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For years, many have made their way to Northeast Michigan for Art on the Bay in Alpena. This July 20 and 21 will be no different, as the event returns for its 37th year in Bay View Park.
The art show—which includes paintings, woodworking, jewelry, quilts, glass staining, and more—attracts not only a large following but a loyal one. Cheryl Lemke, a board member of the Thunder Bay Art Council and one of three ladies helping to organize this year's Art on the Bay, said people have been calling to make sure their favorite vendors, which come from all over the United States, are scheduled to return. Art on the Bay has an excellent reputation of not only retaining vendors year by year, but art lovers and shoppers as well.
With 160 vendors, the original vendor space is already sold out for the event, but Lemke said they are actively making room for more, making for one of the biggest Art on the Bay yet. With so many vendors, those looking to shop or just browse will easily be able to spend the entire day perusing art of all different varieties.
A new addition to the event this year is Empty Canvas, a fun performance art show that is full of energy. Empty Canvas is the combination of brothers Mike and Scott McMath, where Mike completes a painting while singing lead and back-up vocals alongside Scott. The brothers mix in popular cover songs along with some original music while completing an original painting. Empty Canvas is a great chance not only to hear some stellar tunes to sing along with, but to witness art live in action. Lemke also added that the painting would later be auctioned off at a wine tasting event during Art on the Bay. So you can see it painted live, then have the opportunity to own it.
Art on the Bay is also a great event for the whole family. Kids will be able to escape the heat under the tented Kid's Art Zone. Here, kids can find bead and yarn projects to partake in. There will be demonstrations of how wool is spun into yarn. It's an opportunity for the kids to get hands on and learn how to become artists themselves.
Great art isn't only going to be on hand, but great food as well. Popular food vendors will be making their return for you to indulge in kettle corn, roasted almonds, sandwiches, ice cream, and more—so you won't be shopping on an empty stomach.
Art on the Bay is not only the opportunity to browse beautiful art and eat tasty food, but a chance to scope out a wonderful city on the water. One of the many things that separates this art event from others in the state is its historic port landscape. With deep roots in maritime culture, plentiful of nature, and a hopping downtown, you'll also find plenty to do outside of art browsing and shopping.
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As the chief of the anesthesiology service at Columbia Hospital in Washington, D. C., I was interested in the article entitled "Spinal Anesthesia in Cesarean Section" by Dr. Donald W. deCarle in the Feb. 13, 1954, issue of The Journal. We have passed through the stages of using first general anesthetics for cesarean sections, then spinal anesthesia, and now general anesthesia.The report seems to reveal an effort to fit the patient to the anesthetic instead of the anesthetic to the patient. We use general anesthetics in the majority of our cases and reserve spinal anesthesia for selected cases, such as marked prematurity and for patients who have had recent meals or who have respiratory infections. Our results, both as to maternal mortality and infant mortality, compare favorably with those of any other institution. It has been my view, after reading numerous articles and speaking to numerous
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• Routine aneurysm culture is frequently performed as it is thought that a positive culture could be a risk factor for secondary graft infection. Five hundred aneurysms, in a series of 796 patients, had microbiologic examination of the thrombus and/or aneurysm wall. Cultures were positive in 185 cases (37%), mostly due to normal skin flora microorganisms (80%), whereas 16 patients (3.2%) had infectious aortitis. Gram-stained smears were positive in nine of these 16 patients compared with two of the other 169. Of the 185 patients with positive culture, after a mean length of followup of 35 months, only one had a graft infection that occurred 6 years later and was not due to the same microorganism. Graft sepsis was diagnosed in six of the 296 patients who did not have a positive culture, and was related to clinically obvious locoregional or systemic foci. In this series, positive cultures from aneurysm without rupture or signs of infection were not a risk factor for secondary graft sepsis. Therefore, in cases of asymptomatic unruptured aneurysm, routine culturing is not necessary as a positive result has no pathogenic significance or therapeutic implication.
(Arch Surg. 1993;128:284-288)
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Dickens accepted the post of editor for this new newspaper in October 1845 and invested considerable energy in the project prior to its first publication on January 21, 1846. It was to be published by Bradbury and Evans, Dickens' publishers, and had (relatively modest) offices at 90 Fleet Street. Dickens' energy was formidable, as was his commitment to crusading journalism: in the draft prospectus for the paper he said it would be "devoted to the advocacy of all rational and honest means by which wrong might be redressed, just right maintained, and the happiness and welfare of society promoted" (Ackroyd, 460). The paper aligned itself with the Liberal interest, taking a position for the repeal of the Corn Laws and the expansion o…
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Saturday morning five Canyon seniors will lace up running shoes for their final three-mile race at the UIL state cross country meet in Round Rock. The goal of the "family" is to bring home the only pursuit that has alluded them in their high school careers - a state meet trophy.
