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TRA(4) NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual TRA(4) NAME tra -- Fujitsu MB86950 based Tiara Ethernet cards driver SYNOPSIS tra* at mca? slot ? DESCRIPTION The tra driver supports Tiara MCA bus Ethernet adapters and clones, based on the Fujitsu MB86950 Ethernet controller. Supported boards include: Tiara LANCard/E Ethernet Adapter Standard MicroSystems 3016/MC Ethernet SEE ALSO ifmedia(4), intro(4), mca(4), ifconfig(8) HISTORY The tra driver appeared in NetBSD 4.0. AUTHORS The tra driver has been written by Dave Barnes <firstname.lastname@example.com>. BUGS Multicast is not supported. There is no hardware support for multicast, and the driver does not implement a software-only solution. NetBSD 8.1 March 3, 2005 NetBSD 8.1
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I have a drop down menu that displays all of the terms for one of my custom taxonomies using get_categories (). It displays fine in alphabetical form. However, what i want to know is how can i have the terms listed in a hierarchial form in a drop down menu, so they appear like this -
Parent Category 1
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Parent Category 2
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Here is my code for the drop down menu:
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<?php $categories_filter = get_categories( 'taxonomy=tshirt_categories' );
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echo '<option name=' . $category_option->slug . ' value="' . $category_option->slug . '" /> ' . $category_option->name . '</option>' . "\n";
Once again thanks for any advice you guys may have!

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Property TypeLand – Homesite
SubdivisionVALLEY OF THE SUN
Listing Date02/08/19
AreaPark County
Lot Size1.00 Acres
Property Description
This is a nice piece of land, with good of tree cover, at the very bottom of the valley for the easiest access! County maintained road, and only 5 minutes off the highway! This long lot gives you a good chance to get off the road, and on the hill where the views start to improve! The proximity to the river increases your chance of spotting all kinds of wildlife! Very close to Alma and Fairplay for conveniences, and only a little over a half hour to Breckenridge!
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3 Beds 2.5 Baths
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October 08, 2013
By Sam Smith, MD, Surgeon in Chief, Arkansas Children's Hospital
It begins with a simple complaint: "Mom, my belly hurts." Kids come to parents with all sorts of minor tummy troubles, so the parent decides to wait and see. Within just a few hours, the child seems to be hurting even more, so much so that he doesn't want to play videogames on the phone or do much of anything other than lounge on the sofa. He is not hungry, and he's not going to the bathroom much, either. So Mom begins to wonder, "Could this be appendicitis?"
It's a question that just about every parent faces, and the answer is rarely an easy one. When is abdominal pain something serious, and when is it something that will work itself out? Parents can start their own assessment with a few basic questions:
If the answers to these questions point toward appendicitis, it's time to head to your local emergency care provider. You'll have an even better idea about whether the child has appendicitis if the complaints intensify during the drive. Some patients with appendicitis say they hurt more every time the car crosses a bump in the road!
Once you arrive at an emergency room or physician's office, your child will undergo a physical exam to determine the source of the pain, and they'll likely ask you questions similar to those above. We can't tell if someone has appendicitis using blood or urine tests, so the best way to diagnose it is with physical examination along with imaging technology.
Ultrasound is recommended as the initial imaging study because it doesn't expose kids to radiation, but it can be hard to always identify an inflamed appendix this way. If it isn't obvious on ultrasound, a child will most likely have a CT scan, which nine times out of 10 will show whether the appendix needs to come out.
Lots of families worry about the child's appendix "bursting" or "rupturing." It happens when the pain has been going on for a couple of days, which indicates the infection is growing worse. If a child is assessed and treated quickly, this risk declines significantly – all the more reason to seek medical attention early!
In Arkansas, we do see perforation – or that "bursting" – in more than half of appendicitis cases. We believe this is because so much of the state is rural and many people have less access to urgent care than in urban areas. The bottom line: When abdominal pain is consistent and lower right-sided, don't wait!
Treatment of appendicitis in kids is pretty straightforward. School-age kids will have surgery using a scope to take out the appendix. This usually results in three fairly small pencil-sized incisions. In preschool kids a single cut about two fingers wide will be made directly over the appendix. By the way, there is no age range for appendicitis, though we rarely see it in kids under 3. It's much more common in school-age children all the way through young adults.
It's always scary when a child needs to have surgery, but removing the appendix is one of the most common surgical procedures we perform at Arkansas Children's Hospital. We average over 100 of these surgeries each year. Luckily, most go home within 24 hours. The kids that have experienced the perforated or "burst" appendix stay with us a little longer to get back to eating while receiving IV antibiotics. A child usually will be back to running and playing within a week of having his appendix removed, too.
When we talk with parents whose child has faced appendicitis, they always want to know what they could have done differently. Honestly? Probably not a thing! We're not certain what causes the appendix to become inflamed, but we do know it's not the stuff of old wives' tales. Swallowed chewing gum, fingernail clippings, eating too many biscuits – none of these things cause appendicitis.
It's possible that constipation may factor in, though. We do see more appendicitis cases in the spring and summer, when kids are more likely to be less hydrated and more constipated. And when we remove the appendix, we typically find a little bit of hardened stool blocking its opening to the large intestine.
