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Chinese herbal oral liquid for poultry-- against respiratory disease(snoring cough)
Products Name: AV-JINLE oral liquid
Common name: Maxinshigan Oral Liquid
Ingredients: Ephedra, bitter almond, Licorice and Gypsum.
Characters: Dark brown liquid with sweet and bitter taste.
Applicable animal: Poultry ( broiler, layer, breeder)
Emphasis: Relieve cough and asthma; mainly for IB(infective bronchitis), AILT(Avian Infectious Laryngotracheitis), influenza and viral disease of chicken and duck.
Indications: Clearing heat, relieving asthma, preventing asthma caused by lung. Especially for the symptoms of Hemorrhage or necrosis on trachea and bronchus, and the lungs are congested with cyanosis. Improve body immunity.
Package: 250ml, 500ml, 1000ml, 5000ml ( or customized)
Usage and Dosage:
Prevention: 1ml per liter of water, drinks within 4 hours, for 4 days.
Remedy: 1.5ml per liter of water, drinks within 4 hours, for 4-5 days.
Term of validity: 24 months
ADRs: According to the prescribed dose, no adverse drug reaction.
Contraindication: Not sure yet.
Notes: No regulations
More data from poultry farm:
Application of AV-JINLE in Mild Avian Influenza and Micoplasma
Abstract: Avian influenza is a highly contagious infectious disease, it threat the health of human and animal. It is a big concern in many countries.
The avian flu virus is very susceptible to variation, so vaccine immunization can not completely make protection on it.
Respiratory disease is the typical symptoms of avian influenza, mild avian influenza virus may cause a low mortality,moreover, if secondary infection effected it would result in heavy losses.
AV-JinLe ( oral solution ) produced by Yantai Jinhai Pharmaceutical has significant effects on the symptoms of pulmonary congestion, inflammatory exudation in trachea and bronchus, which caused by mild avian influenza. Meanwhile can be also applied with with antibiotics at the same time to prevent and treat bacterial diseases to help body rehabilitation.
Farm information: broiler farm in Jilin Province.
Breed: AA Broiler
Age of onset: 30th day of age
Clinical symptom:
Depression, feed intake decreasing, cough, sneeze and sticky secretion in nose were observed. Two days later, the sick birds were dyspnea, some are eyelid swelled and head comb edge necrosed.
Anatomical changes:
Tracheal and bronchial mucosa hemorrhage with large amount of inflammatory exudation, bronchial seriously blocked. Pancreatic edge hemorrhage, pulmonary congestion and swelling, Airbag turbidity, thick. some gray or grayish yellow cheese-like exudation in airbag mucosa can be found.
Inflammatory exudate in tracheal mucosa Air sac inflammation
Diagnosis: H9 type avian influenza infection stimulated or concurrent mycoplasma infection.
1. strictly disinfectant chicken house.
2.Administrate formulated feed to ensure nutrition balance, administrate vitamin A to improve body and mucosa strengthen ability.
3. Administrate AV-JINLE drinking water to enhance the body's antiviral ability.
4. Administrate tilmicosin and florfenicol to treat mycoplasma infection.
Treatment results: After 5 days, the spirit of the group and feed intake improved, weight increased, respiratory symptoms disappeared and no more new death.
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Order Quantity:10000 bottles
Product Price:negotiation
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I'm not in a good mood today. I have only myself to blame. I regularly take on more than I can chew, spread myself too thin, and then wind up stressed and unhappy.
My fault. My bad. Apparently I must crave this way of living, because I keep doing it to myself, over and over.
On the one hand, it makes me ridiculously productive, and probably played a large part in the success I've had.
On the other, I have no right to bitch because I asked for it. Yes, I'm irritable right now, and I feel even more irritable because I have no right to be irritable. All of my problems are what Barry Eisler calls quality problems. "Oh no, I have to manage a literary empire." "Oh no, I have to pay $300,000 in taxes." My fave is Blake Crouch's saying, "Oh no, I spilled champagne on my cake."
Which got me to thinking about all writers.
We complain constantly. We're easily hurt. We're never satisfied. We feel misunderstood. We're a bunch of touchy, moody, pessimistic whiners.
Such is the path of an artist. But there is a very specific fork in that path, and as I prowl the Internets I see more and more of my peers taking the fork that I never took.
Namely, who gets the blame.
Maybe we can all agree that the writing biz isn't fair. And maybe most of us can agree that luck plays a big part.
But the schism forms when it comes to placing blame.
I can look at the low points in my career, and there have been many. As successful as I've become, I've still had a lot more bad days than good--at least 5 to 1. I battled depression. I raged against the universe. I searched for meaning in disappointment. But ultimately I knew this was the path I'd chosen and I was solely to blame for my own unhappiness, even if it seemed like outside forces conspired against me.
Perhaps my perspective is skewed, but more and more writers seem to be looking for scapegoats for their unhappiness. They blame Amazon. They blame other etailers. They blame bookstores. They blame advertisers. They blame publishers. They blame agents. They blame haters. They blame each other.
Everyone looks to point fingers at someone for their misfortune, instead of looking where they should; in the mirror.
Just as I am responsible for my own current unhappiness, so are you. And you're kidding yourself if you think I'm wrong. And you're kidding yourself if you think you'd be happy if you suddenly took over my life and career.
It is human nature to be dissatisfied. Goals reached are celebrated for a brief moment, then other goals take their place. Buddha said the only path to nirvana is to deny wanting. Being a writer means constantly wanting.
We all need to take responsibility for our careers. This is what we choose to do, and what we choose to do, by definition, involves the approval of others. There is no way to force the world to buy, read, and like your story, unless you are Chairman Mao. So we're all going into this biz with a lot of hope and expectations, and hope and expectations ultimately lead to disappointment and unhappiness.
So in an attempt to get me out of my funk, I'm going to pose some solutions for what I see as an industry-wide problem.
1. Set appropriate, attainable goals. Remember that goals are things that are within your power to accomplish. Selling 1,000,000 ebooks isn't a goal, because you can't force a million people to by them. Finishing and publishing your ebook by December 15 is a goal.
Also make sure that you don't take on too many goals at once, because being overwhelmed isn't a happy feeling.
2. Celebrate reaching goals. Force yourself to stop working and to actually take a time-out to enjoy what you've accomplished.
3. Stop blaming. You definitely shouldn't blame anyone for your choices. And you shouldn't blame yourself too much either. Because anything you do to yourself is within your control to fix. If you're unhappy, stop. If you can't stop, evolve.
4. Stop trying to do everything. This is similar to setting appropriate goals, but it involves more than just the publishing biz. There aren't enough days in life to do everything you want, and you must remember to put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others. The more you take on, the more stress you take on, both with your professional life and your personal life.
5. Elbert Hubbard, an author no one remembers, said, "Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive." We aren't curing cancer, folks. We're entertainers. Nothing in a writing career is very important. Poor sales, bad reviews, personal attacks, failed endeavors, unreached goals--take it all with a grain of salt and a spoonful of sugar.
6. Remember there is more to life than writing. That's hard to do sometimes, because writing often seems less like a career and more like a calling. But obsession makes you miserable, and isn't pleasant for those around you, either.
7. Accept that the universe isn't fair. There is no karma. You don't get what you give. You don't deserve anything. Deal with it.
8. Stop whining. Especially in public.
I began this blog entry by whining in public in order to prove a point; we're all the same. Even Joe Konrath feels down sometimes, and questions himself, and occasionally needs to vent. But complaining that your sales are in a slump, or that you got a bad review, or that BookBub won't select you, or that Amazon is unfair, or that it's impossible to get discovered, isn't helpful. It doesn't offer any solutions, or help anyone, including yourself.
As writers, we could throw a gigantic pity party and each bring a dish of epic failure to the event. And that party would suck major ass.
