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|For Lily before she was a nightkin, see Lily Bowen (test cell character).
Lillian Marie Bowen is a nightkin living in Jacobstown in 2281.
Born in 2079, just two years after the Great War, Lily lived a simple life in Vault 17- until the Master's army raided the vault. The 75 year old grandmother was dragged outside, where she saw the sun for the first time.
Lily was then dipped in the vats of Forced Evolutionary Virus, emerging as a super mutant. She became one of the Master's elite guards, a nightkin, working sometimes as a spy or an assassin. After the fall of the Cathedral, she and her squad led by Tabitha eventually met with Marcus and formed a community at Black Mountain. When Marcus and Tabitha parted on less than amicable terms, Lily traveled with Marcus to Mount Charleston to begin anew.
Lily now tends to the bighorners in the mutant community of Jacobstown. Like all nightkin, she struggles with her dangerous schizophrenia brought on by excessive Stealth Boy usage, but is aided by Doctor Henry, who considers her to be a primary subject for medical testing in his personal quest to cure the nightkin of their affliction. Unbeknownst to Henry, Lily only takes her medicine in half-doses as it allows her to remember her grandchildren, a recording of whom she carries around on an old holotape.
Lily frequently mentions someone named Leo, who seems to be the manifestation of her schizophrenia. She will have conversations and even arguments with "Leo," insinuating that he drives her to do "bad things." Leo's voice is audible to Lily only, but she experiences it as real; "How else could I hear him tell me who to chop?" In contrast to Lily's generally helpful and friendly personality, whenever she begins to exhibit violent tendencies, she will blame Leo.
As it was mentioned by Doctor Henry, Lily is mad but not dangerous. Leo, however, is all about aggressive and sociopathic behavior.
Leo is very fond of melee weapons. He is the one who tells Lily "who to chop," and he will not be satisfied if Lily doesn't engage in melee combat on every opportunity she gets. If ordered to favor ranged combat over melee or to take a passive stance rather than an aggressive one, Lily's reply will be, "Well, if you insist. But Leo is not going to like it much!"
Lily also tells the Courier that Leo was the one who instructed her on making her Vertibird sword using parts scavenged from the Vertibird wreckage in Klamath back in west California. This weapon was built from the wreckage of a Vertibird previously flown and subsequently crashed by pilot Daisy Whitman.
It is mentioned by Marcus that the nightkin suffer from schizophrenia induced by their prolonged use of Stealth Boys. During dialogue with Lily, the Courier may ask about the location of Leo. Lily replies by saying that he's right there by her side. The Courier may then try to convince Lily that there is no one there (to no avail, of course).
The creation of imaginary friends seems to be common among the nightkin, Davison takes his orders from a dead brahmin skull which he calls Antler, the unnamed nightkin that guns down Novac's brahmin every night, arguing with an unseen being, and Tabitha's radio show is nothing but Tabitha talking to herself as she alternates between her own voice and her imitation of the voice of Rhonda.
Lily has to regularly take her medicine in order to "make Leo shut up," and prevent him from taking over control of her body and going on a rampage in the process. If the Courier chooses to make Lily stop taking her medication, she will start to become more effective in combat but also more prone to psychotic rages, and, in the end, she will be little more than a ravening beast. Lily and Leo's condition is similar to the one of Dog and God.
Interactions with the player characterEdit
Interactions overviewEdit
- Lily and Leo: At a certain point, if Lily Bowen is the active companion, the player may begin to hear a recording of children greeting their grandmother. This signals the start of Lily's unmarked quest.
- Guess Who I Saw Today: Lily is asked to come into the Jacobstown Lodge so Dr. Henry can do a couple of experiments on her, concerning the effects of Stealth Boys.
|Voice-over narration
|In-game condition
|Lily's long life finally came to a close in the Mojave Wasteland. As the life faded from her, her last thoughts were of her grandchildren.
|Lily dies.
|Encouraged by the Courier to take her medication regularly, Lily's mind eventually attained a semblance of clarity. Her memories dulled by the pills, she cast aside the recording of her grandchildren, no longer remembering its significance.
|Encourage Lily to take her medication regularly in her unmarked quest, Lily and Leo.
|Lily continued to take her medicine at half-doses, and although she remembered her grandchildren, her mind remained muddled and confused. Eventually, she parted ways with the Courier and traveled west, seeking the remnants of her past.
|Encourage Lily to continue taking her medicine at half-doses in her unmarked quest, Lily and Leo; or do not complete the quest.
|Encouraged by the Courier to stop taking her medication altogether, Lily's instabilities grew worse with each passing day. Eventually she became little more than a ravening beast, the kindly old grandmother subsumed beneath the rage.
|Encourage Lily to stop taking her medication altogether.
|Other items
|On death
|Lily's Vertibird blade
Lily's assault carbine
Additionally, Lily has a third companion weapon, a power fist variant called Lily's gauntlet. This weapon is not initially in Lily's inventory, but may be given to her as part of a script which ensures all companions retain their special weapons.
Lily is limited in the weapons she can use, and can only theoretically equip weapons from the following list.
Note: Lily's default assault carbine does so much base DPS that she will never equip certain weapons in practice; these weapons are crossed out.
- Assault carbine
- Baseball bat (GRA)
- Bumper sword
- Frag grenade
- Gatling laser
Grenade machinegun
Heavy incinerator
Hunting rifle
- Light machine gun
- Lily's assault carbine
- Lily's Vertibird blade
- Lily's gauntlet
- Minigun
Missile launcher
- Nail board
- Plasma grenade
- Rebar club
- Sledgehammer
- Super sledge
Due to the above limitations, there are only two holdout weapons which Lily is capable of using: frag grenades and plasma grenades. This makes Lily a less-than-ideal companion when performing quests which take place in "weapon-free" areas like the Strip's casinos.
- If you enter with Lily inside the cafeteria of Vault 3, she will comment about herself when she was a small girl and she will remember her first kiss. This will also occur upon entering Vault 11, Vault 19, and Vault 22.
- As a nightkin, Lily is also significantly faster than the player. It is not uncommon for her to charge ahead to engage a target, which can be problematic when dealing with creatures like deathclaws.
- When Lily is a companion, if she is reduced to one half of her hit points, she will suffer a "psychotic break" and will be in aggressive mode until it fades. The player is unable to give Lily commands or interact with her until this break subsides.
- While Lily is not a companion, cazadores may attack Jacobstown and kill her.
- If the player asks her to be aggressive she will comment saying, "That's exactly what Leo told me to do!"
- During the quest Beyond the Beef, Mortimer will reject a suggestion to use her as a replacement for Ted Gunderson, as she is non-human. The same applies for Raul Tejada.
