Well equipped and lots of information about the local area. With the A1 road three fields away it was very quiet but was easy to drive into Berwick upon Tweed, or other places of interest.
It had everything you could need and the welcome packs were so thoughtful. Quiet and peaceful but close enough to the A1 to get around easily. Would definitely recommend to family and friends.
Easy to find just off the A1 which makes it very accessible but a quiet retreat in the country at the same time. Our dog felt right at home immediately and really enjoyed her beach walks and exploring the country lanes. We saw deer on our second day and many birds, including red kites, sparrowhawks and a kestrel.
Everything was very clean, the bedding and towels were very good quality and all the 'extras' like tea towels, washing up liquid, kitchen roll, tin foil, cling film etc were all there to use. We had a welcome hamper on arrival with a fresh loaf of bread, eggs, milk, chocolate, tea and coffee. I would definitely be recommending this cottage.
Everything we needed was there and WOW what a welcome tray. cakes, crumpets and a real treat a bottle of Bucks Fizz we were really spoiled. The area has so much to see we ran out of time so will have to return to do some more. A real treat was a train journey to Edinburgh where we spent a great day.
Nice to see an assortment of wild life i.e. nesting swallows in a nearby shed with house martins nest by the back bedroom window and farm animals in the next field.
Highly recommend and hope to return.
Corbett Cottage is a cosy 19th-century, redbrick cottage, in the small hamlet of New Haggerston, near Holy Island, Northumberland.
Perfectly located for small families who wish to explore the beautiful Northumberland Coast Cheviot Hills and Northumberland National Park.
The ground floor houses a character-filled open-plan living area; a fabulous woodburning stove, grandfather clock and comfortable sofas.
Double doors from here reveal a delightful little conservatory, set with pretty furniture, this is a lovely spot to sit and read a book with a refreshing drink of your choice.
The charming bedrooms rest on the first floor; a double and a double/twin will perfectly accommodate a small family.
The interior is topped off with a stylish tiled bathroom, get yourself ready in style before a day of exploring the nearby Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve.
Spend some time relaxing in the peaceful enclosed garden to the back of the house with the refreshing countryside air to accompany you.
Nearby are the attractive seaside towns of Spittal and just six miles away is Berwick-upon-Tweed, both idyllically placed with heavenly sandy beaches.
Berwick provides an array of high-quality amenities as well as some wonderful architecture including Berwick Caste and the 16th-century remains of King's Mount.
Nearby is the awe-inspiring Northumberland National Park for a multitude of paths and trails to walk or cycle along.
Slightly further afield is the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, offering a wonderful day out for all of the family to enjoy.
A well-located cottage to be enjoyed all-year-round.
Two bedrooms: 1 x double, 1 x twin/double. Bathroom with a separate shower, basin and WC. Open-plan living area with kitchen, dining area and sitting area with woodburning stove. Conservatory.


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Dr. Peter Rubin Receives Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance Project Funding
This effort affords a solution aimed at reducing hospital-acquired pressure ulcers, affecting an estimated 3 million patients annually.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Enterprises announced recently that it will fund several projects created under the umbrella of the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance in an effort to solve some of healthcare's toughest challenges through the innovative use of technology. Announced in March 2015, the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance is a unique collaboration among UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University. It will focus on building new companies that create data-intensive software and services, with the potential to revolutionize health care and wellness.
Through Pitt's Center for Commercial Applications of Healthcare Data, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine faculty member J. Peter Rubin, MD (pictured), Chair of the Department of Plastic Surgery, UPMC Endowed Professor of Plastic Surgery, and Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh, will receive funding for his project entitled PUMP. This effort affords a solution aimed at reducing hospital-acquired pressure ulcers, affecting an estimated 3 million patients annually. The monitoring and alert solutions, using wearable devices and hospital bed sensors, will provide real-time documentation of patient repositioning and a process to improve compliance with these preventative measures.
"We are excited to move forward with the first of many exceptional ideas in the Health Data Alliance pipeline," said Tal Heppenstall, president of UPMC Enterprises. "This promising start bodes well for the Alliance's goal of transforming health care by unleashing the creativity and entrepreneurialism of leading scientists and clinicians in Pittsburgh."
UPMC/University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences Media Relations News Release (03/22/16)
Bio: Dr. Peter Rubin


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Russia's Biggest Bank Sberbank Unveils Crypto Plans to Follow Upcoming Regulation
The largest bank in Russia, the state-owned Sberbank, has reportedly unveiled its crypto plans as the country is set to begin regulating the industry in January. Sberbank's CEO says the bank may issue its own cryptocurrency in collaboration with JPMorgan.
Sberbank's Crypto Plans and Sbercoin
The CEO of Sberbank, Herman Gref, unveiled on Monday his bank's plans for when the country's upcoming crypto regulation takes effect.
Gref explained that the law "On digital financial assets" will enter into force in Russia on Jan. 1. It provides a legal definition for digital assets and legitimizes cryptocurrency in Russia. A separate bill, "On digital currency," which is still under consideration by the Duma, will provide a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency. Gref was quoted as saying:
From January 1, the law comes into force, we want to bring to the market our new blockchain platform, which will provide services for the purchase of digital financial assets.
In addition, Reuters reported Tuesday that Sberbank is considering issuing its own cryptocurrency called "sbercoin" and may team up with JPMorgan to work on the project next year. JPMorgan recently launched the JPM Coin. Gref explained that Sberbank will work on its cryptocurrency at the same time as the Bank of Russia works on a central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital ruble.
Sberbank is the largest bank in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe. Its Russian network features 11 regional banks with 14,200 branches in 83 regions. The bank has a worldwide presence in 18 countries. The Russian Federation represented by the Ministry of Finance "owns 50% plus one voting stake in Sberbank's authorized capital (or 52.23% of all voting Sberbank shares)," the bank's website details.
What do you think about Sberbank's crypto plans? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Bordeaux trade declines but demand remains
Bordeaux's overall share of the fine wine market by value continues to decline as the market broadens but demand for physical stocks of the first growths at least remains high.
Since its peak in 2010, the value of Bordeaux in the market has been declining. Eight years ago 95% of the total market value was generated by claret, today that total is down to just over 60%, the lowest share Liv-ex has ever recorded and a "sharp drop" from the 68.3% share it commanded only last year.
As well as Bordeaux's own problems with regards pricing perhaps the chief reason for Bordeaux weakening in the market is that buying has broadened out to other regions – most notably Burgundy.
Last year wines from the Côte d'Or held a 12.5% value share of the market, so far this year it's 14.7% and its own base is broadening away from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Jayer, Armand Rousseau etc to include other domaines.
Champagne, Italy, the Rhône and US are all contenders too. Over the last year Champagne's value share has risen from 6% to 7.6%, Italy from 6% to 7.3% and the Rhône from 2% to 2.9%.