I know that we're all confused and unhappy and seeking answers. But maybe if we took the energy we wasted raging at the universe, and instead tried to find answers on our own, we'd all be better off.
You wouldn't be visiting my blog, reading this right now, if all I did was complain constantly. So why do you think anyone wants to hear you complain?
If you don't like your career, fix it. If you don't like the industry, change it. If you don't like your attitude, get a new one.
And the next time you consider airing your grievances in public, make sure you also pose a solution. You're writers. You should be able to plot something out.
Originally, Zen and the Art of Bitching
by Joe Konrath, author of "A Newbie's Guide to Publishing" blog

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10 Ways to Survive the Diagnosis of Mental Illness in a Loved One
You always knew in your heart that your brother/mother/spouse/child was not doing okay. But you had so hoped it would be stress, the flu lack of sleep…anything else than this…a diagnosis of a serious mental illness. What do you do? r


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My wifes 2009 ForTwo non MHD Turbo Highstyle failed the MOT yesterday.
It failed on a number of issues which the test centre said were probably because she does not take it out often enough.
In the last 12 months she has driven 1300 miles and the failures were
- severely reduced offside front headlight strength
- rear brake binding
- exhaust emissions lambda outside limits
- exhaust emissions carbon monoxide excessive
- rear tyres excessively cracked
The tyres I will replace and the rear brake I will strip and clean (which is what they suggested it probably needs)
However, they suggested
- that the exhaust emissions probably indicated that the cat needed a clean and that I put some cat cleaner in the fuel and run for a few miles to clean it,
-I try a new bulb in the headlight to see if that was the problem and if it didn't then the unit would need replacing.
So my questions are
- is it likely that a cleaner will cure the emission problem, and which should we use, or is it more likely to need a new cat.
- I tried a new bulb with no change, so is there any way to 'repair' the reflection from the headlight unit, or will it need replacing.
Hopefully some of you have had similar issues and can advise on how you dealt with them.


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Coral Sea Scuba Dive Expedition
This 4 night Coral Sea "Fly Dive" is designed for Advanced Divers enjoying up to 14 scuba dives in the pristine waters of the Coral Sea and Cod Hole 150 miles north of Cairns. This tour is not suitable for snorkelers.
Check in is between 8.30am and 4pm for your 4 night Scuba Diving Expedition which departs Cairns, Queensland every Thursday at 6:00pm travelling approximately 150 miles to the Northern Ribbon Reefs onboard Australia's most awarded liveaboard dive boat.
After days of magnificent diving you will return to Cairns and return by scenic flight from Lizard Island over the dive sites, arriving into Cairns approx 11 am Monday (courtesy inner city hotel transfers).
Spoil Sport Vessel Layout
Please check availability with us before booking
- A: Standard Itinerary: All dives 150 miles north of Cairns. Cod Hole, Goggle Gardens & Snake Pit. Coral Sea walls with huge soft corals.
- Osprey Reef with 40 metre visability and big fish action.
- 2-3 shark attraction dives. False Entrance, deep wall pelagic action.
- Stunning 250km low-level Great Barrier Reef flight from Lizard Is. to Cairns.
- B: Fair Weather Itinerary: September – January (except May Nautilus observation dates). Weather permitting, our best selection of Coral Sea dives at Holmes, Bougainville & Osprey. Great Barrier Reef not included in Fair Weather Itinerary.
- Potato cod also seen at Bougainville & Osprey.
- Holmes – Large caverns decorated with colourful soft corals. Dozens of grey & silvertips at the 'Amazing' shark attraction.
- Descend the spectacular Nonki Bommie thrusting up from 35m. Bougainville – Plummeting clear blue waters, giant potato cod. Spectacular big fish action at Crystal Plateau.
- Explore the Dungeons & Dragons labyrinth of caves & caverns.
- Dive the scattered remains of MV Antonio Tarabocchia Osprey – 2-3 shark attraction dives, see 100's of sharks. Includes Passive Attraction, Shark Feed & Private Shark Shoot. spectacular topography, visibility & pelagics at False Entrance. Big fish action in 40 meter visibility. Stunning 250km low-level Great Barrier Reef flight from Lizard Is. to Cairns. (Luggage)
- 14 scuba dives at pristine Great Barrier Reef locations Coral Sea Dive, Challenger Bay, Cod Hole & Osprey Reef
- Return flight from Lizard Island back to Cairns
- Orientation dives for those who require supervision
- Night Dives
- Reef Ecology Program Guaranteed access to restricted dive sites
- All chef prepared meals catered for, including snacks
- Complimentary soft drinks & wine with dinner
- Unlimited dive times 3 different dive sites per day (weather permitting)
- Dive Equipment Not Included – Available for Rental on board
Optional Extras
- Personal dive guides
- Nitrox fills
- PADI Instruction: Advanced, Nitrox,
- Naturalist & Photo/Video Gear hire Camera hire
What to bring
- Luggage Restriction 25KG (55lb) per person
- Cash or Credit Card for purchases
- Personal clothes & toiletries, sun cream, swimming clothes, hat
- Own dive equipment unless you have pre-booked rental equipment
- Voucher if applicable
- Proof of certification if you're a Certified Diver
- *EMC + Admin fee not included – $18/trip
Important Information
Accommodation Options
- Budget Cabin:Twin bunk beds, shared bathroom facilities
- Club Cabin:Twin bunk beds, ensuite bathroom facilities
- Standard Cabin:Two single beds, private ensuite & ocean views
- Premium Cabin:Double bed, private ensuite & ocean views *
- Note – Budget Cabin automatically assigned unless a different accommodation option is selected upon booking
Hire Gear
Hire Gear can be organised onboard
- Item Cost Reg, Ocy, Gauges $15/day
- BCD $10/day Computer $12/day
- Snorkel Gear $5/day
- Light/Torch/Cyalume $10/day
- Wetsuit $10/day
- Safety Sausage (SMB) $10/trip
- Nautilus Lifeline GPS No charge
- All of the above $44/day
- 2L (13 cu.ft) Pony Bottle + Reg $15/day
- 15L (120cu.ft)
- Steel Bottle $25/day Nitrox fills $75/for 3 or 4 night
- Cyalume Light Stick $2/each
Extra Charges
- Reef Tax
- Sole Occupancy Berth cost + 70%
- Fuel Levy – Standard Expeditions $0 (subject to change)
- Special Catering Admin Fee $30 per day
- Personal Dive Guides $250/day (+ berth cost for guide) or $50/dive


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|Miles, Monte
|Hartman, Glen
|Morel, W
Submitted to: Plant Disease Management Reports
Publication Type: Other
Publication Acceptance Date: 9/19/2007
Publication Date: 10/7/2007
Citation: Mueller, T.A., Miles, M.R., Hartman, G.L., Morel, W. 2007. Evaluation of fungicides and fungicide timing for the control of soybean rust at Capitan Meza, Paraguay, 2006. Plant Disease Management Reports.1=FC062.
