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A woman is the essence of life and she has inborn capacity to take care and to sacrifice for others. She displays a range of emotions for being emotional to vulnerable sometimes erratic and also is patient to extremely courageous at the time of crisis.
Women have been fighting their way through all ages and times being tormented and subjugated. They face harassment, exploitation and yet have managed to secure their place in the public domain. The continuing exploitation as well as injustice in the domestic as well as working places has been overruled today as women have accomplished the status by standing equal in terms of freedom, liberty, education and choice. The growing financial independence and literacy have empowered women today asserting their life of dignity. Above all those, getting reliable statistics on women's involvement in ICT in Bangladesh is very difficult. However, it is clear that the numbers are small. Most of the women in Bangladesh use the ICT tools at their work. Except in upper-income enclaves, access to computer or the internet at home is not a typical phenomenon. A series of factors including literacy and education, language, time, cost, geographical location of facilities, social and cultural norms, and women's computer and information search and dissemination skills constrain women's access to information technology. This scenario is similar to other parts of the globe.
As a technical woman, this is her introduction and the first thing she has to learn is how to gel back up and face a situation where the likelihood of getting punished for participating is one. How she chooses to react determines the rest of her career with technology. If it is too painful she would retreat to management, if she can take it out her career will be limited because the very tools she develops to survive have other social consequences. Facing all the challenges, a number of women are now working in different section of ICT in Bangladesh. From Entrepreneurs to professionals and students, they proved themselves and made a story of success that can inspire the rest.
But it spurs a need to gather and to collectively exchange ideas. As a result, an increasing number of groups have formed to help women finding mentors and building, their confidence. Positive role of women in ICT sector is on the rise despite social prejudice against women education in technology. Performance of female ICT persons of the country is up to the mark. The more the women enter the technology field, the more the demand for women rises. In society, this effect will bear rich dividends. There is no special quota for women to enter IT Profession and so far no special allocation for them. A good working atmosphere should be provided to them for the requirement of confirming better services. A few of them are also on the top positions of few companies but much of them are leaving jobs after marriage or having babies. It is an open truth that working women have to face problems just by virtue of their being Women. Social attitude to the role of women lags much behind the law. This attitude considers women fit for certain jobs. Thus women find employment easily as nurses, doctors, teachers the caring and nurturing sectors, secretaries or in assembling jobs-the routine submissive sectors. But, even if qualified women engineers or managers or geologists are available, preference will be given to a male with equal qualification. A gender bias creates an obstacle at the recruitment stage itself.
She has to almost shoulder the burden of household chores as well. The basic motive for seeking employment of getting independence is nullified in many women's case. Problems of gender bias beset women in the industrial sector. Terminological advancement results in retrenchment of women employees. No one thinks of upgrading their skills. Maternity leave is not given as per need. It is much easier to terminate the woman's employment and hire someone else. Traditionally men are seen as the bread earner and women as the house-keepers and child bearers. This typecast role model continues to put obstacles before the working women. A fundamental change is required in the attitudes of the employers, policy makers, family members and other relatives and the public at large.
As more women and mothers enter the workforce, child care has become an increasingly important public policy issue. Many families, particularly those with modest earnings have trouble in financing its cost. Poor quality of care is another persistent problem. As more and more women have moved, by necessity or choice, from the home to the workforce, the need for affordable, high-quality child care has become critical. Sadly, this need often goes unmet. Participation of women in the ICT sector is on the rise across the world and there is no reason why Bangladesh would lag behind for lack of opportunity to participate in the crucial sector.
It would be a beacon in guiding young women into the technology arena, thereby contributing to national economic growth while improving the lives of their families. We should work to enhance the image of the Bangladeshi women in ICT, offer to be a platform for skills development to create the appropriate skill sets in women and girls taking up ICT as a career; actively work to establish formal and informal networks through the hosting of programmes for members and young women in order to connect and access positive role models in the field of ICT.
We should provide support and information to women involved in ICT as well as those entering the ICT industry through leadership, education, mentoring, coaching and networking. The women who are working in ICT need to promoting each other, create own networks, joining or creating groups and collaborate privately, send alerts on business opportunities, events, jobs or product updates. It will help them to become strong.
Connecting Girls:
Nearly fifty percent of Bangladesh's total population is women. Keeping this large size of population in the darkness, it is not possible to develop the country. This requires that women must recognize their strategic needs, their social position and understand how coercive it is. The women's strategic needs are here defined as to increase the women's bargaining capacity, and make them to gain more influence over decision-making.
In terms of women empowerment, education can be a major tool.
The computer and its related technologies are now such an integral part of everyday life that it must be an ingredient in educating for participation in present and future society. Education in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) can create an opportunity for educators and learners to celebrate women's success and advancement through learning. It will open the windows hope and aspiration for the future
This learning will also help to address the challenges that women are still facing in their respective fields.
Schools, colleges and academic institutions should ensure that courses remain relevant to industry needs, with teamwork and problem-solving. internships, mentoring and social networking that carrys guidance for middle-school and high-school girls informs them of opportunities in the ICT sector; that awareness-raising training and materials are made available for parents, teachers, career guidance counselors and recruiters, to shift their own mindsets, attitudes and preconceived notions about ICT career for girls.
So there is a bright future for girls in ICT. Here, we are to speak of those who gained success as ICT academicians.
Dr. Lafifa Jamal
Dr. Lafifa Jamal,
Chairman, Department of Robotics
and Mechatronics Engineering,
University of Dhaka
Associate Professor Dr. Lafifa Jamal is currently working as Chairman at the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Dhaka. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
She got admitted at the department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) in the University of Dhaka in 1995. She belonged to the first batch. Internet was not available then. So, they had to overcome all the obstacles in the way to complete their studies. All of us should possess such mentality to overcome all the obstacles in case of doing jobs or running studies in any subject including CSE, as she thinks. She said-'I can do it'-we have to possess such mentality, otherwise we can't forward, let alone fulfilling the dreams. The main problem for the women is the adjustment between job and family and the problem arises in every sector, besides ICT. That's because women also have to spend time at home too. But, if the women are skilled in Time Management System, then they will be able to manage it, as Dr. Lafifa Zaman recommended. Women should remember that ICT is not something of time-bound. It is basically a challenge for women that sometime they need more time or sometime less, as she stated. She also wants all the interested women to develop their own skills to do something better in ICT.
Prof. Dr. Suraiya Pervin
Prof. Dr. Suraiya Pervin,
Department of Computer
Science and Engineering (CSE),
University of Dhaka
Prof. Dr. Suraiya Pervin Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), University of Dhaka, did both her Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Science degree from University of Dhaka. She stood 1st class 1st in both segments. She also completed Ph.D from IIT, Kharagpur, India. At the beginning of her career, she did some research works and has many research publications both in national and international journals.
Positive role of women in IT sector is on the rise despite social prejudice against women in technology, as she thinks. According to her, changing mindsets regarding difference between men and women can invite more women to computer science. Performance of female IT persons in the country is up to the mark, as she believes. The more the women enter the IT field, the more the demand for women rises. There is no special quota for women to enter IT profession and so far no special allocation for them. A good working atmosphere should be provided to them for the requirement of confirming better services as per her recommendation. A few of them also hold top positions in some of the reputed companies, but much of them left jobs after marriage or having babies, as she also stated.
Business Leadership:
To get equal benefit, women need to equal participation both in profession and entrepreneurship. In recent years, like other developing countries of the world, Bangladesh has been focusing on the most disadvantaged group in the society - the women. Realization has gradually dawned on all concerned that a society cannot afford to waste half of its human resources by discrimination on grounds of sex. This increasing awareness on the part of the government has led to the adoption of national policies to facilitate a development process involving women in all spheres, particularly in economic activities focusing especially on entrepreneurship development. But in ICT sector of Bangladesh there are very poor number of women entrepreneurs, who have accepted the challenges of life and have emerged as leaders in the socio- economic development, earn for themselves and for their families or contributing towards the socio- political uplift of the women. In our country women lack assistance in the access to credit, provision of skill training, and market facilities specially in ICT. Women entrepreneurs in ICT should be provided special facilities to develop their enterprises. These include Development Banks with separate advisory service cell for ICT projects; Separate counters in commercial banks for women; Arrangement of exclusive fairs to promote ICT product and Services, fixed quota of stalls for women entrepreneurs at export fairs; Special facilities both in the domestic and the international arena.