One other piece of advice for parents heading to the hospital with a child in abdominal pain: Don't let them eat or drink anything if you are bringing them to the hospital. If your child does need an appendectomy, having just had food or liquids will mean you may have to wait longer to go into surgery.
In general, the best way to prevent any kind of health issue is to hydrate well and proceed with good health habits. Though even then, families may face a serious concern like appendicitis.
Just remember, it can be hard for anyone to judge a child's abdominal pain on their own at home. Always take a child with consistent, right-sided lower abdominal pain in for an exam. Even if the next few hours are overwhelming, a child with appendicitis will likely be diving back into video games and rowdy playground fun in just a few days.
Sam Smith, MD, is surgeon in chief at Arkansas Children's Hospital and a professor of Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He writes a column each week covering a variety of kids' medical concerns. If you have a topic you'd like him to consider addressing, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Part of travel for me is getting a glimpse of local art, and taking some home if I am lucky. I have developed a weakness for folk art and I had a field day shopping for it when in Puebla. Amongst the sea of beautiful Talavera pottery, turquoise jewelry, and handmade panchos were these magnificent, brightly colored, clay sculptures called Trees of Life.
Some were only a few inches tall and some were taller than me. The more traditional Trees of Life contained Biblical images, most often Adam & Eve, and looked likes candelabras. Other versions contained images of nature, representing the interconnectedness of all life.
Whatever the size, theme, or color scheme, they were all beautiful and I ended up taking two home (small ones that fit in my suitcase and my budget of course).
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Caregiving Books You Should Care About
By Sally Abrahms , July 24, 2013 07:35 AM
Ah, it's summer. Beach reading time if you're a lucky caregiver. What I'm going to propose may not be your idea of breezy escape books. But I've made a list of top-notch resources for family caregivers. If you can't get to them now, they'll be helpful in any season.
The books are written by professionals (physicians, nurses, therapists, gerontologists, bioethicists and journalists), many of whom know about caregiving firsthand. With tips, strategies, information and contacts, they focus on sick spouses, ailing or needy parents, and you, the caregiver.
No reason to read anything into the order in which books are listed; it's arbitrary.
1. When the Time Comes: Families With Aging Parents Share Their Struggles and Solutions, by Paula Span
2. They're Your Parents, Too! How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents' Aging Without Driving Each Other Crazy, by Francine Russo
3. The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers: Looking After Yourself and Your Family While Helping an Aging Parent, by clinical psychologist and family therapist Barry J. Jacobs
4. Passages in Caregiving, by Gail Sheehy
5. A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents - and Ourselves, by Jane Gross
6. The Caregiver's Survival Handbook, by gerontologist Alexis Abramson
7. A Cast of Caregivers, by Sherri Snelling
8. To Survive Caregiving: A Daughter's Experience, a Doctor's Advice, by Dr. Cheryl E. Woodson
9. We're in This Together: A Caregiver's Story, by Rob Harris
10. The Unexpected Caregiver: How Boomers Can Keep Mom & Dad Active, Safe and Independent, by Kari Berit
11. The Gifts of Caregiving: Stories of Hardship, Hope, and Healing, by Connie Goldman
12. The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer's Disease, Related Dementias, and Memory Loss, by dementia specialist Nancy Mace and Dr. Peter Rabins, a psychiatrist and behavioral scientist specializing in memory disorders at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
13. Learning to Speak Alzheimer's, by Joanne Koenig Coste
14. The Caregiving Wife's Handbook, by psychotherapist Diana Denholm
15. When Mom and Dad Need Help; senior housing and care information by Michael C. Campbell
16. The Caregiver's Path to Compassionate Decision Making: Making Choices for Those Who Can't, by bioethicist Viki Kind
17. Stages of Senior Care: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Making the Best Decisions, by Paul and Lori Hogan, founders of Home Instead Senior Care
18. Don't Give Up on Me! Supporting Aging Parents Successfully: A Daughter's Intimate Memoir, by Jan Simpson
19. Caring is Not Enough: A Workbook for Emergency and End-of-Life Planning, by registered nurse Terry Ann Black
20. Knocking on Heaven's Door: Our Parents, Their Doctors, and a Better Way of Death, by Katy Butler
21. Saying Goodbye: A Guide to Coping with a Loved One's Terminal Illness, by Barbara Okun, Ph.D., and Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.
Consider this your personal caregiver library.
I'm sure there are some treasures I missed. Want to add to the list?