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Technical Abstract: About 9000 soybean seeds were planted at Capitán Meza, Paraguay on 10 Jan 2006 in four row plots, 24 ft long, with 18-in. row spacing and two rows of border. The experimental design was a randomized complete block with four replicates. Treatments consisted of Headline 2.09EC, Folicur 3.6F, Quilt 1.67SC applied at growth stages R1, R3, R5 with either one, two or three applications; Folicur 3.6F and Headline 2.09EC together or in sequence. Fungicides were applied at 64, 87, and 107 days after planting (DAP) at 15 gal water per acre with a hand-operated backpack sprayer fitted with a pressure regulator set to 40 psi and equipped with TeeJet XR8002 flat fan nozzles spaced 20-in. apart. Soybean plants were rated for soybean rust in the lower, middle, and upper canopy. The rating scale used was a 0 to 9 severity scale where a rating of "0" had no rust and "9" had severe symptoms. The average of the lower, middle, and upper canopy was used for analysis. The middle two rows of each plot were harvested at 126 DAP and the yield was adjusted to 13 percent moisture. Soybean rust was first observed 87 DAP, so the first fungicide applications was applied as a protectant and the second and third applications were applied curatively. There were significant differences among treatments for soybean rust severity, seed weight, and yield. There was significantly less soybean rust than the untreated control for 16 of the 23 treatments, 19 of the 23 treatments had greater seed weight than the untreated control, and 17 of the 23 treatments had higher yield than the untreated control. No phytotoxicity was observed for any treatments.


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Introduction to 2D Design
Course #5000022
Peter Schroth
Materials for the FIRST class:
18" ruler or t-square ,drawing pencil (HB), or # 2 writing pencil or mechanical pencil.
Bristol paper pad, 11x14"
Same size or smaller inexpensive sketch pad (not newsprint)
large, black chisel point marker
standard "Sharpie"
a very fine point felt tip type pen: Pilot Razor Point, Pitt pen, Micron, etc.
Be careful not to get the very stinky markers (take a whiff before you buy)
Materials for subsequent classes:
exacto knife, scissors ,glu-stik,Drafting or painter's tape ( If you can find Nichiban it's worth it; Da Vinci and NY Central both carry it.)
acrylic paint: black and white (Titanium White pref'd)
a range of synthetic bristle ("white sable" ) brushes for acrylic painting (#'s 4,8,10) both Rounds and Flats
wax paper palette
large container for water
Suggested Art Supply Stores:
New York Central Art Supply—3rd Ave. between 10th and 11th Streets
Utrecht—111 East 4th Ave. between 11th and 12th Streets
Pearl Paint—308 Canal Street
Blick—1-5 Bond Street
Some of these stores will give you a student discount if you present your Cooper Union Continuing Education registration receipt.


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Sheriff finalist for prison head
The three-term Summit County Sheriff Dave Edmunds is one of three finalists for the position of state Department of Corrections executive director.
Edmunds confirmed a Friday interview with Gov. Gary Herbert, but said he could not elaborate on details on applying for the position.
Herbert's staffers conducted a nationwide search to fill the position. A committee then reviewed the applications, rated them, and sent the top three candidates to Herbert to be interviewed.
"He is looking at their professional background, as well as their ability to move corrections in a direction that fits the future of criminal justice in the state of Utah," said Ally Isom, government affairs director for Herbert. "We're in the process of doing a review of the entire criminal justice system and how the different disciplines interface, and determine if there is a better way to deliver services."
Isom said Herbert staffers are not only scrutinizing the corrections system, but also probation and parole, and how corrections interfaces with the courts, social services, families and volunteers.
"We're looking at the entire environment and asking ourselves some of those meaningful questions about how we deliver services," she said. "And this is on the backdrop of the current proposal to move the prison. The relocation and redesign of the prison as a facility will involve some very significant programmatic decisions."
The prison facility, she said, is more than bricks and mortar; it is a system designed to facilitate programmatic solutions.
"With that in mind, we want the right candidate for this task. They are definitely going to need to be a change agent," she said.
Once Herbert makes his choice, he will forward the name to the Utah Senate for confirmation
Edmunds has served in law enforcement for 19 years, the previous 10 of which were with Summit County. Before his election to sheriff in 2002, he served first in the St. George Police Department, then the Park City Police Department.
"And I was a state trooper prior to that, and I spent two years assigned to a Secret Service field office," he said. "So I've worked federal, state, county and municipal law enforcement."
The other two candidates vying for the position are Mike Haddon, the current acting director of Department of Corrections, and Rollin Cook, who is retired after serving more than two decades with the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office.
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Cannabis advocates ask County Council to join suit against state
Seeking to overturn HB 3001 and reinstate Prop 2, medicinal cannabis advocates asked the County Council to join their lawsuit.


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Archive for the 'Annie Rose Nevill' Tag
Meet the great grandparents!
When I started researching my family history about four years ago, I was lucky enough to already know the names of all eight of my great grandparents. I think that these ancestors are an ideal way to start my family history on this blog.
Indeed, on this blog, all lines will flow back through history from my great grandparents … as I don't intend to go into detail for more recent family, in order to protect the privacy of the living.
So here they are, introduced through their marriages, my great grandparents:
Walter Alliston & Caroline Claydon married on 2nd February 1889 in Braintree, Essex.
Eliza Birt & Edward Ward married on 2nd August 1886 in Stradbroke, Suffolk.
Richard Henry Cormack & Annie Rose Nevill married on 1st February 1893 in Islington, Middlesex.
Mary Ann Pooley & Joseph Edmond Shephard married on 23rd February 1881 in Brighton, Sussex.


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Major Section: BREAK-REWRITE
This macro controls printing of terms inside the break-rewrite loop (see break-rewrite).
Examples: (set-brr-term-evisc-tuple nil) (set-brr-term-evisc-tuple '(nil 3 4 nil))The first of the examples above restores the break-rewrite state to one in which terms are printed in full. The second sets the print-level to 3 and the print-length to 4, to replace substructures deeper than 3 by ``#'' and those longer than 4 by ``...''; see see ld-evisc-tuple for information about the shape of the argument of this macro, which is evaluated.
This macro can be executed either inside a break from break-rewrite, or at the top level. Its effect will persist, except potentially when you execute ``#.'' to exit break-rewrite.
Here is an example showing the effect of this macro.
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I thought this was a rather bonny invention from Cosmetics. What is it? I don't know!
This pen is like a firm felt tip liner. At first I thought it was a mascara. I did actually use it as a mascara to fill in the end lashes and it was ok. But my conclusion is that its a liner that you can wiggle into the base of your lashes to add some colour.
How clever is that?
The unique brush:
This brush is ideal for filling in that gap between where you put your liner and your lashes! You can of course, tightline but some people are very squeamish about putting product on under the lashes. This product means you don't actually have to poke that far….
It takes some getting used to! Wiggle wiggle wiggle. As mentioned earlier I used it as a mascara, thinking thats what its for but no, its liner, like a felt tip but not too liquid. I am guessing anything too wet would run like mad.
See my rather poor efforts…
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So it adds a lot of depth.
This kind of product is really useful (although not 100% necessary) – if you want that really really clean, polished, natural look, this pen will work a treat.
It makes your lashes look thicker too.
Takes a while to get used too, its a bit fiddly, its not 100% necessary if you can tightline, but theres less chance of eye watering accidents with this pen than with a brush and a cake liner (or however you tightline).
It cost me about £8 from Adambeauty.com, well worth a play!
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Many of you may have already noticed our Facebook page's new profile picture!
The photo is of Kim Hope and her sponsored friend, Nayeli, on a recent mission awareness trip in the Dominican Republic.
It's the first of a series of profile pictures, which we're pleased to introduce as the "Faces of CFCA" series.
We'd love for you to submit pictures of you and your sponsored friend for us to consider as the next "Faces of CFCA" picture.
Even if you haven't been on a mission awareness trip, you can still participate. Try putting a picture of your sponsored friend close to your face, as in this sample photo of Michele Batliner, a CFCA communications staff member, with a picture of her sponsored child, Betty, in Kenya.
To submit a picture, simply email a .jpg photo file to [email protected]. Include your name and your preferred form of contact (phone, email, etc.) if we have any questions about your submission.
We'll collect all the submissions, feature them in a Facebook photo album, and select a new picture each month.
Thanks so much, and we're excited to see your submissions!