The Eagles will be running in their third consecutive state meet. They are counting on the experience of seniors Nick Eyhorn, twin brothers Chad and Adam Penn, Don Welling, and sophomore Chris Pacheco who have all run on the state course as members of Canyon's sixth- and eighth-place state finishers in 1999 and 2000.
Joining the veterans in hopes of bringing home Canyon's first medal since the 1995 state championship team are freshman Brett Shepherd and senior Lee Echevarria.
Canyon is a close-knit group which found the sport of long-distance running through injuries in other sports and/or the recruiting and encouragement of coach Kirk Kear, a product of the distance-running boom in the late 1970s. Kear got his father to convince the school board in Perryton to offer the sport of cross-country, and he still has a desire to inspire young men with a "lifelong love of running."
Kear has succeeded in building a group of runners who love the sport, help each other and consider him a mentor "who will be there for us," according to Eyhorn. Eyhorn, sixth individually at the regional meet in Lubbock last weekend, will be running in his third state meet.
"We're all friends. We pretty much hang together even outside of running," Adam Penn said.
"I didn't know anything about running when I was in junior high," Eyhorn said. "I'd broke my thumb in football, but Chad (Penn) was going to run so he and I began training together the summer before our freshman year. Then I met Nathaniel Cook, (former Canyon runner), and he took me farther into the sport."
Adam Penn and Echevarria also joined the team after football injuries. Welling moved to Canyon and failed to make the basketball team. Kear encouraged him to give running a try and he has been one of the top runners since joining the team.
"My son's the ornery one unlike the others who are all good students and behave," Deana Welling, Don's mother, said. "This (running) has been great for him. Coach Kear has been a mentor and a terrific positive male role model for him."
The boys have logged thousands of miles together and have been joined this year by Brett Shepherd. He is the younger brother of graduated Burton Shepherd who ran for the Eagles after he also was hurt playing football.
It isn't easy to get 12 to 20 boys to sacrifice their time, run hundreds of lonely miles, and enjoy it in a sport that takes place at the same time as football, but Kear has succeeded.
"These are great young men, '' Kear said of his team. "They've dedicated themselves to a goal (a state medal as a team) and when it's time to race, they'll be ready (mentally). Our seniors know this is their last race and to make it count," Kear said.
"It's not fact until it happens, but I think two of the top three teams in the state were in our region. If everyone runs his best we can medal."
Canyon finished only 10 points behind second-ranked Grapevine. Both Penn brothers were not satisfied with their individual performances.
"I can run better," Adam said.
"I'm nervous, but I'm ready to run. I just hope we all run well," Echevarria said.
"We're pretty confident. We're all good friends. We help each other," Adam said.
Eyhorn is the vocal leader and has been running in the top spot most of the season, but the allusive team medal is his main goal.
"We can run with the Cedar Parks (top ranked in state) and Grapevines. We have experience. We need to keep a level head. We can't let this (state) be some exalted race and get too nervous," he said.
Nerves have overtaken many teams dreams of a state medal, but the senior-laden Eagles are hoping they will not fall victim to this curse when they run their final race.
"I believe we are one of if not the best teams in the state if we all run our best. We want to show everyone else in the state what we have." Eyhorn said.
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The Chicago White Sox have placed righthander Gavin Floyd on the 15-day disabled list because of an elbow strain, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Floyd left his start this past Sunday after allowing one earned run in two innings pitched. He also spent two weeks on the disabled list in July because of elbow tendinitis.
In 24 starts this season, Floyd is 9-9 with a 4.55 ERA, his highest mark in any of his five full major league seasons. In fact, his ERA has climbed each season since he posted a 3.84 mark in 2008.
The team recalled righthander Dylan Axelrod from Class AAA to replace Floyd in the rotation. Axelrod will start Wednesday night against the Baltimore Orioles.


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NARS will be soon releasing two limited edition blush palettes which each feature four of their top selling shades. Sculpt, highlight, and define the face for a variety of bold, modern, and artistic beauty looks. I am so excited at the opportunity to build my NARS blush collection, (I pathetically only own one), with both of these amazing palettes.
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GILDA – Perfect coral with a hint of red
ALBATROSS – Luminous glow
ORGASM – Peachy pink with golden shimmer
OUTLAW – Soft rose tone with golden shimmer
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This volume, consisting of 269 pages, considers in a very interesting and instructive manner the diagnosis of diseases of infancy and childhood, stressing particularly the former. The book essentially considers signs and symptoms. The author finds that this plan of treating diagnostics in infancy and childhood is of the greatest importance, and is also most instructive to the student. It is obvious that, in the case of the infant, the objective symptoms are alone of importance because he has not the power of vocal expression and in somewhat older children the same signs are of equal importance, because the child has not sufficient judgment to interpret and express his subjective feelings.