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text: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, after decades of consideration, has proposed limiting the amount of inorganic arsenic in apple juice to the same level of the potential cancer-causing chemical allowed in U.S. drinking water.Although the vast majority of apple juice that has been tested by the FDA over the years has contained low levels of inorganic arsenic that were considered safe, the FDA has been wrestling whether to set limits because of the cancer risk.The agency on Friday proposed a limit of 10 parts per billion (ppb) for inorganic arsenic in apple juice, the level set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for arsenic in drinking water. (http://link.reuters.com/jac69t)"This action level will keep any apple juice that may have more inorganic arsenic than that out of the marketplace," Michael Taylor, the FDA's deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine, said in a blog post.Last year the agency tested 94 samples of arsenic in apple juice and found that all were below the 10 ppb threshold for inorganic arsenic. The FDA is now setting that limit as the allowable future benchmark. It will accept public comments on its recommendations for 60 days.Inorganic arsenic may be found in foods because it is present in the environment, both as a naturally occurring mineral and due to the use of arsenic-containing pesticides.Inorganic arsenic has been associated with skin lesions, developmental effects, cardiovascular disease, neurotoxicity and diabetes. Organic forms of arsenic, also found in soil and ground water, are considered essentially harmless.Some consumer groups said the limit on arsenic is a good first step, but the carcinogen needs to be limited further."The standard they've chosen may not be adequate to fully protect the public," said Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of food safety at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.Juice sold by any one company can be made from concentrate that is obtained throughout the world, including U.S. sources and major suppliers in Asia and South America.The proposal was applauded by non-profit, independent product-testing organization Consumer Reports, which called it a "reasonable first step in protecting consumers from unnecessary exposure to arsenic."This is also a signal that we need to refocus on how we are introducing arsenic into the environment," said Urvashi Rangan, director of consumer safety and sustainability at Consumer Reports. "You want to see that standard get stronger and stronger over time, and we're going to hope to see that with apple juice."


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Moments after enemy fire punctured the fuselage, smoke filled the cockpit of George Herbert Walker Bush's plane, the Barbara III. The twenty-year-old Navy pilot and his two-man crew had not yet carried out their mission, which was to bomb the island of Chichi Jima. But the plane was plummeting, and flames were nearing the fuel tank. Finally, the payload was dropped, and Bush ordered his crewmen, Ted White and John Delaney, to bail. Hearing no reply, he jumped out himself—pulling the parachute's rip cord early and banging his head on the plane, but recovering in time to hit the water safely. Swimming to an emergency life raft that had opened with his jump, he waited to be rescued. Around him, in the swells of the Pacific, White and Delaney were nowhere to be seen. "I cannot get the thought of those two boys out of my mind," Bush confessed years later.
In 1999, Bush celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday by jumping out of another airplane. (He jumped again last month, to celebrate his eightieth.) This time, he forgot to pull the rip cord; fortunately, another jumper had the presence of mind to do it for him. On landing, the former President was euphoric. Some noted echoes: it seemed that the birthday display of bravura had allowed him to revisit, perhaps even master, his Second World War trauma.
If George H. W. Bush had long viewed that wartime episode with dismay, his son George W. had always viewed it with awe. According to "The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty" (Doubleday; $27.95), an admiring history of the family by Peter and Rochelle Schweizer, George Walker Bush, as a child, had leafed through photograph albums of his father in uniform and stolen glimpses of his medals. "I want to be a fighter pilot because my father was," Bush told Colonel Walter (Buck) Staudt, of the Texas Air National Guard, in 1968, and Staudt helped the new Yale graduate leapfrog the waiting list to enter the pilot program. Four months later, young Bush pulled off a neat trick for a draft-age man during the Vietnam War: he had his second-lieutenant wings, yet he faced almost no risk of having to go and fight. The only price was that he took home no medals like his father's.
Three decades later, on May 1, 2003, George W. landed in an S-3B Viking jet on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, where he delivered a speech hailing the end of "major combat" in Iraq. For most of his life, he had followed in his father's footsteps—Andover, Yale, military flying, the oil business, politics—only to come up short at each milepost. The father prospered when his company, Zapata Petroleum Corporation, struck oil in seventy-one Texas wells in 1953 and 1954; when the son, at roughly the same age, formed his own firm, Arbusto, not even infusions of family cash could keep it from tumbling into debt. "I'm all name and no money," he said after it foundered. But last year, when he strode triumphant on the carrier deck, no one could dispute that, by chasing Saddam Hussein from his Baghdad palace, the son had finished one job his father had left undone.
Along with the Schweizers' book, Kevin Phillips's "American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush" (Viking; $25.95) and Craig Unger's "House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties" (Scribner; $26) seek to place the incumbent's policies in the context of family traits. The word "dynasty," readers will note, appears in all three titles, likening the son's Presidency to a monarchical restoration, and all the authors draw lines of continuity between the two Bush Presidencies.
Phillips, taking the notion of dynasty literally, compares the Bushes to the Stuarts of Britain and the Bourbons of France, and warns that George W.'s assumption of the Presidency so soon after his father's term—with Jeb Bush in the wings—could establish a family succession that would traduce America's republican traditions. This dark prophecy is, to say the least, premature. The Bushes have held power for just seven and a half years, in the middle of which came eight years of the decidedly unaristocratic Bill Clinton. Compared with, say, the Kennedys, who have influenced state and national politics for half a century, the Bush clan has hardly earned the label "dynasty." The family reign could well amount to two one-term Presidencies.