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In a survey conducted this past weekend, 25% of consumers said they hadn't yet bought a single present for the holidays. But they can't blame retailers — many of which launched Christmas sales starting in September.
Why have so many shoppers waited so long? Respondents to Consumer Reports' latest Holiday 2011 poll gave all sorts of reasons. Some said they hadn't had time; others admitted that they were procrastinators. Of those who hadn't begun shopping as of Dec. 18, plenty (25%) gave the simple reason that they just plain hate shopping.
This year has been one of the best ever for procrastinating shoppers — at least in terms of being able to buy gifts late in the game without paying a premium. This year, tons of e-retailers have been promoting special deals that include free shipping, with packages guaranteed to arrive by Christmas Eve.
(MORE: TIME's Gift Guides: A Luxe Lineup of Lavish Presents)
The only way consumers can make online purchases now and still expect the goods to arrive in time for Christmas morning is to opt for overnight or two-day shipping — services that are rarely ever free. That leaves last-minute shoppers with little choice other than to go the old-fashioned route and hit brick-and-mortar stores.
Among those surveyed by CR who still have shopping to do, one-quarter said they plan on spending some of Christmas Eve at the mall. And when the clock really begins winding down, where do shoppers turn for desperation gifts? Three out of 10 said they'll head to the supermarket, while 25% will seek out drugstores and 20% will hit up a 7-Eleven or other convenience store. More than one-third (34%), meanwhile, will pick up last-minute presents at a liquor store.
(LIST: 10 Money Moves to Make Before 2012)
Because giving cash is seen as crass, many last-minute shoppers turn to gift cards, which, of course, are promoted as perfect gift ideas because they're just as good as cash. Only they're not. Another CR story cautions against gift cards because so many of them go unused:
Four out of 10 consumers named gift cards as their last-minute go-to gift in a 2010 Consumer Reports survey. Our surveys also show that a quarter of people who receive them as holiday gifts have at least one lying around 10 months later.
(MORE: TIME's Gift Guides: Stylish Books)
Sure, there are sites where you can sell or swap gift cards, and there's even a new Gift Card Exchange Day planned for Dec. 26, when recipients of undesirable cards are supposed to get the best value when unloading them. But the need for such services only bolsters the argument that it's better to give cash.
Then again, there's nothing that says you have to spend money on gifts and treats around the holidays. In a survey from last year, 12% of those polled said they planned on spending nothing whatsoever.
Tuttle is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @bradrtuttle. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.


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GFI Software recently announced the findings of an extensive independent research project looking at end-user use of mobile devices at work and in their daily commute to and from the workplace, which revealed that commuters are using free, unsecured and unknown Wi-Fi services for accessing sensitive company data in greater numbers.
The survey of 1,000 U.S. office workers with a tablet or smartphone who travel to and from work on a train, bus or subway was conducted by Opinion Matters for GFI Software, and revealed that not only are employees using mobile devices and accessing data services during their daily commute, they are also increasing the risk of data security issues for their employers.
95.6 percent of survey respondents acknowledged that they used open, public Wi-Fi connections at least once a week to carry out work-related tasks such as sending and receiving email, reviewing and editing documents and accessing company servers. More than one-third (34.2 percent) of those respondents reported they accessed public Wi-Fi at least 20 times per week during their commutes, with some employees saying they connect more than 70 times per week. This activity puts company data and passwords at risk from packet sniffing and other forms of traffic interception.
"The research findings reveal a stark and concerning trend among commuters – one of using their personal devices to catch up on work during their commuting downtime, but doing so over highly insecure Internet connections that can be easily intercepted by other users or the operator of the access point," said Walter Scott, CEO of GFI Software. "Mobile Internet access is now firmly entrenched as a day-to-day norm, but with that has come an increasingly relaxed user attitude to data security, compliance and data governance policy. Companies need to address mobile device management to ensure that use in insecure environments doesn't create vulnerabilities that could be exploited by criminals – both cyber and conventional."
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Rossman ~ Bernhardt
- Written by Woodinville Weekly Staff
Allen and Debbie Rossman of Woodinville are very pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Leslie to Nick Bernhardt, son of Tim and Karen Bernhardt of Yakima.
Leslie is a 2002 graduate of WoodinvilleHigh School and a 2007 graduate of Western Washington University.
She currently works as a registered nurse on a surgical unit at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue.
Nick is a 2003 graduate of Eisenhower High School in Yakima and also a 2007 graduate of Western Washington University. He works as a CPA for Moss Adams LLP in Seattle.
The couple met five years ago while working together at Red Robin in Bellingham. They will be married this September at Lord Hill Farms in Snohomish.


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Tim Drake
Thursday, June 02, 2005
I've been Book Tagged by Totally Catholic Youth.
Total Number of Books I own: Too many to count. Best guess - 2,000.
Last Book I Bought: Magnificent Corpses: Searching Through Europe for St. Peter's Head, St. Chiara's Heart, St. Stephen's Hand, and Other Saints' Relics by Anneli Rufus
Last Book I Read: A Revolution of Love: The Meaning of Mother Teresa by David Scott
Books I'm Reading Now: Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith: The Church as Communion by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles by Raymond Arroyo (forthcoming from Doubleday)
A Century of Catholic Converts by Lorene Hanley Duquin
The Rule of St. Benedict
Books That Have Meant A Lot To Me:
1. The Holy Bible (Revised Standard Version)
2. Father Elijah by Michael O'Brien
3. Sermons of the Cure of Ars by St. John Vianney
4. The Weight of a Mass by Josephine Nobisso
5. Happy Are You Poor by Father Thomas Dubay
6. Dehumanizing the Vulnerable by William Brennan
Tag - Amy, Kevin, Barbara, and Jeff. You're it.
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Thursday, May 05, 2005
Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis to Deny Rainbow Sash Wearers Communion
Brian McNeill, organizer of Rainbow Sash Alliance USA and executive director of Dignity in the Twin Cities has posted a letter dated May 2 in which St. Paul-Minneapolis Archbishop Harry Flynn states that anyone wearing a Rainbow Sash at Pentecost Sunday's Mass will be denied the Eucharist.
The National Catholic Register has the full details of the story.
"...it has become apparent to me that the wearing of the sash is more and more perceived as a protest against church teaching," the letter states.
It goes on to say that, "I am asking you to remove your sashes before you receive Holy Communion. I ask you to observe this sign of respect for the Eucharist not only in the Cathedral but in all our parishes. No one wearing the sash will be permitted to receive the Blessed Sacrament."
For the past four years, Rainbow Sash wearers have been able to receive the Eucharist at the Cathedral of St. Paul and elsewhere. Archbishop Flynn's actions suggest a change in policy. His letter states that he is acting upon a directive from the Vatican - a directive that he expects all bishops will follow.
In January of this year, Cardinal Francis Arinze issued a clarification, indicating that, "Rainbow Sash wearers...are showing their opposition to Church teaching on a major issue of natural law and so disqualify themselves from being given Holy Communion."
I spoke with Archdiocesan spokesman Dennis McGrath, and with Brian McNeill the afternoon McNeill received the letter (Tuesday). McNeill told me that despite the letter he will not remove his sash and he still intends to go up for communion.
McGrath told me that it's not the Archdiocese that has changed, but the Rainbow Sash wearers who have changed. He said that the archbishop's letter serves as his statement, and did not expect any further statement to be issued.
Here's a St. Paul Pioneer Press report on the story. Meanwhile, the newspaper across the river has this story.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Why We Don't Starve Humans: An Interview with Dr. Chris Kahlenborn
by Tim Drake
Dr. Chris Kahlenborn is an internist in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He serves as president of the Polycarp Research Institute. He spoke with Tim Drake about the dynamics and ethics of denying a person nutrition and hydration.
What happens to a person when he or she is denied food and water?
