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viernes, 31 de julio de 2020

2020 Democratic Party Presidential Caucus and Primaries.

The 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of electoral contests organized by the Democratic Party to select the 3,979 pledged delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention held on August 17–20 to determine the party's nominee for president of the United States in the 59th U.S. presidential election. The elections took place in all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, five U.S. territories, and Democrats Abroad, and occurred between February 3 and August 11.

There were 29 major Democratic presidential candidates in the election.This was the largest field of presidential candidates for any American political party since 1972, exceeding the field of 17 major candidates during the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries.Seven candidates received pledged delegates: former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Elizabeth Warren, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senator Amy Klobuchar, and U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard.

On April 8, Biden became the presumptive nominee after Sanders, the only other candidate remaining, suspended his campaign. In early June, Biden passed the threshold of 1,991 delegates to win the nomination. On August 11, Biden announced that Senator Kamala Harris would be his running mate. On August 18 and 19, delegates at the Democratic National Convention officially nominated Biden for president and Harris for vice president.

2020 Republican Party Presidential Caucus and Primaries.

The 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of electoral contests that took place in many U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories to elect most of the 2,550 delegates to send to the Republican National Convention. Delegates to the national convention in other states were elected by the respective state party organizations. The delegates to the national convention voted on the first ballot to select Donald Trump as the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 election, and selected Mike Pence as the vice-presidential nominee.

President Donald Trump informally launched his bid for reelection on February 18, 2017. He launched his reelection campaign earlier in his presidency than any of his predecessors did. He was followed by former governor of Massachusetts Bill Weld, who announced his campaign on April 15, 2019, and former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh, who declared his candidacy on August 25, 2019. Former governor of South Carolina and U.S. representative Mark Sanford launched a primary challenge on September 8, 2019. In addition, businessman Rocky De La Fuente entered the race on May 16, 2019, but was not widely recognized as a major candidate.

In February 2019, the Republican National Committee voted to provide undivided support to Trump. Several states canceled their primaries and caucuses. Other states were encouraged to use "winner-takes-all" or "winner-takes-most" systems to award delegates instead of using proportional allocation.

Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on March 17, 2020 after securing a majority of pledged delegates. Donald Trump received over 18 millions votes in the Republican Primary, the most ever for an incumbent President in a primary.

viernes, 29 de mayo de 2020

Britney Spears celebrates 20th anniversary of 'Oops!... I Did It Again'.

New York City May 29th, 2020 (E!). "Oops!... I Did It Again" is officially 20 years old, and Britney Spears celebrated the occasion with an incredible throwback photo.

On Friday, the singer shared a photo in honor of the iconic song's 20th anniversary on Instagram. "Oops!... how did 20 years go by so fast?!??! I can’t believe it," Spears wrote in the caption of a photo of her on set from the music video. "I remember that red suit was so freaking hot …. but the dance was fun and it made the shoot fly by !!!!!"

Spears then joked about social distancing due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, referencing the "Oops!... I Did It Again" music video which was set on Mars.

"And now we’re sitting in quarantine wishing we were on Mars ….. of course I am just kidding !!!!!" she wrote. "But seriously you have all shown so much support for this song and I thank you for it …. sending love to you all."

"Oops!... I Did It Again" was released on March 27, 2000, as the lead single from her second studio album. She went on to receive a Grammy nomination for it, and it peaked at No. 9 on Billboard's Hot 100.

sábado, 4 de abril de 2020

Coronavirus Outbreak COVID-19.

Saturday April 04th, 2020. London, United Kingdom (Nature). More than a dozen research groups worldwide have started analysing wastewater for the new coronavirus as a way to estimate the total number of infections in a community, given that most people will not be tested. The method could also be used to detect the coronavirus if it returns to communities, say scientists. So far, researchers have found traces of the virus in the Netherlands, the United States and Sweden.

Analysing wastewater used water that goes through the drainage system to a treatment facility is one way that researchers can track infectious diseases that are excreted in urine or faeces, such as SARS-CoV-2. One treatment plant can capture wastewater from more than one million people, says Gertjan Medema, a microbiologist at KWR Water Research Institute in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. Monitoring influent at this scale could provide better estimates for how widespread the coronavirus is than testing, because wastewater surveillance can account for those who have not been tested and have only mild or no symptoms, says Medema, who has detected SARS-CoV-2 genetic material viral RNA in several treatment plants in the Netherlands. “Health authorities are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.”

But to quantify the scale of infection in a population from wastewater samples, researchers say the groups will need to find out how much viral RNA is excreted in faeces, and extrapolate the number of infected people in a population from concentrations of viral RNA in wastewater samples.

