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|August 20, 1999
Volume 1, Issue 34
|Midwifery Today E-News
"International Midwifery"
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- C. Cheng
2) The Art of Midwifery
From Japan
If during crowning the birthing woman is having a difficult time relaxing, midwives on either side of her can move her arms around in large circles to help her relax and not push.
From the Netherlands
Apply an ice pack to the abdomen to arrest hemorrhage.
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To study the effect of delayed cord clamping on infant iron status, 69 newborn infants were randomly assigned to three groups at the time of delivery: 1) cord clamping immediately after delivery; 2) clamping when the cord stopped pulsating, at around one minute after deliver with the infant placed at the level of the placenta; 3) clamping when the cord stopped pulsating, with the infant placed below the level of the placenta. Two months after delivery, infants in the groups with delayed cord clamping had significantly higher packed cell volume values and hemoglobin concentrations. Less infants were anemic: the percentage of infants with packed cell volume lower than 33% was 88% in group 1 compared with 42% in group 2 and 55% in group 3.
- The Kangaroo, 2nd Quarter 1999, a supplement to Child Health Dialogue, Issue 15
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4) Checking In by Jan Tritten, Midwifery Today Editor in Chief
I became very interested in the exchange of international knowledge and techniques having to do with birth when as a young midwife I had a personal experience with shoulder dystocia. I ended up reading how to resolve it when I was right in the middle of a birth! It was Ina May Gaskin's description of a technique she had learned from Guatemalan midwives: simply have the woman turn onto her hands and knees. Now known as the Gaskin Maneuver, it may have saved this baby's life. It works--try it!
When we study cross culturally, we find systems and ways we may want to emulate. By learning what your colleagues from other countries are doing, you too can improve your practice and change birth. You learn of the far reaching power of women in birth when you break the shackles of your own culture. And because birth has become a medical event rather than a social-spiritual rite of passage, we are all needed as birth change agents.
Midwifery Today can help you get involved in making global connections. Our directory of birth practitioners from around the world is filled with names of people interested in making connections. You can join the 327 practitioners from 33 countries by filling out one of our international forms. You can also purchase the directory for $20, or $18 if you are a Midwifery Today subscriber. For the last ten issues, Midwifery Today has included an international section of at least 20 pages. As well, two back issues--numbers 13 and 25--are dedicated entirely to international midwifery. We still have back copies of International Midwife, a stand-alone magazine: get all seven for $25 plus shipping.
Midwifery Today also brings birth practitioners together for wonderful international conferences. Our next one is in London on Sept. 9-13, 1999, and is titled Evidence Based Midwifery. You can still register and walk-ins are welcome. Our Jamaica conference is Dec. 1-6, 1999. The full program is in your Midwifery Today catalog, mailed this summer; email firstname.lastname@example.com if you don't have one. At international conferences you have the opportunity to learn and share in depth from a cross cultural perspective as well as make friends from all over the world. Midwifery Today brings you teachers and classes from this perspective at our domestic conferences as well. The next one is in Philadelphia, March 23-27, 2000. The program is ready and you can email for it as well.
This letter from Venus Mark from Trinidad describes what we are trying to achieve: "We cannot demonstrate our appreciation enough to the Midwifery Today staff for what we, the midwives of Trinidad and Tobago, received from you in October 1996 [at the Midwifery Today conference in Orlando, Florida]. We cannot stop talking about the warm reception, in-depth education received from you and your lecturers, the midwifery stories that were shared, the film clips and slides that brought us to tears. We will always be grateful for this wonderful gift.
"Your midwife lecturers made midwifery come alive--we lived the birth process through their lively discourse. Dr. Michel Odent and Dr. Marsden Wagner renewed our faith in ourselves by giving us the clear message that midwifery is alive around the globe and is oriented to the benefit of women and will not be led to destruction by medical technology. Although the Midwifery Today staff was busy, you made time to welcome us into your fold as if nothing in this world were more important."
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5) Hemorrhage in Asia by Robin Lim
During my six years of catching babies in Indonesia, I never saw a fatality from hemorrhage in Indonesia (we were able to control them), but I saw far too many women bleed excessively after birthing. Speaking with elder healers who used to catch babies in Bali, I discovered what they believed was the cause of so much postpartum hemorrhage: In the early 1960s US government aid organizations introduced "Green Revolution" hybrid rice to Asia. This rice matures in three months rather than six, so it was supposed to end hunger. But because it is also a weak variety, it is susceptible to fungus and pests and must be heavily sprayed with herbicides, anti-fungals and pesticides.
Overnight the people went from eating organic red rice as their staple food to ingesting a hybrid, sprayed rice that was polished down to white. Even the rats won't eat this rice. This is handy---it makes it easy to store.
According to Mangku Liyer, a healer priest in Pengo Sekan, Bali, "Within the first season of the new rice I saw women dying, so many dying, bleeding too much after childbirth. Before, when a woman would bleed too much, I could stop the bleeding with herbs and young coconut water. After we began to eat the new rice, I could no longer help the women. I only could help bury them."
In June 1998 we arrived at Baguio, Philippines, the home of my mother. I immediately began to catch babies for the marginalized mountain people. I was astonished to find that these Filipino women, unlike the Indonesian women I had helped, were not hemorrhaging after giving birth. Their secret seemed to be in their food. They were eating organically grown red rice and sweet potatoes. Unfortunately women living a more modern lifestyle (in either the Philippines or Indonesia) in the city and eating commercially grown white rice and fast foods, had higher blood pressure and more postpartum blood loss.
So let me take this opportunity to say what we all already know: sound nutrition equals healthy mother, healthy baby and better birth outcomes. Please, if you're pregnant or helping pregnant women, choose organic foods. It makes a tremendous difference.
I will be returning to the Philippines in November to open a free-standing birth center in cooperation with Good Shepherd Convents and the Dept. of Health in Baguio. We hope to encourage traditional birth attendants and help them get the supplies, supplementary training and networking they need and want. Many women have been trained in college as midwives but there are no jobs for them. Right now 30% of the reported births in Baguio are unattended homebirths. As fatalities are not reported, Mary Fernandez of the Baguio Dept. of Health can only imagine how many births actually still take place at home. Our shared dream is that if low cost or free homebirth services could be made available, birth outcomes could be much improved.
What I need: Books to help improve midwives' knowledge (most Filipino college trained midwives speak English. They can help the Ilokano and Tagalog traditional birth attendants learn from the books as well), birth supplies, funding--every centavo helps. All can be sent to me in the US before I depart on Nov. 1st. Robin Lim, 501 North C. St., Fairfield, Iowa, 52556; e-mail: email@example.com
6) Saudi Arabia
I am a direct entry midwife, qualified for three years after 20 years as a birth partner for whomever wanted my company during birth. I have a dream to live and work in India with village women. To finance the fulfillment of this dream I am working as a midwife in Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I have completed four months of a one-year contract. The salary is tax-free, lots of overtime is available and we are provided with accommodation including electricity, gas, etc. The sun shines every day and it is very dry and bearable.