The first thing is that after 2-3 days you get extremely dehydrated. That results in a lot of changes in the body. Your mucous membranes and your skin get very dry. Your mouth cracks. It's very uncomfortable. Your urine becomes very concentrated and acidic, making it uncomfortable to urinate.
Then your heart rate increases, your blood pressure decreases, and after about the third day, your kidneys start to develop problems. When the kidneys are damaged enough, they cannot get rid of the poison in the body. Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) builds up. The effect that this has on the body is to give you a type of lethargy, and has an almost anesthetic effect. It can also result in seizures. The poison builds up and drives the person towards unconsciousness after a period of days. The cause of death is usually seizures or cardiac arrhythmia because of an electrolyte imbalance.
That sounds painful.
The initial part of the process is pretty painful. Imagine playing a tennis match and not grabbing your Gatorade. Try not drinking anything for a day or two and you would get a sense of what it would feel like. You could say that the person eventually gets comfort, but it's after a lot of pain.
Is the denial of nutrition and hydration a standard practice in health care?
It's happening daily in hospitals, in hospices, in homes. It happens most often with patients who have Alzheimer's or who have suffered bad strokes. It's happening, yet no one is doing anything about it. Patients are often being denied stomach tubes per the family's request.
Medical professionals are using the term "artificial nutrition and hydration" to say it's not natural. They are arbitrarily calling it artificial partly because the means of getting food into you require assistance. Yet, if you use that definition, babies should be starving too, because every baby needs our help in order to be fed.
Are Catholic medical professionals condoning this?
They are split. The Catholic Medical Association has an excellent statement currently on their web site. It reads:
"In March 2004, Pope John Paul II addressed an international congress of health care professionals convened in Rome to discuss the scientific advances and ethical dilemmas in the vegetative state. In the statement by the Vicar of Christ, "Life Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State," he declares clearly and unequivocally that "the sick person in a vegetative state still has the right to basic health care…the administration of water and food, even when provided by artificial means, always represents a natural means of preserving life, not a medical act…Its use furthermore, should be considered in principle, ordinary and proportionate, and as such morally obligatory…Death by starvation or dehydration is, in fact, the only possible outcome as a result of their withdrawal. In this sense it ends up becoming, if done knowingly and willingly, true and proper euthanasia by omission."
This papal statement makes it absolutely clear that the withdrawal of food and water from Mrs. Schindler-Schiavo constitutes euthanasia, a gravely immoral act. We would add furthermore, that it represents a violation of her constitutionally protected right to life and a violation of her religious freedom as a Catholic.
They would argue rather strongly that food and hydration should be provided unless it's harmful or death is imminent. Some physicians have a pretty loose definition of imminent. For some that's an hour or two; for others it's six months. Death is imminent for all of us.
Are there times when the denial of nutrition or fluids is permissible?
The way I see it, there should always be some form of hydration. There may be a time in medicine when you don't have to place a stomach tube, but fluids should be continued to keep a person comfortable and to assist in hydration. If someone has metastatic cancer and has only a few hours or days to live, you wouldn't have to put in a stomach tube, but the person should be kept comfortable with I.V. fluids.
About the only case I can see where you might withhold fluids for a certain time would be congestive heart failure, but that's only temporary. It would be pretty hard to find a case where you wouldn't give a person fluids. In almost every case, nutrition should be given.
If a person has an injury, such as a chemical burn of the esophagus, and cannot eat any more, everyone would say that the person should be given a stomach tube. Yet, when you have a person with Alzheimer's, some people will say that they have lived their life and can slowly die of starvation by failing to place a stomach tube. When you do that, you're basing the entire decision upon intellectual ability and worth. If you take IQ out of it, you would treat the two people the same. If you argue that someone can't process the food otherwise, they should be given a stomach tube, then you need to give it to everyone. I've never seen anyone who could challenge that argument.
Many of these arguments are similar to the abortion argument.
What is the Catholic Church's position with regard to nutrition and hydration?
Nutrition and hydration should always be given, unless it's directly harmful to the patient as noted by Pope John Paul II above.
Advance directives and living wills have become quite common. What do you see as the danger of such directives?
They are greatly misunderstood and greatly abused. My feeling is that the legal profession takes advantage of people's fears to rack up the money. Most lay Catholics have no clue what the Church's teaching is. They sign living wills all the time. Such directives often go against Catholic Church teaching. When you have a 30-year-old's directive saying he or she doesn't want food or water, or antibiotics, or blood products, that usually represents a gross misunderstanding of Church teaching. Most of the time, you should be getting those things. So many times people are signing something that is against Church teaching.
I'm not saying they are always wrong. You could have a carefully thought out "loving will" that focuses on the things that you do want, rather than the things that you don't want. It's better not to get into specifics, or there is the potential to be taken advantage of by lawyers. I helped one gentleman who was slowly dying to create a positive "loving will." It said that he did want food and hydration and consultation with someone before he died.
In the case of Terri Schiavo, why is the denial of nutrition and hydration wrong?
It's wrong in any circumstance, regardless of whether she said she didn't want it or her husband says she didn't want it. It's inherently evil to deny food and water to anyone unless it's going to make the person worse or death is within a few hours. It's independent from what she or her husband has said.
What of someone in a "persistent vegetative state" (PVS)?
Even in the case of someone in a persistent vegetative state, the Pope has said that the person should get food and water.
The definition of the persistent vegetative state is basically a person whose brain has been affected so that they make or perform no conscious or purposeful action. You can't make them follow a command, in theory. They do not talk.
My problem is that you don't know what is happening inside a person, of if they will be changing. Some people in a vegetative state have progressed to higher levels. The Pope has said that you should receive food and hydration, even in that state. There is a real black and white there.
Do you know whether it's permissible to starve an animal in the state of Florida?
That would be considered cruelty to animals. The Nazis tortured St. Maximilian Kolbe by trying to starve him. I think he lived for about 12 days. In the end, they gave him an injection of carbolic acid. Most people would say that you wouldn't do that to an animal.
Tim Drake is a staff writer with the National Catholic Register, and author of the book "Young and Catholic: The Face of Tomorrow's Church" (Sophia Institute Press, 2004). He writes from Saint Joseph, Minnesota.
This article originally appeared at CatholicMatch.com.
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Wednesday, December 01, 2004
With the creation of my Young and Catholic blog, I'll be very scarce here. Maintaining one blog is time-consuming enough. Should you be interested in reading my continued ramblings, go here.
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Friday, November 19, 2004
Does this sound like most young Catholics you know?
The National Catholic Reporter recently sent correspondent Jeff Severns Guntzel to cover the Nov. 5-7, 2004 Call to Action Conference in Milwaukee. Sensing that their numbers are growing older, the gathering is now reaching out to include a "NextGen" group of 18-42 year olds. My question: does this sound like the majority of young Catholics that you know? Are these the young who attend World Youth Day by the millions?
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Monday, September 20, 2004
Advance Praise for Young and Catholic: The Face of Tomorrow's Church
"Chesterton quipped 70 years ago that 'When Ibsen spoke of the new generation knocking at the door, he certainly never expected that it would be the church-door.' Every generation produces its crop of sophisticates who declare the Faith decrepit, only to find that their children are clamoring for Jesus Christ and are not much interested in the lifeless platitudes of sophisticates. Tim Drake shows how, once again, Jesus calls the young to a life of heroism, glory and beauty in a world that offers only timidity, dullness and flash. May the prayers of Our Lady, who was "younger than sin", be with this new generation of Catholics contending for the Faith--and with Mr. Drake and his fine work."
- Mark P. Shea, Senior Content Editor, www.CatholicExchange.com
"There's a whole new generation of saints-in-the-making at the cutting edge of a major revival in the Catholic Church today, and this book tells their story."