- Lily is considerably helpful for a melee weapons character.
- When you go to Novac with Lily, she asks if you want to ride Dinky the dinosaur.
- When you go to the Tribal Village with Lily, she will ask "Oh Dear, did I do all of this?"
- When enemies are identified, Lily will frequently state "Get behind Grandma" and then place herself between the player and the enemies. This can prove frustrating when trying to use a ranged weapon to dispatch enemies.
- When crouched, Lily enters her own sneak mode, where she activates a permanent stealth boy, until the player stops sneaking. When in this mode, it is hard to see Lily in front of you, or between you and an opponent, and the player can frequently shoot her accidentally, because of her tendency to stand between the Courier and their enemies. This can sometimes be countered by telling her to "back up" in regards to the Courier.
- Lily is noticeably shorter than other nightkin, such as Keene.
|The following is based on developer test content cut from Fallout: New Vegas and has not been confirmed by canon sources.
- In the GECK editor, there is a character model for Lily before she was made into a super mutant, as well as models for her grandchildren, Becky Bowen and Jimmy Bowen.
|End of information based on developer test content cut from Fallout: New Vegas.
- The Super Mutants at Jacobstown may comment on Lily, in which they whisper to the player: "Better watch out. Lily's been babbling about her grandkids again."
Notable quotesEdit
- "What's the matter, dearie? Afraid grandma will embarrass you in front of your little friends?"
- "Grandma's got a present for you!"
- "Hush, Leo, it's medicine time now!"
- "Didn't your mother ever tell you it's polite to help an old lady carry her bags?"
Lily Bowen appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.
Behind the scenesEdit
Lily Bowen was written by Travis Stout.
- PC Playstation 3 Xbox 360 Lily's Vertibird sword and assault carbine may occasionally clip into one another, causing whichever one she's using to have the other hanging from it. The sword may also be replaced entirely by the gun. She will not shoot with the gun, however; she will continue to use it as a melee weapon. Opening her companion wheel and forcing her to switch between melee and ranged attacks a couple times will fix this glitch. [verified]
- PC Playstation 3 Xbox 360 Sometimes when going into stealth mode, Lily will say her normal line, "Oh, don't you worry about me dearie, your grandma knows how to stay quiet," but will repeat it every 20–30 seconds. [verified]
- Xbox 360 Even before recruiting, if you talk to Lily, she will comment on things like Lucky 38 or Benny being killed. [verified]
- Xbox 360 After killing the mercenaries that are at Jacobstown she may randomly attack the player then fall unconscious. [verified]
- PC Playstation 3 Xbox 360 On rare occasions, Lily may die before she is recruited as a companion in a non-hardcore game. [verified]
- PC Sometimes, when Lily is equipped with Oh, Baby! she will randomly lose the weapon. It will no longer be in her hands or in her inventory, where it would normally go if it were to break from use. [verified]
- PC If Lily is asked to use ranged weapons, she may not take out her assault carbine, and instead stay with her vertibird sword, or bumper sword if it is in her inventory. Even if switched back to melee, she will still stand near the courier, trying to use a melee weapon as a ranged weapon. This can be fixed by switching her back to ranged, then back to melee again; however, there is not a fix to make her use her Assault Carbine, because the next time you switch her to ranged, the bug occurs again. [verified]
- Xbox 360 If the player dismisses Lily to the Lucky 38 penthouse, she wil not always make it there, but instead found in the Casino section, able to recruit again and dismiss to the penthouse without issues. [verified]
- PC Xbox 360 When the player character is sneaking, Lily may not enter sneak mode along with the player, and instead will walk along as if the player was not sneaking. [verified]
- PC Xbox 360 If the player dismisses Lily while they are sneaking, Lily will remain in stealth mode until recruited again.[verified]
- PC Xbox 360 Lily may disappear on the way to Jacobstown during Guess Who I Saw Today, if she is sent to the Lucky 38 and then asked to take Doctor Henry's test for the Stealth Boy Mark II without re-hiring her. However, it will still be possible to complete the mission regardless of whether or not she's actually there, though she may not be hirable again unless somehow found. [verified]
- To fix this, either access the dismissal terminal and dismiss all companions, or reload a previous save. The former should bring Lily back to the Lucky 38's presidential suite.


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Digital Ally, Inc. Selected As Finalist For "2006 Innovation Awards"
Independent Panel Of Law Enforcement Professionals Selects Company's Digital Surveillance Technology As One Of Three Product Category Finalists For Law Enforcement Technology And Law Enforcement Product News Award
LEAWOOD, Kansas – Digital Ally, Inc. (Pink Sheets: DGLY), which develops, manufactures and markets advanced technology products for law enforcement, homeland security and commercial security applications, today announced that it has been selected as one of 3 finalists in its product category for the "2006 INNOVATION Award" from Law Enforcement Technology and Law Enforcement Product News magazines.
The annual INNOVATION awards recognize "those outstanding companies whose products respond to market challenges with creativity and innovation". Digital Ally was one of hundreds of companies that submitted entries in this year's INNOVATION Awards formal judging, which consisted of an independent panel of law enforcement professionals. There are only 3 finalists in each of the 16 product categories. The winners in each product category will be announced at a ceremony on October 15, 2006, at the 113th Annual International Chiefs of Police Conference (IACP) in Boston. The IACP is the world's oldest and largest non-profit membership organization of police executives, with over 20,000 members in more than 89 different countries.
Winners of the INNOVATION awards will be featured in a special editorial in the December issue of Law Enforcement Technology and the November/December issue of Law Enforcement Product News magazines. Specific "2006 INNOVATION Awards Winner" logo artwork for use in print and online advertising will be provided to all winners, and the website Officer.com will feature a special section showcasing the 2006 INNOVATION Awards winners.
"We are extremely pleased to have been selected by an independent panel of law enforcement professionals as a 2006 INNOVATION Award finalist," noted Stanton E. Ross, Chief Executive Officer of Digital Ally, Inc. "The most important judges of new products are the police and law enforcement professionals who use them every day in the field. Our first two digital surveillance products, the Compact Digital In-Car Video System Integrated Into A Rear-View Mirror ("DVM") and Digital Video Flashlight ("DVF"), have been very well received by law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S., Canada and in several other countries, and we look forward to the introduction of a third product at this year's IACP conference."

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CRACKSKULL ROW is set in 1999. Rasher Moorigan has finally been released from prison after serving time for a monstrous crime he committed over thirty years before. After reuniting with his mother, an old woman haunted by a vanished Dublin, they confront the ghosts of the past and an uncertain future. Melding reality and myth, CRACKSKULL ROW is the story of one Irish family's desperate actions and forbidden loves.
