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«Ворожі» голоси (також західні радіоголоси) — радянське ідеологічне та пропагандистське кліше, що застосовувалося у відношенні до західних масмедіа, а саме до радіостанцій Західного світу.

Радіомовлення західних країн було непідконтрольним радянській цензурі і виступало як джерело альтернативної до радянської тоталітарної державній «інформації», яка офіційно контролювалася Відділом пропаганди і агітації ЦК КПРС та Ідеологічним відділом ЦК КПРС.

Радіостанції
Як ворожі до СРСР, радянської ідеології та пропаганди в СРСР були визначені такі радіостанції, як «Голос Америки», «Радіо Свобода», «Німецька хвиля», Російська служба «Бі-бі-сі», «Радіо Ватикану», «Голос Ізраїлю», «Міжнародне Канадське радіо», «Міжнародне французьке радіо», які вели мовлення мовами народів СРСР (азербайджанською, башкирською, білоруською, вірменською, грузинською, естонською, казахською, киргизькою, латиською, литовською, молдавською, російською, таджицькою, татарською, туркменською, узбецькою, уйгурською та українською) та підконтрольних СРСР країн соціалістичного табору на територію СРСР та інших соціалістичних країн. Такі радіостанції та їх передачі, що транслювались на територію СРСР та його союзниками мовами народів СРСР та їх союзників, розглядались в СРСР як ідеологічна зброя, яка стала одним з характерних феноменів холодної війни.

Ідеологічними інструментами боротьби проти СРСР та його союзників служили і радіостанції деяких соціалістичних країн: «Радіо Пекіна» і «Радіо Тирани». Основна спрямованість їхніх радіопрограм полягала у критиці «ревізіоністського» радянського керівництва і пропаганді політичних поглядів керівництва КНР і Албанії.

У свою чергу, СРСР також вів закордонне радіомовлення багатьма мовами.

Початок діяльності основних радіостанцій
Мовлення іноземних радіостанцій на територію СРСР розпочалось в 1930-х роках і продовжувалося в роки німецько-радянської війни, але вираз «ворожі голоси» належить пізнішій епосі — періоду «холодної війни», важливим інструментом якої стала організація радіопропаганди.

«Бі-бі-сі» почала регулярно вести мовлення російською 26 березня 1946 року, а «Голос Америки» — у 1947.

10 квітня 1947 року в московській газеті «Культура и жизнь» з'явилася стаття Іллі Еренбурга «Фальшивий голос». Протестуючи проти пропаганди  жуйки, Еренбург писав:

Якщо ви винайшли якісь надувні жувальні гумки, чому ж ви замість мирного пускання гумових міхурів у себе вдома розповсюджуєте їх по всьому світу?

У 1950-51 роках у рамках кампанії  боротьби з космополітизмом була організована театральна постановка за п'єсою  Б. А. Лавреньова «Голос Америки», за яку йому в 1950 році була присуджена Сталінська премія.

З 1 березня 1953, майже одночасно зі смертю Сталіна, почала мовлення радіостанція під назвою Радіо «Звільнення від більшовизму» (пізніше — просто «Визволення»), яка з травня 1959  стала називатися «Радіо Свобода». «Німецька хвиля» існує з 3 травня 1953.

Пізніше мовлення на територію СРСР було організовано не тільки російською мовою, але й іншими мовами народів СРСР.

Глушіння

Історія
Програми «Голосу Америки» з лютого 1948 року почали систематично глушити так званими «глушниками» (радіостанціями постановки  перешкод) — потужними генераторами електронних шумів. Офіційною мовою це називалося «радіозахистом» («глушіння», «радіозаглушування», «встановленням перешкод», «радіопротидією», «забиванням антирадянських радіопрограм», «радіоелектронною боротьбою»).

У періоди розрядки міжнародної напруженості глушіння «ворожих голосів» могло послаблюватися або припинятися (це не стосувалося, проте, передач «Радіо Свобода»). Так у вересні 1959 глушіння «Голосу Америки» було послаблене, коли радянський лідер Микита Хрущов здійснив візит до США, а в 1963 — після заклику Кеннеді припинити «холодну війну».

Після введення військ країн Варшавського договору в Чехословаччину в 1968 у (див. «Празька весна») глушіння було повністю відновлене. Чергова перерва в глушіння «ворожих голосів» (крім «Радіо Свобода») сталась в 1973 у зв'язку з проведенням Гельсінкської конференції з безпеки і співробітництва в Європі. Глушіння відновилося в серпні 1980 року у зв'язку із загостренням становища в Польщі і різкою критикою у західних ЗМІ введення радянських військ до Афганістану.

Глушіння «ворожих голосів» тривало також у перші роки «перебудови». В експертному висновку за «справою КПРС» говориться, що постановою ЦК КПРС від 25 вересня 1986 було прийнято рішення припинити глушіння передач одних зарубіжних радіостанцій («Голос Америки», «Бі-Бі-Сі») і посилити глушіння інших («Свобода», «Німецька хвиля»). 23 травня 1987 в СРСР остаточно припинили глушити радіопрограми «Голосу Америки» і деяких інших західних радіостанцій. Повністю глушіння зарубіжних радіостанцій в СРСР було припинено в ніч з 29 на 30 листопада 1988.

Технічні засоби
Для здійснення глушіння в СРСР було зведено декілька сотень станцій середньої потужності (звичайно в межах або поблизу великих міст) та декілька станцій з радіусом покриття до 2000 км. Окремі з таких станцій здійснювали шумове забиття діапазонів мовлення, інші вели передачі на тих самих хвилях, що й «Ворожі голоси» (серед останніх — радіостанції «Маяк» та «Промінь»).