The US meanwhile, is gaining enough ground that Liv-ex recently launched the California 50 index to track five of the leading labels. Its share of the market has gone from 2.8% to 3.7%. In 2013 its share of the overall value was just 0.5%.
Yet while Bordeaux may be witnessing a period of decline in the overall market, from merchant to merchant it's clear that demand for claret, especially first growths, is still very robust.
En primeur sales have been poor for a number of years now, in no way coming close to matching the heights of the 2009 and 2010 campaigns, and this year's 2017 campaign was widely reported as one of the worst for sales since 2013 which was the absolute nadir.
But wines that were considered overpriced on release comparatively recently have often dipped in price in the interim before becoming physical, which has in turn created a relatively thriving buyers' market for these labels.
Fine wine merchant BI recently reported that its first growth sales have increased for three consecutive years and total Bordeaux sales in 2017 were just under £55 million – or 62% of total value which fits in neatly with Liv-ex's overall evaluation.
Of that total, £27m – over 50% – was from physical and primeur sales of first growths, which in turn was 31% of the company's total turnover in 2017.
It is physical sales of claret which are really coming through for the merchant against a backdrop of poorer primeur campaigns.
In H1 of this year, non-primeur Bordeaux sales increased 14% year-on-year and non-primeur first growth sales were up 15%.
In short, despite BI also reporting an uplift in Burgundy and Champagne sales, Bordeaux continues to hold its own.
Managing director, Gary Boom, said: "In our business, the first growth market is going from strength to strength. The stellar quality of recent vintages allied to the decreasing availability of the great vintages of the past has created fresh demand for these most revered of wines."
By Rupert Millar
Amuse-bouches: The latest restaurant news bites
In restaurant news this week: The French Laundry sells its kitchen garden for US$9 million, UK hospitality businesses claim victory in a landmark insurance ruling, and the team behind Hackney's Nest gets ready to (hopefully) open a new site in Fulham
Bath restaurant's samosa space mission crash lands in France
An Indian restaurant in Bath which launched a samosa into space prompted an international rescue mission after the pastry travelled slightly further than expected.
How a Hospitality Minister would help the on-trade
With the on-trade one of the hardest hit by the pandemic, Isabelle Gray talks to UK restaurant owners and chefs to find out how a Hospitality Minister would help their businesses.
How to get hold of bottles from London's best restaurants for wine
While eateries remain closed, we round up the ways you can get your hands on bottles from London's top wine-focused restaurants as rated by 2020's Wine List Confidential guide.
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Two men arrested for filming, gang-raping their 19-yr-old neighbour in Ogun (Photo)
Officers of the Nigerian police have trailed and arrested two young men for forcefully having carnal knowledge of their 19-year-old neigbhour and filming her nude.
According to Punch, the suspects identiifed as Damilare Oyeniyi, 30, and Emmanuel Okori, 20 reportedly committed the crime on December 12, 2020 in the Sango area of the state.
They were arrested four days later by policemen attached to the Sango Divisional Police Office.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday.
Oyeyemi explained that the suspects were arrested following a report lodged at the Sango Police Station by the victim.
He said the teenager reported that Oyeniyi and Okori, who were her neighbours, dragged her into the room of one of them, stripped her naked, filmed her nude and took turns to rape her several times.
The police spokesman said, "Upon the report, the DPO Sango division, CSP Godwin Idehai, detailed his detectives to go after the suspects and bring them to book.
"The investigative effort of the detectives paid off on December 16, 2020, when the duo were eventually arrested.
"On interrogation, the two suspects confessed to the crime.
"They confessed that they videoed her nude, which they used to threaten her not to report or else the video would be posted on social media.
"The state Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution."
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Special Issue: Transgressing and Reworking Social Boundaries Through Dance and Music
We are delighted to present a collection of articles that explore the role of dance and music in transgressing and reworking boundaries. This is a compilation of studies in and from the Global South. Keywords in this volume cover: identities, boundary crossing, space, dance, music, meaning, performance, ethnography, belonging, gender, transgressing and creative citizenship.
Special Issue: Keywords for Music in Peacebuilding, Volume 2
We are extremely happy to include in this volume experts and/or activists from music sociology, inclusive education, peace studies, transformative leadership, ethnomusicology, community music, spirituality and post-war reconstruction. The keywords found in this volume cover debates about identity and peacebuilding, notions of space, inclusion, sound communities and transitional justice.
Sounding and Performing Resistance and Resilience
The analysis of resistance and resilience in the articles in this special volume of Music and Arts in Action illustrates the complexity of the terms, their definitional ambiguities and situated tensions when they are used in conflict contexts. Rigorous debates have underlined the contested nature of the terms resistance and resilience, whereby resistance is considered a means of destabilising interpersonal and state hegemony and resilience is variously seen as an individual strategy for survival and wellbeing or an intervention impacting upon socio-economic structures. Theoretical discord further highlights the need for careful and detailed ethnographic investigation. Thus, while it might be tempting to avoid the terms altogether as some critics argue, close, critical ethnographic reading of the particularities of sonic atmospheres, as well as their corresponding musical and performative dynamics can render productive the relationship between resistance and resilience as contributors to this volume show. Thus, rather than jettison these terms we encouraged our contributors, (the majority of whose research is based in protracted conflict contexts), to take up the challenge of examining their application through vernacular understandings in order to demonstrate how individuals embody, mobilise and strategise their effects in the sounds and performances of everyday life.
Special Issue: Keywords for Music in Peacebuilding
Music in peacebuilding is an emergent field with interested scholars representing a variety of intertwined fields, from applied ethnomusicology to sociology, from peace and conflict studies to social movement studies. In addition to scholarly pursuits, there are numerous practitioners and activists who are involved in the work of music in peacebuilding, sometimes explicitly connected through their work to music and peacebuilding and sometimes implicitly. The Min-On Music Research Institute (MOMRI)[1], based in Tokyo, Japan, is possibly the only research organisation in the world dedicated solely to music in peacebuilding. There is a growing interest in music in peacebuilding (and music, conflict and violence), but the one thing that became abundantly clear is that we did not share a collectively agreed upon vocabulary to effectively discuss matters of shared concern. After many discussions and break-out groups failed to develop consistent frameworks, MOMRI decided that we should attempt to find a common set of reference points and discourses to facilitate collaborative work in the future. This special issue of Music and the Arts in Action on Keywords for Music in peacebuilding is the result of this process.
[1] http://institute.min-on.org/
Special issue: Flirting with Uncertainty, Improvisation in Performance
Special Issue: Music and Migration
Theme Issue: Music and Arts in Health and Wellbeing
Theme Issue on Music and Arts in Conflict Transformation
The first issue of Music and Arts in Action with invited contributions.