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I used to get "upset" (though that is too strong a term) when I got downvoted without comment. If my answer isn't good enough then I'd like to know why. Not only does it improve the answer for the OP but it improves my knowledge too.
Where the down-vote has been explained I've found it useful & it has improved my answer, or forced me to delete the answer if it was totally wrong.
So is there any way we can encourage people to leave a comment? Perhaps they don't lose rep if they explain their down-vote?
I must admit though that I haven't always explained my down-vote either so you could call me a hypocrite. I've also grown a thicker skin over the months of using SO (it seems to have come with the higher rep score ;-)), so I'm less bothered about this now.


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Take-two Q3 Financials 2008
Old GTA games sold 1 million units in May-July
Speaking in an earnings call following the release of Q3 financials last night, Take-Two CEO Ben Feder said that old GTA titles have sold in seven figure units for the quarter. "More than one million units of previous GTA titles were sold in the third quarter of fiscal 2008 alone," said the exec. "Based on […]
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Rockstar launching new GTA IV campaign for autumn and Christmas
In Take-Two's third-quarter earnings call last night, CEO Ben Feder said that Rockstar is planning a new Christmas push for GTA IV. "Rockstar is launching a new marketing and PR campaign which will start in the fall and extend into the Holiday season," said the exec. "Also as a must-have game for all fans of […]
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Take-Two's financials are always great. What can be better than a ton of GTA announcements in the middle of the night? Nothing, that's what. We live for this shit, buddy. We breathe action game news while everyone with half a brain's asleep. Just in case you don't, here's all the info from last night's third-quarter […]
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Take-Two CEO heavily hints at GTA Wii
Let the wink-winking and nudge-nudgery begin. Speaking during yesterday's Take-Two conference call, CEO Ben Feder opened his big mouth – and then closed it, giving us some juicy info during the interim. When asked about a possible Wii version of GTA, Feder replied, "We've spent an enormous amount of time and effort working with Nintendo. […]
GTA IV sells over 10 million
Take-Two has confirmed tonight that GTA IV has now sold more than 10 million units. The news comes alongside Q3 results for fiscal 2008, which show the firm's revenues for the period up over 100 percent year on year. Guess why. Get the full results here.
BioShock 2 confirmed for Take-Two's fiscal 2009
Two-Two has confirmed that BioShock 2 will release in its fiscal 2009, meaning the game won't ship before November 1 this year. The news came as part of a financial statement detailing the firm's third quarter for fiscal 2008.
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Take-Two just confirmed that GTA: Chinatown Wars will ship in fiscal 2009, the 12 months beginning November 1 this year. The news came as part of a financial statement detailing the firm's third quarter for fiscal 2008.
Take-Two re-confirms GTA IV 360 DLC for fiscal 2009
Take-Two's just re-confirmed it will ship DLC for the 360 version of GTA IV in fiscal 2009, beginning November 1 this year. The news came as part of a financial statement detailing the firm's third quarter for fiscal 2008. The news comes after speculation today that the content is on track for a November release, […]
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Take-Two's announced 2008 Q3 results that show revenues for the quarter up from $206.4 million to $433.8 million year on year. Net income for the third quarter was $51.8 million or $0.67 per share, compared to a net loss of ($58.5) million or ($0.81) per share in the third quarter of fiscal 2007. "I'm extremely […]
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As an agency owner working with a variety of brands and salons across the country on their social media strategies, I've noticed a trend that Pinterest is one
social platform that can be underestimated. Pinterest has the ability to showcase your brand message that can in fact be very powerful from a variety of formats.
To set the stage, let's look at a few key facts. Did you know that Pinterest has over 70 million users, 2.5 billion page views monthly, an average time spent of 14 minutes and almost 10 million users as of 2012*? Of those users, 80% are women – which is likely who you are trying to appeal to anyway, right? (Awesome stats right? Check out more on this super savvy infographic).
So, beyond just inspiring Pinterest users with great looks, or driving them to your website to book an appointment online, Pinterest is also key for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and, from what we have seen with our clients, is one of the fastest SEO-driving social media platforms.
If that's not enough to sell you on Pinterest, here are a few other "rules of thumb" to use to understand if your salon should be using Pinterest:
1. You are a salon with online booking capabilities – or are selling your privately branded products online. Pinterest's ability to drive referral traffic to your URL is fantastic in comparison to other social platforms.
2. You are you looking to showcase your salon photos through a virtual portfolio. Let's face it, our industry is highly visual and Pinterest is a wonderful way to share them with your clients – and those outside your network. Remember, people look to Pinterest for visual inspiration.
3. You are a salon who understands the importance local search results (or SEO). When executed correctly, Pinterest SEO can help you rank on the web organically. Always be sure to include proper company Hashtags and location based Hashtags. Something like #ChicagoSalon helps to put your salon on the 'virtual map.'
So, with that, have you determined if your salon is Pinteresting enough? If you haven't given this social platform a closer look, perhaps it's time.
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ATLANTA -- The Neighborhood Jazz concert scheduled for John A. White Park in southwest Atlanta this weekend has been canceled, due to the expected heavy rains.
City officials said the concert had been scheduled for Saturday afternoon and evening and will be rescheduled for a later day.
The jazz concert at Gordon-White Park is also canceled. This was set for Sunday evening.


text: What can you do when the legal system is out of your grasp? Ok Nyeo (Jin Se Yeon) is a woman who was born in prison. Knowing first-hand what it's like to live in the shadow of someone who is wrongly accused of a crime, Ok Nyeo grows up determined to do the right thing. She begins to work within the waeji-bu, a private litigation system during the Joseon Dynasty that is precursor to today's legal system. With the help of Yoon Tae Won (Go Soo), Ok Nyeo helps the common people who are wrongly accused of a crime to clear their name. But will Queen Moon Jung (Kim Mi Sook) allow Ok Nyeo to usurp her royal power over the people? "The Flower in Prison" is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Lee Byung Hoon and winner of Best Drama at the 2016 Seoul Drama Awards.


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Melissa Etheridge says her split with partner Tammy was "mutual," but the former "Popular" actress hinted on her blog that the events of the breakup have been spun.
"This will be the only place, where you will get the truth," Tammy wrote on her blog Hollywood Farm Girl, on Friday, the same day Melissa appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
The 48-year-old singer told Oprah the separation was "as mutual as those things can be." Melissa also said that the 35-year-old actress was "a wonderful woman and an incredible mother," and added, "she'll always be in my life."
Tammy added in her blog post, "No spin, no drift, i hope to clarify sometimes, that's all."
There was no further clarification yet beyond these words from Tammy Lynn.