Midwifery here is out of the Dark Ages, however, mainly because of hospital policies. It is policy to continuously monitor everyone in labor even if they come in fully dilated and pushing. Almost everyone has artificial rupture of membranes, fetal scalp electrode, IV fluids and everyone has to lie on a bed. Vaginal examinations are done for everyone even if they come in with a stubbed toe or broken fingernail! Active pushing is the order of the day. Physiological third stage--what's that? As for alternative positions, if you are lucky you might get away with catching a baby with mum in the left lateral position but such things are frowned upon.
All women with breech presentations must have epidurals, and here they are of the old variety which turn women into beached whales--when they work! All breeches are delivered in the lithotomy position; forget the hands off approach. Breeches are dragged and cork screwed out. I honestly don't know how some of them survive.
It must be said that some interventions are necessary. There are many complicated cases here. Cardiac problems are seen almost every other day. It's not uncommon for women with transplanted organs or on renal dialysis to be pregnant. Congenital abnormalities are frequent, as consanguinous marriage is common. At least 1 in 3 babies has meconium stained liquor. Many women are dehydrated or ketotic when they come in and need IV fluids. They won't eat or drink because they don't want to get fat or their husband might find another wife. Or they have abandoned their traditional healthy way of eating and have become huge, courtesy of McDonald's, KFC and Coca-Cola, rendering them prone to gestational and true diabetes.
What keeps me here besides financial gain to fulfill my dream? The Arabic women, who are adorable. They have an absolutely wicked sense of humor. Even though my Arabic is very limited and they speak no English, I have such fun with them (and I hope they do with me). They are very gentle women; so sweet and grateful for any kindness shown to them. Unfortunately some of the midwives and support staff have been here a very long time and are very much in the 70s mood of "just do as you are told." They can be very rough. Consequently many women are very afraid when they come into hospital. I don't hold out much hope for changing things on a grand scale but if I can make a difference for individual women I am privileged to care for during labor and birth, I am willing to persevere, and I'm slowly developing a repertoire of tricks to help women avoid unnecessary interventions.
There is so much more to say about midwifery in Saudi Arabia. If anybody would like to discuss it more or offer me inspiration, I'd love to hear from you. Email me at email@example.com. Yours in the service of women, Rama--your sister in the desert!
7) Aqua Natale Birthing Centre
The Aqua Natale Birthing Centre will open in September 2000 within the Quiet Healing Centre in Auroville, South India. It will be the second centre of The Gardens, a global visionary project of healing through the art of midwifery.
A natural health centre, Quiet is set on a beautiful seven acre beach front on India's Coromandel coast. Therapies at Quiet include classical homeopathy, physiotherapy, polarity, pranic healing, metamorphosis therapy, yoga and meditation. It is also the first place in Southeast Asia to also offer aquatic body and aqua natale work.
A small maternity section with two rooms and tubs available for waterbirth will be the heart of the Aqua Natale Birthing Centre. It will offer a retreat-like setting for pregnant women and their families who want to spend 2-3 months preparing for and giving birth in a peaceful and sacred atmosphere.
Intercultural learning and understanding in the field of holistic childbirth is another aim of the project. Students and midwives are welcome to stay and work at the site.
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8) Australian Birth Activist
Australian natural birth advocate Henny Ligertmoet, known the world over for her tireless battle for birthing rights over the last fifty years, is very ill with cancer. Friends and supporters who may wish to see Henny one more time should do so now. Letters, faxes, emails and cards would be greatly appreciated and should be sent soon so energy can be given as quickly as possible.
Henny is our grandmother of birthing rights. She has been working internationally for homebirth and natural birth for most of her life. She worked with Grantly Dick-Read, author of "Childbirth Without Fear," and was instrumental in making his work internationally known and in making sure it had an impact on the medical establishment. She has written two books, and newspapers worldwide regularly receive her letters to the editor. She spoke at the last international conference on homebirth and at the last national homebirth conference in Australia. She is the bane of the medical establishment in her relentless fight for birthing rights and her endless letter campaigns.
At this stage there is no conventional treatment for her condition; Henny is hoping to use alternative methods to both heal and to help ease her discomfort. This of course takes money, and Henny has little savings and no health insurance, which means she has to rely on the public hospital system and waiting lists. Henny would appreciate any kind of support or financial donation. It's time to give back, and Henny is believing that miracles happen.
- Sam Weinstein
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9) Switchboard
[In response to the request in last issue's Switchboard]: The highlight of a day spent in Dublin was the time I spent with Katherine MacQuinllan, director of the maternity ward at the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin where the Dublin experiment of active management of labor (AML) began.
I had been so appalled at our interpretation of the study that when we in the US began to 'follow their lead' in active labor management I looked into the original information a bit further and found then what Katherine stressed to me: there was more to active labor management than Pitocin. According to Katherine, there are five main principles to AML: 1) antenatal education; 2) personal attention for all women in labor; 3) correct diagnosis of labor; 4) early correction of inefficient uterine action; 5) audit your results.
Only when the cervix was completely effaced and dilation started were the women admitted and constantly and consistently given care by a midwife and Pitocin used only if there was a minimum of an hour of failure to progress. When that occurred, Pitocin was administered earlier rather than later when the uterus was tired and wouldn't respond to the augmentation appropriately.
Their statistics: out of 850 births per month they had a 11% c-section rate with a 50% epidural rate that was on its way down. All had the consistent, constant attendance of a midwife. Hospital stay is 4-5 days for a vaginal birth and a day or two longer for a surgical birth. Maternity care is free to the patient.
Primip rate for oxytocin is 50%; multip rate is 11%; overall rate is 29%.
- Linda Jenkins, RN
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 8/6/2012 (1899 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
There is a tiny home on Austin Street, trimmed the colour of pink, where Elaine Bishop tends to her prairie roses and cherry bushes in a place where dreams are rarely weeded or watered, if at all.
It's a tough neighbourhood, North Point Douglas, where you might reasonably think a grey-haired, 63-year-old woman who lives alone would tread lightly.
Not Bishop.
"I love my little house," she said. "I love living here."
Bishop believes it was her "calling" in 2006 to purchase the bungalow, just down the street from the North Point Douglas Women's Centre, which she has run for seven years now. In the beginning, both the home and the centre were in disrepair. The centre was an old rundown corner store. The house was infested with mice.
The neighbourhood was infested with worse: gangs that recruited kids to run drugs; single mothers with five kids and few options, all of them bad; children raised on little hope and school lunches; and violence lurking around every corner when the sun went down.
"Don't forget," says longtime North End activist Sel Burrows, referring to Bishop, "she was there when it wasn't safe, when it was as crime-ridden as any neighbourhood in the city."
