaccuracies and misleading statements in a letter to The New York Times. They included professors Victoria Bynum of Texas State University, James McPherson and Sean Wilentz of Princeton University, James Oakes of the City University of New York, and Gordon Wood of Brown University.
They disputed many of the statements presented as facts in the 1619 Project, not the least of which was an essay promoting the idea that the American Revolution was motivated by a desire to preserve slavery.
Northwestern University History Professor Leslie Harris, an expert on African American life and slavery in the pre-Civil War era, was the first historian to levy criticism who had actually supported the project and participated in it as a fact-checker.
During the publication process, she was presented with the assertion that "one critical reason that the colonists declared their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery in the colonies, which produced tremendous wealth. At the time there were growing calls to abolish slavery throughout the British Empire, which would have badly damaged the economies of colonies in both North and South."
Harris vigorously disputed this claim, explaining that while slavery was an issue in the American Revolution, the protection of slavery was not one of the main reasons the colonies went to war. Yet that claim remains in the published account.
According to Harris, colonists had no need to secede to protect slavery, as slavery faced no immediate threat from Great Britain. The opposite was true, Harris argued, as the Revolutionary War became a primary disrupter of slavery in the North American colonies. It led most of the 13 colonies to arm and employ free and enslaved black people with the promise of freedom to those who served in their armies. Thousands of enslaved people were freed as a result of these policies, and the ideals gaining force during the Revolutionary era also inspired many Northern states to pass laws gradually ending slavery.
These laws did not provide immediate emancipation, nor did they promise racial equality or full citizenship, but Professor Harris asserted that black activism during the Revolutionary War and the following era of emancipation led to the end of slavery much earlier than prescribed within those laws. Slaves often negotiated with their owners to purchase their freedom, or simply ran away in the confused aftermath of the war, and most Northern slave owners granted freedom to their slaves in advance of the time mandated by law.
Despite the many leading scholars who have discredited and criticized the project since its publication as historically inaccurate and ideologically driven, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the primary architect of the 1619 Project, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for her essay introducing it.
The editorial staff of the New York Post, which had run multiple articles challenging the 1619 Project's facts and arguments, wrote: "Too bad the Pulitzer committee now thinks that facts are irrelevant to journalism." Most recently, Hannah-Jones has been awarded the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, her alma mater. (She turned it down in favor of a position at Howard University.)
African-American history and slavery is a critical theme in America's story, but we can recognize the impact of race without denying the roles of other influences or erasing or denigrating the contributions of early American settlers and our founding fathers, as critical race theory attempts to do.
A dozen Civil War professors and scholars have stated that they are "troubled that these materials are now … the basis of school curriculums, with the imprimatur of The New York Times. The remedy for past historical oversights is not their replacement by modern oversights."
Professor Gordon Wood, winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for history for a book on the American Revolution, wrote, "I have spent my career studying the American Revolution. … I don't know of any colonist who said that they wanted independence in order to preserve their slaves. … We all want justice, but not at the expense of truth."
Despite its demonstrable flaws and distortions, the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum approved by the California Department of Education this year draws significantly upon the 1619 Project to validate what The Wall Street Journal calls the curriculum's "radical indoctrination."


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Title: The Prince and the Page
Author and Title: Charlotte Mary Yonge. The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last Crusade
First Edition: London: Macmillan, 1866. 1 volume.
Summary: Illustrated by R. Farren.
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Liberatore, Federico, Scaparra, Maria Paola, Daskin, Mark S. (2012) Hedging against disruptions with ripple effects in location analysis. Omega, 40 (1). pp. 21-30. ISSN 0305-0483. (doi:10.1016/j.omega.2011.03.003) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:27866)
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Supply systems are subject to disruptions whose impact may not remain confined, but might actually propagate across the network. We consider the problem of optimally protecting a capacitated median system with a limited amount of protective resources subject to disruptions. Specifically, the type of disruption studied is characterized by correlation effects between the facilities, and may result in partial or complete disruption of the facilities involved. The model optimizes protection plans in the face of large area disruptions; i.e., disruptions that affect regions rather than single elements of the system. Examples may be earthquakes, storms, floods, fires, hurricanes, droughts, the spread of diseases, the spread of chemical agents, and cascading failures. The model is also a general framework for the family of fortification problems in the context of locationanalysis, as it includes uncapacitated facilities and single-target disruptions as special cases. We provide a tri-level formulation of the problem, and we propose an exact solution algorithm which makes use of a tree-search procedure to identify which facilities to protect. The procedure is enhanced by a dual-based pruning rule. The underlying disruption problem is reformulated as a single-level mixed-integer program. The algorithm has been tested on a dataset based on the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake. We verify empirically the efficiency of the pruning rule, and we provide an evaluation of the importance of considering propagation effects in the disruptions.
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Utility of 18-kHz acoustic data for abundance estimation of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus)
Saunders, Ryan A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1157-7222; O'Donnell, Ciaran; Korneliussen, Rolf J.; Fassler, Sascha M. M.; Clarke, Maurice W.; Egan, Afra; Reid, Dave. 2012 Utility of 18-kHz acoustic data for abundance estimation of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus). ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 69 (6). 1086-1098. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fss059Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)
Current acoustic survey protocols for Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) abundance estimation are principally dependent upon 38-kHz backscatter data. This can constitute a substantial problem for robust stock assessment when 38-kHz data are compromised. Research vessels now typically collect multifrequency data during acoustic surveys, which could be used to remediate such situations. Here, we investigate the utility of using 18- and 120-kHz data for herring abundance estimation when the standard 38-kHz approach is not possible. Estimates of herring abundance/biomass in the Celtic Sea (2007–2010) were calculated at 18, 38, and 120 kHz using the standard 38-kHz target-strength (TS) model and geometrically equivalent TS models at 18 and 120 kHz. These estimates were compared to assess the level of coherence between the three frequencies, and 18-kHz-derived estimates were subsequently input into standard 38-kHz-based population models to evaluate the impact on the assessment. Results showed that estimates of herring abundance/ biomass from 18 and 38 kHz acoustic integration varied by only 0.3–5.4%, and acoustically derived numbers-at-age estimates were not significantly (p . 0.05) different from 1:1. Estimates at 120 kHz were also robust. Furthermore, 18-kHz-derived estimates did not significantly change the assessment model output, indicating that 18-kHz data can be used for herring stock assessment purposes.
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Edward Snowden backup plan, June 26, 2013, Files are out there if anything happens to him, Encoded copies of documents, Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald
Edward Snowden backup plan, June 26, 2013, Files are out there if anything happens to him, Encoded copies of documents, Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed,
If you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly,
You may come to the moment when you will have to fight
with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival."…Winston Churchill
"A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone. Wherever he may be, asleep or awake, working or resting, in his bath or in bed, he can be inspected without warning and without knowing that he is being inspected. Nothing that he does is indifferent. His friendships, his relaxations, his behaviour towards his wife and children, the expression of his face when he is alone, the words he mutters in sleep, even the characteristic movements of his body, are all jealously scrutinized. Not only any actual misdemeanour, but any eccentricity, however small, any change of habits, any nervous mannerism that could possibly be the symptom of an inner struggle, is certain to be detected. He has no freedom of choice in any direction whatever. On the other hand his actions are not regulated by law or by any clearly formulated code of behaviour. In Oceania there is no law. Thoughts and actions which, when detected, mean certain death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges, arrests, tortures, imprisonments, and vaporizations are not inflicted as punishment for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely the wiping-out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time in the future."…George Orwell, "1984"
From The Daily Beast June 25, 2013.
