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Adam Wishart

Wishart joined the BBC's Training Scheme in 1993, and went on to work as an Assistant on Watchdog, Newsnight, Horizon, Tomorrow's World, Panorama, and Modern Times.


1801 series CPU

Includes keyboard controller, UART, parallel interface, MMU, watchdog timer and PMU.

Advanced Childcare

An Ofsted review of the child care industry in 2013, commissioned by Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, reported that one in three homes run by Advanced Childcare "failed to be classified as 'good' or 'outstanding' by the education watchdog."

American Crossroads

In November 2012, the non-profit watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed an ethics complaint with the Federal Election Commission and a corresponding letter with the FBI, alleging that Crossroads GPS failed to disclose the identities of contributors who donated $6 million specifically earmarked to fund independent expenditures for Josh Mandel's 2012 Ohio Senate race.

ANZ Bank New Zealand

ANZ has often been a finalist for the Roger Awards, which recognise "The Worst Transnational Corporations operating in New Zealand" and are run by CAFCA and GATT Watchdog.

Berwick, Louisiana

V.J. Bella, state representative from St. Mary Parish from 1972–1980, was known as a legislative fiscal watchdog.

Byron Schlomach

Dr. Byron Schlomach (born September 24, 1961) is the Director of the Center for Economic Prosperity at the Goldwater Institute, an independent watchdog group in Phoenix, Arizona.

Central Bank of Iraq

Currently the acting Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq is Abdel Basset Turki, which also happens to be the head of the state-spending watchdog the Board of Supreme Audit.

Consumer Watchdog

In 2010, to bring attention to Google's privacy issues, Consumer Watchdog checked networks in California Representative Jane Harman's home to see if her unencrypted Wi-Fi network might have been tapped when the company captured images for the Google Streetview service of Google Maps.

David Bull

David Richard Bull (born 9 May 1969) is an English doctor, author, and host and commentator on a variety of British and US television programmes, such as Sugar Dome,the BBC's Watchdog, Watchdog Healthcheck,Newsround, Living TV's Most Haunted Live!, Channel 4's Richard & Judy, Tomorrow's World, and Sky's The Breathing Life Awards.

Enviga

In February 2007, the watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) filed a lawsuit over company claims that Enviga acts as a calorie-burning and weight-loss product, as a "negative calorie" drink.

European Privacy Association

EU lobbying watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) has asserted that EPA "is working to represent industry interests in the debate on data protection in Europe" and "to promote industry-friendly legislation" as a front group for the IT industry.

Feinstein

Andrew Feinstein an ANC Member of Parliament and former African National Congress leader of South African Parliament's public accounts watchdog, Scopa

FOTP

Friends of the Parks, a watchdog group and environmental advocate for the Chicago area.

Francis Henry Keefer

He was a persistent advocate of deep waterways on the Great Lakes, later known as the St Lawrence Seaway and was the Canadian government's watchdog on international water questions such as water levels on the Great Lakes and Lake of the Woods, and the Chicago River water diversion.

Gerry Pollet

At the time of his appointment to the legislature, Pollet was serving as executive director of Heart of America Northwest, a watchdog group focused on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation cleanup.

Hazim al-Shaalan

Ali Allawi, the Finance Minister in the Iraqi Transitional Government, accused al-Shaalan of embezzlement in 2005, and Iraq's anti-corruption watchdog, the Commission for Public Integrity, sought to bar him from running in the following parliamentary elections.

Heartland Messenger

The Heartland Messenger is a monthly watchdog newspaper written by and for the people of Douglas, Sarpy, and Cass counties in the U. S. State of Nebraska, and Pottawattamie county in Iowa.

Henry Richmond

Henry Richmond (activist), American director of the land use watchdog group 1000 Friends of Oregon

Holiday Watchdog

It is because of this that a majority of the review content on Holiday Watchdog is for hotels offering package deals and catering for either the Club 18-30 or classic family holidays in typically British and European holiday destinations such as Magaluf, Ibiza, Ayia Napa, Benidorm and in more recent years, Sharm El Sheikh.

