2351 Church photo directory time

If this subject line attracted you because you want to make a church photo directory, I apologize. This is being written by a woman in tears who can't find anything to wear to have her photo taken at 4:50 this afternoon. Our church is large--about 5,000 members, I think. I'm assisting on three different days at one of our 3 locations. That's a piece of cake. What I can't do is find anything to wear to have a simple directory photo taken. The last one was around 1998. I got it out and looked at it. My husband wore a navy suit coat, white shirt, maroon tie and I had on a maroon turtle neck sweater (I probably still have it). I change my hair style about every 18 months, but it is back to what it was in 1998.

So here it is April. Do I want to wear a winter sweater? No. Should my husband wear a suit? No. Will anyone care? No.

OK. Winter sweater, olive green to go with my husband's pale taupe/green windowpane dress shirt.

2350 A heartworming story

No, that isn't a misspelling. Stop over at Cathy Knits for a great story about Max, their foster dog. Start your day with a warm fuzzy.

Monday Memories

Did I ever tell you that my Dad played football against the Gipper?
Not really, he played against Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States, who played George Gipp in the movie "Knute Rockne, All American." Win one for the Gipper became part of our language and Reagan used it also in politics. In addition to politics, President Reagan's career included lifeguard, broadcaster, movies and television, and motivational speaking, but during college he really did play football.

Reagan's boyhood home in Dixon, Illinois on the Rock River and my Dad's home in Pine Creek were just a few miles apart but in different counties. However, Dutch and Cub met through a mutual acquaintance when they were still in their teens. Dad was a poor farm boy about 16 and a senior in high school at Polo, IL. Reagan, who was two years older, was already attending Eureka College. A neighboring farmer thought Dad had potential because he'd seen how industrious he was (water boy for thrashers, selling cans of salve he'd ordered from a magazine advertisement, laboring in the fields with his farmer father). The neighbor knew the Reagan family from The Christian Church, so he arranged for Dad to meet Ron, thinking he might interest him in attending Eureka. Dad also had an offer of a small scholarship from the Polo Women's Club to attend the University of Illinois. I'm not sure what happened (a blind date with my mother, I think), but Dad ended up at Mt. Morris College with some financial help to play football.

Mt. Morris College slaughtered Eureka on November 15, 1930, 21 to zip, a story Dad enjoyed retelling when Reagan became famous (although Dad was a Republican, I sensed that he was not crazy about Reagan). To my knowledge, there are no photos of Dad and Reagan butting heads or tackling each other, but I like to think they are somewhere in the jumble of arms and legs in this photo with farm buildings in the background. Say, is that my mother over there on the sidelines, cheering on the team?



My mother was an excellent student who really wanted an education--both of her parents had also attended Mt. Morris College in the 1890s. Dad was smart, but I suspect he was there to have a good time and play football. There was a disastrous fire on Easter Sunday 1931 when most of the students were home on holiday. Although the college reopened for the 1931-32 school year, my mother's family couldn't afford the tuition so she went to work in Chicago as a domestic. Dad returned to school with a football scholarship--at least in the fall. In the 1931 final game with Eureka College, the score was 0-0. The college yearbook says Dad didn't play the last four games due to a heart problem.

President Reagan visited his alma mater often, 12 times between 1941 and 1992. Eureka College is still educating young people, but Mt. Morris College closed after almost 100 years when the class of 1932 graduated. Except for his time in the Marines during WWII, Dad lived in Mt. Morris the rest of his life.

Dad, 1930, 17 years old
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2348 Site Meter's new feature

The freebie statistics counter I use, Site Meter, now shows "out clicks," or those referrals you offer on your blog and the readers take you up on it. As a librarian, that gives me a lot of pleasure. True, sometimes it will take a person away from your page and off into the the wild blue cyberspace, never to return. But it also means you've supplied a good lead. Also, I try to always supply a source and not pretend someone else's ideas are my own.

Somewhere I read that if you position your stat counter higher on your template, you'll get a better count. I did see an increase when I did this. I used to keep it at the bottom.

2347 Good news about American education

"Here's some good news about American education that you won't hear from the public-school establishment: There's almost no gap between the number of college-ready high-school graduates and the number of students starting college. Virtually everyone who is academically qualified to go to college actually goes to college." Story here at The Chronicle

That is sort of a trick sentence. The problem is the term "academically qualified." So it is K-12 education that needs to shape up, not access to grants, loans and scholarships.