"Greenwald: Snowden's Files Are Out There if 'Anything Happens' to Him"
"Snowden has shared encoded copies of all the documents he took so that they won't disappear if he does, Glenn Greenwald tells Eli Lake."
"As the U.S. government presses Moscow to extradite former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, America's most wanted leaker has a plan B. The former NSA systems administrator has already given encoded files containing an archive of the secrets he lifted from his old employer to several people. If anything happens to Snowden, the files will be unlocked.
Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who Snowden first contacted in February, told The Daily Beast on Tuesday that Snowden "has taken extreme precautions to make sure many different people around the world have these archives to insure the stories will inevitably be published." Greenwald added that the people in possession of these files "cannot access them yet because they are highly encrypted and they do not have the passwords." But, Greenwald said, "if anything happens at all to Edward Snowden, he told me he has arranged for them to get access to the full archives."
The fact that Snowden has made digital copies of the documents he accessed while working at the NSA poses a new challenge to the U.S. intelligence community that has scrambled in recent days to recover them and assess the full damage of the breach. Even if U.S. authorities catch up with Snowden and the four classified laptops the Guardian reported he brought with him to Hong Kong the secrets Snowden hopes to expose will still likely be published.
A former U.S. counterintelligence officer following the Snowden saga closely said his contacts inside the U.S. intelligence community "think Snowden has been planning this for years and has stashed files all over the Internet." This source added, "At this point there is very little anyone can do about this."
The arrangement to entrust encrypted archives of his files with others also sheds light on a cryptic statement Snowden made on June 17 during a live chat with The Guardian. In the online session he said, "All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.""
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Today I went outside for the first time since surgery.
At the PCU there's a patio overlooking the hospital garden. I went outside to the patio.
It was nice breathing fresh air. The PCU smells because they have to sanitize it all the time. There's always a smell of clorox bleach and hand sanitizers.
I also liked that it was warm. The PCU is always cold because they have to ensure no bacteria grows. Outside also is bright. Being inside all the time drains you.
I decided to eat my breakfast outside. I had some cheerios, sausage, milk, and hash browns. Even though there's a lot of pain after transplant, I actually have more appetite. If this continues then I can get my G-tube out.
A G-tube is a tube that is placed through my stomach. I can insert nutrients and calories through it. That's what I've been using for the past 15 years.
I've tried to get off the G-tube last year. That was a bad time to try because that's when I contracted PLE (Protein Losing Enteropathy). Protein Losing Enteropathy is when your body doesn't absorb the protein you eat. It's a side effect of a failing heart. I lost a lot of weight during that time. The doctors forced me to get back on my tube feeding.


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MOSES will be participating in a Statewide campaign to restore voting rights to the people who are on some form of Supervision. Please come out and show support for this Bill and our statewide campaign at the unveiling of the "Unlock the Vote" legislation by Senate Sponsor, Senator Lena Taylor and Assembly Sponsor, Jodi Emerson. Unlock the Vote is a transformative bill that could add 66,000 eligible new voters to the rolls in Wisconsin by restoring voting rights to people as they reenter their communities from prison. Expo has led the call to restore voting rights to formerly incarcerated people and believes introducing this law in the state legislatures makes it clear that the fight continues against voter suppression in this state. Wisconsin would join many states looking to expand access to the polls and make a more inclusive democracy becoming the 18th
State with DC to restore voting rights to reentering citizens.
"Laws that aim to disenfranchise people based on criminal records are a Jim Crow era relic that have no place in our democracy," said Jerome Dillard, State Director for EXPO. ""Voting is a fundamental right of citizenship. Under our constitution, there is no legitimate justification for denying people who have paid their dues from having a voice in our democracy."
Unlock the Vote would rightfully restore to reentering citizens the most basic of civic participation, the right to vote. The press conference will begin at 2 p.m. in the Wisconsin State Capitol, 2 E Main St, Madison, WI 53703 where Senator Taylor and Representative Emerson will present "Unlock the Vote" and its accompanying legislation, the press conference will conclude after hearing from several more speakers.


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Maine will soon allow non-doctors to perform abortions; the result of a controversial Kazakh election is seen as an extension of the country's authoritarian regime.
Wins for reproductive rights
- The governor of Maine signed a bill on Monday that would expand the type of medical practitioners who can perform abortions. [Portland Press Herald / Kevin Miller]
- Under the new bill, which will go into effect in September, physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses will be able to perform in-clinic abortions or provide abortion medication. Before the legislation, only physicians were allowed to perform abortions. [The Hill / Justin Wise]
- Maine is the second state after California to allow non-doctors to provide in-clinic abortions. Almost two dozen states, including Vermont and New Hampshire, have expanded the scope of professionals who can administer abortion medication. [AP]
- Gov. Janet Mills said the measure will help women in rural areas access critical reproductive health services. Only three cities in Maine — Augusta, Bangor, and Portland — provide aspiration abortion, which is a procedure that involves suction. [NYT / Jacey Fortin]
- Critics, however, have criticized the bill as a political move because there is no data that women are having a hard time accessing reproductive health care due to proximity. [Fox News / Lukas Mikelionis]
- They also say that allowing more health professionals to perform the procedure will make it less safe, especially because they don't think practitioners will have enough practice by September to perform abortions. Many, however, have said that abortion is one of the safest medical procedures and the restriction is outdated. [AP]
- Maine wasn't the only win for reproduction rights on Monday: Vermont also passed a bill that protects abortions rights by law. [ABC News / Meghan Keneally and Alexandra Svokos]
- These moves are in opposition to the recent trend of conservative states, including Alabama, Ohio, and Georgia, restricting reproduction rights. [CNN / Eli Watkins]
Elections are seen as an extension of Kazakhstan's authoritarian regime
- The handpicked successor of former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has won an election tightly controlled by the government amid waves of pro-democracy protests. [France 24]
- Some background: Nazarbayev had been the country's only leader since 1991 after it emerged following the fall of the Soviet Union. He resigned in March — although he will stay as head of the governing party — and appointed his loyal ally Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as interim president. [BBC]
- Tokayev won the election by 70.76 percent, while opposition candidate Amirzhan Kosanov trailed with 16.2 percent. This is the first time since 2005 that a candidate has openly represented himself as the opposition. [Guardian / Joanna Lillis]
- Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, however, criticized the election for its lack of regard for "fundamental rights." Tokayev has disregarded these accusations. [Reuters / Tamara Vaal and Mariya Gordeyeva]
- About 500 people were detained during the election on Sunday, despite having protested peacefully. The government also shut down Facebook and the messaging app Telegram for hours on election day. [Reuters]
- Pro-democracy protestors said they want a fair election and to break free from the grip of former senior Communist Party officials. [Eurasianet / Joanna Lillis and Danil Usmanov]
- For now, Nazarbayev maintains a tight grip on Kazakhstan, and many expect he will continue to assert his influence behind the scenes. [NYT / Andrew Higgins]
- Botswana just decriminalized homosexuality. That's a big win for LGBTQ rights in Africa. [BBC]
- Research has found that the Alcoholics Anonymous doctrine isn't always the most effective treatment method. Why do so many people turn to it regardless? [Atlantic / Gabrielle Glaser]
- In Texas, children's right to open a lemonade stand is now protected by law. [CNN / Leanna Faulk and Amanda Watts]
- French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Donald Trump planted a friendship tree to celebrate their bromance last year, but the relationship has since soured. It seems like the universe has quite the sense of humor: The tree is now dead too. [Washington Post / James McAuley]
- Could a material made from cactus leaves become a potential alternative to single-use plastic? [Futurism / Dan Robitzski]
"Wake up, Kazakh! Think, Kazakh! Be, Kazakh! We are a nation that has forgotten its freedom." [A 1909 Kazakh poem written during Russian colonial rule that has inspired protests]
Watch this: China's panda diplomacy, explained
China's best diplomats are the ones that sit around and eat bamboo all day. [YouTube / Nicholas Garbaty and Dara Lind]
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Microsoft Corp. yesterday told subscribers to its Equipt bundle of software and services that it will pull the plug April 30, just nine months after it launched the package based on its Office suite.