Moreover to encourage the women in IT Entrepreneurship the awareness and knowledge sharing sessions should be taken off from both private and public. Here, we would like name some of those women in Bangladesh who have overcome the challenges and contributed in the socio economy of the country especially in ICT.
Shomi Kaiser
Shomi Kaiser,
Directo-FBCCI &
Shomi Kaiser is basically from media background starting her acting background in the 1989. Later, she got elected as one of the directors of the country's apex trade body Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) in May, 2017. Henceforth, she also got elected as President of e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB) in January 2018. She actually added a new dimension by getting herself engaged in IT sector from completely a different background.
As being involved in e-commerce industry, she considers e-Commerce a challenging business in perspective of our country. It is not only a matter of selling and buying, it will make a huge contribution to country's economy in future, as she thinks.
Farhana A Rahman
Farhana A Rahman,
Vice President-BASIS,
CEO & Chairperson of
UY Systems Ltd.
Farhana A Rahman currently holds the position of Vice President in Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services. This is the third time that she being elected holds a vital position in country's one of the biggest ICT association. Besides, she is also the founder of 100% software export oriented company 'Upload Yourself Systems Limited'.
There is hardly any woman in the current age who holds the mentality to struggle and overcoming the obstacles that other women, usually faced personally in their past life so far, as stated Farhana A Rahman. She said-Currently, women have lots of opportunities around themselves and the girls are studying too. Women are being asked from everywhere to get themselves out from a certain boundary. Although women are getting educated, they are far away to hold a mentality to be self dependent. Despite having many opportunities, numbers of women still couldn't get out from that boundary where many of our women had been remaining since last 25 years. So, considering all the issues, our women can take ICT as profession to avoid different challenges. But, it doesn't indicate that ICT is a sector without challenges. In that case, women need to have family support and it is their responsibility to convince their family showing them their expertise. They have to find out what they are actually good at in ICT. She said-I, too, have a family. Besides looking after my family, I am also engaged in different social activities and hold the post of Vice President in BASIS. So, it is necessary to hold our own focus properly even in our busy life. Women have to dream for their own sake and move forward to fulfilling their dreams. Women need to free the way to get updated information, but usually they don't do so. If they emphasize on these issues, they will be able to something better, said Mrs. Farhana Rahman.
Rubaba Dowla
Rubaba Dowla,
Founder & Managing Director
Pulse healthcare services
Rubaba Dowla is a highly experienced leader with successful track record of brand management, product innovations and corporate communication. She has been instrumental in building Telenor subsidiary Grameenphone, as number one brand and market leader with more than USD 1 Bn revenue from a start-up stage and headed Services and M-commerce portfolio of Airtel Bangladesh. Currently, she is engaged as Founder and Managing Director, Pulse healthcare services. More than sixteen years of Besides having experience of around above 16 years in telecommunications field, she also gained extensive experience in formulating corporate vision and long term strategy, leading all marketing related functions including spearheading numerous product innovations with P&L responsibility, segmentation, AS, Brand management and development, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), managing Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) and internal, external stakeholders.
Syeda Kamrun Ahmed
Syeda Kamrun Ahmed
Co-Founder &CEO, BAGDOOM
Syeda Kamrun Ahmed is currently the CEO of BAGDOOM.com, a very popular lifestyle Ecommerce website in Bangladesh redefining the digital retail landscape. During the initial days, she served as the Director of Strategy and Planning at BAGDOOM.com. Prior to that, she was also a faculty member for BBA & MBA Program at South East University. As Director of Benchmark e-Generation Ltd, her role was to coordinate business plans and strategies between various stakeholders, as well as manage relationships with international clients. She has worked with different Development agencies in the past such as CBI-Netherlands as well as ITC- Switzerland.
There have been created lots of opportunities for the women and to utilize them women have to move forward, as she thinks. She added-Our girls usually make good result in S.S.C. They have shown their merit. Again, they are also good learners. If they get enough support, they always succeed in whatever they do. The girls who are engaged in programming do well in comparison with others, though their numbers have not been increased remarkably. Girls are good in web designing and so, their numbers must be increased. If their merit is properly utilized, they can do well in software industry, too and this is my strong belief. Girls are coming to this industry, they are working, but their career path doesn't move forward appropriately.
Habiba Nasrin
Habiba Nasrin
Director Operations
Unique Business
Systems Ltd.
Habiba Nasrin Rita is currently engaged as Director of Unique Business SYstems Limited which is one of the largest IT Company in Bangladesh. UBSL represents more than 30 reputed famous international brands like Hitachi-Japan, Dell-USA, MSI and BENQ and Optoma Taiwan, Optoma, Jcom Korea, Apollo-USA, Dalite-USA, ACCO-UK, IDEAL-Germany and so on. She has extended more than 11 branches in Countrywide and Singapore. She is also director operation of unique sound systems and Unique Media systems ltd and ATRS export import ltd. She is Joint secretary of Revival foundation and member of Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) and Bangladesh women in IT (BWIT).
Mrs. Habiba Nasrin has completed her MBA in international business from IUB-Maastricht University of management, Netherlands and started work from 2005. She has wide experience in international marketing, Entrepreneurship, communications, social work & operational Leadership.
Rezwana Khan
Rezwana Khan,
Director & COO,
Star Computer Systems Ltd.
Rezwana Khan is one of the Directors and the Chief Operating Officer of Star Computer Systems Limited. She is leading the company specializing in Web, E-Business, E-Governance, Financial Management System, ERP, Customized Software Solutions, Offshore Outsourcing Services, Multimedia, ICT Consultancy Services and ICT Training. She has been leading the company through stringent reorganization since she joined from 2004 and plays a crucial role in the company strategy, operations, business development, organizational design and technology. She is currently working in parallel as Consultant, Business Process Analyst for ERP/EAM Project a funded by The World Bank, Gas Transmission Company Ltd. (A Company of Petro Bangla). Amongst her other notable accomplishments, she has provided national consultancy for E-Governance Services to set up an efficient and cost effective Child Labour Information Monitoring System in MOLE. She has also provided Services for the Development of web portal for Food Security for Ultra Poor (FSUP) Programme, European Union. Rezwana Khan holds a bachelors degree from the North South University, Bangladesh where she majored in Computer Science with a minor in Management Information Systems.
Management Leadership:
The most important determinant of a country's competitiveness is its human capital and talent — the skills, education and productivity of its workforce. Women account for one-half of the potential talent throughout the world, according to ITU's report "A bright future in ICT — opportunities for a new generation of women". Closing the male-female employment gap is good for economic growth. Research indicates that narrowing this gap has been an important driver of Europe's economic growth over the past decade. The costs are not huge. There is a huge opportunity for women to work in ICT and contribute the world economy so is the national. In most countries, the information and communication technology (ICT) sector is still perceived as a male industry. Men hold most of the top jobs, while women are over-represented in lower level ICT occupations. This is true in both developed and developing countries. Very few numbers of women hold leadership positions at board and senior management levels.
Engaging women and girls in high-flying ICT careers is not only the right thing to do from the point of social justice; it is also smart economics. Gender diversity in high-valued ICT jobs in both management and on the boards of companies is good for business performance. Studies exploring the link between women in leadership positions and business performance have shown a direct positive correlation between gender diversity on top leadership teams and a company's financial results. More diversified teams make better informed decisions, leading to less risk-taking and more successful outcomes. Over time, therefore, a nation's ICT competitiveness depends significantly on whether and how it educates and employs women.
Governments are increasingly recognizing the importance of taking steps to support girls and women in ICT, and a range of initiatives is already on the way. But the ICT sector needs to invest more resources in human capital development and in creating an enabling environment for girls and women.
The choices made by policy-makers, enterprises and individuals on investment in education and training must strive to give women the same rights, responsibilities and opportunities as men. Business leaders and policy-makers need to work together towards removing barriers to women's entry to the ICT workforce, putting in place practices and policies that will provide equal opportunities for rising to positions of leadership within the ICT sector. Such practices will ensure that all existing resources are used in the most efficient manner, and that the right signals are sent regarding the future flow of talent.
So as profession ICT could be good choice for women's specially. It allows and offers women all kinds of the working facility to make balance their personal and professional carrier as whole. At this stage, we are to mention those professionals who chose ICT as a profession and became successful which inspires other women.