That's why Bishop came in the first place. Since she was a little girl -- growing up along Grant Avenue in the idyllic '50s and '60s -- she has been guided by an unwavering need to fix a broken planet.
"She sometimes says she was born feeling the world was in danger and that she needed to be involved in protecting it, making things better," offers Bishop's oldest friend, Mary Lysecki. "As early as she can remember, she felt that way."
When they were kids, a half-century ago, Elaine and Mary would walk to school together each day. They would have "intense arguments" about such weighty topics as the existence of God.
"I was against," giggles Mary, now Rev. Mary Lysecki, who serves at Mary Magdalene Anglican Church in St. Vital.
The reverend demurred: "I've come a long way."
Young Elaine, on the other hand, once declared she would positively, absolutely, never subject herself to the rigours of living in the wilderness. After all, she could never start her day without a shower.
Years later, a woman who has devoted her life to fighting injustice and inequality would find herself on a remote, isolated community in northern Alberta taking a stand with the Lubicon Cree in their battle for sovereignty. Four years spent in a home with a wood stove and no running water.
Oh, and that day in jail.
Lysecki didn't always believe in God. But she believed in her childhood friend.
"She's come a long way, too," the reverend says.
-- -- --
Elaine Bishop isn't complicated. It's the world around her that's screwed up.
She doesn't own a car. She walks everywhere, with her backpack, or rides her bike. She hates to shop and is quite satisfied to wear clothes for as long as they serve their basic purpose. If a piece of clothing has a hole, wear something to cover it up. After all, she reasons, "99 per cent of the garment is still good."
Logic prevails. So when it came to taking over the North Point Douglas Women's Centre in 2005, on a part-time salary, Bishop settled on Austin Street, buying a former "party house" that had walls caked with nicotine.
"I feel very strongly about making change, and you live the change that you want to become," she says. "Rather than working with this community sort of as a missionary who came in and out every day, I wanted to live here. I wanted this to be my community."
Bishop comes by her commitment honestly. She was born in England, where her dad was a member of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and her mother was a nurse. They came to Canada in 1951, settling in Winnipeg seven years later.
Both parents were active in the community and dedicated antiwar protesters during the Vietnam War. They would take Elaine and Mary to fundraisers where they paid $10 to eat a bowl of plain rice.
Eventually, Bishop became a Quaker, one of only a few dozen in Manitoba who belong to a pacifist faith. Her only fight is against social injustice.
"Isn't that a gift that Elaine brings to all of this?" says Rick McCutcheon, the dean of Menno Simmons College at the University of Winnipeg. "Because it's not an easy area to be living in, yet she's following a traditional Quaker path.
"What she's trying to do is model. By living here, among the people who have the need, we're better able to do our work. And I think (what's) really significant to understand about Elaine is that her Quaker life and her service and what she does in her personal life are all blended together. It's what we hold in high esteem in the Quaker community."
At first, it wasn't the gangs that kept Bishop up at night. It was her fellow inhabitants.
"It was one of those ironic things," she says. "When I first moved into the house it was absolutely infested with mice. But also there was a hole under the porch that went directly into the basement. There's a group of feral cats that in the winter went directly into the basement."
So that solved the mice problem, right?
"No, it did not," she says. "People would come into the community, feed them (the cats), and leave again. So I had feral cats fighting beneath my bed... and the place was still overrun by mice."
Bishop even tried negotiating.
"I said to them (the cats) -- because I didn't have the heart to block them out in the middle of winter and it was 40 below -- that the least they could do was eat the damn mice. But they didn't listen."
Such is life in a parcel of inner-city real estate where the answers never come easy. This is a complicated place, where systemic, generational poverty is woven into the community's predominantly aboriginal DNA. The average salary is $18,000. More than 80 per cent of children are raised in poverty.
At the heart is the women's centre, where a brightly coloured building puts a happy outward face on a never-ending influx of personal struggles that literally walk in the door on a daily basis -- from the mundane to the heartbreaking.
"There's a lot of sorrow, and there's a lot of hardship that comes into the centre," says Jessica Lambrecht, a full-time counsellor. "And it comes in different ways."
Different ways, but always in waves. As Christie Paul, the centre's neighbourhood resource co-ordinator notes, "There's a lot of flux in our day. We never know what's going to happen. We're in a constant state of crisis."
Gritty, serious, emotionally wrenching problems that begin with questions such as...
"The CFS just apprehended my kids. What do I do?"
"My house is full of bed bugs and my landlord won't do anything."
"My boyfriend kicked me out. Where can I go?"
Not to mention the women who arrive at the centre beaten (once a week) or seriously beaten (once a month).
The centre offers everything from free diapers and formula to bus tickets to advocacy in child-custody cases. There are programs for everything from fitness to children's safety and special events such as the annual Austin Street Festival or the inaugural Butterfly Gala Fundraiser on June 28.
A typical morning recently: a handful of women at the centre; one doing laundry (one washer and dryer); two teenage girls surfing the Internet; a meeting for "What would you like from your public health nurse?"; two women rummaging through donated second-hand clothing; another getting photocopies of a resumé for a job application while her baby, in a nearby stroller, munches on a cookie.
In the beginning, the centre received about 4,000 visitors a year. Now that number -- due to program expansion and need -- has swelled to more than 14,000.
But if you're looking for fairy tales, you're in the wrong place.
"You really have to let go of your own expectations of what a life should look like, or what it could look like," Paul says. "You're really setting yourself up for disappointment, and you set up that person for failure.
"If you're looking for a steady projection for someone in their life, that doesn't happen. There's so many tragedies in their lives. It's never been from Step 1 to Step 10, this lovely linear sequence.
"If you're in this to save people, get out right now. We're here to say, 'You're not alone. There's someone who's got your back.' If you can continue to stand with people who attempt to make choices in their broken lives... we're still here.
"And I really learned that from Elaine. There is sort of this 'never give up' attitude, this recognition that everyone has potential. We simply exist at different places. Can you just love them where they are? That's a really powerful environment the women's centre attempts to create."
Success in North Point Douglas is defined by women such as Florence Desjarlais. She's had nine children, the first arriving just after her 17th birthday. She was born and raised dirt poor at the corner of Flora and Aikens, where four sisters and one brother had to make one box of macaroni and two cans of tomato soup last a month.
In her early 20s and single, Desjarlais struggled. Every trip out of the house involved one toddler around her chest, another bundled on her back and pushing two in a stroller.
"It was hell, man," she recalls.
Her modest goal in life: "The things I had to do as a child to survive, I promised I'd never want my kids to have to do."
A couple years ago, Desjarlais, who has long been involved with programs at the centre, was shocked to discover her daughter, about to enter Grade 4, couldn't read.
"She didn't even know how to spell A-N-D," Desjarlais says, realizing the harsh reality of inner-city kids being passed just to move them through the system.