Обмеження можливостей прийому також здійснювалось через обмеження можливостей побутової радіоприймальної апаратури: популярні в Європі короткохвильові діапазони 11, 13, 16 та 19 метрів в приймачах СРСР були практично відсутніми, діапазон коротких хвиль починався з 25 м.

Деяких успіхів в прийомі «Ворожих голосів» можна було досягти далеко від великих міст та в ранній час доби (4-та — 5-та година ранку). Глушіння радіосигналу є незаконним, зокрема, в США за нього передбачено штрафи.

Аудиторія
Програми зарубіжних радіостанцій розглядалися як альтернативне джерело інформації, яке пропонувало набагато більший інтерес, ніж офіційна радянська пропаганда, незважаючи на низьку якість сигналу через глушіння.

«Ворожими голосами» захоплювалася не тільки дисидентсько налаштована частина інтелігенції, а й частина молоді, яка цікавилася західною музикою. З радіо можна було почерпнути також інформацію «нейтрального» характеру про політичне життя СРСР, наприклад оперативні дані про стан здоров'я глави радянської держави —  генерального секретаря ЦК КПРС Л. І. Брежнєва і інших членів  Політбюро, що часто було причиною несподіваних змін внутрішньополітичного календаря країни. «Ворожі голоси» також більш оперативно, більш повно і об'єктивно інформували радянських слухачів про політичне життя Заходу. Пізнавальними були також передачі з галузей науки, культури, мистецтва і т. ін.

За дослідженнями, які проводилися в США, найзначнішою була щотижнева аудиторія радіослухачів «Голосу Америки» в СРСР (у 1980-ті роки досягала 30 млн чоловік), на другому місці йшла «Російська служба Бі-бі-сі» з удвічі меншою аудиторією.

Для прослуховування були необхідні радіоприймачі, що дозволяють слухати передачі на коротких хвилях («Спідола», «Океан», «Меридіан» та ін) і коштували дорожче, ніж ті, які працюють тільки на середніх і довгих хвилях. На хвилях коротше 25 м глушіння майже не було, але й відповідні радіоприймачі дістати було важче. У СРСР з 50-х рр. радіоприймачі з діапазонами коротких хвиль 11, 13, 16 і 19 метрів випускалися тільки на експорт (хоча і з'являлися зрідка в продажу), а імпортні були рідкісні і дорогі. Цікавий факт: радіола «Сакта», яка вироблялася в 60-х рр. Ризьким радіозаводом ім. О. С. Попова, мала недокументовану особливість: якщо одночасно натиснути на перемикачі діапазонів клавіші «КВ1» і «КВ2», приймач опинявся налаштованим на 19-метровий діапазон.

Чутки про зв'язки зі спецслужбами
Основною метою радіомовлення в умовах «холодної війни» була пропаганда, якій спецслужби протиборчих сторін приділяли значну увагу.

У книзі Н. Н. Яковлєва «ЦРУ проти СРСР» стверджується, що мовлення «ворожих голосів» відбувалося під патронатом ЦРУ, в цій книзі також приклади зв'язків «Радіо Свобода» і «Вільна Європа» з ЦРУ. Однак слід зазначити, що ЦРУ офіційно перестало фінансувати ці радіостанції в середині 1970-х років.

У «викритті» цих радіостанцій зіграли свою роль агенти розвідок соціалістичних країн, особливо Ю. Марін, який працював під ім'ям К. Неастрова на «Радіо Свобода». «Викривальні свідчення» про діяльність радіо «Вільна Європа» були зібрані її колишніми співробітниками — агентами розвідок Польщі, Чехословаччини, Болгарії.

Див. також
 Сєва Новгородцев
 Радіомоніторинг
 Ідеологічна диверсія
 Рупор Кремля

Література
 Руководитель Федерального агентства по печати и массовым коммуникациям о сохранении сети «глушилок» (27 декабря 2006)

Посилання

 Про глушіння в СРСР і в інших країнах.  Звукозапис глушіння.
 Росіянам знову забороняють слухати «ворожі голоси»

Примітки

Холодна війна
Радянська пропаганда
Російськомовні радіостанції

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Dr. Tian received his bachelor degree of Medicine (equivalent to MD in US) in Hunan College of Traditional Chinese medicine, Hunan, China. He has started his TCM practice since 1984 in the affiliated hospital of Hunan Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine & Meteria Medica. In 1990, he received his master degree of TCM oncology in the same Academy. His thesis was about treatment of liver cancer with TCM and his findings were published in Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a top journal in the field of TCM. His findings also led to a development of a novel herbal medicine, named "Gan Fu Le Pian", for treatment of liver cancer and it was eventual approved by the Minister of Health of the People's Republic of China. In 1995, he received his Ph.D degree in Cancer Pharmacology in Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences in Guangzhou, China. From 1997 to 2005, he worked as research associate in Howard Hughes Medical Institute in School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania and Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center. His research was focused on identifying molecular target of cancer to sensitize cancer cells to conventional radiotherapy and chemotherapy. His works were published in several articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals including Cancer Research, Neoplasia, Oncogene, and International Journal of Oncology. From 2003, he started to practice in Rockville of Maryland as an acupuncturist. Most of his patients are cancer and leukemia patients. In 2006, he was invited as a co-chair of a meeting of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Cancer Research sponsored by Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine in National Cancer Institute in Bethesda. In 2006, he was elected as the Executive Council Member of Specialty Committee of Oncology of World Federation of Chinese Medicine Society.