Mrs. Hosne Ara Begum, NDC
Mrs. Hosne Ara Begum, NDC
Managing Director
Bangladesh H-Tech Park Authority
Mrs. Hosne Ara Begum is currently engaged as Managing Director of Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority. She is basically optimist about our women's potentiality in different sectors of ICT. Their contribution in our outsourcing industry is quite praiseworthy and besides, they are also doing e-commerce staying at home, as she said. She stated-Hi-Tech Park Authority has a lot of projects where 500 special trainings have been designed for girls along with other general training. Around 1000 girls were trained in IT and ensured to get jobs. A huge space for women entrepreneurs has already been kept separately in 28 IT parks. We also have the fund for startups women. So, the government is offering all the sort of support to trained & skilled girls along with the relevant support of women entrepreneurs. But the girls herself come forward to access those facilities and we want the family to support their girls into ICT. Because one can't change anything alone, we need all of us to get the women in the digital economy.
Luna Shamsuddoha
Luna Shamsuddoha
Chairman, Janata Bank,
Founder & Chairman,
Dohatec New Media
Mrs. Luna Shamsuddoha is country's one of the prominent She is the founder and Chairman of the famous software company Dohatec New Media. Recently, she has been appointed as Chairman of Janata Bank. Besides, she also holds the position of President in Bangladesh Women in IT (BWIT).
Luna Shamsuddoha was recognized globally for her tremendous contribution in IT sector. She also achieved Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network (GWIIN) award for her contribution in women advancement in IT sector and women empowerment as well. She is also the founder of Bangladesh Business Magazine and a member of Global Thought Leader on Inclusive Growth of Switzerland. She was awarded Swiss Interactive Media Software Associations (SIMSA) in the year of 2005.
Our government is working to skill and empower the women from the different aspects they can and it is the opportunity for the young girls who want to be an entrepreneur to come with an idea and get the facilities offered by the government and become successful, as stated Mrs. Luna Shamsuddoha.
Sonia Bashir Kabir
Sonia Bashir Kabir,
Managing Director, Microsoft,
Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan & Laos.
Sonia Bashir Kabir is currently working as Managing Director of Microsoft for the region Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Laos. She leads Microsoft's business in developing and driving strategies for all product lines, services, and support offerings in the four countries, while working closely with partners and local governments to help accelerate the digital transformation across these markets by bringing people, data, and processes together to reinvent business values, provide personalized experience to customers, and transform education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
We should work towards enabling every person and organization to have the opportunity to take advantage of the era of intelligent cloud and intelligent edge, as Mrs Sonia recommends. Besides her work at Microsoft, Sonia is a Governing Council Member of the United Nation's Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries (LDCs). She was also named as one of 10 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Pioneers by the United Nations Global Compact. In 2016, she was the recipient of the Microsoft Founders Award, which only 10 employees out of Microsoft's 100,000 worldwide employees receive this award each year.
Farzana Khan
Farzana Khan
Deputy General Manager
SME Foundation
Farzana Khan is currently working as Deputy General Manager in SME Foundation. Previously, she worked as Head of Women Entrepreneurship Development and In-charge of SME in MIDAS Financing Limited for around 9 years. She completed her studies form the University of Dhaka.
As per statistics estimated the foundation, around 10 per cent of the total women population is involved in businesses in Bangladesh and women are moving around some selective sectors with their investment due to lack of proper patronization, as said Farzana Khan. In that case, she added, banks and financial institutions can take the responsibility of providing a guideline for women prior to disbursement of loans to the latter. They can come up with a whole package to assist women entrepreneurs on best utilization of the money
Last Words
ICT is offering the opportunity for women to become equal stakeholders in the growing knowledge economy. ICTs can be used by women in their workplace for data entry or other office work. As a tool of communication and a tool of production, ICT can be used to improve women's experience as end-users by increasing their ability to network with others for encouragement purposes or business information. When the tools and support of ICT are provided, women develop new domestic and export businesses, start new associations to represent their interests, and use e-governance to communicate more effectively and efficiently with their local government officials.
In short, the opportunity in ICT for women is huge, even in different countries of the globe that can not be ignored.
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Last week at my Bokeh Technique class we made these tags. I thought I would show you.
We started off with a piece of Whisper White cardstock 10.1 cm x 14.4cm) to create the sponged Bokeh effect. This was cut in half. One half they could keep as a sample of the technique with the instructions and the other half we made the tag from. That was by simply punching the top with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch and threading some ribbon and twine through. The flower was stamped using the Flower Shop stamp set and then punched out and then another flower punched with the flower punch. I added a little flower with the Petite Petals stamps set. I added some Linen Thread loops. These flowers and loopy Linen thread was inspired by my lovely friend Sam (Thanks Sam). If you haven't checked Sam's blog out yet, then make sure you do. She has some amazing creations. 🙂
I made a number of these for our team swaps last week too. I think everyone is loving the Bokeh technique at the moment and if you haven't tried it yet then you have to give it a go. There are a number of tutorials on line with a few different ways of doing them. On mine I didn't go the spraying with reinkers, I sponged the colours and the white circles.
I realised I hadn't shown you the card we made too. Here is the card.
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I hope you enjoyed your celebration – I believe it's always good to reflect and give thanks to those who serve.
Here's a couple cards: one I made to give to a friend who hosted a fun pool part on the 4th. The other, of course, was for my daughter!
The Stamps of Life products used are: Stars thinlit, celebrate 3D thinlit dropin (inside sentiment), paper and ribbon.
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You may think of carrots as only a savory addition to salads and soups, but this versatile vegetable can make delicious desserts as well. Carrots have a higher sugar content than many other vegetables, making them a unique—and healthy—alternative to traditional sweeteners. When grated and mixed into batter, they can lend an unexpected zing to any sweet treat, and with icing or cream cheese frosting, carrot-based desserts become truly irresistible. From lusciously layered Mini-Carrot Cakes to crispy and creative Carrot-Walnut Cookies, here are seven mouth-watering dessert recipes featuring this incredible vegetable.
Carrot Dessert Recipes:
1. Mini-Carrot Cakes (shown above)
These delectable little cakes are ideal for company—each person can savor his or her own, full of freshly grated carrots, cinnamon, nutmeg and a hint of orange, with a decadent cream cheese frosting.
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Top these tasty treats with orange cream cheese icing and chopped walnuts after baking for just ten minutes.
After stirring together ground almonds, flour, baking powder and carrots, add this into a lemony and vanilla mixture to get a delectable flavor. Bake until it's golden brown and dust on some confectioners' sugar, garnishing the top with lemon twists.
4. Carrot Cake
Cinnamon, pineapple and walnuts give this carrot cake a unique flavor. After baking, spread icing over the top and sides of the cake and pat the sides with chopped nuts.
Loaded with fresh grated carrots, raisins and chopped pecans, and slathered with a velvety cream cheese frosting, these bite-size bars put a fresh spin on an all-time favorite recipe.
These tiny muffins are packed with orange flavor, using freshly squeezed orange juice for a little extra kick. After baking, cover the muffins with icing and decorate them with carrot-shaped gumdrops.
Fill this delicious cake roll with cream cheese frosting, rolling it back up afterwards and garnishing it with piped carrots.
8. Pumpkin Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This carrot cake uses pumpkin to create a unique taste. Stack two cakes on top of each other, filling the middle with the cream cheese frosting and icing the whole cake with orange-tinted frosting to make a pumpkin-shaped treat.


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Blackstone, Sarah. The Business of Being Buffalo Bill: Selected Letters of William F. Cody, 1879-1917. New York: Praeger, 1988.
Bold, Christine. "Where Did the Black Rough Riders Go?" Canadian Review of American Studies 39:3 (2009): 273-297.
Bonner, Robert E. William F. Cody's Wyoming Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
Brooklyn Museum of Art. Buffalo Bill and the Wild West. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981.
Carter, Robert A. Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend. New York: Wiley, 2002.
Delaney, Michelle Anne. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors: A Photographic History by Gertude Käsebier. New York: Collins, 2007.
Foote, Stella A. Letters from "Buffalo Bill". El Segundo: Upton, 1978.
Fulbright, Jim and Albert Stehno, editors. Oklahoma Rough Rider: Billy McGinty's Own Story. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.
