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Famous for its beachside grilled seafood, Bali's glistening Jimbaran Bay is a popular seaside destination just south of the airport. A wonderfully calm golden beach, Jimbaran sweeps gently from the airport south towards the Bukit.
At night, the beach comes alive with countless beachside seafood restaurants placing candlelit tables and chairs right on the sand. It's a lovely experience to eat fresh seafood with your feet in the sand while the waves of the bay lap the shoreline.
Aside from the fantastic eating opportunities of Jimbaran, the bay itself is a pleasant place for swimming and sunbathing with few of the hassles that one gets on the beach in Kuta and Legian. The ocean is usually much calmer here too meaning you don't have to fear for your life every time you go for a dip. In fact, the whole vibe in Jimbaran is far less chaotic than Kuta and Legian despite them being just over the other side of the airport, which more or less splits the two beach destinations.
Jimbaran is not a particularly popular destination when compared to some other areas in Bali and this is all the more reason for heading here for a stay yourself. The accommodation options on offer tend towards the higher end and are a little thinner on the ground. Finding suitable digs in a budget price range may pose some problems.
At the very northern end of the beach is the international airport and it's pleasant to watch the planes come in to land and take off in an endless stream from morning to night. Surprisingly, you can hardly hear the noise from the airport.
Just south of the airport is the bustling Jimbaran fish market which sells fresh fish to buyers from all around the island. It's a great place to have a browse around, particularly early in the morning.
Moving further south, the countless string of seafood restaurants commences and the beach suddenly becomes cleaner when compared to the section around the fish market. The beach is brutally exposed to the beating Balinese sun, but it's possible to rent beach furniture from some of the seafood restaurants providing for a relaxing and shady way to take in the serenity of the beach.
Jimbaran is basically made up of three north-south running roads, Jalan Pantai Kedonganan runs just back of the northern end of the bay, Jalan Raya Uluwatu runs parallel about 400 metres back off the beach and the main Ngurah Rai Bypass runs parallel again about a further 300 metres back connecting Kuta and beyond to the Bukit peninsula and Nusa Dua. These three roads are interconnected with smaller east-west running roads.
Most of Jimbaran's accommodation is towards the centre of the bay, with the southern end given over to the luxurious Bali Intercontinental Resort, and, on the southern headland, the sprawling Four Seasons Resort.
You'll find internet cafes, ATMs and convenience stores mostly on Jalan Raya Uluwatu.
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Adam gave up a corporate career in 2009 and left Australia for the hustle and bustle of Southeast Asia. He now lives in Indonesia, where as well as writing for Travelfish.org he plays around with www.pergidulu.com.
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Enable or disable single item recovery for a mailbox
Applies to: Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Online
You can use the Shell to enable single item recovery on a mailbox. By default, single item recovery is disabled when a mailbox is created. If single item recovery is enabled, messages that are permanently deleted by the user are retained in the Recoverable Items folder of the mailbox until the deleted item retention period expires. If a message is changed by a user or a process, copies of the original item are also retained. In an on-premises Exchange organization, the mailbox uses the deleted item retention settings of the mailbox database, by default. The deleted item retention period for a mailbox database is set to 14 days, but you can override the default by configuring this setting on a per-mailbox basis.
If a mailbox is placed on In-Place Hold or litigation hold, deleted items are retained until the hold is removed.
To learn more about single item recovery, see Recoverable Items folder. To recover messages deleted by the user before the deleted item retention period expires, see Perform single item recovery.
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You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure or procedures. To see what permissions you need, see the "Retention and legal holds" entry in the Recipients Permissions topic.
You can't use the Exchange admin center (EAC) to enable single item recovery. But in an on-premises Exchange organization, you can use the EAC to change the deleted item retention period. For details, see Configure Deleted Item retention and Recoverable Items quotas.
In Exchange Online, you have to use the Shell to change the deleted item retention period. For details, see Change the Deleted Item Retention Period for a Mailbox in Exchange Online.
For information about keyboard shortcuts that may apply to the procedures in this topic, see Keyboard shortcuts in the Exchange admin center.
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This example enables single item recovery for the mailbox of April Summers.
Set-Mailbox -Identity "April Summers" -SingleItemRecoveryEnabled $true
This example enables single item recovery for the mailbox of Pilar Pinilla and sets the number of days that deleted items are retained to 30 days.
Set-Mailbox -Identity "Pilar Pinilla" -SingleItemRecoveryEnabled $true -RetainDeletedItemsFor 30
This example enables single item recovery for all user mailboxes in the organization.
Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited -Filter {(RecipientTypeDetails -eq 'UserMailbox')} | Set-Mailbox -SingleItemRecoveryEnabled $true
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Set-Mailbox -Identity "Ayla Kol" -SingleItemRecoveryEnabled $false
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Member of the Health Committee 2010-2011.
Member of the Environment Committee 2009-2011 (Vice-Chairman 2009-2010).
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Simon Ruschmeyer sent us some images he took after the conferences 'Video Vortex' and 'Media, Memory & the Archive'. Having dinner with the crew and the guests (nah, we don't believe in the 'backstage' idea. We believe in good oldfashioned hospitality)
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I had problems with one knee caused by a falling arch on the opposite foot. A good osteopath sorted me out with a pair of customisable insoles for £40 plus 1/2 hrs consultantion fee. They cured the problem and have lasted nearly three years.
Custom built ones they normally cost around £300 including assessment.