The move was not unexpected. When Microsoft announced it would dump Windows Live OneCare last November, it said the demise of the consumer security program, which was part of Equipt, meant that the latter would also vanish at some point.
Although Microsoft couched the dropping of OneCare -- and the replacement of it with a free set of security tools sometime this year, as its way of protecting more users -- rivals in the consumer security market said Microsoft couldn't hack it. "It's simply not in Microsoft's DNA to provide high-quality, frequently updated security protection," a Symantec Corp. executive said in November.
Microsoft released Equipt, which had formerly gone by the code name "Albany," last July. Retail sales had been limited to Circuit City, the consumer electronics chain that filed for bankruptcy in November. At the time it launched Equipt, Microsoft said it was restricting retail sales to Circuit City because it was a "complicated value proposition" that required specially trained salespeople to tout the bundle to buyers.
Equipt included Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Windows Live OneCare, Office Live Workspaces, Windows Live Mail, Live Messenger and Live Photo. All but the first two are free Web-based services. The package was priced at $69.99 for a one-year subscription.
Because of that subscription model, Microsoft will essentially "switch off" much of the software's functionality at the end of April. According to an FAQ posted on Microsoft's site, it will discontinue updates to OneCare at that time, and cripple Office. "After Microsoft Equipt is discontinued, you will still be able to view existing Office documents, but you will not be able to create or edit Office documents," the FAQ stated.
Microsoft will, however, offer a prorated refund to subscribers and provide them with a free copy of Office Home and Student 2007, which they can install on up to three PCs. To receive the refund and the Office installation disc, subscribers must fill out an online form.
The refund and Office CD should arrive four to six weeks after the form is submitted, said Microsoft.
Equipt was billed by Microsoft as a package to give consumers a "core set of services" for their PCs, and by others as the company's answer to the free, online applications popularized by Google Apps. But since Equipt's appearance, Microsoft has announced plans to deliver online versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote when it launches the next edition of Office late this year.


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Backed with immense knowledge in this field, we are affianced in offering optimum grade Brass Chevron Threaded Inserts. These inserts are manufactured by diligent troop of professionals using optimal quality brass at our highly advanced premises. Having rust resistance and easy installation, the provided inserts are extensively used in plumbing, piping and gas fitting applications. In addition, our valued patrons can easily purchase these Brass Chevron Threaded Inserts at marginal prices.
- Smooth finish
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Most Satisfying Win
Super Bowl VI-- Cowboys 24 Dolphins 3. It felt like the first time. Because it was. After the crushing losses to the Packers, followed by the back-to-back Cleveland disasters and the Super Bowl V debacle, this was soul-deep sweet.
Most Devastating Loss
Super Bowl XIII-- Steelers 35 Cowboys 31. I cannot and will not watch a replay or any NFL Films treatment of this game. To this day, it just Hurts So Bad, Little Anthony.
Best Cowboy Quarterback Performance
Troy Aikman, SB XXVII
Most Helpful Performance By An Opposing Quarterback
Neil O'Donnel, Super Bowl XXX ("Honorable" Mention, Craig Morton, SB XII)
Official's Call That Went Our Way
Do you really think Butch Johnson caught that post route from Staubach in Super Bowl XII? (I don't.)
Much more below...
Official's Call That Killed Us
Fred Swearingen's phantom PI call on Benny Barnes in SB XIII
Best Individual Performance By An Opponent
Lynn Swann SB X
Best Single Play By A Cowboy
Bob Lilly's 29-yard sack of Bob Griese in SB VI
Most Inspirational Play By An Opponent
Don Beebe tracking down and stripping Leon Lett, SB XXVII
Squirreliest Play By Either Team
Johnny Unitas's pass that bounced off the hands of Eddie Hinton, and then either was or was not touched by Mel Renfro before it landed in the hands of John Mackey for a 75-yard touchdown, SB V
Best Performance By A Cowboy Wide Receiver
Michael Irvin, SB XXVII
Best Performance By A Cowboy Defensive Line
(tie) SB XII, SB XXVII
Best In-Game Adjustments By A Cowboy Coach
Jimmy Johnson, SB XXVIII
Most Beautiful Setting
The Rose Bowl, SB XXVII
Best Performance By A Cowboy Offensive Line
Shakiest Cowboy Victory
Most Dominating Cowboy Team Performance
Best Pre-Game Trash Talking
Hollywood Henderson, SB XIII
Best Performance By An Opposing QB
Terry Bradshaw, SB XIII (Runnerup, Terry Bradshaw, SB X)
Best Pre-Game Player Introductions
Best Performance By A Cowboy Running Back
Emmitt Smith, SB XXVIII
Most Brilliantly Succinct Post-Game Interview
Duane Thomas, SB VI--"Evidently."
Most Exasperated Losing Player
Bob Lilly, SB V (that helmet is STILL flying)
Most Unlikely Opposing Hero
Jim O'Brien, SB V (Runnerup, Rocky Bleier, SB XIII)
Most Underappreciated Cowboy Individual Performance
Randy Hughes, SB XII
Most Relieved Cowboy Coach
Tom Landry, SB VI
Most Unlikely Cowboy Touchdown Scorer
Percy Howard, SB X
Most Coveted Cowboy Victory
The next one!


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Chakra Clearing Crystal Set
Beautiful chakra clearing crystal set comprising of the following crystals to clear the chakras:
- Crown chakra – Clear Quartz
- Third Eye- Amethyst
- Throat Chakra – Blue Lace Agate
- Heart Chakra – Green Aventurine & Rose Quartz
- Solar Plexus – Citrine
- Sacral Chakra- Carnelian
- Root Chakra – 2 x Red Jasper (to be placed on both thighs)
- Black Obsidian (to be placed below the feet for grounding)
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Dental health can deliver for expectant
By Jack Williams
San Diego Union-Tribune
July 19, 2004
Body and Soul
We're beginning to see the evidence collect
like bacteria around chronically neglected teeth: What happens
in our mouth reflects and affects what's going on in the rest
of the body.
So when a savvy dental hygienist tells you
she's diagnosed at least three pregnancies during routine
dental checkups, you don't exactly jump out of your chair.
The telltale signs? Red, tender and very swollen
gums. The condition? Pregnancy gingivitis, which some women
of child-bearing age develop before they know they're brushing
and flossing for two (or more).
Combine the inevitable hormonal changes of pregnancy
with less-than-optimal mouth maintenance, and the result could
be premature delivery and an underweight baby. A five-year
University of North Carolina study showed that pregnant women
with moderate to severe periodontal disease a condition
resulting from untreated gingivitis can be seven times
more likely to give birth prematurely.
Sheila Wolf, a registered dental hygienist who
likes to be called "Mama Gums," comes heavily armed
with such warnings. She's seen enough problem mouths in her
32-year career to be able to identify pregnancy gingivitis
at the drop of a jaw.
"With some women, their pregnancy was confirmed
three or four weeks later," she said.
