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SOLO, Indonesia Former Indonesian dictator Suharto, a U.S. Cold War ally whose military regime killed hundreds of thousands of left-wing opponents, was buried Monday at a state funeral with full military honors as tens of thousands mourned.Throngs of Indonesians lined the streets to watch a motorcade carry his body to the family mausoleum. Many sobbed and called out the name of the man whose three-decade rule, though harsh, brought stability and economic growth to Indonesia.President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono led a ceremony televised live across the nation from the mausoleum near Suharto’s hometown of Solo, some 250 miles east of the capital. After a reading of Suharto’s military accomplishments, a shot was fired in his honor and Yudhoyono offered a salute.”We offer his body and his deeds to the motherland,” Yudhoyono said. “His service is an example to us.”Islamic prayers were said and as his body was lowered, mourners tossed flower petals into his grave. A military band played a dirge.Suharto died Sunday of multiple organ failure after more than three weeks on life support at a Jakarta hospital. He was 86.Yudhoyono had already declared a week of national mourning and called on Indonesians “to pay their last respects to one of Indonesia’s best sons.”"He was a great man,” said Sumartini, 65, who came from a nearby village with her four children to watch the funeral procession. “His death touched us deeply.”Suharto loyalists, who run the courts, called for forgiveness and a clearing of his name. But survivors want those responsible for atrocities to be held accountable.”I cannot understand why I have to forgive Suharto because he never admitted his mistakes,” said Putu Oka Sukanta, who spent a decade in prison because of his left-wing sympathies.Suharto was finally toppled by mass street protests in 1998 at the peak of the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis.His departure from office opened the way for democracy in this predominantly Muslim nation of 235 million people, and he withdrew from public life, rarely venturing from his comfortable Jakarta villa.Suharto ruled with a totalitarian dominance that saw soldiers stationed in every village, instilling a deep fear of authority across this Southeast Asian archipelago that stretches across more than 3,000 miles.Since being forced from power, Suharto had been in and out of hospitals after strokes caused brain damage and impaired his speech. Poor health - and continuing corruption, critics charge - kept him from court after he was chased from office.The bulk of killings occurred in 1965-1966 when alleged communists were rounded up and slain during his rise to power. Estimates for the death toll range from a government figure of 78,000 to 1 million cited by U.S. historians Barbara Harff and Ted Robert Gurr, who have published books on Indonesia’s history.During Indonesia’s 1975-1999 occupation of East Timor, up to 183,000 people died due to killings, disappearances, hunger and illness, according to an East Timorese commission sanctioned by the U.N. Similar abuses left more than 100,000 dead in West Papua, according a local human rights group. Another 15,000 died during a 29-year separatist rebellion in Aceh province.Suharto’s five successors as head of state all vowed to end the graft that took root under his regime, yet it remains endemic at all levels of Indonesian society.With the court system paralyzed by corruption, the country has not confronted its bloody past. Rather than put on trial those accused of mass murder and multibillion-dollar theft, some members of the political elite consistently called for charges against Suharto to be dropped on humanitarian grounds.Some noted Suharto also oversaw decades of economic expansion that made Indonesia the envy of the developing world. Today, nearly a quarter of Indonesians live in poverty, and many long for the Suharto era’s stability, when fuel and rice were affordable.But critics say Suharto squandered Indonesia’s vast natural resources of oil, timber and gold, siphoning the nation’s wealth to benefit his cronies, foreign corporations and family like a mafia don.Jeffrey Winters, associate professor of political economy at Northwestern University, said the graft effectively robbed “Indonesia of some of the most golden decades, and its best opportunity to move from a poor to a middle class country.”"When Indonesia does finally go back and redo history, (its people) will realize that Suharto is responsible for some of the worst crimes against humanity in the 20th century,” Winters said.Those who profited from Suharto’s rule made sure he was never portrayed in a harsh light at home, Winters said, so even though he was an “iron-fisted, brutal, cold-blooded dictator,” he was able to stay in his native country.Like many Indonesians, Suharto used only one name. He was born on June 8, 1921, to a family of rice farmers in the village of Godean in the dominant Indonesian province of Central Java.When Indonesia gained independence from the Dutch in 1949, Suharto