Desjarlais was determined to teach her kids to read. Bishop provided a tutor who taught Desjarlais how to teach her children to read at home.
"Now," Desjarlais says, "My daughter can read five-letter words."
Sitting on the stoop of her house on Prince Edward Street, Desjarlais said the women's centre has been a lifeline for her community.
"I've seen them help a lot of women get into school, get a job. Seen a lot of women get cleaned up," she says. "I've seen a lot less women struggle with babies. I've seen a lot of good things come out of there.
"I've been through a lot, and Elaine's been by my side through everything."
Don't misunderstand. Some days, the women's centre is filled with laughter. There are days when jobs are found, and children are back in their mother's arms.
Just not enough of them.
"Sometimes," Bishop says, "We sit in our office, close the door and cry for a little while."
-- -- --
Oh, yes, the grey-haired lady in the pink-trimmed house.
Finding folks in North Point Douglas to praise Elaine Bishop is like shooting fish in a can of tuna.
"She's like our little Mother Theresa of the North End," says Nancy Dyck, principal of nearby Norquay Elementary School. "She's very compassionate. She doesn't do the thing that a lot of people do -- when someone is struggling or someone is having trouble -- to say it's their problem. She doesn't blame anybody. She just tries to help them."
Gerard Allard worked as a Winnipeg police constable for more than two decades patrolling the inner city, before retiring last month.
"Elaine offers an island of safety," Allard says.
"She's more productive than a platoon of police officers. I can wag my finger (to kids) and move on, but one look from Elaine... there's that certain level of expectation. People such as Sel Burrows and Elaine Bishop are huge. They're 24/7 healers of a community that has issues. She builds relationships. Real ones.
"Thank God we have people like that because there's not enough of them."
Irene Brown was one of the founding board members of the North Point Douglas Women's Centre and a past president. Like Bishop, Brown and her husband moved into the North End and raised three children. She's seen Bishop's struggles to develop the centre first-hand.
"It's very hard," Brown says. "I just don't know how Elaine has managed to hold it together so long. We've just had to really scrounge and make the dollars go as far as we can."
For several years, Bishop got by on a salary so modest that one manager of an inner-city agency suggests, "If you find someone at that salary, you'll get a dedicated person."
Bishop has since taken a pay cut on the centre's tight budget rather than cut programs, on the premise she'd scale back her hours. The latter never happened.
Brown recalls at least one instance where Bishop gave out of her own pocket to help pay for groceries for a mother of five.
"It puts me to shame, really, to see her generous heart."
Word gets around. Perhaps that's why Bishop will sometimes get up to fetch her morning paper and find someone on her doorstep asking for money. After all, everyone in the neighbourhood knows where she lives. Yet, she doesn't rattle.
Nor does she worry about those who might needlessly, in Bishop's opinion, worry about her.
"I would say, 'Dear, live with your nervousness any way you want, but I'm going to live here,' " she says.
Of course, Bishop takes precautions. She rarely walks around after dark. And she'll make a wide pass around the Sutherland Hotel on Main Street if she knows the Hells Angels have congregated for a night of frivolity.
Yet to appreciate the commitment of Elaine Bishop is to soon discover Point Douglas might be the safest place on Earth. As Dyck notes, "God help the person who harmed her."
Besides, while she might be about to turn 64, Bishop is no shrinking violet. The cursing would be the first clue. Not the mild stuff, either, but four-letter bombs that could have peeled the nicotine-stained paint off the walls of her house.
"I knew her for four years before I heard her swear," Desjarlais chuckled. "I was shocked. She said, 'Yeah, I said that. Get over it.'"
Lysecki is familiar with the fiery rants of a frustrated Quaker.
"Oh, she gets angry," Lysecki says.
So it's official: Elaine Bishop is human, after all.
In fact, for a person who bases her life on non-confrontation, Bishop's existence is in an eternal struggle. Against the system. Against poverty. Against the lack of affordable inner-city housing.
"She would be very firm, too," McCutcheon says. "She wouldn't back down. I know her. And it wouldn't matter if there was a person standing in front of her with a knife. She would be just as strong.
"We've been together in government offices. And there's no way a person with a clipboard or a sheaf of paper or a lawyer (would deter Bishop from making her point). Elaine is a little bit of a force of nature. She has a very deep centre and out of that centre a real strong sort of internal fortitude. I think she's able to project a kind of calm that's rooted in a firmness that's very hard to achieve.
"Her moral compass is unwavering. She's very clear about where that compass is pointing and where she wants to go. And then she'll be determined and dogged and do everything she can to go in that direction."
Tellingly, it's not the overwhelming and underfunded issues at the centre that push Bishop's buttons. It's what she believes is an infuriating and immoral tendency of the system -- government, society, whatever you want to call it -- to ignore the human devastation of poverty that walks through her door each day.
"I would love men not to buy sex from women. I would love us not to damage people so badly (that) they act out violence. But that's a responsibility of all of us," she reasons.
"For me, the heartbreak is seeing good people damaged by the world they live in. That means not having enough money to live decently, not being able to live in decent housing. Seeing young boys grow up thinking it's OK to be violent.
"That's the way I actually see the world," Bishop adds. "People doing desperate things not because... they're bad people. They're locked out of resources they should have. To me that's wrong. It's been wrong all my life, and it will probably be wrong long after I die.
"That I find far more enraging than anybody in this community. I mean, why are we spending how many billions of dollars on (F-35) attack fighter jets. Like, one fighter jet ($85 million) and we could do a lot of good work in this community. We could build a lot of housing."
Maybe Allard, the retired cop, has it right about Bishop.
"She's a small lady," he says, "but dynamite comes in small packages."
Perhaps the cop who put Bishop behind bars had the same sentiments. That was 1988, during the height of the Lubicon blockades in northern Alberta. Bishop was a member of the Quaker Committee on Social Justice at the time and joined the Cree tribe in solidarity.
Just before dawn one day, the RCMP arrested Bishop, along with 26 others.
"I was sitting cross-legged and two police officers just picked me up and put me in a police car," she says. They were all taken to Peace River and put in jail.
Finally, Elaine Bishop was behind bars.
"It didn't happen until I was 40 years old," she says. "I must have been doing something wrong."
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Once, they were young girls walking to school, debating the world's mysteries and eternal questions.
Not much has changed, other than time, Lysecki says.
Bishop admits her memory fails her. For example, Lysecki has to remind her about some of those debates from years past.
"But," Lysecki notes, "she seems to remember everything that matters."
Other than that...
"Oh, she's pretty much the same person. Fairly intense. Passionate," Lysecki says.
"She thinks of herself as a normal person, and sometimes she's a little puzzled when the rest of us don't dive in in the same way. But she understands that people don't. You can almost see her having the argument with herself to excuse you for not being there. But she very much thinks of herself as a normal person doing the best (she) can.