Prevention-minded to the bone, Wolf is famous
among Halloween trick-or-treaters in her San Diego neighborhood
for handing out toothbrushes, dental floss and toothpaste
instead of gooey goodies.
She's taught oral hygiene in a one-room schoolhouse
in the Appalachian Mountains, where as many as six kids share
one toothbrush. She's persuaded leading dental companies to
donate supplies to impoverished children here and abroad,
and she's preached the do's and don'ts of dental hygiene as
a volunteer in rural Israel.
Now, thanks to a Web site (www.mamagums.com)
and a recently published book ("Pregnancy and Oral Health,"
Radcliffe Publishing) she's carrying her gum rap to a wider
"I feel I can reach more people in print
than across the dental chair," she said the other day.
Wolf struck a responsive chord with women after
posting oral health articles on female-oriented Web sites.
"I saw that pregnant women was a niche I could reach
out to," she said. So she wrote a practical, how-to book,
believed to be the first of its kind, on what she calls "the
critical connection between your mouth and your baby."
This is the same Sheila Wolf known to some San
Diegans for her interior decorating and home-restoration skills.
For now, though, her Gilda Designs business is on hold. She's
writing another dental book, one she says she'll name "The
Smile of Your Life." Or maybe "Keep Your Teeth and
Save Your Life in 10 Minutes."
In any case, it will be filled with tips on
how to avoid bacterial infections that destroy attachment
fibers and supporting bone that hold teeth in the mouth.
About 15 percent of adults between 21 and 50
and 30 percent 50 and over have periodontal disease. Worst
case scenario is surgery, which Wolf insists can be avoided
with proper brushing, flossing and/or irrigating (squirting
warm water into spaces between the teeth).
As for pregnancy gingivitis, between 50 percent
and 75 percent of women show symptoms. Once the baby is delivered,
the risk goes down as the hormones return to normal.
But breast-feeding moms and women on birth control
pills still are more prone than the rest of us to develop
gum complications.
"They retain water," Wolf said, "and
that can make gum tissues more puffy and inflamed."
Jack Williams can be reached at (619) 293-1388;
by fax at (619) 293-1896; or by e-mail at: firstname.lastname@example.com


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On Monday night, March 7, 2011, Sioux City police responded to a 911 call from 1417 Virginia Street, where they found 6-year-old Manuel Ramirez dead in the bathtub. Officers administered CPR but were unable to revive the Irving Elementary School first-grader.
Manuel's stepmother, Maria Miranda, told investigators she was watching television with other children downstairs while Manuel was bathing alone upstairs.
Authorities said Ramirez's 12-year-old sister called 911 about 9 p.m. Monday night.
Officers at the scene were told Manuel had drowned, but Sioux City Police Chief Doug Young said evidence did not point to drowning.
Manuel's cause of death was listed as being consistent with asphyxia, or lack of oxygen, though the manner of death could not be determined.
Sioux City police Lt. Mark Kirkpatrick said unexplained deaths like Manuel's are investigated as homicides until proved otherwise, and the Sioux City Journal cited a DHS report noting a "long history of unexplained injuries to Manuel and the family's expressed dislike for him."
Manuel's father, Jose De Los Santos, was in jail at the time of his son's death, held on federal immigration charges. Following Manuel's death, De Los Santos was deported, and investigators believe Miranda also returned to Mexico.
In a Journal story dated March 6, 2013, crime reporter Molly Montag wrote about the questions that remain in Manuel's short life and the newly donated bronze marker for the young boy's unmarked grave.
SIOUX CITY | Manuel Ramirez was 6 years old when he was buried in an unmarked grave.
Police call the Sioux City first-grader's death two years ago Thursday "suspicious" and are still investigating the unsolved case.
His body is in the Marian Section of Calvary Cemetery, placed there free of charge by the Catholic cemetery. The section, dubbed Babyland by the cemetery staff, is for young children, stillborn infants and abandoned fetuses.
Cemetery caretaker Walt Peterson said visitors frequent the Marian Section to remember children lost too soon and those who never took a breath.
Those who watch over the graves say Manuel's burial spot doesn't get many visits.
Over the Christmas holidays, someone placed stuffed toys and figurines on the boy's grave. The gifts were left anonymously.
Manuel lived in the 1400 block of Virgina Street with his father, Jose De Los Santos, and stepmother, Maria Miranda, and four siblings. Police responding to a 911 call from the house on March 7, 2011, found the boy unresponsive in the bathtub. Officers administered CPR.
Born in El Monte, Calif., on July 3, 2004, Manuel came to Sioux City to live with his father and stepmother in 2009, according to an investigation by the Iowa Department of Human Services. He attended Irving Elementary School.
De Los Santos was in jail when Manuel died, held on federal immigration charges after being stopped for a traffic violation. Miranda was home with the couple's children, according to the DHS report.
Miranda could not be reached for comment on this story. Investigators believe she moved to Mexico after Manuel died and De Los Santos was deported.
In the DHS report, investigators report Miranda was watching television with other children downstairs while Manuel was bathing alone upstairs. Investigators were told the door to the bathroom was shut because Manuel didn't like anyone else in the room.
Police say he was dead when they arrived.
Manuel's cause of death is listed as being consistent with asphyxia, or lack of oxygen. The manner of death could not be determined.
Unexplained deaths like Manuel's are investigated as homicides until proved otherwise, Sioux City police Lt. Mark Kirkpatrick said.
Police Chief Doug Young said evidence doesn't point to drowning, which is what officers at the scene were told.
"It's a suspicious death as far as we're concerned, and that's why it's still open," he said. "We're not satisfied with the explanations that we've received."
Asphyxia is a medical term for when a person stops breathing, said Dr. Tom Benzoni, staff physican at Mercy Medical Center.
It can happen as a result of many traumas or conditions, Benzoni said, including drowning, strangulation or even being in an oxygen-poor environment.
Benzoni thought it would be unusual for a healthy 6-year-old child to drown in a bathtub. The victims he's tended to over the years are usually infants too small to help themselves.
"They can't crawl out," Benzoni said.
Investigators with DHS placed blame on Miranda, saying in the report she denied Manuel critical care, the agency's term for neglect. The report also cites a "preponderance of evidence that she is responsible" and says information suggests she was "either overtly or covertly" involved in his death. Miranda didn't have a reasonable explanation for the boy's death and was the person supervising him at the time, and medical reports showed he did not drown, according to the DHS report.
The report also notes a long history of unexplained injuries to Manuel and the family's expressed dislike for him.
No one, including Miranda, has been charged in the case. Police and prosecutors won't say if she is a suspect.
Young, the police chief, said Manuel's case appears to be one in which one member of a family is viewed as an outsider.
Manuel doesn't have any relatives or other advocates pushing the police department, which Young said is rare but sometimes happens when an outsider is brought into a family.
"Usually there's somebody wanting to know what's going on," Young said. "There's nobody."
Investigators would like to talk to anyone who knows anything about Manuel's death or believes they have information detectives should know, Young said.
"We're not going to push this under the rug," Young said. "We'll do whatever we can to solve this. And if it remains active forever, that's the way it'll be until we can successfully bring it to some type of conclusion. We take these matters very seriously. Unfortunately, sometimes crimes aren't solved."
Peterson said the toys left on Manuel's grave over Christmas likely were from people moved by a segment on KMEG-TV. The station aired a story about Manuel's death in November. Viewers later raised money for a bronze grave marker, which will be placed when the weather warms.
Someone's making occasional trips to Babyland, Peterson said, and showing the boy is remembered.