quickly rose through the ranks of the military to become a staff officer.His career nearly foundered in the late 1950s, when the army’s then-commander, Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution, accused him of corruption in awarding army contracts.Absolute power came in September 1965 when the army’s six top generals were murdered under mysterious circumstances, and their bodies dumped in an abandoned well in an apparent coup attempt against Sukarno, Indonesia’s founding father who helped win independence from the Dutch. Suharto, next in line for command, quickly asserted authority over the armed forces.What followed was a nationwide purge of suspected leftists, a campaign that stood as the region’s bloodiest event since World War II until the Khmer Rouge established its gruesome regime in Cambodia a decade later.Over the next year, Suharto eased out Sukarno, who died under house arrest in 1970. The legislature rubber-stamped Suharto’s presidency and he was re-elected unopposed six times.During the Cold War, Suharto was considered a reliable friend of Washington, which did not oppose his violent occupation of Papua in 1969 and the bloody 1974 invasion of East Timor. The latter, a former Portuguese colony, became Asia’s youngest country with a U.N.-sponsored plebiscite in 1999.President Bush sent his regrets over Suharto’s death. “President Bush expresses his condolences to the people of Indonesia on the loss of their former president,” said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the White House’s National Security Council.Even Suharto’s critics agree his hard-line policies kept a lid on Indonesia’s extremists and held together the ethnically diverse and geographically vast nation. He jailed without trial hundreds of suspected Islamic militants, some of whom later carried out deadly suicide bombings with the al-Qaida-linked terror network Jemaah Islamiyah after the attacks on the U.S. of Sept. 11, 2001.Meanwhile, the ruling clique that formed around Suharto - nicknamed the “Berkeley mafia” after the U.S. school they attended, the University of California, Berkeley - transformed Indonesia’s economy and attracted billions of dollars in foreign investment.By the late 1980s, Suharto was describing himself as Indonesia’s “father of development,” taking credit for slowly reducing the number of abjectly poor and modernizing parts of the nation.But the government also became notorious for unfettered nepotism, and Indonesia was regularly ranked as one of the world’s most corrupt nations as Suharto’s inner circle amassed fabulous wealth. The World Bank estimates 20 percent to 30 percent of Indonesia’s development budget was embezzled during his rule.Even today, Suharto’s children and aging associates have considerable sway over the country’s business, politics and courts. Efforts to recover the money have been fruitless.Suharto’s youngest son, Hutomo “Tommy” Mandala Putra, was released from prison in 2006 after serving a third of a 15-year sentence for ordering the assassination of a Supreme Court judge. Another son, Bambang Trihatmodjo, joined the Forbes list of wealthiest Indonesians in 2007, with $200 million from his stake in the conglomerate Mediacom.State prosecutors accused Suharto of embezzling about $600 million via a complex web of foundations under his control, but he never saw the inside of a courtroom. In September 2000, judges ruled he was too ill to stand trial, though many people believed the decision stemmed from the lingering influence of the former dictator and his family.In 2007, Suharto won a $106 million defamation lawsuit against Time magazine for accusing the family of acquiring $15 billion in stolen state funds.The former dictator told the news magazine Gatra in a rare interview in November 2007 that he would donate the bulk of any legal windfall to the needy, while he dismissed corruption accusations as “empty talk.”Suharto’s wife of 49 years, Indonesian royal Siti Hartinah, died in 1996. The couple had three sons and three daughters.

BALTIMORE Chris Danielsen fidgets with the cell phone, holding it over a $20 bill.”Detecting orientation, processing U.S. currency image,” the phone says in a flat monotone before Danielsen snaps a photo. A few seconds later, the phone says, “Twenty dollars.”Danielsen, a spokesman for the National Federation of the Blind, is holding the next generation of computerized aids for the blind and visually impaired.The Nokia cell phone is loaded with software that turns text on photographed documents into speech. In addition to telling whether a bill is worth $1, $5, $10 or $20, it also allows users to read anything that is photographed, whether it’s a restaurant menu, a phone book or a fax.While the technology is not new, the NFB and the software’s developer say the cell phone is the first to incorporate the text-to-speech ability.”We’ve had reading devices before,” Danielsen said, noting similar software is already available in a larger handheld reader housed in a personal digital assistant. Companies such as Code Factory SL, Dolphin Computer Access Ltd. and Nuance