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Q: Is its against Facebook's Policies to open a share dialog while performing a separate action? The place I work keeps having us open share dialogs when users perform other actions. For instance, they press a button to enter the contest, but the text says "Share and Enter" and spawns a share dialog. I am concerned that this is against facebook's Terms of Service but couldn't find anything beyond broad guidelines, like "don't mislead users."
I am opposed to it because it is a really bad user experience, but in addition I'm worried if we violate ToS we could have all of our apps shut down which would harm the business considerably. Usability issues aside, is this sort of behavior allowed?

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News.me iPad app shows the best articles from your Twitter contacts… and from theirs too
April 21, 2011 By Brad Linder
News.me is an iPad app that shows you the stories you're most likely to find interesting based on the people you follow on Twitter. There's nothing particularly unusual there, since social news apps are a dime a dozen. But News.me has a few things that really set it apart.
First, in addition to seeing the top stories shared by people you follow on Twitter, you can click on a thumbnail icon for any of the people you follow — and then see articles shared by the people they follow. In other words, if you have a favorite blogger, journalist, comedian, or just a really smart friend, News.me will give you a news feed based on the people they find interesting, giving you a chance to see a tiny section of the world the way that person does without first signing up to follow all the Twitter users they follow.
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7) What are the roles of specific rhetorical strategies, especially music, in literally "moving" people to action?
8) What are the ethical and political implications of various kinds of rhetorical motivation and constitution of subjectivity and collective will?
9) Is it possible to identify and employ anything like "reasonable emotion"?
Dana L. Cloud (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1992) is an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Texas Austin. The winner of several awards in rhetoric and communication studies, she has published two books (Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics: Rhetorics of Therapy, Sage, 1998; We ARE the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing, University of Illinois, 2011) and numerous essays in national communication journals and anthologies. (For a list and access to these works, go to http://commstudies.utexas.edu/faculty/dana-l-cloud and click on the "Publications" tab.) Presently she is researching and writing about the problem of truth claims in political discourse and the limits of fact-checking and the rhetoric of affect and emotion in social movements. Professor Cloud is also a longtime socialist and activist in movements for workers', LGBT, and women's rights; and against racism, imperialism, and war.
"BRINGING DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY INTO ELECTORAL POLITICS"
Talking about elections increasingly means exchanging anecdotes, recalling potent slogans, comparing outsized personalities, and dissecting carefully crafted campaign strategies. In contrast, weighing arguments, scrutinizing facts, and judging value conflicts occurs less frequently in the public sphere. This seminar focuses on revitalizing deliberative discourse in the American electoral process to generate more substantive adversarial clash and, on occasion, encourage a sense of common purpose. We will examine how candidates campaign and voters vote in local, state, and federal elections, and we will evaluate reforms - real and theoretical - that could make for a more constructive and democratic electoral process in the United States.
John Gastil (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Professor and Head in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University. He published Democracy in Small Groups (New Society Publishers) in 1993 and has since continued to explore democracy and deliberation at different levels of analysis in By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy through Deliberative Elections (University of California, 2000), The Deliberative Democracy Handbook: Strategies for Effective Civic Engagement in the Twenty-First Century (co-edited with Peter Levine, Jossey-Bass, 2005), and Political Communication and Deliberation (Sage, 2008). He also returned to the study of group behavior in The Group in Society (Sage, 2009) and co-authored The Jury and Democracy: How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and Political Participation (Oxford, 2010). The National Science Foundation has supported numerous large-scale research programs in which Gastil has served as a principal investigator. He has also managed campaigns for public office in California and New Mexico.
"VISUAL RHETORIC AND PUBLIC CULTURE"
Studies in visual rhetoric have rapidly expanded into a significant portion of rhetorical, critical, and cultural studies. The critique of visual texts - films, photographs, tattoos, bodies - has become a new focus for rhetorical analysis. This seminar examined various forms and theories of visual rhetoric in the context of public culture, ideology, and civic participation. How does "seeing" reflect and promote rhetorical practice and systems? How do images and iconic photographs teach ways to "see" and "be seen" as citizens in our liberal-democratic public culture? How do we negotiate power through performance of display, observation, and vision?
John Louis Lucaites is the Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture in the Department of Communication and Culture and Adjunct Professor of American Studies, Cultural Studies, and the Hutton Honors College at Indiana University. His books include No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Liberal Democracy and Public Culture, a study co-authored with Robert Hariman of Northwestern University, and Crafting Equality, co-authored by Celeste Michelle Condit of the University of Georgia. He has authored over forty journal articles and book chapters and, along with Robert Hariman, he hosts the blog www.nocaptionneeded.com, which has achieved an international audience with nearly 2,000 viewers each day. He has been awarded NCA's Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award, the Winans-Wichelns Award, and the Diamond Anniversary Book Award. He has also won NCA's Golden Anniversary Monograph Award three separate times. He is also the recipient of the AEJMC Tau Kappa Alpha, Frank Luther Mott Research Award for the best book on journalism and mass communication. For more information on Dr. Lucaites visit his university home page.
June 9 - 13, 2010 in Detroit, Michigan with distinguished guest scholar Dr. Lee Wilkins.
ABOUT COMMUNICATION, DISASTER AND RISK"
People need to communicate when a disaster strikes, whether it's a hurricane, an airline crash, or an oil spill. Families talk to families, officials talk to voters and to each other, experts talk to citizens, and the media talk to everyone. But what affects how those needs are met — how do officials and publics know what they need, and how do the media know whether they are leading or misleading? This seminar offers an intensive look at how practice informs theory — and how theory helps build better practice — in a communication field of immense public, scholarly, and professional concern.