"Humbling is the word. And I come back to our nice house in Riverview and our collection of single-malt Scotch and try not to think about it too much."
The reverend is only half-joking.
To know Bishop is to understand humility. Call her naive, as some would, or an idealistic dreamer, but to question her commitment is folly.
"I've never seen someone be able to -- I don't even know what the words are -- she understands how little she needs and gives the rest to everyone else," says Jessica Lambrecht, the full-time counsellor.
"But it's not like she gives everything. She keeps what she needs to stay strong, but would do anything for anyone who walks through these doors."
Lambrecht, 28, graduated from Menno Simmons College with a degree in conflict resolution. Bishop is not just her mentor. Last September, Bishop married Lambrecht and her husband Kevin at a ceremony by Falcon Lake. They are currently house-hunting for a place in North Point Douglas.
Asked what Lambrecht has learned from her four years at the women's centre, she answers: "That people are essentially good. And I don't know how people manage in their daily lives. Like just the amount of stuff they have to go through. And to think if they had to do it without any support here, I can't imagine. Even just a listening ear. More often than not, people come in, they've been overwhelmed with whatever is going on in their life, and we just sit and listen to them and go from there.
"That's one thing Elaine is amazing at. To see her work with anybody, even when I'm having a bad day, when she sits down with you, you get the feeling you're the only person in the world and everything you do in that moment is OK."
Adds Paul: "It's her faith. And I don't just mean religion. She has a constant faith in people, a hope that things can change. That rubs off on people."
Next September, Bishop has plans to retire. At least that's what she's saying now.
"That's a scary thing for all of us," Lambrecht says. "It will be a big hole. But no one's going to replace Elaine."
What would Bishop be most proud of? Simple. "That the centre survived," she says.
One day soon, Bishop plans to be puttering around her flower beds, tending to her tulips and lilies. But she's not planning on leaving her house on Austin Street.
"I'm just trying to leave it better than I got it for future generations," she says.
Elaine Bishop has always believed the world was in danger, and it was her duty to protect it.
A little pink trim never hurt.

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Did you know?
The Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre won the World Building Award in the Culture Category in 2009.
South African museums and art galleries are found throughout the country, from Cape Town to Musina and, everywhere in between.
The country's 300 plus museums are housed in prestigious historical buildings, in cutting-edge modern constructions, on university campuses, in cultural villages or in old houses. Some are even aspects of the natural landscape, such as the caves which protect ancient rock art.
South African museums are dedicated to an endless range of subjects - art, history, culture, transport, sport, photography, gold, medicine, entomology, palaeontology and anthropology. Their contents span tens of thousands of years, with the Cradle of Humankind looking at our earliest ancestors, while others look to our more recent past.
Since 1994, a number of new museums recording the recent anti-apartheid freedom struggle and the advent of South African democracy, have opened. Their narratives are enhanced with high-tech, interactive displays at locations such as Johannesburg's Apartheid Museum and Constitution Hill, at the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto, at Freedom Park in Pretoria and Red Location outside Port Elizabeth.
The content of South Africa's art galleries also span a lengthy timeline, from traditional arts and crafts to contemporary installations. South African art also finds unusual platforms, from overhangs sporting ancient rock art, to stately institutions such as the National Gallery in Cape Town, to corporate collections and commercial galleries, right down to restaurants and coffee bars.
South African art galleries and museums do not shy away from sometimes controversial topics, and spark vigorous and necessary debate about our society and the events and concepts that shape it. They are repositories of objects, representations and records that give us insight into the past, glimpses of the future, and preserve our present for generations to come.
In the vast material found in museums and art galleries of South Africa, there is something to suit every interest, be it general, academic, quirky, conventional or off-beat.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
The South African Department of Arts & Culture
Tel: +27 (0)12 441 3000
Best time to visit
Most national museums and art galleries are open daily.
Tours to do
Some larger museums and art galleries offer guided or audio tours.
What will it cost
Entry into some of South Africa's museums and art galleries is free, with others charging an entrance fee of between R10 and R100.
What's happening
Museums and art galleries in South Africa often host temporary exhibitions that complement their permanent collections. See their websites for details.
Best buys
Art galleries and museums often have a gift shop selling interesting books and local arts and crafts.


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In the more practical terms of using my mtDNA results to connect with present-day researchers, it's now a matter of wait-and-see, hoping I'll match with another woman who's been tested. (So ladies, let's get tested!)
And speaking of DNA—I've received several e-mails from people asking if they can trace their Cherokee roots with DNA. Yes and no. DNA testing will show the origin of your line—that means if your line originated with American Indian roots, it will show in the testing. However, DNA test results aren't tribe-specific.
Fortunately, there are other ways to track Cherokee roots. That's because Cherokee is one of the largest, most well-documented tribes. The Cherokee were included in special counts of native tribes, including the Dawes Commission. Other "rolls" for the Cherokee include the Guion Miller Roll, which was taken in the early 20th century to distribute money due to Cherokee who lost land during the 1830s Indian Removal Act. This Act relocated most of the Cherokee nation to modern-day Oklahoma.
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This article was published 11/8/2014 (1106 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
In the course of a couple of decades covering the movie beat, I've seen Robin Williams multiple times. Or rather, I bore witness to Robin Williams.
The first time was at a junket for the Disney animated movie Aladdin in 1992. The thing one had to keep in mind about Williams throughout his career was a press conference was just another audience for him. The room might have been much smaller than the auditoriums he usually filled. But he took the duties of the round-table interview as an opportunity to perform.
I learned immediately doing a press conference with Williams was hysterically funny. Writing a story about that press conference was next to impossible.
Think about the way Williams delivered a monologue. You could transcribe a single sentence easily enough. But it would be much more difficult to describe his trademark embellishments.
One second, he's imitating the vocal swoops of a southern evangelist, the next, John Wayne, and next, Arnold Schwarzenegger. And that was in a single minute. How do you transcribe creative lightning to paper?
I'm glad Aladdin was my first face-to-face with him. That and all subsequent interview experiences never failed to suggest the handy image of a genie being released from a bottle and exploding with energy pent up over millennia.
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When Williams came to Winnipeg in 2004 to make a dark comedy called The Big White (penned by former local boy Collin Friesen), I missed the chance to talk to him. My closest exposure was catching a glimpse of him between takes in a house on Burrows Avenue. He was restlessly poking around the garage, peeking into stored boxes of Christmas ornaments. I could only assume he was looking for either a prop or inspiration.
He proved to be more readily available later on. A Winnipeg couple spied Williams in the bar of the Fort Garry Hotel and invited him to say hello to the graduating class of a Junior Achievement program at a banquet they had organized on the seventh floor. Williams did more than say hello, he stayed for more than half an hour, signing autographs and posing for photographs among the estimated 165 guests.