In his long experience as a teacher, the author has found that it is of great value from the pedagogic standpoint to consider and analyze the outstanding symptoms. Even after a diagnosis has been arrived at, he finds it
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Tips to Prepare for the Rise in Healthcare Bad Debt
Free downloadable report from NCO Group & insideARM.com gives hospitals a prescription for fiscal well-being.
The rising cost of healthcare has captured national attention for over two decades. This comes as no surprise given that healthcare spending accounts for approximately 1 in every 6 dollars spent in the United States each year. Primary causes for rise in bad debt include: a down economy resulting in job loss (resulting in an increase in the amount of self-pay); and employers passing the rising costs of insurance premiums, co-pays, and deductibles on to their employees.
Meanwhile healthcare providers must deal not only with declining payments from all payers, but also face some troubling yet unmistakable facts: more treatment of the growing population of baby boomers and their increasing medical needs; increased number of uninsured or underinsured individuals; larger co-pays and deductibles passed on from employers to employees and Medicare eligible seniors; and the resulting increase in self-pay patients.
What the healthcare industry needs today is a clear prescription for fiscal well being from qualified service partners. A solution that assists healthcare organizations in taking a proactive stance to address current bad debt loads now and prepare to handle increasing bad debt in years to come.
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A 2010 survey by Chicago-based credit agency TransUnion of 46 healthcare organizations in all 50 states found that almost 75 percent said the current recession had done more damage than the 2001 downturn. Additionally, approximately two-thirds (65 percent) of survey respondents indicated their healthcare organization has a bad debt percentage of between 1 percent and 5 percent. About 23 percent indicated they have bad debt percentages between 5.1 percent and 10 percent.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
PhotoHunt 202 -DAILY
Color Carnival # 39
Labels: CLOTHES, color carnival
Friday, February 26, 2010
Friday My Town Shoot Out: Your Favorite Subject
" This week we are celebrating out 52nd week.. a whole year of FMTSOs!! So the theme is...revisiting your favorite theme/subject from this year."
The first time I participated in the FMTSOs was in May last year, the theme was water , so I decided to choose this theme again and share some of the recent photos I took.
Time to water the grass before it turn all yellow!
My little niece and nephew playing with water.
We're surrounded by the water as we're an island.
Perfect way to beat the heat here, in front of the VivoCity mall.
Can't do without this drink- plain water.
After the rain.
Chicken taking a shower.
Fountain at Bugis Junction Mall.
Labels: friday my town shoot out, water
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Thursday Challenge : SKY
Thursday Challenge's site.
Labels: sky, thursday challenge
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
ABC Wednesday : Falafel
F is for FALAFELand tahini. Falafel is a favorite among vegetarians as it's made from ground chickpeas, onions, parsley and spices such as cumin and coriander. The mixture is shaped into balls or patties, then deep fried.
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Ruby Tuesday:
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EMPS # 78: Still Life Featuring Food
A STILL-LIFE is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate objects and subject matter. It's been a while since we have done a Still-Life as an assignment, so this week, let's do one featuring food. The type of food, the setting, the lighting is all completely up to you. Get creative, work some magic, show me the art of STILL-LIFE photography FEATURING FOOD. No archived photos this week! I want something brand new to see.
Extra Credit: Do a STILL-LIFE in black & white."
My simple lunch , stir fry yellow noodles with mince chicken in spicy sauce.
Labels: EMPS, FOOD, still life
Monday, February 22, 2010
Today's Flowers # 81
Yellow Oncidium Orchids.
It has short, thick pseudo-bulbs and slender, graceful leaves.
Though the flowers are small compared to the Cattleya, they are a spray-type of considerable grace and charm. The blooms are flat, about 4cm wide of silky texture, resembling a dancing girl with wide-spread skirts and tiny waist.
Oncidiums, are sun-worshiper's and when it comes to Oncidium orchid care, they must not be allowed to shrivel. They need a great deal of water when growth is being completed and flowering is beginning, but require less after flowering.
Labels: Today's flowers, Yellow oncidium orchids
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Photo Hunt # 201-CUDDLY
Color Carnival # 38
Labels: color carnival
Friday, February 19, 2010
Friday My Town Shoot Out: Town Square
"Plaza is a Spanish word related to "field" which describes an open urban public space, such as a city square. It's the space where a large crowd gathers during public occasions or crisis. The plaza remains a center of community life that is only equaled by the market-place. In modern usage, a plaza can be any gathering place on a street or between buildings, a street intersection with a statue. It's a center of a town/city or a certain place".
By this definition, there's plenty of town plaza here in Singapore to choose from. After going through my archive I've decided to feature the area where I live with the many open areas where the residents like to hang around, so off I went yesterday to capture the nearby place. Even though we are a small island with limited land resources, the authorities always make sure there's enough open spaces and green parks for the people, very close to their homes.