What really rankles Phillips, it's clear, is the notion that a patrician class, as embodied by the Bush family, has come to dominate the Republican Party again. Some would argue, of course, that this moneyed élite never lost its grip on the G.O.P. But Phillips made his name trying to steer the Party in a populist direction. His first book, "The Emerging Republican Majority" (1969), outlined how the G.O.P. could capitalize on what he called "a populist revolt of the American masses who have been elevated by prosperity to middle-class status and conservatism . . . against the caste, policies and taxation of the mandarins of Establishment liberalism." During the Reagan years, though, he began taking aim at the Republi-cans, whom he blamed for exacerbating economic inequality. For Phillips, the Bushes—steeped in family money, committed to regressive economics, and convinced that high public office is a virtual birthright—personify the Party's worst tendencies.
That George W. grew up in Midland, Texas, and not Greenwich, Connecticut, shouldn't deceive anyone, Phillips argues. He and Unger both remind us that Midland, in the fifties, was an affluent village populated by the oil-prospecting sons of Northeastern businessmen. City leaders named roads after Ivy League schools. Although George W. has boasted, in touting his common origins, of having attended San Jacinto Junior High School, his one year there was followed by stints at Houston's tony Kinkaid School and at Andover. George W.'s Everyman act is more persuasive than his father's, but it's no less of an act. Indeed, Phillips sees the affectation of ordinariness as a signal Bush family trait. When the Schweizers look for such traits, they discover benign qualities like a gift for making friends, a bantering humor, a love of sports. But Phillips sees only the trappings of privilege. In his telling, for example, the premium that the Bushes place on personal loyalty issues from the exclusivity of the old-boy network; their playful antics derive from the ethos of the country-club locker room.
These family traits go way back. At the turn of the last century, both of George H. W. Bush's grandfathers found themselves a place in the so-called Eastern establishment. Both parlayed great fortunes into national and global influence. His mother's father, George Herbert (Bert) Walker, the son of a successful drygoods wholesaler, multiplied his family riches after he became president of the Wall Street investment house W. A. Harriman & Co. George H. W. Bush's father's father, Samuel Prescott Bush, a railroad-equipment executive during the steel-industry boom, was less wealthy than Bert Walker, but he nonetheless earned a handsome living. Samuel's son, Prescott, became, at thirty-five, a managing partner at his father-in-law's firm, after its 1931 merger with Brown Brothers, the old-line investment-banking company.
The Bushes and the Walkers cultivated friendships, deals, and political alliances that allowed them both to exert power and to make profits in the key sectors of the emerging military-industrial complex: finance, armaments, and, later, energy. In the mid-forties, when Prescott helped fund a project for the Office of Strategic Services, the spy organization staffed and run by his Ivy League associates, the worlds of intelligence and national security opened to the Bush family. In 1950, he ran for the Senate, and lost, but he was elected two years later, and electoral politics opened up to the Bushes, too.
To Prescott and his set, there was nothing presumptuous about running for high office without any political experience. The example of their fathers taught them that they were born to lead. It was a sense of family prerogative that both Prescott's son and grandson inherited. The elder George had served only briefly as a Republican Party county chairman in Texas before running for the Senate in 1964; he lost his first race, too, before winning a House seat in 1966. The younger George, for his part, was struggling in the oil business when he first ran, also unsuccessfully, for Congress, in 1978.
For George H. W. Bush, as for Prescott, this sense of noblesse oblige was accompanied by a conception of politics and foreign affairs as matters for gentlemen to work out around the table or over drinks, and for most of his career he excelled by hewing to this ethic. Never a dazzling campaigner, he rose politically through a series of appointive offices—Ambassador to the United Nations, chairman of the Republican National Committee, envoy to China, head of the C.I.A.—in which he built friendships and mastered diplomacy. For all his foreign-policy experience, though, Bush never established or refined a set of principles on international affairs. Instead, he developed what Richard Ben Cramer has aptly called an "ideology of friendship." Loyalty and personal relationships substituted for what Bush once, in frustration, dismissed as "the vision thing."
During the first Gulf War, the politics of personal relationships served Bush well, helping him assemble the coalition that expelled Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. At other times, however, he was led astray by his expectation that Americans would defer to élites. One contribution of Craig Unger's book is to remind us of how much the elder Bush was a product of a bygone establishment—hence his engagement, as Vice-President and as President, in covert arms swaps and financial trades. "He knew the style, the diction," Unger quotes Howard Teicher, a Reagan Administration official, as saying. "He was good at having diplomatic discussions. But he could be swayed by personal relationships with foreign leaders." In addition to his role in the Iran-Contra affair, Bush, in what came to be called "Iraqgate," secretly helped Saddam Hussein obtain weapons, loans, and military intelligence in his war against Iran. In the same category, Phillips adds Bush's Christmas Eve pardons of several key Iran-Contra figures just before he left the White House. Whatever crimes these gentlemen committed, Bush's pardons implied, they did them for honorable reasons and should be protected from undue scrutiny.
Like his father, George W. Bush is secretive about his policymaking in a way that can suggest a blithe sense of class entitlement. Often, in fact, he seems contemptuous of popular accountability. More than his father, he refuses to acknowledge dissenting views or offer explanations for his actions. Unwanted questions are brusquely waved away. Compromise is scorned.