Lillian C. (Lee) Wilkins (PhD, University of Oregon, 1982) is a professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, with a joint appointment in the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs. She is author or co-author of a number of books on science, risk, and disaster communication as well as scholarly and practice-oriented volumes on media ethics — a field in which she also edits a leading journal, the Journal of Mass Media Ethics. Dr. Wilkins is a consultant for federal and nongovernmental agencies on risk communication issues and developed a series of workshops for journalists on covering disasters and terrorism. A former newspaper reporter and editor herself, she is frequently interviewed on risk communication and ethics issues by regional and national news media outlets. She also coordinates the "Preparing Future Faculty" program for the Missouri graduate school.
Twenty-five years have passed since critic B. Ruby Rich designated a set of exciting and edgy films as "the new queer cinema." Tom Kalin's Swoon, Jennie Livingston's Paris is Burning, Todd Haynes' Poison, and other films of the early 1990s challenged the political and aesthetic rules of the filmmaking game, and provoked new forms of narrative and new image-repertoires for queer culture. In the interval, we have seen the growth of multi-channel platforms and new media, and the corporatization and dispersion of public media spheres. How do we confront the world of Logo, The L Word, and Project Runway alongside transnational independent productions such as Nina's Heavenly Delights or Out in India? What modes of analysis are appropriate to changing social conditions of media practice? This seminar pursued these broad questions through readings and screenings devoted to this quarter century of queer media culture.
Dr. Amy Villarejo, Cornell University, led the 2009 Summer Doctoral Seminar. Villarejo has a joint appointment in the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program and the Department of Theatre, Film & Dance (of which she is currently chair) at Cornell. She is author of Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire (Duke University Press, 2003), which won the prestigious Katherine Singer Kovacs Award for Best Book from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in 2005. She is author, co-author, or co-editor of a number of other books, from Queen Christina (with Marcia Landy, BFI, 1995) to Keyframes (with Matthew Tinkcom, Routledge, 2001), and Film Studies: The Basics (Routledge, 2007). At present, she is completing a book on queer television entitled Ethereal Queer for Duke University Press. Her books and essays address documentary cinema, social activist art, digital media, queer and feminist theory, experimental form, and the critique of globalization.
Front row: Katie Brewer Ball (New York University), Chris Gullen (Wayne State), Debbie James Smith (Wayne State), Kareem Khubchandani (Northwestern), Amy Barber (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Elizabeth Venell (Emory University), Jimmy Draper (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), Andy Scahill (University of Texas-Austin), Jane Fader (Wayne State).
Back Row: Damon Young (University of California-Berkeley), John Wolf (Syracuse University), Erika Thomas (Wayne State), Laura Dixon (University of Texas-Austin), Patrick Santoro (Southern Illinois University-Carbondale), Amy Villarejo (visiting scholar, Cornell University), Jim Cherney (Wayne State), Kiana Green (University of Southern California), Julia HImberg (University of Southern California), Joe Paszek (Wayne State), Hollis Griffin (Northwestern University).
Dr. Larry Frey, University of Colorado-Boulder, led the 2008 Summer Doctoral Seminar on Engaged Communication Research. Frey holds research interests in group interaction, applied communication (communication and social justice, communication and community studies, and health communication), and communication research methods (quantitative and qualitative). His research seeks to understand how participation (especially by those who are under-resourced and marginalized) in collective communicative practices makes a difference in people's individual, relational, and collective lives. He is the author/editor of 14 books, 3 special journal issues, and more than 60 published book chapters and journal articles. His is the recipient of 12 scholarship awards, including the 2000 Gerald M. Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship from the National Communication Association (NCA); the 2004, 2003, and 2000 Ernest Bormann Research Award from NCA's Group Communication Division for, respectively, his edited texts, Group Communication in Context: Studies of Bona Fide Groups (2nd ed.), New Directions in Group Communication, and The Handbook of Group Communication Theory and Research. Most recently he edited the Handbook of Applied Communication Research.
Seminar participants took part in an exciting tour of Detroit that focused on community activism and social change projects. A podcast featuring some reflections from the tour, as well as thoughts on the seminar as a whole is available for listening.
"Intergroup Communication: Its Ubiquity and Dynamics"
The Department of Communication at Wayne State University held their second annual Summer Doctoral Seminar in May 2007. This year's seminar leader was Howard Giles (Ph.D.) from the University of California-Santa Barbara, who is one of the most prolific and accomplished communication researchers in the World. Dr. Giles designed the Summer Doctoral Seminar around his new theories on inter-group communication (see Harwood & Giles (Eds.) (2005), "Intergroup Communication: Multiple Perspectives") as a way to expose this year's seminar participants to new and innovative ideas in the field. This year's seminar participants were competitively selected and came from a variety of Ph.D. programs across the USA, including Rutgers, Cornell, University of Nebraska, University of Missouri, and, of course, Wayne State. The Summer Doctoral Seminar was designed not only to expose the Ph.D. students to new ideas in the field of communication but also to allow them to develop professional friendships and working relationships that can be of benefit for the life of their career. Thus, in addition to a rigorous four-day schedule of in-class meetings, participants were also able to socialize outside of the seminar through planned activities to become familiar with each other and to experience the vast array of cultural and social events that define the Wayne State and metro Detroit experience.
From May 17 to May 21, 2006, a group of scholars from across the U.S. gathered in Detroit to commence the inaugural Wayne State University Doctoral Summer Seminar on Digital Media Policy. The scholars, with backgrounds in several different disciplines, including American Studies, Communication, and Journalism among others, brought their unique experiences with media policy and generated shared knowledge and understanding of the impact of the "new" media on current U.S. and worldwide media regulatory policies under the guidance of Dr. Thomas McCain and Dr. Robert Avery, two distinguished communication scholars known for their solid research and academic backgrounds. From the conference, a new understanding and definition of the public interest was found, and many talking points were generated as paramount to the continued growth and success of the Information Age. It is the hope of the members of this seminar that their ideas be considered and shared and expanded.
Power Point Presentations created by Professor Thom McCain.