Information diving

Dumpster diving is commonly practiced by "watchdog" organizations seeking information on groups they are investigating.

John McCain lobbyist controversy

Brent Bozell of the watchdog Media Research Center(widely viewed as conservative) speculated that the story was done hastily because it feared the embarrassment of an imminent New Republic article reporting on internal dissension about the story.

Legoland Windsor Resort

In September 2010, the park's high quantity of wasps during the season was featured on Watchdog, with general manager Sue Kemp appearing with host Anne Robinson and confirming new signage, actions and details on the website.

Lev Timofeev

In the late 1980s, Timofeev published Referendum magazine and served as the chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, a human rights watchdog.

Media Whores Online

Media Whores Online, also known as mediawhoresonline.com or The Horse or often just MWO, was a liberal American political webzine that operated as a media watchdog.

Michael Luscombe

Luscombe has faced pressure from Australia's consumer watchdog, the ACCC, over its practice of using planning laws to object to the construction of supermarkets by its competitors.

Mitch Benn

On television Mitch Benn appears on a semi-regular basis singing a song about the PlayStation 3's yellow light of death on BBC One's consumer affairs programme Watchdog.

Nabors Industries

At the annual shareholders meeting in Houston, Texas on June 2, 2009, Peter Flaherty, president of the National Legal and Policy Center, an ethics watchdog group and a shareholder, questioned Isenberg about his $1 million pledge to The Rangel Center.

Nick Lawrence

He reported on Watchdog for three years, where he worked alongside Nicky Campbell, Julia Bradbury, and Paul Heiney(BBC1).

No. 98 Squadron RAF

The squadron claims to have barred the way (front and rear) during the German retreat in 1918 and so considered Cerberus, as the watchdog of Hades, a suitable badge.

North Carolina Democratic primary, 2008

Voters and watchdog groups complained that it was a turnout-suppression effort, and the state Attorney General Roy Cooper ordered them to stop making the calls.

Product certification

The primary example of this situation is the Theromo-Lag Scandal, which came about as a result of disclosures by whistleblower Gerald W. Brown to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as well as watchdog groups, members of US Congress, and the press.

The Film Music Society

Responding to what was dubbed the "M-G-M Holocaust" by film historians, the veteran film and TV composer Fred Steiner formed a small watchdog group in the 1970s that included himself, his film composer colleague David Raksin, and music librarian Jon Newsom of the Library of Congress Music Division.

Travelodge UK

On 24 October 2006 the BBC One Watchdog programme highlighted Travelodge's policy of overbooking their hotels, turning guests away even when they have booked against a credit card.

TruthRevolt

Truthrevolt.org is a politically conservative media watchdog and activist group founded as a counterpoint to its left-leaning rival, Media Matters for America, by conservative commentators Ben Shapiro and David Horowitz of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

United States Trustee Program

Along with the creditors committees, the U.S. Trustee acts as the primary "watchdog" to ensure compliance with the Bankruptcy Code in cases where no trustee has been appointed.

University of Oregon media

The paper became independent in the 1970s after editor Paul Brainerd realized the potential conflict of interest between acting as a watchdog while simultaneously receiving direct funding and oversight from the university.

Video Watchdog

Douglas E. Winter contributes a CD/music column, "Audio Watchdog," while books are reviewed in "Biblio Watchdog" by Lucas, Anthony Ambrogio and Brett Taylor.

WETR

WETR airs "Life changing talk radio" that includes Bill Bennett, Dr. Laura, Dave Ramsey, and Hugh Hewitt, plus Costas on the Radio, Watchdog on Wall Street, Sports Spectrum, Forbes Radio, The Money Pit Home Improvement Radio Show, and Laura Ingraham on Saturdays, and Todd Feinberg, Steppin' Out, Small Business Advocate, Christian programming and several "Best of" shows on Sundays.


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