Researchers will also need to ensure that they are looking at a representative sample of what is being excreted by the population and not just one snapshot in time, and that their tests can detect the virus at low levels, say scientists representing the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences in Australia, a research centre that advises the state government on environmental-health risks. And it's important that wastewater surveillance, should it be feasible, does not take away resources from the testing of individuals, the group says. Some efforts to monitor the virus have been stalled by university and laboratory shut-downs and the limited availability of reagents to conduct tests the same ones used in clinics, which are already in short supply, says Kyle Bibby, an environmental engineer at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. “We don't want to contribute to the global shortage,” he says.

Early-warning sign

Infection-control measures, such as social distancing, will probably suppress the current pandemic, but the virus could return once such measures are lifted. Routine wastewater surveillance could be used as a non invasive early warning tool to alert communities to new COVID-19 infections, says Ana Maria de Roda Husman, an infectious-disease researcher at the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in Bilthoven. The institute has previously monitored sewage to detect outbreaks of norovirus, antibioticresistant bacteria, poliovirus and measles.

de Roda Husman’s group detected traces of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater at Schiphol Airport in Tilburg only four days after the Netherlands confirmed its first case of COVID-19 using clinical testing. The researchers now plan to expand sampling to the capitals of all 12 provinces in the Netherlands and 12 other sites that have not had any confirmed cases. Medema’s group found viral RNA in the city of Amersfoort before infections had been reported in the community.

Studies have also shown that SARS-CoV-2 can appear in faeces within three days of infection, which is much sooner than the time taken for people to develop symptoms severe enough for them to seek hospital care up to two weeks and get an official diagnosis, says Tamar Kohn, an environmental virologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Tracking viral particles in wastewater could give public health officials a head start on deciding whether to introduce measures such as lockdowns, she says. “Seven to ten days can make a lot of difference in the severity of this outbreak.”

Earlier identification of the virus’s arrival in a community might limit the health and economic damage caused by COVID-19, especially if it comes back next year, says Bibby. Wastewater monitoring has been used for decades to assess the success of vaccination campaigns against poliovirus, says Charles Gerba, an environmental microbiologist at The University of Arizona in Tucson. The approach could also be used to measure the effectiveness of interventions such as social distancing, says Gerba, who has found traces of SARS-CoV-2 in raw sewage in Tucson.

domingo, 1 de marzo de 2020

Blogger 10 years.

Ciudad de México a 01 de Marzo, 2020 (MSH WorldWide Headquarters). Hoy cumplimos 10 años en Blogger de antemano muchas gracias por su visita y esperemos que sigan leyendo nuestras publicaciones en linea.

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Muchas gracias! a todos por sus visitas y esperando que vengan muchos años mas en esta plataforma y seguir contribuyendo en la mejora y los post de su gusto.

sábado, 29 de febrero de 2020

2020 The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

National Habor, MA February 29th, 2020 (Business Insider). The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the annual DC-area gathering, once epitomized Ronald Reagan's vision of "big-tent conservatism." That meant vigorous debates among right-of-center intellectuals representing the neoconservative foreign policy hawks, socially conservative evangelical Christians, non-interventionist free market libertarians, and any other reliable Republican voting bloc.

In 2020, philosophical diversity was almost non-existent at CPAC.

Save for a panel focused on tech companies' deplatforming of certain right-of-center voices — where audience members fumed at some of the panelists' suggestions that government intervention might actually be worse than "big tech censorship" — there was almost universal agreement on the big themes of the conference.

These major themes of CPAC 2020 included:

Donald Trump is the greatest president in modern history, and the way he's been treated by Democrats and the media is unprecedented and abhorrent.

Socialism is evil, and the moderate 2020 Democratic candidates are barely less socialistic than Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vice President Mike Pence actually said "there are no moderate Democrats in this field" in his Thursday CPAC speech).

The "left" is comprised of snowflake crybabies, who are also authoritarian bullies systematically silencing conservatives and indoctrinating the younger generation through the media and culture.

In his Wednesday speech, he warned of "this culture war" which he said "is going to be the battle of our times." He added that this would be a "battle between those who believe America is good and those who believe in the notion of socialist revolution who believe we are inherently bad."

Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA, an influential conservative youth activist group with strong ties to the White House, helped set the "small Republican" tent tenor of the proceedings. At the first mention of Mitt Romney's name, the audience booed, and Kirk responded, "Every time his name is mentioned you should react this way."

"Blexit" founder Candace Owens spent much of her Thursday speech attacking former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick as a "race hustler." In particular, she referenced a tweet Kaepernick sent last Thanksgiving about the U.S. government's appropriation of land from indigenous people, which she countered with a long diatribe about Aztec cannibalism and human sacrifice.