This is a portrait of my friends Graham and Amanda. Having two people in a portrait was pretty challenging as I not only had to create the likeness for each but also show the dynamic between the two. I tired to pay attention to straight vs diagonal, light vs dark, ridged vs relaxed, and soft vs hard. Hopefully these opposites reflected in their personalities as they are connected, but unique. It was created in Maya, Mudbox, Photoshop and Vray. Hope you like it.


Cherries. . HD Wallpaper and background images in the Photography club tagged: photography taking pictures photo cherries.
This Photography wallpaper contains cherry and bing cherry. There might also be sweet cherry, black cherry, radish, and cranberry.


What is an Affair in Relationship or in Marriage? An affair damages the trust in a relationship, and some marriages don't survive the disclosure of an affair. If your wife is willing to reconcile with you, you must change your behavior and avoid the conditions that made the affair possible. Consider enlisting the help of a marital therapist to work with you as a couple and individual therapists for each of you. Can Counseling Help?" The most important factor in reconciliation, however, is that your wife sees your remorse, verifies your changed behavior and trusts you to be faithful in the future.
Cut off all contact with the affair partner immediately and come clean to your wife. Adopt a "no secrets" policy and demonstrate that you want to save your marriage.
Apologize in detail for your actions, taking full responsibility for the affair, for hurting your wife with thoughtless behaviors and for damaging her trust in you. If she asks questions about the affair, answer them honestly and empathetically. Ask your wife what you can do to make amends.
Rebuild trust with your wife through accountability, honesty and doing the right thing every time. Make promises only when you know you will keep them. Make your life an open book to her, allowing her to view your email account or cell phone bill to verify that you aren't contacting your affair partner. If you say you will call your wife at a specific time, do so. Become the most dependable person in her life.
Meet your wife's emotional needs consistently. Be affectionate, engage in informative conversation, give her your undivided attention, compliment her, demonstrate appreciation for her and support her in every way possible. Avoid doing things that aggravate her, such as agreeing to do a chore and then forgetting to do it or being disrespectful or critical.
Consistently display behaviors that demonstrate that you are in your marriage for the long haul. Show her every day that you can be the best husband, lover and friend. She will grow to trust you more as you demonstrate that you are trustworthy.
Accept that you cannot force her to take you back. If she is unwilling to forgive you and rebuild the relationship, you cannot compel her to do so. Allow her to leave, expressing your apologies and your sincere desire that she be happy.
Ask her what else you can do to prove your love and faithfulness.


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Meet a Catholic fisherman who finds God in his work
By Catholic Digest on April 1, 2007
When Pietro Parravano was born 57 years ago, an aunt made him a baby blanket with his name and a boat — a symbol of St. Peter, his namesake — embroidered in blue. Three decades later, after acquiring a master's degree in science and pursuing a teaching career, Parravano fulfilled his destiny and became a professional fisherman.
Parravano speaks almost with a sense of awe about his first experience fishing for wild salmon back in the early 1980s. "Something just opened up inside me," he says. "It was just amazing to be out in nature like that, focused on a single task — catching fish." He began talking to fishermen up and down the West Coast about entering the profession. They told him he was crazy, that fishing was a dying industry and a close-knit one that would be difficult to penetrate. But, Parravano says, it just "felt right." He eventually bought and restored a 1940s-era wooden fishing boat, the Anne B., and joined the men and women who fish for wild salmon and trap Dungeness crab from the port at California's Half Moon Bay.
Parravano did not come from a fishing family. His father, who was born and raised in Rome, came to the United States on a Fulbright Fellowship to Princeton, and wound up teaching science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. There, as a boy, Parravano was introduced to lake fishing, which he found boring. "When I was a kid, I was much happier taking a walk in the woods or climbing a tree," he says. But the experience of ocean fishing changed his mind.
Twenty-five years into his career, Parravano still feels a spiritual connection to his calling. "I often say the ocean is my church," he says. When fishing, he contemplates the mystery of the ocean, the mystery of the fish that come from the deep. But most of all, he says, "I will never let go of the incredible feeling that every fish I catch feeds people, nourishes them with a pure, delicious, high-quality food." This mission, he says, grounds him.
Along with a sense of spirit, however, Parravano quickly began exploring the politics involved in modern-day fishing: overfishing, pollution, loss of jobs.
"When I got into it, there was no dialogue going on, just a lot of fingers being pointed in a big round of the blame game," he says. He served on local, state, national, and international committees, trying to get researchers and people in the fishing industry to talk to each other, to figure out a sustainable future for the fisheries. He served as a commissioner on the prestigious Pew Oceans Commission, and in 2004 was awarded the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Environmental Hero Award.
Eventually, Parravano's work came to the attention of the Apostleship of the Sea, a Vatican-directed organization dedicated since its inception in Scotland in the 1920s to helping mariners and seafarers of all kinds. The U.S. office is based in Port Arthur, Texas, and has long been ministering to crews on oil rigs and cruise ships, and to others who are at sea for months at a time. Parravano connected with the group after giving a presentation at a national conference about the need to support the fishing communities in the United States. "Fishermen are facing incredible stress — the actual or potential loss of their livelihoods, the breakups of established fishing communities and families," says Parravano. "I just sounded the alarm. The Apostleship heard it."
Parravano sees the role of the Apostolate of the Sea as providing support for families, training for new occupations, or whatever else is needed. Indeed, according to AOS-USA spokeswoman Doreen Badeaux, the group has been working with Vietnamese shrimpers — Catholic and Buddhist — in the Gulf Coast to help rebuild after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Parravano is also active in what he calls "food systems" issues, and is a member of the Roots of Change Stewardship Council, part of an organization devoted to sustainable food supplies. But despite all of his activism, what Parravano seems to enjoy most is making the connection between the people who eat fish and the people who catch them. He seems happiest when discussing selling fish at a local farmers' market, where "people can ask how and where the fish was caught, and take that story back home and tell it at the table, and a link is forged." He is rooted in his community, where his wife Joan works as an emergency room nurse.
"There are a lot of religious roots in fishing," he says, citing the story of the loaves and the fishes, and the passage in Luke in which Jesus teaches from a boat in the ocean, then tells the disciples where to "dip their nets," after which they take up an enormous amount of fish. Today, he says, the annual Blessing of the Fleet — held at the start of fishing seasons all over the world — brings legions of fishermen to the port.
"Today," he says, "we may have some special gadgets and electronic devices, but we are still going out in a boat that floats for one purpose: to catch fish to feed people.
It's a lot like what Peter did." CD
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Roberto Orci directing Star Trek 3
Entertainment, Movies, News
After J.J. Abrams was wooed away by Disney and LucasFilm to direct next year's Star Wars Episode VII, the question lingered as to who would now oversee the rebooted Star Trek movie franchise.
