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Castro: Obama 2004 redux?
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro showed Tuesday why some Democrats are comparing him to another once-obscure but powerful keynote speaker: President Barack Obama.
The 37-year old San Antonio mayor, who was largely unknown nationally before he was selected to deliver the Democratic National Committee's keynote address, unleashed a head-on attack against Mitt Romney while telling his own personal story as the grandson of a Mexican immigrant maid whose hard work paved the way for his political and legal career.
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"My grandmother never owned a house," Castro said. "She cleaned other people's houses so she could afford to rent her own. But she saw her daughter become the first in her family to graduate from college. And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone."
( Also on POLITICO: Julian Castro DNC speech: 5 compelling lines)
The speech didn't have quite the seismic impact of Obama's keynote at the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston, but many observers said it came as close to that mark as anyone has since.
"Mayor Castro? … I think a star was born," Fox News commentator Kristen Powers said. "I think he did a great speech. You can't compare it favorably necessarily to Obama's [2004] speech which was a much more soaring speech when he gave it, but technically it's very, very astute. It hit the points. And there was a lot about American exceptionalism in there, all throughout the speech."
Texas delegate Brian Hamon, a member of the state party's executive committee, said Castro's personal story resonated with his audience.
( Also on POLITICO: Full coverage of the DNC)
"It's such a long journey to try and bring your family up from poverty, Castro's statement about how it's a relay, not a marathon, it almost made me cry," said Hamon, who is from Williamson County. "I foresee a whole generation of politicians inspired by Julian."
Florida delegate Dwight M. Bullard, a state representative, predicted higher office for Castro.
"Julian definitely is in the mix," Bullard said. "I'd love to see him run for governor of Texas."
Speaking from his own experience, Castro paid tribute to the value of hard work and family. He underscored the Democratic Party message by stressing the role of the broader community in giving the less-well-off a chance to succeed.
( PHOTOS: Scenes from the Democratic convention)
"In Texas, we believe in the rugged individual," Castro said to loud applause from his home state delegation. "Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow."
During his 20-minute speech, Castro argued that most of those who aren't moving up the economic ladder are stuck due to a lack of opportunity, not a lack of personal effort.
As he talked about privilege and poverty, Castro's not so subtle message was that Romney couldn't relate to the struggles of the poor and middle class. The mayor also took direct aim at Romney's economic proposals.
"Republicans tell us that if the most prosperous among us do even better, that somehow the rest of us will, too. Folks, we've heard that before. First, they called it 'trickle-down.' Then, 'supply-side.' Now it's 'Romney-Ryan.' Or is it 'Ryan-Romney'? Either way, their theory has been tested. It failed. Our economy failed. The middle class paid the price. Your family paid the price. Mitt Romney just doesn't get it," Castro said.


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Funny women behind 'Girls Only' come to CMC Breckenridge
If you go
What: "Girls Only" comedy night
When: Friday, March 21; doors open at 5 p.m., and show starts at 6:30
Where: Colorado Mountain College, 107 Denison Placer Road, Breckenridge
Cost: Tickets are $35 in advance or $40 at the door. Admission includes one drink ticket and light appetizers. A cash bar will be available
More information: Visit www.backstagetheatre.org, or call (970) 453-0199
Get ready for an evening of nonstop laughter from the creators of the hit comedy show "Girls Only: The Secret Comedy of Women," when the Breckenridge Backstage Theatre presents its comedy night fundraiser on Friday, March 21.
Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein, two of Denver's top comedic talents, will bring their lighthearted sense of humor to Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge for one night only, with a high-energy evening of sketch, improvisation and general silliness, all sprinkled with the delightful flavor of "Girls Only," which has enchanted nearly a quarter of a million women across North America since 2008.
"Girls Only" is a delightfully candid look at just what it means to be female. From diaries and first crushes to "the change" and the never-ending battle with pantyhose, "Girls Only" covers it all in a sidesplitting take on the things all women go through together. Born out of the earnest and sweetly absurd writings the two authors discovered in their girlhood diaries, the performance includes audience participation and lively songs and videos.
Colorado connection
Having grown up in Idaho Springs, where she performed in many high school productions, Klein has a Colorado connection. After high school, she continued to pursue her interest in entertainment by earning a degree in film studies at Pitzer College near Los Angeles.
She has been a member of the Denver comedy scene since 1993 and one-third of the comedy trio A.C.E. Entertainment for most of that time. During her years with A.C.E., she has co-written and performed in more than 50 original productions and graced stages nationwide, including in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. Klein has a dense background in theatrical improvisation and comedy writing and works as a commercial actor.
The Breckenridge Backstage Theatre's "Girls Only" comedy night will be presented on Friday, March 21, at Colorado Mountain College, located at 107 Denison Placer Road in Breckenridge. Doors open at 5 p.m., with show time at 6:30 p.m. Drinks and appetizers will be served in the lobby start at 5. Admission includes one drink ticket and light appetizers; a cash bar will be available.
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A resource for informing patients and caregivers about Multiple Sclerosis, its possible causes, effects, and treatments. Get the most current information on new developments, clinical trials and other important matters for anyone dealing with MS.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Central Nervous System Beckons Attack In MS-like Disease
This story is from June 2006, but many MSers may not be familiar with it.
Source: Washington University School of Medicine
Date: June 19, 2006
It may sound like a case of blame the victim, but researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that cells in the central nervous system can sometimes send out signals that invite hostile immune system attacks. In mice the researchers studied, this invitation resulted in damage to the protective covering of nerves, causing a disease resembling multiple sclerosis.
"It's been clear for quite a while that our own lymphocytes (white blood cells) have the ability to enter the central nervous system and react with the cells there," says John Russell, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology and pharmacology. "Under normal circumstances, the brain and the immune system cooperate to keep out those cells that might harm the brain. But in people with multiple sclerosis, they get in."
The researchers found that they could prevent destructive immune cells from entering nervous system tissue by eliminating a molecular switch that sends "come here" messages to immune cells. Ordinarily, flipping that switch would cause immune cells to rush to the vicinity of the cells that sent the signals and destroy whatever they consider a danger — including nerve cell coatings.
But in the mice in which the switch was removed, the researchers saw that immune cells previously primed by the scientists to attack the central nervous system (CNS) did not enter the CNS, and the mice stayed healthy.
In contrast, normal mice treated with the same hostile immune cells had numerous immune cells in their CNS tissue and developed symptoms similar to multiple sclerosis.
"What allows the primed lymphocytes into the CNS are signals from the CNS asking them in," Russell says. "We determined that the astrocytes, the specialized cells that provide nutrients to neurons, are among the cells most active in sending signals to attract lymphocytes."
The molecular switch that sends the call to immune cells is termed the tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR). When TNFR is activated, it causes cells to send out signal molecules called chemokines that direct immune cells to the site of damage or infection. The researchers found that astrocytes in mice were producing chemokines in response to activation of their TNFR molecules.
TNFR activation also makes the astrocytes bristle with specific adhesion molecules that act like Velcro to bind to similar molecules on the surface of the immune cells. That allows the immune cells that are attracted by the chemokines to stick around and do more harm.
One of the most promising new drugs for treating multiple sclerosis, natalizumab (tradename Tysabri), works by blocking the ability of the immune cells to stick in the CNS through this Velcro mechanism, Russell notes. Natalizumab is being tested in clinical trials and appears to be much better at preventing the nerve cell destruction associated with multiple sclerosis than previous therapies.
"Experiments by others suggested that natalizumab prevented immune cells from crossing the blood-brain barrier — it was thought to prevent the cells from leaving the blood stream," Russell says. "We are working on that question, and we think that it doesn't necessarily prevent them from getting out of the blood, but it does keep them from getting further into the brain. The immune cells pile up in the space around the blood vessels. This space, the perivascular space, serves as a gatekeeper to determine what gets in and what doesn't."
Next, the research team will study various regions of the brain to determine the types of signals sent to and from different areas of the CNS to the immune system.
Reference: Gimenez MA, Sim J, Archambault AS, Klein RS, Russell JH. A tumor necrosis factor dependent receptor 1-dependent conversation between central nervous system-specific T cells and the central nervous system is required for inflammatory infiltration of the spinal cord. American Journal of Pathology 2006;168(4):1200-1209.
Funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and Pfizer Inc. supported this research.


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Archaeology, history & Syria: Among the Wounded in Syria's War: Ancient History
"The situation now is absolutely terrible there. … They come with jackhammers. That means everything is destroyed."
Church atmosphere & environment: * What's the Habitat? [essential reading]; * The Church is a Zoo; * The Dark Side of Small [essential reading]
* "Here's an important question to ask regularly: 'Who does well here?' Don't just ask, 'who attends here currently?' Ask, 'Who thrives here?' Ask it in the present tense rather than, 'Who has survived here over the years?'"
* "… if God is bringing people different than those you thought He would bring, rejoice that He's drawing any of His children to your church at all."
* "I have often praised smaller churches. … But I am not wholly idealistic and naïve. Wherever there are human beings trying to make it through life together, there are problems. It matters not whether the setting is large or small. Every community of people faces challenges which, if not handled with wisdom, grace, and love, will threaten its health and perhaps even its existence."
Crimea, Ukraine & Russia: The 160-Year Christian History Behind What's Happening in Ukraine
"It would be pleasant to think that the U.S. and Europe are taking these religious factors into full account as they calculate their response to the present crisis in Crimea and Ukraine. Pleasant, but unlikely."
Encouragement, leadership & ministry: Minister Search: You Have More to Offer Than You Might Think
"Church leaders often underestimate what they have to offer a prospective minister. They have much value to offer a minister and I'm not talking about money. … Church leaders need to spend time thinking about what they have to offer that is of value. … Church leaders who will form a hedge of protection around a young minister really have something of value to offer. … Church leaders who will show a genuine interest in the lives of their ministers and families definitely have something valuable to offer."
Happiness, money, possessions & stuff: Why Buying Stuff Won't Make You Happy (and One Thing That Might)
"The pursuit and purchase of physical possessions will never fully satisfy our desire for happiness. It may result in temporary joy for some, but the happiness found in buying a new item rarely lasts longer than a few days. Researchers even have a phrase for this temporary fulfillment: retail therapy."
History & the United States: Watch the United States Grow Before Your Eyes
"On March 4, 1789, the U.S. Constitution took effect, forming a nation of 13 colonies and a whole heck of a lot of unorganized territory. On August 21, 1959, Congress admitted Hawaii as the 50th state. … [see] this handy gif of all the steps it took to get us from point A to point B."
The South: These 9 Maps Should Absolutely Outrage Southerners
"… there are lots of things to love about the South. It's clean and quiet. There's delicious food, good people and often amazing weather. But that's exactly why it makes us so sad to think about all the ways in which the region is struggling today."


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Opportunistic Politicians Lean On The FBI And Twitter To Shut Down Terrorist Accounts
from the and-then-what?-linkedin? deptI have no idea what it is with certain politicians that makes them believe they can somehow "curb" violence by cordoning off a section of the internet. They don't seem to realize that determined individuals will simply route around their half-assed roadblock without breaking a sweat. Even worse, they don't seem to realize that useful information on violent groups and individuals can often be gleaned from the very same lines of communication they're trying to cut.
In this case, it's very much like grandstanding politicians trying to shut down "human traffickers" like Backpages and Craigslist, failing to understand that law enforcement can use the same services to track down offenders. Rather than look for the upside of having a live feed from the enemy front (or realize the ultimate futility of their efforts), these lawmakers have chosen to throw a bunch of effort (or at least, words) behind a bad idea.
Seven House Republicans asked the FBI in September to demand that Twitter take down the accounts of U.S.-designated terrorist groups, such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Somalia's al Shabaab. The letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller was spearheaded by Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas), who said Wednesday that the recent events vindicated the request.Now, I'm not going to claim to be smarter than these politicians (although you're certainly welcome to make that claim for me in the comment threads), but I'm curious as to how they arrived at the conclusion that blocking Twitter accounts would somehow result in less violence committed by terrorists. One could argue that breaking down a line of communication might result in some temporary disruption, but I've got to believe that Twitter isn't the only line of communication Hamas has.
"Allowing foreign terrorist organizations like Hamas to operate on Twitter is enabling the enemy," Poe said in an e-mailed statement to The Hill. "Failure to block access arms them with the ability to freely spread their violent propaganda and mobilize in their War on Israel.
Shutting down these accounts would do little more than a) make these politicians feel better about having done something, b) annoy (and possibly provoke) already irritable and violent groups, and c) move communication anti-terrorist entities rely on to a new channel possibly unavailable to them. The downside easily outweighs the upside, because the "upside" only benefits these seven lawmakers, giving them a feeling of power and self-righteousness, which will be cold comfort to those who might actually be using these feeds to glean intelligence and help defend themselves.
Then there's this amazing sentence, which must have been composed by Poe at a cost of one IQ point per letter:
The FBI and Twitter must recognize sooner rather than later that social media is a tool for the terrorists.Any form of information dissemination can be considered a "tool" for terrorists. Imbuing Twitter with some sort of terrorist-defeating powers is ridiculous. Berating the FBI and Twitter for aiding and abetting terrorism through inaction is even more so. This is merely a continuation of Poe's anti-Twitter obsession, which began back in September when he first penned a letter to the FBI requesting the takedown of these "terrorist" accounts, citing (of all things), Twitter's decision to block a neo-Nazi account in Germany. (The account could still be read anywhere else in the world, or even in Germany with minimal effort.)
Poe is once again attempting to use Twitter's own statement against it, but the FBI just isn't giving this group of lawmakers the one thing they need to get their way:
"Twitter maintains that it will take down any account requested by the FBI," seven Republican members of Congress wrote to the FBI last month. "As of this writing, the FBI has not made a single request to Twitter to take an account down."And (once again), Poe and his co-signers are using recent events to further their own agenda.
"Not one account has been shut down, unlike on YouTube and Facebook," Poe told the Free Beacon.The FBI isn't buying it, however.
"Twitter is not going to take it upon themselves to shut them down," which is why the FBI needs to take action, Poe said.
FBI Special Agent Jason Pack told the Free Beacon, "The FBI received the Congressman's letter and will respond to it appropriately."One assumes Pack "responded" by tossing the angry letter into the nearest trash can, possibly running it through the shredder first. The latest missive means someone at the FBI will need to empty the trash can, but given the results of Poe's previous demands, I highly doubt Twitter will be shuttering any accounts.
Poe has also expressed his disappointment in the Obama administration for not pushing for more Twitter shutdowns.
Poe speculated that one reason the Obama administration has not pursued the issue is because terrorists' Twitter pages are a rich vein for the intelligence community to mine.There's Poe's problem. He views Twitter as the only thing. In his mind, it's the only source of communication for terrorists and it's the only source of intel for the intelligence community. Poe has seized on Twitter as the only problem and won't be dissuaded easily, no matter how often the FBI refuses to indulge his "social media = terror" hobby horse.
Poe, however, said that this is not a good enough reason to give these radical actors free rein on the Internet.
"If that's [the administration's] only way of knowing" what terrorists are up to, "we've got some serious problems with our intelligence service," Poe said.
The Free Beacon's Republican slant inadvertently suggests that Poe may just be kicking around Twitter because its "best friends" with Obama.So... maybe it's not really about terrorism. Maybe it's just good, old fashioned partisanship sporting War on Terror clothing. No matter how you slice it, though, there's only one thing it truly is: stupid.
Twitter's Washington D.C. lobbying team is comprised of several Obama administration confidants and former Democratic Hill staffers. Adam Sharp, the site's top government liaison, formerly served as deputy chief of staff for Sen. Mary Landrieu (D., La.). Its global public policy official, Colin Crowell, was a senior aide to Rep. Ed Markey (D., Mass.), while Twitter's head of international strategy, Katie Jacobs Stanton, once worked with the Obama administration on new media strategies.
Since 2011, several individuals who list their employer as Twitter have donated primarily to Democrats, including the Obama campaign and Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.