One result has been an impression of a strong leader and a man of firm convictions—no wishy-washy compromiser like his father. But his political style also carries risks. Even apart from the disputed election of 2000, George W.'s career had led many people to view him as undeserving of the Presidency, at least as judged by the American ideals of equal opportunity and meritocracy. The invasion of Iraq, launched hurriedly and for what seemed (at least in part) to be personal reasons, has amplified those doubts. Whatever his other motives, a family grudge helped drive his decision. He repeatedly called Saddam Hussein "the guy who tried to kill my dad"; more broadly, George W. and his advisers, many of them veterans of his father's councils, appeared to be using their power to complete the father's agenda. According to Bob Woodward's book "Plan of Attack," Vice-President Dick Cheney, who had served the elder Bush as Defense Secretary during the 1991 Gulf War, "harbored a deep sense of unfinished business about Iraq." More than anything else, it is this use of Presidential power for private or family purposes that has encouraged the current talk about dynasty.
But a dynastic sense of "unfinished business," though it may have partly motivated the Iraq war, doesn't explain why George W. has waged it with an abandon wholly uncharacteristic of his father. Indeed, the differences between the Bush Administrations now loom larger than the continuities. Brashness, for example, isn't a quality associated with the elder Bush, who always displayed the ingrained modesty of the old establishment. Politically, he was self-effacing to a fault. When the Berlin Wall fell and his press secretary, Marlin Fitzwater, urged him to make a speech, Bush seemed puzzled. "The last thing I want to do is brag about winning the Cold War," he said. The trait could bleed into opportunism, too: he swallowed his pro-choice record and his scorn for "voodoo economics" (a phrase he coined) when Reagan tendered him the Vice-Presidential slot, in 1980.
George W. showed little of his father's caution as he barrelled ahead with his controversial appointments and extravagant tax cuts, convinced that he was doing the right thing. The signature act of his Presidency, targeting Saddam, defied his father's judgment that deposing the tyrant would alienate the Arab allies whose support had been essential to the first Gulf War. And, where the elder Bush struggled to articulate a well-defined world view, few doubt the younger Bush's ideological consistency.
The difference between the Bushes is starkest in the area of religion. The father had the traditional Yankee unease about introducing religion into political life. During the 1988 campaign, when he recalled floating on the life raft in the Pacific after his wartime crash, he said, "I thought about Mother and Dad and the strength I got from them, and God and faith"—and then became so worried about the implications of his words that he added, "and the separation of church and state." Even in avowing his faith he sounded strained. "If by 'born again' one is asking, 'Do you accept Jesus Christ as your savior?' " he said, "then I would answer a clear-cut yes. No hesitancy. No awkwardness."
George W.'s devotion to evangelical Protestantism, by contrast, is well known. Although Christianity didn't play a strong role in his early life, he found God when he turned forty. At the time, he was drinking heavily and his marriage was collapsing. Laura told him that if he didn't stop drinking she would leave him and take their daughters with her. For a year, Bush had been consulting with the Reverend Billy Graham—pastor to Presidents since Eisenhower—and he began exploring the evangelical message. He joined a Bible-study group—an especially significant commitment, in the Schweizers' view, because it met at the same time as "Monday Night Football." "With W. no longer drinking," the Schweizers write, he and Laura "became intimate once again."
The news media have been prone to underestimate the importance of George W.'s evangelicalism. Perhaps it's because the religious right has perfected the art of what used to be called Mau-Mauing, rendering the press corps fearful of broaching the subject. Maybe reporters genuinely believe that George W. plays it up for political purposes; they often describe him as behaving cynically when he takes actions that please the Christian right. But this reading stems from an assumption of continuity between the son and the father, who did pander to evangelical conservatives. "I always laugh when people say that George W. Bush is saying this or that to appease the religious right," his first cousin John Ellis told the Schweizers. "He is the religious right."
George W. has been active in evangelical politics since his father's 1988 campaign, when he served as the campaign's liaison to the religious right. Working with Doug Wead, an Assemblies of God pastor and a longtime Bush associate, he forged personal alliances with influential ministers, broadcasters, and activists. In the Iowa caucuses, the televangelist Pat Robertson outpolled the elder Bush (who explained, comically, that his supporters were off that night golfing or at air shows and débutante balls). But the son's aggressive networking paid off in the Southern primaries weeks later, when his father, once distrusted by born-again Christians, trounced even Robertson within that constituency. In the younger Bush's own Presidential bid, in 2000, he got a minority of the over-all vote but eighty-four per cent of highly observant, white evangelicals. "For the first time," Phillips notes, "a Republican presidential victory rested on a religious, conservative, southern-centered coalition." For the first time, the President of the United States was also "the de facto head of the Religious Right."
Phillips attributes Bush's success to demographics, in particular the surge of evangelical Christian denominations as a proportion of the faithful. Between 1960 and 2000, the number of Americans who attended weekly services fell from thirty-eight per cent to twenty-five per cent. At the same time, membership in the Southern Baptist Convention grew from ten million to seventeen million, and membership in the Pentecostal churches from less than two million to nearly twelve million. "Liberal religion was being routed," Phillips concludes. Bush shared the values of this growing bloc and enjoyed its overwhelming support.