Paramount has just cleared up the issue however, officially selecting Roberto Orci to helm the upcoming third rebooted installment after rumours started cropping up to that effect. The new movie is currently without a release date, though is attempting a release in 2016 to coincide with the franchise's 50th anniversary that year.
This marks Orci's first ever directing gig, and one of his first major tasks after splitting with longtime writing partner, Alex Kurtzman. Orci and Kurtzman collaborated on several recent blockbuster screenplays, most notably for the first two Transformers movies, the Amazing Spider-Man movies, and, naturally, the previous two rebooted Star Trek movies directed by J.J. Abrams. Despite Abrams' new commitment to the rival Star Wars franchise, he will remain involved with the currently-untitled Star Trek follow-up as a producer, though Kurtzman is no longer involved with the movie franchise in any capacity.
Currently, no plot details are confirmed at this point, though it's believed that the main crew of protagonists will return for the third movie. This will mark the landmark thirteenth feature film in Star Trek history as well.
What would you like to see in a third rebooted Star Trek movie? How do you feel about a former screenwriter being graduated to the director's chair? Are you more excited for this new Star Trek movie, or Star Wars Episode VII? As usual, your comments are welcome below.
Eggplante is continuing to beam you your Star Trek news, as we can discover it.
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The Global Leadership Summit 2021 Broadcasts LIVE on August 5-6 to 650+ host sites across the U.S. and Online
Source: Global Leadership Network | Thu, 29 Jul 2021, 07:01:33 EDT
SOUTH BARRINGTON, Ill., July 29, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The Global Leadership Network, host of the annual Global Leadership Summit (globalleadership.org/summit), for people committed to developing their leadership skills to ignite positive transformation wherever they live and work, has announced the Global Leadership Summit on August 5-6, 2021.
The Global Leadership Summit includes 15+ world-class faculty, including Craig Groeschel, Malcolm Gladwell and Juliet Funt, and now includes the following leaders:
Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter, Charles Duhigg
President & CEO of World Vision, Edgar Sandoval Sr.
Founder of IT Cosmetics, Jamie Kern Lima
Business creativity expert, Fredrik Haren
Award-winning finance and business leader, Carla Harris
Researcher and executive consultant, Liz Wiseman
Leadership expert, best-selling author, Henry Cloud
"Get refreshed, recharged, fired-up, encouraged and ready to forge head to make a positive impact wherever you are," says Craig Groschel, senior pastor of Life.Church, and Champion of The Global Leadership Summit. "I believe that whether you're a business leader, CEO, pastor, teacher, nurse, student, artist, soldier, parent, doctor, volunteer, entrepreneur, or simply finding your place, you have influence and your leadership matters."
The Global Leadership Summit, the GLN's premier event of the year, will bring together hundreds of thousands of men and women across the U.S. at in-person gatherings located at 500+ host sites and interactively online via the GLS Online Experience.
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AG Holder: DOJ Generally Supports Warrant for Info From Service Providers
By John Eggerton
Attorney general Eric Holder said Wednesday that, as a general matter, his department supports having to get a warrant to access electonic communications from a service provider.
He did not exactly answer whether Justice thought it needed a warrant to get emails from a third party like Yahoo, but he did say that there should be certain limited circumstances when Justice would need to acquire info at the speed at which communications is now moving.
He said one of the key conversations the administration and Congress need to have is how to balance expectations of privacy and law enforcment's ability to acquire info. He said it would be good to come up with a set of rules that probably would not be perfect, but could meet "somewhere in the middle."
Holder was being questioned -- and sometimes grilled -- in an occasionally heated, marathon oversight hearing in the House Judiciary Committee.
John Eggerton
Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.


Did anyone here listen to the big tele-thing on Sunday? I'm curious about what was said.
described Dan as "a non-pulpit Chabad rabbi."
Bob, could you step into the office for a minute?
the place it's most likely to get someone in real trouble is the military.
Sefardic custom is to name after living grandparents. But even then, they would just give the name, no "junior".
a parent/child pair; a grandchild would be Joe Smith II.
Just for fun, I tried out their "Test yourself: Is GYE for you?" questionnaire.
message that they have resources for you and a sign-up button (same for both).
reaching out to the other person, while self gets a larger question tree.
I'm using a filter - is it preventing me from seeing content in the OP other than the GYE website link?
Egyptian-themed light strategy game for 2-4. You mostly load blocks of your color onto public ships or send a full-enough public ship to one of several places to unload its cubes in the order they were loaded, with each of those places scoring differently. There are 2 playable versions of each place for variety.
Position-based strategy game for 2-4 (but don't play with 4). Players each have 2 pieces on the same 5x5 grid. On a turn, move one of them like a chess-King and then build nearby. Buildings (which don't belong to the players) can go up to 4 floors, and players can only move upward by 1 floor in a move. The object is to get a piece onto the 3rd floor of a building (4th floors can't be moved to) or prevent your opponent from having a legal move. That's the basic game, anyway - players can also each have a different special rule. The buildings are plastic and pretty nice.
Light push-your-luck game with some strategy. In the first part of each round, players must choose when to back out from a public card-draw, somewhat blackjack-style - staying in is always rewarded but runs the risk of losing all the round's gains. In the second part, they use their rewards to buy cards that progress them toward winning (and may help them in future rounds). Nice art.
Actually, is shipping a 3-4lb package from Lakewood to somewhere in PA likely to be cheaper with standard USPS pricing than their flat rate ($13.65)?
Same goes for a ~1lb package, Lakewood to California (flat rate about $7.20).
Seeing as I live in Lakewood... What do these things involve?


The Spring Celebrities series are dwarf hollyhocks (Alcea rosea) will grow to just 3 feet tall making them perfect for small gardens or for the mid border. They have ruffly double flowers in a variety of colours. Spring Celebrities Lilac has lilac pink flowers. Easy to grow in a variety of soils including seasonally dry sites but hollyhocks really perform well in rich, loamy soil with good moisture.


Audiences love a love story, especially one that ends in a wedding. In May, one young couple's nuptials became the UK's biggest media event. The excitement around the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle extended well beyond the UK – almost 40 million Americans watched the coverage. And the TV viewing figures for the marriage of Harry's older brother, William, and Kate Middleton in 2011 were even larger. A royal wedding is guaranteed to bring in viewers.
Unlike a sporting event whose broadcast rights might be carefully licensed for each territory, a public spectacle like this year's royal wedding allows multiple broadcasters to compete for a slice of the viewership pie. The competition forces each broadcaster to up the ante in terms of quality and innovation.