"That's kind of good to know he won't be completely forgotten," he said.
Manuel Ramirez was born July 3, 2004, in El Monte, California. Services were held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 12, 2011, at Cathedral of the Epiphany. Visitation was two hours prior to Saturday's services, with arrangements under the direction of Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery in Sioux City.
In addition to his father and stepmother, Manuel was survived by four siblings.
Anyone with information about Manuel Ramirez's unsolved death is asked to contact the Sioux City Police Department at 712-279-6440.
I don't understand why she wasn't investigated more or at least brought up on charges. Maybe there's more to this story than I read but just don't add up :(
I remember when this happened. Such a cruel world. Pobresito. God bless his little soul!
So sad
any time I heard about a innocent child being murdered it breaks my heart to know all they had to do was bring the child to a safe haven if they didnt want them. they will get whats coming to them on judgement day.
I hope they catch the person, if they did not like the boy they need to give him to DHS or someone who would care for him, killing an innocent baby what a monster
This was one of my daughters friends in school. So sad she has not been found. she needs to rot for what she did.
Poor boy I can't believe it's been 5 years already
Omg so Sad ! They better reopen that case! That makes me Mad!
so verry sad
So sad.
This makes me sick! Poor baby rip
He was pulled from the wreckage.
Excuse Me? Im His Sister And I Do Not Apppreciate This Bull. I Was There The WHOLE Time And Said all The Truth Any Concerns?
Umm yeah no ur not his sister! And if you were really there you would of been part of this but ur not okay soo no dont take credit in being his "sister" cuz he only has 3 sisters which is me and my too little sister! Any concerns ?
Maria I am sorry for your lost and Manuel is a little angel that is watching over you and you sisters I love you guys and I am always here for you okay – Jazminne (aka) Liz
So U were in the home when he died? Then u certainly know the truth. U know SOMETHING! Tell the police! This woman needs to pay! This lil guy deserves justice!!
Girl you ain't shit i don't care how long ago this was HE ONLY has 3 brothers and THREE sisters ! You are nothing to him ! Your momma gonna rot in HELL
Any concerns ? Hit my line 9095825908
I'm this little angels aunt. I've recently found out about this. My sister is so heartless I wish I was able to qo visit him.
I wish that lady goes to hell. ! She deserves nothing but the worst. !
This makes me sick to my stomach.. RIP baby boy
Where is Manuel's biological mother?Doesn't she wonder how her child is faring?Or did she consider him to be a pain in the ass,too?With a family like this,Manuel didn't need any enemys.He was doomed from the start.
His mother is living peacefully. I'm his aunt. & not all his family os like you say we cared & LOVED him but we couldn't do anything his mom made the worst decisions. & this is what happened :(
Now Manuel sleeps with angels and will always be loved. God bless you little one.


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Hopefully you are having a well earned rest over the Christmas holiday and are now thinking about what training you should be doing over the next few months. This is a great time to take stock of your swimming and make some training plans to meet your goals this summer. But when it comes to assessing your stroke technique, without the help of a good coach it's hard to judge what you should be working on.
Enter the Stroke Contrast method. This technique asks you to deliberately alter your stroke for the worse so that you can experience how it feels. The contrast this creates gives you a unique sensory experience, which helps you tune into flaws in your stroke.
The possibilities for creating Stroke Contrasts are endless. Here's a classic session -- try it for yourself and see what you experience:
|Warm up: 400m smooth easy freestyle
For each of the contrasts below, swim 100m deliberately emphasising the stroke error then 200m focusing on correcting that error:
Contrast of Flaw 1: Holding Your Breath
a) Swim 100m without any exhalation into the water – holding you breathe the whole time you are face down. Rotate to the side as normal to breathe but in that short window both exhale and inhale.
b) Now experience the contrast by swimming 200m emphasising good strong exhalation into the water. Doing this you only have to inhale when you rotate to breathe. This is good breathing technique – do you do this in your stroke normally?
Find out more about exhalation.
Contrast of Flaw 2: Lack Of Body Roll
a) Swim 100m without any body roll, trying to keep your shoulders and hips flat and level with the water. To do this you might have to swing your arms round the side a bit more than normal.
b) Now swim 200m emphasising good body roll, rotating the hips and shoulders together. As you enter the water and extend forwards at the front of your stroke really emphasise rolling your body onto that side.
Find out more about body roll.
Contrast of Flaw 3: Dorsi Flexed Ankles
a) Using a pull buoy, swim 100m flexing your foot square to your leg as if you are standing. When you swim in this position your toes will point down towards the bottom of the pool. Feel what this does to your body position and how it creates drag.
b) Now continue with the pull buoy for 200m correcting this stroke flaw by pointing your toes (technical term: plantar flexion). Experience how this feels and what it does to your progress through the water.
Find out more about kicking.
Contrast 4: Head Position
a) Swim 100m, every 25m try a different head position:
1) looking straight down and slightly behind
2) looking straight down
3) looking straight down and slightly ahead
4) looking ahead (eyes still just below the surface)
b) There is no right or wrong with head position – it's an individual thing to suit your stroke. Choose the position that felt best for your stroke and then swim 200m holding that position.
Contrast of Flaw 5: Straight Arm Catch and Pull.
a) After entering the water at the front of your stroke and extending forwards, start your stroke but deliberately keep your arm straight without any elbow bend. This means you have to push straight down on the water rather than push it back. Emphasise this stroke flaw for 100m.
b) Now swim 200m, focusing on extending forwards and then commencing the stroke by catching the water with a good elbow bend, so pulling the water back to the wall behind you. Quick tip: try exaggerating the elbow bend more than you might think necessary.
Find out more about the catch and pull.
|Warm down: Pick the contrast above that made the most difference to your stroke and swim 200m at a very easy pace focusing on that one thing.
That's a simple 2100m technique session which anyone can use to assess their own stroke. You can modify it and add in other stroke flaws e.g. bent knee kicking, late breathing and catch up stroke timing.
Important: Deliberately introducing a stroke flaw in this way increases your perception. You can often feel if you have a tendency towards that particular flaw in your stroke. But if you don't feel any difference at all versus your normal swimming, that shows you have the full version of that flaw in your stroke. Make fixing it your immediate priority!
How to fix a stroke flaw? The very best way is to invest in our full Stroke Correction DVD Boxset. It contains the most effective methods available to correct your stroke and meet your swimming and triathlon goals.
Merry Christmas!
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YA'AN, Sichuan - Search and rescue continued Sunday as death toll from Saturday's devastating earthquake climbed to 180 in Southwest China's Sichuan province.
In Baoxing, a county isolated by the 7.0-magnitude quake, 26 people were confirmed dead and about 2,500 were injured, county head Ma Jun told Xinhua.
People are rushed to hospitals in Lushan county, Southwest China's Sichuan province, on April 20, 2013. [Photo/Xinhua]
He said the quake damaged almost every home in Baoxing, with a population of 58,000, including newly-built homes after the devastating quake of 2008.
Water, electricity and gas supplies were all cut off, said Ma.
Many local residents spent the night outdoors, short of food, water and clothing, as there were not enough tents for every family and people were afraid of returning to their ramshackle homes to get supplies amid constant aftershocks.
As of 9 am, 11 of the critically-injured survivors had been carried out of the quake-leveled Lingguan town, and more than 20 others were still waiting to be airlifted.
"The top priority is to save lives," said Ma. "Meanwhile, we'll resettle the residents and reopen roads."
A team of electricians from the Sichuan power company were airlifted to Baoxing County Saturday night, hoping to restore power supplies as soon as possible.