Bush has not been shy about displaying his faith. Shortly after September 11, 2001, the President came across Proverbs 21:15: "When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers." Soon, "evildoers" became his favorite term for Al Qaeda. Bush's speechwriter, Michael Gerson, himself an evangelical, laces the President's addresses with seemingly innocuous terms that the devout recognize as laden with meaning: "whirlwind," "work of mercy," "safely home," "wonder-working power." Phillips refers to a study by the religion scholar Bruce Lincoln, who identified, in Bush's speech to Congress announcing the invasion of Afghanistan, allusions to Revelation, Isaiah, Job, Matthew, and Jeremiah. In private, Bush has been even more explicit. "George sees this as a religious war," a family member told the Schweizers. "He doesn't have a p.c. view of this war. His view of this is that they are trying to kill the Christians. And we the Christians will strike back with more force and more ferocity than they will ever know." Phillips says that Bush has spoken of himself as an instrument of divine will.
But what's wrong with an infusion of religion into Presidential speeches or even policy? The Founders may have believed in a separation between church and state, but the Constitution's secularism doesn't prevent a President from drawing on his religious beliefs in making decisions. Nor has Bush somehow "imposed" his faith on others, however alienating some may find his spiritual language to be. The problem lies, rather, in the specific ways in which Bush uses religion. Abraham Lincoln, in his second Inaugural address, invoked God, but he did so in a spirit of humility, questioning his own certitude and thus inviting further questioning. Bush does the opposite: his use of religion seems designed to remove any doubt—first in his own mind, then in the public's—about his course. It doesn't assist Bush with his reasoning; it substitutes for reasoning. Instead of providing a starting point for careful judgments, it assures him that the instincts on which he has based his policy are unerring.
This kind of recourse to religion leaves citizens no grounds on which to question the President's actions. If the inspiration of God or the Bible is purely personal or subjective, it's not open to debate—and decisions based on it become immune from scrutiny. The result is to short-circuit political deliberation, since democracy rests on the ability of the governed to check their leaders through reasoned argument. Ironically, George W.'s religious beliefs bolster the manorial tendencies of the Bush family. God and family alike promote a sense of special dispensation. It's what happens when the politics of personal relationships comes to center on a personal relationship with God.
Politically, Bush's conspicuous religiosity offers him two advantages over his father's Episcopalian reticence. Like the trappings of his Texas populism, his public piety allows him to connect with ordinary folk as his father never did. Talking Biblical talk, he can shuck off his social class's perceived indifference to people's everyday concerns. It's a paradox, but a politically invaluable one, that his invocation of religion both places him beyond public accountability and conveys that he's just like everyone else. Religion also provides the other key asset his father lacked: the vision thing. The religiously infused sense of mission that George W. reportedly found after September 11th now carries the burden of keeping his Presidency from veering off course the way his father's did.
No one would suggest that George W. embraced evangelicalism for electoral advantage. But it's easy to wonder whether his born-again faith might not represent a decision to break with his father, to escape from the culture of Wasp reserve and austerity. George W. came to his new creed at a time when his life seemed to have fallen short of family expectations. His younger brother Jeb was outperforming him in business and seemed more likely to excel in politics. George W. was, his brother Marvin has said, "the family clown." Indeed, George and Barbara found their son's conversion "a stretching experience," the Schweizers report. "Some of that same brashness in his personality came out when he talked about faith. . . . It sparked disagreements within the family." Rich Bond, an associate of the Bushes, told the Schweizers,"You might say it was almost exaggerated. . . . But George W. seemed to want to be defined differently from the beginning."
When it came to war with Iraq, George W. told Bob Woodward that his father "is the wrong father to appeal to in terms of strength. There is a higher father that I appeal to." But, in denying his real father's influence, George W. reaffirms its importance. The very decision to stage a celebration on the Abraham Lincoln flight deck can be read as a rebuke to his father, signalling that he forged ahead where his predecessor had held his fire. It was also at odds with the elder Bush's self-effacing style. Today, as the Iraq adventure slogs on, that stunt is looking less like a moment of glory than like a moment of vainglory—and a mistake that George H. W. Bush, whatever his shortcomings, never would have made. ♦


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Hadasit Bio-Holdings Ltd. portfolio company completes clinical trial that shows safety and efficacy by significantly reducing the fatal effects of Graft-versus-Host Disease in bone marrow transplant recipients, which currently has no effective treatment.
JERUSALEM, Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hadasit Bio-Holdings Ltd. (TASE: HDST, OTC: HADSY), a publicly traded portfolio of biotech companies, all based on intellectual property developed and owned by Hadassah University Hospital, Israel's foremost medical research center, today announced that its portfolio company Enlivex has completed a clinical trial and is reporting positive results that indicate efficacy and safety in its treatment for recipients of bone marrow transplants from foreign donors. Hadasit Bio-Holdings holds a 92% stake in Enlivex.
One of the main concerns in receiving bone marrow transplants from a donor is Graft-versus-Host Disease (GvHD). GvHD is an auto-immune type disease in which the immune system, including the new transplant, attacks organs of the patient, primarily the liver, intestines and skin. The disease can cause significant morbidity and is usually fatal if a patient reaches high grades. To date, no effective treatment has been found for this disease and up to 70% of transplant recipients suffer from this illness.