A place to just hang around anytime, very close to home.
Labels: friday my town shoot out, town square
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Thursday Photo Challenge : Old Equipment
old grinding machine.
More Old Equipment can be found HERE.
Labels: old equipment, thursday chellenge
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Ruby Tuesday: red galore in a stall
Lots of red here in a stall selling melon seed for the Chinese New Year celebrations, melon seeds are one of the must haves during the occasion.
Labels: reds in a stall, Ruby Tuesday
EMPS # 77- The Cone Zone
Traffic, we all have to deal with it in one way or another, and there always seem to be CONE ZONES somewhere amongst it all. This week, show me something CONE ZONE related. Men at work, traffic cones all lined up, anything CONE ZONE related. But please folks, take your photos from a proper place and distance as to not put yourself at risk, or interfere with those who are working within the zone. SAFETY FIRST! Be mindful of the laws in your state.
Extra Credit: Show me a picture of a traffic sign... any traffic sign."
Traffic, we all have to deal with it in one way or another, and there always seem to be CONE ZONES somewhere amongst it all. This week, show me something CONE ZONE related. Men at work, traffic cones all lined up, anything CONE ZONE related. But please folks, take your photos from a proper place and distance as to not put yourself at risk, or interfere with those who are working within the zone. SAFETY FIRST! Be mindful of the laws in your state.
Extra Credit: Show me a picture of a traffic sign... any traffic sign."
Labels: EMPS, the cone zone
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The water was the exact color of a bottle of flat Barq's. Any lure lowered beneath the surface became the hue of caramel about 2 feet down before finally vanishing in a sea of opacity.
It was the color of water that would drive a summer speckled-trout angler to distraction. It might produce a few bass -- and definitely a bunch of reds -- but it would be as speckled trout-rich as a Wisconsin woodland stream.
Find this kind water in the summer, and you'd better trim your motor down and point your bow toward the coast. Productive water in the summer has even developed its own colloquial color classification. Don't expect to ever find "trout green" in a standard 64-box of Crayolas.
But in the winter, trout are drawn to root beer like Cajuns at a crab boil. The fish move into the marshes in the early autumn to gorge themselves on the white shrimp that are growing by the day and hoping to get through the gauntlet of speckled trout to move offshore and spawn.
But right around this time of year, the white shrimp are mostly gone, and the gluttonous trout are far from satiated. So they take advantage of the clarity of the root beer-colored water to rain down horror on meager baitfish stocks.
Seeing the color of the water and knowing I had about 350 X's on my 2012 calendar, I did what South Louisiana speckled-trout anglers have been doing for decades: I tied on a MirrOlure 52M.
On my first cast, an 18-inch trout nearly ripped the rod from my hands. I was delighted but not surprised.
Years ago, you knew it was time to start chunking MirrOlures when the local radio stations mixed in a bit of Christmas music with their usual playlists. Now, however, that would have you switching over to the hard-plastics around the middle of November, when the marshes are still full of shrimp and you're better off with a jighead and soft-plastic.
It's best to wait until Dec. 1, or later in an autumn as mild as this one.
"Speckled trout are opportunistic feeders," retired LSU fisheries biologist Jerald Horst said. "But if they're keyed in on shrimp, they're going to be looking to eat shrimp.
"That's really what a soft-plastic imitates. People think they're throwing something with a paddletail that's designed to look like a baitfish, but really, a speckled trout thinks it's a shrimp."
Once the shrimp are gone, however, trout look for baitfish, and that's when it's time to break out the hard stuff.
Decades ago, local anglers had limited hard-plastic options, so MirrOlures were as common in tackle boxes as Shad Rigs. Now, anglers are adding variety with lures made by Yo-Zuri, Bomber, Egret and a host of others.
In fact, as reported on NOLA.com two weeks ago, local angler Stewart Beatty caught a nearly 8-pound trout in Lake Pontchartrain on a Rapala X-Rap.
But MirrOlures are the staples, and hard-core angler Brendan Bayard, 34, can't throw them enough this time of year.
"As you move later in the fall, the north wind purges the marsh of the shrimp, and that's when the MirrOlures really get hot," he said.
Bayard is an avid kayak angler who has to use finesse and cunning to overcome a relative lack of mobility. He thinks so far outside the box that up until a couple of years ago, he threw Carolina-rigged MirrOdines.
"They came out with the sinking MirrOdine, so I don't do that anymore," he said. "I test a lot of stuff in swimming pools to see how it looks in the water."
The sinking MirrOdine is his go-to bait this time of year. He fishes it regularly in dead-end canals during cold snaps.
Bayard's chosen technique is to cast the bait and allow it to sink to the bottom before beginning his twitchy retrieve.