Medical workers from Huaxi Hospital of Sichuan University conduct treatment for Huang Xiao in Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan on Sunday. The child was injured by his collapsed home in a village in Baoxing county, Ya'an city, on Saturday. [Photo/Xinhua]
Meanwhile, more than 700 rescuers had hiked to Lingguan town as of Sunday morning.
The quake shook Lushan County in Ya'an, a city near the provincial capital Chengdu, at 8:02 am Beijing time Saturday.
Premier Li Keqiang arrived at the quake zone on the same day and told rescuers to waste no time and save as many lives as possible.
Near the quake epicenter Longmen township, which reported the largest number of casualties so far, residents and rescuers spent a sleepless night. Relief supplies were still on the way, as roads linking Ya'an city proper to the epicenter were congested.
Yang Jian, a native of Longmen who works in Chengdu, hiked more than 10 hours home and joined the team of volunteers shortly after his arrival.
His family's three-story home was damaged and a 15-year-old cousin was killed. His legs were swollen from the hiking. "I'll try to save others' lives and when I end up in danger someday, I might get the help I need, too. Kindness is always mutual."
Two trucks of supplies from Chengdu's Red Cross arrived at 4 am "We drove for 12 hours to bring in 106 tents and 100 quilts," said Jiang Zhongfa, a relief officer.
Wenchuan County, the epicenter of the 2008 quake, sent a team of 150 rescuers to Longmen Saturday, including 20 field specialists experienced in saving lives from debris and mountain, an expertise they learned from the Wenchuan quake.
More than 30 medical workers from the Longmen Township Hospital spent a sleepless night, keeping an eye on the injured and waiting for potential emergency cases. "The critically injured patients were sent away to larger hospitals during the day," said Zhang Ling, a nurse. "But we need to take good care of those who stayed."
Cai Kunjun hitchhiked from Chengdu to Lushan at midnight. The 34-year-old veteran said he was making up for his absence during the Wenchuan quake. "I was in the southern province of Guangdong that year and was unable to provide any help."


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As many of you are aware, October marks a very special month for women. It's all about saving the ta-tas...or Breast Cancer Awareness Month! I am a firm believer that knowledge is power and you're never too young to start leaning how to prevent and protect your health. So cop a
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enjoy your weekend dear!
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Marketing to Smartwatch Users: Research You Need to Know
Before you read this post, you should know two things about me. I love watches and I'm an Apple fan. Unfortunately, my taste in watches doesn't quite match the price tags on the works of art that I'd like to have on my wrist – so the Apple Watch was a must. I guess I'm not the only one who thinks so, though. According to NetBase, the Apple Watch beat Rolex in social mentions.
I didn't have high hopes that the Apple Watch would transform my work or personal life, but I've been impressed with the impact it has had. While most of my friends are tethered to their smartphones, I tend to leave my phone nearby and forget about it all day. I've filtered out only the applications that I wish to get notified about to the watch. As a result, I'm not reaching for my phone and getting lost in a mire of app notifications for the next hour. That alone has made it a valuable investment for my productivity.
Kentico's Smartwatch Survey is the 10th installment of its ongoing Kentico Digital Experience Research series. Despite lackluster sales, nearly 60% of respondents would like to eventually own a smartwatch; and 36% plan to do so within the next year.
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Smartwatches represent a unique opportunity in that they can run third-party apps. So while device makers strive to create compelling use cases for the smartwatch, brands and marketers should also keep a close eye on the small screen.
One-third of respondents liked the idea of getting directions, tracking diet and fitness, voice-activated searches, and real-time alerts from an airline, bank or social network through a smartwatch. The Apple Maps and Watch integration is really great… here's to hoping the quality of maps keeps improving!
Additional Smartwatch Users:
- 71% of consumers would be okay with select advertising delivered on the smartwatch
- 70% of consumers believe they will use the smartwatch for personal use only
- A majority of respondents said they're most excited about the idea of getting emails and texts on their smartwatch.
Here's a great infographic that breaks down some of the findings:
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Before last week, I didn't even know the wherabouts of the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center (ESB-MACC). I think of myself as pretty knowledgeable when it comes to all of the free museums and galleries around the Austin area. So I am very embarrassed about having previously missed this amazing location.
Tucked just behind the hot spots on Rainey St., the Center also backs up to Lady Bird Lake's hike and bike trail. The Center itself is something to behold. With bright white, hand-chiseled stone covering an impressive modern design, the architecture gives nod to the ancient ruins of Mexico. You'll want to first take a moment to walk around the outside of the building before heading in. You can't miss the colorful path designed by Benito Huerta that runs diagonally through the grounds featuring black, red, and yellow pavers. And if you go up to the balcony and view from above, you can see that this design represents the Mexican Milk Snake, a friendly snake found on both sides of the US and Mexico border. The interior of the Center features two gorgeous art galleries as well as several classrooms used for art and music classes and community events.
The Center is free and open to the public. As noted on the Center's website, it is dedicated to the preservation, creation, presentation, and promotion of Mexican American cultural arts and heritage. Discussions and planning of the Center began in the 1970s, but it took over 30 years to bring this building to fruition.
My 7-year-old fancies himself something of a visual artist. So I had a really delightful time browsing the galleries with him and hearing his opinions and interpretations. We both marveled at the diversity of the single artist's varied mediums in the Main Gallery — oil paintings, woodcuts, screenprints, and sketches. You can check out José Francisco Treviño's exhibit called "An Awakening" through November 30, 2013. The downstairs Community Gallery features sculptures by Luis R. Gutiérrez, which will also be on display until November 30th.
This is surely a perfect time of year to visit the Center. They are offering great selection of fun storytimes and classes for the community, including the Dia de los Muertos celebration on November 2, 2013. Below you'll find a list of FREE events, but be sure to check out the website for all of the classes and offerings, some at very low cost for children and adults.
Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center
600 River St. Austin, TX, 78701
Phone: 512-974-3772
Monday – Thursday, 10:00am – 6:00pm
Friday, 10:00am to 5:30pm
Saturday, 10:00am to 4:00pm
Freelance web producer, Heidi Okla is mom to three boys (ages 3, 5, and 7), and can't pass up any opportunity for fun family adventures.


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About Wheeldon's Finale Finale
"SF Ballet really is a choreographers' company."
What do you create for a director who's seen (and danced) everything? Particularly when he's a legend in the field of ballet and he's significantly invested in your career? For choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, the answer is Finale Finale, an effervescent tribute to Helgi Tomasson's last year as artistic director and to SF Ballet's post-COVID return to the stage. "I chose this piece because I wanted to celebrate Helgi," says Wheeldon. "I wanted a piece that felt celebratory and captured a light spirit. We've all been through such dark times over the past couple of years. I was grateful for the opportunity to find the joy of being back in a studio with dancers again."
Wheeldon's world premiere is set to Darius Milhaud's Le Boeuf sur le toit (The Ox on the Roof), a high-spirited composition that premiered in 1920s Paris—just as the world was emerging from the 1918 influenza pandemic and World War I. Milhaud was part of a group of classical music composers (with Erik Satie and Francis Poulenc) known as Les Six, who were creating music that Milhaud called "fresh, jazzy, and unpretentious." Milhaud wrote Le Boeuf sur le toit in Paris after spending two years in Brazil as secretary to poet-diplomat Paul Claudel. "Still haunted by memories of Brazil, I amused myself by bringing together popular tunes, maxixes, sambas and even a Portuguese fado," he wrote, naming the work after a popular Brazilian song "O Boi no Telhado."