- Leon Suprenant, president, Catholics United for the Faith
"Young and Catholic is a much needed hope-filled book for these transitional times. It is filled with "Good News" about the future of the Church – stories of prayerful families yielding fruit, burgeoning seminaries and convents, young people resisting the current by leading active devotional lives. Tim Drake sees a revitalized Church of the future."
- Tom Allen, president, CatholicExchange.com
"Magnificent! In the midst of widespread confusion about what it means to be a faithful Catholic, God has blessed the Church with these courageous young men and women who have independently sought and embraced the splendor of Christ! This book gives hope to even the weariest of souls."
- Patrick Reilly, executive director, Cardinal Newman Society
"Young Catholics giving up on the Church? Don't believe it, says Tim Drake. In Young and Catholic: The Face of Tomorrow's Church he supplies an exciting and--dare I say it?--edifying portrait of vibrant young people proud and happy to accept the challenge of being Catholic. Now the challenge for us older Catholics is to leave them a Church that lives up to their expectations."
- Russell Shaw, journalist, Our Sunday Visitor and Columbia Magazine
To order, visit:
Young and Catholic: The Face of Tomorrow's Church
or call 1-800-888-9344
Young and Catholic: The Face of Tomorrow's Church (Sophia Institute Press)
by Tim Drake
Price: $16.95
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Monday, June 21, 2004
Time to Vote for Your Catholic Movie Favorites
Well, the nominations are in. The National Catholic Register and Faith and Family Magazine have compiled a list of more than 100 nominations for people's favorite "pro-Catholic" films. Now it's time to vote for the finalists.
Those interested in the Catholic Movie Poll can now choose among their personal top five favorites. Voting ends on June 28, 2004.
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Conservative Party, byname Tories, in the United Kingdom, a political party whose guiding principles include the promotion of private property and enterprise, the maintenance of a strong military, and the preservation of traditional cultural values and institutions. Since World War I the Conservative Party and its principal opponent, the Labour Party, have dominated British political life.
The Conservative Party is the heir, and in some measure the continuation, of the old Tory Party, members of which began forming "conservative associations" after Britain's Reform Bill of 1832 extended electoral rights to the middle class. The name Conservative was first used as a description of the party by John Wilson Croker writing in the Quarterly Review in 1830. The first Conservative government was formed by Sir Robert Peel, whose program, set out in the Tamworth Manifesto (1834), stressed the timely reform of abuses, the necessity of law and order, an orderly system of taxation, and the importance of both landed interests and trade and industry.
Prospects of an extended period of Conservative rule disappeared in 1846 when the party split over the repeal of protectionist regulations known as the Corn Laws, and for most of the next 30 years they were out of government. The party was reorganized by Benjamin Disraeli, prime minister for a few months in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880. The Conservative Central Office, a professional organization established by Disraeli in 1870, and the newly formed National Union, which drew together local voluntary associations, gave the party additional unity and strength. At the same time, Disraeli's emphasis on social reform to reduce the enormous disparity in the living conditions of rich and poor, combined with a strong, activist imperial and foreign policy, helped the party to transcend class barriers. Disraeli's contribution was to transform the party from one that spoke primarily for landed interests to one that could draw supporters from the middle class and from newly enfranchised workers.
The Conservative Party was further strengthened in 1886 when it allied with the Liberal Unionists, a faction of the Liberal Party that opposed the policy of Home Rule in Ireland put forward by the Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone. Thus reinforced, the Conservatives held office for all but 3 of the next 20 years, first under the leadership of Lord Salisbury and then under Arthur Balfour. A split over tariff policy caused them to lose the election of 1906 in a disastrous landslide, and they did not regain power until they joined a wartime coalition with the Liberals in May 1915. In the election of 1918, most of the candidates elected to support the coalition were Conservatives.
In 1922 Conservative backbenchers forced the party's withdrawal from the coalition and thereby precipitated the resignation of party leader Austen Chamberlain. The rebellion owed much to the revulsion felt by many backbenchers toward the Liberal leader and prime minister, David Lloyd George, and to their unease over some of the more interventionist reforms introduced by Liberal ministers. A surprise election called in December 1923 by Conservative prime minister Stanley Baldwin proved to be a miscalculation that briefly reunited the ailing Liberal Party and opened the way to a minority Labour Party government, though the Conservatives remained the largest single party and were able to regain power the following year. Apart from another brief Labour administration in 1929–31, the Conservatives dominated national office until 1945. Baldwin emerged as a popular figure and the architect of what he called the "new Conservatism," an attempt to appeal to the middle class through a modest movement away from the laissez-faire economic policies that the party had advocated since 1918.
Baldwin's successor as party leader and prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, was forced from office in May 1940 by his own backbenchers because of his poor leadership in the early months of World War II. Chamberlain was replaced by another Conservative, Winston Churchill, who formed a coalition government with the Labour Party. Although Churchill led the country to victory in the war, he failed to lead his own party to success in the first postwar election in 1945. The party's stunning defeat can be attributed to the electorate's desire for social reform and economic security, as well as its inclination to blame the Conservatives for not having done enough in the 1930s to alleviate mass unemployment or to thwart the aspirations of dictators. While in opposition, the party reformed its policies and organization. It created a new youth movement (the Young Conservatives) and an education wing (the Conservative Political Centre), revived the party's research department, and undertook a drive to increase party membership. The party returned to power in 1951 and maintained office until 1964. Under the leadership of Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, and Alec Douglas-Home, the Conservative Party came to accept the key tenets of the "postwar consensus" with Labour—that is, it recognized the state's responsibility for maintaining full employment and endorsed the use of techniques of economic-demand management, based on the theories of John Maynard Keynes, to achieve that objective. Moreover, the party did not seek to reverse the welfare measures nor most of the public ownership of industry that had been introduced by Labour in 1945–51. The Conservative government did embark on an extensive house-building program and was able to reduce income taxes while increasing spending on the National Health Service. In the early 1960s, however, an economic downturn and a series of scandals—one of which involved an adulterous affair between the secretary of war and an alleged Soviet spy—undermined the party's support.
From 1964 to 1979 the Conservatives held power alternately with the Labour Party. Under the prime ministership of Edward Heath (1970–74), the party pursued policies designed to deregulate finance and industry. Economic problems led to confrontations with the trade unions, especially the National Union of Miners, and to internal party dissension. Heath called an election in 1974 and the party lost, allowing Labour to form a minority government. After losing a second national election to Labour in 1974, Heath was succeeded as party leader by Margaret Thatcher, who during her four years as leader of the opposition (1975–79) frequently stated her determination to pursue deregulation and supply-side economic reforms.
As prime minister after the Conservatives' victory over Labour in 1979, Thatcher attempted to "roll back the state" in the economic sphere, weaken the power of the trade unions, and reduce welfare programs. She combined this ambitious economic agenda—which included the privatization of several state-owned industries and the sale of more than 1.5 million council houses (publicly owned houses) to their tenants—with moral traditionalism and skepticism toward further European integration through the European Economic Community (ultimately succeeded by the European Union). Critics both inside and outside the Conservative Party contended that the "cult of the market" did much to disintegrate the social order, yet Thatcher was able to lead her party to resounding victories in the general elections of 1983 and 1987, owing in part to her decisive leadership in the Falkland Islands War (1982) and to deep divisions in the opposition. Her eventual resignation as party leader (and therefore as prime minister) in 1990 reflected the combined impact of a number of factors, including public protests over a proposal to finance local government through a flat-rate "poll tax," a series of bitter conflicts with some of her senior ministers, her strident and authoritarian style, and a growing sense among backbenchers that she might prove unable to withstand the electoral challenge of a newly united and considerably reformed Labour Party.