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Fugitive Pieces was originally a novel by Canadian author Anne Michaels. While Amos Oz, whose own novel inspired The Little Traitor, draws his politics from real life and everyday experience, Michaels comes from poetry. Fugitive Pieces feels far more literary — its subject seems to be the way words can carry history when the raw muscles of memory fail. Like The Little Traitor, this is a good-hearted film about childhood, but it's harder to take. The child of Fugitive Pieces, Jakob Beer, has to navigate much darker terrain than Proffy, and he's not necessarily better for it in the end. The film captures Jakob as both child and adult in alternating scenes. As a child in Poland, he watches his father killed and his family taken by Nazis while he hides under a piano. Later, he lives with another displaced victim of the Nazis, the geologist Athos Roussos, on the Grecian coast. As an adult, he's a lonely, lachrymose man who's lived his whole life in the same Canadian apartment building to which he and Athos fled after leaving Europe. Having never found his family, he writes them into existence along with any unsung victim of Nazism whose name passes his way, capturing or imagining the details of their lives in a book he slowly authors and ultimately will publish. Sometimes Fugitive Pieces seems to stand still, to hold its breath and linger over a line forever, as though the careful unspooling of every slow, twisting Anne Michaels sentence were cause for meditation. "I can tell you what her wrists look like," Jakob says of his true love, "how the hair grows at the back of her neck — but most of all, I know her memories." The contemplativeness that pervades Fugitive Pieces reads like an extension of Beer's desire to get it right, to hold all the fragments of his broken childhood in his mind and see them clearly. The structure he creates is as delicate as Michaels' sentences, as delicate as the archeological dig Athos worked on just before the Nazis arrived. When he's forced into a social situation with young Canadians, their fast and vital conversations seem vulgar. Framed by the deathly still scenes of Beer's solitary life, the assault of their chatter is like waking up to a fluorescent lamp. After spending a couple of hours in the museum of Beer's mind, real life can seem that way too. (Saturday, April 12, 7:30 p.m., Sunrise Cinemas at Mizner Park) Thorp
Apology of an Economic Hit Man There are too many things wrong here to thoroughly address, so we'll just hit the highlights, in hopes of shaming John Perkins into never again fooling around with celluloid. In theory, Hit Man is the result of Perkins' decision to break his "vow of silence" with regard to a decade of shadowy operations around the world as an "economic hit man" in the employ of Chas T. Main. In practice, Hit Man lacks any such focus. Is this an attempt at cogent political argument? An attempt to lionize Mr. Perkins? A polemic against Paul Wolfowitz and the World Bank? Is it about the real reason the U.S. went to war with Iraq? Or is it a collection of random clips of individual Americans doing embarrassing things in other countries? At various times, Hit Man appears to be all of these. Beginning with an atrociously filmed dramatization of the way economic hit men first set sights on a target — a fast-rolling cheese wheel of a scene featuring vaguely menacing men in suits watching a propaganda film in a smoke-filled room — the movie then proceeds to jabber out a half-baked thesis, reiterated again and again: Emissaries from U.S. companies routinely offer riches beyond imagining to leaders of developing nations, in return for their willful ignorance of the way those companies plunder the nations' resources. No shit, John. Politicians take bribes? For a man claiming long-lasting, intimate involvement in such clandestine operations, Perkins' refusal to name names, cite dates, or describe scenes is suspicious. So is his claim to insider knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the fatal helicopter crash of Ecuadorian President Jaime Roldós Aguilera — especially since Roldós didn't die in a helicopter crash (it was an airplane). As the movie rolls on, it offers no facts, no figures, not even any circumstantial evidence beyond the tiresome, commonsense thesis. Perkins masks this deficit with poorly shot dramatizations of events that even he never claims took place (sinister young American man offers cigar to nameless South American leader; leader accepts cigar, looking troubled; sinister American smiles). While talking about the secret motivations behind the war in Iraq (the pipeline, natch), Hit Man runs footage of a bunch of American soldiers taunting an Iraqi boy with a water bottle. How this relates to the war's economic impetus, I have no idea. FYI: when John Perkins isn't explaining the military-industrial complex to the unenlightened masses, he is a shaman. In addition to the critically skewered book that spawned this mess of a movie, Perkins has authored Shapeshifting and Psychonavigation. The first is a guide to South American shamanic techniques. The second teaches you how to time travel. Have fun. (Sunday, April 13, 12:30 p.m., Sunrise Cinemas at Mizner Park) Thorp
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Exercise is a great way to help you live longer. But the Good Housekeeping Institute's nutrition director, Delia Hammock, says what you eat can help slow down aging, too.
A growing number of research studies suggest that eating certain foods can lower our risk of age-related health problems such as hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure, cancer, which in turn lead to premature aging and possibly death.
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Posted on 24. Feb, 2014 by theorytopractice.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. -William Arthur Ward A question during a recent podcast interview (I'll post the link when it's up and running) prompted me to consider how my training has changed over the years. Not just the nuts-and-bolts specifics of that training, but the deeper, underlying, philosophical aspects. […]
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Concurrent Assessment and Blood Testing
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Social media has taken the planet by storm over the last few years. Much has been said and written about the potential advantages of using social media for business or organizational purposes. Those advantages include, among others, enabling 24/7 communications with customers and prospects; finding, attracting or reaching new customers; building new business opportunities; increasing customer loyalty; diversifying marketing channels; recruiting IT-savvy employees; increasing collaboration among employees; and building personal, professional and organizational networks. One survey found that 40 percent of executives, not the typical users of social media, use social media multiple times a day.1
For example, Ford Fiesta used social network systems (SNS) in the US to generate a mass reach of its target market and to build relationships with customers and potential buyers. Ford achieved reservation to conversion sales rates 10 times higher than expected with SNS. Over 40 million impressions occurred with Twitter, and 30 percent of those were people under 25 (i.e., repeat buyers).2
Facebook is growing by an additional 100 million users every three months since it reached its first 100 million, and is approaching 1 billion users today.3 Twitter has about 140 million members and 340 million tweets are sent per day.4 Businesses use YouTube as a social media and training facility. For example, Red Robin Restaurants offers its training regarding the proper temperature for food as a video online on YouTube, and it is the conventional comedic videos found on YouTube that go viral. There are more than 150 million blogs in existence, and they have millions of followers and readers.5 LinkedIn has 135 million members worldwide and is commonly used by professionals to build networks.6 Other SNS include Xing and Plaxo (similar to LinkedIn), Ning (allows individuals to build a custom SNS), Rediff (India portal), Pinterest (pinning things of interest), and a host of others.
As is true with all IT, social media also brings inherent risk. These risk areas are similar to those brought about by other IT, such as inefficiency, wasted investment, insufficient effectiveness and lost opportunity. But, it also has some unique risk areas, including public image damage created by negative comments and postings in social media venues.
For the purposes of this article, the definition of social media will be "using Internet-based applications or broadcast capabilities to disseminate and/or collaborate on information."7
There are really two different spheres of risk and concern regarding social media: public image and operational effectiveness.
Public image is related to an entity trying to manage and protect its public image. It is quite easy for almost anyone to post something negative and false about an entity. It is vital that entities with social media risk are proactive in their searches for and management of false statements and negative postings on the web.