"Most of those dead-ends have mud bottoms, so I don't bother with counting the bait down," he said. "If I'm fishing it over oyster reefs, I'll count it down so it doesn't hit bottom."
The canals in the Leeville and Buras areas that Bayard fishes average about 8 feet in depth. Using the MirrOdines in deep water is incredibly effective this time of year, he said.
"Those dead-end canals get so much pressure in the winter, and everybody throws paddletails," he said. "Those fish see a lot of soft-plastics in a day."
When temperatures rise just a tad, Bayard will often switch over to a 28MR, which is a small floating bait.
"I really like that bait," he said. "When the water is colder, the fish won't quite breach the surface to hit a topwater, but they'll come up to hit something just under it."
The 28MR dives about 6 inches on a twitch, Bayard said, before floating back toward the surface. The fish often hit when the bait is rising after a twitch.
The lure is smaller than what anglers would throw in, say, the springtime when waters are warm and fish are feeling their oats.
"I'm very minimalistic as far as color and sound," Bayard said. "I think fish can see and hear a lot better than we realize."
When temperatures warm even further, Bayard will throw topwater plugs, even in the wintertime. He likes Top Dogs in calm conditions and She Dogs when there's some wind blowing.
Bayard's magic water temperature for topwaters is 58 degrees -- provided temperatures have been stable. Otherwise, he waits until water temperatures reach 60 degrees.
Ironically, for as big as a hard-plastic junkie as Bayard is, he doesn't often throw the 52M, which is the venerable staple for South Louisiana marsh anglers. That may be because he's from Texas. Bayard grew up surf fishing in the Lone Star State before attending LSU, falling in love and starting a family in Baton Rouge.
"I love the fishing here," he said. "I can't get enough of it."
He stayed for the fishing and the Barq's.


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Hanoi, Viet Nam, 6-9 December 2000
The Asian Women for a Culture of Peace conference was organized by the Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam in cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Hanoi, Viet Nam from 6-9 December 2000. It was convened as an Asian celebration of the International Year for the Culture of Peace (2000) and also as part of the UNESCO initiated culture of peace process, as well as in preparation for the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World (2001-2010).
The primary aim of the Conference was to provide a forum for Asian women to share their visions, experiences and strategies on the theme of peace building and non-violence in Asia, and to coordinate their actions for the promotion of a culture of peace as a prerequisite for sustainable and environmentally sound development.
The Conference was attended by 150 delegates and observers from 35 countries in Asia and the Pacific, as well as non-Asian countries, organizations of the UN System, national government and non-governmental organizations and regional institutions. It was also attended by a number of Guests of Honor from the Parliament and Government of Viet Nam and the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, as well as Ambassadors and Representatives of funding countries and agencies. A List of Participants is attached (Annex I).
At the opening session after the introduction by Mr. Chu Tuan Cap, President of the Viet Nam National Commission for UNESCO and Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs in Viet Nam the following persons delivered addresses:
Ms Nguyen Thi Binh Vice President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
Ms Sonia Mendieta de Bardaroux President of the Executive Board of UNESCO
Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura Director-General of UNESCO
Dr Hoang Van Nghien Chairman of the Hanoi Peoples Committee
All speakers unanimously highlighted the pressing need to integrate a gender perspective into peace building and increase women's participation in decision making at all levels. The necessity to mobilize women and men for the transformation of societies away from war and violence towards a culture of peace, respect for human rights and sustainable development were also emphasized. The texts of the addresses delivered at the opening are attached (Annex II).
Following the inauguration, the Conference participants joined Ms Nguyen Thi Binh, Vice President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam and Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO in opening the Exhibition on the Visual Introduction of Viet Nam Culture.
The conference proceeded to adopt the Program and Agenda, and the Organization of Work and Rules of Procedure. The following persons were then elected to constitute the core of the Conference Bureau:
President Ms. Ha Thi Khiet, President of the Viet Nam Womens Union
Vice Presidents H.E. Ms. Mu Sochua, Minister for Women and Veterans Affairs, Cambodia
Ms. Margaret Alva, Member of Parliament, India
Rapporteur General Ms. Savitri Suwansathit, Inspector General, Ministry of Education, Thailand
It was also accepted that the Moderators of the Working Groups be part of the Conference Bureau as well as the four (4) Rapporteurs elected in the Working Groups and serving as Assistant Rapporteurs to the Rapporteur General.
On the evening of the Inauguration Day, the Conference participants were invited to an official dinner with traditional cultural performances, hosted by H.E. Mr. Nguyen Dy Nien, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, who also delivered an address of welcome and in support of the conference on Asian Women for a Culture of Peace and Sustainable Development. The text of his address is attached (Annex III).
Keynote Address:
Ms Ha Thi Khiet, President of the Viet Nam Womens Union delivered the keynote address in which she joined women from around the world in expressing pride in the countless achievements made in the past century by women for "equality, development and peace". She called on Asian women to prepare themselves even further for the new opportunities and challenges of the twenty-first century.