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So today, instead of writing a "real"post, I'm sharing photos of my little darlings in their past (and present) Halloween ensembles. The Frog Princess has been a Halloween Kitty, a Sheep (home-made by me), a Robot (home-made), a Washing Machine (home-made), a purple Care Bear (store bought - I was too pregnant to sew), Princess Fiona from Shrek 2 (store bought - I had a baby to chase), and this year -- Malificent from Sleeping Beauty (combo of home-made and store bought elements). Mini-Saurus debuted last year as Snow White and will be a Care Bear (or a sheep depending on the temperature) Friday night it sure is nice to recycle those costumes!
Looking forward to Trick-or-Treating with them both tomorrow.


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After Sweep Over Yanks in Chicago, Sox Look for More of the Same in the Big Apple
Labor Day: Monday, September 2, 2013
Today's News
This Afternoon's Game
White Sox vs. Yankees at Yankee Stadium, The Bronx, New York (12:05 p.m, CT, CSN) in the Labor Day opener of a three-game series. Starters: LHP Jose Quintana (7-4, 3.66) for the Sox, RHP Phil Hughes (4-13, 4.91) for the Yankees. Quintana defeated Andy Pettitte in the first game of the three-game sweep against the Yankees at U.S. Cellular Field in early August. "Q" is 4-2 with a 3.27 ERA and 71 strikeouts in his last 11 starts.
The Sox have won six straight games vs. the Yanks (all at home by a 35-18 margin). It's their longest streak against New York since taking seven in a row from July 1,1990-April 16,1991.
Sox Starting Lineup: De Aza, LF; Beckham, 2B; Ramirez, SS; Dunn, 1B; Konerko, DH; A. Garcia, CF; Gillaspie, 3B; Jor. Danks, RF; Phegley, C.
Hahn on The Score
GM Rick Hahn was a guest yesterday on 670 The Score's Hit And Run Show:
Play(s) of the Day
Down 5-0 heading into the fourth inning yesterday, the Sox refused to quit. With the bases loaded, Jeff Keppinger drove in Alexei Ramirez with a sac fly and, with two outs, Dayan Viciedo doubled in Paul Konerko and Conor Gillaspie singled in Avi Garcia and Viciedo as four runs crossed the plate…Paulie, with a pair of singles and a walk on the day, added on a run in the fifth by driving in Alexei, who led the 11-hit Sox attack with three singles….Tyler Flowers smashed a long solo homer in the eighth, his 10th of the year, to get us within a run of the Red Sox at 7-6, which turned out to be the final (it was announced this morning that Flowers will have exploratory surgery on his right shoulder and will be out an estimated three to six months).
Conor's two-RBI single:
Quote(s) of the Day
A Rare Long Ball (from the September 2, 2013 issue of Sports Illustrated):
Thirty-six years ago, on Aug. 29, 1977, the Indians hosted the White Sox. Cleveland's second baseman that night was Duane Kuiper, who had zero career home runs in 1,381 major league at bats.
Rick Manning (former teammate): Kuip knew how to play the game. He was a great second baseman. He was as tough as you could get for a guy 175 pounds. Back then, the game was pitching and defense.
Duane Kuiper: I'd hit some homers (seven, to be exact) in the minor leagues.
Manning: We weren't there to hit home runs. Frank Robinson was our manager, and he'd stand out behind the screen and make Kuip and I (who both batted lefthanded) hit it to leftfield. He wouldn't let us swing for the fences at all.
Cleveland manager Jeff Torborg, who had replaced Robinson two months earlier, moved Kuiper up to the number 2 spot in the batting order against Chicago starter Steve Stone.
Kuiper: In the first inning it was a 1-0 count. I like to tell Stone that he threw me a hanging fastball. He doesn't particularly want to hear about it.
Kuiper hit a line drive off a seat in the rightfield stands.
Frank Robinson (joking, in 1984): He waited until I got fired to hit his homer. The truth is, he won't hit one for a black manager.
Kuiper: I've still got the chair. It's in the attic. I've still got the ball and the bat. As I was walking up to the bat rack (for my next at bat), (Indians teammate) Bill Melton said, "You're not gonna use that again, are you?" I said, "Of course." He said, "You might want to put that one away. You might not hit another one."
He didn't. In 1985, Kuiper retired, and he went on to become an Emmy-winning broadcaster for the Giants. His 3,754 plate appearances are the most for any major leaguer with exactly one homer–making his shot off of Stone the rarest in history.
Kuiper: You gotta have fun with it. Given the choice now, would I rather hit one or five? Unless the other four were walk-off grand slams, I'm pretty happy with one. I'm happy with the way it turned out.
Tomorrow's Schedule
White Sox vs. Yankees at Yankee Stadium (6:05 p.m., CT, WGN). Starters: LHP Chris Sale (10-12, 2.99) for the Sox, RHP Hiroki Kuroda (11-10, 2.89) for the Yanks. Chris and the Sox defeated Kuroda and the Yanks in the second game of last month's sweep.
Did You Know…
…that when pitcher Charlie Leesman, just promoted from Class AAA Charlotte, approached his locker in Boston yesterday he was greeted with a name plate that read, "Jose Leesman?" Mistakes happen.
Photo/Video of the Day
Tyler's big blast.


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Related to esophageal anomalies: Esophageal atresia, Esophageal disorder
of or pertaining to the esophagus.
e·soph·a·ge·al(ĕ-sof'ă-jē'ăl, ē'-sŏ-faj'ē-ăl), Although this word is correctly pronounced esopha'geal, the pronunciation esophage'al is almost universally heard in the U.S.
Relating to the esophagus.
esophageal/esoph·a·ge·al/ (ĕ-sof″ah-je´al) of or pertaining to the esophagus.
See esophagus.
Relating to the esophagus.
Synonym(s): oesophageal.
Synonym(s): oesophageal.
esophagus(e-sof'a-gus) (-gi?, -ji?) plural.esophagi [Gr. oisophagos]
The muscular tube, about 10 to 12 in (25 to 30 cm) long, that carries swallowed foods and liquids from the pharynx to the stomach. In the upper third of the esophagus, the muscle is striated; in the middle third, striated and smooth; and in the lower third, entirely smooth. Peristalsis is regulated by the autonomic nervous system. At the junction with the stomach is the lower esophageal sphincter, which relaxes to permit passage of food, then contracts to prevent backup of stomach contents. esophageal (e-sof?a-je'al), adjective See: illustration
Barrett esophagusSee: Barrett esophagus
black esophagusNecrotizing esophagitis.
foreign bodies in the esophagus
Items trapped in the esophagus (typically fishbones, coins, or large unchewed pieces of food). Parenteral glucagon may help the material pass through the esophageal sphincter to the stomach, but endoscopic retrieval of the material is usually necessary. See: illustration
e·soph·a·ge·al(ĕ-sof'ă-jē'ăl) Although this word is more correctly pronounced esopha'geal, the pronunciation esophage'al is almost universally heard in the U.S.
Relating to the esophagus.
of or pertaining to the esophagus.
esophageal achalasia
esophageal anomalies
very rare; include atresia, duplication, segmental aplasia, esophagorespiratory fistulae, diverticula, epithelial inclusion cysts.
esophageal atresia
congenital lack of continuity of the esophagus, commonly accompanied by tracheoesophageal fistula, and characterized by accumulations of mucus in the nasopharynx, gagging, vomiting when fed, cyanosis and dyspnea. Treatment is by surgical repair by esophageal anastomosis and division of the fistula.
esophageal distention
may result from acute or chronic obstruction of the esophagus, or from defective innervation. See also megaesophagus.
esophageal duplication
may be tubular and communicate with the effective esophagus, or cystic appearing as a cystic mass close to the functioning esophagus.
esophageal ectasia
esophageal enlargement
clinically visible enlargement as seen in esophageal diverticulum, stenosis, paralysis, cardial obstruction.
esophageal fibrosis
a cause of acquired megaesophagus; usually caused by trauma or spontaneous ulceration.
esophageal groove
see reticular groove.
esophageal groove lesion
includes granuloma, papilloma, foreign body lodgment; cause of obstructive bloat.
esophageal hyperkeratosis
hyperkeratotic thickening of the esophageal mucosa due usually to hypovitaminosis A or chlorinated naphthalene poisoning.
esophageal inflammation
see esophagitis.
esophageal motility disorders
esophageal neoplasm
very rare except for papilloma and fibropapilloma; causes chronic esophageal obstruction.
esophageal obstruction
acute obstruction is manifested by inability to swallow, regurgitation of saliva, food and water through the nose and much discomfort expressed by retching movements and pawing at the throat. Ruminants develop ruminal tympany. Chronic obstruction shows the same syndrome but with a gradual development and a tendency to develop aspiration pneumonia.
esophageal osteosarcoma
occurs in dogs in association with the parasite Spirocerca lupi.
esophageal papilloma
a cause of obstructive bloat.
esophageal paralysis
causes esophageal obstruction.
esophageal patching
see patch graft.
esophageal perforation
causes local cellulitis and compression-obstruction of esophagus.
esophageal pulsion diverticulum
a diverticulum that pushes outwards causing pressure on surrounding organs and tissues.
esophageal segmental aplasia
causes esophageal obstruction in neonates.
esophageal stenosis, esophageal stricture
causes esophageal obstruction; may be partial, permitting passage of liquids.
esophageal tube
see nasogastric tube.
esophageal ulcer
usually associated with pressure necrosis due to prolonged obstruction and injury by a solid foreign body or, rarely equine dysautonomia or Gasterophilus spp. infestation.
esophageal varices
distended veins at the gastric cardia causing dysphagia.


