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The East Bay Community Birth Support Project provides entry into the health professions for previously incarcerated women and enhances access to culturally appropriate doula support for low-income communities. Sixteen women of color were trained as doulas: eight were identified as low-income and eight were previously incarcerated. Qualitative focus group data from program participants showed an increase in empowerment, improved assessment of skills, and confidence in perceived ability to provide doula support. To date, no incidents of recidivism have occurred.

Two specimens, and a possible third, of the ichnotaxon Paleodictyon are documented from shallow-water marine strata of the Upper Ordovician Georgian Bay Formation of southern Ontario. Its occurrence indicates that previous suggestions of a post-Early Cambrian palaeoenvironmental retreat of Paleodictyon into deeper water require some modification. Instead, the operative migratory process, at least to the Late Ordovician and possibly even longer, was one of expansion and not of retreat. RÉSUMÉ Deux spécimens, et possiblement un troisieme, de la trace fossile Paliodictyon sont reconnus dans des strates marines peu profondes de la Formation de Georgian Bay de l'Ordovicien supérieur du sud de l’Ontario. Sa présence indique que les suggestions précédentes d'une retraite paléo-environnementale post-Cambrien précoce de Paliodictyon en eaux plus profondes nécessitent quelques modifications. À la place, le processus migratoire operatif, au moins jusqu'à l'Ordovicien tardif et possiblement encore plus longtemps, en était un d'expansion et non de retraite. [Traduit par la rédaction]

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