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, the couple ended their relationship after almost nine years on April 15. Tammy gave birth to the couple's twins, on Miller Steven and daughter Johnnie Rose, in 2006.
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E! News has obtained more never-before-seen photos from Kim and Kanye's lavish nuptials in Florence, Italy, including the first shot of the married couple posing with daughter North West, taken on the roof of the historic Forte di Belvedere after the ceremony.
Take a look in the gallery above.
Kardashian Wedding Photo Breaks Instagram Record
The images provide the sharpest view yet of the detailing on Kardashian's Givenchy veil and gown, as well as a full-length look at the pint-size Givenchy dress created for North.
Another photo shows West chatting with the bridal party after the ceremony in a bright, airy room. Khloe Kardashian is holding North in the pic and Kourtney Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner are gathered around, each one in a white dress tailored to her individual style.
As Kendall later said, "We just wore some simple pretty gowns that Kim and Kanye picked out."
First Look: Kim and Kanye's Wedding Photos
"The image was taken right after Kim and Kanye wed," Khloe tells E! News. "We were all discussing how calm and dream-like the wedding was. The peace in Kim and Kanye was undeniable. We all felt as if they had been married in another lifetime. I have always believed these two are soul mates."
Adds Kourtney: "It was right after they said their vows and we all came back to the fort. This picture is beautiful. Every moment was like a fairy-tale dream come true."
And in a third image there's West before go-time having a quiet, sunlit moment with pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr., who performed the ceremony.
As per tradition, the groom had not seen his bride-to-be since the night before with the pair taking separate private jets from Paris to Florence, a culturally resonant destination very near and dear to their hearts, that morning.
Kardashian and West swapped vows on May 24 in front of family, dear friends and an enormous wall of white roses at the 16th-century-era Forte di Belvedere.
The newlyweds will be celebrating daughter North's first birthday on Sunday, which also happens to be Father's Day.
Don't miss the lead-up to the wedding, from proposal to "I do," on new episodes of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," Sunday at 9 p.m. on E!
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NHANES data files are available for download from the website as SAS transport files (.XPT). To use these files you need to create a directory to save them, download the data files and documentation, and then extract or import the datasets.
Task 1: Create a directory
You will create a directory to save your data files, documentation, and extracted SAS datasets. This will help keep your transport files and datasets organized.
- Key Concepts about Creating a Directory for NHANES Tutorial
- How to Create a Directory for NHANES Tutorial
Task 2: Download data files and documentation
You need the data files to create your analytic dataset, and you need the documentation for reference as you continue your analysis.
- Key Concepts about Downloading Data Files and Documentation
- How to Download Data Files and Documentation
Task 3: Extract or Import Datasets
After downloading the SAS transport files, you will need to extract or import them as datasets. Transport files are not usable without completing this task.
- Key Concepts about Extracting and Copying NHANES Data Files as Permanent Libraries
- How to Extract and Copy NHANES Data Files as Permanent Libraries in SAS
- How to Import and Save NHANES Data Files in Stata
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By Tim Lister, CNN
Amid growing outrage over civilian casualties in Syria, there are ever more urgent calls to aid - or at least protect - the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. There is renewed talk of creating safe havens and humanitarian corridors inside the country. And those demanding tougher measures are again asking why events in Syria should not prompt Libyan-style intervention by NATO and its Arab allies.
In Washington Tuesday, Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said the United States "should consider all options, including arming the opposition. The blood-letting has got to stop."
So far, the international community's response to the violence in Syria has been limited. There has been diplomatic censure, with envoys withdrawn or "recalled for consultations," and Syrian ambassadors expelled from several Arab states. A growing raft of sanctions is draining the Syrian regime's coffers but only gradually sapping its strength. This is not a country that has relied on international trade for its survival.
An Arab League monitoring mission is in abeyance, after a much criticized few weeks on the ground that drew ridicule even from within its own ranks and fury (for its perceived complacency) from protesters. And back in November, France floated the idea of humanitarian corridors that would be protected by armed observers - while ruling out military intervention. So far the idea has not gained traction.
None of this amounts to the sort of pressure that will make the al-Assad regime buckle, especially when it perceives as divided both internal opposition and the international community.
Compare the situation to that in Libya - almost a year ago. As then-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was about to unleash his forces on the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, the world came together in the shape of the U.N. Security Council to authorize international intervention and prevent a bloodbath.
The French and British were prime movers behind U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973; the United States an enthusiastic supporter. Russia abstained, but at the time its ambassador noted that many questions remained "unanswered, including how it would be enforced and by whom, and what the limits of engagement would be." Russian later complained that a humanitarian mandate had become a blank check in support of the rebels.
Perhaps in part because of the bad blood over Libya, the world body has reached no similar consensus over Syria. Rather, the opposite, with some of the harshest diplomatic language traded for years. To the United States, the vetoes were a "travesty." German ambassador Peter Wittig essentially said that Moscow and Beijing had Syrian blood on their hands.
"China and Russia will now have to assume that responsibility in the face of the international public opinion and especially in the Arab world, the Arab citizens and, of course, in face of the Syrian people," Wittig said.
Beyond the rhetoric, the vetoes had a more practical consequence. NATO officials have made it clear that the alliance cannot act, by enforcing a no-fly zone for example, without U.N. support. Writer Derek Flood, recently in Syria with elements of the Free Syrian Army, says NATO officials envision no role for the alliance in Syria this year. But they have not ruled out a "coalition of the willing" outside the NATO orbit.
Both Russia and China are wary of any international action supporting protest against authoritarian rule. And Syria has been first the Soviet Union's - and now Russia's - key ally in the region after Egypt 'defected' in the 1970s. As it has for decades, Russia still supplies the Syrian government with weapons. One Russian analyst, Ruslan Pukhov, told CNN: "Once the Assad regime vanishes, we have zero influence in the region."
According to Andrew Tabler of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, al-Assad has ably judged the "diplomatic red lines" to keep Moscow onside. There have been no massacres on the scale of what happened in Hama 30 years ago (when thousands were killed after a brief uprising against his father's rule) that might have forced Russia into a corner. The persistent drip of civilian casualties over almost a year has not unleashed a tide of irresistible outrage.
Last weekend's casualties in Homs, which opposition activists said numbered in the hundreds, may have changed that. But what can be done? In Bosnia, the international community declared "safe havens" for Muslims but failed to protect them. The result in July 1995 was Srebrenica, the worst massacre in Europe since 1945, when some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim civilians were killed by Serb forces. Havens are only safe when protected against superior forces.
Others support Sen. John McCain in arguing for arming the fledgling Free Syrian Army. Anne-Marie Slaughter, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, told CNN that is "the most likely [option], that the Arab League countries, Turkey and probably NATO as well arms the Free Syrian Army, gives them the means to fight back.