Milhaud intended that the music would accompany a Charlie Chaplin silent film, but French artist and writer Jean Cocteau, a friend and mentor to Les Six, convinced him instead to use his music for a farcical pantomime ballet. Set in a Prohibition-era bar, with a cast of eight characters performed by the Fratelli brother clowns and the Cirque Medrano, Le Boeuf sur le toit premiered at Paris' Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with Cocteau's libretto and set designs by Fauvist painter Raul Dufy. It was, said Cocteau, "an American farce written by a Parisian who had never been in America."
Thirty years later, SF Ballet Director Willam Christensen created another new work using the Milhaud score. Unlike Cocteau, Christensen drew upon his own vaudeville experience. Nothing Doing Bar featured a raffish cast of characters, incorporated social dances of the Prohibition era, and was set in a speakeasy inspired by his memories of an illicit bar below his New York apartment. His brother Lew Christensen revived the work as part of a 1980 celebration of Milhaud, who fled Paris when the Nazis invaded France and settled in the Bay Area, teaching at Mills College.
For Finale Finale, Wheeldon chose to jettison Cocteau and Christensen's scenarios and instead to create an abstract ballet that sets out to express the essence of the music. "There just seemed to be so much space and life in [Milhaud's] piece that I wanted to make something that felt more expansive and exciting," he explains.
If you're used to the elegant, sinuous choreography of Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour©, this ballet presents a different side of Wheeldon, who in addition to creating dozens of works for ballet companies worldwide won two Tony Awards in 2015 for directing and choreographing Broadway's An American in Paris. "I tried to capture that clown-like, almost cartoon-like spirit within the movement," he says. In a rehearsal last fall, Wheeldon urged dancers to explore the moments when the steps are intentionally less balletic. "It's tongue in cheek, you're allowed to be a little goofball in this," he told them. "You have my full permission to be hammy." As they worked through the steps, he adjusted details like lowering a chin so that the resulting movement arc looked more like a swan dive and less like ballet's traditional arabesque position, more cheeky and fun than classical and precise.
Although there's no story to Finale Finale, there are subtle references to the music's history. "The ballet was built with the idea of seeing more shape and color rather than clearly defined characters," says Wheeldon. "It's a little bit like looking at expressionistic paintings of [designer Raul] Dufy, blocks of color and shape. One shape might sort of look like a clown, or another shape might look like a bow, but you're not entirely sure how they all fit together." Look carefully and you also might spot some of the music's compositional influences in the choreography. "There are some fun South American dance motifs, rather like the music," says Wheeldon. "Almost the way we've adopted that into the ballroom world. There is one little solo that is very Chaplin-esque."
Wheeldon notes that the music sounds like one long finale, fitting for a tribute to Tomasson's final season. Tomasson, known for his ability to recognize nascent talent, commissioned Wheeldon early and often. Wheeldon has made 11 world premieres for SF Ballet (more than any other company except New York City Ballet), starting with Sea Pictures in 2000, and continuing with Cinderella (a co-production with Dutch National Ballet) and most recently a section of the 2020 Dance of Dreams. "I owe a lot to Helgi," he says. "He believed in me, which I so very much appreciate."
Wheeldon also credits Tomasson with creating a forward-thinking environment at SF Ballet that is particularly supportive of the development of new choreography. "Helgi has managed to consistently keep this tradition of making new work," continues Wheeldon. "Constantly challenging dancers and pushing them in new directions and bringing the best from all over the world through these doors. As a choreographer, you become a beneficiary of that experience that these dancers have had. And so the process [of creating new work] is very open and communicative and exciting. SF Ballet really is a choreographers' company."
This production was part of the 2022 Season.
by Caitlin Sims
Header Image: San Francisco Ballet in Wheeldon's Finale Finale // © Erik Tomasson


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Registrar General's Indexes from 1837 (microform), or Registrar General for Scotland's Computerised Index from 1855.
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Dorset 1807
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1992 Microfiche: England & Wales: Exeter Reference Library, North Devon Library, Barnstaple
Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset: Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter
Devon: several larger branch libraries
Burnet Morris Index of Devon information compiled 1915-1940 but covering from the earliest times: Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter
Exeter Flying Post name index 1763-1835: Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter
North Devon Journal Index 1850-1895: North Devon Library, Barnstaple
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Some typescript and manuscript transcripts.
Collection of Devon and Cornwall Record Society's transcripts available to members only - temporary membership can be taken out when visitng the Library.
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Handlist published and on Internet at http://www.devon.gov.uk/parish_register_list.htm.
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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 1900-
Devon Family Historian 1977-
Devon Historian 1970-
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Devon and Cornwall Record Society 1900- (Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter and North Devon Library, Barnstaple)
Exeter Reference Library holds many runs of record publications (e.g. Harleian Society, Huguenot Society)
Somerset Record Society (Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter)
Dorset Record Society (Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter)
Bristol Record Society (Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter)
Westcountry Studies Library holds biographical and family cutting and information files compiled largely during the 1920s and 1930s but not regularly updated since. The local studies library catalogue can be consulted on the library website.
These are available on the internet at http://www.devon.gov.uk/library/locstudy/
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In addition we're very happy to announce a new science paper from the project, led by Joshua Harvey: 'A thirteenth-century theory of speech' has been published online in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Vol.146, No.2). URL: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5119126; DOI: 10.1121/1.5119126 (we'll post separately on the paper and its implications). The impact and outreach work we undertook at the Napa Lighted Art Festival in January 2019 and at Light-Up Poole the following month was featured in the Durham University Department of History's alumni magazine, Symeon. In addition A volume of essays from the Ordered Human project, edited by Jack Cunningham and Steve Puttick which includes several of the core team from Ordered Universe (Brian Tanner, Tom McLeish, Giles Gasper, and Peter Claus) has been submitted to press.
Work is on-going for volume two in the Ordered Universe series, further papers in various journals, a volume of essays from our conference, and shorter occasional pieces. A busy, and productive season, and the culmination of many years of planning, meeting, collaboration, and individual work.


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In our previous posts, here and here, we shared many images from our trip along the Gold Rush Trail. This historic route not only has plenty of great places to photograph but also offers a valuable lesson on Canadian history. Here are more images from this trip.
Ashcroft – small but very charming place with many historical buildings.
The Historical Hat Creek Ranch located outside Cache Creek
Quesnel Forks – a remote but very scenic ghost town with many remaining buildings and a historic cemetery.
Cottonwood House – this historic place includes ten structures, including wooden farm buildings and a portion of the original Cariboo Wagon Road.
On the road…
All images were shot with the Fuji X-T1 paired with the XF 14mm F2.8, XF 56mm F1.2 and X100S.
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Democrats are excited. They are beginning to sense that they have Donald Trump right where they want him.
And they do. Trump is doing more damage to himself and his party every day. Every new stupid statement, every new blunder, and every new scandal make it more and more likely that Democrats will win big in 2018 and 2020.
But as they often do, Democrats are failing to see when they've got a good thing going and are looking for a way to screw it up. For a party with a gift from the political gods, they sure seem to be in a gigantic hurry to give it back.
Even if it were possible—and I still maintain, with 24 House Republicans and 19 Republican Senators needed, that it is highly unlikely—the absolute stupidest, most self-defeating thing Democrats can push for right now is the impeachment and removal of President Trump.
No. Keep him in office. Politically, Trump is the goose that's laying a treasure trove of golden eggs. Let him spend four years making such a toxic wreck of the Republican Party that disgusted voters won't want to get anywhere near the GOP for a decade. Let him finish the job that George W. Bush started and turn the party into a smoldering ruin at last.