Thatcher's successor, John Major, had held senior ministerial office for only a brief period prior to his selection as prime minister. His less charismatic political style did not prevent him from winning the general election of 1992, but he had to contend with a prolonged economic recession, internal party conflict over the question of European integration, and dismally low opinion-poll ratings. The party's economic policies were questioned after Britain was forced to leave the European exchange-rate mechanism and devalue the pound in 1992. Further hampered by a series of personal scandals involving prominent officials of Major's government and facing a rejuvenated Labour Party under Tony Blair, the Conservatives suffered a crushing defeat in the general election of 1997, losing more than half their seats in the House of Commons.
Soon after the 1997 elections, Major resigned as party leader. With some potential leaders suddenly ineligible because they had lost their parliamentary seats, William Hague, former secretary of state for Wales, was elected party leader. Like Disraeli more than a century earlier, the 36-year-old Hague—the youngest Conservative leader in 200 years—set out to reform the party's organization, reestablish its appeal outside traditional Conservative strongholds, rebuild its image, and end the factional strife that had plagued the Conservatives during their last years in power. Despite those efforts, Hague's tenure was marked by continued discord, and in 2001 the party suffered a second consecutive landslide defeat to the Labour Party. In 2005, under former home secretary Michael Howard, the Conservatives won some 30 additional seats in the House of Commons but remained well shy of a parliamentary majority. Howard promptly resigned as party leader, and David Cameron presided over the gradual ascent of the Conservatives over the next five years. Having captured 307 seats in the general election of 2010, the Conservatives became the largest party in the House of Commons, but their failure to win an outright majority led to a hung Parliament. Conservative and Labour Party leaders met with the Liberal Democrats over the ensuing days in an effort to secure enough seats to form a new government. When it appeared that those talks would result in a formal "Lib-Con" coalition, Brown announced his resignation and Cameron was confirmed as prime minister of Britain's first coalition government since World War II. In midterm local elections in 2012, however, neither the Conservatives nor their coalition partners fared well, with the Conservatives losing more than 400 seats in England, Scotland, and Wales. That trend continued in the May 2014 elections for the European Parliament, in which the Conservatives lost seven seats to finish not only just behind Labour but in third place; the United Kingdom Independence Party finished in first place. Opinion polling before the May 2015 U.K. general election promised more of the same, with the Conservative and Labour parties seemingly in a dead heat as late as the eve of the election. In the event, however, the Conservatives pulled off a stunning victory—winning 331 seats, a gain of 24 seats over their showing in the 2010 election—that allowed Cameron to form a majority government.
For several years disaffection had been growing within the party over Britain's continued membership in the European Union. In 2013 Cameron first promised a national referendum on the issue, and in February 2016 he succeeded in winning concessions from EU leaders that were aimed at pleasing Euroskeptics. The party divided in the lead-up to the referendum in 2016, with Cameron leading the "Remain" side and former London mayor Boris Johnson heading up the "Leave" side. In the event, voters chose to leave the EU, and Cameron announced his intention to resign as prime minister and party leader. In July 2016 he was replaced by his home secretary, Theresa May, who became the second woman in British history to serve as prime minister.
Seeking a mandate to bolster her hand in negotiations on the British exit from the EU ("Brexit"), May called a snap election for June 2017. Opinion polling had led her to anticipate big gains in the House of Commons. However, instead of increasing its presence in the Commons through the election, the Conservatives lost their legislative majority, falling to 318 seats. May was forced to enlist the support of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party to empower a minority government.
Policy and structure
In comparison to other European conservative movements, British conservatism has proved unusually resilient, having succeeded in adapting itself to changing political and social agendas. The party is essentially a coalescence of several ideological groups, the most important of which are a centrist "One Nation" bloc that stresses economic interventionism and social harmony and an economic-liberal bloc that emphasizes a free-market economy. Neither of these two blocs are monolithic, and their heterogeneous nature usually allows them to avoid serious conflict with each other. The One-Nation Conservatives, for example, include progressives, who advocate change, and paternalists, who are more concerned with social order and authority. Nevertheless, disagreements between the two major blocs and between other groups occasionally produce dramatic splits in the party. Factional discord was sharpened during the late 1970s and '80s, as Thatcher's free-market followers, who called themselves "Dries," wrested control of the party from their One-Nation opponents, whom they labeled "Wets." The differences between the Wets and the Dries were particularly acute on the issue of European integration. Dries tended to be highly skeptical of moves toward European integration, whereas Wets tended to favour it.
At the head of the party is the leader, who is the fount of all policy. Formerly (1965–98) chosen by Conservative members of Parliament, since 1998 the leader is elected by the entire party membership; the parliamentary members may still remove a leader, however, through a vote of no confidence. Below the leader there are three principal elements: the voluntary wing (comprising the local parties in the constituencies), the professional wing (the Central Office), and the parliamentary party. All three elements are represented on a Management Board, which was created in the organizational reforms following Hague's election as party leader. The board has responsibility for organizational matters within the party and has the power to expel members.
The voluntary wing is organized in constituency associations, each of which elects its own officers and is responsible for fund-raising, campaigning, and the selection of candidates to compete in local and parliamentary elections. Specific sections within the constituency associations—such as the party's think tank, the Conservative Policy Forum (CPF)—help to integrate the views of members in the formulation of party positions on a variety of issues. Association members also attend an annual party conference. The party's Central Office, whose chief officers are appointed by the party leader, exists primarily to assist the leadership and the work of the party throughout the country. Backbench members of the parliamentary party belong to a body known as the 1922 Committee (so called because its founding members were first returned to Parliament in 1922), through which they keep the leadership informed of their opinions; they also serve on a variety of specialized committees. The committees, covering subjects such as foreign affairs and finance, meet regularly to discuss issues and to listen to invited speakers.
The membership of the modern Conservative Party is drawn heavily from the landowning and middle classes—especially businessmen, managers, and professionals. Its electoral base, however, has extended at times well beyond these groups to incorporate approximately one-third of the working class, and working-class votes were essential to the extraordinary electoral success that the party enjoyed after World War I. Since the 1950s a regional alignment of the party's electoral support has become apparent, so that it is now concentrated in nonindustrial rural and suburban areas, especially in the south of England. Indeed, the party's decline outside England was so great that in the 1997 election it returned no members of Parliament in either Scotland or Wales.
Although the party has long been highly circumspect about revealing the precise sources of its funds, the central party organization has tended to rely heavily on donations from corporations and wealthy individuals. The income of constituency associations derives from membership subscriptions and fund-raising events. In the 1990s, responding to a marked decline in corporate giving, the party attempted to increase the income it receives from individuals, relying on measures such as targeted mailings and the creation of patrons' clubs, whose members contributed a fixed amount of money per year.
The party also has had to cope with declining membership. Although claiming about three million members in the early 1950s, it was believed to have 750,000 members in 1992 and only about 350,000 by the beginning of the 21st century.
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Guybrush wrote:If we're going to trade Monta or/and Curry, I wanna see Paul in Warriors'jersey then...otherwise, I can't see big improvement with other possible trades.
That's not going to happen - $100 says he goes to New York or Orlando (if Howard doesn't go to LA). I hate how we are in an age when players can choose their team, but unless the new agreement does something to fix this, it wont change any time soon.


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God I hate morning afters. But they are inevitable (if you're lucky) As far as I can tell in reading the various postmortems there are two overriding lessons.
The first is that it's the economy (stupid). At nearly 10% unemployment, a foreclosure scandal of epic proportions, Wall Street run amock and a gusher of plutocrat money flowing into the political system, it's almost impossible to believe that the Democrats didn't lose the Senate as well as the House. It was not an ideological election — Blue Dogs and progressives alike lost their seats, in regions all over the country. It was a primal scream of a vote, against those who promised to make things better and failed to do it.