on 223 Sportsnet AGAIN pixilating, and signal stopped during the oilers game.
Ok, Shaw 223 Sportsnet broadcast out of Philly. Missed crucial parts of the game because the feed stalled. Other times it had pixelated. This is happening only on Shaw as Telus, and Bell expressvue were all good signals. We need you to fix this as this has been ongoing now for a month.
I don't see any major issues reported for pixelization on Sportsnet recently. Do you get this on any other channels? Have you tried the steps on How to troubleshoot poor picture quality / pixelation ?
Perhaps the reason no one is reporting is that they can't get through to tech support via phone or chat. I've had the pixelating/drop of audio on all channels intermittently since Nov 9 (when all cable channels were virtually unwatchable). Many of my friends and relatives say they have seen it too, but they aren't reporting it because they're not willing to spend hours on the phone/chat waiting. I've done the unplug/reset many times to no avail. Had service tech out... he replaced cable from wall to PVR, replaced something in the electrical panel, checked the signal in the closest Shaw box (in the yard next door). (BTW - the problem occurs on all 3 TVs, 2 with older digital boxes) The tech blamed it on my cable wiring and/or bad weather (really?? with underground cables???). It was just as bad after he left. After a few weeks of trying to get through sporadically to tech support again, I finally got a seemingly more knowledgeable tech on the phone that temporarily fixed it by 'clearing' the line/performing some sort of reset from his side (the process took quite a long time as the PVR cycled through a bunch of codes). That worked until 2nd week of January when it became almost unwatchable again. I got another tech 'Bill' who again was very good, ran some diagnostics and I asked him to look at what the last guy did so he could do it again. That worked ... again it was a long process waiting for everything to come back, and it took a while after he hung up for some of the PVR functions to become available again. (Both of those techs said unplugging cable and power does nothing.) Since then it has been working fine again (other than the odd blip) until Sunday night at around 9:50 pm). It was unwatchable after that, and again in the morning (8-10am ish). Have tried for 2 days to get an agent ... I don't have the patience to wait for an hour for an agent (what happened to the 'call back' function? It worked when I called and got 'BIll'.) I have had to resort to setting up an account and trying these forums.
It may be coincidental or not, but these issues seem to reappear after a new release. When I see the pixelation coming back, I check the 'change log' and sure enough, there's a new release (why not add the dates to them). After looking at the planned outages or service maintenance schedules, I see there was a scheduled release for menu changes that match rel 19.1. So, is there something wrong with the way these releases are rolled out??? I see Service outages are also noted for NE Calgary for cable and internet yesterday, but I am in NW Calgary.
This is very frustrating - is it time to call it quits with Shaw and go with Telus or OTA?