Gallop, Alan. Buffalo Bill's British Wild West. Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2011.
Gray, John S. "Fact Versus Fiction in the Kansas Boyhood of Buffalo Bill." Kansas History. 8 (Spring 1985): 2-20.
Gustafson, Antoinette McCloskey. "The Image of the West in American Popular Performance." Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1988.
Hall, Roger. Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Hedren, Paul L., and Don Russell. First Scalp for Custer: The Skirmish at Warbonnet Creek, Nebraska, July 17, 1876, with a Short History of the Warbonnet Battlefield. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1980.
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Maddra, Sam. Hostiles? The Lakota Ghost Dance and Buffalo Bill's Wild West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.
Martin, Jonathan D. "'The Grandest and Most Cosmopolitan Object Teacher': Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the Politics of American Identity, 1883-1899," Radical History Review 66 (1996): 92-123.
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Making access easier to online forums
It turns out that the Moodle option for "Auto-login guests" is at: Stie Administration > Users > Permissions > User Policies". It isn't under "Security", where I would expect it to be. With that button clicked, people can go straight to pages in the site. Those who want to post to a forum will be invited to register and directed to the log in screen.
It will be interesting to see how many more people now visit the site.
There are still some problems with using Moodle for the Summit, such as people in the forums being referred to as "Students" by the system and no easy way to pretty up the format of the pages. But the simple layout has advantages, such as working reasonably well on a handheld device with text only.
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The Caithness Business Index has posted the following article:
UK Fusion Materials Roadmap Aims To Accelerate Progress In Commercialising The Ultimate Energy Source
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the Henry Royce Institute for advanced materials (Royce) have published a roadmap for developing materials for fusion energy. The roadmap, developed with the input of over a hundred materials experts from the UK research community and industry, highlights five major areas of work required to enable the materials for future fusion power plants. [Read Full Article]


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One of the most amusing things about following the topics covered here is when I see articles suggesting that central banks no longer view gold as playing any important role in the global economic/financial system. Of course, it is true that gold no longer plays any role in the monetary system directly as it did for many years. You cannot exchange Federal Reserve notes for actual gold at your local bank these days.
However, anyone who thinks central banks don't view gold as important is simply out of touch with the facts. This new article by Ronan Manly at BullionStar.com lays out those facts pretty clearly.
He simply asked the central banks around the world who own or hold more than 30,000 tons of gold why they own or hold it and most of them replied. Interestingly, the US did not reply. Below I have excerpted a bit of the concluding summary from the article.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"In their own words, the reasons central banks hold gold in large quantities are many fold, however there are consistent themes in the central banks' explanations. Many of the respondents cited gold's ability to be mobilized in a crisis, that 'gold holdings can be activated in an emergency', that gold is an 'emergency reserve in a crisis', 'a contingency against unforeseen events', a form of 'insurance', or as the Bank of England says 'a war chest' and the 'ultimate asset to hold in an emergency'. As such, nearly all central banks referred to gold as a safe haven asset.
Many central banks mentioned gold's high liquidity, and some referred to the ability to use their gold to raise liquidity in a foreign currency, even for foreign exchange intervention.
Gold's role as a hedge against inflation was cited in a number of the central bank answers, which explains why central banks look to the gold price as a barometer of inflation expectations.
Many of the banks also pointed out that because of the unique attributes of physical gold, such as limited supply and mined into existence, gold does not have any counterparty risk or credit risk, and because it is not issued by governments, it has no default risk.
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With such widespread support among the world's central banks for holding physical gold, as a safe haven, as an inflation hedge, and as a form of investment diversification, their enthusiasm for gold in 2018 looks as strong as it has ever been in any decade of the modern era."
My added comments: Russia and China were not part of this survey, but their actions in recent years of massive gold buying speak louder than words. This recent article details the enormous effort Russia is making to pile up gold reserves (click translate button to get the english version).
So we have the leading world powers (US, EU nations, Russia, China, etc) owning gigantic gold reserves (over 20,000 tons along with the IMF who owns over 2800 tons), but they don't view them as having any importance in the modern financial world? Amusing.
The most often cited reason by central banks for holding gold in this survey was basically "in case of an emergency". So, central banks want to have gold "in case of an emergency", but we often see financial articles suggesting it is silly for individuals to hold any gold for any reason. Amusing.
1- United States - 8133 tons
2- Germany - 3373 tons
3- IMF - 2814 tons (the BIS also owns 103 tons)
4- Italy - 2451 tons
5- France - 2436 tons
6 -China - 1842 tons (and rapidly growing)
7- Russia - 1838 tons (and rapidly growing)
8- Switzerland - 1040 tons
9- Japan 765 tons
10- Netherlands 612 tons
The next 40 countries making up the top 50 gold owners own over 6,800 additional tons of gold combined. Thirty five nations around the world own at least 100 tons of gold. But no one thinks owning gold is of any importance in the modern financial world? Amusing.
Added news note: Tonight (3-27-18) China says North Korea has agreed to denuclearize.
If true, this should remove this situation as something that could destabilize markets. I did mention this news to Jim Rickards and he is hopeful that it is real, but advises to continue to monitor the situation until more evidence surfaces to confirm it.
Picture of some Russian gold reserves recently posted on Jim Rickards twitter feed:
Added news note: Tonight (3-27-18) China says North Korea has agreed to denuclearize.
If true, this should remove this situation as something that could destabilize markets. I did mention this news to Jim Rickards and he is hopeful that it is real, but advises to continue to monitor the situation until more evidence surfaces to confirm it.


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MECHANICSBURG, PA — Sunbury Press has announced the winners of their annual book awards, dubbed the "Sunnies." Keystone Tombstones Volume One, by Joe Farrell and Joe Farley was the top selling book of the year. The Joes also grabbed the #7 spot with the 2nd volume in the series. The strong finish for the series earned the pair Sunbury Press Authors of the Year. The duo had been Sunbury Press Emerging Authors in 2011.
About Keystone Tombstones Volume One:
Famous Graves Found in Pennsylvania Joe Farrell and Joe Farley explore the cemeteries (and pubs) of Pennsylvania in search of interesting graves and stories about the interred. Included in this volume:
- William Law Anderson "Golf's Forgotten Legend"
- James Buchanan "Pennsylvania's Only President"
- Pearl Buck "The Good Earth"
- John Burns "The Hero of Gettysburg"
- Simon Cameron "Pennsylvania's Political Kingmaker"
- James Crowley & Harry Stuhldreher "Half the Horsemen"
- Congressman Dan Flood "Dapper Dan"
- Benjamin Franklin "The First American"
- John White Geary "An American Success Story Few Have Heard"
- Frank Gorshin "What Does It All Mean?"
- Zane Grey "Rider of the Purple Sage"
- Harry Norbert Kalas "That Ball's Outta Here!"
- Mary Jo Kopechne "What If?"
- David L. Lawrence "Pittsburgh's Renaissance Man"
- Lincoln Colored Cemetery "Gone But Not Forgotten"
- Connie Mack "The Tall Tactician"
- Jayne Mansfield "The Blonde Bombshell"
- Vance Criswell McCormick "A Harrisburg Hero"
- George Meade "The Old Snapping Turtle"
- Thomas Mifflin "A Pennsylvania Patriot"
- The Molly Maguires, Black Jack Kehoe and Franklin Gowen
- Gifford Pinchot "Pennsylvania's Forester"
- Bob Prince & Myron Cope "The Voices of Pittsburgh"
- General John Fulton Reynolds "A True American Hero"
- Frank Rizzo "The Cop That Would Be King"
- Jim Thorpe "The Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century"
- Bill Tilden "Big Bill"
- Ginne Wade "A Tragic Love Story"
- Andy Warhol "The Pope of Pop"
- Fred Waring "The Man Who Taught America How to Sing"
… and some very Unusual Tombstones
Black & White on White paper
196 pages
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Preston Nuttall, the author of the Civil War novel The Amish Rebel, earned the honor of Sunbury Press Fiction Author of the Year for 2012.
About The Amish Rebel:
Fall, 1861. America has entered a deadly civil war to settle the issue of the rights of the states – notably the right to allow slavery – versus the rights of the central government. From bases at Hampton Roads and elsewhere, warships of the powerful Federal Navy patrol the southern coast enforcing a naval blockade against the South.