ApoCell, Enlivex's lead product, is based on a cellular treatment developed in Hadassah Ein Kerem by Prof. Dror Mevorach, an expert in diseases of the immune system. In the clinical trial, 13 patients in three clinical centers in Israel were given four escalating doses of ApoCell against GvHD shortly before a bone marrow transplant from a foreign donor. An external committee that examined the results of the trials resolved that no safety concerns were observed in any of the doses, and therefore permitted the continuation of the research and treatment of the patients at the maximum dosage tested in the trial.
GvHD severity is classified into four levels that constitute the clinical and regulatory effectiveness index accepted in the field. In a comparison made between the ApoCell trial and a historical control group composed of relevant patients with similar characteristics and treatment background, it was found that the incidence of GvHD grades 2-4, the most dangerous levels of the disease, were reduced by half. Furthermore, among the group that received the higher doses of ApoCell, no cases of GvHD grades 2-4 were observed, while 50% of similar patients who did not receive the ApoCell treatment did develop GvHD grades 2-4. Another promising result witnessed was the protective effect that the treatment provided against liver damage, a major component of GvHD.
Alon Moran, CEO of Enlivex, stated, "We are pleased with the final results of the trial which point to the efficacy and safety of our treatment. It has the potential to allow the performance of a bone marrow transplant from a foreign donor while reducing the serious damage inflicted by GvHD. Not only were these results confirmed by an external committee, but they also showed substantial positive signs for the effectiveness of the treatment, expressed by the reduced levels of GvHD incidence and morbidity. While we must be cautious in analyzing the data, as it represents a relatively small number of patients, we believe that the trial results show real potential for dealing with this serious illness. We look forward to conducting trials in a larger controlled study to further prove the effectiveness of ApoCell."
Ophir Shahaf, CEO of Hadasit Bio-Holdings, commented, "The success of Enlivex's trial marks a significant advancement for the company and our portfolio. This is one of the flagship companies of Hadasit as we hold more than 90% of Enlivex and it's under our close management and financing. The completion of the clinical trial lays the foundation for further advancement of the treatment of GvHD and the potential to tap into a market size estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars per year. We are currently working to locate financial and strategic partners to help us continue development and eventually commercialize the medication."
Mr. Shahaf concluded, "Our success in trials such as this further validates the amazing science stemming from the Hadassah hospitals. As our portfolio continues to mature, we will provide significant value to our investors."
About Enlivex Therapeutics:
The company's first product is designed to treat Graft-versus-Host Disease (GvHD), which is a fatal disease affecting about 30%-70% of patients who undergo bone marrow transplantation. GvHD currently has no effective treatment and the size of this market opportunity is estimated at $300 million annually. The company's success in GvHD is expected to open additional markets in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, a field which is the third sector in scope in the pharmaceutical world (after cancer and heart disease) and is estimated at billions of dollars.
The company is developing a drug treatment based on inducing immune tolerance by injecting the patient's autologous cells (or donor cells in the case of GvHD) in the early stages of programmed death. The technology is based on years of research by Prof. Dror Mevorach from the Hadassah Medical Center - a world renowned expert in the field of programmed cell death.
About Hadasit Bio-Holdings
Hadasit Bio-Holdings, Ltd., established in 2006, is the publicly traded subsidiary of Hadasit Ltd. - the technology transfer company of the Hadassah University Hospital, Israel's foremost medical research center. The Company was established for the purpose of promoting and commercializing the intellectual property and R&D capabilities generated by Hadassah.
HADSY is the domestically traded ADR of Hadasit Bio-Holdings, a public investment vehicle of six portfolio biotech companies all based on inventions developed by Hadassah. Hadasit Bio-Holdings focuses on advancing companies that have already shown proof of concept and successful preclinical trials to completion of Phase I/II.
The portfolio companies develop drugs with blockbuster potential (targeting markets that are worth over a billion dollars) operating in the fields of cancer, inflammatory diseases and tissue regeneration using stem cells - areas in which the Hadassah Hospital has extensive knowledge and recognition as a global leader. The company is managed by Ophir Shahaf.
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Custom Patches: Why You Need Them
Custom patches are adornments that may be attached to any piece of clothing. They play an important role in a company, organization or associations individuality.
Patches are some sorts of emblems you want on your clothes to give other people an idea that you work for a certain company or belong to a certain association. It is a signature peculiar to your group.
Patches are everywhere. They play a significant role in this society's segregation. It is a way of saying that you are not alone.Visit this site patches 4 less for more information.
Perhaps patches are usually associated with the police, the military and all other uniformed personnel. This is so because they are critical identification labels for these organizations. Once they are in the field, they want to know who are on their side and who are not.
Some employees of private companies also wear uniforms that have patches in them instead of the usual computer printed logo. This is so because patches give more credibility to such employees if they are assigned to go outdoors. They give a sense of reliability, which is necessary, especially if they are trying to sell their products or services.