Sky has always tried to push the envelope in TV technology. The company was an early pioneer of 3DTV and though the format never caught on with viewers, Sky's research in production and distribution had a ripple effect throughout the industry. It is now looking at HDR content, as well as increasing its 4K offerings, and has announced plans to create a new Innovation Centre at its Osterley, London campus which will be the home of its new Get into Tech for Young Women programme.
For the marriage of Harry and Meghan, Sky News leveraged the power of artificial intelligence to create a live-streaming app which allowed viewers to identify the wedding guests and participants in real time.
The Sky News Royal Wedding: Who's Who Live application was powered by machine-learning enhanced video. The live-streaming experience gave users an insider's look at guest arrivals, with the machine-learning infrastructure to detect guests in real time as they appeared on screen. The app offered users a steady stream of facts and insights about each arriving guest, including their connections to the royal couple and was used by half a million people in more than 200 countries via mobile devices and web browsers.
A video-on-demand version was published after the wedding. It allowed users to navigate the roster of guests with integrated pause, rewind and restart.
Sky News designed and built its machine-learning functionality in only three months. The team built the service using cloud infrastructure, for speed of development and to assure access to the scalable machine-learning capabilities essential to the app's core functionality of real-time guest identification.
in collaboration with UI Centric.
Rekognition allows users to add image and video analysis to applications by providing image or video to the Rekognition API. The service can identify objects, people, text, scenes and activities, or even detect flagged or inappropriate content. The cloud-based tool also provides accurate facial analysis and recognition.
for live-to-VOD applications such as catch‑up TV.
The Amazon CloudFront content delivery network was used to unify the content for faster distribution to viewers. The enhanced video and metadata were delivered to the front-end application and video player designed and developed by UI Centric specifically for this application.
Information-rich content like that provided by Sky's Who's Who Live app will become increasingly common – even essential – for providers and broadcasters looking to capture more eyeballs. It's not hard to imagine a service or app that tells you not only who is present at an event, but whose designs they're wearing and what vehicle they're driving, and what the prominent buildings and landmarks are at a scene, along with links to more information or opportunities to add items to your wish list or shopping cart.
we can look forward to increasingly dynamic video innovations accompanying big live events.


One of the easiest ways to set up a Linux instance to use with Snort and related tools is to create a Linux virtual machine on your computer, using available virtualization technology such as VMware, VirtualBox, or Parallels. These instructions assume the use of the free VMware Workstation Player software from VMware, but the basic process for creating a Linux virtual machine is quite similar on other virtualization platforms. Using a virtual machine has several advantages, most importantly including the fact that you don't need to alter the setup of your Windows computer or do any disk partitioning as you would with a dual-boot configuration, nor do you need to find a "spare" computer to use to set up Linux. To go the virtual machine route, you need to get two things: the VMware Player software, and an installation image of a Linux operating system, often referred to as a "distribution." For the purposes of these instructions, we'll use version 14.04 of the popular Linux distribution from Ubuntu, a version designated for long-term support and that is well supported by VMware. These instructions also refer to VMware Workstation Player version 14. Please note that beginning with version 7 of VMware Player, all versions of these free VMware products (for Linux as well as Windows) require a 64-bit operating system, so if you are using a 32-bit system instead you may need to choose an alternative virtualization product that supports 32-bit systems, such as VirtualBox. The versions of Linux and other component specified in these instructions have been verified to work with multiple Windows operating systems, in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, with high-end and low-end (e.g., systems with as much as 8 GB and as little as 1 GB of RAM) hardware configurations.
Go to https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads, find VMware Workstation Player from the list of Products (scroll down to the Desktop & End-User Computing category) and click "Download Product." From the product download page, download VMware Workstation Player by first choosing "14.0" from the Major Version drop-down list and then clicking the "Download" button for the current Windows version of the product (14.1.1). Note that the VMware Workstation Player installer file is about 91 MB, so it may take some time to download this file depending on your connection speed.
Go to http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/, click on "Alternative downloads and torrents" and download an installation image of the Ubuntu 14.04.5 operating system. This distribution is available in 64-bit and 32-bit versions; you can choose either, but 32-bit is recommended by Ubuntu for use on a system with less than 2 GB of RAM. Note that the installer image is almost 700MB, so it may take some time to download this file. Please note: if you want to run the 64-bit version of Ubuntu Linux, you must install the 64-bit version of VMware. If you have no preference or will not need to use this Linux VM beyond working with Snort then you may want to download the 32-bit version, even if you have a 64-bit operating system on your host computer, because the 32-bit version has lower resource demands. If you use the 64-bit version, note the two places (highlighted) in the instructions on the following pages where steps differ for 64-bit and 32-bit users.
Locate the VMware Workstation Player installation file (VMware-player-14.1.1-7528167.exe or similar filename) and launch the installer by double-clicking on it. You can accept the defaults during the installation for a typical install. You will be prompted to restart your system to complete the install.
Once you have finished installing VMware Workstation Player and you have the Ubuntu installation image saved to disk, you can launch Workstation Player and start setting up your virtual Linux image.
From the Welcome screen, choose "Create a New Virtual Machine" and when the wizard begins, choose to install from "Installer disk image file (iso):" and browse to the Ubuntu file you downloaded to your computer. Select the iso file and when you return to the wizard, click Next.
Enter name and user name information in the next wizard screen. Whatever you enter here is used to create a user in the Ubuntu Linux operating system, so make sure you remember or keep track of the username and password you enter here. Click Next.
Choose a name for the new virtual machine, or accept the default "Ubuntu" provided by the wizard. By default in Windows VMware creates a directory under My Documents called "My Virtual Machines" where it stores VM files; you can change this to some other directory if you prefer, or just go with the default. Click Next.
Specify the amount of hard disk space and memory (RAM) to allocate to your virtual machine. The numbers you choose are driven in part by what you have available on your computer, but also keep in mind that for basic Linux use or just experimenting with the OS, you likely will not need anywhere near the 20GB default the wizard suggests. However, with the graphical features of recent Ubuntu versions, you need at least 5 GB to avoid running out of disk space (implementing everything in the instructions that follow will leave you with less than 5% free space on a 5 GB virtual machine). For RAM, the default setting of 1024 MB is fine, but if your computer has 2 GB or less of memory you can reduce this further to 512 MB and still perform sufficiently for our purposes. Where possible, raising the memory allocation tends to make performance better. The memory allocated to a VM must be less than the memory installed in your host computer. Click Next.
On the next screen you will see a summary of your VM settings, and the option to customize hardware. If you will be running the VM on the same machine where you are creating it, you should not need to customize anything, with the exception of the display settings. Choose the Display option at the bottom of the list, and uncheck "Accelerate 3D graphics." Click Close to exit hardware customization. Click Finish to start the Linux installation in the new VM instance.