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The last time I saw Williams was back on the junket circuit in Los Angeles, where he was promoting a movie called License to Wed, in 2007. He played a demanding minister intent on preparing a young couple (John Krasinski and Mandy Moore) for matrimony.
Typical Williams press conference: He was funnier than the movie, at one point breaking into the Krasinski-Moore portion of the show to warn the wholesome Moore not to take the career paths of Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears. Williams described Moore's chaste but sexy appeal as: "It's like the Amish girl who KNOWS."
"Pam Dawber had it," he said, referring to his Mork & Mindy star of decades earlier. "This kind of wholesome sensuality where a lot of guys will come up and say, 'You ever do Mindy?' "
In that last line, um, Williams put on the voice of a blue-collar doofus.
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Reporter: Muslims are subject to massacres as previously in Bosnia Herzegovina. Now in Iraq, Aghanistan, and Palestine. What tasks should be carried out in in your opinion?
Adnan Oktar: It is forbidden
Vakit – May 28 – 2010
ERBAKAN: Islamic World Is In a Fractured State
The 19th International Muslim Communities Union Council in Beylikduzu Istanbul paved way for a speech by the General Chairman of Saadet Party, Numan Kurtulmus, who said, "The most critical solution to the supression placed on the Islamic World through global imperialism, is the termination of military tutelage regimes atop countries and total establishment of national sovereignty." The former general chairman of the now closed Refah (Prosperity) Party, Necmettin Erbakan also recalled on the "Refah-Yol (Prosperity-Path) Coalition" era , stating that his cabinet in office was the most successful.
Commenting on the partitioned state of the Islamic nations today, Erbakan said, "The Islamic World today is fractured. Several have domestic issues. Their administrations are collaborationist".
15 delegates from Islamic countries met with Prof. Dr. Necmettin Erbakan, the leader of Milli Görüş (The National View) movement, at the 19th meeting of International Muslim Communities Union Council staged by the Economic Social Research Centre in Istanbul. 500 foreign delegates from 75 different countries and regions were met by 84 year old Erbakan...


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TOUGH times are ahead in North Yorkshire as authorities fight to keep crime rates low, the Police and Crime Commissioner has said.
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics showed a fall in crime for the 12 months to December of two per cent, but showed an increase in violence against the person, sexual offences, robbery and bicycle theft.
Julia Mulligan said the figures were positive and among the lowest in England, but there was still work to be done. Commending officers and staff for their hard work and dedication, she said: "I will continue to work with the chief constable to ensure we have robust plans in place to continue to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour in our county. This will go hand in hand with a greater focus on the needs of victims.
"Maintaining North Yorkshire's status as the safest county in England will be tough, especially being surrounded by seven counties with higher crime rates than ours. I am confident though that the chief constable has put solid plans in place to fight crime and antisocial behaviour, and we will continue to work together with our partners to prioritise the most vulnerable in our society."


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MOPA Presents Kevin Cooley: Elements
(San Diego, Calif.) The Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) presents Kevin Cooley: Elements beginning October 19th, 2013. Elements, a video installation, will feature two works by the artist, Skyward and Tow.
A Los Angeles-based photographer and video artist, Cooley's work thoughtfully investigates the ever-changing intersection between man and nature. Skyward is a ceiling projected installation assuming the vantage point of a car passenger gazing at the sky above. This simple shift in perspective across familiar terrain offers the opportunity to take in a different landscape with details often overlooked in our everyday lives.
"Kevin's work is all about the sensory experience of seeing. He takes things out of context, coaxing the viewer to see and think about the subject in a different way," stated Chantel Paul, Assistant Curator at MOPA. "His videos tend to focus on one particular detail and leave room for individual interpretation."
The second piece in the exhibition, Tow, was created during the artist's participation in the Arctic Circle Expeditionary Residency Program in 2011. This two-channel video portrays a lassoed fallen ice cap in tow behind a boat, showing the Arctic seascape from a first person point-of-view. The slow speed at which the greater landscape is revealed as the boat slowly tugs the crackling, bobbing glacial fragment allows us to better see this enveloping environment and creates a meditative experience.
Kevin Cooley: Elements is MOPA's first video installation since 2007 and Cooley's first solo museum exhibition. According to MOPA's Executive Director, Deborah Klochko, "Kevin's work explores ideas related to perception and perspective. The subtlety and elegance of his videos engage viewers and challenge them beyond the expected."
You can view Kevin Cooley: Elements at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park from October 18, 2013 through February 2, 2014.
For additional information please visit http://www.mopa.org/kevin-cooley-elements.
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When will the NHL Lockout end?
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Will the NHL cancel the 2012-13 Winter Classic?
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Will the entire 2012-2013 NHL Season be cancelled because of a lockout?
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What % of hockey-related revenue will the players receive in year 1 of the new NHL CBA?
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Will Sidney Crosby play in Europe at any point in the 2012-2013 Season?
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Staked to early lead, Peacock unravels vs. Sox
Righty lasts just 3 1/3 frames; Porter hints changes may be coming
BOSTON -- Clearly frustrated by the inability of his club's starters to consistently work deep into games, Astros manager Bo Porter said following an 8-4 loss to the Red Sox on Saturday night at Fenway Park that changes could be on the horizon.
Rookie right-hander Brad Peacock became the latest starter to struggle to reach even the fourth inning, allowing six hits and five earned runs in 3 1/3 innings. Houston starters Philip Humber, Erik Bedard and Peacock have pitched 11 innings in the first three games of the series against Boston and allowed 17 runs and 24 hits.
"It's either adjustments are going to be made or we're going to find people that are going to throw strikes," Porter said.
Astros starters have posted an 11.18 ERA in the team's last 12 games, allowing 77 hits in 44 2/3 innings. The abbreviated outings continue to take a toll on a bullpen that has thrown more innings than any other team. Houston relievers were forced to pick up 4 2/3 innings Saturday.
"It's definitely something that needs to be addressed and corrected, and whenever you're 3 1/3 [innings], 90 some odd pitches, I don't know how many walks -- I think we had eight as a team -- against a team that when they get men in scoring position, they basically showed how it's done," Porter said. "You look at all the hits with men in scoring position and the ball was where? Driven the other way.
"It's a professional approach, and you have to give those guys credit, but at the same time, we're not helping ourselves by not throwing strikes."
Peacock (1-3) has lasted 4 1/3 innings or fewer in four of his five starts and has an ERA of 8.44.
"I know we have to start doing better, but I'm going to keep working every day and hopefully I can get out of this," Peacock said.
The Red Sox had 12 hits, with Daniel Nava, Dustin Pedroia, David Ortiz and Will Middlebrooks each getting two hits. Boston was 5-for-13 with runners in scoring position, compared to 1-for-12 for the Astros (1-for-24 the last two nights).