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Records: Rielle Hunter got $9K monthly stipend
(AP) GREENSBORO, North Carolina -- Records introduced Tuesday at John Edwards' corruption trial show his campaign finance chairman paid the former U.S. presidential candidate's mistress a $9,000 monthly cash allowance, on top of living and travel expenses.
Wealthy Texas lawyer Fred Baron is one of two political supporters who, combined, gave nearly $1 million to help hide Edwards' pregnant mistress Rielle Hunter as the politician sought the White House in 2008. Evidence introduced at the trial showed Baron, who died that year, was making regular deposits into Hunter's checking account, the sum totaling $74,000.
Money from the donors was also used for private jets, stays at luxury resorts and a $20,000-a-month California rental mansion.
Edwards has pleaded not guilty to campaign finance violations related to the money used to support his mistress. He faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted.
Edwards' oldest daughter, Cate, could take the stand as early as Tuesday afternoon. Two weeks ago, she ran out of the courtroom in tears during testimony about her cancer-stricken mother confronting her father about his affair.
"CBS This Morning:" John Edwards' daughter expected to testify
His attorneys have said Edwards did not know about the money from Baron and Mellon and that even if he did, the cash was not a campaign contribution because it was intended to hide Hunter from Edwards' wife, not the public.
On Monday, Edwards' attorneys began his defense by attempting to shift the focus away from the sex scandal to the technical issue of whether Edwards' alleged behavior violated campaign finance laws.
Defense attorneys have not yet indicated if they will call Hunter or Edwards to testify.
Before winning a U.S. Senate seat in 1998, Edwards made a fortune as a personal injury lawyer renowned for his ability to sway jurors. But his testimony would expose himself to a likely withering cross-examination.


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IM Archiving for Compliance
According to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, an instant message (IM) is considered a "correspondence" just the same as an email. Because of this, records of IMs must be stored for a period of no less than 3 years. Additionally, the passing of Dodd-Frank Act has many serious implications for financial institutions.
Basically, many organizations are legally obligated to archive their IM interactions for compliance purposes. Failure to do so can result in potential litigation. The rules do not state that an organization has to review or approve IM content. However, regardless of the content, the IM must be stored.
The ability to archive IM interactions is a welcomed addition to an already successful suite of collaboration solutions from ISI and Verint Verba Technologies. Specifically, archiving of IM interactions will ensure a company stays compliant with all federal mandates.
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How does IM archiving work?
Archived IM conversations are displayed using the same interface as voice and video recordings. All of these interactions are archived together and IM sessions are searchable as rich text/HTML. This offers a timeline view of complex conversations where the session starts with IM and is escalated into a call. It is the only way to provide a comprehensive trail of interactions for compliance purposes.
Archiving IM interactions provides the following features for compliance regulation:
Unified Search
Since call, video, Telepresence, and IM conversations are housed in a central repository, users can retrieve archived IM interactions alongside other recordings. This provides a single search experience for accessing all records needed for compliance purposes.
Full Text Search
Search through millions of messages by user, client, or keyword. Drill down to an exact conversation, and access complete transcripts of conversations if needed.
Selective Recording
Decide who should be recorded and when. Compliance archiving can be precise to individual, enterprise, or departmental needs, or left as an ongoing solution. Conversations can also be archived from the view point of all participants, including one-on-one and conference chats.
IM Monitoring
Ensure IM users stay on task and are compliant with by monitoring their all interactions in real-time. Much like Silent Monitoring for calls, management can monitor ongoing IM interactions in real-time. This ensures users stay on task and are compliant. Management can also insert a compliance message at the beginning of all chat flows flows (e.g. this conversation is recorded for compliance reasons).
Resiliency / Compliance Stop
IM chat sessions seamlessly continue after network downtime. There are no blank spots in IM archives, and conversations can be prevented if archiving is not operational.
IM Filtering
Prescreen IM content before it's posted to filter out conversations that are unnecessary or potentially do not adhere to the rules governing corporate compliance mandates. This includes the use of speech analytics to pre-filter conversations before manual analysis starts.


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The No. 2-ranked Butler football team rolled to a 72-12 win at Dodge City on Saturday, easily posting the most points ever by a Troy Morrell-coached team in a season opener.
The Grizzlies scored 21 points in the first quarter and 28 points in the third quarter on their way to a 10-touchdown evening. Butler scored in all three phases, getting eight touchdowns from the offense, two touchdowns from the defense and a blocked extra point that was returned for a two more points by the special teams.
Butler scored on its first possession on a 24-yard pass from quarterback Billy Cosh to Dreamius Smith less than four minutes into the contest. Dodge City answered with a 69-yard touchdown pass of its own from Logan Singhisen to Ervin Swonger, but the extra point kick was blocked, making the score 7-6.
Butler then went on to score the next 56 points in the contest, starting with a 67-yard pass from Cosh to a wide open Javess Blue. A 38-yard interception return for a touchdown by Torrell Saffold made the score 21-6 at the end of the first quarter.
Just one touchdown was scored in the second quarter, that coming on a 7-yard run by Dreamius Smith.
Butler's first touchdown in the third quarter was another defensive score, as Max Martinez intercepted a pass and returned it 38 yards to the end zone. Dreamius Smith scored his third touchdown of the game, this one on an impressive 55-yard run down the right sideline. Fullback Tyrell Everett scored on a 1-yard plunge and Billy Cosh capped his night with a 23-yard touchdown pass to Derrick Thomas.
Reserve quarterback Tyler Harrison scored Butler's first touchdown of the fourth quarter on a one-yard keeper that made the score 63-6.
The Grizzlies appeared to be done with the scoring, but after Dodge City scored a touchdown in the waning moments of the contest, the extra point was blocked. Defensive lineman Tim McGaha scooped up the ball and returned it the length of the field for two points.
The final score came as the Grizzlies were trying to run out the clock. Running back Ty Suggs, however, burst through a big hole on the right side of the line of scrimmage and ran 74 yards untouched to the end zone to cap the scoring.
Individually, Billy Cosh finished the night completing 20 of 27 passes for 315 yards, three touchdowns and one interception. Dreamius Smith ran 12 times for 91 yards and two touchdowns and also caught four passes for 71 yards and another touchdown. Javess Blue was Butler's leading receiver with five catches for 100 yards and a score.
The 72 points more than doubles Butler's previous high output in a season opener under Troy Morrell, which had been a 32-10 win over Trinity Valley (Texas) in 2004. This is the first time in Morrell's 13-year head coaching tenure that the Grizzlies had played a Jayhawk Conference school in a season opener. Previously the Grizzlies had played teams from Oklahoma or Texas to start the season.
Butler will play a Texas team next weekend when the Grizzlies make their debut in the new BG Products Veterans Sports Complex in El Dorado against No. 5-ranked Blinn.


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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas coach Mike Anderson was wondering how his team would react in its first game after the week-long trip to the Maui Invitational.
It didn't take long to get his answer Tuesday night.