Like any other IT, the entity's management should be concerned with the operational effectiveness of using social media tools and, thus, needs to include social media audits in its internal audit function. This audit is not unlike all other audits—beginning with a risk assessment, determining management's goals (which should be tied back to the business model, goals and objectives of the entity), and auditing for effectiveness and efficiency in using the particular IT.
Figure 1 presents some of the main risk areas when using the framework discussed previously. As can be ascertained, many of the effectiveness/operational risk areas, if they occur, are likely to result in damage to reputation/public image. Those risk areas are probably higher than ones with a single-side impact.
Statistics show that, with regard to employees using social media at work, there is considerable risk beyond the risk of lost productivity (see figure 2).
One of the things that makes social media risk different from other IT risk is risk velocity. That is, information spreads extremely quickly across SNS, and transitions to conventional news media, in some cases, within a few minutes of some controversial statement or inappropriate remarks. Thus, the velocity is very quick in SNS, while in other IT arenas, the pace is not quite as fast or broad. Some videos, e.g., Susan Boyle singing on a British TV program, get millions of hits in a very short time; this is described as "going viral"—a now common term in SNS and in general. Going viral is an illustration of the extremely high-risk velocity SNS objects can attain. This is of particular importance in building controls and countermeasures for social media risk and should be factored into the risk assessment of an entity's social media.
The control for reputation and public image risk is to proactively search SNS regularly (risk might require it to be daily) for negative comments and postings, and to have a plan on how to respond to both true negative comments as well as false postings. The main thing is for someone familiar with social media to spend time daily searching the Internet/SNS for damaging posts. To be actively engaged in responding to comments and statements that could adversely affect the organization, this person should be active in all major SNS. While this process/control is not complicated, it is not without substantial costs, as specialists may need to spend all of their work hours on monitoring social media and an enterprise may even require more than one expert. The greater the reputation risk, naturally, the more necessary this kind of audit is.
Auditing social media for operational effectiveness is not much different from other IT audits of systems and technologies. What is the risk assessment, in particular the inherent risk? What controls are in place to mitigate the risk, and to what degree do they reduce the inherent risk? The risk areas can be ranked using a combination of impact and probability. In this case, the IT auditor should include the aspect of risk velocity as well. Then, starting with the highest risk, the IT auditor should begin to audit and evaluate the controls.
In addition, the IT auditor should consider what organizational goals and objectives are tied to the use of SNS. Then, the IT auditor should audit the effectiveness of social media compared to a metric or benchmark of the goal, objective or business model. This audit would benefit from the use of the COBIT 4.1 Plan and Organize domain (e.g., PO1 Define a strategic plan, PO3 Determine the technological direction and PO5 Manage the IT investment).
The proliferation of social media and the fact that major risk areas are associated with it (whether an organization uses it or not) create a need for IT auditors to assist management in managing the associated risk and making sure that social media is an effective tool. The effectiveness is tied to organizational goals, objectives or strategies (if the entity is actively involved with SNS). A framework for social media is presented in this article, which suggests that the audit of the social media IT (being used by the organization) be separate from the auditing/monitoring of the social media being used (SNS in general).
The audit of the IT (social media) itself is not much different from the approach used in other IT audits, but the risk assessment component has some special considerations (e.g., risk velocity, employee abuse). As usual, COBIT provides an effectual tool to do the audit. Such an audit, as with most IT audits, would involve auditing the controls' operational effectiveness and the organizational (managerial) strategic effectiveness.
Social media should be proactively monitored to minimize adverse effects of SNS on the organization, especially from false or negative postings. This audit/monitoring increases in importance based on how much the organization is being discussed on SNS, and could require one or more full-time employees spending all of their work hours monitoring the various SNS.
The author would like to thank Allen Johnston, Ph.D., and Jamey Worrell, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham for their insights and assistance with this content.
1 Horton, Mark; "How Executives Are Using Social Media," Socialcast Inc., 6 October 2010, http://blog.socialcast.com/how-executives.are-using-social-media/ 2 Protiviti, "Managing Privacy Risks in Social Media-driven Society," www.protiviti.com3 Hachman, Mark; "Facebook Now Totals 901 Million Users, Profits Slip," PCMag.com, 23 April 2012, www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403410,00.asp4 Twitter Blog, "Twitter Turns Six," 21 March, 2012, http://blog.twitter.com/2012/03/twitter-turns-six.html5 QSpike, What Is Social Media?, http://qspike.com/what-is-social-media/6 LinkedIn, Press Center, http://press.linkedin.com/about 7 Hanson, Ron; "The Art of Dis-Connecting: Social Networking Risk Management," presentation, ISACA Perth Chapter, www.isaca.org/chapters2/Perth/Documents/Social%20Networking%20Session%20-%20Rob%20Hanson.pdf
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How heartbreaking. Before dying in a fiery car accident, Paul knew that his girlfriend, Jasmine, was the 'love of his life' and planned on marrying her one day, according to a new report.
Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell, 23, is beyond devastated after Paul Walker's untimely death on Nov. 30, since he said he wanted to marry her "when she was ready," according to OK!. Paul also died during his own Reach Out Worldwide charity event — and Jasmine was the person who encouraged him to pursue philanthropic efforts in the first place, making the situation even more tragic.
Paul Walker 'Was Planning On Marrying' Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell Before He Died
Paul, 40, and Jasmine started dating when she was 16-years-old, with a 17-year age gap between the two. However, that didn't stop Paul from knowing that she was the "love of his life."
"There's no doubt he was planning on marrying her when she was ready. He knew she was young and had her own things she wanted to achieve, but he always said she was worth the wait," an insider told the outlet.
One of the reasons that Paul loved Jasmine was because she supported his philanthropy efforts and his charity, Reach Out Worldwide.
"She encouraged him down that path, which gave him immense satisfaction," the source said.
Paul Walker's Private Family Funeral – 'Fast & Furious' Crew Invited
Paul's family made arrangements for his private funeral at Forest Lawn Memorial Park on Dec. 10, the New York Daily News reported. Paul's family doesn't want his daughter, Meadow Walker, to be surrounded by strangers when she says her final goodbye to her beloved father, sources connected to the Walkers tell TMZ.
But Paul's Fast and the Furious friends have also been invited to the funeral because his family knows how close he was with them. Family sources tell the site that the funeral will be followed by a bigger memorial, which will also be by invitation only.