"But then you've got a long and bloody civil war," Slaughter says - reminiscent of Bosnia.
Analysts say that even setting aside the lack of international will, successful intervention in Syria would pose problems not present in Libya:
Geography: Most regime targets in Libya were close to the Mediterranean coast and within easy reach of NATO air bases in Italy. Even so, NATO warplanes flew some 21,000 missions over nearly six months to enforce the no-fly zone, suppress air defenses and destroy command centers and armor. Military analysts say that, while no match for the best NATO members could summon, Syrian armed forces are better equipped and coordinated than anything Gadhafi could muster.
Neighboring states: Few of Syria's neighbors would likely allow their territory to be used to pre-position supplies or military units. Certainly neither Iraq nor Lebanon, both countries with their own volatile sectarian mixes. The Hezbollah militia, strongly allied with Syria, remains powerful within Lebanon.
The presence of foreign troops on Jordanian soil might have repercussions for a monarchy that already has plenty of problems domestically. Using Israeli territory would send the wrong message altogether.
That leaves Turkey, a NATO member that has run out of patience with al-Assad. Last month, the Turkish foreign minister compared the Syrian president with former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, and on Tuesday Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned al-Assad - pointedly in Arabic - "What goes around, comes around."
Turkey has military bases (Incirlik, Diyarbakir) close to the border that - theoretically - could serve as staging posts for intervention. But even for the Turks, there would be risks - including a flood of refugees and possible retaliation by Damascus supporting the Kurdish terrorist group active in Turkey, the PKK.
Topography: Libya was flat desert; there was little cover for regime forces and most of the fighting was along a narrow coastal strip. "Target acquisition" was relatively simple. Syria's physical geography is more challenging; and much of its northern border with Turkey and Lebanon is mountainous, with few major roads. Getting aid into any safe havens within Syria would be a logistical nightmare.
The opposition: The Libyan rebels, for all their military shortcomings, quickly grabbed a swathe of eastern Libya and major air and seaports in Benghazi and Tobruk that became their resupply hubs. The Free Syrian Army (FSA), at best, controls a few neighborhoods in Homs and elsewhere.
'The FSA has established very small slices of liberated territory," says Derek Flood, who has just left Idlib province close to the Turkish border. He says the FSA is poorly armed; he was told the price of weapons on the black market has soared, "with a used AK-47 fetching as much as $2,000 – $3,000." Flood says the FSA in that area wants a 5 kilometer buffer zone inside Syria to provide protection from regime forces.
Crucially, the regime retains control of Syria's frontiers, and its armed forces appear cohesive, according to analysts in the region. There have been military defections, mainly of low-rank conscripts, but not of entire units with their armor.
Against all this and the political risks of western military action in yet another Muslim country, some argue there is a moral imperative - as there was in Libya and Kosovo (done), Rwanda (ignored) and Bosnia (eventually.)
Writing last month in The Atlantic, Steven Cook argued: "If there is no intervention and political will to stop Assad's crimes remains absent, the world will once again have to answer for standing on the sidelines of a mass murder."
Cook - a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations - asked: "At what point in the body count is international intervention deemed to be an acceptably worthwhile option that can have a positive effect on the situation? After Assad has killed 6,000 people? 7,000? 10,000? 20,000?"
Scholar Fouad Ajami agrees, telling CNN's Anderson Cooper: "Not just the Russians and Chinese, shame to the rest of us. There's abdication elsewhere, by the Turks nearby, abdication by the Arab League and Washington. Washington spent an enormous amount of time chasing after the false mirage [that] maybe we can get the Russians and Chinese on board."
Some also argue that, despite the price, there would also eventually be a strategic gain: a post-al-Assad Syria would unlikely be as close to Iran as is the current regime and might also deprive Hezbollah of critical regional support.
Others see the risks of international intervention as outweighing any benefits, with the danger that civil war would inevitably spill into Lebanon.
In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice preferred tighter and more coordinated sanctions, saying that "our strong preference is not to fuel what has the potential to become a full-blown civil war" by arming the opposition.
Diplomats expect a new "contact group" on Syria to involve at least the United States, France, the Arab League and Turkey.
"We think that the Assad regime is on its last legs, that the pressure is increasing, the economy is crumbling," Rice said.
Syrians may already be discounting direct intervention by the West. In one YouTube video uploaded Tuesday from Homs, a doctor pleads for help from abroad. But he directs his message to the leaders of Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
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Russia doesn't care about the ppl being murdered their concern is profit and China is concerned their people will realize they are being controlled and revolt. That may be simplifying...but that's how i saw it when they vetoed.
so, there wouldn't be any military interventions from foreign countires?
yes arm them it is better we die fighting the evil Syrian government than to die in silent like a duck. arm us please those Iranians backed government are less than 12% of Syria and they are killing the majority. it is pay back time and we will win. attack iran and Hezbollah now and then Syria will crumble, cut the supplies root from iraq using airplan to attack all Iranians supplies to Syria. do the same from turkey and Jordan, ask the Iraqi Sunni to put good grip on the Syrian boarder and help Iraqi Sunni to stop Iranians from crossing to Syria, arm the kurds, and ask Israel to arm every body against bashar al asad. cut the economic relationship with Russia and close their embassies
IRANIANS have no balls
controlling iran oil fields, and attacking command and control, radars, ships is the first thing we must do.
clean soft target, attack 25 hours non stop and remain air superiority. using turkey bases, gulf bases, Arabian gulf and Arabian seas, Afghanistan base, iraq base up north, most of iran army are not in the mountains , iran has 45 opposition group the ant Iranians are more than 42 millions. help the kurds, ahawas fighters, mojahedi khalq, Assyrians, Arabs, Sunni of iran, Parsi and beloosh, lures and Turks and other minorities to fight, attack Tehran and qum cities and hunt down all those emmams that might run and hide in iraq. attack Hezbollah, all the other evil will fall including bashar al asad in Syria
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In Libya the Sunni Arab population dominates a Berber minority.
Syria had been the historic crossroad of many ancient civilsations and culutres. Today it is the faultline where ethnic and religious groups converge in the Middle East.
The late Muammar Gaddafi was a wayward person and had few allies in the international community. Assad has in Russia a strategic ally at the Security Council, apart from Iran and the Hezbollah in Lebanon.
If you use Libya as an example, the population in Benghazi had increased as people fled to the area from other parts of Libya. Qaddafi was hours away from going in an slaughtering hundreds of thousands in one swoop. That is what got the R2P over the line. Partly Russia was trying to prevent Qaddafi from doing something silly, that there was no comeback from, then try to broker some form of a deal. And there was a split among the Russian internally over that question to abstain or not. So the number for some in Russia at least for Medvedev was a few hundred thousand in a larger scale massacre, for Putin there is no limit to the death toll. If you use Libya as an example, then you have to take into account the bad blood over Libya which means the factional support that Medvedev had for Libya would have shrunk in relation to Syria or any other intervention.