Arkansas showed no signs of sluggishness during a 111-65 win against Southeastern Louisiana in front of an announced crowd of 7,754 in Bud Walton Arena. The Razorbacks, playing four days after their overnight flight home to Northwest Arkansas, met little resistance from the Lions.
Michael Qualls and Bobby Portis led four Arkansas players in double figures with 16 points apiece, helping the Razorbacks crack the 100-point mark for the first time since beating Longwood 112-63 in November 2012. Arkansas shot a season-high 62.3 percent (38 of 61) and every Razorback scored in the rout.
"We're due for a game like this where everything kind of clicked on all cylinders," Arkansas guard Kikko Haydar said. "It's just fun."
Arkansas was the third SEC team Southeastern Louisiana has played this season after opening the year at Missouri (89-53) and traveling to play LSU (89-66). But the Razorbacks handed the Lions (3-3) their most lopsided loss of the season and coach Jim Yarbrough said it's clear Anderson finally has a team that fits his style.
Yarbrough saw the difference two years ago, when SELA came to Bud Walton Arena and gave the Razorbacks fits in a game Arkansas eventually won 62-55.
"Two years ago we weren't even at full strength and we controlled the tempo," Yarbrough said. "And they tried to press us, and we just kind of broke it and got behind them. They're just faster (now). It's starting to become Mike's team. It's starting to look like a Mike Anderson team. I think the personnel fits him."
Everything worked for Arkansas (5-2) on Tuesday. Even Anderson's new lineup.
He shuffled his group once again, putting three point guards on the floor to start the game (Haydar, Rashad Madden and Fred Gulley). Haydar, a Fayetteville native, had come off the bench in his previous 66 games with the program.
"His energy is contagious," Anderson said about his reasons for finally starting Haydar. "A little spark plug. I mean, if you look up, he's everywhere. He's like a little gnat out there on the floor. He's just there, and I love it.
The fifth-year senior took advantage of the opportunity Tuesday night.
Haydar scored 9 points – all on 3-pointers – to start the game. He also added an assist, a steal and drew a charge in six minutes. Haydar's efforts helped the Razorbacks start fast, opening a 18-7 lead before Anderson turned to his bench.
"I was a little surprised," Haydar said. "Coach always told me to be ready for the opportunity. It was a little weird at first, but it was really not that big of a deal."
Anderson eventually got 12 players on the floor in the first half and the group effort helped them jump out to a 40-14 lead. The Razorbacks had a five-minute lull late in the half, but still took a 52-32 advantage to the locker room.
They didn't let up in the second half. Instead, Arkansas turned up the intensity and outscored SELA 18-3 in the opening minutes. The Razorbacks were able to build as much as a 57-point cushion with Mardracus Wade and Manuale Watkins becoming the last players to score on back-to-back possessions with four minutes remaining.
Arkansas outscored the Lions 41-9 off turnovers and 42-20 in the paint. No one played more than 18 minutes. Twelve players logged at least 10 minutes in the rout.
"It was a total team game," said Gulley, who finished with 9 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals. "We all got to play. Everybody got in and got to contribute. So it was exciting for everybody. … It was what we needed."
Tuesday's game was the start of a seven-game homestand, which will stretch until the start of Southeastern Conference play in January. The next step is, arguably, the most challenging remaining on Arkansas' nonconference schedule.
The Razorbacks will play Clemson (7-1) in Bud Walton Arena on Saturday.
But Anderson believes his team will be prepared after watching its growth continue.
"Did we take some lessons learned from Hawaii? Yes we did," Anderson said. "We've got a lot of room for improvement and hopefully we can get a lot better."


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Taylor Swift Rebuilds Seawall Outside Rhode Island Home
Although Taylor Swift has a break from touring for the holidays, things are bustling at her Rhode Island beach home, with a seawall being rebuilt outside of her estate.
Permits were issued to the songstress on Nov. 6 for "riprap revetment repair" and "landscaping 128 feet of new retaining wall" along the seawall of her Watch Hill beach house. The permits also give allowance for the replacement of unsafe rocks and re-setting of existing rocks, the Westerly Sun reports.
Like anyone invested in a piece of property, Swift wanted to increase safety where she could.
The damaged wall was actually hit hard during Hurrican Sandy. As Laura Dwyer, spokeswoman for the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, explains, "It all started during Sandy. The wall sustained damage during Sandy. We've done our due diligence."
Before approving the application, several CRMC staff members and the executive director visited the property to cite that it's a permitted activity on Swift's part.
Dwyer also states that the boulders were originally placed against the seawall, but the effects of erosion caused them to pull away from the wall and into the water.
"When the applicant came in with plans, they were proposing to leave those rocks way out in the water. We were the ones who asked them to get those boulders as close to the seaward side of that concrete wall as possible," Dwyer reveals, explaining Swift's part in the whole thing.
The purpose of the project -- which has drawn quite a lot of speculation and disproval due to false reports -- is simply to repair the seawall that was damaged. In fact, Swift is prohibited from impending any public right of way to the ocean or lateral access along the shoreline, and according to Dwyer, "Wall is okay. Everything is on the level. They haven't done anything wrong."
The superstar's Rhode Island residence has seen lots of attention from the public eye. After she paid $17 million in cash for the 11,000-square-foot-plus home, she has experienced angry neighbors and even a trespasser. Hopefully, once the construction crew leaves, she'll enjoy some peace and quiet!


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I have decided to again play Gothic 2. But I noticed that my numberkeys 2-9 and 0 doesn't work (1 for some reason works), that means I can't use bows and any magic, that makes game nerly unplayable.
These keys doesn't work at all (when I save the game I can't write nubers other then 1), but there it isn't critical.
Numpad keys works, but it is not usable for gameplay (e.g. using a bow).
It also may be problem, that I don't play it on Windows but using Wine on Linux (but I didn't find anyone who have similar problem, so I doubt about it).
I use official NoR datadisk and unofficial datadisk Returning, but in basic game (without datadisk) it works same.
Have anyone any solution? Redefined keys for using bows and magic would be enough.


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Ninth in a series.
"You want to play in the back yard, son?" April Gallop says to the lanky 10-year-old tailing her on the front walk of a neat frame house in a Richmond suburb. "You go around; I'll be right there."
Elisha Gallop wears a straw hat and flip-flops in the heat of a July afternoon. He gives his mom a smile and runs to lift a heavy padlock from a side gate. The half-finished fence, being built by volunteers, remains open at the rear; anyone could walk in. But she still craves the reassuring click of a solid padlock.
"I won't let him outside by himself," Gallop says in a low voice, looking down the street. A woman walks her dog across the way, not glancing over, not giving a neighborly wave. "There have been some comments."
Gallop leans against her car, a cherry-red BMW with a license plate that reads "A OVRCMER" and a fuel door that is slightly ajar.
"Now who's been messing with this?" she murmurs, pushing it closed, scanning the yard again.
A "No Trespassing" sign is tucked into a trellis. Another is planted by the door. A third, askew between the glass and the closed blinds of a front window, warns that the property is under video surveillance. On a tidy, sunny block, it's a house in a defensive crouch.
Gallop leans against the car and pulls papers from an envelope that a Chesterfield County deputy sheriff hand-delivered a few hours earlier. It's another threat from the landlord.
"Why is this happening?" she asks.
The lease payments are up to date, paid during the past six years by a Pentagon Sept. 11 survivors' fund. She thought she was renting to own, but now the property owner wants the house back. Gallop has an appointment with a lawyer the next morning. A new one. Is this the sixth or the seventh? It's hard to remember all the lawsuits filed, the claims denied, the appeals that go 'round and 'round.
"Evidently he has formed some kind of opinion about me," she says of the owner.
Maybe he's like the neighbor who spit on her driveway a few months ago as Gallop hustled back behind the lowered blinds, away from the growing wariness of the neighborhood, ignoring the invitation to explain her "un-American" views and this business of Gallop v. Cheney.
"I think they Googled 'April Gallop' and didn't like what they saw," she says.
Ten years ago, there was no contrail of derision attached to her name. That was before she had fought with government agencies and private charities and school systems and she hadn't yet sued airlines and banks and Osama bin Laden and the highest officials in the United States.
Before she had formally accused her government of making up that story about an airliner crashing into her Pentagon office.
She holds up her hands.