"Money is not the barrier to college. The number of students who could otherwise attend but do not do so because of a lack of funds is not zero, but it is relatively small. The evidence indicates that the vast majority of students who don't attend college are kept out by academic barriers, not financial ones."

"Analyzing data from the Department of Education, Greene and Marcus A. Winters find that out of all students who started public high schools in the fall of 1998, only 34 percent graduated college ready with the class of 2002. The remainder either dropped out of high school (29 percent) or graduated but lacked the academic prerequisites for applying to college (37 percent).

Private-school graduates probably have higher college-readiness rates, but those students constitute too small a portion of the population to change the overall numbers substantially.

So the college-readiness rate (34 percent) matched the college-attendance rate (35 percent) almost exactly. That indicates that financial barriers are not preventing a substantial number of academically qualified students from attending college. There simply isn't a substantial number of academically qualified students who aren't attending college."

2346 Librarian finishes basic training

David Durant, the conservative librarian who joined the North Carolina National Guard, has finished basic training and will be blogging again at Heretical Librarian. Quickly. Someone tell Richard Belzer that educated people (librarians need a master's degree to "get in" the profession) do join the military, and he should stop perpetuating a myth about the poor who have no where to go and no opportunity so they join the military.

HT Conservator

2345 Condi--You go girl!

There's a story about Dr. Rice and the Department of State bookstore that I heard on the radio that I hope is true. I haven't been able to find it in Google--I've spent at least 30 seconds trying to track it down. If you've seen a reputable source, let me know. I heard it this morning on the Bob Connors show (WTVN 620 a.m. Columbus) and he was interviewing someone.

Seems that for years women employees have been complaining about Penthouse and Playboy magazines in the State Dept. bookstore/newstand (I think these are contracted out--but probably not to China or India). When Dr. Condoleeza Rice, the first woman Secretary of State with balls saw them, she decided they really weren't necessary.

I don't know if the American Library Association will raise the cry of censorship--they are always sticking blowing their noses into politics. Our public library staff and board believes it is necessary to give space to free-circ newspapers selling sex, so maybe the State Department thinks magazines selling sex is OK.

Condoleeza Rice

2344 Today's poem

is a record, even for me. 90 seconds. It is posted at my coffee blog. Sure, I know what you're thinking. Maybe she should take more time and write a better poem, but what's the fun in that?

Sometimes I suspect there are poets working in ad agencies or for electrical engineering journals just to pay the rent. They toil all day trying to make the words sound just right, with music and rhythm, and so falling short on their work quota. Sort of like Monk (TV detective who has OC disorder) seeking to straighten a sign or adjust a necktie. Just look at this advertisement for a cardiologist. Don't you see a frustrated poet between the lines? If you don't, then think about someone who knows little English reading it aloud, believing it is a poem. The Greeks thought poetry came from a Muse, but why not the pages of the New England Journal of Medicine?

State-of-the-Heart

The largest hospital in Pennsylvania
is seeking cardiologists
to join a network owned
full service, cardiology
group practice.

We will consider all
cardiac sub-specialties
and have a strong interest
in recruiting
for our heart failure
non-invasive, interventional
CT, angio, peripheral vascular,
women's cardiac,
prevention and electrophysiology
programs.

We offer a generous
salary plus bonus,
paid malpractice,
paid health insurance
for self and family,
seven weeks vacation,
and more!

Who wouldn't find that inspiring? Especially moving was the paid insurance and seven weeks vacation.

2343 How some European women helped Katrina victims

Sunday mornings between services I sit in the lounge and pull out my "knitting." The other ladies at the table at first wanted to admire, but then I told them I was just learning, and although it might look like a scarf in the making, I was only practicing. But I can dream can't I? I check in from time to time on all manner of talented women--scrapbookers, seamstresses, artists, cartoonists, knitters and embroiderers. Zoanna is one of the crafty women on the internet I admire. (I don't have a special link category, but I may have to create one.) She tells a wonderful story about Isabelle, a 24 year old French woman who mobilized other women in Europe to make Katrina kits. Here is Isabelle's tutorial from September 2005. She blogs in both French and English. If I had given up French wine, surely I'd be toasting her right now.