She also stressed the importance of the womens networks and organizations at the local, national, regional and international levels, which have been cooperating with the governments, NGOs, the UN agencies and social and civil organizations for womens empowerment and gender equality seen as a prerequisite for peace and development. She cited in particular, the example of the Viet Nam Womens Union, a Think Tank on women related issues which enjoy the support of eleven million women members from all strata and has been most effective in mobilizing the support of the whole society for the development of womens education and quality of life, as well as the development of children and entire communities in Viet Nam.
She further introduced four priority objectives of the Union for the implementation of the Viet Nam National Action Plan for the advancement of women, namely,
Ms Khiet also stated that the Union now has links with more than 300 organizations in 60 countries, and again called on the Asian women to join hands and cooperate with women and men for a culture of peace. The full text of her address is attached (Annex IV).
Introduction to the Conference Themes:
Ms Ingeborg Breines, Director of the Women and a Culture of Peace Programme, UNESCO, presented a short version of the UNESCO paper entitled "The Culture of Peace from a Gender Perspective", which is the main theme of the Conference.
She stressed that the Culture of Peace initiative is a revitalization of the basic moral and intellectual mission of UNESCO as is enshrined in its Constitution, and should be seen in relation to present geopolitical situations. In the vision of a culture of peace which is to be widely shared, dialogue and respect for human rights would replace violence, inter-cultural understanding and solidarity replace enemy images, sharing and the free flow of knowledge and information replace secrecy and egalitarian partnership and full empowerment of women replace male dominance. To build a culture of peace first entails unlearning the codes of war and violence.
She referred to the UN Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace, and stressed that contrary to previously held belief, we must prepare for peace instead of preparing from war, if we want peace. She called for peace education at all levels of the school system, as well as peace and conflict resolution skill and research to be made obligatory in this new millennium. Education, she emphasized, must include girls and women, and must be gender sensitive to enable inter-personal, inter-cultural and international dialogue, hence learning to live together as proposed by the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century (UNESCO, 1996).
Referring to the five-year assessment of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform of Action, Ms Breines stated that despite some achievements, many obstacles to gender equality remain and violations of women's human rights as well as denial of equal opportunities for women and men abound.
Womens peace initiatives in many countries often stem from frustration and anger that they feel from being denied the opportunity to influence decisions although they suffer the consequences of wars and conflicts. Their activism often draws on their traditional roles and skills in conflict management and sometimes revive traditional rituals.
Male roles and masculinities in relation to a culture of peace was an important issue raised, particularly in light of statistics revealing that men are responsible for 90% of physical violence, including domestic violence, violence in schools, streets and in society at large. "Masculinity Trends" in some societies have young girls adopt violent behavior in their search for equality and recognition, while in other societies; this has led to the creation of anti-violence networks of young men.
She concluded by making a strong appeal for partnerships, networking and commitments for a culture of peace where people can live free from fear and want. The full text of her speech is attached (Annex V).
Ms Thelma Kay, Chief of the Women in Development Section, ESCAP, presented a paper on the Role and Status of Women in Asian and the Pacific in Building Peace, in which she outlined the various issues identified by ESCAP Meetings as being the fundamental and structural causes of civil and armed conflict in the region - namely deprivation, human rights violations, competition for scarce resources and most explosively, the inequality resulting from unequal distribution of power and resources. Faulty development strategies can sow the seeds for future conflict, discord and tension.
Long-term conflict prevention therefore needs to focus on balanced development and alleviation of poverty while ensuring equal sharing of benefits among all members of their society. Gender inequality and the lack of empowerment of women have direct and negative impact on the development of societies as a whole. With globalization intensified, women have increasingly become victims of problems like trafficking, sexual exploitation, irregular migration, violence and insecurity.
With regard to peace, significant efforts have been made by women in the ESCAP region characterized by (i) womens perspectives in rebuilding society and calling for an end to gender-based brutality and abuse, (ii) womens peace activism, creative and effective strategies for peace and development and (iii) womens civil society organizations in promoting human security.
However, ESCAPs statistics reveal a larger gap in gender equality at decision-making levels. Therefore, she invited the conference to pool collective wisdoms and experiences to address the issues of womens role and potential in shaping the direction of local, national and international development processes, in promoting womens voices in decision-making, ensuring accountability in the use of resources, and drawing up an action plan that focuses on development as a critical means of conflict prevention and peace building. The full text of her presentation is attached (Annex VI).
Presentation by Countries and Organizations
Twenty four speakers from regional and national organizations and countries took the floor to share their countries and organizations experiences and challenges on the theme of the Conference, particularly taking stock of the achievements made and obstacles encountered since the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995). The list of speakers is attached (Annex VII). The following common concerns and challenges were explicitly expressed in most presentations.