Communications Inc. also provide software that allows the blind to use cell phones and PDAs.Inexpensive hand-held scanners such as WizCom Technologies Ltd.’s SuperPen can scan limited amounts of text, read it aloud and even translate from other languages.However, the $2,100 NFB device combines all of those functions in one smart phone, said James Gashel, vice president of business development for K-NFB Reading Technology Inc., which is marketing the phone as a joint venture between the federation and software developer Ray Kurzweil.”It is the next step, but this is a huge leap,” Gashel, who is blind, said in a telephone interview. “I’m talking to you on the device I also use to read things. I can put it in my pocket and at the touch of a button, in 20 seconds, be reading something I need to read in print.”Ray Kurzweil, who developed the first device that could convert text into audio in the 1970s and the current NFB device, said portability is only the first step. Future versions of the device will recognize faces, identify rooms and translate text from other languages for the blind and the sighted.The inventor plans to begin marketing the cell phone in February through K-NFB Reading Technology. The software will cost $1,595 and the cell phone is expected to cost about $500, Kurzweil said.Dave Doermann, president of College Park-based Applied Media Analysis said his company is working on similar software for smart phones that could be used by the military for translation and by the visually impaired.”We don’t anticipate ours being that expensive, but unfortunately we’re not quite to the release yet,” said Doermann, who is also co-director of the University of Maryland’s Laboratory for Language and Media Processing.Doermann said the company, which has received funding from the Department of Defense and the National Eye Institute, hopes to have its software ready in the next 12 to 18 months.Kurzweil’s device uses speech software provided by Nuance, said Chris Strammiello, the director of product management at Nuance, who said the company has also developed a prototype reader that uses the Internet to access more powerful server-side computers.”As you can harness the power of remote environments and do that so quickly with the Web technologies, it gives a lot more capability, flexibility and options to the way you solve these type of problems,” Strammiello said.There are about 10 million blind and visually impaired people in the U.S., a number that is expected to double in the next 30 years as baby boomers age.Kurzweil said those with vision problems are not the only ones expected to benefit from the technology. Dyslexics, for example, are expected to be among the users of the current device because of its ability to highlight each word as it’s read aloud, helping them cope with their disability, which affects the ability to read. The highlighting function can also help them improve their reading skills, he said.”What’s new here is both blind people and kids can do this with a device that fits in their shirt pocket,” Kurzweil said.Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind, said the device and its PDA predecessor are a “form of hand-held vision” that will make the visual environment “much more readily available to the blind.”—National Federation of the Blind: http://www.nfb.orgK-NFB Reading Technology Inc.: http://www.knfbreader.comKurzweil Technologies Inc.: http://www.kurzweiltech.com/ktihome.htmlApplied Media Analysis: http://appliedmediaanalysis.com

Hyderabad, India-based Goose Technologies has recently come up with Procon, a risk management solution. Procon enables global enterprises to have real-time visibility and predictability of key performance indicators (KPI) at different levels and function areas. It also provides associated risk exposures by real time risk alerts and risk grid. Goose Technologies founder and CEO Debasish Pattnaik told a news conference that Procon was uniquely designed to offer real-time visibility of KPIs across all levels and also offers aggregation at both organization and enterprise levels. It has a built in prediction engine that offers future trend of potential risk factors. Apart from this, once the current and future challenges are known, Procon offers an advance analytical engine for the risk management/mitigation through ‘What if scenarios, added Pattnaik.揋oose Technologies is a pioneer in this space and the first product company to offer global delivery risk visibility, predictability, aggregation, comprehensive risk framework and mitigation at various organisation levels, he said.The prime focus of Goose Technologies is to design and develop products that help organisations to manage their global risk as they expand or outsource operations.揥ith Procon we can now have a near real-time consolidated view of our performance indicators at the organizational level. Procon fits in the strategic project management space as we scale our operations, said J. Satyanarayana, CEO of NISG, said.NISG is a project development and management company working with the central and several state governments.