The installation process can take anywhere from a few minutes to an hour, depending on the capabilities of the system you are running and other variable factors. Please note: while it is not absolutely necessary to have an active Internet connection while running the installation, the process will proceed more smoothly if a connection is available, as Ubuntu will try to check for updates, set the system time by querying the network, and perform other functions that use a network connection if one is available. VMware installs a set of tools in all guest operating systems installed within VMware; you may see a pop-up message that a newer version of the Linux VMware Tools is available and asking you to download and update them. Follow the instructions to download and update the tools to the latest version (a process that can be done in parallel with the Ubuntu install). The VMware system installer is designed to run pretty much unattended, so the next step requiring your attention will be when you are prompted to log in to Ubuntu.
When you see the login prompt, you should use the username and password you chose when you created the new VM instance (step 2 above). By default, the system will ask you to log in as the user you already created, so you only need to enter the password. When the login process is complete, you will see the Ubuntu Desktop (shown in the screenshot below), meaning you have successfully installed the Ubuntu Linux operating system.
Shortly after logging in to Ubuntu, you will likely see a prompt notifying you that there is either a newer version of Ubuntu (the latest Ubuntu release is currently version 17.10) or that there are updates available for your version and asking if you want to update your operating system. The 14.04.5 version is both stable and reliable for our purposes and is supported by VMWare as a guest OS, and Ubuntu has given the "long term support" (LTS) designation to the 14.04 release, meaning it will be supported for at least five years from the date of its release (which was in 2014). There are, however, often kernel or security updates for any Ubuntu version and it is a good idea to keep your instance up to date. You will also likely be prompted to install security updates or other program updates for Ubuntu – these recommended updates should be accepted and installed (you will need to re-enter your password to authorize administrative changes such as updates). Look for an icon in the left-side navigation menu in the Ubuntu Desktop that looks like a cardboard box with a number on it – selecting that icon will open the Update Manager and allow you to bring the operating system up to date.
The only other preliminary steps before you begin setting up programs and configuring settings in Ubuntu are to update your distribution and to install the package manager software, which we rely on for many of the following installation steps. The Synaptic Package Manager used to be included by default in Ubuntu prior to version 11.10, but now it must be installed separately through the Software Center.
Click anywhere inside the VMware Workstation Player window to perform actions in the virtual machine.
By default, Ubuntu will check for updates when it first starts up, so you will likely be prompted that one or more components (including the Linux kernel) need updating. You can also start the update manager from the desktop in Ubuntu by selecting System -> Administration -> Update Manager. You may be asked to provide an "administrative password" which is just your regular user account password. Please note that the number and total size of the updates required can be quite large depending on how recently the OS image has been updated, so the update process may take some time.
Once the updates are downloaded and installed, you may also be prompted to restart Ubuntu within the VMware Workstation Player window. You will need to log in again with your password.
From the left-hand menu on the Ubuntu Desktop, click on the Ubuntu Software Center icon.
When the Software Center loads, use the search bar at the upper right to search for "Synaptic". The Synaptic Package Manager should be the first result returned in the search.
Highlight the application in the result list and click "Install".


Founded in 1867 in Washington, D.C., by Minnesota farmer Oliver H. Kelley and six friends, the Grange, also known as the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, was the first US national organization of farmers. A fraternal organization similar to the Masons, with secret rituals and seven degrees of rank, the Grange served chiefly as a social club for isolated rural families in the West and the South in the 1870s and 1880s. Although technically apolitical in the sense that its members did not run for office or endorse parties or candidates, it engaged heavily in lobbying Congress and state legislatures for reforms that would benefit rural America, such as regulation of railroad shipping rates, rural free delivery of the US mail, and more and better schools and colleges in the hinterlands.
By 1871 the National Grange had established two of its first three southern chapters in Mississippi. The Mississippi state Grange grew rapidly in the early 1870s, owing partly to the convenience that Ku Klux Klansmen found in using the Grange, with its secretive nature, as a front for violent activities during Reconstruction. Nationally, Grange membership began to dissipate after 1875, and Mississippi's state Grange followed suit, but not before accomplishing one of its main goals—stripping the University of Mississippi of its Morrill Land Grant and establishing a separate state agricultural and mechanical college, which was founded in Oktibbeha County in 1878. This college is now Mississippi State University and was the second of its kind in the South.
In the 1880s many state Granges struggled for survival, but the Mississippi Grange remained the most consistently vibrant and active in the South, rivaled only by the Texas Grange. One reason for this organizational strength lay in the fact that the Mississippi agricultural and mechanical college administration and faculty used Grangers as students in out-of-class laboratories of experimental farming techniques. Another reason was the leadership of Mississippi's US senator, James Z. George, who cosponsored the 1887 measure that established agricultural experiment stations around the nation. A third and more important reason was that in 1886 state grange master Putnam Darden was elected national grange master, an exalted position that filled Mississippi Grangers with pride. However, Darden died in 1887 and thus held the position only briefly.
Darden's death, coupled with the rise of the National Farmers' Alliance at about the same time, led to another decline in Grange membership in Mississippi. The Farmers' Alliance destroyed the Grange in several southern states, but the Mississippi organization hung on despite its diminished membership. In the mid-1890s the Grange made a strong and semieffective effort to woo back Alliance members, but the Mississippi Grange finally folded in 1898, by which time much of the National Grange's political agenda had been accomplished and the changing needs of rural farmers no longer justified the continuation of the organization.


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In these moments of rupture, people find themselves members of a "we" that did not until then exist, at least not as an entity with agency and identity and potency.
We know next to nothing about that drummer girl who walked into a Parisian market where many people were ready to ignite, to march, to see the world change. With every insurrection, revolution or social rupture, we need to remember that we will never know the whole story of how it happened, and that what we can't measure still matters. But Schneider's book gives us some powerful glimpses into the early (and late) organizing, the foibles and characters, the conflicts and delights, and the power of that moment and movement. It conveys the sheer amount of labor involved in producing a miracle — and that miraculousness as well.
Almost as soon as Occupy Wall Street appeared in the fall of 2011, it was clear that the national conversation had changed, that the brutality and obscenity of Wall Street was suddenly being openly discussed, that the suffering of ordinary people crushed by the burden of medical, housing or college debt was coming out of the shadows, that the Occupy encampments had become places where people could testify about the destruction of their hopes and lives. California passed a homeowner's bill of rights to curtail the viciousness of the banks, and in late 2012 Strike Debt emerged as an Occupy offshoot to address indebtedness in creative and subversive ways. Student debt suddenly became (and remains) a topic of national discussion, and proposals for student loan reform began to gain traction. Invisible suffering had been made visible.