In Virginia, the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries are a primary hunting ground for Union gunboats ferreting out supplies destined for the rebel army. Raids on the farms, plantations and towns bordering the rivers and inlets are commonplace.
When a Union gunboat ascends the Mattaponi River and raids the Amish farm of the Buckner family, Jacob Buckner's long-standing doubts about the Amish way of life reach the boiling point. Violence breaks out, and in a fit of rage, Jacob ignores his parents' admonition to "turn the other cheek". His action unleashes a chain of events that carry him into the Confederate Navy and a world of deadly combat, betrayal and romance as far removed from the Amish way of life as he could possibly imagine. But it is a world that places him on the stage of history and unveils the true Jacob Buckner.
Black & White on White paper
254 pages
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This breathtaking historical novel of action and suspense is set in the year 71 A.D. amid the exotic and vibrant streets of Ancient Rome. Macha, the strong-willed daughter of a legendary Celtic British king and wife of the Roman tribune, Titus, is the only one who can prove her husband innocent of treason, solve the murders of two slaves who possessed information that could have exonerated Titus, and ultimately save the life of the Roman Emperor Vespasian.
Vivacious and iron-willed, Macha undertakes a dangerous journey and fight for her life to evade assassins through the city's treacherous back alleys, notorious bath houses, and the awe-inspiring palaces of the Roman elite. With time running out to save her husband and the emperor from certain death, Macha can count on only two allies, the esteemed Senator Bassus-a family friend-and her faithful slave, a resolute and clever Moorish woman, Shafer.
Arrayed against Macha and Titus are the wealthy and wicked Pollia, once scorned as a bride by Titus, and Falco, a military tribune and womanizer, who offers to be Macha's protector once Titus is condemned and executed.
Join Macha in her quest to exonerate her husband…and discover the real threat against the Emperor…
Black & White on Cream paper
308 pages
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|Mike Campbell
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|Historical Fiction
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|Bob Knapp
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|The Ghost of Laurelford
|Margaret Meacham
|YA Fiction
|Goodnight Sammy
|Amanda Brown
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From across the divide
Europe's biotech firms need to think big if they are to prosper, says Lisa Drakeman of Genmab
IS EUROPE'S biotechnology industry finally ready for the big time? For decades the continent's scientific elite watched as boffins in America fled academia to start biotech firms. European governments poured billions of euros into "technology corridors", "pôles de compétitivité", and other top-down schemes to create biotech clusters. But most of the venture capital still went to American firms, and Europe failed to produce a rival to America's Amgen or Genentech. Defenders of Europe's efforts to promote innovation in biotechnology noisily object to this view. To show that Europe's efforts may at last be paying off, they point to a recent uptick in investment—and to Genmab, a Danish firm led by Lisa Drakeman. And what does she think? Hers is an unusual perspective, for as well as being boss of one of Europe's biggest biotech firms, Ms Drakeman is American.
Ms Drakeman calls herself an "accidental CEO" because she came to her job via an unusual route. After a doctorate at Princeton in the history of religion, she went to work at Medarex, an American biotech firm that her husband was just getting off the ground in the 1980s. It went public in 1991, and Ms Drakeman moved into business-development in 1993. She spotted an opening, based on the work of a Dutch scientist who was advising Medarex, and proposed to set up a company. But American venture capitalists were unwilling to back the idea. Instead a Danish investor, BankInvest, came forward—and proposed that Ms Drakeman herself should lead it. So Genmab was set up in Copenhagen, though its research facilities are in the Netherlands.
The company went public in 2000, and is listed in Copenhagen. Today it has a market value of some $2.5 billion, making it one of the world's top 20 biotech firms. What makes this valuation even more striking is that Genmab has spent some $300m-400m of investors' money, but still has no products for sale—and therefore no reliable stream of revenues. Ms Drakeman says its value is a sign that investors believe in the drugs it has in clinical trials—such as ofatumumab, a cancer and arthritis drug in late-stage clinical trials, which she reckons could eventually have annual sales of $5 billion. In late 2006 GlaxoSmithKline, a British drugs giant, agreed to a record-breaking licensing deal for the drug, paying $357m for a 10% stake in Genmab and offering "milestone payments" worth up to $1.6 billion provided the drug meets expectations as it inches towards the market.
All this comes as broader investment trends also seem to favour Europe's biotech firms. Ernst & Young, a consultancy, estimates that the total value of mergers and acquisitions in Europe's biotech industry leapt from €2 billion ($2.5 billion) in 2006 to nearly €15 billion last year. Listed firms have also been doing better, "suggesting that after years of lacklustre growth the European sector is sustaining robust financial performance."
Unfortunately, Ms Drakeman's experience says as much about the failings of European biotech as it does about its potential. Indeed, Genmab's success arises from her willingness to thumb her nose at European chauvinism and to position Genmab as an embryonic global powerhouse, with aspirations in all big markets. "Genmab is not a European biotech firm, we are a global firm," she says. A common criticism is that European technology start-ups fail to think big in contrast with the outsized egos in Silicon Valley. Georges Haour of IMD, a Swiss business-school, calls this Europe's "Peter Pan complex"—promising firms do not become world-beaters because they do not grow up.
Ms Drakeman encountered European parochialism when raising investment capital for the company abroad (today some 40% of her shareholders are American institutional investors). Some of her Danish investors were very upset when she brought these other investors on board. "'Why do you need so much money now,' they asked, insisting that they would have been ready to provide us with more money eventually, when they decided that we needed it," she says. She decries this lack of ambition and argues that her firm's brimming portfolio of drugs, never mind its stunningly lucrative deal with GSK, would not have been possible if she had stayed put in Copenhagen.
Indeed, she confides that much of the GSK deal was actually done not in Britain or Denmark, but in Philadelphia (home of Jean-Pierre Garnier, boss of GSK until last month) and Princeton, where Ms Drakeman is now based. Having lived in Denmark for several years, while her husband continued to live in America, Ms Drakeman moved back to Princeton in order to see more of her family, to be closer to American investors and to escape Denmark's punitive tax regime. She points out that America's research clusters in California and Cambridge, Massachusetts are attracting talent from many European firms, challenging the notion that European biotech is somehow about to break free of the constraints that have long held it back.
Keeping the faith
That points to some snags in the Genmab story. Its R&D is still anchored in the Netherlands, where its star researcher is based. What if he leaves, or refuses to move to a new American research headquarters? More troublingly, what if one of Genmab's potential blockbusters fails late in the game—as did Pfizer's torcetrapib, a cholesterol drug that cost the firm $1 billion? A drugs giant is big enough to survive such a huge blow, as Pfizer has shown, but such a fiasco would surely wipe out a start-up like Genmab. Yet Ms Drakeman insists that investing in biotech is not as random as all that. A good boss can guide a firm, she reckons, by identifying what the market needs, securing the edge in intellectual property and maintaining the confidence of investors—especially if there are not yet any revenues. It seems that Ms Drakeman's doctorate came in handy after all: having studied the history of religion, she knows all about how to persuade people of the need to have faith.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline "From across the divide"
From the June 14th 2008 edition
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Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Every Waking Moment
Chapter Analysis of Every Waking Moment
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Plot & ThemesComposition of Book Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 50%Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 30%How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) 20% Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear) How difficult to spot villain? - Difficult, but some clues given Time/era of story: - 2000+ (Present) Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book Any non-mystery subplot? - inheritance struggle Crime Thriller - Yes Murder Mystery (killer unknown) - Yes Is Romance a MAJOR (25%+) part of story? - Yes
Main CharacterGender - Female Profession/status: - business executive Age: - 20's-30's Ethnicity/Race - White/American
SettingCity? - Yes City: - Miami
Writing StyleAccounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment Explicit sex in book? - Yes What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - actual description of sex Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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Hey, friends and happy Monday!
Last week we started a brand new and exciting chapter in our family. Piper started playing soccer! My dream of one day becoming a soccer mom has officially come true!
We couldn't be more proud of Piper at her first soccer practice last week. Sure, she did great with the ball but, we were more proud about her heart toward a little girl who was crying, standing behind her mom on the sidelines. Every water break, Piper checked in on her, sending her encouragements to come join the kids on the field. That little girl finally did join the rest of the team toward the end of practice. Thank you God for Piper's heart!