Our hearts go out to Jasmine and all of Paul's friends and family at this tragic time.
– Ivy Jacobson
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Michelle W.
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Posted at 10:37 AM on August 22, 2014
No Paul and Jasmine were not together, they broke up in 2011, and later that year she meet Travin, the guy who she is engaged now, so it is not true. And what you write about his cell phone I don't believe it, that there are sex pictures on his phone, who tell you that? This is disgusting, Paul is dead and it is still heartbreaking, he can't defend him self anymore! So stop with this disgusting comment's
Posted at 9:50 AM on August 22, 2014
After researching I think PW and Jasmine were still together. Paul shows a picture of them in Hawaii in Vehicle 19. He has a scene that he's talking about his wife Angie about all their good times and that he loves her and you know he is talking g about Jasmin. Tyres said, " I thought I would be going to your wedding instead of your funeral". There are pictures of Paul and Jasmine with his brother and wife. Paul's cell phone was found 15′ from.the crash and there were disturbing pictures of them . Police thought Jasmin was 12 at the time. Paul, family and friends did not mention Jasmine because of her young age and he could have gone to prison for statutory rape. His daughter was the love of his life but do you think this man could could give up sex until his daughter left for college. I think Jasmine was taking her time to commit to Paul because he had a thing for young girls and she wasn't getting any younger. His cell phone had 50+ images of young girls in sexual acts and positions. PW was a loving, caring man but he wasn't perfect.
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Posted at 8:04 AM on January 5, 2014
How low the media can get, to make up story like this?
1 Jasmine 's family is wealthy. She didn't need money from Paul.
2 She sat outside Paul's home and was comfort by Paul's best friend, Brandon Birtell. Please stop making negative comments on how she looked. If someone close to you died so suddenly, you won't care how you look. She is grieving. Leave her alone.
3 Having said that, she and Paul were no longer in the relationship. They were just friends who still cared for each other.
4 They didn't date until she was in her 18-19. The Star magazine made up a story (about he dated her when she was 16.) Paul is a great guy but dating her seemed to be his downfall.
5. I won't believe any story that came from Jim Trop (the eyed witness.) His story was unreliable. Paul's family should tell him to shut up.
6. His relationship with Bliss Allis was one of the best for him. They were together for almost 6 years. He was quite upset when they broke up. He said in the interview (after 2 years), he was still upset, and kept himself busy so he wouldn't think about it.
RIP Paul. We will miss you. Thanks for your humanitarian work. To his families, specially to Meadow, you are in my thoughts and prayers.
Posted at 9:55 AM on January 10, 2014
Posted at 6:23 AM on January 1, 2014
They where still togheter till Paul's dead and he was going married here when she was ready for it, and so what about the age she was the love of his life, It is so sad all people have so many comment about here, they where happy togheter and that it's all about. And how do you know she was not at de wedding of Caleb where you there? So many gossip go around, but I feel sorry for here, here whole world is falling down no Paul is gone so verry verry sad.
Frankly I'm tired of hearing about this girl. If she was the "love of his life" why were they on and off so much. Why did he hide her? I know he was a private person and there's also the issue of her being so young when they started dating. However, if someone is the love of your life why go to such great lengths to keep it a secret? And he never once stated in public that he had a girlfriend and never once mentioned her name. No one except them and the people that were close to them know how serious they were as a couple, if they actually even spoke of marriage, if she attended his Caleb's wedding or if she was at his funeral. We've all heard both stories. One story states that she attended both the wedding and the funeral and the other story says she didn't. My OPINION is that they were good friends that cared about one another and dated on and off when it was convenient for HIM. He had a crazy busy schedule with all of the movies, projects and ROWW. I think when he had down time he spent some of that time with her. But I believe he wanted to spend most of his time with Meadow. And when Meadow moved to Cali to live with him full time Jasmine and their relationship ended. He did say that Meadow and their relationship was the single most important thing in his life and that he only had 3 years with her before she went off to college. So dating was getting put on the backburner. If you're in love with someone and they're the love of your life you make time for them and keep them in the picture and in your life no matter what. He didn't do that. So that tells me she wasn't as significant as some people are making her out to be. But like I said, no one except them and the people close to them really know the truth.
Posted at 7:41 AM on January 2, 2014
You know Paul and Jasmine are the only two people that realy now how their relationship was, but I read things that make me say that they where still togheter, she has an account somewhere and there I see things that make that I am right, so believe what you believe I know enough. And you know what let's stop whit well ore not, and let Paul rest in piece ok.
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Posted at 5:06 PM on January 3, 2014
The Truth
Posted at 4:02 AM on March 1, 2014
Nobody was checking for ole Jasmine for nearly 3 years (especially Paul Walker).. that gal was DONE. The ONLY thing that even made anyone notice her at all was PAUL, so… I could care less about all of these trolls on here trying to take up for her because all it does is draw even more attention to the fact that she is an obsessed Uber Fool who is even stalking PW in death.
And she is uglier/dirtier than ever….
The Truth
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Finally, Beck veers from paranoia to darn-near sedition:
OK. Michael, the government coming in and disenfranchising people over and over and over again, and having the people say, "Please listen to us," the average person, some people will listen to the government, but others - and I'm seeing it already.
They know the Constitution. They know the writings of the founders, and they feel that the government, or they will in this scenario, and I think we're on this road - the government has betrayed the Constitution. And so they will see themselves as people who are standing up for the Constitution. So how do you defuse this, Michael, or how long even do we have before this becomes a crazy real scenario?
MICHAEL SCHEUER, FORMER HEAD OF THE CIA BIN LADEN UNIT: Well, I don't think you would want to defuse it, Glenn. We have had a 40-minute program so far, and all of the problems we have talked about in one way or another are the result of the American government either overspending or overreaching.
BECK: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait a minute. Are both of you guys saying that you don't want to - I don't think we would head for an American revolution. We would head for a French revolution.
SCHEUER: Civil war.
Etc. etc. Hey, I'm not the biggest fan of the government, but come on! Beck's even worse when he tries to be responsible:
BECK: I am against the government, and I think that they have just been horrible, and I do think they are betraying the principles of our founders every day they're in office.