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Califa's Veronda Pitchford on Libraries as Second Responders
by Lisa Peet
Mar 09, 2021 | Filed in News
The Califa Group—a nonprofit membership consortium of public, academic, school, research, corporate, medical, law, and special libraries across California—was recently awarded an Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant for the Libraries as Second Responders project, which will help train library staff to serve communities that have been, and continue to be, highly impacted by COVID-19. LJ caught up with Califa Assistant Director Veronda J. Pitchford to find out more about the project.
The Califa Group—a nonprofit membership consortium of public, academic, school, research, corporate, medical, law, and special libraries across California—was recently awarded an Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant for the Libraries as Second Responders project, which will help train library staff to serve communities that have been, and continue to be, highly impacted by COVID-19. Califa Assistant Director Veronda J. Pitchford is the principal investigator.
At the February 23 LJ Summit, Building the Next Normal, Pitchford spoke on the panel "The Long Haul: How COVID Is Changing Libraries" about the project and how such interventions may amplify the library response during the pandemic—and beyond. LJ caught up with her to find out more about Libraries as Second Responders, and how she and her team at Califa intend to build out the program.
(You can register for free to view this or any other of the summit events on demand here.)
LJ : How did the idea for Libraries as Second Responders come about, and how were you able to move it from "this is something libraries need" to an IMLS-funded project?
Veronda Pitchford: One of our librarians is serving as a contact tracer. I was talking with her about how it aligned with librarianship, and I said, "What have you learned from this that would make you do something different at work? What would you take away from this to bring back to serving people in your community?" And she said, "To have stronger ties with public health. Because some of the people I'm talking to, the word has not gotten out to them, and as I do follow-up calls it's clear that they don't have critical information to stay safe. This is a [Latinx] community we serve every day in their own language, and we could have easily partnered with them and gotten stuff done."
Thinking of that took us down this road of how do libraries effectively partner in times of crisis? In California our members have really stepped up to support communities with fires. We wanted to think through what that second responder role looks like, and who does it, and is there a place for us in it?
The big lightbulb was when we were talking about the work our colleagues around the state and around the country are doing in times of crisis. They're in motion doing it, but how can we support them in solidifying and elevating that role? Helping local government and other first responders understand the resources we have in that role is what we saw as a potential next step.
The goal is to build replicable strategies to help people, in what unfortunately will be other times of crisis—we've heard this time referred to as the age of pandemics. So how can we shore up our resources and get to the table in that role in a more official capacity?
What kind of input did you look for once you came up with the concept?
We started talking about it in early summer [2020] with library people, our friends at COSLA [Chief Officers of State Library Agencies], for example, and Maureen Sullivan, who was [interim] Connecticut State Librarian. I talked to people who had been impacted by [the pandemic]—I was all over the place. I talked to public health people.
And in trying to get work done, I bumped into things. For example, Califa is doing an equity panel for the Association of Rural and Small Libraries. In March, we were putting the proposal together. So I'm like, okay, I'll just leave a message at these libraries, because nobody is going to be there. And those rural librarians were picking up the phone. And [I asked], "What are you doing at work?" And they're like, in my community, this is the only place people can file for unemployment. There is nowhere else they can go. And broadband—maybe it was a community where broadband access isn't a given. They said, "We have to be open." And that's not just at rural libraries, that was, and is, at libraries of all sizes and types. At the scariest time, they were on the front lines.
I'm trying to connect with a fire chief right now to talk about a first responder role, and what they see as the library being in a second responder role, to have that be a training. And also look at how libraries have already done that. I talked with [a librarian in] Iowa. They had a derecho during COVID and had no power in the city for two weeks, and the library was decimated. I talked to her about the second responder role they played. They're such a visible and trusted source in the community. They were helping distribute information—they would make these fact sheets every day for the community to know what was going on, because people didn't even have internet: "You can charge your phone here. You can go here for X. The water is okay now."
We got their thoughts on it, just to try to get a sense at a 10,000-foot view—basically, would this play in Peoria? What would training look like? Because we want this to be expanded past libraries talking to libraries.
How did you synthesize such a wide range of input to get to a cohesive plan?
It was a good challenge to stay with library strengths—to stay in our lane. In our lane there are dotted lines, and there are things that we can expand. But I've had to check myself, because there's so much important work that needs to be done out there, and the challenge as libraries is that ethos that brought us to the table makes us want to do it all.
I had to really push myself, and have other people push me, to stay in the lane of our strengths around connectivity—how we connect people to information every day. How can that be expanded and grown? It was a labor of constant iteration. And I just kept cutting and pasting. I would read everything I could about it, about the pandemic from the government, from the CDC, on Twitter about how Indigenous people were being counted as white or "other" in communities so their numbers weren't really reflected, to commentary from Ibram X. Kendi.
Especially as a person who is not working in a library right now, it's easy to wax poetic about it. But I want to hear the good, the bad, and the ugly of it. And then how do I translate that into a way to resource those people up?
I'm also trying to talk to library people about what their gaps, needs, and challenges are during this time—it goes a lot deeper than that kind of survey-speak that I just used. Some of the leads we'll need to put our heads together on, because we're looking at recorded trainings. And how does that work if you don't have broadband in your area?
What are the trainings going to look like?
We're going to have recorded trainings in what we're calling modules. And I want to really ensure that this isn't just like the trainings I've done, a PowerPoint with a talking head. Sometimes it will be people in conversation, sometimes it will be interviewing someone, sometimes it may be just sharing a best practice.
One of the people I had the most amazing conversation with is formerly of the Baltimore Health Department—he was in advertising 20 years, and he's a Black, gay, AIDS activist—about the power of storytelling, and aligning that with people in health crises. He shared with me that storytelling is data with emotion, and how you can gain insight on people's needs and how to serve them respectfully and better through the power of storytelling. We want to bring that to life, so people understand it and see it and experience it.
We're also going to do collateral. There's a project in Iowa and it's LBGTQ services. They did a zine on health needs for LBGTQ folks. So I want that to be an example.
We have a very awesome microlearning expert, so that we can take these trainings and distill some of the learning down to five minutes of engaging, interactive videos that will be sharable. Obviously, it would be the most salient points—you can't do the whole thing in five minutes—but that's a piece of this as well. We'll have these recorded trainings in the teachable platform as well as five-minute microlearnings about most of the topics.
How much of this is going to be customizable for different types of libraries or communities? Are people going to be able to pick and choose what they need?