FORT WORTH, Texas Fast food is getting faster.With just a few clicks of the mouse, Jane Cagle can order a small feast for her bosses at Travelocity. The 60-year-old administrative assistant overcame her skepticism about the accuracy of Web purchases and now uses the Internet to have food delivered from Jason’s Deli or Corner Bakery about three or four times a month.”For a business setting, online ordering is the only way to go,” she said, adding that virtually all of the company’s administrative assistants go online to buy lunches for meetings.More Americans - not just the young techie types who do all their shopping online - are skipping restaurant lines and ordering to-go meals over the Internet. In 2005, the National Restaurant Association reported that about 11 percent of restaurant consumers ordered online. That expanded to 13 percent last year and is expected to reach 18 percent this year.”Once the kinks have been worked out and the timing is down, I definitely think it’s one of those conveniences that consumers are going to want and start demanding,” said Sheri Daye Scott, editor of QSR, a magazine which tracks the fast-food restaurant industry. “I see it going well over 50 percent, especially if the text-message ordering takes off.”Pizza companies, viewed by many as pioneers in online meal ordering, are now allowing customers to order up a pie after punching a few buttons on their cell phone.Dallas-based Pizza Hut announced last week that its customers can now send a text-message order to a central reservations number and wait for a return text message to confirm. Papa John’s did the same thing in November.Industry experts say customers like using the Internet because they find that their orders are often more accurate than when they use the phone.On the phone, “You tend to get people who don’t really know what they’re doing,” said Tonie Steel, who sets up lunch meetings at the Lockheed Martin Recreation Association. “Then you have to call five times to confirm to make sure they get it right.”Steel said she has had a great experience with Jason’s Deli.”Most of the time, the only errors are my typing errors,” she said.Although online ordering has mainly taken hold in pizza joints and sit-down restaurants, there are signs it could move next into hotels and airports.The Omni Mandalay Hotel in Las Colinas, Texas, started a test program late last year where guests can order room service over the Internet. And you don’t have to pay for the hotel’s in-room Internet service to order. Currently, 1 in every 10 room-service orders comes from online, Omni officials said.The Irving, Texas-based company hopes to eventually roll out the service to all of its properties.Baltimore/Washington International Airport will soon have one of the first airport restaurants that takes online orders. Silver Diner, with a motif that takes customers back to the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s, is looking to be known for 21st-century service, said Mark Russell, director of new-store development for the 16-store chain.The company would like to have kiosks throughout the terminal as well as in the pilots’ lounge where customers can place orders. Or business travelers might whip out their cell phones as soon as they land and order meals that can be delivered to their gate.The company recently signed a franchise agreement with Creative Host Services that has Philadelphia next on the expansion list. He said Creative Host is also “very interested” in Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.More restaurants, including Jason’s Deli and Wingstop, are starting to adopt the technology that lets them take credit card numbers securely over the Internet.Andy Fang wishes that Chipotle, known for big burritos and long lines, would go that route.”It’d be nice to pay online, that way it would be even quicker in the store,” Fang said. Regardless, “it feels better than having to stand there for 30 minutes on your lunch break.”The 28-year-old administrative assistant with Sabre Airline Solutions said he’s been using the Internet for the past decade and will always opt to buy online if he can.Although ordering online is pitched as a quick and easy way to get a meal, some think it’s popular for just the opposite reason.”You’re not rushed,” said Chuck Bush, owner of Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, which has three stores in Fort Worth and Denton, Texas. “Your feet are up. I’ve got a little more time to browse.”As a result, the customer feels a little more comfortable indulging.”I may be the not-so-fit-guy who’s embarrassed to order the chips and queso,” he said. “It’s kind of discreet.”

IBM has launched its Jazz.net development platform to the open-source community. Earlier the Web 2.0-based platform was only available to IBM customers, academics and partners. But now any developer can contribute to software under development at Jazz.net.IBM with an open Jazz.net and commercial community will allow companies on a global level to cooperate transparently and also communicate with each other, thereby overcoming the barriers.In addition, the Company also announced, IBM Rational Team Concert Express. The software is the first offering developed on the Jazz.net platform and will be available later this year. The beta 2 version includes Web dashboards, so that team members can see project status data like progress on work items and project health. It also allows teams to use DB2 and other databases to host the IBM Rational Team Concert repository. The software is based on open-standard middleware, including IBM WebSphere, IBM Lotus Sametime, Apache Tomcat, Apache Derby and Jabber.