2342 A grieving widow

We met about 10 years ago while walking in the mall. It's an exercise thing in many malls of the United States. They open early; people retired or on their way to work stop and walk a mile or two inside free from dogs, bad weather and bumpy roads and cars. She was very quiet, rather short and thin, maybe 65 and he was jolly, very tall, with a shock of white curly hair and about 80. Gradually we started chatting as we passed while we mall-walked. Then I didn't see their red SUV for awhile. When she came back, she was alone. He'd died. She told me they'd married late--when she was about 45. They'd had a wonderful marriage and his children who were adults when they met were very supportive.

Today I was wandering the aisles of Giant Eagle. Oh, how I hate that store. I can never find anything, and had given up on the third item completely. But there she was. So I approached her and reintroduced myself--neither of us remembered the other's name. I knew she had remarried, because I'd seen her and the new husband also walking at the mall, holding hands and just the happiest of love birds, within a year of her other husband's death. I inquired and she said he'd died in February. His death was so recent and her grief so palpable that I just waited the 15 or 20 minutes while I heard to whole story about a non-malignant growth pressing on his brain causing memory and speech problems.

Oh, the neurosurgery was a complete success and she and the children (her step children from her previous marriage) were very encouraged. He was sitting up, walking, talking. Then he was moved to a general care area and immediately began to deteriorate. She came in two nights later and he was coughing and his dinner was cold. He was moved to a nursing home for "therapy." So doped up on antibiotics and pain killers all improvement from the surgery was lost. I'll spare you the details, but it turns out he soon died of pneumonia and a urinary tract infection, she believes, from poor care. Several times while he was still in the hospital she had asked them to elevate him more because her father had died of pneumonia after surgery.

Of course, I have no medical training, but it does seem to happen often. Infections unrelated to the disease or surgery that brings the patient to the hospital, I mean. Annals of Surgery 2001 135: 847-857:

"Pneumonia (infection of the lung tissue) is a serious complication that sometimes occurs after major surgery. It causes such symptoms as fever, shortness of breath, cough, and chest pain. It often requires treatment with antibiotics and lengthens the time until the patient is well enough to leave the hospital. Pneumonia after surgery is a very serious problem because 20% to 40% of affected patients die within 30 days of surgery. If physicians knew which patients are most likely to get pneumonia after surgery, they could target efforts to prevent this complication. Pneumonia is more common after certain types of operations, and older and weaker patients are more likely to get pneumonia. As yet, physicians do not have a reliable method of identifying which patients are most likely to get pneumonia after surgery."

Would seem sensible to me to not worry so much about identifying which patients might get pneumonia, and pay attention when their wives or children are raising the alarms.

2341 Upstairs Downstairs Redux

Thursday I checked out Season 2 of Upstairs Downstairs DVD from the library, returned it this morning and got Season 3. By Season 3 the story line has moved on about 10 years from the first show to 1912. I believe this is the episode (I'm watching now) where Mrs. Bellamy dies with the sinking of the Titanic. At least she's talking about going to America to see her daughter Elizabeth (written out of the story in Season 2). This series was filmed in England beginning in 1972 and ran about 5 years, appearing in the US after it was finished. We absolutely loved it, but my memory is fuzzy enough that every story-line is new now. But the music. I'd know that anywhere. There are some good pieces on the internet including audio interviews. The series was seen in 70 countries by about a billion people, and now with DVDs, millions more will be enjoying and re-enjoying it.




















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2340 Cleaning out the audio dust bunnies

I'm not one to download much music. But I did go to the library and check out "The Very Best of Buck Owens, vol. 1" last week. I popped it in the old machine and poked around trying to figure things out and I did it! Of course, it was in a folder inside a folder inside a file and nothing was identified. As I struggled through that snarl and keyed in the titles I noticed an awful lot of "crap" in "My Music" folder. So I started looking around. Virtually every audio sound bite or video piece I've looked at was sitting there in a file. For instance, Answers.com has a little audio whereby you can listen to how a word is pronounced. Boy, are those funny to listen to out of context when you don't know what you're getting. Some of the clips must be from advertisers that snuck a cookie for audio/video in there when I wasn't watching or my blocker was taking a snooze. So FlyLadies, after you've flung your 50 today, peek inside your audio file. You might be surprised.What's in your music file?

2339 Why would you donate to WHYY?

It's close to tax time (although we're self-employed and every quarter is tax time at our house). Do you know what your charity dollars are doing? WHYY is a public broadcasting station serving PA, DE, and NJ. It overpays its CEO and spends 42% of your donation on fundraising and administration. Look for another charity. If they want to pay the CEO $371,000, he should be doing a better job.