Custom patches are also seen in clothing worn by members of associations, fraternities and sororities. Sometimes, the patches are attached in their jackets or shirts during school events. In Universities, patches are a very useful way of saying I belong this fraternity or this sorority.
The most popular association today that uses patches in their jackets is the motorcycle and bike riders. Because of the rise of these associations, it has become necessary that motorcycle groups wear unique patches that separate them from the others.
Patches also play a huge role in sports. They serve as a distinguishing mark for team members of sports group most particularly in basketball and baseball.
A Brief History of Custom Patches
Decades ago, patches were already being utilized as pieces of embroidery to distinguish a certain group from another. Some were especially made for kings and queens.
Patches used to be hand sown but these days, machines made life easier. The design could just be easily fed to computers, which are already connected to the machines that do the sowing process. These modern techniques made this what used to be time-consuming job into one that can be completed in a few minutes.
Before the emergence of the machines, people who order patches for their groups will have to wait for a year before they can be completed. Now, you no longer have to wait that long.
Choosing the Right Manufacturer
Since we already discussed the importance of patches in many fields, it is thus important that you choose the right manufacturer. You want a team of professionals to handle the production of your patches.
You want to choose a manufacturer who design high quality custom patches. This is so because you do not want them looking common and tasteless.
Aside from making high quality patches, the manufacturer must also provide incredibly low prices. As a company or association, you want to have the best deal for your people. You do not want them paying for something overpriced but does looks cheap.
It is also important they make patches that are specifically developed to meet your company or association's design needs. The last thing you want is teaming up with a company that does not value what you want as a consumer and insists on what they think is good.
Finally, you must choose a manufacturer who can provide you with a team of professionals that have experience in different fields such as making patches for businesses, sports team, military units, martial arts, scouting, camping, motorcycle clubs and events or any other purpose.
Easy Guide to Ordering Custom Patches
Some patch making companies offer easy ways on how you can have your patches made.
First, you will have to send them your design ideas. If you have any pictures or other relevant artwork that you want to incorporate in your design, you must also send it to them for their reference.
Next, the professional artists of the company will provide you with some digital proof. This digital proof is what you will have to approve before ordering.
You have to understand that in the process, your design might have to undergo a series of revisions. It is therefore important that you choose a company that will never charge you for revisions.
In addition, you have to make sure that the manufacturer always asks for your approval. They must not just go ahead and make the patches without consulting whether you are completely satisfied with the patch design or not.
Finally, after you approve the design, the manufacturers will use the digital proof to start creating your patches. Once these patches are completed, they will be packaged and shipped to the address you gave them.


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"The mountain's got its own ways." --Jeremiah Johnson
Among those who are big fans of the Western genre, I find myself having to defend this delightful movie. Aside from the repetition in the soundtrack, I couldn't come up with a single complaint. It is known and kept in high regard for its breathtaking cinematography (Duke Callaghan [Conan the Barbarian]) and for the fact that it was shot entirely on the mountains of Utah. We find Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford), a man fresh from a war, and set on avoiding the coming Mexican War, who also wants to make a clean break from society. He decides to learn how to become a trapper, hunting various types of game in order to survive and trading furs with local tribes. His quest was both to define himself and to break free of social constraints, and yet he discovers that every land has a law. These rules are breakable, but not excusable merely by ignorance. Soon he finds out that the mountain and its tribes intend to put him in his place.Continue Reading


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That didn't take long at all. Almost exactly one month ago, I predicted that Mailbox would be acquired within the next 12 months. Well, the small start-up with an innovative new email app has now indeed been purchased -- with 11 months to spare.
I was hoping that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) would acquire the company and its talent, which would have been a boon for iOS interface design, since Mailbox features intuitive gestures and Apple's interface design has lagged in recent years. The iPhone maker's been playing it safe by not venturing too far outside of the box, and buying Mailbox could have helped change that. Apple exec Eddy Cue's son Adam Cue is a software engineer at Mailbox's parent company, which made this union seemingly likely.
Previously, Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) went and acquired Sparrow, another innovative email client that was exclusive to Apple platforms. My fear was that Google would swoop in again and purchase Mailbox too, further diverting talented developers away from the iOS platform. However, Google's in less need of interface talent than Apple at this point, in part because it still has Matias Duarte leading interface design.
It turns out that neither Apple nor Google was the Mailbox buyer. Instead, Mailbox was acquired for an undisclosed sum by a much smaller company: Dropbox.
With our boxes combined, we are Captain Llama
Dropbox has picked up Mailbox after realizing that the two companies had similar goals, even though one is primarily cloud storage service and the other is an email service.
According to Dropbox's blog announcement, both companies seek to make people's lives easier by reimagining productivity. Dropbox is a complement to local storage, while Mailbox makes email better. According to Mailbox's blog announcement, the end result of the acquisition will be... an exploding llama. Joining forces with the larger start-up will allow Mailbox to grow faster, since it's been slowly adding users with a reservation system to give its servers some room to breathe.
In all likelihood, Apple explored a possible acquisition of Mailbox behind closed doors but for whatever reason decided to pass. If that's the case, I just hope price wasn't the deal breaker, since Apple has plenty of cash to spare.