They'll have access to all of it, and I would encourage them to think through how it looks in their settings. Our goal is to have elements of every training relevant across urban, rural, micropolitan—a little subset of a metropolitan area. Our people training them are professional instructional designers, and they'll be working with these subject matter experts. Everything isn't going to be relevant to every single person, but we'll do our best to ensure that there are pieces of things that work across different library sizes and geographies as well.
We want to support libraries in contributing to systematic change. So we need to support that piece of the puzzle. We don't want this training to sit with one person in the organization, whoever took the training. We want to give them actionable content to take back and use as they see fit in their organizations.
What will keep the project relevant past the grant period, and post-COVID-19?
We're looking at the library as a connector, to position the library in the role of convening different parts of the community to identify issues and cocreate ways to address those issues—I'm reluctant to use the word "solutions." An example of that is applying human-centered design. I found a great person, George Aye. His firm, Greater Good Studio, looks at human-centered design for social impacts specifically, and that aligns with what we do. This isn't about Post-it notes and coming up with the next step. It's building a culture of how we respond.
[An international library director] was telling me that there is an NGO [non-governmental organization] to combat loneliness in society, and the library works with it. Loneliness is especially an issue during quarantine, but it's not exclusive to quarantine, right? So, bringing something like that forward.
That is part of why we're bringing in subject matter experts who also have experience beyond COVID response, like communicating health information in the AIDS crisis. The goal is that it's replicable and strategies can be used across crises.
My organization, we're info people. More concretely, we've committed to hosting these trainings. So it's completely in our wheelhouse, and it's something that's very important to us. That's the plan for sustainability: replicability, working to support the strengthening of the social safety net, making all boats rise for a better society. And libraries play a big role in that, in creating access to education and equity of resources.
What are you taking away from the project for your own work?
I used to have [a sign] in my old office, up on the wall, "Library domination through radical collaboration." I want us to be out in the streets and at the table so that we can be an important resource in these communities. A lot of people are doing that and I want to be among them.
A lot of things that are bubbling up already needed to be addressed. We were already supporting people by plugging in our stopgaps as libraries, which we always do well. But how can we contribute to that shifting of energy and culture? Not just join the ranks but get in a leadership role to make some change, and lead that conversation.
Like everybody on this planet right now, we're building the ship as we're sailing it. And for our library friends, it's the same metaphor.
Lisa Peet
lpeet@mediasourceinc.com
Lisa Peet is News Editor for Library Journal.
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Environmental study points to overfishing in Gulf of Mexico
A Pew Environment Group study says that the Gulf of Mexico's recreational fishing industry has lost millions of dollars in recent years because of overfishing.
The organization that funded the study said the economic losses justify annual catch limits to help rebuild depleted populations of fish such as red snapper, gray triggerfish and greater amberjack, USA Today reports.
However, charter boat captains in the area insist that the Gulf has plenty of fish and say drastic reductions in fishing seasons are to blame for recreational fishing's economic losses.
From 2005-2009, direct spending losses in the Gulf amounted to an average of $13 million annually because of fewer fishing trips targeting red snapper alone, according to the study conducted by the nonprofit consulting firm Ecotrust of Portland, Ore. Direct losses represent money not spent on boat rentals or charter fees, tackle, bait and fuel.
Broader economic losses associated with the recreational red snapper industry, which includes money not spent at hotels, restaurants and wholesale suppliers, amount to $33 million during that period.
"The study found that had species like Gulf of Mexico red snapper been healthy, there could have been a lot more recreational fishing trips taken to target these fish," Holly Binns, director of Pew's fisheries program in the Southeast, told the paper.
The National Marine Fisheries Service estimated that red snapper are at only 17.5 percent of a safe population level in the Gulf.
"It has a broad, economic ripple effect," Binns, who is based in Tallahassee, Fla., told the paper. "When these species are depleted you lose the opportunity for recreational anglers to catch them. It makes a pretty strong case for continuing efforts to rebuild these depleted species."
Paul Redman Jr., president of the Pensacola Charter Boat Association, agrees that the private fishing industry has suffered millions of dollars in losses in recent years, but told USA Today that was because of catch limits.
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Care Quality Commission Survey
Survey finds most patients are positive about their hospital care, but many still experience delays when they leave
A majority (84%) of respondents in the latest national survey of hospital inpatients published by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated their overall experience as seven or higher out of ten, with about one in four people rating it ten out of ten. The latest survey – the twelfth time it has been carried out – is based on the replies of more than 59,000 people who stayed in one of 154 acute and specialist NHS trusts in England for at least one night during June, July or August 2014. The survey asked people about their experiences of the care and treatment they received, including: whether they were given enough information, whether they were involved in decisions about their care, whether there were enough nurses to care for them, whether the wards were noisy and clean and what arrangements were in place for when they left hospital. Over three quarters (77%) of people said they were 'always' well looked after during their hospital stay, but two out of five said they experienced a delay when it was time to leave the hospital. The results, which haven't changed significantly since the 2013 survey, show that patients rated highly when asked to say how clean their room or ward was, with 97% of people saying that the room or ward they were in was either 'very' (69%) or 'fairly' (28%) clean. The majority of respondents 'always' had confidence and trust in the staff that treated them. Eight out of ten 'always' had confidence and trust in the doctors (the same as the 2013 survey) and 78% 'always' had confidence and trust in the nurses (an increase from 77% in 2013). However, over two fifths (42%) said there were delays with being discharged from hospital with the majority (61%) citing the main reason for the delay as waiting for medicines. Nearly one in four (23%) of those who experienced delays waited for longer than four hours. Of those for whom this was necessary, almost a fifth (18%) of respondents said they would have liked to have spoken to a member of staff about any additional equipment, or adaptations in their home they might need after they had left hospital. Over 40% of patients said there were 'sometimes or rarely or never' enough nurses on duty to care for them, whereas six out of ten said there were 'always or nearly always' enough, compared with 59% in 2013. Of those who used the call bell, almost one in five (18%) said that they experienced waits of over five minutes before they got help. One per cent never got the help requested. Of those who had an operation or procedure, one in ten said they did not understand the explanation given by staff of how their operation went. Professor Edward Baker, Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals at the Care Quality Commission, said: "Despite the pressures facing the NHS, many patients are reporting positive experiences about their care. "This is not the case in every hospital. The survey demonstrates the significant variation between the best and worst performing trusts. The results match the findings from CQC's inspections which highlight the variation between trusts, and even between services within trusts. "I strongly urge senior staff to review their results to see where improvements can be made as every patient deserves to receive the best possible care." As well as a report of the national findings, CQC has published the results for each of the 154 acute and specialist NHS trusts that took part, so that people can look at and compare the performance of their local services. You can find the results on our website.