"All I'm doing is asking questions. When you walk out barefoot and you don't step on any plane parts. . . ."
The hands come down, tired.
"Lord, help me make sense of this."
Things stopped making sense on that brilliant September morning just as she pushed the button on her computer to start the day. In that moment, everything secure and understandable in the world fell on her head in a deafening avalanche of ceiling tiles and body parts.
She doesn't know how long she was out. "Oh my God, am I in hell?" she wondered as her eyes strained to decipher the jagged heaps of wallboard and office furniture, the computers spitting sparks, the legs and arms sprouting bizarrely from the debris, some waving for help, others crazy-broken and still.
The sound was as demonic as the scene, a sustained wail of agony and panic. And then beneath that, muffled and weak, she heard . . . what? . . . a baby? "Oh my God, is there a baby in hell?" she asked.
A baby. Elisha.
On her first day back from maternity leave, her boss had asked the new single mother to come straight to the office, newborn and all. Just handle a bit of urgent paperwork and then take little Elisha Zion to the Pentagon day-care center.
He had been sleeping in his stroller next to her desk.
She pushed through the crust of chairs and cabinets and the pain that felt like hammers pounding her skull and spine. Others were upright now, shouting, shoving rubble away from the loudest screams. She tried to help. The only light was a flare of gritty sun from a hole high above the mountains of debris.
Finally she found the place where the feeble cry was the clearest. She reached into the rubble, shouldered aside rocks of concrete and felt cotton on her fingertips. She pulled out her 10-week-old son by his onesie.
"Elisha," she calls into the back yard. His hat pops over the edge of the playground set that the VFW volunteers brought a few years ago. She calls them "my angels," folks who still think of her simply as a hallowed Sept. 11 survivor, her son as a miracle baby.
The boy comes up. "Yes, ma'am?"
"Let's go see if they've picked the squash. Lock the gates now."
They step around a pile of new gardening stuff that blocks the front walk, lying untouched where the angels left it in May: bags of mulch, some withering plants, a bottle of Roundup. Gallop doesn't like being in the yard enough to do much work on it.
But they drive a few miles to the garden of their church, Mount Gilead Full Gospel, a fenced acre of earth free of peering neighbors.
Elisha trots ahead and opens the gate, running along the furrows.
"He'll walk up and down here all night if I let him," Gallop says.
There is nothing visible to mark Elisha's early trauma. He's lean and agile, with wide brown eyes and a smile dimpled and gleaming. He has head shots on file with a local modeling agency.
But there are subtler echoes of that day, she says. He learns slowly, his retention is soft. Repeat, repeat, repeat, or the lessons fade. Every few months, his "glitch" shows up; he'll have trouble telling whether a door is open or the page of a book is right-side up. His teachers put him in a special education class when he was 6, but Gallop took him out halfway through the year when he began to regress. "Suddenly he didn't want to feed himself," she said. "I couldn't do that to my son."
Now she strings together a battery of private teachers, some volunteer and some paid, who teach Elisha for six hours each day at a public library. He's reading at grade level. On Fridays, he learns piano, guitar and violin. He's taking figure-skating lessons.
"It was just one more fight," Gallop says of her grapples with the school system. "I never imagined in a thousand years everything would be so hard."
They told her it wouldn't be. From the time she woke up on the grass outside the Pentagon, people told her she and her son would be taken care of. Politicians on TV said it was the nation's duty to care for the victims; functionaries in hotel meeting rooms across Northern Virginia assured her and other survivors that the money was coming, the systems in place.
But Gallop says those well-intentioned systems failed her and the boy she had carried over the smoking rubble to that high shaft of sunlight above. That had looked like the way to safety.
One by one, she became enmeshed in paperwork tangles, bureaucratic standoffs, exhausting delays, with the Army, the Veterans Affairs Department, the Pentagon Survivors' Fund.
She did receive help, the housing aid and vouchers for groceries. Anonymous donors gave tens of thousands that paid for Elisha's rehabilitation costs and other needs.
But 10 years on, Gallop says confusion about what support agencies would and wouldn't cover has left her deeply in debt and with no income other than her pension and the spotty child-support payments she receives from Elisha's father, a soldier. Everything else is pending: settlements from lawsuits, disputed back pay, a star-crossed application for a VA self-employment grant.
"Right now, it's pretty close to the bone," she says. "Thank God for coupons."
Gallop acknowledges that she is not blameless in the bureaucratic relationships that soured one after another. She was "a yeller," she says, before a therapist helped her learn coping skills.
And sometimes she just disappears. "If I'm feeling bad, I don't work," Gallop says. "I won't call back for a few days. But I told them that in the beginning. So I'm a complainer. Aren't you trained to deal with that?"
She watches Elisha, only his hat visible cruising along the top of the cornstalks.
"I don't care. I've got my son. I am going to fight for my benefits."
At that moment, a timer clicks and sprinklers launch twin arcs of water over the crops, and over the Gallops.
The mother shrieks and speed-walks toward the gate, giggling. The boy whoops and runs back and forth, chasing the drops.
She had assumed it was a bomb. Maybe even a bomb attached to her computer. She had pushed the button and the place had blown up.
But an airplane?
How could that be?
It was an article of Army faith to her that she was working in the most secure building in the world. They had told her that over and over when she was transferred from Germany to the Pentagon in 2000, the days of briefings about air defenses, early warning systems, impregnable security. They said it couldn't happen.
And then it did happen, and since then she has wondered, "Where was the plane?" The scene is still vivid in her nightmares: rubble, yes, but no aircraft wreckage; smoke and flames, but no jet-fuel inferno.
"I was 50 feet from the impact zone," Gallop says. "The engine should have been in my lap."
But it wasn't.
She waited for clarity that wouldn't come, not with the lengthening trail of official statements, not with the 9/11 Commission report, the DNA matches from the passengers of American Airlines Flight 77.
She didn't see a plane. They said it couldn't happen. No one is taking responsibility.
She knows they call her crazy on the Internet, or an opportunist seeking attention or money.
But she says she doesn't enjoy being a darling of 9/11 truthers, the skeptic who was there. She doesn't spend much time on their Web sites and has rarely watched video from the twin towers or the Pentagon, either.
"It's hard for me to look at," she says, patting her chest with a stricken expression. "It makes me cry."
And money? Well, she needs money. She is clipping coupons and going to midnight sales at the PX at Richmond's Fort Lee and waiting on payoffs that are always a few more documents away.
Gallop joined a class-action lawsuit that accused Riggs Bank of laundering money for the terrorists, and another that named pages of defendants around the Muslim world, including Bin Laden. Both were dismissed.
She is in the process of settling a suit against American Airlines. On instructions from her attorney, she won't discuss it. But she does not step around the incongruity of suing for damages over the plane that she contends did not hit the Pentagon.
"If there are claims out there that these things took place that day, the airlines are liable," she says. "If they are liable, I'm one of the victims. I have to do that for my son."
The two of them are waiting on orders of Mongolian beef at a Noodles and Co. across the street from the law offices where they've been for the past two hours. Gallop wears a black T-shirt with "Women of P.O.W.E.R." spelled out in rhinestones.
Elisha sits quietly now, next to his mother, fiddling with chopsticks and straw wrappers and not paying much attention to the litany of doubts and frustrations he has heard hundreds of times before.
When the food arrives, they hook pinkies. "Lord Jesus, I thank you for this meal," Elisha says.
The two are rarely apart. She used to make "Gallop Family Team" badges for their shirts. When he was 7, she began coaching him on his role: cleaning up after himself and being patient during Mommy's long talks with bureaucrats, landlords, lawyers.
It took her months to find an attorney willing to go to the top, to try to get a vice president, a defense secretary, a Joint Chiefs chairman at the table for sworn discovery.
William Veale, a former public defender from Walnut Creek, Calif., and a founder of the Center for 9/11 Justice, agreed. They filed Gallop v. Cheney in 2008.
The suit asserted that the story about a hijacked plane hitting the Pentagon "is false," that the defendants were "complicit" in the attacks because they wanted to create conditions that would allow them to reassert "U.S. military power abroad, particularly in Iraq, the Persian Gulf, and other oil-producing areas."
Gallop says she isn't sure about all the claims in the suit that bears her name. The lawyers wrote them.