There are fundamental disagreements about how to fix this, but I expect that "consensus" is about to be found around the idea of austerity. Nonetheless, the Republicans will say the president is a socialist foreigner who is working in league with terrorists to destroy the country, so 2012 may be even more disappointing. If you're a praying person, pray that the invisible hand is hard at work making everything all better very quickly.
As to the other lesson, some of us predicted when the first black president came into office and was accused of proposing death panels for seniors, that the Republicans were firming up their best new demographic. Here's one from March of 2009.
The elderly are easy prey for all kinds of scare stories and scams from unscrupulous people. And nobody is more unscrupulous than a right winger desperate to obstruct a program or politician they know will be popular and empowering of liberals. Here's one example from a few years ago, and as far as I know they are still active today. The groups they fronted for certainly are.
I know it's seems surprising to many that the right is able to mobilize senior citizens against health care reform, but it doesn't surprise me at all. They've been laying the groundwork for this, from dozens of different directions, for decades. The "right to life" people's ongoing efforts to put euthanasia on the table is just well tilled little piece they are using for this particular moment.
The fundamental architecture of the conservative movement is built on a simple premise: liberals want to take all your money and then kill you or they want to kill you and then take all your money. It's not really any more complicated than that.
The right understood they'd lost the youth vote, the ethnic and racial minority vote and usually the female vote. The only demographic vote they had going for them was the elderly. And they've done a masterful job of making seniors feel like they're doing something for their grand kids by denying them health care and ensuring that there will be no safety net for them when they get old. You have to give them credit for that.
And you have to blame the Democrats for failing to see that was a huge part of the Republican strategy going into the mid-terms in which the voting demographic always skews older.
So, here we are. People keep asking me what this means for the progressive movement and I reply — nothing. Progressives are in this for the long haul. And anyone with any experience knows that the country is polarized between the right and the left, with a bunch of people in between who don't know what to think. All we can do is keep trying out different ways to persuade them that their best bet is to go with the progressive philosophy and require our elected politicians to figure out how to turn that philosophy into governance. It's a long term battle that has periods of intense confrontation and calm conciliation, but it never really ends.
As you go about your business today, feeling like hell, keep in mind that it was just two years ago that many of the same pundits and gasbags were assuring us all that the conservative movement was dead. We are doing a lot of lurching about right now because the country is under stress and our political system is dividing strongly along partisan lines. Get used to it. I suspect we're going to be in for turbulent politics like this for some time. And if we play our cards right, and the Democrats don't completely implode, it's probable that at the end of the day we (or those who come behind us) will look back and see that human rights, economic justice and peace came out the winners more often than not.
I thought that Hillary Clinton had it right when she said at the Democratic Convention in 2008:
My mother was born before women could vote, my daughter got to vote for her mother for President. This is the story of America, of women and men who defy the odds and never give up.
So how do we give this country back to them? By following the example of a brave New Yorker, a woman who risked her lives to bring slaves to freedom along the underground railroad.
On that path to freedom, Harriet Tubman had one piece of advice:
'If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If they're shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop, keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.'
And even in the darkest moments. That is what Americans have done. We have found the faith to keep going.
Keep the faith. And anyway, what choice do we have?
Update: Oh, and when they try to blame the bloggers or the liberals, just throw this in their face:
Only 47% of the members of the Democratic "Blue Dog Coalition" won re-election. 95% of the members of the "Progressive Caucus" won re-election. We're divided, but not that way.
And just in case the media hasn't noticed, the Democrats still control one house of congress and the presidency.


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When you're Tom Brady, very few things break your stride. The signing of a third-string quarterback -- no matter how famous that third-string quarterback might be -- does not qualify as one of them.
One day after Tim Tebow practiced for the first time as a member of the New England Patriots, NFL.com's Albert Breer asked Brady if he's worried about the media attention created by Tebow becoming a distraction.
"I don't worry about much these days," Brady said.
Brady later was asked how he'd react if he was asked to come off the field for a package run by Tebow.
"That's a very hypothetical question," Brady said, according to the Boston Herald, "so maybe we'll deal with it if it happens."
(Translation: That never will happen.)
Ryan Mallett, who is set to enter his third season as Brady's backup, has more potential to be affected by Tebow's arrival. Mallett said the right things when asked Wednesday about his new teammate.
"He's a great player," Mallett said, according to ESPNBoston.com. "There's always competition, at every position. It's part of the job."
The New England Patriots: Killing Tebowmania one bland quote at a time.
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Have you seen Facebook stock lately? It's no where near where it IPO'd at. And since that means Facebook isn't worth as much, the hilarious folks at Jest realized that means Facebook needs to start earning some cash moneys... by charging for Facebook.
Can you imagine how many options Facebook could offer if they decided to make Facebook cost money? Jest did. Things like Facebook Pro which simplifies Facebook privacy settings and lets you see who's creeping on your page, Friends Plus which hooks you up with celebrities, Facebook Gold which effectively turns your page into MySpace and so much more. This is the future of a failing Facebook. Ain't it nice?


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Two Little Giants Hope to Increase Alcohol Awarenessby Corey Asay '05 • February 11, 2005 Share:
After attending a national conference on alcohol consumption on college campuses, two Little Giant football players hope to lead the way to getting some Wabash students to think differently about drinking.
"Alcohol and alcohol related problems are the number-one concern for college students all over the nation," said Brandon Clifton, founder of Wabash Against Drunk Driving (WADD).
Clifton, a senior, started Wabash Against Drunk Driving – or WADD for short – because of his nascent concern about the alcohol related problems that many college students face. Also, Clifton had some personal experience with alcohol related troubles and wanted to help others before they placed themselves in bad situations.
"I was tired of waiting around for something to happen," he said. "As cliché as it sounds, I just wanted to help students to keep from making some of the mistakes others have in the past."
In addition to founding WADD, Clifton attended the January Athletic Prevention Programming and Leadership Education convention in Long Beach, California. He accompanied junior Chris Ogden, Associate Dean of Students Mike Raters, and Wabash nurse Carol Lamb.
The APPLE program began 14 years ago at the University of Virginia as a means of getting student-athletes out among the student body to promote good examples of responsible college students.
Trainer Jack Mansfield first approached Dean Raters about pursuing a program that would allow students to model positive behavior in regards to alcohol and drugs.
Dean Raters admits, however, there is not a burning concern that Wabash students are heavily abusing drugs and alcohol.
"I wouldn't say there's a big concern; what we have right now is a trend towards being more intentional about a lot of the things we do," he said. "Drinking alcohol is a part of college life, so we want to make sure that if that's going to occur, then we're doing it responsibly."
The APPLE conference, WADD, and those involved all speak in unison when it comes to alcohol use; they are not trying to eliminate drinking from the campus, but are encouraging those who do use alcohol to drink responsibly.
"In no way shape or form are we trying to say, 'stop drinking,'" Clifton said. "Just be aware of the choices you're making because they can either have positive effects or negative effects."
Since those who attended the APPLE conference are not in the business of ridding the campus of alcohol, they have come up with some practical programs to provide drinking awareness. The agenda tentatively includes drink alternatives at parties and student mentors.
"Student mentors would basically work as the medium between the faculty and the students," Ogden said. "They would be there to identify problems and would be trained in peer counseling."
In addition, bars that don't serve alcohol would be set up at parties.
Although the students hope that others also see the harm that alcohol can have when not used responsibly, they realize there are those skeptics who will simply not listen to their message."
"90 percent of the people that you talk to won't listen, but it's the one person you can reach that's going to mean a lot to me," Clifton said. "I know how that sounds, but I mean it."
WADD meetings are held in the LGR, but times vary according to IM schedules.
Asay is a writer for the Bachelor, Wabash College's student newspaper.