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Do Not Let False Prophets Deceive You—Expose Their Schemes
by Don Britton | Dec 15, 2020 | Blogs, Prophetic Fire
I shared in a previous podcast that one of the major reasons the church is full of sin is because of modern prophets, pastors and teachers speaking falsehoods. In this episode of The Great Deception on the Charisma Podcast Network, I expand my message to explain more of why this is true and how to identify a false prophet or a destructive heresy. I also compare some of the modern prophecies I have heard on recent podcasts, YouTube and in some of the church meetings I have attended with what the Lord is always saying to His people, especially His people who are not right with Him.
A lot of what is called the work of the Holy Spirit today is not of the Holy Spirit at all, but it is another spirit being marketed as the Holy Spirit for gain by preachers. God only gives the Holy Spirit to those who obey, not to unrepentant sinners.
In this podcast, I discuss the use of false grace to excuse the condition of the church today.
I also expose the fact that even the so-called Spirit-filled churches do not seem to have the discernment of which prophecies and prophets are false since they are not really exposing them as the prophets of old did.
I use several Scriptures from the Old Testament prophets as well as the New Testament to make the points about how prophecy is being misused so much today. I also show how the true prophet is not very popular and is often hated, rejected and mistreated by the religious majority and that it has always been that way. The false prophets are loved by the people because they pronounce blessings, prosperity, health, wealth, peace and safety. So, they are praised by the people, but according to the Scriptures, those with that kind of message are not sent by God because they do not turn people from their sins by speaking these falsehoods of blessings and prosperity.
So, do you know any true prophets who are exposing the sinful condition of the church today? Do you know who the false prophets are? Is anybody exposing them? Why are they not being exposed by the so-called prophets who say they hear from God?
Consider these verses:
"Then many will fall away, and betray one another, and hate one another. And many false prophets will rise and will deceive many. Because iniquity will abound, the love of many will grow cold" (Matt. 24:10-12).
"Then the Lord said to me: The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them nor have I commanded them nor have I spoken to them. They prophesy to you a false vision and divination, and emptiness, and the deceit of their heart" (Jer. 14:14).
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Alma Property Partners and AG Gruppen expand their cooperation to build residential apartments in greater Copenhagen
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Alma Property Partners and the property developer AG Gruppen have agreed to build 231 apartments comprising approximately 18,860 sqm in the Herlev area of greater Copenhagen. The zoning plan has just been approved and the project will aim to obtain DGNB Gold certification.
The project in Herlev represents the second cooperation between Alma Property Partners and AG Gruppen. The parties announced in March 2020 that they were planning to build approximately 200 apartments in Albertslund municipality. Hüseyin Meric, Head of Denmark at Alma Property Partners, is pleased to expand the cooperation with AG Gruppen and says, "We are targeting to invest in high-quality apartments in Greater Copenhagen that have a green profile and, more importantly, are affordable for middle-income households. Our project in Herlev has an attractive location close to ring road 3 and the upcoming light rail station and offers a good mix of apartment types and sizes that will create a diverse offering for our residents."
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A good decision at the right time
After his studies, a great career opportunity opened up for Sebastian Peters: "I can only recommend anyone to take part in the thyssenkrupp trainee program," he explains. "You get to know different business areas and functions, which in my case were even selected to match my interest in digitization." The 27-year-old has been with thyssenkrupp since June 1, 2017. He lives in Dortmund and studied economics at university there. He made his first contact with thyssenkrupp through a fellow student. While studying, Sebastian Peters worked for thyssenkrupp as a work student, gaining his first professional experience and even writing his master thesis there.
Sebastian Peters was one of eight trainees working at the Essen headquarters during their traineeship. In the meantime, Sebastian has started a full time job at thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG in Essen as he finished his traineeship at the end of last year after 18 months. For Sebastian it was clear: he will stay with thyssenkrupp.
Change of perspectives
They were all completing a trainee program, that comprises of four stations and is supplemented by project work, workshops, and periods abroad. Sebastian Peters particularly liked the business lunch format, where he had the opportunity to exchange experiences and ask questions in direct discussions with managers. "But my stay abroad in Denver in the USA was also terrific," he adds. "It was great to see how differently our people there tackled the topic of innovation."
New friendships
The switch from student to working life was not difficult for Sebastian Peters as it was a gradual process and he didn´t have to prepare for a regular working week overnight. Fixed office hours, new colleagues and a fixed salary – there can be many changes at the start of a career, often including moving home. Sebastian Peters' private life has also changed. Many of his leisure activities are shifting from Dortmund to Essen and new friendships have been made.
After work, Sebastian Peters rarely sits on the couch, instead preferring to seek an active balance to everyday office life. He enjoys doing sports, including with his former trainee colleagues if the opportunity arises. The experience of going through the trainee program together welded the young people together, in not only sport. The personal contact and friendship has continued until today.
Valerianne growing in the job
Life without a car is unimaginable in the USA, so she got her driver's license especially beforehand. Valerianne Walter with 24 years was one of eight thyssenkrupp trainees who has spent time abroad as part of the Group trainee program. She needed a car to get around in Detroit where she was taking part in a three-month e-commerce project. Looking back, it was a very exciting time for Valerianne, during which she not only honed her professional capabilities but also strengthened her personal skills for life in the globalized world.
From Chemistry to business IT
Before being accepted as a trainee with thyssenkrupp, she first studied chemistry and computer science before realizing that business IT would give her more creative scope. After completing a master's degree in business IT in Lausanne, Valerianne came across thyssenkrupp. Enthused by the company's wide product range and complex IT landscape, she quickly realized she had found the perfect challenge. After successfully completing the assessment center, Valerianne Walter finally became a trainee at thyssenkrupp.
Networking as well as mentoring leading to success
During this time, Valerianne was supported by a mentor who assisted her not just in selecting projects but also in dealing with other issues that concern young trainees. Valerianne was particularly pleased with the successful completion of a project aimed at minimizing reject rates. Here she was able to create real added value for the Group. "Without the trainee program I could never have built such a large network of contacts," says Valerianne. "The numerous projects helped me improve my professional skills. At the same time I could grow personally in them and I'm much more self-confident today than I used to be." It quickly became clear that Valerianne saw her future with thyssenkrupp – today she is working for the thyssenkrupp AG in the Ruhr Valley located in Germany.


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