On the basis of their experiences and achievements, many recommendations were made and appear also in Annex VII.
Womens role and potential in peace building and non-violence in Asia
Prior to the Working Group discussions on Womens role and potential in peace-building and non-violence in Asia, the Moderators introduced to the plenary the themes and goals of the Working Groups.
The almost invisible struggle of ordinary women for peace is heroic. Their approaches and visions of a culture of peace differ from those of male decision makers. For many women peace begins in the family and is extended in an outward motion, from the home to the neighborhood, community and the nation. In the peaceful family there is equality between men and women, between young and old, and harmonious relationships with neighbors. The children in this setting could learn peace by example. The father respects the mother and both parents respect those who differ from themselves, be this difference in language, religion or culture. However, a family does not live in isolation. To be at peace the family needs security, economic well-being, respect, freedom from conscription into violence, laws which prevent abuse as well as media and toys which promote peace and knowledge of others.
Women need to be active outside as well as within the home. Due to their lack of equal representation in government, women need to work together through other channels to achieve change. Through the fields of education, training, socialization and research, we need to learn the tools for living together in the family and in the wider society. Womens strengths need to be taken to the wider arena to be the "ordinary heroines" for peace.
Even as it reflects commonly held values of a given society, the potent role of media institutions in shaping and giving rise to new norms and standards is a fact that both social justice activists and those interested in maintaining the status quo of the elite have recognised. In any given situation of armed conflict, mainstream media implicitly distinguishes for us the "victim" from the "aggressor," and ultimately shapes public opinion of whom to support and whom to oppose. Rarely does mainstream media reporting provide a total picture of the historical, geo-political and socio-cultural reasons behind a conflict situation. What viewers contend with are sensationalised moments of violent events that loose their news worthiness within days and drop out of the publics sight.
Violent images are rampant in the television and film industry, so much so that people living in conditions of peace can also become familiar and desensitised to the violence, horror and gore that they witness in their entertainment including in games and toys. Stereotyped messages about the "other", i.e. anyone outside of our own framework of socio-cultural understanding is a common "sin" of mainstream media. It is easy to slip into ready stereotypes simply because stereotyped, biased, intolerant attitudes already exists to varying degrees in society.
Women who are no strangers to the experience of being stereotyped, misrepresented or made invisible by mainstream media are in some senses in the best position to help change this trend in mainstream media and all forms of communication towards creating a culture of peace. Women also have the experience of being a most significant "Other" in societies that are patriarchal and male-dominated. Women media practitioners and communicators as well as womens activists have sought out strategies both within and outside of mainstream media to transform media from an artillery of stereotypes, violent and denigrating images to a reliable source of information that promotes and defends values of equality, justice, tolerance and peace. Women have also sought to promote alternative streams of information and communications, utilising all forms of communication including street theatre, songs, poetry, posters, websites and whatever is most effective in ensuring womens advancement. Women have seen how various media tools can promote networking, solidarity building and consciousness raising and are thus interested parties in transforming all media and communication channels into vehicles for bringing about greater gender equality, social justice and a culture of peace.
The face of poverty in Asia - 70% of the worlds poor - is female. The number of poor women has increased recently as a result of the regional financial crisis. Poverty is spreading to include some countries in transition towards market economies. Poverty reduction strategies call for labor absorbing economic growth to generate income - earning opportunities for poor women, for improved access to education, health care and other social services to help the poor to take advantage of these opportunities.
Women see peace not as an absence of war, but as a process that enables them to transform their lives and control their choices. As wars and conflicts continue in Asian countries, women experience that these are not isolated events but processes that begin before and continue long after the conflict situation. It is the ideology of militarism that brings militarist values into civil society and legitimizes the use of force that lies behind these conflicts. Traditional notions of national security and conflict resolution have been unable to solve these concepts and give a just solution.
Women are committed to a culture of peace and believe that a gendered human security approach would offer more viable and long-term solutions. This will involve issues of social justice, political negotiation, demilitarization, gender-balanced participation and rehabilitation as a cohesive part of security and conflict resolution.
Report of the Working Group discussions
The Working Groups submitted the reports of their discussions and recommendations to the Plenary who agreed that these recommendations were to form the base of the Plan of Action for a Culture of Peace and Sustainable Development for Asian Women.
Address by Ambassador Gertrude Mongella, Member of Parliament, Tanzania
Ms Mongella shared with the Asian Conference the experiences of the African women in the Pan African Womens Conference on a Culture of Peace, which was held in Zanzibar (1999). She informed the meeting that African women have greatly suffered from wars and armed conflicts and strongly felt that it was timely for them to set their own agenda for peace and development. This consequently led to the adoption of the Zanzibar Declaration and the African Womens Agenda for a Culture of Peace, the text of which she was happy to note has been displayed at this conference. She expressed the willingness of African women to work in close collaboration and solidarity with Asian women in promoting a culture of peace and non-violence and thanked the Government of Viet Nam and UNESCO for extending an invitation to the African Women Committee for Peace and Development (AWCPD) and to her as President of the Zanzibar Conference and Secretary General of the Fourth World Conference on Women.