Let's be honest. Given the absolute lack of anything resembling effective leadership, strategy or a coherent message in the divided, cacophonous train wreck that is the Democratic Party, letting the Republicans immolate themselves is the Democrats' best and only play at the moment. The Democrats are like the basketball player that can't create his own shots; he only scores when the other team coughs up the ball and gives him an open layup. Unless and until the Democratic Party figures out that it needs to rid itself of its clueless, tired leadership and consultants that haven't had a new idea since about 1965, the only way for Democrats to win is to cash in on Republican screw-ups.
Four years of Donald Trump could end with Democrats in control of the White House, both chambers of Congress, a majority of governorships, and a number of key state legislatures that we could not dream of winning back through our own efforts. And the timing is perfect. The 2018 and 2020 elections are the ones that will determine who draws the new Congressional and legislative maps in 2021. The Trump Trainwreck presidency could put Democrats in a position to control the country for a decade. By then, the nation's changing demographics might finally put Team Blue in a position to have something resembling a sustainable majority. And perhaps the party by then will have better, smarter, 21st century leadership that will actually know how to reach the modern electorate.
But Democrats, as they always do, are failing miserably to look past their own feelings and see down the road. They hate Donald Trump and want him gone—yesterday, if possible.
I despise Trump too, and I find it absolutely humiliating that he is our nation's face to the world. His occupancy of our nation's highest office fills me with shame and disgust. I fear he will do great harm to the country and perhaps the world before his presidency ends. So I understand how you feel.
But let's think about this for a minute. What happens in the still unlikely chance that Trump is removed?
Despite the raving Twitter fantasies of some progressives who don't understand civics, the removal of Trump will not result in a special election, or the Supreme Court overturning the 2016 election and installing Hillary Clinton. It also will not result in the removal of Trump's entire cabinet, the voiding all of his actions as president, and the removal of Neil Gorsuch from the Supreme Court. That's not how any of this works. Get your heads out of your asses for five minutes and read the relevant sections of the constitution and the Presidential Succession Act.
If Trump goes, we get Mike Pence. (Yeah, yeah, I know, many of these same Twitter geniuses believe that if Trump goes, Pence will be implicated too, and he'll follow. Then we get Paul Ryan. It doesn't get any better as we go along, folks. We'd have to go through about 18 impeachment trials and removals to get to a point where we run out of Republican successors. Pack a lunch.)
But wouldn't Pence be better?
No. He'd be worse. I'll explain why.
While Pence clearly has more self-control and self-awareness than Trump, that's exactly what makes him more dangerous. He has all the same ideas and goals as Trump—and, as an added bonus, a religious-right agenda that's even worse—and a much better chance of actually implementing them. But he's much smoother, much less likelier to screw up, and much more likely to be reelected than Trump in 2020.
Progressives had better get their heads around this fact: Pence may be a Bible-banging, right-wing zealot, but that doesn't mean he's stupid. If you sleep on him, you'll live to regret it.
Let me tell you exactly how this will all play out.
Were Pence to succeed to the presidency after the removal or forced resignation of Trump, the nation would breathe a sigh of relief, as it did when the kindly Gerald Ford stepped in for Tricky Dick in 1974 and proclaimed that our long national nightmare was over. Pence's aw-shucks, down-home Hoosier act would charm independents and moderates put off by Trump's bombastic braggadocio, and he'd benefit from the inclination of the average American to give the new guy a chance.
Where the shrewd, calculating Pence would part ways with the well-meaning Ford would be Pence's announcement, as closely timed with the next election as possible, that there is no way in hell that he's giving Donald Trump a pardon. He'll channel his inner Calvin Coolidge and say something very similar to Coolidge's pronouncement that the guilty should be punished.
Pence's approval ratings will soar. Even some Democrats will be taken in. They'll forget, for a moment, that Pence supports a social conservative agenda which, if fully implemented, would transport our nation back to 1952. The Republicans, saved from calamitous defeat and buoyed by public support for Pence, will win the upcoming elections, both in 2018 and in 2020. They'll control both houses of Congress by huge majorities, as well as the majority of states—and, most importantly, redistricting.
That's game over. Democrats will be locked out of policymaking at the federal level and most of the states until at least 2031. By that time, Republicans will have passed legislation so restrictive of the voting franchise that you probably won't be able to get near a voting booth unless you have a red GOP elephant tattooed somewhere on your white body.
And the courts won't stop it. If Trump remains in office and loses in 2020, we might just get out of his administration with Republicans controlling only five Supreme Court seats. It should be clear by now, after numerous refusals to leave when the Democrats had a chance to replace her, that the only way the venerable Ruth Bader Ginsburg is leaving her job is feet-first. With any luck, she might survive another 44 months of Trump. She's pretty tough, and she might just make it to 2021.
But let's be blunt: Ginsburg's chances of getting to 2025, actuarially speaking, are significantly worse than her chances of making it to 2021. The likelihood that Justices Breyer (a liberal) and Kennedy (a conservative with the occasional moderate impulse) will both be around in 2025 is probably not especially high either. What will President Pence and an overwhelmingly Republican Congress be able to do with a 7-2 Supreme Court majority, with at least six guaranteed conservative votes on every issue?
Look, from a progressive perspective, things are bad right now. Yes, the notion of at least four years of Donald Trump seems unbearable. But the smartest and most strategic course of action, as much as you might not want to hear it, is to let the Trump presidency take its course, while doing everything possible between now and the next election to block him from accomplishing very much. Given his indiscipline, that's a real possibility.
Most presidents ultimately get reelected, especially in the modern era. In the last century, only Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush have failed to win a second term. A chief executive has to have a pretty bad first term to lose at the end of four years. Trump could be on his way to such a fate, if things keep going the way they are. So it's time to ask this important question: Would you rather have four years of Donald Trump, or eight years of Mike Pence?
Choose wisely.
Cliston Brown is a communications executive and political analyst in the San Francisco Bay Area who previously served as director of communications to a longtime Democratic Representative in Washington, D.C. Follow him on Twitter (@ClistonBrown) and visit his website at ClistonBrown.com.


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Highlander Unbroken: Highland Adventure Book 8
HISTORICAL: Can two broken souls can find love in each other and begin to heal? Neacal MacDonald was tortured beyond imagination. As a result, he has a very grim outlook on life. He is also currently the MacDonald clan chief. Anna Douglas is a traveling minstrel with a beautiful voice and many secrets. She comes to the MacDonald clan castle to sing for her room and board. When she meets Neacal, she recognizes the pain in his eyes. Neacal is completely enraptured by Anna but also curious about her background. They soon grow close when they discover there is a traitor in their midst. Neacal discovers the tragedies that have occurred in Anna's life and vows to protect her from outside forces that are determined to separate them.
This beautiful story will have readers falling in love with the characters. The main characters, Anna and Neacal, overcome so much. They both have heartbreaking backstories that will leave readers hoping for a happy ending. The ending does wrap up quite nicely except for a slight cliffhanger which leaves readers wanting more! Not only does this book have a beautiful romance, but it has plenty of action! This perfect blend makes the story flow wonderfully! The history behind the story seems very accurate, making the reader feel as if they have gone back in time.
Not only was the story a joy, but the narrator was perfect! The voice was soothing and enjoyable to listen to. The characters' voices and accents were all read perfectly. with each character having a unique voice. Dave Gillies also made sure that all situations and tones were read accurately, making it difficult to press pause! Readers won't want to put this book down and will immediately want to listen to the rest of the books in the series!
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