"You can just take a look across the diamond and they put on a clinic on what to do when you get men in scoring position," Porter said. "You look to the big part of the ballpark, you drive the ball the other way, and their guys are not getting any more information than our guys are getting. Their guys are doing a better job than our guys are doing, and that's the difference in the ballgame. They hit with men in scoring position. We did not."
The Astros also struck out 12 more times, giving them double-digit strikeouts for the fifth time in the past six games.
"We didn't pitch well enough, we didn't hit well enough, we had opportunities, and when we had opportunities, we didn't take advantage of them," Porter said. "Tonight, once we finish talking here, it will be over with for me and we'll move forward to the next game."
When asked how the team's recent performance has been weighing on him, Porter didn't flinch.
"I'm a tough man, and I've always said this: tough times don't last; tough people do," he said. "I'll show up tomorrow with a smile on my face and we're going to continue to give them opportunities and expect them to take advantage of the opportunities. If the opportunity is not taken advantage of, as an organization we'll decide to make changes."
Red Sox starter Felix Doubront tried to give the game away in the first inning, allowing a single to Jose Altuve, hitting a batter and walking three more in the first six batters he faced. The Astros had the bases loaded four times in the inning, but they only managed runs on a bases-loaded walk to Chris Carter and a Ronny Cedeno sacrifice fly.
"Seriously, I don't know what happened in the first inning," Doubront said. "I was feeling like I was using more of my arm than my body. I was a little frustrated because of what I was doing from thinking too much. After the first inning, I was really focused and in the strike zone. I wasn't thinking about my mechanics at all. Just throw the ball and get quick outs to go deep in the game. I was so proud that I did that. I flipped the switch after the first inning and I got the 'W.'"
Once Doubront (3-0) found his control, he made quick work of the Astros. He retired 17 of 19 batters following a four-pitch walk in the first inning and watched Boston pull away with three runs in the seventh inning off Hector Ambriz.
"He threw the ball everywhere and we scored two runs, and after that, he took a breath and he was outstanding," Altuve said. "He threw his pitches where he wanted and he got back into the game early enough and could do the job."
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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¿De dónde? On its own, this phrase is a fairly simple question. Where are you from? It's a question that one hears and is often asked; a question that is asked to be polite and friendly. But, for an illegal immigrant, this is asked in a way that is usually filled with anger and hate. The issue of illegal immigration is a key one in today's society. Last Friday evening, Estancia High School decided to present this issue in an eye-opening, informative way in a show appropriately titled, "¿De dónde?."
Taking place in Texas, "¿De dónde?" tells the stories of different illegal immigrants all hoping to be granted asylum in the United States. Amazingly, a cast of only 14 students plays 40 different characters. One of the main characters is La Extraña, or the stranger. Played by Kimberly Vargas, La Extraña flees from Guatemala after most of her family had been killed and she was raped. The pain and fear left by her experiences is clearly evident.
Another immigrant is Alirio, a 17-year-old student who was accused of being a student activist. Danny Martinez tells the story of Alirio through his actions and expressions. One very moving scene takes place in a courtroom. During the scene, the lawyer, Lynne (Kaitlyn White), tells Alirio's story, while he stands to the side. His eyes glisten in the stage lights as his story is told. The audience can see an entirely different side of illegal immigration through the passion in his eyes.
Sara Fassett shows the toughness that immigrants face in her portrayal of the Judge. Her harsh attitude was a reality for the audience. Her voice contains signs of repressed frustration as she deals with the problems and complications of her job.
One of the most impressive aspects of the show was an alteration that the students chose to make. Originally written completely in English, Estancia's cast chose to translate many of the scenes into Spanish. The authenticity that this added brought the production off the page and into the real world.
Opening the eyes of many, Estancia's production revealed illegal immigration to be more than just right or wrong. It's an issue than involves real people with real problems, and one needs to have all the facts before they make a decision on where they stand.
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Series finale turns sour, but Cubs beat Reds in extras
Garza, lifted after four frames, is angered by Cueto's 'disrespect'
CINCINNATI -- The Cubs were going to let Matt Garza go longer on Sunday than the 80-pitch limit imposed in his first start. He went long enough to get angry.
Welington Castillo hit a game-winning RBI double with two outs in the 10th inning Sunday to power the Cubs to a 5-4 victory over the Reds and snap a six-game losing streak. A Beach Boys concert was planned for after the game on the field. Garza provided the fireworks in the Cubs' clubhouse.
There was some friction in the Cubs' sixth as Johnny Cueto threw a ball over David DeJesus' head. Cueto seemed to take exception to DeJesus stepping out of the batter's box in the first. Home-plate umpire Bob Davidson issued a warning to both benches.
Garza took exception to Cueto's actions.
"Cueto should learn, you don't go after guy's heads," he said. "Don't wake a sleeping dog. I think that's kind of immature on his part and totally uncalled for. He's lucky that retaliation isn't in our vocabulary. You play each game like it's a new one. That's [nonsense] on his part -- just total immaturity. If he has something to say about it, he knows where to find my locker, and I'll definitely find his.
"I took total disrespect out of that," Garza said. "[DeJesus] has never done anything wrong. He just plays the game the right way. If Cueto has any problem, he can throw at me, and I'll definitely return the favor. I didn't like that one bit. We don't retaliate. We take it game by game. Hopefully, he learns to grow the [heck] up. That's totally uncalled for."
Garza wanted to make sure Cueto got the message.
"I hope he hears this, because I really don't care," Garza said. "If we want to retaliate, we could've and lost a bullpen guy but we don't need that. We play the game the right way. We'll take our lumps when we take them and hand them out when we hand them out. I think we responded well to the warning and just play the game well."
There's no history between Garza and Cueto.
"I just didn't like what he did," Garza said. "I don't know what happened, but the guy is an always down-in-the-zone guy and he threw into the arm-side-away box and that takes effort. As a pitcher, that takes a lot of effort. I don't know what the deal is between him and [DeJesus], but he needs to cut it out, because I'll stop it. I'll stop it. And that's just the way it goes. He wants to do it like that, so be it."
Garza said his message could be a warning or nonsense -- he wasn't sure how Cueto would take it.
Cueto was not available after the game.
"If the game was played that way, I don't like it like that," Garza said. "You don't go intently and try to injure somebody. Hopefully, the league looks at that. I don't want him to get suspended or anything. I just want him to learn a lesson. Hopefully, his players will warn him. It is what it is -- they run their own show. We'll see him again down the line."
Davidson told Cubs manager Dale Sveum that he didn't feel Cueto was trying to hit DeJesus, but was just miffed at how long the outfielder took in the box.
"I think he was just goofing around throwing up over his head," Sveum said. "I said, 'Why don't you throw him out of the game then?' [Davidson] said he knew [Cueto] wasn't trying to hit him.
"It probably woke us up as much as anything," Sveum said. "It woke our dugout up."