Piper will have games starting next Saturday, through the beginning of October! We absolutely love this season of life that we're in!
Speaking of seasons, I am really starting to look forward to some cooler, Fall weather! I waited until August to say and it so, I don't feel guilty about it. Summer has been fantastic! I feel like we have taken full advantage of the warmer months and, the thought of cool nights, football games, the smell of fallen leaves and pumpkin spice everything just has me feeling a certain way lately. I am really looking forward to it!


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Pop-up Sonoma County breakfasts with vineyard views
Several star chefs and many star chefs soon to be discovered are cooking at the market. Aside from the dishes you can order on the spot many of them have convenience ingredients to help the home cook make slow food fast.
Saturday is a bonanza of great Sonoma cooking including John Franchetti of Rosso Pizza. If you think cold pizza for breakfast is good — wait until you have the breakfast pizza. Their menu also has a breakfast version of the pandini
Rosso's also sells their pizza dough and fresh mozzarella cheese. Rosso's cold ages their pizza dough for three days . You can get it ready to go.
Wednesday morning a few less choices but something for everyone's idea of breakfast. Tamales from Mi Fiesta, pastries and coffee drinks from Run-Around Brew, pastries from Full Circle Bakery, coffee and beans from Gaga Cafe and full breakfasts from the Windsor Green Grocer.
Joe Reuter, the Windsor Green Grocer, is a farming partner with Three Graces Farm. The ingredients for his farm market breakfasts come from Three Graces farm especially the meat and poultry. Many are available for purchase by the pound at the market.
There are places to sit in the sun or shade, the market is open from 8:30 until noon. The Wednesday market showcases the diversity of Sonoma County's small family farms. If it's the quintessential Sonoma County food experience you seek the best place is the Wednesday market. Setting, ambiance, best of Sonoma's small family farms, and not quite as crowded as Saturday.


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Some Thoughts To Consider During Your Move
If you are in the market to rent or buy a home there are best times to do this just like any other event in life. Timing is everything.
Consider these thoughts:
When are other people moving out of their homes or apartments? Most people in our country will move between May-September. That is largely due to the school year, summer break etc, when kids are out of school.
Also the weather is better for moving. Spring and summer usually means sunny days, new grass, flowers, etc., and is a time for new beginnings for many.
This can be favorable as more homes and apartments may become available. On the other hand the demand also increases during this time.
Be Prepared To Make Your Decisions Quickly
If you are trying to save money on rentals you may find moving during the winter months to be better.
You may have less to choose from as far as available properties but you may find you get a better deal as the need for filling vacancies this time of year is higher than in the warmer months.
Minnesota Home Rentals has the information you need to help you with this process. We know the area well and we can help you find what you are looking for.
Call us for more information and find out what we can do to help you.
We can be reached at 612-293-5154.


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How about you steal everybody's attention, just by looking at your best with those tailor-made men blazers in Dubai? Whether you would want to show the serious formal side of yours in a formal blazer, or you would like to lighten-up the place around you while fabulously rocking it in your casual blazer; you get to go for the right fabric for your blazer whether it's cotton, leather, satin, velvet, silk or wool.
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A minimal circle of silver holds tiny fluorite crystals, to make a beautiful pair of hoop earrings. The silver hoops measure 4cm wide and the gemstones move freely along them.
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New drug combos using pain killers may be effective against cancer
Combining commonly used pain killers with a metal belonging to the platinum group may prove effective in treatment of cancer, a new study by Indian scientists has indicated.
Researchers have combined ruthenium, a metal which is part of the platinum group, with commonly used pain killers (categorized as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) to develop four new drug complexes. These have been found effective in treatment of cancer. The two groups of drugs used in the study work against cancer cells in different ways thus creating a more effective and holistic way of treating the disease, researchers have claimed.
The use of metals such as platinum in anti-cancer drugs is not new but such drugs result in side-effects which also need to be treated. Drug combinations using ruthenium are believed to be more effective and are better tolerated by patients. Drugs like ibuprofen, diclofenac and aspirin are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and are commonly used for their pain relieving effects. These drugs also have a role to play in cancer treatment by blocking the enzymes responsible for pain, swelling and causing changes to normal cells in the body.
Also read: Indian scientists develop mechanism to rejuvenate aged stem cells
In the new study, anticancer activities of four new combination drugs with ruthenium – complex 1 (with naproxen), complex 2 (with diclofenac), complex 3 (with ibuprofen) and complex 4 (with aspirin) – were tested against lung, breast and cervix cancer cell lines in laboratory.
Results of the study, published in journal Dalton Transactions, have indicated that complexes 2 and 3 have shown remarkable effects in stopping growth of cancer cells in lung, breast and cervical cancer. Though complex 1 has also shown a lesser but effective activity against increase of cancer cells in lung and breast cancer, it is relatively ineffective active against cervical cancer. Complex 3 is more effective in preventing the enzyme causing pain and swelling, followed by complex 2 and complex 1.
Also read: Indian startups developing rapid tests to help check antibiotic resistance
"We find that if the action of a particular enzyme – cyclooxegenase – is prevented, cancer might be controlled. This is a significant and throws open various possibilities for developing drugs which specifically target cyclooxygenase," pointed out Dr Suman Mukhopadhyay, a member of the research team at the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore.
However, other experts have sounded a note of caution. "Though the rationale and research methodology of this study is sound and academically interesting, it may still be regarded as indicative rather than conclusive. It is still preliminary to be adjudged as mainstay treatment," noted Dr. Siddhartha Kundu, associate professor in Department of Biochemistry at Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Medical College and Hospital, Delhi.
The researcher team included Poulami Mandal, Bidyut Kumar Kundu and Dr. Komal Vyas from Indian Institute of Technology, Indore; Vidya Sabu and Dr. A Helen from University of Kerala, (Kariavattom Campus); Sandeep Singh Dhankhar and Dr. CM Nagaraja from Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar; Debojit Bhattacherjee and Krishna Pada Bhabak from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. The study was funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
Read the full study: Ruthenium(II) arene NSAID complexes: inhibition of cyclooxygenase and antiproliferative activity against cancer cell lines
The author is Monika Kundu Srivastava from India Science Wire.
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Discussion in 'Politics' started by Maverick74, May 25, 2004.
Anybody watching the French Open?
Should I be surprised by this lack of response? Nope. LOL.
We're still boycotting all things French. Have you turned francophile on us?
Yeah I know, normally I would never never discuss anything to do with France but I want to support our American players. BTW, can you believe the French booed Andy Roddick yesterday? What a disgrace. They booed the Williams sisters last year and I can almost understand that, they are pretty cocky. But Andy Roddick is the epitome of a gentleman and they booed him for some odd reason after the match. F*cking French man, they have no class. I hope Andy beats the shit out of every Frenchmen he plays.
I can't tell you how painful it was to see Andre Agassi lose in the first round to a French qualifier playing in his first ever tournament. Ouch! It's time for Andy to open up a can of whoop ass.
So they boo Andy Roddick and give Michael Moore 20 minute standing ovations. Remind me again why we liberated those despicable cowards.
I have an idea. Why not take the Iraqi prisoners we have and let them loose in Paris? Let them run around and wreak havoc. See how the French warm up to us then.
Tennis not my personal #1 sport, but since it Ãs in our household, I will be 'rooting' for Martin Verkerk again!
I saw the end of the Roddick/Todd Martin match and there was an incident over a disputed call. Unfortunately, I missed that sequence so I don't really know what it was about. Martin was incensed and let Roddick know it after the match. Martin is a classy gentleman player who has been around forever. I suspect the crowd's reaction might have been in response to this incident and not directed at Roddick because he is an American.
As for booing the Williams sisters, who cares? They are despised by tennis insiders all over the world. It has nothing to do with race and everything to do with how they treat people.
"I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac." âDennis Miller
I only watch the female tournament ,oink oink
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Trump Administration Proposes Changes to H-1B ProgramDecember 01, 2018 10:40
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A major change to the H-1B application process has been proposed by the Trump administration on Friday with an aim of awarding a visa to the most skilled and highest paid foreign workers.
Under a new proposed merit-based rule, companies employing foreign workers on the H-1B visa - under the Congressional mandated annual caps - would have to electronically register with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) during a designated registration period.