But I have to tell you, this scenario scares the living daylights out of me
because it is completely - it is shaking nitroglycerine.You both served in the military. You tell me, do the soldiers come in and do they round up people? Or do they fight with the people for the Constitution? What is the Army? What does the military do?…
SCHEUER: No. I don't think the military is ever going to shoot on the American people.
Folks, this is a "news" program in a good slot on national television. We too often write off Fox News because we know its journalism is awful. But real people are watching this stuff and believe it. Trust me, I know some of them.
That's what scares me.
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UPDATE: Also, see this even funnier Colbert segment lampooning Beck. The Journal's Moore even makes a sporting appearance:


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Rail has increased its share of the British freight market in the past decade. One particular growth market has been intermodal traffic, where consignments are carried in unit loads (i.e. containers and swap bodies): these accounted for one-fifth of rail freight volumes in 2006/07. In this paper, the key trends are identified, considering both port and domestic services. A critical component of the rail system in allowing further development is the availability and capability of rail terminals. An analysis of terminal provision has been conducted, examining the relationship between the development of intermodal terminals and service provision, and identifying the key challenges for the future.
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PUBLISHED: 16 Oct 2013 08:40:00 | UPDATED: 17 Oct 2013 07:41:50PUBLISHED: 16 Oct 2013 PRINT EDITION: 17 Oct 2013Michael Williamson pleaded guilty on Tuesday to four fraud-related charges arising from his conduct while he was president of the HSU. Photo: Peter Rae
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Disgraced union leader Michael Williamson's six-bedroom house at Sydney's beachside Maroubra was put up for auction on Wednesday night - and failed to get a bid.
The three-level house, with ocean views, a wine cellar, in-ground pool, and a "feature fish pond", was expected to sell for between $1.3 million and $1.5 million.
The auction was badly timed for Mr Williamson, being held the day after he pleaded guilty to four fraud-related charges arising from his time running the HSU's biggest division.
The union has secured a $5 million court judgment against Mr Williamson, who has reportedly filed for bankruptcy.
The civil settlement cuts the union's superannuation liabilities to Mr Williamson by $1.1 million and eliminates more than $600,000 of claimed leave entitlements, the HSU said in a statement Wednesday.
It includes a public apology from Mr Williamson to all HSU members and staff, as well as his "assistance in claims against others".
The agreement was brokered through mediation by former federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland, the HSU said.
The former ALP national president faces up to 30 years in jail for fraudulently pocketing almost $1 million of ill-gotten gains.
In his written statement to HSU staff and members, Mr Williamson said he wished to "place on record my sincere apology to all of you".
"You placed your trust in me when I was the General Secretary and I abused that trust," he said.
"I apologise unreservedly to all of you for my actions, which were not in keeping with the position I formerly held."
He said he would "have to live with this matter until the day I die" and urged members "not to desert the union".
HSU NSW secretary Gerard Hayes said the finalisation of civil proceedings against Mr Williamson ended "the most difficult chapter in the HSU's history".
"The outcome we have secured allows us to claw back significant funds," Mr Hayes said in a statement.
"Crucially, it also significantly limits the union's liability for Michael Williamson's superannuation and accrued leave.
"Today's decision finally ends the Williamson era and allows us to embrace a bright future where members are at the centre of everything we do."
Mr Williamson will be sentenced October 25.
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EASTON, Pa. (AP) – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has eulogized Margaret Thatcher as a "remarkable and towering figure" who will be missed on both sides of the Atlantic. Blair spoke about his predecessor during a speech at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. Thatcher died Monday at age 87. Blair says that even though he disagreed with Thatcher politically, she was a "great leader" who pursued her aims with fearlessness and determination. Blair recalled a time, early in his political career, when Thatcher got the better of him during an exchange in the British House of Commons. He says Thatcher taught him "one of my earliest lessons in politics."
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania state lawmakers are joining a newly formed government reform caucus and hoping that its bipartisan membership and recent scandals will help propel their bills into law. The latest bills were unveiled Monday by Sens. John Eichelberger and Michael Stack. One bill is designed to prevent lobbyists from acting as campaign managers and consultants. Other bills would require more gifts to lawmakers and executive-branch officials to be publicly reported and prohibit the governor or his staff from accepting gifts from friends who do business with or are regulated by the state. Another would seek more transparency in state contracting. The proposals come in the wake of a state Supreme Court justice's corruption conviction and state prosecutors filing charges in an alleged "pay to play" scandal at the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) – A new report says Pennsylvania's juvenile courts have made dozens of rule changes in response to an internal review prompted by a court scandal in Luzerne County. Chief Justice Ronald Castille produced the eight-page report Monday at the Juvenile Justice Academy in Hershey. The courts discourage using restraints on juveniles in courtrooms, require lawyers to be present during proceedings, speed up appeals when the sentence includes removal from the juvenile's home and mandate tougher ethical rules for prosecutors. The Luzerne County scandal, which resulted in the criminal convictions against two judges, led to the expungement of criminal arrest records of 2,400 people.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz is kicking off her 2014 campaign for the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania governor. The 64-year-old Schwartz has said for weeks that she intends to run, but a spokesman said she plans to file papers to set up a state fundraising committee on Monday. Her chief of staff, Rachel Magnuson, says Schwartz will transfer $3 million from her federal campaign committee. The fifth-term congresswoman from the Philadelphia suburbs is the fourth Democrat to declare their candidacy for a primary that's more than a year away. The other candidates include Tom Wolf, a York businessman and former state revenue secretary who has pledged to sink at least $10 million of his own money into the primary campaign, and state government veteran John Hanger.
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NEW YORK (AP) – Stocks ended modestly higher Monday, shrugging off an early decline, as investors waited to see whether big U.S. companies would deliver on expectations of strong earnings in 2013. Alcoa became the first major U.S. company to report earnings late Monday, and the results were mostly good. The aluminum maker's income was higher than analysts were expecting, but its revenue fell slightly short of expectations. Later this week the pace picks up with reports from Bed Bath & Beyond, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 48.23 points, or 0.3 percent, to close at 14,613.48. The S&P 500 index closed up 9.79 points, or 0.6 percent, at 1,563.07. The Nasdaq composite index rose 18.39 points, or 0.6 percent, to 3,222.25.