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. Consuming large amounts of caffeine during pregnancy by drinking coffee, soda, tea or hot chocolate increases the risk of miscarriage, a new study reveals.Women who ingest 200 milligrams or more of caffeine per day are twice as likely to miscarry as women who consume no caffeine, the study by Kaiser Permanente found.That equals about two cups of coffee daily or five 12-ounce cans of soda.”We recommend avoiding caffeine, but if people are compelled to have it, we tell them for sure to limit it,” said Dr. David Walton, Kaiser’s regional chief of perinatology.Previous studies have shown a link between caffeine and miscarriage. But critics questioned those findings, arguing that the results may have been skewed since many healthy pregnant women reduce their caffeine intake because of nausea and vomiting.The Kaiser study addressed that issue by examining both women whose caffeine consumption changed during pregnancy and those who had no change.It also adjusted for such factors as a mother’s age, race and income level, and whether she smoked, consumed alcohol, used a hot tub or had a previous miscarriage.The study appears online Monday in the Web site of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, www.ajog.org.”Caffeine crosses the placenta barrier easily,” said Dr. De-Kun Li, the study’s lead investigator.Once in the fetus, it may stay there longer because fetuses have an underdeveloped metabolic system, Li said.In large quantities, caffeine may also decrease placental blood flow and harm cell development, experts say.Not only should pregnant women limit their caffeine consumption, women who are attempting to become pregnant should consider doing so as well because the first 20 to 40 days after an egg is fertilized is a key time in its development, Walton said. As a result, harm could occur before a pregnancy is confirmed.The researchers examined caffeine use among 1,063 pregnant Kaiser members in the San Francisco area from October 1996 to October 1998.Interviewers asked the women about the frequency and amount of beverages they consumed and whether they changed their patterns after becoming pregnant.The researchers then estimated the amount of caffeine consumed by assuming that for every 150 milliliters of a beverage, coffee contains 100 milligrams of caffeine, tea 39 milligrams, soda 15 milligrams and hot chocolate 2 milligrams.Even decaffeinated coffee contains some caffeine. They estimated 2 milligrams.The researchers then compared caffeine use with rates of miscarriage during the first 20 weeks.”The increased risk of miscarriage appeared to be due to caffeine itself rather than other possible chemicals in coffee because caffeine intake from non-coffee sources showed the similarly increased risk of miscarriage,” the study found.While there was some indication that consuming less than 200 milligrams of caffeine daily might increase the risk, the numbers were not large enough to be statistically significant, and thus no conclusions could be drawn about smaller amounts of caffeine, Li said.Walton said he is concerned that women who had a miscarriage several years ago will now blame themselves because they drank coffee during their pregnancy. He noted that many other factors can lead to miscarriages.Kaiser urges pregnant women to drink no more than the equivalent of one or two cups of coffee per day, if they cannot avoid caffeine altogether.”What we’re trying to tell people is that a lot of times we use caffeine because we have bad lifestyles,” Walton said. “So if we can make our lifestyles better and exercise more and sleep better, then caffeine isn’t such a compelling part of our life.”We’re really trying to get across the message that healthy lifestyles can help us reduce our intake of things like caffeine.”Experts suggest seeking a natural energy boost by taking a brisk walk, doing yoga stretches, or snacking on dried fruits and nuts.

JetBrains, creator of Java IDE - IntelliJ IDEA, has released Java IDE 7.0.2. The new version 7.0.2 is a bug fix release. IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.2 comes with Spring and Hibernate support, Web Services, Maven and ClearCase integration, and improved support for EJB, JSP, HTML, CSS and XML. IntelliJ IDEA has tools for the development of Web applications, Web services support and enhancements for dynamic languages.New features in IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 include: Spring and hibernate support Web and enterprise development Performance improvements Eclipse and maven integration VCS integration Dynamic languages Debugger Dependency structure matrix (DSM) Other productivity %26 usability features

Fiction today, reality tomorrow? It’s the year 2012. Meet Susan and Jim. They are the parents of Emily, who just turned 2 and is their pride and joy. Susan and Jim have always wanted a boy and girl, and last week they learned their dream may come true. Susan is a few weeks pregnant. They’re hoping for a boy and have already named him Joshua. Only one problem with their dream: Emily has a terminal disease and won’t make it to adulthood. Yesterday, a new doctor, upon learning Susan was pregnant, told them surgeons can now take stem cells from Joshua and transplant them into Emily, which will cure her disease. The procedure needs to be done now. Joshua, however, will die from it.Should we destroy one life with the hope of saving someone else’s life?Welcome to the embryonic stem cell debate. The Jan. 11 story in the Statesman about a new study brings this issue once again into our consciousness.Some say that an embryo is not a living human being, just tissue. So creating embryos through cloning to produce embryonic stem cells for harvesting is no problem. Are they right? Scientifically, “life” is characterized by metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli and reproduction. An embryo has these characteristics; it is “living.” An embryo also contains human DNA; it is “human.”Think of an embryo like the film in those old Polaroid cameras. You pointed, clicked and out came a photo which was all black and took time to develop. When you clicked