"WHYY operates TV12 and 91FM, the public broadcasting stations serving southeastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and South Jersey. WHYY makes our region a better place, connecting each of us to the world's richest ideas and all of us to each other. WHYY TV12, serving the Delaware Valley for more than 30 years, broadcasts to more than 2.6 million households in Philadelphia and the surrounding area. WHYY also operates TV64 in Seaford, which transmits TV12 programming to southern Delaware. WHYY 91FM coverage extends as far north as Princeton, New Jersey; south to New Castle County, Delaware; and throughout Philadelphia and the four surrounding counties." Charity Navigator "Low rated charities paying top salaries to CEOs"

But WWHY is a piker compared to Jazz at Lincoln Center, which pays its CEO 44% of its total budget! Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, on the other hand, will put 88% of your dollar into programing, much of it for children.

This charity website explains its rating system from None (really awful) to one star (poor) to four stars (excellent). You can check by city, region, type or keyword. I was sorry to see that the Columbus Museum of Art only got one star. We go there a lot.

2338 Was my address

for 34 years! That's what my kids call home. And that's a lot of blogging. Anyway, I want to tell you about this fun site. I found it on at least 3 Thursday Thirteeners yesterday. There's really nothing for someone my age, and each time I tried to dress her in a trench coat with a briefcase and sensible shoes, all her clothes were wisked off except her pink underwear, and she even lost her left arm! Come on! We can't all look like ladies of the night!

Off to church

Friday night date at Rusty Bucket

Stroll in the park

You can change the hairstyles, facial features, add pets, background, but the clothes are pretty limited. Also not very many blue eyes, and absolutely no options for wrinkles or amplitude or gray hair! You can save, or e-mail or print. Kids from 5 to 95 would have a great time with this.

2337 Librarian on e-Bay

As I was adding the technorati tags to my recent entries on librarians, I came across an entry called, "Librarian on e-Bay." Oh, no! I thought. Some poor underpaid librarian has sold herself to the highest bidder to pay the rent and buy the baby shoes. Would it be for a research project due by Monday, installing new software, or an assignation in the stacks? (At Ohio State our stacks supervisors in the 90s had to have all the walls in the stairwells scrubbed down with disinfectant, repainted and bright lights installed, if you get my drift).

But it was just a category. Whew! Still lots of fun to browse. I found a Seth Thomas clock, librarian model; a sexy blonde Librarian vampire; jewelry for a newly minted Librarianista; a cache of retro 1970s "librarian skirts" that hadn't even been pressed for the photo (negative stereotype); a WWII army hostess librarian patch; a Mrs. Loan the librarian (another negative stereotype); and a "Librarian, quest for the spear" DVD. There were many, many more, but I must move on. Is there an archives somewhere deep in the bowels of the ALA headquarters for librarian kitsch?
The Librarian, DVDJewelry for your favorite librarian
Mrs. Loan

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2336 Pre-War Condo for sale

Which war I wondered when I saw the ad in the WSJ today. There have been so many. Hitler was marching into Poland when I was born, and the U.S. anti-war folks were marching too, just like today. They were just a little cleaner and neater then.

But this condo is in NYC and apparently the whole building is being redone to "pre-war classic Greek Revival style." Maybe it was the Civil War? Classic Greek Revival was early to mid-1800s. Many Americans objected to "Mr. Lincoln's War" and there were riots in the streets of New York City, killing 1,000 people. Each condo will have 4,000+ square feet, 5 bedrooms, 2 fireplaces, a library, sumptuous baths. Prices range from a Michael Moore level of $8,750,000 to a George Soros type at $35,000,000. There are many ways to profit from wars, right?

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Thursday Thirteen

It's about time to switch to a new notebook, so I'm looking back through the notes I've taken since Feb. 20 (in the morning when I'm at the coffee shop). I had a number of Thursday Thirteens started, and a few finished, but nothing felt quite right for this last one in March, 2006. So here's the list of possibilities, all rejected. Since I toss these notebooks in a box when they are used up, I think my blog would be a good place to at least remind myself that these notes are buried somewhere in my office. Just in case there is a day when I have absolutely nothing to write about.

Thirteen Things I'm Not Writing about Today
1. Thirteen things on my calendar for April. Whew! This would put you to sleep. Nothing like reading a to-do list of a retired librarian. I counted and have exactly 13 things written in.