Occupy Wall Street allowed those silenced by shame, invisibility or lack of interest from the media to speak up. As a result, the realities behind our particular economic game came to be described more accurately; so much so that the media and politicians had to change their language a little to adjust to — admit to — a series of previously ignored ugly realities. This, in turn, had consequences, even if they weren't always measurable or sometimes even immediately detectable.
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Federal whistleblowers face retaliation, abuse
A fevered push by President Trump and Republican loyalists to unmask the whistleblower who launched the impeachment inquiry has churned up fundamental questions about the complainant's legal protections, motives and safety.
In the past week, Trump has stepped up his assault on the anonymous federal employee, who disclosed a phone call in which Trump asked the Ukrainian president for a "favor" – to investigate political rival and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Thursday, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted about a person whom conservative websites have named as the whistleblower, a claim that has not been verified.
"It's a kill-the-messenger approach," said Jackie Garrick, founder of Whistleblowers of America, a volunteer support organization. "That's what retaliation is all about – character assassination."
Federal laws protect whistleblowers from retaliation, which could include identifying the person in question. But it's not clear that those laws would prohibit the president from doing so.
People outside the Trump administration, including members of Congress and the public, would likely be covered by the First Amendment if they named the person, though civil law guards against libel and slander.
Legal protections may work for a while, but experts say federal employees who speak out about abuse or misconduct usually pay the price, professionally and personally. Most whistleblowers end up shunned and alone.
"Many regret what they did," said C. Fred Alford, a professor emeritus of government and politics at the University of Maryland who has studied whistleblowers.
"But they say, 'I couldn't have done otherwise,"https://www.usatoday.com/" he said. "And they never recover from what they've learned about the world."
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Pressure grows to identify whistleblower
The president has support from zealous online backers and, this week, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who demanded that the news media name the whistleblower.
"We also now know the name of the whistleblower," Paul declared during a political rally, though he didn't name anyone. "The whistleblower needs to come forward as a material witness because he worked for Joe Biden."
Paul apparently was referring to conservative websites and social media accounts that claim to have identified an intelligence employee as the whistleblower. USA TODAY has not independently verified those allegations.
Paul and Trump Jr. have faced criticism from people who say they're endangering the whistleblower.
That's what worries Andrew Bakaj, co-counsel for the whistleblower. He said he's increasingly fearful for his client and upset by the rhetoric used by Trump, his supporters and public officials.
He said death threats have been directed at the whistleblower and attorneys, prompting them to take security measures that he would not describe.
"I'm certainly concerned about the safety of our client," Bakaj said. "People need to be accountable – God forbid something should happen. This is serious: Somebody's life and family" are at stake.
Pathway of impeachment process:How it works, where we are
Adam Schiff, D-Calif., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, considered having the whistleblower testify before Congress, perhaps in a way that concealed his or her identity, but said he decided against it because of Trump's attacks.
Bakaj said the whistleblower is irrelevant now that others have corroborated the account of Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. However, Bakaj and his co-counsel have agreed to allow their client to answer written questions from Republican lawmakers.
Trump said that's not good enough. Earlier this week, the president alleged the whistleblower provided false information and "must be brought forward to testify."
Most Republicans have been silent on the issue or have called for the whistleblower to come forward. One exception is Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who rebuked Trump and said the whistleblower should be protected.
Nick Schwellenbach, director of investigations for the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan government watchdog, said there is "huge irony" in congressional calls to identify the whistleblower.
"They're violating the spirit of these laws. And the laws are there to help Congress do its job," he said. "They're hurting themselves."
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How federal laws help whistleblowers
Federal laws protect whistleblowers from reprisal in order to encourage employees to report corruption, lawbreaking and unethical conduct. Government officials who violate protective statutes may be disciplined or fired.
National security whistleblowers, who have access to top-secret information, are protected under a special law that covers 17 intelligence agencies and imposes requirements for filing a complaint with the Office of Inspector General for the intelligence community.
An executive or other employee in an intelligence agency would break that law by identifying an anonymous whistleblower.
The person who outed Trump's conversation appears to be hyperaware of America's protective statutes. The whistleblower's seven-page letter to the inspector general goes into detail in explaining that the complaint followed federal procedures.
Bakaj made it clear he believes outing his client would be a form of retaliation that's generally prohibited. But he doesn't believe the law applies to Trump or members of Congress.
Still, Bakaj said, "I would expect members of the U.S. Senate, as well as the president of the United States, would respect the protections our client is afforded by statute."
The Privacy Act also precludes government officials from identifying federal employees in many circumstances. Schwellenbach said that law bans White House and other executive-branch officials from identifying the whistleblower.
But again, it's unclear whether that law would apply to Trump. "The system is not set up to discipline the president," Schwellenbach said.
He said a push by the president or lawmakers to expose or "slime" the whistleblower may be retaliatory even if it's not illegal. He also suggested it could be dangerous given Trump's ability to stir emotions in a political climate with "a lot of very unhinged people out there."
"This is such a passionate issue," Schwellenbach said. "I think the person might need witness protection more than whistleblower protection."
Experienced whistleblowers offered overlapping advice to the Trump informer: Tell the truth. Hire good lawyers. Take care of family and finances. Expect character assassination. Stay cool under fire.
"There is a whole cottage industry out there trying to destroy this person's life," Schwellenbach said.
"It's a dangerous situation, and I don't use that word lightly," said John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer who went to prison after exposing U.S. waterboarding of al-Qaida suspects overseas. "There's a lot of crazy people out there."
Kiriakou initially didn't face repercussions, but several years later he was convicted of disclosing classified information after he gave the name of a CIA agent to a reporter.
A ticket to 'professional Siberia'
The term "whistleblower" emerged in the 1970s instead of pejoratives such as "snitch" and "rat fink."
Protections are not built into the Constitution. The first legal provisions were adopted in the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, part of a wave of legislation that followed Watergate.
Eleven years later, the Whistleblower Protection Act spelled out the rights of federal employees to disclose government "illegality, waste, and corruption" without adverse consequences.
Since then, more laws have been adopted. Executive orders and court rulings have been issued. Oversight agencies have been created.
But those who have blown the whistle — and experts who study them — say shields against reprisal are easily circumvented, and oversight agencies often are backlogged and politicized.
The number of whistleblower complaints submitted to the Office of Special Counsel increased by 62 percent between 2011 and 2016, according to a report last year by the Government Accountability Office. The average time to process cases approached two years.
Even employees at the Office of Special Counsel, which is supposed to defend whistleblowers, were fearful of filing complaints because they did not believe they would be protected, according to the report.
The inspector general of the Department of Veterans Affairs found that, instead of assisting employees, the VA Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection conducted shoddy investigations, disrespected whistleblowers and sometimes turned on them.
Often, complainants become victims of retaliation – fired, harassed or disciplined without cause. Those who file appeals encounter another roadblock: The Merit Systems Protection Board is unable to hear their cases because it has lacked a quorum since January 2017.