On Thursday, the main ballroom featured "FBI Lovebirds," a play starring "Lois and Clark" actor Dean Cain and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" actress Kristy Swanson as ex-FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The play consisted almost entirely of the Strzok and Page's texts to each other, but was meant to demonstrate a "Deep State " conspiracy against Trump from before the time he took office.

Naomi Seibt, a 19-year-old German Youtube activist who had been invited by the Heartland Institute to speak about "climate realism" was billed as "the anti-Greta Thunberg."

Most of the CPAC attendees Insider spoke with said they feel like they're under a constant state of unfair attacks from "the left," just like President Trump.

Jeffrey Lord, a Trump supporter and former CNN contributor, told Insider, "I just think people are seriously enthusiastic about the president on top of which they're also angry at the way he's been treated."

At CPAC Central, the event's main gathering hall, vendors sold T-shirts and hats emblazoned with phrases like "Freethinkers Only," "Kiss Me I'm a Capitalist," and "This is Trump Country: Where on a Quiet Night You Can Hear a Snowflake Melting."

Elizabeth Najjar, an 18-year-old student at the Jerry Falwell-founded Liberty University, told Insider that administrators at her Virginia high school had called her parents to compel her to take down a pro-Second Amendment video she had posted to her private Facebook account. She also said she had been spat upon at her school because of her political views.

For all the complaints at CPAC about being "silenced" by "the left," there were some conservative voices who felt even more aggrieved.

At a private event Wednesday night titled "Emergency Save the First Amendment Summit" held at a hotel in Washington, DC, several "cancelled" conservatives spoke before a group of about 80 attendees. Most of the speakers had either been kicked off of major tech platforms, and some were explicitly banned from attending CPAC.

viernes, 10 de enero de 2020

CES 2020: Las Vegas, NV.

Las Vegas, NV, USA January 10th, 2020 (New York Times). Like it or not, the future is connected. Your next car will probably connect to the internet. So will your TV and doorknobs. One day, you may even adopt a robot companion capable of analyzing its environment and reacting to your actions in real time. That future, or at least a glimmer of it, was on display at CES, the giant consumer electronics Las Vegas trade show that attracted more than 170,000 attendees this week.

This year’s annual event — the first one took place in 1967 — featured more than 4,500 exhibitors, including tech companies big and small from all over the world, and sprawled across 2.9 million square feet at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the Wynn casino, the Venetian and a handful of other venues around town. The conference was a window into where the industry is pouring huge amounts of resources and investment, hoping that the year’s hottest tech trends — like artificially intelligent virtual assistants, connected cars and foldable screens — will become everyday fixtures in our lives.

The enormous conference was also an opportunity for tech observers to make predictions about the innovations that might become popular and the gadgets that will probably flop in the coming years. Among the questionable tech trends were foldable screens, demonstrated by TCL, Lenovo and Dell, among others. Lenovo showed its ThinkPad X1 Fold, a Windows foldable tablet. Unfolded, it measured about 13 diagonal inches, and folded up, it looked compact like a book.

That may sound neat, but not everyone is optimistic about foldable screens. Frank Gillett, a technology analyst for Forrester Research, predicted that foldable devices would be unpopular, largely because of their high price tags and limited use cases. Case in point: Samsung’s Galaxy Fold, its first foldable smartphone, priced at nearly $2,000, was a failure after early reports of the device’s breaking after light use. Lenovo’s X1 Fold will cost about $2,500 when it arrives this year. “Foldables — the pun is too tempting — will be a flop,” Mr. Gillett said.

Amazon and Google were among the biggest players at CES, each boasting about how awesome its personal assistant is.Google said its virtual assistant is now used by more than 500 million people a month across more than 90 countries. Last year, Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo speakers dominated the global smart speaker market with a share of about 25 percent, ahead of Baidu and Google, according to Canalys, a research firm. And the market for smart speakers keeps growing.

It is still unclear, however, whether consumers want to do much with virtual assistants as they continue to get smarter. Studies have shown that people mostly use Alexa and Google Assistant for basic tasks like playing music and checking the weather. Paying for gas (which Amazon wants you to do) sounds like a stretch. Still, Dave Limp, Amazon’s head of hardware devices, was bullish. He said that even if Alexa users only occasionally used the assistant’s more advanced capabilities, that was significan. “Customers interact with Alexa billions of times a week,” he said. “Even one of many things that they’re doing can add up to be a pretty big thing.”

Samsung showed a car equipped with its Exynos Auto V9 computing processor, which can run applications on multiple screens and pull information from up to 12 cameras. The system was designed to simultaneously provide entertainment like videos to passengers in the back seat and safety-assistance apps to drivers, the company said.

Amazon also showed off its automotive prowess, displaying cars from Lamborghini and the auto start-up Rivian that now include Alexa personal-assistant capabilities.