2. Thirteen games we played as children--the first four were what we did with our chewing gum. Hmmm. Another thriller.

3. Thirteen food festivals in Ohio I've never been to. Zucchini, tomato, strawberry, moonshine--anything to bring the tourists in.

4. Thirteen things we did to cut back when my husband went into business in 1994 and we had only one income after 8 years as DINKS. Tip: Throw away every sale flyer that comes to the house. SALE is a euphemism for DEBT.

5. Thirteen words and phrases from real estate ads that tell you to "move along now" without showing the price. Tips: "magestic ballroom," "spa baths" (plural).

6. Thirteen things about librarians you probably don't know. As a group, they are more liberal than the ACLU or Hollywood. ALA has a resolution to impeach the President because of the Patriot Act renewal. Wonder if they plan to dump all the Senators and Representatives too?

7. Thirteen reasons not to borrow money to send your kids to Harvard for an overpriced education, based on the Laurence Summers case. The university is a casualty of left-wing ideology, a collection of petty interests with 60s and 70s has-been gatekeepers.

8. Thirteen health claims and stories I've heard over the years that later were proved false or were revised downward. The latest about 5 fruits and vegetables a day protecting you against stroke sounds amazingly like, "eat all the colors," doesn't it?

9. Thirteen things about Exercise--7 reasons to do it and 6 excuses not to. My exercycle is tied up drying the laundry--how about yours?

10. Thirteen little known things about coupons, sweepstakes and loyalty cards and why they don't save you money. I am the famous Columbus anti-coupon queen without a kingdom. Did you know coupons are often the same size as a dollar, the first one was a wooden nickle (inflation), and loyal cards look just like credit cards?

11. Thirteen things about immigrants, historical and current. I have a plan no one else has suggested.

12. Thirteen games we have in our home and who plays them. Racko, Password, Battleship, etc.

13. Thirteen things that make me special (inspired by a full page IBM ad). I have all my permanent teeth. All my holes and spots are original equipment--no tattoos or piercings. I'm a classic!

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2334 Why are librarians' salaries low?

A woman in the coffee shop asked me this today. Actually, we were talking about women veterinarians, doctors, lawyers and pharmacists. When I mentioned that librarians' salaries were low compared to other professions that required a master's degree, she gushed about how much she loved librarians and how much help she's received. But she didn't know additional education was necessary to be a librarian.

There are people needing promotion and tenure to study this, but here's my take. Librarians have no organization to represent their own interests. Oh, they have lots of organizations--out the wazoo--but just look at the names: American Library Association; Medical Library Association; Association of College and Research Libraries; California Library Association. Do you know what my husband's professional organization is called? The American Institute of Architects. Get it? It is representing ARCHITECTS. People, not government entities or buildings. And although I'm sure it leans left like most professional organizations, I haven't heard that the AIA is trying to get President Bush impeached while they redesign cities in Mississippi as service projects.

"Librarians and library workers are under-valued, and most people, whether members of the public, elected officials, faculty, corporate executives, or citizen board members, have little or no idea of the complexity of the work we do." from California Library Association web site

In my opinion, this inclusion of “library workers” in all attempts to get the professional, degreed salaried librarians paid a fair wage worthy of a master's degree is part of the problem. “Library workers” may have high school degrees or they may have PhDs in Victorian Poetry or Trombone Performance, but they are not degreed librarians. This may explain why people (even librarians) believe the degree isn’t important, and so the salaries can stay low. Anybody can do it, right? Just ask the ALA (which spins its wheels in political, i.e. federal and state, battles).

Automotive technicians who have attended trade schools and passed licensing requirements, don’t concern themselves with the pay grades of those who enter the field without those credentials and learn on the job; licensed hair stylists who have attended school and met state board requirements don’t lobby to have the nail technicians upgraded to their pay scale; Registered nurses generally don’t busy themselves upgrading the lab techs or LPNs no matter how much they need them; elementary school teachers do not include lunch room supervisors, classroom aides or library aides in their salary negotiations even though they'd be hard pressed to educate students without them; architects may employ draftsmen and CAD operators, but no construction documents ever require a stamp from a draftsman.