You look at Afghanistan and Iraq, the longer there is violence and destruction the more the population becomes immune from social norms and radicalized. The Arab world are not burning US flags or Israeli flags they are burning Russian flags. al-Qaida seeking to stay relevant take their lead from the Arab street. So there will be some form of blowback to the Russians. I doubt that al-Qaida is behind the car bombings, al-Qaida has connections to both Syria and Iran so it is a strategic dilemma. But there is a vacuum created that al-Qaida will hope to re-energize support among the Sunni's.
But lets be clear the Sons of Iraq are not al-Qaida and Sunni tribes involved in the Syrian uprising does not mean that they are involved with Iraq, even if they are using what some may call terror. The opposition cannot get medical aid and Homs is being shelled. So it is fine for people to say that it is terror, but a few car bombs and knocking a doctor as a response to the regimes actions. You cannot call it terrorism, is what the regime doing in Homs not terror, the UN will not condemn that so what is the difference, the regime has tanks and artillery and the opposition has car bombs and small arms. The defectors and opposition are fighting for their lives so it is not for us to say what is acceptable and what is not.
Of course they're subtle and obvious differences between Syria and Libya. But the commonality is that restive populations in both countries are searching for freedom. Lets hope they find a way.
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The story an adaptation of BBC journalist Mazir Bahari's book "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival" (co-wrtten with Aimee Molloy). Bahari's memoir chronicles his arrest and 118-day imprisonment following the Iran presidential election in 2009.
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FILE - This 2007 publicity photo supplied by the CW shows Kristen Bell, who plays the title role in "Veronica Mars" on The CW Network. "Veronica Mars" creator Rob Thomas and stars of the TV show that aired from 2004-07 have launched an online fundraising campaign for a big-screen version. (AP Photo/CW, Michael Desmond, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Veronica Mars" fans eager for a movie based on the TV series have a chance to put their money where their hopes are.
Series creator Rob Thomas launched an online crowd-funding campaign Wednesday to make a big-screen version of the show. "Veronica Mars," which starred Kristen Bell as a young sleuth, ended its three-season run in 2007.
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HoopsVibe`s Very Quick Call: His career is over. So are his feuds.
It appears Shaquille O`Neal has called it a day, announcing his retirement via twitter on Wednesday. Everyone is caught up in the good vibes –even those who had beef with O`Neal.
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The purple-and-gold have moved on and announced they`ll retire O`Neal`s number. This is a well deserved honour. The massive five-man won three consecutive championships in Hollywood.
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Advanced High Strength Steels Assist Stamping Weight Reduction
Many industries are reducing the weight of their stampings, especially automotive. In addition to weight reduction of the primary stamping, secondary weight reductions occur in stampings that support the force or function of the primary stamping. Reducing the weight of a vehicle body-in-white allows secondary weight reductions in support axles, power transmissions and other areas of the vehicle.
Fig. 1—The n-value decreases as yield strength increases. Specifying minimum yield strength limits the maximum allowable n-value.
A structural engineer directed to reduce the weight of a load-bearing stamping will learn from his textbook that load capacity equals material strength multiplied by the cross-sectional area being loaded. Therefore, an increase in strength can compensate for the desired reduction in sheet thickness to provide a constant load-carrying capacity.
Unfortunately, the formability engineer now faces several problems. For a specific type of steel, such as high-strength low-alloy (HSLA), an increase in strength reduces the work-hardening exponent (n-value—Fig. 1). In addition, specifying minimum yield strength establishes the maximum available n-value. The n-value controls several key aspects of metalforming, including maximum allowable stretch and growth of localized strain gradients.
The onset of failure in sheetmetal stretching is a through-thickness or local neck that occurs just prior to fracture. The onset of this local neck terminates useful deformation throughout the stamping and is predicted by the forming-limit curve (FLC) for different combinations of surface strains. These maximum allowable strains decrease as n-value and material thickness decrease. While weight reduction by increased yield stress and reduced thickness structurally compensate each other, capacity for stretchability and bendability suffer a double reduction.
In last month's column we discussed the importance of higher n-values in preventing or at least restraining the growth of severe localized strain gradients. Localized severe strain gradients magnify the variation from process input variables, causing increased swings in elastic stresses and changes in stamping dimensions. Weight-reduction programs that increase yield strength and reduce sheetmetal thickness can generate these severe gradients. Fig. 2 summarizes the effects of lower n-values due to weight-reduction programs, with HSLA steel representing the low n-values and mild steel the high n-values.
Since the introduction of HSLA steels, metallurgists have succeeded in increasing their yield strength from initial low values to the 110-ksi grades available today. However, the reduction in n-value with increased strength follows the same curve shown in Fig. 1. Microstructures of mild and HSLA steels are based on a ferritic phase. To break out of these metallurgical boundaries, advanced high strength steels (AHSS) were created using phases other than ferrite—martensite, bainite, retained austenite and austenite. Two types of AHSS were created:
• Steels offering increased stretchability, without changing strength; and
Fig. 2—Reducing n-value lowers maximum stretchability (FLC) and increases peak gradient strain in the stamping.
• Steels with increased strength for the same formability.
While both types are useful for weight-reduction programs, the first type is most commonly used and include dual-phase (DP) and transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP) steels. DP steels contain ferrite and about 10-percent by volume of martensite islands. While the ferrite base is very formable, the martensitic islands can have yield strengths of 200 ksi. Martensite interacting with the ferrite during the start of deformation creates higher n-values that minimize the growth of localized strain gradients.
DP steel creates one initial event that generates a higher initial n-value over a limited amount of strain. In contrast, TRIP steels have a microstructure that constantly creates multiple events that generate even higher n-values over greater deformation (upper line in graph). The 0.25 n-value of the TRIP steel is comparable to the highly stretchable, low-strength vacuum-degassed interstitial-free (VD-IF) steels. Extending these high n-values to a greater deformation creates a higher FLC for TRIP steels. In Fig. 2, HSLA steel now represents the low n-value steel and the TRIP steels the high n-value steel.DP and TRIP steels are classed as Generation 1 AHSS and already can be found in production stampings. Generation 2 and 3 AHSS grades are undergoing research and production studies. To meet increased design and production demands, steel research is responding by creating truly unique steels. MF
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Jerusalem, January 13, 2014 – BioLineRx (NASDAQ: BLRX; TASE: BLRX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to identifying, in-licensing and developing promising therapeutic candidates, announced today that it has filed the necessary regulatory submissions to commence a Phase 1 trial for BL-8040, a novel treatment for the mobilization of stem cells from the bone marrow to the peripheral blood circulation. The regulatory submissions were filed with the Hadassah Medical Center Institutional Review Board (IRB), and the study is expected to commence during the second quarter of 2014.