"I can't say I absolutely agree with everything in the lawsuit," she says. "But I do think the case should be allowed to get to discovery."
The suit was thrown out as frivolous in 2010. An appeals court upheld the dismissal in April. A motion to reconsider was denied in July.
"We're appealing," Gallop says. The last option is the U.S. Supreme Court.
She looks at her son struggling with the chopsticks. "We're going to be fine."
After lunch, they walk to a comic-book store. Now Elisha is bouncing. After hours of dutiful calm, he runs ahead, then runs back to the door to hold it open for his mother, then runs off again.
He shops a bookstore the way he walks the garden, up and down every aisle, hardly stopping. In a minute, he has a handful of comic books, a minute later he has returned those and picked up some others.
Finally, he is back with the one he wants most of all. Just one. His mother looks through her purse.
"I left my money at home," she says.
Elisha glances at the comic. "That's okay," he says. "I'll get it next time."
He skips two aisles over and returns it to the exact slot where he had found it.
On the slow, hot walk across the parking lot, Elisha says that if he could be a comic-book hero, a hero with a super power, he'd choose invisibility. Good for hide-and-seek.
His mother walks slowly, limping a bit in the heat. "Super strength," she says.
"You want super strength?" Elisha asks.
She smiles down at him.
"I could do it all!" she says.
"You could fly!" he says, grabbing her hand, pulling her off her stride.
"I would fly to the VA office," she says, starting to laugh. "I'd fly to the VA and I wouldn't even sit down. I'd just float in the air."
They are at a stoplight. Her son is holding her hand, looking up at her face.
" 'Won't you have a seat, Ms. Gallop,' " she says in a timid voice, imagining what they would say to this woman floating in the air.
"No!" she thunders, and now both she and Elisha are laughing and hanging onto each other as they cross the street, back to the lawyer's office, back to a world in which you can touch a computer key and a bomb goes off.
Or was it a missile?
Or was it a plane?
Back to trying to make sense of it all.
First in the series: Trying to find the new normal
Second in the series: Twin misses his other half
Third in the series: Brought together by catastrophe
Fourth in the series: After 9/11, security guard on high alert
Fifth in the series: Still feeling at home up in the sky
Sixth in the series: After loss, working to fill the void
Seventh in the series: The wounded man
Eighth in the series: Living with 'if only'


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Currently, Roman Abramovich's Eclipse is the largest yacht in the world at a staggering 538 feet long.
That is about to change.
Superyachts.com just sent us information on Project Azzam, which will hit the water at a length of at least 590 feet. That means it could actually be longer!
That's more than a football field and a half long. An Airbus A380 is 239 feet long. This ship is massive.
There is no word on who commissioned the ship, but we wouldn't be shocked if the yacht belongs to Abramovich and he's just trying to one-up himself.
Take a look at this monster below:


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Today is Major League Baseball's Opening Day, which means the first real game in more than five months for most players and fans. It's also a big day for the league's Internet division: MLB Advanced Media is pushing a full slate of games for the first time through its new MLB.TV Web streaming service -- rebuilt almost entirely during the off-season.
With this new rollout, the league is raising the bar on how live television is distributed over the Web. While TV networks are still figuring out the best way to put last night's sitcom online, MLB is about to stream a season of more than 2,000 live games in hi-definition with more features than any cable box.
Beyond pausing and rewinding live games as you can with a DVR, subscribers can watch up to four games at a time with "mosaic" picture-in-picture; select different audio channels, including synced-up radio commentary streams; and follow their favorite players (or fantasy team) as they play their games, including live video peeks. Nothing comes close.
There's more to come: MLB's excellent At Bat iPhone app -- now the no. 3 paid app in Apple's app store -- could have live video streaming this summer, using a new streaming tool that Apple is building into its iPhone 3.0 software, says MLB Advanced Media CEO Bob Bowman. And Bowman is still working on a deal with teams and TV networks to introduce in-market Web streaming -- something he says he's been working on "since 1921, it seems." Last summer, he said it was still five years out. Now, he tells us, "hopefully less." (Local, in-market games are currently blacked out and can't be streamed -- to protect TV rights holders.)
We sat down for a chat with Bowman (pictured, left, in a staff meeting) late last week at MLB Advanced Media's headquarters in Manhattan's Chelsea Market.
SAI: A lot of video on the Web -- especially anything live -- is still lousy. When is the rest of the media industry going to catch up with the kind of stuff you're doing?
Bowman: I don't think they have a choice. They've got to figure out how to get it online. That ship has sailed and people want choices. [TV networks] have their own host of important stakeholders -- just like we do at baseball -- that they need to wrestle with -- internal, external -- all in the name of trying to serve customers.
I think they are going to have to move headlong. I think what will be discussed more thoroughly is what the model is.
Like requiring people to have an offline TV subscription like cable to watch online video, or something like that?
At a minimum, that will be it. But I think they may develop different levels. You get simultaneous viewing if you're a certain kind of subscriber. A different kind of viewing if you're not. Right now, with broadband, with your connection, you can have gradations -- you pay more for faster speed. Who's to say that can't be replicated in a similar fashion -- in terms of the range of content that's available and also the timing of it?
Speaking of broadband, one cable company -- Time Warner Cable -- is testing plans that limit the amount of bandwidth subscribers can use every month before they have to pay a steep overage charge. That could affect your business delivering hi-def Internet TV. Is this going to work?
I don't think that ever has a chance of happening. I think AOL tried that when they first launched, charging people by the hour. The notion that they're going to start charging people based on bandwidth and regulating the bandwidth is going to be very hard for them to do. Bandwidth is just not consumed like gas. I think there will be lots of interested parties if they start to regulate access to the media.
You cut the price of MLB.TV by $10 this year to deal with the lousy economy. How are sales compared to last year?
Right now, on an apples-to-apples basis, five days out from Opening Day, we're slightly ahead. There's no question we'll be ahead of 2008 by Opening Day. We've been pleasantly surprised both by the sheer numbers and that our returning fans understand the difference between the premium -- the hi-def -- and the basic subscription. I think we're probably at two thirds at the premium level. Last year it was about 50-50. That may mellow out as the season goes on, but it's certainly way above last year.
And how's the advertising market looking?
We're like everybody else; we're working twice as hard to stay even. My own view though, is, that while some of the easy and logical companies -- finance, autos -- are certainly in a different spot than they were last year, they're replaceable. People still want to advertise. Whereas last year we might have had 20 sponsors spending x dollars, this year, to get x, it might be 50. And that has all sorts of advantages.
The NCAA has been selling an iPhone app that lets people watch March Madness games live over wi-fi. Is that sort of thing on the roadmap for At Bat?
Apple's working on a technology that will allow live streams. Fortunately, that technology overlays very well with how we do our live streaming. So when iPhone 3.0 is ready, we think we'll be able to offer live streams. If there were a heaven and it came out in midseason, maybe we offer a game or two a day and that way we don't drop the price for At Bat. We would love to do live games on the iPhone. I think people would watch. A whole game? Probably not. But ten minutes?
A local software startup called Boxee has been running into trouble with Hulu, whose old-media corporate parents don't want people watching Web shows on their flatscreen TVs. Any pressure from baseball or your TV partners to prevent your customers from doing that with live baseball games?
Nothing we can do about it. If someone hooks it up to a TV, they don't get in-market streaming. I'd say that kind of stuff is good and it doesn't substitute for anything. It is a small group of a small group that is doing that.
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Ron Conway has actively encouraged the San Francisco tech community to get involved with the government. Yesterday his hard work paid off.
The city of San Francisco voted in a new tax policy Conway supported, Proposition E. Proposition E won by a landslide with 70.6% of the votes, and it could save tech companies there millions of dollars.
Before Proposition E, companies were paying payroll taxes on every job they created, even if they weren't generating much revenue. Proposition E replaces payroll taxes with a gross receipts tax.
In other words, companies will now be taxed on total gross revenues instead of eating costs for every person they employ. "Tax policy over the past decade has penalized job creation by taxing jobs instead of profit," Conway explained on TechCrunch. "Proposition E incentivizes job growth, hiring, and economic investment which has a multiplier effect that generates millions of dollars in revenue for San Francisco."