BANGKOK (AP) – Japan's benchmark stock index rose for a fifth straight day today, extending a rally sparked last week after the Bank of Japan announced a bold program to revive the country's moribund economy. Other Asian stock markets were modestly higher. The head of Japan's central bank, Haruhiko Kuroda, on Thursday delivered on promises to take aggressive action to shake Japan out of nearly two decades of growth-crippling deflation. He unveiled plans to pump huge amounts of money into the economy via government bond purchases and pursue a 2 percent inflation target in order to spark lending and spending. Benchmark crude oil rose and remains above $93 per barrel. The dollar fell against the euro but gained against the yen.
UNDATED (AP) – Its earnings season again and in addition to those reports, the Commerce Department will report today on February's wholesale trade inventories. In addition, the Labor Department will release its job openings and labor turnover survey for February. The Treasury Department reports the federal budget for March on Wednesday and the Federal Reserve releases minutes from its March interest-rate meeting. On Thursday, there are some potential market-moving reports. The Labor Department releases the weekly jobless claims, and mortgage-giant Freddie Mac reports the weekly mortgage rates. Also on Thursday, selected chain retailers release March sales comparisons. Two big banks report quarterly financial results on Friday: JPMorgan Chase; and Wells Fargo. Also on Friday, investors will get a look at the retail sales data for March from the Commerce Department as well as business inventories for February. In addition, the Labor Department will release the Producer Price Index for March.
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CHICAGO (AP) – A million-dollar robot named da Vinci is hot in operating rooms these days. However, problems are giving the high-tech helper new scrutiny. The Food and Drug Administration is looking into an increase in reported problems including deaths during robotic surgeries. Its medical device database lists dozens of problems and at least five deaths since early last year. The FDA is trying to figure out if there's a real connection with the robot. Surgeons who use the robotic system say it leads to shorter hospital stays for some patients and is safer than surgery using big incisions. Critics argue that robotic surgeries cost more, and that newer doesn't always mean better.
DETROIT (AP) – Ford Motor Co. says its Focus small car was the best-selling vehicle nameplate in the world last year, with a little more than 1 million sold. More than a quarter of all Focuses were sold in China, its largest market. The U.S. was the car's second-largest market. It was the second year in a row the Focus has outsold the Toyota Corolla, according to data from automotive firm R.L. Polk. Rounding out the top five sellers were Ford's F-Series pickup, the Wuling Zhiguang minivan and the Toyota Camry midsize car. Polk counts vehicles by nameplate, so versions of the Corolla sold under different names aren't counted. Toyota says if its Matrix hatchback and other Corolla variants are included, it outsold the Focus by 186,000 vehicles.
HAYS, Kan. (AP) – The royal couple at one Kansas high school will actually be a threesome. Hays High will have a pair of kings and a queen at Saturday's prom. Seniors Dustin Mulkey and Blake Ruder tied in the vote for king. Their queen will be Millie Cooper. School registrar Tammy Stewart has worked at Hays High since 1999. She tells the Hays Daily News she can't remember another tie vote like it.
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A page on the alt.torture newsgroup |
Personal view and history of the Charter The alt.torture Consensus Charter v.5.0 The alt.torture Consensus Charter v.5.0 (plain text) |
Alt.torture: a rambling personal view and the history of its Charter.
I was part of that influx of new arrivals and once I had configured my newsreader, I made my way to a.s.b., eager for the information it would contain. So I discovered spam; I discovered flame-wars; I discovered a sort of politically correct bdsm where people who didn't follow others' preconceived "rules" could be flamed as viciously as they might expect from someone outside the scene. There was little practical content and a lot of intolerance. So I looked elsewhere. Hidden amongst the (then) 20,000 newsgroups I was offered I found alt.torture. It was like getting to a party when everyone else had left. There was the occasional post, maybe one per day. Then a guy who called himself DataRat started to post. He started several threads and invited responses. "Some hope," I thought. But he started getting responses. He deliberately went to related newsgroups and promoted alt.torture as a spam-free, flame-free newsgroup. (Well it was at that time!) Someone else asked for ideas and I read a brilliant answer by a lady who used a different nick then, but whom we now know as poenkitten. I was inspired to post an answer myself. The traffic to the newsgroup grew. DataRat kept a fatherly eye on things. Above all he promoted the idea of the alt.torture "family", not a clique, as new arrivals were readily and routinely welcomed. But as traffic grew, so did problems. Should there be a policy about what to post? At first, binaries and personals had seemed reasonable enough, they were still within the small family. But we were seeing what was happening to other newsgroups. Thriving discussion groups elsewhere were being flooded with binaries, rapidly reducing the expiry time of other posts. Much as we hated "rules" we began to appreciate that anarchy was worse. I drafted out a policy document in my mind and went to post about it, to find that another guy, Woodwork, had been thinking on the same lines. After some consultation, we floated the idea of the "Consensus Charter" (Woodwork's term for it). The newsgroup were broadly supportive, though some quite understandably expressed serious concerns. But we got it going. I took on the role of the coordinator for the Charter and over a period of several months we established where there was consensus, established where there was disagreement, and in the latter cases I organised votes. Many new people had joined us, but they understood the problems, took part in the discussions and contributed new ideas. I wrote the bulk of the Charter, but with substantial contributions from poenkitten and often useful phrases or ideas from others. Each part of the proposed Charter was put through the newsgroup for discussion and amendment, often several times. Binaries remained controversial, but by now we had our official binary companion newsgroup, alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.torture. All the disagreements were resolved by at least a 2/3rds majority and by April 1997 the final (we hoped) version of the Charter was put up for vote over a three-week period. Not all of us, not even myself, agreed with every word of the Charter, but the vote was overwhelming. Seventy in favour and only two against. We had us a Charter. The approved version, with incorporation of the vote result, was version 4.0. Anyone with older versions should scrap them. The Charter has remained almost untouched, other than correction of a numbering error and revision of the numbering and wording of the supplementary notes (which are not part of the Charter itself). However, the wording of the binaries clause (3.5) was amended by newsgroup vote in April 1999. This means we are now at version 5.0. This is given below. (I should acknowledge that alt.sex.bondage has undergone its own transition. Effectively, the old newsgroup has been abandoned to the spammers and business transferred to soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm. They have been bedevilled by one long-running flamewar that it is not appropriate for me to comment on here, but I think they have regained at least some of the vitality of what I imagine the old a.s.b. was like. The companion newsgroup, soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm.femdom has also been created. Alt.torture remains independent, a bit wilder, a bit wackier, and newcomers should not believe everything they read, but there is a lot of good stuff in it, and some brilliant flashes of humour if you know whose posts to read.) The Nazgul, April 1999 Anyhow, here's the Charter: |
The Alt.Torture Consensus Charter (vers. 5.0_html)THE ALT.TORTURE "CONSENSUS CHARTER" AND POSTING GUIDELINES CONTENTS