As mandated by the Congress, the H1-B visa has a yearly numerical limit cap of 65,000 visas each fiscal year. The first 20,000 petitions filed on behalf of beneficiaries with the U.S. master's degree or higher are free from the cap.
The USCIS would as well reverse the order letting it select H-1B petitions under the H-1B cap and the advanced degree exemption.
Benefits of Proposed Process
This is likely to increase the number of foreign workers with a master's or higher degree from a U.S. institution of higher education to be selected for an H-1B cap number. As such the proposed rule will introducing a more meritorious selection of beneficiaries, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement.
Related content: U.S. Says Will Take Public Opinion On H-4 Visa Revocation Proposal
The DHS said public comments on the proposed rule can be submitted from December 3 to January 2.
"Currently, in years when the H-1B cap and the advanced degree exemption are both reached within the first five days that H-1B cap petitions may be filed, the advanced degree exemption is selected prior to the H-1B cap.
"The proposed rule would reverse the selection order and count all registrations or petitions towards the number projected as needed to reach the H-1B cap first," the DHS said.
Once a decent number of registrations or petitions have been selected for the H-1B cap, the USCIS would then select registrations or petitions towards the advanced degree exemption.
This proposed change would increase the chances that beneficiaries with a master's or higher degree from a U.S. institution of higher education would be selected under the H-1B cap and that H-1B visas would be awarded to the most-skilled and highest-paid beneficiaries, it said.
The proposed process would result in an estimated increase of up to 16 percent (or 5,340 workers) in the number of selected H-1B beneficiaries with a master's degree or higher from a U.S. institution of higher education, the DHS said.
The USCIS said it expects that shifting to electronic registration would reduce overall costs for petitioners and create a more efficient and cost-effective H-1B cap petition process for the agency.
The proposed rule would help alleviate massive administrative burdens on USCIS since the agency would no longer need to physically receive and handle hundreds of thousands of H-1B petitions and supporting documentation before conducting the cap selection process, it said.
This would help reduce wait times for cap selection notifications. The proposed rule also limits the filing of H-1B cap-subject petitions to the beneficiary named on the originally selected registration, which would protect the integrity of this registration system, USCIS said.
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In California, we have had a long wet dark winter with epic rain and snow.
You've probably read about it in the news if you haven't experienced it yourself.
And while it's almost March, it's not over. Winter is not over.
I know, I know, technically, winter kicks the bucket in three weeks on the equinox Monday March 20 at 3:30am PST and the days will once again be longer than the nights. But there will be more rain and more snow. You can bet on it.
And while you might be distracted by the Super Bowl, the Grammy's, the Oscars, and maybe Mardi Gras if you're lucky (and I happen to be lucky enough to have an awesome Mardi Gras party in Ojai next week to look forward to…)
SPRING and SUMMER TIME PARTIES AND BBQS ARE A LONG WAY OFF!
What to do? How to fend off the darkness, the boredom, the tedium of more snow and rain? How to survive the final three weeks of winter and that first cold month of spring?
Our answer? Host a game night for friends and family with grilled cheese and fun wine!
For our wines, we chose two: Black Light 2015 white wine blend that comes with a flashlight and Q and A, a red Bordeaux blend. like Black Light and Q and A both from Rubin Family wines! Keep reading for a review of Black Light White and Q & Red along with how to make some fabulous grilled cheese sandwiches!
So much yum and fun!
Start by picking up these festive, conversation starting wines and the makings for a bunch of unique grilled cheese sandwiches; slice up cheese and fruit and lay them out so people can get creative. This can work for your vegetarian friends, and you can even make them vegan or gluten free.
Add to the wine and cheese a pile of games and bunch of friends (encourage them to dress in black light friendly clothes!) and go to it! Grilled cheese game night with Q & A and Black Light wine is a great idea whether you're gathered at a rainy cabin in the woods, apres ski on a snowy mountainside, or on a rainy night at home!
Ingredients and Ideas for AMAZING Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
On Whole Wheat Sourdough from Great Basin Bakery in Bishop, CA we made:
- Snowdonia Ginger Spice and Fresh Pear
- Gala Apple and Gorgonzola with Walnuts
- Proscuitto Wrapped Provolone with pesto
- Sliced Apple with Gruyere
On regular Sourdough, we made
- Sliced Apple with Snowdonia Beechwood, Brie, and Walnut
- Snowdonia Three Cheese – Ginger Spice, Black Bomber, and Bouncing Berry
- Calabrese Salami, Pesto, cured olives, and fresh mozzarella
- Calabrese Salami, Fresh Basil, Oven-dried Tomatoes and fresh mozzarella
Sue says be creative with fruit and cheese; they pair well together especially as they roast in the warm pan and the cheese melts and gets all gooey. Put plenty of butter on the outside, the side that will be grilled. She also says you can use mayo instead of butter and experiment with sprinting herbs and spices on the bread before grilling. You can also use hummus, mustard or pesto on the inside of the bread but we didn't this time.
Sue also made gorgonzola dressing which we had on field greens with shredded carrots, sliced beets and walnuts. To round the meal out, I'd suggest adding a pumpkin soup which would be easy and pair well with the wines.
Black Light – 2015 – California White Wine "Symphony" – 12.7% alcohol – $25
Aromas of lemon verbena, lemon lime, Meyers lemon, Clarey Sage, and rose geranium greet your nose which becomes more apparent as the wine sits in the glass as you play! The color in the glass reminds us of sheer curtains — something there but you can see right through it. On the palate, it's fruity and light — lots of tropical and exotic fruits.
They say you should never judge a book by its cover — or a glass of wine from the bottle — but there are certainly clues.
Black Light, from its playful label that reveals details when under a black light, tells you it is far from a serious dinner wine making it ideal for a party or game night like we planned. And it even comes with its own blacklight!
Black Light is made with the rare and unusual "symphony" grape (a cross of Grenache Gris and Muscat of Alexandria), and it plays just fine with our grilled cheese.
If you like Moscato, we bet you will love love love this wine too.
Because of its sweetness, we thought it would pair well with spicy Poke tuna, an Asian influenced meal, sushi, or appetizers on the sweeter or spicy side that can be hard to pair. This wine would also work well as a mixer or cocktail party wine.
Note: This wine was provided as a sample for my review consideration.
Q & A #1 of 12- Red Wine – California – 13.3% – Non-Vintage
Like the Black Light, Q & A is so PLAYFUL! Just the right note for your game or trivia night!
As they say, "With questions and answers prepared by Sonoma State University Wine Business Institute Faculty, learning about the wide-world of wine just became a fun and delicious part of your trivia nights."
A blend of Merlot, Ruby Cabernet, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Petit Verdot inspired by the great blends of Bordeaux, France, this easy drinking wine is easy opening with a Stelvin screw top closer– the last thing you want to be doing during a party or visit to a cabin is look for a wine opener!
Nose was hard to distinguish at first, with mostly lots of sweet vanilla oak and cherry vanilla coke, then other red fruit. The body of the wine is medium so the oak shines through and you can also taste the sweet oak. The color has a medium density that's more ruby than garnet with a rose colored ring.
Q & A offers plenty of fruit with spice — black cherry, plum, and raspberry on the palate.
However this is not a wine that you would be focusing on color, nose, and palate! This wine is super high on the fun meter, but not that complex so it's not going to distract you from your game or your conversation. It has a lighter body on the palate than you might expect at first, with plenty of oak, but the oak on the finish can stand up to a good BBQ. This is a red wine that someone who is not that fond of red wines would be likely to enjoy.
Pair Q & A with pizza, grilled cheese sandwiches, BBQ ribs, burgers, tri-tip.
We tasted #1 of 12 and we imagine that they will all be as enjoyable so keep an eye out for this series of wine in the distinctive award-winning bottle! It won double gold in the 2016 San Francisco International Wine Competition: Label Division as well as most outstanding package from Wines & Vines. It also got gold at the 2017 Winemaker Challenge International Wine Competition.
Note: This wine was provided as a sample for my review consideration.
Great game night choices: good time wines for good times with good friends.
What are your favorite ways to get through the winter doldrums?


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This week's topic was food and I personally find it really hard to take a good picture of food. I rarely like photos I have taken and am usually critical about food pics by others as well. It's just so hard to capture it in a way that conveys how tasty it is that does look visually pleasing but I tried and am not unhappy with the result.