As a result, Schwellenbach said, government employees who report misconduct "will probably be in professional Siberia at some point."
Protective agencies are "worse than ineffective," said Jesselyn Radack, director of the Whistleblower and Source Protection Program at the journalistic nonprofit ExposeFacts.
"The offices tasked with protecting whistleblowers are often used to retaliate against them," she wrote in a column published by the Society of Professional Journalists. "Beyond administrative retaliation, whistleblowers increasingly face harsh criminal prosecution."
'Almost all have suffered'
The public perception of whistleblowers is often framed by Hollywood movies, from the Watergate classic "All the Presidents Men" to "The Post," a 2017 film about the Pentagon Papers.
In real life, experts say, a few prominent figures may be lionized while average informers are trampled by history.
Alford, author of "Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power," said most whistleblowers receive little public attention and, within a couple years, wind up shunned and fired, with broken homes and substance-abuse issues.
High-profile figures may gain some security with notoriety. But, for the man or woman who set off the impeachment furor, Alford said, fame almost certainly will be overwhelmed by a smear campaign or worse.
People who report government abuses, Alford said, are unusual people – highly principled, idealistic and naïve – who feel compelled to expose wrongdoing. They are often shocked not just by the misconduct they have revealed, but by the dishonesty and vindictiveness of those who retaliate.
"I would say almost all have suffered. There are very few success stories," Alford said. "They think they're doing their duty and they'll get a pat on the back. … But organizations seem to find it impossible to live with someone who is willing to commit the truth."
Tom Mueller, a journalist and author of "Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud," said employees in the national security realm have the fewest protections because they are required to report wrongdoings to the agency they are accusing.
Mueller said the impeachment complaint was supposed to go directly to Congress, but instead was carried to the White House by the director of National Security. That's "the exact opposite of what's supposed to happen," he said.
"Quite often, politics trumps — no pun intended — the legal process," Mueller said. "When you have broken whistleblower laws like we have, with no protections, you have people going outside the system."
Bradley Birkenfeld was sentenced to prison after exposing tax evasion in banking. He later collected a $104 million settlement from the IRS.
"Whistleblowers are generally mistreated, maligned and attacked," he said.
Proving his own point, Birkenfeld expressed skepticism about the complainant who divulged Trump's phone call. He criticized the person's decision to remain anonymous and disparaged the individual's motives.
"It's quite clear there's a political agenda," Birkenfeld said. "They're trying to undermine a sitting president."
Contributing: Nicholas Wu
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Toronto, ON -- Dec. 1, 2001 -- In a public ceremony hosted earlier this week by political comedian Greg Malone, "Go...
Toronto, ON — Dec. 1, 2001 — In a public ceremony hosted earlier this week by political comedian Greg Malone, "Golden Leech" awards were presented to corporations who have been "sucking the blood of Canadian taxpayers through their involvement in privatization of public services."
The awards, presented by the Consider the Costs Coalition, representing over 1.5 million Canadians, were in sharp contrast to the rosy picture being painted by the pro- privatization Canadian Council for Public Private Partnerships at its recent award ceremony.
Awards were also presented to "Friends of the Golden Leech" for actions taken by governments to create a "leech-friendly environment."
But the ceremony was not all bad news, the Coalition also celebrated those who have struggled to protect public services by awarding the Caretaker of the Commons Awards.
Golden Leech Award winners:
British Energy for taking over the Bruce Nuclear Power Plants and in doing so transferring the risk and the debt to the public and keeping the profit for itself. Their sweet deal with the province allows it to have only $75 million liability insurance and to dump the clean-up costs on taxpayers once their 18-year deal is finished. Award- presenter, Paul Kahnert, Ontario Electricity Coalition.
Andersen Consulting: Its contract with the Provincial Tories is unsurpassed. It has billed $26,000 in non-receipted expenses, charged for consultants six times higher than the standard rate, spent twice their budget and failed to meet deadlines — leading the Auditor-General to question whether the government is getting value for money in this agreement. In making this award, Leah Casselman, president, Ontario Public Service Employees Union, said, "this leech has locked onto an artery. "
Canadian Radiation and Oncology Services for its enthusiasm for making money out of people when they are most vulnerable — and allowing queue jumpers to pay for services in their evening clinic. Stan Marshall, Canadian Health Coalition, said "it's time to pour a little salt on this leech. If we want to give blood, let us do so through the blood donor system."
United Parcel Service (UPS) was awarded the Golden Leech for undermining democracy by using the NAFTA to sue the Canadian Government for providing a publicly funded postal network. Award presenter, Deborah Bourque, vice-president, Canadian Union of Postal Workers, said "this is an institution that the sharks have been circling for some time — they are demanding $230 million for parcels they never delivered nor have even seen."
"Friend of the Leech" Awards:
Ontario's Progressive Conservative Government for its success in creating a "leech- friendly environment," evicting 25,000 children from their schools, creating two school boards the size of France, cutting $2.2 billion from education, leaving 37,000 children on waiting lists for counselling services, and setting space requirements in schools at only 100 square feet per child. Said award presenter, Annie Kidder of People for Education, "that's only half as much as they require at the Stanley Park Zoo — for monkeys!"
Hamilton City Council: for making it possible for private water and waste water companies to siphon tax dollars out of Hamilton — and into Houston, Texas and now to Germany. Bruce Davidson of Concerned Walkerton Citizens, said "the parallels to the privatization of Walkerton's water testing is alarming — just like Walkerton, there was no tendering and the contract has been given to a company with no track record in water testing. We can't even keep track of who to call if things go wrong. Ownership has since flipped three times — Phillip to Enron to RWE."
Caretaker of the Commons Awards
Ontario Electricity Coalition: for recognizing the importance of maintaining a public system of electrical generation and distribution and for strong advocacy in the public interest
Concerned Walkerton Citizens: in recognition of a courageous response to an unanticipated crisis, and a continuing commitment to the importance of strong public services
Citizens Against Private Prisons in recognition of a remarkable campaign to keep correctional facilities in public hands. Their work is helping to build a strong and caring community.
Ontario Liquor Board Employees Union in recognition of their innovative work in raising community awareness of the dangers of privatization and benefits of public ownership.
Canadian Union of Public Employees, the Council of Canadians, Steve Shrybmann and other members of the Vancouver community for not only successfully fighting off the opening of a privately operated water treatment but ensuring that the operation would be financed, owned and operated by the public sector.
Health Coalitions at the Local, Provincial and Federal levels for their ongoing and growing campaign to keep the critical service of health care in public hands.
People for Education for their tireless efforts in defending a fully publicly funded education system.
For more information, visit www.socialjustice.org, the website of the Centre for Social Justice, based in Toronto.
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