2. About the 'Consensus Charter' 3. Posting Guidelines 3.1 Usenet guidelines. 3.2 Pedophilic material (unacceptable) 3.3 Commercial products and services 3.4 Personals 3.5 Binaries 3.6 Crossposting 3.7 Safety 3.8 Stories 3.9 "Chat" 3.10 Test messages 3.11 Trolls and flames 3.12 Miscellaneous 4. Maintenance of the Charter 5. Supplementary Notes 1. ABOUT ALT.TORTURE This newsgroup is a forum for the discussion of torture. It is believed that the newsgroup was originally set up for discussion of and opposition to non-consensual political and institutional torture, both historical and present day. It remains a forum for such topics. It also covers CONSENSUAL Sadomasochism between adults. [Note 1] Consenting adults are construed as those people who have reached the age of majority in their country or state, and this specifically prohibits those who are underage at their locale. All possible permutations of adult sexual interactions are covered, regardless of gender and sexual orientation. Both male-dom and female-dom activities are included. [Note 2]. For the purposes of this newsgroup consensual torture is defined to include such activities as stringent Bondage, Discipline, Electric Shocks, Body Piercing and Modification, Mental and Physical Control and all other similar tortures not specifically mentioned. It is held that free discussion of such activities contributes to greater understanding and consequent safe practice. [Note 3, Note 4] This newsgroup does not condone NON-CONSENSUAL torture and abuse, sexual or sadomasochistic activities involving children, or the solicitation of Erotic Death. Fantasies and discussion of non-consensual torture involving adults are acceptable, provided there is no encouragement, specific or implied, of such activities in real life. This is an international newsgroup, so it is the posters' responsibility to ensure they comply with their own national or local legislation when posting or downloading. Posts are for the information or entertainment of responsible adults and are not suitable for viewing by minors. 2. ABOUT THE 'CONSENSUS CHARTER' This document has been put together after much self- analysis and
discussion of types of post acceptable in alt.torture. It follows
revitalisation of this newsgroup during the summer of 1996. No
original charter for this newsgroup has been traced and this document
is a substitute, representing the current will of the newsgroup
participants. It does not have the Usenet status of a charter written
at the time of a newsgroup's creation, hence the phrase "consensus
charter". 3. POSTING GUIDELINES Contributions are gladly received from anyone with interests covered by this newsgroup. It has been a policy to promote a "family atmosphere" in the newsgroup and new contributors are always welcome. However, all contributors are asked to follow the following guidelines, which represent the consensus of the newsgroup users.
Nevertheless, the sharing of information and experience is seen as promoting safety. Beginners should be aware of these background assumptions of safety and must be VERY cautious about using ideas from this group without explicitly considering and asking about safety issues. While fantasies are legitimate posts, the portrayal of untested fantasy as reality should be avoided as potentially misleading.
4. MAINTENANCE OF THE CHARTER This Consensus Charter belongs to the newsgroup and has been put together following newsgroup discussions from November 1996 onwards, supported by e-mail voting as required. It will be maintained by an administrator [Note 13] and posted regularly back to the newsgroup. It may also be made available for consultation on one or more Web sites. Suggestions for improvements to the Charter may be made (to the administrator) at any time. If such suggestions are apparently non-contentious, and after formal posting to the newsgroup and receipt of no objections, amendments may be made without further vote. If objections are received, but the proposal is supported by ten or more newsgroup users, the administrator will call a vote. Any proposal to reverse a previous vote must be supported by fifteen or more newsgroup users and must be made not less than 6 months after the declaration of the previous vote results. Supplementary notes and any appendices are not a formal part of the Consensus Charter and will be kept updated as required. 5. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. Note 1: Background information to alt.torture is maintained by poenkitten at Note 2: Genuinely abusive relationships, even within a BDSM framework,
are not condoned. While there may not always be agreement on all
points, a useful guide to recognition of abuse in BDSM relationships
has been produced by the International S/M-Leather-Fetish Celebration
and may be found in the soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm FAQ Note 3: Alt.torture seeks to maintain its own identity. However, newsgroups with related or overlapping subject areas include soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (all bondage and BDSM matters, and more appropriate for posts on light bondage without a "torture" element); soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm.femdom (the primary newsgroup for discussion of female dominance in bdsm, and more appropriate regarding rituals of worship and submission); soc.sexuality.spanking (a robomoderated ng concentrating on spanking and light whipping); alt.sex.necrophilia (dead bodies, including death by torture); rec.arts.bodyart (piercing and body adornment, including excellent FAQs). Attention is also drawn to nl.erotiek.bdsm (Netherlands) and uk.people.bdsm (Britain). Note 4:Advice on safe consensual torture practices is given in the
alt.torture FAQ, maintained by poenkitten. Parts are occasionally
posted to the newsgroup and it is accessible as a web document at Note 5: A net-abuse FAQ is regularly posted to news.admin.net-abuse.newsnet. A valuable compilation of related FAQs can be accessed at Note 6: Taglines may provide references to commercial (hopefully BDSM) websites maintained by newsgroup contributors, or provide means of contacting those offering professional (including personal) BDSM services. Postings must never be made simply for the sake of publishing the tagline. Note 7: Personals on spanking should be directed to alt.personals.spanking (or a.p.s.punishment); general bondage and BDSM personals should be directed to alt.personals.bondage. Note 8: Personals of a biographical nature are acceptable in
Alt.torture. Please use ISO and geographical location in your header
(remember, this is an international newsgroup). Make clear your own
gender and that of the person for whom you search. Note 9: Anyone responding to a personal, as with any other contact medium, should be aware of the risks. This particularly applies when someone is going to allow him/herself to be placed in bondage and made physically helpless. Initial meetings should be in a suitable public place where kidnap would be very difficult. Personal addresses and telephone numbers should not be given too readily. Someone else should be aware of the arrangements and be prepared to raise alarm in the event of non-return by an agreed time. Consideration should be given to the use of "silent alarms" (messages to someone else at agreed times and which MUST contain secret code words to indicate all is well). Be aware of applicable legislation as regards the limits of "consent". Note 10: It is appreciated that many service providers do not give access to a.b.p.e.t. Advice on alternative routes of access appears regularly in the newsgroup. Relevant binaries appear often in a.b.p.e.bondage, which is more generally available. This document should not be seen as encouragement to download material in contravention of applicable local or national legislation. Note 11: A set of articles giving information and advice on posting to Usenet is posted regularly in news.announce.newusers. Note 12: Persons joining a discussion are recommended to read previous posts in the thread. Web access to previous alt.torture posts is usually available through DejaNews (http://www.dejanews.com). Note 13: This document has initially been put together by The Nazgul (firstname.lastname@example.com) who currently acts as administrator for it. Many newsgroup members have provided valuable advice and comments. The initial idea came from Woodwork, and the current text incorporates, in particular, contributions from poenkitten. All who have taken part deserve the newsgroup's thanks. End of version 5.0 |


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HOW TO HELPDr. Sandra Cochran said she always tells people "not to be a part of the problem" of pet overpopulation. She urged people to take charge of their neighborhoods and to inform others of the low-cost opportunities of spaying and neutering.