Austria has a big tradition of serving Sunday roast (called Sonntagsbraten in German) which usually is either pork - as in this photo - or beef with some sort of cabbage - red or white, served warm or cold - or other vegetables and a dumpling. You have a huge selection of dumplings here - bread dumplings, potatoe dumplings, semolina dumling, ...
No way, honey! It was too good to share.
Next week's topic is specific to my hometown. I would like to see pictures capturing


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The founders of the restaurant Villa Marciana discovered the building of the old, no longer usable school in the village of Padina by accident. They walked into the yard, passed through the doorstep of the building, touched the history of the generations who studied here, listened to the birds songs which filled the garden and decided to give new life to the old school.
In 2007 started restoration and renovation of the building and the garden under the proficient direction of experienced architects, exterior and interior designers. During the same year the idea about the name was conceived. The restaurant is located within 7 kilometers of the ancient Roman town Marcianopolis (Devnya), which was founded by the emperor Trayan and named after his sister Diva Augusta Ulpia Marciana and it received the name Villa Marciana.
The construction and the architectural arrangement of the building were kept. A luster and nobility were added to the building. The 800 years old olive trees were planted. The building was spotlit and the team made a wish for success and longevity.
The official opening of the restaurant was in 2011. The first guests were welcomed. Since then the team of Villa Marciana learns, creates and trys to make happy the people who pass through the doorsteps.
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Raising Cane's To Make Its Northeast Ohio Debut
Popular chicken finger brand with focus on community service to celebrate grand opening in North Canton Feb. 20
NORTH CANTON, Ohio (Feb. 15, 2018) – Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers, the Louisiana-based restaurant company known for its ONE LOVE® – quality chicken finger meals – is set to open its first Northeast Ohio location on Tuesday, Feb. 20, at 5455 Dressler Road in North Canton.
The new restaurant will kick off the grand opening festivities at 8:30 a.m., with a "Lucky 20" drawing to award 20 customers ages 13 and older Free Cane's for a Year! North Canton's new Raising Cane's will start accepting entries at 8:30 a.m., with the Lucky 20 drawing held at 9:30 a.m.
An official ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted by the North Canton Area Chamber of Commerce, Chamber President Doug Lane and Stark County Sheriff George Maier begins at 9:20 a.m. Doors open to the public at 10:30 a.m.
Canton's Variety Station My 101.7 will also be onsite hosting a live radio remote during the celebration from 2-4 p.m. on Tuesday, and again on Friday, Feb. 23 from 2-4 p.m.
First-time visitors will be treated to traditional cheers and other high-energy chants to launch the location in unique Cane's fashion, compliments of its 85 newly hired crewmembers. In addition, the first 100 paying, dine-in customers ages 13 and older will receive a free limited-edition Cane's T-shirt, along with a voucher for a free Box Combo – containing four fresh, never ever frozen chicken fingers, Texas toast, secret recipe Cane's sauce, coleslaw, crinkle-cut fries and a drink – that may be redeemed on a subsequent visit.
"We're excited to expand into Northeast Ohio and look forward to bringing Caniacs in North Canton their very own Raising Cane's," said Eric Ongaro, President of the Raising Cane's of Ohio franchise group. "We are in a prime location in Belden Park Crossing, less than a mile away from Kent State University at Stark, and we've hired an amazing crew, so we are eager to open our doors next week. In addition to serving our ONE LOVE, we look forward to continuing our commitment to the community by partnering with local schools and other organizations in the months and years ahead."
Founded by Todd Graves in 1996 and named for his yellow Labrador, Raising Cane, the rapidly growing company earned the distinction of being among the Top 3 quick service restaurant chains in the nation for 2017, according to the authoritative Sandelman & Associates Quick-Track study, based on food quality, customer service, cleanliness and other important factors.
Along with its focus on chicken fingers, Raising Cane's is renowned for its commitment to active involvement in its local communities. Last week, General Manager Julia Sandor and her fellow crewmembers volunteered their time at the Humane Society of Stark County.
"The Stark County Humane Society's service for sick and injured strays remains available 24 hours a day, every day of the year," said Sandor. "We were proud to pitch in at the shelter for our pre-opening service project, supporting the important work they do for animals in our area."
Hours of operation at North Canton's first Raising Cane's are Sunday through Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to midnight. This marks the 24th Raising Cane's in Ohio and the 368th system-wide.
Founded by Todd Graves in 1996 in Baton Rouge, La., RAISING CANE'S CHICKEN FINGERS has more than 360 restaurants in 23 U.S. states, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, with multiple new restaurants under construction. The company has ONE LOVE®—quality chicken finger meals—and is continually recognized for its unique business model and customer satisfaction. Raising Cane's vision is to have restaurants all over the world and be the brand for quality chicken finger meals, a great crew, cool culture and active community involvement.
More information is available at raisingcanes.com.
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In this interview with GoLocalTV in Providence, news editor Kate Nagle asks me how the New England Patriots and the murder charges against their former star tight end, Aaron Hernandez, inspired the plot of The Dread Line, the latest in my series of Edgar Award-winning crime novels.
And she also asks about the sudden career change for Liam Mulligan, the hero of all five of these novels. You can watch the interview here.
To order The Dread Line by Bruce DeSilva, you can choose from a list of independent or chain online bookstores here.


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|Right before we got in line outside the theater!
Left: Amanda Middle: Me! Right: Lyndsey
|By the end of the day it was full of signatures covering the whole page!
|Love her!
- She is a Potterhead and fan girls a lot, mega creepy style.
- During a Zombie Apocalypse out of all of the Dauntless she would choose Four to fight on her side. (I know I would.)
- She doesn't want to co-write a book because she thinks it would be crazy hard.
- She wrote Divergent while wearing rubber ducky jamies! :)
- She really does write while walking on her treadmill desk thing.
- She wouldn't share any details about any future projects but said she will probably be sticking to young adult books.
- She tells us what her four fears would be "swarms of centipedes, swarms cockroachs, swarms of spiders, and heights."
- She talked a little about the topic of suicide and the character Al in Divergent.
- If she had to choose a faction she would pick Abnegation. She says it's because she is a champion of the underdog and that selflessness is important. But in the end she claims she would be Factionless so she could be free.
- She admits that there is no question... she would immediately die if she was placed in The Hunger Games.
- Veronica Roth can sing! She sung a very moving song about Tris called The Mark with her brother.
|Me smiling hardcore while Veronica signs my copy of Allegiant!


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Daft Punk Announce 'Random Access Memories' Track Listing
Daft Punk has been pushing the envelope since they released their first album 'Homework' in 1997. Knowing this, it seems like a natural progression for the duo to harness new technology, especially in regards to the promotion of their upcoming album 'Random Access Memories.'
Details about the much-anticipated album have been trickling out and Daft Punk have taken to using Twitter's video app, Vine, to reveal the tracklisting for their upcoming LP. 'Random Access Memories,' is boasting some high-profile collaborations with Pharrell Williams appearing on 'Love Yourself to Dance,' and 'Get Lucky.' The guys also worked heavily with disco pioneer Nile Rodgers -- so many that gives some indication of what their new tunes will sound like.
Recently, Daft Punk had an in-depth interview with Rolling Stone where they not only criticized the state of EDM music (they helped create the genre after all), but they also confirmed that they are working with Kanye West on Yeezy's next album. We except to hear lots from Daft Punk in the coming year!
'Random Access Memories' Track Listing
1. 'Give Life Back to Music' Feat. Nile Rodgers
2. 'The Game of Love'
3. 'Giorgio by Moroder' Feat. Giorgio Moroder
4. 'Within' Feat. Chilly Gonzales
5. 'Instant Crush' Feat. Julian Casablancas
6. 'Lose Yourself to Dance' Feat. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers
7. 'Touch' Feat. Paul Williams
8. 'Get Lucky' Feat. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers
9. 'Beyond'
10. 'Motherhood'
11. 'Fragments of Time' Feat. Todd Edwards
12. 'Doin' It Right Feat. Panda Bear
13. 'Contact' Feat. DJ Falcon
Watch the 'Random Access Memories' Track Listing Vine


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I will be posting more about things like bicycling and photography as the labor battle continues on its merry way. Just fair warning. This won't turn into Bike Snob CT, or at least I don't think so.
And on with the show….
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