The Phase 1 study will be divided into two parts. Part 1 is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled dose escalation study exploring the safety and tolerability of escalating repeated doses of BL-8040 in healthy volunteers. Secondary objectives include assessment of the efficacy of BL-8040 in mobilizing stem cells as a stand-alone therapy, as well as monitoring the pharmacokinetic profile of the drug. This part will be performed in up to 4 cohorts, with 8 healthy volunteers in each cohort. Part 1 of the study will serve to select the optimal safe and efficacious dose of BL-8040 to be used as a stand-alone therapy in Part 2 of the study.
Part 2 is an open-label study designed to assess BL-8040's stem cell mobilization capacity, as well as the yield of cells collected by leukapheresis. Secondary endpoints of the study include evaluation of the viability and biological activity of cells mobilized by BL-8040 and collected by leukapheresis. This part will be performed in a single cohort of 8 healthy volunteers who will receive the selected dose regimen of BL-8040 based on the data from Part 1.
"Increasingly, stem cell mobilization is being used as a method of collecting stem cells, either for autologous use or for donation, instead of the surgical procedure of bone marrow harvesting. The current procedure involves daily injections of G-CSF for 4-6 days, a procedure that is costly, and moreover, not effective in up to 20% of multiple myeloma patients. Therefore, we were very enthusiastic about the results of BL-8040's Phase 1/2 study in multiple myeloma patients, recently published in the peer review journal Clinical Cancer Research, which showed that a single injection of BL-8040 is highly effective in mobilizing stem cells in combination with G-CSF," explained Dr. Kinneret Savitsky, Chief Executive Officer of BioLineRx. "This trial now aims to assess the mobilization efficacy of BL-8040 as a stand-alone therapy, which could shorten and reduce costs of the mobilization protocol significantly. As previously announced, BL-8040 is also currently in the midst of a Phase 2 study for acute myeloid leukemia patients, the results of which are expected in the second half of 2014. Stem cell mobilization is just one example of the additional hematological indications that we intend to investigate for the BL-8040 platform in the future."
About BL-8040
BL-8040 is a clinical-stage drug candidate for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia, as well as other hematological indications. It is a short peptide that functions as a high-affinity antagonist for CXCR4, a chemokine receptor that is directly involved in tumor progression, angiogenesis (growth of new blood vessels in the tumor), metastasis (spread of the disease to other organs or organ parts) and cell survival. CXCR4 is over-expressed in more than 70% of human cancers and its expression often correlates with disease severity. BL-8040 mobilizes cancer cells from the bone marrow and may therefore sensitize these cells to chemo- and bio-based anti-cancer therapy. Importantly, BL-8040 has also demonstrated a direct anti-cancer effect by inducing apoptosis (cell death). Pre-clinical studies show that BL-8040 is efficient, both alone and in combination with the anti-cancer drug Rituximab, in reducing bone marrow metastasis of lymphoma cells and stimulating lymphoma cell death.
BL-8040 also mobilizes stem cells from the bone marrow to the peripheral blood, enabling their collection for subsequent autologous or allogeneic transplantation in cancer patients. In a Phase 1/2, open-label, dose escalation, safety and efficacy clinical trial in 18 multiple myeloma patients, BL-8040 demonstrated an excellent safety profile at all doses tested and was highly effective in combination with G-CSF in the mobilization of hematopoietic stem cells and white blood cells from the bone marrow to the peripheral blood. BL-8040 was licensed by BioLineRx from Biokine Therapeutics and was previously developed under the name BKT-140.
About Stem Cell Mobilization
High-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation has become an established treatment modality for a variety of hematologic malignancies, including multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Hodgkin lymphoma. Stem cells are mobilized from the bone marrow using granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), harvested from the peripheral blood by apheresis, and re-infused to the patient after chemotherapy. This type of treatment often replaces the use of traditional bone marrow transplantation, because the stem cells are easier to collect and the treatment allows for a quicker recovery time and fewer complications.
In patients that do not sufficiently respond to G-CSF (up to 20% of multiple myeloma patients), treatment is often augmented by Plerixafor, a drug that inhibits CXCR4, a chemokine receptor that is important in hematopoietic stem cell homing to the bone marrow. However, even after the dual treatment, the mobilization of a sufficient number of stem cells remains a difficult objective in a sizeable proportion of the patients.
About BioLineRx
BioLineRx is a publicly-traded, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to identifying, in-licensing and developing promising therapeutic candidates. The Company in-licenses novel compounds primarily from academic institutions and biotech companies based in Israel, develops them through pre-clinical and/or clinical stages, and then partners with pharmaceutical companies for advanced clinical development and/or commercialization.
BioLineRx's current portfolio consists of a variety of clinical and pre-clinical projects, including: BL-1040 for prevention of pathological cardiac remodeling following a myocardial infarction, which has been out-licensed to Ikaria Inc. and is in the midst of a pivotal CE-Mark registration trial; BL-5010 for non-surgical removal of skin lesions, which is expected to commence a pivotal CE-mark registration trial in early 2014; BL-8040 for treating acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and other hematological indications, which is in the midst of a Phase 2 study; and BL-7010 for celiac disease, which recently commenced a Phase 1/2 study.
For more information on BioLineRx, please visit www.biolinerx.com or download the investor relations mobile device app, which allows users access to the Company's SEC documents, press releases, and events. BioLineRx's IR app is available on the iTunes App Store as well as the Google Play Store.
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SEATTLE & NEW YORK & CHARLESTON, S.C., Jun 13, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- (NASDAQ: AMZN) and (NYSE: PSO) - Amazon.com, Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace, a part of the Amazon group of companies, today announced the winners of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, the international competition in search of the next popular novel, at an event held at the Amazon.com headquarters in Seattle. Gregory Hill is the winner of the general fiction category for his novel, "East of Denver," and Jill Baguchinsky is the winner in the young adult fiction category for her novel, "Spookygirl." Hill and Baguchinsky will each receive a publishing contract from Penguin Group (USA) that includes a $15,000 advance. "East of Denver" and "Spookygirl" will be published by Dutton's adult and children's divisions, respectively. The novels are available for pre-order now on Amazon.com at www.amazon.com/abna.
This year's competition drew the most submissions in the history of the contest. After several rounds of judging, the winners were selected by Amazon.com customers from a group of six finalists.