Victoria Adopt-A-Pet offers extensive services, including microchipping, vaccinations, medicines and spaying/neutering.
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A crowd inched inside the crammed Texas Zoo Tuesday night for a chance to show their thanks to two local veterinarians.
Dr. Sandra Cochran and Dr. Karen Klinkerman were honored at an event sponsored by Pets are Worth Saving for their dedication to providing low-cost spaying and neutering to pets in Victoria.
"I think it's a big to-do that's not necessary," Cochran said before the event started. "We just want to keep doing what we're doing."
Cochran and Klinkerman provide low-cost surgeries at Adopt-A-Pet and together have spayed and neutered more than 20,000 animals.
Cindy Schneider, president of PAWS, introduced the two veterinarians while Mayor Pro-Tem Paul Polasek read a proclamation from Mayor Will Armstrong declaring Jan. 11, 2011 Dr. Sandra Cochran and Dr. Karen Klinkerman Day.
"We don't mean to overlook the other vets in Victoria, but we're just honoring those at Adopt-A-Pet," Schneider said.
Klinkerman said it was her pleasure and conviction to provide these services.
"I've always had a strong passion for spaying and neutering," the mother of two said.
Klinkerman postponed practicing veterinary medicine to start a family, but as her children grew, so did the time she dedicated to Adopt-A-Pet. "I'm there three to four days a week, so it worked well with my situation."
Meanwhile, Dr. Cochran comes in six to eight times a month in addition to running her practice.
Cochran was the first doctor in Victoria to offer the low-cost surgeries, Schneider said.
"It didn't take long after I moved here to find out there was a serious problem," Cochran said. "We still have a long way to go."
Cochran credits people in the community with bringing to her animals in need.
One such person is Terri McMahan, who said Cochran helped her capture 15 stray cats last year.
"She's a lifesaver," McMahan said.
Bonny Schaefer, who, along with McMahan was one of the straggling supporters left standing outside, agreed.
"To me, she is one of the last kind of vets that has honor and trust with her clients," Schaefer said. "I'm raving about her all the time."


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Colin Armstrong and Cap win inter-district final
A well-controlled run by Colin Armstrong's stylish and consistent Cap led the field at the Scottish inter-district nursery final at Meikleholm, Courance, on Saturday.
Cap, bred by local handler Angus Jardine, by his Corriedhu Spot out of his Cailleag, like his grandsire, Bobby Dalziel's Spot, Cap proved to be a good listener.
Colin and Cap mastered the Blackface hoggs and made the job look easy. The evidence of their skill lay in the number of dogs who failed to complete their course.
Judge Nigel Watkins of Wales said: "The top three runs were all very good, but Colin was a clear winner. Cap maintained a perfect line on the return to the pen, whereas most handlers let the line drift there."
The course was flat and open, with dips which could hide the sheep below a dog's eye level or make lines difficult for the handler to judge, while the wintry landscape camouflaged gates and distant sheep. The Blackface hoggs ran well on the course but had an intense suspicion of any form of woodwork, while the long cross drive tested the young dogs and many runs were timed out.
Characteristic of the Scottish nursery final, the trial saw 45 packets of four fit hoggs worked by young dogs in front of enthusiasts from the UK, Scandinavia and USA on a cold March day.
Cap ran out and lifted cleanly, gave the sheep space and fetched and drove without any difficulty. At the mouth of the cross drive, Colin seemed to think the sheep were a little low, flanked Cap and caused the sheep to turn round. Colin had to flank hard to put them through then, but he succeeded, and finished the run with a clean pen and shed, leaving spectators in little doubt that he had taken the lead.
"Cap is very consistent, he settles sheep very quickly and they seem to draw on to him," said Colin. "He was two in February and he has matured over the winter. I'm hoping to run him in the opens."
Ian McMillan Lamp (R Dalziel's Joe, S McCrindle's Cass) ran out clean to the top and lifted well. Mindful of runs timed out, Ian opted for a quick fetch, but seeing the line wavering a little, he slowed the pace and Lamp kept the sheep on a good line after that. The drive was very good, apart from a little hesitation at both gates. One hogg broke apart at the pen, but Lamp quickly kepped her, secured the lot and finished the run with an exemplary, clean shed, the kind for which Ian is renowned. Lamp came second on 91.
Neil Campbell's Cass (N. Campbell's Gus and Baledmund Di) stopped short at the top, but she responded to Neil's whistle and lifted her sheep cleanly.
The hoggs squiggled a little off line, but went through the gate. The drive started very well, and although the hoggs were prepared for a fight at the first set of gates Cass was able for them and put them through. The line of the cross drive was straight, if slightly low, but Cass had no difficulty turning the sheep through the gate. A clean pen and a good shed finished the run third with 88.
Two littermates came next. John Allan's Ben (A Driscoll's Cheviot Jamie, A Dickman's Rule Skye) had a steady run, with minor points dropped over the piece but no major weaknesses and earned fourth place on 86.
Andrew Dickman's Mist ran out and lifted clean but the fetch did not go so well and the sheep veered round the gate. Once Mist had them under control, she worked well and finished with a good shed, and fifth place on 84.
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