Cultural Activities:
At the invitation of the Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee, the participants attended a Water Puppet Show put on by the Thanghong Troupe. The Water Puppet is an ancient traditional folk performance and communication enjoyed by the wet rice cultivation people in the Red River Delta. It also reflects the people's love for peace and sustainable development. The participants also had the opportunity to visit the Ethnology Museum in Hanoi, which displays the ways of life and cultural diversity of the people of Viet Nam.
Adoption of the Hanoi Declaration and Asian Women Plan of Action for a Culture of Peace and Sustainable Development
The Conference unanimously adopted the Hanoi Declaration and Asian Women Plan of Action for a Culture of Peace and Sustainable Development by acclamation. The Conference also adopted the Final Report of the Asian Women for a Culture of Peace Conference.
Vote of Thanks and Closing Ceremony
The Conference adopted a Vote of Thanks and Appreciation to the Government of Viet Nam, UNESCO and ESCAP. In her closing address Ms Kayoko Mizuta, Deputy Executive Secretary of ESCAP thanked the host country for their generous hospitality to the participants and observers attending this conference. She congratulated the Conference Bureau and participants for their fastidious efforts in developing and adopting the Hanoi Declaration and Asian Women Plan of Action for a Culture of Peace and Sustainable Development. Ms Jaroslava Moserova, President of the General Conference of UNESCO expressed her pleasure in participating in the Asian Women for a Culture of Peace Conference. She declared that women have the power to break the vicious circle of prejudice, hatred and distrust and that the best way was through the establishment of a culture of peace.
Madame Ha Thi Khiet, President of the Conference warmly thanked the participants for their rich and useful contributions as well as for the cordial cooperation, which enabled the Conference to be successful. She also thanked the Vice Presidents and the Rapporteur General, as well as all the Chairs, Moderators and the Rapporteurs of the Working Groups for their assistance and hard work. Finally, she thanked UNESCO, ESCAP and the other UN Agencies, as well as all the funding countries for their support and encouragement to the Asian Women Conference for a Culture of Peace.
Madame Nguyen Thi Hoi, Secretary General of the Viet Nam National Commission for UNESCO, expressed her sincere thanks to everybody for their friendship and cooperation in making this Conference a success, and in contributing to the Asian Women's Movement for a Culture of Peace and Sustainable Development. She looked forward to further cooperation with all the participants in implementing the adopted Plan of Action for a Culture of Peace and Sustainable Development for Asian Women and the Hanoi Declaration.
The Conference was concluded on the note of women solidarity and friendship.


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ARLINGTON — A Texas boy abandoned at a fire station as an infant got a special wish for his 10th birthday: meeting the firefighter who saved him.
On Thursday evening, Koregan Quintanilla celebrated his recent birthday by meeting Arlington firefighter Wesley Keck, riding on a firetruck and touring the station.
Koregan was left at the station in 2002 under Texas' Baby Moses law, which allows a parent to leave an unharmed infant up to 60 days old at a fire station or hospital with no questions asked.
Child Protective Services then takes custody of the babies. All states have similar laws, but Texas was the first to create one, signing it into law in 1999. It took effect in 2001. Keck said he was excited about seeing the boy for the first time since finding a baby carrier outside the station on a cold November morning. He did a "double take" before rushing outside. He moved aside the blanket and saw a sleeping baby, then gently picked up the carrier and walked inside to tell his colleagues the shocking news, he said.
"I announced that somebody had left us a gift," Keck said "I checked him out, and he seemed fine. I don't remember him crying. I held him, and he slept a lot.
"I have four kids, and some of the other firefighters are fathers, so taking care of babies wasn't new to us."
Koregan's mother, Rebecca Quintanilla, said the 10-year-old has always known he's adopted and for years has watched TV news footage from when he was found at the fire station.
This year, when his teacher asked students where they wanted to go more than anywhere else in the world. Koregan said "my fire station," his mother said. So, she tracked down the firefighter and planned a reunion.
"He's a very good kid, kind, shy, and he's always giving things away to people," Quintanilla said. "After talking to Mr. Keck, I think he's like that. I do believe Koregan has some traits from Mr. Keck, although he just spent a few hours with him."
Quintanilla, who has five other children, all adopted, said she is grateful for the Baby Moses law.
"It's amazing, because there are terrified women who have no idea what to do," she said. "There's a window of time when they can make a choice."
Keck, agreed. "I'm happy the way it turned out," he said.


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