You can't run a library without the clerks and paraprofessionals, but at Ohio State, we would have had to close down the library if we lost our student employees, too. Increasingly, librarians are losing ground to their own IT staff. Even techie types can't keep up. While the librarians worry about budgets, personnel development, diversity workshops for staff, building codes, new fields that need to be represented in the collection, presentations for boards and committees, licensing restrictions and agreements on digital publications, copyright issues, turn-key systems that can be used statewide in libraries twice as large or half the size, etc., Jane Q. Public sits down at the computer and thinks, "It's all free on the internet; so who needs a library?"

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2333 Typology of Leaks

I just can’t stop looking at what should be a snooze--a boring lexicon of government double-speak. But each paragraph unfolds one more strange and corrupt way to use the wonderful English language. I mentioned Susan Maret’s “On Their Own Terms: A Lexicon with an Emphasis on Information-Related Terms Produced by the U.S. Federal Government,” not really expecting that I’d go back to it again and again.

Maret is an adjunct Lecturer of Library Science at San Jose State University (most recent info I found on her), so this would be a librarian’s masterpiece of linking and sourcing. She’s really big into human rights and environmental issues, so I’m guessing she has amassed a large personal file for her other interests which led to this document. That always happened with my own publications, particularly on serials. One time I wrote two publications from the material I gathered for a third. *Maret has ten temporary, visiting and adjunct positions on her resume--even for leftie librarians that’s a lot in 15 years. In academe the left tend to eat their young. Also, since it is a .pdf and free on-line (i.e. about $50 to print and spiral bind it even if you've got flunky help and taxpayer ink and paper), I discovered that she must be updating the references (or making corrections?), because it was being hailed in various library blogs last fall, but I noticed a January 2006 hot link.

I found myself reading Dwight Eisenhower’s Executive Orders of 1953 that had superseded other EOs and were superseded by others! Wow. Is that too much time on my hands or what! At one point, I went from a DoD supply materiel dictionary to a word for word translation of it in Russian, and from that a whole other wonderful “slovar” but I didn’t bookmark it, so you’re on your own. And FBI Director Hoover issuing special directives on sensitive matters on pink paper. Whoa Nellie. In 1940. What could psychologists do with that?

I thought this “typology of leaks” on p. 200 (did I mention there are 346 pages?) was interesting--and since it is 22 years old, I’m sure it needs to be updated. I haven’t read the Hess book, and this is out of context, so I assume the author isn’t noting just press officers here. I’m guessing the “animus leak” is one of the more popular during this administration since career government employees seem to dislike Bush so much. Although the motives of Valerie Plame’s husband seemed definitely ego to me. Also, big leaks need to flow into the big bucket ears of a free press so bloggers have something to write about. Maybe these were all leaks-for-hire, but I'd make lucrative leaks a category, as well as loves-to-gossip leaks.

Source: Stephen Hess. The Government/Press Connection: Press Officers and their Offices. Washington, DC : Brookings Institution, 1984. 77-79;

• Ego Leak: Giving information primarily to satisfy a sense of self.
  
  
• Goodwill Leak: Information offered to “accumulate credit” as a play for a future favor.
  
  
• Policy Leak: A straightforward pitch for or against a proposal using some document or insider information as the lure to get more attention than might be otherwise justified. The leak of the Pentagon Papers falls into this category.
  
  
• Animus Leak: Used to settle grudges; information is released in order to cause embarrassment to another person.
  
  
• Trial-Balloon Leak: Revealing a proposal that is under consideration in order to assess its assets and liabilities. Usually proponents have too much invested in a proposal to want to leave it to the vagaries of the press and public opinion. More likely, those who send up a trial balloon want to see it shot down, and because it is easier to generate opposition to almost anything than to build support, this is the most likely effect.
  
  
• Whistleblower Leak: Usually used by career personnel; going to the press may be the last resort of frustrated civil servants who feel they cannot resolve their dispute through administrative channels. Hess is careful to point out that Whistleblowing is not synonymous with leaking.

Today's paper reported on Cynthia McKinney D-GA striking a police officer who stopped her going into the House of Representatives Building because he didn't recognize her. Here's either a paid snitch in the police department and/or a leak walking through the building who is just a gossip (not to be disloyal to my sex, but I'm guessing a woman staffer):

". . . according to a police official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the incident and spoke to AP on condition of anonimity. . ."

*Update: I've had an e-mail from the author who explained her resume. She was a seasoned librarian with 12 years in one position before her PhD and is now finding new opportunities to use her advanced degree; also loves the academic environment.

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