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It was a sound that brought summer to a halt along every Erwin Farm street. If we were racing our home-made, human-powered go-carts made from worn-out mower wheels, discarded lumber, rope steering and axles fashioned from metal rods discovered in a pile of rubbish from the old mill trash pile off Laurel Avenue, this sound would bring out a red flag as it drew closer and closer.
During summer months, days are longer and more people are outside for longer periods of time, increasing the health risks from heat exhaustion and overexposure to the sun.
Each year, more Americans on average die from heat waves than from any other natural disaster.
And every hour, one person dies from skin cancer, which is the most common occurring cancer in the Unied States.
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There's nothing like the smell of fresh, homegrown tomatoes.
That is exactly what it smelled like in the Carol Raye Dowling Health Services Center at the University of South Carolina Lancaster where in mid-June participants peeled and quartered dozens of tomatoes during Clemson University Cooperation Extension's hands-on canning course.
Canning is one of the most time-tested ways to preserve that smell and taste of fresh food, but it must be done carefully.
Eighteen-year-old Morgan "Hot Shoe" Turpen has lofty dreams.
They include earning an education degree from the University of Memphis and becoming a teacher and high school softball coach and possibly, one day, a principal.
But should that plan go awry, the Cordova, Tenn., native does have a back-up.
For now, she has a 1,300-pound winged sprint car with a 360-cubic, 700-horsepower engine and a pair of racing gloves to fall back on. Later on, if she continues to grow and develop, that could mean NASCAR.
They have a wholesalers license and their product is certified as a South Carolina product. In fact, Barbara Lyles and Barbara Hilton even have a certificate from the Department of Homeland Security.
"We are certified as not being terrorists," Lyles said.
Their product is made in South Carolina and they are licensed to sell. Homeland Security might want to rethink their designation, though, because the cheesecakes Lyles and Hilton make in their small business are definitely "the bomb."
According to the Hearth, Patio and Barbecue's 2011 National Barbecue Poll, 70 percent of Americans prefer to cook out over eating out as a way to save money.
If dad enjoys cooking out, firing up the grill for Father's Day is a natural, low cost fit. It can be fun, easy and a stress-free way to avoid long restaurant lines.
Instead of a gift card, new tie, socks or shirt, why not make your dad feel like a king with a great Father's Day meal that will put a smile on his face?
When it comes to grilling out, nothing beats hot dogs and hamburgers, but sometimes you need to kick it up a notch.
That's where a good marinade comes in.
Marinades are a great way to add spice and flavor before grilling.
You can also make the most of an inexpensive cut of meat with a marinade by turning cheap choice into prime steak.
There are tons of store-bought varieties, but you can save money by easily preparing your own from scratch.
The city of Lancaster's summer outdoor movie and concert series kicks off this week.
Caroline Hasty, events and promotions manager for the city of Lancaster, said there will be a movie on the second Saturday of each month through September.
Beginning Saturday, Hasty said families can bring chairs and blankets to the corner of Gay and Main streets for "Movies in the City."
All the movies are free and concessions will be sold.
Opinions and advice on how to achieve good health or overcome health problems are a "dime-a-dozen" nearly everywhere.
But it means a lot more to hear a personal story from someone you know, who's succeeded in achieving better health.
It's even better if their program is simple, easy to understand and affordable.
Konstantinos "Gus" Deligiannidis, owner of Gus' Restaurants in Kershaw and Lancaster, has a story of his own journey to good health, and he's doing something to share it.
FORT LAWN – In 1996, third-generation farmers David and Jimmy Jordan were looking for a crop that could be watered and didn't require very much rain.
Their options were limited, given their location just north of Fort Lawn on S.C. 21. That was something the Jordan boys learned young, while watching their grandfather try to scratch out a cotton crop on the same ground.
"We'd sit on the porch and watch thunderstorms come through and go around this place every single time, making our granddaddy so mad he could spit," David Jordan said.
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The American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) announced its 2014 All-America and Gold Glove teams with four St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) players making the list. Three SLIAC student-athletes were named All-America Second Team while a fourth earned Gold Glove honors.
Greenville College's Tim Osborne, a sophomore outfielder, was named Second Team All-America while Webster University's Taylor Stoulp, a senior, was named Second Team as a second baseman, and Westminster College's Deion Hughes, a junior, earned Second Team honors at the utility position. In addition Matt Wollnik, a freshman shortstop from Webster University, was named to the 2014 ABCA Gold Glove team.
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Microsoft has confirmed that the Surface Pro will be released in the UK next week. The Windows 8 tablet will be available for order from May 23rd. With recommended retail pricing of £719 for the 64GB version and £799 for the 128GB model, consumers will be forking out for tablets that are grouped in the Ultrabook price range.
That's not all as the Type Cover and Touch Cover will set you back £110 and £99 respectively. That said, the Surface Pro runs the full version of Windows 8, unlike the RT models. You're packing a full PC in the palm of your hands, with functionality matching a desktop environment (excluding keyboard and mouse, of course).
The month of May will also see Microsoft launching the product in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Korea, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, and Thailand will follow in June.
So why have we had to wait for so long until Microsoft finally releases its premium Windows 8 tablet? One word: demand. Here's what Robert Epstein told TechRadar:
"That's why we're where we are today really, because of the success in the US. We're really pleased with how things are going. [Surface is] two different propositions. Surface RT is a tablet with PC characteristics, surface pro is a PC in a tablet form factor."
This is understandable if we look at how badly the Surface has been backordered in the past, particularly in the US. Should you be looking for an advanced Windows 8 tablet, the Surface Pro is one of the best choices out there, alongside Acer's offering. In fact, there are a number of solid tablets to choose from multiple vendors. We'll give you all a heads up when it's ready to order.
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#145 What You Don't Know About Sharing Photos
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With the emergence of digital photography and social networking, sharing photos has never been easier. With so many places and ways to upload your pictures, it is easy to miss out on key photo sharing offerings provided by major services such as Facebook, Google+ and Apple's Photo Streams. Discover hidden features that you never knew existed with this informative article by Katherine Boehret from the Wall Street Journal.
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Recent weeks have seen the rhetoric from both sides of the Greek tragedy ramped up with naysayers claiming the days of the Hellenic Republic's membership of the euro zone are numbered, and others insisting the bloc will stay intact come what may.
Well respected names within the global financial community have come out to state their preferred solution for the now convoluted mess that the region finds itself in.
Nouriel Roubini, chairman of Roubini Global Economics and dubbed Dr Doomfor his pessimistic economic predictions, has called for outright euro zone reorganization.
In an opinion piece for the Financial Times newspaper, Roubini argued that the bloc needed to seek a 'divorce' from vulnerable members – Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland and Spain, leaving the euro zone with a stronger core. He insisted that, although hard, managing an amicable exit strategy would be in everybody's interest.
The impasse generated by the May 6 vote, which produced no clear winner and sharpened the boundaries in Greece has heightened the euro zone's crisis to a level once believed to be unthinkable – the fracture of the 17-nation group.
As Greeks vote on Sunday there is much apprehension that Syriza – a far left party that insists the existing bailout agreement for the country must be renegotiated and has threatened to stop interest rate payments – will build on its existing popular support. However, leader Alex Tsipras has insisted that he does not think Greece should leave the euro zone.
Harvard Professor Martin Feldstein told CNBC the situation had gone too far for Greece to remain a viable member of the single currency and the best situation would be for Greece "to leave the euro zone, devalue a new currency" as it was now "beyond repair."
This sentiment was echoed by Nick Dewhirst, director at wealth management firm Integral Asset Management who said Greece would leave the euro zone on June 18 if the populist government were to be elected and it would be "better for Greece to leave." He said the country would be better off once the initial problems subside as a new currency was introduced, unemployment would fall and tourism would boom.
Officials from European countries and the European Union itself have maintained a consistent line that there would be no exit of any country from the euro zone. Earlier this week, Vitor Constâncio, vice president of the European Central Bank , told CNBC that the exit of any nation from the euro zone would be "catastrophic."
Many analysts agree and do not believe that a Greek departure will actually transpire. Ian Harnett, European Strategist at Absolute Strategy Research, told CNBC that European leaders would do whatever it takes to keep the euro project alive.
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