"Today's winners were chosen by Amazon.com customers, and that's one thing that makes this contest so exciting - it offers aspiring writers the opportunity to be heard and also connects them directly with customers to help discover great new voices in fiction," said Nader Kabbani, Director of Independent Publishing at Amazon. "We congratulate Gregory and Jill and also thank all of the people who participated for making this year's Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest the biggest ever."
Tim McCall, Vice President, Director of Online Sales and Marketing, Penguin Group (USA), said, "Penguin is always seeking exciting new work and we were gratified to see the many promising manuscripts entered in this year's competition. We are very much looking forward to publishing Gregory's and Jill's novels."
Gregory Hill lives in Denver where he works at the University of Denver library and plays in "The Babysitters," a rock and roll power trio that includes his wife on drums. "East of Denver" tells the story of Shakespeare Williams, who returns to his family's farm in eastern Colorado to find his widowed, senile father living in squalor. Facing the loss of the farm, Shakespeare hatches a plot with his father and a motley crew of his former high school classmates to rob the local bank. Expert panelist Lev Grossman, book critic for Time Magazine and author of the New York Times bestseller "The Magicians" and the upcoming sequel "The Magician King," says that Hill's writing is "on a par with that of top-flight black-comic novelists like Sam Lipsyte and Jess Walter, and it deserves to be read."
Jill Baguchinsky, a longtime fan of supernatural tales, wrote the first draft of "Spookygirl" as part of National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, a movement that challenges writers to complete a novel in thirty days. In the novel, Violet Addison has moved into an apartment above her father's funeral home in Florida. Violet regularly converses with the ghosts in the house, but what she is really scared of is starting her sophomore year at a new school. Not only will she battle rumors about her father's involvement in her mother's death, but, even more frightening, the evil forces that inhabit the girls' locker room. Expert panelist Jennifer Besser, Vice President and Publisher of G. P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, writes that this "funny and suspenseful novel sets itself apart and heralds the arrival of a fresh new voice."
The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest is an annual contest co-sponsored by Amazon.com, Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace. For the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest Official Rules, to view the winning excerpts and reviews, or pre-order the novels now, please visit www.amazon.com/abna.
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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle with Special Offers and Kindle DX are the revolutionary portable readers that wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper. Kindle 3G and Kindle DX utilize the same 3G wireless technology as advanced cell phones, so users never need to hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot. Kindle is the #1 bestselling product across the millions of items sold on Amazon.
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Win a night of boozing and feasting at Russell's Smokehouse with Death's Door Spirits
Note: The location of this dinner is Russell's Smokehouse, not Green Russell. Corrected version below.
OK, Tableistas. We've got a pair of tickets to a booze-saturated, taste-buds-enlivening event at Russell's Smokehouse on Wednesday night. The event, which begins at 6:30 p.m., brings distillers from Death's Door Spirits, in Wisconsin, to the Denver restaurant, where Death's Door's celebrated spirits get paired with fare like rosemary-crusted pork loin with four-cheese polenta and ciccioli (a pork product), and seared pork belly with Colorado corn ravioli and cherry tomatoes.
The dinner hinges on pig because the distillers have fully embraced the idea of sustainability. Among other things, spent mash used in Death's Door's distilling is fed to heritage pigs, which are featured in Wednesday's feast.
Company president and CEO Brian Ellison said the distillery is coming to Denver because Colorado has always been "very receptive to what our brand is about which started as an economic development project to help two brothers (Tom & Kenny Koyen) bring back farming to Washington Island, Wisconsin, which is a 35-square-mile island about five miles in the middle of Lake Michigan off the northeast Wisconsin coast. Also, my wife and I lived in Colorado for a number of years so it helps when you have friends in the area to support you. It's the Rocky Mountain High!"
Given the quality of the drinks flowing on Wednesday, it's going to get mighty high in Larimer Square.
He said they chose Russell's Smokehouse for this dinner "because the location combines two things that I never seem to be far away from: great cocktails and well-prepared pork. Also, we do a lot of work nationally with the hat shop Goorin Brothers which is just a couple doors down. I love their hats."
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TUESDAY, July 7, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- MRI can successfully diagnose deep endometriosis and offers surgeons a better map to finding wayward uterine tissue that needs to be removed, a new study suggests.
All but one of 27 cases of deep endometriosis -- in which uterine tissue (endometrium) grows and attaches to areas such as the cervix, vagina or colon -- were detected via MRI, with the location of deep lesions being accurately indicated on the images, according to the study published online in Radiology.
Endometriosis, which affects about 5 million women in the United States, can cause chronic pain in the pelvis and lower back, lead to painful sexual intercourse and menstrual cramps, and result in fatigue and infertility. Minimally invasive laparoscopy can treat superficial endometriosis, but deeper lesions, known as subperitoneal endometriosis, require more extensive surgery.
MRI was able to distinguish between all cases of superficial and deep endometriosis, the study found, and even differentiated between affected colon wall layers in the 32 percent of the study participants who had endometriosis in that area of their body.
"MRI findings accurately ruled out deep endometriosis in patients with superficial endometriosis, allowing the surgeon to perform the less-invasive laparoscopic procedure," the study's lead author, Dr. Nathalie Hottat, from the radiology department of Erasme Hospital in Brussels, Belgium, said in a news release from the Radiological Society of North America.
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Timbers team captain and 2007 leading scorer Andrew Gregor talks about his favorite moments of the 2007 regular season and previews the first round of the 2007 playoffs against the defending-champion Whitecaps in Video News.
Gregor recorded eight goals and five assists this season and was among league leaders in both shots and fouls. He was a four-time USL-First Division Team of the Week selection in 2007 and was named the Player of the Week in Week 4.
The Timbers host the Vancouver Whitecaps in the first round of the 2007 playoffs on Sunday at PGE Park at 5 p.m. presented by Spirit Mountain Casino. The two-game, total-goals series between the Timbers and Whitecaps series begins Friday in Vancouver at 7 p.m. Both matches can be heard live on www.portlandtimbers.com. Sunday's match will be featured live on Fox Soccer Channel.
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Brown hands Black Cats vital win
Wes Brown's last minute header earned Sunderland a 3-2 victory at Loftus Road - just when it looked like they had gifted QPR a Barclays Premier League point.
Sunderland were 2-0 up and in control courtesy of goals from Nicklas Bendtner and Stephane Sessegnon when slack defending allowed QPR back into the game with goals from Heidar Helguson and Jamie Mackie.
Goalkeeper Paddy Kenny kept it 2-2 with two magnificent saves but he was powerless to prevent Brown clinching the victory for Sunderland with a header from Kieran Richardson's corner.
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