the shutter, everything instantly went in the film which over time developed into the photograph - even though what you first saw on the film was total darkness.Unlike my story, embryonic stem cells have yet to cure one disease or even come remotely close. But stem cells taken from adults, where no life is destroyed, have. Studies have reported at least 73 human conditions where a person’s health has been improved through adult stem cell therapy. Millions of dollars, however, are being thrown at embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) because certain scientists speculate that embryonic cells hold more promise for curing disease than do adult cells.Among other breakthroughs in adult cellular research, scientists recently reported that embryonic-type stem cells can now be produced from ordinary skin cells. No embryos are created or destroyed in this process. Scientist Ian Wilmut, who created the process used in cloning embryos, thinks so highly of this research that he has abandoned ESCR.Unfortunately, as the Jan. 11 story on Advanced Cell Technology’s (ACT) study reflects, some will continue to pursue ESCR because they have so much invested in it. ACT has put millions into ESCR and animal cloning, so it’s not surprising it quickly announced results, accurate or not, which serve their financial interests.Idaho has a special opportunity to learn more about these potentially life-saving developments. Cornerstone Institute of Idaho is bringing Dr. David Prentice, an internationally known expert on stem cell research, to the Boise State University Student Union’s Hatch Ballroom on Tuesday, Jan. 22, at 7 p.m. and to Northwest Nazarene University, Science Lecture Hall in Nampa on Thursday, Jan. 24, at 3 p.m. The public is invited to both presentations.Society should have the utmost compassion for those with debilitating diseases and strive to find cures. At the same time, science must be governed by ethical standards that protect all of life, including our weakest members of society. With the latest advancements in adult cellular research, both goals can be achieved. Emily will live and Joshua will be born.Douglas K. Barth is the executive director of Cornerstone Institute of Idaho, a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening families throughout Idaho. Cornerstone’s address is P.O. Box 563, Eagle, Idaho 83616. Its web site is www.cornerstoneofidaho.org.

JOB CHANGESTitleOne Corp., a locally owned and operated title and escrow company, has announced that Doug Brigham has joined its team as vice president for finance and strategic growth. Brigham’s background includes 20 years of operations, finance and administrative management in private industry. He has held increasingly responsible positions including treasurer, corporate controller and business unit chief financial officer. Most recently he served as senior vice president for business development for the Infrastructure Business unit at Washington Group International. Brigham is a Meridian High School graduate and earned a BA in Business Administration from The College of Idaho. He went on to get an MBA from Boise State University.George Seybold has accepted the position of project manager with Wirestone LLC. He comes to Wirestone with 14 years experience in online marketing, online community creation, Web analytics and search optimization.Formerly, Seybold held the position of brand marketing e-media manager at Weyerhaeuser’s building materials division, iLevel (formerly Boise-based Trus Joist), where he managed and set the strategic direction of the division’s online properties and online marketing promotional activities. He will maintain his seat on the Metrics and Standards board of Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization.RECOGNITIONThe National Association of Women Business Owners, Boise Area and Southern Idaho Chapter, announced the winners for its Business Women of the Year Awards. This is the sixth year NAWBO has recognized Idaho business women who exemplify excellence in business accomplishments, employee development, achievement, community leadership and advocacy for women professionals. Joan Stephens, CR, of Stronghold Remodeling Inc., won the Business Woman of the Year Award. Kandy Weaver, of Kandy Weaver and Associates LLC, was also nominated. In other categories, Paula Miller, owner of Framed!, won the award for Business Woman of the Year - Up and Coming. The other nominees were Tawni Weaver of ReNu Medispa, Rebecca Evans of Inner Element, and Robin Phipps Woodall of Tone Athletic Club. Irene Deely, owner of the Woman of Steel Gallery, received the Trailblazer Award, given to an inspirational businesswoman whose accomplishments are in a field or industry where relatively few women have made inroads. Melanie Krause, of Cinder/Krause Consulting LLC, was also nominated. And Tamara Brandstetter, president and CEO of Delta Dental, received the Leadership Award, given to a woman who promotes a climate for a healthy business community on a local, regional and state level. Other finalists were Rebecca Poedy, Idaho president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, and Judith Garzolini of Hewlett-Packard.Dr. Carl Thornfeldt, chief executive officer and founder of Boise-based Episciences Inc. and practicing dermatologist, and the Epionce product line are featured in three national publications this month. Thornfeldt was interviewed for and appears in the article “Chemical Peels Today” in the January/February issue of Medesthetics Magazine, a trade publication for physicians and medical spa professionals. The article highlights the Epionce Equalizer Peel, a chemical peel for sensitive skin. He was also interviewed for and appears in Household and Personal Products Industry’s January issue article “Transdermal Delivery: Marketers rely on a variety of ways to deliver active materials to the skin.” Finally, the Epionceproduct line is featured in the January issue of Dermascope Magazine, another skin care trade publication for estheticians, spa owners and the salon industries. Thornfeldt wrote an article, “Skin 101,” that will appear in the February issue of Dermascope as well.