Back to the game. With the game tied at 4 and two outs in the 10th, J.J. Hoover walked Scott Hairston. Castillo then hit the ball along the left-field line and into the corner to score Hairston.
The Cubs had a runner at third with two outs in the ninth after Darwin Barney doubled to lead off, but he was stranded as Hoover got Ryan Sweeney to line out, DeJesus to ground out, and Starlin Castro to strike out. Cincinnati had two on and two outs in their half against Kyuji Fujikawa, who had to leave the game. Kevin Gregg got Brandon Phillips to fly out and end the inning.
Fujikawa had been on the disabled list earlier this season with a strained right forearm, and Sveum said it could be the same type of injury. The reliever felt it on the first pitch to Joey Votto.
The Cubs' bullpen is already strained with Shawn Camp on the disabled list. Expect a roster move Monday.
"It was an awesome team win," Garza said. "I don't think there was a guy left on the bench who was eligible except the guys in our starting rotation. It was a great team win, and I look forward to more of these. It wasn't a great outing for myself, but these guys shut the door."
"A four-run deficit against that team, to come back -- we got some big hits," Sveum said. "Guys had some good at-bats late again."
Sveum said the players seem to be more aggressive in the later innings. Hopefully, they can get into that mode earlier.
Garza may have delivered a strike in his message to Cueto. He's still working on his command on the mound.
"There was no command of anything," Sveum said. "Once again, when he was in the strike zone, it was foul ball after foul ball, and he got his pitch count up and got tired there."
Sveum said before the game that Garza, sidelined since Spring Training because of a strained left lat, would be allowed to throw 110 pitches as long as he didn't have any stressful innings. But Garza had a stressful fourth.
He needed 26 pitches to get through the first. With one out in the fourth, Jay Bruce hit an 0-1 pitch for his seventh home run. Garza then plunked Todd Frazier with a pitch and was visibly upset, slamming his right hand into his glove. He walked Xavier Paul, and Ryan Hanigan lofted a ball to straightaway center over a diving DeJesus. Frazier scored on the single, which could've been a double, but Paul hesitated. He and Hanigan did move up on a wild pitch that barely left the batters box, which Castillo lost.
One out later, Shin-Soo Choo was intentionally walked and Zack Cozart followed with a two-run double to open a 4-0 lead. Garza faced nine batters that inning, and was then lifted. He gave up four runs on four hits and four walks over four innings.
Cueto was also making his second start since being activated from the disabled list, and he did not give up a hit until Castro doubled with one out in the fourth.
Luis Valbuena hit an RBI single in the seventh off Cueto to make it 4-1. That was Cueto's last inning, and the Cubs took advantage in the eighth. With two outs against Logan Ondrusek, Castro singled, moved up on a wild pitch and scored on Anthony Rizzo's double. Alfonso Soriano then launched his fifth home run and first since May 13 into the left field bleachers to tie the game at 4.
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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ARLINGTON — An Arlington man arrested Sunday by heavily armed SWAT officers was wanted for allegedly threatening an ex boss with a knife.
The man, 38, reportedly had a knife in one hand as he stormed toward his former employer after being fired June 14. He dropped the weapon when he got close, but not before putting his ex-boss in fear for his life, according to Snohomish County sheriff's deputies.
The knife was snatched up by a co-worker and returned to the man later.
The sheriff's office report on the incident didn't say where the man had been working. He was arrested Sunday afternoon at his home in the 23600 block of Jordan Road.
He was held at the Snohomish County Jail in Everett for investigation of felony second-degree assault but was released Monday after being ordered to have no contact with his former employer. No charges have been filed.
Sheriff's detectives with the major crimes unit requested SWAT assist with the arrest.
The man also is under investigation in Everett for misdemeanor fourth-degree assault involving domestic violence, according to police reports.


text: American Civil War Notable. Dr. Frank Humiston, as he was known in adult life, was the eldest of the three children in the famous ambrotype found with the body of an unidentified Union soldier at Gettysburg. The poignant image, dubbed "Children of the Battlefield", launched a newspaper campaign throughout the North to discover the fallen soldier's identity, in addition to inspiring the establishment of a home in Gettysburg for orphans of the war. In November 1863, Frank's mother, Philinda Ensworth Humiston, confirmed that the soldier was her husband, Sgt. Amos Humiston of the 154th New York Infantry, who'd been missing since the first day of the battle four months earlier. Frank was then eight years old, and like his parents and two younger siblings, a native of Western New York. The fatherless Humiston family faced an uncertain future there, however, and in 1866 took up residence in the new orphanage at Gettysburg, where the widowed Mrs. Humiston had accepted a position as housekeeper. Unhappy in the battle-scarred town, possibly because she had begun to have doubts about the integrity of her employers, in 1869 she married a retired clergyman, Asa Barnes, who was more than 24 years her senior, and moved to Massachusetts. She remained devoted to the children, however, who joined her there as soon their respective schooling was finished. Frank went on to attend Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and in 1886 married Carrie R. Tarbell. The couple eventually had six children, and resided in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, where Frank was the highly-regarded town physican. He died there at age 57 from complications following gallstone surgery. His elderly mother, who was devastated by his death, died the the following year and was also buried in this cemetery. His survivors included his siblings Alice and Fred Humiston.


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At the launch of the nationwide operation of the Albanian ASYCUDA system, the Albanian Deputy-Minister of Finance, Mr. Florion Mima, stressed the importance of the ASYCUDA project, extended his high appreciation to the technical assistance and support by UNCTAD, and reiterated the strong commitment of the Government to continue the implementation of all ASYCUDAWorld functions, capitalizing on its state-of-the-art information technologies for e-government and e-business.
The initial installation of ASYCUDA in Albania was funded by the European Commission. The implementation of the latest version of the system — named ASYCUDAWorld — has been fully financed by the Albanian Government.
The new system allows for a strong reduction on the clearance time of goods and offers risk-management, anti-corruption measures, strong audit and monitoring functions for Customs Headquarters, timely and accurate statistics and mobile customs anti-smuggling units with en-route control tools.
The system was effectively implemented in just 14 months and covers all customs regimes. During the first five months of its operation, 130,000 declarations were processed by 5,700 companies. The numbers of steps, documents and customs officers involved in Customs clearance process were reduced significantly.
Following the launching of the nationwide operation of ASYCUDA, the UNCTAD delegation, led by the Deputy Secretary-General, Mr. Petko Draganov met with Mr. Alfred Prifti, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Endri Pema, Director General of Customs as well as with the Customs management team and the ASYCUDA World Project Team.
The delegation also visited the customs offices in Durres Port and at the Tirana International Airport/Cargo. Discussions took place with customs brokers, express carriers and other users who highlighted the advantages of the computerization of customs operations and the use of a centralized real-time system.
ASYCUDA is UNCTAD´s largest technical assistance programme and has helped modernize customs operations in more than 90 countries around the world.
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